The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 18, 1897, Page 6

THE S/ FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1897 -— SATURDAY.. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propri Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. 0 Morket street, San Francisco PUBLICATION OFFICE. Telephons Main 1863, EDITORIAL RCOMS. .. .....517 Clay street THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week By mail $6 pec year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL......... ..One year, by mail, $1.50 908 Broadway OAKLAND OFFICE. Roows 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. NEW YORK OFFICE. ....... BRANCH OFFICES— eet, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock. open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; op2n until ¢ ock. SW. corner Sixteenth and til 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'c ssion street; openuntil 9 o’clock. 1505 | Polk street; 30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second «nd Kentv oven 1iil 9 v’clock. A CORRUPT ADVISER. NEWSPAPER come 1o sustain a powerful and a proper relation to affairs social and governmental. A paper that is conducted without greed to satisfy or grudge to fatten, that tells the truth and totes fair, is an important element in the good government of a city. The cxpulsion of the Boatd of Supervisors has furnished an object lessou that is maode plain without the use of a cir- cus poster. The members of the expelled board were counsaled by the Eraminer to commit the act which caused the loss of their office, and then with a cheek compared to which brass is a liquid the same paper attacked them in their misfortune and while under the lash of punishment for following its advice. ‘fhe unfortunate men themselves and the public may learn some valuable lessons as 10 the pretense of absentee and fake journalism to a wholesome influence in public afta'rs. If the expelled board were corrupt in not fixing water rates within the legal time limit, its co: tion was advised by the Lxaminer. What was the motive of the local representative of the absentee journalist, who vrefers to roli the moral wators of New York and make the air reek with the stench of new joar- nalism rather than come here like a man and face the conse- i quences of the crimes against truth and decency committed in | his rame? Was there a negotiation or in February between the absentee and the Spring Valley Water Company that could be brought to a head by delay in the Board of Supervisors; and, after all, did the swag miscarry? Was the Eraminer faking a howl to excite public opinion against Spring Valley, increase the risk, and therefore the price of being officially friendly to it, and finally missed its share of the profits of a market which it bad bulled so vigorously ? No‘hing is so dear to the absentee journalist as the control of supervisors and legislators, He has taken the public into his confidence in the claim that the Governor is a chattel of the Ezxaminer, and the person in charge of that paper acted upon 1hat idea in the conference over the new board only to find that bis master was mistaken— t be holds no mortgage on the Governor nor on the new Board oi Sapervisors. They are a!l free men, honest men, conscious of their responsibility to the people for good government, and this is why the absentee is enacting the difficult role of tooting his hora and at the same time gnawing a file. has The letter-carriers who bave bsen in San Francisco gave the impression of being men as able to take care of themselves as of amailsack. When an overland train refused to stop longenough to permit them to eat they simply stopped the train and kept it waiting auntil the last appetite had been sated anl the tables were bire. Oace in awhile a train hold-up seems to be justi- fiable. For doing exactly that which the Ezaminer had urged them to do the late Supervisors exrerienced the pang of being bouneced. Naturally anybody accepiing counsel from such a source could deserve nothing less, yet the good taste of the giver of counsel in lampooning those who had been f{oolish enough to heed it may be questioned. When a firm of lawyers can guarantee immunity to trans- gressors of a certain luw there is something wrong. Perhaps it is the Jawyers; possibly the law itself. Buat in either case the matter is worth investigat! Itis hard to induce an editor to accept cffice. prelers to be in a position to direct and counsel who may choose to accept. Naturally he e gentleman Mr. Hearst’s friends ought to notify him that his San Fran- cisco sheet is making an indecent exnosnre of itself. NO PATRONAGE INVOLVED, OME cf our contemporaries have treated the appointment of the new Board of Supervisors as if it were merely a polit- ical move designed to bring about a redistribution of official patronage. This view is not justified by anything in the situa- tion or in the events that led up to it. There is no question of patronage involved in the issue, and the Supervisors fully understand the fact. It would be a blunder of the rankest kind on the part of the new officials to set about ousting the present employes of the city government for the purpose of replacing them with others. Such a policy would at once weaken public confidence in the new board and go far towsrl depriving them of that popular support which is now so cordially given them by the great mass of citizens. The board will be required of course to exercise a careful supervision over the work of all city employes, and if any of them be found unworthy by reason either of negligence, incom- petence or dishonest practices it will be the anty of the board to remove them and entrust the work to better hands. That much is essential to good government, but the new Supervisors can be counted on to fulfill the expeciations of the public and the assurances of their friends by abstaining from anything like removals from cffice solely for the sake of distributing patron. age among their political supporters. In one phase or another the emergency affects very materi- ally every interest of the city. Unless care is taken there may result = confusion in our municipal :ifairs that will seriously interfere with effective administration. Noone can be more tuily aware of this fact than the new officials. They hive teen appointed to gua:d the welfare of the city, and were selected because their known integrity and public spirit gave assurance that they would fulfill the duty with an inteliigent fidelity that would secure the common interests ofall. Such being the condition of affairs questions of patronage might as well ve dismisscd from the public mind. The new Bupervirors have more important things to atiend to than that of distributing offices. They will have neither the inclination nor the time to engace in such petty politics when so many problems of great moment to the municipality are to be studied and solved. The n>w board is one that can be counted on. The men who compose it ar2 well known to all ecitizens who have watched the course of public affairs, and the character of each has been so fully attested by past services rendered to the community as to confirm public confidence in the expectations of good service now. We are to have no unseemly scrambling for patronage, but a well-ordered and efficient administration of the city. Itissafe to prophesy because the men are known. A yellow journalist alraid to appear in San Francisco, rep- resented here by a person of similar hue, who wou!d also be absent if endowed with the quality of mind tbat can give rise to the emotion of shame, really bas not much claim to consid- eration in his efforts to shaps the déstiny of the city. True, he is doing something for it by remaining away, but against this is the fact that he sustains a disreputable gang here to do as much harm, perhaps, as he could do himself, A MORAL PAPER. ELLOW absentee journalism, as exemplified in the career Yuf the San Francisco Examiner, achieved a distinct triumph vesterday. Had the s'ums been searched for a subjact and the yellow kodak brought to bear upon the tender- loin of Crippie Creek nothing could have been produced ex- celling in genuine immorality and filth the *scoop” of the saffron journal from Dawson. Its red-nosed poet, reveling in the foul atmosphere of a Yulkon dance hall and detailing his experiencas to an audience of respectable American people was an achievement upon which the absentee proprietor of the Examinzr should be congratulated. It is difficult to treat of such a subject in a decent news- paper. Todo so is to advertiss things over which the veil of secrecy should, in the interest of respectable people, be drawn. The scruples which prevented the exposurz of the orgies of Sausalito, which keep in the dark the frightful immoralities of the purieus of ev:ry great citv, and which impel decent people to shun vice and crime whenever it thrusts its hileous head in view, rush in here to intercspt reference to this triumph of vellow journalism. Yet, what i a decent newspaper to do? Joaquin Miller’s | letter from Dawson, published in the Examiner, is the vilest | exhitition of colored journalism ever s2en in a civilized com- munity. s it to be allowed to pass unheeded? Must this whisky-drinking poet and his absentse employer be permitted with impuniy to write up Dawson dance halls and the holy Catholic church in the same paragraph, and garnish both with a picture which would disgrace the Police Gagette? We ask ourselves thess questions bscause in this article we are calling attention to a publication which should bring thz blush of shame to the face of every decent man in San Francisco. Colored journalism has besen thought equal o almost any- thing. Not long ago it gave two pazes to the murder of a miserable creature of the tenderloin, who was stranglsd to death in her d=n. But no on: ever dreamsd that it would s=nd red-nos2d poets to the Yukon to write up the painted harri- dans of Dawson, and artists to depict them drinking cham- pagne at ““$35 a quart.” This is rather too much for re- spectabl= human nature. But what is to be done about it? Will calling the attention of decent people to the fact that this paper is taksn into their families and read by their wives and children have the effect of putting a stop to the spread of the immoral sheet? We cannot answer these qvestions. Unless we are mis- taken, however, it is time that a committee of safety was ot- | ganized to fumigate the Examiner. If this is not done pretty soon the city itself wiil need fumigating. The young woman who is aggrieved because she paid fare for passage to the Kiondike in a ship that never sailed of courss wants her money back. Yet with her indignation should be mingled a savor of gratitude. Had she gone as she wishea she could not have got the money back, and probably could not have got back herself. By being made the target of an assassin President Diaz of Mex:cg steps up to the distinguished but somewhat precarious plane of other rulers. Thbe world is progressing so rapidly that 2 man who occup'es a national executive position indicates thereby a willingness to become a poor insurance risk. Accusing the Eraminer of a bad memory is crueity to ani- mals. Even the lowest of created things is entitled to some consideration. And the way an Eraminer memory would suffer 1f it were not for the privilege of going intoa trance. A POLITICAL CHINESE DRAGON. OLLOWING the lead of the Sacramento Bee, the Record. Union of the same ¢city makes a vehement attack upon the proposal of THE CALL that Equalizers should be elected. by the State at large instead of by equalization districts; and having no new objection of its own to advance, elaborates and emphas zes the charge of the Bee that the proposed amendment would result in giving San Francisco control of the entire board, leaving the rest of the State without any rprotection whatever irom excessive taxation. This charge the Bee was wise enough to state without argument, but the Record- Union foolish y spreads it out at such length that even the wost casual and indifferent reader can perceive the folly of it. Under the proposed amendment, says the garrulous objector, *The mining interest is to have no Tep- resentation on the State Board of Equalization. The agricul- tural interest is to be equally igno-ed. Fruit-growing and stock-raising are to have no voice. The concentrated and con- solidated vote of San Francisco is to be brouzht to bear as the balance of power, and no man is to be permitted to exercise any of the autbority vouchsafed to the State Board of Equalization unless he is wholly satisfactory to San Francisco.” Here is a poiitical Chinese dragon made to order and painted monstrously red and lurid to affright fools, if any fools there be in Sacramento. *“The concentrated and consolidated vote of San Francisco’ is the phrase of 4 madman or a lunatic, When was the vote of Sin Francisco ever concentrated and consolidated ? In the last Presidential election the vote of San Francisco was so equally divided that a change of less than 100 ballots would have given the vote of the city to Bryan instead of Mec- Kinley. The division was almost equally close in the last gubernatorial contest. Ali records show that the vote of this city, so jar from le.ng consolidated, is as fluid and unstable as the seas, Itis more changeable than that of the State at large, and the vote of Alpire is more likely to counterbalance div.- sions in the vo'e of S8an Francisco than isthat of the city to hold the balance of power in the State, As if with the set purpose of exposing the hollowness of its bugaboo, the Record-Union drags out the length ot its drzgon argument to @ point where the joints are stretched to break- ing and the emptiness revealed. It says: ‘Nothinz is more dangerous to republican institutions than the influence ofa consolidated vote. A popular election of President of the Uni.ed States would turn over the choice to the 200,000 square miles which coinprises the manufacturing interests of this country.” i Can there be any completer exposure of the futility of the consolidated vote argument than is contained in that state- ment as it stands? When did the people of the territory comprising the manufacturing interests of this country ever cast a consolidated vote? Tuey have not done so in any Presi- dential elec ion since the nation began its career. Even in 1860, when sectional lines were drawn with an intensity that led io civil war, there was no consolidated vote in any State either in the North or in the South. The Northern vote was divided among Lincoin, Douglas and Bell; the SBouthern vote among Breckinridge, Douglas and Bell. Asa matter of fact, there has never been a consolidated vote in any American com- munity, large or small. San Francisco has never cast a consoiidated vote and her people never will while party spirit and differences of opinion exist among men. An attempt to frighten the intelligent vot- ers of the interior by a charge of that kind is as foolish as an attempt to scare them from the street by trailing a Chinese dragon through the town. Tne equalization of taxes is not a local issue, but a State issue. It should be left not to local representatives, but to representatives of the whole State. Each Equalizer has equal power with his col'eagues over the taxation of every citizen, and therefors every taxpayer should have a vote for or against each candidate for that office. The movement to that end is not for the special interests of San Francisco, but for justice to all. It is right, and by the intelligence of the people it will prevail, If some of the ex-Supervisors would tell frankly why Hearst’s paper loved them once, and why the love grew cold, it would make reading more interesting than that sheet is in the habit of printing. The sins of Harry Westwood Cooper are said to be finding him out, but if Cooper were to be in:erviewed at his cell door concerning the matter he would probably oplne iregretfully that the sins were finding bim in, PERSONAL. L. Walker of Ventura is at the Cosmopolitan. J. Danny, & merchant of Etns, is at tne Grand. T.J. Field, a banker of M i Pelace, | State Senator C. C. Royce of Chico is at the | California, | State Senator J. M. Gillett of Eureka is at| the Grand. H. E. Pickett, = mine-owner of Placervilie, isat the Lick. J. F. Smith and wife of Brentwood are at the | Cosmopolitan. J. W. Linscott, the educator from Santa Cruz, isat the Grand. State Senator Thomas Flint Jr. of San Juan isat the Grand. E. F. Griffin, a car-buwilder of Detroit, Mich., is at the Palace, J. B. Wills, a Chicago hardware-dealer, is a guest at the Grand. Dr. Franklin J. Tower of Milwaukee, Wis., | is at the Occidental. onterey, is at the Pa., i3 at the Palace. & guest at the Grand. E.J. Lowrey, a Fresno insurance mau, is registered at the Grand. Dr. E. A. Tripp of Salt Lake is at the Palace accompanied by his wife. John W. Howell, the Merced banker, is among the guests at the Lick. Warden W. E. Hale of the State prison at Ban Quentin fs registered at the Palace. R. P. Niles, a merchant of Los Angeles, is among the late arriva s at the Palace. A. Pugh, a mining man of West Potnt, Cala- veras County, Cal., is at the Cosmopolitan. E. T. Albert, superintendent of the Sierra Railroad of Oakdale; 1s at the Cosmonolitan, Professor Nathan Abvott, head of the law department of Stanford, is at the California. J. F. Colley, a merchant from Nevada City, is at the Lick, accompanied by his wife and chila. G. F. Trenwith, proprietor of a large dry- goods store at Santa Baioars, is a guest at the Grand. J. 8. Schweizer of New York, deater there in chamois skins and sponges, is at the | Grand. G. J. McCarthy, mining mean of Mexico, arrived at the Palace last night directly from London. A. J. Webster of the Kern County Land Com- pany cf Bakersfield is at the Lick, accom- panied by his wife, P. Ruhliman of the New York frult buying and shipping firm of P. Rublman & Son, isat | the Grand, accompanied by his famity. J. H. Morris, ticket agent of the Burlington Toute at Kansas City, is here, accompanied by his wife. Heis making a tour of the coast States. Professor Oliver Peebles Jenkins, head of the | department of physiology at Stanfora, is at | the Palsce. He is also a lecturer at Cooper Medical College. Lewis H. smith, the bright City Attorney of Fyre!nD, who was graduated from Stanford University two years ago, arrived in the clry yesterday for a few days’ visit. r_:hllr W. Stanford, an Ep'scopal mission.- | for the last four sears at Kioto, Japan, ar. | r}\'vJ at the Occidental last night from the | East. He is accompanicd by hiswife, and will sailin the Gaelic soon for the Orfent, H. E. Huntington, director of the Southern ‘homas C. Carson, a lawyer of Pittsburg, | | Dr. A H, Mcrarlane of Silver City, Idaho, is | the sorrow and wrath of the Lemcerats. The largest dynam» in the worid in point of or voltage then any other gencrator now in ext The new dynamo, Company at Schenectady, is only the firstof Its capacity may be judged from the fact thati leaves the dynamos will be 6600 volts, or three Falls. The armature is m ture and the feld magnets. Whex a loop of coils of insulaied copper wire. cal current is set up in it. station of the Brooklyn Edison lilumiuating Company, stand sixty feet in height from erown to base and will produce elecf 8 t complete: WHIEH {s HoW: Alultat colpletec.af & il o are thie constcnoted, 18,000 incandescent Iamps burning at the same time. Nearly everv one is now aware that a dynamo consi: When & current oi electricity is THE LARGEST DYNAMO IN THE WORLD. - ze is soon to be installed in the new says the New York Herald. It will tricity ata higher pressure f mere si tence. 4 b d at the works of the General Electric of current would be sufficient to keep ressure of the e.ectricity as it ZTSIP the great generators at Niagara 18 output times tha sts of two essential parts—the arma- T coils of iron surrounded by other is moved near a magnet an electri- passed around a piece of fron it nade up of copper wire BIGGEST DYNAMO YET CONSTRUCTED. It is sixty feet from base to crown and will produce electrieity of higher voltage than any other generator now in exlstence. becomes a magnet for the time being. In ordi to revoive arouna the field magnets iu the cen This is what has been done in the case of Dolted to the rim of the fiv-wheel. are also also firmly bolted to their frame. passing tnrough their cofls. ringson the axle of the mcving fiy-wheel, w wires Lo each of the forty poles. nary dynamos the armature is revolved on & spindie, while the field magacts are fixed. Sometimes the armature is ring-shaped and made ter. But as the essential thing is that the fiela magnets and the armature should Le constantly changing their positions with respect to one another, it is possible to make tne armature fixed and cause the fie:d magnets to revolve. the Brooklyn dynamo. On the rim of a big fly- wheel, fifty feet in diameter, are p aced forty megnetic poles, each pole being rectangular in shape aud wound with insulated conper wire like a bobbin. Ou the inner surface of the big guard, which completely surrounds the rim of this fly-wheel is placed the armature in forty triple segments, and these To muke the iron masses in the poies magnetic it is necessary that they should have some of the current derived from the armature constanily i This is furnished ty copper conductors, which touch copper Of_course these poles are firmly whence the current is distributed by insulated THE GODDESS GRINS. New York *un. There is pence in Warrensburg, Mo., at last, and the Goddess of Liberty on the staff of the new Courthouse tkere shows a sweet smile as the tender eye-dawn of auroresn love. The ball on the staff, which the goddess emuses herself by holding, used to be ‘‘arich golden color,” to the delight of the R>publicans T;Ad e Republicans fleered and jeerea urtil the Dem- ocrats couldn’t stand it any longer. The members of the County C re all Demo- crats, and secret orders were given to suppiant the goiden ball with one of silver.” The or- ders were obeyed. The unhai owed badge of the money power was removed, and now the end of tnesisff glistens with a bail of silver. WIEL: € Street Beggars and Their W Pffect to Gure All llls. An Amateur Nurse Views Hospital. LR R R R R L R L R R R LR LR RS Pacific and agent on this coast for President C. P. Huntington; J. Kruttschnitt, general manager of the company; W. F. Herrin, chief counsel of the law department of the com- pany, and Willlam G. Curiis, the compauny’s engineer of the maintenanca of way, consti- tuting & party making an examinstion of the Sonora Railroad frem Nogaies to Guaymas, in Mex co, have started on their way back to this eity, and will arrive here on Monday. Wiiliem W. Leeper, a merchant of New York City, arrived at the Lick last night directly from the East. He will remain here several weeks. Speaking of Greater New York's ap- proaching eleciion he said Seth Low, president of Columbia College and representative of the | clty’s best people, will probably finally be in- | dorsed also by the organized Republicans, | tnough it will be a bitter pill to them to be practically dictated to by the Citizens’ Reform party in order to defeat powerful and corrupt Tammany, CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. pr. 17.—At the Plaza— C. D. Bradley; Warwick—A. F. Earle; Stuari— T. J. Kelly; Sturtevant—R. Muson; Im- perial—E. C. Gediey; Park Avenue—J. H. Smith; St. Denis—Dr. and Mrs. A. H. Tickel. pimb e i i CALIFORNIANS IN WA -HINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 17.—E. J. Wolfe of San Francisco is at the Ebbitt House. L G. Holmes of Los Angeles is atthe Raleigh. MAUD MILLER. Maud Miller in the summer beat, Raked the meudow (hick with wheat. The Judze rode slowly down the lane, 8moo.hing the norse’s chestnut mane. “With wheat at a dollar per.” said he, “This maid is abous the size for me.’” Then he smiled at ner rnd she olushed at him, Andover the meadow fence he clim. “Will you marcy me, sweat maid,” he said, And she told uim yes, and they were wed. Alas for maiden! alas for Julge! For 0.d designer and wheatfield drudge. Lord pitv them both and pity us F.r Mand dian'town the wheat at ail. And the Judge remarkel when he learned the cheat. “Don't ta to me about dollar wheat!' ° W. J. L., in New York Sun. THE NICARAGUAN CANAL PLOT. Detroit Frae Press. The half has not been told about the Nicara- guan canal plot. Once having secured control of the great waterway it was Japan's purpose to sneak the island of Cuba throngh the canal some foggy night and get 1t iuto Japanese waters veiore the United States would have time to suspect what was up. UP IN MUNICIPAL LAW. Sonora Bann TO-MORROW'S “CALL” '{he Story of a Man Who Floated Down the Yukon in an Open Boat with the Body of a Suicide. The Peculiar Drugs With Which Local Ghinese Doctors | the tormation of : ; : : : : : : ONTAIN iles Studied and Portrayed. a Gapital Operation at the 220920292299292922292222922022822000222202002022R00299 These are a few among many articles, novel, interesting, with which the SUNDAY GALL will be filled. tluummfiummm.umm mmuuu.uumfi The goddess grins radiantiy. burg Democrats sieep in the people’s metai is enthron Courthouse. The Warrens- knowing that ed on the new - e——e——— H. B. M’S AMERICAN SQUADRON. London Daily News. Although the sdmiralty have during the Past months made considerable changes in the constitution of the various squadrons em- ployed on ioceign stations, on no station has the sirength been so greatly increased as in North America and the West Indtes. Each ship relicved in those waters has been re- placed by one of greater tonnace; with the exception of the cruiser Cordelia, all ere of modern type, and now for the first time since a North American squadren be a battieship instead of, as iser. There are at the present tnan seven vessels in com- the flagship will heretofore, & eru; ume no fewer papers have been looking up ihe matte: holder, unmindful of the fact that annu: udvertising, for the good reason that, wi many miles have been traveled and how The whole advertising proposition is, as do not know that we think any the less o instead of beating round the bush and m when no payment is expected, mission at the home ports preparing for permanent service on that stat.on, viz., the battle-ship Renown (the future flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir John A. Fisher, K. C. B.), the torret-ship Hotspur, tne gunbcats Medway and Medina, the torpedo-boat destroyers Quail and Sparrowhawk, aud the specini service yes- sel Columbine, representing coilectively n dis- piacement of 17,646 tons. With this strength- ening of the squudron it has been found nec. essary 10 modernize and otherwise improve the admiralty proper:y at the depots, At Ber- muda a lurge dock is to be construcied, the admiralty house is being repaired ut a cost of £1500, the breakwater is b2ing improved ata cost 0f £6000, the harhor is being dredged at o cost o £7000, a hospital butlding is being erected et au estimated expenditure of £4500, and & gun-mounting store will cost £3000. At Jamaica £19,000 1s being spent in improy- ing the water supply, and the staff at Bermuda dockyard is befug greatly strengthened., NOT YEI SHAKESPEAREAN., The King of Siam is not as yet a Shakespear- ean scholar. On the recent oceasion of visit to Denmark he accompanied the Crown Prince Frederick to Helsingfors and was duly conducted 10 the grave oi Hamlet, Prince «f D:nmark. Here he took off his hat «nd stood for & moment in reverential siien ‘We understand it will not be long until Don Pedro will be incorporated according to John Twigg's reports, turning to the Crown Prince, he said, with deep sympathy, *‘A reiation of your royal ldi'i‘l:l;g-. I presume. Has be been long nd in most cases no advertisin system shoula be utterly and absolutely abolished. 22922922922929 222992922222 9R22220920292222228998 97 GALLIC-PAN-SLAVICFRIENDSHIP Itis not very surprising that the goveriment of the most despotic empire has entered into | an alliance with a republic as such a course was distated by political reasons, but there is much cause for astonishment that the people of France and Russia, which represent widely | different and even antagonistic principles, should profess the sincerest friendship for each other, It will be remembered that up to the assassi- | nation of Czar Alexander II the two nations were at bitter enmity b:cause Russia blamed France for her defeat in the Crimean war, while France weuld not forgive Russia for pre- | venting Austria frcm interfering in the war of 1870.71. The press of both countries did ali it couid to foment the ill feeling and hurled | the most abusive invectives against each other. All this wes suddenfy changed by a very unique and interesting episode, which, though very unimportant in itself, heppened to lead to far-reaching consequences. General Skobeloff, a young Russian soldier of great ability and d sh, who had repeatediy wou distinction in the field, happened to bein Paris on & private visitin January, 1882, The rirst independent command held by Skobe.off was in the second battle of Plevna, where e distinguished himselfin such a manner that Alexander made him general of infantry and aid to his person. Waile in Paris the French officers gave a banquet in Skobeloff's honor at which he proposed a toast to France. In this toast he abused the Bismarckian policy, advo- | cating at the ssme time an alliance of France and Kussia for the purpose of humiliating Germany. This tosst did not excite much comment as Skob2loff was considerably under the influence of champsgne at the time. It was very different, however, when this toast was followed up by several others of the same order wnich Skobeloff proposed to the officers at Kew aud Moscow on his return from Paris. The Cabinet of Berlin took the matter very seriously and remons'rated so energetically at 8t. Petersburg that Skobeloff was at once re- moved from his command and ordered to re- tire 1o his estates, where he died a few months afterward. The seed sown by Skobeloff seems to have fallen on a fruitful soil, which had been partly preparcd by Ignatieff, another Russian gen- eral and siatesman. Ignatieff had acquired world-wide notoriety in 1876 by exciting the people of Herzegovina and Bulgaria to revolt against the Sultan. This revolt furnished Russia with a pretense for interfering, the ouicome of which was the last Russo-Turkish war. On May 1,1881, Ignatieff was appointed Minister of the Interior in place of Prince Loris Melikoff. He was removed a year later, ; as he had compromised himseif and Russia by his Pan-Siavisticagitations and b his toler- atlon of Jew-baiting. Tnis was the end of his public career, but his agitations have had an effect on the Slavic race, not only in Russia ! but also in those parts of Austria which are peopled by S.avs (Czechs and Slovacs). The entire race was now opposed to the Germanic predominance in Euope and made overtures to France. which country was ouly too ready to take advantage of this newly developed sentiment. The entire French press, with the exception of the radical and sociaiistic papers, commenced to foster and cement the triend- ship with Russia, and their efforts are at last crowned with success, as is made evident by the now concluded aliiance. Little things have often given an impetus to important political changes, and it is very probable that the famous toasts of General T Sy Ty S AN TS TN T BT T T I BT T BIBI VY, HE SHOULDN'T BEAT AEOUT THE EUSH. 4 Tulare Register. Now that the Bryan pass question nas been started by THE CALL the Eastern r, and, just s we predicted, it has been iqnnd that he habltualiy rides on passes, carries anbuals from all the roads in his pocket and beats around the interstate commerce law by having the passes charged to the account of the Omaha World-Herald, in which he is a mere stock= el passes are not given in exchange for th an annual, there 1s no knowing how much advertising it would take to cover. we have said, only a dodge to evade tho inierstate commerce law, and trvan rides on passes through force of habit. We i him on that aceonnt, for it is the custom of the country that those who can best afford to pay their fares do not do so. Our only objection to him is that he does not come out and acknowledge the fact aking pretense of payment in advertising, g done. The pass Skobeloff have more than anything else con- tributed to bring the two nations together. At all events they must be considered the start- ing point of the sudden change of feeling. —_— A SANITARY MAUSOLEUM. The Board of Hralth of N:w York has ap- proved the plans of a new mausoleum com- pany and the latier wili establisha s nitary mausoleum near High Bridge, with a ca acity of from 10,000 to 12,000 bodies. The idea is to seal up the dead in cement receptacles, after exposing tne bodies 1orseveral months to a curreni of air made chemically pure Dbassiug it over sulphuric acid and z(ll’erw-l;z by fire. When the body is thoroughly desic- cited the receptacle is to be made airtight. The nitary authorijes are reported to be wull;leuefl With tne proposed scheme, which avoids <o many of the objectionable teatures of earth burial. Tt is propused to ¢t a build- ing 270 feet long, 75 feet deep and three stories high. The receptacle will be formed of concrete, four inches thiek and Jjointless, in size a little larzer than an ordinary coffin. —_—— THE THREE BEST BOOKS, Oliver Wende:l Hoimes said to a young man !Po ssked him 10 name the three best books: ';A’ha 1b.e, Saakespeare, and a good diction- MEN AND WOMEN. White ribboners recently gatherod inlar, nunsbers at ‘North Danville, Vi. anted & tree in homor of Mrs. Willa:d : E Miss Frances Willard; upon the site of per birthplace. A story is told ot the late Baron Hirsch thay conveys & valuable lesson. After writing o message announcing the giit of a fortune to n the school, the great millionaire went ov telegram carefully a second time, conden it s0 as to save & franc. A monument to the memory of Niels\y helm Gade, the famous Danish composer been erected on the St. Anne’s Plad, Copen. hagen. Gade died seven Years ago. He wes born in Copenhagen, and was for many years first director of the Royal Conservatory. Mrs. Hitty Smith and Mrs. Deborah Ha Barnstable, Mass., probably the oidest twiy sisters in the country, celebrated the minety. second anniversary of their birth last v They enjoy exce.lent health, and, it is said look as hale as many people twenty years younger. The Governor-General of Algeria has given the charge of a medical mission to th2 mour tains beyond Biskra to a woman graduate the University of Paris, Miss Chellier. H chief work will be the care of the nativ women and children, and she has alread gained experience by making two successiul journeys into that part of the country, placing trained nurses at the various stations, One of tbe family of the “fighting Bells” of Augusta County, Virginia, has diea at the homestead at Long Glade at ihe age of 80. He was Alexander R. Bell, one of five brothers who together had uineteen sons that fought | Captain Cushing’s company of the Fifth V| ginia Regiment, Stonewall Brigade, and we nearly all killed in battle or died of wou A. R. Bell had been for nearly sixiy years a: elder in the Prerbyterian church. SCINFILLATIONS. Tommy—Paps, when & man is playing t begpipe he never stops, but keeps moving on down the street. What makes him do it? Papa—The policeman.—Glasgow Mail, 1 “Does that Kentucky politician have a big pull ?” “Yes—when there is a jug arounc.”—Colum- bus Journal. Perry Patettic—Please, mister, could you help the victim of & washout? Mister—Of a washout? *Yes, mister. I ain’t bhaa nothin’ wotter to drink for two long weeks.’ nati Enquirer. The circus rider—Say! with the lion-tamer? around for two hours. The Contoriionist—He's afraid to go home He’s heard his wife was at the show this alter. noon and saw him beat her favorite Jioness. what's the matter He's been hanging s hard,” said the menagerie lon. “What's hard” ? asked the kangaroo. “Tobe starved when I'm alive and stuffed when I'm dead.”—Pick-Me-Up. “That new cook from the country that the Blueberries have been boasting about insisted on sitting on the porch last nigat when they had company.” idn't she feel out of plac:?” ne did afterward.” — Cleveland Dealer. Plain Bobby (admiring the Inaia ink tattooing on Dicker’s arm)—Did it hurt much? Dickey—Not tili my mother saw it.—Boston Transcript. Tom Barrs—Can you keep a secret ? Peydita—Yes, if it isu’t worth repeating.— Truth. READY FOR TH—E EMERGENCY. Beaumarchais, the autbor of the famous “Marriage of Figaro,”was the son of a Parisian watchmaker, but had gained fame, rank and wealth through his own talents and exertions. A conceited and envious young uobleman once undertook to wound the pride of Beaug marchais by an allusion to his humble orizin] In the presence of a large company of people who had a regard for the talented young a thor this young man handed him his watc x:mine 1t, sir. It does not kee) You ean doubtless . fscartain ti cause.”” Such was his rude naste that his hand leit the watch before taat of the surprised Besumarchais had grasped it, and it fell to the ground. “Pardon, monsieur,” said the autnor, with grave courtesy, stooping to pick up the watch and hand it 10 its owner, “you ses my father was right when he declared that I was 100 awkward o be & watchmaker.” CALIFORNIA giace fruits, 50¢ Ib. Townseafv* e e JUSTIN GATES, Notary Pubiic, removed to McaAllister st., room 31, third floor. i et A €PECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Ciipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * . MORTIFICATION SETTING New York Mall and Exrress. Yeilow journalism in New York is begin- ning to turn an envious green. 14 IN. AcE tends to kil the hair and turn it gray. PARKER'S HATE BALSAM renews color and lite. HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns. 15 cis. ————e MAKE HIM A BUOY AGAIN. Detroit Journa'. Debs would make a most admirable euto. matie siren to warn mariners to steer clear ot fog-enveloped ro R — NEW TO-DAY. MECHANICS’ FAIR PURE FOOD Demonstrator and Lecturer Co mends Royal Baking Powder in Preference to All Others. 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 cooks 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 Baking Powder than of any other "kind, and I find it always to be perfectly uaie form ia its action.” )