The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 3, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1897. 2 Call .SEPTEMBER 3, 189 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. ..710 Market street, S8an Francisco Main 1868. PUBLICATION OFFICE Telepho EDITORIAL ROOMS.. 517 Clay street phone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by city and sur-ounding towns for 15 cents a week. vear; per month 65 cents. carriers in th By mail $6 p THE WEEKLY CALL. One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE. ceneen v.....908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. BRANCH OFFICES Montgomery street, corner ; open until 9:30 o’clock. 339 Haves street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 6135 Larkin street; open uutil 9:30 o’clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission street 111l 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock sion street; open until ® o'cleck. 1500 Polk street; op i 0 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open tiil 8 o’clock. THE SAN FRANCISCO ASSESSMENT. AN FRANCISCO wiil have a hearing to-morrow before the State Board of Equalization. Her officials ana her reore- sentative taxpayers will then have an opportunity to set forth the reasons why no raise shou!d be made in the assess- It is to be assumed the hearing will be given without vrejudice and that if the right ment of projerty within her limits, arguments are presented in the right way we shall escape the danger of an increase of taxation upon our already overbur- dened people, It has been all along the argument of THE CALL that a com- pleté justification exists for our taxpayers in resisting any pro- posed raise in the assessment of property, and tnat if the facts | are fully and r1airly set before them, the Equalizers will con- cede our claims. We have been opposed to making attacks upon the board, or attributing unjust motives to its members, and have steadfastly maintained that the cause of San Francisco is so well founded in reason that the safest as well as the best way 1o maintain it is by an appeal to reason rather than by the tactics of bulldozing which the Eraminer has preached and practiced as far as it could. The policy advocated and urged by TeE CALL has been fol- Jowed. We confidently count on good results. The commitiee appointea by the Board of Supervisors has collected a large amoust of data bearing on the subject and will be able to show that San Francisco at the present rate of assessment will bear her full share of the taxation required for the revenues of the State, and that to add to it would be an injustice upon her peo- ple. This showing cannot fail to have weight with the Equal- izers and will certainly be more beneficial to us than would a daily outpouring of abuse and invective. Upon no point of this issue has TuE CALL been more insist- ent than upon that of arranging for a delegation of taxp to accompany the cofficial committee to Sacramento and take partin the bearing. Itisgratifying to note that this will be A number of representative citizens heve been appoint- ed to perform the duty. The list of names published in THE CALL yesterday shows that the delegation has been carefully se- lected and is thoroughly competent to look after the important interest intrusted to it. Among its members are many of our best known and most influential citizens, and no one will ques- tion either their knowledge of property values in this City or the accuracy of the representations they may make. dgne. It has been reported from Sacramento that the Equalizers will decide not to raise the assessment of San Francisco, but will manage to impose on us an undue proportion of the burden of State taxation by decreasing the assessments of other coun- ties. Even should this be done we will fare better than last year, when not only were the assessmentsof other counties lowered, but ours were raised. We need not, however, concern ourselves much with such reporis at this time. The hearing takes place to-morrow. We will have a strong delegation there to uphold our cause, and we may be sure we will fare better than we have done under the old methods of staying at home and denouncing the board instead of going before it with argu- ments and fair dealing. The sloop Call sailed away for Dawson City duly christened. It is true that the region is marked by a paucity of champagne, and the ceremony could not bs the usual one of crackinga bottle over the bow, but Mr. Hoffman broke a tin of corned beef in lieu of the bottle, serving every purpose. Indeed the new custom has advantages. In naval christenincs the wine is invariably wasted. In usinga can of corned beet the contents are merely made available, and the tin, instead of being shat- terad, may be saved 1o serve as a drinking-vessel. California murderers seem to have an idea that the Supreme Court of the United States was instituted chiefly for the pur- pose of saving their worthless necks. Four of them, each long overdue on the gallows, and none baving any valid excus» for declining to be hanged, have made the necessary appeal. Some day there will be an honest assassin who, confessing his guilt, will indicate a willingness to pay the penalty, and him an as. tounded Governor will set free. The California Sugar Beet, a new publication, the first num- ber of which has just been issued, is 2 handsomely printed periodical of twelve pages, devoted as its name imp!ies to the upbuilding of the sugar industry in California. - It will be an important addition to the list of our industrial publications, and should be studied by all who wish to keep posted on this im- portant industry of the State. The refusal of the Southern Pacific to do anything to en- courage the convening of mail-carriers here will surprise any- body familiar with the usually generous and unselfish way in which that corporation strives to help California and San Fran- cisco. For fear some reader might misunderstand this state- ment it may be well to add that it isn’t so, OVER PEfilLO_US WHITE PASS. HE most timely and instructive as well as the most thor- oughly interesting letter thus far received by any newspaper from beyond the hoary mountains of the Alaskan coast was that written by Mr. Hoffman, a member of our Klondike expe- dition, and published in yesterday’s issue of THe CALr. Itis the first genuine information given to the world concerning ‘White Pass and the Skaguay trail. Never befors had a faithful description of that route reached the press. Never before had the actual condition of the trail been faithfully depicted. Never before had any newspaper correspondent braved the perils of the pass in order to satisfy the desire of thousands for the truth concerning it. R Mr. Hoffman tells a piain, unvarnished tale, but every line, every word of it counts. It isfull of substance—volumes con- densed into paragraphs. It is the first story of White Pass, and the best and most fascinating piece of descriptive work having & bearing on the existing situation in Southern Alaska. That sturdy and efficient representative of Tur Carw shouldered a pack and blankets and crossed White Pass to the headwaters of the Yukon. The journey was found to be one of “*hardest im- aginable labor, sslf-denial, starvation, horror, accident and death.” The letter is replete with thrilling incidents. It is the work of a newsgatherer who fully understands his mission and who knows that the people of America value fac:s and put the proper estimate on fakes and the balderdash of a visionary. As to the zmount of Kiondike treasure already secured there seems to have been some exaggeration. However, as to the hardships of the trails, the size, number and activity of the mosquitoes, definite information has a little more than confirmed rumors. _— Itis explained that the Fresno gentleman who used the mails for proposing simulisneously to twenty women hoped to catch one of the bunch. But ho might have worse luck than this. He might catch two. —— s As an appeal for the establishment of a new park, the fact that the first benefit would be to the streetcar lines is certeinly unique, but it won’t touch the popular heart. l A FOOLISH PROPOSITION. PROPOSITION that the new charter for San Francisco A shall provide for the voting of officials out of office is receiving the support of a part of the press, which | insists with great vigor upon its propriety. A novelty so conspicuous as this needs very carefui exam- ination and should be well considered before it is adopted. It is a novelty in our system of government only, for it has been tried before in various forms. In the Greek commonwealth | not only were men liable to be voted out of office but out of the country, and there is abundant historical testimony that the people us=d but little discrimination in selecting victims for | ostracism. Instead of voting out the worst citizens the popu- lar vengeance fell often upon the best. The Greek who threw his shell to ostracise Aristides, because he was tired of hearing | him called ““the Just,” has many foliowers to-day. The ballot follows quite closely the lines upon which pub- lic opinion is roused. The press is now the readiest and most powerful means of influencing public opinion, and that a cer- tain class of papers do this by appealing to prejudice is no secret. Senator Toombs of Georgia said to a young candidate for political honors: “‘Remember always that in politics one prejudice gets more votes than a thousand reasons.” It is true now that good men and honest hesitate about taking public office because the baser press does not scruple to libel them to increase its profits by appealing fo popular prejudice. The ser nearly procured the murder by a mob of a man in Shasta County by charging him with a dozen murders, and retracted grudgingly when all of the alleged victims reported and were fed at a common table as the guests of the man who had been charged with killing them. It is easy to ses that with osfracism by ballot established every public officer becomes the slave of any blackmailing newspaper which can destroy his reputation by lying and oust him from office by playing upon popular passion and prejudice. A new weapon would be put into the hands of a corrupt newspaper, and, instead of purifying official life, it would be the means of debauching It. The Greek method, tried thoroughly in that ancient commonwealth, does not seem to have had permanent root in the land where it germinated and was not adopted to any extent by succeeding nations. To make officers obey a reckless newspaper no better plan can be conceived than this. There is a growing belief that this dragooning is already practiced too much, and it will be a bad day for jusiice when a Judge feels that he holds office by such a slender tenure as the goodwill of a newspaper which can send him to join Aristides, no matter how stainless his official hands may be. In many of the Latin-American countries the Government is continually in danger of a change by revolution, and these changes are so frequent and erratic as to weaken the safe- guards of person and property. Where these are not main- tained there is but little prosperity and advancement. There is great danger tha' ostracism will bring about practically the same results as change by revolution. Popular institutions are in the crucible in this country, with every evidence that they will stand the test. For more than a century our governments—municipal, State and Na- tional—have been formed on the same model, with checks and balances, safeguards and barriers, intended to get reason and judgment reflected in the popular verdict of the ballot- box. The progress made under existing institutions and methods is a conclusive argument against revolutionary change. Bad men are more tolerable in office for the brief tenure now fixed by law than a charter provision that would make it possible for a good man to be ostracised by ballot and outlawed in a spasm of prejudice, cunningly planned by a corrupt press or a demagogue agitator. Does any one suppose that the good name of Judge Temple or of Theodore Hittell would have protected either in office against the appeals to the people made by Denis Kearney in the height of his power? From the far Nortkwest comes now the rumor of war. The United States Government is to seize British territory, plant the stars and stripes on the glacial heights and prance there- abouts to the screaming of the eagle, while with tail unjointea and askew the lion is to depart into the dim distance. The rumor does not possess all the elements that appeal to reason. This Government has always been noted for the avidity with which it did not seize alien territory and been unduly gentle in resisting encroachments near its own borders. Had the rumer set forth that Canada, inspired by the motberland, in- tended to do a little grabbing it might haver passed among thinking people amid a show of at least temporary respact. The formalities of custom as shown by official Spanish cor- respondence are somewhat misleading. For instance, when Weyler, writing to a young lady, offers in so many words to “kiss her foot”” he does not mean it. As the champion butcher, such an act would ill comport with the dignity of his position, and as for the young lady, well, if she has any sort of feminine pride she thinks too much of her foot to even place it in jeop- ardy in a manner 8o reckless. THE CANINE PARABLE HE Ezaminer, in discussing Mr. Bryan’s pass, attempts to be severe on Mr. Mills, and declares that “If you lie'down with dogs vou get up with fleas.” If the Erzaminer intends to call Mr. Mills a dog it must remember that when Bryan lay down with him he got up not with fleas but with a pass to Portland. It is apparent that the Examiner gives up Mr. Bryan’s case whichever way 1ts canine parable may be interpreted. If it roeans that Mills lay down with Bryan then Mills got the fleas and Bryan is the dog, and vice versa, TrE CALL is of the opinion that each gentleman got a flea in his ear which he will not soon forget. e It tries the patience to read that Japan contemplates taking up the Nicaragua canal preject and completing the aitch. A gentleman once asked, with every aspect of wanting to know, what meat Cmsar ate that be had grown so great. No answer, 80 far as recorded, was received, but in view of the way Japan has acted since her little war it may be suspected that Camsar had a habit of eating Chinamen. 8ince Hohenlohe became Chancellor of Germany little has been heard of him except that he wasabout to resign. Accord- ing to correspondents the Chancellor does nothing but firmly resolve to lay down the reins and then summon up a superior resolution to keep his grip. This happens to be one ot the times when the announcement of his resignation is in order. Young women with an ambition to marry a title may be saddened to learn that one of the most sounding ones ever im- ported is, tozether with 1ts distinguished owner, in a San Francisco jail. However, the man already hasa wife, so per- haps his detention, on general principles, in view of tue dis- appointment, is no more than just. SRyt e The Oakland woman whose wardrobe has been attached by the Sheriff naturally is somewhat inconvenienced. Yet to bave the fact published to the world that she has 250 silk dresses probably goes far toward assuaging the sense of dis- comfort. 1. Zangwill, occupying deservedly a high place among critics, thinks that the horrible and abnormal should be ex- cluded from fiction. In other words, Mr. Zangwill does not approve of yellow journalism. ‘Whenever Spain gets ready to file damage suits against the United States Weyler should not forget to putin a few for defamation of character. TLey would have at least as good standing at court as the rest. The work of the Solid Nine in the Board of Education is as raw as ever, but the nine itself roasted to a turn. PERSONAL. Dr.J. R. Curnow of San Jose is at the Palace. Dr. J. L Stephen of Petaluma is at the Grand. Dr. W. E. Parkinson of San Jose is at the Grand. George W. Peltier of Sacramento is at the Palace. J. P. Laueritzen, s Salinas merchant, s at the Grand, €. Goodwin of Naps is registered at the Cos- mopolitan. Rev. John Partridge of Petalums isat the Occidental. C.F. Foster, a mine-owner of Red Bluff, is at the Grand. G. W. Morgan, a hotel man of Duncans Mills, isat the Grand. H. V. Trafton of Watsonville arrived at the Grand last night. W. H. McKenzie, a banker of Fresno,iss guestatthe Lick. A. B. C. Dowdell, a merchant of Bt. Helens, isat the Baldwin. C. C. Curlew of Fresno is stopping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Dr. C. L. Browning of Folsom Is at the Bald- win, accompanied by his wife. Howard Tilton, a railroad man of Seattle, is a late arrival at the Occidental. H. Henn and wife of Sacramento are stop- Pping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Elwood Bruner, an attorney of Sacramento, is at the Grand, accompanied by his wife. Effie Elaine Hext, the touring concertist, is at the Baldwin, registered from Chicago. Bert Gibson of Porterville arrived at the Baldwin last night, accompanied by his bri J. M. Nichols and J. D. Matthews, two bus ness men of Los Angeles, are guests at the Grand. Dr. G. F. von Schmidt of St. Petersburg, Rus- sia, arrived at the Russ yesterday from Cen- tral America. Alfred P.Fraser, son of the Stockton banker, and a law student at Harvard University, is at the Occidental, A. McDonnell and R. Kretchner of Jackson- ville, Fla., are among the 1ecent arrivals ot the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Congressman Berry of Kentucky, 8 member of the Wheeling gunboat party, will leave here this morning for Portland, Or., on & visit to his sister. Major Fahey, proprietor of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, is convalescing from his recent attack of sickness, aud he will be ab.e to be around in & few days. J. H. Leverich of Panama, sgont at Panama of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, ar- rived at the Palace yesterday on a vacation, accompanied by his wife and daughter. J. D. Bush, generalfreight agent of the Santa Fe route for the Pacific Coast, returned yester- day morning from e three weeks' business trip in the East. He reports business good and prosperity everywhere. Ralph Duun of Melrose, Scotland, who holds two Government positions at that place, is at the Occidental, accompanied by his young son. Heisona tour of the world and nhas a six months’ leave of absence. To-day he will g0 to Del Monte, and on the 234 will sail for Honolulu. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 2.—At the St. Cloud, L. B. Turner; Imperial, Miss Edmund- son; Cadallic, J. L. Daniels. Peter Weizzl of Anaheim, Cal,, sailed on the Barbarossa for Bremen. THE HALL OF JUSTICE. SAN Fraxcisco, Sept. 1, 1897, Edttor Morning Call—DEA® Sie: The under- signed business men and property-owners of the North End heartily thank you for your able effort in advocating the completion of the Hall of Justice. Respecifuily, L. SaToRIUS, 716 Kearny street. M. SILBERSTEIN, 804 Filbert street. A. STERN, 702 Kearny street. B. M. MONTGOMERY, 706 Kearny street. HAHN DYER, 704 Kearny street. SEEBA & BOHLEN; 716 Kearny street. JOHN SEEBA. 620 Montgomery street. A. C. SEYMOUR, 629 Monigomery street. CHARLES LAGRAVE, 625 Montgomery street. Ep SCHAEFER, 621 Montgomery street. GUS WEIMAN, 622 Merchant street. ROASTING A BRIION. BAN FrANCISCO, September 1, 1897. Editor Morning Call — DEAR SIR: Will you please allow me a short space in your great paper, as I wish to reply to the article which appeared in your valuabie paper and signed “A Briton.” The author of the article claims that we are too young & country to think of going to war with such a great nation as Eug- land, as she is an old country, I wish the author will permit me to state thatI will admit that our country is young, but I hope that when our country will be as old as old England that we wiil not have the universal reputation of being the most cowardly, brutish and robbing nation, as England has shown herseli to be. ‘With ber large navy and her prowess she has never shown the courage of Servia or Greece, who each fought Turkey separately, or Den- mark, who fought Austria and Prussia—Ger- many, 1864. Eugland’s method of fighting is to heve jour or six natione in front of her. In Asia and Africa she sends races against races, and after the war is over she builds panoramss and claims all the victory and glory to herself, even going so far as to send out lecturers to the people to tell what great fighting they have done, while others did the reai fighting. It is true that we are a young country, but anything belonging to England on this conti- nent we can get we can take without fighting, as England wiil only talk and not fight. But should we be called upon 1o go to war, we do not need other nations to heip us, as we fear no friend nor foe, but we will show the world that we are fighters and we fear no nation, particularly England. Hoping thatyou will publish this, very sincerely yours, NROE H. RUSSELL (an American). 1002 Mission street, THE TURN OF THE LANE. Ca 't be stormy & whole life long; anc’s got Lo turn some day: Springtime’s comm’ with a bird" Lane’s got toturn some day. 0, believers, Watch and pray: Loug 1ane’s comin’ To & turn some day, Toll an’ trouble, but the end’s !n sight, Lane's got to turn soms day : ‘World’s jest rok.in’ to the mornin’ light, Lane’s got to turn some day, O, believers, your way: Lonz lane’s comin’ ‘T'0 & turn some day. —Atlanta Constitution. 's sweet song: WITH YOUR COFFEE. The party paused now to contemplate Ixion on his wheel. “I don’t see where the toriure comes in,” whispered ZEneas. Pluto, who was personally conducting the tour of the distinguished Trojuns through Hades, pointed silently to the name plate; it was & last year’s wheel. The son of Anchises shuddered and hurried on.—Truth, He—Do you believe in woman taking man’s place ? She—Yes; in a crowded streetcar.—Philadel- phia Record. Deacon Hasbeen (laying down his paper)—I have just been reading that alcohol will re. move grass stains from the most delicate fabric. Mrs. Hasbeen (severely)—There you go again, Jason, trying to find some excuse. Just re- member that you have no grass stains in your stomach.—Judge. Lightlove—At last, dear Sophia, we are alone and I can tell you that Ilo—"" Sophia—Oh, vlease, no, Mr. Lightlove, don’t tell me here. Lightlove—Why not? There are no wite nesves, Bophia—That’s just it!—Punch. Schoolmaster (to new boy)—What 1s your father by trade? Boy (perpiexed)—Must I tell? Schoolmaster—Yes, you must. Boy (after a great deal of hesitation)—Please, sir, he's the bearded women at the circus.. Tib-Bits. Hurry—Wha life? Scurry—To be rich enough to be able to get everything one does't want.—Brooklyn Life. ’s the great aim of modern HORSES TO WEAR BONNETS. ¢'Ors>s in bonnets!” exclaimed an aston- ished cabtby to a representative of the Daily Graphic who had ssked him tor an opinion on the ‘“great hat question.” ¢’Orses in bon- nets! Why, they’il be putting 'em in petti- coats nex: “But don’t you think that a headgear would be a good thing for horses in very hot wesather?” “Ay, sir, that I do. Many a’orse might be saved from sunstroke if they wore something of the sort. But are they really going to bring these bonnets into fashion?” “If you'il drive me to Messrs. Percy & Co., in Great Tower street, I dare sayI can get you one.” Mr. Perey, whois the prime mover in the pew humenitarian crusade, was out, unfor- tunately, but J. Haye, the manager of the firm, very courteousiy gave a good desl of ENGLAND’S DEPENDENCE. Philacelphia Telegraph. Current statistics show that our commercial relations with England are becoming one-sided to & degree that must attract the aitention of thinking minds on both sides of the sea. Dur- ing the fiscal year ending June 30 our exports to Great Britain amounted to $478. 448,592. This is nearly as much we sent cut to all countries together, the sum befng 45.97 per cent of the entire amount of our export trade. Our English-spesking friends are not only our best customers, but they are within a fraction of being better customers than all the rest of :he world. On the other hand, we are not their best customers by a loug way. For the past fiscal vear our purchases from them amounted to $167,947.820, makine a trade balance in our iavor of $310.500,772. We buy from others more than we do from them, their bills BONNETTED HORSES IN LONDON. interesting information on the subject. In the office the ordinary dullness of the dreary waste of wine-bottles wes reiieved here ani there by bundles of the bright straw bonnets which hiad given rise to the discussion—dainty and expensive creations, with wide brims and high conicel crowns, and ciosely related in shape both to the oid hats of the Puritans snd those of the peasant wives of Weles. “Is this the latest fashion?’ asked the reporter, pick- ing one of them up and shaking out the gay ribbons of red and blue which fell from the crown. “Quite the latest, T assure you,” answered | Mr. Haye, *“‘Wnen Mr. Percy first introduced them to Londou—that was two years ago this summer, I believe—he adopted the ‘Trilby’ hat; but that, of course, is now dreadfuily out of date. The idea itself is taken from the Con- tinent,where the bonnets are ased extensively in some places. New samples came from Bor- deaux at the begiuning oi the present season, and Mr. Percy, while making use of their shape, decided to have the bonnets themselves made#in England—{rom Yureiy patriotic mo- tives, of course. So he placed a large order with ove of the Luton manufacturers, and there is iittle doubt that the bonnets which have just been turned out there are tetter in every way than the samples sent from France. They cost between one and two shilliugs apiece.” ““All our own horses wear them already, and Mr. Percy gives his cabman one every iime he drives home from the office.”” “‘And do they all fall in with the idea?” | askea our representative, mindful of his own capby outside. driver to have a drink—for a drink,as you kunow, is & Key to every man’s heart—and then we fix the bonnet on his horse’s head for him. Of course, the men have to put up wiith & good deal of chaff, but tuey soon get used to that, and most of them who have had the bonnets swear by them now. As for the horses they seem 10 think no end of themselves as they cock their ears through the holes in the brims, which, as you see, are brought down over their heads by the ribbons,and these, being tied under the chin, make practically a Victorian bonnet of the affair.” THEY HAD MET BEFORE. Chicago Times-Herald. General Joe Wheeler of Alasbama, a South- ern cavalry leader, delights to tell of the meeting between two veterans of opposing sides in a New York beer garden. They had been introduced by mutual friends and bathed their new acquaintance in beer. Of course the talk reverted to the war. *The land is at peace,” said the Eoutherner, who lacked an arm, “and we are all brothers again. Neither side has surrendered its principles, but both have accepted the arbitrament of the sword. I love the brave men who fought againstme, suli, almost as much as the brave men who fought with me.”” “‘Here, t00,” said the Northener cordially. His leftleg had been vuried in Virginia. More beer. “The hottest piace I was ever in,” continued the Southerner, ‘wns near Culpepper Court- house, down in Virginia, suh. We were lying in a shallow ditch on the edge of a field when you Yenks charged us. We waited untll you ot within thirty yards of us and then we rose. One big feliow with a corporal’'s chevrons on his jacket appeared to pick me out especially. We fired at the same instant. I felt a sharp shock in my left arm, and i1 was cut off the next day, but he went down ss dead as a door nail.” “What!” yelled the Northerner, “are you the man that'shot my leg off ? I've been looking for you for thirty-five years.” «Suh.”” howled the Southerner, “my arm’s in the grave along o’ you.” Then, in the language of Sum Jones, there was “blood and hair and the ground tore up.” Waiters separated the belligerents. But the war is over just the same. MEN AND WOMEN. Burke Perkins, 94 years old, whose children number 24, and whose grandchildren are un- counted, the other day wedded Mrs. Elizabeth Goings, 76 years old, in the town of Green- ville, Onio. ‘““Professor” Lawrence rose in a balloon to a height of 7000 feet near Naini Tal, in the Himalayas, when the balloon was burst by a heavy rgincloud. The “professor’’ descended by a pardchute in satety. Mrs. Nancy Julian of Warsaw, Ind., has just received a pass to New York over the Pennsyl- vania Railroad. The pass was given because Mrs. Julian was the first woman to travel on a railroad west of the Alleghany Mountains. Jason Webb, of Letcner County, Kentucky, now 78 years .old, has had 309 descendants, all of whom are living with the exception of three of his 19 sons. There are 150 grand- children, 80 great-grandchildren and 60 great- great-grandchildren, all of whom live ten miles of the patriarch. There are be 800 Webbs in Letcher County. Senator Hale describes himself as follows: “Here Tam, well aressed, and my tailor never hes to wait for his pay. Ilive well. I have never done anything very mean. 1am rich. Ienjoy my riches. Iam s gentleman in walk and in talk, SometimesI am ennui and can’t concenl it. It the Persians be right, that ‘every man is as God makes him,’ then I am that man, and if every man be as he fashions himself, then I am that man, too, and the Sen- ate is full of bigger fools than Iam.” Clara Louise Kellogg, the queen of American prima donnas, abdicated, so td speak, in the full splendor of her eventful professional career,apparently without a shadow of regret. In private life she is Mrs, Carl Strakosen, her husband having been formerly as prominently active an impressario as she was a singer. Mr. and Mrs. Strokosch reside during the greater part of thegyear in their beautiful country place at Hartford, Conn., but inva- riably go to New York for a few weeks during the opera season, “‘Well, we do not like this, We first ask the | | late Speaker Crisp: | twenty-one years ago. amounting to 2196 per cent only of our en- tire imports. Roundly speaking, while they take neerly one-helf of all we sell, we oniy take from them a litt'e more than one-fifth of our rnurchases. of uffairs is unsatisfactory mind. It is all the more un prospects are that the balanc favor will tend to grow continually heav: Naturally enough, this state to the British WAS SURE OF THE COUNT. Washingion Post. Some of the office-holders, among them a Georgia Democrat, were telling stories lately, and the Georzian related the following on the It was election day and the Republicans hed putupa strong fight. Prominent in tneir ranks was an old darky, Tom. All day long he hovered around the polis and in an impromptu procession carried a travsparency. In the evening Mr. Crisp was standing in front of his hotel when old Tom sidied bashiully up and requested the present of a doilar. “What, Tom?” sald Mr. Crisp, *'you have the audeciiy 1o come here and ask me for a doliar after working hard against me all day?” “Well, but, Muss Chawles, Ise kuown you ever since you was so nigh and I suttinly do need & dollah bad.” “Tom,” suid Mr. Crisp, looking sternly at him, “didn’t you cast your vote against me to- ay?” Tom looked cast down for & moment. *Das’ s0, das’ 80, Massa Crisp,” but, brightening up th an inspiration, *'you know it gwine to ount foh you ennyhow. Please gimme dat dollah, Massa Chawlcs. KNOCKED SILENT AND SILLY. Pittsburg Dispatch. Only twelve months have passed. The cricket, harbinger of early autumn, sings mer- rily in the trees again; the medicine faker ex- pounds the virtues of his nostrums as of yore by the light of flickering torches upon vacant lots, but Mr, Bryan, of the picturesque pres- ence and resounding voice, is no longer heard in the land. The simple old law of demand and supply has knocked him silent ana silly. Europe has bad weather and short crops. American_wheat went up because it was wanted. Silver went down because it was not wanted, and Bryan’s arguments to farmers of the United States—his main stock in trade— have been all proved false by the market re- ports. The old doctrine ot demand and sup- ply has established its supremacy with such & margin to spare that even the cunning and conscienceless politicians of the so-called Re- publican machine in Pennsylyania are now taking refuge under the ample folds of iis protecting mantle from the just judgments which should be visited upon them for the disgraceful derelictions of the last Legislature. BRYAN’S RAILROAD PASS. New York Mall and Express, Just after W. J. Bryan became the Demo- cratic nominee for President last July he os- tentatiously purchased a railroad ticket to his | old home in Illinois, declaring that he *‘asked | no favors of corporations.” In order to im- | press more deeply upon the peonle the demo- cratic quality of his Democracy he chose the least comfortable car on an accommodation train for his wife and bimself. Bu: a year | makes many changes and strips the covering from many & hypocrite, and we find the trib- une of the people writing to a Pacific rail- rond company: ‘“Please furnish me transpors tation from Sacramento to Portland, with stop-over privilege. I will call for it at Sacra- mento.” It mak.sa difference sometimes. KEY dF SH IDAN’S SUCCESS General Horace Porter, 1n his “Campaigning with Grant,” in the Eeptember Century, says, after describing the batile of Five Forks: Sheridan had that day fought one of the most interesting tactical batties of the war, admirable in conception, brilliant in execu- tion, strikingly dramatic in its incidents, and productive of extremely important results. I said to him: “It Seems to me that you have exposed yourself to-day in a manner hardly justifiable on the part of a commander of snch an important movement.” His reply gave what seems to be the true key to his uniform success on the field: “1 have never in my iife taken & command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive un- less I won.” GEORGIA’S CONVICT LEASES. Atlanta Constitution. It is a fact perfectly well known that the best public sentiment of the State—a sentiment waich, unfortunately, does not always make | itself felt in the election of members of the Legislature—has always resented the existence ot the present system. In scope and purpose it has always been foreign to the policy of the State, but the State has never until now been in a position to rid itseli of the incubus. But the time for that riddance has now come. REAL EDUCATION. Silwaukee Wisconsin, The theory that education unfits men -for work cannot be accepted without accepting also a contracted mesning of *‘education.’” Real education gives those who profess ita wide and sane view of life, and makes them philosophers, capable of cheerful acceptance of any lot which may justly come to them out of the grab-bag of mundane existence. It enables them to make the most of circum- stances, whatever the circumstances may be. FUSION’S DEARTH OF ISSUES. Chicago Times-Herald. The allied forces agaiust Candidate Shaw in Jowa are couducting their joint campaign upon an unusually high plane. Theprincipal issue they huve found thus far is a silly claim that Mr. Shaw overcharged a client of his i ANSWERS TO CORRESFONDENTS MusicAL FDUCATION—M. C., San Mateo, Cal. Those who wish to cultivate & good voice gens erally go to some of the conservatories of . rope. The cost at such is nominal, but a pupil would require a special teacher, and the feo that such would demand would be a matter of arrangement between teacher and pupil. Tne cost of Living in European cities, particularly Munich, mentioned im your communication, would depend upon the tastes of the pupil. Generally speaking, the cost of 1iving in that city Is about the same 8s it is iu San Fran. cisco. The same answer applies to Boston. For more definite information you should write to the director of the conservatory of music in several cities, and in that manner obtain the desired information. . THE UN10N ARMY—L. W., City. The number of men in the Union army furnished by the several States and Territories from April 15, 1861, to the close of the War of the Rebeliion was in the sggregate 2,778,304, as appenrs from the records of the War Depariment. There has never been an official record of toe nativity of the men who served in the Uni srmy, for the reason thai such cannot be made up, the reports of the enrolling officers not being complete in that respect. From the reports in the War Department & general average has been siruck, with the following result: Native American, 1,023,300; British- Ameri 53,000; English, 45.500; 14 )0; German, 176,800; othcr foreigners, 43,400; ‘others, pativites unknown, 786,600. Gas METERS—S., City. On the subject of gas companies furnishing gas to consumers the Civil Code says: Upon the appiication in writing of the owner or occupant of auy building or- premises distant not more than 100 feet irom any main of the corpoia- tion, and payment of all money due from him, the corporation must supply kas as requ.red for such buliding or premises, and caunot refuse on the ground of any indebt«dness of any former owner or occupant thereof, un ess the applicant has oo dertaken to pay the same. 11, for Lhe space of ten days afier such spplication, the corporation re- fuses er negl-cts to supply the gas required 1t must pay to ihe #pp icant the sum of $30 as quidatedl damages snd $5 aday as liquidated damages for eyery day such refusal or neglect continues thers- after. THE MINT—A. G. E,, Oakland, Cal. positions in the mint under the classified ser- vice rules applicants will be required to show on a special biaunk satisfactory evidence in the trade or occupation in which they seek empicyment, and tae subject of experience wiil be an eiement in the exsminations. ‘ In the first grade examination the time 8l= lowed is five hours, age limit 20 yenrs and over. Subjects: Spelling, aritimetic, letter- writing, penmanship, copying from plain copy, copying from rough drafr. Third-grade examinstion—Time allowed, three hours; age limit, 20 years or over. Sub- jects: Spelling, arithmetic, let'er-writing, pen- manship and copying irom plain copy. These examinations will be given only when the needs of the service require thal registers be established. BaByLoN—L. O. B., City. Babylon, an an- cient city of Chaldea, was situated on the plain of Shinar, on both sides of the river Euphrates. The form of the city was a square, each sice of which was about fourteen miles in extent. That was inclosed by brick wells, the height of which was about 335 feet and the thickness about 85 feet. It is supposed that & large part of the space inciosed by them was occupied by gardens, orchards snd open fields. Its site is partly oceu- pted by the modern town of Hillah, & town of Turkey in Asia, pashalic . of Bagdad, sixty miles south of For most Baedad. Bebylon wes taken by the Medes and Persians under Csrus, and Belshazzar was s.ain at a t B. €. 538. In B.C. 518 there was a re- v in Babylon and the city was taken by Darius and B. C. 331 it_was occupied by Alex- ander, who died there 1n B. C. 323, Seleucus Nikator, who died B. C. 280, transferred the seat of government to Seleucia, and Babylon was deseried. Seleucta rose subsequenily near it and carried away much of its population and mnterials, Ctesiphon, Bagdad, Kufa, Hil- lan and other towns are mainly built of the old bricks o: Babylon. Then the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency became heaps withoutan inhabitant. There came a drought upon the waters and the irrigation which caused Baby- lon’s fertility ceased tong ago. The ruins of Babylon, however, stricily speaking, consist mainly of three mounds—Babel, Kasr and Amrau. KNOW WHEN TO LET GO. Detroit Free Press. Western farmers know the comparative value of & byrd in the hand. They are letting g0 of their wheat at twice whiavthey expected to get for it and are in a position to pat them- selves on the back should there chance to be & ump. CALIFORNIA ziace frults, 50c Ib. Townsend's." e e e EPFCIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * - . e Senator Hawley, before he sailed for Europe the other day, said: *‘If there is anything the matter with me I don’t know it, s01am as well off as if I were well, and, indeed, I never felt better in my life, except that Iam very tired. I feel happier than the average school- boy when school is out, but it has been a very anxious year.” “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fiity years by millions of moth- ers for their chiliren while Teething with perfect success. It toothes the child, softens the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is’ the best remedy for. Diarrheas, whether arising from Leething or other causes.. For sale by Druggiais in every part of the world. = Ee sure and 85k 107 )15 W irislo; thing Syrup. 25¢abottle ——————— CoroxADO.—Atmosphers 13 ‘perfectly dry. sot: and.mild, being entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam- ship, including fifteen days board at the Hoteldal Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 50 perday. ~APps 4 omery s rees: San Francisco NEW TO-DAY. Philadelphia Shoe Co, No. 10 Tuiro Sr. STAMPED ON A SHOE MEANS STANDARD OF MERIT NIVDAVE HIHIONV LACE OR 1. BUTTON. These Ladles' Fine Parls Kid Shoes are the.very latest siyle, and have soft, fl-x- ible soles and the new coln toes and patent lesther caps, ana are retalied in olhfr stores for $2 60 and $5 & pair. Our price tor this week only 1 90. On acconnt of the slow progress of the Spreckels building and vot wishing & com= plete sidewalk blockade, the owners of the boilding we now occupy will not com- ‘mence (o rebuild for a week or so. There- fore oar GREAT REMODELING SALE Continues. ‘Still larger reductions have been made on ail lines ot Children’s, Misses’, Boys’ and Ladies’ Tan and Black Shoes; in-oider to. red uce our stock as low as possible; Children’s and Misses’ Fine Kid Button, new coin toes and tips, heavy fl-xible welt soles, spring heels, ull3izes and widths. Children’s sizss, Misses’ . sizes, 8 to 1 1to 2, Reduced from Reduced rrom. $175 to $1 30, $2 25 to $1 60. Conntry orders solicited, B3 Send for New lllustrated Catalogue, Audress 3 B. KATCHINSKI, FFILADELPHIA SHOE cCoO., 10 Third St., San ¥Franocisco.