The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 5, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5 Call ...OCTOBER s, 1897 TUESDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. .710 Market street, San Francisco Telephone Main 1863, ..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 mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL...... .One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE vesesees....008 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. .. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o’clock. 339 Haves sireet; open untl 9:30 o'clock. 613 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 1243 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street; open until 9:30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open till 9 o'clock. .Roowms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. THE MAYOR AND EONDS. AYOR PHELAN feels the force of Tne CALL’s appesl to public opinion on a bond issue so far as 10 write a dis- avowal, which appears elsewhere. There may be much room for verbal jugeling about the meaning of ‘“‘improve- ments’ and ‘“permanent improvements” and ‘‘current ex- penses,” and a bond issue may be rhetorically sugar-coated, but the fact remains that the Mayor was reported in the proceed- ings of the new Board of Supervisors during the discussion of his tax levy as advocating the cutting down of the estimates of the Fire, Street, Police and Health Departments, and saying that the items excised and left unprovided for in his current tax levy could be atiended to by an issue of bonds. One of these excise items was & provision for feeble-minded children, and in the proceedings Mayor Phelan is quoted as ssying that the feeble-minded could be sent to the Almshouse. Supervisor Denman said *‘that would be a mostinhumane act,”” and the Mayor answered with a laugh: “‘Well, if they are fee- ble-minded, they won’t know the difference.” It 1s the duty of every citizen to appreciate official humor. and tbis joke of the Mayor’s pleased everybody but the feeble- minded, so please excuse us while we laugh with his Honor. Now, that being attended to, let us follow further the reports of the meeting as given in the Chronicle and the yellow Eraminer. The estimates for sewers, for repairing Market street, for berter- ing the City and County Hospital and for police stations were stricken out in the Mayor's tux levy, and when this was accom- plished at his own request, the Mayor said: *I will try and have the Election Commissioners vrovide for a bond election to make these improvements.” The Chronicle of Beptember 20, in its account of the meet- ing, said: “Even the Mayor himself could not give any unequivocal assurance that a deficit was avoidable, except that the people should authorize a bond issue to meet the requirement for pub- lic improvements.” There is our case. The levy leaves a deficit in the general fund. The Mayor got his levy passed by proposing a bond issue to provide for the cbjects set forth in the estimates. estimates are understood to be for the current expenses and needs of the city, not to buy more park land nor add to the permanent and lasting assets of the city. If the Mayor was taken at his obvious meaning, he must not quarrel with those who so took him, The issue of bonds from the objects excluded from his tax levy will not be within the limit of those purposes for which a city shou!d issue a forty-year bond, for not one objeci attained by it will survive for forty years, and that | {such purposes to be spsnt here, where they will do the most survival is a test of a bond issue. Everything in the estimates stricken out by him and left orphaned and foriorn as the feeble- minded children, the prospect of whose presence in the alms- house moved him to wit, pertained properly to current ex- penses, juggle with words as he may. Premier Sagasta’s dictum that mediation will not be accepted nor interference with Spain’s affairs 1oleratea seems to 1est on the theory that Spain has more infiuence than had been sap- posed. There are countries conceited enough to believe that a nation unable to subdue little Cuba would have a hard time in governing the actions of the rest of the world. Ot course no fault is to be found with friends of Henry George because they regard him as good as elected Mayor of New York. The best tifne to cherish such an idea is probably in advancs of the voting, Suspicions begin to arise that yellow journalism’s corre- spondents in the Klondike were sent there mereiy because they deserved exile, Senator Jones is positive tha{ the Chicago platform will be reaffirmed in 1900, Of course it will. Mr. Jones will reaffirm it himseit. y 1f Epain can’t get money anywhere else why not negotiatea loan with Weyler? IN THE MATTER OF “REFUTATION.” S THERE have been explanations that did not exp!ain, so there may be “‘refutations’” that do not refute. Such a one appeared in the Ezaminer of yesterday. With double- leaded indignation that paper replied toa man named D. N. Knowles, who had made the following statement: “The Erzaminer, while matquerading under the charity docge, has made a large sum of money out of the tournament.” Nevertheless Mr. Knowles seems to bave made out a good case. Itis possible, however, that beis in a measure mistaken, for'he has not foilowed that subtledistinction between the dual natures of the Ezaminer. He does not seem to understand that the Ezaminer as a yellow journal isone thing, and asa pro- moter of baseball for charity and a rake-off is another. In the first capacity it is ron by a set of Hearstlings, and in the second capacity it is run by the same set of Hearstlings. Yet there is a dividing line, for the Hearstlings say so. I{ Mr. Knowles has failed to descry it, if tweedledum and tweedledee do mot to hismind present distinguishable contrasts, at least he is not alone in his error. The same shade of yellow pervades the journal and the baseball. The non-refuting refutation defends the committee of gen- tiemen supposed to handle the tournament funds. They need no defense. What the public would like woald be some proof that these gentiemen get the funds to handle. Do they count the tickets? Do they have a detective in the box-office? Or do they in simple faith accept the word of the Hearstlings? And if so, why so? These are point: that a genuine refutation would set forth. The players now, since their vigorous kick, get 20 per cent, *‘charity” gets 20, and 60 is thus left for expense and profit “of the manager of the games, D. R. McNeill.” Thus the pro- gramme is laid bare. McNeill, apparently, is to be the scape- goat. McNeill; it would appear, is to pose as the swine, his feet in charity’s trough and nis snout rooting among the alms. Plainly the Hearstlings are trying to get out of sight. But they can be followed by the traii of yellow. The Eraminer acknowledges that it has received $1642. It ean hardly make bold to pretend that this is coarity’s 20 per cent up to date. The public is interested in knowing where the gest of its contributions have gone. The public wonders if any Hearstling bas been lining his nest with purloined down, and the ‘‘refutation” ignores the subject. And outof what per cent @omes the §1000 for a turkey dinner? Surely Mr. McNeill did not yield that sum. Far more likely that the Hea stlings peached into one pocket and ostentatiously transferred this smount to another, both pockeis, strangely enough, being taeir own. As a matter of fact, the Ezaminer is trying to writhe out of & bad position and can’t do it. The more it exclaims the more complete its exposure, The rageed cloak of charity has been stripped from it, and the exposure of a multitude of sins has alarmed the sinners. The | “THE COOLIES WOULD COME. N a lamentation over the persistent Chiness invasion of this [ coast one of our evening contemporaries tells all about how Secretary Gresham was outwitted by a Mongoi. It says: ““ Though the treaty was concluded in 1882 and amended in a few unimportant particulars in 1894, not until recently have the Chinese availed themseives of the opportunity for fraudulent entry.” Now, Gresham was a Federal District Judge in Indiana from 1869 to 1882. He was Postmaster-General under Presi- dent Arthur from 1882 to 1884 and then became a Federal Judge again. He left the bench to become Secretary of State in 1893 and died in 1895. If the treaty amendments made in 1804 were unimportan: one has some difficulty in seeing how Gresham was outwitted. Mr. Frelinghuysen was Secretary of State in 1834. But all this aside, why strain at a gnat and swallow a | camel in this Chinese business? A co!lector of customs on Puget Sound is under criminal inquiry because Chinese landed in his district at the rate of 250 a year and the danger signals are set-because forty-one have landed in this city. Precautions are on foot to shut out also the Japanese as undesirable com- petitors in our domestic labor market. Yet the same journal, and others which like the cherubim continually do cry against Asiatic competition, advocate the annexation of Hawaii with her population of 24,407 Japanese and 21,616 Chinese and 455 ‘“‘blackbirds” from the South Sea Islands. We are scared by 41 Chinese, but propose to extend Senator Morgan’s “‘good government” over 46,023 Asiatics at one throw. Let no man be deceived. Those Asiatics once annexed have every privilege now enjoyed by their countrymen domi- ciled in the United States. The courts will hold that Con- gress cannot build a pale across the territory of this republic. In our system there is no foundation for the repetition of the Roman Ghetto and the Frankfort Judingasse. The sugar plantations of Hawaii cannot be worked by white men, but the_higher wages of California will drain off their coolie labor to this State, and the frank declaration of Mr. C. P. Huntington | that we want more cheap Asiatic labor here will be an accom- plished policy as soon as annexation becomes a fact. Both countries will be hurt; Hawaii by losing the only kind of labor that has ever successfuily produced sugar cane and by denial of the right to replace it by further importation of contract coolies from Asia; and California will lose by the : transfer of nearly 50,000 Asiatics to her soil under cover of | annexation. We desire to lay stress upon the physical facts involved. | Hawaii cannot continue her present industries nor found new | ones on Anglo-Saxon labor. The kingdom of the Kamehame- has did not restrict but invited white immigration from the | United States from 1820 to 1895 and the oligarchy since then | in power has continued this wide-open policy. Yet only 2c00 | Americans are there and scarcely a field laborer among them. | The climate is not friendly to our race and it cannot overcome | the laws of nature. Casual visitors to the islands write in rap- ! tures of the languorous voluptuousness of the climate. Itis | good in brief doses, but it breaks down the Anglo-Saxon fiber like hasheesh when long indulged. ] We have no need to annex climate. California has itin | every agreeable variety and it is as near tropical as our race can | stand. Nor do we need to take in any more coo'ie labor, as our white labor is not boasting of a degree of prosperity which enables it to retire from business in favor of the low-standard | brown men. We warn politicians here of these elements in annexation. They are added to the fact that instead of annexing more terri- | tory to fortify and defend we want all the appropriations for | good, and not 2000 miles out in the sea, where they will do no good at all. Another Gibraltar should crown the hills of San | Francisco as an answer to Esquimalt and our bay should | shelter the most powerful flset of warships to be found on the ! shores of the Pacific. These preparations, with Hawaii inde- pendent and neutral, the Switzerland of the seas, make our; military position independent and impregnable. The Colorado man who shot and kilied a neighbor, mistak- ing him for an apple thief, has raised s nice point in law and | ethics. He is sorry he killed his friend, an emotion that does him credit, but would he not have bad some occasion for repin: ing if be had kilied somebody really guilty of stealing an apple, | or even two of them? A boy has been known to steal an apple, and yet thereafter lead a better life and become a President or something. At least the Colorado man ought to be satisfied to load his gun wiih nothing more deadly than salt. PROSPECTS OF RIVER WORK. ROSPECTS for the beginning of work on the improvement Pof the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers by joint action of the State and Federal authorities are sufficiently bright to allay any impatienco in the public mind that may be felt over the delay thus far. It seems fairly wel! assured that there will be no friction between the State and the Federal officials, and that as soon as the proper surveys bave been made and approved active work on the enterprise will be undertaken. The State Commissioner of Public Works, the engineer in charge, M. A. Nurse, and the members of the auditing toard recently held a conference in this city with Colonel Charles L. | Suter, division engineer of the Pacific, and Mzajor Davis, who bas direction of the river work on the part of the Government, | and the subjecs of the proposed improvements was fully dis- cussed, with the result thata way seems to be open for getting the work started in a comparatively short time. In an interview with a representative of I'ne CALL Colonel Suter stated that osa result of the conference the Commis- sioner of Public Works was advised to bave the State Engineer complete plans for the work and submit them to the United States Engineers. If the plans are approved they wili be promptly forwarded to the Secretary of War, whose consent must be obtained before the Feaeral officers can undertake to carry out any part of the proposed work. This places the Initiative of the enterprise upon the State Engineer, as it seems the United States officers will not undertake to make the river surveys or do more than pass upon them after they are sub- matted. . AsCalifornia has appropriated $300,000 for the work there is a just claim upon the National Government for at least an equal appropriation. That claim could be urged with more effect this winter if we had a report from the Government en- gineers to sustain our Congressmen in making it, and it is to be hoped that some means will be provided by which such a re- port can be quickly obtained. In addition to the need of the improvements themselves it is desirable that the money now lying idle in the State treasury should be put inte circulation for the employment of labor and the benefit of trade. It is therefore encouraging to learn from Colonel Suter that the State representat.ves are putting the plans and drawings in shape for official inspection, and that the papers are expected to be soon received in this city. e 11 the trial of Leutgert has done nothing else it has demon- strated that the knowledge not possessed by some experts on bones compiled into a book would make a volume of imposing size. —_ Why should some people rail at Cleveland’s Senatorship as- pirations? There is no doubt that the ex-President could not only fill the chair of a Senator but lap over the edges. Among the gentiemen enthusiastic in favor of annexing Hawati are to be noted several who expect to be appointed Gov- ernor. Doubtless some of the stories from Guatemala are trae, but no merely human discriminajion would be able to pick these out. No man who shoots his daughter with intent to reform her can expect his method of rearing a family to become ponular. PERSONAL. Dr. H. L. Pace of Tulaze is registered at the Palace. J. M. Wilmans, merchant of Newman, is at the Lick. “ 8. M. Cole, & capitalist of Grass Valley, is at the Lick. Dr. and Mrs. Hudson of Ukiah are guests at the Grand. Frederick Cox, the Sacramento banki the Grand, , is at Dr. J. B. Tennent of Martines is registered at the Grand. J. R McHenry of Waterford is at the Cosmo- poiltau Hotel, rencher from Reno, Nev., is at J. C. Erickson, a lumber-dealer from Eurcks, is at the Russ, R. Muackintosn of Salt Lake arrived at the Paiace last night. Josiah Bell, a Jumperman of Eureka.is & guest at the Grana. Mrs. Green of Ferndale is Cosmovolitan Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. B. 0, Kendall of Pasadena are late arrivals at the California, Dr. W. D. Anderson of Vallejo and Mrs. An- derson are guests at the Palace. D. Kineb, a capitalist of Marysville, is regis- tered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. A. R. Foster of $1. Paul, Mina., is among the guesis of the Cosmopolitan Hotel. G. A. Freeman of San Luis Obispo, accom- panied by Mrs, Freemen, is in town. Mr.and Mrs. H. K. Rowley of Vancouver, B. C., arrived at the Lick yesterday. W. W. Barry, U8, N., is down from Mare Isiand Navy-yard, He hasa room at the Occi- dental. W. Coffman of Merced, late proprietor of the Yosemite stage line, is in town and staying at the Lick. Charles Mclver, the wine-maker of Mission San Jose, is al the California, accompanied by Mrs. Mclver, E. Cumange, s mining mau, representing & Parisian syndicate at Weaverville, is a guest et the Palace. Ex-Governor James H. Ki id of Nevada is in town from Virginia City, Nev. He 1s stay- ing at the Palace. Among the arrivals at the Occidental last night were Mr. and Mrs, A. C. Ellls and Miss Ellis of 8ait Leke City. L.J. Maddox of Modesto, one of the direc- tors of ihe Preston School of Industry, is a te arrival at the Grand. C. A Fisher, manager at Chicego for Dela- field & McGovern, commission meschants, is among the late arrivals at the California. Leo Hamburger, a New York manufacturer, srrived at the Palace last night from the East for & two we:ks’ stay, but was met by a tele- gram announcing the burning of his factory. He will start back to-day. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Heverin of New York are ying st the | 1ate arrivals at the Calitornia. Mr. Heverin is iuterested in the oil business, and will, during his stay in California, visit some of the oii fields in the southern part of the State. P. H. Scanian of St. Paul, Minn., traveling passenger agent for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Reilway, arrived here yesterday for & week’s stay, Mr.Scanian isaccompanied by nis wife. They have apartmenis ai the Baidwin, Fred Yates, who had intended to sail for Jupan early in this month, will not leave the city 1or the Orient until 1he 21st inst Bev- | eral commissionus to paint the portraits of | leading citizens caused himn to prolong his sojourn in the city, H. T. Barnett of Sonors, son of the Barnett | who was very recently murdered by highway- | men while riding on the Ukiah stage, arrived | &t the Russ yesterday. Young Mr. Barnett was maneger last year of the students’ co-op- eralive bookstore at Stanford University. Presicgent Davia Starr Jordan of Stanford | University came up irom Palo Alto yesterday evening and 100k s room at the Occidental. Dr. Jordan had intended to depart for Wash- inglon last Friday to attend an international conference on the seal question, but the pro- posed private discussion with British, Rus- sian and Japanese representatives was calied off. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Grana of Brookiyn, N, Yi, arrived at the Palace yesterday {u the course of &n extended plessure tour throngh many States. They are accompanied by Mrs, E. W Whaley also of Brooklyn. Yesterday they lelt here for a short visit to Yosemite Vatley. Mr. Graot is traveiing as a guest of several rail road companies. From nhere he will go east- ward ou tbe Canedian Pacific. E. Black Ryan, tax agent of the Southern Pacific Company, returned yesierday from Nevade. At Reno he asked the county Board of Equalization to reduce the company’s as- sessment on its railroad patented lands, but the board aliowed it to remain a: 20 cents an acre. His rcquest for a reduction in the as- sessment on side-tracks in Nevada from §6500 = mile to $5000 a mile was taken under con- sideration. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 4.—At the Plaza—S. oldi—J. Altkin, Imperial—W. C. Urhi. Startevant—E. N. St. Denis—P. Gold- Gilsey—A. M. Law- rence. Vendome—G. Osborne. Hoffman—G. H. Robinson. Holland—O. T. Sewall, Mr. and Mrs. A. Bouvier. Mariborougb—M. Wells, M. Williams, THE DOINGS Or SOCIETY. Pomona Beacon. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL added anew feature 1o its last Sunday’s edition which does great credit to that journal's enterprise. A full paze of gossipy notes from all the towns of im- portance throughout the State enables THE CaLL readers to keep track of each other, whether from San Diego or Siskiyou. Pomona is accorded & generous mention, Appeisove, D'Oyly, E. S Harland. stone, T. J. I'Amoreaux. A GOOD MOVE. Lodi Review-Budget. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, evidently believ- ing in the education of tbe masses, is runnin, aseries of articles from the leading politicians of the nation. All the different parties are represented by their champion, aud a highly interesting and eaucating lot of articles are set before THE CALL'S readers. It is a good move. WHEN WE GO FISHING. When we go fishing In the brook,, Joey and Cecil and J, A crooked yin's oar only hook. That catcnes ‘em! Sometimes we tie The striug ught 1o « willow imb Just where the biggest minnows swim. Then we lie down there in the shade And watdh our bobs that up and float, And once a br.dge of rocks we made And buiit a cas:le and a moat. But, just as sure as we begin, ‘Why, Joey goes and tumbles in. Then all the frightened fish they hide Beneath the rocks and in the pool, ‘There's not a minnow to be spied ! ‘The water seiiles clear and cool With bubb es’tween the rucks and foam, But then we must take Juey home, Of course he cries at mamma’s 100k She says: “Is this the only fish That ) 01 can catch in Siiver Brook?” ~he'knaws, though, we'd get all she'd wish, WILL just our string and pai. xnd pin— 11 Joey wouldn't tumbie in! VIRGINIA WoobWaRD CLotp in _— TROUBLE ENOUGH WITHOUT IT. Philsdelphia Record. The people of the United States are mow in the enjoyment of every advautage which the aunexation of Hawali could confer upon them witkout any of its burdens. Trade between the two countries has long been free, and an- nexation could no. add anything to thisad- vantsge. But from the moment of the posses- sion of those jslands they would become a heavy burden upon the American people for the zovernment of their strangely mixed pop- ulatious, for fleets and fortifications under pretense of strategical necessity, for rivers and harbors, and for eostly publie butidings. The further removea from public scrutiny the greater would be the extravagance, waste and corrupiion of these expenditures. It is the scent of this enormous spoil alone which has induced the littie oligarchy in Honolulu to turn over the isiands and their populations to this Government. . Nich:las. | millions of the idle? 1897. g HELPING THE BLIND Of all the human infirmities blindness {s ass: 1ating to the one who 1s efflicted with it. and without hesitation or fear of being pointed Pity. The deal-mute is free. The biind person own livelthoea by regular, honorable work, like himself by one of the wealthy men of the day care of the General Council of the Seine, has be of its kind—one which fiils the great gap in the reation hour, and best of allto them, & part of o handicraft under the direction of a eompetent tl weli—doubiy difficult and requiring the possess well as loye for afllicted humanity, and Pephan has been pecuiiarly hupfi)’ A tour of observation through'the schoolroo: ployed and the success rchieved. in the union of all these qualifications AT BRAILLE SGHOOL uredly the most pitiable and the most humil- The deas-mute, though terribly s fll:cted, can support bis lot without too much complaint. In tke crowd which goes and comes nothing marks him specially. He mixes with itat will at with the finger as an objeet of curiosity or is not. To provide on a compreheusive scale suitable occupations by which the blind m_lg'hl cease 10 serve s subjects of public charity and private alms and have the means of gaining their those who can see, was the beautiiul task set in Paris, M. Pephau, director of the “Quinze Vingis.” At the meeting of the “Society for the Assistance of the Blind,” which he had founded, M. Pephau opened on Janusry 1, 1883, the Braille School, which now, under the come a departmental institution and a model work of assisting the biind. The blind child who is admitted there not only receives a yery thorough course of primary instruction, which the children of the common schools generaily might envy, but he has physical development by gymnastic exercises in the open air. ALl sorts of games, for the rec- | ach day in the workshop, learning some useful hough biind teacher. The wotk of the schoot is not only one of'simple instruction, but educative and soctal as ion of great patience and goodness of soul, ;[s ms and shops during the working hours cannot in'the selection of his co-workers. tail 1o surprise and delight tie visicors and elicit the highest approval of the methods em- In every step of the work patient and intelligent system prevails. Inone corner of an open court may be seen A young instructress se: ers with an open ‘‘Braille Alphebet” pefore tl ated on a low ch between hem. In this the letters ar wo child begin- rmed by raised points, the combinations of which'in number and relative position the pupil must learn. Tak- A LESSON and tasting, must be traived to aid it, and in Jjeet lessons, in which Mr. Baldon, the head, pro; | make everylhing asubject of observatiou—th participate in such scenes as may be interesting Some idea of tne zenerel proficiency finally at work and seeing the rapidity and exactness pounded {n the metric system or in geography, onr The work in matural history is an_intere mals, birds and fishes are piaced beiore ihe pup. ately the hand of the pupil is ps covering in & word all the distictive cheracteris webfoot; it has a large bill; itis a duck,” cries claws. acat, reason and all trained together. The results of the Braille system, as shown ¥ d try eliciting their warmest approval of the charged with their employment. IN NATURAL HISTORY ing a hand in her own the instrnctress touches the pupil's fingers to the page and making Pplay of the work so famiiiarizes him with each letter that he is able to recognize it anywhere in the labyrinth of points that cover the page. Spelling, writing, arithmetic and other branches aie iaught in their turn by similar methods. 3 While the seuse of touch is the most important to the blina, other senses, hearing, smelling WITH THE BLIND. the Braille School this isdone by a series of ob- fiting by his own experience. has grouped all | the exercises that tend to their gradual ana perfect development. Thesystem is extended to e roll of a carriage, sound of a clock, or ery of an auimal and the uatur- of the ground beneath the feet, evervthing that will contribute o the acquirement of that knowledge which will give the confidence to mix in general life and Or necessary. attained may be had by watching the classes with which they respond to the questions pro- for inslance, in the latter pointing out readily ised map or giobe any €ouniry, town or city in the world that may be called for. sting ex:mple of methoa and results. ils, the blind teacher standing near. Ani- Immedi- ed over the body of the obfect and the eyes, feet, teeth, tics of kind one pupil. ud class, are noted. *“This is a 'Strong paws armed with sharp ong, pointed teeth in front, sharp teeth behind—this s u carnivorous antmal, madame, another. And u third, “A gnawer, & squirrel,” and so on down the line—memory, in those who have been sent forth to make their way in life, are most admirable and have astonished the leading educators oi the coun- methods and commendation of the persons FLASHES OF FUN. ' “There!” excaimed the excited wife, look- ing straight at her Lusband. *I hope you're satisfied;the cook’s gone and spilied the tureen full of soup, and there isn’t & picce of blotting “ papér in the house |'’—Yonkers Statesman, A philosopher might be described as & mar who does not worry about the fact that he is | not appreciated. —Puck. He was in doubt. He didn’t know whether be should be angry or pleased, and a great deal depended upon it. They were sitting ou the sofa together, and | once, when the conversation seemed to drag a little, be had suggested: | “Don’t you think it is rather close to- | night?” ““It might be closer,” she replied. It was & terrible predicament in which to placea man who wes anxious to make the best of his opportunities. Shou'd he take ad- vantage of what seemed an invitation to get a little nearer to her or shouid he be angryat being termed an *‘it” ?—Chicago Record. “AR, yes,” she sighed, “it will be a year next Tuesday that my dear husband died. I'mso | glad!” | “What! Glad that he Is dead?” “No, oh, no; not that! But Ineed a little pink to light up my complexion.””—Chicago Daily News. “It's the man who persists as'll rise tn the world,” remarked Mr. Rafferty, senten. tiously. “Thrue fur yez,” replied Mr. Dolan. “An’ far proof Of kin point till the tombstone iv | & {ri"nd that persisted in thawin’ dynamite be htove.”—Washington Star. **OUR LALY OF THE Chicago Tribun Some features of the Canadian system of branch-oanking have come in for strong ap- proval by bankere on this side of the line, ana now it appears (hat the system of postal say- ings banks in vogue among our Canuck neighbors has met the approval of Postmaster Geueral Gary and will receive commendation in his forthcoming report. It would appesr, indeed, that there are so many admirabie things concentrated in our neighboring Do- minion of the “Lady of the Suows’—not ex- cepuing the Klondike go'd fields—that it may et be necessary 10 annex it to the United Hlates’ 1n order to tonnd oot the desiiny of both and make this country not only the “model rgpublic” that it is, but the richest and most prosperous ou the face of the giobe. ANOTHER CONSPIRACY, New York sun. A Cleveland dispatch says that the wages of 400 employes of Wiiliam Tod of Youngstown were raised 10 per cent yesterday. According | to Hon. Horace Leonidas Chapman, the Demc- cratic caudidate for Governor of Ohio, there are *‘millions o1 idle” meu about and “‘wages i almost every branch of industry huve been reauced from 10 1o 25 per cent.”” “Why, then, has this man Tod raised wages when there are Cieariy be is a member of & Republican conspiracy ‘to dissomiit the gloomy Horace Leoniaas. REFLECTIONS Or A BACHELOR. New York Press. Lots of girls are able to kiss wher the;'re Dot kissab.e. \ Some men are only the siicks to their wives’ | skyrockets. p The fatter a woman is the funnier shape she always ties up the bundles she carries in, Most every woman believes that a man ::n n:ver be very good unless he goes to urch. Every woman has an idea that her beauty ‘would be awfully dungcl”ou! if she wasn’t so careful. Some women can never understand why babies won't quit yelling aud go to sleep when they begin to siug to them. SIGNS OF THE TIMES. New York Commercial- Advertiser. Here are some facts which Democratic assail- ts of the Dingley law would do well to ponder. In August, 1896, tne liabilities of firms which f1iled in business in the United States were $28.008,637. were only $5,174,428. dex of the sthte of exchan In August, 1897, these exchanges ‘were 36 per Cent greater tnan the same month one year ago. There is no surer in- | from the Russian alliance. Last month they | crawl from that city to San trade than Clearing-house | given to the proposed fei they were in | give the s.lly youths a PEOPLE OF NOTE. Mme. du Bos d’Eibhecq, a member of the French Society of Literary Persons, still writes stories at the age 0f 9. Snelives in a convent at Angers. Mr. Kipling, it is said, owes his strange name to Lake Rudyard, a fine sheet of water in Staffordshire, neer which his father and mother first met. General John B. Gordon, who has been much taiked ot for the Governorship of Georgia, declares that he has permanently retired from politics and would not accepta | nomination, President W. L. Wilson of the Washington- Lee University] has received a check for 1000 from Willism C. Whitney, to be applied to the fund for the erection of the Tucker memorial hall at the university. @Rosa Bonheur, the eelebrated animal painter, is very fond of monkeys and has several about Ler home and in her study. They accompany her in her rural rambles and answer readily to their respective names, John L. Stoddard, the popular lecturer on foreign lands, has retired from the platform on account of ill health. All of the lectures he has delivered, together with several mew ones, will be published in aseries of ten vol- umes containing 3400 fllustrations. M. Boucher, French Minister of Commerce, has ceclared his belief that the commercial prosperity of Germany is due especially to the victory of 1870, to the seli-confidence which the nation then obtained, and to the moral force arising irom success. He concludes that renewed commereial prosperity awalts France, owing 1o the iresh sense of securily resulting PECULIAR ANIMAL FRIENDSHIP. Calaveras Frospect. A.F. Gourley of Pine Grove has & dog and a horse between which the greatest friendship exists. They are as closely sllied as the Siam- ese twins, and an injury 1o one seems to elicit much sympathy from the other. On asuliry afternoon a few days aeo, as the two were in the pasture near the barn, the bot flies swarmed unusually thick upon the horse, especially upon its breast and other tender spots, eausing it no littie annoyance. The dog vbserved this and at once came to the assistdnce of his comrade. He stood up, resting his forepaws against the horse's bresst and shoulder, and snapped off the flies asfast as they would alight, crunching the life out of them between his teeth and spitting them out with ashake of his head, hen watch for another and another, appar- ently as nerved up to his task and as exeited as though he were the one who was being an- noyed by the pesky creatures instead of the horse. The latter seemed to apvreciate the good turn and stood periectly motionless, ex- cepting for the occasional swing of his head to drive away a tly that would alight on the side opposite to the dog. This was kept up about two hours when Mr. Gourley, having use for the horse, relieved the dog of his vol- untary task for the balance of the day. —_— e CHEAP BIDs FOR NOTORIETY, There are few follies some persons will not commit to get their names into the papers without setusl discredit, says Tit-Bits. Every country sad evely town has its notoriety- hunters, and silly indeed are the bids they oiten make in their anxiety to be talked about, Some time 8g0 & youag German wagered thathe would travel in a packing-case from Berlin to Paris and back, only leaving his box for refreshments at Paris before starting on the return journey. He was dispatched in s veatilated case early one morning, and treated to & good deal of bumping by the porters, who were unaware of what the case contained. At Paris he was claimed by some friends, who took him out, ana after giving him refresh. ments repacked him and sent him back to his Fatherland. He is probably & very proud man to-day, but, then. some TSOLS are easily satisfied—especially with themseives. Rather more than a year ago two misguided American youths call:d upon the editor of g New York puper and ““fd with him to Francis i Considerable .ui‘;fl.‘:n‘ l:::: at, and a great num- -nh:;uflning place to ““push off.» o, ihey started, but they r':luxned n:l:le.lr.llnnl; hands 2nd knees. ber of people collected iser berore they had covered a mile of the “2“000 odd they hayd promised to u-veése. i Notlong since & krenchwoman made ? !Ilh; attempt to climb the steeple ot a8 church ,llued town in which she resided, and she hadc: e upon a large nuwmber of her iriends |;. aul “\m and witness her foolhardiness. . Before e had, however, elimbad half-way up the Elfl:gd she turued faint, and, falling to the gro o met & horrible deati lhxmllg:;gl;‘;)!n vanity. < was seareely a ‘'che; % B climorng of ehureh steeples seems to have very great charms for some nmnr&c yl; hunters. Many persons have been lmleI in attempting in this way to gain a little feme, and many others have om)y bv::n u:vea by tne ic: preventing any such attempt. by an Enghshman—or, rathet, a Weishman— who wagered to roll in a large barrel do\\nlfl steep Weish hill. le periormed the m“r g the presence of a number of friends as foolis as himself, but he only lived a few days to enjoy the notoriety ne had drawn upon hime self. He was scarcely more than a mass O flesh and bone when taken out ‘of the barrel on arriving at tne foot of the mtl. —_— ANSWERS 10 LO. R=SPONDENTS, WADE'S OPERA-HOU A. B.,, City. Wade’s Opera-house, now the Grand Opera-house, was opened January 17, 187 A SILVER DiME— B., Oakland, Cal. A dime o1 1894 does not command a premium unless it 1s one that has upon it the impring of the San Francisco Branen Mint. AusTERDAM—Reader, City. Ifyou desire in formation about a relative residing in Amster- dam you should direct a communicatiou 1o the “United States Consul, Amsterdam. A NEW YORK ADDREss—Subscriber, City. If you wish to ascertain the adaress of a person living in New York City go to the San Fran- cisco Free Library and_consuit the New York Citv Direciory there. Ii thaiis not of a date sufficientiy late you might write to the office of the publishers of the directory. MARRIAGE LICENSE—An Old Subscriber, City. Two persons in California can gointo a county other than the one fu which they reside and obtain a marriage license, provided there are no legal objecilons to the granting of such license. A muarriage is recorded in the county in which it is solemnized. A license to marry is valid only in the county in which it is 1ssued. RABBIT DRI E—Subscriber, Alameds, Cal. A. D. Furgeson, Fish and Game Warden of Fresno County, in reply to the question, “How many rabbits have been killed in one week’s drive in Fresno County?” writes: “I do not know of a week’s drive. As high as 30,000 have been killed in a sinzle drive occupyiug four or five hours. A thorouchly successinl drive was that of March 10, 1892, when 20,000 were killed.” . LARGE COFFEE PLANTATION—M. N., City. The largest coffee plantation in Brazil is that of the Compania Agricola Fazenda Dumont, 1n the district Pieto and Parapa Pariacea, which was recently sold to an English syndicate. The freehola is 110,000 acres of land, 13,000 of wnich is in coftee, 20,000 acres are availabie for coffee culture ana ne Test is set oul in tebacco, sugar, maize, etc. On the plantation there are G300 laborers, who are divided into twenty-five colonies of twenty-five dwellings each. ~ The expenses for carrying on the plantation are $200,000 yearly. There are growing on the planiation 2,476,500 trees that yield an annual average of 9,000.000 pounds of coffee. 71he next largest is thatof Senor Don Carlos Schmidt, who has resided in Brazil for thirty-five years. Itembraces 9785 acres, with 1,800.000 trees. It gives empioyment to 1500 laborers. There are a number of plentations in Brazil that have 1,000,000 bearing coffee trees. SiGNs—F. H., City. Section 9 of order 1588 of the Board of Supervisors regulates the placing of sigas in this city and county. Itis as follows: No person owning or occupying any buflding or Premises frcnting upon a public strect shall: Place, or cause to be piuced, or maintain, or suffer. upon tte street or sidewaik i front of such building or premises, any sign or advertisemen., except such 4s 0-cupy no space. P.ace, or cause to be piaced. maintain or suffer, upou the iront of any building or premises, any sizn or advertisement which shall project over or upon the sidewaik, and all signs shuli be securely iastened 1o the wail of such buildiug fcr their whoe iength in such a manner s sball be satis- factory Lo the Superintendent of Public Streets. Suspend or cause .0 b- suspended, mainiain or suffer, uver the street or sidewa k 1n front of the bui ding or premises, any sign, sdvertisement or tlag. excep: upon holidays, etection days and days of public parade or display, und then only when the same shall be secured in 4 manuer satisfactory 10 the Superintendent of Streets. All persons maintaining or having a sign or ad- vertisement upon or above the front of oron any portion of any building or premises of which he is the vWner or occupant, or Over which he bas con- trol. shall, upou notice from the Superintendent of Sireets. cause such sign or advertisemen: to be placed, secured and fastened in such ma .ner a§ said Superintendent of Sireets may direct. And iiing to comply with the notifica.lon and direc- tion of said Superintendent it shall be the duty of that oficer (o cause the removal forthwith of such sign or advertisement as being dangerous to life any Hmb, 10 the sign you placed in front of your place of business was therc in violation of the ordi- uance quoied it was your duty to remove the | snme and piace it in a position to comply with | the law. The tact that some one else in your nity was violating the law is no excuse for your violation thereof. Ii the officers who forcibly removed your sign after haviug noti- fied you 1o do sv nave failed to periorm theif duty »s 10 other violaiors of the orainance you can file a complaint against them for neg- lectof duty, B. T. WASHINGTO! A., City. Taliaferro Booker Washington, the colored educator, was born a siave at Hales Ford, Va., April 18, 1858. After the emancipation his mother re- moved him to Maden, W. Va., where he worked in the cosnl and salt mines, attending school In the winter months, aiter which Lie spent several weeks in service in New England. In 1871 he went to Geueral S.C. Armstrong’s school for volored boys at Hawpton, Va., where, after much hardship by the way. he arrived with filty cents in his pockst. He graduated there with the highest honors of his class in 1875; went thence to Wayland S:minary, Washingion, D.C.: in 1879 he began to teach 'at Humpton; in 1881 he was placed iu charge of T contisted of a smeall church and_shan thirty students, to which the State of | ma made an annual appropriation of There, in the heart of the “‘Black Beit,” he modeled the institution after the plans of the Hempton sehool, and in 1897 the institution comprised 867 stude: ts from nineteen Siates, seventy-uine instructors, 2460 scres of land and thirty-seven buildings, all valued at §3,000,000. Twenty-five Industries are car- o by the students, at an annual cost ot §80,000. “Two-fifths of the annual income goes into the permanent plant; 650 acres are cultivaied by the students; ail put three of the buildings were built by the students, even to the brickmaking and woodsawing. While all mechanical branches are taugnt, special emphasis is laid upon the varlous branches of farm life. Female students are also trained in aris suitable to them. 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