The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 24, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 SEPTEMBER 24, 1807 e = o JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. KE, Manager. Addre: All Communications to W. S. LEA PUBLICATION OFFICE... +......T10 Market street, San Francisco Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS... ..517 Clay street Teleph fain 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by ca his city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. 1 §6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. ..One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE........ ..908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. ooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgome: 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes stree Larkin st il 9:30 o' clock. Mi; 1il 9 o'clock. streel street, corner Clay; open until open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 SW. corner Sixteenth and 2513 Mission street; openuntil 9 o'clock. 1505 W. corner Twenty-second A YELLOW TURKEY DINNER. HROUGH the cloak of charity behind which the Eraminer T ceks a veil there gleams the baleful hue of yellow. A sus- picion arises that the material of the cloak is shoddy, and usage has made it ragged. Long ago there was made a record that still stands undis- puted, thus: “Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.” Hence the quality wheiewith the Ezaminer unpleasantly dis- Instead of being *‘not puffed up” it swelis to the point of bursting with a sense of something it con- ceives to be goodness, but which the matter-oi-fact world knows Far from not letti its right hana know what its 1st now it wants all humanity to know. If the that nobody is permitted to more tends itself is not genuine. to be gall. it is doing, than suspect, that is another matter, and here irrelevant. 1 per has been running a baseball tournament for Charity *suffereth long,” and ctended through the , that the manage- right hand does somet and a percentage. of discomfort has ne the per baseball season. The players complain, al ment absorbs the profi The menagement, as nearly as can be ascertained, accepts 20 per cent of the receipts as its reward for bothering with philanthropy. Now, management announces that it will give $1000 toward a ets. Yet to rity out of the funds collected at a tournament nurtured in the name of charity $1000 or any seem 10 be aordinary event. Did think anybody would accuse it of not only ¢ its percentage, but of clinging to the contents of the Kird heaven, forbid! It wouldn’t dare. agent ior the expenditure of other people’s turkeys—the turkeys not representing the rake-off of a res an intention to make public, receipts, “As it has done in the matter of work in which it has been a prime mover.” An exception must be made of the tournament hereinbefore mentioned. Its balance sheets have been calied for in vain. Charges of crooked work remain to be refuted. There iz a curiosity to see the an ex iner sfied tournament either—de all other charitable figures. But if when running a tournament for sweet charity itis proper to malct that greatest of virtues in the sum of 20 per cent, or any other per cent, it may be considered fitting to se- curea pecuniary advantage from the handling of turkeys and donations of cold pie. Twenty fairly be represented by the white meat. per cent of a turkey might But let donors be grateful if even the skeleton of the bird reach the table, and Twenty per cent Tae remain - recipients if permitted to gnaw a drumstick. deftly manipulated becomes a variable quantity. ine 80 per cent may be found all feathers. h is that the Ezaminer is to give a dinner, it will release $1000 out of the funds now e whole trut or the purp held by it and according to common betief heid in trust for cnarity, that kind-hearted people will furnish the repast and ron jou: pt-all the glory, uttering peansof jov fer the happiness of being noble and generous at the expense of alism a the guileless and getting much advertising practically without cost. taken place. The habit of starving horses to death appears for some rea- son to be growing, and promoters of the same need to be put upon a scant diet of bread and water. If this fails to reform them the bread be eliminated, and if they still remain wicked and obdurate the water ought to be stopped too. Any decent horse is of more value to the community than any man who would kill the horse by slow torture. One of the frequent arrests of Murderer Dunham has just Mr. Dunham has become so numerous and wide- spread that these events judiciously scattered among him can- not be regarded as a grave hardship. Instead of suing the city for having torn down disease- breeding rookeries the owners of these nuisances should now be lifting up the voice of thanksgiving that the city is not en- gaged in suing them. AUDITOR BRODERICK JUSTIFIED. UDITOR BRODERICK has been justified in the course he Ah;\s taken with regara to the tax levy by the promptness with which the issue has been brought before the Supreme Court. The Auditor is to appear before the court on Monday, and there can be little doubt the proceedings will be carried forward with sufficient rapidity to bring the con‘roversy to a conclusion within a comparatively short time. The course taken by the Auditor is the oniy one thata pru- dent official could take. Even if it had resuited in a longer delay than is now likely, it would none the less have doserved the commendation of all citizens who care more for the gen- eral welfare than for the success of either of the rival Boards of Supervisors; and now that the action of the court has removed all fears of delay there can be no further question of the expedi- ency as well as the essential justice of his method of dealing with the problem. Tue CaLy, from the first, approved of the impartial attitude of the Auditor, and directed the attention of the people to the wisaom as well as the fairness of it. There is but one powerin the State that can definitely settie beyond dispute the contro- versy that has arisen over the ousting of the old board. That power is the Supremea Court. Until it has spoken, taere will be, even in the minds of the most sanguine, a doubt as to the validity of the acts of the new board; and in the matter of the 1ax levy, the action is too important and too closely affects the whole course of mu al admiaistration for us to take any chances with respect to its legality. The Ezaminer, with insistent reiteration, has clamored for the Auditor to approve the tax levy of the new board without walting for the decision of the Supreme Court. These clamors, however, have had no influence with the Auditor, and probably none with the people. It is fresh in the recollection of all that the Examiner urged the old Boara of Supervisors not to fix the water rates in February. It was as certain then as now that it knew all the law and that public officials could trust to its guidance. When, however, the Supervisors trusted to that ad- vice and suffered for it, the Ezaminer turned upon' them, tram- pled on them, and is to this day mocking at them as fools in politics an malefactors in office. With that warning before him the Auditor very wisely decided not to place himself in a position to be treated by the vellow journal in the same way. Whickever way the issue may be seitled by the Supreme Court it will none ths less be fortunate for the city that we have had at this juncture an Auditor who was not carried away by the whirl of the controversy, but has held steadfastiy to the conservative and safe course of guiding the municipal interests jrrespective of the claims of either side. Thanks to his pru- dence we are now to have a decision in a few days that will put an end to all doubts. Whichever side wins we shall have the satisfaction of knowing that the tax levy is valid, and that the city is not to be involved in confasion nor to suffer financial loss. I ye. EY 508 | 40 or 50 cents higher than that which has been adopted. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. N evening contemporary, in discussing the tax levy A passed on Monday by the new Board of Supervisors, remarks that it is a mistake for other reasons than that it is likely to produce a deficit at the end of the fiscal year. The journal in question alleges what is undoubtedly true— namely, that the new Supervisors are men eminently qualified to disburse the public funds economically and honestly, and it argues from this that there never has been a period in the history of the city (if the official title of the new board is to be finally affirmed) when the tax-paying classes could with more safety and propriety have made liberal contributions to the treasury. There is a great deal of sound reason in this argument, and while THE CALL does not desire to find fault with the new Supervisors for adhering to the Democratic dollar limit, nor for shaving the appropriations wherever possible—it ap- pearing that the levy as passed is not of their making—it can- not refrain, at this juncture, from stating what is patent to everybody, that is to say, that under the administration no objection would have been raised by the taxpayers to a levy Discontinuing necessary public work is not economy. This is a proposition that can scarcely be refuted. A business man who would permit his buildings, furniture, fixtures, horses, wagons and other implements of trade to fall into dilapidation and decay would speedily become an object of solicitude to his friends. If he were not considered insane he would be pronounced a fool. . Municipaiities are gigantic busi- ness enterprises. True, the fee simple of their real estate stands in the name of the people, and their personal property is held in trust by their duly and regularly elected officials, but they are, nevertheless, corporations which must be governed by the soundest business principles in order to be a success. To say that the public streets shall be permitted to wear out for lack of funds with which to repair them ; to say that the sewers must fall in and remain choked with sand, in order that the taxpayers may save afew dollars ; to say that an efficient Fire Department shall not be maintained, or that there shall be an insufficient number of policemen to preserve the public peace ; to say that the parks shall not be watered and developed, or that the schoolhouses shall not be kept in repair and new ones bullt, and that the schoolteachers shall be defrauded of their salariss once a year, is simply to plead downright idiotic management. Nor is this all. Whenever a public building, a park or a public work of any kind is allowed to deteriorate for lack of i proper attention and repair it costs a great deal more finally to restore it. A doctor and a little medicine will sometimes pro- long the li.e of a man who, if left to himself, would die in- stantly. Whatever questions may arise from time to time as to the necessity of making new public improvements there never can be any doubt that it is the duty of the city to keep its streets and its sewers and the property it already owns ina state of perfect repair. When it comes to buying more prop- erty, as was recently proposed in the case of the Mission Zoo- logical Garden, men may reasonably differ upon the subject. But what difference of opinion can there be with reference to clean, well-paved streets, efficient sewers and a sufficient num- ber of schoolhouses? If the rival tax levies, the puzzled Auditor and the war- ring Boards of Supervisors shali finally result in awakening the people to a realization of the fact that they are not making adequate appropriations for the care and development of the city the recent incidents at the City Hall will not have hap- pened in vain. THE CALL believes that the rate of taxation in a munci- pality is always a minor matter. The burning question is, and must ever be, Is the money honestly and economically ex- pended? That is the test which every man applies to his business. Had the new Board of Supervisors raised by taxa- tion this year two millions of dollars and expended it in neces- sary public improvements it would have conferred a greater blessing upon the people of this city than it will ever gain by shaving appropriations, exercising rigid economy and creating deficits. If the money appropriated by the new Supervisors is going to be stolen the levy it has passed is too large by half: if it is to be expended honestly it should have been raised at least 50 cents. Unless we are mistaken future events will justify these opinions. THE GOLDEN TIDE OF PROSPERITY. OT from the Klondike alone comes the flow of gold to N Californa this year. The farmer and the fruit-grower bave struck itricher than the miner, and in payment for the grain and the fruit sent to England there comes to us from the sunny lands of Australia a stream of gold more profuse than that which pours down from the wonderful placers of the frczen north. The steamer Moana brought to us from Australia a treasure of British sovereigns valued at $3,750.000, and not long another steamer irom the same couniry brought gold to the value of $2,500,000. These large imports of gold within a single month are partial payments for the products of our farms. They are the first inatallments of debt due to California for the wheat and the fiuit which Great Britain has bougnht from us this year. It will not be long before the money coined from this Aus- tralian gold will be put into circulation. It will be ready at the call of enterprise to aid industry in the task of developing the resources of the State and providing work and wages for the people. It will spread over the whole commonwealth, aftecting every industrial center and giving a new stimulus to trade and commeree. It will relieve to a large extent the financial strin- gency which has hampered cur energies in the past, and by en- abling debtors to pay off at least a portion of the mortgages on their property will add to the independence as well as the pros- perity of industry. For this supply of Australian gold we are indebted primarily to the farmers of California, for it comes to us in payment for their products; but in a hardly less degree we owe it to the protective tariff. The British would pay for American wheat and fruit in their manufactured goods were it not for the pro- tection granted to home industries by the Dingley act. Itis because they cannot pay in goods that they pay in gold, and we are receiving British sovereigns in San IFrancisco instead of importing British woolens and hardware at New York, simply because Republican lezislation compels it. The benefits resulting from the restoration of Republican policies are pow too plainly visible and too generally felt to be deni‘d even by the most persistent calamity-howier. When California, the most prolific producer of gold in the world, be- comes also an importer of gold it is clear that prosperity has revived in the land. When Great Britain in payment of her obligations to us orders gold to be shipped from her cebtors in Australia to her creditors here it is certain we have achieved tinancial independence. By wise lezislation we have compelied the people of foreign lands to pay tribute 1o our industry and to surrender the gold which under Democratic free trade they ex- acted from us. One “Soapy’’ Smith is said to have won $10,000 along the Klondike trail by steady application to the sheli-and-pea in- dustry, to which he has devoted years of study, acquiring means by which to keep out of jail most of the time. When Smith is at home he is a citizen of Denver, eminent in politics and equippad with a pull quite sutticient for any emergency. But there being no politics on the Klondike his pull there is something of a 1ystery, and the neglect to hang him must be viewed as inexcusable. The contractors for the Hall of Justice are promising glibly to have the structure completed by June 1 of next year. At that time, of course, they will be at liberty to set another da It may be recalied without violently taxing the memory that they had promised to have the work done by October 1 of this PERSONAL. F. M. Miller, a lawyer of Fresno, is at the Lick. E. E. Biggs, the banker of Gridley, is at the Grand. Dr. David Powell of Marysville is at the Palace. D. P. Durst, & rancher of Wheatland, is at the Grand. Dr. Hatch of the Agnews Insane Asylum is at the Lick. J. ¥. Condon, & merchant of Verdi, Nev., is | at the Grand. P. M. Baier, the Fresno hotel man, is staying at the Grand. James F. Dennis, a lawyer of Reno, Nev., is 2t the Palace. E. W. Runyon, a banker from Red Bluff, is at the Palace. J. A. Northway, 8 hotel man of Nevada City, is at the Grand. H. B. Gillis, an attorney of Yreka, is regis- tered at the Grand. F. A. Boole, n Red Bluff lumberman, is a late arrival at the Grand. J. E. Robinson, a mining man of Longview, Tex., is at the Grand. J.Heymann of Los Olivos, Santa Barbara County, is at the Russ. S. W. Howell, « mimng man from Chicago, is a guest at the Grand. €. E. Mulford, an insurance man of Portland, Or., isat the California. G. Carston Kenyon, a planter from Hono- luly, is at the Califoraia. W. H. Baugh returned to his home here yesterday from Honolulu. W. E. Bowe of Srdney tered at the Cosmopolitan. Mrs. Lycett and family of Honolulu are staying at the Cosmopolitan. Joseph Altschul of New York, tobacco merchant, is at the Palace. K. Cosper, an electrician from Vallejo, is among the late arrivals at the Lick. E. B. Pixley, proprietor of the Pacific Ocean House at Santa Cruz, is at the Palace. Dr. R. W. Hill of San Pedro, a member of the State Board of Health, is at the Palace. T. Solomon and T. Mullens of Fresno are amoung the arrivals at the Cosmopolitan. ;eorge Lingo, a cattle-raiser of Birds Land- ing, is making a short stay at the Grand. W. R. Spalding of the Truckee Lumber Com- pany is at the Lick, registered from Truckee. A. Muller and A. P. Dryden, New Zealand mail agents, arrived yesterday at the Cali- fornia. James Gunn and wife arrived here on the steamer Mosna and are guests at the Cosmo- politan. . Dimon Jr. of Scattle, who went up to Skaguay on the steamer Noyo, arrived yester- day at the Lick. der of t on his way from yesterday at the Californin. Charles A. Garter, ex-United States District Attorney, has removed to Red Bluff, where he will continue the practice of law. Milton Perkins, son of Senator Perkins, was Australia, is regis- the large Glasgow, Seotland, & Australia, arrived { a passenger from Honolulu yesterday. He has returned to his home in Oakland. Frank Lawton of New York, the prolessional whistler, returned yesterday from his trip to Australia, and is staying at the Balawin. Dr. C. A. Rugeles, physician and member of the State Board of Health, is in town from Stockton, and is registered at the Grand. George R. Stewart of Crows Landing is at the Grand. He returned yesterday from Haweli, whither he took & drove cf cattle. Presiding Judge Seawell of the Superior Court has returned from his brief vacation, and is r.gain engaged in the trial of cases. Attorney Charles S. Rosener will leave for Junean, Alaska, in a few days for the purpose of engaging in the practice of his protession. Mrs. Nauman and Mrs. Moses, wives of the officers of the U. &. Marion, arrived yester- day from Honolulu and will join their hus- bands here. Harleigh Johnson of Santa Barbara, who has orange and lemon groves in Montecito, arrived last night at the Occidental, where he will re- main two weeks. Mrs. Atherton, wife of President J. B. Ath- erton of the Hono ulu firm of Castle & Cooke, is at the Occidental on her way to Missouri to visit her daughter. Mrs. Smith, mother of Clarence W. Smith, city passenger agent of the Burlington route, returned yesterday from a sojourn in Houo- lulu, and is at the Californis George C. Potter and A. A. Wilder of Homno- lulu, members of the Wilder Steamship Com- piny, are guests at the Occidenisl, having been pessengers on the Moana. Professor George Mead of the Untversity cf Chicago returned here yesterday from Hono- lulu, where he paid a visit to the Castles. He s accompanied by his wife and child and is on his way to Chicago. Among the arrivals here yesterday from Honolulu was Major George C. FPotter, Hawaiien Secretary of the Foreign Office, who, after an absence of sevenicen years, has come to San Francisco on & vacation. Judge C. W. Slack of the Superior Court has goue on a visit to his mother's lome for a week. It was generally conceded that he was entitled to that much rest after his long siege in the trial of the suit of the Falr estate against Mrs. Craven. Will Castle, whose father is one of the sugar firm of Castle & Cooke, Honoluly, is a late ar- rival at the Occidental. He is on his way to Harvard to enter upon his sophomore year. Miss Gestle accompanies him and will entera seminory in Philadelphia. Miss Allce Jones of Honolulu, daughter of P. C. Jones, capitalist and, under the Provi- sional Government, Minister of Finance, is at the Occidental on her way to Philadelphia, where she wiil reside with her married sister and prepare herself for Smith College. R. A. F. Penrose Jr. and John Brockman, of Arizona, mining experts, are guests at the Palace. Mr. Penrose is a gradnate of Harvard. where he rowed stroke on the college crew, In 1894 he was one of the professorsinthe geological department at Stanford University. Arthur A, Wilder, son of the Hawaiian steamship line proprietor, arrived at the Occidental yesterday from Honolulu. He is on his wayto Yale to take a post-graduate course in the law colleges. For a few days he will visit with his cousin, Cnarles Wilder, ihe local Hawaiian Consul-General. The two officials of the Commercial Cable Company who have been at the Palace for about ten davs will leave to-day for the East. Mr. Ward, manager of the company, will re- turn to New York, accompanied by Mrs. Ward; and Mr. Dickinson, in charge of the cable landing-place in Nova Scotia, will return to his post of duty. 8. Furuya, one of the editors of the Koku- min Shimbun (The Nation) of Yokohama, who arrived here yesterday on the Moanu, de- clares that there 1s absolutely no foundation for the reported landing of Japanese ex-sol- aiers in Hawaii; that the pro-annexation ele- ment is ouly too glad to create such sn im- pression, and that the recent landing of cool- ies, with more to follow, is simply the result of Japan’s removing the emigration act in force for a while and permitting the applica- tion from Hawaii for 1500 Japanese coolies to be filled. Among the arrivals here yesterday in the steamship Moana irom Australia and Haweii were & number of college students on the way East, Three are sons of Chief Justice Judd of Hawal They are: J. R. Judd, Yale 97, who will enter the College of Pnysicians and Sur- geons in New York City, and A. H. Judd and H. P. Judd, who will enter Yale as freshmen. With them are two sons of Baldwin, the mil- lionaire sugar-planter of Hawail. One, A. D, Baldwin, Yale '98, is returnicg for his senior year at New Haven. The other, W. D. Bald- win, together with A. M. Atherton, also son of a rich sugar-planter, will enter the medical department of Johns Hopkins University. They are ull guests at the Occidental. A Mr. Green of Australia, on his way to the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania as 8 freshman, was a fellow-passenger with them. e ———— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 23, —At the Plaza— H. Porter; Hoffmai—G. P. Baldwin, M. Alfen, E. Harrison; Sturtevant—F. Reno, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Reno; Murray Hill—J. Winship, Mrs. F. E. Tull, Mrs. M. Salisbury; Grand Union—J. W. Mallette, The reappointment of Naval Constructor Philip Hichborn to a second four-year term as chief of the Bureau of Construction and Re- | pairs in the Navy Department is of interest to | this coast from the fact that he was locaced here for nearly ten years, and his commission 1s credited to California. Philip Hichborn is & native of Charlestown, Mass., and served his apprenticeship as shipwright in the Boston Navy-yard under Naval Constructor B. F. De- iano and Master Shipwright Melvin Simmons. At the close of his spprenticeship he joined the ship Dashing Wave as carpenter and came | to San Francisco in that vessel in 1861, and | <oon after accepted the position of foreman shipwright at Ma# Island, being then only 23. In 1869 he was appointed assistant naval constructor, and in the following year was ordered East, where heserved in several navy yards, and in 1875 was commissioned naval constructor. In 1884 Mr. Hichborn was or- dered 1o Washington as assistant to the Chief of the Bureau of Construction, which posi- tion he filled up to the time of his apvoint- mentas chief in 1893, except & period of four months, when he was ordered to Europe to in- speet and report upon foreign dockyards. Upon the retirement of Chief Constructor Wilson Hichborn succeeded the latter. The work and responsibilities as Chief of the Bu- reaw of Construction have been largely aug- mented during his incumbency, and the dus ties are practically similar to those of the di- rector of construction in the British navy. His reappointment is the merited appreciation of ubility, and gives general satisfaction to everybody in the navy. He is especislly popu- | lar with subordinates, to whom he extends the courtesy not frequently met with from high officia MOMENTS WITH THE JESTERS. “ can’t understand this at all,” sald the perplexed young novelist. “Why, what's the matter?” asked. I sent my story to Washington for the pur- pose of having it copyrighted, but the author- | ities have just returned my fee, saying that it is not necessary for me to spend any money in protecting myself.”—Chicago Daily News. his friend | Mary bad a little lamb, But that was 1ong ago; She’s married now and has, I hear, A little kid or so. | —Cleveland Leader. | “T hear,” observed tne Peripatetic Philoso- | pher, ““that you have herc in New Yorka prestidigitateur who makes large-sized rose- | bushes grow out of a box of hair. Now, I shoula think such exhibitions would prove | vastly more entertaining, not to say more | wholesome, than others where, I am toid, ihe | entirc evening is taken up by comedians who tell daring stories.” “There’s not so mnch difference,” observed the new bosrder. “One rings in a bundle of old chestnuts and the other—'" He carefully folded his napkin. he other bundles in a chest of old ring- lets. Yes."” Weakly Tenplunks had performed another of his inimitable dodges and was gone.—New York Press. Now, professor,”’ said the young man with | musical asplrations, “I want you to tell me t you think of my voice.” was the emphatic reply. “I see | through you. You were sent here by my ene- | mics 10 get me arrested for profanity.” —Wash- ington Siar. “No,” said Mr. Hubblets, “I don’t find the atmosphere of -refinement here that we have | in Boston.” | Miss Westlake—Oh, if you're lookiug for an | atmosphere of refinement, we can furnish that, 100. We have a branch of the Standard 0Oil Works here.—Chicago Daily News. | “Dad,” says the farmer’s son,*here’s a paper | what says & man wuz lynched up north.” “est as I expected,” replied the old men. “Iallers did say the North would git in the Union arter & while!”—Atlanta Constitution. The Wife—Did the editor say your poem had | no merit ? | The Poet—Ob, no. He merely said it wasu’t the kind they peid for.—Town Topics. THE OLD HOMESTEAD, 1ts worn-ont acr-s faliow ije, Unpruned the orchard staid For they who tended them long since | Have gone 10 other lends- One 1o the prairies of the West And one across the sea; The rest bave reached that blest countrs Where pariirgs may not be. The elm boughs tap the skylight dim As, 10 the days axoue, They tapped 10 waken merrily I'be little folks at dawn, The woodbine curtains tenderly ‘I'he shattered window pane, Yet grants admittance Lo iis triends, ‘The sunshine and the rain. No step, no whisper breaks the hush, But hisi! & sweep of wings Athwart the attic’s dreaming dust, And tender twitierings. A tenant for the emptv nest? See—irom the window iedge A phaoe bird cals 10 its mate Upon the cradle’s edge. And in the cradle, vacant long, Four downy fi-dgeings peep And cuddie ciose. - They’ll dream of wings =d twitter in ihelr sleep Al through the quiet summer night; Whiie on the diney wa | Flit sileutiy the thil, welrd shapes ‘That come at moonil. h's call. Olife and love that were of yore! © xud 0ld house becert { To thee but memor ' Lreasured store Ard the litle birds are ‘eft One of thine own iy fn the West, And one acress the foam; The rest are in that firest land Of Howe, ~weel Home. Minnle Leona Upton in Zion's Herald. BRYAN GOT HIS ANSWER. A good story is going round among the trav- | eling men out West, says tne Nebraska State Journa. While recently ona trip along the Burlington and M ssouriline in Nebraska, Mr. Bryan was desirous of making a speechata | certain city at which the train made the usual stop of a few minutes. According to the story Mr. Bryan telegraphed to the officiais asking if the train could not be held at the station in question jor fificen minutes. It appears that there were several extra freights on the same division at the time, and to delay the passen- wer would have necessitated a delay of the freights. Atallevents Mr. Bryan was not pa icularly elated with the answer, as was ev denced by the absence of both the historic smile and its historic onward march. The officials had wired: ““The Burlington and Mis- .D:Htu not in politics; too busy hauling $1 wheat.” BOSTON BEPRATES 'BEANS. Boston Journal. Because a man was choked to death a lew days ago by a piece of steak vegetarians need not necessariiy rejoice. Peas and beans have been known to go the wrong way. THE OLD AND THE NEW. Atchison Globe. The old-fashioned womaun knew how to make a delicious peach cobbler; the new-fashioned woman says it isn’t good {or you. i | He has been twice married. | to 8witzerland, has returned to his home in | ologists for a mission in Abyssinia. | start for Jibutil and go on direct to Adis | Aceba, where, after having organized a de- | | and s he was not known at all then every oue | increase in business shall demand 1t. | who do not use tobscco are privileged 10 kiss PEQOPLE OF NOTE. More than 5000 copies of Captain Mahan’s “Life of Neison” have already been sold in England. Anpa Held is learning English. A year ago she did not know any, butis rapidly acquiring the language. The Duke of Westminster has more children than any other member of the British peerage. John L. Peak, recently United States Minister Kansas City and will resume his law practice. Ayoung doctor, M. Robert Wurtz, professor at the Paris School of Medicine, has been chosen as one of the leading French bacteri- He is to partment of vaccination, he will study the rinderpest and similar infectious maladies. Dumas the elder was not in the habit of counting his money, but did once, leaving it on the mantel while he left the room for a few minutes. When he returned and was giving some instructions to a servant he mechani- cally counted the pieces over again and found u lovis missing. **Well,” ho said, with a sigh, “considering that I never counted my money before, 1 can’t say it pays.” A chatr of music in the University of Minne- sota is to be endowed and offered to Fraulein Anna Schoen Rene, who has already done good work in that institution. Fraulemn Rene is a graduate of the Royal Academy in Berlin, where her musical education was completed at the expense of the old Kaiser Wilhelm after the death of her father, who Was one of the Emperor’s privy councilors. Dr. Denisenko, a Russian physician, has dis- covered that a fluid extract of the great celandine (Chelldonium msjus), administered | internally or by hypodermic injection, is a | cure for cancer. This is a new application of an old remedy, medical writers as far back as 1491 speaking of celandine as a cure for can- cer, and a work published in 1644 describes it as correcting vile and pernicious bodily bumors. DICK CROKER AS AN ORATOR. Chicago Times-Herald. Thera is one place in ihis country where they think Richard Croker is a great orator. It is out in Utan. “I never made a speech in my life,’” said Mr. Croker, “except by proxy. At the Democratic National Conven tion of 1885, held in St Louts, there were contesting delegations from Utah. One of these delegations was for Cleveland ana the other against him. Naturally our sympathies were with the iatter. When the Utan men fellows asked some of our men to have Croker present at the meeting of the committee on credentials to make a specch in their favor our feilows promised, thinking to | play a joke on me. Butlsent another man to sveak for me. He was irtroduced as Croker, was fooied. The speech he made them was a rattler, and it carried everything before it like a storm. To this day out in Utah they think I ara a great orater.’” “Who was the man that spoke for you?” “Bourke Cockran.” OUR MANUFACTURES ABROAD. " Philadelphia Record. More and more American manufacturers are | showing a disposition to invade markets here- | tofore deemed insccessible. Six iron and steel | manufacturers of Pittsburg and vicinity have | formed a company to go into the British mar- kets and seek trade. They have opened offices at Pittsburg and the company is capitalized at $110,000. The backing, it is stated, is suf- ficient to guATAntee any amount as soon as an A Lon- don agent has been appointed and an attempt will be made to transact business in Indin, South Americaand Japan. A specialty will be made of cotton ties, hoops, bands and other | manufactured prodnets. | | | | | ARE THE WEEPLESS PRIVILEGED? Boston Globe. | The motives of the Omaha girls who have organized themselves into a society for the suppression of the tobacco habit might be above suspicion if in ennouncing their re. fusal to kiss young men who use the weed | they did not announce also that young men them whenever they please. e ——— WHY THIS CHANGE OF TUNE? Indianapolis News. The Silverites had scant respect for the law | of suppl)l' and demand last summer. They printed elaborate tables, the purpose o Was 1o show that for years whoas aad it had been moving in “the same directions. They did not, it is true, make out a very good case, but their object was unmistakable. e 2ot LTIV —_— IS THERE A FAMINE IN FABRICE? | New York Commercial Advertiser. Practically every mill and factory of any im- portance 1n Rhode lsland is now running on full time, with every prospect that this condi- tion of things wili continue indefinitely, Has anybody heard that there isa *‘shoriage” of cotton and woolen fabrics in the old world ? S e TEXT FOR A SERMON. X Somerville Journal. People talk more or less about original sin, ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENT: 8aNTA Rosa—A. 8., City. There are no figures {hat give the exact population of Santa Rosa, a1 &l ke population is estimated at 8000. RATL IV SAN MaTE0—E.J. F. and E. A., City. Rail may be hunted in San Mateo County from October 15 to November 15 of each year. . Aima is pronounced as ALya—M. Me., Cit X ude and “ma” is «“al” is pronounced in altitude prononnced with the “a” being sounded as ‘g in ‘‘far,” “father” and “guard. HEALER—M. H. W., Alameda, Cal. This de- pariment canuot answer your question about a healer for the reason that it Goes no: adver- tise the business or address of any iadividual or firm. AUTHORS—M. L. T, City. Letiers addressed as foliows will reach the parties named: Wil liam Dean How mmonwealth avenue, Boston, Mass.; Thomas Bailey Aldrich, office of the 'Atlantic, Boston, Mass.; James Whil- comb Riley, Authors’ Club, New York City, Y.; John Vance Cheeney, Newberry brary, Chicago. In the game of ca- CasiNo—Subscriber, City the count is in the following order: big casino, little casino, aco and sweep. 1f in a game ol twenty-one points A tas twenty and B has thirteen, and in the iust round B gets cards, spudes, big casino, lit- tle casino aad two aces, and A gels Lwo aces, B counts first and goes out. Tue NortH Fork —W. C., Marysville, and others. There isno informatiou at this time ol the whereabouts of the steamer North Fork, bound for St. Michael. She 1s undoubtedy delayed in reaching her destination by reason of having ths amer Mare Isiand in tow. As soon us any informatiou is received about the vessel such information will ue pub- lished in the news columns of THE CALL. UNIVERSITY TEXTBOOKS—D. A., City. The fol- lowing named are the textbooks (grammar) used in Freneh, German, Spanish aud Italian at the University of California French, Spanish and Italia French grammar, in two ind puris troductory and advanced). b iar Ed Ph.D.. professor of modern languages and Sun- scrit, University of Nebraska: srammar of tho modern Spanish langusge. by William T. Knapp, Ph.D., LLu.; Hossteld, new method for learning the Italian language. Germun—Jagemann’s Syntax, Jognes-Meissner's German grammar, Brauue's Middie High Gerinan, Maig-Braune’s Goihic German, Gernan grammar in_lectures. Historical German Grammar — Gramatik der Deutschen Sprache, by A. Engeleiu; Lie Deutscie sprache, by O. B-hagel: Etymologisches Worter- buch der Deutschen Sprache (for reference), by Fr. Kluge. PoPULATION oF Crries—H. H., City. The latest official figures as to the population of the cities named is taken from census taken in 1890 and in i891: Munchen 10,300, Augs- burg 75,600, Nuremburg 142,600, Wurzburg 61,000, Bamberg 35,800, Bayreuth 24,600, Landshut 18,900, Regensburg (Ratisbon) 37, 900, Aschafenberg 13,400, Neuberg 7500, Ausbach 14,200, Passov 2000, Amberz 19,000, Speyer (Speirer) 17,600, Eichstadt 7500, ine giostadt 17.650, Kaisersiautern 37,000, Zwei- brucken 11,000, Stranssburg 60,200, Dresden 277,000, 025, Chemnitz _139,000. ' Alienburg 400, Stutigart 139,800, Karlsrube 73.700, Ko:n (Cologne) 282,000, Frankfuri-am-Muin 159.000, Frankiurt-on-der-Oder 55,000, Mainz 71,400, Cassel 72,500, Hale (including Gie- henstein) 115,900, Magdeburg: 202,200, Hanover 212,000, Fraunschwe'g 404,000, Bremen—stute’ 153,000, city 125,000, Ham- burg 569 38, Heidelberg 31,700, Lube nolm 246,500, Christianin 148,3 20,100, Lobenstein 3000, Ebersdort Leichtentels 3000, Krombach 5000, Hot 24,500, Kulmbach 7000, Schweinfurth 12,400. The popuiation of Scaleiz is ot given and Ehriurt does not ap- pear on the list. POSTAL BANKS A GOOD THING. compendious New York Tribune. In England postal savings banks have been in existence more than & quarier of a century, and have been established in all British cci- onies, in Russia, France, Sweden, [ta Aus- tria, Japan and almost In &ll other civilized countries, inciuding Hawali, where there are between 2000 and 3000 depositors with sav- ings amounting to more than a million. Last year in England there were 6,453,597 deposi- tors in these institutions, their funds amounts ing to nearly $500,000,000. CALIFORNIA glace frul c 1b. Townsend's* gt FINE eyeglasses, specs, 15¢ up. 35 Fourth st* i e ket SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Pres Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery. * e SUPINELY SUPERLATIVE. Rochester Post-lxpress. The meanest man in the United States lives in Atlant Iowa. He took his girl to the theater and her ticket won a bicyele that was offered by the managers. He ciaimed the bicycle, as he had bought the ticket. And yet Charlotte Smith would compel such a man to marry. 4 Mre slow’s Soothing Syrup " Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth~ ers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gum: lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and s the best remedy for Diarrheess, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 25caboitle o e S CopoNADO.—Atmosphere Is perfectly dry, sofs and mild, being entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Hound-trip tickets, by steam- ship, including fifteen days board at the Hoteldal Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 50 perday. APpLY 4 New Montgomery sireet. San Francisco. NEW TO-DAY. A A AN AN AN Philadelphia Shoe €o. Ho. 10 Tio Sr. B STAMPED ON A SHOE MEANS STANDARD OF MERIT Y0U HUST BUY HERE THERWISE YOU CANNOT BUY the shoes we are advertising for $2.25, for they ratall elsewhere for $3 & pair. That is no: exaggera ion. for here is the description: Ludies Exta rlve Viel Kid Lace Shoes. straizht foxed, néw coln toes and kid tips, doubl- soles and low heels, )kxl‘:d:pespecl.\]é,\ for our fail trade, | pers and solid, durs 2 X this week reduced to o e soles. For $2.25, All widths and sizes. HORSE NEAT, HIDE WELL SHOES, MABE, 80c. )80c. Something new. neat und durable in School ~hoes, made of Horse Hide: guar- anzeed for wear. square toes. pateni-leather tips, spring heels and double soles; EE wide. Sizes 8 to 1015, 80c Sizes 11to 2. 1$1.00 Country orders solicited. A~ Send for New lilustrated Catalogue, Address B. KATCHINSKI, FHILADELPHIA SHOEZ co., 10 Third St.. San Francisco. but is there any ?