The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 4, 1897, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1897. SATURDAY " JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. ‘Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE. 710 Market street, S8an Francisco Telephone Matin 1863. EDITORIAL ROOMS. veves D17 Clay street Telephone Main 1574. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 pec year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. .One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE ...908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE........ . .Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o’clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:3) o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o’clock. SW. corner Sixteenth end Mission streets; open uutil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 1243 Mission street; openuntil 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street; o] untii 9:30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open till 9 ¢’cloc] THE LAW IN THE CASE BE Bulletin of yesterday, in an elaborate review of the law regulating appointments to fill vacancies on the Board of Supervisors, reached the conclusion upheld by the best Jegal authorities that the power is vested not in the Mayor as some =suppose, but in the Governor. It then proceeded to com- plain that *“‘this is not a pleasing situation to contemplate,” and, after declaring the Mayor would undoubtedly appoint men of unimpeachable character and insinuating that the Governor would act otherwise, goes on to make ‘the strange suggestion: *“Perhaps Governor Budd could be induced to ab- stain from the exercise of his prerogative.” It is difficult to understand how such a jumble of inconsis- tencies can be put forward seriously. The Bulletin itself shows by the terms of the law that the duty of filling vacancies on the Board of Supervisors is imposed upon the Governor. How, then, can it entertain the idea of inducing him to abstain from making the appointments, as if a duty of his office were a per- sonal prerogative which he could lawfully forego if he chose? Despite the wail of our contemporary, there is nothing un- pleasant in the situation except that the law on the subject may be so doubtful as to iead to a disagreement among authorities. That would bring about a conflict between the Governor and the Mayor, leading to the appointment of two boards and in- volving the government of the City in confusion. Various por- tions of our organic law have been construed in such extraordi- nary ways in times past that even the most learned lawyer can hardly feel sure in giving an opinion on the meaning of any particular feature of it, and accordingly a dual City administra- tion is by no means an improbable outcome of the controversy. With the exception of the danger of hLaving this confusion between rival boards claiming equal authority there is nothing in the situation at all unpleasant to the taxpayers. Whether the Governor or the Mayor exercises the appointing power we may be sure that each will strive to select men who will give San Francisco the best admiuistration it has ever had. The Ensinuation of the Bulletin that ti.e Governor would be less likely than the Mayor to appoint men of unimpeachable character is uncalled for and unwarranted. Governor Budd has shown himself ambitious of making an honorable record in office, and since it seems clear the law imposes upon him the duty of filling vacancies in the Board of Supsrvisors we may rely upon it that if the present members be ousted the Governor can neither bs induced to abstain from fulfilling the duty or from performing itia a manner which will reflect credit upon himself and promote the welfare of the City. In the meantime it is as well to bear in mind that the present board has not yet been ousted. The charge against them is still under investigation in the courts, and it is by no means certain that there will be any vacancies to be filled by either the Governor or the Mayor. The public will with some anxiety await the outcome of the action of a piano-tuner who, by a suit at law, shows his resent- ment of baving been kicked dowastairs. That being kicked downstairs is a process attended with disagreeable sensations there can be no doubt. It lacks dignity in the first place. From beginning to end it is characterized by unamiability verging at points of impaet into actual violence. Yet there may a defense. Possibly the tuner had designed to hammer and screw into some ancient piano that long had stood dumb and innocuous once more the ghostly semblance of melody; and, perhaps, some student of music had intended thereaiter to bang the keys, and the kicker knew these things. Mr. Bryan’s delay in going to Mexico isnow said to be due toa desire to wait until he can get ten silver dollars of that country for one of the American kind.—Post. This is & mistake. Bryan is waiting for one of Mills’ ten dollar passes. There is a custom of saying good of thedead or saying nothing. Therefore, if the reported ‘suicide of W. Russell Ward be confirmed, let even his unaccountable delay in the mstter be passed over lightly. There is beginning to be a suspicion that much of the gold supposed to be coming out of the Klondiks is still cached at the foot of the rainbow. When Weyler sends out news of two victories in a day the time seems to have arrived for his typewriter to strike for a raise. Contractors for the Hall of Justice are apparently continu- ing with all their old enthusiasm to do nothing. DEMOCRACY’S WHITE ELEPHANT. RYAN Dem ocracy is playing havoc with the remnant of that political party, both wings of which proclaim them- selves the genuine exponents of Jackson-Jeffersonian principles, while each is fighting the other tooth and nail, hammer and tongs, on some of the most important issues of the day. In the overwhelmingly Republican State of Pennsylvania the Bryanites have secured control of the Democratic organiza- tion, and have practically alienated the gold faction there. Even with a united party the result would be the same in a popular election in the Keystone State, and it is remarkable that while about the only exception to the rule since the war was the case of Mr, Pattison in a gubernatorial contest, that gentleman’s friends and stanchest supporters were turned down along with Mr. Harrity by the recent Democratic con- vention at Reading. ‘While the Bryanites are wasting ammunition on an impreg- nable stronghold of protection; while they are creating hope- less division among the few Pennsylvania Democrats who have succeeded, by desperate efforts, in maintaining a small party organization in that commonwealth, they are driving into re- volt the old warhorses of the free-irade cause down in the once solid South. Governor O'Ferrell of Virginia intimates that if Bryan is renominated in 1900 on another Chicago platform the Old Dominion may roll up a Republican majority. He charges that the Nebraskan orator made arrangements to deliver speeches in bebalf of the Populist who was runninz against O’Ferrell for Governor, and altogether the silver-tongued politician with a weakness for railroad passes is in rather bad odor among the straight-out Democrats of Virginia as elsewhere. If be were under contract to tear to pieces what was left of tne Democratic party after the cyclone struck it last November, Mr. Bryan couldn’t go about his work in a more systematic manner. When it comes fo 1900 it is possible that, with Mr. Bryan as a candidate for anti-prosperity, the whole South may join the North, East and West in making unanimous the ver- dict in favor of a continnation of Republican good times, There are indications that aithough Germany may demana apologies of France an apology from that source will lack some- thing if not 0-K’ed by Russia, A SMALL BOCARD WELL PAID. HE committee of one hundred has adopted a resolution recommending that under the new charter ‘‘the Board of Supervisors shall consist of eighteen members, who shall be elected by general ticket from the City and County at large, and shall hold office for two years, nine to be elected annually.” The recommendation is in the nature of a compromise and will be satisfactory neither to those who wish a large board nor to those who wish a small one. It is important to have this fact pointed out at once, for if the coming Board of Free- holders should follow the recommendation they would please nobody and subject the new charter to the danger of being rejected at the polls. We have had experiments enough in the way of charter making, and they have been costly. Those who are now engaged in the work should profit by the lessons of the past. The people of San Francisco desire a good charter, and they have shown again and again that they will not make a change simply for the sake of change. Until a well ordered and thoroughly satisfactory system of municipal government is drawn up they will vote down every new charter proposed to them. 2 It is well understood that San Francisco Is a corporation, organized for the purpose of conducting affairs which cannot be left to individuals. Municipal government in almost every respect is strictly a matter of business. The work of city officials is not essentially different from that carried on by the officers of large corporations. A system of supervision and control wise in the one case would be wise in the other, and there is no more reason for a large Board of Supervisors in a city than for a large board of directors in a corporation. The business of the City and County of San Francisco would be conducted better by a small number of able men than by a larger number of men of less ability. The Board of Supervisors should not be a debating society, but a governing body. It should be composed of men of the highest qualifica- tions for the conduct of public affairs, and their number should not be more than is necessary for the proper supervision of the various departments of municipal work. To obtain the s=rvice of men of ability and business in- tegrity, we must be willing to pay for it. In all lands and in all ages, the workman is worthy of his hire. The greater the responsibility imposed upon a man and the greater the labor required of him, the more should be his payment. The large interests and complex problems involved in the management of our municipal affairs can be adequately attended to only by men of a high order of executive ability, and the service of such men, even when they are animated by the truest public spirit, cannot be continuously obtained for small salaries. About the costliest thing a city can keep is a cheap Super- visor. We have had experience enough with that class. It is time to make a change. Our new charter should provide that the Board of Supsrvisors shail be few in number and well paid. This is the way in which the affairs of great corpora- tions are managed, and San Francisco being a great corpora- tion, would have her affairs managed with the same excellence and economy if she followed the same plan. The gentleman who, over the signature of **A Briton,” wrote to THE CALL explaining that the United States is too young a nation to ever think of going to war with England never gave the subject of his communication much thought- There are reasons in plenty for not going to war, but this is not among them. In 1776 the United States Government was much younger than now, and in 1812 it was far from having reached the dignity of old age; yet on both occasions it licked England right handily. The people of the United States, barring the Anglomaniacs, who are not people exactly, do not love Eng- land. They realize that they owe that country nothing unless it be a grudge, that in spite of that country they have worked out their own salvation, and that the chronic assumption of su- periority characteristic of the English as a nation is an inexeus- able affront, based on imaginary facts ana a denseness such as makes a Punch joke, reeking as it does with the es:ence of mel- ancbolia, appear to be a thing to be laughed at. There is no desire for a conflict with England, bat in no possible way the slightest fear of it. I England would drop its pose as a pig re- garding the world nothing but its trough, there would be less of this foolish war talk. THE DISCRIMINATING DUTY. Discussion in the East concerning the discriminating duties imposed by section 22 of the Dingley tariff waxes warm. In New England public seatiment is well-nigh unanimous against the clause. The Springfield Republican goes so far as 1o declare the insertion of the phrase imposing such duties on goods brought into the country over Canedian railways to have been the result of a trick, and adds: “Boston, Portland and other aggrieved sections are preparing to contest the enforcement of the provisioun.” The operation of the section will have a double effect. In the first place it imposes a discriminating duty ot 10 per cent upon foreign products brought to the United States through contiguous countries, thus putting an end to the advantage the Canadian Pacific possessed in handling freights landed on the Pacific Coast and intended for Eastern markets. The second effect will be oi even greater importance, for it imposes, under certain limitations, discriminating duties upon goods brought to the United States in foreign vessels. The changes in our commercial transportation likely to result from the section will be so far reaching that itis not to be wondered the discussion of them has produced something like a sensation. There is nothing in the history of the adop- tion of the clause, however, to justify the charge of trickery. Itis well known tha: American transcontinental railways, being bampered by the long and short haul clause of the inter- state commerce law, are handicapped in com petition with the subsidizea road through Canada, and for a long time past there have been under consideration various remedies for the evil. ‘What has been done by the new law i3 nothing more than jus- tice to American railways, and though some New England interests may suffer the gain to the whole couatry will be too great to permit a repeal of the provision. As for that clause which imposes discriminating duties on goods brought to the United States in foreign ships there is not even semblance oi reason on which to base a charge of trickery. Ths platform adopted by the Republican National Convention at 8t. Louis distinctly pledged the party to *‘restore the early American policy of discriminating duties for the upbuilding of our merchant marine and the protection of our shippingin foreign trade.”” This promise made to the people the Republi- can Congress has fulfilled in the promptest way possible by imposing the discriminating duaties in the tariff bill designed for the protection of American industries. The British Government in its eagerness to obtain for its people a dominating power over the industry and the com- merce of the world grants large subsidies to merchant vessels, and gives them in that way a great advantage over less fortu- nate rivals. European nations almost without exception have followed British example, and as a result the merchant marine of the United S:iates has been virtually driven from the sea. Bomething must be done to place our shipping industry on equal terms with its competitors, and the discriminating duty imposed by the present law is none too much. — Bateman Bros. seem to be in contempt of the publie, which ought to be a more serious thing than being in contempt of court. In popular judgment it is incumbent upon the gentle- men to show why they should not be fined in the amount of one valuable contract to build a structure that with patient, pains- taking and unshakable zest they have refrained from building. The suggestion has beea mads that the man Cooper, who posed as a baronet, ought to join yellow journalism, but that field is already crowded. The most available opening for Cooper, excert.ng of course a juil door, would probably be as a professional witness, Hasn’t President Andrews of Brown University kept an anxious world long enough in tuspense ? | WAR STRENGTH OF THE TWO EUROPEAN ALLIANCES, The Vienna Fremdenblstt,a semi-official and weil-informed paper, lately gave the number of men in the active armies as follows: A comparison of the war strength, if we judge the strength by numbers, cannot be made with any accuracy, as not even the Rus sian general staff can tell how muny men they could bring into the field. The number of disciplined soldiers at command of the five Dations in time of war may be rcughly esti- mated as below: Germany ., 5,000,500‘?1‘.!1"!. 4,000,000 2/300.000| Russia......".. 6,200,000 00, JU\',(NU‘ Total 10,200,000 Aceording to these figures the dual alliance is a little the strongest as far as numbers are concarned. But there are other factors to be considered, which are of much greater 1mportance in modern warfare than the possession of a few bundred thousand <oldiers, more or less. The armament and equipment, the quickness | gence of officers and men, the transportation and provisioning facilities, etc., are certainly much better in Germany, Austria, Italy and France then in Russia. Battles canaot be fought with more than 500,000 men on each side, and even this number can hardly be em- pioyed. None of the battles fought 1n the wars of the last forty years had half that num- ber enguged, as the following statement shows: Solferino—French and Serdinians, 150,000; Germany 650,000 | France.. 520,000 Austria 520,000 | Russi 760,000 Tialy. . 000 Total.........1205,000| Total........1,280,000 | of mobilization, the discipline, the intelii- | | | “GIVE U; A KING.” To the Editor of the San Fiancisco Call—SIR: Certain members of the charter convention end other gentlemen in this City, who place their hope of municipal reform in a dictator to be called the Mayor, may profitably read the story of King faul as related in sacred history. Itisan instructive story. I cannot go into details, thoush they are decidedly readabe. I am only able to indicate what the siory teaches us. Itbegins with chapter 8, first verse, I Samuel: “And it came 10 pass when Samuel was old that he made his sons judges over Israel. “Now the name of his first born was Joel, and the name o1 his second Abiah; they were judges in Beersheba. “And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre and took bribes and parverted judgment. “Then all the elders of Israel gathered them= selves together and came to Samuel and said, Behoid, thou artold and thy sons waik not in thy ways; now make us a king 1o judge us. “But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a kiug to judge us. And Samuel praved unto the Lord. “And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the peoplein all that they say unto thee; for they have not rej-cted thee, but they have rejected me that I'should not | reign over them. ‘“‘According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them out of Egypt, wherewith they have forsaken me, so do tney also unto thee. “Now, therefore, hearken unto their voice; howbeit yei protest solemnly unto them and show them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.” Let us pass on to chapter x, verses 17, 18, 19, and note the nextstep: “And Samuel called the people together unto the Lord at Mizpah, and he said unto the xchlmlren of lsraei, Thus saith the Lord God of srael: CHANGES IN GOLDEN GATE PARK. The past year has witnessed a number of changes in the landscape within Golden Gate Park, and few of the peopte who go toswell the gayly colored floods of humanity that flow over it every week have been able to make out clearly what all the digging and hewingana hauling and fixing meant. The marvelous “bridge” on the main driveway below the art gallery, where, npnnremvly‘, no bridge was needed; the driveway cut through underground to lead to s bandstand which no one could see,and of wnich hardly any one could locate the nroposed site; the fruit orchard planted in the plaza basin in front of the art gullery; these end certain olher ‘;]l,f’fiw" h r e IR ik :‘-,'llfi;“?» Sy % kA “I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and de- livered you outof the hand of tne Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of them that oporessed you; “And ye bave this day refected your God and said unto him, Nay, butseta king over us. Now, therefore, present yourselves before the Lord.” They got Saul for their king, and one of his first and most notable acts was in the line of plunder, as we see in chapter xv, and in open disregard of express commands, though he made a great show in the way of sacrifices for the altar. Verse 22: “And#amuel said, Hath the Lord as great delightin burnt offerings and sacrifices ‘as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacri- fice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. The king was a flat failure and aid not bring in the good tiines they thotght to see under him, and things went on from bad to worse, as the sorrowful story snows. There was once a prosperous and powerful Roman republic, with a strong and proud race Austrians, 170,000; total, 320,000. Getlysburg—Federels, 130,000; Confeder- ates, 71,0005 total, 201,000. (General Meade kept 30,000 men in reserve, so that actuaily only about 170.000 were engaged.) Koniggratz—Prussians, 240,000; Austrians and Suxons, 220,000; total, 460,000, Gravelotte —Germans, 210,000; 145,000 ; total, 355,000. Sedan—German, 5,000; French, 135,000; total 340.000. (This includes the French re- serves of 40,000 under General Vinoi, who managed 1o make their escape before the sur- render.) Second battle of Plevna—Russians, 155,000; Turks, 43,000; total, 198,000. To concentrate large bodies at & certain point with quickness and decision, so as to meet the enemy with superior forces, consti- tutes the height of generalship, and Von . g Moltke gained all his successes by this | When bed timos caims g iront /B the world, method. Personal bravery will always be of | power in the hands of those who held places French, muvan’nmmnnunnnrg THE F]RST ]I"IFOKTANT STATEMENT OH WILLIAM J. BKYAN SU‘{CE HISTTOUR OB THE SWEST Hf\S BEEN WRITTEN FOR el ETE S GOR [ a@vAND WILL BE PUBLISHED TO-MORROW. A& IN THIS ARTICLE He Will Make Public His Views on the RETURN OF PROSPERITY AND THE FUTURE OF SILVER. Mr. Bryan is always forcible in his method of stating his case, and even to those who do not agree with him his article written for THE CALL will be found interesting. What the great leader of the silver hosts has to say is at any rate a matter of important political news, and THE CALL, though 2090922900009200002222022202202220222220222229228 NEW BRIDGE IN THE PARK. m T erations going on in their midst as they strolled about in the great pleasure Kl’z:\'l:dlol:‘:v‘;pperpllxafi the people without offering the ghost of an explanation of what Pprecise amount and description of benefit they were to derive from the innovations. This week THE CALL sent a gatherer of information abroad in the lnnn_:n along the coast to shea light upon the places therein not understood by the people. Hisexplorations heve drawn forth some decidedly interesting details. £ The park is on the verge of certain noteworthy improvements which distinctly deserve the interested atiention of all who ever visit those green and fragrant stretches in questof pleasure. New views of this most important recreation ground in the West will accompany the text of an instructive, fresh and readable article in next Sunday’s CALL. There have been numerous important discoveries made incidental to the original invention of the X ray, but as yet the wonderful contrivance may be eaid to be comparatively in its infancy, and extensive enlargements upou the principle of it are among the sclentific prob- abilities of the near future. Oue of these, in fact, has practically reached completion and is about ready to be disclosed by its evolver to the public eye. It has become possible to employ the X ray in the assaying of ore., Experiments toward this desirable and extremely valuable consummation have long ‘been under way, and in some cases have been brought to light in various forms, ‘but never before has anything so apparently practical, simple and inexpensive been produced as the process which a local scientist is now ready to display. The gentleman is well known in the local scientific world, ana his story is decidedly worth listening to. It will appear, with some unique 1llustrations showing just how gold and silver may be detected through the solid rock, in the suppiement of THE CALL to-morrow. A short time ago fire almost totally destroyed the old monastery buildings at Ephrats, Pa. Few persons who read a casual reference to the incident in the newspapers on the following morning realized what romantic and marvelous interest lay smoldering in the embers of that charred remalns. Those queer hubitations once sheltered one of the oddest sects this country has ever known. For a land which is none too rich in ancientlore and historic relics a pos- session of so remarkable a heritage from the dim ages that have gone is a disuinction which has almost escaped observation. But a long time 8go a resident of Pennsylvania collected all the data that were to be had from a visit to the old place, and from this matter an absorbingly interesting article has been prepered for THE SUNDAY CALL, apropos of the recent conflagration and the serious menace which hung over the valuable relics at that time. Some very accurate illustrations made at a later date by a Century Magazine artist will accompany the sketch. Perusals of previous issues of THE SUNDAY CALL have introduced to the people of this coun. try a man who was as great as many of our historic favorites, and yet went to the grave for- gotten. Silas E. Burrows was the friend of Presidents, the confidante of kings and emperors, the promoter of National and international schemes which affected the wnole world. He loaned money to the Russian Government, transported a South American President to his do- minions in a time of war, bought an Ethiopian prince out of bondage, built a monument to Washington’s mother’'s memory, and was at the head and front of other magnificent move- ments in the history of his times, from 1820 to 1860. During a stay in San Francisco he had dealings with men who still remember him as one of the conspicuous figures then in the public eye. and who recall certain interesting experi- ences which they personally had with him. In THE CALL to-morrow will be related how Bur- rows and John H. Wire made & wager upon the issue of Fremont’s Presidential candidacy, and how Burrows lost and paid the stake of a ten-dollar hut. A fac-simile reproduction of the bill for same, accompanied by Burrows’ note to the hatters, will illustrate the article. Among other features of to-morrow’s supplement will be an interview with a man here in town who was with Lord Byron in Greece, illuminated by a reproduction of an inscription written in a copy of “*Childe Harold” by Byron’s sister, Augusta Leigh, who presented the vol- ume to the gentleman in token of her friendship for him as the friend of her beloved brother. Storles romantic, reminiscent, insiructive and otherwise will go to round out the number. PERSONAL. will be followed by the usual consular sub readers. E : 'E E g : E g value, but any officer or soldier who tries to distinguish bimself in any other way than in the execution of the orders of his superior will do more harm than good. Strict disci- l pline and obedience to orders are essential to milltary success, and the most intelligent soldfers have always proved to be the most obedient. Undisciplined soldiers will be a hindrance to any general, and cannot be used to advantage against the regular armies of Europe. Another point to be considered is the geo- graphical position of the countries. In a war between the two great alliances France would be obliged to xeep fully half her force in the south to meet the attacks ot Italy, while Ger- many, thanks to the strong fortifications of Metz and Strassburg. could for a long time successfully defend the narrow strip of coun- try tronting on France with comparatively small forces. This would leave tha grossof the German as well as the entire Austrian army free to operate against Russia. In case of a war breaking out now Russia has the ad- vantage of having the largest part of her standing army in the vicinity of the Prussian an frontier, but these forcesare ¥ not sirong enough, as it would take many weeks and months to bring on the reserves from the interior, while Germany and Austria coald, within two weeks’ time, throw from 2,000.000 to 3,000,000 men across the Russian fromtier, to which Rus.ia could not oppose more than 1,000,000 men. It is, consequently, likely that several large battles will take place before the Russian re- serves have time to come on the scene. Taking all things into consideration the probabilities of success are decidedly on the side of the triple alliance. Her srmies are much better discipiined and equipped than those of the dual alliance, and it would take Russia many years to bring her army on an equal footing. Fortunately there is nothing on the European horizon that indicates a dis- turbance of the peace in the near future, but nevertheless the five nations will continue to be prepared for it, and the people will have to foot the biila for this splendid maintenance of an ‘‘armed peace.” WITH YOUR COFFEE. ‘‘Come up to my house to-morrow night,” said Henpecque. am going to celebrate my golden wedding.” - “‘Golden wedding! Why, man, you've only been married three vears.’” “Iknow; but it seems like fifty; so every- 1hing is all right.”’—T1d-Bits. “Why,” they asked him, “did you shout ‘rubberneck’ so rudely when your wife turnea tolook backat Sodom? No wonder the poor dear was petritied with astonishment.” Lot, however, was still obdurate. “She was too fresh,” he growled, Circumstances, indeed, seemed to give color to his contantion.—! York Press. “Why don’t you say grace, Dolly ?”" “’Cos i's only hash, an’ I've sald grace twice on it already.”—Pick-Me-Up. “There’s & man who never sleeps.” “Ab! A famous detective?”’ ‘No; & jather of triplets.””—North American. ~Ipity a man who s not beloved by chil- dren.” “‘Don’t lavish to0 much sympathy on him; he can wear a linen suit all dayand look re- spectable.”’—Chicago Kecord. She—Why does thet piano sound first high and then low when Miss Wilson plays it? He—Well, you see, she is learning to rides wheel and use both pedais from force of habit. —Boston Herald. . Miss Gushley—Now, tell me, Mr. Guageon, 4don’t you think long engagements are & great mistake? Gudgeon — Yes; almost as great as long marriages,—Pick-Me-Up. opposed to him, publishes it as such for the benefit of its wmumumuuummnmmmxmmfl of trust they tried to reform abuses by giving one man the power and named him Cemsar. Under the one-msn power this proud race be- came slaves, and the centuries of despair and ignorance which history calls the dark ages show that one-man power will not do. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, Sep:. 3, 1897. PHYLLIS AND STREPHON. ‘Why do poets sing of Phyllis? ‘There I3 no such lictle matd; Now, instead of Phyllis there s Helen, Maude, or Adelaide. ‘Why do poets sing of Strephon? He’s another that IS gone, And, mstead of him, s Steven, Cnarler, or Frederick, or John. Why do poets keep on clineing 710 she pas-, In spite of fate? 3 8 do some singing ‘That Is stiic 1y up to dute? —Cleveland Leader. WOOLENS UNDER TWO TARIFFS American Economist. Imports of woolen manufactures: Fiscal year. Value. 1891 .$41,060, 89 . 85,565:879 . 88,048,515 . 19,439,372 The average annual increase in our impo: of manufactured woolen goods during t Democratic policy of free trade in wool $£13,537,066. Considering the shoddy charac- ter of the foreign goodsimported and the idle- ness of our people since 1894, it is safe to say that the excessive impnris 10T the three years, aggregaiing $40,500,000, have dispiaced the product of fully £100.000,000 worth of woolen products from Americun looms that would nave been made here if the American policy of protection had been maintained without interruption. The loss to workersin American woolen mills alone has been fully $70,000,000. MAKING IT LIGHTER., Chicago Tribune. The kite would not fly. In vain the Northside boy ran with it against the stiff wind. In vain he lengthencd the tail and then shortened it again. In vain he swore. He sat down and meditated. *If1 could fiil you with gas, blame you,’’ he muttered, “sou’d go up all right, but—' A sudden gust blew ascrap of newspaper against his feet. e picked it up. He looked at it. 1t containea a porirait of William J. Bryan, orator. He pasted it on the kite, Then he ran egainst the wind with the kite once more. It rose upward asifithad been shot from a catapult. “There, blame you,” he said. — | HENRI OF ORLEANS AN ITALIAN? Boston H -rald. And now the Italian papers claim Prince Heuri of Orleans to be a child of sunny Italy. They say that in 1773 the Duke of Orleans was journeying in Ity with his wife, when she gave Lirth to a chiid at Modglisna. The child was n#rl. and reasons of state required a boy. Althe same time the wife of an hum- ble citizen hud borne a son. There was an ex- ‘ghn:ppe, Klyr;z of ereore, Henri, who was wouaded in lh:'r.ee:'mdlgscl.. is decidedly Italian. Pretty story, 1s itnot? &n;:.x:oslo\:’n;ls mengn familiar, Wasn’t T ething ver children 1n ol M- &’Pln:l?rl:'"lmxm' BhE e S —_— FOOR ORPHANS. Millersburg Repubiican. The Ohio silver Democrats are now sure enough orphans, They have no Pops, Dr. E. A. Burchard of Lodi {s at the Grand. Rev. L. J. Garner of Grass Valley is at the Palace. B. G. Parlow, a mining man of Placerville, is at the Grand. J. M. Cremin, Deputy Postmaster of Marys- ville, is at the Grand. D. 8. Rosenbaum, a merchant of Stockton, is a guest at the Palace. W. J. Hynes, one of Chicago’s leading attor- neys, is at the Palace. Colonel John T. Harrington of Colusa is registered at the Lick. John Flangan, a lumberman of Mendocino, is a gues: at the Grand. Mrs. Louis Scholler of Fresno is stopping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. J. E. Walsh, & well-known business man of Auburn, 18 a guest at the Grand. T. H. Bragan, a mine-owner of Georgetown, N. Mex., isalate arrival at the Lick. J.T. Cummings, a mining man of Plumas | County, arrived yesterday at the Grand. General John H. Dickinson of Sausalito is at the Occidental, accompanied by his wite. Frank A. Miller, proprietor of the Riverside Hotel of Riverside, is a guest at the Palace. James McCudden, & capilalist of Vallejo, is at the Baldwin, accompanied by his daughter. W. N. Ten Eyck of Coulterville came to town yesterday to consult an ocuiist. Heis at the Russ. C. M. Crosby, wife and daughter, of Ashta- buls, Ohlo, are registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Professor A. W. Smith, head of the depart- ment of mechanical engineeriag at Stanfora, is at the California. A. J. Hechtman, a fruit-shipper of Sacra- mento, is at the Palace, accompanied by Mrs, Hechtman and child. C. Hedemann of Honolulu, a planter on the islands, returned from the East last night and registered at the Occtdental. D. C. Johnston of Los Angeles, a hotel-man and the brother of the proprietor of the Hotel Westminster, is at the Palace. Harry Frodsham, passenger agent of the Chicago aud Northwestern Railroad, is con- fined to his home with illness, J. M. Camara, an officer of the National Guard of Hawaii and a well-known business man of Honoluluy, is in the City. E. T. Alberts, superintendent of the Oakdale | ana Sierra Ratiroad, is in the City on business and a guest at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Samuel McMurtree, 2 railroad builder and contractor of San Luis Obispo, came up from the south yesterday and registered at the Pal. ace. Rev. Dr. 8. 8. Cryor will be installea as pas- tor of the Westminster Presbyterian Church next Sunday. Rev. Dr. Minton, Rev. Dr. Hemp- hill and Rev. Dr. Mackenzie will take part in | the exercises. D. B. Ivison of New York, ex-president of the American Book Company and a wealthy retired business man, is at the Palace, accom- panied by Mrs. Ivison and Mr. and Mrs: W. W. Hill of New York City. Miguel Luchetti arrived yesterday from South America accompanied by Signor Anto- nio Arambaro and Benorita Anita Casals. Signor Arambaro is a tenor and the lady a light soprano of renown. W. H. Mills, land agent of the Central Pacific Company, left here {ast night for Oregon, and will be gone four or five days, during which time he will examine and adjnst some rail- road claims in that State. The report that Herman Oelrichs has de- cldea to surrender his resfaence in New York 2nd become & citizen of San Francisco has no foundation in fact. Speaking on this topic yetterday Mr. Oelricns said he had no thought of giving up his New York citizenship, as he had property interests there which demanded his attention. Ao Kai, a distinguishe1 and wealthy lawyer of Houngkong, will probably arrive om the steamer Gaelic, due September 10, and will re- lieve the present Chinese Consu!- eneral, Ya Shee Yi. Ho Kal is & broiher-in-law of the Ppresent Chinese Embassador, and his advent 1 ordinate changes. John Campbell and William Wood of Nat South Africs, returned to the Palace yesterday after a visit to the Yosemite. They say that mining is at a standstill in Bouth Atrica be- cause of the indolence of the Ksffirs—a general name appliea to all tribes of South Africa. They work only when they feel so disposed, and they are the only available laborers for the mines. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 3.—At the Metro- pole—W. D. Shea; Gilsey—G. C. Baldwin; t—W. J. Maxweil; St. Denis—Mrs. St. Cloud—F. U. O’Boyle. POPOCRATIC FALSE ASSERTIONS. Cedar Rapids Republican. Republican papers are not rejoicing over the fall in the price of silver, as the popocrats claim. Silver is an American product and every American would bz glad to see its value increase instead of decrease. Neither are the Republicans elated over the fact that the sflver doilar is at present 39 cents actual value snd 61 cents fiat. All they are doing is to at- tention to the fallacy of the Bryan argument that the vrice of silver and farm products rise and fall together. THE CRIME OF '97. Chicago Times Herald. 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