The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 24, 1897, Page 6

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The best that can be hoped for is that he may be incontinently fi Merely as a vacation proposition there | does not seem to be any yarticular reason | why the Governor of California sheuld leave his own State. | Perhaps the Umaba lawyer who was at | the head of a band of bicycle thieves has | acquired enough wheels to enable him to make a plea of insanit | The people who spurred by the pang of jealousy act upon a suicidal impulse are tar from admirable, and yet it is kinder to kill one’s selt than sometody else. n Francisco wants the Grand Army men. Asto what sort of a convention town this is the veterans are confidently referred to any Christian Endeavorer who | was here in July. It is fortunate that the school children | of San Francisco are bright as it w en- able them sgon to unlearn quickly the | absurd system of vertical writing in which | they are now being drilled. If the successor of Canovas shall, as he | declares his intention, follow the policy | of that statesman, some feather-headed | anarchist will be likely to follow the | policy of the late zarroted Golli. Without a doubt some of the kid-gloved | who are speculating in wheat have fallen into the common and perhaps enjoyabl error of counting chickens that have to| undergo the formality of hatching. Announcement ihat a crisis in the East is expected bas lost its power to alarm. Some day news will arrive that no crisis 1s | apprebended, and then a startled world | will hold its breath awaiting a crash. 1 According to the Santa Cruz anlineli there is nothing in either Klondike or | Trinity but delnsion and snare. Possibly | Bard McPherson thinks Californians can | do no better than to remain at home and read hLis poetry. There may be mortals more unhappily situated than the Kiondiker who first ex- pends all his cash in paying duty on his outfit, and then loses the outfit. However, | none such has been heard from and imag- | ination strives vainly to picture him. | The public would bte glad to see Pro- fessor Davidson back in his old place as head of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. If his removal was satisfactory to any- | body but the gentleman who succeeded | nim the fact has been strangely unre- | veated. { Mrs. Charlotte Smith's scheme ot com- pelling backelors to marry lacks some | elements of practicability. TFor instance, it would involve the necessity for some- | body to marry Charlotte, unless possib.y | thers is an unheard of Mr. Charlotte Smith. According to the Federal court the nickel-in-the-stot machine is ugnmbling‘! device, a definition that, at the risk of in- curring conteript, must be pronounced | flattery. The gambiingdevice is supposed | to give a player some chance, however | meager. Joaquin Miller tells touchingly about plucking a strawberry away up north somewhere, yet it is palpable that people are not going to the Klondike for straw- berries and can pluck a whole box at any San Francisco market for much less than | the cost of a ticket to Dawson. | Now that Edward Deccon, the slayer of | Abeille, is violently insane the club that | expelled bim for fisking from the drink- | ing water hunks of ice wherewith to assuage the throbbing of his brow ought | at least to expunge accounts of the affair from official records. As a poet John J. Ingalls is better than some people, yet not faultiess. Inarecent effort he declared that at midnight he wandered in a graveyard. Now, there is an air of improbability about this. People, even people who are guided by the muse | of song, wander elsewhere at such an bour, unless perbhaps they dream and wake in a cold, prosaic sweat. However, if Mr. Ingalls has a poet's license, this fiction may be forgiven. It is when he speaks of hearing a heart throb in the audible silence that a practical world must decline to soar with him. Mr, Ingalls is simply mistaken. Silence that can be heard 1s something else, possibly indigestion. The bard who rhymed of unkissed kisses reached the absolute jimit. | Even the admirers of Ingalls must decline to listen with him to a ‘noisy silence, a glamorous absgacs of sound, | ply. THE ASSESSMENT OF SAN FRANCISCO. The editorial in THE CALL urging the taxpayers of San Francisco to opvose any proposed raise of the assessment of the City and County by arzuments based upon reason and justice 1nsiead of sitting down and abusing the State Board of Equaliza- tion has met with a most gratifying and cordial response. It 1s now certain this course will be followea and there can be little doubt the results will be gocd. San Francisco will have a strong case to present to the State Board. Tae property portions of the State. | of her taxpayers is assessed as high if nothigher thau that of the residentsof other She asks no special favors, | the aesire of ber yeople that any injustice should be done to taxpayers elsewhere. Bhe seeks no favoritism. It is not Sue is willing to bear her share of the burden of supporting the commonwealth, ard asks of the State Board of Equalizers no more than what is aue to her taxpayersin jusiice ana fair dealing. Having so strong a case it would be foolish to weaken it by vague attacks upon [ the honesty and impartialily of the judges who are to pass upon it. There is every prospect ol success by following right methods. Let us submit to the boara facts which cannot be controverted. of irritation. Piseparations for Let us sustain them with arguments which will con- | vince instead of adopting a tone of bluster, which can have no other effect than that guarding the interests of the taxpavers have been well made- A special committee of the Board of Supervisors has been appointed to go before the Board of Equalization and show cause why the present assessment should stand, This committee, which will probably be accompanied to Sacramento by the Mayor and the Assessor and poss ibly one or two of his deputies, has collected a mass of data, which it is believed will by amply safficiant to prove to the State Board that assess- | men ts are already higher in San Francisco than in any other county in the Sta‘e. The commiriee of offictals should hava the support of a delegation of citizens. The taxpayers who appeared before the local Board of Equalization and made the representation upon which the assessment of property was fixed should go before the State Board and make there the same presentation of facts. reporied to have promised todo 8o and the promise should be kapt. Many of them are Such a delega - tion would have weight and influence and could add much in the way of testimony to confirm the showing which will be made by the official committee. This appeal to reason will not be made in vain. There has been in California too great a readiness to resort to abuse of officials, too much proneness to denounce and attack those whose actions do not accord with our desires. This msthod of conduct- ing our political affairs has been the cause of dissensions waich have materially* injured the general wel'ara. era. Now is the time to begin it. A new and better method should be adopted in the new WHEAT IN EUROPE. The big surplus wheat crop of the United States will be a bonanza for our farmers and a godsend to Europe, whica must look to America alone fcr her sup- It was believed that Russia could be depended on to help out the other countries of Europe in the matter of breadstuffs, but now comes the word that the Czar's Government is about to pro- | mulgate a decree prohibiting the exporta- tion of wheat on account of the small crops in Southern Russia. Thera is very little reserve wheat in Europe, which is actually reduced toa consideration of means of subsistence for ts miilions of population. The bread has risen gradually until in the cities of France, for instance, the poor people are clamoring against the duty on wheat, and demand the removal of the exaction in order to keep down the price i bread as much as possible. *‘Repeal the wheat laws'’ threatens to become an election cry there, just as “Repeal the corn laws” was the cry in England fifty years ago. isthe only country withany wheat tosellat present; but leading Gallic statesmen are | averss to the abolition of the import duty, result of natural causes and that todo away with the duty would simply mean rice of | ] | too late to ward off It is recognized in France that America | | it eing argued that the Situation is the | so much more money for the American | ulator. The advance in bread, howcver, has sirred up an immense opposition to the French Government on this pariicular point, and if the price goes higher tie agitation may obtain such sircngth as to compel President Faure to take advant. | age ot an emergency law and suspend the wheat duty for a pericd. The European naions, whether they love us or not, must this year pour their gold into the American sack to get bread enough to last them till next season. war starts up on thai continent just Ifa | zcross the Atlantic presently there is no | telling how sffluent the American farmer may become. Agricalture in this coun- ry has taken a wonderful boom this year, and there are strong indications that we shall ses good prices for cereals in the year to com MR. BRYAN'S DEFENDERS, The swift alignment of the Ezaminer | and Post in strident defense of Mr. Bryan | for nding upon a Bouthern Pascific pass during his recent tour of California is a | spectacle for gods and men. Has the Et.iopian changed hisskin or the leopard his spots that the railroad and its noisy assailant should thus unite in defending | Mr. Bryan’s use of passes ‘“‘on adver! account” ? ng The excuse which th: Eraminer offers | for Mr. Bryan that the pass “was such a little one” has not even the merit of be- ing new. Every petty offender employs it when brought to bar, and while con- cealing the number of times he has sim- ilarly sinned, asks for clemency upon the ground of the smallness of the single charge. Neither Mr. Bryan nor his twio defenders have confessed how many passes he made use of in his extensive railroad travel through California, nor, in | fact, throughout the entire country. If the truth were known it would proba- bly appear that the advertising account of | the World-Herald witu the Southern Pa- cific and other railroad corporations of the country wes a rather overworked indus- try. This especiaily in view of the fact that according to the most recent and re- liable advices the Southern Pacitic Com- pany had done no advertising with the World-Herald, and that, in consequence, its **account’’ is by virtue of Mr. Bryan's pase an altogether one-sided affair. There are other queries which arise in this connection which it might be well for the new aggregation of Mr., Bryan’s de- fenders to consider. What right has a stockholder of a newspaper corporation to receive railroad passes upon an adver- tising account? Isthat method of draw- ing down dividends not a species of fraud upon the other stockholders of the con- cern? Again, what sort of consistency does Mr. Bryan display in demanding that the railroad shall pay its debt to the Government, while to the extent of his passes at least he is diminishing its ability to do so by the expense of his free trans- portation ? It does seem as though Mr. Bryan should have explained to our people in some of his many flights of eloguence that he had come to California through the courtesy of the Southern Pacific Company, and was enjoying hbimself immensely riding up and down therein upon a raiiroad pass. It would have added so much pith and poinuto his oratory and hsve furnished such an excellent reason why he was not and ought not to have been elected Presi- dent of the United States. A Los Angeles correspondent, in de- scribing an unidentitied man who tried to kill himself over trouble with his wife, adds with unconscious and almos: pathetic bumor: “His description corresponds with that of three different Los Angeles men who bave bad trouble with their wives and were missing from home to- day.” A round-up of unhappy husbands would seem to be almost a necessity in 4 ti:e southern meiropolis, | ers of the great West. THE OAUSE OF PROSPERITY, During the Cleveland administration, and especially after the Wilson iree-trade law went into effect, the press and the orators of the Demccratic party taxed their thinking capacity to frame excuses for the hard times which came upon the country insteaa of the goo1 times which they had predicted. Fur from showing any signs of improvement, things went from bad to worse. Business became stagnant, banks fa:led, mills and factories closed their doors and armies of idle men marched here and there praying for bread or work. Dread uncerteinty prevailed in the money market, development of indus- tries came to a standstill, and trade and commerce suffered. Ana yet the people had been told that the most flourishing periods known to our country’s history would be small affairs in compariton with the gloricus days of happiness and abundance that were des- tined to follow the passage of the Wilson bill. Too late the veople awcke to the fact that they had been grossly deceived— those calamities of which everybody knows, but which have been banished from the Nation along with ruinous free trade. Last fall we were told by those same prophets that if Major McKinley were chosen President it would mean beggary for the masses and dire disaster for the American Republic. Yet, with tbe in- coming of a protective administration, the clouds of uncertainty disappeared from the Nation’s skies and the sun of prosperity arose to glad Uncle Sam ana all his numerous family. Now, since everybody has hegun to re- joice, since capital is being turned loose on every hand, sincs the wheels of indus- try are whirring and labor is in demand, those same worshipers of the false god of free trade are loudly bowling to the peo- ple that protrction has nothing todo with the country’s present prosperity; thatit | has beea brought about altocether by the rise in the vrice of wheat and by the gold finds on the Klonaike. Asfir as the min- eral discoveries in the Arctic reeions go they have made no eppreciable diffsrence thus far in the condition of any very considerable portion of the country, But wheat, golden wheat, has brougbt mil- lions upon millions of dollars to the farm- Is the prosperity of the whole country, then, due to the rise in wheat ? The best answer is found in the words of President mcKinley, wbo, with that soundness and simplicity characteristic of the man, speaks 10 his countrymen as follows: “The cause of the present boom in the ‘West is undoubtedly due in a great meas- ure to large crops and bigh prices caused by the failure of crops in other countries. But the fact that prosperity has set in in the East cannot be accounted for in any other way than by the wise policy of the Republican party in restoring a protective tariff. The present boom is not spasmo- dic, but will continue to increase, and not only the manufzcturers but the people generally will soon realize that it is only with a protective tariff and sound finan- cial principles that the country will be prosperous and remain in that condition. With the restoration of confidence wiil come the restoration of prosperity.” WHY DOES HE HIDE? The Ezraminer of yesterday made an effort to set up before the public a de- iense in the suit which has been brought against it by John Riley. Whether the defense is valid or not can be decided only by a trial in court. Ifthe Ezaminer thinks it1s good there should bs a willingness on the part of its proprietors to meet Mr. Kiley before a Judge and jury and bring the matter to an issue and a settlement. This is what Mr. Riley has been seeking. Iiis what the Examiner has been evaaing. It has been impossible, it seems, for Mr. Riley, as for several others in this State, to find either Mr. Hearst or any one to represent him. Toe absconding jour- nalist has in this City the-means and the agents to do wrong, but none to be answerable for the wrong. suit is stitl pending. Mr. Hearst is still in hiding. The Eraminer declares Mr. Hearst has a good defense. This being 80, the question is inevitable, “Why, then, does he hide?” RESOLVED UPON ANAROHY. Troublous times are ahead for the Turk. Not oaly is England frowning ominously upon bim, butin his own empire at any moment may burst forth flames of revo- lution and even worse. For years the op- pressed people of Armenia have prayed for European aid, and for years they have continued to suffer the tortures devised hy Tarkish tyranny and intolerance untii all hope of interlerence from Christian na- tions has flea. Patience isdead with the Armenians; they are desperate now. Embassadors at Constaniinople have re- ceived warning of impending carnage there. Thecircilar sentto thediplomatists declare tbat “Europe has remained mute at the tears mothers have shed over mur- dered children,’”” and for that reason the Armenians have résolved to resort to the bomb, the torch and the knife of anarcny. Death is preferable to Mohammedan | thralldom, and they are determined to Mr. Ritey's | make their deaths so costly that the sur- vivors among the Turks will tremble to think of the carnival of blood. According to the last Turkizh census Coustantinople had 873,665 population, and of this number half were Mussulmans and 150,00) Armenians. I1t1sclaimed that nearly all the latter are leagued together in a conspiracy and that the last day of August will see an uprising of startling proportions. Armenian agents are sowing seeds of dissension in Crete, and in Athens the | war spirit is once again eviden‘’. A whiie ago the Turk loomed up with importance among the powers. He has shrunk per- captibly of late, and if he bring3 down the wrath of Great Britain now the day of the Mohammedan exodus from Europe will be near ai Land. PERSONAL. Reed of Petaluma is at the Grana. White, a Fresno banker, is at the Lick. Major P. M. Norboe of Visalia is at the Russ. M. J. Healy of Loomis is at the Cosmopoli- tan. E.S. Ward of San Jose is at the Cosmopoli- tan. J. D. McDonald of Sacramento 1s at the Cali- fornia. William St. John of Fresno Is at the Cosmo- volitan. C. H. Dugain of Merced is at the Cosmo- politan. Dr. Simpson of San Jose is at the Lick with his wt: State S:nator J. M. Gleaves of Redding is at the Grand. H. W. Crabb, a winemaker of Oakville, s at the Grand. A. L. Cox of Banta Rosa arrived at the Russ last week. Dr. J. L. Graves, a dentist of Portland, Or., is at the Lick. L. T. Hatfield, an attorney of Sacramento, is at the Lick. J. M. Lathrop, a real estate man of Newman, is at the Lick. Dr. W. F. Smith of Mountain House, Idaho, is at the Palace. James Simpson, a contractor of Eureks, is a guest of the Lick. F. 8. Wensinger, a dairyman of Freestone, is at the Occidental. Ex-Sheriff F. O'Neal of Sacramento isa | gusst at the Grand. | Dr.o. H. Simons, a mining man from Red- | ding, s at the Grand. B. F. Shepherd, a real estate dealer of Fresno, is at the Grand. C.8'Kimball, a mining and mill man of Austin, Nev.,, 1s at the Rus: Edward McGettigan of Vallejo, Supervisor of Solano Couunty, is at the Russ. W. H, Hatton, an attorney of Modesto, is among the arrivals at the Lick. Frank A. West of Stockton, viticulturist and wine producer, is at the Palace, J. L. Wilmans, a farmer of Newman, is emong the late arrivals at the Lick, L. C. Wilmans, a mining man of Sonora, is visiting with his brother at the Lick. Drury Melone, the banker, is down from Oak Knoll, and is registered at the Palacs, Dr. JTames A. Campbell of St. Louis, Mo., is registered at the Occidental with his wife. A. P. Halfill of the Los Angeles Fish Com- pany, packers of sardines, is registered at the Grand. Colonel James Jackson, U. & A., of Portland, Or., is at the Occidental with his daugnter and his son. John Miley of the Lakewood fitting school at Lakewood, N. J., is ai the Palace on his way 1o the Yelluwstone. Professor James O. Griffin, head of the de- partment of German in Stanford Untversity, 18 at the Callfornia with his wife. W. F. George, a lawyer of Sacramento, is at the Grand on his way home afier a vacation srent at Santa Catalina Island. Andrew Young of Virginia City, Nev., County Comumissioner of Storey County, is at the Russ on a visit to his brother, Colonel { Young. | Mme. von Finkelstein Mountford, the lec- | turer on Oriental lifa and the Holy Land, ar- | rived et the Palace yesterday from Portland, | Oregon. C. Cotterman, chief cierk of the Reilway Mail Service, in charge of the lines in Oregon, Washington and Northern ldaho, s fn town conferring with Superintendent Fhmt of the Railway Ma'l Service. Charife Fickert, B nford's glant football | guard and ex-captain, arrived here yesterday | from his father’s ranch in the mountains near | Tehachapi, where he has been toughening up | for the coming season’s games. Among the arrivals at the Palace yesterday was Mrs. Grenville Dodge of New York. wife of General Dodge, one of tne directors of the | Union Pacific. Mrs. Dodge i accompauying | her mother on & pleasure tour of the West. Professor Samuel Jacques Brun, for the last four years connected with the department of French at Stanford University, was yesterday admitted to practice before the Supreme Court in this City upon certificate from. the New York bar. Dr. Newton Booth Waller of this City, a | graduate of the medical department of the University of California and an interne of the City and County Hospital, is going to Europe | to spend two years in study at the principsl | hospitals of Europe. He will be accompanied by Dr. Robert Morrow, son of Robert F. Mor- row of this City. Congressman Warren B. Hooker, chairman of the House Committee on Riversand Har- bors, and Congressman Shermen, ex-Mayor of Utica, N. Y., and chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, are expected to arrive here to-day, when they will be shown about the bay by Dan T. Cole and in the evening dined at the Union League Club. CALIFORNIANS (N NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 23.—At the St. Cloud—J. Mayer; Metropolitan—W. E. Ben- neson; St Denis—A. Bruenn, Mr. and Mrs. D, Stark; Bartholdi—E. P. Dempsey; Park Ave- nue—C. Griffith; Cosmopolitan—8. Hendy, G. J.W. Stark; Broadway Central—Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Lesig, J. G. Mather; Murray Hill—G. B. McAneny. A. Halsey Teft the 8t. Cloud and sailed on the Lahn for Bremen. A. Messager and Mrs. Y. Coughlan are here buying. WITH YOUR COFFEE. She—1did not expect to see you. Somebody told me you had met with an accident the other day. He—Ob, no; that was my brother. She—I'm s0 sorry.—Pick Me Up. 0id Millyuns—Young man, my daughter tells me you kissed her last night. Percival Tootles—Well, if she wants to go bragging about ii that’s her privilege.—Chi. cago Record. “He has consulted every prominent doctor | in the country, and now they say his case is hopeless.”” “Why, I thought he expected to be cured this season.”” ‘But that was before his money ran ou Life. She—The Count, you know, can trace his family back 800 years.” He—Ah! Through the bankruptey court records, I suppose.—Texas Siftings. “You referred to him as the professor Certatuly.” ‘Of mathematics 2 ertainly not. He used to make balloon ascensions when he was younger. Post. “How old are you, little girl?’ asked the kind lady of a 3-year-old. “I's not old at ali,” was the reply. new.”—Harper's Bazar. Mrs. Tenspot—I am so glad that you are en- gaged to Harold Willoughby. Was it a long courtship ? 5 Miss Skidmore—Not very. My cyclometer registered about 100 miles.—Judge. Mand (earnestly)—I want to ask you a ques- tion, George. George (n\’w earnestlv)—What is it, dearest? Maud (still earnestly)—If you had never mot me would you have loved me just the seme?— Judy, “I's most AUGUST 24, 1897. UNCLE SAM—“Never [New York Press.] punctured my tire.” PUELIC BATHS. EAN FrANCISCO, Cal., August 22, 1897, Dear Sir: With reference to the subject of municipal ownership of public utilities, so much discussed nowadays, there is an article on the subject of pubiic baths and wash- houses in the Bulletin of Labor (issued by Car- roll D. Wright) for July that is well worthy of attention. 1t is an old saying that cleanliness is next to godiiness, and it is quite certain that unciean conditions and surroundings have decided effects upon character and morals, The man whose person, clothes and environments are dirty is naturally shunned, and as a result he soon loses confidence 1n hims:1f, loses his self- respect and moral character. Very few people care to be dirty and covered with vermin; certainly no one likes to be shunned. It is thercfore obvious that men are dirty in the great majority of cases simply and so ély because they haven't the means to get clean. The thousands of men who sleep In the 5 aod 10 cent lodging-houses that are now be- coming s0 numerous have but little facilities for even washing their hands and faces and absolutely none for washing their bodies. The same poverty that compels th to sleep in 10-cent lodging-houses denies them the means of washing their persons and clotnes. Itisidle todeny this or quibble upon the subject. Since the Lick Bath managers raised the price from 5 to 10 cents there has been a very great decrease in the number of bathers, thus proving that even 10 cents is too much for many people. From the description of public bath and wash houses in England (in the article 10 which I referred) it seems thats person can get & swimming bath for4 centsand a hot bath for 2 cents. The wasnhouses are fitted wiih boilers, tubs, wringers, dryers, mangles and flat-irons, by which a woman (or man) can wash, dry and iron an entire famiiy’s wash in about one hour (the clothes are dried in about ten minutes), and the cost is only 3 cents. Consider what an improvement such an ar- rangement is; no damp, sloppy, rooms, no wet clothes hanging up for two cr three days to dry, the inevitable accompaniments of home washing, One hundred and ninety-one English towns nave these public bath and wash houses. They do not cost so much as some people may think. Forinstance, thc total cost of one of the establishments in London, where land 1s very dear, was 174,194, including the cost land.” Tnis establisument had one first- 2 by 40 feet, with 140 ccond-ciass swimming y-one cabl bath, 100 by 33 and one women's swimming hath, 75 Ieet, besides 108 private (ubt-bith rooms, aud & wasithouse and laundry with accommoda- tion for forty-nine c.othes-washers at once. Tae most expensive public estab ishment of this nature in London cost only $220,151. Hoping that tae foregoing will a.lruct some atiention to this subject, yours tru'y, THOMAS BERSFORD. THE GH ¢ 8AN FRANCISCO, Cal., FEditor Ca’l: Yuu ariicle of “Tae Ordenl of Equalization, is the only editurial that has been written by San Fran- cisco journals on the subject for the past half dozen years, and as one of the taxpayers of this City who has watched this particuiar | thing I want to congratulate you on starting s movement in the rigat direction. Allow me space enough to add that to my knowiedge for the past three or four years | our Ci:y officials have acted a farce with re- spect to the'State Board of Equalizaiion. Look at last year. What was done? When sSun | Francisco was cited not one of our howling | officiels was present. We not only insulted | the State Board, but we did worse—put i1 tre hands of Chesebrougi:, member from {his ais- tzict, data that ne knew littie of and which were not backed up by facts, He performcda strange proceeding by aciing as aitorney and judge as weli, and ended the whole laice by being voted down. The sooner we learn that the State Board is made up of experienced, able men ir the mat- ter of assessments, and thatsuch men are uot to be trifled with, the better it will be for the tsxpayers. Letus send men able to cope with the State Bosrd and go about the matter as outiined by your journal. C.s: BRYAN’S DILEMMA. 8AN FraNcisco, Aug. 23, 1897. To the Edilor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: W. J. Bryan wires the Examiner in reply to an inquiry about that ‘“pass” that he is a stock- holder in the World-Herald Company of Omaha ana got his pass on ‘“advertising ac- count.” His being a stockholder does not en- title him to a pass. Now, the question is, Dia Mr. Bryan have an order from the Worid- Herald upon the Southerr Pacific Company for a free pass on advertising accouut? 1f nof, upon what grounds did he make the applica- ten? Ask the railway company. 2 Again, what particular objzct could the Central or Southern Pacific have in advertis- ing in Omaba? I believe the Examiner had a contract for advertising with tne Southern Pacific some 1:me ago, but did not live up to it. I think the adveriising dodge is about Pplayed out. J. G MEN AND WOMEN. Gladstone’s prescription for keeping well and living long is to chew each bite of food seventeen times. The porter of the Paris Bourse recently.died, leaving a fortune of $50,000. He had been employed thirty years at & ry of $240a year. He evidently got rich on “tips.” Ncah Roby of New Brunswick, N. J, has just recovered his sight, after being blind tor ten years.- He is said (o be 125 years old, and hopes to break the age record. The Rev. C. W. Leeot Vevay, Ind., whom the Republicans have nominated for Congress to succeed the late W. S. Holman, is a retired Methodist minister who has become a pros- perous farmer. John Howard Bryan, a brother of the poet, William Cullen Bryant, who lives at Prince- tou, IlL., 18 himsslf & poet. On his ninetieth birthday, July 22, a reunfon of the family will be held at his home. Itis announced that Sarah Bernhardtin- tends to play 1n London tha title role in “Ham- let.” If her attempt is crowned with success— which a Paristan critic thinks is certaln—she will play “Hamlet” in Paris next winter. No more elegant compliment was ever paid to & preacher than that of King Louis XIV of France to Jean Baptiste Massillon, Bisnop of Cermont. 8aid h “I have heard many great preachers, and the effect they produced on me was that I felt thoroughiy satisfied with them. Every time I heard you I have been dissatisfied with mysell.” The wife of the late Professor Agassiz was one morning putting on her stockings and boots. A little scream attracted the profes- sor's attention. Not having risen, he leaned | forward anxiously on his eibow and inquired | what was the matter. “Why, & little uulke] has just crawled out of my boot!” cried she. “Only one, my dear?” interrogated the pro- fessor, calmly lying down again. *‘There should have been three.” He had put them tnere to keep them warm, | Sausalito,and at a meeting to be heid this FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT. Golden Gate Parlor Wants Flags Dis- piayed in This City ou September 9. Golden Gate Parior No. 89 of the Native £ops of the Golden West is anxious that on Admission day every person who hes a flag- staff over or in front of his house and owns an American flag should aisplay tnat flag on the 9ih of Septembar. The members of tho par- lor say that the 9th of September is the State’s natslday, and that on each enniversary the American flag should be floated everywhere, not only in this City, butin every part of the State, to show that Californians are zlad that they are in the Union, and to show turiher that patriotism is not dormant. i This parlor, of which Mariin C. Eichel is president and A. Eberhardt is recording secre- tary, is actively engaged 1n muaking arrange- ments for a fine appearance in the Admission day parade in Santa Rosa. Tne members have procuied a neat uniform, and they expect to be in the front rank of the pariors making fine displays. Piedmont Parlor, N. D. G. W. Piedmont Parior of Oakland, at its meeting held last week in Loring Hall, had quite & large attendance, and inttiated one candidate. This parior, which of Iate has been making considerable progress, will visit Santa Rosa on the 9th of September and will take part in the parade. Quite & number of the members have signified their intention to be on hand at the celebration, and «fforis are being made to have a good numerical strength in line. Court El Dorado, F. 0. A. fith social given last Saturday night by Court EL borado No. 31 of the Foresters of America, in Union- square Hall, was a great social success. Taere were present a large number of young people who enjosed the fine programme of dances that had been preparea for them. The effair was under the managementof the fol- lowing-named; Commiltee of arrangements— William Bunemann, Alvin G. Maas, F. Peder- son, A. M. Bench, Charles Burgess; reception committee—Charles Maginnis, A. K. Wade, H. J. Mahler. Benjamin Posner, Caurvet; flior imanager, Charles Burg. committec—Emil Henry, Louis Bendewalc, J. C. Webber, H. J. Miller, ¥. H, Maas, E. J. Stan- ley. La Estrella Paclor, N. D. G. The following-named were the part. in the entertainment reeently given by La Estrella Parior of the Native Dgughters of tue Golden West: M:s Bahr, zither ; song and dence, Miss Flossie G.adson; spe ties, Frank and George Bush; recitation, Miss Cobin. This par.or Is making arrangements to %0 10 Santa Rosa to take part iv the procession on Admission day Knights of Pythias Alfred Perrier and J. E. Slinkey have or- zed a new lodgz of Knights of Prthias in The g evening in Bellrude’s Hallin that place steps will be teken to prepare for the institution of | ihe new body. The Orphaus’ Home, I. O, O. The board of trustees of the Orphans’ Home of the Independen: Order of Odd Feilows, be. ing built at Gilroy, have the assurance of the contractors that the building will be com- pieted in time to enable the noard to furnish therooms and cpen the home on the 1st of October. The dedication of the home will tuke place in the latter purt of October. CALLING THE COWS. 1 shall never hear her more Br ihe reedv Linais shore, “Cusha! Cusha! Cus calling, re the early dews be falling; 1 shall never hear her song, +Cushat Cusha!” ail elong, Where the suuny Liudis floweth, Goe h, floweth: From the meads where meiick groweth, When the water wind ng down Onward flowe(h (o the LOwn. Isbal neverse: her more Whete the reeds and rushes quiver, Shiver, quiver: Stand bes dé tue sobbing river, =obbing, Lhrobbing, in 18 falling To the sandy, lonesome sho: 1 shall never hear her eslun, “Leave your meadow grassas mellow, Meilow, meliow; Quit you cowslips, cowslips yellow: Come uppe, Whitelcot, cume uppe, Lightfoot; Quit your pipes of parsiey hollow, Holiow, hollow; Come uppe, Lightfoot, rise and follow; Lightfoot, Whitefoot, From your clovers lift the head: Come uppe, Jetty. foliow, follow, Jeuy, to ihe milking-shed.” JEAN INGELOW. NICKEL IN THE SLOT, Gambling Machines Not Pro- tected by the Patent Laws of the United States. Important Decision Rendered by Cir- ouit Judge Morrow Which Abolishes Royalties. TUnited States Judge Morrow yesterday rendered an opinion in favor of the de- fendants in the case of Gustay F. W. Schultz against Theodore Holtz and others in an aclion in equity to restrain the defendants fiom iniringing on tke complainant’s patents on certain nickel- in-the-siot machines. The meat of the opinion is as follows: In this case the verified answer not only de- nies that the invention is new and useful, but alleges a spzcific fact, which, 1f true, disposes of the question of utility. It charges directly that (he apparatus is used for gambling pur- yoses and that it cannot be used for any other purpose. Oiearly this is an allegation which, under the rule, should be treated as testimony in favor of the defendant, and in view of the fact that the complainant has introduced no testimony o support the patent, it is, in my judgment, sufficient to entitle the defendant to a decree in his favor. In patent 514,661 the inventor sets forth the object of the machine as follows: Inmy previous machine and in this the main object is to return the coin deposited in the machine or the equivalent thereof, in case a predetermined re-ult be not arrived at, other- wise to retain said coin. This resuli may be of any suitable character, as, for example, the telling of a fortune, which may be sffected by means of a preparec list of statements eorre- sponding to tne various positions of the indi- cating disk. *‘There is certainlv no utility apparent in this device,” said Judge Morrow. ‘‘Let a decree be entered for the defendants with costs.”” The deciston will strip the royalty from the saloon machines. Anybody may make them with impunity. ——————— Every woman knrows some man who would be immentely rich instead of poor if “ae had his wife's energy.”~ Atkinson (Kans.) Globe. 1 | average. ONE BOND HO3T BEAR IT ALL Postmasters Responsible for the Peculations of Clerks. Only Ezceptions to the Rule Are Aocts of God or of Public Enemies. William J. Bryen's Sureties Must Make Good Ten Thousand Dol- lars That Were Stolen. United States Circuit Judge Morrow rendered an inleresting opinion yesterdaay morning to the effect that a Postmaster is liable upon his official bonds for the money embezzled by one of his clerks, even tbough tue clerk may have been ap- pointed under the civil sarvice act. The suit was brought against William J. Bryan as principal and Jesss D. Carr, William Matthews, William W. S8tow and Henry Miller as sureties on his official bonds of $300,000, executed by them on July 14, 1886. Biyan wes Postmaster of San Francisco from June, 1886, to June 30, 1890. The particular breach of the conditions of the bond alieged is that Bryan neglect- ed to render his account to the Postoffice Department as required by law, amount- 1ng to $9399 £8, no part of which bhad been paid. Bryan’s answer set up 25 a defense was was that the $9359 88 was embezzled by James S. Kennedy, a clerk in the Post- office of San Francisco, who held his cffize under the civil service rules. Ken- nedy was subsequently convicted of the crime. g Counsel for the United States demurred to that part of the answer which set up that Bryan was not responsible because the clerk was not his aprointee, but bad been appointed and held his office under tha civil service laws of the United States. In the decision sustaining the demurrer Judge Morrow says: The 1iability of a public officer upon his official bond is governed to a large extent by the terms of the bond itself and the duiies im- posed upon him by law. The terms of the vonds sued on in this case are absolute. No cxceptions are provided for. The condition of the obligation was that he should faithfully discharge all the auties and trusts imposed on him cither by law or the rules and reguis tions of the Postofiice Department, etc. ThY laws, rules and reguiations required him to accoant for all the moneys received by him as Posumaster. It 15 admitted by the answer that he did not account for the sum sued for, viz., $9399 88. Nowhere, elther in the law or 1n the rules and rezuiations of the Postoflice Depariment is there any provision reeasing a Postmaster from his reliabifity to the Government where mouey-order funds of which he had the pos- session have be2n embezz ed by a clerk who neld his office as such under the civil service laws of the United States. The court certainly canuot import such #a exception into the cone diuons of the bond. Here Judge Morrow quotes from Justice McLean of the tupreme Court of the United States as follows: The ob igation to keep safely the money is abs lute, withont any condition expressed or inpiied, and noihing but the payment of it wheu required can discharge the bond. Pub- lte policy r. quires that every depositor of the public money shouid be held 10 a strict ac- countability.” Not only that he should exer- cise the highest degree of vigilance, but that he should keep saiely the moueys waich come his hands. Any relaxation of this condi- fion would opes the door to frauds which might be practiced with impunity. A depositary would have nothiug more to do than to lay his plans aud arrange his proofs, 50 as to establish his loss without laches on his part. Letsuch a principle be applied to our Postmasters, Collectors of the customs, receivers oi public moneys and others who receive more or less of the pubiic funds, and what losses might not be anticipated by the public? No such principle has been recog- nizzd or admitted as u Jegal defense. Judge Morrow goes on to say that the only exceptions sanctioned by the authori- ties are the act of God or of a public enemy, and concludes: As the present case does not come within efiner of the exceptions thus recognized it is d:fficult to see how the detendants, though harsh it may seem lo be: can escaps the ex- acting measure of liability which the Govern- ment, based unon principies of sound pubiic fion(‘y, requires of those public officials who andle the public moneys. The demurrer to the answer was there- upon sustained. BIRDS WERE IN GOOD FORM. Olympic Gua Club Enjoy a Day’s Sport at Ingleside. The regular monthly live-bird shoot of the O.ympic Gun Club was held at the Ingleside shooting park Sunday after- noon. The weather was unusually favor- able. The birds proved zood without an exception and the scores made speak favorably of the form of the shooters. Peterson was not in his usual form, but the scores made by Feudner, Haight, Golcher and Murdock were above the Hart killed eleven birds out of the twelve, but his success was mostly due to the second shot. An unusuzlly large number ot birds dropped outside of the bounds, which accounts to & certain extent for some of the smaller scores which were made dur- ing the day. Following is the result: O. Fendaner 11, C. A. Haight 11, H. C Goicher 11, Roos 8, Neustadter 9, Slade 10, F. J. Schultz 7, ¥ A Schultz 8, Edwards 11, Carr 8, Hart 11, Fishback 10, Owens 7, M. E. Unger 9. Peterson 7, Murdock 11, F. Vernon 8, H. Vernon 11, Sioane 6, Allen 8. ———————— CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c Ib. 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