The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 13, 1897, Page 6

1897. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13 CALIFORNIA, THE LAND OF GOLD. With the Klondike craze at its height; with stories of the Arctic placer. fields filling pages of the daily press; with numerous expeditions already on the way to the Yukon, and many more rapidly fitting out for the perilous voyage thither; amid all the talk of a new El Dorado of the north; of dangers and hardships there; of long winter digging and short summer panaing, and of fortunes gleaned from the banks of streams near Dawson in less than a year; with all these details before us, and amid all the resunltant rush of fortune-hunters to the regions of glacier and aurora, Califor- nia rises from her throne of gold in her garden of paradise and unfolds a glittering tale, in comparison with which the history of the Northwest Territory mineral dis- CHARLES M. Editor and Proprietor. 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Rooms 31 an DAVID 3 1"71.’ CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyou going to the country ona vacation ? #0.t 15 10 trouble for us to forward THE CALL to address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it Orders given to Lhe carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifty cenits per month for mer months. 1 A California mining boom is now in or- der. ‘ Trinity sees Klondike and goes it a nug- Rret betier. A continual change in schoolbooks is no way to teach economy to pupiis. It is better to prospect in Califcrnia and strike a pocket than to go to the Yukon and be out of pocket. It is not certain whether the world has | lost Andree or Andree bas lost the earth, but there is surely something missing. 1t is called now “Klondicitis,”” as if it were a disease, but up to date the cure for the microbe of it has not been discovered. Some spell it ‘‘Skagaway’’ and some “Skaguay,” but all admit that one spell of it is enough to satisfy the average citizen. If Weyler 1s not recalled very soon the Cubans may take Havana and sena him home without waiting for the recalling! voice. | This is a good time to decide to give Jalifornia mines a trial before flying to the frozen north on something like a wild- goose chase. The customs duties levied on American goods on the other side of Chilcoot Pass are bad, but not so bad as the blockade on this side of the line. The niost thorough and accurate reports from Dyea are those sent by our special | correspondents. Read Tue Carw for gen- | uine news and no fake, The annoucement that Bryan is going to Mexico while every one eise is going to Alaska shows that he is out of sympathy with the people and won’t travel with the procession. . As the Kaiser's visit to the Czar has already come to an end it isevident it was short enougl: to be sweet, and probably not sweet enough to have been worth lengthening. The adventurers who at Junean have decided to turn back and wait for spring may bave weaker hearts than their com- panions who go on, but it looks as if they had stronger brains. Nicaragua has changed her mind and will now receive Minister Merry without making a row about 1t. In dealing with some people it is always worth while to give them a chance to have a second thought. Pretty soon there will be a newspaper in Dawson expressing the surprise of that community that so many people in the United States should be crazy enough to stay at home when there is so much free fun on the Yukon. The New York plan of bringinz mer- chants from other places to visit that city has proven so successful that Philadelphia will imitate it, and it might be well for Ban Francisco to see how the movement weuld work on this coast if it were well pushed along. During the last week of July, 1896, the asumber of shares of stock bought and sold in Wall street was less that a million, but this year the sales for the correspond- ing perioa exceeded two millions. That is the way the wave of prosperity rolls up where the brokers are. The pure-food exhibit promises to be the chief feature of the Mechanics’ Insti- tute fair this year, and it is to be hoped it will be a complete display of what Cali- ‘ornia can do in that ine. Publicopinion is now interested in the subject, and this is the time to appsal to it. According to the Chicago Tribune the bicycle causes more accidents of sufficient seriousness to be reported to the police than all other forces in that city put to- zether. It seems to be the most uncertain | of buman inventions and some regard it as an invention of the devil. It is announced that Secretary Wilson, who is now at Denver, will visit Utah, Idaho and Montana. We shouid see to it that California is added to the list. It will | never do to let 2 member of the adminis- tration of prosperity come to our door and 10 away without coming in toshake hands ind wish us lnck. The one consoling feature of the wreck of the Mexico was the courage displayed by all on board when the disaster occurred. Officers, crew and passengers alike pre- served their presence of mind and met with a calm heroism the dangers which sonfronted them. The loss was great, but fortunately it did not include a single life, The threatened strike of the postal slerks in Great Britein is peculiar. The Government employe has been supposed to be 8o eager to keep his job that a strike 's the last thing the public expected from cowaries becomes commonplace. She speaks with a glorious voice like at whick electrified all countries in ’49, and she points to fresh gotdfields in her ao.!’.in as rich as any the world has ever seen. The strikes on Coffee Creek and Morrison Gulch, in Trinity County, are to-day the wonder of the land. To dwarf the stories of Yukon nuggets and build a new record for the ages, R. B. and J. B. Graves, of Trinity County, on Saturday last took irom a claim a gigantic siab of the precious metal worth $12,000. While the brothers were on their way to the United States Mint in this City, the news came that on the day after their departure from Coffee Creek $10,000 more in gold dustand nuggets was taken out of their mine in less than five hours. is plenty of gold in sight on every hand. This is only the beginning, for there O Monday two poor miners, named Murphy and Burgess respectively, opened a claim on Coffee Creek and yelled like Comanche Indians at the sight that greeted their vision. were almost dazed by the sight. and dug with their hands. Tuey foand gola in such quantities just below the surface that they In their wild excitement they férgot their shovels The ground was full of gold. They fillea their hats with it, they crammed it into their pockets and then they sped to and from their cabin and gathered it in buckets. on the Klondike, and there never can be. higler prices than the Klondike gold. Within twenty-four hours they had taken out between $78,000 and $82,000 worth of the precious metal. At the Mint this Califorcia product brings There was never anything like this The same vein extends alonyg to Morrison Gulch, a couple ofmiles away, and there Tuesday afternoon two miners took up $18,000 worth of gold in a very few hours. Nobody in Trinity County is talking of Yukon placers now. in California that eclipse the Klondike piacers. flrece of gold. Here is the real El Dorado. We have new goldfields It is here that we shall find the All the discoverers of the new claims were hard-working men; to-day they are regarded as millionaires. There is already a rush to the Trinity mines, where icy hardships await not and no famine is possible; where cinch laws do not exist, and where conditions all are fair. Let the Klondike be relegated to the shade. Justas it was forty-eight years ago, and has been ever since, California is the land of gold, and all the vast wealth that has been taken from her hillsides and her river banks is but a little thing as compared to the limitless treasure thet still lies ahout us here awaiting the earnest hand of industry to rafseit from the darkness to the sunlight. ! WILSON'S TOUR. A dispatch of yesterday from Denver announces that Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture had arrived at that city in the couvrse of his tour under- taken to make himself acquainted with the conditions and needs of Western farm- ers. It was sdded that the plan of the Becretary includes a visit to Wyoming, | Utah, Icaho and Montana, An effort should be made at once to in- duce the Secretary to put California in the list of States he intends to visit this year. Now that he is so far west it will be com- paratively easy for him to come farther without much inconvenience to himself. To have anything like a full understand- ing of the Greater West he must see this State, which is tie seat of its metropolis and the scene of iis greatest activities and most completedevelopment. The desired visit is the mmore important | because the study in which the Sec rotary is enga ged is one which directly concerns | California in a more marked degree than | any other State in the Union. He bhas | stated that in the course of his Western trip tbe subjects to which he will give | most attention are tbe cuitivation of | sugar beets and the breeding of cavalry horses. California is the land of horses and of sugar. He must surely come here to learn and ‘o teach of these things. It is of course well understood that the West is a vast country and that the Sec- | retary cannot go everywhere within itin a single season. It will require much traveling and incessant work to study the territory he already proposes to cover. | If, therefore, California did not Lave strong reasons to urge why a visit should | be made the Secretary would be jusily | excused from accepting the invitation. We have, however, ihe strongest of reasons. The sugar-bees industry is ad- | vancing here more rapidly and has bett r prospects than anywhere else. If the | Secretary desires to see a swift accomplish- | ment of great results from his plans of building up that industry it is in this State be should make his studies and be most active in aiding the farmers, If prompt and earnest efforts are made by official authorities and by the repre- sentatives of organized bodies in the State we may be able to induce the Secre- | tary to come. It goes without saying we can assure him a welcome. hat he will | value mott, however, will be an opvoortu- nity to be of use to the agricultural in- terests of the country, and that oprortu- nity he must be assured can be found in California better than anywhere else, and this year better than at any future time. BUILDING UP WHOLESALE TRADE The plan of the New York wholesale merchants to build up the trade of that metropolis by making inducements to the | merchants of distant towns to visit the city ana spend their money there is meeting with such remarkable success that Philadelphia has determined to fo!- low the example. The New York wholesalers sent out 100,- 000 circular letters of inquiry to merchants in all parts of the couniry, asking them what dates would suit them best to come to New York to do their trading. Tke answers to these inquiries were made the basis for arranging for the sale of excursion tickets to that city for a single fare, the tickets being made good for re- turn for one-third the full rate, when ap- proved by the Merchants’ Association in | New York. The latter organization has profited immensely by the scheme, and | the railroads also are reaping the benefit of additional travel and traffic. A large amount of money has beenraised in New York to bring the merchants there and look after them. Now the Philadelphia merchants are figuring on terms with the railroads in the same line of enterprise. They find that they have got to do it ur see their trade slip away from them. There is a suggestion here that San Francisco whole- sulers should not be slow to adopt. The city of St. Louis has to-day a fund of $700,000 for tbe purpose of bringing trade to that city, and Mobile (Ala.) merchants have issued a circular offering to pay the fares of visitine merchants both ways on the basis of their purchasing goods in that city to the amount of $1000. Let our San Francisco wholesale mer- chants give this matter careful considera. tion. The plan that is now building up the trade ot New York is worthy of adop- tion for building up the trade of the City of the Golden Gate. It is hoped there is no trath in the re- port that Secretary Sherman will give no more interviews this summer. The Secre- tary and the interviewer together have added much to the gayety of the holiday season, and there is reason to beheve, if they continued their play, they woula produce somethinz before frost which would make a genuine sensation, —_— 1im. The British experiment will be watched with intereet and if the clerks strike it is to be hoped they will hit the | shall rattle around in the vacancy left by Government a lick hard enough to make | Canovas, and it will be long indeed before ivsqueal, It takes Spain a long time to decide who | she finds one to fill it. a Iriend or s loe. THE YOSEMITE TOLLROADS. The numerous tollroads on the way into the Yosemite Valley, which have been the cause of annoyance and incon- venience to tourists, ana which have undoubtedly deterred many from making the trip into California’s wonderland, should be abolished, and one of the Yo- semite Commissioners suggests a means of accomyplishing this end. The toilroads areon United States property, and the way out of the difficulty would pe for the Government to purchase the interestol the tolliroad company in the premises. With this object in view, a petition to the Becretary of the Interior and also to Con- gress is proposed. If the journey into the great natura park were shorn of all the:e burdensome and unnecessary charges thousands would visit Yosemite annually where hundreds o there to-day. If the Government will, by vurchase, rid the valley of the tollroad nuisance, it is confidently expected that the counties through which those roads run will speedily follow the exampie, and thus cut these exactions off altogether. The Commissioner opined that the Fed- eral authorities would act favorably in the matter if the proper showing were made to them. In the fairly wealthy people could afford to travel into Yosemite, on account of the exorbitant charges. This year, on ac- count of the material reductions made for the Chrietian Endeavorers, the number ot tourists has been greatly increased. The Yosemite is intended as a pleasure-ground for the whole people, but the high toll rates have, as a rule, acted as bar- riers to the entrance of families of small means. We hope that before an- other season rolls around these toliroads will have been made f{ree for everyboay. A petition such asthat above suggested would be eagerly signed by every person who has at heart the best interests of the State. The current number of the North Ameri- can Review contains an article by General Green B. Raum which strikingly presents the arguments of those who are opposed to the tendency toward life tenure of office which for some time past bas prevailed in our civil service, and advocates a return to the system that was practiced in the earlier days of the Republic and which, it is claimed, is more in harmony with American ideas and American political traditions. General Raum says the civil service re- form movement had itsorigin in a distrast of the political integrity of the people, and a contempt for government through party organization. The reformers sought the repeal of all tenure of office acts and the entire elimination of vpolitical influences irom appointments to office or removals therefrom, with the object of establishing a privileged office-bolding class not subject to popuiar control, or even to the control of the elected officials of the people who are responsible for their work. Civil service reform has now gone so far that no officer however high is trusted to meke appointments to positions under him. Tne rulesdeclare the Presidentshall not choose the people about him in the White House. "He must keep those he finds there or select others from names sent him by the civil service commission. All the steps in this change from the old order of things have been taken without the consent of the people, and General Raum does not hesitate to declare “It will better comport Wwith our republican sys- tem of government to make pbstmasters elective than to place their appointment under civil service rules.” The importance of the article lies in the fact that it representsa growing sentiment among the people. Men of all parties are begining to ask if we are not going too tar in the direction of mugwump politics in our civil service. The question is being re- argued, and it may be made an issue in the next session of Congress. COUNTRY WITHOUT A RAILROAD. Rallway Age To railway builders out of work Alaska offers & great if not an inviting field. Witha territory ten times as large as New York State, ithas notamile of steam road, or any other kind of road. Thousands of citizens of the United States are ready to emigrate thither long enough to pick up what gold they want, and ye. our Government has not buiit & single railway for their accommoaa- tion. The only transportion line into the gold nelds is owned by selfish capitalists, non-resi- dents at that, who expect to make & profit outof the indigent gold-seeker. MR. DANA HEARD FROM. New York Sun. Afriend in Geneva informsus that certain apers in that neighborhood say that Mr. Dana has resigned as editor of the Sun. This is a falsehood. Mr. Dana has never been of a resigning habit, and hereby declares that he has not commenced the practice in the present case. He can still be founa doing business at the old stand, and the man does unot live wno can say that he has seen him, there or elsewhere, turn nis back either upon L] previous years only | i The Old “Curiosity Shop” in Clare Street, London, Made Famous by Charles Dickens. It Is About to Be Torn Down to Make Way for a Mollern Building. A SERIOUS OBSTACLE TO EURO- PEAN PEACE. Ever since the Crimegn War of 1853-54 the Balkan peninsula has been considered a veri- table powder magazine which needed only the throwing in of a diminutive spark of fire to set the whole European continent ablaze. Since then, it is true, we have had tne Russo- Turkish War of 1876-77, and, as a conse- quence, the little Bosnian war of 1878, and very recently the Grecian-Turkish War. That one and all these affairs did not involve the other great powers was mainly due to Francis Joseph, the present Emperor of Austria. This mouarch, whose love of peace is known in all civilized eountries, has always done what he could to checkmate any desire of other n: tions to take advantage of the isolated condi- tion of Turkey. As Austria is & member of the still-existing Triple Alliance between Ger- many, Austria and Italy, and_as the close alli. ance of the three Emperors of Germany, Rus- sia and Austria seems as good as re-established, Francis Joseph has without doubt been the preserver of peace on the Balkan. If, therefore, the dispatches from Berlin and Vienna published in yesterday's CALL should prove correct that the Austrian Minis- ter to Bulgaria, Baron Carl yon Kulmbech- Rosenberg, has demanded his passports from Sofia ualess the Bulgarian Prime Minister, M. Stoiloff, publicly apologizss for certain remarks concerning the house of Hapsburg made in an interview with a correspoudent of & Berlin newspaper, we are now in more danger of & European war than at any time sinee 1871. In coming to this conciusion it must be borne in mind that M. Stoiloff pretends to echo the sentiments of Ferdinand of Bulgaria, whose near relative, the Prince of Coburg, had led Crown Prince Rudolphk of Austriain all bis escapades, and particulasly the one with Baroness Pestrierra, which occasioned the death of the Crown Prince as well as the Bar- oness. Bismarck, when he was Chancellor, once re- marked that he would not sacrifice the limb of & single Pomeranian grenadier for any- thing thatmight happen on the Balkan, and thit, no doubt, is still the prevalent sentiment in Germany. Austria, however, is a conglom- eration of seven difterent nationalities, all of | which love and venerate their present Em- peror above anything else on earth, and if these people should take the matter in hand, as they are likely to do, there is no outside alliance strong enough to stop them. PERSONAL. B. T. Buel of Boston is in town. Matsul of Japan isa visitor here. McDonald, & mining man of Sonors, is on a visit here. C. D. Stanton, » hotel man of Arbuckle, is at the Cosmopolitan. E Charies A. Keyser of Los Angeles s a late ar- Tival at the Palac B. G. Goodrich, a business man of Victoris, C., is at the Occidental. C. H. Marks, ex-Superior Judge of Merced, is a guest at the Cosmopoliian. Assistant District Attorney Hinkle was cailed to Marysville yesterday by the news of the unexpected death of his brother. W. Steel, the manager of the London an¥ san Francisco Bank, cime over from Mill Val- ley yesterday and is at the Occidental, accom- panied by Mrs. Steel, Dr. W. E. Mack of Chico arrived here yester- day, accompanied by H. J. Shannon and G. A, Keifer, also of Chico, all of whom are bound for the Klondike mines, Dr. Mack is taking in & large supply of goods with him. They will leave in a few days for the northern snows. Untred States Fish Commissioner J. J. Brice of Washington, D. C., has been at the Palace for the last day or two. He has come out to California in reference to the building of one or two new fish hatcheries. “I will be here for some little time,” said the Commissioner yesterday. “I want to get these hatcherles under way In good shape, and I can go ahead and do some other things that are in view.” REFLECTTaNS OF A BACHELOR, ~New York Press. 111 had my way no woman would have hers. The folk that laughed hardest at Noah were the ones that were carrying around borrowed umbrellas, Taking one’s revenge is like hitting a mos- quito; the worse you want to get it the harder you slap youuself. Girls always need a quiet place to make up a quarrel in, so that they can cry and put their arms around each other. After a girlis once kissed by a man she is bound to get she begins to intimate thatshe thinks it would be a sacrilege for her to kiss anybody else. Love is always pictured with & bow and ar- row and a pair of wings. The bow represents & woman’s lips, the arrow is her tongue, and the wings are for him to fly away with. —_— WITH YOUR COFFEE. “‘Where will Frau Meyer go now that both of her daughters are married? To her son-in- law’s house in Frankfurt or tothatof her other sorkin-law in Stuttgart?”’ “Oue wants her in Stuttgart and the other wishes she would go to Frankfurt.” “What dutiful sons-in-law!” *'1 beg your pardon. THe one in Frankfurt wants her in Stuttgart; the one in Stuttgart wants her in Frankfur! Fliegende Blaetter. When the poor law was first introduced a beggar women whom & gentleman referred to the poorhouse said: “This poor law’s a grand thing for the sowls of the gintiemen.” “Why so?" “Bekaise now when we axes for alms they only say, ‘Go to the poorhouse,’ but before there was a poorhouse they used (o say, ‘Go to the divil? "—Dublin World. Tootsie eccidentally discovered a doll that her mother had concealed in a trunk in readi- ness for the littie lady’s birthday. - The follow- ing day at dinner she remarked: “Iam trying 50 hard to forget something I want to remem- ber that I don’t feel very hungry.”—Judge. *‘Mary, go inio the sitting-room and tell me how the thermometer stands.”” “It stands on the mantelpice, just agin the wall, sir!”—Dublin World. She—Oh, James, how grana the sea is.” How wonderful. I do so like to hear the roar of the ocean. ¥ He—Sodo 1, Elizabeih. Please keep quist.— Lustigen Blaetter. : Ethel—There is Jack sitting on the other side of the boat. Doesn’t he look tired? Maud—Yes. Have you been talking to him to-day?—Harlem Life. Adam—Hurry up, can’t you? We've got to getout of the garden before sundown. Eve—Yes, Adam, dear. Are my leaves on straighi?—New York Press. THE GLASGOW CHARTER. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: During the year 1896 the city of Glasgow was redistricted, and the number of wards was in- creased from sixteen to twenty-five, each ward having three members of the Town Couucil or City Conncil as we should say, the term of office being for three years, one-third or twenty-five of the members retiring each year, so as to securs rotation in office, a new member being thus elected annually from each of the twenty-five wards, which now bear names instead of numbers es formerly, such as Dalmarnock, Calton, Mile-End, King- ston, Kelvinside, ete., the old names of locali- ties being given to the wards, as if we should have a Hayes Valley ward, a Mission ward, a Rincon Hill ward, etc. The Lord Provost, or Mayor, is chosen by the Town Council and he 1s elected ‘or a term of three years. Any member of the seventy-five is eligible to election to the office of Lord Provost and if elected during the third year of his term as Councilman he st1ll holds office for three years. Ou page 71 of Sir Jumes Beli's elaborate work on “Glasgow, Its Municipal Orzanization and Administration,” recently issued, the dutfes of the Lord Provost are thus enumerated: ‘‘He is the first magisirate of the city and Lord Lieutenant of the county of the " or city and county, as we should say. s president or chairman of the Council he has a deliberative and, in case of need, a cast- ing vote in all deliberations and decisions. He is ex-officio & member of all the commit- teas of the Council, 8 member of ti.e Glasgow University Court, and there isscarcely an in- stitution ‘in the city which dos ot consider it has a claim upon his services. 'He s calied upon to preside al innumerable society meet- ings and public lectures and entertainments.” In & word, ss Dr. Albert Shaw, in his sdmira- ble work on “Municipal Government in Great Britain,” puts it, the Lord Provo:t‘‘personifies the pomp and dignity of municipality; but, except in his capacity as & member of the Couneil, he has no important executive re- sponsibility.” Unlike most American city Mayors, the Lord Prqvost has no veto power and makes noappoihtments. “Itisimportant,” says Dr. Shaw, page 78, “to make clear o American readers that the Lord Provost isin no sanse an administrative head as is the American Mayor, and that there is no: in British cities any disposition whatever to concentrate ap- pointing power and executive control in the leds of one man at effective way to secure responsible administration. There 18 noth- ing in British organizaiion or experience to sustain the proposiiion that good city govern- ment can be secured only by makiug the | Mayor a dictator.” English “and Scottish cities have a more democratic goverament | than the American. Two magistrdtes callel “bailies’ are se- lecied by the Council and they with the Pro- a full Council consist of seventy-eight mem- Dbeis. All the authority of the mubicipality is invested in this “Town Council” and the body 18 officially designated ‘the Lord Pro- vost, Magistraies and Counci'.” Under various | acts of Pailiament this Council, as Dr ! has 1t,1s divided into commitiees kno { (1) Water Commissioners, (2) Gas Trustees, (3) Marketand Slauxhter-house Commission- | ers, (4) Parks and Galleries Trustees, (5) City | Impiovement Trustees and (6) Police Comumis- | sioners. | A consideration of the duties and powers of ! these general committees, their subdivisions and practical working must be reserved for | another time. Iwill only add now that the population of Glasgow is 700,000, about doubie | that of San Francisco, and thnt ouly ratepay- ers or iaxpayers are entitied to vote at city elections, JOSEPH ASBURY JOHN: 11 Essex street, Aug. 11, 1897. ‘When ‘“‘Pardner’’ Diffsrs From Partne: Don’t Go to Klondike Without One. St. Louls Globe-Democrat. No one should venture to set out ior the Alaska diggings without a good pardner. The word must not be confounded with part- ner. Partner hes a smart, business-like sound. It is precisely defined by law, and though it may by courtesy invoive something of special favor its equities atlast rest upon the decisious of courts without regard to sen- timent. Buta pardner glories in sentiment. He expects to give his mate all that the law requires and call that only s beginning. Men may b: chums in easy, prosperous times, but it is not until they pass together through a succession of dangers and llll’dshlrl that they can become pardners. Congeniality and ime plicit confidence are at the base of a pardner- ship; and for better or for worse the two_men stand as one under all vicissitudes, doubling each other’s joys afld dividing sorrows and fallures. If one falls by the way the other gives him more than the devotion of & brother. Gold mining eventually is a business con- ducted by large captial, but placer diggings afford an opening to any one who can stake and work a claim. The two pardners begin operations on the ground floor, share their discoveries, tent together and cook for each othor. Their qualities and traits are comple- mentary. Pardners are closer than mess- mates iu the army or navy. The soldier or sallor i8_under the care of a bountiful pro- vider. His fodd, clothes and shelter are fur- nished by the Government, and his comings and goings are regulated by orders. Pardners, on tne other hand, must skirmish together | from the start for subsistence and plans of operation. Thaey fight the battle of life for two under hazardous conditions, far from famiiies and friends, satistied, for the time be- ing, with bare uecessaries. Under such a test, pardupers are forged as steel is forged. The literature of California is full of the Bret Harte's tales would gnrdnorl in that g:xdnm' atmosphere. tame without it. But Btate, except as gray-beard survivors, are scarce now. They will be revived in Alaska and experience far greater trials than they ever knew 1n our first Pacific commonwealth. eezing and starvation were unknown in fornia. I¢ is not likely that the mining camps in Alaska will permii any one 1o starve, but they have a regulation for lhigylnl those lacking means or resources out of the country, In & community of pardners a high sense of general humanity will prevail, but thére must be prudence as to feeding drones during the long season when the lines of supply are interrupted. Alaska will furnish 'a great growth of friendship, with the pardneresits top flower. No man can utterly fail there who nas a good pardnerand is one. Amoug the giaciers and the fiozen moss, where a blossom has tever opened to the light, tbe linesof Holmes will take on & new beauty, teaching th: friendship is the breathing rose that sweets in every fold.” ALWAYS AT WAR.' Boston Traveler. A remarkable feature of Queen Victoria’s reign is the great number of wars, ‘‘ittla and big.” that have marked its progress. Scarcely a twelvemonth has passed wiihout findin; England st war in some parts of the world. Here is a list of the principal campaigns and expaditions: Afghan war, 1838-40; first Chi- nese war, 1841; Bikh war, 1845-46; Kafir wa; 1846; second war with China, second Africal war, 1849; second Sikh war, 1849-49; Bur- mese war, 1850; second Kaffir war, 1851-52; second Burmese wa 1852-53; H thirl war with China, 18565 ‘tiny, 1857; Maor1 war, 1860-61; more wars with Coina, 1860 and 1862; second Maori war, 1863-66; » 1864; war in Bootan, 1864; Abys<inian war, 1867-68; war B 1868; third Maori war, 1868- with Looshasis, 1871: Zulu war, third Afghan Yy '8.80; war in 79-81; Transvaat war, 1879 81; Zanzibar, 1890; Ind! 1894 and 1896 gn, 1896; third Ashantee cam, 0, second Soudan campaign, 1806, 5> vost become members of the Council, making | RAINEY PLANS NORE SCHEMES New Positions to Be Created in the School De- partment. There Is to Be a Second Vice- Principalship for Those in Favor. Developments in the Gerrymandering Plan in Oonnection With a New S8chool The addition of thirteen new teachers to the salary schedule of the School Depart- ment as accomplished at the meeting of the School Directors on Wednesday even- ing is to be followed by many more ap- pointments if the plans of the “solid nine” do not miscarry. The increased at- tendance of pupils at the various schools is the lever with which Rainey hopes to stock the department with his friends. The list of teachers will probably be in- creased within the next month to an ex- tent that wili practically fill all prospec- tive vacancies for at least four years. To begin with, it is proposed to create an entirely new position in the pnncn_p:l schools. When the gerrymandering scheme of redistricting the City is com- pleted it will be in order to create the offite of second vice-principal, with 2 salary in keeping with the importance of the sound of these words. Heretofore the City has worried along with a simple vice-principal as an assistant to the head of the house, but Rainey has concluded that these functionaries are overworked, and the directors have promised to see to it that the staff will be increased by the addition of many assistants. Just what the duties of a second vice-principal will bs beyond drawing a salary has not yet been determined. Directors Ragan and Drucker are at work at present figuring out this end of the programme. s Ragan and Drucker eajoy the distinc- tion Gf being the majority members of the Committee on Rules, as well as the chief lieutenants of Rainey on the present board. In connection with Director Waller it may be said that they prac-ically dictate the doings of the board, and that any expressed wish of the fat boss will be carefully complied with on their part Rainey is credited with having almost a hundred friends who would be willing to draw salary in the city schools. It was ! his brain that conceived that a new divi- sion of tne City into echeo! districis was necessary to the welfare of the general maunicipality. The Committee on Rules is expected to | 4ring in a report on the subject of the ra- districting of the schools at the next meet- ing of the board. Asan indication of the mauner 1n which the slate is fixed the transfer of two classes from the Hawthorne to the Horace Mann speaks volumes. At the present time Joe O'Connor is the prin- cipal of the Horace Mann and is known to be of influence at the seats of the mighty | where Ruiney reiens as king. Up huis sireve O'Connor has an ambition to be the principal of the new Mission High School, and it is the wish of the bosses that 1his desire should be gratitied. It was the idea of the last School Board and the Board of Supervisors when | the appropriation for the new school | building at the corner of Eighteenth and Dolcres streeis was made that the present staff of the Lowell High School should be transierred to it upon its completion, and that bullding made a primary school. This, of course, nould defeat the plans of Rainey and incidentaliy the ambiiion of 0’Connor. Now 1it_is proposed to create out of the Mission High School an enti e y new ad- dition to the Ciiy’s educational institu- tions, at an increased cost of $40,000 a year to the tuxpayers. In thegeneral plan to make O’Connor principal four high-school ciasses have now quarters in the Horace Mann building. ut of this nucleus the new high scuool is to be created, and 0'Connor will have his ambition sat:sfied. Professor Simmons, the present vice-prin- cipal of the Girls’ High School, wili, in turn, be made the principal of the Horace Mann Grammar. THE WHEEL OF 1898. New York Evening Sun. There are many rumors going the rounds about the wheel of 1898. That it will be chalnless nobody doubts. This being the case the recent slump in the price of bicycles is partially explaiued. It is easy to see why the big firms should be anxious to clear out their stocks in view of a complete change in model. Next year’s bicycle'will be a $100 article, and will continue to be such forlconsmenbl_: time. It will be Interesting to see Lhow long it will take to make the use of thechainlesy wheel tolerably general. If the new onedif- fers in appearance, in shape of frame, etc., from that used at present, the rate of adoption will be faster, for the present model will bs more readily identified as out of date. In wheels as in clothes, it is not pleasant to be behina the times. Butif it is impossible to improve on the present frame in a hurry the adoption of tue chainless wheel will be com- raiively slow. 50 long 8s appearauces are all right many persons will be content to use the present article rather than go to the ex- pense of & new one. It is said that a number of triais of the new wheel have been made in secret and that they have been very successful n the matter of speed. Of course the present \heel is rapid enough for the ordinary rider. But it sppears that without the chain the iniction is decreased enormously and thus ease is promoted. In bicycles, as in battle- ships, the finished product of to-day will be obsolete to-morrow. All this makes for progress. FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT. America Council of the Order of Chosen Friends Will Celobrate Its Anniversary. America Couneil No. 7 of the Order of Chosen Friends will be seventeen years old on Tuesday evening next,and in commemora- tion of that anniversary it will give an enter- tainment and social in the Eocial Hsll in the Alcazar building. An energelic and active committee is at work makiog preparations for the event, and it is the intentiou of the mem- bers of that commitise to make the evening one of pleasurable enjoyment jor all who have received invitations. Knights and Ladies of Honor. The proceedingsof the tenth annual ses- sion of the Grand Lodge of California of the Knights and Ladies of Honor, which held its session in this City recently, have been issued and are being distributed by Grand Secretary Carleton. It isa neatly printed book of forty- eignt pages, containing a concise report of the work of the lodge, a clear exhibit of the finances, a directory of the subordinate lodges and an appendix in which there is a list of the past grand protectors, the names of the cha: ter members of the lodge, 115! of standing com- mittees, 8. list of district deputies and the nawes of the past protectors of each lodge un- der the jurisdiction of the Grand T-odge. rt A Pioneer Odd Fellow. Joseph Gray, a member of Donner Lodge, I. 0. 0. F.,, wellknown in Sacramento, died in thateity a few days since at the age of 71, and his funeral was under the auspices of the order by the general relief committee of Sac- ramento. The Califoruia Odd Fellow has the following about the deceased: *“He came to California across the plains from 1lilinois in 1850 and was among the early residents of this city. After a time he returned East, was | number of years by it. rou :;‘bnxl!:scumo . Bubsequently he kept the Fourteen-mile House, on "the Auburn road, and later on he removed 1o Truckee, and puilt the first house in the town, which now bears that name, and also the first sawmill in that place, where for s pumber of ears he was a leading_man in the wood and umber business. In 1883 he once more re- turned with his family to this city, having purchased the Cadwalader residence on N street, between Seventh and Eightn, where he has since resided. Brother Gray suffered a stroke of paralys.s some years 8go, and from that time on has been in feeble heaith. Ha eaves a wife, three denghters and one s Mrs, John Rodda of San Francisco, Mrs. S. A. Bulfinch of Los Angeles and Miss Nellie and Joseph H. Gray of this city. Alexander Hamilton Council. Alexander Hamilton Council No. 35, Junior Order United American Mechanics, hasar- ranged to give an entertainment in Laurel Hall of the Shiels bunilding this evening. A good programme has been prepared and at the close thereof there will be a dance for the young people particularly, but the oider peo- ple who may wish will not be debarred from participating in tbe dance. n— Knights of the Golden Banner. The drill corps of the Knights of the Golden Banner announces that it will give an exhibi- tion drill at Harbor View Park on Sunday next. There will bs dancing afternoon and evening. R e Minerva Circle, U. of F. Minerva Circle, Companions of the Forest, had a pleasant social in the Alcazar building last Wednesday nightand those who attended found that an enjoyable programme of dances had been arranged for them by the committes on entertainment—Mrs, B. M. Marsey, Mrs Annie Page and Mrs. Low. During the even ing Miss Jossie Goodwin gave an exhibition of- fancy dancing. A remarkable feature of the evening wrs the preeence of two brides, Mrs, James Kilcoyne and Mrs. Steadman. MEN AND WOMEN. «Uncle Jimmy” McGauhey, said to bs the oldest living survivor of the Mexican war, i3 living at Lawrenceburg, Ky., and atributes his long life to the fact that he has chewed to« bacco since he was 10 years old. Mrs. Caroline Metcali of Milwaukee has given $10,000 to the Public Library of that city *o be spent in the purchase of ornamental art books. Tnis is the first time the library has received a gift for a specified purpose. Shakespeare is about to be published in French in parts, illustrated by Robida. The translation is by Jules Lermina, who has been at work on it for ten years. M. Lermina is most anxious that his fellow-countrymen should thoroughly understand Shakespeare, and has aimed at producing an “exact’” trans- lation instead of an elegant equivalent. Miss Jennie Fessler of Mount Carmel, Pa., who insists on sticking all the needies sne can find into her arms, was removed to the Min- ers’ Hospital, where the physicians succeeded in removing twenty-four of the sharp-pointed instruments. Dr. Millard of Mount Carmel had extracted twenty-one needies from the girl’s arms several weeks ago. Professor Max Mueller tells a characteristic story of Lord Macauley in his “Literary Recol- lections” 1n Cosmopolis. The advisability of providing tor the instruction in Sanskrit cf English youths destined for service in India was a debated question, and Macaulay sent for Professor Mueller, who was an -advocate of such Instruction, in order to hear what he had to say in its support. The interview lasted an hour, during which the professor found it impossible to get in a word edgewise agains: the flood of arguments against his position which poured from the historian’s 1ips. When the harangue was ended he was dismissed with thanks for the valuable information he had imparted. ANSWERS TO CORRESPENDENTS- APaTENT—J. D. R, City. If A securese patent for an invention he is protected for & B would not have a right to make an article similar to the one pro- tected for his own use without the permission | of the patentee. ABSOLUTE OWNER—S. H. C., Williams, Cal. It aman “owus a fine ranch (agricultural) and holds a Uniteq States patent for it no one has a right to g0 on ibat land without his permis- riou. He is the absolute owner of it. Ifan- otner man ghould come along and discover gold on theland he could not locate a claim upon it, for the rerson the patent having been given, it is no longer of the public land domain and is not under tne rules that govern mineral lands. “GREAT AND GOOD FRI R. M. K. When | President McKiniey sent a ietter to Queen Vic- toria felicitating her upon the sixtieth aani- versary of her accession to the crown of Great Britain he addressed her as “great and good friend.” In doing this he followed the rule | of addressing foreign potentates since the davsof Washington. On the 27th of My, 1887, Grover Cleveland, then President of the United States, on behalf of the people of the United States, sent a letter of congratulation to Queen Victoria upon baving occupied the British throne for fifty years, and he addressed her as “great and good friend.” The letter sent by McKinley is in the main identical with the vne sent by Cleveland. The same words of ddress were nsed in a istier sent by the President of the United States to the Queen of the Hawaiien Islands. 1t is the customary Giplomatic form. ; LumiNous PAIST—C. E. 8., Morro, S8an Luis Obispo County, Cal. The following is the basis of luminous paints: Zanzibar or Kauri copal is melted over a charcoal fire, Fifteen parts of the welt isdisselved in sixty parts of oil of turpentine and the solution, filtered. is mixed with twenty-five parts of previpusly heated and cooled pure linseed oil. The var- nish thus obtained is used in the manufacture of luminous paints by grinding between gran- ite rolls in a paintmill. Iron rolls are not used because the varticles of iron which are liable to become detached would injure the Juminous properties. A pure white luminous paint is prepared by mixing forty parts of the varnish obtained in the above described process with six paris of red barium sulphate, six parts of pre- ed calcium carbonste, twelve parts of pre- pared white zinc sulphide and thirty-six paris of prepared white suiphidein & proper emulsion and then grinding it very fine ina color mill. 8 There are other luminous paints, including red, orange, yellow, green, blue, gray and ye - lowish brown in which various coioring ine gredients are used. FINE eyeglasses, specs, 15¢ up. 35 Fourth st. gt ToUrIsTs—California glace fruits, 50¢ 1b., in elegant fire-eteched boxes. Just what you want for Eastern friends. Townsend’s, Palace Hotel* —_— .. SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, bustness houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * A MDAy All United on Lincoln, The patriotic men and women of San Fran. cisco should attend the first grand mass« meeting in honor of Abraham Lincoln on Saturday night, August 14, in Metropolitan Temple. A splencid programme, vocal d instrumenial, will be presented, and ad- dreeses will be delivered by able speakers. Admission free. United States Senator George C. Perkins will presid 2 ————————— Melton Prior, the English war artist, has been through fourteen campaigns and has been wounded eight times. Three times his name has app2ared on the list of those killed in battle. His duties have taken him all over the world, and he has aitended almost every important royal wedding of the past twenty~ five years, & e Get Your Tickets to the Klondyke. 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