The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 13, 1897, Page 4

THE SA D. SPRE Ci{ELS, Proprietor. JOHN Address All Communication PUBLICATION OFFICE ... Telepho: EDITORIAL RCOMS.. 5 Telephon to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. .710 Market street, San Francisco Main 1868, 517 Clay street Main 1874, 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 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL... One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE..... .908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. ....... ooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. BRANCH OFFICES— 9:30 o’clock. Larkin sireet; opsn until Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until es street; open until 9:3) o'clock. 615 9:30 o’clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open untii 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock 3 Mission street; openuntil 9 o'cleck. 1505 Polk strest "9:30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky sireets; open till 9 o'clock. MISSION ZOO-PARK JOEBERY. HE land schemers who are clamoring at the door of the Tflan:d of Supervisors for a Mission zoo have advanced the suggestion that land wheh can now be obtained at a low figure may cost a vast sum of money five years hence. As evi- dence that property values are even now appreciating with most astonishing rapidity the figures of present *‘valuations’’ ot proposed sites for the monkey show as compared to the assassed valuations for 1897 of those same pieces of land make a demon- stration startling in its nature. Park sites, in fact, are offerad to the city for nine tim-s theix assessed value. THE CaLy has repeatedly denounced the out- rage sought to be perpetrated, and has voiced the sentime nts of the general public against the threatened robbery. To show up the plot of the real estate ring in its true light, however, the figures presented in yesterdsy's issue of THE CALL serve be:ter than all other arguments. Seven proposals to sell land for a park site are b>fors the Supervisors. One tract is offered for $387.500, dirt cheap. On the assessment roll the same piece of lan! is valued at just $44,200. For anothe: piece $726,000 is demandad; it is nssessed at $108,000. For a third site $235.000 is the low figure asked; the assessment made the value $10,000. And so on through the list. What does it all mean? The riddle is not hard to read. It means a combination to virtuaily filch money irom the pockets of the people. The margin between the assessed valuation and the price the city is asked tojay for the land is large enough to make the design most dangerous. The land agents declare they will carry their scheme through in spite of all opposition from the taxpayers. There is a strong money pressure behind the job. Wil the Board of Supervisors stand the test? The Sheriff at Hazleton, Pa., seems to have a firm hand and a tendency to keep it on the trigger. The gentlemen anxious to sell the city a site for a zco evi- dently go on the theory that their land is worth anything they can get for it. Not even a visit from the Duke of York can so elate the people of Ireland as o make uj; for the pressing fact of appe- tite and the fiction of potatoes. The rise in the price of bread has sffected London’s poor sericusly. Some of them are now paying a shilling a loaf and others have simply quit buying bread. San Francisco has reason to be proud of her firemen. fitting tribute to ther bravery and worth would be streets tbhrough which they might run without danger of breaking their nec ks—not but tha: goid medals are well enough. THERE IS NO HALT. HE kevnote of the commercial reports from all over the country is that there is no halt in theadvance. Every waex business shows the same steady improvement. The August appreciation in over 100 raw, staple and manufactured articles livestock, farm products, etc., amounts to 3.4 per cenr, against 3.1 per cent in July. The business failures in the United States last week were only 173, against 198 for the preceding week and 308 for the same week last year. The New York trades unions report 34 per cent more men at work than a year ago, and the same ratio carried throughout tte whole country would mean 370,000 more men employed than at the same time in 1896. In the face of this remarkable statement who shall say that the tariff does not benefit the workingman? Nor is this all. The great staples all show a pronounced in- crease, not only in szctiv but in prices. During the past month the output of pigiron gaired 12 per cent and a num- ber of furnaces that have been idle are preraring to resume work, which will result in a still further increase. Of the con- tinued advance in wheat 1t is unnecessary 16 speak. As for wool, transactions have been simply enormous. The woolen mills are buying immense quantities, as they are enjoying an cxtraordinary demand for goods at prices averaging 10 per cent higher than in the early part of the year. In fact the sales of wool are so fast that the importing point will soon be reached, if we are to credit the assertions of those in the trade. This is a great year for the wool men and they evidently knew what they were about when they clamored for a protective tariff. The hide and Jeather men are also in clover, for these two staples are very active at steadily advancing prices. The de- mand for provisions also keeps up, though business is not as excited as it was a few weeks ago. The California fruit-grower is likewise happy, for the dried-fruit market is one of the best that we have had for a number-of years. The East is laying in large stocks of our prunes, raisins and other cured fruits, and whenever quotations change it is almost always in the direction of higher prices. The air is fall of improvement. All lines of trade are feel~ ing the beneficent effects of the tariff. The farmer has thus far been the principal gainer, but the whole community is falling into line. The bank clearings show this clearly. The gain for 1he whole United States last week was 45 per cent over last year, and of the eighty cities and towns reported by Brad- street's only fourteen showed a decrease. The increase in San Francisco was 50 per cant. In fact, on whatever side we look, ‘we see the greatest trade revival of modern times. As Cali'ornia i; especially inierested in the current advance in wheat it may not be amiss to look over that fieid a moment. All reports point to a continuation of the present demand for that cxreal. Though it is the opinion of those best posted in the trade that the yield for 1897 bas never been exceeded but once, foreign advices strengthen the belief thatthe deficlen;y in other countries is 100,000,000 bushels more than usual, and to further improve the situation we will have less corn for export than we generally have. With such a brilliant outlook the wheat farmer is justified in expecting first-rate prices for his crain. Indeed, De is already getting them. From present indications, t'e fall trade of 1897 will be com- mercially historical. We are as active now as we were stagnant 2 year ago. The change is wonderfal. Butit merely proves what observing men have known all along—that a judicious tariff 1s the best tonic for the United States that has ever been discov- ered. And for the same reason it ought to crush all free-trade talk for a generation. But it may not, for the free-trader be- longs to the Democratic party, and the Democratic party isa hard party to learn. The Town Marshal of Berkeley has incited a delicate inquiry by placing a Deputy Sheriff in jail on a cbarge of vagrancy. No worthy deputy would willingly rest under such asp'rsion. On the other hand a vagrant possessing any professional pride would rather be called a yellow doz than a minion of the law. Itis bard to imagine dual capacity so comprehensive as to fit one man for both callings. It will be interesting to see whether the Deputy Sheriff be vindicated or the vagrant issue from the contest with colors fiying. A | THE ELEMENTS OF A CITY CHARTER. HERE is a growing suspicion that the new charter as Tformed by the committee now in session will' cage too many fads. The meetings of the committee are charac- terized by much oratory, and resistance to any proposed fea- ture of the instrument is met by savage personal attacks upon members of the present city government. We may be per- mitted to say that a sentiment of revenge, a desire to get even, and the iaotives inherent in ambition turned sour from disap- pointment are not properly among the sentiments that should enter into the framing of a fundamental law. A charter should stray as little as possible from a state- ment of the principles upon which the government of the city is to be founded and should provide proper checks and balances and there stop. It isa fact, proved by the experience of mankind, that where attempt is made to provide in a fundamental law for every emergency in administration, the treatment of which should be left to the discretion of the government within the fundamental limits, the opportunities for bad government are increased. : Students of the subject believe that the vices of municipa] government in this country arise in the complexity of charters and a failure to follow the model of the Federal Government. In most of our cities there s but one legislative chamber, which selects the objects and fixes the amount of pu”lic expenditure and lzvies the tax to meet it. It will be seen that the power to raise and spend public money being in the same hands there is every inducement to extravagance, and.the taxing power is left unchecked and unbalanced. The remedy is not in making a Mayor who is to be an autocrat, nor in going to the ballot-box to vote out of office those who have just been voted in. But a remedy may te found in providing two legislative chambers, like our two houses of Congress, requiring that all legislative acts shall pass them both ani that all shall b2 subject to veto by the Mayor. Then separate, absolutely, legislation and ad- ministration, putting the power to raise money and the right to spend it as far apart as possible and in departments entir:ly in- dependent of each other. Complaint is sometimes made of the extravagance of Con- gress, and every session just before adjournment it is the practice of some member of the opposition to submit a list of the appropriations made and raise the sepulchral voice of mourning over the extravagance of the party in power. Then a leader of the latter will follow with proof positive that the last chance enjoyed by the other party was improved by mak- ing larg=r appropriations than have just bsen complained of. This childish play for party advantage impresses but little any one who knows that, after all, Congress has no hand in spending what it has appropriated, but that the eight ex=cutive departments spend every dollar of it. Still less impression is made upon those who know also that thase executive depart- ments have asked Congress for twics as much as they have bzen given. It is easy to seethatif the heads of municipal departments are made in fact administrative officers, a cabinet with the Mayor at the head, with authority to spend the monsy levied as taxes by the bi-chambered city legislature, the latter body, having nothinz to profit by handling the money, will establish a reputation for economy by cutting down depart- ment estimates. At present the Mayor is without responsibility and with- out power. The usual role of the politicians we elzct to that place is that of the censor of what is done by every other officer. His own record cannot bz attack:d, for he makes no official record, and he promotes his political fortunss by viewing with alarm the conduct of the officers charged with active administration. Now, by making the Mayor and an administrative cabinet rasponsible for advance estimates of ! the cost of govarnm:nt and for the expenditure of all appro- priations made by the ciy legislature, we change a unitary into a co-ordinate scheme and supply a permanent motive for economy. At the same time we deprive the Mayor of the position of municipal critic and public scold and compsl him to be responsible and accountabl: and to do his share of the work and take his share of the blame. Our present Mayor is an estimable gentleman, but so far as the government of this city is concerned, he can remain in his residence on Jackson street, Oakland, wrapped in scholas- tic quiet, until the end of his term, and not bs missed at the City Hall. The proposition that Canada annex mos: of New England and part of New York has been viewed with much favor by the paretic who dreamed it. Of course it will be hard to lose Maine ana Tom Reed and possibly New York would object to being divided, yet let no seltish consideration strive to stay the march of pregress. The Roseburg (Or.) Coroner who officially sat upon a sup- posed suicide, whose raortal parts during the proceedings ex- perienced the unhapniness of coming to life, certainly hasa grievance. The subject also naturally has a grievance, as his desire 1o go hence had been seriously indicated by his swallow- ing poison. It would seem tliat by pooling their common woe the Coroner and the disconsolate might yet bring the affair toa pleasing issue. Paul Friedhofer is to appear to-day before a Police Judge and be sentenced for having beaten a horse to death. S me Lorses are aggravating. They have a tendency to balk, but yet it is beyond their power to commit a capital offense. With no desire to intluence the Judee unduly it may be proper to remind him that the equine race earns its hay and is entitled to pro- tection against Friedhofer. PRAISE FOR THE NAVY, HEODORE ROOSE LT, Assistant fecretary of the Navy, Twho is more given to criticizing than to praising any- thing under his supervision, and who, in the cffics of Police Commissioner in New York, came near acquiring the repute of an incessant scola, has nothineg but kind words to say of the recent naval maneuvers of the North Atlantic squadron, Coming from a man of his temperament the commendation is notable and will go far to confirm the popular pride in the great warships we have constructed for our new navy. The review was in itself a'matter of historic note, inasmuch as it was the largest squadron of ironclads ever under the control of an American admiral and, as Mr. Roosevelt points out, it is the first time in peace that an American admiral has ever commanded a squadron so formidable when compared with the warships of other powers. It was an occasion which afforaed a fair test of the ability of American officers and seamen to handle and carry through complicated maneuvers the squadron of mighty vessels which will be the chief defense not only of our commerce, but to a considerable extent of our seacoast cities, in the event of & war with any first-class naval power, Mz, Roosevelt reports “‘There is reason to be satisfied with every detail of the management of the huge warships.” He found in the manner in which the maneuvers were made abund- ant evidence “That we are beginning to have a navy fit 10 up- hold the interests of our people, & navy which though too small in size need fear comparison with no other as regards the qual- ity of its ships and men.”’ There 1s haidly any portion of the work of the Government in which the people takea greater interest than in that of up- building our navy. The launching of a new cruiser or battle- ship constitutes for the public a news item of the first im- poriance. We have taken a just pride in the evidence given in each successive new ship that our workmen are equal to the task of constructing the best ironclads in the world. It is grat- ifying, therefore, to receive this new proof that our officers and men are equally zkillful in hanaling the ships when launched. There have been so many accidents to some of our biggest warships it is pleasant to have news of the success of a thorough test of a large squadron in action. Mr. Roosevelt never flatters the public, and his hearty and unstinted praise of the work of the new navy is about as good a certificate of ex- cellence as we cun desire. FRANCISCO CALL MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 1897 THE COAST PRESS. The manager of a fruit cannery in East Napa informs the Napa Register that his estab- lishment has been obliged, on account of the extraordinary demand, to turii away $235,000 worth of orders. He employs coustantly dur- ing the fruit season 200 men, women, girls and boys. Halfmoon Bay now has telegraphic and tele- phonic communication with the outside world, and there is promise of the advent of & raflroad there. Pescadero has subscrived $10,000 toward the Coast Railway enterprise, and Halfmoon Bay will give an equal amount, at least, if the efforts of the enthusiastic ddvo- cate are properiy rewarded. The Placerville Nugget declares that for legitimate mining old £I Dorado County is as rich and promising a field as the hest recently discovered, and that what is neeeed is to spread abroad the facts about that county’s vast mineral deposits !n order to atiract thers men of wealth who have been turning their attention 10 gold properties since the Yukon excitement begau. The Pheenix (Arizona) Herald is desirous of seelng a Salvailon Army colony located in the Salt Ryer Valley. It says: “There is plenty of land here at reasonabie prices, and the Salvation people couid make an easy liy- ing on small farms. No place in the United States offers a more desirabie field for their operations than right here. There is room tor 50,000 families in this and the Glla valleys.” To build up the town of Sauta Maria and properly develop the surrounding coun try the Times of that place is urging the cit.zens to organize and work systematically to make known to the world the advantages of that locality. With excellent climate and almost uniimited natural resources to start with, a “pull all together” is conciudea to be the thing that will bring Santa Maria to the front with & boom. The vintage season has arrived and grape- crushing has already begun in Sonoma Coun- ty. *Iu ten days or two weoks.” says the Pet- sluma Argus, “all the wineries will be in full blast and thousands of tons of grapes will bs crushed daily, Tae cropis the largest since 1891, 50 say the vineyardists in diffezent parts of the county. Some grape-growers are claim- ing nearly a box to tne vine. A conservative estimate is an average of three and a half tous 1o the acre.” In parts of Shasta and Si-kiyou counties, according to the Orov l.e Register, millions of smull black flies have appeard, called by some deer flics, by others the Texas fly. *‘They are smaller than th: common housefly, but bite with suzh tury that an anlmal is s)0n covered with blood. They swarm s) thickly atStout Medows thit stock-raisecs have ben compelled to withdraw their herds from that region. Thisfly is & new pest, having only eppeared in the counties named withia the past four weeks. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES, The recent premature explosion of ashe i ina 5inch gun ou the British sloop-of-war Champion injured six men severely and slightly hurt three other seamen. The Russian battle-ship building at St. Petersburg, work upon which was startd {n the presence of Presideat Faure of France, is to be named Paris. Tae ship will be 12,500 tons displacement. Three tyrpado-hoats built by Normand at Hayre for the French navy have bean tried with satisfactory results. They are 121 feet 3 inches in length, 13 feet 7 inches beam and 83. tons displacement. The horsepower of 1300 was caiculated to give aspeed oi 23.5 knois, but the trial devsioped 1920 horse- power and a speed of 25.7 knos. With 10 tons of coal on board the byits cansteam 1090 knots at the rate of 14 knots an hour. Taese boais are 20 toas less in displacement than three buildiny for our navy, and for which & spaed of oaly 22.5 kno:s is guaran- teed. Admiral P. H. Colomt, British navy, is be- yond doubt the best authority on navai mat- ters in general, and his prognostications in na- val developments have always hitherto proved correct. He advocatsd avandonment of sai and the adoption of steam soleiy for war ves. sels, brouzht about the change from ships’ batteries of few and heavy guns lo the present system of many guns of smaller ealiber but of the quick-firing type, and be is of the opinfon that the large, costly and unwieldy armor- ¢lads will go out of fashlon in the near future, the torpedo-boat destroye:s being, in hisopin- fon, more effective. He favors, however, fast armored crulsers, such as the New York and Brooklyn type, of which England is about to construct a limited number. Armor-plate tests of more than usual inter est took place at Shoburyness on the 19th of last month. A nickelsiesl Harveyed plate farnisned by the Vickers Company was tested under conditions more exaciiug than any other armor trial. The plate was 1111-16 inches thick and 10 feet by 7 feet, backea with 12-inch onk. The stipulations for acceptance were three sa01s from a 12-inch breech-load- ing rifle, two of ths shots to Le fired with a veleeity of 1850 feet and one shot with 1880 per second, without driving any part of the plate or proj:ctile through the bicking. A howitz rsteel projectile of 714 pounds was used. The first shot, fired ata veloeity of 1861 feet initiel velocity, penetrated 25 inches into the plato and broke ths snoi iuto small pieces; the second shot, with 1868 feet veloc!- ty, penetrated 23{ inches, and the third shot, ai 1860 feet per second, went 2!4 inches into the plate. The latter was not cracked, but the projecttles broke ull to pieces. The tist was considersd highly satisfactory and the lot, of which the plates tested was a sample, was ac- cepted. The Royal Sovereign, British battle-ship, is evidently not a happy ship. She was lying at Portsmouth last month ready to depart for the Mediterranean when the discontent of the crew manifested itself in a manner very un- usualof late years in the British navy. Offi- cars were threatened as they passea between decks, and the ill fee.ing was espscially di- rected against the executive officer, Comman- der Rlcketis. The celison the ship were more than fi led, and it became necessary to send four culprits to the dockyard prison. Two men were court-martialed for attempting to strike Commander Rickatts. Both were found guilty, and the first, ordinary seaman, was sentenced to one year's hard labor in the prison; the other, a first-class boy. was sen- tenced to twenty-four cuts with a pirch, to be imprisoned three months and then to be dis- missed the service. English papers express the opinion that the sentenc:s were severe, butthe punishments are lenlent in compari- son with sentences for similar offenses in the United States. During the past cight years eight men nave received sentences varying from three to seven years for threatening to surike u superior officer, and some years ago a sailor got three years' imprisonment for ex- pressing his opinion of the captain of the conderoga to the latter in nfu ge that wi unpariiamentary and also grating to the cap- tain’s feelings. =3 » HE HELD THE TRICK. Spare Moments. A Russian priest was 5o devoted to card- playing that he played up to the last moment before commencing the church service, On one occasion, having a particularly good hand dealt him, he thrust the cards into his pocket, intending to return and finish the wme after service. Unluckily the cards feil out on the church ?cmr, io the extreme scandal of the congrega- ion. The witty priest, however, was fully equal to the occasion. At the conc usion of the service he beckoned toone of the choristers and asked him the names of several of the cards, which the boy knew dairectly. He ther tudaenly asked the lad the name of alfi hext saint’s day, which the boy couid not *‘Seel” cried the priest, turning to the con- gregation; “you teach your children the names of every card in the pack, and leave them ignorant of tneir religion. Let this be the last ime [ am_compelled to bring playing cards into the church to shame you,” and fi!:::," up his hana e made an honorabie re: NO FLIM-FLAM THERE. Punxsutawney spirit. A few weeks ago a man who was enlarging pictures visited the residence of Mart Williams of this piace. 1 “Weare doing some very fine work,” said the agent, “and in order to introducs it to the [ublic we muke you the iirst pioture iree. We will expect you to show the picture to your neixhbors, of course, and help advertise usin that way. ¥he picture will not eost you & cent.” Mr. Williams hunted up a picture and gave it to the man to enlarge. The other day he returned with the enlarged pleture. It was inclosed in a gaudy frame. “‘Of course,” the man explained, “the ricture costs yon nothing, bui we charge $5 fora frame iike that.” “Tne picture is all right,” said Mr. William:. “It pleases me first rate. I will just take1t into the other room and see whatmy wife thinks of it.” And Mart went into another room, removed he picture from behind tne glassand re- turned with the empty frame. My wife likes the picture first rate,” he said, as he handed back the frame, *‘but che thinks we cannot afford to buy the frame. We like the picture first rate. By the way, we have two or three more pictures here Lual A MILLION DAILY DESTROYED: “Every working day in the year Uncle Sam destroys a million dollars; deliberately l.xlr!’ up and grinds to pulp one miliion dollars’ worth of psper money—genuine banknotes and greenbacks,” writes Clifford Howard in the September Ladies’ Home Journal. “A million dollars In one, two, five, ten, twenty, fifty, one-iundred and one-thousand uo_llar notes are daily punched full of holes, cut into balves and thrown into & machine that rapidly reduces them to a mass of mushy sub- stance. “\henever a piece of papet moneydbe!cor:l;s lea or torn it may be presented to the :?él‘;ed States treasury and redeemed. Sooner or Iater every note that circulates among the Deople becomes unfit for iurther service, for it is bound to become dirtv or mullllledflhy con- stant handiing, and the United States Govern- ment stands ready to give the hoider of such UNCLE SAM Grinds Up a Million Dollars a Day. you may enlarge on the same terms. lam | always willing to help a fellow along that way | when I can do it Without any expeuse to my- | selt.” Bat the man didn’t take any more. Ile felt that Mart was & poor subject to work any flim-ilnm games on, and so, with a strained “Good day," he felt for greener fields, carry- ing his empty frame. PERSONAL. C. B. Hart of Siockton is at the Baldwin. | H. J. Ostrander of Merced is at the Russ. | F. M. Miller, an attorney of Fresno, is at the : er,a mining man of Turlock, is at | the Lick. i W. . Middlicoff, a lawyer of Salinas, is at the Grand. R. Marsh Browne of Penryn 1s a guest at the Oceidon tal | A. 5. Ranaall of Ellensburg, Wash., 1sa late | arrival at the Russ. A. L. Jackson of San Luis Obispo is at the | Cosmopolitan Hotel. | . C. Runge of Hanover, Germany, is & recent arrival at the Pelace. g Jumes E. Wilson of Londonaerry, Ireland, is | aguest at the Palace. John D. Pope of Los Angeles, an ex-judge, is registered at the Palace. M. E. Taylor, 8 well-known newspaper man of Louisville, is at the Palace. | J. C. Mogk, a grain-dealer of Coluss, is among the guests at the Grand. Richard V. Dey hes returned from a busi- ness trip to Puget Sound cities. C. Rule, proprietar of a lerge dairy at Dun- can’s Milis, arrived yesterday at the Grand. Baron E. de la Grange,a wealthy mining man of Weavervil'e,is a guest at the Palace. Y. Okano, an extensive tea merchant of Toklo, Japan, is registered at the Cosmopoli- tan Hote!. T. G. Yancey, a merchant of Newman, Stan- islaus County, is a guest at the Lick, accom- panied by his wife. ! George West, the vineyardist and wine mer- | chant of Stockton, arnived at the Occidental yesterday, accompanied by Miss West. Dr. H. W. Hunsaker has returned from an eleven-day deer hunt in the Santa Rosa moun- tains. He succ.eded in killing two bucks. | Among the arr.vals yesterday at tho Grand were toree large dairymen of San Luis Obispo Couniy—A. Tognazzini, W. J. Tognazzini and P. Tognazzini. Cyrus R. Miller, U. S N., a Sacramento boy, | formerly a student at Stanford snd a recent | graduate of Annapolis lately assigned to duty | on the Oregon, is a guest at the Palace. Major Darling, U. 8. A., retired, formerly of the Presidio, 18 at the Occiaentai, accom- panied by Mrs. Darling and ner sister, Miss | iastings, all registered from Rutherford, | where Mujor Darling has a ranch. Rev. Elwara P. Dempsey, assistant priest at St. Mary’s Cathedral, has retarned {rom an ex- tended tour through the South, where he wenton the advice of his physician to recover his failing health. e returns fuily rested, and much improved. i | | IN ROSETIME. In rosetime I love to lie Among th grass, an1 name the ships ‘Whose sails are clouds in fleecy sky, And waich their swiit ethereal trips. In rosetime, when beetles crone “Iheic lazy luys in vagrant flight, 110ve 1o oo siesta’s own Diowsy dreams in fond delight. In rosetime, when swallows skim Adown the dusky way aid inne, I iove 10 look beyond the rim Of past uny be & boy again. H. &, Keiler in Lés'ie’s Weekly, MEN AND WOMEN., The bullet which killed Lerd Nelson at Tra- falgar 1s still preserved. It is mounted ina t, and reposes in a crimson bag The *‘Prisoner of Chillon” did not suffer in the cause of liberty. He was, it is asserted, a troublesome rogue, sent to prison for mischief- making, and spent his term in making inde- cent verses. B. F. Vaughn, a Philadelphia millionaire, is just completing one of the finest hunters’ iodges in one of the finest game parks iu the United States, on North Elk creek, a few miles from White River, Colorado. Ex-President Guzmau Blanco of Ven ezuela issaid to be the richest man inthe world, owning 6,000,000 square miles of land, 2,600,000 virtual slaves and enjoying an an- nual income of §$87,000,000. Teresina Tua, the violinist, now the Countess Franchi-Verney, has been nom- | inated an officer o1 the French Academy, hav- ing been proposed by M. Hanotaux, Minister of Foreign Affairs. The artist former!y studred | at the Conservatory of Paris. Eulogios Georgiefl, the founder of the Sofia University, who died recently, bequoathed 20,000,000 francs to the Bulgarian Govern- ment to be applied to the country’s needs, 6,000,000 francs for a technical school to be established at Sofia and large sums for other public institutions, | nceurately and | thrown out. | chant. & mew note in exehsnge for it: or, in other words, the Government will redeem it. ““Tae majority of the clerks employed in this important depaitment of the Government are women, many cf whom ere the most expert money-counters aud counterfeit detectors in theworid, I fact, only expertscan properly perform the work that is required; for not ouly must the soiled and muti.ated money be repidly counted, but alt nows must he detected and When we consider that some counterieiiers can so cleverly imitate gennine money that their spurious notes will circulate through the couniry without detection, and are not discovered until they are finally turned into the treasury, some jdea of the preficiency of these experts can be gained, especially when we beer in mihd that these notes are often so worn that the imprinton them ean scarcely be deciphered. It not in- frequently heppens that these badnotes are detected simpiy by the feel of them, which, in some cases, ix the only way of discov.ring the fraud; for while a counterfeiter may occa- sionally succeed in so perfectly imitaiing tne design of u note as to mislead cven an exvert, it is next to impossibie for him to counter.eit the paper used by the Government.” counterfeit VALUE O+ FROSPERITY. Chicago News. There ar2 in this country, eounting reserves and the new crop, at lea-t 550,000,000 busbels of wheat, which has appreclated ia market value about 85 cents a bushel in the last two mornths, There ar?, counting reserves and the new crop, at lesst 3,000,000,000 bushels of corn, which has advanced 6 cents a bushel in price in the same time. There are 17,000,000,000 pounds ot hog meat, raw and manufactured, which bas ad- vanced an average of 3 cents & pound. There are 325,000,000 pecks of gardea truck, the average advance in which has been 214 cents per peck. itisa well-known economic law that the market value of productive property depends upon its earning power. The earning power of farm land has increased 33 yer cent since July 1. Hence there are 2,650,000 farms in this country whieh have appreciated in value an average of $500 per farm ata moderate estimate. - Aud there are $60,000,000,000 worth of rail- road securities which, by reason of the agricul t\l{r.l prosperity, have inereased 12 per cent in value. Better timeson the farms meansa larger output and_higher prices for the faciory. There are $50.000,000,000 invested in tacto- ries and the average iucrease in value is 10 per cent. Better times for the factory means greater activity and mote profits for ths nrban mer- There are $100,000,000,000 invested in retail mercantile estabiishmentx, which are now worth 20 per cent more than’ they were eight weeks ago. Naturaily the increased prosperity means an advance in the volue of eity reai esiate—say 15 per c2nton $150,000 000,000. Add, say 15 per cent, ou $100,000,000,000, representing all the ‘aloons, theaters, sani- tariums, E“em medicines and other indus- tries which will participate in the boom, and we have a net total of $70,000,000,000, or $1000 for every man, womau and child iu the United States. Tnus every man having a wife and five chil- dren js §7000 better off than he was July 1. Or if one of the children were born only August 1, thereby particioating in but half of the ndvauce, he is worth $6500 more than he was two moaths ugo. This is no idie dream, but a cold, solid, ical fact. Early next week the local { banks wiil make arrangements 10 cash the checks of guch as may desire to draw out their share, THE PLODDER AND THE RUSHER New York Herald. Men who expect to get rich in twenty mia- utes and who have a chronic habit of grabbing eversthing within reach are no benefit to any community. The fellow who sticks to his | work and proposes 1o keepat it for the next twenty vears, saving *here a little and glittie” o likely obe well 1 by and by, A e will not be ashamed to show his record, is the ideal American citizen. ol e ke e AMERICAN SKILL IN CANADA, Detroit Free Press. The great bridge at Muntreal, 700 feet in length, built to accommodate two reilroad tracks, two trolley lines and two footpaths, is to be erected by American contractors and made of American naterinis. Canada has a way of knowing a good thing when she sees it S ed IRt wae s WITH YOUR LOFFEE. Do you feed your baby scientifically?” *'Yes; it takes science to keep his grana. mother from stufing him to death.”’—¢, Record. ano “Why do you fellows call that ‘Catfish HIIl' 7" asked ths tourist, | T O “‘Because,” srid Pieface Bill, “ft 9 scaled.”—cCincinnati Enquirer, sl “Why do prosperous men alwa: P yS say that the ladder of success iy e X made up of broken ““Well, they do it so tnat o try to crawl up after the Press. ther fellows won't m.”—Detroft Free She—What do you mean by circulating the report that I live a haud-to'. 3 i bl ud-t0'mouth existence ? He—Well, that was th me., Whenever I ca) o of the time Yawning, “I am afraid you cessful lover. my ay it seemed to 1 on you, you put in most ~—Indianapolis Journal. Were not cut out for a suc - bov,” said the sympathizing friend to the impecunious chap who hed failed to win his wife. . seid the L. C., “I was only cut out f¢r T the $600,000 that is coming to her when old man dies.”’—Cincinnati Commercial bune. «What wes the first thought that came to you when you saw Niagara?” «Mark Antony.” “Mark Antony?”’ es. 'Oh, waterfall was there, my country- men.’ "—Clevela nd Leader. SUNDAY SOLACE. A Delightful Day Muticed Many Visit- ors to the Ocean Beach and Golden Gate Park. Yesterday was a delightf il day for out- ings. Large numbers of the urban popu- lat'on sought the ocean beach at the (,‘nff House and more went to Golden Gate Park. Trainsof the Park and Ocean Rail- road, which were dispatched every sixteen minutes during the hours of the early afternoon, were thronged with passengers. Tue Sutro and California-street lines also carried many passengers to the beach. The swimming events enticed visitors to Sutro baths and the mandolin orchestra entertained the people who souzht repose on the verandas of the CIiff House. The beach for half a mile south of the Cuiff ed with spectators. . Julius Mark-, a youngster who lives at Sixth and Jessie strcets, was taken to the Emergency Hospital in Golden Gate Park yesterday aiternoon. He was catcher in 2 ball game, and caught a hot ball on the right kneecap. The knee was not frac- ed. m(r)ficer Dearborn arrested two small boys who were pestering the quail with sling stones. “The boys were admonished and released. The birds of this season have attained their growth and are quite plentiful. ¥ Very little improvement, is under way at the park at the present time, owing fo the scarcity of money. The force of workers was diminished on the 1st of month, and will not be increased until th tax levy is adjusted. 455 The Chutes had a fine crowd of visitors yesterday aiternoon and evening. e HOLDING A_MISSION. Two Visiting Priests Ministering to Parishioners at Si. Ignatius Church. A mission is being held at St. Ignatius Church by two fathers of the Society of Jews who have jast arrived from St Louis. The mission this week is exclu- sively for ladies, while that of next week will be for the men. The order of exercises is as follows: Morning:- 0 o’clock, mass and instruc- tion; 9 o’clock, muss and sermon. ‘Atlernoon—3:30 o'clock, way of the cross; 7:30 o'clock, rosary, lecture and benediction. Instruction will be given every night this week at the priests’ residence to all adults who have not as yet made their first communion. An invitarion has been extended to the ladies of other denominaticns to attend this “spiritual retreat.’” g The visiting priests are Fathers Finni- gan and Van der Erde R S S Daughters of Liberty. California Council No. 1 of the Daughters of Liberty at its last heid meeting initiated three candidates. After the bu.iness meeune there was a tocial dance urder thedirection of J. Colby, the floor manager. On the 8th of next monts this council will give a party in Laurel all. This order, which wns organized in asmall town in the East in 1871, is steadily increas- ing 1in this as well as iu other States. CALIFORNIA giace fruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend's* e e FINE eyeglasses, specs, 15¢ up. 35 Fourth st* g E£PECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Prey. Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery, i i i Counsel—What s your age, madam? Witness—T only know from whatI've bee told and you just told me that hearsay evi- dence was mot velid in court. — Fliegende Blattel “Mrs. Winslow’'s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth- ers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It :00thes the child. softens the gums, al- 1ays. Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and js the best remedy for Diarrhwss, whether arising from teething or other causes. Forsale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask 10r Mrs. Winslow’s Svothing Syrup. 26cabotis —————— CoROXADO.—Atmosphere is perfectly dry, sot: snd mild. being entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round-trip tickats, by steam- ship, including fifteen days board at the Hotelds: Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 50 pecday. Appis 4 New Montgomery street. San Francisco. NEW TO-DAY. The dining tablein the picture is fashioned after the old Flemish idea —heavy twisted pillars. It’s oak, rich hued antique finish. And the price—no more than you’d be asked for a common table of like size—$17.50. The chairs in the sketch match the table to a ““t.”” Twisted legs, back posts and arm supports. Box seats to give strength and good looks. Dining Chairs, £5. Arm Chairs, $8. This is a safe place to trade. If what you buy don’t look just right when you get it home, we’ll send for it and go to any amount of trouble to make everybody happy. By actual count 321 rolls of new carpets have come m this Carpet Newness. week. Tapestries, Axminsters and the famously good Lowell and English Body Brussels. : Carpets same as furniture— you’re as welcome to look as to buy. California Furniture Company (N P Cole & Co) Carpets 117 Geary Street uattogs | | | | 1 | | i i |