The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 18, 1897, Page 6

THE SA FRANCIS 30 CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18 1897 8 M BAN WRAROISED OAEL WD R A Ry e UGUST 18, 154 N D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: v CALL, One week, b; n;xen 20.15 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Mar! Fan Francisco, Telephoe.......... Ak EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephoe....... = BRANCH OFFICES: 827 Montgomers s:reet, corger Clay; open uatll | 3 | the coming decade will far exceed any the State has ever known. 0 o'clock. 11 9:30 o'clock. 9:30 0'clock. 2518 Missto 3 Mission 1505 Polx stree NW. corner Twe streets; open till § o'cloc street, open until 8 o'clock. reet, open until § o'clock. open unzil 9:30 o'clock. second and Kentucky CAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rocms 31 smd 32, 34 Park Row, New York Clty DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyou going 10 the country ona vacation? J? +0,1 1 1O trouble for us 10 forward THE CALL t0 yoursddress. Do not let &t miss you for you will miss it. Orders given 1o the carrier or left at Eusiness O will receive prompt atte NU EXTEA CHARGE. Fifiy cemis Der moath for summer montha —_— It looks as if silver might vet fall as low as Bryanism. The climb at the Chilkoot is no worse than the climate at Dawson. Why notcall it Chilly Coot Pass? That's the way the coots who go there fecl. Do not be afraid to stay with California and work for her. She pays good wages. What is most needed in San Francisco at this time is a remedy for the tax levy complaint. ke tugboat marriage industry may have to be dispensed with in the new era Lut the loss will be The prospector does notenvy the farmer and the farmer is not envring the pros- yector. Everybody is bappy. Do not fail to see the exposition at the Mechanics’ Institute and post vourself on the pure focd supply of California. There are still a few people who insist that prosperity has not ret ed, but the old calamity ho s no longer heard. About all we can do for the Klondikers is to wish them luck and get reaay to take up subscriptions for a relief fund, First the name was spelled Skagaway, then Skeguay, then Skaguva, and before winter sets in it may be known as Skags, The persistence with which the Cabans continue to march on Eavana without ever getting there is becoming noticeabie. The approach of winter will soon cool dewn the Alaskan excitement, but the mining boom of California will go on as brisk!y as ever. As a rule Fresno keeps up with the pro- cession, but she has refused to join the | Klondike ru<h end has started a mining excitement of her own. Tt is evident that the early prospectors of Cali overlooked about zs much rold as they found. and it may sti'l be said of our so0il *there’s millions in it."” The next time Henry of Orleans writes an acccunt of his travels he will take care to write nothinz likely to need revision by a man with a fine Itaban hand. It will be noticed that very few Ohio men are taking part 1in the rush to the pold fields. It isan election year in that Btate and they have a Klondike at home. Eminent Frenchmen are not likely to growl at the Italians very much since Count Turin has given them an illustra- tion of the Italian method of rushing the growler. The Grand Army should assemble in San Francisco next year to see how the City has improved since the former visit. We can show visitle evidences of growth that wiil astonish the veterans, Mexico should be ailowed a voice in the international conference of the silver question. She is as much interested as any other power and moreover she would cast her vote on the American side. 7 balf the veople who say they are going to the Kloundike next spring keep their words the wcods along the Yukon will ba full of them and the summer will be the greatest picnic ever witnessed. After Justice getst'through re- joicing over naving broken the record for length of service on tne Supreme bench he should reflect a little on the fact that by so dolng be has violated all the prece- aents of the court. Messages purporting to have been sent out by Andree by means of pigeonsare being received with as cold a frost as any they experienced in the frozem morth. No one, either in America or in Europe, scems to Warm up to them. In the course of a casual conversafion between two Santa Rosa editors occurs the phrase, “An insinuating, cozening blackguard and coward.” The insertion of the word ‘‘cozening’’ suggests that the remark was intended to be an expression of disesteem. Between the Moslem fanatics among his people on one side and British troops on the other the unfortunate Ameer of Af- ghanistan isin a position from which it seems impossible to escave, except by crawling into a gimlet-hole ana pulling the hole in, too. There is a good deal of curiosity in the East to see what the gold Democrats will succeed in doing in Obio, Iowa and Ken. tucky tbis year, ana tae opinion prevails that they will not poll votes enouzh to get out of the “scattering’ column when the tally-sheets are made up. Let us hope that no new mining camp or district in this Siaie will ever be called Kiondike. We have already overdone the thing in the way of applying foreign names to California localities, and the sooner we have sufficient originality to be distinctive in names, at least, the beiter for us. .. Maln—1874 | o and Mission sireeis, open | WORKING FORV CALIFORNIA, All the events and forees of the time tend to strengthen tne hopes of Californians and stimulate their enecgies. The rise in the prices of wheat and wool and fruit, the increasing activity in many lines of trade due to the Kiondike excitement, the recent | rieh gold dizcoveries in this Stat2 and the suceess attained inr the entertainment of the tian Endeavor A:sociation, serve the one end of rous- { ing the people of California and impelling them to enterprises which will render the great convention of the Ch: | coming year even more yrosperous than the present. In every part of the S:ate evidences are to be seen of the revived energy and re- stored confidence of the people. Farm crops have been remunerative, mills and shops are running full time, and in most cases full-handed; tha tendeocy of wages is up- | says the I ward; in some lccalities there isa demand for mor: workers; capitalists are giving favorable consideration to largs undertakings, and money has come forth from its hiding-place to provide means for realizing the bright hopes of the new era of pros- perity. Itisinevitable that at such a juncture the prevailing spirit of the people should be one of harmony and general good will. Only narrow natures and petty souls are at this time harking back to old issues and siriving to keep alive antagouisms that | should be ailowed to perish and be buried with the dead controversies that caused tbem. The greet mass of the people look to the futare and are marching forward. They read aright the signs of the times and are aware that if a due amount of co-op- erative energy is exerted by Californians the prosperity and general improvement of Among the many movements undertaken in various places for advancing the welfare of the commonwealith those of most general interest at this time are the steps taken io bring the annual encampment of the Giand Army to this City next year, and to promote & larger tourist travel to the counties and attractive localities of Cen- | Each of these if successfully carried out will prove of tral and Northern California. large advantage to the State, ard, even if unsuccessful so far as the immediate objects are concerned, will prove cf no little value to our interests in years to come. The prospect of induc Francisco is fairly promi the ennual assembly ing the Grand Army veterans to make aaother visit to San ng. and we may aiso procure for the State the advantage of of the educators ot the Union. The movement toward bringing Eastern tourists to the middle and northern counties of the State will surely attain its object if rightly and energetically pushed forward. enterprises on which a general co-operation can be given. and each should be supported by all. | work a man of means and influence can do now is to work for California and stay the probability of good for with it. Here then are two feasible Each contains within it About the best THE WEST % AESAILED. At this pericd of a cawning prosperity, | whben a glorious smi'e suffuses the broad face of the great West, when our grain crops are as big almost as the farmer counid | [ desire and the prices are tall enough 10 make him dance with delight, when every- | ing to the best dictates of reason. body on this side of the Mis issippi is ex- | periencing the happiest feelings that bave come to his lot for these last four years and the good-times cheer is heard where the calamity howl long ago died away, it} is the unkindest kind of a cut for any of vea cousins in the far East to stab e assertive of dislovalty. Little Rhode lsland, through the me- dium of the Providence Journal, is jump- | ing upon the wide West with both feet. | The Journal bas been told by somebody hat secession talk bas been heard some- where in tbis direction. As to who breathed the calumny or what may be | the color of the hair of the person who is thus ba'fway accused of wanting to tear himself away from the best all-round Nation on earth and set up shop all alone by himself, the Journal doesn’t pretend to say vertheless, we are in duty bound, as it were, to be shocked at this atiempt of | an envious hand to pink uswith a jour- | nalistic florette. We were always rather partial to “Rhody’’ on account of her size. What has she done? Sne has boidly de- clared that the West is not as law-abiding as the East; that the West has more po- litical power than it is entitled to, and that the Senators and Representatives, especially the former, exert an undue in- fiuence upon legislation at Washington, “'thanks to what has been called the tene- fici balance between our Federal ana State autbority, but what has come to be in practice anything but beneficent and anything but a balance.” We never expected such an onslaught as this from Little Rhody. It is too bad that some of her neighbors hasn’t in- formed ber that the West is very largely populated with Easterners; that Eastern- | | | i ers Izid the foundations of Western great- | nessand laid them well; that more East- erners are coming West every day to take aavantags of the many superior oppor- tunities offered here, and that we enter- tain a respect for the laws as deep and sincere as ever characierized the people of New England. Little Rhody shou!d never broach the subject of any undue power of Western States by reason of the Senatorial repre- seniation. Rhody herself has two Sena. torsand yet has hardly enough land within her borders to give each of them a farm. To sbow our generosity, even in the face of Little Rhody’s exhibition of temper, we would willingly, if possible, double her area by addine to it one of our average- sized California ranches. THE GOLD DEMOCRATSR. The gold wing of the Democratic party | portance. ? OUR GEREAT NAVAL SYSTEMS. In discussing naval warfare of the future, P. H. Colomb, a noted British en gineer and an authority on naval matters, expresses the opinion that the present trend of naval construction is not accord- Eng- land, for instance, is bu:lding numerous battle-ships armed witn torpedoes and, in addition, she is multiplying her torpedo- vessels. Other nations are doing pretty much the same thing. The small destroy ers are for short-range work, while the progress of naval guunery has been con- stantly in the direction of long-range fizhting, The big battle-ships, in fact, are specially prepared to fight a long-range action so far as their guns are concerned; and as the important weapon is the torpedo, if it comes to short-range action, it foliows that if two hostile mixed fleets of battle- ships and torpedo-vessels meet they must either work for longrange with their guns or shert range with their torpedoes. “If they choose long range,” says Mr. Colomb, “the torpedo-vesseisare no use; it they choose short range, these area work of supererogation, a danger and an ele- ment of confusion. In tbe melee which they establish there can be no guarantee that they will not be firing torjedoes into their own ships and ttat their own ships wiil not be firing guns into them in mis- take.” If torpedo-vessels be regarded as pro- tectors of battle-sbips, then 1f the battie be at long range there is nothing to pro- tect, and if at short range it is impossible for the torpedo-vessels to protect any- thing. *The idea ot protection of batile- ships involves a preliminary battle be- tween the torpedo-fleets.’” The British naval critic avers that surely one power of two will see the use- lessness of such & condition of things, and *it the other insists on pulting to sea with a mixed fleet the firsr will send an overwhelming fleet of torpedo-vesseis only to settle first with the enemy’s torpedo- vessels and then with the enemy’s battle- fleet.” The existing position of the British navy Mr. Colomb declaresto be an end- less tangle 2nd he wants to see it straight- ened out and given the stability which the safety of the empire dernands. As nearly all the nations are in the same box witn Great Britain in t matter the situation is a highly interesting one and gives ri to any amount of speculation with refer- ence to naval systems on the propositions, “Where are we?’ and “Whither are we drifting?”’ SALVATION ARMY FARMS. The project to colonize the sugar-beet nds of the Salinas Valley through the la | agency of theSalvation Army has aroused | throughout this commonwealth au inter- est in keeping with its promise and im- A special value, therefore, at is to make & vigorous campaign in the ap- | this time and in this particular field of prosching elections in Ohio, Towa and | Work is the article in the August Forum, Kentucky, and there is a widespread | by Commander Booth-Tucker, on the interest in the country asto whatshow- | “Farm Colonies of the Salvation Army."” ing the National Democracy, ca'led, will make. as it is Last year the following of Candidate | Palmer in Ohio and Towa was hardly worthy of consideration, but it certainly defeated Bryan in Kentucky, where the Palmer vote was 5000 and McKinley’s pluralily over the Nebraska candidate less than 300. Election statistics prove that the Paimerites last year cast less than two-thirds of 1 per ceat of the total vote of the three States in question, or about 11,500 in a total of 1,991,800. This doesn't seem to phease the gold Democrats, who appear to be as full of hope now as the average Klondiker before he reaches Alaska. Mr. Bynum, their leader, asserts that the smallness of the Pa'mer vote last year was due simply to the circumstance that a great majority of the gold Democrats, in order to insure the defeat of Bryan, voted directly for the Republican candidate. He beiieves that in the coming contests these stray voters will return to the fold, and that they will hold the balance of | power in the three important States men- tioned above, as between the Republicans and the Bryan Democrats. It is just possible that Mr. Bynum is hugging the ver.est kind of a delusion, and that, with the close of elect on day, nis hopes will melt like the icicle which the Arab tooz for a diamond. evertheiess, the fizht will be watched with special regard for this doubtful gold element, which boldiy lays c aim to 50,00) votes in the State of Kentucky, and which will endeavor 10 make its 1nfluence re- spected through an aggressive fight in the other two commonwealths, The Oak!and Tribune avers that the in- havitants of Auburn are so patriotic their children are born with Auburn hair. Inas- much as the Tribune valiantiy refrained from calling it “Auburn locks,” any ap- pearance of premeditated jocularity that the remark might otherwise have indi- cated will be studiously overlooked. It is easy enough for society to execute anarchists aiter they are captured, but there seems no way to capture or even spot ttem until they have killed some- body whom the world can ill afford to lose. The leader of the Salvationists in Amer- ica believes that the ultimate and only ra- tional cure for the congestion of our great cities is to remove the surplus population to theland. The trouble with the per policy and eriminology of most civilized countries to-day is that “instead o! the surplus being removed it is accumulate. in reservoirs of ever-increasing magni- | tude, where, without any natural outlet, the waters stagnate, breeding corruption, disease and death.” Commander Tucker would have those same waters judiciously distributed over the arid surface of the sparsely populated soil of our vast agri- cultural areas, where they would produce a rich harvest of honest, self-supporting husbandmen. He declares tha: the di- vorce of the small landed proprietor from the soil has been the great cause of the depressed state of agriculture, and that to assure permanent prosperity on a ratioral basis the baiance of the population must be restored from the city to the country. “The surplus population of our cities,” contends the writer, *'neither can nor will conduct their own exodus to the land ot peace and plenty, which might and ought to be theire.” They must have suitable leaders, who understand the r habits and have no axes to grind, and capital is de- sired, in its own interest, to afford the wotkingman a fair chance of getungat the land. The Salvation Army is eager to have every effort of the kind, as in the case of the Sali coiony, ‘‘placed on a pureiy commercial basis, under the personal superintendence of business men of proved probity, discretion and enerey.” To carry out an exodus of an extensive character—and we are told that there are 3,000,000 people in our large cities requir- ing to be handled—Booth-Tucker say< an agency is demanded which will combine the qualifications cof cheapness, honesty, skill, humbers, seif-sacrifice and the abil- ity to inspire confidence in those whom it seeks to lead. The poor classes have con- fidence in the Salvation Army, and this contidence has been created by years of patient work, in which the qualifications aboye enumerated have been amply exem- plified. If the colossal work be now undertaken in the many big cities of the land, as is beiug done in San Francisco, where prom- inent citizens, capitalists and bns!qsu men are co-operating with the Salvation- ists in their scheme, there is a possibility of the solution of the pauper problem in America. The Salvation Army is orzan- | zd throughout the Nation, and isina position to handle an enterprise of Na- tional scope. Commander Booth-Tuck.r is still big enough and fertile enough to provide food and work for many times over her existing family. “The Salvation Army method of deal- {ing with the unemployed. succinetly ader of the organ:ization in this country, “is to place the waste labor on waste land by means of waste capital, thus combining the trinity of waste, the separation of whic: means the destruc- tion of each, the co-operation of waich means the prosperity of all.” THE NIOARAGUA CANAL The Pacific Coast States have a strong champion of their interests in Minister Merry, who is now on his way to his mis- sion in the Central American States. He maintains that it is more important to the people of the United States that the Nicaragua canal should be properly con- strucied than that it should be delayed as aresalt of continued doubts and differ- ences of opinion as to the methods of con- struction: that it is a matter of such vital moment that the prosperity of the entire coast depends upon it, and that it has be- come equally as important as between the East and West as were the great overland railroads when they were first constructed. He is the right man in the right place, and will exert a direct and very effective influence in bringing about the object of I | 50 much earnest endeavor on the part of | | statesmen ana people who know the im- | mense value of the Nicaragua canal project. The only practicable method of con- struction at pressnt is by means of a com- pany chartered by the United States Gov- | | thinks it can be proved that Mother Earth | WAS IT HERR ANDREE’S BALLOON? The Object Scen From the S teamship Dordrecht Near the White Sea om July 17. {From sketches by Captain Lehmann and Chicf Officer Vieser on the Dutch steamer Dordrecht.] Something over two weeks ago a letter signed by the csptain of the steamer Dord- | recht was published in a Gothenburg paper | in which the writer stated that he had seen in the White Sea what he believed to be Andree’s balloon floating on the surface of the water. Afterward this report was discredited by sev- eral captains, who thought the obj:ct seen by the caplain of the Dulcn steamer was the carcass of a dead whele. The London Daily Graphic of August 2 gives an illustration of the mysterious object as seen by those on board the Dutch sieamer Dorarecht om July 17 and supoosed by them to be the remains of Herr Andree’s balloon. The Dutch captain’s Story 1s es follows: “I heard of Herr Andree’s departure on his balloon voyege On my r- rival here and remembered that I had noticed in the White Sea a stranga object, the nature of which I could not determine. Itcould not be a ship, as it was soft and moved freely. A | dead whale which had become 80 soft wouid | have emitted a bad smell, and moreover oniy I conclude therefore that what + heve been the remains of Herr dree’s balioon. We noticed it on the morn- ‘r A ofihe 17th inst. in 69 deg. 38 min, north | latitude and 35 deg. 34 min. east longitude. in question. we saw mus WHEELS OF 1898. New York Sun. Views on bicycles of next year's model are numerous. In 1897 the price attracted more attention than the wheel, but in 1893 the money question will be subordinste. Cyclists look upon the $100 bicycle as gone. The standard price will be somewhere, we sUppose, between $75 0. Chainless wheels will surely be prominent next spring. promising 1o put the greasy chain wheels completely outof | mind. Tubing next year will be about the same asitis now. Geers of high, low, and medium size will be on the markét for choice, but during this season the liking for nigh ernment, and under the strict control of Uncle Sam, and Minister Merry believes | it to be tue duty of every patriotic Ameri- | can to WOrk to taeenda that the great| waterway may become a reality, with all | the bles-ings it assures of trade, commerce | and National prestige, at tne earliest| period possible. | PERSONAL. Richardson Cloon of Washington, D. C., iz in town. Henry 8 Fowler of New York arrived here yesterday. Dr. John F. Lewis of Reno, Nev., isa late arrival here. Andrew G. Meyers of Fort Jones, Cal, is at the Baldwin. Ex-Sheriff D. H. Arnuld of Colusa has come down for a brief stay. Conrad von Meyer of Guatemala is in the City on a busine-s trip. J. P. Riley, a mining man of Cripple Creek, | Colo., is at the Baldwin 0. R. Smith, s business man of Lordsburg, N. Me s a late arrival bere. her:ff Hawes of Calaveras County is among ‘he visitors to the City. O:ito Stmon of Bordeaux, France, is at the Palace. He has receptly arrived here. Gebriel Jacobs of the firm oi I. and G. Jacobs | lef: last night on & business trip to the East. Eugene J. Ives of Pheaix, Ariz., hes arrived here aad will probably remain several days. James McCudden, the contractor and promi. nent man in politics of Vallejo,is on s visit| here. Arthur Frager and W. Laretzky, of London, arrived here yesterdsy. Thay are at the Palace. B. T. Rogers, who s here from Vancouver, and en route to the Yukon goid flelds, is ata downtown hotel. W. H. Newcomb, & prominent mining man ver City, N. Mex., s at the Palace. He | rule applies to all of the official departments | the same kind of paper that has been in use gears has developed greaily, probably as the result of the greater sirength whicn practice has brought 1o the average leg. The radical genins, who is being heerd from, asserts that the 1898 bicycle will be operated by either the arms or legs. This sounds more | cranky than interesting. | The wheel's most vulnerable point, its tirs. is being studied and experimented with, with ardent desire for itsimprovement and with no little hope. It must be possible to put into the rubber some element that would lessen its slipping on wet pavements; and it seems ab- surd that wheels destined to pass over jagged roads shouid be left so puncturable. “A less puncturable tire and a tire which when in- flated will remain full indefinitely is greatly needed. Iu spite of the promise of 1898, however, owners of good bicycles needn’t worry. A good bicycle to-day wiil be good next year. PARLIAVENTARY RULES. New York Mail and Exoress. A curious point came up for discussion in the English House of Commons one day re- cently, when Mr. Gedge submitted a memo- rial from his constituents of the town of Walsall in typewritien manuseript. It is a | rule of the house that all petitions mu-t be in | written or lithogrephic form and on this ground the Spesker declined to consider the | honorable member’s memorial. Mr. Gedge urged its acceptance, saying that the rule was adopied before typewriters were invented, but be was unable to carry his int. He is now planning to move an amendment to the rule 8t the earifest opportunity. The same of the British Government. All documents | that emanate from the yarious branches of the Minisiry are still written in long hand upoa for several centuries, and Is manufsctured ex- | pressely 1or them. No private individualis alowed to use official paper for any purpose whatever. Ana quill pens are still the ord- nary instruments of literary labor in the ex- ecutive departments, &s they are in the uni- versities, the courts and the old-fashioned lawyers’ offices. THE ELASTICITY OF POLITICS. Ner York Tribune. | arrived here yesterda; William Mahl, coniroller of the Southern | Pacific, has returned here from New York and | isazain ectively at his post. C. H. Phillips, the heavy land-owner of San | Luls Obispo County, who now resides at San Jose, is it the City on a brief yisit, | | James L. Sperry, the owner of the hotel at | the Bis Trees. and James Whitaker, proprietor | of a hotel at Gelr, are at the Occidental. } Dr. Lambert O't of Philadelphie, accom- panicd by Miss Rose B. Mott and Miss Sallie Rogers, of Independence, Mo, is at the Pelace. W. Brooks Jones, County Land Company, is in the City. His | headquarters are st Bakersfield. Mr. Jomes' company has recently completed abstracts of | over 400,000 acres owned by his company in | Kern County. General N. P. Chipman, department com- | mander of the Grand Army of the Republic, returned from San Diego day before yester- dsy. While there he attended a reunion ot | veteran soldiers of the Union army and met meny of his old comrades. He will not be | | able to aitend the National eucampment at Buffalo, as ths duties devolying upon him as | Supreme Court Commissioner require his | presence in California. i | | president of the Kern | 1 1 | | CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 17.—At the Plaza— J. H. Certer; Windsor—Mrs. C. Flood; Mor- ton—C. A. Linder; Imperial—Mr. and Mrs. S. | Schwarlz, A. C. Donnell, E. C. Godfray; Belvi- | dere—0. Bruck: Metropole—J. Strauss; Con- tinental—C. J. Dickinson, C. S. leldebrecht; | Stuart—S. H. Gunn; Everett—Miss Lamb, Mr. | and Mrs, D. A. McLeod. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Hirzel left the Plaza and sailed on the Trave for Bremen. Mrs. Helene Mayer also sailed for Germsny. Joseph Allinger arrived from Genoa on the Werra. Conrad Krueger, Mrs. Matniide Presler, Miss Emilie Presler and Miss Beity Presier arrived from Bremen on the Meier. M. Hale and D. McLeod are here | buging. SOME NEw WORDS DEFINED. Terms in the Dinglev Tariff Bill Not ¥amiliarly Known. Rochester Post-Express. The prineip-1 ot one of the public schools of Rochester gave the new tariff act as published inthe Pos-Express a thorough reading and eaddresses a commuauication to the editorin | which he says: Can you tarow any light upon the meaning of the following words which I found in the new tariff act: Lame or lahn, section 179. Bristings, section 258. Revered, seciions 312, 345, 388. Vitrages, section 339. Skirted, rection 336. Gurnetied, section 361. One-line, section 402. Dianisidin, section 424. I have consu'ted the latest editions of the three leading diclionaries and fail to find | these words. What do they mean? It is singular that so maoy werds in the new toriff act are not to be found in the dictiona- ries. We nre abie, however, to throw some light on the meanings of them. ame or lahn—Tuese are adjectives applied | to wire, meaning wire that has been length- ened by pounding by heavy hammers, Brislings—The name of » smail fish similar to sardines, caught in the Mediterranean and in the Bay of Bi:cay, packed inoil and shipped 1o this country. Revered—Au adjective describing the man- ner of ornamentiug hanakerchiefs, lace and linen goods. Little square noles are cut around the edges of the goods. Vitrages—A kind ot Iace. We are unable to givea particniar description. The lace-buyers for our largest dry-goods houses do not know exactly what kind of lace it is. Skirted—An adjective applied to wool. The skirt of the fleece is the outer part about the hindgnarters. Skirted wool is wool from the skirt of the flees Garnetted—Waoste is said to pe garnetted when it has been run through & mechine pro- vided with attachments like rows of pins, by means of which fore:gn subsiances are re- moved. One-line—Words descriptive of a peculiar kind of paper used in making Jacquerd designs 1u weaving. In this country caraboard is gen- erally used. Dianisidin—The name of a drug uced’in the arts. Itissimilar to benzine. We cannos give & more particular description, 1 i i | HIGH RIDING BY A K.ENTUCKY‘ | form the duty he owed to his country. Ina “There’s & man who voted in both National conventions, and for Bryan es well as for Me- Kinley,” said s politician to-day, cailing at- tention to the name of Charles S. Johunson, who was yesterday sppointed United Siates District Judge for Alaska.” “How did that hapjen? “Itwas 1his way: Johnson was a delegate from Alaska to the St. Louls convention, and | voted for the nomiration of McKinley. After the convention he went up to Caicago 1o see the Democratic show. There he fell in with | the Alaskan Democratic delegation. They ruceeied to mwske merry, aud one of the Pemocrats was 1aid out 10 sober up, 8o Johne son borrowed his badge, wert into the conven tion with the delegation and voted lustily for | Bryapn.” | WITH YOUR COFFEE. «Well,” said the smiiing and leisurely caller to the busy man, I haven't bothered you for quite & while.” ©That is true,” replied the busy man, with ready sssent, “but there have been plenty of other bores.”—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. “I saw a fellow down on the Bowery just now looking for trouble.” “Did he find 182" “You bet he did, and without any trouble, eitbrer.””—Brooklyn Life. To the young man who Wants to know how to fit himself for going to the Kiondike: Acquire habits of indusiry and self-cont be prepared to meet with firmness whatever discoursgements may arise, scrape together two or three times @s much money for the journey as the best estimates render neces sary, and don’t go.—Chicago Tribune. The troubles cf a single man Are less, 1. may be true, But then he hzsu’t any one Tha: he can tell them to. - —Chicago Journal “There’'s one satisiaction about building castles in the air.”” “What is {17 “The bricklayers never strike.’’—Chicago Post. Sister—I heard that poor 3iss Hawkins has gone into a decline. Is it so? Brother—Yes, she has; I got some of the de- cline last night.—Up-to-Date. “It is realiy remarkable,” sald Mr. Meekin, “10 note how many eminently successful men were regarded ss stupid when they werein school.” “Yes,” replied his wife in & signidcant tone, “and the most interesting point is that most of them did not begin to acquire any reputa- tion for being smart until after they were maried.”—Washingion Star. “Mamme, why do recipes always say to Kkeep jellies and preserves in dark places?” “So that little boys iike you will be afraid to g0 where they are.’'—Chicago Record. “Was old Billiger telling the truth, doyou think, when he said he had always put prio- ciple above mere party success?” “I think he w He has run for office about forty times and has never been eiected yetr.’—Cincinnati Enquirer. GREEN APPLE TIME. The small boy gazeth st the tree, Where, on & swinging limb, The apple hangeth, small and green, And oh, it iempteth him ! Forgotten are his mother « f warning sgainst sin; He shieth firal some rocks atit, Theu up the tree doih shin. words He reacheth finally the bough, And 1eacheth for the fruii— It'takeih the small boy, irdeed, A app e iree (0 loot. He eateth jt—seed, core and all— Without & bit of ear, And coth ks hurt him ? He doth it every year. —romerviile Journal Not & bit! NATIONAL CONVENTIONS. How They May Ee Secured for San Francisco. GIRL. A daring but graceful act at High bridge | wes performed by our expert bicyelist, Miss | Motie Coffman, one of our pretiiest girls. She | rode to High bridge on her bike, and feeling | the bicycle thrill upon her she rode across | the great structure withont making a bobble. | Hundreds of eyes witnessed the feat, the first | time 1t was ever attempted. When one thinks | of the bridge 276 feet high and the possidbility | of & cannon-bail train thundering in sight and a eirl pedaling across it one shudders, but she only gave & ringing laugh to danger and won the app.ause of the crowd. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS | ETATEN IsLAND—G. W., City. There is oue hospital on Staten Island, Y. Thatis the | guarantine hospital on the east shore. There are places there for the care of the sick, but none are of such a character as to attract at- tention outside of the immediate locality in which situated. | > et | THE MINT—A. O. 8, Oskland, Cal. In order to obtain A position as machinist or in any line of skilled labor tn the United States Branch Mint the applicant mnust be a citizen of the United States, and he must undergo an examination under the civil service ruies. Ap- piications shouid be directed to the Mint. TROUT AND CATFISH—J. M., La Porte, Plumas County, Cal. “Domestic Trout and How to Raise Them,”’ which can be procured for you by any book-seiler, will give you all the in- struction you may want about the culture of trout. It is & work by Livingstone Stone. Tnefluhh no work that treats of the culture of catfish. MCKINLEY'S CABINET—M. A., San Rafael, Cal. The members of McKinley’s Cabinet are; Secretary of the Treasury, Lyman J. Gage; Secretary of Etate, John Sherman; Attorney- General!, Joseph D. McKenna; Becretary of the Navy, John D. Long; Postmaster-General, James Gary; Secretary of the Interior, Cornelius N. Bliss; Secretary of Agriculture, James Wilson; and Becretary of War, Russell A. Aiger. MiLITARY DuTY—J. F., City. If & minor be- fore attaining the aze of 19 left his home in Hungary without performing military duty, and, after residing in the United States a sufficient lencth of time, became & citizen thereof, he conld return to his native country for s limited time without being liable to ver- case of the character mentioned in the co:- respondent’s letter it would be well to take a passport on going o Hungary, BEsT PACING TIME—Z. F. R., City. The fol- lowing is given asthe best pacing time up to aate; 440 yards, :291, Johnston, against time, Springfieid, Muss, Seplember 14, 1888, and John K. Geniry sgeinst time, Forturd Me., September 24. 1896; 800 vards, :59, Jonn R. Gentry sgainsi time, Portland, Me., September 24,1896; three-fourths of a mi.e, mie, 1:301, John R. Gentry ngsinst time, Portiand, Me., Sentember 24, 1896; one mils 2:0014, Jonn R. Gentry (stusiion) time, acernipanied by runner, Portl: 'nf“)'&“ i er, or nd, y tember 24, 1896, - g A Patest—F. Y. 8., Stockten, Cal. It will cost you just as much to secure & patent on & simple article as it would to secure one on & complex oneso far as the Government fees are concerned. In ordinary cases the feesofa lawyer who will prepare officlal papers, speci- ficetions and drawings ana attend to the se- curing of the patent will cost about $40 snd the Government fees £35 more. It would be almost useless to send on the fees 1o the patent office and expect the officials there to secure you a patent. They wilt not do it. for there is certain work in connection with the prepar: tion ot papers that the clerical force wili not perform. I To the Editor of the fan Francisco Cali—SIR: Too much cannot be said in tavor of the work | inaugursated at the recent meeting called by Mayor Phelan by the appointment of & *c vention commitiee” for the purpose of in- ducing conventions to meet in San Francisco. | 1doubt, however, if even the leaders of that movement fully understana the vast import- ance of the work they have underiaken and the extent to which they can push it, pro- vided the matter is handled in a sufficiently systematic menuer as & permanent institu- tion among the many organizations for pro- moting the interests of California. Owing 10 my experience for a number of years as an offictal reporter of convention proceedings in many cities of the East and West, I have seen the great opportunity for work on behalf of California in this matter, and did, in fact, endeavor to start this move- ment directly following the Midwinter Fair congresses. A statement was published from one of the members of the recent meeling that *'a year in advance was 1ot too soon to begin work for aconvention.” Toe fact s that ‘'a vear in ad- vance” is w00 late to bezin work. For iu- uppose We wanted to secure the N ectric Light Convention for 1898. We annot, because the Diace of mee.ng in 1898 bas aiready been fixed by the couvenion of 1897, recently held i N1agare Falis. Was there any strong argument made on that floor for u Francisco? Frobable not. Now if we want thet convention 1or 1899 the ouly way i Startyour work now, iud out by correspon- dence the feeling of leading members and be in posiiion to Open up a campaign through the muils for Sau Francisco some time belore toe convention of 1898 me Then see that delegates are teut from San Francisco who are powerful speakers, backed vp vy ailthe litera- ture that can be jurnished by your conveuntion committee and also by ail the local influence in the electrical liue tnat your convention can bring to bear here. Aul the elecirical in- terests on the Pacific Loast wiil help get that convention. Toen see thatthe strongest pos- sible invitadon and argument in behalf ot California 13 made on the floor of the 1898 convention, next year, to secure the coaven- tion for 1899. We cannot get the 1898 coan- vention, becaus ready fixed and there is 00 other way but this to get the one for 1599. This conveation committee should open im- meuiale corresponaence witn the cflicers of every conveution .n the Uniled States, of which there are hundreds, ascertain the dates of their nex: meetings, and then see that at the next mectiigs the Campaign is started for Calitornia for the fol.owing meeting. Wheu- ever & location has been selected for 1898, et us find it out, aua work for '99. If we wait until ‘98 1o werk for '99, we aie 100.a.e. Again, the committec is working to secure one or two birds were flying about the object cover almost every deavor. No one has any ides of their number, or of the vast number 0f peop'e inierested i them, uniess he has made & spec: the subject. These peopie sil tak interest iu the sele€tion of the ity where the next meeting shall be beld. Inmany of prolonged fighis take place on the it lively voting sfter besring the mel rious locations fuily set forth. Nowhere does such & fiela exlst for ing public atiention in the merits of Ca nia and sctually bringing thousands o 1o ihe State ss on ihe floor of these cou tions. But the work mu permanent business andertaking, lar organization, and the systems! commenced more than ayear in sd each convention. When the Trans-Mississippl Cong San Francisco tae city o: 5. to have the followiug mee men here 10 secureir, who business, and they captured When it met in 8t.Lou wanted the next mee one vote. If an intell made by Portland they woul 1the meeting by a large major: £s mcets in 1898 at Wichit Francisco starts work early in secure that convention agaiu for 1899, Tae American Medical Associaiion has met here, now let us go after the American Pu Health Assoclation. Also, let t mmi unite the educational and scient: forces of the Pacific Coastin acampaizn 1o secure the meeting of the American Association Advancement of Science. Professor le went East several years 2go for the ex purpose of inviiing them. Let the con committee bring to his aid eve: fluence on this coast and we w u not in’98, then in '99, and if notis ‘99 we will nave it the following year. Toere is scarce!y a convention in the Uz Siates that cannot be brought bere o 1f this work is prope.ly begtn snd keg from year to year withuu:t ce: ventions wnich have come broughtegain after a suitable _After obleining the informsticn tioned as 10 all the organizaii vention o commtive i nicate wi Loy those organizations, nolding { time to tim thém and s» and aav n ng ali t work for these conventions. I commitiee rignt t home wili bave b dreds of people workiog with them volo tarily, all the time, to secure not one or iwo, but hundreds of conventions for this City. OHNSON. MEN AND WOMEN. J. E. Brewer of Abflene, Kens., shipped more | than 7,000,000 eggs in 1896. Empress Augusta Vicioria of Germany has tusisted tnat the money eubscribed for & statue to her father, the late Duke Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein, shail be used for chari- table purposes. Seven previously unpublished letters by Goethe, dzted 1806, 1307 and 1810, besides some of his Jetters to Licntenberg, and letters to Goethe by Voss aud A. W.Schlegel, are printed in the new (eighteenth) yolume of the Goethe Jahrbuch. The Goethe Scciely now numbers 2676 members. During her recent visit to Darmstadt, Mme. Jansauschek was ssked wbat she thought of Ibsen. “Tobe frank,” she replied, “I heve not been able to get on a friendly footing with | his plays. Ihaveread all hisdramas in good English versions, but have not felt any sym- pathy with their characte Ludwig Speidel says of the late Austria | actress, Charlotte Wolter, that, thongh gr | as un actress, sne was not s woman noted f | bright or remarkable sayings of her own. But he thinks that the last w 3 she spoke on ber death bed are memorable: “Take eway these flowers—I shall soon heave fowers enough.” The King of Siam has been visiting Hungary, and on leaving hesald to Herr Daranyi, the Ministerof Agricult he hea never before enjoyed himse hin any coun- try. *If,” be contioued, “I had to spend my daysia Europe, Hungary wou.d be the onmly country Ishould live in. The time I have spent here I shall never forge.”” A few weeks ago there were disquietiug rumors regarding the health of the composer Verdi. These were. happily, without founda- tion. He nas just taken & trip to Milan, where his numerous admirers could sce for them- selves how weil De bore his 83 years. From there he went to Montecatini, where he usually spends his summers. The lialians propose (0 celebrate, ou October 13, hisnext birthdsy anniversary. CALIFORNIA 1b. Townsend's* EPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Ciipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery. * Since Bret Harte—who has dropped his first name, Francis—was Unjied States Consal to Glasgow, from 1880 t0 1885, he has made his residence in Great Britsin. At present he lives at 74 Lancasier ‘ate, W Henry James, the novelist, sbrosd, and his mail has 10 be sent his pubiishers, as he is erratic in hi ings. “Mrs. W Has been used over f ers for their children success. It sooth lays Pain, cures W and is the bes: arising from i« e! Druggisis askior Nrs Wi Get Your Tickets to the Klondike. The Northern Pacific Steamship Company has put the mag service tet leaves Tacoma and :esttle Au- For tickets and informatioa call Northera Pacific Railw fice, 68 Mar R S tateler, General Agent. —_———— ComoNADO.—Atmosphers Is perfectly dry, sof: - #nd mild, being entirely free from the mists com- mon forther north. Eound-trip tickets, by steam- ship, Including fifteen days board at the Hoteldat Coronado, $60: longer stay $2 50 perday. Apps 4 New Montgomery srreet. San Francisco. —————— A ¥IGOROTS growth and the original color given t0 the balr by PARKER'S HATE BALSAM. HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns. 15 cts. e “Her bair always looks so perfectly lovely.” Why? Because she uses Ayer's Hair Vigor. That's the secret of its lustre. - The Young Woman—By the way, what does the word Klondike mean? The Young Man—They tell me it means rein- deer. p The Young Woman (with a charmmng blush)—I should think it would be more sp- propriate if it meant “snowdear,” wouldn’t ou ? . The Young Man (tremblingly, but with great promptness)--Yes, dear.—Chicago Tri- une. XEW TO-DATY. JFCUTTER EXTRA 0ld two or thiee large conventions wiich are in immediute sight. That fightis we.l in hand LY certain members of the committee. Let them keep 1t up, but do not let the work of the whole commitiee stop there, lor there aure huuareds of oiher conventions, not so well known, that can be secured and bring many thousands of peopls nere, to say notning of the tremendous advertisiug the State wou.d receive, both through the mail campuign ana the fight for Calitornia on the floor o1 every convention. The advertising we receive would be worth all it cost, even if we failed to secure the convention. it could not be ex- pected that every conveniion gone afier would yieid, but by going after all, we would capturc many noi otherwise expeeted, and l':e“:eflo;: would in n%'c‘sn be wasted, owing ominence the State woul tbrough the axitation for it UG Teente There are a few large conventions of which the general pubiic kuows. These the commit tee will stari after first, but uniess that com- mittee 100ks deeply and theroughty inio \his matter they wiil overlook the huundreds of conventious interesiing 1o many thousands of people, but about which very 1ew people hear, except those persons directly interested in the subject matter of the convention or the par- ticular line of work fostered by that associa- tion. The coaventions beld in the United States Bourbon has been a staple family and medicinal whiskey for a quarter- century. B HARTIN & OO, 411 Market St., San Francisco.