The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 19, 1897, Page 6

UNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1897. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE.. ..710 Market street, S8an Francisco Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. 517 Clay street clephons Main 157 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 63 cents. | THE WEEKLY CALL........ ..Ons year, by matl, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE.......... ....808 Broadwsy Rooms 31 &nd 32, 34 Park Row. NEW YORK OFFICE. BRANCH OFFICES 30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; o Larkin street; open until 9:30 o’cl SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; until9 o’clock. 1243 Mission street; openuntil 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street; open until 9 clock. NW. corner Twentyssecond and Kentweky sireets; open o'clock. 527 Montgomery street, corner ; open until n until 93 o'clock. 615 STRICTLY A HOME INDUSTRY. AN FRANCISCO capitalists bave subscribed for the entire issue of $6,000,000 of bonds of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley road. This fact, announced yesterday in THE CarL exclusively, assures the continuous construction of the road southward from Visalia and westward from Stockton The great enterprise will not pause in its The money is on hand and the work will to San Francisco. onward movement. go forward. The assurance of the capital required to push forward the work on the road is in itsell good news to the people of the State. Even if the capityl had been borrowed from the East or rom Eurove the fact of its possession would have been gratify- ing. There is thereiore a double satisfaction in the knowledge that it has been advanced by our own capitalists. We are to have not only the use of the road, but we are to own it, It will be operated for the beuefit of California and every dollar it earns will be for Californians. The Valley road, in fact, is strictiy a home industry. It was home sagacity and public spirit that planned it, home en- terprise that promoted it, home energy that pushed it forward, and it is now assured that it will be home money that defrays the cust and home capitalists that own it. The road will pay no tribute to foreign or non-resident bondholaers, but will re- tain within the limits of the State all the profits of its work for the further upbuilding of home industries and the ceveiop- ment ot home resources. It was rightly said at the time when Mr. Spreckels first brought the proposed road into the domain of practical enter- prises and assured its construction that the inception of the | work marked the Leginning of a new era in California’; dus; irial development. Before that time our capitalists had hes {ated at great enterprises. It was difficult to raise a million for anything, and Mr. Spreckels was accounted to have achieved something remarkable when he succeeded in raising $2,000,000 1o start this enterprise in competition with the powerlul South- ern Pacific. There has been a change in the spirit of San Francisco since those days. one of the greatest industrial capiains of the age to geta few millions pledged to a naw work it is now comparatively easy to get treble the amount. The entire issue of $6,000,000 of bonds in this instance was taken by seven subscribers. Itistrulya new era. Doubt bas given place ‘to confidence, hesitation to activity, stagnation has been changed to progress. We are go- ing forward of our own impulse and by the force of our own energies. i The success of the Valley road is assured. As a matter oi | fact it has already succeeded. The reduced rates of trcicmsa and fares which the people of the San Joaquin are now enjoy- ing are due directly to the competition by which it has broken the cinch of the old monopoly. On every pound of freight shipped into or out of the San Joaguin the people save some- thing by reason of the new road. This not only encourages | industry, but leaves money in the hands of those who will push it forward, and in 1nis way aiso the new road has achieved a success for California whose value it would be hard to over- | rate. The pew spirit of progress manifest in San Francisco will | have its effect throughout the State. It will putan end to the foolish notion that the city is antagonistic to the interior. By demonstrating in an akable way tHe interest our capi- talists take in the upbuilding of the commonwealth it will re- establish right relations between the metropolis and the provinces and improve public sentiment as well as commerce and industry. Ina community where it was a hard task even for | It is not too much to say that Joaquin Miller's manuscript needs expurgation even more than Joaquin needs a bair-cut. Various suggestions appear in the Ezaminer 2s to methods of keeping out the insidious germs of consumption, but never 8 word as to exterminating {he plague of yellow journalism. It bas been remarked as surprising that a loeal lawyer has gone to jail fora vear and not filed a demurrer. Perhaps he regarded it as likely that filing the bars of his prison wouid be more eff ective. Perhaps the gentlemanly contractors who are diligently engaged in not erecting the Hall of Justice will find the new Supervisors will want an explanation about it. At Jeastthe new board does not seem inclined to view a public obiigation es a good-natured josh and a bond as a matter of form. THE RAGE OF THE ABSENTEE. HE absentee editor of the Eraminer, when be departed from the shades of Sausalito to find 2 more congenial haunt in the purlieus of New York, must have left standing or- ders at the fakery that every citizen of light and leading in the city should be assailed in season and out of season, in order that the peopie might be daily remindea by the effluvia of his journal that though absent in body the spiriv of the Hearst cat remains with us. False to his own daties to the city and the State the absen- tee waster of California millions is jealous of every m&n who performs a civic duty. The moment any man shows evideace of public spirit and interest in the general welfare, and attains thereby any credit anc influencein the community, the absentee rouses from his sty of sensualities long enough to set nis fa ker to the work of maligning the offender against Hearstism. Straightway the order goes out to.the Ezraminer to denouncs the man for all that he performs, to vilify nhim for his influence, and finally to swear that he never did anything and has no in- fluence. This kind of journalistic immorality, the outcome of paresis verbaps as weil as of jealousy, was illustrated in the Eraminer yesterday by a shrieking double-leaded editorial denying that the Governorand the Mayor conferred with Mr. J, D, Spreckels in selecting the new Board of Supervisors. Willie Hearst was not consulted, and therefore the man who was consulted was made the subject of his rage. The absentee could not forgive the man who is doiag in California the kind of work in which the absentee himself should be engaged. Therefore the attack on Mr, Spreckels for what he did. Therefore the assertion also that he did not do it. There is no escape it seems for decency and dignity from t"e absentes debaucher so long as any of his Iather's rapidly wasting milions remain to enable him to publish a sium journal in San Francisco and to reside on the other side of the continent out of reach of law. open | | return until their terms are acceded to. | contracting the laborer and the mine-owner are only doing like | all men in everv possible business I answer. ! at the pits with their families. Letting John Kelso, individual, go unscathed for deeds com- mitted by John Kelso, head of 2 corporation, may be goed law, but with all respect to the court and to the Kelso duality, it is nonsense. However, if John Kelso, head of a corporation, be punished, it woujd be interesting to observe what effect, if any, be felt by John Kelso, individual, RIGHTS OF THE COAL STRIKERS. HE great coal strike, covering nearly every Eastern coal. producing State, which has proceeded with constantly in_ creasing carnage and tragedy, had its origin in the failure of certain proper remzdial legislation in the State of Pennsyl- vania. The great coal companies of that State have long prac- ticed the ““company store” system, maintaining at their works a general merchandise store at which the workmen made all their. purchases on credit, their bills being taken out of the amount of their wages on payday. Finally, to make this system more binding and its profits more secure, the companies introduced the practice of making a contract with their workmen in which the men bound themselves to trade at the company store and no other, as a condition precedent to employment. The Pennsylvania Legislature passed an act voiding and forbidding these contracts, and the workmen, feeling that sub- stantial justice had been done to them, were content. But the coal corporations were dissatisfied and took the anti-contract law into the courts, and finally the Supreme Court of the State decided the law to be invalid, obnoxious to the constitution, and an illegal interference with the contractual relation. This threw the worlmen back to their former intolerable condition of a credit bendage to a company store. The mere statementof the case is a sufficient vindication of the strike, which resulted and has spread tosuch formidable proportions as to threaten the means of transportation and the whirling wheels of every power-plant east of the M that depends on steam. While the spread beyond its original center has been largely sympathetic, yet everywhere there has been in the claims of even the sympathetic strikers a griev- ance of their own, justified by the conditions under which they worked. To go back to the cause, the company store and the con- tract, no rebuke of such a system can be too severe. The wages earned by the laborer are as much his own as are his emplover’s the profits made in his business. The very essence of liberty is the right to expend, for the necessaries and com- forts of life, where he pleases and to his best advantage the money earned by a man’s toil. A dollar in the hand of a coal- miner is his to use as he pleases, just asa dollar in the hand of his employer may be used. To compel the laborer to sign a contract to spend that dollar at a certain store is to force him to make a contract that is against good conscience and public policy alike. The issue is far bevond the rate of wages. This may be properly covered by a contract. The laborer may enter into a contract to mine coal at a certain price per ton; he may contract for the payment of this price in gold coin or its equivalent, and when such contracts have expired by limita- tion all laborers who make them may discuss better terms in new contracts, and may come out of the ground and refuse to In all this method of f relation, and are exactly equal. But witness the wide difference betwesn contracts fixing the rate of wages and contracts in which the earner is shorn of his natural right to spend his earnings as he pleases. It is easy to say that if laborers don’t like such com- pulsion they need not sign the contracts. But that is no Coal-miners, by the natare of ths business, gather They have not the experience qualifving them for other lines of emplovment, even if these were within easy reach or the miners had the means to travel and seek them. The physical necessities wait briefly for satisfaction, and, in effect, the laborer has the choice between famine around his hearth or a contract which makes him a peon, by depriving him of on= of his principal natural rights— that of expending the price of his labor as freely as his em- ployer spends his profits. As in the case of every deprivation of natural rights, this carries with it a train of evils. The curse of labor is the sys- tem of purchase on credit. Itis the enemy of economy in the workingman’s house. When the dollars are in hand to pay, not only do they buy more than a credit dollar, but they are not parted with as fresly. Each purchase is scaled down to actual need of it, in quality and amount, and there is no ex- | travagance at the expens: of an income which is smalil at the best. But credit buying is always the parent of extravagance in a laborer’s house, and in a majority of cases it ends in ex- ! hausting the whole income, so that the laborer never handles a dollar of his earnings in cash. To denounce such a system is the duty of every citizen, since its operation destroys that quality which is necessary in men under a Government like ours. Why a strike begun on grounds so justifiable, so de- serving of public sympathy and appealing so directly to rea- son and humanity, has been so unduly prolonged, with such incidents of misery and bloodshed, will b= considered here- aftar. 1f the San Bernardino woman who is suing Mr. Pullman for $30,000 shail obtain that tidy sum joy be with her, of course; tut people of a speculative turn of mind would hesitate to bet on her getting the full amount. 1t would seem that one of Mr. Pullman’s porters desired to kiss her—a reprehensible im- pulte only because acted upon. However, even if the porter had succeeded, the vicarious joy experienced by Mr, Pullman wouly bave’ been remote, and, as the porter failed, it does not appear that Mr. Pullman cut any particular figure 1n the episode, et alone a figure so impressive as $30,CC0. But courts are for the purpose of settling these momentous questions. Denver is to have a great festival soon, and maids of honor wherewith to emblazon .the affair are being selected. None ot the contestants have yet pulled hairor scratched, but that awful charges are being hurled back and forthis evidenced by the fact that one girl has sued a rival for $50,000, alleging defama- tion. There are no specifications set forth in the telegram, but it is fair to assume that the injured one has been at lcast accused of freckles and a muint;___ WORK AT SAN PEDRO, ECRETARY ALGER has received from Attorney-General S McKenna an opinion on the S8an Pedro harbor appropria- tion which puts an end to all his doubts concerning the right to begin work ac once. After reviewing the act providing for the barbor, and analyzing the report of the Government Commissioners in favor of San Pedro, the Attorney-General suys: I am of the opinion that the projectreported by them is a breakwater and that it fulfilis the provisions of the law and will meke within its meaning a harbor for commerce and refuge.” This point having been settled it is now in order for the Government to proceed with the work at once, and it will be a ‘glad day for Los Angeles and the State atlarge when it begins. 1he strnggle for the harbor has been long. It was one of the more important of the many coatests between the peeple and the Southern Pacific monopoly, which have bzen waged with varying snuccessesever since that road grew to power and dom- ination in the State, and there is almost as much gratification in the victory itself as in the fruits to be expected from it. Itis justly claimed in Los Angeles that the benefits to be derived from the completed harbor will not be local. Nature, 8o profuse in good gifts to California in other respects, has been niggardly in the number of deep-water harbors. We must depend upon our own energy for the construction of these, and must provide them at the points where they are most needed. ‘Whatever in that way helps to build np our commerce will aid in promoting the industry of the interior by facilitating the transportation of its products to market. All the region back of San Pedro will derive a direct profit from the new port, and while the benefits of the rest of the State will be indirect, they will be bardly Jess important. Here, then, is -another victory for the people over the old monopoly, another vast public improvement in sight. The year seems to have begur an era of the realization of ola promises and is bfln);inz prosperity to us in a thousand ways. | be only wisdom to set a pie on the front step and lure that lad ABOUT PROSFERITY IN FRESNO. HE straits info which men are led by angular reasoning Tshould warn against the example they set. Fresno is interested in raisins. The white ash lands of the San Joaguin'Valley produce the equal of the imported ! raisin, and their productive capacity far exceeds that of the Spanish plantations. The methods of drying and packing, in the cleanliness and care of every step, commend the Cali- fornia raisin to every consumer who does not wish to finish | his “peck. of dirt” and die untimely. The Fresno growers | have more than mourned the low and unsatisfactory market of the last three years. Thoss who ate mortgaged have seen their interest lapse, and the banks which held the security have been afraid to foreclosz, as that policy would load them up with real estate beyond profitable management, and for which there were neither buyers nor renters. In these conditions the Zante currant became a greater burden than the grasshopper, and joy was unconfined when the Naval Office in the Custom-house successfully prosecuted before Judge Morrow a suit which made that Greek rival bear aduty of 1 1-2 cents a pound. Of course, our esteemed contemporaries in Fresno have to stand by raisins, as the man who standeth not by his own house is worse than a heathen. Under the new. tariff raisins bear a duty of 2 1-2 cents and Zante currants of 2 cents per pound. Result: Raisins have risen from a drug in the marlet to a pricein the sweatbox that maketh glad the heart of man. Back interest is being paid up, mortgages are in process of discharge, and the people of Fresno are as jaunty as the men of Taunton when the mackerel run. This change is the subject of felicitation in the columns of the Bryan organ of that county, which minutely points out the reasons for it, not scrupling to put the tariff at their head. But there is a rift in the lute. The organ is grieved because lumber has gone up in price, because other staple goods have gained, because in localities interested in these there is a like condition of prosperity due to an advance in | values and an active market which takes the staples at the increaged price, where they did not move nor change hands at all at the low price from which they have been raised. The owner of a twenty-acre raisin plantation now has to pay $5 more for soco feet of lumber to build a packing-house in which to sweat and pack his caop. But as his crop brings him some- thing like $700 more on account of its advanced price his $5 contributed to the prosperity of the Iumbermen is not felt. What would the Bryan organ have? Does it want a rev- enue policy and commercial conditions under which only raisins will bring a good price, while the market for everything else shall stand stagnant under prices bzlow the cost of pro- duction? Suppose, for instance, that under the stimulus of a public | policy the price of lumbzr only had advanced and raisins re- mained at a rot-on-the-vine-rate, would the organ have re- garded it as a proper policy? Yet its angular reasoning now | demands that raisins rise while all else stands still. We can- not believe that this policy of ““My wife and me, My son John and his wife, We four and no more,” Will carry the San Joaquin Valley next year, nor the next, nor ever. There is but one kind of prosperity and that must be gen- | eral. There has been ali the time money enough in the coun- | try, but it has been stagnant, has lain idle. It is nowin | motion in the arteries of trads, because there is a feeling of security in the stability of future conditions. The cheer that is in the congratulations of the Bryan organ to the raisin plant- ers of Fresno is the same that thrills all the nerves of trads. THE MEXICAN TRADE. ERCHANTS and manufacturers of Los Ange les are with M the enterprise usual in that ¢ty devising means for ex” tending their trade with ports along the western coast of Mexico. An experircental trip is soon to be made with the steamer Albion, belonging to the Lower California Develop- ment Company, and it is announced that particular attention will be given by those on board the steamer to the trade con- ditions and possibilities ot points on the Muxican coast which the vessels of the Pacific Mail and Pacitic Coast companies dv not touch. The subject is one that has long occupied the attention of the progressive men of Los Angeles and considerable informa- tion has been already coilected in regard to it. The trip of the Albion, therefore, will not be an experiment projected in the dark. The promoters are sanguine of good results'and are quite confident that by rightly directed efforts it will be possible to obtain in Mexico a considerable market for the growing trade of Las Angeles and San Diego. The movement is one in which the State may well be inter- ested, for there is an opening not only in Mexico but in the whole region to the south of us for a large expausion of our trade. California is a producer of many articles ot general use in those countries and is capable of becoming the producer of many more. There ought to be a market there for a wide vari- ety of articles manufactured in various parts of the State, aud at prices that would justify an expansion of the industry that produces them. Nearly the whole of the Mexican and South American trade is at this time in the bands of Europe, but the Eastern States have of late made some attempts to open a way for their goods to those markets, and have achieved considerable success. Enough has been attainea, at any rate, fo encourage further efforts, and there will be a strong influence exerted to turn to this country much of the southern trade that now goes to Great Britain, France or Germany. With that Eastern movement California should join. The enterprise of Los Angeles and San Diego is certainly well timed. The voyage of the Albior will be watched with close interest, It may prove to be a new Argosy and open to the cities of the south a new field for commerce and gelden enterprise. S — The youngster who ran away from school because the privi- lege of pie was taken from him will have the sympathy of a civilization that has been nurtured and kept happy by shis uxury. Did not Ralph Waldo Emerson grow up on pie, reach aripe old age singing its praises, and never cease until so senile that be no longer knew a good thing.when he saw &? It might | beck to his books. One surprising thing about the charge of unfair manage- ment of the baseball tournament is that it should have bzen so long in being openly made. There has been for some time sus- picion that if the games were for charity’'s sake the manage- ment believed itsclf a woriby object to shower with the out- pouring of alms. ——— An ex-minister, just sentenced to the penitentiary for burg- lary, ascribes his downfall to Rev. C. 0. Brown. Now, if Mr. Brown can only find someoneon whom to fix the responsidility of the fall experienced by himself perhaps a pair of consciences somewhat overworked may experience unwonted peace. The new Supervisors are using an ax on nxpnnu&, and pe haps there will be enough edge left on the weapon to impress some of the tax-eaters for whose benefit the expenses have been | made so large. 3 | If several actors have called Ban Francisco “jay” can it not be remembered that San Francisco has taken a similar lib- | erty with several actors? The affair mizht as well be declared a draw. ' There is cheering evidenca that the new Supervisors were not chosen for the purpose of booming the scneme to found a high-priced asylum for aged’ ana indigent monkeys. s Anybody who undertakes to murder the President of Mex- ico must understand thatit is at his own risk, and the risk | Vain Was the Effort, but— PULLED TEETH AND DEALT OUT JUSTICE. ton, 19 Cooper Iustitute, is one of the oldest of original gold- hunters, says the New York Tribune. He was35 years old when the gold fever broke out. His brother wasa chaplain in the navy at that time, and his ship was s'atiok.ed on the @aliiornia coast. Tho marines and under officers ran away to the mines. Then the chaplain fi LL occurations were profitable1n early California days. G. Q. Col- went to the mines also with a party having, provisions. to sell, and returned in two months with $40,000 as his one-quarier share of the profits. Cqlton heard of this, and in February of the nextyear he started for the mines by way of Cape Horn, The journey took 110 days. " *San Francisco was a camp, covered with tents,with here and there an old adobe house,” said Mr. Colton. “A few wooden buildings wera being erected. It was too early to go to the mines, as the waier iu the river was too high for suriace digging. My four pariners hired out as carpenters at $10 a day each. while T kept the tent and was ‘chief cook and bottle wesner.” All that my partners knew about carpenter- ing wes that they could drive & nail, but their employers were giad 0 get them at that. “Finally we went up to the mines, where we worked four and & half months, or till the rainy season came on. One uight a big strap- ping fellow came to our tent, woke me up and wanted me to draw 8 tooth for him. I told him I was no tooth-drawer, though I had & pair of forceps with me. 1looked at the tooth; it was a big upper molar. 1 sald it was impossible ior me to draw that tooth, ‘Well,’said be, ‘1 wantyou to try. il pay you whether you get it out or not.” And so 1appliéd the forceps and pulled, and wrenched and wrenched, using all the power I had in my arms, but never started it. ‘Well,’ saia he, ‘T'm satisfied. You have scared the ache out of it, anyway. 1'll pay you.” AndsoI only charged him $8, half price! When the rainy sea- son came on we all returned to San ¥ rancisco to spend the winter. I " Good Iutentions Are Rewarded. had saved just $400 and had not gamtled one dollar, as almost every- body did. San Francisco had grown to be almost a city. I wrots home 10 my wife that California was a humbug, but that I could do some- thing to meke a living during the winter and in the spring should come home or return to the mines. She wrote back that if I would come straight home and had my health she would never say a word about the ‘Cahifornia enterprise.’ Ou the duy before I received this letter I put a letter into the office for my wife with arafts for $10,000 in it. “‘How did I get this money? In connection with another man I opencd a hospital for the care of those needing rursing. I borrowed money o fit up the Luilding, paying 10 per cent a month interest. It was the lowest interest at whick money could be had, no matter how good the security. Soon after this Governor Riley, who succeeded my brother Walter, appointed me the first Justice of the Peace for San Francisco. This office gave me the power to make land grants for town lots, the Coroner’s business, and the trial of all causes under $100. (We were then under the old Spanishlaws.) Ipublished my commission and opecned an office in the ssme building with the Al- calde, Mr. Geary, afterward Governor of Pennsylvania. I had a smart young lawyer ior clers, payirg him 300 & month salary. There were no statute laws then in California, and all I had to do was to ad- minister justice between man and man. Iknew nothing about law, but I had a little common-sense. Bu: ss came rushing in upon me. The fees were large in those gold times aud I had all that I could pos- sibly attend to. In everylaw case I put plaintiff and defendent, with all their witnesses, under oath, and asked every question in order to get at the facts of the case. Ithen gave my decision, from which there was noappeal. If I felt in doubt in regard to the testimony I said to the losing party, ‘Come in to-morrow and I will give you the papers and you can toke the case up to the Court of First Instance.’ But 1 never had a case appealed. “In those times a hundred dollars was but ‘a drop in the bucket.’ Many of the cases brought befors me were for cheating 1n gambiing. The only satisiaction T could give either party was to.summon old gamblers to give testimony in gegard to the rules of the game. I never knew en old Calilornian eharged wiih cheating. When the new Stnte constitution came into power my office ceased, and I came home. Before leaving San Frencisco the City Council disputed my right to make land grants, and sued me for $250,000. I had written authorliy and instructions to make the grants from the Prefect of the district, to whom the Ccuncil as well as myself were responsible for our official acts, When this was shown to the lawyers opposed to me, the case was abandoned before trial.” AN ALASKA ANACREON. O, sing to me of Hoot-chin-oo That nectar rare, the Siwash brew— The brewery on a glacier blue— And drink the chilly winter through. P've filled ofttimes my precious skin With distillation thick and thin ; Some innocent, some charged with guile, Some harmless, some ‘‘kill-at-a-mile.”” At banquet, bar, “‘lodgeroom” or lunch, In cocktail, sour, ‘‘just straight” or punch, Both flat and foamy, soft and hard, By galion, bushel, pound and yard ; By bottle, bucket, tank or pail ; On shipboard, bike, balloon or rail ; Of every densityand hue— But never tackled Hoot-chin-co. So now I’m out for Hoot-chin-o00, The tough compound, the Siwash stew— The stewery on a glacier blue— Specific gravity of glue. No more P’ll seek the seal-brown draught Of hops and barley I have quaffed ; The tuns of wine (I’ve often poured In wild libations to a horde Of merry gods) I'll now give up, Likewise the rye and corn-sap cup— No more I lip the liquid sin Found coiled down in a glass of ginj Tea, coffee, milk, church lemonade And even water Pl evade. All other stuff I'll quite eschew And get right down to Hoot-chin-oo. TOM GREGORY. GENERAL STAFFS IN MODERN WARFARE, HE usefulness of a general staff has never been demonstrated in I such asuperior manneras in the three Prussian wars of 1864, 1866 and 1870-7L. Since then all great nations except the United States have become convineed of the value of a general staff and have imitated Prussia in this respect. Notonly have the aiready existing institutions of th's kind been brought up to the highest attainable standard, bu sll Earopsan countries have founded colleges for the education of officers, in order to fit them for extry into this important branch of the service. General staff is the name for & body of particularly selected officers, who are appointed to devise the details for the directing and arranging of military operations and marches (partly also to conduct thelr execution); to select the roads for the marehing forces, suitable localities for encampment and entrenchments; to reconnoiter the country and positions of the enemy; to conduct the military corre- spondence and to compose efticles and relations, even such asere | destined to influence public opinion. I time of peace the_officers of this corps study tae possible seats (theaters) of war, taks notice pf the army arrangement and military statistics of foreign countries, undertake miiitary journeys and reconnoiterings, make eye sketehes, regulate in advance the transportations of the troops, 5o that no hiich will oceur in case of an unexpected mobilization; take cognizance of the progress of new inventions in everything relating to the carrying on of war, and keep abreast of and enrich military literature. Often the members are slso sent on dipiomatic errands. This extensive sphere of activily requires considerable knowledge and manv per- sonal qualities—such as strength of character, resoluteness, coursge, skill aud, not unfrequentiy, selt-deuial also. Exemplary in every conuection was the organization of the gen- eral staff of William I's headguariers under Moltke. This great strategist and war-thinker is universally acknowledged as the man Wwho has brought the general staif to the very apex of periection. It will be remembered that within tweive hours alter the decluration of war by Napoieon I1I Moltke 1aid before King William a plan of all movements to be exscuied during the following 'wo weeks, so that only names ana dutes had 10 be inserted in order to make the plan perlect in every particulsr. WitLiaM LopTyans, —_— S e———— LAPSES OF THE AMERICAN EAGLE. Boston Transeript. The American eagle should couteut himself with soaring towara the sun, 2 Sailing with supreme dominion In the azure depths of air, with intervals of hovering o'er tne battle smoke, for when he descends 10 earth he becomes of earth earthy. At Highland Falls, N. Y., one day this week the American eagle was defeated in an unsuecessful stiempt 1o carry off 4 bull pup from a dog kenmel. A fow years ago at Reading, Pa., he enuo\;ntenfl similar discomfiture while trying to stea] a pig from a porcinarium. It1s with pain thet w BEplGi 4 308 ho tionelcird, jor thEY 1ears s R d bl the thelter of his pinions #flords. Such conduct 1s unworthy 11 g nr tionalbird, und if be persists in it he will sink 10 the preseut degraded condition of the Biitish Mon, which will chase unarmed natives, but great enough to spoil him for insurance purposes. is timid in the presence of the Sultan snd gi Dlenty of room.” ikl i beer PERSONAL. | James Dunsmuir of Vietoria is at the Palace, D. S, Rosenbaum, a Stockton bumf,r, is at tho Palace. . F. W. Wilmang, & m: at the Lick. J. . Denneins, isatthe Palace. B. U. Steinman, the Sacramento me:Chant, is at the Palace. : E. A. Wsrren, a fruit and commissian man of Chico, is at the Lick Perey Davis, a prominent merchant of Conls terville, is at the Grand, W. E. Gilber:, a prominent merchant of Los Augeles, is at the Grend. F. Millard and wile of Stockton are staying at tne Cosmovolitan Hotel. George Nunnemaker, a prominent attorney of Visalin, is at the Lick House. J. Kimmura. a capitalist of Tokio, Japan, is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. L. J. Merritt, a prominent citizen of Pasa- dena, Cal., is a guest at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. G. Breede and A. Breede, of Buffalo, N. Y., are among the Tecent arrivals at the Cosmoe politan Hotel. % { ining man ‘of Vhalia, is an attorney of Sacramento, A PRIZE IN EVERY PACKAGE. Smith—Death is a sure cure for lying. Jones—Not always. 1've known it to break out again on the tombstone.—Chicago News. “I guess Iain’tso coarse,” said the patient imal. +:0h, I don’t know,” retorted Balaam. “You could not make a mau of yourself if you talked for a decade, and I can make an ass of myself in five minutes,”’—Pittsburg Chronicles Telegraph. e “Perhaps you would like to do the shope ping for the family yourself,” sho exclaimed. “Perhaps you would like to undertake the responsibility of providing the funds,” he res torted. Then both shuddered and realized that there was no wse of trying to settle the ques= tion. Itwas ihe old, old dispute between cap- ital and labor.—Washington Star. The Kloudike gold-miner held up & nugget which he had just found. It was as bigashis fist. s “Isn’t thet a beauty ?” he asked. § The consensus of opinion was that the nuge get was a beauty indeed. “Yes, indeed,” sald one of the old hands, after the others had expressed their admira. tion, “that nugget is easily worth its weight in corned beef.’'—Harper’s Bazar. “My dear, why are you saving those old fily papers?’ “Why, you sald you always have to buy files when you go fishing.”—Detroit Frea Press. Young Bloode—Have you no scruplesabouf drinking? 0ld Soske—N Press. Wibbleton—T hear Trotter has gone West fof his health. Was it appendicitis? Wobbley—No; Klondicitis.—New York Press. . Only drams.—New York THE CHAMPION HOP-PICKER. Sebastopol Times. James Hayes of Sebastopol proke the State hop-picking record in Gannon’s yard | uesday. Heretofore the record was held vy an Indian who picked 410 pounds in one day near Sacra- mento. Mr. Hayes commenced picking at 4 o'clock Tuesday morning and continued until 7 o'clock in the evening. When hishops were weighed they tipped the scale at just 614 ‘pounds, being 204 pounds more than the In- dian’s record. It is said that for this perform- ance Mr. Hayes will receive 85 from the H Growers’ Association of Sonoma County, $3 2 present from Ed Gannou, besides the wages he earned in picking the hops. ANCIENT AND MODERN SLANG. Albany Argus. The difference between ancient and modern slang was amusingly iliusirated in a recent incidestat the Chautauqua assembly, when the teachér in English lterature asked, “What is the meaning of the Shakespearian phrase ‘Go 10'?” and a member of ‘the ciass Teplied, “Oh, that is only the sixteemth cens tury’s expression of the modern ‘Come off." ™ The two phrases, while appareatly opposite, d;f in fact, substantially mean the same thing. H. BLACK, pawter, 120 y street. e CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c1b. Townsend's* iz e oy €PECIAL information daiiy to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * o o TURKEY SHOULD BE TRUSSED. Philadelphia Inquirer. The foreign powers are going to make a few more reforms in Turkey, just to keep in their hands at that work. In the meantime Turkey will go on as before. Pretty much eversbody knows that reforms in Turkey have one pecu- liarity. They rareiy reform things in Turkey. BESRASOI O, Lo 1r afflicted with sore eyes use Or. Isaac Thomp son’s Eye Water. Druggists sell it at 25 cents. Ly CLOSE OF THE CRUISERS’ CRUISE Pittsbur; Times. After an exhaustive test of dinner plates all over the country, the armor-plate bostrd has now returned to Washington, and we.may to hear a report on the assay value ' us brands of champagne. NEW TO-DAY. MECHANICS’ FAIR PURE FOOD Demonstrator and Lecturer Com- mends Royal Baking Powder in Preference to All Others. Miss Suzy Tracy, the cooking demonstrator. in the Model Kitchen at the Mechanics' Fair, says == B~ €Tn the 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 - Baking Powder than of any other kind, and T find # always to be perfectly uni- “form in its action)” < is -