The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 17, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 1897 Call SEPTEMBER 17, 1897 FRIDAY.. JOEN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE 710 Market street, S8an Francisco Telephone Main 1863. EDITORIAL ROOMS 517 Clay street Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRAN CO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in thie city and surronnding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail §6 per year; per month 65 ceats. THE WEEKLY CALL. One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE ..908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. BRANCH OFFICE:! 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o’clock. 9 Hayes sireet; open until 9:3) o'clock. 615 Larkin siceet; open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open uutil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o’clock. 1243 Mission sireet; openuntil 9 o’clock. 1505 Polk street; open until 9:30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second *ud Kentucky sireets; open 1iil 9 o’clock. "A GREAT PROBLEM. PREDOMINANT characteristic of colored journalism, and the feature which particulsrly distinguishes it from all other kinds of journalism, is its disposition at all times to Whenever a vellow journalist sees a To him every guinea If he observes an A resort to exaggeration. trog it immediately becomes a whale. pig is an elephant and every gnat a condor. old hag in the Police Court, upon whose countenance there are traces of the bsleful effects of alcohol, she is said 10 have been a society lady or a person of great reinement and beauty. To his fervid imagination atl way ward girls are “beautifzl’’ and all young fellows who have led a happy crooked men dashin though rapid life. In fact, 1t 1s the chosen vocation of tae yellow-covered jour- nalist to gild vice and throw around all the repulsive and for- bidder things in existence a glamour of vivacity and romance. Ordinarily, this would not make much difference to the people who are compelled to tolerate the yellow journalist, and who, from a mistaken notion that what he writes is ‘‘new are per- suaded to read his paper; but when we consider tne influence which false and lying journslism exerts upon a community which cannot take time to run down fakes and separate the wheat from the chaff, the colored journalistbecomes the bane of modern civilization. In his pursuit of the nickel no reputation is safe from his He proceeds on the theory that if he fills his paper with exaggerated accounts of the daily happenings, and mixes them with a few 200G *'roasts,” people will be compelled to read what he says, and, as they cannot get his paper for nothing, that they will pay for it in order to do so. In this way he secures the reward which comes to one who playvs upon the weaknesses and vices of mankind, and develops all that is vile and prurient in a community. To the influence of the colored journalist may be traced most of the political and social ilis of the cities in which he ex- ists. Itisto him that we are indebted for the opinion which generally prevaila that all men occapying public siation are thieves or rascals. Itis he who has propagated the idea that our courts are corrupt, our Judges incompetent, our laws designed to promoie injustice and to oppress the meek ana lowly, and our country honeycombed by chicanery, fraud and selfishne: Rstional people are not always inclined to credit the exag- gerations of the yellow journalist, but when day after day they have falsehoods and fakes dinned into their ears uliimately assaults. ihey give way to the flood. The average man will probably admit all that we have said concerning the malign influence exerted upon civilization by the colored journalist, even 1f he has not already observed how that influence has debased the Government and dragged the people down; but he will immediately ask, What is the rem- edy? This, we confess, is a poser. Bocial ostracism is no rem- edy. The yeillow journalist is already an outcast and delights in that condition. Personal violence will not do, for that is against the law, and the colored journalist is always first to in- voke the Jaw against a “'brutal assault.” Verbal condemnation will not effect a reformation. The yellow individual takes that as complimentary and generally attributes it to business jeal- ousy. What is the remedy? Will somebody suggest one? Surely the subject is worthy of the best thought of this community, for we have here in fuli bioom not only yellow journalism, but non-resident yellow journalism at that—yellow journalism upon which no process can be served or from which no satis- faction whatever can be obtained. ? An evening paper condemns the cruelty to animals as dis- played in San Francisco. There is something more in con- nection with the matter. Cruelty aoes not always include the use of the whip. Even to drive horses over some of the cobbled streets iscruel. Tais is one reason THE CALL believes in having respectable pavements, even though no chattering monkeys ever be corraled in Squirrel Hollow. — Tt will be remembered thatthere was a time—not so very long ago—when the now ex-Supervisors regarded the attempt 1o remove them as a joke of much excellence, viewing which they went into paroxysms of laughter. The closest scrutiny and the most intent listening does not reveal any sign of laughter now. But it was a fine joke while it iasted. The conference between Governor Budd and Mayor Phelan may have beer as pileasant as a May morning and peaceful aa the tomb, but it did not gain in dignity from the preserce of one of the yeilowest journalists ever on exhibition. The man seens to yearn after every sort of notoriety save that produced by the environment of a police court. The condemned track on Bush street is still in peace. The pleasant theory that it would be immediately torn up seems to huve rested on nething more substantial than the assurance of the company. That the community should have accepted this fora minute was one of those beautiful exnibitions of faith for which there is no accounting. Two Omaha footpads stole so as to provide a coffin for one of their pals who bad retired from business. Highwaymen do not often operate on a sentimental basis, and even in this case the sentimental does not seem to have greatly impressed the police. Sl e QOakland’s woman burglar will spend a year in San Quen- tin, and while this may seem to her a hardship it places her safely beyond tbe reach of the saffron journalistress—a fact that will go far toward mitigating the horrors of prison life. The rule forbidding City Hall employes to play the races will be hard on the “bookies.” Heretofore an idea existed that many people at the municipal building held positions merely for the benefit of these enterprising harvesters of coin. Irvington is talking of organizing a vigilance committee. Of course, it will do nothing of the sort, and yet the astute brigand and chicken-thief wiil naturaliy discern in the plan an element of hostility to his method In the matter of sweliing the mortuary record the gas- oline stove seems to have at Jast disiancea the folding bed. though the contest has been close and umpired by the coroners of the land with great interest. A Klondike miner named McDonald is said to ba the richest man in the world. The “‘ricbest ma= {- the world” is getting so numerous that he ought to hold # convention and get ac- quainted with himself, There seem 1o be a number of lawyers in the Fair case who «gre not afraid of assassination.”” However, this frame of mind is not unknown outside the iegal profession. Apparently the people or the corn States counted their grain before it had been parched. THE GOVERNOR’S APPOINTMENTS. QOVERNOR BUDD has once more given evidence of his G regard for the public welfare and his freedom from merely partisan aims and purposes by his action in selecting a Board of Supervisors to take the place of the old board ousted by Judge Wallace for the non-performance of duty. The Mayor, also, has shown a genuine civic patriotism in consenting to the board appointed by the Governor instead of contesting with him the right to make the appointments. In every step of the proceedings there is cause for general satisfaction. The Governor, beiag a Democrat, might have sought to strengthen himself with his party by appointing Democratic politicians to the board. The Mayor, for personal ends, might have sought to claim the right of appointmsnt in antagonism to the Governor. Itis to their credit that they put aside any suggestions of the kind and acted in the only way that could save the city from confusion and promote its best interests at this juncture. Justice has been done to the four members of the old board who acted for the interests of the people and did | all in their power to fulfill the duties the law imposes upon Supervisors. They have been reappointed and will go forward with their official work as if they had never been displaced. The innocent have not been made to suffer with the guilty and the law has been justified by the manner in which it has been enforced. The new members seiected are all well-known men. Every one of them has achieved distinction in the service of the city. Most of them have been tried in official capacities and have been found true and faithful to the in- terests of the people as well as efficient in the management of all business intrusted to them. Taken as a whoie, it is the best Board of Supervisors we have ever had, and the public may confidently expzct good results from their labors. A feature of the appointments meriting praise and commendation is the promptness with which the work has been done. There was, indeed, no time to be lost. Under the law the tax levy must be made by next Monday, and therefore it was imperative the new board should be installed at once. We can take no chances of having an invalid tax levy. If ever time was money it was so in this case. The important part THE CALL. has played in the events leading up to this satisfactory solution of the problem involved in the case against the old board was made clear to the public vesterday by the publication in THE CALL of portraits of all the members of the new board with but one exception. The other morning papers had but the bare notice of their names, THE CALL, indeed, has been from the start an earnest worker for the appointment of men of known integrity and public spirit, and was able to forecast the result because it was deemed worthy to be taken into the councils of those on whom the responsibility of selection was imposed. News from England that Mrs. Maybrick may be pardoned would be more startling if it had not come so often before. Mrs. Maybrick’s chances of being pardoned are probably not balf 50 good as her prospect of succumbing to the inroads of old age while her friends are trying to do something for her that they can’t. Ladies who kill their husbands, of course, excite a lasge measure of sympathy, and yet they must expect to be subjected to some inconvenience, particularly if they select some country not the United Siates to operate in. Texans can fight a model duel, devoid of frills and not cal- culated to incite the merriment of the beholder. Two gentle- men of Dallas, having arrived at s misunderstanding recently, decided to exchange a few shots ana clear up the situation, They did so. There were no seconds, no doctors, no nonsense. The misunderstancing disappeared at the first fire, and an un- dertaker did the rest. In its way it was a model affair, but it wouldn’t go in France. SR e Five people who had acquired the disapprobation of their neighbors were found on a recent morning neatly suspended from & tree In Indiana. Of course, Inaiana would scorn the imputation that it is not civilized to a bighly impressive degree. THE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION. HE taxpeayers of this city and county will note with satis- faction many features of the outcome of their case made before the State Board of Equalization. To Tue CALL is due the credit for placing the issue on the lines of reason and judgment, instead of leaving it in a chaos of prejudice and personal abuse as has been the practice. Itis not to the credit of part of the pressof this city tbatit began the campaign in the spirit of detraction and false ascription of motives that should hays no piace among the elements that muke up official judgment. ‘We believe that any member of the board who antagonized the wishes of San Francisco did so in virgin purpose, and with no evil motive. As our citizens have seen the benefit of reasonable treat- ment of a public question mav we not hope that they will hereafter second the efforts ot THE CALL to bring reason and soberness of mind to the consideration of all such questions? In this spirit we invite the attention of the State to the need of lifting the burden of a purely local representation off the necks ot the Board of Equalization. - The placing of the load of taxation evenly upon property throughout the State isa duty too delicate and difficult to be always well done by officers who are responsible to a constitu- ency made up of part of the State only. One may easily im- agine that out of the present district system the people of any individual aistrict may be moved by the single purpose of secur- ing a member of the board who will give them the greatest im- munity from taxation. It may as usual be admitted that it is not in human nature to pay taxes with pleasure. If two candi- dates are before a district for the Board of Equalization and one promises to reduce taxes 25 per cent, while the other stands silent, it is safe to say the promising reducer will get the largest vote. Considering the situation it is a matter for congratulation and surprise that the State has fared as weil as it has and that the membership of the board has been of so high character. Tney are good enough men to deserve a less difficult task by giving them the whole State for a constituency and all of its taxable property to equalize, instead of resting under the im- plied obligation to balance one district against another. There is time for calm consideration of the change betore the next Legisiature is chosen. Hugh O'Neill of British Columbia comes into court with a spirited allegation setting forth with circumstantial show of sincerity that he is not dead. The pleasure of acquaintance with Mr. O'Neill has been denied us, and yet we would not hes. itate to accept his word in a matter of this kind. If tne court shall, however, decide that O'Neill, despite his protest, is dead it will be taking chances on being haunted by a very substan- tial ghost. LT The dragging to death of a five-year-old child at Fresno by a frightened horse was one of the sad events that never ought to happen. A baby is not especially adapted to the task of taking a horse to water, and the habit of tying the halter-strap to the wrist is something to ve discouraged in people of any age. The charge that the Kuiser has pocketed funds belonzing to somebody else wiil not be printed in German papers in very large type. The Kaiser bas before now displayed symptoms of sensitiveness. ‘The fact that he cannot go to Mexico and annex the repub- lic to some of his railway enterprises must strike Mr. Hunting- ton with a shock. e 3 There is some comfort in the thought that people who say they believe Andree has been lost in the Arctic don’t know any- thing about it. 1f Dick Crooker’s remark that he doesn’t know Seth Low have any effect it will be to the advantage of Mr. Low. ' PERSONAL. Peter Musto, & Stockton merchant, 1s at the Grand. Dr. W. D, Rodgers of Watsonville is at the Occidental. J. Taylor and wife of Coluss, Cal Cosmovolitan, Colonel M. P. Miller, U. 8 A., Mare Island. is at the Occidental, Frank A, Kimball of National City is regis- tered at the Grand. F. A. Spencer, a merchant of Portland, Or., 15 a guest at the Palace. Rev. P. F. F. Farrelly, a parish priest of Pasa- dena, is at the Occidental. John C.Lewis, the paper mapufacturer of Portland, Or., is at the Palace. J. C. Lewis, a prominent mining man and grocer of Portland, Or., is in town, M. A. Cranage and wife of Forest Hill, Cal,, are registered at the Cosmopolitan., 0. B. Phelps, an extensive rancher of Bakers field, is a guest at the Cosmopolitan. RaiaelJ. Ruiz, a large coffee-planter of Her- mosillo, Mex., is a guest at the Lick. M."J. Cohen, who is proprietor of the brew- ery at Juneau, Alaska, is at the Lick. W. P. McFaul of Ukiah, Assessor of Mendo- cino County, is registered at the Grand. W. C. Duncan Sr., a mire-owner of Oroville, is among the latest arrivals at the Lick. H. N. Yerington, 2 mining man, banker and prominent citizen of Carson, Nev.,is at the Palace. Mrs. H. Grimm has returned from her visit to Sacramento and is staying st the Cosmo- politan. J. R. Dorroh, & mining man from Angels Camp, is at the Grand, accompanied by his wife and family. T. M. Stateler, ticket agent of the Northern Pacific, will leave here Sunday evening for a two weeks’ vacation in Los Angeles and San Diego. Al Bgr!hlel‘, who has been seriousiy ili for some time past is now rapidly recovering, and his friends expect to see him out and- around town before very long. E. H. Forester, general agent of the freight department of the Northern Pacific, will start for Portland Saturday evening on s week’s business trip in the Northwest. Di. J. B Shaw, one of the pioneer Eaglish residents of Santa Barbara and a prominent member there of the Episcopal church, ar- rived yesterday at the Occidental. Congressman T. H. Bankhead ot Alabama, who was & member of the Wheeling gunboat party that recently visited this coast, returned iast nightto the Ocecidentsl accompanied by his wife, Robert M. Schurz, & young man from York- shire, England, arrived from the East last night and isat the Palace. He is making a tour of the world and is on nis way to River- side to visit the English polo colony there, . Among the arrivals at the Occidental yester- day were the following missionaries, who will retura to the Orient in the Gaelie: Frank 8. Scudder of Japan, accompanied by Mrs. Frank B. Scudder and Mrs, J. W. Scheinck, and M. C. Wilcox of Foochow, China. E. Tremiett Carter, a celebratea English electrical engineer, recently imspected the elecirical equipment of the Baltimore and re at the | ters. The old notions about perpetual motion, ancesymay be deceptive. simple. that turns the bicycle's ax.e. which produces them, cropout irequently in the new devices for the bicgele. At the glance the power transmitter, here pictured, oo} It is the invention of John D, Bultz and George Re! hopes of it. The transmitter is on the hub of the rear wheel. THE SGORGHER WILL HAIL THIS IDEA. or getting results that are bigger than the power first ks like an old, familiar fallacy; but appear- incinnati and they have high e cTno chain passes over the ordi- nary small sprocket wheel, which acts by levers upon a larger wheel operating on the sxleot the driver. A series of ievers, fitting groves, accomplish this. o h technical language, but the quesiion s The ehain gives (s energy fo_theaprock-1, whici, in turn. acts upon a larger wheel Why is that superior v b Vventors claim that there is un advantage in the {arger radius secured; that the bicycle will go faster with the same power. A million kcorehers join the inyentors in hoping so. The mechanism is not to be clearly invoived would seem to be to the direct action now in use? The iu- GRANDSON OF CHIEF COCHISE. Boston Herald, Handsome, tall, siraight es an arrow, and with physical development & trained llthle mightenvy. Auntonio Apache, now preparing for Harvard, is s young Indian about whom the fates have woven a web of romanee which renders him an ideal hero in the world ot let- He is a pure biocoded Chirrachaua Apache, about 24 years old, and the grandson of Cniet Cochise. When but a child he captured by troops operating under General Crook in Southern Arizona, his manly bearing and fortitude commanding the admiration and respect of the rough soldiers of the fron- tier. He wes soon sent to Fortress Mouroe, where he received some schooling, being apt and quick to learn, and possessing a remark- ably retentive memory. A short farming experience and a trial of several trades subsequently convinced his iriends that & professional career would prove QL L L L L L L L L L LR L L L L LA L) THE SAFFRON-HUED FAKER. Relative to the rehash matter printed in the Examiner “Extra’ upon the ar- rival of the steamer Cleveland from St. Michael, the Los Angeles Herald says, editorially: “The alleged ‘scoop’ of the Examiner was = great waste of money, wind and white paper, simply because it told nothing that was not known before. lond ke special edition’ consisted of the Warning: down 10 the facts, the entire Boiled ‘Keep away until spring,” & warning that most newspaper readers will remember to have heard before. The Weary Wiliies of journalism, who had subordinated their undonbted talent and enterprise to the vellow poliey of the Examiner, wrote the same oid slush that the paper has iuflicted upon its readers for weeks Lx past, and really the dose is getting nauseating. “The Herald cannot be accused of envy and jealousy of the Examiner’s yellow enterprise. Itsimply protests in the name of real newspapers, in the name of real journalism, against such circus exhibitions bzing recognized as specimens of genuine newspaper enterprise and against effusions on tne Jonquin Miller order being sccepted as news. That 1s all.” Gummumxmxwuuummunmuuufi Ohioat Baltimore, as the London Underground Railway has adopted the style of motors that the Baltimore and Ohio uses in the Baltimore tunnel. At the conclusion of his inspection Mr. Carter said that it was the most complete and economically handled plant he had ever seen and that he had never been in & tunner that was so absolutely free from smoke. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y. Bept. 16.—At the St Cloud—E. D. Weyburn. Holland—J. Roiph, Jr., Miss M. Rolpb. Morton—B. B. Stanley. Grand—Miss M. Wood, Grand Union—E. Faulk- ner. Plaza—Mrs. Gonzales. Everett—T. L Beveridge. Mr. Kenworthy left the 8t. Cloud and saited on the St. Paul for Southampton. CALIFORNIANS IN WA >HINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 16.—H. C. and F. Reno of San Franciscoare at ihe Norman- die. W. G. Bridge and wife of Fresno areat the Wellington. SUMMER LAYS ARE GOING. Purple asters here And thistie-seea a-blowing | And what is t1is in the biackbird’s song? The locusts pipe it shriil and loag, Over and over: “Pasi—pust—past— ‘he summer days are going!” ¢ lasi 81op, chattering squirrel. Why this fret ¥or hoard you're sure to gather? And cunuing spinner, why 0 5000 A shroud 10 weave—a last cocoon? The bitter frost is tar off yer, Though summer days are goiog. Perbaps (who knows?) to grass and fern Comes bitter pang 14 turning From youth 1o age, verhaps the wood Kebels axainst a faded hood, ‘And would eseape it 11 it cou'd; Axid that with wraih the sumachs burn When summer days ure golug. . —Outlook. FAMOUS SUPERSIITIONS. Wolsey was warned of his doom by a crozier- head; Sejanus by a flight of crows. Dr. John- son objected to going uuder the ladder. Mon- taigne avoided glving bis leit foot priority in putting on his stockings. Alexander was be- lieved to have untied the gordian knot with aslice of his sword. g For good luck’s sake Augustus wore some portfon of a sea calf; Charlemagne sume trinket of unkoown value. Mohammed was all fate; Bouaparte all star and destiny. Cromweil belicyed in September 3 and Lonis Napoieon in December 2. Suifa called him- seil Felix, the favored cnild of fortune, aud Timoleon ‘turned his house iuto a temple of chence. Alexander, if we may credit the account given by Quiutius Curtivs, was terrified by biood flowing frcm inside his soldiers’ bre during the siege of Tyre, 1u 332 B. C. His seer, Aristaudes: for.saw in inis crimson efflux of the vital stream out of the Commis- suriat & happy issue for the Macedonians, and the warriors, thus nerved, took Tyre, LAST OF THE FAMOUS THREE. New York Press. Sage used to be as straight as an Indfan, and he was tall when he stood erect. But age is withering the old man, and his back is curved. His shoulders dro'p. Two inches have been taken off his stature, It used to be & rare sight 10 see Sydmey Dillon, about six feei three; Russell Suge, about six feet, and Jay Gould, about five jeet three or less, waiking down the streetarm inarm. Gould was always in the middle, hanging on an arm of each of his friends, reaching as high'as he could to hoia on to Dillon, and not quite so bigh to ciing to Sage. And they were ever leaning low down 10 usten 1o what the litt e giant had to say. It was & famous trio. D.lon died on June 9, 1892, and Gould in December of the same s Uncle Russ has dosed himself with an eiixir of ife, and we have him still w.¢h us, - ——eee TRUE SCRIPTURAL AGE OF MAN. Nineteenth Century, We have all heard the well-worn axiom at- tributed to the Psalmist thatthe “daysof man are threescore and ten,” but in Genesis vi:3 ‘will be found the following passage: ‘“Yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.” Th guu'. seems to have been overiooked, as I bave rarcly seem it Tmnd. alibough, curiously enougs, 1t exactly corres ponds 10 the theory that man should attain the period of reaching his m+turity. 5 ALICE GLENESK. Ve times more congenfal to the young Apache whose love for books incressed as he grew older. He was also afforded opportunities ior consider- able travel, and in 1890 attracted the notice of Prolessor Putnam of Hurvard, under whose commission he journeyed among the various tribes of the Southwest, securirg ethnological exhibits for the World’s Fair. During the fair he was retained as an assistant in the departe x:e;: of anthropoiogy uuder Professor Fut. am. At the close of the fair he was engaged in the Field Columbian Museum, and in its bebhalf made several trips through the South nnd Southwest. Duriug the operations ot the Fed- eral troops against the Bannock Indians the young Apache was placed in charge of the scouts by General Coppinger, and served with honor and distinction. During this period he also essnyed newspaper correspondence, many of his letters baving been published in East- ern and Western papers. Apacne's voice 1s low and musical, his Eng- 1sh i you aff; who know him are proud of his friendship. His valnnable services have been secured by the New England Sportsman’s Associalion, in whose behalf he s now making a tour of Northern Maine and the Canadiangame coun- try, to secure Indian guides, trappers and hunters. for the Sportsman’s Exhibition to be held at the Mechanies’ building in Boston March next. VALUE OF POLITICAL LIFE. Bos on Herald. The opinion evidently prevails among a very large class of our wealthy and cultivated people that to go into public 1ile is to descend to duties unworthy of them, They judge the men who occupy such positions with insulte ing severity, classing them in their minds as useless and self-seeking, than which nothing can be more childish or more imbecile. Any observer who hus lived n little in the different grades of society will quickiy renounce the pueriie idea that refined and intelleciual pur- suits are the only ones worthy of a gentle- man’s attention. “This very political life, which appears unwo:thy or their atiention to 0 many mer, is in reality the great field whare the nations of the worid fight out their difforences; where the seed is sown that will riven later into vast crops of truth and jus- tice. Itis, if rightly regarded and honestly followed, the battle-ground where man’s high- est qualities are put (o their noblest use—that of working for the huppiness of others, HE WAN :D THE TRUTH. Tit-Bits. In & case before a Paris court, in which a popular actress has had to appear asa witness, the Judge seems to have shown considerable diffidence about asking the lady, as he was 1n duty bound to do, what was her age. Evi- dently he considered thatsuch & question, put to such a witness, would be a direct incitement to perjury. The wuy in which he got of the difficuity wrs ingenipus, altbough dzcidedly irregular. He asked her age before she had been sworn. *How old are you, madam?’ he said. Afier a little nesitation the lady owned to being 29 years of age. “And now that you have told the court your age.” continued the gallant Judge, “lift up your haud, You swear 1o tell the truth!” A REMARKABLE O&cITUARY. New York Press. Home-made obituary notices are slways pathetic when they represent a mingling of the poetic talent of the family with grief for the lost one. Sometimes those effusions em “udicrous to an unsympathetic and un- feelipg public, Without attempting to ridi- cule the grief of the authors, it might be of interest to reproduce the joilowing obituary notice which appeared in & Washington pajer September 8: e had just joined the Pioneer Baseball Club, His comrades 10 enj), . But the fatai sild« 1o second base Caused the deach of our dariing boy. iy H1s PARENTS., TTHE MAJOR. Chicago News. The reunion ot President McKinley’s old regiment recalls the pleasifg fact that the mujor is the only man of note who served in the iate war who is not a general. —_— CHICAGO THEOLOGY, Sioux City Journal. An Alaska Indian hus goue to Chicago to study theology. Chicago is net sending any of her theology te Alaska and the indians up \bere naturaily want to know what it is like, e and scholarly, his bearing dignified, | le, and his gharacter so noble that all | WITH YOUR COFFEE. “Why were you discharged from your last place?” asked the merchant of the applicant for a situation. 1 was discharged for good behavior, sir. “\Wasn’t tnat & singular reason for a dis- harge?” “Well, you see, good behavior took nine months oft my sentence.”’—Life. Hewitt—My wife was looking for a dry-goods store vesterday and by mistake she waiked into a saloon next door. Jewett—That was terrible! Hewitt—Yes, she found me inside.—Truth. They were speaking of a recent slight earth- quake in the south of France. +Did you tremble?” a bystander asked one of the ladies. +Oh yes, I trembled, but the earth trembled worse than I did.”—Le Monde Comique. “I’'m surprised to find that you are keep- ing & dog, Tomkins. keep your wife. What on earth do you feed him on?” “Well, 1 gives ’im cats’ meat, and when I can’t afford that why ’e ’as to ’ave wot we ’ave.”—Punch. Counsel ~Now answer the question and don’t get angry— Witness—Why shouldn’t I, when you area cross-examiner?—Judy. Mrs. Bacon—Did you offer Mr. Crimsonbeak your umbrella when he went out? Mr. Bacon—No, I didn’t- have & chance; he took it.—Yonkers Statesman. “Are you in vain, my little man?” asked the kind 0!d gentleman. “No,” answered the boy. me.”—[ndianapolis Journal. “The pain’s in Mine Host (to barmaid)—You must always | fill up the Judge’s glass when itis empty with- | out asking him whether he wants another. | Otnerwise he will feel offended.—Fliegende | Blatter. Wheeler—\What kept you 50 long? I've been waiting two hours. Val Vieak—I got 8 puncturs and stopped to | * 5 Pl | ot Austria. mend it with my quick-repair kit.—Puck. PHILOSOPHER’S RUE. Cap and bells for a foal. “Tome and glass for the seer, Who 80 trickt and mad come Yule Was wise out yesteryear. Tome and g!rss for a seer, >ap and bells for a fuol ! . and wiichen an aged ear Wich quicken rbyme for rule. I, who dreamed of a farce! I, in my sodden celis! Tome and glass give piace— Give me the ca and bells! PosT WHEELER in New York Press. MEN AND WOMEN J Mr. Svalding, a Chicago Jumber-dealer, has given $20,000 for an historical society and free library building in his native town, Ath- | ens, Pa. Miss Beatrice Harraden has become a prac- tical woman farmer. She can plow a fleld, | plant and cultivate the same, build fences, harness horses, etc. She rises very early in the morning. Kaiser Wilhelm is reat collector of auto- graphs, and he specially prizes the signatures of military commanders of the end of the last and the beginning of the present century, of which he has a large collection. Ex-Mayor Frank F. Olney of Providence, R. I, presiaent of the American Philatelic Asso- ciation, has & collection of stamps valued at $100,000. Mr. Olney is & woolen manufac- turer and is enthusiastic over his hobby. The frinds of Miss Mary French Field have veen delighted with the success she attained in her readings last winter. She isat present studying her father’s stories, with the idea of giving readings from them next season. Her tour last year stimulated enormously the sale of her father's books. Of the two stamps first issued Washington’s portrait was on the 10-cent and Franklin's on the other. Since that time the various issues of the United States stamps would furnish a unique portrait gallery, showing the faces of forty-¢ight noted Americans. Washington ap- pears on iwenty-five issues, while Lincoln’s picture is on every issue since 1866 except the Columbus series. Among the pupils at the military academy of St. Cyr, Frauce, is a grandson of ex-Empress Eugenie, the son of Prince Louis Bouaparte, who was killed in 1879 by the Zulus. The future officer of artiliery is now 19 years old 2nd goes by the mame of Wallle Keily, His mother was the daughter of a London tailor and a teacher by calling. It is said that the Prince and Miss Kelly were secretly married, but no proof of the marriage exisis. Miss Kelly is now the wife of a gardgner and is living in Australia. The ex-Empress placed her grand- son in school and often visits him there, —— s e e A NA1IONAL SENTIMENT. Philadelphia Press. Hitherto the United States has let Canada bave all the advantages of the transit situa. tion and meekly taken all the buffets of Jan- ada. Canadian politicians are using the priv- ileges they enjoy to build up a hostile nation on our northern frontier. The United Staies ;?.-kn:lm b:e'ln“r: y:l::fllllc Ppoliey which wiil unvraflublv’lnd then i :-;‘:;:n‘;l’o.(‘mm‘ e —————— MIGHT CREATE A BREEZE, e Detroit Free Press. e order to collect duty on all Canadi wheols ehould be interpreted to (nniu;o :l? American wheels that With Canadian ajr ' Bsve been pumped up e TRIPLY ENDOWED, Oleveland Plain Dealer. It is stated that the new German Embassador to this country is a doctor of philosophy, & diplomat aod a duelist. H 1fled 1o the distinction ot a Do oe ALy ew | tion, and performed engineer, ordniin Why, you can barely | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE WINTER GarDEN—Subscriber, City. Stahl & Mack were the owners of the Winter Garden at the corner of Stockton and Post ’f%',"fi" the time the siructurc was destroye 188)3 Te on the morning ol the 4th of August, = gl o War1ER—Subscriber, City. The house incm:: the Vienna Gnrdun‘l. which were at the corner of Stockton snd em.‘z:rltueets, v:‘l:_q L Gustav alter or e 'x'z'i:u‘.:,'é‘-:' x‘:’w:i'x?&’n by Judge Burritt in the snring of 1850 with lumper brought from ine Easi arouud the Horn. Mr. Waiter talks Eng-~ lish fluenty. TarL BurLpixas—R. W., City. THE CalL building at Market and Third streets has a height of 310 feet to the top of the dome. The Mavhattan Lite Insurance Company’s build- ing in New York City has a beight of 348 feet to the top of the tower, and the City H‘:\Il in Philadelphia_has a height of 537 icet dig inches, incinding the statue of Willlam Punu on the top of the dome. H. Hollister, Cal. The nity County’depends « TRINITY COUNTY: rigor of the climate in upon the altitude and the side of the Scott Mountains a persop is on. The rainfail isex- cessive and thee is some snow during the winter months. While the climate is not se- vere, it 1s impo-sibie for a person 1o prospect during that ~eason. The lemjeruture, gen- erally speaking. is from 33 to 42 between the months of November and March. =Goar IsL. This correspon- deut asks, “Was the question of letting the railroad company have Goat Island for a ter- minus or for bridge or warehouse purposes ever submitted toa vote of the people of ths City and County of Sau Franeisco?” The au- swer to that question is no. It was notsuo- mitied to ihe people, the relations being ex- ciusively between that corporation and the Federal Government. But during 1869-70 the Legislature suthorized the Board o Su. pervisors of san Francisco to approyrate one million of dollars to the Central Pacific R.ii- road Company, the money 10 be used in b ing & depot in tau Fralci-co, providing proposition was indorsed by the peopic. A1 » special election heid in the summer of 1570 the proposition was deteated. INSPECTOR BRECKINRIDGE—Veterans, Soldiers' Home, Los Angeles, Cal. Brigadier-General Joseph Cabell Breckinridge ,inspec meritorious service in I1anta, Ga., July 22, 1864; major fo and meritorious service during the war 13,1865. He joined Geueral William Augnst 30, 1861, at Camp Dick Robi where Kentucky and Tenuessec v were being organizad; aid-de-camp eral George H. Thomas through bo tcward East Tennessee, terminating in ¢ tory o: Milispring, K in ithe movement to N ward Shiloh, and through thesieze Miss,; accepted commission in Scco lery in 1862, joined Battery C a and afterward Battery H at Fort Barr Fia.; commanded boat und scouting e other local staff du lanta campaigu '64; captured near place of General McPherson's de; at Macou, Ga., and Charleston, < changed under General Sherman’s sick leave; mustering officer for ¢ trict of Kentucky, Jevuary 18, with regiment to Calilornia Sey't That, in brnef, is the war r:cord of the specior-general joined Battery Fon At e and DADDY KIPLING **What’s that so white that walks the fioor?" folks on parad -. “It's Daday Rudyard Kipitag,” ihe London doctor seid said. “He's the father of anotner boy wan 0 bed. But he's walkin’ of the baby in the mornin’.” “Whal’s that, what’s that (hat tqual's so loud? said foiks on parade. “rv's siule Kip with colic,” the Lou n doctor said: “Anc the oider Kip is painting all the furoliure in red, And he’s swearin’ at the taly CALIFORNIA gince ib. townsent v Sl e i EYEGLASSES, ¢ p €8, 15¢ 0 40¢; Sunday<9 ! 1004 Market (U.-. ); weekd.iys 35 4th, = SPECIAL information daiiy to manu business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery. * il The young Empress of Russia, it issafd, cares little or nothing about jewels, or, in deed, about any kind of finery, and in tnis re- spect presents a striking contrast to her mother-iu-law, the still young-iooking and very pretty Marie Feodorovna, whose jewel: casket in the days when she was Empress was the most famous in the worid irom a gem point of view, bardly second even in the mnt- ter of pearls to - the coliecticn of the Empress +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 soothes the child. softens the gums, al- 1ays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and Is the best remedy for Diacrhwas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sura and ask jor Mrs. Winsiow’s Soothiug Syrup, 25¢aboctie ———————— CoRONADO.—Almosphere Is perfectly dry. sof: and mild, being entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. - Round- trip ticksts, by sieam- ship, Inciuding fifteen duys board at the Hotel dal Coronado, $60; longer stay 2 50 per day. Apprs 4 New Monigomery sreet. an Fraucisoo. ————————— More than 300 descendants of Jacob Huber, who with his three brothers settled in Bucks County, Pa., in 1732, met at Willow Grove, in that State, last week, The name was changed to Hoover in 1797. A prominent member of the family is Judge H. C. Hoover of Hoover- town, Ps. ————————————————————————————— NEW TO-DAY] Experts Say Where Finest Foed Is Required Royal Bak- ing Powder Must Be Used. Miss Suzy Tracy, the cooking demonstrator in the Model Kitchen at the Mechanics’ Fair, says :— “In the practice of my pro= fession as a teacher of cook= ery I have tried the different brands of baking powder, and Ifind that Royal Bak- (ing Powder gives the best satisfaction. I can accom= plish the best results with a smaller quantity of Royal Baking Powder than of any other kind, and I fird it always to be perfectly unie _form in its action.”