The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 25, 1897, Page 6

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EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 52, 34 Park Row, New York City DAVID M. FOLTZ, Fastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyon going 1o the country ona_vacaton ? It ¥0,1t 18 nO troub us 1p formard THE CALL 0 le for Do not let it miss you for you will to the carrier or left at receive prompt ettention. | Discovery that the Bryan breastplate of righteousness is blowholed has 1n some quarters been a painful surprise. Anybody des a Southern Pacific vass just now would be wise to approach the subject by way of the telephone. Nobody wants to knock the chip off Canada’s shoulder, but she’ll joggle 1t off does nerself if she dance. not stop her war- s can censole them- of hardships by real- Miller’s letters pass Klondike tou seivesin the m iz'ng that Joaquin them securely sealed. Probably California is the only State that grants to murderers a final trial after the court supposed to be of last resort has passed upon their case: President Faure of France, in reaching Russia without having excited ‘a single bomb to flight in his direction, has achieved considerable of a triumph. A Chicago paper is so elated over what it calls the “demand for wheat from France” that it probably means the de- | mand from France for wheat, which is | d:fferent. | Prospectors crowded into unseaworthy | vessels feel aggrieved when official author- ity stops them, but after all a little delay is preferable to drowning, and in ice water at that. | | i & | It cannot be denied that a politician | who travels on a pass would be wiser to reirain from getting farther away from | home than he can riae safely and com- | fortably on a bicycle. | The Boston young man who claims to have been hypnotized by an actress is not a solitary instance by any means, but has merely found a new name for the oly, old process of being played for a sucker. The Cleveiand Steel Company, that has just contracted to supply 20,000 tons of T for electric roads in Ireland, must be excused from accepting the view that the wave of prosperily failed to keep its date. 1f Professor Elliott of the Smithsonian Institution could only rgsome gearing and bells to his maxillary bones so as to transmit their power the wheels of indus- try might be mada to hum at slight ex- pense, Some Washington bicyelists are dis- pieased at the regulation forbidding the use of low handle bars, and yet to ask a man to refrain from making a monkey of himseif ought not 1o be regarded as a hardship. The good people of Winters who want a law closine the postoffice there Sundays can at least have the consoling thought that there is no law compelling any one to go to the postoffice who feeis an im- pulse to stay aw: Avparently there is no profit in wife- | teating, as practiced in San Jose. A man who tried it there has been sentenced to 180 days in jail and a $1000 fine. The probability tbat he will find other meth- ods of amusement hereafter is almost akin 10 certainty. Before the transportation company of Indians on the Skaguay trail tried to in- augurate the process of charging all that traffic would bear the monopolists ought to have realized that with every patron carrying a gun the traffic would be apt to fix the limit itself. Of course the eight-year-old boy who fatally shot his little playmate was dis- missed, the killing being judicially pro- nounced accidental. Nevertheless, the incident throws a strong light upon the inutility of permitting children to use loaded shotguns as toys. It is pleasing to learn from Demo- cratic sources that Mr. Bryan's habit of riding on passes is entirely commendatle. He has been accused of nothingelse. To accuse a man of doing something com- mendable is surely not an act to stir his friends to a degree of wrath suggesting apoplectic possibilities, What’s ail the row in the Bryan camp about, anyhow? ‘G. A. Jones of Modena recently pre- sented to the Santa Ana Blade two water- melons of heroic size, whereof, after ample description, the editor says with feeling: “Mr. Jones’ generosity is highly sppreciated and his benevolence worthy of wide publicity.”” Doubtless this is the case, and THE CALL conceives it a simple duty to lend to such deserved publicity the greatest width possible. With fine satire the Toronto Star ex- elaims: *‘1f only Uncle Sam could see bimseif as others see him!” Perhaps Uncle S8am is lax in primping before the gless. Heis too busy seeing his neigh- bors and keeping their hands out of his pockets even to notice whether or not his hat is on straight. Yet when Uncle had. within his own domain gold discoveries probably greater than those of the Klon- dike nobody caught bim in the act of imitating a pig, four feet in the trough 2nd squealing with dismay because he poumn'uobblo erything in eight, \ A PRETTY PASS. The Southern Pacific is the most ably edited corporation in this country. It offers editorial defense of Bryan and his pass in ils organ. We by no means condemn the Southern Pacific for defending itself against the charge of violating the interstate commerce law, and Mr. Bryan against the The Southern Pacifi slings and arrows of outrageous politics. thereby presents itself in its most charming aspect and adds to the gayety of nations. It not only loves its neighbor as itself, but italso loves those who bate it, and when Mr. Bryan smote it on the left cheek it turned unto him its right also and slipped a pass to Portland in his hand. We have no fault to find with the Southern Pacific for all this. We do not insin- uate that it desired to speed Mr. Bryan’s departure lest he do it much evil monopoly platitudes that Judge Maguire monotony offends the weary ear, when . The anti- bas so often put on the market that their repeated in Bryan’s statesmanlike voice, illuminated by bis flashing eye, become brand-new war cries, but the Southern Pacific has endured much of that sort of persecution, and has not infrequeni_v rewarded the persecutor, until a belief is abroad that the way to its favor lies in abuse of its methods and a threat to pull it down and “Babylon Is Fallen.” dance on its remains while the band plays | Again ascribing to the Sovthern Pacific the best and most Christian motives in this matter, and rejecting for ourseives, administrators and assigns any feeling other than kindness and admiration for that corporation, we go on to a consideration of Mr. Bryan and his pa: A few months ago in the Supreme Court at Washington Mr. Bryan took his legal voice in hand and lifted it high, in the hearing of all men, against railroads all and singuler. Some said it was the same voice he used last year in the cam- paign, but his admirers declared it was the legal part of his vocal equnipment. During his tour here Mr. Bryan turned easily from denouncing the crime of '73 to demonstrating that railroads are enemies of the human race. He was the idol of the Populist and the free-silver man and the anti-monopolist, and if it turn out that his feet are of clay, and reject the hard highway wherein the feet of the massss go, and prefer to ride on a pass and seek tis the seclusion that a Pullman grants, surely a subject of public interest and a matter of news. In his speech to the hosts of labor in pared himself 1o the Savior. Chicago last year Mr. Bryan openly com- He has repeatedly admired bimself in the mirror of upturned faces of his followers as a walking conscience, an exception among men, as one who rises above the sordid, every- day, bacon-and-eggs things of this world. Therefore, if he be the opposite of all this, weak and huwan like the rest of us, let us restore our self-respect by making the fact known. We inquire further, then, into the affair. It is pleaded in defense of Mr. Bryan that be is a stockholder in the World-Herald and, therefore, authorizea to make contracts and take passes in its hyphenated name. ‘We now request the editorial department of the Southern Pacific to publish the articles of incorporation of the Worid-Herald, in order that the Interstate Commerce Commission and tbe rest of us may see whether they authorize stockhclaers to make contracts and take passes. If they do not, then Mr, Bryan’s contract fcr that pass is ultra vires and void. MORALITY VS, INIQUITY. General interest is manifested in the case which will be heard in a San Fran- cisco court on Saturday next to determine virtually whetber or not there is a legal remedy for the iniquities practiced in the | slave dens of Chinatown. The Christian missions have been per- forming noble work in rescuing Chinese girls from the clutch of the slavers. Toey have created consternation among the yellow-skinned dealers in human flesh and blood. The knife, the branding-iron and the lash have had fewer victims re- cantly among the females of the Oriental quarter. The fight inaugurated by the Christian women has caused a temporary cessation of the wrongs and horrors which, a short while ago, were part of the daily history of Chinatown. But the Mongolians have by no means concluded to surrender their slave-hold- ings, or to stop the barter and sale of human beings for the future, and they are resolved to resist all efforts to remove the shackles from ths limbs of the un- rtunates who are locked in the vile celis of Chinatown—held there as chattels,with a yrice set on each head. The slave traders and their following have orzaniz:d an asso ion for the pur- pose of doing battle in defense of their accursed business. Assessments have | been levied and a large fund realized, and money wiil be freely used to defeat the canse of humanity. good people of the misgions deserve bstantial support as well as praise in their undertaking. The white families of San Francisco should be thoroughly in- terested, for many white children bave been lured to their moral destruction in the dens which the breaking dewn of the slave system will do much to eradicate. The Christian workers need financial as- sistance 10 carry on the war against the powerful and corrupt Mongolian associa- tion, and the good cause should not be allowed to perish for lack of financ.al sus- tenance. There is unusual excitement in Chinatown concerning the test case above referred to, vi the trial of a Chinese couple for forcibly keeping a minor in their den. If a conviction can be secured, then a vigorous prosecution will be made in tue matter of all such crimes and mis- demeanors as come within the knowledge of the earnest and self-sacrificing people of the American mis:ions. FRANOE AND RUSSIA, - The ovation accorded to the President of the French Republic on the occasion of his visit to tHe Czar bears strong testimony to the friendly feeling existing between France ana Russia, The dispatches in- form us that the popularity of the recep- tion of Faure in St. Petersburg completely eclipsed the welcome given to Emperor William, There is no concealing the fact that Russian sympathy leans to the Gallic people, and ample evidence was furnished of the sentiment of the French when the Emperor and Empress of ail the i 2s were feted in Paris last October. When the Kaiser became the guest of the Czar a few weeks ago there were thun- ders of artillery and a military pageant and multitudes of spectators; but the people, it was mnoticeable, did not indulge in such frantic acclamations to attest their delight as they did when President Faure stepped foot on Russian soil. The cordial relations existing between the Governments of Nicholas and Faure have a support more powerfui than mere official compect would comprehend, for those relations rest securely upon the mutual respect entertained for each other by the French and Russian peoples them- selves. If we consider the two nations as atlies it is plain to be seen that such ar ailiance must possess great potency when unity of feeling among the peoples in question is coupied with a common cause of those powers. 1f any material changes are to be made in the map of the Old World affecting the general interests of the nations it may be set down that such a combination as France and Russia will not permit itself to beshabbily treaied when theday of map- alteration comes. Tbuis strengthening of the ties tnat bind the two nations to- gether has a big purpose in view, and Russia and France will make a mighty force in the game of politics or war. Among the hopes, possibly the vain hopes of humanity, is one that some day reporters shall no longer say of a suicide: “Death was duve to despond- ency.” There is always room for the in- ference that when a man snuffs himself out he is not impelled by hilarious appre- ciation of life, nor giving evidence of joy too great to be endured. The enterprising speculator who is to take 200 young women to the Klondike shows wisdom 1in selecting them in Bos- ton. There may be frost in the Klondike, bul according to popular theory the Bos- ton girl can give 2s good asshe gets in the matter of rigidity, 4 = A TAXPAYERS' MOVEMENT, The recommendation of THE CALL that the officials and the business men of San Francisco should make a concerted effort before tne State Board of Equalization to prevent a raise in the assessment of prop- erty in this County has been cordially taken up. Men who represent some of | the most important interests of the City have indorsed the plan and it has now be- comewirtually a taxpayers’ movement. It is not strange that the plan has re- ceived such prompt support from fair- minded men. As we ask justice from the Equalizers we must do justice to them. 1f we do them the wrong of denouncing them as enemies of San Franclsco; if we declare them to be actuated by a desire to cinch the taxpayers of the City; if we ac- cuse them of an intention to impose heavy taxes upon this County 1n spite of all facts and reasons, and in violation of their official oaths, we do them an injus- tice without benefiting ourselves. It will surely be petter to recognize the honesty and good sense of the board and make our appeal upon grounds that will have weight with officials who respect their oaths and are ambitious of serving the State with fidelity and efficiency. Arguments and not threats are needed in a controversy of this kind, and fortu- nately we have arzuments of the most convincing character based upon indis- putable facts. Some of the business men | interviewed by THE CALL on this subject | have cited specific instances of property | assessed higher than its market valua- | tion. Rents have fleen faliing steadily, <‘whfle taxes and assessments have been | rising, until now the point has been reached where the burden upon the property-holder has become well nigh in- tolerable. Strong as these arguments are they can- not present themselves to tue Equatizers, They must be expressed to the board by men who know the facts upon which they are based and can meke clear their bear- ing on every issue of the case that may come up. It is, therefore, important that the officials who sre to represent the County on this matter should be accom- panied by a delegation of citizens who can from their own experience give testi- mony to show to any skeptical member of the board the truth of the claim that Ban Francisco is alieady assessed as high in preportion to her wealth as any other county in the State. ‘The issue is one which affects every tax- nayer. Itconcerns the holder of property of little value as well as the holders of estates valued at miilions. If we succeed in securing justice for San Francisco all her people will be benefited by itto a greater or less extent. The delegation which represents before the board the taxpayers of the City will be seeking not private gain but the general good. They will bs engaged in the fulfillment of a public duty and we have no reason to doubt that the Equalizers will give them a fair, full and impartial hearing on the merits of their case. UNCLE SAM PAYS HIS DEBTS, Notwithstanding the vast amount of imports recorded for the first six months of the year, consisting very largely of products brought here in anticipation of new duties, it is now quite certain that we shall have a balance of trade in our favor before the present month ends, While the imporis were very heavy between Jan- uary and July, the exports of the United States were not far behind them in value, and now since the toom in cereals has started in, our shipments to foreign coun- tries will very soon even up our accounts with them. According to the report of foreign com- merce for last month, the merchandise exnorts exceeded importsin July by about $17,700,000. This made a remarkable change in the complexion of (hings, so far as our commercial indebtedness is con- cerned. In the latter part of the month of March the anticipatory imports began, although the exports for March exceeded the im- ports to a iarge extent. For eighteen con- secutive months previous to that time there was an excess of exports, and this country was far ahead on exchange. We have heard so much about the ahnormal imports of the five montns from March to July, and so little attention has been paid to the subject of exports during the same period, that the figures will be a surpriss to readers in general. The 1m- ports from March to July, inclusive, were a little less than $396,000,000, while the exports amounted to over $387,000,000, a difference of about $8,500,000 on the side of the imports. Of course the figures above given are official, and good authorities estimate an undervaluation on autiable goods aver- aging 20 per cent. Now the value of dutiable imports from March to July, in- clusive, was $196,705,916, and the actual indebtedness to be paid for goods im- ported wus, therefore, about $39,300,000 more than the declared value, Ths amount added to the excess of imports on official returns would show the sum to be paid to be about $47,800,000. But for the same five months the record shows that the net exports of specie amounted to $46,506,195. = If we were to omit the item of under- valuation a heavy balance would be shown in favor of this country; but, tak- ing everything into consideration, our indebtedness for merchandise is only $1,200,000 larger than the amount whict had beeu paid in specie by Augustl In fact, the merchandise and specie accounts nearly balanced at the opening of the present month, and our merchandise ex- ports for the last few weeks have besn of the record-breaking kind. When the re- ports for August come in it will be seen that Uncle Samuel is on the winning side by a considerable majority in his com- mercial accounts with the other nations of the world. [t should be remarked here that a reserve exchange of $20,000,000-was held in New York on the 20th of last March, but itis reckoned that such amount is canceled in effect by the payment of quarterly interest and dividends due abroad ubout April 1 and July L PER:=ONAL. 8. G. Little of Dixon is at the Russ. Dr. H. G. Bent of San Jose Is at the Grand. Dr. S. B. Gordon of Gonzales is at the Grand. Captain William W. Gray of Merced is at the Grand. R. I. Willey, an attorney of Monterey, is at the Grand. J. E. Rhodes, a Denver banker, is registered at the Palace. H. M. alexander, a merchant of Sacramento, is at the Lick. Thomas Concannon of Livermore is at the Cosmopolitan., Dr. Frank L. Day of Providence, R.IL, guest at the Palace. Isaac Copeland, a mining man of Angels Camp, 15 at the Lick, H. Guernsey, a cattleman of Golconda, Nev., is & guest at the Lick. William C. Clapton, an attorney of New York City, is at the Palace. . J. F. Devendorf, a real estate dealer of Jose, is at the Grand. Sheriff S. D. Ballou of San Luis Obispo is staying at the Grand. it J. M. Cremin, assistant postmaster at Marys- ville, is at the Grand. Nat Stewart of Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, is at the Lick. Charles M. Noyes of Fresno is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Colonel J. M. Moorhead, the Santa Clara capitalist, is at the Palace. Dr. J. D. Davidson of Fresno is among the late arrivals at the Occidental. Miss Emma Driscoll of Los Angeles is stop- ping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Prison Warden Charles Auil of Folsom is one of the late arrivals at the Grand. Randolph Bolles and Mrs, M. E. Bolles of Paris are late arrivals at the Palsce. George A. King and Archibald King of Washington, D. C., are at the Palace. J. A. Barham of Eanta Rosa is at the Ocel- dental accompanted by Ed C. Barham. Superior Judge E.-A. Bridgford of Sacra- menio arrived last night at the Grand. Mrs. R. G. Steele of Merced is down on a visit and is a guest at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, A. Duvail, owner of a large winery and vine- yard at Livermore, is registered at the Grand. Charles Keilus left last night for the East to complete his purchases of fall and winter stock. Protessor Allardice, head of the department of mathematics at Stanford, is at the Cali- fornia. Binclair Tallaiferro, United States District Ban \ Attorney for the Esstern District of Texss, is | in town. J. A. Broughton, a Modesto merchant, is at the Lick with his family to obtain a respite from the hot weather at home. H. Z. Osborne, the Los Angeles journalist returced yesterday from the Trinity County miues and registered at the Palace. J. 8. Willlams of Paris, Tex., United States Mershal at Galveston for the Eastern District of Texas, is at the Palace with his wife. George P. Tebbetts, the veteran Santa Bar- bara newspaper man—proprietor, editor and manager—is in the City on a visit to his nephew, H. W. Lake, general manager ot the Baldwin Hotel busiuess. Mr. Tebbells 18 now business manager of the News, one of Santa Barbara’s two evening journa CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 24.—At the Pla: NEW Y ORK. S. Lobe; Msuhattau—E. Livingston; Hoft- man—C, M. Wingate; Aibemarle—Mr. and 5. D. A. Hannah, H. Holmes; Sturtevant— Sullivan; Broadway Central—E. Arm- strong; Bartholemew —Mr., and Mrs, T. E. Brown. A SENSIBLE ARTICLE, Woodland Democrat, The San Francisco CALL of Sunday has a very sensible article on the subject of equal- ization. It takes the position tbat San Fran- cisco has nothing to gain by denouncing mem- bers of the State Board of Equalization as pickpockets and thieves, when every body else in the State credits them with being honest, capable and high-minded public officials, SONGS OF THE RIVAL KLON- DIKERS. n & balioon, boys, up in a balloon, ‘s the way 10 get there easily and soon. Up in a balloon, boys, over enow and ice, To the distaul gold wines—oh, won's that be nice! Up Th; Up in a talloon, hoys, ng throngh the breeze; Let the boys who walk It stacve 10 death and reeze. Up in a bailoon, boys. whoop, burrah, hooray ! Everybody getting wealiby in a day. s Sel e PITARY e e Down from that balicon, boy3, like a falling Just & little grease spot, that is all you are. Up 1o & balloon, boys, may be very fine— “Thank you, sir, no failing from the closds In mine, —(leveland Leader. WITH YOUR COFFEE. “‘He's a practical Chnristia “Yes?” *‘Ob, yes. For example, when we had that severe drouth and the rest of the congregation wanted 10 bold services and pray for rain, he stood out for a Sabbath school picnic.””—Detroit Journal. “‘You murderous {diot!” exclaimed the man who had been run down by a scorcher. “I'll make you pay dearly for this!” “You oughtn’t to kick,’’ grumblingly replied the scorcher. ““Think how much harderyou'd have got it if I had bumped agin you with one of them old-fashioned solid tires.”—Chicago Tribune. It seems strange thet strong drink should be considered a weakuess.—Philadelphia Record. The wireless telegraphy scheme should be tried in Alaska. The country is fully equipped for the service.—Chicago Tribune. As to the best way to go to the Klondike, ac- counts differ, but 5 good many who have been there say the best way Is to go slow.—Chicago News. s Longevity must be a very healthy profession, to judge from the number of people who have foliowed 1t for one hundred years or more. Boston Transcript. Mr. Forundred (proudly)—Note this magnifi- cent business block. I own every foot of the ground on which it stands. 01d Gent—Ah, yes; I remember this locality very well. Itwas here your grandfather had his junkshop.—New York Weekly. “Do the police suspect anybody of the mur- der?” “yes ““Whom do they suspect?” 2 “Oh, that they don’t know.’” — Roxbur: Gazetta, CA11P0BNIA giace fruits, 50c 1b. Townsend's® - EPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, ‘business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery, * i | | | o THE FARMER NOW BEGINNING TO WEAR THE AIR OF A MAGNATE. [From the Pittsburg Dispatch.) OUTLINE OF A CHARTER. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call— SIR: “Common-Sense,” in the form of a smail pamphlet, gave heart of hope to our fore- fathers in a critical moment and perhaps ren- dered it possible for the people to lay sside their differences and unite in defense of a common cause. In like manner, in a small sphere, it is to be hoped that plain common- sense will guide those who are charged with the patriotic duty of preparing @ cherter to secure the general welfare of all our citizens, so that more than the necessary two-thirds shall vote for it. Charter-making need not be at all difficult. When we stop to think/of it, we at once see that the management of a city’s affairs is purely a business matter, and in no sense political. The municipality Is in fact a great public cor- poration, aud is made up oj separate edminis- trative departments, each under the manage- ment of & responsible head, governed and con- trolled by a Board of Trusiees, called a City Council, and it is run in the same manner as are our great private corporations, such as our railroad corporations, our gas and water companies, and the like. 1t must be apparent, therefore, to the least thoughtful that in framing a City charter the best business talent and “experience should shape its provisions, sna that its whole struc- ture and the words in which it is expressed shouid b: plain and simple. The general structure of the system is naturally our first consideration. After devoting much of my time during the past year to a study of mu- nicipal government, and having finelly over- come my own swbborn prejudices, Lam futly satistied that Dr. Albert Bnaw is undeniably and clearly right in commending the system which is universally adopted throughout Eu- rope, both in Great Britain and on the Conti- nent, as infinitely superior to the compact of djustcd compromises, with its inevitable abuses, which we dignify with the name of the American system. In the general structure of American and European sysiems ot municipal government there is litt e difference; 1 find, for example, nine depari- ments in the recently rejected charter, wnich are named the Legisiative, the Executive, the Legal, the Public Works, the Public Scuoo's and Libraries, the Police, the Fire, tne Health and Elections de tments. In Mancaester there are nine chief departments, tn Giasgow ten, and itis practically the same in all large Eufopean cities To mrke our systom conform to that w prevails throughout Eurcpe ail these d ments are vlaced nnder tue general manag ment and control ofalarge Citv Counci! or Board of Supervisors, consisting of not less than thirty-six members elected at large, and each department is under the special charge of a large stauding committee of the Council, with the ablest and best skilled expert as tne vermanent head of the department, who holds office so 1.ng as he capably a: faithfolly per- forms his duties, but is subject to removal at any time by the whole board or Couucili 1or failure to render satisfactory services. All zets and measures of standing commitiens in charge of departments must be zatified by the board or Council before they can go into effect. Under such a system San Francisco wonld elect only a Mayor and a large council or Board of Supervisors consisting of ai least thirts-stx members. The Mayor wouid be chairman of the board or council and would have the casting vote in case of a tie. All heads of departments would be elected by tne board or council. Heads of departments should suggest names of assistants in con- suitation with the standing committees of de- partmenis, and al! such assistants or deputies and clerks must be subjeet to confirmation or rejection by the whole body of the council or Bourd of Supervisors. No changes would be iepartments except for failure to tisfactory services. laws, ordinances and resolutions adopted by the council or Board of Superyi- vors shall be subject tovelo by a majority vote of the qualified electors of the muni- cipality, and such vote must be taken at & manicipal or general election when a petition signed by 20 per ceut of the taxpayers is pre- sented to the Mayor within thirty days after adoption of such acts aiking for such vote; and the Mayor shall also be vested with the same power to suspend acts of the board or council and refer them to & vote of the electors auring the first ten days after their adoption by the board or council. The Mayor and any or all Councilmen or Su- pervisors shall be subject to removal from office at any time by a majority vote of the qualified electors at a special election held for that purpose by voting for other men to take their official piaces, and such eiection may be called by a petition signed by 20 per cent of the taxpayers and filed in the office of the City and County Clerk. A vote to acquire any public utility may be taken at a special election orata municipal or general election upon presen ation of a p:ti- tion signed by 20 per cent of the taxpayers, the petition to set forth the nature of the util- ity and the terms and conditions of the pro- posed acquisition. Municipal elections for the choice of Mayor and Board ot Bupervisors or Council shall be held in other or off years from those of gen- eral elections for State and National officers, to the end that municipal affairs may be sep- arated from political interests and combina- tions. This charter may bo amended at any munic- ipal or general election by & majority vote of the qualified electors pursuant Lo & petition signed by 20 per cent of the taxpayers of the City, thg petition tosetforth in %uelu terms the proposed amendment, and to be presented to the Meyor. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, August 23, 1897, PRIVATE MUGS FOR EEER- ] DRINKERS. ‘Wasningion Post. fad of keepinz private beer mugs or steins at favorite restaurants around town is the latest which has struck Washington. Ia several of the German restaurants on the avenne separate lockers ere maintained by the proprietors for the safe keeping of steins, and collections of a dozen or s0 of mugs are rapidly increasing in number. Theidea is the same &s the maintenance of shaving mugs at the barber-shops. Many of the ‘private steiners,” as the owners of the mugs are called, are Germans and steady beer-drin The mugs range io size from half a pint to a quart, d are of all shapes anddescriptions. Allthe steins are of German manufacture, and some with golden and silver trimmings are quite expensive. One mug, which has 1ts pigeon- hole in a restaurant not far from the Post buiiding, cost no less than $20, being made of the costiiest materials and deccrated in the most aristic fashion. Oue o Teutonic saloon. ers on the avenue says the fad is gaining a hold on the fancy of beer-drinkers of Washington. The custom, he says, prevails in every city and town in Germany, where not only ivdividual steins are maintained but “l?muy" mugs as well. HOW IT LOOKS. Chicago News. From where we stand 1t looks as if Brother Haona bad rigged up a Chilkoot Pass 10r the Ohio Democrats, the radical differ- | {ence is in the admiuistration of the several | functions. | Lowell’s first client when he began to pry | tice law. MEN AND WOMEN. Andrew Carnegie is a freemax of seven Scot- tish towns. Mrs. Elizabeth A. Reed of Chicago has been elected a member of the Royal Asiatic Soclety of London—this in honor of her successful work in Hindoo and Persian literature. Kaiser Wilhelm is a great collectar of auto- graphs, and Le speoially prizes the signatures of military commanders of the end of the last and the beginning of the present century, of which he has a large collection. President McKinley receives an average of sixty begging letters & day. People in all parts of the country write soliciting his aid to get them temporsrily out of trouble, The other day the total amount requested was $25,000. Princs Charles Theodore of Bavaria, the royal oculist, has been staying at Meran,-in the Tyrol, and during his sojourn there has received a large number of patients of all classes. On the 12:h ult, the Prince gave his one thousandth consultation, Miss Bertha Stoneman, a student in the botanical department of Cornell University for several years, who received the degree ol doctor of philosophy there in 1896, has been appointed professor of botany in the Huguenot College in Cape Colony, Africa. The Duchess of Fife has followed the exam- ple of her mother and bought a spinning- wheel. It is a very pretty one of black wal- nut, and although 100 years old isstill in good working condition. With this wheel the Duchess £pins her yarn, which she afterward knits with her own hands ianto goif stockings. The Duke of Argyll sits in the House of Lords now under that title. He has doue so since 1891, when he was created Duke of Argyllin the United Kingdom. Previous to that, when he was only the Duke of Argyll in Scotland, he sat as Baron Sundridge, which was one of s British (not merely Scottish) tities. The Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, in the Youth's Companion, tells of James Russell After Lowell hed nervously given the cifent a chair, taken his hat and sat down with his notebook to teke notes on the case, he found that his visitor was a painter come ;| to collect a Dill. Her Majesty's sixty years’ reign has wit- nessed more than a score of sdministrations, presided over by ten different Premiers. Lord Melbourne and Sir Robert Peel, Lord John Russell and Lord Derby, Lord Aberdeen and Lord Paimerston, Mr. Disraeli and Mr, Giadstone, Lord Salisbury and Lord Rosebery bave in succession he'd the reins of power. REAL GOLD 0IGGINGS. 'w York World. Kansas, Nebreska anc Oklahoma will sell this year not less than 95,000,000 bushels of wheat at more than half a dollar & busnel net price to the producer. The other wheat-grow- ing States will reauce even these figures to insignificance by their resuits. There is more #old in & good agricultural soil thau in any Klondike placer ever yet discovered, There is truth yet in Irving’s story of the old Hudson River Duichmen whose digging for treasure under the inspiration of dreams gave him greater wealth in cabbages than he had direamed of in the chests of gold. MENELEK BARS TOURISTS. New York Tribune. Pestered beyond all endurance by the nu- merous foreign visitors from every quarter of the globe, Emperor Menelek has now made Enown that no one will be allowed to enter or travel in Abyssinia unless intrusted with some official mission by his Government to the Court of the Negus or else provided with a permit by the ‘ater, whicn will oniy be granted in cases where the traveler is prop- Grly indorsed and warmly recommended by the recognized executive of his native country. JUSTICE IN BILLVILLE. Atlanta Coustiiution. “A mew trial has been granted you!” ex- claimed the Jawyer, rushing in. “Thanks,” said the prisoner, in easy tones, looking up from the morning paper. “May I on what grounds?” You were convicted,” replied the lawyer, g killea a man with & 32-caliber b perts havg discovered that the ball of 35-caliber.”, t is as I expected,” said the prisoner. it down and rest yourself. MILLIONS IN IT. Indianapolis Journal. The wheat crop for the United States s esti- mated at 600,000,000 bushels. Domestic con- sumption is estimated'at 365,000,000 bushels. This will leave 235,000,000 bushes for export ata price higher tnan has been known for years. Thisis prosperity. GLOBE SIGHTS. Atchlson Globe. A frown is a mild way of kicking. 1f you must be a liar be a good one. A man who laughs at his own joke usually tells a poor story. Some people get the swelled head just be- cause they live in a big town. 1 you have taken proper care of the past oA pdt g bk i e il Our idea of an unusual man is one who reads the Sunday morning sermons in Monday morning’s newspapers. Find a man who is competent and willing to work and notice the worthless people hanging onto his skirts. Every man is secretly proud if his bear. stiff and hard to cut; he believes & stiff by means more of a man. We have noticed that where you meet one ellrdwht:lclnmpllinl that he is’ lllnnn in the orid and lonesome you meet ninety who howling about !heh’ylhl. % 5 Our idea of good luck is to have count: reoplfl thivk so much of you that they onn 0 for you on Sunday. take you out to Sunday dinner, and bring you back again. The ordinary dressmaker is so averse to making clothes comfortable that when a woman does want a dress in which she can draw a long breath she has to pad herself dur- ing the fitting process, taking the padding out wher the gown is completed, rd DOCKERY AND THAT BRANDY Interference With Its Ship- ment Upheld by J. W. Kerr. / Board of the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association May Act. Will Endeavor to Protect the Repu- tation of the Productions of California. A letter, upholding the action of In- spector Dockery, for having interfered with the shipment of alleged impure brandy some time past, was yesterday re- ceived by the board of directors of the Manufacturers and Producers’ Association from its president, James W. Kerr. The communication was calied a re- port on what is generally known as the Dockery case, and among other things stated that the act complained of was the boring and spilling the contents of three barrels forming part of ashipment of so- called brandy in transit from a United States manufacturing bonded warehouse at San Francisco; also that the issues in- volved were of a serious character aside from their relation to Mr. Dockery per- sonally and that the broad question at is- sue was: Could goods be msnufactured in = United States bonded warehouse which by reason of their adulterated and fraudulent character it would be unlawful to manufacture anywhere in this State outside of such warehouse? Or in other words were the pure food and inspection laws of this State null and void &s agair st any manufacturer who conducted his operation under the protection of a bonded warehouse, The letter goes on to state: The local inspector claimed suthority over the guods in question on the ground that they were counterieits andewanduient and made in violation of the pure-food laws of this State. The Federal authorities, on the other band, contended that the goods, being in bond, were entitled to their protection, regardless of their character or of the fact that ihey had been manufactured in violation ot the State laws. When the inspector was arrested Colomel W. H. L. Birnes kindly volunteered 1o delend him; but the case was continwed trom time to time, awailing toe arrival of papers from Washiugion, the iacts relating to which you ere all familiar with. When the Fedcral authorities were ready to proceed with the trial Colonel Barnes was engaged in the Figel case, and no one had been appointed in bis place. To avoid further conticuances or the dapger of the case going by detault, your pres- ideut, acting under authorily vested ip him by this board, engaged tne services of Attor- uey J. J. Dunne to defend the case. To determine these points, Mr. Dunne for this association offered three lines of delense. First, that Mr. Dockery in the action eom- p.ained ot believed he was acting within his legal powers, and was doing what he believed 0 be his duty iu upholding ihe laws of the State, and consequently was void of any eriminal intent; second, that by resson of fraudulent bravding and failure to contorm to the reguiations governing manufaciuring Londed warebouses, the snipjer had veen re- tused & permit by tne Deputy tollector of this pert, end also by the Naval Officer, and that wlen a permit was finaily issued by Coilector Wise, it 111} lacked the signnture of tue Nayal Officer, which was withheld for cause, and thiat LY Feason olthese irregularities the ship- ment was uniawiully abroad, and therefore not entitled ‘0 Federal proiection; third, that the wanufucture of such gools was a gross vio.ation of our pure-foad laws, in that they coniained but 10 per centoi the articie they fmitated, and were intcnded to deirand the purchasers py rading upon the good name and reputation of & weli-known product of this Sia e. was duly presented by Mr. Dunne ment with the result that Inspector Dockery was acquitied soiely on the luck of criminal intent, #s on the other points the d cision was st him. We have succeeded, however, in sccurlng ibrough this case an in- terpretation of the Federal regulations bear- ing upon our State 1aws. 1t1s notmy purpose to criticize the inter- pretation of the law by the leerned Judge, who impressed me as performing a duty which was distasteful to himsel’, but this seems an instance where law triumphs and justice fails. ‘This matter should not rest here. There is a large and imporiant work for this board to ao, AT were the neoessary fUNGE A€ 3 O0E disposal Ishould not hesitate as to the course 10 ad- vise. This State hes great interests at stake, and itis spending large sums of money in Na- tional and foreign exhibits. We have earneda reputation, as at Hamburg and other points, which mesns much to our producers, if prop- eriy protected. If we feil 1o throw the proper sajeguards around the reputation earned at such cost and permit ourselves to be robbed of it by th se dishonorable practices we will discover when too late perhaps tbat the money and labor spentis water on the desert sand. If you feel that the funds cannot be secured to press the issue on other lines it might be weil to consider if the action of the State au- thorities could be secured in a matter of such general interest. ““Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup’* Has been used over fiity years by millions of moth- ers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It toothes the child.softens the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrheas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Drugsists in every part of the world, Be sure and ask for urs. 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