The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 20, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1897. JONN D. SPRECKELS, Proprieior. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALT, one week, by carrler. .§0.15 d Sunday CALL, One year, .00 nd Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3. Daily end Sunday CALi, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail.. .65 Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.. W ELKLY CaLL, Obe year, by mall. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, Fan Francisco, California. Telephone Ceoeeee MAID—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Ulay Street. Telephone . Main—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery street, coraer Clay; open until $:30 o'clock. 330 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 8:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission sireets, open until § o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 1248 Mission street, open until § o'clock. 1505 Polk street; open until 9:30 o'clock. ;. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky 9 0’cloc! OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going (o the conntry on a 1 76,1t 18 no trouble for us to forward TH LL to youraddress. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Ofiice will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. Sor summer months. A large part of the unemployed problem has joined the rush to Alaska and will spend the winter at Dyea or Skaguay. Wheat is rapidly jumping up the Chil- | dike boomers put together. fifty cents per month | THE NON-RESIDENT JOURNALIST. Non-resident journalism in the case of Mr. Hearst is working injury to Cali- fornia. It is doubtful whether the orangs scale in the flush ot its conquest of our citrus orchards did as much harm. Like the scale, Mr. Hearst Las parasites that prey upon bim, but they are non-pestiferous. They resemble the diabrotica more than the vedalia Australis. They suck from him the strength which makes them harmful to everybody else. His | newspaper plant here has long been infested by these plant lice, but they are deserv- e ‘ ing of notice only as parasites, the conditions upon which his favor to them coxmn_nea being the surrender of their honor and truthfulness to Mr. Hearst in promotion of | his purpose to put everybudy capable of being harmed by vicious use of newspaper publicity uncer duress. These tactics of Mr. Hearst inflict infinite harm upon California. Good and thougntful men, who feel their civil and social responsibility, have been to see the demoralization caused by Mr. Hearst's style of journalism. | His two papers have been excluded from hundreds of reading-rooms, libraries and clubs KEast and West. He Dhas secured the distinction of the openly expressed disapprobation and contempt of more cleah | people than any other man who has ever owned type and presses in this country. In | journalism his place is that of a Fagin and his influence uvon working journalists has | been exactly the same as that of the principal of the pickpocket school upon his pupils. He has steadily propagated crime by glorifying criminals, and a careful study | of bis method discloses his purpose to nerve every band that steals and every heart that cherishes murder, by cheering criminals with the theory that all are criminal and none rise above the common level of vice. ¥ Nothing else is to be expected of him. From the time his vices caused him to be plucked at Harvard unti! now be has shown every eiement that makes the psycho- path. | Under a pretense of regard for the public good his course has injured every | interest of California. This State wants no vicions people added to its population. It wants virtue, uprightness and enterprise to come. Does any citizen of California | think that the latter class will be attracted to a community where Hearst's paper is influential? They know of the exclusion of his papers from homes, libraries, clubs and reading-rooms. Are they likely to risk their families and their property where his leprous journahism influences courts and boasts that it controls public | opinion? What important investment, wiat wage-paying industry, what enterprise | of importance to the State is here by reason of Hearst, his fortune or his paper? It | is a matter of common knowledge among‘ business men that intended investments | are withdrawn and intending immigrants are repelled by the Hearst methods. | Stories of Ezaminer blackmail are as common here as the incidents of Hearst’s canine immoralities in San Francisco and its suburbs. Let not the press of this State be deceived. Hearst is not making a fight for a | free but for a licentions press. To support him in it is to promote a reaction in the | community that will some time be reflected by the Legislature in statutes that will | enforce as rigid responsibility for crimes committed with type, ink and paperas is | exacted in the case of those committed with the hand and tongue. | quick Who can respect a coward? What journalist can justify approval of a man who coot Pass of prices and will bring more } at the long range of 3000 miles inflicts criminal injury upon another and then sneaks gold into the country than all the Klon- | intothe shadows ana keeps distance between himself aud punishment? Isit notastrue ] that an honorable man, unwittingly the author of an injury to another, would hasten Non-resident journalists are a good deal | t0 make reparation, as It is true that a man of courage who believes that he is right will step into the focus of judicial inquiry and justify himself? If this be true then like fleas. When you put your finger on them they are not there. Nevertheless there is a way to snppress the pest. Decadent journalism never gets a real Jive movement on itself until it rouses somebody by its sianders and then flies from the State to avoid answering for it. | Dr. Anarews has been Brown University for some time, those expected donations from the gold monometallists bavan't been received vet. | safely out of bat | About all that Bryan can now say for | himself is that if the people had elected | him and the silver basis, wheat would by this time have been worth about $2 a| bushel. { opean concert has for settling the eminent diplo- bought and then the Whenever the agreed an f canse of the restoration of public confidence in business and enter- prise is ividual hears every otherindividnol expressing confidence and talking of prosperity. | It is encouraginz to note that the at- | tendance at the Mechanics’ Fair has been good for the opening days. is is the time to study home industry and do all we can to promote i If the uprising among the hill men of | India turns out to be an outbreak of Mos- | lem fanaticism, Great Britain will havea | fight on her hands that will paint the | Jubilee year red with blood. | It appears there are not enough river | boats to handle the fruit business this year, so there is another industry that will have to rush things in order to keep up with the general procession. 1t is asserted by some autborities that | the people ot the United States have now become so rich that postal banks are a necessity in order to provide them with some place to put their savings. Weyler's tactics in Cuba have no doubt been severe and cruel, but if he had com- mitted all the atrocities attributed to him there would not by this time be a Cuban left alive to tell the tale of them. The tidal wave of prosperity under the Republican admintstration has so com- pletely sweot away the Popocratic plat- form that there isn’t a plank of it left for them to cling to in order to escape drown- ing. The Jatest bomb exvlosion in Paris, like | the two which immediately preceded it, was so harmless that it was probably caused by some practical joker who has taken that way of adding to the gayeties of the season. It may be just as well that the gold Democrats should make a campaign in Obio, Towa and Kentucky this fall. There must be a farewell performance of the old troupe at some time, and it is better to bave it this year than next, The announcement that Victoria is likely to purchase an estate in Ireland is not likely to please the Irish half as much as the Queen evidently expects. She will not live there, and before she knows it she will be denounced asa non-resident landlord. The manner in which the coal-miners of the East have conducted their strike proves them to be a thoroughly law-abid- ing set of men, and that fact goes far to confirm the belief that their cause is just and to strengthen popular sympathy with their struggles. The fall in the pric: of silver has seri- ously disturbed business in all silver- money countries, and as this implies a disturbance of the trade gold countries carry on with them it is eyident the inter- national monetary conference will have a condition as well as a theory to confront when it meets, The refusal of Salisbury to agree to per- mit Turkey to hold the fortified cities of Thessaly until the Greeks have paid the war indemnity shows on the face a friend- ship for Greece, but if the friendship was worth anything Great Britain would guar- antee the indemnity, move the Turks out and give peace to Greece at once. The feat of stealing a redhot stove has been surpassed by a clever thief in New York, who is said to have got away with over 2000 feet of electrie wire with a cur- rent of 2500 volts coursing through it at the time. This was aimost equivalent to stealing a flash of chain-lightning and the wonder is that the man who did it was not | middle States | of sneak. | Mr. Hearst is neither a man of honor nor of courage, but a voltroon, a coward and a HONORS FOR THE GOLDEN STATE. The present year has furnished a record of trium for California products in this country and across the Atlantic. The prejudice against the fruits of the Pacific | slope which seemed to reign in some of the populous Kastern States in times gone by has now given place to the just ac- knowledgment of the merit of our claims regarding their unsurpassabie ex- cellence. The conquest of the New Jersey peach in- its own home by the peach thav got its delicions flavor and juiciness and its attractive bloom on the billsides or in the valleys west of the Rocky Mountain range taught us that persevering endeavor was bound to win. Now the p=ople of the consume with unadulte- rated enjoyment California peaches, years, apricots and apples, teing deter- mined to punish themselves no longer if they can help it with the leathern- skinned, wood-pulp fruit which formerly they deemed it a matter of State loyalty to boast about. The healthful lizht wines of California are winning many use every day both in the East and abroad, d we shall scon be sharing a large part the wine trade of the world with France. The trouble in the past was that no well-planned campaigns were engaged. in | P for the purpose of planting in fresh fields the standard of our superior products. The State Board of Trade, however, has placed itcelf in the van and is now suc- | cessfully carrying the good work into the very heart of Europe. At the Hamburg Exposition the Cali- fornia exhibit was a marvel to the eyes of all peholders. Not only was it viewed by people from every section of Germany, but from every country in Europe, and it was looked tpon as the finest feature of the fair. OQur fruits and our wines were comparatively unknown there until the California ‘Board of Trade landed its splendid display in the German city. It was a foregone conclusion that the highest honor for general exhibit would be award- ed to California. We are hordly surprised therefoie to learn that the first prize at Hambarg, a large gold medal, has been rece ved by this State, and that those in charge of our exhibit are flooded with letters of inguiry | from prospective German buyers. We shall now profit by trade with Germany, and the fame of our prodacts, wiil keep on growing., It behooves us, however, to be continuously looking for new fields of trade and commerce, for every new market we secure for California’s products means so much additional prosperity for the people of the Golden State. NO DOUBLE TAX ON BIKES. A number of cities in the East are calculating upon increasing municipal revenues by putting a taxin the form of a license upon bicycles. Considering the large number of wheels in use in a big city, the receipts from such a tax, if there were no obstacle in the way of collection, would mount up to very respectable fig- ures. Chicago passed a bicycle ordinance of the kind in question; but the wheelmen fought 1t in the courts as soon as it went into effect, and Chief Justice Tuley of the Circuit Court for Cook County has just rendered a decision holding that the ordi- nance is unconstitutional, on the ground that itinvolved double taxation on wheels, which were already subject to taxation as personal property under State laws, The court maintained that while the munici pality might license a business or occupation like that of an expressman, a hack-driver or a common carrier, it had no r.ght to demanda fee for the use, by resident owners of Yprivate vehicles, of its highways, which are free to the public of the entire State. This decision is of interest all over the country. Of course, it will be appealed from, and if it should be upheld in the bigher courts, it may staud as a legal pre- cedent on the question of the constitu- tionality of similar erdinances. Every person who is the possessorof a bike is naturally interested in the premises. It looks highly probable that the Cook County jurist bhas dealt a blow at bicycle licenses that will prove as effective as the famous solar plexus punch. —_—_— ‘The men who have written to the Post- master at Trinity Center asking him to locate mining claims for them evidently believe that a4 man who is fortunate quick enough to get away from the de: tectives, | enough to hola a public office can afford to look for bonanzas for the pleasure of giving them away, new converts to their | WARSHIPS AND DRYDOOKS. As indicated by tue dispatches from { Washington the Navy Department is alive to the necessity for the construction of additional naval drydocks, and would locate two on the Atlantic Coast, one on the Gulf of Mexico near the mouth of the Mississ ppi, and another on the Pacific Coast. The patriotic people of America have reason to expect a greal many radiecal im- provements at the hands of the present administration, which will demonstrate the fact that it is given neither to extrava- | gance nor to false economy, but to that kind of economy in which no outlay is wastad, and from whichithe most substan- tial and permanent benefits are to be derived. | Thisisin contrast with the Cleveland | administration, the action of which in re- | gard to the care of the navy serves as an ‘example of its general unwisdom and | costliness. As a result of this gross neglect of the | needs of the American fleet some of the best vessels in onr navy have suffered from corrosion and retarded speed caused hy | the marine growths on their bottoms, and | all for the reason that we have no dry- docks availabie in case of emergency. | In owder that our warships may be placed in proper condition and preserved | S0 thdt the vast expense in their construc. t[ on may not in a few years be equiva- lent to money thrown away it has become | absoluteiy mnecessary to obtain the privi- leges of the British drydocks on the At- { lantic coast or else allow our ships to re- main at sea until they are untic for use. England has drydocksin sufficient num- ber on every one of the seven seas, and it isonly by the courtesy of England that such vessels asthe Indiana and Massa- | chusetts can atthe present time be put into condition to keep aflcat. The proposition to build four new dry- docks, as above stated, will meet with hearty approval in the Nation upon a thorough understanding of the situation. As important to tbe United States as the construction of new warships is the preservation of the fleet we have already, and we believe that before President Mc- Kinley’s term ends we shall be supplied with a sufficient number of drydocks and thus relleved of the rather humiliating necessity of asking favors of a foreign Government in order that our big naval vessels may be kept seaworthy. SILVER AND OOMMERCE, The reports from Mexico yesteraay were the first important evidence given ot the disturbance of commerce by the fall in the vrice of silver, though, of course, it was foreseen and long since announced that such disturbances would occur. The injury resulting to Mexico by the depreciation is a double one, inasmuch as it affects not | only her commerce, but the revenues of ber Government, and ber statesmen will | have no little difficulty in providing means for escaping the ills which threaten, As the bonds of Mexico are payable in gold while her tax s are collected in sil- ver a larger vortion of her revenues will be needed to pay the interes: on the pub- lic debt than was expected before the re- cent fall in the purchasing power of sil- ver. 'This will entail either an increase of taxation, a heavy reduction in the normal expenditures of the Government or a de- ficit; and either of these is not a pleasant thing for Diaz ‘and nis Cabinet to under- take. To the world at large the more import- ant problem of the two is that Which in- volves the commerce and the industry of the country. Itisnotupon Mexico alone that the injury done by disturbing trade will fall. All nations whose monetary system is on the silver basis will be di. rectly affected by it, and even gold-using countries will experience more or less in- jury through their trade relations with silver countries. Amid the present fluc. tuations of their currency Mexican mer- chants hesitate to venture upon busirsess, and as a consequence foreign merchants who have been trading with them will find their sales diminished and their profits reduced. It would be foolish for the rich zold- standard nations of the earth to sacrifice the trade of the poorer silver-standard countries for the mere purpose of main- taining a monetary theory. Mexico, South America, China and India are vast consumers of the products of other na- tions, end it is certain something must be done to provide a financial system which will increase their import trade rather than diminisk it, The fall of silver affects in fact the whole commercial world, and when the international monetary confer- ence meeis to consider the Lest means to restore the monetary equilibrinm by re- monetizing silver it will find “it is a con- dition and not a theory thatconfronts us.” BRITON MEETS TURK. The situation in india is causing the zravestforebodingsin London, and arevolt as bloody as that of the Sepoy rebellion of 1857 is imminent. ~Already the strong- esttribeson the Afghanistan frontier are in battle array and marching sgainst the British strongholds of Northwestern India, and an uprising of natives along the whole border is threatened. Imperial troops are being hurriea forward to men- aced points, and in spite of all precautions there is danger that the religious fanati- cism which inspires the belligerent tribes- men may spread to the native soldiery. In Eurepe there 1s a deadlock in the Turco-Grecian peace negotiations, all ow- ing to the attitude of Great Britain, which alone of all the powers opposes the proposition that the Sultan shall occupy certain irportant towns in. Thessaly pending the payment of indemnity by the Greeks. This position of England may involve the breaking up of the con- cert of the powers; but the concert will dissolve, according to tue indications, be- fore Lord Salisbury will consent to allow Turkish troops to retain possession of any part cf Thessaly, The argument of the British Premier is that, as Greece is' incapable of finding money to meet the indemnity, Turkish occupancy would be permanent. Dis- patches say that the outlook in Europe is gioomy. The truth is that the rebellion in Northwestern India affects the peace negotiations. There are more adherents of the Mo- hammedan religion in India than there are in the whole of the Turkish empire, and the tribes now in revolt are believed to have been inspired to rise against their “'infidel” rulers by Ottoman priests and vrophets. It may be that Islam has been secretly using the spur of religion to ob- .tain a grand test of Mohammedan power in the East. At all events, Engiand has her eyes wide open. She knows the “‘un- speakable Turk” better than he knows himself. If the Mohammedan troubles on the Indian frontier be traced to a source in Constantinople, then we may expect that the Sultan will find it as hard to indemnify Englana as he finds it diffi- cult to collect inaemnity from Greece. PERSONAL. Dr. Osborne of El Dorado County is a guest at the Russ House. E. Skinner, a druggist of Eureka, Cal,is stopping at the Grand. P. Tarrey and wife of Denver are guests at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. John M.Vance and wife of Eureks, Cal., are guests at the Grand Hotel, Professor E. P. Hoyt of New York is in town, stopping at the Palace Hotel. Re¥. William J. McCartan of Belfast, Ireland, is & guest at the Occidental Hotel. E. J. Cahill, a merchant of San Martin, {sin town, stopping at the Grand Hotel. 2 James O'Brien, & mining man of Smarts- ville, is stopping at the Russ House. George A. Beum, a merchant of San Bernar- dino, is registered at the Grand Hotel. 1. J. Hunt, United States Military Academy, registered at the Occidental Hotel yesterday. Alex Rummelsburg, a merchant of Dunni- gan, registered at the Grand Hotel yesterday. C. Jes:e Tiius of tbe Golden Eagle Hotel, Sacramento, is in the City, stopping at the Palace. W. H. McKenzie, a banker of Fresno, arrived in the City yesterday and registered at the Lick House. State Senator Edward I Wolfe left the City for New York yesterday and will be absent several weeks. M. J.Curtin, a prominent rancher of Sonors, Tuolumne County, registered at the Cosmo- yolitan Hotel yesterday. 1. Barclay Thompson of Oxford, Englana, ar- rived in fan Francisco yesterday and is stop- ping at the Grand Eotel. F. L. Washburn, United States Fish Commis- sioner, arrived in town yesterday and regis- tered at ine Grand Hotel. 8. P. Patrick, Roceiver of the United States Land Office,Visaila, arrived in the City yester- day and registered at the Lick House. Deputy United States Attorney Schlesinger has gone to Siskiyou Countyon a vacation and will remain for two or three weeks. Regioald Truman, who is largely interested in California mining enterprises, arrived yesterday and registered at the Pelace Hotel. Mr.and Mrs. Cortland Van Cemp, Miss Van Camp, Samuel G. Van Camp and Walter Cort- land M. Van Camp of Indianapolis arrived in the City yesterday and registered at the Palace Hotel. Congressmen Hooker and Sherman of New York and Binger Hermann, Uuited States Commissioner of the General Land Office, saw the sights of San Francisco yesterday under escort of Dan T. Cole and Tirey L. Ford. The visitors were escorted to the park, Ingleside, the Cliff House and Presidio. Mr. Hooker and party then leit the city for Los Angeles ana Mr, Sherman ana party left for Monterey. All will return next Monday to remain here several days. When they return the visitors will be taken around the bay and to the sum- mitof Mount Tamalpais. In their honor the Unfon League Club will give a reception. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 19.—At the Plaza— Hall; Astor—O. Blankaitz; Cosmopoli- H. Goliga, E. H. Norman; Holland—P. Grant; New Amsterdam—Mrs, Fritch Schmidt; St. Denis—L. Glass; Morton—Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Helz; Broadway Central—J. Meegan; Gil- sey—Mr. and Mrs. J, H, Sheehan. B.J. Schmidt is here buying. tan—. A SONG OF HARVEST. Sing & song of harvest—sing It, ring it sweet: Set 1t to the musicof the ripple of the wheat! Bweetbeart, sweethears, Keuping us we ko, Kiss amld the music And the wheat would never know, Sing & song of harvest—siog I% ring it true: Symphonies of sunlight and mysteries of daw | Summer sighs Lo g0: A kiss amid the music, And the wheat would never know. SIng a song of harvest—of many a golden tithe: Set 1t 1o the tinkle and the twinkle of the scythe: Swer theart, sweetheart, Love's ;eaper, to0: Love is in the mus1o And (he tbriling heart of you. Siog & s0ng of harvest like the ripple of a siream, Til the shadows kiss the meadows and the stars 2bove us dream; Biwestheart, sweetheart, Summer sighs 10 £o: A kiss amld ti.e mus.c And the wheat would never know. F. L. STANTON in Atianta Consuitution, WITH YOUR COFFEE. Dumleigh—Fog has & nasty way of talking sometimes. The way he spoke of my new story was mean enough. Copleigh—Did he say it wasn’t & good thing? Dumleigh—No, he didn’t go quite so far as that, but he expressed the opinion thatT was excessively cautious in getting il copyrigted. Boston Transeript. Teacher—A rich man dies and leaves a mtl- lion dollars—one-fifth to his son, one-sixth to his daugnter, one-seventn to his ‘wife, one. eighth to his brother and the rest to foreign misslons—what does each one get? Little Willie Briefs—A lawyer.—Puck, She—I just married you to spite George Bil- lings. He—Oh, then, it wasn't just to spite me,— Cincinnati Enquirer, A NEW LINCOLN STORY. Before the Civil Ihad my home in one of the considerable towns not 1ar {rom Spring- field, and during the latter part of the time sustained a reluctant kind of connection with & law office, writes, & contributor to the Chi- cago Times-Herald. 1 always felt a strong disposition to take a bath immediately after participating ina trial in a Justice’s Court, and after a month of steaay attendance on the Circuait Court felt asif I had been swimming in dening convietion that not all the water of “multitudinous seas” could ever wash out the effect. It is incalculable misfortune to be so susceptible to the ingraining of the bad in this world, and to know it. There are other natures, more firm!y eraiped, which are little ornot atall suseeptible to such influences. They “shed them’ ss a duck’s back sheds water, and without reteining even a surface trace. Mr. Lincoln’s was one of those natures. He ewer, though along with it was the sad- | FROM A FRIEND OF CHINESE. Some of the Good Qualities of the Mon- golian as » Husband. To the Editor of the San Fiancisco Call—SIR: In last Sunday’s CALL there is an articlein reference to white ludies marrying Chinese. I would like to state right here that most every one of those ldies is happier and treated better than the wives of some white men. A Chinese husband-to-be does not promise impossible things to his intended wife. He does not come home drunk and abuse his family, nor comvel his wife togo out worklng so he may stand on the corner smoking, visit saloons and enjoy other little innocent pleasures, as they are called. X those are only known to white people. A Chi- nese husband, ss & rule, loves, respects and works for his wife and family. He does not | belong to clubs—he could not take his wife. | Ove couple was spoken of in particular, & | Chincse 4nd Russian, as o thing never heard oi before. Wetl, I think the writer has nog “This,” said Mr. Lincoln, “ is my office—for odd- jobs.” practiced law for many years, but all the graspiog meanness, the vindictiveness, the ugiy selfishness, the criminality, both daring and sueaking, which converge outof & whol community into iis courtrooms, seemed i leave no trace on him. I knew him asayouth studying a profess:on knows a prac middle age, who is a fricnd of the youth's friends, and kindly and approachabein him self. His sobriquet of ““Honest Old Abe” con denses into a phrase what men thought of im. 3 I met him one day in the streat of the town where 1 lived, and knowing that there was a wish in the office where 1 was reading to know the state of a matter cf its busiiess ot which he bad charge in Springfield, I took advantage of the opjortunity and asked bhim about 1t. : “Well, now, my boy,” he answerea, “I'll have to go into my office to fiud out about that.” HEE f T supposed he meant his cflice in Spring: fiela, aud replied: “Oh! weil—never mind, then, Ionly asked because I happened to se¢ you here.”’ He laughed in his_curiously boyish way, sat down on & near-by deorstep, doubling up his long lags till his knees came near to his chin. took off his silk hat ana’ placing it inverted between those elevated knees looked up with u genial smile and said: **This is my office— for odd jobs.” : The hat was literally crammed with folded papers of many kinds, apparently stuffed in hout any aitempt at order - arraLgement, and through these ne began to look, iu much the same overnanded kind of wsy in whicha dog s Wims. He soon found the memorandum he sought and a glance at it refreshed the memory of the whole transaciion down to the minutest par- ticular, and be made hissiatement to me vwith \he same fuilness, gravity and absolute good faith with which he woula havegiven 1t 10 my father. ‘l had seen him often before. I saw him many times aiterwaid—in his greai political campaigns and in various sieges of ihe colos- sal whiri and clamor of civil war, but the most vivid picture of nlm earried in my mem- ory is that of the long figure, doubly doubled, as he saton the low doorstep and cneerfuliy “clawed over” the amazing multitude of papers crowded inio the rainer batteréd old silk hat. BICYCLING IN RUSSIA, Buffalo Express. For the benefit of bicyclers I quote four par- agraphs from the rules and regulations gov- erning riding in Russia: To ring without need is prohibited. ND' other signals except bells are allowed. 1t1s prohibited to ride or lead a bicycle on sidewalks, roads for pedestriane, boulevards, squares or Parks. 'Rid1ng a bicycle in the city in & racing cos- tume, withouta cca’,orin such a costume as would attract special attention, is prohibited. When several bicycle-riders are together they must ride one after the other ala dis- tance not less than fourteen feet beiween each bicycle. KIND OF CRUISER HE’D HAVE. Suraiides New Yobx Times. A fiippant Washington correspondent tells of a Western Congressman whom he once heard declaiming in a Washington hotet about the new navy. “\ our mew sh'ps,” he said; *it I hud my way about it we would never build another cruiser that could sail less tLan twenty fathoms an hour!” 3 ME AND WOMEN., Mrs. Humphry Ward ‘makes great use of the phonograph in composing her stories. The Duke of Westminster has more children than any other member of the British peerage. He hes been twice married. Bernhardt’s London season has been a fail- ure, and about three-quarters of the audience came in on passes. On one occasion only eleven people in the house bad paid for their seats. Governor Bradley oi Kentucky is trying to collect portraits of all the former Governors of his State in order to have them hung in the executive office in Frankfort, He kuows where he can get ail but seven. Arrangements are being made ai Ostend for the reception of the German Emperor, who will, early in September, return the visit re- cently pald him by King Leopold, arriving at Ostend in the Hoherzollern, accompanied by three warships. The Prince of Wales has all his gloves—and he uses many hundred pairs a year—made by a house in Brussels, where the models of his right and leit hands are preserved in the 81 MARDEr 88 & bOOlmaker preserves the 1as1s of the feet of his client. General Horace Porter, United States Min- ister to France, bus teken the handsome hotelin the Rue Villejust, Paris, owned by Mr. Spitzer, an art collector of world-wide reputation. As soon as General Porter takes possession of his new nome he will hold his first official diplomatic reception, “We must have speed in | | learnea everything that is going.on in the | world. | "Itnke pleasure in s | number of Russiun ladles of good family mar- ied to Chinese in Russia, snd there we re- ¢ &s much as any other nation- ing there are a great ality. We do not ill-treat them because they are only Chinamen. Ifa Chinese lady is seen on the strect in Russia siie 13 not insultea by « s ied Chinutown bum or guide who is under the protection oi some policeman, as it happened only e week szo on Dupont street. I'h n drunken Chinese on the s not a day that we tramps and at C! ever but there 1hy wi 1"haa an wt? We ion of cruelty to animuls, for | nity. but none for Chinese, | of & divorce among Chi- © as I know there has never been'a Chinese punished for essauiting young girls and ladies: you read daily of those horri- ble crimes of assault by nexroes or bad white men—never by Chinese. A good Chinese is beiter than a good-for-nothing white man. Why isita “distressing social condition ?” I'd lke {0 know. Are we not ull God's children? The gates of heaven will be open to Chinese, as well as any other nation. When God gave his Son to dia for sinners he did not say, “I give my Son to die for all except the Chinese.” Nol God in_his mercy included the Chinese, and no man bas a rignt to ill-treat them as long as the Chinese do what is rightand live up (o the laws of God and country, The Chincse treat the white peoplegood in every way in China,solet us do the same here t0ward them A FriE: FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT. nese, and_as TO CHINESE. America Council of the Order of Chosen ¥riends Celebrates Its Seven-, teenth Anniversary. America Council No. 7 of the Order of Chosen Friends celebraicd the seventeenth anniversary of its institution by an entertain- ment and dance last Tuesdsy evening in the social hall of the Alcszar builaing. There was a very liberal response to the invitations that had been sent out, consequently the hall was crowded with members of the order and | triends of the celebratinglicouncil. The affair was under the management of the reception consisting_of Mrs. Pfasidlen, Mrs. E. Newton, Mrs. A. Burle- mann and Dora Leisen. ¢ Was pre- sented by the committee on entertainment a programme which included an address by J. C. Bernstein, past councilor of the council, who crganiz:d it. He gave a history of the council, its rise and progress, and it proved a very interesting bit of fraternal history. This was followed by a vocal solo by Miss Turner, ianosolo by Mr. Ambusier, fancy dance by [iss Irene Delanv, vocal solo by Miss New- man, piano soio by Mr. Plaenales snd a vocal solo by Sidney Francis. E Then followed the dance, which was kept up until midnight with an intermission for fce. cream, cakes and refreshments for the guests and members. Among the prominent mem- bers of the order whp were present_wers Past | Supreme Councilor Arnold, Grand Counecilor Boenm, Grand Recorder 8. C. Wallis and Grand Treasurer Miss Cizra McDonals. A. J. Pfaendlen was floor manager and M. Marks end Mrs. C. Beers assis ants. committee, Mrs. J. Simon Independent Order of Odd Ladies. The recently elected officers of Royal Prog. ress Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Ladies. an auxiliary of the Englisn branch of 0dd Fellowship known as the Manchester Unity, were publicly instailed in Social Hall i of the A. O. F. bunding 1n_the bresence of a large number of the triends of the lodge on last Tuesdny evening. The following named are the officers who were installed by Josepn Hagen, D. D. G. M., assisted by H. F. Wellnitz as conductor: Mrs, Harriet Miller, N. G. ; Mrs. E. E._Foursll. V.G.; Miss G. Fourall, F. & - 8.5 M N Mrs. M. McKuight, Mrs. J. Potter, I G.; . Harrington, physician. In addition to these the lgpulnled oflicers were also in- stalled. After the ceremony ell present were invited to the banquet-hall, where a collation awalted them, and after that there was dance ing until midnight. Dauglters of Liberty. Last Saturday was the day set apart by the. National Council of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics on which the uci of the Daugnters of Liberty snould x:eo:tlcfi)l: general celebration. 1t fell 1o Oakland Coun- cil to do the honorsof the day and it was joined by California and Marthe Washington” coun clis of this City. There were, ircluding invited fuesw. about three hundred persons present n the meeting hall, which hud been patrioti- cally and testefully decorated for the occasion. There was a short programme of eniertain- ment and there wes a reunion in the banquet hall, which hed also been tastefully decorated, and a pleasant hour was spent, after whicn there was dancing that kept the merrv-mak. ers togeter uutil late into the night. During theevening & number of the invited guests presented their navies for memberchup in the order. The affalr was under the management of the following-named committee: Charles Johuson, Mrs. Coffmer, Mrs. A. Weeks, Mrs. Lormer, Mrs, Schobb and Mrs, White, l THE WRIT OF PROBIBITION Judge William T, Wallace Will Hear the Motion to Dismiss. Presiding Judge Seawell Re- fused to Change the Order of Assignment. Counsel for Lawrence Sought and Obtained Delay Until Next Menday. The motion to dismiss the writ of pro- hibition to restrain Police Judge Camp- bell from forfeiting the bail of A. M. Law- rence will be heard by Judge Wallace next Monday at 1 o’clock r. M. Lawrence was arrested for criminal libel on a com- plaint sworn to by Claus Spreckels. The Police Judge ruled that Lawrence should be present during the preliminary exam- ination, but the lawyers employed by the Examiner contended that the presence of the defendant was not required. The Police Court gave notice that if the de- fendant was not in court at a certain hour his bail would be forfeited. To shield the defendant from the gaze of Police Court spectators A. J. Clunie obtained a writ of prohibition from Judge Seawell, presiding Judge of the Superior Court, restraining the Police Court from forfeiting the bail of the defendant. Grove L. Johnson immediately filed a petition to have the writ dismissed. Judgs Seawell, for reasons of his own, declined to hear the argument on the motion to dismiss the writ, but referred the case to Judge Wallace’s department of the Supe- rior Court. When the matter came before Judge Wallace last Wednesday he de- clined to hear it on the ground that a eivil and not a criminal question was involved. Judge Seawell was then asked to hear it, but he declined again. Yesterday Judge Seawell was requeated to Liearitor assign the case tosome Judge who would pass upon the question. The presiding Judge replied that he had as- signed the case to Judge Wallace ana would not change the assignment. Grove L. Jonnson and A. J. Clunie then went to Judge Wallace and Mr. Johnson made a statement of the facts in the case. At first Judge Wallace declined to consider the matter, but after reflection announced that he would consent rather than em- barrass the administration of justice. He recognized that the constitution gave the presiding Judge the right to assign cases, but said the proceeding was unheard of for a presiding Judge 1o assign a case to a Judge who had protested against hearing it Judge Wallace then saia that he would listen to the motion. Mr. Johnson an- nounced himself ready to proceed and wasabout to begin his argument when Mr. Clunie pleaded for more delay on the ground, this time, that Garret McEner- ney and General Barnes were engaged in other trials. The bearing of the motion w2y then set for 1 o’clock next Monday afternoon. The Exam .er lawyers may then present an- other plea for d-Iny. —_— SNOW IN THE 1RINITY MOUN- TAINS. To the Editor of the San Fiancisco Call—SIR: The development of the mining resources of Trinity County is & gocd thing for the State and 8 good thing for the enterprising men who overcome all obstacles and strike it rich there. It is to be hoped thet many will go there aud come back well paid for their labor. Iris only right, however, to warn strangers that the winter climate of. the mountain ranges in that region is the reverse of tropical. In iact, from ten to thirty leetoi snow for some months of the year 1sthe usual thing. Those who winter there must have substan- tisl cabins and enough stores to lastover a long period of biockaded roads and trails, The mails on many roules are carried by men on snowshoes. Livestock is removed to the lower levels to wiuter. A Word to the wise is sufficient. 5 Dy CALIFORNTA glace fruits, 50¢ ib. Townsend's,* ———————— FINE eyeglasses, specs, 15¢ up. 35 Fourth st e — e —— EPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery, * S Pastor Kneipp, the water-cure priest of Woerishofen, Bavaria, left all his property to his life-long friend, Pastor Stueckle 1n Men. delheim, cutting off his relatives with nothing. 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