The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 8, 1897, Page 6

The FRIDAY. -OCTOBER 8, 1807 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE.. 10 Markel street, San Francisco Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS +eese 517 Clay streot Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents s week. By malil $6 per year; per month 63 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 Montigomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock. Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o’clock. EW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until9 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 o'elock. DOLE FOR THE COOLIES. HERE is no doubt that tie verbiage of the Hawaiian an- nexation treaty was adopted by the Dole Government to cover a trick. By first providing that all treaiies between Hawaii and other nations shall cease and determine, and that there shall be substituted therefor the treaties of the United States with such nations, it wiped out all treaties made by Hawaii and put in their place all treaties made by the United States. Had it stopped there the evidence of design might have been imperfect. But Mr. Dole felt it necessary to do some- thing that coula be made to seem like a declaration against Chinese on the islands leaving for other parts of the United States. To serve this purpose the language used in the fifth article was carefully planned. It not only serves the purposes of deception, but it completes the scheme begun in the third article. That, by extending our treaty of 1894 over the islands, gives the Chinese now there the same rights now enjoyed by the Cninese of California in any port of the United States. It per- mits them to leave Hawaii and domicile where they please in our territory and enjoy all the rights of subjects of the most favored nations. But it seemed necessary to pretend that they were not to come here, and at the same time pretend that no more Chinese should come to the islands. All this is craftily done in article V. Therefore while pretending ‘o impound the Chinese now in Hawaii, and prevent the coming of more, this precions annexa- tion treaty actually turnsloose upon the whole United States the 50,000 coolies now there, and then provides for supplying their places under the consular certificate plan provided in our treaty of 1884, ‘When the Collector of the Port of San Francisco causes it to be published that he is powerless to keep Chinese coolies out under the treaty of 1894, fancy the joy in Cathay when the same treaty covers Hawaii and the coolies present their con- sular certificates to a Collector of the Port of Honolulu! The dangeris great. Annexation is a wooden horse, with his ample belly filled with 50,000 coolies. If our industries and those who operats them desire to be saved from this flood it 1s time they were instructing our Senators and Representatives in the premises. Asa It is unsupported by morals, But, as affecting the Pacific Coast, it is an intolerable policy, against which our people should make a united protest. The treaty is a palpable trick and a plain juggle on the coolie question, and, if we can geta hearing in no other way, a committes should go from here to represent us before the Foreign Affarrs Commitiee of the Senate. Annexation of Hawail is notsafe on any grounds. national policy it is dangerous. One of the saddest features in connection with the attempt- ed suicide by drowning of a woman recently was the picture of the affair as it appeared on the pages of yellow journalism. There was a black splotch three columns wide from the top of which a wobbly moon cast reluctant beams that failed in any measure to light the situation. Part of the black splotch was probably sky, part water, and the artist forgot to put the woman in, which on the whole was kind of him. Really the people of Spain parading the streets and shout- ing *Death to the United States” fail to impress, and there are yet no signs of dissolution to be observed. 1f Spain has any death on hand to serve out to countries she conceives to treat her with 1ncivility she could use some of it to advantage in the little islands now engaged in making a monkey of her. Doubtless the Stockton Independent meant well in crediting the Eraminer with an effective article concerning the making of Chinese cigars. So rare is the opportunity the Hearst organ nas of receiving credit for anything commendable that it 1s pain- ful to be obliged to deprive it of tiis bit of consolation. The article in question was printed in THE SUNDAY CALL. A MENACE TO CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY. T. OXNARD, president of the American Beat Sugar H Company, in the course of a recent address before the ® Chamber of Commerce of Sacramento on the acvisa- biiity of establishing a beet sugar factory in that city, told his audience some truths regarding the effect the annexation of Hawail would have upon the sugar industry in California that should be carefully considered by all who are interested in advancing the welfare of the State. The Record-Union in its report of the meeting says: *In answer to a question as to whether or not Hawaiian annexa- tion wounid materially alter the prices for sugar beets, Mr. Ox- nard said it would retard the beet sugar industry of California, for the reason that we would not be able to compete with the cheap labor of the islands. If the islands are not annexed he felt certain that prices for Sacramento County beets would be fifty cents higher than now proposed in case a fuctory is erected here. He did not believe the islands would be an. nexed, but the uncertainty of the matter had to be consid- ered in fixing prices at this time,” Here is the clear statement of a truth that should b forcibly impressed upon Congress. The sugar industry is not confined to California, and many sections of the Union are affected by the Hawaiian menace. Every sugar producer in America, from the grower of the beets to the refiner, will have to face the competition of the coolie labor of Hawaii if those islands are annexed and made a part of our country. That competition, as Mr. Oxnard points out, will fall most heayily upon labor, and the farmer will get less for his beets if he has to sell them in competition with the Chinese labor of the islands. o 1t is to be noted that Mr. Oxnard’s statement is based upon the assumpiion that the coolies will remain in Hawaii after annexation and continue to till the fields there. Even on that supposition the yuenace to American labor is great. What shall we say then of what will happen if the Chinese abandon Hawali when it is annexed, and the whole horde of them Lasten to enter California and compete with the work of our labor at its very home ? —_— Railroads of the country want more time in which to equip rolling stock with automatic couplers. They are modest in asking only time, with eternity still largely ahead of them. Mr. Bradbury’s indulgence in the luxury of kicking a smaller man downstairs was not more than half as expensive as though he had selected a larger man to have fun with, Completion of the new garbage crematory suggests that the proper use to put yeliow journalism to need no longer be a problem. And it would have been a severe blow to the self-respect of the Bupreme Court to have tad to sustain the howling Hearst- lings. DISASTERS OF THE DECISION. HE Supreme Court in Auditor Broderick’s mandate pro- Tceeding decides several things which were not counted upon when the action was commenced. For instance, none of the so-called reformers who have supported Mayor Phelan in his extraordinary effort to install a Board of Supervisors with a squad of police anticipated that in the crash of ambitions which has followed the restoration of the old board to power, the veto prerogatives of his Honor would go down never to rise again. Yet such.appears to be the cold fact of the situa- tion. Justice Henshaw declares that the act of 1897, restoring the Mayor’s veto power to the vigor it enjoyed prior to the era of “‘general laws,” is unconstitutional. Therefore, in attempting to reform the municipal govern- ment of San Francisco with a club, Mr. Pnelan has mersly succeeded in knocking out his own brains. Instead of im- proving our system of local legislation, he has greatly damaged it. Hereafter seven Supervisors will fix the tax levy and con- trol the purse-strings of the citv. Neither Mr. Phelan nor any of his successors will in the future have a word to say con- cerning the management of the finances of the municipality. Moreover, there is already visible upon the horizon another, though remoter, anti-reform resuit to this decision. For a long time our local political doctrinaires have insisted that a remedy for every municipal ill would be the adoption of a new charter with an autocratic Mayor in it. Mr. Phelan, having given the people an idea of what an autocratic Mayor may do without power, it is now quite probable that they will never hazard the creation of an autocratie Mayor with power. In other words, responsible government has received a severe blow from the attempt of the Mayor and his fellow re- formers to further Mr. Fitch’s lawsnit. This is greatly to be regretted, for there is no question that the government of San Francisco ought to be made more responsible than it is. The division of political power developed by the amendments to the consolidation act has resulted in a positive injury to the city and its citizens. We are behind the age, mainly because every official at the City Hall is independent of every other official. Although the Board of Supervisors is called on an- nually to raise some $5,0co,0c0 for the support of the govern- ment it controls directly the expenditure of less than $500,000. How can the board economize on the tax levy when itis compelled to provide money to satisfy the demands of many bureaus and departments whose expenditures are regulated by acts of the Legislature? But there is another point decided by the court which is even more disastrous to the city than the nullification of the Mayor’s veto or the destruction of the municipal lord of the new charter. This is the declaration that there is no longer any power in the Legislature to pass general laws affecting San Francisco. Municipal progress is now blocked on every side. The people will not adopt a new charter because the reformers insist upon setting up in their midst a gigantic political poten- tate under the name of Mayor, and the Legislature cannot pass even a general law affecting the government of this city. The silurians have us bound hand and foot. All they need to do is to make a few more dollar limit tax levies, and dilapidated streets and sewers will finish us. As for Mayor Phelan, he is in the situation of the dog which crossed a bridge with a bone in its mouth. Looking down into the water, this dog observed another dog mirrored upon the surface, also with a bone in his mouth. He dropped his own bone in order to grab the other dog’s bone, and found when too late that his greed had been expended upon a shadow. If the Mayor has not lost his bone in attempting to grab the old board’s bone, then one result of the mandate decision has been carefully concealed from the public. Two New York papers are making a canvass among voters and announcing results of the coming municipal election, bas- ing estimates confidently on the figures gathered bv them- selves, As the two sets of figures point to entirely differeat conclusions the reader is puzzied. Then, naturally endeavoring to ascertain which of the papers is more reliable, and finding that both are thorougbly unreliable always, he is still more puzzled and concludes to wait for the counting of actual votes. Painful rumors come that Japan hates all Americans. It is fally understood that Spain does not adore us. Occasionally England gives sign of superior and comprehensive disapproval, and from some distant two-by-four republic are frequent notes of adverse criticism. The people of this great land seem to need just now somebody to love ther THE POTATO CROP. CCORDING to the preliminary report of the Orange Judd Farmer, there is a prospect of a shortage in the potato crop of this country as well as of Ireland, though of | course the evil here will not be felt as it is there. The report says, “The present indication is that the American potato crop will not be sufficient to provide for domestic wants,” and while this estimate may be changed in some respects by later reports when the crop is fully harvested, it is not likely that the change will materially alter the situation. As the Dingley tariff gives the American farmer a pro- tective duty of 25 cents per bushel, of sixty pounds, on potatoes, he is lixely to derive from enhanced prices a sufficient sum to make up for the shortage in the crop. It is noted that high prices are already being paid for potatoes in districts usually vroducing a supply for commercial purposes, and this 1s very justly taken by the Orange Judd Farmer as a contirmation of the estimates of shortage made by its correspondents. The district over which the shortage of the crop is expected to occur is a wide one, but seems to be mainly coniined to the region east of the Rockies. In Californis, Oregon and Wash- ington an increase over the percentage of last year is estimated in the condition of the crop at present and, of course, no falling off is looked for here. In the East, however, the outlook in some places is very bad. In New England the percentage of condition last year was 93 and this year it is only 55. In New York and Pennsylvania the fall in percentage is from 95 to 60, in Kentucky and Michigan from 90 to 79 and in Ohio from 95 to 50. Taking the country as a whole the condition of the cropin September last year was estimated at 91.7 per cent of perfect; this year the per cent is only 66.9. These estimates, as we have d, are based upon preliminary reports, and changes may have to be made later on for some localities, but gains in one section are likely to be counterbalanced by losses in others amd the gen- eralresult will not in all probability be much changed. The potato-grower, therefore, has good reason to rejoice in the en- actment of the Dingley tariff. Itdoes not save him from a shortage in his crop, but it does protecs him from foreign pro- ducers and enables him to get such an advance in Prices as will make up for a portion of his loss, Doubtless the law forbidding a woman totestify against her husband has the cffect of defeating justice, in which respect it is not unlike other laws apparently less foolish. 1i any doubt exists as to the result of such a statute itdisappears in the light of a marriage ceremony recently performed in this State for no other object than to destroy the value of the bride as a witness. The Justice of the Peace who tied the knot is to be congratu- lated that no method exists of charging him with collusion. However, there are precedents for not regarding such a “mar- riage’’ legal nor in any sense binding. Perhaps the best that could be wished the latest aspirant for the Blythe millions is that his lawyer will be content to labor for a contingent fee. Otherwise he would be wise to con- duct his own case and lose nothing but it, and his time. Now that Neal Dow has passed away perhaps the rigors of Maine prohibition will in some measure abate. At present it is necessary for one wanting s spirituous drink there to g0 to the trouble of asking for it. Joaqnin Miller’s latest letter was not late enough by about a hundred years to be entirely satisiactory. PERSONAL. C. R. Tillson, a Modesto lawyer, is at the Lick. Charles E. White, a granger of San Jose, is at the Palace. Horace Laning, U. 8. Navy, is registered at the Occidental. L. Rockiiffe, a State official from Sacramento, is a guest at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Churchill of Napa are guests at the California. AL N. Croftan, U. 8. A, and Miss Croftan are guests at the Occidental. J. Y. Sabbith, U. 8. Army, and Mrs. Sabbith are guests at the Occidental. E. E. Manheim, a merchant Hanford, isat the Occidental F. Hart, & Chicago hardware merchant,is among the late arrivals at the Grana. August H. Schnabel, an orchardist and min- ing man of Newcastle, is at the Grand. Frank N. Rust, an insurance man of Los Angeles, is a late arrival at the Grand. E. J. Merritt and wife of Esparto, Cal, among the guests at the Cosmopolitan. Edwin Dun of Ohio, ex-minister to Japan, registered at the Palace yesterday for Tokio. George W. Kenney, the liveryman of the Yosemite Valley, arrived at the Lick last night. B. H. Upham, who owns a large and pro- ductive vineyard near Martinez, is at the Lick. Dr. James M. Howe of Edinburgh, Scotland, arrived at the Grand last night accompanied by his wife. A. L. McCandless, a business man of Salinas, is a guest at the Grand, accompanied by Mrs. McCandless. J. B. Wright, superintendent of the Sacra- mento division ot the Southern Pacific, was in town yesterday. Walter James of Bakersfield, the civil engi- neer who planned the Kern Valley canals, is at the Baldwin. J. Grimmond of New Zealand, & mining man jusireturned from Seattle, arrived at the Cal- ifornia yesterday. Captain George W. Cofiin, U.S. N., s at the Occidental, He is on his way to duty with the Asiatic squadron. George G. McLean, the Grass Valley mining magnate 111 at the Lick, wes reported better at & late hour last night. Samuel Disston of Philadelphis, one of the big firm manufacturing the Disston saws, ar- rived at the Palace yesterday. William Brockman, a prominent Mason of Susanville, is at the Russ. He has come here to attend the Masonic Grand Ladge. John Percy Lawton, an Eoglishman engaged in the real estate business at Santa Baroars, arrived at the Oceidencal last night. B. U. Steinman, ex-Mayor of Sacramento and now proprietor of the Depot Hotel at the capi- tal city, is a late arrival at the Palace. . Arthur L. Pearse of London, representing several English mining syndicates, returced to the Paluce yesterday from a trip to Port. land, Or. W.H. H. Stowell of Duluth, Minn., capital- ist and ex-Congressman, arrived at the Palace yesterday, accompanied by his wife, He hasa £on in school in San Mateo. James M. Braly, Miss Braly, Miss Elizabeth Braly ana Miss Bertha Braly of Fresno arrived at the Lick yesterday. The Misses sraly were formerly students at Stanford University. Superintendent Chambers of the Ontario and Daly mines of Utah is in town. While here it 1s expected that he will confer with Lloyd Tevis and Mrs. Hearst and satisfactorily srrange matters pertaining to the mines, L. W. Covell of Washington, D. C., an exam- iner for the Civii Service Commission, arrived in the city vesterday and will supervise the examination to take place at the Postoffice to- day for various positions in the Government service. Farmer Callahan of Siskiyou County, on his way 1o this city yesteraay, got no nearer than the Sixteenth-street station 1n Oakland. There he left the train with his wifeand their little infant daughter, who had been born in one of the tourist coaches. Mrs. and Miss Callahan were taken to the Fabiola Hospital. Joseph T. Low of New York City, accom- panied by Mrs. Low, Miss Low and Miss Laura Low, arrived yesterday at the Palace. Mr. Low is a retired dry-goods merchant who is now, after thirty years of profitable business, on o pleasure four of the world. He expects to be traveling a vear. He will remain here until the China salis on the 21st and will spend the intervering time sight-seeing and visiting old merchants here, Clement Wilder, who for years has beena prominent promoter of advertising for many lines of business, will give up diversified work 1o assume control at Sacramento of all the ad- vertising for the firm of John Breuner. Over- work and consequent poor health were re- sponsib.e for the change. His business inter- ests here will be assumed by his successor Charles H. Lombard, for some time past con- nected with the old firm of Wilder & Co. menager of CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 7.—J. H. Deacon and wife of San Francisco are at the St. James. WHEN DOCI1ORS DISAGREE. He looked at my tongue, and he shook his head— This was Doctor Smari— He thumped on my chest and then he sald; “Ab, there it is! Your heart! You mustn’s run—you mustn't hurry ! You mustn’t work—yon must worry ! Just sl down and taze it cool: Y ou may live for a year, 1 cannot say; But in the meantim« make it a ral To take this medicine twice & du He looked at my tongue, and he shook his heal— This was Dr. Wise— “Your 1v-r's a total wreck.” he satd, *You must take more exercise! You musin’t eat sweets, You mustn'c eat meats, You must walk and leap, you must also ru You musin’t sit down in the dall old way Get out with the boys anG bave some fun— And take three doses of thisa day ! He looked at my tongue, and he shook his head— This was Dr. Bright— ‘m afraid your lunzs are gone,” he said, ““And your kidney isn’t rizht. A change of scene is what you need, Your case is desparate, indved, And bread is a thing you mustn’t eat— Toomuch s arch—but, by the wa You must henceforth live on only And take six doses of this & day " Terhaps they were right, and perhaps they knew, It f8n’t for me to say; Mayhap 1 erred when I madly threw ‘A heir bitter stuff awa Bat I'm liviog yet and I’m on my feet, And grass 1so’t all that I dare toeat, And T walk and 1 run and 1 worry, 100, But to save my life I cannot see W hai some of the abie dogtors would do 1f there were 1o 00 8 lixe you and me. S E. K1se® in Cleveland Leader. NUGGETS OF HUMOR. Deacon Johnson—It's one ob de frailties ob our poor human nature dat no mattah how much a man gits he wants more. Jim Jackson (thoughtfully)—Oh, I dunno 'bout dat: not in a Police Court, ne don’t.— Judge. Paterfamilias—Look here, Dick, you've been abit wild yourself in your day and I'd like some advice. What am I to do with Harry? The young rascal exceeds his allowance every month. Cousin Dick—Increase it.—Chicago Journal. “I dom't relieve I quite understand your contention,” d the Judge to the bicyelist. “It seems that the prisoner is & housc-mover; that he was moving a small frame nouse at the time of the trouble and that you ran into the house. I can’t see what offense he has committed.” “But, your Honor,” protested the bicyclist, “Irang my bell when 1was half a block away and he paid no attention to it.”’— Detroit Jour- nal, Oh,” said the serpent, suavely, not desiring to show undue precipitation, “as to apples, that is a mere matter of taste. But, however, on the question of al fresco eostume—allow me to offer you this pair of street slippers.” He politely tendered Eve a brace of bananas. New York Press, Prominent Kani hat is the matter with Chinnaway, the Populist orator? He nas been looking very despondent of late. Second Kansan (also prominent)—Oh, he is beginning to suspect that the silver question is piated.—Puck. “Paps, What’s & non-partisan?” sually a man who ean’t get the regu- lar nomination,”—Chicago Journal, Egyvt is being made to contribute some other things than obelisks and mummies for the instruction and amuscment of the British public. The whole of the Khedive's collection of wild animals lately became the property of William Cross, the well-known naturalist, of Liverpool, and have been added to his already extensive and interesting collection. Mr. | Cress’ purehase inciuded twenty-four lions—four full-grown males, five full-grown females, [ elght partly grown and seven cubs—and is the largest single importation ever brought to the country. These seven cubs, with three others cubs were born on the voyage from Egypt, ana added siuce, make a very unique group. Two they are the objects of much care ana petting. During the day they have the run of Mr. Cross’ office and in the evening they are sent to his residence to pass the night with the dog and cat, with whom they have established, for the time, at least, very amicable relations. Other additions will shortly be made to the group, as two more of the lady lions arc in a state of expectancy. To feed this lot of felines requires the csreasses of two horses, besides a liberal supply of butchers’ meat, and a!l the city of Liverpool knows well when their feeding time is near, as their roars are tremendous and far-reaching. . The collection included one large Barbary lion, which in good condlition' is very rare, besides striped and spotted hyenas, a Bengal tiger, a large and beautiful specimen of the black panther and other rare animals. The cost of keeping them all is great, but the profit is large, as the lions breed well in Engiand and a well-grown male is worth from £1500 to £2000, Americans being the best customers. x b4 X * x 4 X : * * ¥ THE HAWAILAN ANMEXATION QUESTION, His Reasons Unanswerable. Woodland Democrat. Itisa mystery to us how any unprejudiced person can read Senator White's article in Tue SUNDAY CALL, giving his reasons for opposing the annexation of Hawaii, without being convinced that his reasons are positively unanswerable. That Serator White wiil make a vigorousop- position in the Senate is as- sured, but candor compels us t0 admit that his opposition is likely to prove truitiess. The jingos are not furnishing any reasons for their own policy and they obstinately close their ears toall appeals of reason and jus- tice made by those who do not want to see this Government re- verse a national poliey that is asold as the republic itself * * * Not a single newspaper on this coast has written a half col- umn article in defense of an- nexation. Perhaps they are not to blame for that, for there is pre- clous little that can be said in de- fense of such a policy. They sim- Pply assume that we are stronger, wealthier and more intelligent than the natives of Hawaii, there- fore, it is not necessary to consult their wishes whenever we con- clude that the islands are essen- tial, either to our commercial prosperity or our perfect defense. In other words we may loot the possessions of our neighbors, providing they are wesker than we are, without being amenable to the charge of robbery. * * * * * * * This means that tne American people propose to ac- cept Hawaii as a gift from those who have no sort of right to zive itaway. It means that 2 percent of the population of Hawaii will arrogate to themselves the right to cede away a territory over which they usurped the author- ity to rule, because they were backed by a meddlesome United States Minister. It means that 98 per cent of the population is not to be consultea at all and that no effort is to be made to ascertain their wishes, or even the wishes of the American people. e Annexation Absurd, Colusa Sun. The San Francisco CALL is mak- ing aa able fight against the ab- surd proposition of annexing the Hawaiian Islands, and Senator White contributes to the Sunday edition a very strong paper.* * * * Senator White is not in this matter waiting for public senti- ment to direcs, but he is going according to the dictates of rea- son, whatever bearing it may have on his chances for a re- election to the Senate. * Facts and Logie. Los Angeles Herald. The San Francisco CaLL of Sun- day prints a signed article by Seuator White, in which the Sen- ator vigorously opposes the pro- posed annexation of the Ha- waiian Islands. The ground is covered as thoroughly as may be in a brief newspaper article, and should be read by everybody who desires to get at the facts and the logic of the Hawaiian sit- ke 339 e e A A ek ok ok e e e ok sk ok ok sk ki sk ke e ke ek ek ok ek sk ok sk ke i s ok ke sk e sk e e o ke ek ke sk e ok ok ok e ek e e o e ok sk sk skodek ok ook sk ek ok ok ek ok ko ok uation. Fededde gk ok ek kb bk A e e e e ek ok ok ok sk e e e ok s kst e sk sk ek e sk ek sk ke ks ek ek sk e ek e sk ok ok sk ok sk ok sk e 6 Aok sk sk e ke ke sk e e ok ok ke e e e ek sk ok ok e g e ek ok ek ok ek ke ok ok Aok »*: 20 KOO KA K TIDE OF PRONUNCIATION. New York Sun. It is always diverting to watch how a wave of small intellectual reform wiil from time to time sweep over a ‘‘set” ora community, or, indeed, an entire locality. Itisso catching, 8o inevitable. Everybody goesdown before it. Anything novel or out of the way in expres- sion is the popuiar infection justnow. For example, “half aiter 4" instead of *half- 4,"” “keen” for ‘“‘quick” or “eager,”” and ‘“de- lectable” for anything from “nice” to *just too perfectly lovely for anything.” This fashion, however, has less to commend it, in that it is not o much a tribute to good Eng- lish us to silly Americans—namely, the Anglo- maniacs. Pronunciation affords a fine instance of the Way that women ail follow suit like a row of bricks or a flock o1 shecp or anything else that symbolizes harmony and accord. Just let a club president or any acknowledged leader start in by saying appendicytls or co-quetry, or anything eise foreign to the appendiceetis or coquetry that they have all been saying for so many years and presto! the sleight-of-hand man ~ couldn’t make quicker work of it. All this isn’t saying that jtisn’t highiy laudable and well-intentioned. Like everythlng else, culture itself has to have a start, and noc unlike everytaing else it's apt to be funny while it's so refreshingly new. AN EXPER: IN EIFHER., Louisville Courier-Journal. The London Globe having declared that “America has lost all sense of proportion and has forgotten that she plays only a minor role in the affairs of the world,” it has been sug- gested that the role which America is playing At present, and which is Dot a minor role in its importance to John Bull, is the bread role. And no one knows butter than this same John Bull thet America is equally successiul in playing the bread role and the iead role, —_— PORK AND BEANS. Kansas City Times. Boston calls Chicago & “porcinarium.” The Windy City might retort by reminding the Hub that it is the “beanificiary” of Chicago’s hog products. IT GOES BEFOR:= A FALL. Ivdianavolis News. The trouble with Spain is that she cannot swallow her pride, PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Mme. Woltow of St. Petersburg is trying to found a new club, which is to bs devoted en- tirely to the hygienic development of women, | Edna Lyall enjoys the distinction of being the only woman novelist living who is in- | cluded by Queen Victoria among her favorite authors. G. P. Wood, now baggage-master in7 the Union station in Boston, is one of three men | in that city who hold the Kearney cross for special bravery during the War of the Rebel- lion, Professor Holmgren, of the University of | Upsals, who has just died, established the first physiological institute in Sweden. He was chiefly known through bis researchies on color blindness and his plan of testing the color sense by means of woois. Italy has just lost one of her scholars of Eu- ropean renown in the person of Tommaso | Val.auii, who began his career as a teacher in the University of Turin as early as 1833, and Was appointed to the chair of Latin more than half a century ago. The Rev. Dr. Eliphalet Nott Potter, formerly | president of Union ana Hobart colieges, has | accepted the presidency of the Cosmopolitan | Educationai University Extension, which was | recently relinquished by President Andrews | of Brown University. Miss Anna Forbes Goodyear of Boston, well known for her work for the advancement of | the poorer classes, is hard at work at present 10 veriect a plen to establish a farming colony | in Washington, where the poor of the East may make comfortable homes. Grover Cleveland has bought a large tract ot unimproved land on the shoies of Elbow | Pond, about six miles from his summer home, | Gray Gables. He intends to stock the pond | with black bass and other fish, and will build a lodge, where he will entertain his {riends. | Norman B. Covert, a 78-year-old citizen of | Ann Harbor, Mich,, has been converted from | Methodism to Brahminism. He is supposed | to be the only American convert to that creed, and he has not adopted all of its doctrines, for he will not abstain from tLe use of auimal flesh for food. TO SMOKE OR NOT TO SMOKE. Westminster Gazette, Some well-known doctors discuss in the cur- rent Young Man this well-worn theme. Dr. | Andrew Wi'son thinks that for the majority | of mankind smoking is “certainly not” a bad habit “I think cigarettes are apt to prove injur- fous,” continues Dr. Wilson, “because a man will smoke far too much when he indulges in | this form of the weed and beeause I think it is generally admitted that cigarettes areapt to | produce evil effects out of all proportion to the amount of tobacco which is apparently consumed. But used in moderation, what evils, let me ask, are to be found in the train of the tobaceo habit?” Whenever anybody counterblasts to-day against tobacco Dr. Wilson feels as did his old iriena Wilkie Collins when somebody toid him that to smoke was a wrong thing. “My dear sir,” said the great novelist, “all your objec- tions to tobacco only increase the reilsh with which I look forward to my next cigar. Dr. Norman Kerr savs it wouald be impossf- ble for him, without disloyalty to science and truth, to denounce the smoking of tobacco as always injuriows. The weed, among other virtues that it possesses, is ‘‘somewhat of a disinfectant’: “If I had to-day to see patients in a yellow fever ward, long as tissince I last smoked, I | should smoke again ss a rophyiactic against the dire disease. Tobacco smoke, on being passed through the interior of hollow bulbs lined with gelatine coniaining disease germs, has destroyed the microbes of cholera and pneumonia. But more important still, “when wmanya father, utterly worn out and irritable with the waorries of the day, is ready to find fault with everythning, from the prattiing of the children to the cooking of the dinner, 1f his wife is wise enough to persuade him to smoke, the bear becomes a lamb and domestic peace is as- sured.” After this let the anti-tobacconists for ever hold their peace. G STREETS SPRINKLED WITH OIL. St. Lowis Republic. Indian Territory can boastof the only mu- nicipality in the world that spriukles its| streets with oil. This1s the town of Chelsea. The principal sireets are sprinkled with unre- | fined coal oil, instead of water. Oil is used instead of water for several reasons. In the first place it is more plentiful and cheaper. In the second place water cannot lay the dust. In that region they have protracted dry spells, during which the dust gains adepth of six inches, The wind is very strong and sweeps across the plaing at a tremendous rate. Now, some enterprising citizen of Chelsea heard or read thatoil would siill the troubled waves, and he conciuded thatit would lay the dust. Sc it was tried, and proved a tremendous suc- cess. The ccntact of the oil with the dust doss not produce mud, as if water were used. It simply lays it much after the manner it smooths water. After an oil sprinkling a hurricane can blow up the street without dis- turbing a particie of dust. To walk on the oil-sprinkied dust is much like walking on a velvet carpet. Your feet sink into it, but it does not eling to your shoes. 1t does not get soggy. After having been sprinkled the streets are ot a brownish-black color. It is only necessary 10 sprinkie & street twice in 2 week. HOT END OF THE ARGUMENT, Sioux City Journal. A Populist paper over in Nebraska, a genuine Populist, not & povocrat, arises to the oceasion in its last ber and supporis its canse in an erticle in which the editor of a neighboring paper is referred to as “the vealy young squirt who filters slush and twaddle through .he columns” of the aforesaid neighboring paper, which is further referred to as *issued from n littie back ratholesomewhere on Main street.” The remainder of the argument is in similar stfain and doubtless it fairly represents true Populist Views in that part of the country, —— JARRING THE BRITISHERS. Springfield Repubiican. The London newspaper that has been drop- Pping the letter “u” in words like lahor and color and spelling “program” without the “me,” is now overwhelmed with protests from readers against this surrender to a demoraliz- ing Americanism in spelling. Such butchery of tne English tongue, they argu never be condoned. o e AND THE WOLCOTT ARGUMENT ? Stockton Mail. Tha defeat of the eminent anatomist; Profes- sor George Dixon, by the still more eminent SUPERVISORS’ REFRAIN. 0f course we're called shiity—the reason is plalo— We shift out of oftice and shifi in again ce many good people who, not Knowing how, Get on the wrong side when they’re mukinga cow: Get kicked for their pains and bruised in thelr fall, With the muck and the mi'k smeared over them all. So George and the Mayor, assuming that we Did not with their preconceived notions agree, 1nstead of the horns 100k the cow by the tail And were kicked bigh and dry with no milk in the al. 0f conrse we're called shifty—the reason fs plain— We shift out of offiee aca shift in asain. H. R. HURLBUT. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Co1NS oF 1894—Subscriber, City. Dealers in coins do not offer & premium for United Staies dollars or half dollars coined in 1894. DUCK-SHOOTING—W. A. M., City. There is nothing in the game law of this State that says that ducks shall not be shotin season after nightfall. _C.K., City. James Col- illed at the corner of KILLING OF COLLI! as shot and c ; n and Second streets, in San Francisco, by John MeNulty, March 25, 1888. The duties of a r, s generally understood,are tosuperin- routine monetary transactions of a bank or other commercial concern. Deyixe Fras—J. 8. W., Elk Grove, Sacra- ramento County, Cal. It is said thatof the two methods of drying figs that of drying in the sun is superior to the one of drying in ovens. River AND HARBOR—B. L, City. Colonel C. R. Suter, U. 8. A., is the successor of Colonel Mendell as chief of the Corpsof Engineers, river and harbor improvements, etc. His sta~ tion is at Fort Point. MARYLAND—Mrs. J. H., Alamedn,anl. T:a words of *‘Maryland, My Maryland,” can be found in “Our I'amiliar Songs and Who Made Them,” by Helen Kendrick Johnson, to be found in the libraries. ENGLISH — Subscriber, City. The common language of the United States is the English language. The American language is the lan- gauge of the Indians, who were the inhabi ants of the American continent before its dis- covery by Earopeans. CHAMPIONSHIP BELT—B. Ccity. Corbett did not recognize the Fox championship belt, buthe gave the championship, so called, to Peter Maher, who was aiterwara_whipped by Fitzsimmons. Then Corbett met Fitzsimmons at Carson and was whipped. DoME OF THE CITY HALL—A. §, City. As you area residentof this city you can 20 to the City Hall any day in the week and view the dome from: the interior and in that way obiain a better idea of what it looks like thau you could from any written description. Tuge Custom-House—H. M., Oakland, Cal. Laborers and workingmen are not subject to civil service rules in the Custom-house or other depattment in the United States. For information as to the time and piace where examinations for the Custom-house are heid, address a communication to_the “Clerk of the Crvil Serviee Commission, Custom-house, San Francisco, Cal” SHELL POLISHING—C. A. E., City. The sur- face of & sea shell should be cleaned with & rag dipped in hydrochloric acid till the outer dull covering of the shell be removed. Then wash in warm water, dry in sawdust made hot and poish with chamois. Shells destitute of a natural polished surface mey be either varnishea or rubbed with a mixture of tripoli and turpentine appiied by means of a piece of wash leather. Then use fine tripoli, after which rub in well some olive oil and finish by rubbing with chamois. Protect the hands trom the acid. PROBLEM OF LONG LIVING. Seattle Post-Inteliigencer. What to eat and how to live form a study which should have its own university, from which graduates should emerge to rival preachers and physicians as the preventive agencies, as the latter practitioners are the remedial agencies, in human welfare and against the encroachments of diseass and sin. There is no nataral law or superhuman edict limiting the term of life 1o three score and ten: That period is not a boundary set by dis- pensation, but an average gathered from ex. perience. There is no physical reason why 70 years, or 90 years, or even 100 yvears should be an exceptional length of life. What one can do agother can do, the conditions being equal. The power :0 live for & century exists and there is no reason why the race should not have irs term of existence extended to the full limit of human endurznce. And it will be when we have mastered the problem of the best food and the right rules of conduect, JUST FOR PEACE’S SAKE, ‘Washington Star. England’s desire to be friendly with this country s so great that she Insists on doing what she can to hasten the day when ther witl be no seals for anybody to quarrel over, CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c lb. Townsandie™ ———— JUDGE MAGUIRE on ‘‘Government by Injunee tion’’ in this week’s Star. - ————————— SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery, * —————— UNDERSTAND what ‘‘Government by Injunec- tion” means by reading what Judge Maguire will say in a special article 1n this week's Star. Ask your newsdealer for it. e ——e e DIPLOMACY DEFINED. St. Louls Republic. Glaastone defines the European concert as “the mutual hatred and distrust of the pow- ers.” A new dictionary of diplomacy by the grand old man would crown his labors and de- light the worid. “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup* Has been used over fiity years by millions of moth- ers for their children while Teething with perfecs success. It zoothes the child. softens the zums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrheeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For salo by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and sk tor Mrs. W inslow’s Soothing Syrup. 25cabotile —_——— CORONADO.—Almosphere is perfectly ary, sot 2nd mild, being entirely free from the mists com- mo further north. Round- trip tickets, by steam. ship, lucluding fifteen days board at the Hotelda Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 50 perday. Apply 4 New Montgomery street. San Francisco, or A, W. Beiley, manager Hotel del Coronado, late of Hotel Colorado, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, ———— HUMAN NATURE. Life. The rich are miserable because they have iscovered that money cannot buy haopi- ness, and the poor are wretched because they have not enough money to make ihe experi You think it is because your child is “growing too fast that he fails to put on flesh. More often it is due to a gradual and general weakening of all the forces of the body. The child may have no pain, may have a fair appetite and yet lose flesh. Perhaps the happiest effects of Scott’s Emulsion are in such cases as these, It gives the body a fat which is easily taken up; alters unhealthy action and sup- plies the best blood-making anatomist, Professor Solomon Smith, mig tormed a’striking argument 1n fuyon ot (o superiority of the Caucasian race, | science, food known to medical