The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 31, 1897, Page 6

THE S ;UESDAY. AUGUST 31, 1897 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. PUBLICATION OFFICE . .710 Market street, San Francisco Telephona Main 186 EDITORIAL ROOMS....... syomsie Telephone Main ...517 Clay street THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surcounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL..... ..One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE..... teerennianes 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFIGE........ Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. ontgomery street, corner Clay; open until untl 9:30 o'clock. 615 BRANCH OFFICES 9:30 o’clock. Lar] Miesion untii 9 o’'clock. 2518 Mission street; opén until9 3 Mission street; openuntil 9 o’clcek. 1505 Polk street; open until 9:30 o’clock. corner Twenty-second and K cky streets; open till 9 o’clock. NEXT SATURDAY. EPTEMBER 4 Board of E: of San Francisco County. day, is the day set by the State S on for consideration of the assessment On that day the official com- mittee appointed by the Board of Supervisors and such tax- payers of the City as attend the meeting will be granted a hear- ing, and there is no reason for doubting that to all we have to say in our behalf the equalizers will listen with fair and impar- tial minds. While the officials appointed to present the case of the County before the board will undoubtedly make a good showing by the facts and statistics they have colliected and arranged for the study of the Equalizers, it is nevertheless important that the committee should have the support of an influential delega- tion of taxpayers. Thestronger we can make our case the bet- ter, and the more testimony and evidence we can add to the data collected by the Supervisorsthe more likely we will be to convince the board of the essential justice of our cause. To men immersed in the cares of business time flies fast. Saturday wilt soon be here. Unless preparations are made at once for the attendance of a largs delegation of representative ual men at Sacramento, there may be buta small number present | when the hearing begins. TLere should be no postponement of this part of the work. Men of the class of those who went before the lccal Board of Equalization with evidence concern- ing the value of prorerty in this Citv should get ready to go to Sacramento and give evidence there. They should make up their minds to-day, and arrange their business so that there will be nothing to prevent them from performing this duty for the public benefit. The es at stake before the board are sufficiently great to trouble it will be to busy men to Jeave their homes and offices fer the trip to Sacramento. Upon many of our smaller taxpayers the burden of taxation is about as heavy as thay can bear, and even to some of our richer citizens the pay- ment of taxes on high assessments of property has become a serious problem. The delegation which goes to Sacramento will aprear, therefore, not for themselves alone, but for at least the majority of their fellow-citizens. The duty is one which may well appeal to the civic patriotism of those who can afford the time to make the journey, aud it is to be hoped the delega- tion will be large. Do not forget the day. time to lose. It is next Saturday. There is no Girls may soon regret that they gave their bloomers to their small brothers and went back to skirts when Dame Fashion changed her mood, for the old and erratic Dame shows symp- toms of changing again. At least there is to be a congress of women at Oxford in September, over which Lady Haberton is to preside, and she will wear bloomers the while, as every dele- gate must. Fashion is apt to be dictatorial, but is not beyond taking a hint. Perhaps the Eastern woman who advocates the plan of kill- ing all peaple mentally or physically imperfect is merely seeking notoriety, for there could hardly be other excuse for trotting out an ancient and brutal theory which the world has long been c.vilized away from. Yet, if she is sincere, there appears no particular objection to her demonstration of it by suicide. An explanation seems due from the Eureka society and its professional child-catcher. If the organization has euthority to seize children at pleasure and keep them indefinitely parents would like to be informed so as to load up the family shotgun and put extra locks on the doors. According to the London Chronicle there is difficulty in find- ing an umpire for the Venezuelan Commission. People over there do not seem aware that John L. Sullivan is in the umpire business now. People who feel an impulse to invest in some’of the Klon- dike companies now being organized could have more fun with their coin by dropping it into a well and listening to the plunk. News that Senorita Uisneros is out of personal danger is gratifying, notwithstanding sbe bad never been in it. THE WAR UPON CHINESE SLAVERY. A cases are pending in the courts, involving the issues at stake. The active workers at the missions are ranged on the side of the State, while back of the defense stand the hosts of the Oriental quarters, with an abundance of money and an array of legal talent to defeat the purposes of the worthy, salf- eacrificing people who would serve civilization and humanity by the destruction of the local stronghold of Chinese iniquity, The barter and sele of human beings; the branding with hot irons of those who dare assert their right to freedom; the slanghter of such as cannot be controlled even by repeated tor- ture—all this crime and horror is but a part of the every-day nistory of the Mongolian plague-spot in the heart of the City, It is time the law was vindicated in the premises. Itis time tne Chinese were taught that slavery will not be tolerated in America. In order to prosecute successfully the cases against the slave-owners, legal assistance is needed by the missionaries, To employ competent attorneys some money must be forthe coming, and financial as well as moral aid is asked of all who desire to see the bluckesi curse of paganism blotted out, so far as San Franeisco is concerned. If the pending cases be lost, all the good work of the Chinese missions in the past will largely come to naught and the walls of Chinatown will con- tinue to echo the shrieks and the wails of the victims of the lash and brand of the slave-masters. The appeal of the mis- sionaries should find ready response with all whose sympathies are on the side of law, justice, humanity and right. N appeal for assistance has been made by the missionaries engaged in the war against Chinatown slavery. Two test There is a rumor that the Pullman Company intends to stop the robbery of passengers by its porters. Regarding the tip as a robbery, one way to check it would be for the compsany to pay the porter and not depend upon patrons todoit. This sug- gestion is thrown out for what it is worth, and will probably be in different fashion thrown out in due season by the powers at Puliman, The Sutter-street car company bows somewhat tardily to the decision of the Supreme Uourt, and says it will abolish the ghost car of Bush street and tear up the rusty bluff of a road it has kept on that thoroughfare. But will it bow a little lower and hand over the $5000 it was fined for being in contempt of the public ? The crudeness of civilization in the Northwest may be un- derstood when it is realized bow much good gold is insecurely piled up awaiting shipment; and not a single instance of klep- tomania reported. ——— Supervisors who are suffering from fear that they will be ousted have no monopoly on trepidation. Some other people are afraid they won't, THE NECESSARIES FIRST. E publish this morning a series of interviews with .v v some of the leading business men of the City on the proposed establishment of a park and a zoological garden in the Mission. We invite particular attention, not only to the character of the men interviewed, but to what they have said. Their words express what is undoubt- edly the prevailing opinion of the people. They are in favor of municipal improvement and progress, but they de- clare, with THE CALL, that the first steps in that direction should be taken toward providing the things which are neéded rather than those we can do without. The luxuries of life are good, but we must have the necessaries first. Among these necessary works which ought to have been p’errormed long ago are the better paving of our main thoroughfares and the improvement of the sewers. Each of these is a task requiring a long time to complete and a large expenditure of money to do well. It would be foolish for us under such circumstances to involve the City in an enterprise that would impose a heavy burden upon the taxpayers for additional pleasure grounds unnecessary at this time. The opposition to the proposed park does not come from men who are opposed to municipal progress. In the list of the interviews we publish will be found the statements of many men who are known to be among the most earnest ad- vocates of public improvements. Their objection to the park scheme is largely founded upon their desire to see the accom- plishment of enterprises in the way of bettering the conditions of life in San Francisco which have been long under considera- tion. It is not, therefore, a silurian spirit that opposes the proposed scheme, but a genuine civic patriotism that seeks the welfare of the community by using the public finances ina way that will be most conducive to the interests of all. As there is no opposition to municipal progress on the part of the opponents of the park scheme still less is there any op- position to the improvement of the Mission and that section of the City generally. THE CALL favors better streets and bet- | ter sewers for the Mission, as well as for other districts of the City and speaks for the Mission taxpayers as well as for others when it objects to a scheme which will not only greatly increase the burden of taxation this year but will add largely to the tax rates of all tuture years. For the sake of municipal improvements in streets and sewers, for the sake of a complete development and adornment of Golden Gate, for the sake of the taxpayers throughout the City, for the sake of the residents of the Mission, as well as elsewhere, we object to the proposed scheme. This is the at- titude taken by the men whose statements are published this morning. It is also the attitude of the great mass of our citi- zens. The park scheme might as well be dropped. There is a pleasing theory that the exclusion of a book from a library has a tendency to advertise the book rather tban sup- pressit. Authore themselves cling to this notion fondly, and yet when their own works are eliminated during the process of expurgating reading-rooms it is not apparent that they give any evidences of pleasurable emotion. War upon & certain class of literature seems to be raging in every library of the East, but alas for the Comstocks of the land, condemnaticn is not falling upon the wicked works they deplore with fervor and read with avidity, out upon the milk and water variety such as E. D. E. N. Southwortn turns out by the cord or the profession- ally good ones that Roe used to create until death intervened in behalf of humenity. It is true that occasionally a bit of nastiness is swept into the basket, but as a rule the wicked author who can use the cloak of scholarly English escapes. If, however, the librarians make some mistakes, they started out well, saffron journalists being the first to squirm under their disapproval. A beautiful woman of Chicago has had her husband arrested for conspiracy to spoil her face with vitriol, and he is held to answer. If the evidence against him is good as it seems to | be he will have difficulty in making such aa answer as will be wholly satisiactory. Beautiful women are too scarce in Chicago to be sacrificed to a whim, and vitrio!, according to accepted codes, is not a gentleman’s weapon. Because a bride went away with her mother three days after | the wedding a lorn Los Angeles groom is suing his mother-1o- | law for $20,000. If he bring himself to await the mellowing | influence of time doubtless he would not only be willing to re. | duce these figures bvt he might actually be in a frame of mind to forward to the old lady a substantial reward. WHERE ARE THESE GOLLIS? MMA GOLDMAN recently made the boast: ‘“We have | E thousands of Gollis.”” It would seem this might be mors‘ Gollis than absolutely demanded and** we” were overstocked with damaged goods. Perhapsitis not necessary to explain that this vague and comprehensive pronoun siands for an- archists, for Emma is an anarchist and a howling success at the business. As to the value of the success there may be some question, but as to the howl there is no room for doubt, tor he | who runs even with cotton in his ears may hear, indeed, must | hear. When Golli was garroted in S8pain the world felt that it had been improved. Heads that wore crowns assumed briefly a right to lie easy after all. Golli was in his grave, an excellent piace for him. And now comes the Goldman tongue fairly flailing the feathers from the deluded dove of peace. One Golli was bad enough, in fact too bad. Think of Emma’s thousands of him, each carrying a pistol and a knife, pockets bulging dynamite and between drinks breathing out threateningsof a garlicky flavor. Thousands of him and only one garotte and that in far-away Spain. Itis to be hoped that Immigrant Commissioner Powderly will keep a sharp eye out for Gollis. They are not needed here. There are no giant wrongs particularly adapted to being grap- pled by tbem. The courtry has enough loafers without import. ing the explosive variety. The only wayin which a Golli assists reform is to become personally eliminated and he is shy about going to this extreme, his preference being the elimina- tion of somebody elxe. Perhaps there is a measurs of consolation in the repug- ! nance of the Goldman woman to telling the truth. It may be that she bas imagined at least a part of these Gollis, Possibly she thinks herself an army of Gollis as well as the banners and band that yroperly precede an array so imposing. She cannot do much harm beyond inducing weariness. This she is doing, she and her phantom Gollis. Whoa, Emma. Rev. Mr. Milburn did not show the best of taste while in Eng- land in speaking of American oratory es ‘“‘spread-eagle and buncombe,” but it must be remembered that Milburn has been chaplain of the Senate a long time. Instead of giving his flock away in this manner, however, it wonld seem only a fair thing to come back and pray some more for them. —_— Germany sppears to bs much concerned about the ineffi- | ciency of the imperia! navy despite the fact thatif whatis lated of new explosives is true one navy is about as good as an- other, and a position as far inland as possible betier than any of them. Chieago’s suspicions of a man posing there as “Divine Healer Schlatter” seem to rest on a fairly substantial basis, However, aside from not being divine, not being a healer, and not being Schlatter the man may be good enough for Chicago. The alliance between Russia and France is said by corre- spondents to be no longer a dream. The Emperor of Germany, however, does not take this view of it. To him it seems a very bad dream somewhat akin to nightmare. Mr. Mills could have employed his negative friendship for Bryan to excellent advantage by firmly saying “‘No'’ to that gontleman’s application for a pass. Those dead horses scattered along the Kiondike trail may yet be found useful by people who have rushed in insufficiently supplied with provisions. | what is more, they PERSONAL. Dr. T. M. Todd of Auburn is at the Baldwin. Judge J. W. Davis of Tulare is at the Grand. W. H. Hatton, s lawyer of Modesto, is at the Lick. J. C. Wolfskill, grain-raiser of Suisun, isat the Lick. Philip Sweed. a merchant of Petalums, isat the Grand. H. Richardson of Los Gatos is at the Cos- mopolitan, F. Ward and 1’mlly ot Fresno are st the Cosmopolitan. C. R. Tillson, an attorney of Modesto, is regis- istered at the Lick, N. George and fimily of Seattle, Wash., are at the Cosmopolitan. W. F. Peterson, a Sacramento merchant, is registered at the Grand. James Gallagher, president at Fresno of the Y. M. L. is at the Grand. Charles Aull of Folsom, Warden of the State Pprison, is staying at the Grand. Dr. P. A. Looning of the United States steamer Oregon is at the Occidental. F. H. Groshell, a prominent druggist of Cin- cinneti, Ohio, is at the Cosmopolitan. J. B, Fuller of Marysville, one of the State Bank Commissioners, is at the California. F. L. Harrington of Humboldt is at the Russ. He is lighthouse-keeper on Humboldt Bay. John Fennel, & big ranch-owner of Tehama County, is at the Palace, registered from Napa. C. N. Sterry of Los Angeles, enief counsel of the Santa Fe Pacific Reilroad, is at the Palace. Judge J. M. Mannon of Ukiah, accompanied by bis son, Charles M. Mannon, is at the Lick. James Calquhoun, & mining man of Clifton, Ariz., returned to the Palace yesterday with his wife. E. L. Casey, founder of the future mining town of Coffeeville, in Trinity County, is at the Palace. Harry S. Fowler of New York, interested in the dried-fruit business in Fresno County, is at the Palace. E. L. Barnes, an atiorney of Los Angeles, and son of C. H. Barnes of the Occidental Hotel, is at the Occidental. M. S. Stein, a merchant of Stockton and State president of the B'nai P'rith, is at the Bald- win, accompanied by his wife. Ex-Mayor B. U. Steinman of Sacramento, proprietor of the Depot Hotel, is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife and son. Judge Belcher was yesterday appointed Pre- siding Judge of the Superior Court during Judge Seawell’s absence ou vacation. W. F. Peterson, a merchant of Sacramento, on his way home with his family after & vaca- tlon at Pacific Grove, registered last nightat the Grand. H.A. Unruh of Los Angeles, manager of Baldwin’s Southern Caliiornian properties, ar- rived at the Baldwin yesterday, accompanied by his wife. Frark Smith of Santa Barbara, formerly the Pacific Coast Steamship Company’s agent at that port, arrived at the Lick yesterday, ac- companied by his wife and son. Presiding Judge Seawell will take a brief vacation at some of the mountain springs of the State. During his vacation Judge Belcher will act as Presiding Judge of the Superior Court. Ex-Major F. A. Dariing, formerly of the United States army at the Presidio, and now owner of a ranch at Rutherford, raturned yes- terday from Castle Craig and registered at the Occidental. R. P. Troy of Washington, D. C., assistant sergeant-at-arms of the United States Senate, arrived at the Grand last nignt from Wash- ington on his way to his old home in Marin County, where he was formerly a Judee. Charles Harris, editor of the Merced Star, is in the City visiting friends. Mr. Harris reports the farmers of the San Josquin Valley in good spirits, as they have held their grain snd are ready to take advantege of the rise in the market. Among the arrivals at the Palace yesterday were Arthur L. Pearse of London and John R. Mitchell of Cotorado, from the mining regions of BEritish Columbia, near Ashcroft, whither they will return shortly to continue their in- vestigations for an English company. CALIFORNIA NEW Y ORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 30:—At the St Cloud—K. H. Roberts. Grand—E. N. Doyly, A. Goldbherg. Sturtevant—s. Goldstein. Murray Hill—S. W. Backus. Manhattan—Mrs. F. H. Smith. Hoffman—J. Baumgarten, M. Jones. Vendome—K. A. Lundstrom. Savoy—Mr. Iourie and wife. St. Denis—A. Koenig. Grand Union—J. Brower. Stuart—J. S. Forest. Im- perial—E. C. Godfrey. Park Avenue—T. E. Hemenway. Thomas Mein left the St. Cloud toseil on the Umbria. N IF THEY BUT COULD. How often we hear discontented ones talk 0f grand opportuni:ies lost, And how by the wives of condemnable luck Thev’ve ever been ruthle;sly tossed. They’ll tell in a sort of disconsolate way Of laboring always In vain, And how they would hande the contract if they Could 1ive their lives over azain. The man who has failed in his business aftairs, ‘The prisoner focked In his cell, The wedded ones battling wi.h famlily cares— All iave the sama siory to te l. Wherever we go that d sconsolate cry We hear 12 & pi iful strain: “You'd see matters different with me if 1 Could live my life over again.” We snould never weep over milk that is spilled, But hustle around for some more. We cann t recall opportunites killed, Nor chances b own off from our shore, This word of advice is the bestwe can give: Don’t over the past sit and b:ood, But tackle the fu ure determiued to live The balance of life as you should, —Deaver Post. WITH YOUR COFFEE. Fuddy—Did you hearof the terrible accident that happened to Danby? His injuries were £0 serious that his most intimate friends were unable to recognize him. Duddy—Terrible accident? Railroad col- lision? Fall of an elevator 7 Fuddy—Worse. He has lost all his money.— Boston Transcript. “I should like to have seen that old-time strong man Hercules. This writer says his strength was equal to that of 200 ordinary mea.” bat isn’t anything great. Tom Reed did the work of 350 men for four mouths run- ning.”’—Cleveland Plain Deuler} Westerner—That feller we strung up claimed an alibi—said he was in another county when the horse was took. Tourist—It didn’t go, eh? Westerner—No. The only alibi that's good in a case like his is to be in anoiher county from the f>lks that's lookin’ for yer with the rope.—Puck. “My folks have some family plate,’ small girl in a boastiul tone. “Well,” replied the other, “that isn’tany. thing. Our folks have some armor plate, and going to sell itto the Government.”—Washington Star. id one Socratoots—You are always making your wife beileve she is the only woman on earth. I wish I could do that. Spate—Why? socratoots—Then she might wear some of | her last year's clothes without fear of some .—Pittsburg News. Miss Cynique—So you have a safety deposit box, have you? What in the world do you keep in 117 Cholly Litewayte—The Journal, = POLITICS AND PROSPERITY, Philadelphia Times (Dem.). Inshort, politics and prosperity are insepa- rable, and the Republicans have the advan- tage of revived prosperity that began soon after the advent of Republican power, wnile the Democrats must theorize against the stub- born logic of visible 1acts and inevitably fall in the race. The political power under which prosperity comes o the country is a political gg‘;elxigan will endure until prosperity shall other woman criticizing h key.—Somerville e HAND IN HAND THEY GO. Chicago Tribune. The rise in the price of wheat isanother piece of luck for the Republican party. But :l;en‘ it is ‘“:'nhx'u lhobfi:rmm.‘too. 'll‘hnl e farmer and the Republican party go along hand in hand, FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1897 HE WANTS HEXADAGTVLOUS SPEGIMENS. FTVE HELPLESS PROFESSOR FREDERICK STARR. . Professor Frederick Starr, who has created a big sensation by hisadvertisement forsix- fingered people. is tae head of the anthropological department of tae University of Chi- cago. He is interested in many things which most men would pass by as quite common- place, says the Chicago Times-Herald. That is because he knows mueh more about men and anthropogeny thaa the vast majorily of citizens. His desire for hexadactylous per- s0ns is quite in line with other scientific ambitions for which he has borne much and suf- fered much. spent ten d year ago, in pursuit of his specialty, Professor Starr went to Guatemalaand emong the Mixes, the flercest tribe in that part of the world. These de- lightful people are supposed to be cannibals, but that did not deter the plucky man of science from mixing, so to speak, with the Mixes. He fmoroved his opportunities by gath- ering a few specimens of four-eyed fishes, one of the rarest animals known to science. He founa out at Tehuantepec that many of the Zapotecs have the third toe short, a fact of vast importance from the anthropologist’s point of view. The Indians sey the cshort toe is caused by the moon’s eclipse. He found whole colonies of idiots in Guatemala, and alto- gether his researches were prolific of much capital data for science. POWERS OF A CHARTER. | Tot he Editor of: he San Francisco Call—SIR: | MEN AND WOMEN. Revpresentative Howard of Alabama wears a A city charter properly constructed is made | silk hat and a 50-cent alpaca coat. up wholly of fundamentat law. It contains no legislation, It is for the city what thecon- stitution Is for the State or the United States, and, in fact, is only another asme for the same thing. It constitutes the government and provides for the enactment of laws gen- eraliy called ordinances and for the enforce- ment of these ordinances. It stops there. Municipal government in fact and in law is & public business corporation, in which poli- tics has no place, and when 1t does find a place it is & false quantity and always leads to confusion and corruption, as may be seen in our American cities to thesorrow of ali good citizens and the disgrace of the Nation. Itis the province of s city charter to pro- vide for and ordain a complete local seli-gov- ernment. The powers of a Board of Super- visors or a City Council under such a charter authorize said board or council to make and enforce within the city limits' all such laws and regulations as are needful for the promo- tion of the general welfare, including police, sanitary, revenue and any other laws and regulations to thatend which are not in con- flici with the constitution of the State or of the United States. As a public business corporation a city gov- ernment 18 necessarily organized on strictly business principles, such as govern the great private corporations of the country, of which the Western Union Telegraph Company, the Venderbiit or Southern Pacific Rafiroad Com- pany and the great 1aining compauies are jractical examples in snuccessful operation. Politics cannot be tolerated 8s a controiling influcnce in these corporations, though they may sometimes “‘run’’ politicat organizatious whrough bosses ‘All great private corporations arrange the several branches of the business ander differ- ent depariments and place excerts of com- manaing abiliiy atthe head of these depari- ments, who are chargea with the manage- ment of the same and are held responsible to the board of direciors or trustes It is cisely in this way that the gr corporations throughout Europe are man- aged and with uufailing success. On page 65, Vol. I, “Municivel Government,” Albert Shaw says: “‘Itis the almost uniform practice to appoint as permanent chiefs or superintendents of departments the most thoroughly qualified men who can be secured and to hoid chem re- sponsible to the Council through the standing committee for the ordinary operations of their respective branches of the municipal service.” On the same page he adds: “iAt tne bead of the police, fire, water, gas, sanitary, park, engineering aud other depart- ments are 10 be found wen of special fitness and training, who are selected for admi:is- irative ability as well as for expertknowledge, and whose securily of tenure—for so long as they deserve it—adds to their faithfulness and usefulness.” In fact, he well says (p.66): “British city government is indebted for a letge part of its success to the superiority of the appointive heads of depsrimen|s.” Our charter-makers are particularly asked to ponder this sentence, to ve found on page 58, Vol. I, of Dr. Shaw’s work on “‘Municipal Government'’: “The ward system in English municipal government is relieved of vne great objection to ward representation in American cities from the fact that there is no 1ule, tra- dition or practice that makes the Council cac- didate a resident ot the ward.” The best men who can be tound are elected from any part of the city, regardless of districts or wards. JOSEPH ASBUBY JOHNSON. 11 Essex sireet, August 30, 1897. NOT AS BAD AS PICTURED. Kansas City Star. Consul-General Lee, who is somewhatofa jingoist himself, reports that uearly four- fifths of the $50,000 appropriated by Congress with cousiderable precipitancy some months ago for the relief of Americans famishing in Cuba remains unexpended, and he is unable to getany one eniitied to the money to come forward and c.simit. This fact suggests that during the debate in Congress on the resolu- tlon to recogn.ze Cuban beiligerency there must have been a good deal of exaggeration with regard to destitution on the isiand, and that Senator Morgan’s American citizensstarv- ing in one place and languishing in Spanish bastiles in another must have been like Jack Falstaft's “rogues in buckram.” PEANUTS—A GIANT INDUSTRY. Detroit Free Press. Abour 44,000,000 pounds of peanuts are produced and consumed in the United States every year, but this enormous quantity is small when compared with the annual prod- uct of the world, which is estimatea at 600,- 000,000 pounds. In 1892 exportationsfrom Africa and India to Europe were nearly 400,- 000,000 pounds, the city of Marseilies alone .1aking 22,000,000 pounds, most of which was converted into olive () oil and suipped as such to the United States and other countries. ‘Thejmarket s, in fact, unlimites section surpasses the Carolinas and Virginia in their bountiful growth of peanuts of the very best quality. PREDICTION THAT FAILED. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. When Bryan predicted that wheat would drop to 25 cents a bushel if McKinley were elected he perhaps did not think it would go above $1 instead. There is a chauce, too, that it will go far higher than the dollar line. The farmers whom he deludea may not be mad at him for his false prophecy, but it is safe 10 say they are sorry they voted for him. The agri- cultural regions will be the enemy’s country to Bryan 1f he ever starts out on another political crusade. EVERYTHING GOES. Philadelphia Kecord. The middle-of-the-road Populists 1n Iowa have refused to continue their alliance with the Democrats of that State and have nomin- ated a complete ticketof their own. There is too much intrinsic worih in a 43-cent dollar for the out-and-outers, They want uunlimited paper dollars of {ull legal tender; Government employment for everybody, Government con- trol of all pubiic works, the abolition of land- lordism and the installation of chaos. Lady Aberdeen is now an LL.D. This title she had conferred upon her at the recent con- vocation of the Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. In the class of '83 at Harvard University there were thirteen men who clubbed together during most of their stay at college. That was fourteen years ago and not one of the thirteen has died. Rev. Dr. C. H. Perkhurst’s wife is a Scottish lady, # native of Stirling, and formerly a Miss Thomson, member of a well-known family there, which was & stanch supporter of the Free North congregation, so long ministered to by Rev. Dr. Alex Beith. In Emperor William’s iving apartments a new purifying apparatus is now in operation. high cour: official, and consists of & method of injecting ozone into the surrounding air, and destroying germs-and gases by a system of platinum wires brought to a white heat by electricity. A copy of Keats' poems, first edition, with the poet’s autograph on the flyleaf, following the words, *To W. Worasworth, with the compliments of author,” was recently sold in London for $230. The leaves are still uncut, showing conclusively that Wordsworth had never read the book presented to him. According to the Debats a Royalist epidemic has broken out among tbe members of the French Academy. Itis reported to have taken the form of a proposition to admit royal per- sonages to the seats of the immortals. Among the names mentioned are those of the Pope, the Prince of Wales, the Emperors of Russia and Austria, the Kaiser, the Kings of Italy, Sweden and Denmark and the Khedive, FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT. Golden Gate Lodge of Elks (Incorpo- rated) Entertains Its Friends With a High Jinks. Last Friday night the hall of Golden Gate Lodge of Elks (incorporated) in the Alcazar building was crowded to its utmost by mem- bers and invited friends, who were presentto enjoy & high jinks, which was presided over by Major J. M. Larkin of Sacramento, editor of the Sunday Leader. In this work he was as- sisted by Henry H. Davis, & prominent mem- ber of the lodge. As the major entered upon the discharge of his pleasant but arduous du- ties he was presented with an elegant badge, after which H. Goldman wes appointed offi- cer to carry out the behests of the presiding officer. ‘There was presented a good programme, Jules Voisinet, acting as zuargian of the char- ity box, collected many fires imposed on in- nocent victims for appearing in the hallina manner not in actordance with the ideas of the presiding officer. The programme in- cluded an overture from Lauuer’s orchestra; a clarionet soio by Msjor Keni; recitation by Ed Sweeney ; conic soug, Charley Bates; vocal solo, Abe Harris; tenor sclo, Joseph Sution; specialiies by Smith and Campbell of the Or- pheum; recitation by Mortimer Snow of the Grand Opera-house; specialiies by John Car- roll of the Orpheum; vocal solos by Eugene Coliing, William Gleason, Eddie Sweeney and others. 1t was nearly 1 o’clock belfore the last pumber was rendered and the refreshments and collation weredisposed of. Toe affair was an unusually pleasant one and enjoyed by all, Ivanhoe’s Anniversary. Ivanhoe Circle No. 125 of the Companions of the Forest celebrated its fifth anniversary last Saturday night by an entertainmentand dance in the social hail of the roresters' building, The many who attenaed were highly enter- tained by the ladiesand gentlemen who vol- unteered for the occasion. There was a recita- tion by Miss Myrtle Watkins, a guitar duet by Messrs. Edwaras and Naughton,fancy dauce by Miss Cora and Master Eadie Bailey, vocal solo by Mrs. McDa le, musi.al selections by Messrs. West and Hass, vocal sclo in French by Mme. Oceana Goldtnivaite, recitation by Miss Helen Coonley and vocal solo by Mr. Hansen. Then there were daucing and icecream. The very en- joyable affair was under the direciion of the iollowing pamed: Cemmittes of arrangements—Mrs. A. Pem- berthy (chairman), Miss V. McNorion, Miss J. Erviu, Mrs. M. Sheldon, Mrs. M. Parolini. Reception committee—Mrs. B. Hunjes (chair- man), Mrs. Gardner, Mrs, M. O'Neili, Mrs. A, Lukes, Mrs. M. E. Halpruner. or director, Mrs. M. Parolini. Assisiant floor directors—Miss L. Foley, Miss L. Grant, Miss N, Macbeth, Miss N. Carr. The Workmen. Valley Lodge No. 30 will hold a smoker on ‘Wednesday evening, September 29, at Laurel Hall, Shiels building, City, on which ocea- sion the Grand Lodge officers will be present. On Friday evening, the 27th inst., the grand recorder delivered an wadress, under the auspices of Pacific Grove Lodge No. 280, in the Methodist Church at Pacific Grove. A varied and interesting programme was pre- sented and a large crowd was in attendance. ‘Pacific Lodge No. 7 is preparing another class of initiates, woo willbe introduced in the month of Septem ber. Bianford Lodge No. 204 will hoid a public entertainment ou the evening of September 10, when addresses will be delivered by the grand master workman and grand receiver. Ancient Order of Foresters. The High Court of Canada went into ses- sion at Owens Sound (ast Tuesday. By & recent act of the high court of the world the wora “Subsidiary” has been dropved from the title of officers of the subsidiary high courts, so that hereafter, instead of writing «Subsidiary High Chief Ranger,” it will pe «High Chief Rauger.” Court Lincoln has decided to give an enter- 1sinment and dance in Washington Hail on September 21. 'he mem bers of Lincoln Lodge of the Friends of the Forest will on the evening of the 6th of September entertaln the members of Court Lincoln. 2 OUNG ORPHANS Sent From Honolulu to the Salvation Army in This City. They Are Refused a Landing Because They Are Pauper Immigrants. All Will Be Sent Back Unless Some One Will Give Bonds for Them. By the Hawaiian bark R. P. Rithet there arrived from Honolulu yesterday five orpban children consigned to the care of the Salvation Army. Buat an obstacle presented itself in the form of Immigra- tion Commissioner Stradley, who refused to allow the children to be landed on the ground that it would be a violation of the United States law prohibiting the impor- tation of paupers. The mother, Mrs. Hagsten, a native of Norway, died a short time ago, leaving six children—Agnes, 14 vears old; Bertha, 13; Alfred, 7; Ottiiie, 6; Carlie, 4, and a8 baby of 16 months, all born in Honolulu. The baby was adopted by a family at Ewa and the others were sent Lere in care of Mr. and Mrs. George Sterling, Americans re- turning home. Mr, Stradley allowed the children to land temporsrily and to be taken to the Salvation Army Home at 329 Bryant street, until after a meeting to be held to- day by Mr. Stradley and several other Government officials. With the chilaren came a letter from the United States Con- sul at Honoluin setting forth the facts of the children being without parents, and this letter, directed to the Collector of the Port, was by him referred to Mr. Stradley. There was alzo 4 letter from Major Win- chell of the Salvation Army, in reply to one sent to him from the islands. Major Winchell says: We can take the children sll right and will be glad to do 8o if there are no strings to hold them, and if they can be gotten away we will look out that they are properly cared for and given every advantage as far as education, both in spiritusl and otuner lines, are con- concerned. God bless you.w . W. WINCHELL. P. S.—All that 1s necessary is that we get the children lawfully and the father had better sign an agreement to that effect if we are to have them. Mr. Stradley says that the children will be sent back to Honolulu unless somebody furnishes bondsin the st of $500 for each child that they will not become a publiic charge. Major Winchell said last night that he had no intention of violating thelaw. Ail that he kuew was that the children had been sent to the Salvation Ariny, which was to get $300 for keeping them, He did not know whether he would be able to give bonds and he would not do anything in the matter at all until after the meet- ingin the commissioner’s office this morn« ing. MRS. MoELROY IS SAFE, Now an Inmate of the Woman’s Kelief Corps Home at Ewver- green. The mystery of the disappearance of Mrs. Lizzie McElroy, the lady druggist who was reported missing on Baturday last, has been sclved. It appears that Mrs. McEiroy is the widow of a soldier of the Civil War, and that finding herseif in financial difficuities she decided to go to the Woman's Relief Corps Home at Ever- green, near San Jose. Without making her intention known to any one she went to San Jose on Friday last and made her application for admission, as 1s the right of all sol- diers’ wives or widows or those who have served as army nurses. The papers not being in proper form she was not admitted at once, and it was not until yesterday that the documents were transmiited to Mrs. C. Mason Kinney, president of the Woman's Relief Corps. Thia was the first news of her where- abouts, and she is now safely housed at the home. —————— “The Art Domestic.’’ Messrs. Goldberg, Bowen & Co., of this City, have just issued their August magagine, “The Art Domestic.” The publication is well printed and illustrated, containing & number of literary articles in addition to the usual departments devoted to a catalogue of gooa things needed in the houschold. The house of Goldberg, Bowen & Co., we learn, has been in existence since 1850, almost continuously under the same management—certainly a matter for congratulation to its proprietors. “The Art Domestic” will be found of material assistance in every household where economy is practiced. —e— Deputy Coroner Tyrrell Plundered. Sneakthieves yesterday entered the sleep- ing-rooms of the Coroner’s deputies, over the Coroner’s office, and took away a valise con- taining & new suit of clothes belonging to John G. Tyrrell, Deputy Coroner. They also stole & bandbox, containinog a veluabdble hat, left there by John A. Buckley, superintendent of construction of the proposed Hall of Jus. tice. The hat belonged to Mrs. Buckley. The thieves broke a window aud effected an en- trance. e CALIFORNTA glace fruits, 50c1b. Townsend'v* e . £PECIAL information daily to manufscturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Moutgomery. * e The Baron Revelstoke, who has died in Lon don, was Edward Charles Baring, son of Henry Charles Baring, and nephew of Lord Ashburton, who negotiated with Daniel Web- ster the Canadian northwesiern boundary matter. He was one of the principal mem- bers of and at his death senior partner in the banking-house of Baring Bros. & Co.,and was regarded as one of the ablest financiers in Eu- rove. —_— NEW YO-DAY. ——— Royal makes the food pure, wholesome and delicious. Absolutely Pure ROVAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.