The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 15, 1897, Page 6

FRANCIS THE SA >0 CALL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 1897. SEPTEMEER 15, it PRECKELS, Propric JOHN D. S Address All Communications to W. S. LEA PUBLICATION OFFICE tor. KE, Manager. .710 Market street, San Francisco Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. 517 Clay street Telephone Main 157 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by junding towns for 15 cents a week. ...One year, by mail, $1.50 THE WEEKLY CALL.. OAKLAND OFFICE ....908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. BRANCH OFFICES—327 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o’clock. 339 Hayes street; open unul 9:30 o'clock. 615 open until 9:30 o’clock. SW. corner Sixteenth an ; open until 9 o'clock. 2513 Mission street 1243 Mission street; open until 9 o'cloc; Polk street; open until 9:30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty- end Kentucky sireets; open 1iil 9 o'clock. AN ANSWER DEMANDED. re thing of which our yellow-covered contem- ¥ there is an) porary, the Erawminer, boasts it is of 1ts deperate courage in always rushing to the defemse of the public treasury. Ac- cording to its frequentiy reiterated assertions it never falters in Defeating mu- exvosing schemes for undoing the taxpayers. nicipal burglaries and putting to flight those who with picks and iimmies seek to effect entrances into the strong vaults of the it. In fact throughout the domain of yel- there is no warmer champion (accepting its own e, integrity and morals city are its msin low literat. u estimate of itselt) of civic honor, vir than the Examin In view of tkis, now that the campaign against the Mission monkey garden has reachea a stage when everybody will soon be comueiled to take sides it becomes pertinent to in- quire into the precise location of our yellow-covered contempo- n the fight. What does the Ezaminer think upon the subject of the Mission zoo? We do not make the inquiry in a loud tone, but in as dulcet a strain as possible. Isitfor or againstthescheme? ed to the real estate boomers a sort | Does it still entertain the opinion that a pestilential animal preserve, costing nearly halfa million a ra Some time ago it yi of half-hearted supp doilars, would be a good thing for the city There 1s no question that at the teginning our virtuous yel- low friend went in with the real estate boomers 1o undo the taxpayers. This is fairly inferable from the fact taat it printed many columns favorable to their job and gave them editorially In other words, it attempted to play upon the people of the city the rankest kind of a confidence game—sneaking into their what is known over on Mission street as “the best of it."” homes under an liluminated cover, with special pleas tending to convince them that a monkey ranch at the Mission is neces- sary for tLe intellectual development of the youth of San Fran- | vely demanded by a smiling posterity. CarLL exposed the selfish nature of the job, the Mission and ieading taxpayers cisco and impe since Tr ce the peop.e of ehout the city have declared against it, the Eraminer has upon the subject. To use a home!ly but 1as Leen as sveechless as an oyster. said nothing edito expressive pl The bur stand upon it problem tnen is, where does the Eraminer sion z00 job? Three hundred thousand ting an answer to this question. It will not do for our yellow contemporary to continue to main- tain its present ¢rave-like silence. The Mission zoo schemeis| a prope om the public treasury neariy haif a million dollars for a purpose which nine out of every ten disin- terested citizens regard as equivalent to throwing it away. We do not charge that the Eraminer has been “‘fixed,” but if it has not been it will now speak in no uncertain tones. It has chosen to appoint itseif to the office of especial champion of the prop- ¢ interests of this city, and for dereliction of duty it may be resented to Judge Wallace for “removal.”’ the people are anxiousiy awa ion to take | Come Ezaminer, take the public into your confidence. What do you think with respect to the Mission zoological job? With a few exceptions really not worth mentioning every- body is giaa that the Fair case is over. Taxing a circus heavily i something new. Ordinarily the privilege of taxation is supposed to rest largely with these in- stitutious. Chicago’s Social Democracy is telling the miners to arm and not only demand an eye for an eye, but getit. The aavice, however, quite iznores the fact that the other fellows have the larger subplies of eyes. When the contractors for the Hall of Justice undertook to have the building constructed within a certain time their bond was accepted. While en apology is of course well enough in its way, it does not add one brick to the building, nor soothe the savage breasis of property-owners in the vicinity. Atlast the etreet maiicar has managed to run somebody down. It was not to be presumed that a stately car, painted white and gliitering with letters showing its intimate reiations with Uncle Sam, would be content to be outdone by the green, red and yellow man-slayer, only distinguished by harvesting nickels for Mr. Huctington. Judge Campbell’s decisions do not always commend them- selves to the thoughtful observer, but his view of the install- ment dealers, who first exact two or three times the value of an article and then confiscate the article, has well withstood the fierce light that beats upon a police-court decision in the Supe- rior Court. That purchasers have some rights which inrstali- ment dealers are bound to respect may strike the latter asa displeasing innovation, but it seems to be a recognized fact. WORK OF THE VALLEY ROAD. T is fortunale for the peovle of the San Joaquin that the com- ing of the new era of prosperity finds a large section of their wonderful valley enjoying the advantage of a competing railroad. Without that competition the monopoly would have taken a great portion of the profits oi their industry from the farmers and money which will now be used to develop the re- sources of the locality and provide wages for its workingmen would bave gone to pay dividends to New York and London and possibly to help construct railways inio the interior of Cen- tral Africa. As fast as the Valley road goes forward the old monopoly rates of freight and fares come down. But a short time ago A SECTIONAL BIAS. TRONG, vivid and intense is the display of sectional bias on the part of the Sacramento Bes in commenting upon the proposed constitutional amendment abolishing equalization districts and providing for the election of Equalizers by the State at large. We need no better proof than is afforded by the Bee of the truth of our statement that under the present system Equalizers are regarded as the special champions of particu}ar districts rather than impartial arbitrators elected to apportion the burdens of taxation fairly among the counties of the State. The Bee declares that Governor Budd and Mayor Phelan, who approve the proposed amendment, ‘‘are too shrewd not to understand that if the members of the board are chosen at large instead of by districts, San Francisco would have little difficulty in securing a board that would be more favorable to her interests than to the interests of the rest of the State.” This declaration shows how completely the sectional bias has perverted the understanding of the Bee. San Francisco does not dominate the State, and could not in elections by the whole people elect a single Equalizer who did not receive a strong support from the interior counties. At the last Presidential election the total vote of the city was 64,820, while the total vote of the State was 298,072. Thus the vote of San Francisco was less than one-fourth of the vote of the State at large, and as a consequence if the vote of the city were cast unanimously for a single ticket of Equal- izers that ticket would not be elected unless it received the ballots of more voters in the country than in the city. As all counties are represented in State conventions in | proportion to the votes they cast in preceding elections, San Francisco would be as powerless to dictate the nominations of Equalizers as to elect them in opposition to the country. The city vote in either case is but a fraction of the whole, and neither in the convention nor in the election afterward would it have more than its proportionate share in determining results. Governor Budd and Mayor Phelan are too shrewd not to understand these facts, and if the Bee were not perverted by a sectional bias it also would be shrewd enough to understand them. Passing from that point the Bze declares the assessments of property in San Francisco have been always much lower in proportion to values than those of the interior counties. To | prove the fact it cites the figures given in the proposals recently made to sell land to the city for a park in the Mission. In | these proposals, as THE CALL has repeatedly shown, the | prices asked for the various tracts are far in excess of the | assessed values, and the Bz holds that the prices asked repre- | sent the true value of the land. Here again, however, the Bee would have been shrewd | enough to know better had it not been biased. The prices asked in these cases are so far above the market value of the | tracts as to be out of all reason, and only the spirit of the per- verse could have impelled our contemporary to accept the | statements of real estate boomers trying to work a scheme for selling Iand to the city as a proof that San Francisco assess- ments are too low. Itis to put anend to just such sectional antagonisms as these that THE CALL advocates the proposed amendment. It is evident from the tone and the statements of the Bz that there exists a belief in the interior that San Francisco desires to shirk her share of State taxes. On the other hand there exists in this city a belief that the interior counties are trying to shirk taxes. This being the condition of the public mind the Equalizer who tries to act fairly is always in danger of being denounced as a traitor to his district. If he comes from the south he must try to shift the burden on the north, if he comes from the interior he must try to shift it to the coast, if he represents the country he must work against the citv, and in the meantime the representatives of the assailed districts are expected to retaliate in ktnd. The Bee declares ‘‘the farming counties should stand shoulder to shoulder to prevent any such change in the law.” We declare that farmers and citizens alike should stand | shoulder to shoulder to make just that change. In the work of equalizing taxes there should be no suggestion of sectional | antagonisms, no prejudice or bias for one district against another, no attempt to impose an undue burden upon one set of taxpayers in order that another may shirk their rightful charge. Justice, fairness and impartiality should direct every step taken | by the Equalizers, and in order that they may be free to do this | each and all of them should have a direct responsibility to all taxpayers equally. THE WAR ON TRUSTS. T IS evident that 2n effort will be made by Mr. Bryan and his followers to install a new issue in place of free silver at 16 to 1. Ex-Governor Boies of Iowa, in his remarkabie speech openiag the Democratic campaign in that State, declared that be doubted the possibility of securing free coinage at that ratio, and if possible, he denied 1ts wisdom and expediency. This has caused widespread demoralization in the Bryan ranks in the prairie States, and taken together with Senator Gorman’s acrobatic straddle in Maryland brings the leaders face to face with the necessity of finding some common bond that will stay the rapid desertion of their forces. In this emergency Mr, Bryan goes a little more than half way to meet Mr. Debs, crying against trusts as he runs. It wil] be noticed that he proposes no remedy. Having been caught once by beirg too specific in the union of wheat and silver, he is prophetically general and vaticinates in metaphor and exple- tive. The country is in no temper to follow leaders who are in such constant danger of being deprived of the grievance which they use for political capital. When a new grievance isinstalied the people will demand a clear statement of it, ana an equally clear yprescription for its remedy. They have had enough ot government by the rule ot thumb, and will demand the plumb line and the square and compass hereafter. Therefore the ex- pietive treatment of trasts by Mr. Bryan will get a less enthu- siastic hearing. His forcing of the issue now has led to its examination, and this reveals that others have pioneered on the subject of trusts and that there is already an act of Congress providing leeal means for their limitation and putting it in the power of Mr. Bryan, if be choose, to as-ault them judicially in any part of the Union. This law was drawn by Senator Sher- man of Obio, who is at the head of President M cKinley’s | Cabinet. Perhaps Mr. Bryan might profitably study it and irankly tell the country what amendments and additions he regards as necessary to avert the dangers which he sees in the trusts against which 1t cannonades. the passenger rate from this city to Visalia was $7 40; now it is but $5. Freight rates have been reduced in an equally satisfac- tory ratio. In fact, the lower and the middle section of the San Joaquin is being virtually opened up anew for travel and traffic and the prosvects for an increase of population as well as of business are better than ever before. The farmers along the line of the new road have assurance that they will eet the benefit of good prices whenever such prices prevail in the world’s markets. They will not have to submit their rightful profits to the sweating process of *‘all the traffic will bear’’ as in former years. The monopoly itself bas been compelied to abandon its old tactics and give reason- able rates wherever the Vailey road comesinto competition with it. The competing road, therefore, has conferred a double ben- efit on the veople. It nas not only done good itselt but has been the cause of compelling the Southern Pacific to do good also. now the The case of the Fullenén lad who has just died of hydro- phobia will natarally be regarded by scientists as an instance | office by extreme and unduly seasoned statement of issues, and of incorrigible stubbornness. These gentlemen have claimed so | when they have the power fail to use it in the direction in confidently a belief in the non-existence of this malady that the | which they have so awfully agonized. jarring of their faith is little short of irritating. — e —— ‘When a witness is on the stand in his own behalf, forgets A general study of the nature and operation of trusts is highly necessary. They are simply an expansion of the cor- poration principle and their evil is just the evil that lies in corporations. The threat they imply has itsorigin in their inmortality, and this they derive from the principle of perpetual succession which they share in common with all corporations. Partnerships die with the individuals who compose them. Trusts and corporstions survive perpetually. What would Mr, Bryan say to such a remedy as would remove all difference between a corporation and a partnership, destroy perpetnal succession, and when any stockhoider dies wind up the cor- porate business as a parinership is cloged ? 1f the evil lies in perpetual succession, in the immortality of the corporation, the remedy must be in investing it again with mortality. ‘Whatever the remedy politicians who intend 1o profit by the grievance must state it plainly. The people have just suftered severely enough to make them shy of leaders who get The carrier-pigeon caught in Indiana with a me: which the only decipherable word wa: ge of “‘Pole’’ can hardly have somie things and recalls others clearly, it is no sign that he has | come from Andree. More likely it was a representative of Hoop- a peculiar memory. It simply indicates a well-trained memory. | pole Couaty, dhun‘nishgd in the annals of the Hoosier State. | dental. PERSONAL. Judge George B. Graham of Fresno is at the Grand. W. H. Patton, a lawyer of Modesto, is & guest at the Lick. John C. Catlin, a mining man of Sacramento isat the Lick. Warren Green, a wheat farmer of Preston, is at the Lick. B. N. Scriber Jr., a merchant of Rocklin, is a guest ut the Grand. George F. Ditzler of Biggs is among the late arrivals at the Grand. Mrs. C. P. Sage, proprietor of Congress Springs, is at the Lick. Chris Sebrt, a hotel man of Merced, isa guestat the Cosmopolitan. M. C. Fish, a wholesale jeweler of Provi- deuce, R. 1, is at the Lick. A. N. Butts, a mining man from Angels Camp, Is at the Occidental. J. J. Hebbron, a rancher of Salinas, is at the Grand, accompanied by his wife. Dr. D. M. Stone of Seattleis at the Grand, accompanied by his wife and son. Dr. 0. P. Roller and wife of Boston, Mass., are registered at the Cosmopolitan. Ex-Congressman James A. Louttit of Stock- tor arrived at the Grand last night. W. F. Prisk, a journalist of Grass Valley, isat the Occidental, accompaniea by his wife. Z. W. Christopher, superintendent of the Mirebel mine, arrived at the Occidental last night, George A. Smith, who owns large orchards at Courtland, is making & short stay at the Grand. J 8. Craig, a hotel-keeper of Yerington, | Nev., is in the city, accompanied by his wife and daughter, John F. Finn, bailiff of Department 9 of the Superior Court, has gone to the mountains for o brief vacation. E.T. Earl of Sacramento, the extensive ship- per of California fruits to the Eastern markets, is at the Palace. Rear-Admiral and Mrs. Beardslee returned last night from a visit to Mare Island, and are stayiug at the Occidental. | Walter L. Dean came down from Nevada last night and will remain for several days at the California before returning. Surgeon Colonel A. Porter of Cheltenham, England, arrived yesterday at the Baldwin. He is a member of the British army. C. C. Spinks, a business man of Hanford, accompanied by his daughter, Miss Onie Spinks, 1s staying at the Cosmopolitan. William A. Farish, the mining expert, from Denver, Colo., returned to the Polace last night from the northern pact of the State, where hie was examining some mines. Fred W. Morren of Amsterdam, Nether- lands, arrived here last night on the Eastern overland train and registered at the Occi- He ison his way to Guatemala. Charles Keilus of the Hub naving returned from his business visit to the East 18 now busy superintending the equipment of his new store, which will be thrown open very soon, Johu Moss, trafliz manager of the San Fran- cisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway Com- pany, left here last night to make a four days’ inspection of the Vailey road now in opera- tion. Edwin M. and Paul C. Jones, sons of Clinton Jones, general agent in this city for the Chi- cago, Kock Island and Paciric Railway, started from here last night for Philadelphia, to enter the dental college of the University of Penn- sy.vania, The Earl of Norbury is at the Palace. on a pleasure jaunt through Amerlica. Hels The | Earl was born in 1862. The earidom of Nor- bury was created in 1827, and the present wearer of the coronet is named William Brab.zon Lindesay Toler. On the hotel regis- ter he signed simply Norbury. A San Fraucisco delegation of Ghosen Friends left here yesterday evening, over the Santa Fe Pacifie Railroad for Louisville, Ky., which will bagin next Tuesday. The follow- ing delegates we.e in the party: C. M. Arnold, W. H. Savage, Mrs. C. J. Sweeney, Miss Nettie , T. H. Selvage, Thomas H. 0’'Brien, . Sanborm, Dr. L. R. Webster and W. F., PATCHWORK QUILT. She j-ined the squares with loving care, And set the dainty sti.ches, A thritty dame iu olden days Of tallow-dips and witches, And every row of “herri 1~ bone” And b ocks 50 neatly shaded, Can tell & story of : s own, ‘Though sadly worn aud faded. This muslin with the lilac sprig She wore to Sundav meeting ‘When pash ul b sux around the door Were waiting for her greeting. Tseem to see her slippered feet (1 he drowsy sermon over) Go twinkling out amoug the graves, Knee-deep fu dewy clover! This little serap of ivory hus Her wedting gown discloses, And as a gay youug wife she wore This pink brocade with roses. A3 years the du jes muitiplied ‘e colors grew more sobr, *1ili middie ag- d -mu:ely went 1n browns uf sere Uctober. S0 you can read her quiet life, From morning's mecry matin, Uptl you spell the vespers out Jn bits of chintz and satin: And here you know her form was bent, Her looks were thin and hoary, For blocks of woolien, black and gray And purple, end the story. —TFawn Toplcs. CALIFORNIANS IN WA:=HINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 14.—H. G. Jones of San Francisco is at the St. James. L. M. Ralston of Los Angeles is at the Raleigh. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. Every mau has an ideal of & woman that he never iells his wife. Agirl never likes to ask another girl she doesn’t like to hook her up. Every man has had an experience with his jyite when she was having trouble wita her je Every married woman knows a number of men who would have married her if they had ed her. The woman wao would never forgive a man for lying to save himself would never forgive him for not lying to save a friend. If Love hit what he aimed at every time he would get o conceited he would throw away his bow and arrows and quit practicing. The first duty of wan is to marry woman and be served by her forever. A girl never visits another ome but she gomes liome with a new way to fix up her air. When a girl is in love with a man she will never believe that he isa’t distinguished looking. Eve would probabiy have been awfully un- happy all the rest of her life if she had ever heard of a church wedding. As long as a man has an idea that he can el away whenever he wants to s girl has him ust where she wants him. REED AND HIS TYPEWRITER. New York Press. Speaker Tom Reed has beenfearning to use & typewriter, and often practices on the ma- chine in the Ways and Means committee room. One day after the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury had been telling the committee about the finances of the country, Reed sat down to the typewriter and gave to Bourke Cockran the foilowing interesting opinion on whathe thought had been the result of the conference with the Democ-atic committee: u:—x—qvlerlnyBBlBNMHT(fl[ 1%, *%3277-7- INTERESTING SOCIETY ITEM. Woouland Democrat. It is rumored that a prominent young or- chardist of this neighborhood and a San Fran- cisco belle who is v.ell known at this place will be married on the 7th of October, aud spond their honeymoon in New York. A WORD OF CAUTION. Louisville Courler-Journal. The story that excellently counterfeited $1000 bills are in circulation should make every man careful in examining the change he veceives over the counter or the bar. A ROYAL FLUSH. Philadeiphia Times. There’s no bluff about the present trend toward prosperity, because, what is very im- portant, the farmer has & full band, 3 to attend the annual convention of the order, | ifer, Mrs. F. H. Keifer, H. W. Hutton, | i | arraugement seems simplicity itself. ELEGTRIG GANAL-BOAT TRAGTION SYSTEM. The principle of the rack railroad, famiiiar to the mountain-climbing public as well as to the engineer, applied to an ciectric traction sy stem on canals, is substantieliy the basis of the plan which a New York inventor proposes to follow in displacing the traditional canal mute, says Current Topics. The practical aspect of the scheme will become at once apparent from the sketch on this page. Along the hank of the canal, supported on piles, the inventor pro- poses to lay a rail of suitable section to support and guide a small electric locomotive whose driving-wheel is & spur wheel, deriving motion from the motor proper through & train of gear- ing and meshing with a rack forming part of tl be rail. Supply and return curreats to and | from the motor go through cenductors sirung along the track level on the s'de opposite the rack, a double trolley belng used. The rack arrangement, as in steep mountain railroad con- struction, of course provides for the easy climbi ing of the heavy-grade portions along the canal, atlocks, without necessitating the use of great weight in tne locomotive; in fact, the exten- sion of the rack along the whole longth of line enables the use of this principle on the level stretches as well, 50 (nat _the tractive power is great adhesive weight. secured through the gearing and not through The advantages so secured are obvions—a minimum weight of loco- motive. minimum weight of track, with all that this implies in reduced cost of construction and positive motion. The locomotive may be shown in the sketch, or by & man on one of the controlled either directly by an attendant, as boats in tow, in which latter case the stopping and starting lever and the reversing-bar are worked by ropes running to the boat. The whole Nothing is proposed that experience in other, though similar, lines has not shown to be perfectly practicable, and we may, therefore, find in this one of the coming methods of mechanical 1 canal haulage, with the time-honored canal mule reiezated to ihe same position that the trolley system on tramway lines has prepared for the once prominent car-horse. WITH YOUR COFFEE. The kiss of Feme and art for goal When Chromer, painter, with the worid first Went to cope; But now he barely pays for bread and board and coal By making lurid posters for Van Apple’s soap. —Town Topics. rt’s sake were his Wallace—I didn’t know you rode a wheel. Perry—I don’t. “Then what are you wearing knickernockers and a sweater for?”’ ““To keep the fool bicycle riders from run- ning over me. They think 1'm ome of ‘em. Cincinnati Enquirer. “The doctor put my husband on his feet in a week,”” sbe exclaimed. “It wes no trouble at all. The bill he presented tairly lifted him out of bea.”—Chicago Record. Inebriate—Shay, help me home, will you ? Friend (disapprovingly) —I should think home was the last place you'd wantin your shape. Inebriate (candidly)—It ish. But it'sh the only plashe they’ll have me.—Truth, Mamie—Trast her? You surely don’t think she could keep your secret. Jack—Well, I've trusted her with other things and she kept them.—Town Topics. “Mattlda, I wish you would ask that young Mr. Peters to have his cuff buttons replated.” ‘Why, mamma, wnat do you mean?’ “They seem to leave black streakson the | back of your suirt waist every evening.”— Cleveland Plaindealer. “On, Mr. Fastile! Papa telis me you are a bookmaker, and I am so fond of literary peo- ple. What Jine do you follow?"” “Well, Miss Bosting, I—I think my specialty is the advancement of the races, you know.” “How scientific] Has papn subscribed? “Ob, yes! He's one of my best customers.” “I'mso glad. 1 was afraid he didn’t take mucn interest in such cultured things, and I Just can’t endure sporty peopie.’ And then Mr. Fastile took his departure as quickly as possible. —Philadelphia North American. THE QUEEN’S IKiSH DESCENT. In a current number of the Geneslogical Magazine the descent of Queen Victoria is traced back to Turlough O'Conor, King of Ire- land, A. D. 1400, as follows: Turlough ('Couor, King of Irelaad. Cathal Red-Hand O'Conor, King of Connaught, 040 O’Conor, King of Connaught. Una 0’Conor. | Hodierna de Gernon. [ Richard ae Burgh, Lord of Connaught. ¢ Connaught and Earl of ter. Walter de Burgh, Lorél of 5! | Ricbard de Burgh, Lord of Connaught and Earl of Uisier. : William de Burgh, Lord of Connaught and Earl of | U ister. Eizabeth ¢e Burgh. Philippa Plantagenet. Edmund Mortimér, Earl of March. Roger Mortimer, Earl of Maroh. Anne Mortimer. Kichard Piautagenet, Duke of Cambridge. Richard Piantagehet, Duke of Yo-k. Edward 1V. Queen Victoria traces her descent to Edward 1V, as follows: Edward, Duke of Kent; George III, Frederick, Prince of Wales; George 1I, George I, Sophia, Elizabeth, James I, Mary Queen of Scots, James V of Scotiand, Margaret; Llizabeth, wife of Henry VII; Edward IV. She is consequently twenty-nine in descent from the great Irish kings. VISALIA’S GILDED FUTURE. Visalia Times. After a quarter of a century of agitation we have at iast settled the transportation question without the aid of the Riilroad Commission, and in the ouly way it conld be settled, viz.: by securing a geuine competinz rai roud to the Scutnern Pacific. The futuredevelopiment and prosperity of this county will now depend upon tie people themselves. The Valley road has done much for us, but that corporation Wwill not piant orchards, sow grain, raise hog, | breed horses or #0 into the manulacturing or mercantile business. They simbly propose o furnish & means whereby the people engazed in those enterprises may be aple to get their proauce to myrket at reasonable rates. When we stop to think how much progress has been Made th the country within the jast hal{ doz n years, in spite of the high ireizht rates, we have laith that our peopie will rise equal to the improved conditions aud many contem- templa ed enterprises be carried out. { PLAYGROUND OF THE WORLD. Pomona Beacon. California as the pluyground of the world is not merely a figure of speech. Itisno wild prediction to say that this coast will become the favorite meeting place for most of our great conventions. San Francisco made her influence felt in her effort for the Republican National Convention. ‘I he Christian Endeavor convention of last July was a grand success. Tue nitional convenuon of lette:-carriers is now in progress in San_ Francisco, and now comes Bishop Newman who is enthusiestic lor making San Francisco thie ‘‘convention ity for the quadrenninl conference of the Meth- odist church in 1900. The raiiroads hold the key to unlocking the doors of America’s play- ground to her citizens. THEY ARE ON TO tHE KLONDIKE. +On to the Klondike!” Yes, we are.—Boston Globe. Tnis want of food at Klondike is pretty serious. It's of no particular satistaction for hungry man to have his teeth filied with gold. Philadelptua Times. A Chicago preacher who has been starved outof one church and frozen out of another is now going to the Klondike, where he is likely to starve and freeze at the same time.— Pitisburg Times. COSTLY FRENCH GOVERNMENT. . Chicago Chronicle. The most expensive Government—that is, S0 far as the legisiature is concerned—is ! of France. They pay for it the sum of $3,750,000 snnually, MEN AND WOMEN. Although the Czar of Russia receives no salary he manages to keep the woif from the door.” His incomé arises from 1,000,000 square | miles of land, which he inberits with the crown. He averages $30,000 a day. teacher, has been made a minister of the Friends’ church in that city. Her mother, Mrs. Frances C. Jenkinus, has been minister of the | Quaker church for torty-five years. Another sister has also occupied & pulplt in Richmond, Ind. Cardinal di Renae’s death, according to the London Tablet, has made the number of foreign Cardinals greater than that of the Italian for the second time within twelve months. There are now thirty-one of the for- mer to thirty of the latier, a state of things which, until within a few years, had not oc- curred for many centuries. Max Haddad, who now lives in retirementin Worcester, Mass., wss formerly a favorite jockey of the King of Roumania. His Majesty | ad the ambition to have in his bodyguard of skilled riders men of nearly every nation of the worid. Haddsd, a Syrian by birth, was lone of these. The seventeen riders always | accompanied the King on bis official tours | about Galatz According to foreign vapers the success of | the proposed university for women in Toklo, | Japan, is now assured. The principal officials | and nobles of the empire are greatly interected in the project, and the Emperor and Empress have not only used their influence in its favor, but have contributed a considerable sum of | money toward its endowment. About 300,000 yen (¥175.000) will be needed 1o start the in- stituuon. | Henry Tanner, an American negro who has | been studying painting in Paris, has won the greatest distinction that bas come to a mem- | ber of his race in that field. He rece: | hibited in the salon a work entitled “The | Raising of Lazarus,” which received signal praise from the critics and has been purchased by the French Government for the Luxem- bourg. The artist is the son of & missionary | of the African Methodist Church. | QUEER WEIGHT> AND MEASURES The word “candy” in India means 500 | pounds in Maaras avd 529 pounds in Bombay, explains the New York Times. The word “barrel” in Spanish means 100 pounds of | raisins, while in Malta it is & customs phrase for eleven and four-tenths gallons. “Dun’ is Jupanese for one inch and “Ii” is Chinese for 2115 feet. In Germany the word “last” means | two metric tons, or 4480 pounds, while in England it stands for eighty-two and one- | half bushels of dry malt. A person who said “ple” in the Argentine Republic would de- scribe nine-tenths of & foot, and the person using the word “'shio” in Japen would desie- nate one and six-tenths of a quert. “Rottle” in Palestine means 6 pounds, and in Syria 517 | pounds. “Seer” is Indian for 1 pouud L3 | ounces, “salm” is Maitese for 400 pounds and | “pood™ is Russian for 36 pounds. A ‘‘cetty’’ in China, Jupan and Java means about 115 pounds, while in_Sumatra it ind: cates atout 245 pounds. “Coyan” is Sarawak for 3 pounds aiid Sianicse for about 214 pounds. “Fanega' is &« common unit of dry measure in South and Central America; it means 235 bushels in Chile, 3 88-100 bushels in Uruguay, 13 bushels in Venezuels, 133 bushels in Mex" i¢v and about the same in cuba. *‘Arroba’ means 323 pounds in Brazil and 255 pounds in the Aigeutine Republic. ““Arshine” is Rus- sian for 20 inches, and “artel” in Morocco means 1 1-12 jounds. In Depmark and Sweden some queer names prevail, with wideiy different meanings, although the pund (pound) is the popular unit of weight in both countries. In Denmark “tonde’’ means 3 94-100 bushels, and “tondeland” means 1 36100 acres. “Centuer” stands for 110 pounds in Denmark and 97.7 pouunds in Sweden., In the last-usmed countrs “tunna’ deseribes 413 bushels and “tunneland” 1 22-100 acics. “Mil” in Denmark means 4 68:100 miles. ANSWERS 1O CORRESPONDENTS, A FivE DoLLAR PIECE—A. 8, City. There is no premium on u five doliar piece of 1838. SrrTING BULL—J. M. E., City. Sitting Bull was captured and killed December 15, 1890. THE HIGH SCHOOL—G. B.. City. Im round the cost of the Girls’ High School SULLIVAN-CORBETT—W. McC. The Sullivan- Corbett fight at New Orleans occurred on the | 7ih of September, 1892, PRESIDENT FAURE—. . City. The name of President Faure of the republic of France is proncunced &s 1s the numeral four in the English language, NoT AWARE OF ir—H. W. C., Hollister, Cal, If the city of San Francisco has sunk a dis- tance of tiree or four inches during the past | year the people of the city are not aware of it, There is no record that the eity of New Or- leans has been sinking. CABLE RAILWAY—J. R. W.,City. The first practicel cable system for streetcars was in- troduced_in San Francisco by Andrew Halli- diein 1873. The first cur by that method was run on Ciay streei, between Kearny and Lar- kin, by the inventor on the 1stof August of that year. CALL BUILDING AND CABLE—J. R. W., City. THE CALL building at the corner of Market and Third streets is built on a lot 75 feet square and iis height is 310 feet to the top of tuc dome. The first cabie road in San Fran. cisco was the one that was built on Clay street, from Kearny strest west, and which was operated for the first time August 1, 1873. CoLuMBUS DAY—S. M., Hollister, Cal. Co- lumbus day, which falls on October 12, is not a legal holiday, consequently will not be ob- served as ‘‘a legal holiday iu the publicschools each year,”’ but it may be made a holiday by ul,:'a:‘nr;l.sc?‘l E;d.i;c&u.o‘n'-gr Town Trustees de- :choul 2 ‘h“yd". ere snall not be any | me show’ you something else Miss Ste'la F. Jenkins, a Kansas City school- | SHE WISHED TO TELL HIM. English Masazine. The woman was very careful iu opening the. door, but he haa on toothpick shoes andhe got one of them inside before she could slem it again. She waited for him to lead off and sparred for an opening. “Madam,” he sad, as he set his bag down on the top siep, ‘I have some articles here that are indispensable to every housekeeper. This new pattern dripper Little Jumbo coffee-pot saves its cost every week that you use it Ob- serve the improved arrangement of-—"" “I qon’t waau it,” seid the woman. ‘“We have small—" “Just the thing for & small family, ma’am. Forty per cent of the coffee is wasted with any other pot. If you don't want a coffee-pot let . Idiotina, the struc- e wild r game out. onal. Makes dull you we hav thing for Safety pi tne pin W cinating, in: small ch with music box attach- icks the Lox plays. Don’t eli, when you see tiiis iatest im- he-line and wins, you'li wonder nanaged to Live all this time The iine fastens-—"" lesides, we've got small— just what thev are made : fastener, cau be atached 1o tree, side of house, or brick wall, smootn Sur(ncg, no otsiacle. The pins were invented “small ya for. The e " said the mr toot out of the door, B you we've en trving to te: in the house, and— During the four seconds the agent took to stam the thiugs into bis bag aud tumble down the step-, he managed 10 sty “Why in thunder didn't you say so? Some vomen can talk an hour witnoul conveying the idea they want to. e ey THE NAME'S :nE 1HING. Thouen his rhymes, Aud his meter ot the And nis errors not the fewe Yet they took tie verse he sent. *TWas a poem on the weatler, All the chestuuts heaped together, But it didu’t matter whether It was old, the poem weut. not the newest, ru For two words of ma, FVery imperfectio enin Froni the work ali biemish ¢ Saved the verses from t si This expr Witn poet 3 Very soul of music seeming, Was the famous poet’s name. —Up-to-Date. 13 AT s 0 redeem GREAT WINNING OF MONTE CARLO. Boston Herald, A private letter from Monte Carlo recounts an extraordinary ruu of iuck de by one of the players, an American girl, at & roulette table. She wentthere merely {0 see the gam- bling of which she had heard xo much, and be- coming excited obtained permission from her escort to venture one gold piece and one only. If she Jost 1t she would play no more. If she won she wouid play with her winnings until they were gone. she placed the cotn on No. 13, and the tura of the wheei was in her favor. Her escorten- tered into an animated argument with her to take what she nad gained and to be content witn her experience. She reminded him of the terms of their agreement, and while the controversy was going on the croupler gave another turn to the wheel, which, when it stopped, showed the same number a5 winner. As her money had remained on the table it was increased thirty fold. Again urged to re- move her gains and cease playing she became angry and left the money on the same num- ber, with the intention of losing 1t. Once more the ball stopped in 13, and her single gold piece had increased toa littie fortune, which she was at length prevailed upon to pocket. Oddly enough, the next turn of the wheel stopped at the sume number, but as it had al- Teady come up three times nobody played CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50 - SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by tho Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Moutgomery. * s e see eggs are $17 a dozen in the Klondike. That looks encouraging for our proiession,” said the comedian. “Well, there are worse things to be metin our profession than eggs,” said the tragedian; “there are irosts, my boy, frosts!”—Youkers Statesman. lownsend'e* “Mrs. Winslow Has been used over fiity years by millions of moth- ers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child. softens the gums, al- Iays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhweas, whether arising from teething or other canses. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world, Be sure and ask 10r Lrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 25Caottie S I CoroxADO.—Almosphere is perfectly dry. soft end mild. being entlrely free from the mists cowm- mon further north. Kound- trip tickets, by s! ship, iuciuding fifteen day¥ board at the Ho: Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 50 perday. App.s 4 New Montgomery s'ree:. San Franclsco. i Ta charm of beauty is beau it with PARKER'S HATR BATSAM. HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns. 15 cts. ul hair. Secure Robert P. Porter, who is now writing out | his observations in Europe for the New York Mail and Express, tried a penny-in-the-slot fortune machine at Honiton, England, where the lace is made, and found that the telitale paused at “‘Stop Drinking Spirits.” A erowd laughed, and be put the penny in for one of the liveliest laughers. The stop was at the same admonition. Then ke saw that the Yankee trickster had captured Great Britain. Experts Say Where Finest Food Is Required Royal Bak- ing Powder Must Be Used. Miss Suzy Tracy, the cooking demonstrator in the Model Kitchen at the Mechanics' Fair, says — “Inthe practice of my pro= fession as a teacher of cooke ery I have tried the different brands of baking powder, and I find that Royal Bak- ing Powder gives the best satisfaction. I can accom- plish the best results with a smaller quantity of Royal PRESERVATION OF EGG8—H., Cal. When newly iaid, eggs are almost perfectly full, but the shell 13 porous and the watery portion of the egg begins to evaporate through the pores the moment it is exposed to the air, so that the egg becomes lighter every day. To preserve the interior of the egg in its natural sta‘e it is necessary to seal up the pores of the shell air iight. This may be done by di ping the egg in melted suct, olive ofl, milk of Jime s0iution of gum urablc or covering with any atr-proof odoriess varnish. The egg is then Baking Powder than of any other kind, and I find it always to be perfectly unie form in its action.” packed in bran, oats, meal, Powdered charcoat, ot Sl ashes or