The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 21, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 1897, — PERSONAL. .SEPTEMBER 21, 1897 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. TUESDAY. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE : ..710 Market streot, 8a: rancisco Telephons Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS +es0 517 Clay street Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week By malil $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL... ...One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE... +e0s...908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o’clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o’clock. 1243 Mission street; openuntil 9 o’clock. 1503 Polk street; open until 9:30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open till 9 o'clock. ‘}HE NEW TAX LEVY. HORT as was the time in which the work had to be done, the new Board of Supervisors has succeeded in apportion- ing the tax levy in a manner that will prove satisfactory to the people generally. It was not found possible to adequately provide for the maintenance of the municipal government ona rate of taxaiion within the dollar limit, but a material reduc- tion was made from the rate of the previous levy and the saving to the taxpayers in the agzeregate will amount to about $300,000. The board zcted wisely in not attempting to carry the re- ducticn of taxation too far. A decrease that would have com- pelled a less efficient administration of our municipal affairs, or would have hampered the work of any of the great depart- ments, would have been costly in the long run. Iu the business of the public as well as in that of individuals saving at the spigot is folly when it entails wasting at the bung. Jt is better to overstep the dollar limit to some extent than to have a defi- ciency in any important fund of the city treasury. - It is gratifying that the scheme for incorporating in thi levy a tax for the purpose of raising money for the proposed park and zoelogical garden in the Mission found no favor with the board. It was, of course, a foregone conclusion, that no such levy would be made, for THE CALL had published inter- views with the Supervisors, declaring their opposition to it, but nevertheless it is pleasant to have the controversy closed for the present by the official adoption of the levy with no such tax included. This is a victory for the taxpavers for which TrE CALL may justly claim credit, since it is the conly daily paper in the city that opposed the scheme and made against it the fight for economy that defeated it. While the appropriations made in the apportionment have in most cases been much lower tuan the amounts asked for by the heads of departments, and considerably less than the es- timates of the Auditor, there is every reason to believe that by a due exercise of care and economy the business of the city can be efficiently carried on with the funds granted. It is possible the board might have made the levy somewhat different if more time had been aliowed the new members to consider the problems involved, but in no case is it likely that the differences would have been of a serious nature. The aim of every member of the board seems to have been to combine economy with efficiency, and as near as can be estimated at this time the joint objects have been accomplished. The fact that the much-discussed dollar limit has bsen ex- ceeded will not occasion any great amount of adverse criticism among the more intelligent taxpavers. The city is in need of many improvements, and as long as our municipal affairs are in the hands of men in whom they have confidence the people will not be opposed to paying for needed work. The first im- portant act of the new Suparvisors, therefore, will be recsived with popular approval, and with renewed confidence the tax- payers will await the future. There is an old story of a man who having been kicked out of the doorand down the steps picked himsalf up, ruefully rubbed his bruises and remarked: *I guess I'm not wanted here, and Icen take a hint as quick as anybody.” Thersupon he limped away. This simple tale is recalled by an ex-Supervisor’s lack of the delicate faculty of perception so manifest in the other per- son who was licked. Nozhing could well be more appropriate than the sending of an army hospital corps to the Kiondike. Next to sending up a lot of return tickets to be distributed Iree to the worthy a more kindly charity could not have been devised. Of that Pittsburg minister who devoted much of a sermon to praising the bicycle as a moral agent, it may be affirmed with tolerable certainty that he has learned to ride and is satisfied with the value of his wheel. 1f Weyler can produce peace in the time allotted by the United States for that purpose he has certainly been playing his game thus far with some unsuspected cards up his sleeve. It was fitting that the exit of the old Board of Supervisors should bave been disgraceful. At least the board was consis- tent to the last, LOS ANGELES AND HER FUTURE N illustration of the law that the beginning of one en- terprise invariably leads to the undertaking of another is shown in the effect producad in Los Angeles by the announcement that Aitorney-General McKenna has informed the Secretarv of War that the act of Congress providing for a deep-water harbor and port of refuge at San Pedro author- izes him to begin the work of construction at once. The pros- pect of an early completion of the harbor has aroused the energies of the progressive people of Los Angeles 1o new efforts and many projects long talked of are now likely to be seriously undertaken in the near future. ‘We noted a few days ago that the merchants and manufac- turers of Los Angeles and San Diego were to enter ubon an earnest and well-supported endeavor to build up a trade with the seaports of Mexico. This movement is to be supplemented by another in the direction of bringing about the long-desired direct rail communication with Salt Lake. The two projects will mutually assist one another. Los Angeles will bave a larger trade with Mexico and South America if she has better facilities of trade with the interior of the Unitea States, and she will have a better chance of obtaining a new railroad when it is known that she is to possess all the advantages of a deep- sea harbor and a direct trade with foreign countries. There is no reason in the nature of things why the Pacific coast of the United States should not maintain as many large seaports as the Atlantic coast. Pacific ocean commerce is de- veloping rapidly. South America and Australia are grow- ing in importance, and China and Japan are becoming large consumers of the products of Western civilization. Itis probable that in a future not too distant to interest people now living San Francisco may equal the New York of to-aay, and Lave a Boston to the north of her on Puget Sound and a Fhila- delphia and a Baltimore soath of her at Los Angeles and San Diego. All the power and influence California has at Washington should be exerted to urge on the work on the harbor at San Pedro. There is sufficient energy at Los Angeles to make the best use of it after it is open for deep-sea ships. The proposed road to Salt Lake will place the city in direct communication with some of the richest mineral regions in the world and sup- piy the industry of her people with the material for thousands of products demanded in the markets of Mexico and South America. {tisa golden future that awaits Southera California, ana as the people of the whole Siate will shars in its benefits they should be willing not merely to sympathize with the enterprise of that section of the commonwealth, but to aid it and assist it with s cordial support. | must be considered before the leap is taken. | to say that any particular county held the balance of power and STATUS OF HAWAIL HAT constitutional footing has the United States for a V v colonial policy ? Is Hawaii to be taken and held as a fortified colony or is it to be admitted to the Union as a State? If the former, where is the constitutional warrant? If the latter, where is the argument of expediency? The present Government of Hawaii rests upon 2 per cent of the population. The other 08 per cent have feeble voice in it. If admitted as a State will the | 2 per cent continue to rule? If the 98 per cent are admitted to | full voice what sort of a State will it be to equal California in the Senate? The Dole Government by its act declares 98 per cent of the people unfit for representation. If unfit for a voice | in that Government what fits them for equality in an Ameri- can State? g Senator Morgan says we will not consult them as to an- nexation, and if not they will not be consulted nor have voice in their future government. If we have war the defensive force will not be found on the islands. It must be supplied from our continental resources. These are considerations which cannot be smothered and ques- tions that must be answered. A patriotic jump into the air is easy enough, but striking the earth again is a hard fact that The chairman of the execative committes of the Indianap- o'is Monetary Conference is Mr. H, H, Hanna, a mechanic and wanufacturer of Indianapolis. The Ezaminer speaks of the commission appointed by that executive committee as “Mark Hanna's Commission.” If the yellow paper knew better it was publishing consciously an un- truth, If it did not know better it was simply using ignorance, which is the other resource of jaundice journalism. There is no doubt that the man who balanced himself pre- cariously on the edge of Vesuvius and then sent a pistol bullet into his system, causing his remains to topple into the warm and disagreeable caasm, did not desire anybody to charge him with making a bluff. The familiar plan of teaching the young idea how to shoot seems to have gone awry in Oakland, where a boy of 10 years is in jail for stabbing a playmate. Here’s an instance of the young idea taught how to cut. The fact develops that the most profitable pockeis worked during the Trinity mining excitement were those of strangers who had been induced to hunt there for gold. AN INEXCUSABLE EVASION. HE better the day the better the aeed’ is an old saving, and it was for that reason perhaps the Record-Union took Sunday as a proper day on which to inform its readers THE CALL has practically abandoned its attempt to amend thecon- stitution so that no man could be elected to membersiip on the State | Board of Equalization unless he became subservient to San Francisco. It bas cessed to argue the question and has become a pewling apolo- gist for the mistake it made 1n mooting the proposition in the first in- stance. As if the falseness of that statement were not sufficiently evident on its face to be recognized by any one capable of read- ing it, the Record- Union made it more so by publishing on the same day an elaborate editorial in reply to the argument of THe CALL in favor of the very proposition it is alleged to have abandoned. That sort of thing is “pewling’’ of the worst kind, and the Record- Union ought to make up its mind as to what it intends to say on the Lord’s day and then stick to it for at least twenty-four hours. The aim of the icnger article of the Record- Union is to main- tain its assertion that San Francisco would cast “a consolidatea and concentrated vote”’ for Equalizers if those officers were elected by the State at large, and would thereby virtually con- trol the board. To our denial that any such thing as a consolidated vote exists in any considerable community, the answer made is that in the last Presidential election McKinley was elected by the ‘‘consolidated vote” of New England, New York and Pennsylvania, as his majorities in those States amounted to 811,257, while in the nation as a whole his total majority was only 28,244, This is the kind of juggling that requires no skill. Anybody can do it. The Record-Union claims that the vote of the Mississ- ippi Valley and the great West was divided between McKinley and Bryan, and that the vote in the extreme East deterinined the result. A similar style of figuring would show that the vote of the extreme East and the West was divided and that it was the Mississippi Valley that held the balance of power., In an election at large in California the vote of every county would be divided, that of SBan Francisco as well as the rest. There would be a majority for one side, but it would not be iust determined the resuit. When all vote together the vote of one man is of no rore value than another. The attempt to discredit the proposed amendment by repre- senting it as a scheme to give San Francisco an advantage over the rest cf the State is an inexcusable evasion of the real point at issue: ihe extent to which equalization is now influenced by sectionalism. The advocates of district representation are de- fenders of a system which arrays one section against another in a work that should be done by 1mpartial judges seeking only to do justice to all. To make such evasions in such a discussion is an offense that could not be made excusable even by *'a pewl- ing apologist.” The ex-Supervisors are said to be fighting for time, and yet if all stated about them is true, they are lucky, perhaps, in not being obligea to fight against “time” for a specific period more or less great, Louise Michel’s most remarkable feature is the nerve she has in presuming upon her sex, just the same as if the world didn’t know she had no more sex than a dynamite bomb. Weyler’s spies, sent for the purpose of murdering a Cuban general, did not exactly succeed, but they got killed them- selves, an ontcome much more pleasing, WHAT'S IN A NAME? HE Civil War is long gone by and it is of interest {0 note any indication of the close of the fend between New Eng- land and the South. True, there are not any monuments nor mural tablets to the memory of Wendell Phillips and Gar- rison south of Mason and Dixon’s line, but there are not want- ing evidences that New England and the South belong to the same country. There are twenty-nine merchant ships in our commercial navy thet bear the name of Mayflower. These ships named in honor of theark that bore the Pilgrim Fathers from Delft Haven to Plymouth Rock are owned as follows: Maine 5, Connecticut 2, Massachusetts 2, New York 1, New Jersey 4, California 2, Oregon 1, Washington 1, making 9 for New England, 5 for the Middle States and 4 for the Pacific Coast. The others are owned by: Florida 2, Maryland 2, Mississippi 1, North Carolina 1, South Carolina 1, Virginia 4. The South has two more May- flowers thar all New England. Let us have peace] Even observing, as he must, the rejoicing in progress at Los Angeles over San Pedro harbor, Mr. Huntington has for- warded no telegram of congratulation to the people there. And he has often told how much he loves them, too, —_— The Chicago Judge who declares tkat busy men cannot read these days has not derived from the difliculty of securing a jury all the information with which the process recks. The desire of President Diaz to catch and punish the lynch- ers of the man who tried te kill him 1s of course highly proper, yet the suspicion that it is an executive bluff will intrade. “There is always occasion for regret when the death of Apache Kid is announced. Itissoaptto immediately precede one of his justly celebrated individual outbreaks. Superintendent Webster and the Board of Education seem determined to educate each other, a purpose clearly laudabie, But where do the children come in? BOARD OF EQUALIZATION. The Sugzestion a Good Ona2. Oakland Enquirer. We are inclined to think that the suggestion made by the San Francisco CALL that members of the State Board of Equalization should be elected from the State at large instead of by districts is 8 good one and would improve con- siderably the methods in use in that body. We are not 50 optimistic that we expect tosee an ideal Board of Equalization secured by any means. Any device which may be adopted | will probably resuit in securiag men who will have prejudices, which will be reflected in their work, but the plan in electing them by districts results in such a complete subordina- tion of everything else to politics that it seems as if the prescnt plan is positively the worst which could be adopted and election at large would be a decided improvement. A Reasonable Proposition. Alameda Argus. THE CALL is conducting a crusade that favors the election of the State Board of Equalizars at large instead of from districts, as at present. The proposition seems to be reasonable. As it is at present each member is concerned in his own immediate constituency, and his chief aim is to gain an adventage for them, even at the expense of other sections of the State. This*is not only wrong in principle, but ex- tremely mischievous in many ways. Itarrays one section of the State against another and promotes acrimony on ail sides. Thesystem may well be changed Present Apportionment Unjust. Watsonville Pajaronian. THE CALL wants the members of the State Board of Equalization elected by the State at large, and not by districts asin the past. The present apportionment is unjust. When the constitution was framed a member wasallotted each Congressional district of that time and the counties thereof named. Since then popu- lation has increased southward of the State’s central line, and the Fourth Equalization Dis- trict (in which Santa Cruz Is included) polis nearly haif of the vote of the State. It has but one memberof the State Board of Equali- zation, and the balance of the State has three and has always had the State Controller, who is a member of the Board of Equalization by virtue of his office. It is unjust to have such an allotment continue. Means Genuine Representation. San Luis Obispo Reasoner. Governor Budd, according to a reported in- terview, favors the method of electing the Board of Equalization at large instead of by districts, and says that at the next session of the Legislature he will recommeud that an amendment to the constitu:ion be submitted | to the electors of the State *‘which will permit the electors of the entire State to decide whom their equalizers shall be.” The notion is a good one and we give it our indcrsement, with the further recommendation that the board be chosen by proportional representation. The people then would be represented in factas well as in name. Too often under present methods only the corporations are repre- sented. HAS SEEN THE LAY BEFORE, There are maay clever peopla Who can dim the brightest days And mar this short « xistence W.th their Irritating ways. But he's the leading genius, The very greatest bore. Who sits behind us at th And saw it once before. pay His breath 1s sweet with chewing-gum; He wears his newest clothes, And he's brought along Susa 1 ne To hear how much he knows; But. alas, for those beside him, And alas for many mare, They long for cotton in their ears; He's seen the play be ore. He know’s jost what is coming, And we all must know it, (007 The hero will be dressed 1u green, The heroine in biue; The moon!ight scene the first will be Upon a rocky shore: Alas, Susanne, why ¢id yon come! He's seen the pisy befors. e may not got the tunes just right, Hut stiil he hums them through, ¥or. though we think them very five, To him tuey are not tew— How well hie beats the time out With bis heels upon the floor But that's because he knows so much— He's seen the play before. He doesn’t think much of it all; In fact, It's rather elow: The next ack wiil be better, When they stab (he King, you know, “The pistor’s golng—con’t jump Susanne, now watch ' he Yes—see—I told you he'd Tve seen the play before. Some day we'il all rise up at Jast And gag him then and there; We'il tie those tapping haels down, 0. 50 safely—to the chair: We'll put a baudage on his ey Aud 0'er his ¢ars some mor Tien joyiu ly we'l: waten the p'ay ‘bt he saw once befo. o. —Chicago Tribune. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE VAN Vi Citizen, City. Neither the father nor the grandfather of Judge Van Vieet was & millionaire nor a railroad mag- nate. SEWALL'S ADDRESs—J. F. L., Oakland, Cal. Thbe address of Arthur Sewall, who was a can- didate for the Vice-Presidency in 1896, is Bath, Me. GrAPES—C. P. C., Fishers, San Diego County, Cal. The first grapes of the seuson, that is | wize grapes, were on the market on Septem- ber 2 and brougit $18 per ton. A PrizE—A. J. T. Portland, Or. Without knowing why the onme party demanded the sum of $25 from the other party it would be impossible to answer the question. Questions should be clearly stated. FALSE PRETENSES—A. J. City. Ifa person obtains money by means ot false representa- tions for a State institution and arpropriates the money to his own use the District Attorney can call the attention of the Grand Jury to the matter and have the offending party iniormed azainst and arrested on a bench warrant from tne Superior Court. Or the party may te ar- rested upon a warrant issued out of a Police Court in citics where there is such a court; in others a Justice Court. In the maiter of em- bezzlement there is a statute of limitation and it does notmatter who is the complainant. BABYLON—L. O. B., City. This department | has given you a concise history of the fall of Babylon and cannot enter into a discussion of the various phases that are presented by the resding of this, thator the other book. If you will go to the library and read “‘Egyptand Babylon,”” by George Rawlinson, you will prob- ably become satistied that Babylon did not sink into the sea, but that some parts of it have been 10un VINGT-UN—L. 8, city. In the game of vingt- un the dealer has the privilege of insisting on all players deubling their stakes. To any layer having an ace and a tenth card—which s A natural vingt-un—he must pay double stakes, Should the dealer have a natural he receives doubie stakes from all the players. It toe original stake was 10 cents and it is or- dered double it becomes a stake of 20 cents, therefore on payment on a natural the amount to be paid would be 40 cents. STRING BEANS—W. S, Eureka, Cal. The fol- lowing is given for the preservation of string beans for winter use: Green string beans must be picked when young; put a laver three inches deep of beans at the bottom of a small wooden keg or crock, sprinkle in salt an inch deep, then put in alternate layers of beans and salt until there is enough to fiil the vessel; cover with a piece which will fit the inside of the vessel and place a heavy weight upon it; they will make grhm When wanted for use soak them one night or more in plenty of water; changing it once or twice until the saltis out of them, then cut the beans and boil the same as when fresh. GASOLINE—A. H. I, City. The ordinance of the City and County of San Francisco regu- lating the use of gasoline is s follows: No person or persons, firm or corporation shall use for benting buraing or iilumiuating purposes any gosoline. benzine or napntha within the limits of the City and County o: San Francisco without & signed by the Citv £ngineer of the nt and the Fire Marshai of the City and County of San Francisco. Applications for permits must be made In writ- ing 1o either of the above-uamed officers and must give the name of the applicant, the location of the premises where it is proposed to use the above- named liquid and the manner 1o which it is pro- Posed Lo ise it. Said permits shall be granted by the sald officers in all eases except where in ‘helr judzment the use by the applicant In the manner proposed by him would endanger the safecy of life and prop- erty. l{om ‘whatever shall be made_for the issu- ance of said permits, and the rire Marshal stall keep arecord of & | permits so is<ued, AN ELEGTRIG SOUNDING APPARATUS. An apparatus known as the electric sounder has been iavented by John P. Buckley, by means of which captains may be able 10 ascer- tain the depth of water for 2000 feet ah>ad of their vessels. The inventor expects that it will supersede the lead and line. Mr. Buckley is confident, says the New York Herald, that his apparatus willdo away with the present tedious manner of making soundings, and that vessels will no longer have to feel their way into port when the air is foggy. With his invention the sounding is done by means of a vell circuit, which passes through a carrier, and thence to a non-conducting eylinder silled with quicksilver. When the cylinder sirikes bottom a circuit is completed, which rings a bell on board the vessel and gives warning that the vessel is in dangerously shallow water. The apparatus, to speak more in detail, con- sists of an airgun, about 2000 feet of wire, or, rather, of two wires bound around each other, a hollow shell, which will float a cylinder of quicksilver, and an electric battery. The air is forced into the chamber of the airgus by turning a wheel. The cylinder with the wire attached is loaded into the gun. The wire is pleced upon s reel, and as much is wound off | as the foice of the projectile will take with it The cylinder is huried through the air for anywhere from five to two thousand feet. The distance depends upon the number of turns the operator has given the wheel by which the airgun is loaded. The cylinder strikes the water and sinks. The length of wire which intervenes between the cylinder and the nollow floating shell, or carricr, represents the depth of water in which 1t would be safe for the vessel to venture. Most Iarge ocean steamers draw thirty feet. When the wires enter the cylinder they are separ- ated. They run inio the cylinder separately and terminate within only a short distance of the surface of the quicksilyer. If the water is deep enough the cylinder will simply hang to the end of the line. If the water 1s too shallow, however, the cylin- der will tumble over on the bottom, for the end of it is rounded. The mercury which the cylinder contains will then rush about the ends of the wires, complete a metallic current and cause the ringing of a bell on board ship with which the wires are con- nected. The efficacy of this invention depends upon | the certainty with which the cylinder will fall over when it strikes the bottom of the channel. Mr. Buckley, when I saw him yes- day afternoon at 461 Weet One Hundred and Forty-seventh street, said that he had experi- mented with the device for twelve years, and that he was sure that it would accomplish all that he asserts that it will. “The weight of the cyiinder and its con- tents,” he said, “tosay nothing of the action of the waves, will cause it to fall over at once. Besides that the end of it is rounded like the bottom of a ginger-ale bottle. I tried a model of this device in Lake Ponchartrain. In all the experiments it worked perfectly.” As soon as the cylinder sinks the man in charge of the apparatus proceeds to draw in theline. If he hears no warning bell he may be sure that the course is entirely clear. The vessel may then proceed for the distance to which the line has been cast. If 2000 feet have been sent out the mariner may know that his course is ciear for that distance. He may then proceed. When the vessel has gone half the course he may discharge another cylinder. When he has reached the end of the course which the first cylinder bas told bhim was safe he will have determined the nature of the channel for the next 2000 feet. THE MAN WHO LAUGHS. “How did they find out that this alleged count was an imposter?’’ “Why, you see, he was invited to ¢inner by the Dollyers, and, forgetting for the moment that he was not back in the Deadwood board- ing-house, ke mearly knocked the old man Dollyer insensible, trying to beat him to the teble when the bell rang.””—Chicago News. He—This is & very rapid age. 8he—Yes, but it has & bad habit of taking its hands off the handlebars occasionally and swerving a good deal.—Chicago News, ] was rash to give my wile a $20 gold plece as a love token.” “Why!" “since we were married I have to give her $20 & week to keep her from spending it.”’— Chicago Record, «we are tdaching our parrot to swear.” “Horrible! Why?” “We have to; every one of our neighbors has a noisy canary.”’—Chicago Record. “Whut do it mean,” said Miss Miami Jones, “whep de talks in dithere novel book 'bout er young man payin’ his addresses to & young laay?” “Doesn’t you kunow?” Pinkley. “Isho’ly doesn’.” “Itmeans dat he done put de postage stamp on de love letter”—Washington Star, Boy—Papa, where’s Atoms? Papa—Athens, you mean, my child. Boy—No, papa; Atoms—the place where peo- ple ere plown to, Avswer postponed.—Tit-Bits, Down in Whitsett, this State, a traveling Spiritualist gave a performance recently. In the course of the evening, when the room was darkened, he said: “I have been requested by some of the men present to recall the spirits of their wives who have gona before. Keep perfectly quiet, friends—in one moment they will be with Yoo “John,” whispered an old man in the au- dience, “Gimme my hat—quick! Idon’t mind meetin’ Moliie in heaven, but I'll be durned efI want her to resume business on earth!’— Atlaunta Constitutio exclaimed Erastus PADEREWSK’S HAIR. This is the time for Paderewski to make a tour of the United States. Everybody wants to see how he looks with his hair cut.—Phila- delphin Ledger. Paderewski, forgetful of the lesson of the story of Samson and Delilah, hus cut his hair. Isu't it iu order for the intense admirers nf the famous pianist to go into mourning for thirty days?—RBoston Globe. All that Paderewskl has to do to gat himself ta.ked nbout from one eud of the world (0 the other is 10 drop in ata barber’s and have his hair cut. The news leaps over & thousand wires aud sets off a thousand journaiistic squibs. Noteven Samson’s historic hair-cut was so much talked of at the time, though, of course, the world wassmailer in Delilah’s day, and probably there was jess foolishdess in it than there is now.—Philadelphia Record. Paderewski has had his hair cut, but expects it to grow out enough to_enable him to piay again by the Ume e Winter season seis in.— Clevelund Leader. Another hirsute hero has fallen. Paderew- ski has cropped his bair short, and, like Sa. son, his strength has left nim’—Chicago Jou: nal. From Poland’s fair, unhappy land, ‘I here comes the dreadful news Tha: makes the hearer's heartto stand, The cheek Its color lose. "T1s not of Kussian crueity— Of patriots sluughtered there: Bui 'tls (atas! that It shonid be) Paderswsil’s cat bis hair. —Cincinnatl Enquirer, FATHERS OF GHEAT MEN. London Echo. The distinguished astronomer Kepler was theson of an officer in the army; the poet Wordsworth and Sir Walter Scott of attorneys; Chatterton of a schoolmaster; Handel of a surgeon; Thomas Hood and Samuel Johnson of booksellers; Mozart of a bookbinder; Black- stone, the eminent lawyer, of a silk mercer; the poet Pope of a linen draper; Sir Isaac New- Thomas Arnold of a tax col- lector; De Foe and Akenside of butchers; Dr. Jeremy Taylor of a hairdresser; the artist Turner of a barber; Christopher Columbus of & wool-comber: the great astronomer Halley ofa soup boiler; Hayin of a wheelwright; Luther of a miner; Lord Eldon, the famous Jawyer, of & coliier; George Fox of a weaver; Captain Cook of an agricuitural laborer, aud lasi, but not least, John Bunyan of a tinker, NEED OF A NAT.ONAL FLOWER. Boston Post. Tt seems to be generally accepted that the golden rod has authoritatively been adopted &s our nationsl flower. This is a mistake. None has vet been decided upon and more's the pity. Various other countries have. na- tional flowers, as follows: Greece, violet; Canada, sugar maple; Eg{pt, lotus; England, rose; France, fleur-de-lis; Germany, corn flower; Ireland. shamrock; 1taly, lily; Prus. sia, linden; Saxony, mignonetie; Scotland, thistle; Spain, pomegranate; Waies, leek. e EXPORTS OF EREADSTUFFS, New York Tribune. The effect of the harvest on the foreign trade of the country is shown in an increase of £11,000,000 in the total exports for August, allof it furnished by the two items of bread. stuffs and provisions. The month's increase i8, in round numbers, haif of the total in- crease of the current year, PEOPLE OF NOTE. Sir Lewis Morris is to make a lecturing tour in this country, beginning eerly in November. Bir Lewis is said to be & charming speaker, with a fine presence and a delightful voice. He is among the most popular of contemporary British poets. Justice Kenneay, an English Judge, has just decided that & wife may sue her husband for libel. The parties were living apart, undera separation order, the wife earning her own living, and the husband kept sending defama- tory telegrams 1o her. Frau Materna, the famous Wagnerian singer, has just retired from public life. At a ban- quet at Viennashe made the announcement of her retirement and read to the guests sev- eral letters in which Weguer expressed his admiration of her creation of the part of Brunnhilde at Bayreuth in 1876. The desth by suicide of Frederick Much- meyer, United States Consul atSan Salvador, has attracted renewed attention to the singu. lar fatality attached to the residence of Amer- icansin that eity. Both of Mr. Muchmeyer's predecessors were victims of yellow fever. Three vacancies in the Cousulate have oc- curred in four years. William Bache, who died the other day in- Bristol, Pa., was the great-grandson of Benja- | min Franklin, He was 86 vears old and was the pioneer newspaper publisher in Bucks County, baving founded the Bristol Gazette in 1849. In 1854 be tegan the publication of a Know-nothing paper called the Bucks County American. He was the author of a number of historical works. He servea in the War of the Rebellion and was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Colonel Charles Chaille Long of Somerset County, Md., wno was in the service of the Knedive of Egypt from 1869 to 1877, has been appointed Secretary of the United States Com- mission to the Paris Exposition. Colonel Long will sail from New York on the 23th of August on the steamer Gascogne. and will be charged with the direction of the Paris office until the year 1900, when Major Moses P. Handy, the duly appointed commissioner from this country, will have completed the preparatory business of his office in America. SOME GOLDEN THOUGHTS. Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called consclence.— Washingion. Look at it this way: The world and every- thing in it is yours to help you make a true man of yourself.—Ram’s Horn. Honor must grow out of humility, freedom out of discipline, righteous joy out ‘of right- «<0ussorrow, true strength out oi true knowl- edge of our own weakness, sound pesce of mind out of sound contrition.—Charles Kings- iey. If Tdowhat 1 may in earnest I need not mourn if 1 work no great work on the earth. To help the growth of & thought tuat struggles toward the Uight, 10 brush with gentle hand the earth-stain irom the white of one snow- drov—such be my ambition!—George Macden- ald. Joy is a prize unbought, and is freest, purest inits flow when it comes unsought. No get- ting into heaven as a place will compass it. You must carry it with you, else it isnot there. You must have it in you, as the music of a well-ordered soul, the fire of & holy purpose, the welling up out of the central depths of eternal springs that hide their waters there.— H. Bushnell. FENCE-WIRE FOR TELEPHONES. Wasnington Post. “We have found a new way of utllszing the telepnone in our country,” said Mr. McLe- more of New South Wales to a Post man st the Shoreham. “‘It consists in taking one of the wiresof the wire fencing that incloses a stock station on a cattie ranch as you would say in the United States, and making it answer all the require- ments of an ordinary telephone wire, the chief difference being that this improvised line is without finsulation. But it answers well its puzpose ol quick communication with distant stations, and even with market townsa good many miles away. Of course there are some drawbacks on account of the non-insulation of the wire, which impedes the operation of the ’phone in damp weather, but on the whole these station lines have been a great success.” — FROM FUSION TO CONFUSION, New York Commerelal Advertissr, Fusion among the silverites of Nebraska ap- parently fails to tuse. The middle-of-the- N;ld Pap:uuu aro dissatisfled with their share of the “dicker,” and unl there 1s a n division of expected spoils they pmpow.l'; '.:L'(fin'. ::":a ““u’)‘ul:n the field. There is ar e average P strictloyalty to *‘principles. oM —_— ity Dr. . . Riley of ‘Port Costa is at the Grand, Dr' J. B. Tennant of Martinez is at tho Grand. H. V. Jensen, U. Occidental. H. Thornton of Los Cosmopolitan. F.W. Rust, an insurance m is at the Grand. Professor E. . Holden of the Lick Observas tory is at the Lick. A. W. Simpson, a 1 is at the Occidental. F. 8. D. Vensinger, a dairyman of Freestone, is at the Occidental. W. W. Chapin, an iron-dealer of Sacramento, is a guest at the Palace. NARE. Winslow of Denver is at the Palace ac- ompanied by his wife. : T l)v. Mathews, a lumber-dealer of Santa Cruz, is at the Baldwin. Jonn M. Compton and L. Johnson of ‘Tucsom, Ariz., rewurned yesterday to the Baldwin. E. G. Wilhoit, connected with one of the Stockton banks, is registered at the Grand. J. 1. Ballinger, publisher of the Denver D rectory, is registered st the Grand from that ity. ¢ 1. Stahlschmidth, a civil engineer of Beriin, Germany, is regisiered at the Cosmopolltan Hotel. R. A. Kettle and wife of Chicago returned (o the Palace yesterday from & visit at Del Monte. Professor Edward Howard Griggs, head of the department of ethics in Stanford, is atthe Grand. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Rosenbaum of this city have taken up their winter quarters at the Palace. A. H. E. Macariney, an orchardist of Ken- wood, i3 among the late arrivais at the Ocei~ dental. W. G. Irwin of Honolulu, H. {., returned yesterday to the Palace from asojourn in the country. 5 Charles Erickson and Fred Erickson, the ratiroad contractors of San Luis Obispo, are at the Grand. Thomas H. Thompson, a leading fruit-grower and realestate man of Tulare, registered at the Lick yesterday. F. A. Hihn, a real estate dealer and promi- nent citizen of santa Cruz, is making & short visit at the Occidental. J. Dougherty and M. M. Whiter, both of Chicago, [l1., erec among the recent arrivals at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. G. W. Vogel, one of the successful Klondi- kers that arrived recently in the Excelsior from St. Michael, left here yesterday for his old home in Minneapolis. W. Gilmore of London, a representative of the English syndicate that bought the Chino beet-sugar ranch, is at the Palace, accom- panied by his wife end G. Wilding. 8. N., is registered at tho Banos is a guest at the an of Los Angeles, umber-dealer of Stockton, CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 20.—At the St. Cloud — A. Breton; Hoffman—E, M. Green- way; Mannattan—Miss Cectl, E. J. Gallagher, Miss Hume; St. Nicholas—A. Hanselman; Continental—Miss C. Lundgren, Mrs. M. Pear- son; Gilsey—Mr. and Mre, C. F. Mullins, Miss M. Mullins; Imperial—G. Newburger, & H. Saleno; Vendome—Mrs. Brown; Murray Hill— J. Bryson. I. W. Braat is here buying. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., dept. 20.—A. W. Bar- rett of Los Angeles is at the Ebbutt; J. F. Evans of Sam Francisco isat the Riggs; R. Rive of Los Augeles is at the Metropolit Miss Lo Phelps of S8an Francisco is at the National. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. Now York Press. Somehow very few women are both good and stylish. Home with some men Is a place to goto when the others close up. By looking at any girl’s hair you can always tell where the iron was t0o hot. Whenever & woman tries to box a child’s ears and misses, she alwayssays: “Take that!” Ifa woman cut up all her good dresses just })c[lorc she committed suicide she would never a1l A woman would rathar her husband dida’t kiss her at all at home than not to put a lot of tenderness into it when he does it before people. PROSPERITY MOVING FORWARD. Chicago Inter Ocean. The demand for labor is increasing, though it is not vet equal to the supply, nor will it be until the stocks of goods imported in antici- pation of the new tariff are exhausted. But we are moving forward, and irresistibly, be- cause the pressure toward movement orige inates on the farms. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c Ib. Townsend's* —————————— FreE Exhibition of new water colors, etch- ings, engravings and colored photozraphs this week at Sanborn & Vail’s, 741 Market st R SPECIAL information daily to manufaeturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allew’s), 510 Montgomery. * —_———— IT GREASES THE WAYS, Boston Traveller. They find the use of oil on the roadways of railroads very efficacious in laying the dust. Siraoge fosay, it mixes well with tae water in the stock. S 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 = = %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 accoms STRIPES FOR THEM. Salt Lake Herald. New York is not only the empire State. It 18 also the banner State, the fl: i its headquarters there. A8 Spbhaving, —_— A BASE INSINUATION, . Louls Star. Three women have been arrested at St. Joe for counterfeiting. We had supposed th: counterieiting was a woman’, pn?u:ge‘ s SOMETHING TO BANK ON. Wasbington Post. Mr. Mudd o Maryland doesn’t claim to be- ong to the Clay school of statesmanship, plish the best results with a* smaller quantity of Royal Baking Powder than of any other kind, and I find # always to be perfectly tnd form in its action.”