The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 14, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 1897. :l'UESDAY.. SEPTEMBER 14, 1897 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propri tor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. g AR Z ....710 Market streot, San Francisco Telephone Main 1883. PUBLICATION OFFICE EPITORIAL RCOMS.. veees .-517 Clay street fain 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and sur-ounding towns for 15 cents a week. Te 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. BRANCH OFFICES— 9:30 o’clock. 339 Hayes sigpet Larkin street; open until 9:30 o’clock. Mission streets; open until 9 o'clock. Roowms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. 7 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until open until 9:3) o'clock. 615 SW. coraer Sixteenth and 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o’clock. 1243 Mission ety open until 9 o'clock. 1503 Polk street; open untii 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentvcky sireets; open till 9 o’clocl TRONG and prompt have been the words of approval given to thesuggestion of THE CALL that equalization districts be abolished and the members of the Board of Equalization elected by the State at large, The approv: moreover, has come from men well fitted to pronounce judgment on the sub- ject. The Governor, the Mayor, Congressman Maguire, Judge Couk, United States District Attorney Foote and several otter officials, as well as many citizens of eminence in public affairs, bave united in commending the proposal and warmly advocat- ing its adoption. The argument for the proposed change is a simple and per- fectly plain one. The officials who are charged with the duty of equalizing taxes throughout the State should be subject to no sectional influence whatever. They nre expected to have an equal regard for the interests of every :ection of the State, and, therefore, should not be elected as if they were intended to be representatives of particular district Their constituency should be as wide as their jurisdi , snd since they have yower over the assessments of all counties alike they should be responsible to the voters of all. We never can have impartial sssessments under the system of election by. equaiization districts. The Equalizer chosen from a certain disirict cacnot fail to feel that 1o some extent at any rate he is the representative of that district and not of the State. He will b2 inclined to guard the interests of his own constituents even if in doing so he Las to sacrifice the interests of others. 1tisalaw of human nature that impels him to look out for his own lica first, and as long as he is responsible to the district and not to the State he will continue to do so. To make the desired change Will require a constitutional amendment, and the Governor has announced through THE CaLw that he will make a recommendation to that effect at the next se n of the L-gisiature. Itisimportant, thersfore, that a campaign of education on the subject be carried on through- out the State in order that the people may understand the object and extent of the proposed amendment. The issue is one which affects equally all portions of ihe commonwealth. ‘The proposed change will not be in the inter- est of one district more than of others. It isto promote the welfare of all by providing that every member of the Board of Equalization shall represent all the people instead of those of a particular district only. This fact should be made known, and we count upon our contemporaries of the interior press to unite with us in advocating the reform. President Barriosol Guatemala seems to have founa a tack in the executive chair. Irving and Terry are having another of those quarrels that they ought to be able to pay for at regu:ar advertising rates. No philosopher has yet arisen to explain why one railroad accident is invariabiy fol.owed by others of a similar character until the calamiiies form a group of three. The idea that the word of returned miners after a season in the Klondike is not to be depended on is being dissipated. Sev- eral have come back openly avowing that they do not possess a cent. If railroad passesare 1o be paid forin “nezative friendship,” that somewhat vague commodity upon which so eminent an authority 2s W. H. Milis of the Southern Pacific places a hich value, William Jennings Bryan evidently ke:ps in stock a large quantity of this brand of friendsnin. An Alameda County contractor has returnet home after an absence of several days, stating that in the interim bis mind has been blank, comfortably, unimpressionably blank. Perhaps the gentlemanly but somewhat leisurely contractors who are not building the Hall of Justice could find in the cul- tivation of a similar frame of mind a pezace the crusl world wouid deny them. A LESSON TO BE REMEMBERED. EPORTS from our special correspondsnts at various points in Alaska, as well as steries told by rezurning pros- pectors and miners, make it certain that the rush for the Kiondike is virtually over for this season. We may havea repetition of it next spring. and in all probability we will, but for the present there has com=:a pause in the excitement that affords to zll an opportunity to think calmly over the prospects of finding a fortune along the banks of the Yukon and to count the cost of getting there. From this time on until winter sets in and puts an end to | attempts at further travel to Dawson before spring we shall have reports of disaster and deprivation, and perhaps worse. The lesson involved in those reports shoula he carefully studied and remembered by the adventurous who are even now making plans for going to the Klondike next year. The conditions of the trails will not be widely different in the coming season from those of the present one, and the experience of so many unfor- tunates this year should be a warning to those who are resolved 10 scale the Chilcoot as soon as the next season opens. From the beginning of the excitement the Jeading journals of the country have been urgent and persistent in advising ad- venturous persons not to make the journey to Dawson without the most careful preparation for all the emergencies of Arctic travel over snowy mountains and through regions where food is scarce and at time unattainable. As long, however, as return- ing miners continued to bring in new stories of gold discoveries the warnings were unhgeded. The glamour of gold was upon the mind and danger and difficulty were scoffed ar, It will be different now. The reports of distress and desti- tution from the north will confirm and add emphasis to the counsels of prudence. If the peopie can only be irduced to consider them so weil that they will not forget them when the excitement breaks out anew next spring we shall not have a repetition of the want, wret chedness and misery which seem to be impending now over thousands of sanguine men, and women, too, who buta short time ago started north full of hope and sanguine of a speedy journey to the gold fields and a prompt fortune when there. The footpad seems to have developed a liking for plying his calling in the vicinity of Mission and New Montgomery streets. Noris this the only disadvantage under which that section labors. There is also published there one of the most blazingly yellow of yellow journals. ——e Perhaps Playwright Belasco and Playwright Gassaway could consent to divide the responsibility for “The Heart of Maryland’’ if there woula not remain a number of other play- wrights clamoring for a share. Men who come back from the Klondike with a few hundred dollars ought to refrain from the mysterious reticence by which they indicate to the credulous that the hundreds are thou- tands. l j tion. THE SUPERVISORS SPEAK OUT. E publish this morning interviews with the Supervisors Won the sutject of the proposed Mission park and zoo- logical gardens, and the people will be gratified to learn that a strong majority is opposed to the- project. In fac! only one memter of the board, T. W. Rivers, declares opznly for it. Two—Devany and Haskins—are undecided. Dodge is out of the city. All the others stand with the taxpayers and oppose the measure. Public opinion, taking a common-sense view of tfe scheme, has reached the conclusion that thé choice involved in the question is the simple ons whether we shall make im- provements for the benefit of the people or for the benefit of a more or less odorous collection of imported monkeys and a few real estate boomers. It has been pointed out by many cit'zens in their interviews with THE CALL that the people are at this time in urgent need of improvements in almost every one of our municipal institu- tions. Our schoolhouses are largely out of repair, our fire companies are lodged in old wooden buildings, our police sta- tions are inadequate to the needs of the service, the County Hospital and the pesthouse are in a condition that disgraces the community, and some of our principal thoroughfares are paved with cobblestones which are not only unsightly and dis- agreeable, but by their wear and tear on vehicles entail a heavy cost on every kind of traffic that passes over them. The people demand that these much-needed improvements for the general bensfit shall be made before any expenditure is undertaken for additional pleasure grounds with a menagerie attachment. Until we have better schools for our children, better hospitals for the unfortunate, better buildings for the po- lice and the Fire Department and better street paving and sewers for the convenience of all, it would be foolish for us to enter upon a scheme involving a heavy expenditure for the maintenance of birds and beasts and the booming of certain tracts of real estate. To these arguments of the people, the boomers answer that even it we do not require the park and the monkey garden at present we will need them later on, and that we should pur- chase the site now while land is cheap. The offers made by the boomers to the city, however, do not correspond with the answer they make to the people. They talk of cheap land, but they do not offer it at cheap prices. In every proposition made to the city to szl land for the park the price asked is so far in excess of the assessed value as to put it not only out of the category of cheap land, but even out of consideration as a fair bargain. On one tract assessed at §44,200 the price fixed is $387,505. For another assessed at $108,9%0 there is asked $726,000. A third is assessed at $40,000, and it is offered to the city for $285,000. A fourth, with improvements, is assessed at $47,409, and the price demanded is $26>,000. The remaining three proposals are of the same nature. One of them is an offer to sell for $300,000 a piece of land assessed at $130,000, another offers for $45,000 a tract assessed at $25,000, while the third for a tract assessed at 830,500 asks the city to pay $175,0%0. 3 It is to induce the city to consent to accept such proposals as these that the boomers raisz the cry, ‘‘Buy while land is cheap.” It is to promote such real estate speculations that taxpayers are asked to consent to a heavier burden of taxa- It is to carry through such schemes that the people are asked to consent to a further postponement of needed improve- ments in streets, sewers, hospitals, schoolhouses and other municipal buildings. There would be'no cheapness nor even a square bargain in a single one of these propositions even if the promoters of it would guarantze to furnish with the land a monkey garden with the monkeys included as a premium. That fact is beyond question and we congratulate the tax- payers that the majority of the Board of Supervisors has de- clared against imposing additional taxation upon them for any such purpose. A Colorado gentleman of seething temperament wants to fight a duel with the Attorney-General of that State. The At~ torney-General having but one arm of course the challenger w lop off one of his own in the interests of fair play, aiter which let the baitle proceed. While it must be aamitted that the Georgia murderer who was one of the Coroner's jury at the inquest upon his vietim possessed peculiar advantages for arriving at a correct conctu- sion it is not learned that he made u-e of them, The people who sent the Anderson tosea knowing the vessel to be unworthy of any sailor’s confidence seem to have had a narrow escape from being gnilty of wholesale murder. ERYAN AS A DEADHEAD. EOPLE who may have wondered why Rryan solicited a P pass from the Southern Pacific Company while making a tour through California, posing as the enemy of corpora- tions and mouthinz his independence of the favors of pluto- crats and monopolists, need wonder no more. The action of the demagogue was not a casual slip, nor a blunder arising from an inconsiderate mind. The solicitation of railway passes it appears is a custom of Mr. Bryan. He is an habitual deadhead. The publication by THE CALL of the facts relating to Bryan’s pass obtained from the Southern Pacific Company, together with Mr. Mills’ letters on the subject, atiracted a great deal of attention in the East as weil ason this coast, and as a conse- querce the record of the late aspirant for the Presidency was investigated in that section of the Union. The first result of the investigation is the discovery made public by the Omaha Bee that Bryan makes free of railway favors in the East as well as in California. ‘-Mr. Bryan,” says the Bee, ‘‘traveled to St. Louis some ten daysago over the Wabash, and deadheaded his way with an 1897 annual pass.” 1t will be remembered that the excuse offered for Bryan in this State was that the pass given him was in exchange for ad- vertising in the World-Herald of Omaha. It appears the pass on the Wabash was also ostensibly on account of that paper. In commenting upon this the Bee says: Railronds do not issue annual passes in exchange for advertising. In the nature of things they could not know how often they would be used, for what distance, and how much advertising value they would tepresent. If Mr. Bryan pald the World-Herald for his Wabash an- nual, how much did he pay an1 when and where and on what basis ? Did he pay so much a mile or a lump sum ? Tne discreditable featurs of these deadhead transactions is that the man who is thus riding about the country on free passes is continually representing himself as the champion of the people against corporation rule, and conceals the fact that he is an habitual solicitor of corporation favors. When de- tected in the use of passes he puts forward the plea of paying for them by advertising in a newspaper of which he is said to be a stockholder, but with which he has no other connection whatever. It has been pointed out by Mr. Mills that every man who rides as & deadhead imposes upon the lroad company the task of making some one else pay for it. That Bryan and his kind may b3 carried free the rate of passenger fares has to be raised on every one who pays. The dema ogue who is also a deadheaa is therefore a double burden on the commumty, It has long been desired that Bryan should stop talking, and in the interest of the trave'ing public it is now equally desirable that he should quit riding. It is said that Secretary Alger’sillness may delay the de- cision concerning San Pedro. Perhaps this is a reversal of cause and effect. The way in which he has dallied with that decision is enough to muke almost any man sick. Naturally the woman who started into the Klondike accom- panied by two babes a ed at the end of her journey umin- cumbered and two little graves marked the trail. New York is going to have a Chinese play. Of course that is a superior town, an allegation in which it takes joy, but it1s not ab.ve coming to San Francisco for ideas, PERSONAL. C. Meyerstein, a Ventura merchant, is at the ick. Dr. R. Paulin of Righland Park is at the Palace. T. J. Donovan, a merchantof Ventura, isat the Grand. . B. Ciine of Los Angeles is registered at the Palace. > J. Poingdcstre, a mining man of Yuba City, is at the Graud, A. J. Waterhouse of the Fresno Republican is at the Grand. Rev. J. Reynolds, a traveling Catholic priest, is at the Grand. 3 Dr. and Mrs, Walter Lindley of Los Angeles are at the Occidental. 3 A. G. Campbell, a mining man of Fortuna, is registered at the Graud. Charles Roth of Cincinnati, a diamoad fm- porter, is n guest at the Palace. H. A. Jastro of Bukersfield, president of the Board of Supervisors of Kern County, is iu the city. A. Brown, who has a general merchandise store, & flourmill and a ranca at Kernville, is at the Grand. E. 8. Babcock, proprietor of the Hotel del Coronado and president of the San Diego Gas and Water Works, arrived yesterday at the Palace. George 8. Conroy, secretary of the San Fran- cisco Single Tax Society, will leave for Mazat- lan this week. During his visit in Mexico Mr. Conroy will make an inspection of the work- ings of the land laws of that country in rela- tion to the effect on the common people. A. D. Gray, ore of the lucky Klondikers, returned yesterday from Chicago and isstay- ingat the Golden West. Next week three of his companions fn fortune will return from the East and the four will spend the winter here, intending to re-enter the Klondikein toe spring. THE EVEN.NG BREEZE. Now praise the Lord both moon and sun, Aud prals - him all ve niguts and days, And goiden harves s every one, And al ye hidaen waterways, With catile standiog to the knces Safe from the bitter zadfl.'s sung; But praise him most, O it i» breezs That walks ab:oad at evealng. O pralse him all ye orchards now, And 8l ye gardens ueep in green, Ripe apoles on the yellowing brugh, And goiden p um an | nectarine, And peaches ruddi 't than (he rose, And pears a-ai st the soutnern But msu the littie wind that blows, The ble 8:d wind at eventall. all; O praise him, hoary dews again. Drenching the meadows ' neath the moon, And praisa him bid (en founts of rain, And amber brook s singing a tune, Anaicy deeps of wel-water, And each peliucid stream and spring; But praise him wost, O wind as:ir, U bless:d wind at evening. O praise him now ye burning davs Of goidea summer, hot ani speat, Planets and stars see that prai-e Ee blown avout ihe firmament. Yet praise bim best. O littie wind That out of heaven wiil blow «nd call, Because, because « ur God is kina Aud bids us live a: evenfall. Pull Mall Gazette. THE CIVIL SERV.CE. To the Eduor of the San Francisco Call— SIk: The editorial u.terances of THE CALL on September 8. in relation to the “Flaw in the Reform,” seem to suggest a remedy that ap- parently meets with the approval of the “civil service reformers.” It is well enough to re- quire bunds from employes in the Government service, though this rule should only apply to those acting in a fiduciary capacity., But this requirement shou!d not be urged in connec- tion with the extension of the so-called efvil service, which is an imposition on the com- mon sense of the American people. The ques- tion of security for faithful performance of the duties devalving upon the occcupant of any Federal. subordinate position can be resched by a general enactment by Congress, independeént and irrespective of ‘civil service reform.” The Declaration of Independence spoke of bodies being quariered on the people, and we might speak with equal propriety of bodies of subordinates being “quariered” on the people by means of a clever move made by Grover Cleveland. Since then the people have said by their badjots that enother administration should hanci: the affairs of govermment. If this is to coutinue as a government of the people then it foilows that when the peopie decree a change the administration shoud be able to appoint those who can carry out its intentions, instead of being compelled to work along with those totally opposed to it. The crowning consideration, however, is that no one set of men should be quart:red on the public treasury during the term of their nai- ural lives, becrming 1n effect a peity continu- ous office-holding oiigarchy, in no way subject to the peoPle‘s willas expressed at the baliot- box, but the creatures of an unwise law. Why should we elect occupants of ofiicial places at ail if they caunot uppoint their subordinates ? So many abuses of the so-called civil service law have come 10 light that exhibit not alone its imperfections but the necessity of its re- peal and a return 1o the system of government by the peovle instead of an office-holding oli- gaurchy. Civil service reform is only another way of incuicating a monarcnical sentiment in our midst, and sets up & class above (he people’s elecied officers, and in time, if ex- | tended, will constitute an irremovable class. As the logical result of a crystallization of pub.icsentiment inimical 10 monarchical ten- dencies o1 the law, s movement is on_loot, to have prepared and submitted to Congress through our Congressional Representatives next Decamber, a bill epea ing the so-called civil service law and aboiishine the expensive commission now enjoying A 1at thing under 11s provisions. If such a bill becomes a law, we will be assured of a return to the former eqnitable conaftions and a simplifica'ion of governmental rule. E. M. GALVIN. San Fracisco, September 13, 187 SANTA CLARA PRUNES. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—Sir: In anarticle in your Sunday issue of Septem- ber 12 on “Our Prunes or None at All” you refer to the Santa Clara County Fruit Ex- changé and Colone! Hersey and the action of both. We desire to state in reply that we have s0d no prunes on a basis of *‘less than 3 cents”; that we have not soid “several huu- dred carlonds” at even that price, nor have we s0ld 100 carloads at that pric-. For the month of September shipment we sold none except for the advanced prices, and had confidence from the beginuing that S:ptember shipment would advance, and were and have continu- ally been situatea to take the advantage of this rise. We have many cais yet toselland are obtaining the highest mnrket prices. Whether there is dissatisfaction or not is best shown by the fact that we are having all that we have capacity 10 do in takiug care of the product delivered to us. Our pations can feel assured that their interests will be cared tor and that we have every facility for re- ceiving ana packing their product, and when <o received to sell in all markets, foreign and domestic, at the highest prices. We believe it is for the interest of the fruit- g‘owar 1o sell at present prices and not hold. ur product is too Iarge to feel any assurance of selling in a few days or a few weeks. There- fore, we may sell when the price is reasonable (as to-day), and the market is ready to take, Mr. Eaitor, we believe we have the bast plant in the world for our purpose, and cordially iuvite you to visit us for your own pleasure as ;w.;li as the fruit-growers’ benefit. Respect- uliy. SANTA CLARA COUNTY FRUIT FXCHANGE. Ban Jose, September 13. YELLOW JOURNALISM. Chicago Times-Herald. Comments on the testimony given on the trial of a man on the charge of murder, show- ing its force or effect, are no part of decent and dignified journalism. To draw imaginary conclusions from the personal appearance of the man on trial, suppiemented with more or less fanciful pictorial representations of the man’s face as he appeared during the exami- nation of the witnesses, does not come within the range of legitimate newspaper enterprise. It is the business of “‘yellow journalism. AN AWKWARD ACCIDENT. Louisville Courler-Journal, The latest plaint of Brer Bryan hath the sound of ore crying in the wilderness, who hath punctuted his tre on his crown of thorns, GOOD 1HING FOR WEYLER. Chicago Times Herald. Wireless telezraphy will be a great thing for General Weyler's campajgn in Cuba. It wiil then be impossibie to destroy any of his yvic- tories by cutting the wires. THE EBB TIDE. Chicazo Inter Ocean. It looks & little like reform. An Ohio woman offers to trade +:a'97 bicycle first- B cnrl-x:.e' - icycle for a first-class | call Thomas Nesom blessed HERE IS THE VERY LATEST IN RAI The thousands of wealth-seekers who are yet to brave the dangers of the Chilc ot Pess are but & few of those who will rise and if his new sys- tem of railroading proves to be practicable and is put to use in Alaskn. Mr. Nesom is | an_Indiana electrician, and is said fo be | neither crank nor dreamer, but a gentleman LROADS. % willing stave to his passion for clectrical ex: periment. His newly invented railroad, he asserts, will overcome the obstacles of moun- tain, gorge, lake and stream. which now make passage to the Alaska Ei Dorado sodifficult and dangerous. To a representative of the Cincinnati En- quirer. who smoked him out at his iaboratory 1n Indinnapoiis, Wizard Nesom declared that his patent will enable every man to have his own car, and that corporate capital will merely have io supply the power aud line of rails. Those once Avallable, farmers, mer- chants, tourists, go'd-seekers or whoever else may wish to use the lines can have their own cars ata cost less than that of a bicycie. The only important thing whicn is new in | this invention is that the wheel and motor | are inside the track from which tne car is sus- pended. The raiisare of D shape, with the vertical 1ins of the letter downward, in which is a groove with edges holding the motor in place and protecting it from snow and ice. That is about all there is of it cept poles, girders end power-nouses.” Tie poles Mr. Nesom proposes (o place sixty leet of bright thought and busy brains, who is a I i part, and the “power-houses at a distance of jorty miles from each other. The cars are eon- trolled by compound levers and hand brakes, and the end of each is made narrow Lo lessen the air resistance under great speed. ““This road can be built with iron suspension doub e track,” said Mr. Nesom, ‘ior about #3500 a mile. A speed from 50 to 100 miles an hour, carrying irom fifieen to twenty passenzers, can be obtained. If wooden- Tick is Luilt the cost would be lessened- one-half and the spced about the sime. I claim this system can be made far superior 10 any 1n existence. 1t now requires 2000 pounds dead weight 10 ¢ rry ihe average pas- | ger (97 pounds) by the present railway Sys- Tem, ut & cost one and a haif cents a mile, and by the present troLey el:ciric system ground track 450 pounds at a cost of three- quarters of a cent a mile. tem reduces the dead weigh. to fifty pounds to the passenger,at & cost of less than one mill, reducing the trolley system nine times. Tne road can be made antomatic, whereby mail or smail packages can be sent ata rapid speed, stopping atany point desired. It can- not be blocked by rain, snow, ice or sieet.” WITH YOUR COFFEE. The agitator—Why were you not at the meet- ing of the unemployed to-day? The worker—Too busy.—Cincinnati Commer- cial-Tribune. “We let our typewriter girl go.” “What was the trouble?” “Why, she didn’t take enough interest in the business to pry into our privaie letters.” —Chi- cago Record. “Safe atlas The electricity working- up- to-date-1897- model-burglar smiled and sighed a big sigh of relief. It was a closo shave—"" He wiped his forehead wearily. i “—Butat last the reporters have dropped the | case and the police have taken itup. Now I | can rest easily.” —Cincinnati Commercial- Tribune. the dramatic critie, “Did you say,” said [ “that this pugiiistic star is in the habit of making a punching bag of anybody who | speaks slightingly of his nistrionic talent?” “Thut’s his custom.” “I don’t like to mislead the public. I guess the best thing to do will be to refer to him as an ‘actor of great power.’ ”—Washington Star. Ethel—Papa, does God tell you what to write | in your sermon? Prpa—Yes, my dear. Ethel—Then why do you seratch out so much. Papa (after a pause)—To please your mother. Truth. Yeast—One thing I can say about my wife— she always acts natural. Crimsonbeak—Yes; you ought to stop it, my boy; people thinks sbe's silly. — Yonkers Statesman. “It's jes’ my luck,” said Farmer Corntossell gloomily. “I'm the wust guesser 8-goin’. The only way fer a man to get along is 1o make up | his mind whut he's a-goin’ ter do an’ keep on doin’ jos’ that”” “Have you had bad luck”? “Nothin' else, Last yeur 1 raised wheat | when Forter hev tuck in summer boarders. This year I tuck in summer boarders when I orter hev raised wheat.”’—Washington Star, GLORY OF THE SMITH FAMILY. Washington Post. “Yes, my name is regurded 8s very com- mon,” said K. U, Smith of Lebanon, Pa. “But,” he added, “‘there are very iew people | that know how anceigt and honorable the name ren.]y is. There sre tew who know, I say, that the Smith family antecedes the building of Solomon’s temple by forty years. Again, there are few who know that the fam- 1ly antecedes the Christian era by 1855 years and the Declaration of Independence by 3631 years. The neme is known in almost every foreign nation, and you will find many men bearing tne cognomen holding high and hon- ored positions in the world. “To give you some Idea of how widely known are the Smiths I wouid refer you to the annual reunion ot the Smith Famiiy Association of Blair County, Pa., which was lield last month | at Lakemont Park. Invitations were sent all over tne civilized world. The epistles were sent, and letters of regret are coming in from the italinn Smithis, the Spanish Smithos, the German Schmidts, the French Smeets, the Russian Smittowskis, the Greek Smikons and the Turk Smeefs. Show me a family that can beat that in ancient lineage and I will peti- tion the Legislature to change mine.” DID NOT sUIT. Detrolt Free Press. “And so my daughter’s views displeaso you?” “They do,” said the young husband firmly, “and I have come to ask you take her back.” The old man gazed silenily for a moment at the man who had wooed and won his only daughter, the light of his life and household, scarcely a month before. He thought of the swee t-1aced girl whom he had reared with such loving care, and then of the cold-bicoded vroposition just made him by the man to whom she hed intrusted her huppiness, and 1or a brief spuce he was unable tospeak. Then, crushing beck his strong, undying parental love, he made answer 1o the cool, anabashed young man who stcol before him: “Be it s ."; he said. “Bring Sally around to- ¢ make her a three-quariers profiie from the rear,” The young husband nodded caretessly, and left the photograph gallery. Fk et A PLAIN ENOUGH. Philadeiphia Ledger. Altgeld’s platiorm is plain, but comprehen- sive. It is, simply, “Up with silver and down with the courts.” There is a time recorded in sacred history when there was no King in Iss and “every maw did that which was right iu his own eyes,” but it is not recorded that it Was an era of universal prosperity. e EXPERIENCE RIDD ESTH EORIES. Indianapolis Journal. The assertions of the silverites regarding the insufficiency of money to do the business of the country are g as conspicuousty dis- Prnvad as all their other assertions. Business s increasing every day aud the crops are mov- ing «s never b:fore, yet there is an abundunce of money for all legitimate purposes. SLOUGH OF DE-POND FOR ONE. ‘Washington Post. Mr. Booze declines to join Mr. Mudd in h’s fight on Mr. Wellington. With Mudd and Booze on oppo-ite sides the contest will be sure {0 be exciting, MEN AND WOMEN. John Howells, son of the novelist, William Dean Howells, recently received a diploma in architecture from a Paris institution,where be had been a student five years. At Osage, Kans., R. H. Lvons turned a waste | rool on his farm into a fish pond ten vears ago. Now he has e chain ot fisn ponds worth pool. Burke Perkins, 94 years old, whose children number twenty-four and whose grandchildren are uncounted, the other day wedded Mrs. Elizabeth Goings, 76 years old, in the town of Greenville, Ohio. Mrs. Conarroe of Fhiladelphia has presented a handsome public library to tue viltage of Ogunquit, Me., in memory of her husband, the late George W. Conarroe, who spent many summers in Ogunquit and endeared himself to all the people. Miss Frances Goodwin of Neweastle, Ind., a sculptress, who has recently completed & bust of the late Schuyler Colfax, Vice-President under General Grant, is in Washingion ar- ranging for the plsc.ng of the bust in the niche in the Senate chamber prepered for its reception, piece of work. In Connecticut are fifty-six daughters of revolutionary soidiers, ranging in age from 103 down to 58 years. Oae Of these, Mre, Elisha B. Avery, who was born July 16, 1839, is the daughter of Solomon Loring, who, when nearly 14 years old, entered the revolutio - ary army as il to Colonel Best of Massachu- setts. Mrs. Avery was born when her father was past 70, and at the age of 16 received a minor's pession. The Prince of Monaco, on his steam yacht the Princess Alice, §s in the Azores pursuing his hydrographic researches. This year the Prince has worked in the district of Horta, which includes the islands Fayal, Pico and ; Flores, and itis to Horta, the prineipal town of the island of Fayal, which possesses the bast anchorage in the archipelago, that the Prin- | cess A:ic: will go to be refitted and to take on supplies. The work of the Princg and his col- laborators is nearly over for this season. FINE ART A 1R:NITY. John Ruskin, Fine art is that in which the hand, the head and the heart go together. consists, first, in earnest and intense seizing of natural facts; then the ordering these facts by strength of human intellect, so as to make them, for alt who look upon them, to the utmost serviceable, memorable and beautiful. And thus great art is nothing else than the type of strong and noble life, for, as the ignos ble person in the dealing wiih all that occurs in the world sees nothing clearly—looks nothing firmly in the face snd then allows himself to be swept away by the torrent and inex- orable force of the things that he would not foresee and coud mnot understand; so the noble person, looking the facts of the world full in the face and fathoming them with deep faculty. then deas with them in un- alarmed inteiligence and unnurried strength, and becomes, with his human intellect and will, 1o unconscious nor insignificant agent | in communicating their good and resiraining their evil. Homersang what he saw ; Phidias carved what he saw; Raphael painted the men and women in their own caps and man- tles; and every man who has risen to emi- nence in modern times has done so by work- ing in their way and doing the things he saw. SURFEITED WITH KLONDIKE. ‘Washington Post. “This Klondike business is rapidly being run into the ground,” remarked J. K. Leonard, of Lansing, Mich., *It is like a new popular song. Atfirst every one is wild over it, and then after a while one grows exceeding!y tired | of the thing, and is irritated each time some ! strcet gamin walks along whistling the ‘chestnut’ at the top of his whistler. Soitis with the Klondike. The people are surfeited with Klondike, and are very tired of it, judg- ing from my own feeling on the subject, and from conversaiton I have had with many of my friends. “One can’t pick u a _paper Nb‘m"f“:e otfull of Klondike. A brier glance (t)l\lr’;;i:go!cl news-staid display, and it seems that Klondike is on the froat page of each ani every periodical. The dime novel writers have taksn up K.ondike now, and are spinning out a varied assortment of chofce fabrications and wonderful deeds of bold sdventurers. Iam erfectly satshed with America, and I for one Smx'zc-w to mix up with Klondike affairs. R ————— PROTECTION IN THE SOUTH. Charleston News and Courier. South Carolina, we believe, has approved et the polls the “new evangel,” s Mr. McLau- rin's opponents callea it, of the equal and im- partial application of the protection policy henever and so long as it is the accepted = 1?:)- of the Government, and will support Fiat priucipie hereafter. And the exampl: of this State this year, we arecorfident, will be 7he telpherage sys | 000 on the place,allstocked from the waste | The bust is said to be an excellent | Greatness of art | about him | A BRYAN TYPE OF STATESMAN New York Sun. William Jennings Bryan, the ex-actor, is en- gnged at present on the rather difficult task explaining how it is that, in spite of his | dictions, the price of wheat and the price of silver are not interdepvendent. Unable to ig. nore the prosperity that hes come without his assistance, he can only indulge in talk sbout the greater prosperity which would have | blessea the country haa he been elected. M | Alfred Capus of the Figaro thus satirizes this sort of statesman in the following dialogue between a countryman and a Depuy; The Peasant—A rise of 2 sous the four pcunds—that is indeed hard, Monsicur the Deputy. The Deputy—I told you how it would be. The Peasant—When was that? The Deputy—When the Bourgeois Ministry fell. Douw’t you remember what I told you then? The Peasant—Scarcely. The Deputy—I smid to you: be all the wosse for the peonl longerany one to protect them. sfterward, you have bread rising. isw’t over, either. The Peasant—You think it will continue? The Deputv—What, continue? Why, it w! not stop. Bread I rise a sou the four pounds everv week. You see what it wiil come 10 in a year! The Peasant—Bon Dien, de bon Dieu! And you think that if M. Bourgeois came buck? The Deputy—M. Bourgeois! He wouid only have to make a sign, and the loaf would bo half price Lo-mOrrow. Tne Peasant—What a man! The Deputy—You may say that. The Peasaii—Aud how would he really set aboutit? Tue Deputy—He would pronounce certain words—words of his own—of which he hol.i« the secret. And next day the loaf would fa to three sous the kilo. The Peasant (angrily out of the Ministry! The Deputy—They knew very well that as long as Bourgeois” was there he would never permit bread to rise. The Peasant—Thunder! It wiil be readily seen that this is not the only country in the world where arguments such as were used by the Bryanites in the | recent campaiga have force with a certain | sort of intelli ce. “Now this will There is no And,n year it And -And they turned him COSTERMONGER ON KLONDIK:«1v me Come ter the plice where the’ve got it right, co: where th - tieasure’s "id, ‘Where a 'at-full of mud 's a five-pun note, and the cod un yer 'eel isa quid. Where yer scratches t.e sol! and it tumbles art as much as yer 'ands can 'old, Where the abo i be plines beneath is buigin’ an’ crack gold. Kiordike! Klondike! Libel yer lugg! Th Klondike! in the street ter-dye, Theer's no luck durn Shoreditch wye, | Pacs up ver traps an’ be orf. 1 sye, | Au’ort an’ awye ter Klonaixe! Lots o' chaps they 'as stawtid small, and awter- wuds struc i rici, | Barght neir kerridges, thinks 109 kood 0r sich: Awmies o' servants, miles o’ iand, cuttin’ the top- peal art. Erac-uoo pa iss to knock Park-live, then what was I tninkin’ sbart? iled their yachta—nut- .. Klondike! dike londike! chinge the subjec’ ter Klon- no chawnce in the sireet ter-dye, 10 {u 2k darn Shoredich wye, raps and be ort, I sye, "awye ter Klondike. Lots 0’ chaps they 'as stawtid small, and finished it smaller v et t An’ the gold ns yer want ‘ere un’ ’e . yer bet Froze icr death, or Staw yer tracks yer'll lie, Fur one 'ull pic< an’ come ‘ome agen, but twenty *ull pick an’ die. n't good for nix twixt 4 tor death, or shot in | Kionatke! Krondies Kio dike. Theer’s n, chwance in the streets ter-dye, Theer's uo luck darn Shoreditch wye, An fur all yer eats yer 'as ter pye. It sticks ter itsown, does And yer'll fiud it the sime in Klondike! — Londo! Daily Chronicle. ANSWER 10 CORRE>PONDENT. ArcomorL—J. H., City. There is no such thing as 180 per cent alcohol. ATTRACTS Gorp—J. B., Clty. metai that atiracts gold Mercury is & THE LoNGEST REAcH—IL P., City. Walcott, | the fighter, has a longer reach than Green. THE TivoLi—Subseriber, City. In 1875 Kre- ling & Biumberg opened the Tivoli Gardens at the corner of Stockion and Sutter streets. LavGH—A. D., City. The poem commencing { “Laugh and the world laughs wih you' is to | be found ia the “Poems of Passion,” by Ella | Wheeler Wilcox. TiE UNIVERSITY—D. A., City. The course at | the university is four years in each study ex- cept in agricuiture, in which there is a spe- cial course of two years. | | THE SWEDISH CHURCH—L. B. N., City. The | commandment asked about is, in the Swedish | I Evangelist Lutheran church, the same as it is 1n other Evangelical Lutberan churches. Epriepric Firs—F. H. C., City. Children | suffering from epileptic fits are taken in and cared for at the Home for the Care of Feeble- minded, located at Glen Ellen, Sonoma | Coun That is an insutution supported by the S.ate. A WORD WANTED- , City. | spondent writes, “I want the missing word the following senten: The sentence s by a standaid auibor and I should like to know Lis name: ‘We have no: — enough and are put 1o very awkward shilts for want of some.’ EXCURSION TO IRELAND—Q., Oakland. The ex- cursion to which you reier in vour communi- cation is one plaaned for 1895 from various parts of the world to Ireland in commemor tion of the one hundredth anniversary of the organization of the Youug Patriots of Ireland SULLIVAN-RYAN—W. H. H., City. John L. Suliivan and Paddy Kyan fought with ba; kuuckes for $5000 and the championship, aring pitched in frontof Brrnes’ Hotel, M ¥, Miss., on the 7th of 2. ne rounds were fought and Sillivi won the fight. i i GraPE SEEDS—X. X. | person who eats grapes shouid, as & matter | prudence, nct swallow the seeds. In a num- | ber of cases grape seeds have found their way i1nto toe vermiform appendix and prodnced appen fieitis. If a person “fears that a gra | seed might pass und.tected,” the best thit | that suco & persou can do IS LOT 10 eat gra | A Ehis | Sevex Up—J. B, Tracy, | spondent writes: “Four | seven up. A and Bare p: [ { ana D. A aud B have six points, C and D have, | fiv. points. It is A’s deal and C stands uis | uand and plays witoout a trump. Is that the | proper way to piay the game?” The answert) that is that C hasaright to so play, for in | doing so he trusts his partner helping him out phablitile ool CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ 1b. lownsenI's® Sato Shiseiany SpEcIAL Information daily to mantfacturers, pusiness houses and public men by the Press Ciipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * e e g e was an inquisitive boy, much interested in business methods, and had just been read- ing about the New York Stock Exchange. “Father,” he sa1d, “in order to buy and sell stock, have you actually got to be in Wall street “Not at al live anywhere. ance.'—Life. —_— NEW 7TO-DAY. replied his father; “you can In Washington, for in- Royal makes the food pure, ‘wholesome and delicious. liowed by every Southern State in which the foliow e o is sharply and plainly made, as 1t ‘was made here this year. SOMETHING SPAIN WOULD NEED. St. Louis Republic. Spain’s new Premier says that his country would “have the sympathy of all Europe” in the event of a war with the Uniled States. Sympathy is what Spain would need before ncie Sam got through with Der,it’s more than lkesy. Absolutely Pure ROVAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK