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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 29 1897. Call The SUNDAY. ..AUGUST 29, 1897 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. +.....710 Mnrket street, San Francisco Telephone Main 1863, PUBLICATION OF EDITORIAL ROOMS.. 517 Clay street Telephone Main 1874. 0 CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by and surrounding towns for 15 eants a week. ar; per month 65 cents. ....One year, by mail, $1.50 THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE ...908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE Roows 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 1. Ha ) o'clock. 615 Larkin op:n unt Sixteenth and sion streets; open unt 13 Mission street; open 9 o'clock open until 9 o'clock. 1505 NW. corner Twenty-second Polk stre: Kentueky INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM. PORT to the effect that Professor Edward Ross of iford University had been deposed from tle chair of omics becaase of his pronounced advocacy of the free ppears to have been nbsolutely without foun- The truth is that the learned gentleman has been pro- moted to the chair of social science, wherein his usefulness to will be augmented and his salary increased. ying to know that the great schools of California ecor e of silve itio the in 1t f are too broad and indevendent to allow the influence of moneyed patronage to control them in their relations with educators of rec zed ability who have a habit of thinking for themselves, and of pursuing original lines of investigation with reference to ay, whether social or financial. <ident Andrews of Brown University be- cause of bis free silver views, and of Professor Thomas E. Will of Lawrence (Wis.) University because he believed in freedom of commerce, sre cases to be deplored. Had one of our silver kings seen fit to endow Brown University in a handsome manner it ble that Dr. Andrews would have been retained. All nentably wrong, and we cannot but indorse these the Yale Review in commenting upon the possib’e subordination of the inteilectual freedom of our universities to the ideas of those who endow them with wealth. 1he problems of the d The removal of Pr is prot this is usions of general con “The evil o ich a conrse would not be confined to the fact that it would discourage first-rate men from aspiring to a uni- Nor would it stop at the institutions directly concerned. Its worst effect would be the lowering of the influ- ence and authority of our universities generally in the mind of the public. Utterances, especially on questions of the day, made by scholars would be undeservedly suspected of being not the real opinion of an honest and intelligent thinker, but the cautious deliverance of a toady. And the fear of saying some- thing unpopular, which in the political world is already assum- ing the dimensions of a national vice, would be intensified.” versity career. Speaking of the crowds in the vicinity of St. Michael, who are already becoming dependent upon charity, a correspondent terms the situation “‘unexpected.”” It is nothing of the sort. Everybody who gave the subject a second thought not only ex- pected it, but loudly predicted it, and is now in a mood to say I told you so.” Now Canadians are inclined to object to American fruit. Yet 1he free use of fruit is recommended for dyspepsia, and all Can- ada seems to have this distressing malady, of which an ornery disposition is a recognized symptom., Even people who approva of prize-fichts and enjoy witness- ing them object to the necessity of personally participating in a preliminary bout in order to get the seats they have paid for. When it is read that a Boston chocolate business has been sold for §5,090.000 men instinctively lose some of the chronic contemp. they are apt to entertain toward soft drinks. A man arrested for perjury is under the disadvantage of not being able to make the truth seem 1mpressive even if heshoula find the u-e of it convenient. If 2000 pounds of gold went down with the Mexico the div- ing record will be broken unless the air tubes break first. “Kiondyke or Clondyke—which?”’ asks a contemporary. Neither. ALLIED NATIONS. HE long controverted point as to whether there exists be- tween France and Russia an alliance or only “‘a diplomatic agreement” has been settled. In proposing a toast to the French President on Thursday the Czar put anend to alldoubts upon the subject by speaking of Russia and France as ‘‘friendly and allied nations.” The worde, of course, were carefully chosen with a fuil un- derstanding of their technical meaning in the language of diplomacy. The world, therefore, is notified that French states- men have at last succeeded in accomplishing the object they have worked for so long. They have provided their country with a powerfal ally and rendered it safe against any danger that may arise from the menacing alliance of Germany, Austria and I'aly. The formal announcement of the alliance will be accepted as another guarantee of the continuance of peace in Kurope. Through her ally France will have a friend at the court of Berlin powerful enough to protect French interests against Ger- man aggression, in case anything of the kind should be con- templated. On the other nand, the close relations between the Government of the Czar and that of the Kaiser is a guarantee the new arrangement will afford the French no support from Russia in a war against Germany in which they are the aggres- sors. The great powers of the Continent being thus bound to one another by formal alliances, Great Britain will be very nearly excluded from European councils. The *‘splendid isolation” of which her statesmen once boasted is now an isolation forced upon her and is no longer splendid. She has no ally of any great th on the Continent, and the situation there no longer permits her to interpose with the potency she exerted in times past. The balance of power is out of her hands, and she will Le heard on international issues only by courtesy of the two great «l iances which dominate the Continent. It is quiie likely that in the course of a few years these alli- ences which now arrange Europe into two great camps may be combined into cne. A European “concert” with Great Britain left out, or reduced to a subordinate factor, may develop out of the existing situation within a time comparatively short. There is at present no occasion for war between any two European nations, for the Kaiser has repeatedly shown a desire to culti- vate friendly reiations with France, and the French are rapidly outgrowing the revengeful feelings which bavs animated their po.itics to so large an extent sinca the last war. The one problem difficult to settle s that involved in the Eastern question, but when British interests and British influ- ences are eliminated from it, even that may be solved much sooner than has seemed possible in the past. “Hill, the man who murdered his wife in cold blood in Oak- land, will have to die,” remarks an esteemed contemporary. Cer- tainly. Mr. Hill is but human, and there seems no method by which be can ward off the stealthy approach of old age, which is sure, sooner or later, to be fatal. Spanish papers are so vigorous in pronouncing Woodford’s mission a failure as to indicate their belief that it will be a dis- tressingly brilliant success. A Could not Mr. Hearst’s representative be induced to send to court a shadowgraph of his broken bone, merely as an evidence of good faith? Spain has lost much, but as to her beautiful confidence in Weyler she still has an absolute and undisturbed monopoly. A FLAW IN THE REFORM. | HE decision of Judge Morrow, sustaining the Govern- a suit to recover, upon his bond, money stolen by an em- | ploye in the civil service, may well disquiet every accounting | officer in the Federal service. | During the time when every such officer was perfectly free to select all of his subordinates, the law and the courts held f him accountable on his bond for all of their acts as well as for | his own. He must account to the Government for the last bawbee, even if he surrendered public money to the robber who held a gun to his head. The same system of official bonds and official accountability exists unchanged under the civil service law. An accounting officer goes under bonds, and an order of the President utterly reverses conditions by depriving him of liberty of selection of his subordinates. The Government de- livers them to him by automatic operation of law. They steal the Government’s money and he must make it good, though the Government without consulting him abolished the condi- tions under which the bond was exacted. | We do not hesitate to say that under these circumstances it | is unsafe for an accounting officer to give a bond, and the risk | assumed by his bondsmen is beyond that which any prudent man should take. The officer is entirely helpless. The civil service arranges all the conditions upon which his subordinates shall have and hold their places. He cannot exact a sub-bond from them to himself asa condition of their selection, for he can neither increase nor diminish the legal requirements at- ;z,i(hrd to their position. The Government takes from them no | bond running to it direct, and holds them only to penal respon- sibility, which is a minor check upon dishonesty and affords no protection to their principal. During the last administration the shelter of the civil | service was projected to 44,000 subordinate office-holders. The | principals over the various departments in which they serve are appointed by the President, confirmed by the Senate, give the same form of bond provided a hundred years ago and enter { upon their functions to find their subordinates ready furnished | by the Government, and in place beyond their power of re- | moval. They have taken an oath and given a bond provided | under legal conditions that have been obsoleted by the civil | service law, and are held responsible for hundreds of employes | who are their superiors in permanency of tenure and indepsnd- ence of political change. The decision of Judge Morrow makes it plain that the inferior Federal courts do not feel authorized to go beyond the letter of the bond. They will not consider the equities of a despoiled principal in an office in which his subordinates are his superiors in that tenure which is the essence of the official situa= tion. We do not know whether the issue can be brought to trial before a jury, but in common with all men who know the situ- ation that has been created, we feel that the issue should go to the Supreme Court for final judgment upon the equities involved, and if that tribunal holds an accounting officer responsible for the thefts of subordinates who are not responsible to him, the gross and manifest injustice must be remedied by further legislation. Thick and thin civil service reformers may oppose either solution, but we warn them thata continuance of existing conditions will accumulate opposition and add heavily to the growing popular aversion to the civil service law, and aid powerfully in its clean repeal. The law now guards the entrance to and exit from the tens of thousands of offices which it protects. Its tests are largely academic, but the experience of mankind affirms that such tests are no proof of character and the quality of honor and honesty in those who pass them. A man may know the latitude and longitude of Madagascar and the boundaries of Swat and be a forger in intent and an embezzler in purpose. Itis within the easy reach of a civil service subordinate to steal and hide $100,000, and the extent of his sentence will not exceed ten years with credits for good behavior. He may even save himself the cost of a defense by pleading guilty and come out of prison to enjoy his stolen treasure and out of his af- fluence gloat over the poverty of his principal and his sureties who have been stripped to recoup the Government. Itis a matter of the gravest public concern, and we invite an expres- sion of opinion upon it, not only from the opponents but from the friends of the civil service reform. it Lawyers have been discussing the best methods of presery- ing the purity of the ermine, which, of course, ought to be pre- served. But, as a judge is simply an attorney promoted to the bencn, wouldn’t a little attention to the purity of the bar be worth at least experimental trial? Judge Campbell may excuse himself for reversing his own decisions by the fact that so many of them are improved by th> treatment. YELLOW JOURNALISM AGAIN, OTHING in the vile record of vellow journalism exceeds N in hypoerisv and insincerity the recent soap-chewing of the Ezaminer and New York Journal over the case of Miss Cisneros. The young lady decoyed Spanish officers to a retreat, with a view of effecting their seizure and perhaps assassination by the Cubans. her case. Mr. Hearst, to advertise his twin kids of journalism, pub- lished that Miss Cisneros after unteliable tortures in detention had been sentenced to banishment to a penal colony among the most ferocious criminals. The narrative was touched with every gory tint that can affect to hysteria those who faint at the sight of blood. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe and Mrs, Jefferson Davis fe!l into the trap and wrote letters to the Queen Regent and the Pope, asking the release of Miss Cisneros from this terrible sentence. The disreputable Hearst saw his opportu- nity to use these ladies and the Pope to advertise himself and produced a dispatch to Rampolla asking Leo to read Mrs. Howe’s letter. He then announced that this request had been effective and the Pope had saved the girl from her impending fate. Now comes Fitzhugh Lee, our Consul-General in Cuba, and officially reports that upon his request Miss Cisneros, early in her detention, had been removed, in the congenial company ot other ladies in detention, to comfortable quarters especially provided by the Spanish officers, and that her case had not been examined, she hes not been arraigned, nor tried, nor sentenced. General Lee in this connection takes occasion to rebuke the lying yellow journalism for its use of Cuban affairs to advertise itself. That its motive has no connection with any sympathy with Cuba is clear to everybody. Hearst relies on fooling Mrs. Howe and Mra. Davis to-day and some one else to-morrow. They relied on the truth of hisstatements and put themselves in a most disagreeable position by asking the Queen Regent and the Pope to interfere in a sentence that had never been passed, in a case that had never been tried. Of course this dis- reputable fellow kdew that he was lying about the status of Miss Cisneros, but a little thing like that does not trouble him. Not only has he deceived the two ladies into a personal position very trying to them, but he has made it more aifficult hereafter to get a needed hearing at Madrid or the Vatican. Instead of helping Miss Cisneros he has injured her, and has further degraded Atcrican journalism as far as the profes<ion can be affected by the yellow kind. Everybody who respects Mesdames Davis and Howe and the wide circle in which the high character and vposition of the Pope are sincerely appreciated will properly resent the wanton treatment they have all received by the professional libeler and slanderer, Hearst. Ouce more the fate of the Benders has been set forth, it being, as u-ual, in the form of a *‘confession.” Why the state- ment of one who assisted in the benign operation of putting the Benders out of the way should ve called a confession is a feature that now becomes clear for the first time. Iiappears that one of the family was permitted to escape, She was arrested and is awaiting an examination of | ment’s demurrer to the answer of ex-Postmaster Bryan, in | -DEATH OF AN AMERICAN ARISTOCRAT. The Ozden Goelet who died on Friday | entertaining a few friends on his yacht in on board his yacht at Cowes came perhaps nearer to a sample of an American aris- tocracy than any one who can be men- tioned. His family had been settlea in New York for nearly two centuries, during the whole of which period they had been prosperous members of society and con- spicuous for respectability and honor. The founders of the family were French Huguenots. The first one of them whose name is found in our colonial annals was Jean Goelet, who was driven from his native land by the persecution of the Protestants inaugurated by Louis XIV in his latter years under the instigation of Madame de Maintenon. In 1718 this Jean Goelet married a New Amsterdam girl, and raised a large family. He never quite got over his French extraction, nor forgot the skies under which his forefathers had sailed the stormy seas and one of them had won the name, or nickname, of Goe- lette, the schooner. In the last quarter of the eighteenth century the head of the family was Peter Goelet, who was an ironmonger and hved in rooms above his store at 113 and 115 Pearl street, New York. He was a stout American and had no use for a Tory. He lived to see the American cause tri- umphant, then passed away bveaccfully, leaving his store, his business and bis principles'to his son Peter P., who con- tinued to sell axes and saws, knives and nails, with content to his customers and profit to himself, till the days of John Quincy Adams. Peter P. was a man who felt his oats. He vacated the rooms his father had occu- pied and took a house to live in at 53 Broadway, though the business was still conducted at 113 Pearl. He entertained a good deal. Among his intimates were General Morcean and family, who had been exiled from France by the First Consul. But his closest friend was his brother Robert, who was also a dealer in hardware, and about whom the chronicles of the early decades of the century have much to say. He and his friend Oelrichs, who was the American representative of the house of Widow John Lang, were the idols of the giris in theirday, though they were both corpulent men, and one was known as “fat OQelrichs” and the other as “fat Goelet.”” They were both athletes, and people used to go to Robinson’s bath to see them swim. Goelet could lie on his back all day in the water smoking a cigar, Peter P. and his bro ther Robert married sisters, daughters of Thomas Buchanan, an old Scatchman who could not be con- verted and remained a Tory to his dying day. He became a wealtby merchant and owned ships. One of them was in an English port when Bunker Hill was fought, and the owner ordered his captain to remain there till ‘*‘the rebellion was suppressed.” The order was obeyed, so far as the ship was concerned, but the cap- tain skipped away to France, got a mid- shipman's commission in the American navy from Ben Franklin and returned home to take part in his country’s struggle. One grandson of this stiff old Tory, and the son ot Peter P., was called plain Peter, after his grandfather; another was Rob- ert. They both inherited such fortunes that they were enabled to move uptown and to rank among the rich men of New York, bat the father, Peter P., could not be induced to leave his house on the Bowling Green, and he died there. His funeral was a historical event. Those who were invited were waited upon by negro servants in black liveries, with white napkins on their arms. The whole house was thrown open, and in the dining- room a supper was served, with Madeira wine a hundred years old and dustan inch thick on the bottles. Peter Goelet, grandson of the iron- monger of the Revolution, was more than ordinarily eccentric. He built himself or bought a house on Nineteenth street and Broadway, at an angle to the street. It was in that house, or in one which then stood on the spot, that Mme. Jumel spent her last years when she was in name and in law the wife of Aaron Burr, and there she died. Whea the house passed into the ownership of Peter Goelet he se- cluded himself therein so completely that he passed for a morose hermit. He re- ceived no visits, sesldom went out, never answered letters. His grounds were sur- rounded by a high fence, and in the in- closure were a cow and sume melancholy peacocks, which were a source of great diversion to the street boys. At one time thelower windows were barred, and people wondered whether the unsightly device was intended to keep burglars out or an insane owner in. Peter’s brother Robert married a dangh- ter of Jonathan Ogden, whose name has been perpetuated in many families. It was the Christian name of one of New York’s greatest jurists; 1t is borne by our own Darius Ogden Mills; it was the only given name of the milllonaire who has ju:t died. Jonathan Ogden built the largest dry-goods store erected in New York up tohis day; he was a merchant of high repute and great wealth, People not unnaturally inclined to call their children after him. To his eldest son Robert Goelet gave the name of Ogden, and left him besides a trifle of thirty or forty millions to support existence on. He owns, or did own, a little tract of land in the city of New York extending from the Windsor Hotel to the Forty-second street depot. He married after he had reached years of maturediscretion, a daughterof the South- ern banker, R. T. Wiison, who is said to have secured more brilliant matches for his daughters than any other father in New York. One of them married the brother of the Earl of Pembroke, and runs some risk of becoming a countess with one of the oldest titles in the British aris- tocracy; another is the wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt junior; a third is now the widow ot Ogden Goelet, and has herself a daughter who is understood to have de- clined the hand of the Duke of Manches- ter. Bhe is at the very top of the social tree. Her aunt is the mother of Eldridge T. Gerry ; she is cousin by marriage to the Astors; indeed, the family has intermar- ried with so many of the best people that there is hardly an American aristocrat with whom she cannot claim kinship, The generation of Goelets which came to an end with the death of Ogden, at the age of 52, have not been engaged in trade since the war. They have never sought to increase their riches, They invest their surplus income chiefly in city property, like the Astors, and they never sell. When Commodore Vanderbilt wanted a block ot their land he had to 2equire it by invoking the law of eminent domain. In the safe in which their valuables are deposited are trunks full of bonds and bank stocks, but no Goelet ever consents to figure as director or trustee or officer of an incor- poratea company. They never accept political or municipal office, and reject offers of nominations with scorn. They live for themseives, and do not admit that they owe any duty to the community of which they are members. Ozden Goelet claimed that by paying his taxes, giving a o few dinners and balls in the winter, and summer, he discharged his whole obliga- tions to society. When it was observed to him that a man of his wealth should exhibit some public spirit and do some- thing to improve the condition of the people among whom herlived, he used to fall back with nausea, and suspect his adviser of wanting to borrow money. Ogden Goelel never allowea Limself to be interviewed nor permitted his picture 1o appear in the papers. It was a good deal easier to obtain access to the Presi- dent than to him, Thus less was known about him than about many New Yorkers who excited less curiosity. He may have been a mam of the nicest sense of honor for anything anybody knew. In the school in which his grandfather was bred high principles flourished, which may perhaps not be as well understood to-day as they were then. Before the War of 1812 was declared a Senator of the United States te to his son, who was a junior partner in a mercantile house in New York, that war was inevitable, and tnat there was money in buying the classes of £00ds which would be affected by war. The young man laid the letter before his seniors, who considerea it maturely, and admitted that the Senator’s views were s und. But they decided that specu- lation in articles which the country might have to buy in case of war would be un- patriotic, and they agreed that they would lorego the chances of making a great for- tune rather than add one penny to the charges which the Government would have to bear. Jonx BONNER. PE ONAL. B.F. Budd, a Spokane merchant, is at the Lick. J. J. Hebron, & stockman of Salinas, is at the Grand. John T. Archibald of Merced, a rancher, is at the Lick. H. A. Roscnberg, a merchant of Suisun, is at the Baldwin. W. D. Tilotson, & mining man of Redding, is atthe Grand. James F. Deunis, a lawyer of Reno, Nev., is at the Palace. R.J. K. Aden, a wine merchant of Vallejo, is at the Baldwin. E. C. Apperson, a cattleman of Santa Clara, is a guest at the Lick. J. B. Klume, a jeweler of Bacramento, is registered at the Lick. Dr. H. W. Winton of Haywards is at the Occidental with his wife. Dr. Moore of Benicia is a guest at the Grand, accompanied by his wife. H. Wagner and wife, of Santa Cruz, are stop- ping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Lieutenant W. H. Hart, U.S. A, of Fort Grant, Ariz., isat the Occidental. Lieutenants J. R; Monahan and W. R. Sex- ton, U. 8. N., are at the Occidental. John M. Switzer, football manager of Stan- ford University, is at the California. W. D. McCarthy, manager of a store at Port- land, Or., tor Newhall & Co., is at the Lick. E. McGettigan of Vallejo, Supervisor of Solano County, is & late arrival at the Russ. Fred Erickson, arailroad contractor of Don Pedro, on the Sierra Reilroad, is at the Grand. A. W. Jones Jr., son of the president of the Monterey and Fresno Railroad, is at the Lick. L. G. Couture, a prominent mining man of Rossland, B. C., is registered at the Cos- mopolitan. Rev. Dr. R. F. Maclaren, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of San Jose, is at the Grand with his wife, Tnomas H. Bryant of Seattle, Wash., accom- panied by Miss Katherine Bryant, arrived at the Palace last night, Raleigh Barcar of Vacaville, editor of a paper and director of the State Insane Asylum at Napa, is a guest at the Lick. Rev. John M. McCarthy of Riverside, Rev. J. Barron of Fresno and Rev. Joha T. Clifford of Los Angeles errived iast night at the Grand. John L. Trusiow, general agent of the passenger department of the Santa Fe Rail- road, returned last night from Chicago after an absence of two weeks. Senator R. Linder, a capitalist of Tulare, and manager and proprietor of the Linder Hardware Compauy, is a guest at the Lick, accompanied by his family. George H. HIll of Portland, Or., & practicing attorney, enthusiastic R:publican and mem- ber of the Oregon Lecgisiature, arrived at the Baldwin yesterday, accompanied by Mrs. Hill and Misses Agnes and Baatrice Hill, for a ten days’ vacation in this City. THE TIME-TABLE'S VICTIM. The suburbaite hias a train to catch— Hurry ! Flurry! His dressing Is only a hasty sketch— He bo'ts his f00d. 1o time for meals, And takes to his very lightest heel Fiustered aud out of breath he feel And 30 he comes to the city. And at eve, when office hours are o’er— ‘Worry ! He needs must bolt for his train once more— Selvry! Loaded with tundles he hies away: 1fhe misses the train he'.l Lave (o stdy 1n some notel with a bill to pay. Don’t laugh—he’s an object of pity. WOODWARD’S PAVILION. 04k KNoLL, Napa County, Cal, August 28. 1897, Editor San Francisco Call—MY DEAR SIR: The leading edltorial iu your paper ot to-day does a manifest injustice to the property known as “the Woodward Gardens Pavilion,” creating as it does the impression in the mind of the public, upon whom it depends for patronage and support, that the building is not prop- erly and sufficiently protected with spaces of ingress and egress. The writer of the article entirely misappre- hends the situation. There are three (3) wide places of entrance and egress on the west, north and southeast, Clinton Day, the eminent architect, super- intended thise alterations, and, as he thought, met all of the requirements of the safety and fire ordinances. These were further enlarged and improved under the personal direction of the Fire Mar- shal. The tenor of your article would make the owner of this property responsibie for the conduct of the crowd outside and in the streetin their eagerness for admission. Neither the owner nor the lessees have any authority outside the hall, ihis being solely within the jurisdiction of the police It the lessees, in tlie exercise of their authority to control admission to the pavilion, see proper to open but one Ellca of entrance it isihe bounden duty of the police to see that the erowd outside in no way impedes or interferes with those holding or desirous of purchas- ing admission tickets. Doubtless toe police were unaware of the all-absorbing interest of the multitude to wit- ness this celebrated athletic contest and con- sequently at the moment were unequal to the task ol enforcing order while thousands were clamoring and surging for admission. As 10 the places of egress let me invite your attention and a_personal inspection thereof, which Iam confident will dispel all doub: by whoever entertained. Do the favor Lo heed no stories told by mem- bers of rival clubs or disappointed applicants for free admission, but go in person or send & competent, fair-minded man 1o inspect and make report on the premises and thus settle all doubis in the pubiic mind. In my judgment there is no hall in the Unitea States, considering strength, light, ventilation, seating capacity, acoustic prop- erties and means of egress, surpassed by the Woodward Gardens Pavilion. As s matter of fact so ample are the facilities for rapid exit in case of cmergency, that this spacious hall could be emptied of every occupant and in safety in the space of five minutes. Yours very truly, DRURY MZLONE. [There was nothing in the editorial re- ferrea to by Mr. Meione which implied that Woodward’s Pavilion does not possess ample exits and entrances. The statement was that they were not open on Thursdsy evening. THE CALL made no reflection upon the own- eis of the property, but said the crush at the doors “was an evidence of gross neglect on the part of those charged with the duty of supervising places of public entertainment and seeing to it that proper entrances and exits are provided,”—EDITOR 0¥ THE CALL} Don Indigo Tamales worshiped lovely Miss She lived on Hill de Telegraph. Her father scorned the Don, and warned hill again McSwilligan. Her father owned a goat. him not tg climb the To woo the maiden if he deemed his carcass worth a groat. Tamales laughed derisively, and soon as night descended he_ Full bravely with his mandolin returned him to the hill. Beneath the maiden’s window then a deal of voice expendgd he. His angel stuck her head out and herself began to trill. ’Twas then the wild McSwilligan upon the scene came thun- dering. The goat was leaping at his side all eager for the fray. The goat took aim. blundering, Just then there came a season brief of For Mac sprang in to lend his strength to move the Don away. The goat has done his level best—and nearly killed McSwilligan. Tamales saved the old man’s life; the girl was then his prize. Next morn the goat was barbecued, when Don he sought the hill again, And married Miss McSwilligan 'mid cheers that rent the skies. WITH YOUR COFFEE. 014 Job was taught to read by the minister’s wife and proved a very apt scholar. Return- ing home aiter & prolonged absence the lady met her old pupil and asked him how he was getting on. “I suppose you can read your Bible now comfortably, Job ?” “Lor' bless you, ma’am!” cried Job, “I've been out of the Bible and into the newspapers this long while.”—Household Woras. Mrs. Dearborn—Isn’t that Mrs. Wabssh's last husband going in the house ? Mrs. Lake—Well, it’s her present husbana, but I don’t think it’s her last.—Yonkers Statesman. Moss—It drives me frantic to see women standing in a streetcar. Fern—Yes; I've noticed that it turns your head.—Philadelphia North American. Anotable bicycle fact is that, while more than ever are interested in riding the wheel, fewer are bent on it.—Philadelphia Times. “Does the barber on the corner have a good trade?"” “Nothing extra. I dropped in there Satur- day night and there were only twenty-four ahead of me.”—Ohio State Journal. “Do you regard that politician as a relial man ?” Inquired Senator Sorghum’s friend. «Reliable ?” echoed the Senator. “I shoald sayso. If that man were to give me & tip on the market I'd back it With my lcst dollar!"— Washington Star. DRAWING THE BISCUIT LINE. Richmond (Va.) Times. Business is business, but blood is thicker than water, and, as Bob Tayior has 8o well sald, there wiil always be a sectional line in this country, with hot biscuits on one side and cold bread on the other. All who eat hot bis- cuits are of a kind, and in all the relations of life, business as well as social, they will get along better together than they wiil with their brethren at the North, who eat cold bread and poached eggs for breakiast. H. BLACK, pamnter, 120 Eddy street. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 502 Ib. 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