The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 1, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCIS 30 CALL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1897 SEPTEMBER 1, 1807 = — PUBLICATION OFFICE . Telephon EDITORIAL RCOMS Telephor THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and sur-ounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. ..One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE. 908 Brosdway 34 Park Row. NEW YORK OFFICE. BRANCH OFFICE 9:30 o'clock. Larkin street Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until ) o'clock. 615 Sixteenth and sion street; open 9 o'cleck. 1505 V. corner Twenty-second 39 Hayes siree until 9:30 o’c! untii 9 o'clock. " THE PEOPLE AND THE SCHEMERS. HE controversy aroused by the opposition of THE CaLL to the scheme icr establishing a park and zoological garden in the Mission is rapidly shaping itseif into an issue between boomers and taxpayers; schemers on one side and the people It is a question of whether or not we skall add to tbe heavy burdens of municipal taxation for the sake of an when the cost of providing for such 1 detract from the chances of getting thoseimprove- ments of streets and sewers which to the welfare of all, An increased burden of taxation will bear with heaviest pressure upon those who ara least able to sustain it. It will be remembered that last year the tax imposed upon the banks of the City was so heavy they were compelled to reduce the rates ot interest yaid depositors. In that way every persou who had a deposit in any of the savings banks was a direct loser of a por- tion of hisincome. In most cases, of course, the losses of this kind were small, but where they were smallest they were prob- ably most severely felt. Itis the man of the least property to ‘whom an increase of taxation means the heaviest burden. The need of San Fraacisco at this time isa reduction in the assessments of propsrty and the rates oi taxation. When the burden of taxes is made lighter capital will be more willing to undertake the risk of improving property and extending busi- ness. With lighter taxes willcome more buildings, more shops and factories, more houses for homes, more stately siruoctures for stores and offices and an increased activity in work of all kinds. Then Jabor will have wages, merchants will have cus- tomers, home industry will flourish and our municipal de- 1 go forward with a steadier and swifter motion than has been known for a long time. Nor is on the other. unneeded pleasure gro a luxury wil g 1 are essenti velopment w it by individual enterprise only that we may expect There are many public works to be attended to as soon as the people can afford to defray the cost. Every citizen knows the import- ance of removing the cobblestones from our principal streets and replacing them with a paving which will make traffic at once more agreeable and more economical. It isalso well known that our sewers must be improved if we are to keep the health of the City to the high standard for which nature fits it. We cannot afford to place 8 heavier burden of taxation | ‘upon private enterprise for the sake of a land-seliing scheme. We cannot afford to sacrifice the prospect of improved streets and sewers for the sake of a far-oft monkey garden. e can- not consent to leave Golden Gate Park haif finished for the caprice of laying out another pleasure ground elsewhere. To achieve the best possibilities for San Francisco progress must be made along well-defined economic lines. This is the sentiment of THE CALL; it is the sentiment of the taxpayers. Iiis nots anism; it is civic patriotism. We published many interviews with progressive men on this subject yester- day, and we publish more this morning. Our contemporaries the fanciful project had better read them t the people think of the scheme. an improvement toresult from a decrease in the taxrate. who are advocat *carefully and leara wh The Redding Free Press has some words of sound sense con- cerning the recent gold strikes and the inclination of men to hurry to the new fields. While it dces not predict fortune for all of them, it sdmires their enterprise and thinks them more useful to a community than the men who devote themselves to knifing dry-goods boxes while they loal on the street corner protesting that the rush is foolish. Chicago’s tendency to boast is irrepressible. Just now itis bragging about having opened to women the doors of a local medical institution. Almost any other city would be ashamed to mention such a circumstance as an ‘‘innovation”; because it really shows Chicago lagging at the rear of the procession and tardily tryving to get near enough to the front to hear the band play. Rev. Mr. Talmage seems to be working his way West, but if he lingers in Chicago until that city be thoroughly converted there is little reason to apprehend a local visitation from nim. Negroes ir a Scuth Carolina town have performed what they believe to be the burial of tue devil; which will probably afford the unfaithful an opportunity to raise him again. Secretary Sherm n’s mind is all right. Accusn:igns to the contrary come from disgruntled persons who sougzht vainly to induce him to change 1t. CALIFORNIA’S GdLDEN FRUIT. LL along the line Californian products are bringing high prices, The iarmer and the orcnardist alike are jubi- lant, for while wheat is hopping around tne dollar mark, our prunes and dried apples are swelling with importance due to the rapidly growing evidence of their wide popalarity. The geperal public may not be cognizant of the fact that the Kastern apple crop is the barometer of dried-fruit prices; but it is nevertheless true that when Eastern apples are abund- ant the rates for all kinds of dried fruits take a tumble, and when an apple sbortage occurs on the Atlantic coast all kinds of dried fruit scramble to their feet-again, link arms and dance up to the choice positions in the market. This year our cousins on the other side of the Mississippi are able to realize only half a crop ot their favorite prodact, and as a consequence our dried fruit is now 50 per c»nt higher than it was lsst year, while some of the fancy grades bave more than doubled in price. Then, there is Earore demanding more of our dried fruit than ever. She is developing an enormous appetite for it, and evidently can’t get as much as she wanls, on account of the largely increased consumption of our Eastern relatives. On top of all of these excellent signs for the California frult- grower, the angel of prosperity is smiling like old Pheebus him- self. It's a golden smile, and it takesin all the land. Money is freer, peeple are paying better prices for the good things of life, and the American table has more luxuries on it at this time than has been the case for a number of years. The year 1897 has been a glorious one for Calitornia fruit. Our orchards are the sureet and best placer mines after all. e If reports that the Spanish Minister to this country is going. Bome soon shall be confirmed much can be forgiven that gen- tieman, particulariy if he will lay emphasis upon a determina- tion not to come back. Watson's retirement from the Populist party will not be a staggering blow to that organization, which had already set an example by retiring an appreciable distance from Watson. Ex-Senator Hill contemplates with apparent pain and sur- prise the difficulty of breaking into politics when he found it so very easy to break out. The New York banker who purchased a gold brick made of copper can never hope to have much standing as a financier un- less he seil the brick. & THE HALL OF JUSTICE. N July 15 a delegation of the North End Improvement Club O appeared befoze the Buildings Committee of the Board of Supervisors to protest against the delay in the construc- tion of the new Hall of Justice and to urge taat the work be promptly pushed forward. At that tims all who were in any way responsible for the construction of the building made ex- cuses for the delay and gave promises of more energy and better results thereafter. More than a month has passed sincs those excuses and promises were made and still there is no sign of anything like earnest work on the building. The delay which was wasteful in the past is rapidly developing into a public scandal. There is evidently some influence secret and powerful which is retard- ing this important work and injuring the City, the taxpayers and the property-owners of the neighborhood for the benefit of private parties. nature could be postponed and delayed for so long a time with- out some cause widely different from the flimsy excuses offered at the session of the Buildings Committeee. It must be borne in mind that the pro'est made by the North End Improvement Club more than a month ago was not the first time that public indignation had been expressed on this subject. - Months before that THE CALL had investigated the matter and had found the same willingness on the part of every one in authority to make excuses and to make promises. The affair has in fact been dragging for a time so long the memory of man hardly runneth to the contrary. On the face of it there is ample evidence that those in charge of the work | have determin=d to make it a lifetime job, no matter how great may be the damage to those doing business in the neighbor= hood or how great the loss to the City There is surely some way of putting an end to such waste- ful and scandalous negligence as this. The large sum of money appropriated for the edifice lies idle in the treasury of the City instead of being put into - circulation for the improvement of business. Many workingmen have been seeking for work without finding it who might have been well and profitably employed on the building. The sidewalks along the site of the proposed structure have been torn up and made almost impass- able for months. ~ Trade in the neighborhood has been inter- rupted, the business of merchants has been damaged and property-owners have suffered losses month after month. Itis time for the authorities to put an end to such a condition of things, and to listen no longer to idle words which neither ex- cuse past wrongs nor give guarantees of right dealing in the future. At the time the North End Improvement Club made its protest before the Buildings Committee the contractors stated they intended to prosecute the work vigorously right away, and it was added they proposed to work at night by means of elec- tric lights. We have seen what the promise is worth. The construction of the building drags as before. The thing has become a farce in the way of promises and a <ccandal in the way of public injury. It is time to end it. If the present con- tractors cannot fulfill thzir contract it should be revoked and the work intrusted to some one who can perform it. OUR TRIUMPHANT LETTER-CARRIERS. LOUDS of doubt which lowered upon the prospects of securing for this City the annual convention of the National Association of Letter-carriers are now in the deep bosom of the ocean buried; and if the brows of the local | members of the organization are not bound with victorious wreaths they ought to be, for the San Francisco letter-carriers won the battle after it seemed almost irretrievably lost. They fought against odds, and even heard another city pro- claimed as the gatbering-place by their chief executive officer; but with true California grit and tenacity they threw their strength against every obstacle and swept it from their path until their pluck and perseverance were crowned with triumph where defeat had stared them in the face. The difficulty with reference to obtaining satisfaciory rail- road rates west of Chicago was overcorne at the last moment, and as a result of all this San Francisco will next week enter- tain letter-carrier delegations from all over the country. Ample preparations sre being made, and not one of the visitors will have any cause to regret his coming to the hospitable City of the Golden Gate. The Christian Endeavorers declared San Francisco the ideal convention city of America. The same idealistic conditions are with us all the time. The letter-carriers are coming, and they cannot bring too biga host. A royal California weicome awaits them all, and they cannot help but enjoy the manifold advantages of the land by the Balboa Sea. A vival of the fittest’” applies to the organs of the human body, and endeavors to wipe out the theory which hascome down from the time of Aristotle, to the effect that the different parts of a being form a harmonious whole, in which they all aid each other in a manner, and complete one another, so that they work together, each in its own way, and for the best advantage, for the common good. That the bodily organ- ism is comparable to a society wisely constituted of bodies of workers each laboring for the general benefl: and protection M. J. Kunstler denies, and he declares that a rigorous scientific analysis will demonstrate the correctness o! his position. Mr. Kunstler's conception is that the different parts of the bodies of living beings, instead oif giving mutual ‘aid, are in perpetual strife with one another. One organ developsat the expense of others. “Not only do the organs fight each other,”’ says the scientist, “but all otber partsdo the like, whatever they may be. For example, there is conflict among the tissues—even among the elements of the same tissue. The evolution of the feehler ones is diminished or arrested; they are pitilessly sacri- ficed to the good of the stromg, which thus become more tiourishing.” As viewed by this ruthority, “things seem to take place as if living organisms possessed only one determinative amount of evolutive power.” If, by means of some artifice, this force of development is taken from an organ or a part, the organ suffers, and may be thrown into a state approaching that of complete collapse. In the matter of exercise, for instance, 8 moderate amount, benefits whiie excess brings injury. Continued and exc.usive exercise of one kind can produce ill effects, in spite of com- parative moderation. If one part be specially trainea it be- comes relatively preponderant, to the detriment of the otlers, The fact is pointed out that, as a general rule, men with most powerful muscular and organic development are often not those who present the most intellectual babit of mind. Thata man is “fat’’ or “heavy’’ is never taken as an evidencs of his intelli- rence. THE BATTLE OF THE ATOMS, FRENCH physiologist maintsins that the law of “‘the sur- Among the causes which conspire to hasten bedily devel- opment are stimulating spirits, pbysical or intellectual ialigue, griet and all excesses. Great workers, a rule, be- come weak and feeble before their time on account of the intence life they live. Lack of vitality, due to the abnormal development of ona part or faculty, may be inherited, according to Monsieur Kuns- tler. City children are more precocious than country chil- dren, but have less vitality owing to maturity hastened by the excitement of city life for generations. In fact, this French- man finds that, in all cases, whether in the individual or in the race, over-development of one faculty retards the others instead of helping them. Itis possible for us to control this battle of the organs, ina measure, by avoiding excesses, adopting such exercises as will best serve the purpose of equally developing the whole bodily organism and then following out the plan with philosophic moderation. The Oakland divines engaged in a controversy as to which has the most winning personal charms might reash a decision by resolving themseivesinto a beauty show and letting the really momentous question be settled by ballot. Itis not to be credited that a work of this | PERSONAL. Dr. S. 8. Bogle of Monterey is at the Lick. Frank Hazen of Healdsburg is at the Russ. Colonel A. K. Whittier of San Jose isatthe Palace. 2 J. B. Hollinsead of Pescadero is s guestat the Russ. C. H. Schiveley, a banker of Oroville, is at the Grand. a D. C. Clark, a schoolteacher of Santa Cruz, is at the Grand. R. T. Hatfield, an attorney of Sacramento, is at the Lick. R. Stanton of Reedley isstopping at the Cos- mopolitan Hotel. C. Bonner of Montans is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. J. F. Devendorf, a real estate deeler of San Jose, is at the Grand. Colonel J. M. Morehead, a capitalist of Santa Clara, 15 at the Palace. Robert Graham, a fruit exporter of Sacra- mento, is at the Palace. Charles Erickson, a ratlroad contractor of San Luls Obispo, is at the Grand. F. B. Spancenberg has just returned to the City after an extended tour in the East. Eduardo de la Cuesta, one of the Supervisors of Santa Barbara County, is at the Grand. Dr. Wilitam H. Cope of Pleasanton arrived at the Lick last night, accompanied by his wife. Wines, proprietor of tie stage line north- ward of Santa Barbars, is registered at the Grand. Fraok W. Grifis, who is interested in min- ing at Wapite, Colo., arrived atthe California last night. F. A, Lucas of Washington, D. C., con- nected wiih the Smithsonian Institution, is at the Occidental. C. H. Frink, proprietor of & large men’s clothing-house at Santa Barbara, arrived at the Graud yesterday. J. C. Redpath, the contractor, returned to this City yesterday after 8 year's absence, and registered at the Grand. B. M. Lelong of the State Board of Horti- cuiture is in town from Sacramento and is making a short stay at the Grand. Freight Traflic Manager Smurr of the South- ern Pacific is able to be about again, and ex- pects to resume his duties in a few days. Dr. James V. Stanton, one of the Railroad Commissioners, will leave here to-day for Boca with a party of friends for feathered game. Professor Douglas H. Campbell, head of the department of botany pt Stanford, is a guest at the California, having just returned from the East. : Frank P. Pray, formerly a real estate agent on Pine street in this City, but for the last two years agent at Denver, Colo., of the California Powder Works, is in town on a visit, accom- panied by his wife and drughter. . Senator Morgan of Alabama will arrive here to-morrow, two days later than expected. He will be met and welcomed by the Mayor and other officials and entertained prior to his de- parture with his two daughters for Honolulu, whither he is going on an official annexation inquiry. Stewart W. Colton of this City, captain-elect of the Stanford footbail team, is expected home to-day overland from New York. He left here five months ago as tutor to a cap- tain’s children in e large ship bound for New York by way of Honolulu and Cape Horn. He arrived in New York several weeks ago convaiescing from scariet fever, which he con- tracted during the latter part of the voyage. CALIFORNIAN> IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 3L.—At the Jeffer- son, Miss Dinan; Gilsey, ¥. C. Farnham; Mur- ray Hill, G. A. Fisher; Manhattsn, W. L Howards; Continental, J. H. Garrett; Grand, E. Saunders; St. Cloud, H. K. Carter. A LITTLE CHILD. 11 thou whom we call ssge cou'dst oaly know, O, learned man, with jerfect wisdom thine, The depth, the passion, of & chidisa woe, Tny life would zrasp what pen can ne'er define. A broken toy once throned 1n some wee heart 1s only just a broken {0y to thee; But, ab! (he shattered doll or broken cart Was worth & world, couldst thou but know and see. “But baby moods like April's are. alway, And baby tears like to » summer's rain, And when the threatening ciouds have rolled away, Thou say’st, “the sun will shine as bright again,” And yet, T ween, within its calyx brown, The bud that ho'ds its beauty fair in store, Whenc'er the passing storm doih break it down Can lift its smiling face to God no more. S0 thus I say to thee, whom we Call sage, Whose wisdom iike a beacon light has shone; A litte child conid turn the hidden page, And teach thee wisdom Lhou hast never known. —Times-Democrat. A BLAST FROM BRITAIN. CATFORD, Eng., Aug. 8, 1897, To the Editor of the San Francisco Call— DeAR SIR: We were &ll very much amused at your little article in which you say, “When Great Britain wishes to have a row with us she can have it. We are quite ready to annex the Klondike country and all the Canadian accessories.”” There is no doubt you would be *quite ready’ to annex a good deas of our property if yon dared. Why uot drop this nonsensical way of talking, which only tends 10 confirm public optnion here, that your spite 1s merely the natural outcome of jealousy. You cannot yet expect to be any- thing but & third-rate nation; you are not nfil enough. Great nations are not built upin a | few years, and although your youth may pre- vent you from being taken too seriously, human power of endurance has its limit, as you may some day realize, like the cheeky little schooiboy when he gets a well-merited clout. Hoping you may learn to treat your superiors with more respect In the fuiure, Iremain, yours, etc., A BRITON. WITH YOUR COFFEE. “Carter has such a pretty little wife.” “Yes; but he tells me that it Costs just as much 1o dress a little one as it does a big one. She is his second, you know.”—Indianapolis Journal, Smith—See Jones over there laughing so heartily. -Somebody must have told him a funny story. Brown—More likely Jones told 1t himself.— Cuicago Journal. They were talking of golf, and she grew en- thusiastic. “AR,” he said, “I infer that you play.” “Oh, yes’' she replied, “I play the game, but I must confess that I don’t speak the lan- guage very fluently yet.”--Chicago Post. Princeton seems 10 have her degrees a little twisted. She made Laurencs Hutton, a liter- ary man, a master of arts, and Augustus St. Gaudens, an ariist, a Lit. Doc.—Boston Tran- seript, The claver girl is the one who, when you say things you don’t mean, always knows what you do mean.—Life. “I understand that Jones has a hara time getting along with his wife.” ‘How’s that?” “They ride a tandem, and the madam weighs 250 pounds.”—Philadelphia Call, Congressman—So you want to servs your country, ao you ? Applicant—Well, I ain't varticular whether Iserve my countrr much or not, but!should like to get an cffice at a good salary.—Somer- ville Journal. A learned editer of this city who has made a study of the problem of Jife has at last decided that a man who has a nice house in the city, & large and pretty country seat and an sssured income of $20,000 a year is just as well off as thongh ‘he were wealthy.—Philadelphia In quirer, Violet—How did Mr. Bighead come to accept reincarnation? Rose—Well, you know, he always had an im- pression that the world couldn’t get along without ham, and if that is 8o it stands to rea- son that he will have to come back.—Truth. “What a coarse hand that Mrs. Bullion writes,” her father used to letter packing- cases.”"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Pendig has made a great hit with his new summer novel.” “What fs its title ?” “The Frozen Umpire.”~Chicsgo Record, PRESIDENT OF THE AMERIGAN BAR ASSOGIATION. James M. Woolworth, whose sensational address to the American Bar Association at its Cleveland meeting is creating much comment, is perhaps the foremost lawyer in Nebraska and one of the most remarkable men in America. lawyer, and 2s soon as young Woolworth left under the preceptorship of his father. As early as 1856 he ieft Syracuse, N. Y., and went to Omaha. He was the first City Attorney of to the pursuit of his profession, declining foreign to the law. He was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1862, and since that time he has argued more cases before that court than any lawyer west of Chicago. Apart from lawbooks Mr. Woolworth’s studies have been wide and varied. His essays, addresses and lectures on general subjects show his great versatility and comprehensiveness of mind. In 1875 Racine Coliege conferred upon him the degree In 1892 the University of Nebraska made him L.H.D., and in 1890 he was given of LL.D. the degree of D.C.L. by Trinity University of his earnings, and is a large part of the backbone of the cltizenship of Omabe. result wilt be the number of pounds of purs ground white lead required to give three coats. ALGEBRA—J. C., City. Algebra, inlthe even- ing schools of the San Fraucisco Public Schoo! Department, is taught only in the evening High School classes. - The course Is two and the studies are: First year (junior), a; metic, parts not taken up in grammar grades the metric system; algeb a, Short cou through equations of first degree; geomet selected propositions; physics, short course, comprehend:ng ihe main division of physics, with experiments and laboralory work; Eng- lish grammer, compositi m, rhetoric, iiters ture. word analysic, debates; eivil gove ment, municipal end Siate and National & fairs, duties of offivials, ete.; Latin, beginner.’ Dbooks, selections from Ceiar; histo eral history; German or French, sub: Latin. The second year or senior braces geometry, physics, Englien, his Latin, Spanish, German or French, the stud being advanced. FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT, The Sons of Eenjamin Give a Ball and Distribution Party in the Alcazar. Last Sunday evening California, Pac San Francisco lodges of the Independent Orcer His father was a voted New York Hamilton College he began the study of law Omahs, and has steadiastly devoted himself all temptations to wander into political fields Toronto. He has laid by a snug fortune from MEN AND WOMEN. Professor Edoe of Rome is able to recite the wnole of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” in twenty hours. The Empress of Austria takes her bath every morning at 5 o’clock, which is earlier and oftener than most women do Who are not em- presses. Pastor Kneipp, the water-cure priest of Woerishofen, Bavaria, left all his property to his lifelong friend, Pastor Stuckle, in Mind- heim, cutting off 'his relatives with nothing. Dr. Ekholaru, who was associated with Herr Andree in his projected balloon voyage last year, declares that he declined to join in the present attempt because the balloon leaked gas and was unsafe. Ernest Hogan, the clever Topeka negro, who is the author of “All Coons Look Alike to Me” and other darktown melodies, is now in New York, and a report from there says he has been sued for divorce by his white wife. Senator Turley of Tennessee is said to be the first man in the history of jurisprudence in this country to file a petition in court praying for the appointmentof a receiver for a mu- nicipality. He aid o on behaif of Memphis. When the Pniladelphia authorities ex- amined the bills incurred for the entertain- ment of guests at the recent unveiling of the Washington monument it was found that the cost of entertaining Mayor Strong oi New York was just $3. Some of the private “camps” {in the Adiron- dacks are as costly 8s a cottage at Newport. H. McK. Twomb!y owns a camp in the St Regis region which is said to nave cost not less than §90,000. Collis P. Huntington fitted up A camp in the same Tegion a few years ago which cost about $35,000, and Whitelaw Reid has a camp construcied On the same expensive scale. Champagne was fully represented at the re- cent wedding of Mile. Werle, daughter of the head of the Clicquot firm, to the son of Count de Mun, the Catholic leader in the French Chamber of Deputies. Among the persons present were the Duchess d'Uzes, grand- daughter of the Veuve Clicquot; the Countess of Montebello and the Countess Roederer. Mme. Clicquot was the daughter of Baron Ponsardin of Sevres, and after her husband’s death established the great chempagne busi- ness. Her only daughter was married to the Comte de Chevigne, and their only daughter, marriea to the Comte de Rochechouart-Morte- mart, was the mother of the eccentric Duchess a’Uzes. IN FREE EXPRESSION. Philadelphia Press. If a hundred tonsof gunpowder are exploded in the open’ air mo one is harmed; there is a great flash, & buge volume of smoke—that is all—but if a hundredth part of this amount, confined within walls of granite, were ex- ploded, something must give way, and the ponderous masses of stone would be scaitered in every direction. There isnot much danger in error if only il be freely expressed. Meu's minds will work themselves clear if they have a chance. 1f one man is free to proclaim his error and his neighbor is free to prociaim his truth, in the long run the experience of mankind will rench a solution of the question. Truth asks only 1o meet error-face to face; if it cannot conquer then it is not truth. - But’ thought ex- pressed, like a confined explosive, breaks out in all manner of mischief and destruction. 1f s man does not pui his error into words then no one knows what error he is checishing, and there is no chance for hiim to be set right, and the error, like a deep-seated ulcer, bur- rows and burrows out of sight, until the whole system is diseased. SAFETY HIDDEN GOLD., New York Herald, We are told tnat pecessity is the mother of invention. It isanold saw which was long since worn threadbare. We don’t mneed any other spur to invention nowadays than the hope of gain. It {s reckoned that more thana hundred millions of gold rest quietly on the bottom of the ocean—perhaps double that amount, We want it, and we are bouna to get it. The ordinary diver with his imperfect ap- paratus can’t quite get hold of 1t. A locomo- tive diving-boat hss therefore been invented, and we may soon be presented with some startling facts. The boat can sink itself 300 feet and can then be propelled on wheels by an electric t will safe.y remain on the boitom three or four days, and a 2000-candle-power searchlight will frighten the fishes out of their senses and show the hiding-place of the yellow metal. Kiondike is nowhere. LIKE A CHARTER ARGUMENT. New York Times. What is a “unifying force,” anyway? It would seem reasonable, just in the interests of accuracy, to confine the application of the phrase to force that produce a real and per- manent combination of elements or ingre- dients, and not ex:end it to those able at best merely to form an emulsion. For by its very nature an emulsion isbut a reluctant intimacy of molecules, in whica: there is a conswnt tendency 10 separate, the constituents of lighter weight rising to the top ana the heavier ones failing to the botiom out of sight. Learned doctors—of sick municipa.i- ties, for instance—need not betold how ire- quent and arduous is the shaking to which an emuision must be subjected by the invaliis to whom it is prescribed, or how much more satisfactory a true chemical union usually is than & mechanical mixture, | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS ONE OF 1811—C. H. F,, City. The premium | offered on a $5 gold piece of 1811 1s from 25 to |50 cents. WALTER M. LEMAN —Sunday Reader, Ben Lomond, Santa Cruz County. Walter M. Leman | aid pot leave any sons. THOMAS—Slnday Reader. Ben Lomond, Santa | Cruz County, Cal. The name of Thomas does | not appear in any punlished list of prominent American actors. MAJORITY—G. B., City. In Germany major ity is usuaily reached at 24, though insome states (Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtemberg and Baden) the age is 21. HAWAITAN ISLANDS—A. O. 8., San Mateo, Cal. The public debt of the Hawaiian Islandsis apout §4,000,000. The Chinese population i about 15,000 and the Japanese about 24,000. MoxMOUTH—B. C., City. There is neither Monmouth, North Monmouth nor South Mon- | mouth in the State of Massachusetts, but | North ana South Monmouth are in the County | of Kennebec in the State of Maine. THE COINS OF 18! City. This depart- ment has on a number of occasionsannounced that quarters and half dollars of the year 1853 are worth only face value if such have arrow heads =t the date and have rays aronnd the eugle. It is only those that have neither arrow heads nor rays that command a premium. CustoM-Hovse RECEIPTS—O. S.. Delano, Cal. The figures given show the receipts from cus- toms duties during the four fiscal years of the terms of Harrison and of Cleveland as Presi- dents of the United States: Harrison, $860.- 467,496; Cleveland (last term), $647,354,027. Excess in Harrison’s term over Cleveland's term, $213,122,469. FINES FOR BEING LATE — Subscriber, City. There is no law that governs the amount of fine an émployer may impose on an employe for being late. The employer makes his rules and the emplose is forced to abide by the same if there is a failure to comply with any of them. Asarule an arbitrary fine is fixed irrespective of the amount of salary paid to an employe. WASHINGTON'S AUTOGRAPH—R. J. &, City. A genuine signature of George Washington is worth just what & person who might wish to be possessed of it wou!d be willing to glve, Oceasionelly autographs are sold by auction 1n the city of New York, and if there is great competitfon signatures bring good prices. The librarian of the Sutro Library of this City can show you & catalogue that gives the prices tkat have been paid for autographs. SILVER COINED AND UNCOINED—W. M. A.. Al lenaale,” Aptos, Santa Cruz County, Cal. On the 30th of last July there were in the United States Treasury, 400,338,020 silver dollars | and bullion $105,109.460. This amount of sil- ver is not effected by tne recent decline in silyer for the reason that the Government will coin the bullion into silver dollars and issue them at face value just as it will the silver dol- lars on hand. A MATTER OF TASTE—P. C., Oakland, Cal. It an individual wishes to take a salt-water bath at a point distant from natural salt water he can procure from druggists what 1s known as “sea salt,” which he can use to prepare a salt- water path at home. If the individual thinks that he would like to use the same salt water t0 prepared again and again to bathe in that is & matter of taste. The impurities from the body would certainly not improve the water for u secoud bath. G- 8., City. There is no law that directs that a prisoner in the United States, sentenced to death, must be hanged on Friday. It hasbeen the custom to select thatday, but there are instances when an- other day of the week has been chosen for the execution. Oneof the mostrecant instances on record is the case of Edward Flannagan, convicted in Decatur, Ga., of the murder of Mrs, Nency Allen and Miss Ruth Slack. He was sentenced by Judge Candler to be exe. cuted on Wednesday, Augast 25, SPANISH DOLLAR—E. Alameda, Cal, It is probable that the early colonists applied the of the Sons of Benjamin, and Minerva Lodge the ladies’ auxiliary, assembled in Social Ha of the Alcazar building. to attend a grand b and the distribution of the game and g prizes won at the pienic ot the order held on the 224 of last month. There was plenty of music, a long programme of dances, end as there wers many young folks present they enjoyed themselves to the utmost. The d buiion of tne prizes occupied conside time, for there were many of them, and thero were many beaming facis as the co hauded over ihe orders to those who ! declared the winners. The affair was un the management of the iollowins Arrangement s Labei, Mr-. B . Bar L Kecept Cook, H. L. Springer, J. Gibbs, William I and L. C. Levy; floor committee—L Cohn, Rovert Mann and Mr. Meyer; dist tion—J. Label, A. Lowenstein, D, Wachold The pi was a grand success, there tein large aitzndance and the enteriai Sunday night wes an enjoyable aff The Native At a recent meeting of Native Sons in Iowa. Hill, Placer County, Edward Dolan presided and O. L, Sprague acted as secretary, and after the objects had been stated & new parlor was ons. organized with thirty mem! It will be known as Prospect Parlor, No. 201. The new parlor will be instituted on ibe f Sep- tember by A. F. Brady, who tion, will fustall the follow 10 serve for the first term: G dent; F. E. Cannon, P. R. T. Adge, vice-presidents; M . L.'Sprague, treasurer; . Hesser, surgeon; 1se and F. Papa, trustees. The Native Sons of Los Angeles a propose 10 celebrate Admission d g style. On Wednesday, the 8:h, there will be & general receplion to all Native Sons and their friends at the Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeies, where there will be a vocal and fu- strumental concert. On Thursday there will be a parade through tie principal sireets under the marshaiship of Frank Sabichi, grand trustee, after wiich those in line and their frieuds will take train and boat for Cata- lina island. There witl be patrio® exercises and an ora- tion by Stephen M. Wnite, and the raising ot the Bear and American flags. In the evening there will be a water carnival and fireworks, viich tuere will be a grand ball. On there will be & number of aquatic sports, excursion rourd the bay to poiuts of interest, and a lending at C Banning, where there will be a barbecue. In the even- ing there will be 8 mins periormance. Saturday will be devoted 1o fishing and gen- eral go-as-you-please during the day and a highjinks at nignt, and on Sunday the excur- sionists will return to their respective homes. Young Men’s Institute. The board of grand directors met last Mon- day and elected E. B. Thomas presideat. The committee on laws and supervisions was ap- pointed by thegrand president of the order and the nominations were ratified by tue board. The committee consists of E. B. Taomas, P. Princevalle, D. E. Hayden, B. H. Hammoud d H. Kugeiberg; finance committee—H. kham, R. H. Hunmond, D. E. Hayden, W. . Noonan and_P. Princevalie; supplies—D. E. Hayden, J. T. McNff, H. Kugelberg and P. Princevaile. Toe board decided to houd iIs meeting on the second Monday of each nionth. Tne first installmentof the per Capila tax 75 cents, has been levied for September 1 and will be payebie at once. The proceedings of the recent Grand Council are being put i shape for the printer. Californi Council had a fine entertainment last Toursday in St Joseph's Hall, Alumeda. Those who_participated were: Julia Ricklei- son, Anna Scnreiber, Miss Clara Atkins, John and Miss Margaret Ryder, Thomss Jacobus, Mignon Read. Julius Roos and Miss Pearl Reud, and tnere was an interesting address by ¥. J. Murasky on the “Wori!’s Lessons.” w CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c 15, Townsend's® —————————— The Detroit Journal has been informed by persons closely in touch with Dr. Angell, the Minister to Turkey, that he will never again act as president of the University of Michi- gan—a place he has held for twenty-six years. —————————— SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery. * —_————— They have finally taken steps in Russia to erect a monument to Turgeneff in his native town, Orel. A committee has been formed in St. Petersburg, at the head of which is Prince Constantine Constantinovich, president of the Academy of Science, to collect money for the purpose. It is expected thata large number of popular contributions will be forthcoming. “Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup Has been used over fifty 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 fs the best remedy for Diatrheeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs.Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 25€abotile - CornNADO.—Atmosphere is perfectly dry, sofs and mild, being entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Kound-trip tickets, by steam- ship, iuciuding fifteen dsy board at the Hotel tal Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 50 perday. App.s 4 New Montgomery street. San Francisco. —————— REMOVE the causes that make yonr hair lifeless and gray with PARKER'S HATR BALSAM. HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns. 15 cts. G e The late Archbishop Jan of New Or- leans left an estate of only about $6000, which he 1inheritéa from his father,and three-fourths of it he bequeathed for religious and chari- table purposes. He was entitled to a hand- some salary for years, but drew bar: to pay the actual expenses of hissimp ag, haviug allowed the remainder to accumulate 10 pay off the debt of the d ———— NEW TO-DAY. word ““dollar” to the Spanish “peso,” because the common translation of the word peso is dollar, in the commercial sense. It is true that dollar is derived from the German “thaler,” and it s likely that the old colo- nists, noticing that the peso was similar in size, or nearly 80, 1o the German thal ferred to use the “dollar,’ which 18 o dasy transition from “thaler,” 10 “‘a piece of eig ht?r which the Spanish coin peso was sometimes d‘ lhe_'renlon for the adoptiion of the word ““dollar” by the early colonists does not appear of record and cen ouly be surmised but it must have been in common use, fog iy the ace of April 2,1792, the first one authoriz. ing the coinage of American or Unfted States picces, are the following words: “Dollars or units-"cach to be of th milled dollar.” © value of & Spanish PAINTING—F. D., City. The area given quantity of paint will cover de:e':lig:l 0: the nature of the suriace to which it fs a, plied, the proportion -of the ingredients nnp-d the state of the weather. Generaily to paint one hundred square yards of surface of new wood (pine) there is required: Two pounds of red lead, elght=en ana a halt pounds of whit lead, two pints of raw linseed oi] feur pinis o? boiled 1in-eed oil, one pint of turpentine wnd one-eighth pound oi arler. There is also re- quired two and & half ponnds of white lead and five pounds of putty for stopping. That is from one authotliy. Auother Says: It is 1 cover & given surface vari thirkness of the paint, tl:: wk‘x‘r‘x‘d’%?k\:ggd'm: other material to which it is appiied, 1he .§e of the surface, The following {s an ap- roximate rule: Divide the number of square et of surfac- by 200. The result will b3 the number of gallons of lquid paint r. quired to | 8ive two coats; or divids by eighteen and toe JF CUTTER EXTRA 0ld Bourhon has been a staple family and medicinal whiskey fora quarter- century. B AR & CO,, 411 Market 8t., San Francisco.