The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 3, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, Call - - .OQTOBER % I&)Z JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE. 710 Market street, San Franciseo Telephone Main 1868, EDITORIAL RCOMS 517 Clay street Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by “carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week, ‘By ‘inail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. One year, by mail, §1.50 OAKLAND. OFFICE........... cesenenns v....908 Broadway NEW-YORK OFFICE. ....... BRANCH OFFICES Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30.o’clock. 339 Hayes sireet; open untl 9:3) o'clock. 615 Larkin street; op2n 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; open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street; open until 9:30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second .Roowms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. snd Kerntucky sireets; open till 9 o’clock- MONUMENTS FOR THE PARK. OLDEN GATE PARK isin a fair way to receive several noiable additions to the statuary that now adorns it. Steps have been already taken to provide monuments or memorials of some kind within its limits to Lincoln, Baker, Burns and Moore, and now there has been projected a move® ment to add to these a monument to Goethe and Schiller. This tendency of our fellow-citizens of foreign birth or de- scent 1o do honor in San Francisco 10 the great poets of their fatherland is deserving of every encouragement that can be given it. America is in the fullest sense ‘‘the heir of all the ages,” and bas a right to claim a share of all that the genius of the O!d Worid has left for the enjoyment of the human intel- lect. As our people are descendants of all nations the American of the future who is to ve the result of their commingled blood will look tothe great men of all nations as a part and parcel of lis Heritage. . In an especial sense it will be fitting that a monument should stand in our park {o Goethe and to Schiller. No people are contributing more to the making of the American nation and the molding of American life in these later years than the Ger- mal They have not only come into the couniry in large numbers, but they have brought to us a calture that has re- sulted.in a vast benefit to the communities in which they have settled. Their music, their turn vereins, their social forms have infused a new force into American society at large and have done much to bring about the happy transformation that in Tecent years has made American culture and American man- ners:so different trom what they were in the days before the era of German immigration. As for Goethe and Schiller themselves, all the world will gladly do honor to them. German by birth they beiong to all bumanity by their cenius. Their immortal woras nave added to the intellectual lile of all who have lived in the enjoyment of medern cuiture, and it is not upon our German jellow-citi- zens ‘only should be imposed the task of raising the money needed toerect a suitable monument in Golden Gate Park to commemorate their genins and manifest our appreciation of it. That is « task in which every cultured citizen should do his snare and every liberal man delizht in taking part. The man who incites another to steal cannot claim one overcoming degree of virtue, He caunot wrap his velvet offic ceat about his rotund form and how! impressively. He 1s as deep in tne mud as his creatare in the mire. Fagin did not for a long time come so directly into contact with the polic: as Oliver Twist did, and yet Fagin was no salnt. The Eraminer Teporier who stole a copy of THE CALL was simply detailea to commit. larceny. Now the man who detailed this reporter and who is now demanding the discharge of an innocent hackman Wwho had noknowledge that he was being made party toa larcen- ous raid 19'not exactly fair. If anybody merits discharge it is the person who, to use a common phrase that covers the case, put up the job. Let him discharge himself peremptorily, and hear the sound of joyous acclaim. It is not seemly for him to threaten to “burn up'” hackmen. Suppose hackmen should re- taliate? What a cinder he would be. Because some citizens of Virginia found the body of a white woman hanging from a tree they have adopted the conclusion that she was lynched by negroes, and great is the indigravion thezeat. There is no evidence that their conclusion is correctr indeed, evidence is rather the other way, but the verdict seems to give preat satisfaction to the people rendering it. A sequel may. be expected soon in the form of a series of lynch ings most soothing to the pang of indignation. The engineer who permitted two young women to ride on his locomotive has been suspended for thirty days. It would be only just in the yellow journal that spread the incident into an exploit worth a poorly written column and & badly drawn picture to pay that engineer his salary so as to enable him to enjoy a vacation thatin all probability he can ill afford. Southern Pacific “spotiers” have caused the arrest of a number of newsboys, but conviction will not be so simple a matter. The word of a “‘spotter’ may be accepted by a cor- poration, bui ro jury has ever been so dense as to believe it without corroborative evidence. At Jeast it is a relief to learn that Perjurer Turner will go to p_rison at last. An impression has been forming that the Supe- rior courts have been devoting 100 much valuable time to the Pprocess of not convicting him. The City Hali Commissioners have invited the Supervisors, concerned about a leaky 100f, to attend to their own business, Roofs may leak, but dignity must be preserved. THE CINCH ON THE TAX LEVY. S of Unaerwriters areduction in the rates of insurance in all parts of the city. She will have to be satisfied, however, with a reduction on risks taken in the outlying sections only, and indeed, under the circumstances, may be well pleased to have gained ever that much. 1t has been understood thg; the establishment of & paid Fire Department would be ccotlpnnied bv a general reduction of fire risks, and this, it seems, the Board of Underwriters were willing to grant. The blighit of the deficit tax levy, however, fell upon these blossoming promises ana destroved them. The provision made for the Fire Department by the levy is inade- quate 10 its needs. It affords means for httle or no improve- ment. The fire ricks, therefore, remain high throughout the business portions of the city, and property-owners will have to way heavily in the form of insurance for the parsimony of the Mayor. This is the first bitter fruit that the People have to gather from the seed planted by the advocates of the dollar-limit scheme at all hazards. It is estimated that if the revenue granted the Fire Department had been sufficient to imtl!y a re- duction in therate of insurance over the whole municipality, there would have been a saving to the city in that item alone of aboat $250,000 annually. This isa costly as wellasa striking illus- tration of what the proverb calls “saving ai the spigot and wasting at the bung.” . It is, however, useless to cry over spilt milk. The new Bupervisors followed the advice of the Mayor, who, in turn, fol- ‘lowed the fakers who desired him to make the grand-stand play of the dollar limit, and now every properiy-owner outside cer- tain districts, where ‘reduced rates have been provided, will have to pcy—and grin'and bear it. The first lesson of the folly of the deficit levy is before us. There are others to come, 5 —_— AN FRANCISCO hoped to obtain. this fall from the Board “On the verge of géneral upheaval.” Such is a.line over recent. telegraphic news. No more than tnis line need be read. 1t’s Central America, of course, and if it were not on that verge ‘the people there would be uneasy, thinking that something was " the matter. 8 3 | A CASE OF PROPOSED GRAND LARCENY. HE proposition ‘to annex the Hawaiian Isiands to the United States under present conditions is, in all its con- stituent particles, a proposition /to steal them. Of right they belong to the people who inhabit them. No foreigner has any equitable claim, either by purchase, conquest or discovery, by.which he can honestly appropriate them to his own use. Every argument so far advanced *by the “statesmen,’” East and West, to sustain the larceny of these islands has reposed on no higher plane than this: We want the territory ; we can make something by taking it: we are strong enough to take it, and, although history may consider our act a theft, we are dealing with the. present, and we propose to commit the crime. Yet, careless as Americans of the present generation may be of the demands upon them of an enlightened public moral- ity, there is no doubt that it is their duty to reflect a long time before they connive at or indorss the annexation of the Ha- waiian Islands. If the native islanders are a weak and declining race, all the more reason why we should protect and uphold their Government. Why should 70,000,000 civilized Ameri- cans steal a country because its native population is no longer able to defend it against the aggressions of commercial and business schemers? There is no distinction between public and private larceny. If it is wrong for an indiyidual to commit larceny it is wrong for a nation to commit it. After all, is it not a mean and despicable act for the great and glorious nation of Washington—the land of the free and the home of the brave—the refuge of the oppressed and down- trodden of the world—the nation in which justice and political equality thrive side by side in a virgin soil, to descend to the forcible appropriation of a country which does not belong to it simply because its owners are no longer able to defend'it? Would it not be more manly for us to try to steal something from England, or Russia, or Germany, or from some other country which could give us a fight for the spoils? Besides these moral questions, there are economic con- siderations involved in the proposed annexation of the Hawaiian Islands. For many vears €alifornians have been fighting Chinese and Japanese immigration. At one time the State fairly rang with the appeals of our people to the Ameri- can Congress to pass an act excluding the former race from the country. We opposed the immigration of Chinese be- cause we believed they were a non-assimilable race, and that their presence here was injurious to if not destructive of our civilization. We claimed that it was impossible to compete with them in business, and that if left to overwhelm us their capacity for living cheaply and their vices would eventually destroy us. Congress finally passed a law excluding all Chinese from the United States except those of certain favored classes. In the Hawaiian Islands there are 60,000 Chinese and Japanese ready for annexation. To be sure, the proposed treaty says they are not to come here. But that is bosh. The man-deal- ers of Hongkong who trafficked in return certificates, prior residents, coolie contracts, and “merchants,” “‘students” and *“travelers” will find a way to set aside that clause of the treaty, even if the very act of annexation does not legally set it aside. The question is, do the people of California who spent twenty years fighting 150,000 Chinese coolies and their con- tract owners now desire to annex 60,000 Chinese and Japanese coolies in the Hawaiian Islands? If the good people of the United States really desire to acquire these islands for political, war or commerciai pur- poses, there is but one honorable Way for them to preceed. As a preliminary to all treaties, they should secure, practically, the unanimous consent of the native population. When the men and women to whom the isldnds really belong desire an- nexation, it will be time encughto consider the conditions on which their country shall come into the Union. Annexation on the lines so far laid down is grand larceny, pure and sim- ple. Itis more; it would be a disgrace to American justice, to American character and to American civilization. A Coroner’s jury is sometimes guilty of processes of reason difficult to follow. For instance the Oakland verdict exonera- ting from biame a nurse who had given a babe carbolic acid when under instructions to give it & soothing mixture is open to adverse criticism. One of the prime objects in hiring a nurse for a babe is supposed to be to protect the irnfant against carbolic acid and the other ills to which the new-born is sab- ject. That nurse has mistaken her calling. She ought at least to train herself for a period of years in the rearing of kittens, which having nine lives, would have a chance to reach cathood, or succumbing to her attentions, leave no aching void. People of Sandon, B. C., were too hasty in their plan to hang a suspicious man suspected of being an Examiner correspondent, Merely to be suspected of being a thing like that should not be 'considered a capital offence. DEMOCRACY’S INCUBUS, R. BRYAN'S letter to his supporters in New York will be received with varying emotions. The Democrats of that city remember that taking the boy orator’s advice and following his flag last year brought sorrow and defeat. In 1892 the Demoeratic majority in New York Couaty wa s 76,300, and in Kings 29,655, a total of 105955. Iu 1896 the Republican majority in New York County was 20,735, and in Kings 32,253, a total of 52,988. As the two counties now form Greater New York the loss of 158,943 votes is remembered as a great fire that burned many fingers and will burn masy more if kind led again, The Chicago platform or nothing is, however, the demand of Mr. Bryan, while the party whimpers that the pill is bigger than the patient. The factisthe Democracy is uffering from a national boss, who is a perpetual candidate for the Presi- dency, and thinks that the Solid South and some Republican States affected by the silver craze added to bad crops that may happen before 1900, and by possible epidemics of cholera, yellow fever and grippe, may elevate him to tnat office without the help of New York. He knows also that if the New York Demo- crats abaudon the Chicago platform it will be generally de- serted, and he will be left in the enchantment of his own com- pany, to the fascination of admiring himself, and bereaved ot what Brother Mills would call even “the negative frieadship’’ of politicians. i Hencs the apostolic | letter to tne brethren of the *un. crowned crpital,” whatever that may be, advising them to stand on tue burning deck and never to give up a ship that has already sunk out of sight. —_— The Government has endeavored to notity W. G. You ng of Kelseyville tnat he has been appointed Deputy Revenue Col- lector, but is hampered somewhat by the circumstance that Mr. Young is dead. He managed to survive the civil service examination, however, which shows that his vitality was not inconsiderable. Once more the courts have declared that people who can’t legally be married ashore can't find the desired legality by eoing three miles to sea. This may be s surprise 10 couples who have tried it, but the rest ot the world has a beautiful chance to tay, *I told you so.” It the controversy over seals has amounted to- nothing else, it has given a lot of eminent gentiemen an opportunity to call each other liars, which must be reckoned little less than a loxury. Arbitration having decided in favor of Nica: igua a dis- pute with Costa Rica, war may naturally be expected. Arbi- tration is often valuable merély in holding a quarrel in abey- ance. - . 1 ' — Fighting in Guatemala seems to proceed upon the theory that anybody who spies a head must, asa patriot, proceed forth- | with to crack the same. 1897. THE NEW YORK ELECTION. ITH four tickets in the field the Republicans of New York ought to win by a handsome majority and inaugu- rate the new mnuaicipal government. It is true that both New York and Brookiyn under normal conditions are Democratic, and asa consequence Greater New York shou!d be Democratic also, but we are not living in normal times. Bry- anism has destroyed Democracy, and it is not at all likely that either wing of the disrupted party will be able to dominate the politics of the combined city as that of its two principal divi- sions was dominated of old by the united party. 2 The only danger that threatened Republican success in Greater New York was the nomination ot a Citiz ns’ ticket headed by Seth Low, joinea to the possivility that there might be a united Democracy under the lead of Tamanany. Thisdan- ger has been weakened by the divisionsin the Democratic party over the silver question. Tammany refused at the last moment | to 1ndorse the Chicago platiorm, and therefore the silver men | will vote for Henry George, thereby drawing from the Tam- | many candidate a number of votes more than sufficent to counterbalance any losses to the Republican party caused by the mugwump movement of Mr. Seth Low. 1n the general division of parties in the contest the Repub- licans have a marked advantage over all factions of their op- ponents in the character and reputation of their candidate. Benjamin F. Tracy is one of the comparatively few men who in a Cabinet position succeed in making a name in politics that survives their term of office. His administration of the Department of the Navy was one of the marked successes of the Harrison administration, and he will have in this contest the support of a large number of independent voters by reason of the sterling executive qualities he has shown himself to pos- sess. There was at one time a strong pressure brought to bear upon the Republican leaders of New York and Brooklyn to force them to take up the Citizens' candidate, Mr. Low, and many doubtful persons feared unless that were done Tammany would have a walkover. Mr. Platt and his colleagues, however, never wavered in their determination to make a straight out Republi- can nomination. The rank and file of the party stood with them, and the wisdom of their course is now becoming appar- | ent. A victory under Low would not have been a Republicun victory. It would have meant an administration purely per- sonal and without responsibility to any organized par.y of citi- zeus. Nothing of permanent value could have been gained for the new municipality by the success of such a combination. A victory for Mr. Tracy wiil mean the organization of the munici- | pality under the direction of the Republican party and ~the adoption of a course of policy which will be continuous becauss founded upon a permanent organization of citizens, The out- look for the coming metropolitan municipality sis therefore bright with promises of the coming of an administration that will start its executive machinery in the right way and estab- lish precedents that will be of benefit as long as the new charter remains ia forcs. | CHANCE FOR HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT. TTORNEY-GENERAL FITZGERALD, in response to an Ainqnir)' irom tbe State Department of Highways, has given un opinion that under the present law a county has authority to issue bonds for road purposes, that property within municipalities in the county is subject to taxation for the pay- ment of such bonds, and thata Board ot Supervisors has no authority to transfer money from the general fund to the road : funds and expend it for rosd purposes. It will be seen from this opinion that while Supervisors can- not make use of the general fund o6f the counties to add to the sums expended for road work there is stili a means of provid- ing for the expense of the much-needed work. The law permits the 1ssuing of bonds for such purposes. Any county that feels the need of better highways and is willing to undertake them can do so without imposing the whole cost upon a single tax | levy. Tbe authority to issue bonds means the liberty to go abead in any county where pubiic opinion is ready for the enterprise. Whether or not it would be advisabie to 1ssue bonds and | begin at once the work of extensive highway improvements is @ question that each county must determine for itself. The answer will’be dependent upon local conditions. The needs of one locality are not those of anotier, and only by a study of the peculiar relations of its highways to the general welfare of any particular community can it be decided that it would be be tter for that community to have a public debt and batter roads rather than jreedom from such indebtednsss with bad roads. It is to the study of the conditions of roadways in the sev- eral counties that the State Department of Highways will now direct its attention. A way is open under the law for road im- provements, and wherever such improvements are necessary the people should profit by it. The State Department is doing good work in urging upon the peopie the importance of the subject. Crlifornia ought to have as good roads as any in the world, and there is no reason why the accomplishment of them thould be postponed to future generations. AGAINST THE PUBLIC GOOD. EREONS of wealth who avoid investing 1t in wage-paying enterprises that make a market for raw material and pro- duce articies of commerce are always promoting bond issues and mortgage schemes to provide a way to profitably invest in interest-paying securities, In order that their income may be independent of any personal exertion. It is entirely natural that Mavor Phelan should favor this latter class of investments, and plan a deficiency in the reye- nues of this city, which he declares will be met by issuing bonds. We warn the Supervisors against this policy. 1f the board adopt th2 Mayor’s suggestion it will get a reputation as hard to get rid of as Luetgert found his wife, and that will hardly all disappear even if boiled in potash. No city which wishes to invite enterprise and preserve its rank issues bonds for currentexpenses. A bond issue should be resorted to only fo acquire new public property or effect great permanent improvements of such value to the future as to warrant the transfer to posterity of a share of the cost. It is all out of line with any sane view of policy to transfer to the future the present cost of government. Of course this does not affect the bond-investing class represented by the Mayor, who neatly avoid paying their present share of taxes, and instead of transferring it to their posterity hand down the interest-bearin g bonds. BIBLES WITH BLUNDERS. Of curious Bibles, the names of which figure occasionally in sales, the following are the best known: The “Vinegar” Bible is so called because "“The Parable of the Vineyard” is vrinted “Parable of the Vinegar.”” The date of this Bible is 1717. The “Servant” Bible makes the err r of printing *Servant” for “Serpent” in the thira chapter of Genesis, thus: “Now, the servant was more subtle than any beast of the field.” The “Judas” Bible has & bad typographlcal error, substituting Judas for the Savior. “Then cometh Judas with them into a place celled Gethsemane.” The “Wicked” Bible is of 1631, and the *not'’ isleit out in the seventh commanament. The printer paid for that blunder, so it it recorded, to the amqunt of £300. The **Pagaz’” Bible contains: in 1ts illustrations some terrible anachronisms. It was published in 1572, at the time when the same wood cuts served for many purposes. ‘At the head of St John’s first Epistle, chapter 1, appear Mount Olympus, Leds, the siren; | Daphne and Apollo. The least that can be said of the pictures is tha | they are good examples of old art. The ““Bugge” Bible is exceedingiy rare. Psalm x Matthew Bible (1551), ‘So that thou shalt not nede to anye buzges by nyghte.” By bugge is meant “bogie. “Bugge” Bible will bring $300 or more, Occasionally the “Breeches” Bible turns up. In Genesis, ili:7, the text reads: “And they sewed fig-tree leaves together and made -themselves breeches.”” Coverdale makes it “apurns,” and, perhaps, comes uearer to primitive fashions. A queer mistake is in what is called the “He” Bible, In Ruth, 1i:15, the comrositor unsexed Ruth, and made her “he.”” This blun der wasprinted in 1611. The edition in which the word is corrected is known as the “She” Bibie. ' The “Treacle” Bible is the one {n which the *balm of Gilead” (Jere- miah, vill) is made to read, “There.is no more treacle at Galaad.” When this doutls blunder was made, in 1577, translator and printer were held to task, and all the copies were destroyed, but some few escaped. ‘“Treacle” or “triacle” 13 not after all such a. blunder, be, cause in the sixteenth century “irescic” meant any kind of an anti. ‘dote, or & mixture which assuaged pain. G ‘was, perhaps, the reads In the rayed for A perfect The *‘Wooden Leg’ Bible 1s 50 calied from a EUROPEAN GAVALRY IN JIME OF WAR. HE different branches of cavalry appertaining to the peace estaplishment of the five Continental great powers are composed as follows: Fran cc—26 regimerts of Dragoons. 13 of Hussars, 12 of Cuirassiers, 20 of Chasscurs. Total, 71 rgiments. Germany—29 1egiments of Lragoons, 20 of Hussars, 12 of Cutrassiers, 26 of Unlane. Total, 87 regiments. 3 Russio—48 regiments of Dragcons, 1s of Line Cossacks and in the Garde Imperiale, 2 of Hussars, 2 of Uhlans, 4 of Cuirassiers. Tota’, 70 regiments. In time of war Russia depends largely on her irregular cavalry, the Cossacks. Austria—14 regiments of -Drageons, 16 of Hussars, 11 Total, 41 regiments. Ttaly—12 1egiments Dragoons, 10 of Cavallcgieri: Total, 22 regiments. All these countries in time of war make use of iheir mounted gon- darmes (country police). of UNlans. This refers particularly-to France, whose geadarmes ere in closer relation to her army than s -the casé in other countries. The comparative smallnessof the Italian cavalry is due to Italy’s geographical con- dition, which isnot-favorable to | the employment of large cavairy masses. In describing the uses which are made of the cavairy in all lts Lraachesin time of war 1t is best to refer to Germany, as her cav- alry bas been employed 1aore ire- quently and on & larger scaie in modern wars than that of any other country. All German cavalfy regiments are composed of five squadrons, of which four squadrons of - 600 horses each are destined to take the field, while the fifth squadron remains at home for recruiting An 0 flicer of the French ChGsseurs' gng gepot service. - All cavalry- men except the officers are armed with repeating carbines and heavy cavalry swords; the form of the // latter, however, is different in each of the four branches. Lances used to be carried by Uhlans only, but have since 1880 been fur- nished to the entire cavairy, be- cause they proved so effective in the hands of tbe Uhlansin the French war. The best military authorities prophesy they will prove of much value in the next war; but as yet other countries have not imitated Germany in this respect. In Ausiria not even the Uhlans, who in that country belong to the light cavalry, are provided with lances. In the other countries lances are ca ried by the Uhlans, Cossack Chasseurs and Cavallegieri. The employment of cavalry i battie depends eutirely on the disposition of the commanding general. Hemay use any or all of tbe different branches to charge ths 'enemy’s forces,to establish or destroy communica- tions, to pursue the enemy to make prisoners, to furnish safe- > guards to the transportation and G} - other departments, and to recon- 5% Boilvor 1 cimtryabTh. o uod 6F 4 German Uhlan. em ergency or when it becomes necessary to deceive the enemy as to the strength of his adversaries, it somelimes becomes necessary to sacrifice large bodies of cavalry by leading them to desperate charges, as was done, for instance, in the three great battles before Metz by both sides, and at Sedan by the French. Besides the above | enumerated uses, each of the four | different cavalry branches s | trained fo perfoim special duties. The Cuirassiers, who conmstitute | the heaviest cavalry, are all large, | well-buiit men, and the strongest | and heaviest horses are picked out for their use. They sccom- | pany the main body of the army, | and are principally used (0 charge | the lines of the ' enemy in order | to divide them and to made open- | ings for the infantry; also to | charge against hostile batterfes 8s 500D as these Lave been parily | or entirely silenced or are just about getting into position. The Dragoons also are generally kept near the main body of thé army, | but always a little in- edvance of | it, unless they are in reserve. It{ is their business to do ali patrol | ling service, as far_as this can be | aone by cavalry. Under particu- lar circumstances they may be ordered to dismount and serve as rifiemen, for which service they are carefully trained in time of peace, The Hussars are kept still & littie more in advance of the army and it is their business to reeon- noiter the country on all sides, to harass the enemy and cut off his eommanications, to locate theen- emy’s position and entrench- ments, 10 go in quest of provisions and to’ search all houses, farms and villages on their way for hid- den encmies. The prineipal duty of the Uhlans consists in entering hostile territory as far as this can be done with safety and to keep close to the heels of the enemy. Although constantly exposed i0 danger and hardship they arenot supposed to enzage in doubtful éncounters, but are ordered to re- B treat whenever they are attacked 4An Austrian Hussar. by asupérior force, unless they can positively rely on immediate re- inforcements. The report of their investigations is transferred to the Hussars behind and by them 10 headquarters. Particular care is exercised in selecting the men and horses for | cavelry service. Oniy big strong | men are entisted as Cuirassiers, | tall men as Uhlans, medium-sized | men as Dragoons, and the smaller men as Hussars. 1he horses are | proportionately selected. Very | small horses are not accepted, as they canziot be brought to accus- ton. ‘themselves to the uniform movements so essential 10 effec- tive cavalry service. The officers who select the horses have been speciaily educated for this pur- Al A Cossack. £ i Wi~ as | L R (\fl\“\&\m\ SN num . pose. As soon &s the animals 48 Tiattan Cavalry Offcer. are_ turned over to the respec- tive regiments they are under the supervision of competent officers, carefuily trained by non-commissioned officers, who have studied the art of training at the Riding Academy at Hanover. A!l the principal commands are given by bugle signals, which the horses s00n learn to distinguish as well as the riders. These short specifications of the duties of the different branches of cavalry by no meaus cover everythiug, but may be sufficient to fur- nish the civilian with & tolerable idea of modern cavalry service. Some military men hoid that, in consequence of the now universaliy introduced quick-firing guns and rifles, the usefulness of heavy cavalry has béen diminished and that this branch might safely be abolished. Others contend that the step from breech-loading to re- peating rifles is by no means of as great consequence as the step from muzzle to breechioaders has been. A light cavalry, that is lightin weight, does not exist nowadays. The lightest cavalryman, witn full uniform, riding boots and spurs, cannot weigh less tnan 150 vounds, and if we add to this the weight of the saber. carbine, 100 rounds of ammunition, cloak, filled canteen, one day’s ration, army saddle, double bridle, straps and blanket, the minimum load which the horse has to carry will weigh close to 250 pounds. The lances, now used by the entire German cavalry, donot increase the weight much, as they are made of thin steel, are hollow and only about two inches in diameter. The metal breastplates and helmets of the Cuisassiers are of little practical value and are more of a decorative than of defensive nature. ‘Taey will probably be cast aside when & new war breaks out, The importance of cavalry is not considered as having diminished in contequence of vy of the modern iuventions, as made evident by the fact that al. countries are more anxious o iucrease than -to decrease their cavalry. | GLADSTONE’'S ROYAL ANCESTORS, 1t is not known by many that Mr. Gladstone claims direct descent from Henry 111, King of England, and from Robert Bruce, Kiug of Scotland. Among bis ancestresses, 100, married King James I of Scotland. The latter, ‘while captive at Windsor, became aequainted with Lady Jans, and the yousg couple were.wedded at the old church of St. Savior, at the Souihwark igot of London Bridge. -When released from captivity James fook. bride to share Lis Scottish throne, Afier his sesassination nis widon flhcnul?ll:sdlor n&ge‘,‘mnrfie% Sir James Stuart, and, from line' tg ue. at lust descended Anne Robertson, who, in April, 1800, Joe Gladstone, futher or the Grand Od Man = 7 S e A HIS JOVIAL HIGHNESS OF JOHORE. Singapore Straits Times. The conduct of his Hizhaess the. Sultan of Johore, as displayed compositor’s mistake. picture, where Satan, with that conspicuous tail which belongs to the part, sports a wood leg. But why of wood? There may bo”nuny i lnd-r.ed ‘e: Ore is that in the England of that time there were numerous soldiers who were tramps, and some had wooden legs and bad trajts, 10 public places in Singapore, has lor some considerable time begy the subject of general comment. To be intoxicated ana riotous, to assault harmless natives and to commit acts of violence, k: werl that the law is powerless 10 interfere is not benm-'u':o-:::fi:‘: | Goeggell. is Lady Jane Beaufort, who | PERSONAL. Professor Griggs of Stanford is at'the Grand. . George Weir of Petriuma is at the fornia.. E.'J. Caldwell. ot Coffee ' Creek Baldwin.s 2 b F 30 HEF D OE M. E. Hicsch, a hotel man from Ukiah, is at the Russ. 3 3 S H.M m(e;e';?x: E. Dennis of Loe. Angeles. s st the ceidental, QJ. Dannebeum, 8 merehant from Vallejo, is at the Lick. W. J. Nelson, a mining man from Boston, is at the Grand. E. E. Vingent, editor of the Madera Herald, is at he Lick. 3. M. Wiliiams, a mining man of Newman, isat the Lick. ¥. D Fraser, & mining man from FortJones, isat the Russ. ¢ Stafe Sexafor G. M. Curtisof Clinton, Iowa, is at thie Palace. . W H. Ciary, & well-known Stackton mining man, {s at the Lick: Thomas Fitch Jr., an atternes from Stock- ton, s at the Grand. Joseph C- Platt, a eapialist from Waterfora, N. Y., 15 at the Palace. g Franz W. Rust, an insurance man from Los Angelgs, is at the Grand. J. J. Sloan, a merchant N. Mex., is at the Grand. Allin 8. Rhodes, & capitalist from Stockton, 13 registered at the Grand. 8. H: Perkins, & candy manufacturer from Cincinnati, is at the Grand. Lieutenant Frank W. Kellogg of the United States Navy. is at the Occidental. R. H. Sievens, a gold and siiver smith from Syracuse, N. Y., ic at the Palace. L. T. Garnsy, arailroad and hotel man from Los Angeles, 1s at the California. H. C. Nush, the librarian at Stanford Univer- siiy, is registerea at the Californis. Carl E. Lindsay, Prosecuting Attorney for Santa Cruz County, isat the Grand. J. A Thornton, s wholesale dealerin saddles ana harness, is registered at the Russ. Richard W. Good, head of the United States Zoological Depsrtment, is at the Oceidental. R. Graham, manager for the Armour- Re- frigerator Company at Sacramento, is at the Palace, A.-B. Hammond of Mifsoula, a big con- tractor of the Northern Pacific Railway, is &t the Palace. William Knabe of Baltimore, the well-known manufacturer of ‘the piano that bears his name, isat the Palace. Mr. Knabe isa mil- axwell, & morchant from Tahiti, s at from Ssnta Fe, | lionaire and has come 1o the coast on & pleas- ure 4rip. Forty-six delega tes to the High Court of the Independent Order of Foresters met last night and indorsed the nomination of Ben I. Salo- mon for representative of the High Court to the Supreme Court ¢onvention in Torontc, Canada, in May next. George H. Graves and wife and Miss Louise Graves of Indianapo'is, K. Harwood and wife and the Misses Kate and May Harwood of Decatur, Iil, and W. C. Hea of Freeport, Ill, constitute a tourist party that registered at the Baldwin yesterday. CALIFORNiIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, X. Y., Oct. 2.—At the St. Cloud, 8. A. Miller; Tmperial—J. W. Brooks, 8. H. Sal- mon; Hoffman, C. J. Quinn; Everett—Mrs. J. J. Valentine, Miss E Vulentine; Belvedere— O. Curtsz, Mrs. A. Curtaz, Miss L. Curtaz, W. Mrs, Mina Leege and Master Carl Otio Leege left the St. Cloud and sailed on the Alier for Genoa. Mrs. Johanna Bohlea and H. J. Halfhi#l also sailed for Genoa. H. BLack, painter, 120 Eddy straet. . ——— ¢ CALIFORNIA giace fruits, 50c ib. Townsend's ———————— EPECIAL Information daiiy to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * s e ity Valet {to officer’s fiancee)—My lieutenant has sent me to bring yov this bouquet of forest flowers plucked by his own hands. Fiancec—Oh, how poetic! And how long it must have taken ‘to gather them! Valet—Indeed, Miss; it ook me nearly three hours.—Fliegende Blatter. Ir afllicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp son’s Eye Water. Druggis:s sell it at 25 cents. S R A report that Levi . Morton has sold “El. lerslie,” bis country residence, is 3rnted. 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