The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 11, 1897, Page 6

m HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDN SDAY, AUGUST 11, 1897 6 oo e - THEBAN TEANGERG CALS VRN R N ERNRE W Al s . ESDAY CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATE —Postage Free: BUSINESS 710 Market Street, £an ¥rancisco, Californa. AR <vee.Maln—-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 017 Clay Strees O o ..Maln—-1874 BRANCH OFFIC mery sireet, corne open until Rooms 31 and 2 DAVID M. FOL agasta may be good tor Spain in this risis, but sagacity would b Anarchy seems to be a sort of medicine which civi ake and must take. Spein may recall Weyler from Cuba and spvoint him to the task of pacifying the anarchists. The fig and goes at statea periods, but the levy | stays with us. | It is wiser as well as safer to trust to the path of prosperity at home rather | than to Chilcoot Pass. | We may not be able to_reform China- town, but it is worth while to try the effect of revolutionizing the present | mathods of dealing with it, 1 Secretary Sherman has accomplished in the State Office the success of irritating the British, and that is a pretty sure sigzn of a vigorous foreign pol About the best thing for Professor E liott todo at this time on the seal ques- tion 1s to imitate the wiser among the calamity howlers and shut up. Protests against the new mining regu- lations adopted by the Canadian Govern- raent are being sent in by British Colum- bia with a snap and vigor that will astonish Ottawa. It isannonnced that the yacht of the Prince of Wales is for sale, and now any American ptutocrat who wishes an intro- duction to his Royal Highness knows how to get it and what to pay for it. Rich gold discoveries ere reported in | various parts of California, as well as.in | Alaska and British Columbia, and those who fail to patronize home industry in this particular may go farther and fare | worse. If the charter-makers can devise any means whereby the tax levy can be kept down and public improvements increased they wili at once become known as lead- ing citizens and everybody wiil be glad to follow them. It will be easy enough to start the pro- posed socialist colonv in Alasga, but if | one of the party makes a rich strike it will be an ewful strain on him to divide with the other fellows who have been dig- ging in vain. The Ottawa Government has decided to limit a mining cl to 100 feet here- after, and perh new restrictions will be enacted later as 1t seems deter- ps mined 10 buck against the buzz saw with and both feet. both hand Though the British have won several victories in Cnitral, the natives refuse to be pacified, and in fact like tha Cubans the hill men seem to regardian invasion of their territory a cause of offense rather than a process of pacification. The success attending deavor meeting in t fest shie fitness of San summer convention c we must now go to v recognize that fit isco to be the of America, and to make the East s and act upon it. The attack of the New York Sun on the pension system will © in any way weaken the dete ation of the people 10 provide for the support of the veterans who saved the Union in its hour of peril. The Sun shines well as a general rule, but is subject to erratic displays in spots. Eenator Morgan does not believe the conservative party of Spain will be strengthened by tha recoil of public opinion due to the assassination of Cano- vas. He says *‘when you kill the chief of the bandits you demoralize the gang.” Toe Rhode Island man who is said to have invented a successful flea-trap may be included in the rank of public bene- tactors, There is no telling how much time, energy and patience is wasted in seeking the elusive flea that might have been better spent in chasing the nimble s xpence. —_— In his address in response to the Czar’s words of welcome at St. Petershurg the Kaiser snoke a few sentences in Berlinese 2ussian, and the Russians immediately retaliated by singing the Kaiser's own composition, *The Song of Agir.”” Thus was vengeance and retribution accom- plished without disturbing the hilarity of the occasion. _ The Indiana law requiring that prison- munufactured goods exposed for sale should be plainly labeled “‘convict made” Las been declared unconstitutional on the ground that it interferes with the right to contract, discriminates against goods of other Btates and interferes with interstate commerce. The decision seems to render it impossible for a State to protect its lator against the competition of prison lavor, but in this as in other things where there is a will there is a way, aud by the time the peopie have spoken emphati- cally on the subject the courts may find a justification that will make such a statute ht against tie tax levy comes | | miners declare that th engages public attention. 1t isacontest | - | more or less concerned in it, and even tho: neighbo: fact does not diminish the zeal of those to take part in respects, obtain very little for them. Our streets amounts to 2 municipal disgrace. We ars ment, while our sister cities of the Union sewer system is literally no system and is high and the rats isincreasing. Truly it going to do about it?” The Argonaut has taken the very just pi of the proposed park in the on ought it is but just that the pay when the City will be more populous and to a considerable extent, but the plan City government continues no considerabl bond sue for anv work whatever. present work in that direction results i mun icipal governmant, we may aitain th | heavy taxation without adequate return: best effect of the controversy over the tax impre accomplishment of reform. plan for lightening the burden of taxation work JOY IN STORE FOR KLONDIKE. According to present indications the ers on the Klondike will have very little to complain about next season with regard to the conditions and comforts of life in the frozen north. This year we sorts of stories apout icy lonesomeness, poorly ooked food general inconveniences too numerous to We have heard of home-long- such th and some of the sight of a civilized woman was to the Kiondikers something akin to the apparition of an angel. All this will be different next year. Then there will be no excuse on earth for a miner not having raized biscuits at least once a day, batter-cakes of the New Eng- land patte beans always in stock, and dried-apple pie whenever he takes the notion. And why will this be thus? Because a Pittsburg man is going to establish a mat- esides mentio! and ings g ish a large quota of the eligible candi- dates of the gentle sex. This Pittsburger states that there are thousands of poor but thoroughly respectable giris in every big Eastern State looking for honest em- ployment, and that they would go to Alaska to find it if they were assured that they would be properiv cared for. In the towna and villages of New Engiand the number of women is so far in excess of the men and employment so hard to get that thousands would be willing to go to Alaska or the Northwest Territories under proper conditions. This man intends to secure places in ad- vance for companies of, perhaps, 100 girls for their transportation from the States and recompense him for his trouble be- sides. Only girls who can bring the high- est recommendations of character and respectability will be accepted. Arriving at the gold district each.one will be as- signed to her place, but all will be located within a short distance of each other, so that they may have association snd be able to counsel each other. Under their tnfluence it is expected that Klondike will take on a homelike appear- ance and the miners not fcel that sense of isolation which sends so many to thelr graves. They would be served with well- | cooked food and the general health of the camp vastly improved. The noor New E£ngland maiden of the present may re- tum in & year or twoand be hailed by society at her old home as a gold queen of Bonanza Creek. THAT ADDITIONAL DUTY. Canada is bezinning to feel that Uncle Som knows a trick or two himself, with reference to turning trade into channels of his choice. Heretofore a large com- merce has been carried on by way of Van- couver, B. C., between th: Orient and American cities of the East. The Cana- dian Pacific Railroad has reaped the bene- fits of these overland shipments, and United States railroads have felt the ef- fects of the diversion of traffic. Now, it appears, this system is to be revolution- ized, and all through that section of the tariff which provides that revenue col- lectors ‘‘must impose a discriminating duty of 10 per cent on merchandise which, being the production or manufacture of any foreign country not contiguous to the United States, shall come into the United States from such contiguous country.” Recently the Canadian Pacific brought into this country, through one of the Northern States, a trainload of tea from Japan, for purposes of distribution in the United States. The train collided at Chi- cago with the Federal statute just quoted. Upward of 1000 chests of tea were in- volved in the transaction. Of course, the Canadian Pacific lawyers will fight the Jaw, but the law can be depended on to come out victor in the end. Arrange- ments have been made with the importers of the tea whereby they will make good the additional tax if the law is construed as the customs officials and Americans generally think it ought to be. Hitherto the Canadian Pacific has en- joyed rather a monopoly in the tea trade, other point in the British domain, and sending them intact under consular seal to New Orleansor any other port in this coun- try with which the Canadian road may have direct connections. A few lines of the Dingles bill have served to put an end 10 this monopoly. It will not be permie- sible hereafter for freight trains from Can- ada to go direct to points in the United States without the consular seals of the cars being broken, due to the necessity of ascertaining what additional duties shall be imposed upon the goods. Importers will save the amount of the additional duly by shipping direct to American ports, and our ports and our railways will soon profit by the change which is inevitable. Score one more point for the Dingley bill. It is generally believed that Spain must either surrender Cuba or repudiate her debt, but as the choice is so difficult she valid, | may decide to do both, is a vain one. The only rea<onable hope is in the possibility of obtaining a new charter. n for breakfast, Boston baked | rimonial agency at the Kiondike, and the | New England States are expected to fur- | and have their employers advance money | starting its trains at Vancouver or any | FIGHTING THE TAX LEVY. We have arrived at the season when the annual fight against the City tax levy perennially interesting. Every taxpayer is s8 who are by nature inclined to be indif- ferent are forced to take one side or the other by the farvor or the passion of their In similar contests in the past the public have gained livile or nothing, but that who lead the fight in each recurring ysar. Hope springs eternal in the human breast. The taxpayers have never won. but they may win. This may be th> year of jubiles and of victory. At any rate it cosis little time and no money to protest, and, therefore, since the fight is free the inducement | is irresistible to the average citizen. That our civic affairs are mismanaged wastefully, and even shamefuily in some is generally aamitted. We expend large sums of money every year and and our sewersare in a condition which still in the cobblestone era of strest pava- have gone forward to better things. Our almost no sewers. Meantime the taxes are is time to ask one another, ‘What are we osition that all improvements of the nature to be provided for by an issue of bonds. Such works will be of more benefit to the future taxpayer than to the present, and sent of the cost should be largely postponed to the future, richer and therefore better able to pay. If this policy were pursusd wherever expedient tbe present tax levy might be iowered | 8o long as the present form of | e number of taxpayers will ever vote fora 1t the n the establishment of a better form ot rough it some relief from the burden cll s in the way of City improvements., The levy this vear therefore is likely to be the sion made upon the public mind that a new charter is the first step toward the In the meantime the taxpayers will give due consideration to every proposea at once without diminishing the efficiency of the public service in any of its departments or checking the little progress which has been made toward municipal improvement. Supervisors can achieve anything in that direction, they will receive due credit. muportant, and there will be a reward for him who accomplishes good results. If the Mayor, the Auditor, or the The TO AID STRIKING MINERS. The executive committee of the -San Francisco Labor Councii has issued an ap- | peal on behalf of the striking miners in the coal fields of the East. The deplorable situation of the miners and their families | is set forth and sympathizers in the cause of labor struggling for labor’s rights are | asked to aid, as best they can, the many tiousands of men whose grievance is { known to the people of theland through the medium of the press. The coal-miners of the East are con- fronted by grave conditions. Recently the New York Times investigated the state of affairs 1n the coal region and discovered that the miners combat the grimmest sort of poverty and battie desperately in the | dark with dangers so numerous and so [ | | | | great that death by starvation is about | the only alternative preferable to it. The claim has been made by mine oper- ators and their friends that the miners are well paid. The truth of the matter 1s shown by the cate of the miners of Hock- ing Valley. Most of the coal there is mined by machinery and each miner had last year an average of 132 days of employ- ment, according to the statistics gathered | by the Times. The average production | was 4940 tons per marn. At the rate of | wages paid the miner earned in the whole | year just $455 40, or $37 78 per month, on which to support himself and his family. Men doing subordinate work in the Hock- ing Valley mines brought the average earnings thers for the year down to $20 05 ver month. The coal mines of Ohio gave | employment to 17,220 pick miners in 1896, | which is 1425 Jess than had work the year | before, and an average of their earnings | for the year was $18 46 a month. Forced to spend money for the rent of the house owned by the company and the food sup- | plied by the company, the Times declares | that ‘‘it 1s, indeed, wonderful that the | miner goes on strike as much as he does— | wonderful because one would expect him | to have barely energy enough to die | quietiy of hunger.” In Illinois last year the average wages paid to miners throughoutthe whole State | was $155, Tais means something nearly | akin to starvation to a miner who fain | would exist like a human being.” Yet it |is said that imported pauper laborers thrive on even that amount. Here is an- other argument for stringent immigrativn | laws. The San Francisco Labor Council | asks everybody who can efford it to do | something to help the striking miners in | their fight for the means of subsistence. { 1f the strikers can only be supplied with the necessaries of life for a short period it is believed that their cause will be suc- cessfal, CONTINUOUS SESSIONS, The movement in educational circles in favor of a continuous session of the nor- | mal schools is steadily gaining :round | east and west. The plan of a continuous session was inaugurated by the University of Chicago and has proven an unqualified success, the institution never lacking students during the sumraer quarter. Two of the normal schools of Minnesota bave adopled it, and the qu:stivn of ap- plying the idea to the common schools of the coantry is now being seriously dis- cussed. 7 Professor E. A. Kirkpatrick of the Winona (Minn.) Normal School, writing in the Review of Reviews, points out some ofthe benefits of tbe plan. It was found easy to arrange the programime of the courses of study, so that without much increase in number of classes or teachers siudents could enter the Winona Normal School any quarter of the year and yet find classes 1n all subjects necessary for the continuation of their course. For teachers in service a six weeks' special term was provided, enabling them to con- tinue teaching and yet take a regular course leading to a diploma. The financial advantages of the plan to the State are claimed to be these: (1) The veluable plant (building, apparatus, etc.) no longer remains unused and profitlessa quarter of the time; (2) the cost of run- ning it during the time that it has usually been Idle is less than in any other quarter, because no fuel is required; (3) three schools in session the fourth quar- ter wonld prepare as many new teaghers for service in the Btate as an additional school would, and at & cost less than that required to run another school, which, betore it could begin, would have to re- ceive many thousands o! dollars for building and apparatus. Teachers in service wishing to improve themselves may obtain in the six weeks’ special course ail the advantazes of the summer schools, and the additional one of having each summer study contribute toward a definite course of training. Instructors are required to serve only three-quarters of the year. . Now the question arises as to whether the idea may not profitakly be carried to public schools and colleges. It is sug- gested that it might be a good thingif a large proportion of the children between 6 and 18 years, especially in cities, were in school instead of on the streetin summer; that if echool work is not too hard there is hardly any other reason than custom for pupils suspending their work for one- fourth of the year. The adoption of the quarter instead of the year as the umit in grading also is claimed to be of great ad- vantage—not only to irregular pupils, but to exceptionally quick and exceptionally slow children who now have to advance or fall behind a whole year at a time. Thess questions are worthy of serious discussion. It is probable that, as Pro- | fessor Kirkpatrick observes, ‘‘we are just entering upon a new epoch in the bistory | of the development of education in this country—an epoch in which schools of all kinds will be a continuous instead of an intermittent factor in our National life.” PERSONAL. | 1. R.S Verneuil of Parisis in the City. H. Silberstein of Chico is here for a few days, D. W. Wickersham of Bowie, Ariz., is in the City. F. R.Smith of Guatemala is one of the late arrivals. Dr. Campbell-Johnson of London is a late arrival here. T.XcCandless, & mining man of Spokane, is a visitor here. Lawrence Lauson of Washington, D. C.,isat the Oceidental, Enock J. Rector of New York is among yes- terdey’s arrivals. Frank White and wife of San Diego areat the Cosmopolitan. Gustay Wilson, the Russian Consul at Port. land, Or., isat the Russ. George C. Hollingsworth, a business man of Healdsburg, is in tke City. Francis Uloa, owner of a coffee finca in Sai- | vador, is at the Oceidental. | D. S. McLennan, a business Diego, is a late arrival here. - William Harper, a merchant of Stcckton, is registered at the Cosmopolitan. F.W. Glade, maneging agent for two or three sugar plantations, is in the City. Dr. Wygoora, a physician of St. Petersburg, arrived here on yesterday’s steamer. Dr, E. P. Hyde and family, of Pheenix, Ariz., are among the arrivals of yesterday. W. B. Beckwell of Merced isin the City for his health and is at the Cosmopolitan. E. W. Clapp, a mine-owner of Lordsburg, N. Mex., has arrived here for a short stay. Ira G. Hoitt, formerly State Superintendent of Public Insiruction, is at the Occidental. The Rev. Dr. T. A. Burke, a distinguished Catholic prelate of Albany, N.Y., isin town. Mrs. General Cadwallader of Red Bluff isat the Palace accompanied by Miss Cedwailader. { S 8. Bradford, an extensive lumber manu- facturer and dealer of Sonors, is here accom- panied by his family. W. B. McSherry, president of the Bunker Hill Mining Company, is at tne Occidental. His mines are in Tuolumpe County. Dr. Luella Cool, formerly a practicing den- tist of this City, but for a year or two past re- siding in Guatemasla, is at the Palace. She has returned because of the prevalence of a fever in the south. A party consisting of the Rav. 8, 8. Mitchell, D.D,, 8. P. Goodyear, Mr. and Mrs. Ganson De- pue and A. C. and F. H. Goodyear, all of Buf- falo, N. Y., and A. 8. Goodyear of Chicago are atthe Palace. Captain Thomas Scullum of the whaling bark Cape Horn Pigeon, recently wrecked on the Japan coast, returned here yesterday. His | vessel belonged to a firm in New Bedford. The | captain is at the Russ. Ex-Congressman Louttit of Stockton 1s here for o few days. He says there is & great revi- val of business in Stockion, owing partly to the high price of wheat. There i3 money in abundance. Where the banks were not lend- ing money a year ago, no matter hardly what the security, loans are now easy. Business is good and things are in a thriving condition, Among the arrivals at the Russ is W. T. Smith of Plcenix, Ariz, recently a candidate for Mayor there and at one time owner of the Daily Gazette, By the purchase last fall ot what is known as the Churchill estate he ceme into possession of the Pheenix Republi- can. This paper he conducted as the organ of the Silver Republicans, but before the cam- paign was over it was soid to the gold wing of the party. Mr. Smith is the ownerof the tele- phone systems in the Southwest. He is here on a business trip. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y. Aug. 10.—At the St Cloud, J. E. Downs; Evere:it, C. R. Coulter; Central, J. Keegan, C. Bader, E. uart, J. Abrahams; New Amsterdam, Everett; Park Avenue, F. Hartman; Pond, Mrs. Vary; Metropoli- E. ) Jefferson, Misses tan, W. B. Sink. German Vice-Consul Geissler and Mrs. Geissler and child left the St. Cloud and sailed on the Saale for Bremen. Felipe | Flores, Miss Margaret Hermann, 1. Homberg, | G. Langhoff, Miss Lillian Landsberger, Fritz | Reuther and Miss Elizabeth Treusch sailed for Germany. Dr. Giuseppe Ollino arrived on the Ems from Genoa. Hilmar Stephany arrivea on the Saale from Bremen. Miss Minnie Bruns, Miss Adele Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Cartsen J. Hink, Claus Hink, Louis Schwarzschildtand Miss Leontine Schwarzschildt arrived on the Bremen from Bremen. BOOM. New York Sun. Wheat is jumplng, ¥airly humpiag, With an upward pace 1s pumplng, And the farmer wears a smile ne'er seen before. Gold 15 pouring, Miners boring. Unknown Arctic fields exploring For the miilions which the earth has held in store, Sliver's dropplag, Theorles popping. While the Pops their eyes are mopping, As the mortgagors are paying off their debis. All is hustle, All s bustle, Work for brain and work for musele, The Calamityizes are paylog up their bets. | KLONDIKES HERE AND THERE. Montana mentions a mine that was bought for 95 cents and scld for §1,800,000. Klon- dike should understand that it is not the only pebble on the gravel train.—Globe-Democrat. Klondike isn’t the only pebble on the beach. A strike has been made in the Rainy Lake re- gion of Minnesota of orethat wiil assay from §300 to $1000 ver ton.—Minnenpolis Tribune. A preat manufacturing town will surely spring up on the shores of that petroleum lake in Alaska. For his fuel supply the manuiac- turer will simply run a wick into the pond.— Indianapolis Journal. Those Klondike boots advertised so freely have their moral. If a man feels like “‘kick- ing himself” when he gets into the diggiugs the rubber boots won’s hurt like the ordinary kind,—Davenport Republican, A new drawback to lifein the Klondike gold mines 18 reported. An American in the field writes: “There is no language strongenough to describs the fierceness of the mosquitoes. They would soon kill a person if gloves and veiling were not constantly worn.” Tae gold- hunters will be able to take their choice be- tween freezing to death in the winter or being eaien by the carniverous mosquitoes in the summer.—Des Moines Capital. —_— LAZARUS AND vIVES. Atlanta Constitutlon. .olored exhorter, enlarging on the impos- sibility of rich men getting into heaven said: “Look at Latherus: When he wuz on de airth he ax Diwees for de crumbs dat fall frum his table. En what did Diwees do ter him? He call his dgg, Moreover, en sick him on { Latherus. Lathérus put up a purcy good fight, but de dog licked him! Den Diwees wuzso mad dat he took a fit en died, en when he wake up he fin’ himse!f in hell-fire, en he look troo de skylight en see Latherus en Father Abraham in a huggin’ maten; en he call ter Latnerus ter turn on de water en he'd pay de bill. En what did Latherus say? He des I over de banister en holler out: ‘Go’long, man, en shet yo’ mouf. De water wuz cut off on de tenth. Milk en honey is de bes’ Igot!' ™ A NAVAL PREDICAMENT. Indiznapolis News. The battle-ship Indiana may be docked at Halifax by gracious permission of the British Government. We can’t afford to get iuto any trouble with England. We might have to | build our own docks. THREE BAB and Mrs. Charles F. Hunt of 27 of a recent date. Mrs. Hunt is paper, and last February moved the prin! 33 North to set up all the type-written ‘‘copy.” The chi found in the *copy." never makes 'pi” or mixes cases. is the boy’s work. her two sons and little daughter, who prondly a hurry. 1mprovement committee. editor and publisher of town headquarters necessitated dally absence from her little flock. attracted the interest of the children, who began experimenting with the type, and to Mrs. Hunt’s surprise little 5-year-old Vernon, who can neither read nor write, was soon able the end of the line without regard to syllables. His older brother, Harold, does extraordinary work for a 7.year-old. He sets up a column a week, in which there is never a correction, so painstaking He follows an intricate biue penciled copy and can decipher the blindest scrawl. He can set a display advertisement with the skill of a veteran, and his inwition regarding punctustion and capitalization borders on the miraculous. tribution is setting ‘‘quads,” which every experienced printer will recognize as a great accom- plishment for a tiny 3-year-ola lady. Mrs. Hunt never touched type uatil she bought the Jeffersonian in May, 1896, and now the piucky little woman is reporter, advertising sgent, editor, printer and publisher of the large weekly paper, seldom having help irom any one but Yy PRINIERS. No cleverer trio can be found in Chicago than the three beautiful children of Mr. Forty- fifth avenue, says the Times’ Herald the Jeffersonian, a weekly ting office to ber own home, as the down- Naturally the novelty 14 picks out type to correspond with the letters According to the proof-reader, his only fault is the division of words at But he will “follow copy out of the window,” Muriel’s sole con- sets “quads” when mamma isn’t in t0o much o Mrs. Hunt is a member of the Mayfair Woman’s Club, and is chairman of the publie She is a daughter of Mrs. Katherine V. Grinnell. TAXING IMPROVEMENTS. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Among the editorial notes in your issue of the 9th instant appeared the following interesting paragraph: The announcement that Rocketeller will sell his stately new home on the Hudson rather thau pay taxes on it, is an fllustration of the contracictions which exist in the human mind. Rockefe ler thinks nothing of glving away a millon for “‘phil- anthropy,” buthe wiil not pay his taxes $0101g as there iy & possible means of avoiding it. About the ool eféotive way (o deal with such & man i3 16 send bim to jafl for cheating the Government snd then present him with an illuminated vote of thanks for his generosity o the people. This question and your reflections on the same are of particular importance at this time on sccount of the prominence which has recently been given to the subject of taxation in its various phases. To the minds of those who have given atten- tion to taxation in relation to the common welfare and the application of the strict rule of justice as between the public treasury and the private individual it appears that Mr. Rockefeller is right in his argument against the imposition of the tax that has been as- sessed against Rim in this particular case. He urges that he has benefited the community of Tarrytown by erecting magnificent butldings, by opening spacious parks to the pecple, by constructing conservatories and by adding many possibilities to the sum of human com- fort and happiness in that particular vicinity. Having done these good things he reasonabiy asks the authorities why they seek to punish him on that account, and on thataccountsoleiy. He poinis out that other rich men who for specuiative purposes hold real estate in the same general lucality are assessed at a much lower rate, though they remain away, do not improve their holdings and do not in any manner contribute to the prosperity of the community, while he who spends his weslth for the employment of servants and in the maintenance of his exten- sive establishment is called on for more than his share of the municipal revenue. 1n other words, he finds that he is punished by the very community that he benefits, the burden of the local tax being laid oz the im- provements that all acknowledge to be benefi- cent. Such a tax is manifestly a restriction on Im- provement, and inevitably decreases the limiis of buman effort and human prosperity. Mr. Rocketeller is right in protesting against this injustice. If his neightors as weil as him- <elf were taxed justly on the value ot their lands and the tax on improvements were altogether remitted, then the burden would fall lightly on all, simple Justice would pre- vail, and even a man worth & dozen millious could afford to live in Tarrytown or any other place that best suits his fancy and his business requirements. K. B. BROWN. STRANGERS, take home Townsend’s California Glace Fruits, 50c ib., in elegant fire-etched boxes. Palace Hotel buniaing 7 Market s1.* e e i e Mo speciaLinformation daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery. * ———— Lieutenant-General Charles Edward Parke Gordon, C.B., honorary colonel of the Gordon Highlanders, who dled recently at Anerls, England, had seén service in the campaigns against the Kaffir tribes in 1834-35 and in the Inaian mutiny campsign of 185758 ana, 6s captain and acting colonel of the Seventy- fifth Regiment, distinguished himself at the capture of Dzihi ana the battles ending in the relief of Lucknow. If You Are voing East 2 Remember to-morrow, August 9, is the last day of saleof tickets ut ihe Christiun Endeavor rates. Through trains to D:nver, Kansas Cily, Omaha, Chicago, St. Louis and Lastern points leave San Francisco Monday, August 9, Tuesdsy, August 10, | and Wednesday, Augost 11, via the Rio Grande Western Raliway and conneetions. General ticket office 14 Montgomery s.reet. —————— Get Your Tickets to the Klondyke. The Northern Pacific Steamship Company has put the magnficen: steamer City of Seaitle into service tetwe:n Tacoma, Seaitle, Juneau and Dyea. Steamer leaves Tacoma and Seattle Au- gusy 16 and 26, For tickets and information call at the Northern Pacific Rallway Office, 368 Mar- ket stree:, 8. F. T. K. Stateler, General Agent. B T a— ively Warm on the Grea Santa Fe Route. A popular misbelie? exists that in summer it is very hot in crossing the contlaent on the San'a Feroute. Through Arizona and New Mexico the lige is situated at an average elevation of 5000 feet. Lowest rates and superior accommodations t0 all Eastern and European points. Ticket office, 644 Market street, Chronicie building. ——————— «Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup *’ ‘Has been used over fiity years by milllons of moth- ers for thelr children while Testhing with perfect success. It soothes the child. softens the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic. regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and Not Exce: ask for 13, Winslo~'s Seothing Syrup. 25cabottle | —————————— CoRONADO.—Almosphere Is perfectly dry. sof #nd mild, being entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round- trip tickets, by st ship, inciuding fifteen days’' board a: the Hoteldal Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 50 perday. AppLy 4 New Montgomery sireet. San Francisco. B To neglect the hair is to lose youth and comeli- ness. Save it with PARKER'S HATR BALSAM. HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns. 15 cis. SENSIBLE—AD old sea-captain writes to I. C. Aver & Co. that he never goes to ses without a | eupply ot Ayers Pils. % A KLONDIKE ROMANCE. | A Story Which Will Add to the Exo- dus to Alaska, A sad-faced woman received the express | package at the door of the humble cottage. But her features lighted up when she saw the eddress, says the Detroit Free Press. ~Heaven be blessed. Jamie,” she murmured to the pale and slender lad who nestled at her side, “it’s from your father on the Klondike!” With trembling fingers she untied the knots and unwrapped the package. When the last wrapper was removed a hall-sheet of leter paper and an_ancient pair of hand-me-down trousers tumbled to the floor. She lified tne note and read it aloud in an agitated voice: Dear Jane: 1 haven’t struck It yet, but am still hopeful. All I can send you is this old pair of trousers, which I have no use for. Maybe you can cut them over for Jimmle. Yours, affection- ately, Jok For & long time the poor woman satstunned, with the slender lad weeping beside her. She had waited so iong and patiently for good news—and tnis was the result. The landlord was growing more and more impatient, the butcher and baker were almost insoient. How could she satisfy their importunities with & pair of second-hand trousers ? She uttered an exclamation of contempt and | aversion and kicked the aingy garment aside. As sne did go an idea struck her. Suddenly rising to ber feet she picked up the trousers. Then, after spreading them upon a clean newspaper, she brushed them, beat them and finally washed them. Carefully gathering up the gold dust thus dislodged she carried it to the nearest bank and sold it for $2187. i WITH YOUR COFFEE. Tommie (in a languid whine)—Ma! Ma! Wy can’t I go out 'n’ play with them boys? Ma—Because, my dear, they’re naughty boys; Ican hear them swearing. Tommie (suddenly alert)—You can? me! whatre they sayin’?—Truth, Oh, “I suppose you talked about other women at the sewing society this afternoon,” sail Mr, Cawker to-his wife. | “Yes,” replied Mrs. Cawker. “Women are not s0 conceited as men, who talk about them- selves.”—Harper’s Ba Light-minded Young Thing in & Bathing Suit—Surely, Aunt Margaret, you are not go- ing to wear your spectacles in the water. Aunt Margaret—Indeed I am. Nothingshall induce me 1o take off another thing.—New York Tribune. Teacher—Do you understand the meaning of the terms labor and capltal? Boy—Yes, 1 know what it is. If & boy cossts down a hill, that's capital. Ii another boy rides the bicycle up, that’s labor.—Fun. “How in creation did you manage to get the | big policeman to sleep, Doc? We tried every- | thing known to medical science.” “I just stationed a couple of fellows outside to yell for help.”—Detroit Free Press. I wish vou giris would be a little more punctual. I makea point of always coming | up to time.” “Ha! that explains it,” “Explains what?” “Why time flies.”—Pick-Me-Up. Assistant Librarian—Where shall Iput this book, “Impressions of America by an English- men”'? Liprarian—In the fiction department.—Life, MEN AND WOMEN. Governcr Tanner of Illinois has gone to the wilds of Minnesota to hunt elk. Bir Edwin Arnold, having wearied of Jap- &nese museums, is now writing poetically In the Daily Telegraph of African monkeys. The old home in Niles, Onio, in which Presi- dent McKinley was born, was sold last wevk to W. C. Allison, a relative of the President, Clara Novello, the weli-known English ora- torio singer, who In private life is the Count- ess Gigliucei, has just entered upon her eignt- leih year. Baron Oscar Dickson, the Swedish banker whose liberality enabled Nordenskjold to carry on his explorations, aled recently at his estate Alumnas, aged 74 years. Four large and important pastels by Rosa Bonheur were exhibited recently at the Georges Petit Gallery in Paris. They are said to be admirabie examples of her work. Pope Leo’s long life is truly miraculous, if the London Daily News account of his usual dinner is correct: “His faithful valet serves bim with a light vegetable soup, two friea pumpkins, & morsel of veal or fowl and half & glass of Bordeaux.” Mrs. Mary Darrow Olson, principal of Me- Cook School, Chicago, has offered a prize for the best-dressed graduate whose dress does not cost over §2. Florence Hull Winterburn has in type a forthcoming volume entitled “Arrows in the Air” | Mrs. Ednah Dow Cheney preached in the Unitarian Church at St. John, N. B, on | “Queen’s SBunday,” June 20, by request of th pastor, Rev. Mr. Green,who thought a woman'’s | voice should be chosen to do honor to a | woman’s reign. \ 1 1 | PHYSICIANS - AT ENMITY They Wage a Wordy War at the Meeting of the Board of Regents. The Plan to Affiliate the Two Institutions Is Bitterly Opposed. Decisive Action Deferred Until the Next Meeting—Routine Busi- ness Transacted. At the meeting of the Board of Regents yesterday alternoon the question of affiliating the Hahnemann Medical Col- lege with the medical college of the uni- versity caused much discussion between the disciples of the two schools of medi- cine. The Hahnemann College is a homeopathic institution and, on the grounds that the supporters and practi- tioners of this school were taxpayers, made application to be affiliated with the university, although they did not request that room be assigned them in the Affiliated Colleges building. Their appli- cation was signed by Justice W. C. Van Fleet, Justice W. C. Garoutte, Judge E. A. Belcher, ¥. W. Ames, ’h Galpin, Bar- clay Henley, Louis Sloss, P. L. Lilienthal, Issac Requa, Horace Davis and Irving M. Scott, and when the committee reported on it they essumed. that it would be granted, and their report recommended on what terms the affiliation should be consummated. When Regents Phelps, Hallidie, Marye, Denicke, Martin, John Buvdd, Rodgers, Wallace, Reinstein, Jeter, Miller, Foote, Coombs and; Mrs. Phebe Hearstassembred they decided that, in view of the large number of protests against affiliation which had been received, the meeting should be thrown open and both sides given a hearing. Dr. George H. Martin of the Hahne- mann Medical College fraternity took the floor first. He first made a review of the rise of homeopathy and commented on its rapid growth in this country, where at present three State universities, namely thase of Michigan, Minnesota and Iowa, had affiliated with the homeopaths and two others now have the matter under consideration. In the United Statesthere are 15000 homeopathic practitioners, against about 100,000 allopathic. There are also nineteen homeopathic colleges, with about 2000 students. Wit this rep- resentation of taxpayers, Dr. Martin thought the homeopaths were certainly entitled to affillation with the State uni- versities, When questiohed by Regent Rodgers as to the present financial condi- tion of the institution, thesnumber of students, chairs, etc., Dr. Martin replied that he had not prepared himself to give figures relating to the financial condition ot the institution, but was certain that it was good. He said that last year they bad had about twenty-five chairs, inclu- sive of lectureships, with a roll of thirty- two students. Dr. Thorne then took the floor on be- half of the opposition. He began by the reading of a protest from the City ard County Medical Bociety, which is in part as follows: **We claim as alumni of the department of the University of California that we have, by payment of our fees and the pur- suance of the curriculum, earned our diplomas with a jealous care, and strive by our personal conduct to preserve them untarnished. Should our alma mater te tainted w homeopathy our standing | will be lowered, our degrees will be dis- graced and degraded, and we can never again refer to this alma mater with rever- ence and respect. We call to your atten- tion that, with one unfortunate excep- tion, no reputable medical college of the United States has formed such an alli~ ance,” The vpetition bore ths signatures of Washington Dodge, A. A. D'Ancona, J. M. Williamson, F. D, Dudley, F. A, Rinne, V. E. Putnam, F. D. Fitzgibbon, C. D. McGettigan, W. H. Mays, W. C. Hay and Robert A. McLean. Dr. Rosenstirn then stated that his chief objection to affiliation was from a strong feeling of attachment to the university as a place of education, and that while he admitted the fact that homeopathy had grown rapidly in America, still the soil of America was very prolific, and in growing many beautiful and useful plants it also bm&xght forth a great many weeds, He said: “Homeopathy has many converts as well as other fads, although it is bare of anything that can claim recognition in the field of science. In fact, not a single discovery has been made by a homeopa- thist that has ever been accordea any scientific valus. About the only success- ful practitioners have been men who have to Europe, where no homeopathic schools exist, and have come back and practiced under the assumed name of homeopa- thists.”” After both sides had been given a fair hearing it was decided to lay the matter over until the next regular meeting of the board, when decided action will be taken, and the regular routine business was taken ur. A letter was received from Pro- fessor Moses, who has been making re- searches in Japan for the last year, re- quesiing a furtber extension of time. Hae was gianted leave of absence until the first of October. FProfesgor Babcock, who. bas been spending bis vacation in Boston, requested leave of absence until August , which was refused, and he will be notified to report for duty at the usual time, NEW TO-DAY. ARGONAUT 0K WHISKEY Is Five Years In Wood Before Bottling. £ MARTIN @ co., 411 Market 8t. San Francisce.