The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 25, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1897. [ ATURDAY. JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Propriztor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. EPTEMBER 25, 1897 S PUBLICATION OFFICE..... 710 Market street, San Francisco Telephone Main 1863. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ..517 Clay street S74. ‘elephone Main THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towis for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE... ....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 strset; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open uatil 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Misston streets; open untii 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o’clock. 1243 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk sireet; open until 9:30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky sireets; open tiil 9 o'clock. BOSTON AND SAN JOAQUIN. OSTON, in casting her eyes around the world to see what people most need the ministrations of her reformers and apostles of culture, has beheld the valler of San Joaquin and seen that while the land is fair to look upon the lives of those who dwell within its borders are dolorous. certain of her citizens have declared that something must be done for the people of San Joaquin and, doubtless, by this time, a collection has been taken up to send, not money, but mission- aries to the valley which in nature is so sunny, but which 1n point of view of Boston 1s so benighted. According to the judgment of the Hubh the people of the fan Joaquin do not know how to amuse themselves. That is the burden of the preaching thundered against them. The cultured critics declare that in this beautiful valley “the refine- ments and intellectual pleasures of older towns are almost un- known’’ and, it is added, “in many of the townsof this great San Joaquin Valley there is absolutely nothing in the way of amusement between the all-night ball and the religious re- vival."” Boston dienitaries harkening unto these reports propose to send forth missionaries of cuiture and refined amusement to teach true pleasures and genuine entertainments to the deni- zens of the benighted valley and, as there are plenty of that kind of missionaries ready to leave the Hub, San Joaquin may reasonably count upon a large influx of new settiers and home- seekers before the next carnival time comes round. The people of the San Joaquin may be surprised at the in- formation that they do not know how to enjoy themselves, but none the less they will give a cordial weicome to tue new- comers. They will be glad to learn any game Boston has to teach, and there are doubtless many such games in the wide distance between the all-night ball and the religious revival. The missionary work, therefore, will be agreeable to both sides, and will form one of the pleasantest of the new industries ot the valley. Under the stimulus of the coming missionaries we may look to see all the towns of the San Joaquin blossom forth with | = new radiance of social life. The religious revival will give way to the ‘‘conversazione” and the all-night ball to the ‘‘soiree musicale.”” There will be ‘‘conferences literaire,”” Browning societies and metaphysical reunions in place of the jack- rabbit drives and the old-fashioned picnics, while to emphasize the Bostonian spirit of the new cult there may be, occesionally, John L. Sullivan exhibitions and lectures on high art, with stereopticon illustrations of the Dancing Bacchante and other subjects of meditation at the Hub. Truly the outlook is bright for the San Joaquin. Her maid- ens shall learn new tricks and her young men shall acquire irills. The all-night ball shall pass from her thoughts, and her {folks shall not go to church any more for the fun of the thing. All these glories are among the possibilities of the future; but there is no telling what may happen if the youth of the San Joaquin, instead of learning from the missionaries, should un- dertuke 10 teach them the mysteries of the presentamusements of the valley and prove to tbem the truth of the old saying, “The further West you go the more fun you have.” The widow who proposes to head a body of troops in the | Philippine Islands might remember with profit that had her husbsnd not been ambitious to do the same thing she would not have been a widow. However, it is but fair to give her credit for common-sense and believe that some correspondent is responsible for the report. President Kruger nas been told that he has only a short time to live, but it doesn’t seem to worry him. Oom Paul is a conservative gentleman who declines to believe everything he hears. According to cables the *‘London press scents war,” which is probably true, provided it has any nose for news, yet there is no occasion for its smelling in the direction of the Unitea States. England hasa few tittle affairs of its own. John L. Sullivan seems to have stepped into the political ring with all his old prejudice against so deporting himself as to be called a *'quitter.” 1t must not be overlooked that by annexing President Dole Uncle Sam wou!d acquire some of the finest whiskers that ever gave a toying zephyr joy. A PROPHET OF PROSPERITY. OMPTROLLER of th» Currency James H, Eckels has C protited by the improvement of the times to improve the tone of his oratory. He speaks much better under McKinley than he did under Cleveland, and, moreover, has learned a much pleasanter message to deliver to the peopie, Instead of being a mere cuckoo, repeating the same old song on the money question, as hs was under the last administra- tion, hs bas now become 2 genuine prophet of prosperity and talks iike a staiesman. The address at the banquet given him on Thursday even- ing by the Clearing-house Association at Denver was ar excel- lent example of whit an official utterance ought-to be on occasions of the kind. No one, of course, expected a weighty argument or elaborate discussion of financial topics at 2 baun- onet, and yet the address was by no means light or unim- portant. Itdealt with topics of serious public concern, and treated them in a manner to confirm the popular belief that we are now at the beginning of an era of prosperity which wili continue for many years to come. The important issue at this time as pointsd out by Mr. Eckels is to brinz about a better understanding between the Eastand the West. It will not do, as he said, for the East to boast itself of its possession of the surplus capital of the coun- try, which has come with age, thrift and opportunity; nor for the West to point with overweening pride to its stupendous re- source:. Surplus capital will avail the East nothing unless it is employed, and the great resources of the West will not be profitable until developed. There is, therefore, a mutual inter- est between the two sections and the welfare of each requires that the capital and the resourc2s should be brought together. Mr. Eckels described the natura! wealth of Colorado in terms so glowing as to attest the fullness of his appreciation of the hospitality of his Denver hosts. ‘We may in California take exception to the statement that *‘ver gold will soon be greater in value than that of any sister S:ate,” and to the further saying that the citizans of Colorado “‘can boast of a territory more nearly yossessed of all things es- sential to the support of a p2ople than any other Siate within the borders of the Union.”” These qualities belong 1o Califor- nia and not to Colorado. There will, however, be no dispute that Colorado, like all other Siates of the greater West, has a thousand opportunities to oifer to capital and to industry, and there will be no little gratification in the address with which the Comptroller of the Currency has directed public attention to them. Wherefore | THE TAX-LEVY QUESTION. WO evening contehporari:s — the one an ex-silurian around whose name there still cling many fond msmories of dollar-limit economy and disastrous deficits, the other an enthusiastic progressionist of general indiscretion—have | taken THE CALL lightly to task for cr ing the tax levy of the new Board of Supervisors. Neither imputes to us bad [ motives—a cheering sign—ard each displays the usual ignor- | ance and disregard of the law and the merits of the taxation con- | troversy, which for so many years have befogged the issue and | militated against the material interests of the city. Had there “ever been any attempt by the responsible organs of public | opinion in San Francisco to ascertain and determine the rea] | relations of the taxpayers to the municipality, or to set forth | and enforce their duty to it, we should not be where we are to- | day, with a full year of Rip Van Winkle slumber and dollar- limit economy before us. THE CALL does not complain of the new board’s tax | levy. Both these critics are mistaken on that point. So far | as this journal is concerned a dollar limit means simply that it | will pay less taxes than usual. Were we as blind to the best { interests of the city and as unmindful of the just demands of | posterity upon the pres:nt generation as those who concocted the levy passed on Monday by the new Board of Supervisors we should rejoice at the readvent-of silurianism, the continu- ance of the village Fire Department, the cessation of work upon Golden Gate Park and the reincarnation of the dust- | swept streets and foul-smelling sewers. Perhaps we have no | reason for thanking an ever-benevolent Providence for the capacity to ses that, although financially beneficial to indi- | viduals, such a policy in the end is destructive of the interests | of all; but we do nevertheless rejoice that whatever other newspapers may think upon this subject THE CALL is free of the taint of any such ‘“economy.” It is true we did indorse the appointment of the new Board of Supervisors. To that charge a plea of guilty is entered without benefit of clergy. But that indorsement was given on moral grounds. The old board had betrayed its trust and | brought down upon its head the execrations of all decent citi- zens. What more natural than that a journal, anxious at all times for a better government, should indorse the appoint- | ment of twelve such men as Governor Budd and Mayor Phe- ilan named for Supervisors? There are not ten disinterested | persons in San Francisco familiar with the facts of the case i who did not indorse that change. Even had we known that | the dollar-limit levy would have followed, with its grinding | parsimony and probable deficit, we still, in all probability, | would have indorsed the appointments. What sane man l\vould not prefer a silurian to a scallawag Board of Super- | visors? Nor is THE CALL at present discussing this matter with any hope that what it says may alter the situation for the ] better. It is now too late to amend the levy. No matt:r which | Board of Supervisors emerges from the Supreme Court with | the title to enact municipal legislation nothing can change. the financial outlook of th: city. The rival levies are substan- | tially alike. Both will undoubtedly produce a deficit. The | only possible distinction likely to be observed between them | later on will be that if the money is disbursed by the old board the deficit will be larger than if it is disbursed by the new | board. There is no way, as suggested by our ex-silurian con- temporary, to ‘‘mandamus” either board and compet it to in- crease the allowance for the County Clerk or any other de- | partment of the municipal government. The law required the tax levy to be passed by the Supervisors and signed by the Mayor on Monday last. No power short of the Legislature now exists for recalling or revising the ordinance then enacted. The difficulty with this entire subject is that few people understand it, and those who do are afraid to take the lead in pioneering an enlightened municipal policy. of uncertainty the demagoguss have been psrmitted to take possession of the question and enforce a cry of ‘‘economy,” which eventuates in deficits and silurianism. What sense is there in cutting down the levy for the general fund when 8 per cent in it is paid out on expenditures fixed by law and | which the courts have decided over and over again cannot be curtai'lei? What merit is there in a municipal policy which | strikes at the accepted streets, ths sewers, the schools and the | | public parks every tims it is deemed necessary to put money | into the pockets of the owners of real and parsonal property? | Are the 40,000 or 50,000 persons whose names are on the assessment rolls at the City Hall the only taxpayers in this city? Are they alone to enforce a parsimonious policy when every tenant who rents a house, every person who buys a suit of clothes, and every man, woman and child who eats a meal in San Francisco pays in proportion double the taxes? These are questions that have not recently been considsred or answered. Next year, at the conclusion of our Rip Van Winkle slumber, they will come up again, and they may as well be discussed now. Is San Francisco always to be led by the idle demagogues who promote “‘economy’’ by enforcing dollar limits and practice waste by encouraging extravagance and dishonesty in the disbursement of the public money? Who has the hardihood to declare that the crying need of San Fran- | cisco at the present time is not the abandonment of a silurian government and the installation of a truly honest administra- tion at the City Hali? Ogzden Goelet’s death was not only a shock to New York so- clety, but had a commercial significance. It seems that he was in the midst of negotiations for the transfer of his daughter to a titled person willing to accept her if properly dowered. Of course such a transaction is not a sale. Cattle are sold; pigs also—in fact, almost everything. But the sale of a daughter is wrong, and just what the law is tryinz to stop in Chinatown. Moreover, if the bargaining be resumed alter a period of bitter grief with black borders it cannot culminate in so vulgar a con- clusion as a sale. The danghter has beauty, presumably; gold without a doubt. The titled person has nothing but debts, a drawl and questionable relatives. Therefore, if he get her and her fortune the lot will go without any value received. Such a deal is not a sale. It's a give-awa, There seems something ominous in the circumstance that Judge Lynch issued the warrants for the arrest of Pennsyl- vania's quick-firing deputies. But perhaps this is another | Judge Lyneb. The old familiar one did not bother about war- rants much, and Pennsylvania had been looked upon as civil- ized to a point beyond his jurisdiction. Emperor Juseph and Emperor William kiss:d each other again before parting. Perhaps it was the prospect of this expe- rience that made them act so much like a pair of nervous old women on an occasion when they were expected to ba on their gooa behavior. The experience of being licked by Spain will probably be followed by that of being licked by Cuba for having been so slow to interfere, Probably every 2x4 nation on earth will then feel it a duty to batter the remains of us. it’s a dark outlook for Uncle Sam. Assistant Becretary of the Navy Roosevelt accuses of “obtundity” a court that triel and acquitted a guilty man. Everybody knew when Roosevelt went into the department he would do something radical. Reported outrages in Guatemala have not been heard of at Washington principally for the reason that the Department of State does not get its information from the columns of a yellow daily. Sometimes the Southern Pacific is buy watching its fences and at others il is putting up fences that the citizens of Oak- land will watch if they expect to have anything left unfenced. Allre-dy lawyers are flocking to Alaska, and litigation until now almost unknown may soon bs counted among the indus- l tries of the far north. As in all cases | PERSONAL. Sam Frankenheimer of Stoekton is at the Grand. Simon Levy, a merchant ot Visalis, is at the Grand, W. A. Brewer of San Mateo is at the Occi- dental, Rev. A. White of Greenwood !sat the Ocei- dental. R. H. Willey, an attorney of Martinez, is at the Grand. J. F. Chiles, a rancher of Davls, is registered 2t the Lick. John McGonigle, the Ventura journalist, is at the Lick. Dr. William H. Chase of New Yorx City isat | the Baldwin. H. R. Wood, a merchant of Denver, Colo., is at the Palace. R B. Butler, a raisin exporter of Fresno, isa guest at the Grand. State Senator J. H. Seawell of Mendocino ar- rived here last night. Frank H. Buck of Vacaville, an orchardist, is 8 guest at the Palace. W. F. Peterson, a confectioner of Sacra- mento, is at the Grand. AL Butler, a rancher of Point Reyes, is stay- ing at the Cosmopolitan. George Lingo, & cattleman of Birds Landing, isa late arrival at the Grand. E. C. Chester, who has alarge haberdashery in Seattle, is a guest at the Grand. Clifton G. Lavers, an orchardist of Loomis, arrived yesterday at the Occidental. Marion Biggs Jr, the Oroville capitalist, rancher and politician, is at the Grand. C.J. Brown, a hardware manufacturer of Chicago, is at the Grand, accompanied by his wife. J. B. McCann and O. McCann of Stockton are among the recent arrivals at the Cosmo- politan, C. E. Tinkham, one of the managers at Chico | of the Chico Lumber Company, is registered at the Grand. Thornton Fell, a barrister of Victoria, is at | the Lick, accompanied by his niece, Miss J. Reid of Victoria. Robert Graham, manager at Sacramento of the Armour Reirigerating Company, is regis- tered at the Palace. Professor Edward Howard Griggs, head of the department of ethics in Stanford, is registered at the Grand. Dr. J. L. Ord of Facific Grove, accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Peshine of Madrid, Spain, is at the Occidental. Timothy Mee, traveling pasaenger agent of the Rio Grande and Western Railway, returned last light from a ten days’ business trip, Professor William Henry Hudson of the English department at Stanford is at the Californfa, accompanied by Mrs. Hudson, Among the arrivals yesterday at the Occi- dental were 8. G. Magill Jr., R. Z. Johnston and W. W. Barry, officers1n the United States navy. James Whittaker of Galt, associated with Ray of Galtin the Whittaker-Ray publishing concern in this city, is & guestat the Occi dental. J. A. Fillmore of the Southern Pacific Com- pany will leave here io-morrow evening for | the Bast, and will be gone twenty days. Mr. | | WILL BE “&TO-MORROW-@» TO FURTHER DEMONSTRATE ITS BELIEF IN PRINTING INTERESTING MATTER AND STRIKING PIGTURES. SOME FEATURES: WARS OF THE WORLD. SOCIAL LIFE OF FRUIT PICKERS. THE VALUE OF A EARTH’S AWFUL CONVULSIONS. AND MANY MORE. Fillmore will take Mrs. Fillmore to New York for special medical treatment. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. fep!. 24.—At the St Cloud—G. C. Jensen, Stuart—E. Ardley. Sturtevant—R. N. Nason. New Amsterdam— Mr. and Mrs. 1. Baer. Cosmopolitan—C. Cus- ter. Colonade—F. Wilder. Vendome—F. F. Brown. C. Boyer is here buying. LITERARY EBULLIENCE. “Scientists are talking about the bicycle leg now," remarked Dukane, “A man doesn’t need to be a wheelman him. self 1o have that.” remarked Gaswell. “Notatall. Ho needsonlya family of boys and giris, and they will pull his leg into bicy- cle thape in no time. Pittsburg Chronicle. An old negro being informed thata mem- ber of his race had forged a note on a bank ex- claimed: “Dat’s what comes er eddication. I got ten chillun, but thank de Lawd, not one er dem kin read or write.”—Atlanta Coustitution. “That Mrs. Sharpleigh’s husband drinks a goo1 deal, doesn’t he ?” “I presume so—he's living with her yet.”’— | Chicago Journal. John L. Sullivan was whipped by a Boston hack-driver the other day. Itis understood that the whipping doesn’t worry him so muct as the fact that there were no gate receipts.— Cleveland Leader. Mistress—Didn’t the ladies who called leave cards ? Mnid—They wanted to, ma'am, but I told them vou had plenty of your own and better, too.—Boston Traveler. Mrs. Kingley—You say you like colored ser- vants better that white because they are slower. How is that? Mrs. Bingo—It takes them longer to leave.— Brooklyn Life, “I1 come totel1 you,” said an Osage City tenant to his landlord, “that my cellar is full of water.” “Well,” responded the landlord indig- nantly, “what do you expect for $10 a month —a cellar full of beer?'—Wichita Eagle. REFLECTBNS OF A BACHELOR, New York Press. xnanuon is generally more than half sweat. A man has to think he loves at least two women before he can know he loves one. When a smart man comes out of the little end of the horn he turns around and blows it. After a girl has once heard that some one ascinating she takes to looking queerly at the butcher. THE SUNDAY GALL | ward. This would give the Examiner $730, { | The managewment of the Reliance 1f some women could go to heaven for hus- bands they would probabiy end by picking out one of the four-winge baasts. Adam wasn't really lonesome in the garden of Eden, but he needed some one to tell him’ when to put on his heayy underc'othes, A TRAGTION ENGINE TO RUN ON ICE. L Editor Call: For the benefit of your many readers and those interested in devising some means of transporting supplies over the ice on the Yukon, I submit the inclosed sketch of & traction-engine adapted to the purpos: The principal feature of the invention con- sists in two hollow drums of stcel, thirty inehes or more in diameter, as driving-wheels, running across under the firebox of the botier, in order to obtain the rediating heat to keep the steel spikes in the drums trom clogzing up With ice and snow. It that is not suff through the axles. nt heat live steam or the exhaust could be let in A heavy steel sprocket chain tra:smits the power from the crank- shaft to the driving-wheeis and those connected with sidebar. The frame of the engine rests upon springs, and the weight of the entire engine upon the drivers. The steering wheel is provided with a center flange to cut a half-inch into the ice or ground, and also mounted in a gooseneck, to allow it to turn, and controlled by.a hand wheel and two spur gears. One of these engines of 20 horscpower, cver smooth ice or on good, soiid ground, would draw twen make five miles per hour. ty sleds loaded with a ton to the sled and | The steam-condensers, instead of being mounted upon the boiler, conld be attached direct to the drivers and mounted upon the frame. The entire en- gine could be covered in. The whole outfit—traction engine and twaaly sleds—could be built for about £3000. 8San Francisco, Sept. 22, 1897. DAvVID B. JAMES. A JEWEL OF CONSISTENCY. Stockton Inaependent. The Examiner, one of the most frantic de- nouncers of *‘government by fnjunction.” has invoked the aid of the injunction in the libel suit of Claus Spreckels against its publisher and editors. In anews article of half a col- umn the word “injunction” de:s not appear in that paper. It is a “writ of prohibition’ against Judge Campbell, intended to restrain that Judge from hearing the case. ——— THE BUNCO TOURNAMENT. San Bernaraino Times-Index. That basebail bunco affair, the Examiner tournament, is about 10 go to pieces. The | players are up in arms because the Examiner is giving only 20 per cent to the teams that ? vlay, 20 per cent to charity and the remaining | 60 percent to itself. Some of the San Francisco games produced an income of $1300 and up- EVIDENCE DIME. while the 1L nives would only get $130 each. | tub claims | the Examiner has made over $20,000 ont of the ‘tournament. The California Markets, Will & Fincks, Reliance and Heesemans have announced that they will not play unless a fair Qivision is msde. The sooner the Lx. aminer tonrnament is ended the better it will be for honest spor-. POPULATION OF HAWAIIL Chicago Record. The Record is in receipt of a copy of the last census of the republic of Hawali, taken in 1896. According to that document the popu- lation of the isiands is 109,020, divided ac- cording to sex and nationality as follows: « Narlonalities. Females, Totals. Hawalians .. 14,620 31,019 4,236 B,48d L1l 3086 | 844 2250 566 - 1,432 15 101 | 162 478 | 6,989 15191 | 516, 24,407 1n 13 . Other nationaiities Totals. The American population of these isiands is | but 3 per ceni of the total. The native Ha- | weiians covstitute nearly one-third of the en- tire population; the Chinese and Jupanese to- gether almost one-half. Unless the whole the- ory and policy of our Government are to be repudiated the inhubitants of these islands, if | annexed, must eventually be admitied to citi- zenship in the American Union and ulti- mately the islands will become & State. The situation in the Hawnilan Islands is sat- isiactory to the United States as it is. Thein- fluence of the country is predominant there. Aunexation can bring no substantial advan- tages not now emjoyed, while involving new responsibilities aud dangers. BUDD SHOWED GOOD SENSE. Santa Kosa Ripublican. It is bitter herbs to the Examiner that Governor Budd telegraphed Jonn D. Spreckels to meet him at the Palace Hotel the other evening for consaltation in regard to the new Board of Supervisors (o be appointed for San Francisco. That paper has denied thatsuch consultation was held, but it Is mistaken in regard to the matter, The gentlemen did meet by mppointment and spent an hour to- !smm- discussing the situation. Governor udd exhibiied n good deal of good sense in se:king the advice of Mr. Spreckels in this matter. s AMERICAN BUTTER IN EUROPE. Phi ade:phia Kecord. Asaresult of the third experimental ship- ment of butter to London by the Agriculturai Depariment, Western creamery butter soid at a profit of over 2 cents a pound, while New Eu%l-nd creamery brought lower prices than at home. There was no difference in the quality of the products; the difference was in ne s1ze of the packages. Wiih closer study MY LADY’S GARDEN. | There is a constant, nameless grace About the dear o.d-fashioned place 1 iexer can £ rget. 1 find it in tue hollyhocks Aud in tue scented rows of phlox, ‘The beds of asters, frazrant stucks, And aarliug mignons 3 The dear old flawers our grandams knerw, The aesr oid shrubs they loved and grew Still make it swie: and fair. The modern grower who insists On novelties rrom seed «men’s lists With bartarous names b-_botanists Will find small pieasure there. Thero year by vear the myrtle blows, And there thelily and the rose \ Bloom s+ they bioomed of old. And In tho-e fl wery, windiog way . Where love nnseen and josous str -ys, Love strayed uns-en in long-gone da; s, Aud heard his stcrets told. Yet if that garaen's grace were fled, And lush rans weeds were o'er iv spread, 1cou d not love it less: For though it’s sweetness is 80 rare, Llove it most of all that there, In pity of my heart's despair, My lady whisre ed “Yes’ in W ing er Gazette, JOHN L. IN BOSTON POLITICS Good Campaign Document. Santa Clare New: The candidacy of John L. Sullivan for the Mayoralty of the city of Bision is causing | comment all over the country, and the blue- bloods of the Hub are said to be consideranly agitated over the possibility that he may be elected. He is making a vigorous canvass and Das the supportof a large and active element that constitutes s power in politics. His entry in the politicai arena is the outcome of a slight given to him by Mayor Joshua Quincy n retusing to shake hands with him at a pub- lic recep:ion. Sullivan declared that he would get his re- | venge by running for Mayor for tbe purpose of beeting Quincy. Friends have rallied to his support 1n such numbers that it 1s possi- ble he may be elected. The article published in Tue CALL Sunday, in which Sullivan out- lined his poliey if elected, reads very well, and, outside of its flavor of the prizs ring. is & very good campaign document and is likely to appeal strongly to the proietariate. The goverument of the large cities is now 50 no- toriously corrupt and imbecile in many re- spects that it would seem as if no greater dis- grace couid be heaped upon them. Viewed in this light, Mr. Suilivan’s election should not be regerded as & very serious calamity. All Right as an Orator. San Jose News. John L. Sullivan hes published a statement of principles according to which he would rule the city government of Boston shouid he be successful in his aspirations to be elected Mayor. He declares that as far as speech- muking goes as & qua‘ification he is ali right, because “lung power is the principal thing | in an orator’ and few men have more ‘“of that sort of thing” than he. To illustrate, he deciaras that he lias often spoke Lo crowds of 10,000 people in London and used only one corner of his mouth, and never raw a crowd so big that Le would have 10 use the whole of his mouth to make himself heard, Allthis goes to show that pugilism de- velops the talking powers better than any other kind of exercise, but that needed no new evidence. The greater the puzilist the greater the talker, from John L. down to Corbett, Fitzsimmons ‘‘et id genus omne.” Ought to Make a Hit. Oakland Tribune. As a candidate for Mayor of Boston Joan L. Sullivan ought to make & hit. He has just is- sued an address to his constituents in which he deciares his policy to be as follows: “‘Treat the poor right. Give the under dog a_chance. Tax the man that can afford to pay. Heip tne poor women and girls that will be mothers of the next crop of citizens. Scare the thieves. Do everything in the open.” Stra’'ght From the Shoulder. Grass Valley Tidings. John L. Sullivan tells the people of classic Boston, in his eandidacy for Mayor: “Worse | eandidates than I have been elected by better people than you.” As an exchange remarks, this is surely a hit straight from the shoulder, and will Joggle the eye-glasses of many Greek: | reading professors and students. It Was Certainly Original. Alameda Encinal. If that letter of John L. Sulliven’sin THE CALL was not written by the redoubdtable ex- cheampion himself, as is hinted and even openly charged, then it was the work of some one with a marvelous power of imitation and an ability to draw & close jea picture of the ex- pugiiiss ideas and clothe them in his lan- gunge. Sullivan’s esrmarks can be seen ull through the article, wnicu is very interesting resding. INTERESTING, BUT VALUELESS, Chicago Chronicle. Dr. Archinard ot New Orleans is the most recent bacillus discoverer. He has segregated the germ of yellow fever. This will no déubt be hailed as a scientific triumph by medical gentlemen who pass their time peering into microscopes, but its utility will not be appar- ent to the layman. Pasteur’s discoveries of the bacili of various disenses have contribu- ted littie or nothing toward the prevention o the cure ot tnose diseases. . What is needed is the discovery not of the cause, but of the cure for bacterial infections. The search for bacilli resembles the sesrch for the north pole—inter- estiug, but valueless, e EVENTS SHATTzn A PLATFORM. Cinciunati Tribune. The Towa silver caiamity platiorm has one or two holes in it where the planks have dropped through. One of the planks reads: ‘‘Prosperity has not made its appearance; tha mills aud shops are closed Gown; the army of the unemvloyed is growing larger, an.1 the farmers in Jown are marketing their crops at lower prices than ever before.” This is one of the planks which took a bi . written in June. & Tt e e T ST of Engiish tasies American butter, which on the whole has already made a favorable im- pression abroad, ought to build up & gilt- edgea trade in the British metropols, and possibly beyoud, HOW THEY MAKE THEIR BREAD. Philadelphia Baltetin., Some men are so lazy that they loaf whil looking for work. i e I sell Loweil's old | University of Turin and an Itslian Senator, PEOPLE OF NOTE. Willlam Waldorf Astor is sboutto erect buge Napoleonic marble fountain at cllvcdeni his magnificent estate on the Thames, fay merly owned by the Duke of Westminster. John Jacob Astor indignantly denies the re- port that he gave $18 000 to buy J.am‘es Rus- home. Mr. Astor wishes it distinetly understood that he is not encourag- ing poetry. It is understood that asyndicate has “cor- nered” all of Whistler's future work in Eng- 1and, securing exclusive control, ani thata gallery exclusively Whistlerian will te opened shortly A recent writer says of Mrs, Oliphant that, though she appeared to read every:hing,she was seldom seen with & book in her hand. Her entire life was given up to the duty of making others happ; The Marquis de Leuville, itis announced, hascone to Paris with the cbjictof chai- lenging all the detractors of Prince Henriof Orleans, so long as the Prince is unable to wield a sword in his own defense. The daughter of the Czar of Russia, the little Grand Duchess Olga, is said to be the richest baby in the world. The week she was born £1,000,000, invested in Erglish and French securities, was settled upon her. Miss Ludie Steele of Barbourviile, Ky., has been appointed a member of the Kentucky State Bourd of Scheol Exrmivers. She fsthe first woman in the Stat 0 occupy such & place. Miss Steele is only 22 years old. A collection of Grecinn snd Asia Minor coins and medals which belonged 1o the late W. H. Waddington has been purchased by the French Government for 425,000 irancs, though the widow had better offers from Ber- lin and London. Tommaso Vallauri, professor of Latinat the died recently st the age of 92 years. He ed- ited Plautus and other classics, wrote hisories of Latin and Italian litersture and several books on Italian history. ANSWERéif(SiCORHESj-dNDENTSA MARRIAGE LICENSE—J., city. The fec for a marriage license is Cherles Cour- , and was buried 1n PLACE OF BURTAL—). tois died of cardaic drops Laurel Hill Cemetery, F1yr 1sLANDs—M., Stockton, Cal The only way to send money from San Francisco to the Fiji 1slands is to buy an exchange on London, Eug. 3 HAMBURG-LIVERPOOL—A. D. K., city. This department s unable to find the statistics asked for in relation to Hamburg and Liver- pool. R. B. Ewalx M. D., City. R.B.S8wain died in this city Juue 14, 1872, at 23 Eleventh street, and his remains weie laid at rest in Laurel Hiil Cemetery. TwENTY-DOLLAR PiECE—F. F., City. In a $20 plece coined in tne mints of the United States there are 464.4 grains of pure gold and 51.6 grains ol ailoy, equal to 516 grains. FIGURES —Slatisticlan, Oakland, Cal. The figures submitted are those that were given out from the Treasury Departmentat Wash- ington July 30 last, except as to the year 1895 IRELAND—D., City. The greatest length of Ireland is from Fair Head in Antrim, to Crow Heaa in Kerry, 306 miles; its greatest mer- idional leugth is not more than 225 miles: its | greatest breaath, between the extreme points of Mayo and Downs, 1s 182 miles, but between lway Bay and Dublin it is not more than 120 miles. MUSICIANS IN THE NAVY—E. C. W., City. In tke Uulted States navy the pay of a band- masier is $52 per month; chief musician, 5; musician of the first class, $32; second 30. In the marine corps the leader of the band is paid § & first-cluss musician, $34; second c.ass, $22, and drummer snd tiier, $13. NEVADA—R. G. I, City. The extreme leagth of the Siate of Nevada from north to south is 483 miles; its greatest breadth from east to west is 423 miles. It contains 110,700 square miles, 70,848,000 acres. Itranks fourth 1n ter« ritorial area. The S:ates that have a gross ares in square miles. incluaing land and water, of more than 100.000 miles are: Texas, 265,7 California, 158,360; Montans, 146.080; Ne- vada, 110,700, and Colorado, 103,925. b “HEAR, HEAR”—S. M. J., City. “Hear, hear,” the interjection so often used by Euglish peo- ple at public assemblages, is a Scriptural phrase. It is to be found in II Sam- uel xx:16: ‘‘Then cried a woman out of the city, Hear, hear!” Lord Macaulay in his His : Eagland gives the following account ise of the exclamation in English | usage: “The King. therefore, on the fifth cay after he had been proclaimed, went with royal state to the House of Lords, and took his seaton the throne. The Commons was called in, andhe, with many gracious expressioas, reminded his hearers cf the perilous situa- tion of the country, aud exhorted them to take such steps as might prevent unnecessary delay in the trans- action of public business. His speech was received hy the gentiemen Who crowded the bar with the deep hum with which our ances- tors were wont to_indicate approbation, and which was often heard in piaces more sacred than the Chamber of the Peers. As soon as hie had retized a bill deelaring the convention of Parliament was laid ou the table of the Lords and rapidly passed by them. In the Commons the debaie was warm. The House resolved itself into & committee of the whole, aud 5o | great was the excitement that when ' the au- thority of the Speaker was withdrawn it was hardiy possible to preserve order. The phrase, ‘Hear him,’ was used, and it was one that had origivaily been used to silence irregular noises, ard 10 remind members of their du- ties, and from taat iime on it becume gradu- ally what it is now. a cry indicative, according to the tone, of admiration, acquiescence, i ignation or derision.” CALIFORNIA glnce fruits, H50¢ ib. Townsend's® < e SPECIAL information daiiy to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * P A GREAT SCCRE. New York Mail and Express. The value of our imports during August was §39.876,640, the smallest for any month In eighteen yeara. The exports during August were valued at $79,497,820, the largest of any) August recorded by the Bureau of Statistics and an increass over those for Angust, 1896, of $12,807,839 Here Is a thirty-day score whicn broadens the smile on the face of the country and irdicates what the Zarmer is doing with his surplus grain. to the hair by PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM. HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns, 15 cts. B IN THE RIGHT PLACE. Philadelphia Builetin. Mr. Wilson was a signal failure asa tariff maker, but nd man in the country is better equipped to run a co'leze. He was one of the unhappy scholars in polities, but in the quiet old cioisters of Washington and Lee he will | find life once more worth livingin the good times under the Dingley tariff. e NEW TO-DAY. Royal makes the food pure, ‘wholesome and delicious. Absolutely Pure ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO,, NEW YORX. |