The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 12, 1897, Page 22

1o [&] THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1897. P The SUNDAY...... : ; JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OF 710 Market street, San Francisco Main 1868. Telephon EDITORIAL ROOMS ...517 Clay street Telephone N THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by | ns for 15 cents a week. | carriers in this city and surround By mail $6 per year; per month 63 cents THE WEEKLY CALL.... .One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFF 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. ....... .Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. )7 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until ) Haves street; open until 9:3) o'clock. 615 open untt o'clock. corner Sixteenth and ; open until 9 o'clock. 2518 1243 Misslon street; openuntil 9 ¢'clock. 1505 30 o’clock. NW oven 111 9 o'clock. BRANCH OFFIC 9 until 9 o'clock Polk street; and MONKEYING WITH TAXPAYERS. ONKEYING with taxpayers is the true inwardness of the game now being played by thoss who are doing their best, or worst, to advance a scheme for establishinza zoologlcal garden in the Mission. Moreover it is the o!d familiar game the monkey playcd with the cat’s paw to rake chestnuts out of the fire. It is the aim of the advocates of the scheme to unload uron the cily a large amount of real estate at a price far above its market value. Public money constitutes the chestnuts so much desired by the monkeys, and the taxpayer is to be the cat whose yaw is to gather it in for the schemers. It is altogether appro- priate that such a scheme should have for its ostensible object a pleasure ground adorned with spacious houses in which all varieties of the monkey tribe are to be kept in frolicsome idle- ress at the expense of the taxpayers forever. We publish in another column this morning a full state- ment of the assessed value of each of the tracts offered to the city, together with the price at which it is proposed the city shall buy it. By this statement it will be seen that if any one of the iracts offered is accepted at the price named the profits made over and above the assessed value of the land will afford such rich pickings for the monkeys on the inside that they can readily afford to “‘divy’’ with some on the.outside. The tract offered by Baldwin & Howeil is assessed at $44,- 200 and is offered to the city for $387,000. That of Charles W. Pope is assessed at §$330 an acre and the city is asked to pay A tract of 105 acres belonging to the Crocker es- tate is assessed at $40,000, and of this the taxpayers can have 93.56 acres jor $235000. The site proposed by A. T. Green is as- sessed at $47,000. and the price put upon it fcr zoological pur- poses is $260,000. Bovee, Toy & Co. offer a tract assessed at §30,- 500 for the sum of §175,000. That of W. Schlesinger & Co. is assessed at $130,000, and the city may make a park of it by pay- ing $300,000. The Bay View Land Company has atract on which the assessment is $25,000, and for which there is asked the comparatively moderate sum of §45 000. It will be seen from the statement thatin the eye of the owners or agen 00 an acre. property as to have it suggested as a site for a monkey garden. it seems to be the impression of the promoters of the project that zoological land is richer than Kionaike dust, and capable, upon occasions, of out-climbing a monkey himself. The taxpayers of San Francisco have no money for ad ditional parks or for me ries at this time, nor will they ever have enough to pay extravagant prices for them at any time. Monkey gardens come high, Lut fortunately there is no law that says ‘‘we must have them.” Not until we have money to burn will the people of this city permit themselves to be used as | cat’s paws for such a scheme as this. Eve! ver shotld read the detailed statement of the nd prices of the tracts offered, and then make up his mind not to give even a tacit consent to such a scheme of land booming, taxation and extravagance. v taxy assessed values 1 With the passage of years the City and County Hospital grows accustomed to the experience of being condemned. | Season after season goes by, every season producing a Grand Jury, and every Grand Jury producing a condemnation. Yet the hospital stanas it very well. It needs paint occasionally. As to the matter of plumbing, it is weak in spots. Itis not ornamental. Nevertheless it goes right on at the old stand. Some time a Grana Jury may forget this duty, and then the antique building, shuddering at the unwonted neglect, will fall in on itself, after which the possibility of a new hospital will have a chance. Chew Ten has taken to wife Yut Seen, by the simple process of going outside the Heads and having pronounced the words that could not legally be pronounced ashore, Chew having been aivorced within a year. The simple circuomstance shows that the Chinese are being civilized almosttoo fast. These floating mairiages are suspected of being hollow, seasick mockeries. It 1s no matter of regret that Winthrop, the kidnaper, must remain in prison for life. In his checkered career he has occu- pied many stations and been accustomed to all sorts of environ- ment, but nothing that fitted his personality so well as San Quentin has ever before been projected into his experience. It Senator Harris by probing Union Pacific affairs involves the first administration of Clevelaud in scandal people will greatly deplore the scandal. Hcwever, they do not wish to check the probing. A GENUINE STATE BOARD. EIGHED in the balance and found wanting. That is v V the judgment which the intelligence of the people must pronounce upon the present system of electing the members of the State Board of Equalization. There have besen sectional antegonisms and rivalries on the subject of equaliza- tion ever since the establishment of the system and in the very nature of things these will continue so long as the members of the board are elecied to represent districts instead of the State at 1arge. There should be no districts, nor any sort of sectional di- vision in matters of this kind. The officizis who are chosen to equalize taxes among thecounties of the State should represent the whole commonwealth and not any particular portion of it. The constituency of eath of them should be as wide asthe State itself. They should feel responsible for no particular aistrict or county, but have a strict and single regard for the taxpayers of all the counties as citizens of California. ‘We shall never have an absolutely fair and impartial equal- ization of taxes upon the people solong as we have equalization districts. The official who is elected from a particalar district necessarily feels himself bound to try to please h' constitnents. 1f they demand a reduction of assessments he must endeavor to procare it for them, even though it be at the expense of the tax- payers in other counties. This evil is inherent in the present system, and can never be eradicated so long as election by equalization districts continues. The moment Equalizers are elected from the State at large they will be emaucipated from local influences, where such in- fluences are antagonistic to interests of other sections. A man responsible to the whole people will not be inclined to sacrifice the general welfare for the sake of pleasing a single locality. It will be not only his duty, but to his interest, to try to serve with fidelity all the people, and this be can do only by dealing fairly and impartially with all in fixing the assessments of property in the various counties for taxatién. The State Board of Equalization should be a State Board, in fact as well as in name. It will never be that until its members zre elected by the State instead of by districts. No sectional push, pull or influence should have any weight witn any mem- ber of a board intrusted with duties which call for judicial im- partiality between the contending claims of all sections. The reform haslong been needed. It is imperative. Equalization districts must be abolished. Mission street; open | corner Twenty-second | s nothing so rapidly improves the value of | THIS IS ONLY JUSTICE. PPLICATION to the Board of Regents is pending to affil- A iate with the State University the homeopathic school of medicine. One need not decide upon the merits of the two schools in affirming that the followers of Hahnemann are entitled to affiliation with the State institution. The followers of the homeopathic system are a very numerous and very respectable class in the community. Since the introduction of that school | into the United States, seventy-two years ago, it has pro- gressed until it is represented by 6 National societies, 15T S:ate and local societies, 130 hospitals, controls g State insane asylums, has 62 dispensaries, 30 medical journals, 20 colleges | with nearly 2000 students and §2,000,000 of property. The | State universities of Michigan, Minnesota and lowa have affiliated homeopathic colleges in their medical departments. One may entirely refuse to patronize homeopathy and dis- i believe the theory of therapeutics upon which it rests, and at | the same time admit that its firm seatin the preference of millions and its steady growth as a school of medicine entitle | it to equal recognition by the State. If we are to have the faculties for medical study supported | by the State, either by a public endowment or by taxation, or | partly by each, there is no argument against equal recognition | of the two schools. Neither has the right to exclude the | other and subjact any taxpayer to support a State system of | medicine in which he disbelieves. It is noteworthy that while equal recognition was opposed | in the three States where it is now enjoyed in practice the two | schools have found no difficulty and have suffered no damage | by a common affiliation with the same university. The pre- | dictions of evil result which deterred a plain act of justice have | in no case been realized, nor will they be here if the regents | support the proposition. Tens of thousands among our people | use homeopathy and claim justification in the success at the bedside. The adherents of theregular school claim like justi- | fication for their preference. Each class is entitled to be given the same credit for the fairness of a judgment that is based upon experience. We are not at present aware of any argument that can justify the State of California in undertaking the promotion at public expense of one of the two great schools of medicine exclusively. It must be remembered that there are two dis- tinct schools or lines of thought in university education itself. Classics and physics have their respective champions, and the field of their contention is never without its resoective lines of battle ready for the fray. But the university makes no choice between them to tae exclusion of one. The two theories are at work under the same chelter. The inductive and subjective schools of medicine are en- | titled to the same public hospitality, and it should be extended to them. & We say this in no spirit of indorsement of inductive medi- cine, but only in a spirit of fairness to a school that has the | enthusiastic support of thousands of our fellow-citizens, upon i whom the State cannot put the brand of outlawry from its | State university. | | | Two young women recently rode a short distance in a loco- The machine was not going at extraordinary speed. Young women had done | motive. | They were assafe as if in a Paliman. ! the same thing before and nobody cared particularly about it. 1 | Yet these two find their'very simple experience exploited at a umn’s length, the account being decorated by the picture of a cab’s interior, looking not the least like a cab’s interior, and of themselves, looking not the least like themselves. Never- | theless, readers may feel grateful that the affair was not used as pretext for an “extra.’” There is something pathetic in the search of a husband for a ; | wife who has strayed or been stolen, and yet it is not natural to | | meet with a Southern California chap who has a stock of this brand of woe on hand and is advertising the same by circular. *She has,”” wails this sorrowfui print, ‘‘either a harmonica or d of gum in her mouth all the time unless asleep.” And | hewants to find her! Strangeinfatuation of mortal! Why can he not withdraw his circular, bless heaven for its kindness and | quit exposing erief that is apt to cause a snigger? | | INSULTING ITS DUPES. SEEM!\'GLY there is no limit to the brazen effrontery of the Having aeliberately swindled people by the pretenke of printing in an “extra’ news when it had | no news to print, it boasts to its victims of the glory of its achievement. It seems to be governed by the idea that people who have purchased a gold brick may not only be satistied but made happy by the assurance from the confidence operator that the brick is genuine. A wise man has written: ‘“‘Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar * * * yer will not his foolishness depart from him.”” This view has stood numerous tests and has been generelly accepted. The fool among men is irrepressible, and the fool among so-called journalists is not unlike him. The saffron editor, yellowing his environments with the glow of an unclean enthusiasm, stands jubilant amid the wreck of fact, ac- cepting the chorus of diszust as a salvo of applause, and shouts in ecstacy, “Behold me ! This brand of editor is an open book of erratic character— one who thinks. But he revels in the bliss of ignor- ance, deems himself great, and the bunko business as conducted to a successful harvesting of nickels the triumph of newspaper enterprise. The shouting of the Eraminer over its ‘'scoop” is an insult to its patrons, the “'scoop’’ itself constituting the injury. If it had been what it pretended to be no one coulid have found fanlt. There would have been no insult and noinjury. But it was bogus, a palpable fraud, worked off as unscrupulous venders work off demaged goods. It was no discredit to journalism, for it bad nothing to do with journalism. The Ezaminer is simply rejoicing in the knowledge of having found a false pre- tense unfayorably profitable. aminer. SIBERIAN FENAL SYSTEM DOOMED. IVILIZATION is destined soon to put an end forever to a C horror of centuries in the abolition of penal colonies of Siberia. That land is heing rapidly settled by Russian peasantry: its forests sre being manufactured into cities and towns; its vast prairies have been cut up into innumerable farms and since the emancipation of the sarfs free people have been colonizing the country everywhere from Bering Strait to | the Ural Mountains. To-day less than 5 per cert ol the popula- tion are exiles. The penal colonies are giving way to progress and free industry. The announcement is made that the Czar has already de- cided to partially abolish the system of exiling criminals to Siberia and insteaa to punish offenders by confinement in large central prisons of Russia. Itis highly probable that in the next generation the pictures of biack despair and cruelties almost beyond credence in the Siverian mines will be as pictures of history without reminders in the realm of actual life. Within a short time the great Siberian railroad will be com- pleted and more rapid settlement will follow. The country is rich in raw produce and mills and factories will begin to mul- tiply along its rivers. The penal colony that would block the way of Siberia’s material advancement is doomed and humanity will thank God for the removal of thestain from the face of Asia. It is not pleasing to read that ghou!s in human form plun- dered the wreckage after a recent railroad accident in Kansas, especially when the account is not brightened by any mention that these creatures were detected in the act and killed. B When the North Atlantic squadron is able to disport itself soas to win the real admiration of Theodore Roosevelt no carper need say anything more against the white navy. His evidence would simply be thrown out of cour:. Bismarck’s declaration that Germany now has neither leadership nor principles may indicate an acute return of his old malady. The Emperor, however, is hardly likely to over- look such remark and ascribe it good-naturedly to neuralgia. TRAGEDY OF THE KLONDIKE RAID. Along the trails ROPHETS of ill-omen have spoken true. leading toward the Klonaike terror unspeakable broods. | The hand of him w0 journeys there1s raised against his feillow. Men who were mad for gold are mad for life. Slender stores of provisions are guarded with care so jealous that to commit larceny is to die. The struggle to reach the fabled riches has been a struggle to keep the vital spark aglow. The | breath of winter is in the air, and death rides in Arctic winds. No story of the Crusades could be more sad than the story be- ginning to come back from the sceneof an opening tragedy. At least the Crusaders falling by the wayside to rise no more could comfort their departing souls with thoughts ot perishinz glori- ously. No wonder the men lured from their homes to a hopeless contest should be desperate, reckless to the point of brutality. Cold, hungry, unsheltered, panniless, or with coin but a bur- den because it cannot buy food, it is useless to expect any b nign layw among them, for the first law of nature is a cruelty. They have been deluded, led by a dream, tricked, trapped. Now they turn at bay, cursing fate that caused them fatally to err. Fate, when but a title for bad judgment, is doubly bitter. Thex have approached the piace of gilded vision and found the specter of famine awaiting them. Happy those among them who can turn back, Happy, perhaps, they who in graves un- marked and soon forgotten shall find peace, While no punishment could be too great for those who urged people to certain failure, and getting them on an impossible road, hold them now to fleece them, it does not appear that any of these villains have suffered. The saloon-keeper flour- 1shes. The gambler holds sway. The wanton foilows the vo- cation ot robbery, and the crowd of victims, burning to resent the times upon which they bave fallen, find the petty offender and drag him to the gallows tree. The heart sickens at the tale of violence, for the end is far away. A man, it iy told, has been hanged for stealing & piece of bacon, when not to steal was to starve. It isa grewsome episode against a somber back- ground. Maybe those who hanged him have clear consciences. Maybe they think that order has been conserved. But it is pitiful to think of that poor wretch trembling on the brink of an eternal plunge, given hardly a moment of grace. They al- lowed him to write a note, a pathetic line of fareweil to one he | loved. The note closéd: “Kiss Ted, but do not tell.” No very bad man wrote that. Back 1n one of the States a woman will feel sorrow and shame, This man was like many of his execu- tioners. He had mortgaged his all to go to the Klondike. The mound covering the one slain of his fellow-travelers is beside one under which is a suicide. Others have yielded to exhaus- tion. Yet those whose feet still press the path The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger cannot claim that fortune has been kind to them. Itis to be hoped that mob-law has ceased. The awtulness of the wild raid is enough without the reign of passion and the shedding of blood. Nothing could well add to the darkness of the situation, but if anything could do this it would be the spirit of murder, men held in common bondage, and rending each other. The coiony around Lake Bennett is an offshoot of civilization and has the power to blot tie fame of that from which it sprang. ISALIA’S celebration of the arrival of the first train over the Valley road was something more than a merry-making They were conscious of the change which in their commercial conditions and were THE NEW ERA IN VISALIA. Vand rejoicing. The spirit which dominated the minds of the people and was expressed in their actions and words was one of business. had been wrought animated by an earnest.resolve to make the’ bes: use of the advantages they have gained. The difference between thie conaitions of Visalia to-day and those under which ner people have labored for so long a time was forcibly expressed in the phrase heard everywhere during the celebration, *‘Visalia is on the map.” Hitherto her trans- portation facilities have been so cinched and hampered by the Southern Pacitic monopoly that she hardly had a place on the commercial map of the State. On Thursday she marked her place on that map in red letters, and henceforth she will take her rightful position among the busiest and most advantageaus trade centers of the interior. The new road will give to Visalia not only prompter and better transportation facilities, but will provide them at cheaper rates both for passenger and freight traffic. She has now the benefits of competition in getting her products to the markets of the world, and will be able herself to enter as a competitor with the most progressive cities of the San Joaquin, and prove that her peopie are equal to any in enter- prise, energy and business sagacity. Already evidences have been given of the benefits Visalia is to receive from the new road. Her citizens have begun to anticipate the future and to prepare for profiting by the prom- ise it holds out. An increazed activity is manifest in many lines of industry, and visitors from the outside who attended the celebration noted that the construction of new buildings is going briskly on. The Valley road has pushed its way forward through all the hard years of depression and low prices, and despite the dullness of business has advanced steadily toward the accom- plishment of the objec: of bringing the whole of the San Joa- quin into direct communication with San Francisco, thus free- ing both the city and that portion of the State from the domi- nation of the monopoly, and giving to both fuller and freer op- portunities for the expansion of enterprise and the develop- ment of their resources and their industries. The celebration at Visalia marks one step in the accomplishment of these re- sults, and was therefore as gratifying to San Francisco and the San Joaquin generaliy as to the Visalians themselves. The question of propriety involved in 2 man’s marrying his deceased wife’s sister has been supposed to belong to another enlightened country, and here the liberty has not been with- held except in instances where the decease of the wife had been unduly hastened to promote the prospects of the second wed- ding. However, in St. Clair, a Michigan town, a minister de- clared from the pulpit that the custom was entirely proper, just as though dount existed concerning it, and instead of replying in idle words his parishioners fired a rifie volley into the church, greatly disturbing the proceedings. So the question does exist in this country, aiter all, and while final decision has not been rendered no wise man leading his deceased wife’s sister to tbe altar will select St. Clair, Mich., as the place for the honeymoon. It was the Ezaminer that published the statement that cholera was raging in Sandon, B. C. Of course the news was not credited by people acquainted with the methods of that paper, but still the item was not pleasing. Now the pub'isner of the falsehood isdenying “untruthful reports,” but it does not add, with the humility that would be becoming, that these re- ports originated 1n its own columns. The repentance is incom- piete. —_— General Pando has made bold to criticize Weyler's cam- paign. He seems to have the right idea, but perusal of the files of any American paper would give him some points that he apparently has overiooked. Perhaps when university students have been educated morally up to the point of eschewing the rush their inteliect- ual parts will also be able to recognize the atomination of =ay- *Uvarsity.” Mr. Pullman has learned that the raembers of the Chicago Defense Association do not hold him in high esteem, but if the knowledge have any effect it will be manifest in a curtailment of pass privileges. One distressing phase cf suicide is the habit of treating that somber noun asa verb. News columns often state that some- body has “suicided.” It's never been done; the thing is im- possible. _— The picture cf the broken propeller blades of the Excelsior, published on Mission street, was undoubtedly drawn from im- agination by an artist on some spot or other. Reports that Mary Anderson would return to the stage lose a measure of interest from the fact that the lady says they are untrue, . THE KAISER AS A MILITARY CRITIC. HE army maneuvers which are being held near Homburg at the Tpre-en: timeare of more than usual importance as they are partici- Dated in by three fally equipped army corps consisting of 72,000 infantry, 18,000 cavairy, 12.000 artillery, three regiments and thirty- two batteries, 2000 genie troops and 6000 mixed troops, transporta tion corps, sappers, miners, aeronauts, etc., in all about 110,000 men, Whatever faults Kaiser Wilhelm may possess laziness and incompe- tency in military matters are not among them. His after-dinner and other speeches have often been ridiculed, but “‘die Kritik des Kaisers,” which is delivered at the close of each maneuver day, is always listened to with profound interest and respect notonly by his own gen- erals, but also by the military envoys of the other European nations. The habit of old Emperor Wiliiam I to criticize the events of each maneuver has been imitated by ail European monarchs and <om- manders in chief. Assoon as the sham battie is ended the commanders of the army corps, divisions and brigades which were engaged during the day, as well as the officers of the general staff aud the foreign offi- cers, surround the Emperor in order to listen to his eriticism of the battle. This is always a very grave affair for the generals concerned, as their future military career dependson the words uttered by the Emperor on such occasions, and many ageneral has been promoted or retired immediately after the maneuver. The man we usually call the young Kaiser isold and experienced in military tactics and strategy,and the leading officers of &ll the European countries admit that the eriticism of Kaiser Wilhelm is more scientific, more to the point and more just than the criticism of any other commander-in-chief of the present time. During the maneuver he is always seen galloping from one part of the field to the other and nothing seems to escape his notice, as is made evident by the thorough knowledge of the minutest details which heexpresses when delivering his eriticism. The efliciency of an army in time of peace can only be estimated by their work on the maneuver field and it is for this reason that the fall maneuvers, wnich are always conducted on a large scale, attract the attention of the military talent of ail countries. THE REGENT TO THE STUDENT. | (SLIGHTLY KIPLINGESQUE.) * % consider that the meritorious services of the upper classmen attached to the California State University hav: been inadequately acknowledged as adjuncts to a flight toward higher education * % Tothe earnesiness of their work is mamnly due the S —Extract from letter. Said the Regent to the Student, *“I will make a man of you That will plant his feet upon the dome of fame; And among scholastic titles chiseled on the highest blue Of heaven we will spell out ¢ Whatsisname.’ ” It was not a clod nor yet a hayseed, It was not a Jaytown ge-ni-us that came, But a chap with earnest eyes fastened on the beck’ning skies ; "Twas a tender boy—’twas Freshman Whatsisname. Said the Regent to the Student, ‘‘You’re a di’mond in the rough Only waiting for the grinding to begin ; | When we get the crust of ages polished from your head enough We will let a gleam of culture trickle in.” It was not a suckling seeking knowledge— It was not an ancient party halt and lame, | But a bit of lusty lad—a prize-winning High School ‘*grad”’ With his new diploma labeled *‘Whatsisname.” “‘Like the gray mustached old vet in Napoleon’s regiments— (Marshal’s baton on his back or at his hip”’—) Said the Regent, “‘every A. M. always has a President’s Certificate of ’lection in his grip.” It was not a blooming kindergarten Nor a female seminary where they tame The wild untutored ‘“‘sis” down into a lettered Miss, But a ’Varsity for Student Whatsisname. Said the Regent to the Student, “Mr. Freshie, go ahead; Fix your gaze upon the stars and buckle in.”’ Then they buckled ’im and rushed ’im till the turf was tinted red, And the startled mountains bellowed with the din. He saw a hundred million stars or more Ere his eyes were closed upon the little game— Ere his spinal chord was mute and a Junior’s heavy boot : Trod the daylights out of Freshman Whatsisname. It was lively, it was lovely, and they trampled him with vim, And a higher education ’twas to them ; It was letting light and culture with a vengeance into him And grinding down the diamond to the gem. In vain the jolly morgue man queried As he coffined up the scattered, shattered frame ; Then he shunted it aside with the unidentified, Saying, “Not a bloke remembers whatsisname.” Classic Roman, Grecian, Christian Culture— The Vandal, Goth predominates the same. ToM GREGORY. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CELT. The development of the Celtic type in the last quarter of the nine- teenth century is, of course, peculiarly interesting in the United States, writes John Paul Bocock in the Boston Herald. The process may be studied by the philosophers all over the world. In all coun- tries and under all flags we find the Celt battling for that cause in which sentiment, or circumstance, conviction or tradition have ene listed his energies. Everywhere he has prospered, save in his own land. Take England, for example, a country in whicn an Irfshman is not yetat home. Of the greatest generals in her armies, Lord Wolseley, | the commander-in-chiet, is a native of Kildare, and Lord Roberts of Candahar, whom Kipling sings as ‘‘Bobs,” the idol of the Indian ar- mies, comes from County Waterford. Inthe navy the names of those fighting brothers, Lora Charies and Lord William Beresford, cccur at once to the mind. They are trishmen born, as is Lord Russell of Kil- lowen. the Chief Justice. the only Catholic of the five; the Marquis of Dofferin, the greatest diplomatist of his time, is now at home in the County Down, seven miles from Belfast. He is the grandson of Rich- ard Brinsley Sheridan, theson of Helen Sheridan, the beautiful and gifted author of “I'm Sitting on the Stile, Mary.” ' Another Irishman famous 1n contémporary British diplomacy is Sir N.choias O’Connor, Minister to Russia. Iu Australia, Sir Charles Gavan Duffy nas made & PERSONAL. Judge S. Solon Holl of Sacramento is at the Grand. L. T. Hatfield, a Sacramento lawyer, is a guest at the Lick. Dr.and Mrs. Fugene Campbe'l of Los An- geles sre at the Palace. Charles E. Runyon, of Astoria, Or., is a guest at the Grand, accompanied by his wife, W. W. Douglas, Assistant State Controller, is down from Sacramento. He is atthe Grand. Professor Edward Howard Griggs, head of the department of ethics at Stanford,is at the Grand. Harleigh Johnsson, a lemon orchardist of El Montecito,near Santa Barbara, is a guest at the Grand. Charles H. Lipman, manager of Sullivan & Keily’s paint-shops at Sacramento, is regise tered at the Grand. Joe D. Biddell, the Hanford rancher and stock-raiser and brother of the banker, isa guest of the Grand. E. B. Edson of Gazelle, who has extensive stock farns and business interests in Siskiyou County, is a late arrival at the Grand. A.F. Judd Jr., son of the Chief Justice of the republic of Hawalii, arrived here yesterday from Honolulz on his way to- Yale to study law. Ex-Superior Judge G. H. Sanders, a lawyer of St. Louis, arrived here yesterday on his way home from a trip to Hongkong for health and recreation. G. R. Dennett, a nephew of President Dole of Hawaii, arrivea here yesterday on his way to Georgetown University, where he will re. sume his studi Captain A. 8. Cotton, U. 8. N,, arrived at the California yesterday on his way home to New York, his time having expired aboard the cr r Philadelphia Rev.J.Rossi, an Italian priest and linguist on his way to La Paz, Mexico, was among the pas- sengers that arrived here yesterday in the Guelic from the Orient. Dr. R. Vogel of Switzerland on his way east- ward from a plessare tour of the world, is at the Faace. He was one of the passengers that arrived in the Gaelic. M. C. Mott Smith of Honolulu, accompanied by Miss M. P. Mott Smith, is at the Occiden- tal. He arrived in the Gaelic yesterday, and 1s on his way to college In the East. Lieutenant H. von Bonsdorffof the Russian navy came here yesterday in the Gaelic. He is on his way to St. Fetersburg, and has been with the Asiatic squadron for the past fiveand & haif years. Judge J. C. B. Hebbard, Julius Kahn, Henry Eickhoft ana Dr. D. D. Lustig returned yester- day from their vacation of aforunight. They first visited Judge Gotischalk at San Andreas, and then made an inspection of the Big Trees of Calaveras County, aiter which they visited in some of the best mines in Sonora. Lieutenant O. H. Borbane Carter of the Brit- ish navy arrived here vesierday from Hong- kong on his way home to London. Heisat the Occidental, but will resume his eastward journey this evening. For the past year he has been with the British squadron in Chinese waters. The squadron, he says, numbers at present twenty-three gunboats, including two new destroyers of thirty knots speed. Admiral C. L. Oxley, of the British navy, sta- tioned for some time past at Yokohama as | rear-admiral of the Chinese squadron, arrived here yesterday in the Gaelicand is makinga shortstay at the Occidental. He hasa three montns’ leave of absence, and is on his way to London to visit bis wife, who is ill. He was second in command in Chinese waters, and is the first rear-admiral Great Britain has had stationed there. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. the St. Cloud—P. T. Barr; C. Hopkins; H ffman—Mrs. P. Lewis, Miss M. Lewis. Mr. and Mrs. M. Schmitt, the Misses Schmitt, G. W. Tuthill; Holland—Mrs. J. E. Wilson; St. Denis—M. Murphy; Astor—S. E. Houghton, J. Lauea: . WITH YOUR COFFEE. The young diplomat looked at the lovely girl. “Did I understand yon to say,” he softly asked, “that your father was of Russian de- scent?” “Yes,"” she said. He gave a sigh of relief. “Aund my great-grandfather w man,” he said. He took her hand. “Let’s form & zweibund,” he said. They will be married shortly after the leaves begin to turn.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. a French- Scene—The Kiplings' home. at breakfast. Rudyard (the elder)—I thought I heard the baby. Mrs. Rudyard—No, you didn’t, dear; he's sound asleep. ; Rudyard (the elder)—Are you sure? Mrs. Rudyard—Why, dear, you don’t seem to be mole to get him off your mind for a minute. Rudyard (the er)—No; I don’t want to. Justgo up, there’s a aear, and leave the nurs- ery door open. “What for, my love?” “Lest we forget! Lest we forget!”—Cleve- land Plain Dealer. The Kipiings s while ye may— ill a-flying This flower ye freely pluck to-day, To-morrow you'll be buying —Truth. Bacon—I can’t for the life of me see what Penman saw in his wife to admire. Egbert—You never heard her laugh, then? “Would & man marry & woman to hear her laugh?” “Certainly. Penman is a joke writer.” —Yon- kers Statesmen. spriggs—Hello, old man! to see y ou out again, tors gave you up. Bowles—Yes; I guess I'd have died if they hadn’t.—Cleveland Leader. I'm awlully glad I heard that the doc- WEEBSTER’S LAST HIT. Plttsburg Dispateh. Some years ago an Eastern farmer, in trying torepeat Webster's dying words, “I stili live,” gave an emusing rendering of the spirig, if not the exact letter of the phrase. A gentle- man had remarked to him, ‘Life fsvery un- certain.” ‘“Ah, ves,” replied the farmer, “that’s true, every word of it; and, by the way, eaptain, that makes me think of what one of your big Massachusetts men said when he died a spell ago.” “Who was i1?” inquired the captain. “Well, Idon’t jist cail his name now, but at any rate he was a big politicianer, and lived near Boston somewhere. My newspaper said that when he died the Boston folks put his image in their windows and had a funeral for a whole day.” erhaps it was Webster,” suggested the capiain. “Yes, that’s his name! Webster, General Webster. Strange 4 could not think of it afore. But he got off a good thing just before he died. He riz up in bed and says he, ‘I ain’t dead yet.”” H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy strest. . STRANGERS, take home Townsend'’s California Glace Fruits, 50c 1b., in elegant fire-etched boxes. Palace Hotel bunmng,g 527 Market st.* —————— £PECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —————————— AS MANY HORSESHOES AS EVER, New York Sun. An extensive desler in horseshoelng sup- plies said that he did not believe the sggre- gate sale of horseshoes in this country was name for himself; in Canada, Biake, Costigan and Thomas Darey Ma- gee. In British journalism the Celt is everywhere to the fore, begin- ning with my venerable friend Justin McCarthy, who has for vears written the imperial editorials in the Daily News, the great Liberal organ. Gladstone and Balfour are Celts. DESERT PROBLEM SOLVED. The most important feature of the present Angio-Egyptian expedi- tion against the Mahdi is the successful sinking of wells in the desert between Wady-Halia and Abu-Hamed. The presencelof water at such a distance irom the Nile has never been suspected, either by Europeans or natives, and bids feir to revolutionize not only the desert tribes, but the entire conditions of desert life. Indeed, the problem of couverting the great Airican deseris into fertile territory. seems to be at length in & fair way towwrd solution, not by means of letting in the sea, as proposed by Count de Lesseps, but by the sinking of wells. Wateris evidently to be found everywhere in the African deserts, provided one digs deep enough. now any less than it had been, though it had not increased with the growth of the popula- tion. The horses put out of use in the livery business by tke introduction of the bicycle and those displaced by other power on street- car lines had not been destroyed, but put to other uses. 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