The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 22, 1897, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SUNDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Daily Daily Daily and Sunday CaAL Deily and Sunday CALw, three months by mail Daily and Sunday CALL, one mouth, by mail. Eunday CaLL, one year, by mail... W EEKLY CALL, One y BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, £an Francisco, California. Telephone.. Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Ulay Street. Telephore.. ..Main-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 27 Montgowmery sireet, corner Clay; open until 9:30 0'clo 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets, open 9 c'clock. 18 Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 1248 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street; open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Tw econd and Kentucky streets; open till § o'clock OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broad way. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 sna 82, %4 Park Row. New York Clty DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyou golng to the country ona vacation® It +6,1t 15 Do trouble for us 10 forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Crders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifiy cents per month for summer months Klondike is said to mean ‘'plenty of fish,"” with suckers in the majority. Kansas 18 said to have money to burn, but this winter will probably continue the good old practice of burning corn. Klondike fever has broken out at Sing Sing prison, but as the prisoners haven't there is hope the epidemic wiil not spread. If John L. Suilivan thinks he will run for Mayor of Boston he overestimates his sprinting abilities. John couldn’t even w The assassin of Canovas made no sign of penitence, but neither did he ask any- body to meet him in heaven; so let credit be duly given. The New York minister who says the poor of that city need a $1,000,000 church has in all probability not consulted with the poor about it. It may be the calamity howlers are making as much noise as usual, only the people cunnot hear them by reason of the bum of industry and the bustle of business. The Eastern man who willed a fortune to edog and stipulated that after the death of the dog the money should go to the testator's sister doubtless has placed the life of one worthy canine in jaopardy. A New York vaudeville company is plauning a trip to Dawson, and as it is sure to meet a frost the metropolis of the Klondike may as well prepare itself to be denounced as a jay town next spring. Rudyard Kipling is so happy over being the father of a wrinkled, pink-toed son that fair woman ought to forgive him for hav- ingcalled her a rag and a bone and a hank of hair, especially as the hair may not be hers. There is no more eager rainbow chaser in the world just now than the goldbug Democrat. Anything which will give him even a seeming promise that another political flood will never come his way will receive his worsnip. There have been so many deaths lately from the habit of falling from balloous as to sugeest to intellizence that people who don’t go up in balloons don’t fall out, and whether people who do go up fall out or not is a very small matter. It is said that1f the sciantific and colle- iate schools of Greater New York were combined as one organization it would be the greatest university in the world, and by way of making London, Paris and Berlin pale with envy there is talk of doing it. s said that more than 50,000 voters in New York have signed petitions re- questing Seth Low to run for Meyor, but not until after the election will he ever know bow many of them wish to get him in the field 50 as to have a chance to knife nim. That the Kansas intellect is as fertile as ever of political expedients is made evi- dent by the fact thatin one of the towns of that State the Councilmen propose to putatax on ministers in order to make up a deficiency in revenue caused by clos- ing the saloons. Philadelphia, according to a circular issued by the Trades League of that city, is the greatest manufaciuring center in America and “makes everything from a watch to a locomotive.”” Upto date, how- cver, it has never succeeded in making anytbing with a Chicago movement. Boston is said to be flooded with coun- terfeit one-cent pieces and as no man could ever make much of a fortune by counterfeiting coins of such small value itseems the rascal who devised the fraud must have been actuated by a sense of penny-saving thrift rather than anything in the way of speculation. 1t is stated that from the Southern iron furnaces there have been shippea to Europe during the first six months of this year 120,000 tons, while for the correspond- ing period of last year only 5000 tons were shipped. This is an excellent showing for Southern mining, but it would be better for the Scuth if more of the iron were manutactured at home. The decline in the value and rentals of Jand in England is said to have almost re- duced to bankruptey the ancient univer- sities of Oxford and Cambridge. Some of the holdings of the colleges yield so little the income does not suffice to pay th tax son them, and the dons and digni- taries are airaid they may have to go to work for a living or imitate thenobles and marry heiresses. The Washington Post quotes &8 man who itdescribes as a ‘‘devoted personal friend of Senator Gorman” to the effect that the Senator will not accept a re-election even if it were offered him, having made up his mind two years ago to retire at the end of this term. This will deprive De- mocracy of its ablest leadersin the Senate and the party will be flopping around more than ever like a headless hen. OUR IMPROVED NEWS SERVICE. The first step to be taken by the new management of THE CALL to increase its strength and usefulness will be to improve the high quality of its news service. Ar- rangements to that end have been already made. Excelient as have been in the past our reports of curr:nt events, they will be even better in the future, and it will be truer than ever that to get all the news and get it accurately one mu-t re~d THE CaLL. As a part of our prcgramme of im:provement in this direction THE CALL, begin- ning August 26, will obtain the full reports of the Associated Press. That great news- gathering organization has of late largely increased its means for collecting informa- tion, and now represents the combined power and energy of nearly all the leading papers of the country. By an alliance with this association THE CALL can assureits readers full, impartial and accurate reports of all events of general interest. To supplement the news sent out by the Associated Press and to procure informa- tion not included within the scope of its work, THE CALL will have in the great cities of the Union special correspondents of approved julgment and known skill as news- gatherers. At Washington will remain C. C. Carlton, whose briiliant and useful work is familiar to our readers. At New York will bs C. M. Coe, president of the Press Club of this City, who, being well acquainted not only here, but in the East, will be able to collect there every item of news likely toconcern orinterest California readers, Another of our special correspondents will be M. G. Jonas, formerly the local manager of the uUnited Press, and one of the most accomplished news-gatherers in America. Ha will represent Tie CaLL at Chicago, and keep our readers posted on all that happens in and around that great and active center of American life. In addition to these correspondents located at the chief points of trade and poli- tics there will be a host of other special correspondents to deal with news which oc- curs elsewhere. The staff of writers and artists sent to the Klondike will serve as an illustration of the energy with which TaE CALL will apply itself to the task of gathering special and exclusive news. Whenever anything of moment happens in any part of the world Tne CALL correspondents will be there, and THE CALL readers will know all the facts as quickly as telegraphy can transmit the reports. A distinctive and important feature of the improved service will bs the reports of European affairs. San Francizco contains so large a number of people of foreign birth or descent that chere is here a demand for detailed news from every country. ‘Whatever cccurs in the British Islands, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain or Russia is of interest to thousands of our citizens. THE CALL will supply the demand for thisinformation in a way that will amply satisfy it. Arrangements have been made for special cuble dispatches of the most comprehensive character, and the events of Europe will be recorded more thoroughly than ever before on this coast. Tue CarL gives all the news all the time. It goes forward steadily improving in the service it renders the people, and spares no expense to accomplish all that can be achieved in the wide field that is open to legitimate journalism. It seeks public confidencs and co-operation by deserving them. THE ORDEAL OF EQUALIZATION. San Francisco is summoned before the State Board of Equalization to vindicate the local assessment or stand a raise. Heretofore, unfortunately for this City, the Board of Equalization has been treated as inkerently hostile to our people and property-owners, prejudiced ggainst our interests, predetermined to injure us and desirons of making us bear burdens of taxation lifted from other communities by favoritism and laid upon vs by design. This view is by no means a fair one. Upon the present board are gentlemen expert in the details of assessment and taxation and accustomed by long experience to the sscertainment of property values. It isto be assumed that they are also mindful of their official oaths and conscientious in the administration of their office. It is useless to approach this tribunal equipped with prejudice against its al- leged shortcomings or to seek to move it either by ecajolery or abuse. That this course i3 a mistaken one has been made sufficiently manifest by the misfortunes of San Francisco in the matter of its assessments during the last few years, The proper method of proceeding in the case is simple. There is no good cause to doubt that the members of the board are fair-minded and desirous of doing justice. Let us appeal to reason, 1f our claim is right, as we believe, it will be easy to prove it so when the time comes for a hearing. When the Supervisors recently sat as a Board showing which amply proved the justice of the assertion that our rate of assessmeng is certainly as high as it can be made with a due regard to the value of the property. the facts. It will be remembered that last year when the State Board of Equalization was dealing with the sssessment of San Francisco not a single effort was made by the officials or by the citizens to prevent a raise in the rate. No arguments were submitted to the board, no reasons were given them why the assessments should not be raised. 1n fact nothing was done to protect our:elves from mistaken estimates with which the board may have been supplied. Mr. Chesebrough, the member of the board from San Francisco, was comnpelled to make single-handed the argument for the taxpayers of the City. He made a good fight and had he been supported would perhaps have won. It was doubtless through our own neglect that we suffered. Let us profit by our experience during the past years. Let us cease to abuse a set of men who are called upon to perform a difficult work and give them what aid we can to enable them to perform it rightly. Much can be gained by the reas- onable statement of a fair and just cause, but nothing is to be won by harsh words and accusations. The Board of Equalizers will undoubtedly give us a full bearing. Let us take advantage of that and present our case in a way that will convince them we are right. The Mayor, Supervisors and representatives of the various commercial and indus- trial organizations of the City should unite in making this presentation of the cass of the taxpayers. The men who went before the Supervisors, sitting as a Board of Equalization, should go also before the State Board. Let us have an end of abuse of officials and make a straightforward argument for justice. 1PR _DICTING WAVES OF ORIME. When news was sent out from Washing- ton that the Weather Bureau intended to include in its forecast predictions as to the crimes reasonably to be expected from climatic conditions a voice of scoffing was heard in the land. There is ample faith in the bureau, as such. There is a fervid belief that when prophecy relative to rain- THE PROSPEROUS ERA. In response to circulars sent out by an | Eastern bureau to business men in every State of the Union, the large preponder- ance of replies indicated greatly improved business conditions, on a firm and sub- | stantial basis. 14 was shown by over- whelming evidence that not only may the country as a whole boast of the best crops in vears, but that the large majority of manufacturers are well and profitably em- ployed; that labor is employed to a much larger extent than last year, and that bet- | ter wages have come, hand in hand with increasea opportunities to obtain profita- ble living on the part of the masses, We have shut the door on hard times, which seem to have been laid out alon: with Democratic irece trade, and the ad- vance will now be steadily in the direc- either be rainfall or otherwise. But on questions of morality the bureaun is not admitted!y an authority. Immediately uprose a clamor of dissent from the a2ssumption that the Weather Jureau knew anything about the new field it was proposed to invade. Some there were, however, who gravely acqui- esced, discussed in sane terms tbe widen- ing scope of the signal office, the relation fall pmanates from the burean there will | tion of augmented prosperity. Californians can testify agreeably to the sentiments above expressed. With wheat at the dollar mark, fruit bringing in splendid returns, and all prospects bright; with new goid fields opening up in vari- ous parts of the State and all business showing unusual activity, why should we not rejoice over the change for which the people prayed for four long years? We have widened our markets for fruits and wines, and we have been accorded the boon of ample protection for our chief products, The farmer and the orchardist do not desire any better Klondike than is opened up to them in the markets of the present season. Our fruit-canning indnstry is assuming immense proportions, and it is declared that this branch of business has been more active here since the beginning of July than it has ever been for a like period of time in the history of the State. Prices have taken a big jump, and in spite ¢ tbe rush to meet the demands of the trade many large orders have haa to be declined. Short fruit crops in other countries have conduced to this condition, just as short wheat crops abroaa have cre- ated & boom in the wheat market. The total pack for the season is estimated at 1,750,000 cases, or 42.000,000 cans, an in- creass over that of 1896 of about 30 per cent. And the best of it all is that the fruit- growers themselves—having trusted to the advice of THE CALL early in the on with reference to declining contracts based on low estimates of middlemen, and studying the genuine conditions for themselves in a reliable newspaper—are securing the full benefits of the top-notch prices. Verily, California is blessed among all the States, and yet from all the States comes a story of prosperity. ‘Whenever we bave a convention of bankers anywhere in the East in these days we are sure to have Mr. Eckels and bis speech on “The Needs of Cur- rency Legislation.” Mr. Eckels is all that of fog to murder, and of a shower to prospective bigamy. Naturally the Weather Bureau put out signals of dis- tress, avowed that it was innocent of any such foolery and left the supporters of the scheme to wiggle out of an absurd posi- tion as best they might. However, the possibility of predicting with tolerable accuracy the advent of crime-waves is no idle dream, albeit per- haps without the province of the weather sharp. Human experience teaches that crime can flourish in sunshine or in rain alike, arson perhaps being checked by the latter and saicide stimulated. Condi- tions conducive to evil deeds are not atmospheric, but moral; they are not natural, but created. Perhapsan instance or two cited may explain. Not long ago arrest was made of a young counterfeiter. He explained that he got not alone the idea, but the necessary technical knowledge for his calling, by reading the Eraminer, wherein some time before the exploits of other counterfeiters had beea set forth min- utely, and with elaborate illustration. Youthful burglars, it is understood, have been known to make similar ex- planations. No assassin has yet put himself on record as finding in the Ez- aminer the direct source of instruction, but there appears no reason to doubt that the inspiration is there. It is there every time a murder is committed, every time a cruel and wanton deed of violence oran example of social degradation comes tolight. The offender is portrayed in a manner that casts about the crime and the criminal a glamour of fame. The slightest incident connected remotely with the affair is magnified to vast pro- portions and distorted from hideous to beroic. A study of the Ezaminer will be all that any prophet of crime waves will require. By carefully noting the time elapsing between the exploitation of a crime and the commission of another patterned after it, whether the crime be murder, burglary, counterfeiting or mere defiance of conventionalities, it might be possible to predict with toler- | is leit of Clevelandism and he is too much. able accuracy. The ouly question is as to of Equalization many representative business men went before them and made a | The same men should go before the State Board and make a like representation of | !the time required for the impulse to law- lessness so deftly planted and cuitivated [ by editor and artist to be nourished into activity and enabled in its time to furnish seed for new affronts upon order and decency. e BRYAN'S RAILROAD PASS. Little did many people imagine when William J. Bryan, the Black Eag.e of Ne- braska, was soaring oratorically along the air with his borrowed metaphors, that the colors of the bird were false colors and its voice the voice of insincerity. It would have been difficult, then, to convince a Poposerat of this fact by aany analysis of Witham’s faulty arguments; albeit the Nebraskan’s inconsistencies were quite glaring at times. It may b> different now, when the proof is as plain as the benefits of protection are clear, that the boy orator of the Platte has been all along merely a political juggler. Mr. Bryan has posed as the relentless enemy of the trusts and great corpora- tions. He has hurled thunderbolts of heavy eloquence at them and given the peonle to understand that their hope of salvation from the grip of the despotic combines cf the country lay in Bryan as the only bona-fide agent of the only sure- pop remedy. But good times have come in spite of Mr. Bryan, whose doctrines have been knocked in the head one by one, and along with good times comes proof that the boy orator was not what he professed to be. Tue CaLL yesterday turned the X - ray of truth on the Bryanese character, and presented proofs that while the Nebraskan was going through California denouncing the railroads he was travei- iug on a Southern Pacitic Railroad pass. His friends will find it difficult to ex- plain the tacts away. They may assert that Mr. Bryan isa newspaper man and accepled on!y newspaper privileges, but the other factis puatent that Mr. Bryan has not been connected with any news- paper since Augzust, 1896, and he traveled on that pass during the present summer. It was a small thing, but 1t bears great significance. We are eager to hear what William J. Bryan has to offer in his own defense. PERSONAL. G. W. Gibbs of Vecaville is at the Russ. Dr. 8. 8, Bogle of Monterey is at the Lick. J. Drach of Fresno is at the Cosmopolitan. Dr. T. D. Blodgeit of Tulare {s at the Grand. James Gallagher, a Fresno attorney, is at the Grand. E. Marks, a merchant of Oroville, is at the Grand. N. C. Den of Santa Barbara is at the Occi- dental L. Fiynn of Los Angeles is at the Cosmo- politan. Ex-Judge S. Solon Holl of Sacremento is at the Grand. Paul Priet of this City returned last uight from Paris. John T. Gaffey, a politician of Los Angeles, isatthe Palace. H. C. Nash, librarian of Stanford University, is at the Cal:fornia. Dr. J. M. Merrill of Stockton is among the guests at the Grand. Mrs. G. Schadt and family of Sacramento are at the Cosmopolitan. R. 1. Bantley. who has a fruit cannery at Sac- ramento, is at the Lick, A. Heilbzon, & cap'talist of Sacramento, i3 registered at the Grand. B. 1. McCullough, a stockraiser of Crows Landing, is at the Grand. 0. St. John Gilbert, a planter from Honolulu, is a guestat the Occidental. B. G. Kobayshi, a tea merchant of Tokio, Ja- pan, is at the Cosmopolitan. Charles T. Lindsey, an attorney of Visalis, is arecent arrival at the Grand. Dr. H. N. Winton of Haywards is at the Occi- dental accompanied by his wife. J. F. Childs, a stock-ralser ot Davisville, is among last night's arrivals at the Lick. F. J. Teggart, assistant librarian of Stanford University, is at the Grand with his wife. Dr. Clement Biddle of the U. S. 8. Philadel- phia is at the Occidental with Mrs. Biddle. James D. Hoge Jr., proprieior of the Post- Intelligencer of Portiand, Or., is at the Paiace. J. H, Jewett of New York isat the Palace with his family. He is making a tour of Cali- fornia. H. M. Breslauer, 8 retiring dry-goods mer- chant of Santa Barbara, is in town on a short vacation. Ed Subn of the Honolulu firm of Haetfeldt & Co., arrived yesterday in the Coptic and isat the California. General John H. Bryaut, formerly of New Mexico, but now of Seattle, a railroad attor- ney, is at the Palace. George W. Freeman, who is connected with the lighthouse service at Portland, Or., is reg- 1stered at the Occidental. Rev. A. R. Morgan, a missionary in Japan, arrived here yesierday in the Coptic with his wife and two children and registered at the Occidental. Dr. and Mrs. G. Grasser and Dr. W. Flade ot Germany, on a pleasure tourof the world, are at the California, having arrived yesterday from the Orient. Thomas D. Leonard of Syracuse, N. Y, a globe-trotter, just returned {rom China and Japan, arrived yesterday In the Coptic from Honolulu and is staying at the California. Miss Elizabeth £quier, Will J. Equier and Lou C. Squter, of Councit Bluffs, lowa, passengers on the ill-fated Mexico on her last trip, ar- rived at the Occidental yesterday irom the scene of the wreck. Msajor William Fahey, proprietor of the Cos- mopolitan Hotel, who has been confined to his bed for the past four weeks, was yes terday pronounced out of danger and likely to recover his health in another month, W. B. Montgomery, who has charge of big oil fields on the Island of Bumatra, is atthe California with his wife and son, whom he hes just brought out from Bradford, Pa., on his way back to Sumatra, whither they will accompany him. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 21L—At the £t. Clopd—E. F. Brown; Morton—E. L. Butler; Stuart—H. Flickinger; Geriach—Mr. and Mrs. 8. Smith, H. D. Thomas Jr.; Marlborough— Mr. and Mrs. G. Franks: Belvidere—J. Quart, Professor J. H. Pease arrived on the Lahn from Bremen, and also Henry Pilling of San Diego and Mrs. Eiiza O. B. Rice of Santa Barbara. Mr. and Mrs, J. M. Davies and Miss Davies ar- rived on the Friedrich der Grosse from Bremen RUSSIA'S RETURN TO THE POL- ICY OF ALEXANDER Il Belore the assassination of Czar Alexander II it was well known that the Czarowich (afterward Alexander 11I) was very much dis- satisfied with his father’s policy in regard to the Russian alliance with Germany and Aus- tria. As it had generally been the custom of the European throne-heirs to be more or less opposed to the policy of the reigning monarchs, and as the opposition policy was usually abandoned as soon as they ascended the throne, there was hardiy a diplomat in all Europe who seriously believed that Alexander III would prove an exception to this cus- tom. The dislike, we might almost say hate, which Alexander had cherished all along against Germany and everything German 'was oo strong in him, and as soon as he took hold of the reins of Government he com- menced to favor the Slavish party, a proceed- ing which was bound to lead to & rupture with his father’s allies. At that ime the Russian army was many years behind the other Continental armies in regsrd to military armament and equipment, asindeed it is even now, and the Russian rail- road facilities were in very poor shape, a6 was fully demonstrated in the last Turkish war, when it took Russia vearly six months to western coast of the Nation, freighting the | AUGUST 22, 1897 at the beginning of hostilities is very often paramount to a 1oss of the campaign, and per- haps in no country more so than in Russia, where the dissatisfied element of the people would surely cause an uprising in favor of & more liberal government as soon as her own soldiery became unable to suppress it. In order, therefore, to impress Germany and Ausiria wi b what they might expect from Russia in case of hostilities Alexander moved his whole available army, excepting the gar- risons necded in the principal cities and the few troops in the Caucasus and Siteris, to the eastern frontier of his empire, and at the same time entered into the most friendly re- lations with France. A definite treaty for of- fensive and defensive purposes has, as far as the world knows, never been concluded be- tween the two nations; but repubiican France was satisfied that the absolu:e ruler of all the Russias condescended to make overtures to her as the remotest possibility of Russia taking her part in the next war was counsidered by a.l Frenchmen a good chance of regaining Alsace and Lorraine. The eastward move of the Rus- sian troops, the better fortification and provi- soning ot all the strongholds in Poland and along the Vistula River, and the building of many new railroads to facilitate a quicker moving of the troops was commenced in 1885. Since 1886 650,000 Russian soldiers have been stationed all along the frontier from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Of this number about 350,000 men occupy the irontier of Prussia proper, Posen and Silesia, and the remaining 300,000 the Galician-Hungarian frontier. This latter armvy, consisting ot 150,000 line infan- try, 20,000 cavalry, 20,000 srtillery and 110,000 irreguiar cavalry (Cossacks), is sta- tioned on a large and barren territory, sparsely intersected by railroads, aye! even by good country roads, where towns, villages and ham- letsare few and far between, and where pro- visions for men and h have to be brought from great distances. Opposed to this army on the other side of the frontier is an Austrian army of 150,000 men. which, though much in- fericr in numbers, is considered strong enough to check ‘any advance of the Russians, as it holds the inner side of & large circle, consists entirely of line troops, and is completely equipped with Uchatins guns and Mannlicher repeating rifles. Tae 350,000 men stationed in Poland and the Baltic provinces are not opposed by any extra Prussian force, as the perfect railroad system and the quickness with which Prussia could concentrate & very large army at any point threatened by Russia makes it unneces- sary for her to keep more troops in this part of the country than are regularly stationead and, so to say, belonging there. The expense of keeping the large Russian army on the frontier is enormous and has boen a great burden to Russla, wbich is not over well sup- plied with cash and has a large debt on her hands. Besides, France has reacbed the very apex of her military strength as far asnum- bers are concerned, and she has already called into her ranks every man available for mili- tary purposes, while Germany and Austria, thanks to their larger population, coula add considerably to their present forces. Nicholas II, who does not seem to have in- herited his father’s aversion to Germanv, has, no doubt, taken all these points into consider- ation, and the massing of troops on the fron- tier will now be discontinued, as the good relations between the three Emperors are now as good as ever they were in tne lifetime of Alexander IL All this was settled before Emperor Francis Joseph went to St. Peters- burg, and neither the visit of the German Emperor last week norof the French Presi- dent mext week will have any beariug on the matter, and sre merely returns of the visits paid them by the Czar a few months ago. Kaiser and President, however, were respect- ively accompanied by their Prime Ministers, and that is a sure indication thatimportant matters have been and will be discussed. All indlcations point to a desire of the Con tinental powers 1o tolerate no longer the ag- gressive policy of England in Africa and Asia. As long as a reasonablechanceofa European war existed England, thanks to her navy, d1d pretty much as she pleased, no matter whether her policy was detrimental to other coun tries or uot, and, asa consequence, England does not possess a single {riend among the great vowers at the present time. A conclusion to check England’s aggressions has undoubtedly been arrived at, and we may expect to learn in the near future thav England’s voice will | heuceforth have less weight in European councils than it had before the death of Lord Beaconsfield. WiILLTAM LODTMANN. A BACHELOR’S CONFESSION. In love stories only you'll meet ber. ?Mongst yellow and torn mazazines; In quaint-iooking costumes you greet heg A stranger to these busy scenes. And her curious hats and odd boanets’ No contrasts mo:é striking can show, Than he fondness for love-knots and sonnets 01 the old-fashivned giri with *‘a beau:” She opened her casement to listen To the notes of the pleading guitar, When the siars caused the poplars o glisten And the mocking bird answered afar. And she learned from the language of flowers The nothings he wished her to know, As she strayed through the oloasoming bowers, The old-fashioncd girl with +a beaun.” sl The ballads of then I abandon And carol the popular tune; Yot 1 long to be humming **Belle Brandon,” And even “1he ione ~iver Mcon."” And i's hard to pretend to be scornful, For she smiled with those songs 10ug Ago. Or wept when tne cadence was mouraful, The ola-fashioned girl with “a beau.” 1 bow to the lass with a liking kor languages, science aad art: Who Is clever at tennis or bikiog. ‘L here is homage for her {rom my heart. But it cannot displace the sftection, ‘Which, balf’ga nst my will, 1 bestow, As 1see 0 sweet retrospection— ‘The old-fashioned girl with *‘a tean.” —Washington Star. WITH YOUR COFFEE. «“For five years,” said the aged boarder, ‘I had to use an invalid chair.” “And L saia the Cheerful Idiot, “have been usiug crippled chairs ever since I became a boarder.”—Indianavolis Journal. “Why, M. Embonpoint, you look illl What's the matter?” “Bicycle.”” “Bicycle? Butyou don’tride a bicyele!” *No; but the wretch who knocked me down did,”’—Journal Amusant. Professor—Margaret, please take the cat out of the room. I cannot have it making such & noise while I am at work. Where is it? Margaret—\Why, sir, you are sitting on it.— Fliegende Blatter. Catesby—All the world loves a lover. Hawkins (just rejected)—All but the girl the lover loves.—Philadelphia North American. Sunday-school teacher—And whatdid David say when he slung the stone at Goliath? Pupil—"You're not the only pebble on the beach.”"—New York Truth. “Does Miss Merry :mile upon your suit, Chumpley? “Smile? She laughs till you can hear her a block every time I propose.’—Detroit Free Press. Manager—What was the matter with Signor Bassoprofundo? He sang that drinking song wretchedly. Assis:ant—Yes. I think he had been drink- ing. —Tit-bits. “Ah, doctor, this is the worst attack I ever had.” «“Don’t worry yourself, my dear madam. I'm quite sure you won’t have another.”—Pick- Me-Up. “Baby insists on drinking from a spoon now,” said Mrs. Gliimmers when Mr. Glimmers came home from the office. *He won't take his milk from the bottle at all any more.” “Probably,” said Mrs. Glimmers, ‘‘he has become rubber-tired.” Three days after Mrs. Glimmers took a day off to go about ana tell the joke.—Cincinnati Engquirer. THE ORIGINAL KANSAS SILVER MAN. Wathena Star. ‘When the first white settlers arrived at Wathena in 1856 they found an old chief with quite a field of ripening corn. One Mr. Bryan (another coincidence) offered the chief $1a row for twenty rows of the corn, which offer was accepted. Mr. Bryan handed him a $20 gold piece. The oid chief looked it over care- fully and then laid it down at Mr. Bryan's feetand walked away. He was calied back, but would accept nothing but silver twenty. five-cent pieces jor the pay,and afrer consia- throw 270,000 men across the Danube. In modern warfare the loss of a few large battles erable skirmishing enough of them were got together to complete the deal ,'M vl (P2 R 772) A\ M‘( N ), 1‘1 \ (“"‘\\7 : A Vema Mo are endeavoring to avert the danger 1n an inge Says the Paris Petit Journal: “With this o peculiarly large breed of dogs imported from U which uniforms are chosen for preference) and To discomfit these Prussians, continues the ernment to enter upon the wholesale manufact distributed among the members of the cycling their canine pursuers. \ mmflufimfi HOW MILITARY BICYCLISTS MAY BE ATTACKED. i V;’.g/ :\l!‘ g Al /fifh Much exercised in mind by the progress made by the cycling corps of the French army, and alarmed at the service which it might render in time of war, the German army athorities nious manner. bject in view they (the Germans) are tra Im to run after and annoy cyclists. E: ng A& ry aay in the suburbs of Berlin dummies are mounted upon cycles in full uniform (one can guess the dogs are let loose.” Journal, it might be well for the French Gov- ure of sausages. A supp!y of these judiciously corps would serve to distract the attention of THE VETO BY THE VOTERS. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: The absurdity of the “referendum” as un-‘, derstood by many conservative men, and the | covert apposition to it by those who do not | understand it but who profit by the legislative | methods now in common use, as well as the | unfortunate manner in which it is usually presented by many of its most earnest advo- cates, all compbine to prevent candid and bon- | est men who sincerely desire to promote the public welfare from getting a clear under- standing of its exceeding value and working simplicity. It is to be presumed that the Charter Committee of Ona Hundred will en- | tirely master the subject and give it due con- sideration while they are framing anew cner- | ter. Isubmit it herewith as “The Veto by the Voters”: ! Section—. All laws, ordinances and resolu- | tions passed by the Board of Superyisors or | City Council of San Francisco shall be subject to veto by a majority vote of the qualified | electors of the municipality; and for this | cause no law, ordinance or resolution shall b: in force until thirty days after the passage of | the same. Within sucii time 20 per cent of the | taxpayers, as shall appear upou the next pre- | ceding taxroll, may presenta petition to the | Mayor of the City asking for. the submission of any law, ordinance or resolution to a vote | of the qualified eiectors at the next municipal | or general election, and the presentation of such pe:ition snall suspend tie operation of such law, ordiuance or resolution ‘until such | election, and a majority vote in favor of it/ shall be required to make it operative. 1 venture tosay that in these 135 words we | bave a Jaw which will never fail to protect the | City from any obnoxious law or other act of a | venal Board cf Supervisors, unless the reople sleep upon their rights and fail to object to the wrong done by setting their veto power in motion. All laws, orainances and resolutions whicn do not arouse the publicinto action to prevent their provisions from going into operation would become valid ana be in force after thirty days from their passage, precisely as at the present time. Personally, I would favor giving the Mayor the same veto power to suspend any law, ordi- naace or resolution by proclamaiion, to be jssued within ten days after passage. If he shou:d fail t3 act tbere would yet remain twenty days within which the voters can se- cure signatures and file their petition. An honest and intelligent Mayor, with any hope | for a political future, wouid never fail to act | in time to protect the pubiic from an impend- | ing wrong. assume that when the new charter is adopred it will fix the municipal election in the off vear from the general election, so as to free the City from the evils of political com- binations which are made in the interest of legisiative and other candidates for State oftices, since it is only corrups politicians who gnin adventage by these combinations, and that will sive the voters a chance (o vote upon any suspended ordinances and resolutions once & year, Respectiully submitted to the charter com- mittee and to the citizens generaily. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, August 21, 1897. A HOME-MADE EXPERIENCE. Chicago Record. A man went into an icehouse to cool off. An abrupt and impetuous nired man closed and locked the door and went away. The | next day was Sunday and the hired man did | | DEFECTS OF OUR NAVAL ACADEMY. The present system at the Naval Acade says Ira N. Hollisin the September Atlan does not supply the needs of a modern navy, and it too often fnsulls into the youthtul minds of the cadets the vicious notion that the commanding ofiicer is above the know!- edge of every detail of his own ship. During the course considerable attention is given to mathematics, seamanship, gunnery and navi- gation, and & comparatively small amount of engueering, language and the natural sciences. At the end of three vears the cadets are separated into two divisions—one of live cudets and one of engincer cadets. The latter receive one year in enginecring and the for- mer an additfonal year in seamanship, nav gation and gunnery. By seamanship is hers meant the hendling of a ship under sail. Those Who pass the examinations graduate at the end of their fourthyear, and serve two years rt sea before receiving commissions. These two years are supposed to give the graduates a more practical knowledge of their proiessions. The line cadets usually find themselves on_sailless vessels, and proceed o pick up what they can about bouts, the management of men on deck. required to spend some time in the rooms when the ship is steaming, but wi Tesponsibilities or duties, very much as {01 ists crossiug the Atlanti¢ visit the engin Toom. After two years at sea tey are orderc home for examination, and receive commis- sions in the line of the marine corps, if va- cancies can be found 1or them. The engineer cadets pass through the same siage, except that their two years at seaare spent with the machinery. They receive commissions ns ns- sistant ergineers. Two or three “star” grad- uates are yearly transferred to the Corps of Naval Constructors and remain on shore for duties at navs-yards and at the department in connection with the design and building of tne hulls of ship: MEN AND WOMEN., Prince Victor Napoleon has just attained the age of 36. The last pensioner ot the war ot 1812 in the 1owa-Nebraska district died recently. A lock of hair of Agnes Sorel, the mistress of Charles V11 ot France, a tawny Llonde lock taken from her tomb at Loches, was sold in Paris recently for 140 francs. Marquis de Quincey, a French sportsman who hes lost one leg and walks about on crutches, has gone to West Africa toshoot big game in the Footsn Jaiu country and on the upper Niger. - Thomas W. Wood, president of the National Academy of Design, has presented a repro- duction by him of Murilio’s “La Medonna del Rosario” 10 St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church of Montpellier, Vt. Rev. Dantel R. Randall of Portland, Me., the oldest Methodist clergyman in the State, has just celebrated his ninetieth birthday. He hes been prominently identified with the Old Orchard camp meetings for many years. Tne Empress of Austria has erected a mar. ble statue of Heine in the grounds of her villa atCorfu. The statue has been placed on a not come back. | While the man who yearned to cool off waited for the return of the hired man his ob- | ject was accomplished in a very thorough | manner. He cooled off. rock 2000 feet above the level of the sea, and it is to be surrouuded by 50,000 rose trees. An African missionary found the following poetical gem ia the book of one of his nativa 1he muffled door gave back but echoes to his blows, and his voice could find no place to eseape and sound the alarm. When he grew tired of walking and swing- ing his arms to keep warm the chunksof ice that were piled around him did not offer & | tempting bed. Hunger gnawed at nis vitels | and refused to be satisfied with the diet of raw air. Darkness settled down like a six months’ arctic_night and the only sound which broke tie profound stiliness was the man who wanted to cool off trying to swesr. The hired man opened the door on Mouday | morning and the man who wanted to cool off | crawled out more dead than alive. | When his tongue had thawed out he began | to abuse tke hired man. | “Fool!" retorted the hired man. area lucky dog and do motknowit. Don't Jou waste time in abusing me, your bentac | for, but §o ana write & book of impressions on Alnska.” Then the man who wanted to cool off saw that his fortune was mad “Fool. you END OF AN EVIL CHARACTER. Scrai | Fred, the king of pickpockeis, died receutly in London in want and poverty. Fred first be- came famous in Paris, where he established | his headquarters at the Hotel de Rome and | frequented the racetracks, driving therc ina smart carriage or in his ultra-Engiish dog- | cart. Before starting for the racecourse he always relicved the newest guests at the hotel of their gockel-bcoks for breaxiast, reserving his big hauls for the turf. His fame became cosmopolitan when it was found that it was he who stole the Prince of Wales' purse when the Prince attended the Grand Prix. When he came near the late Baron Hirsch a few days after this escapude the latter laughingly shrugged his shoulders and said: *“‘Mv dear fellow, you come too late. I have just lost all my Pnlu on the favorite.” *1 shall be more careful next time,” sa:d Fied, and disaj ared | in the crow I | “BEYOND THE PALE.” Kansas Civy Star. 4. Swindle” is the name that appears over the office door of a struggling lawyer in a city of Canada. A friend of the unfortunate gen- tleman sngges'ed the advisabllity of writing | out bis first name1n full, thinking that Arthur | or Andrew Swindle, a5 the case might be, | would sound better and look better t the significant “‘A. Swindle.” When the lawyer, with tears in his eyes, whispered to him (hat his name was Adam the iriend understood | represent M scholars: “Steal rot this book, you little goose, For there’s a jail in He hed been studying an old schoolbook‘ which a iriend from America had sent. Hu King Eng, a young Chinese woman, who studied medicine in this country, taking the degree of M.D., is in charge of the Stang-Hu Hospital, at Foochow, and & story is told of a coolie who whecled bis blina old mother 1000 miles on a barrow (o take her to the woman doctor. A double operation for cataract was the result, and the 0ld women can see as well as ever. INDIA’S POFULOUS CITIES, New York uu. India has 2035 towns with an aggregate pop« ulation of 27,251,176, about one-tenth of the total population, Of these towns 28 have over 100,000 inhabitants, 48 more than 50,000 anq 556 more over 10,000. The largestare: Bom. bav 821,764, Caleutia 771,144, Madras 452 . 518, Hyderabaa 415089, Lucknow 273,028, Benares 219,467, Deihi 192,579, Mandaiay 188.815, Cawnpore 188,712, Bangalore 186. 366, Runeoon 183,324, Lahore 176,854, Alla- habad 175,246. H. BLack, panter, 120 Eddy stroas e ——————— CALIFORNIA glace frults, 50c Ib. Townssnd'sy —————— SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * The bronze statue of Harriet Beecher Stowe, which will soon be erected in Har:- ford, Conn., will be twelve feet bigh and will . Stowe seated with a suppliant figure of Unicle Tom stretching forth a pair of brawny arms, from which hang broken shackles. The statue s the work of W. Clark Noble. ———— Get Your Tickets to the Klondike, The Xorthern Pacific Steamship Company hay put the magnificen: steamer Cliy of Seattle {nte service tetwe n Tacoms, Seattle, Junean and Dyea. 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