The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 10, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10 _OCTOBER 10, 1807 SPRECKELS, Proprictor. JOHN D. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager, 710 Market street, San Francisco PUBLICATION OFFICE EDITORIAL RCOMS................ Telephone M ..517 Clay street | | THE SAN FRANCISCO GALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by | Sascicrs in thig aud sur-ounding towns for 15 cents a week. By wail $6 per year; per month 63 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. .One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFF] .908 Broadwey NEW YORK OFFIC BRANC 9 .Roows 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. | 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until | 130 o'clock. 539 Haves street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open nitil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open | until 9 o’clock. 1243 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 1503 | Polk streot; open uniil 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second | and Kentveky sireets; open till 8 o’clock. H OFI A DIZZY REFORMER. | | | OLICE COMMISSIONER GUNST has made some observa- | | | | tions upen “Reform,’ as it presents itself periodically in this and other large cities. The infirmity of reform seems to be that it is conveniently made tbe vehicle of personal ambition. Thirst for office may be of better report than some other thirsts and it may be better to be foud of public office and the prominence and power that { go with it than to be fond of some other things, but the pres- ence of this motive in reform movements always discredits them. The people like to judee a tree by its fruits, and are never friendly to the tree’s judgment upon itsell. The recent fiasco by Mayor Phelan in the Supervisor case is | in point. Last February he joived the Ezaminer in advising the board to go slow in fixing water rates, and at no time con- tradicted that paper’s repeated assurance that the rates need not be fixed in February. Thereafter he joins zealously in pro- moting the proceedings against the board for going slow, and at the culmiaation of those preceedings made midnight haste in appointing a new board. The appointment was followed by a banquet, in which the Mayor was hailed and toasted as ‘‘the next Governor of Cali- | foraia.’ h the nomination upon him, the Mayor proceeded | without judicial notice to forcibly seat his appointees, and then | to make his own tax levy. During these proceedings, in a public meeting of the board with the levy under discussion, the Mayor’s vreferred appoin- tee, Supervisor Barry, said that the old board had been attacked and ousted not for failing to fix water rates, but *‘to preventa | cinch in the tax levy.” This was a revelation which alsrmed | believers in law and order, and it discredited the case against | the old board. In all these proceedings the Mayor took leadership, and he | led to disaster apparently in the belief the methods he had adopted weie necessary to take at its flood that tide which leads on to the Governorship. Perhaps he does not appreciate that | bis undenied personal motive, coupled with his preferred Supervisor’s declaration that the suit against the ola board was a sham, and its removal for a reason not presented to the court, tended to discredit the reform and place several gentlemen ap- pointed to the new board in a most unpleasant if not humili- ating position, It isnot unusual for the people to promote to the Governor- ship citizens who have served in minor executive positions, i but it is unusual for such promotion to come to a man who in | the minor position has betrayed dizzv-headeaness and a dis- po:ition to step out of the orderly processes to which we are accustomed in the administration of public trust. When the enjoyment of a slight elevation producesa dizziness, which is aggravated by looking up to a still higher position, people get | weary. There was once a trusted official :n this town who embezzled | from an individual a sum of money and fled to other parts. He | was brought back, tried and, his guilt being clear, was sen- | tenced to the penitentiary. But going to the penitentiary was | of course obnoxious to his refined tastes, and he is not there yet. | There was a technicality that prevented. Not that it had any | bearing on the merits of the case, but it was effective. Now, | justice, having, as it were, caught her second wind, is once | more trying to prove a guilt that has already been demon-‘ strated and inflict anew a penaity that has oncs been evaded, | when uprises a lawyer with another technicality and defies the | statuies 10 touch his client. Such things get irritating after awhile. Is it possible that no way exists of reaching a rascal? Are laws but for the protection of wrongdoers? Or are peni- tentiaries only for such as do not embezzle thriftily enough to be able to command the price of a technicality ? The msn Bennett, who made a speciaity of suppressing vices not strictly his own, has no resson to repine at having to go to San Quentin. Seldom has that grim place of detention | encompassed in one individusal, and in a degree suppressed, so much vice as Bennett will take there to be experimented on. If he shall emerge thoroughly reformed, the purity of the moral stmosphere will be promoted to an extent which Beunett, hay- ing been in the business, will appreciate. OUR CLAIM ON HAWAIL ENATOR MORGAN has exploited at Honolulu his vocabu- lary for the benefit of the natives who carefully abstained from the intoxicating pleasure of listening to him. He took the high ground that America discovered Hawaii morally and having extended Christian civilization to the isi- ands acquired the right to annex them. According to this we discover morally every country to which we send Cbristian missionaries, and every country accepts our offer of Christian civilization under penalty of immediate annexation “without congulting the natives.” — For throwing pepper in her husbund's eyes a woman has just been convicted of simple assault, the jury’s tribute to an ever admirable and gentle sex. Nevertheless it could be wished that tbe verdict bad been more In the nature of censure. No busband desires a cayenned optic, even in token of so nataral an emotion as wifely displeasure, and in the best families this method of arriving at an understanding isno longer in vogue. New York jail officials are accused of dosing prisoners into a state of illness, supposed to be conducive to remorse, in the | hope of exacting from them confessions by which to have an easy path (0 the electric chair. If the story is true the officials | deserve not to be expelled from the jsil, but clapped into the | deepest dungeon, and kept upon a diet such as would spur | their consciences to a wholesome pang of regret. | Anthony Hope bas an opportunity to make a unique rscord. | He is on his way to this country, where he will be feasted and lionized, probably permitted to lecture. This part of the ree- | ord will, of course, be the regular thing. The filea for origin- | ality comes in the chance to refrain, after having been an hon- ored guest, from roasting his host and hostess and the others at the table. Senorita Cisneros has escaped from jail, but she can be found by the au:horities in the columns ot almost any journni. It is possible that she parted the ‘n\slnlning bars with a news_ paper file. One of the most famous detectives in the country has just experienced the mischance of having his pocket picked in Denver. For such an inspiration to his professional zeal he ought 10 be more grateful than he seems to be. —— Weyler's successor may in some respects excel the butcher, but ip respect to achieving a stupendous failure Weyler is beyond all rivalry, Police Commissioner Gunst does not like reformers, and yet be nas been suspected of being a reformer himself, | issue of practical municipal improvement. A PARK FOR THE CITY HALL. PARK is demanded between the City Hall and Market A street, and the movement started by the Grand Jury to procure one will find cordial support from the people. That much was made evident by the interviews with many citizens published in THE CALL. The benefits to be derived from such an improvement of our principal thoroughfare and our chief municipal building are everywhere recognized, and i the land required for the park can be obtained on reasonable terms there can be no question but what the taxpayers will readily agree to its purchase. The proposed improvement is no new thing to our citizens. It has long been desired. In fact, the great mass of the people have never cordially assented to the sale of this tract, which | was originally designed for a plaza, and there would be genera’ | gratification in seeing it returned to the possession of the city and devoted to the use of the peopl= as a park and recreation ground. Police Commissioner Alvord advocated the recovery of the tract by the city and tlie establishment of the park when he held the office of Mayor twenty-five years ago. His opinion on the subject has not changed, and he favors the movement to- day as strongly as he did then. He does not stand alone in this steadfast adherence to opinions formed years ago, for as our interviews show, many others who have long been resi- dents of San Francisco have continuously maintained the same view of the subject. Auditor Broderick, who expressed the views of the op- ponents of the improvement, stated in an interview: “In my opinion the establishment of a park in front of the City Hall would serve no good purpose, and would interfere with the continuity of business. All the trade would be diverted down xth and Seventh streets.” This objsction is not well founded. The business of New York has never been diverted from Broadway by City Hall square, Union square and Madi- son square, that break the continuity of ths shops on that thoroughfare ; nor is the trade on Tremont street, in Boston, checked by the fact that for nearly its whole length one side is faced by the Common. As a matter of fact, aimost every great and state oughfare in the world is broken along its length by parks that adorn it and add to its attractiveness. The embellishment of | Market street would in no way detract from its importance as the main artery of retail trade, but on the contrary would im- prove and augment its value in that respect, and, while bene- ficial to the people as a whole, would be particularly so to those doing business in the neighborhood of the new park. Whatever may be the result of the controversy on the sub- ject, it is gratifying to have it brought up for discussion as an The Grand Jury has made a good move in bringing it to the front, and if some satisfactory plan can be devised for the purchase of the tract at a reasonable price we may expect to see the new park opened in a time much shorter than is now expected. The sentimental error of classifying larceny as kleptomania when committed by a person whose nerves resent the proper epitbet of “thiet’”” has led many into crime. The cure for klep- tomania, the habit of stcaling, should be precisely the ssme as the cure for the habit of stealing even when not dignitied by a | sounding and fallacious title The woman who purloins useless articles may have something the matter with her mental rather than moral parts, but for such offenses society has thoughttully provided asylums. The distinction to be made between the two varieties of thief, if bias must be shown, should be in favor of the plain person who frankly stealsa ham wien huogry rather than the refined individual who annexes articles because too stingy to buy them or too proud to be without them, and then in a tearful spasm of remorse confesses to inno- cence and the awiul cluteh of kleptomania. Certainly the Fair case is for the courts to settle, and yet a littie friendly comment cannot be taken as an impertinence. 1i, as Mrs. Craven says, she is fighting not for property, but for ber homnor, her reputation, Ler good name, it seems probab'e that the beirs, vpon her relinquishment of claims that have hastily been concluded to have a sordid aspect, would present her a certificate of character, engrossed in the highest siyle o art and framed gorgeous Still, this is only a surmise. | REAPING THE WHIRLWIND. MOCRACY sowed the wind curing the Bryanite cam- paign last year and is now reaping the whirlwind. A storm not jeit by the country at large strikes every camp where the Democrats assemble and scatters their forces before they can be got into ranks for the warpath. These whirlwind outbreaks appear everywhere from the Pa- cific to the Atiantic. Their effects are visible at this time in Sacremento and in New York. No Democratic gathering, con- vention, caucus or secret council is safe from them. Every effort at party organization is baffled by them. Their force de- molishes all plans for party barmony. and aisperses the frag- ments of factions so far and wide that it is beyond the power of discipline to recail them to anything like an effective union. The cause of 21l this disaster to a party once the most thor- oughly organized in America is the Chicago convention. ‘That mad assembly was a veritable cave of winds, out of which the whirlwinds blow to-day. In Sacrsmento a fuction of the party refuses to recognize as a legitimate representative of Democracy a canaidate nominated for Mayor by the silver wing, while in New York the silver men refuse to accept the Tammany nomi- nation because it was not accompanied by an indorsement of the Chicego platform in full. Disorganized, divided and demoralized, Democracy in all varts of the country<s rapidly ialling into the condition of a derelict on the seas that is 8 menace to commerce. lts torn and angry factiens form diifting masses to which the agitator ap- veals, an d around which every dangerous element of the popu- lation gatbers. Whatever menace exists in our polities or our sccial structure comes from these discontented groups of des- verate leaders, who, baving shattered their own party, are now ready to disorganize the whole body politic and array labor inet capital, class against class for the sake of obtaining no- toriety if not office. The Democratic factions that bolted the Tammany nom'. nations in New York to make a fight under the leadership of Henry George are the direct and inevitable outcome of the factions that took possession of the Chicago convention and adopted a platform that included almost every dangerous or foolish vagary known to our politics. That platiorm was wept away from practical rolitics by the overwhelming vote of the veople last November, but the remembrance of it remains to viague and torment the inventors, The curse has come home to roost, and Democracy wiil get no rest until it is buried as deeply as the platform that haunts it. Thbe com pany of Georgia women who wish to join the State militia would make an effective force. Not that they would fight, particulariy, but no gallant soidier of the other sex is going to fire upon a lady, her beauty made more striking by a dashing uniform. Because he delivered a Sunday paper a Massachusetts boy Wwas recently arrested, and & Judge, becanse he haa more respect for common-sense than for a fool blue law, let the lad go. But that Judge must expect at least to be called an anarchist. It is cheering to know that some of the footpads who ha ve recently bereft nocturnal pedestrianism of its charmsare in jail, and that while courts are often lenient thay do not exhibit their softer side to the average highwayman. Emperor William's enjoyment in directing his troops in drill so that a number of the soldiers committed suicide to escape the ordeal must have been intense. Otherwise it was bardiy. worth the price paid for it. As to the eccentric Hotlander who confessed to the murder of fourteen wives and various other peopie there is the cheer- | ing reflection that nis veracity may be impaired, THE BENEFITS OF EXFOSITIONS. ACTS and siatistics gathered by the State Board of Trade F wi{h reference to the effect fiiobnéed by the State exhibir at the Hamburg Exposition attest the value of that means of adveriising our products abroad. The results as reported Have been surprisingly good and leave no room for doubt that we have been more than repaid for all the time, money and en- ergy the display cost. Although a general review of these reports was publisbed in THE CALL, some of them are so important and so impressive by the magnitude of the benefits they show as to be worth repeating. A Los Angeles firm of fruit-shippers reports that within the last four weeks it has shipped eight carloads of dried fruits to fill orders occasioned by the Hamburg exhibit, and has orders for an additional eight carloads of pears. A San Jose firm that shipped last year only seventy-six carloads of dried fruit direct to Europe has this sea-on shipped 208 cars and has forty-seven more in preparation. Reports collected from a number of firms in Sau Francisco are to the effect that the direct expurts to Europe of dried fruits and raisins this vear will exceed those of last year by upward of 50 per cent when the entire crop has gone forward. There is a timely lesson in this statement of the benefits de- rived from the exposition at Hamburg, for it is none too early for us to begin preparations for the great culminating exposition of the century at Paris. That gathering of the arts and products of all nations will be unquestionably the vastest and most per- fect that has yet been held. The very date fixed for it appeals to the imaginations of men. 1itis tomark the close of the most wonderful century in buman bistory and open another which promises to be more wonderful still, The whote world will note what is done at that grand expo- sition, and ii a display at Hamburg has resplted i such gains for our commerce and such new markets for our fruit, it will be hard to set bounds to the profit that will come to us from an exhihit at Paris worthy of the State, the occasion and the possi- oilities of the future. One can hardly pick up a daily paper without seeing some- thing about the plans of certain prize-fizhters. Kew people really care wbat these plans may be, and yet there is some op- vortunity for thought in the fact that not a plan yet outlined includes any scheme for going to work and earning a respect- able Lving. PICTURE OF A MISSION TO HAWAIL From the Honolulu Independent. The visit of the Senators from Alabsma and the Congressmen from different States has not been satisfactory to tne annexation howlers. The Congressmen have left us, and it was obvious that they were not very enthusiastic over their visit to Hawaii. They had a gooa time at the expense of the subscribers to the annexstion funa and of the taxpayers, and as long as they were well fcq, had plenty to driok and saw the huls, they took no interest in the political or financial affairs of Hawaii. Hon. Mr. Berry from Kentucky was charmed with the luaus in Hilo and at Waipio, Oahu, and he proclaimed the *official” hula at Pawas up to date. The missionary hosts attempted to 100k very em- barrassed in “sanctifying” the beathen hula by their presence. When the hula girls got & move ou ot Waipio the train was made ready, and the Congressman asked to board it and inspect the pumping and machinery of the Ewa plantation. The great sugar magnates, who managed the excursion, were paralyzed when a Member of Congress calmly told them that the train could go to Ewa or — for all he cared, the Ha- waiian hula was good enough for him,and that he preierred the gruceful twirl and the twist of the Hawatian girls to looking at American-made pomp or centrifugal. The missionary sugar barons were in a quandary. They feared to offend their distingutshed vis- itors, and at the same time they had never yet been present ata hula (in publie). Then came the pawas hula. The missionaries stayed away from that escapade, and leit the virtuous exhibition of our uational heathen dance ia the hands of the Minister of Education (the hula wes evidently not “foreign affairs”), the general of the army, the pro- tector of public morais, the marshal, and a number of ardeat an- nexationists, ready even to sacrifice their natural modesty to further- ing the “fun” of their Congressional yisitors. Old Morgan is not here for fun, however, and with %im itis straight business. He hes told the Government—and hts word stands uncountradictea—that from a Hawaiian point of view he certainly would oppose snnexation. He has not seen the hulas, but he has been dragged from church to church to pose before the Hawaiians, and from receptions to dinners, from punch-bowls 10 “siraights’ to ex- press himself as a solid annexationist,and & man who 1s here to thorougnly study the situation through giasses from “overseas.” The Senator was tendered @ feception by Hawaiiens, when an opportunity would bave been given him to hear something about the true situation here, and where he could have learned the true senti- He has declined the invitation. He does not care to hear what the Hawaiians have toeay. He simply desires to deliver an eddress 10 them, and tell them why they should favor the scheme which will deprive them of their existence as a nation. * * * The visits of the “great” statesmen have not brought the expected results. They have drank the punch of our annexationists, fattened on tha hospitality ot Hawali, spoken many empty wor they return to their homes they will forget their promi-es and Hawali will fade away from their minds as fast as the retainers paid to them puss from ihelr pockets. Send us some more Senators and Congress- men. SMALL FOIBLES OF HUMANS. Boston Herald. An interesting writer, noting the petty mesnnessof the rich and greet, says there is a great lady who lives not far from Park lane who is renowned for the perfection of her dinners, yet she sends her foot- man round in the dark to drop invitations into her friends’ letter boxes because she won't spend the money needed for postaga stamps- A former solicitor-general in‘a Tory adminfstration, who enjoys one of the most lucrative positions at the English bar, grudges the money for his lunches and buys roast potatoes in the street and retires to some seciuded aliey, where Lie eats them while he walks up and down. His conduct seems all the more singular, as in the winter he wearsa 6,000 sable-lined overcoat. Avarice is almost a fad among roysl and imperial personages. They do the queerest things to save 2 cents in the boldest manuer, and without the leastsense of shame at being called “mean.” It would appear from this authority that scarcely a hostess in London who has entertained on s large scale but can relate amusing stories of the petty thefts by her most afluent guests. These thefts range from bonbons on the table to silver forks and spoons, bric-a-brac,snd even jewelry. Really, there is a good deal of the magpie io human beings, or clse the moral sense 1s beiug eliminated from mankind’s composition. OPINIONS OF A PESSIMIST. Cleveland Leader. The woman who bleaches her hair will probably grieve beceuse she can’t change the color of her wing featbers, if she ever gets to heaven. When a man gets to be 35 he wonders how it was ever possible for him to regard peo,le of thut aze 8s being well along in years. Some men still dye their hair and whiskers. Generslly, this prac tice is the onis thing about them worth mentioning. Thereis always room at the top; but the fellows at the top are not the ones who make it. It is encouraging to read biography. There we may generally find that the greatest men were like us in some respects. For instance, they ate, drank, slept, and occasionally made fools of themselves. SEAPOWER OF THE UNITED STATES. Portland Oregoalan. The Nicaragua canal cught to be buiit; it is sure to be buitt, and, when built, it will be under the exclusive control of the United States* even as the Suez canal is under English conttol. Whenever England thinks it to her military advantage, she closes the canal, as she did once, despite the objection of France. And when this canal is built under American governmental eontrol, it will be worth all it costs outside its enormous commereial advantage, because it will assure the Pacific Coast cflicient naval protection. When the Nicaragus canal is buailt our Government will logically be compeiiea to protectit. The moment we cul the canal we have unflanked the Pacific Coast, and we shall be obliged to construct and maintain a navy that will be able in time of war to hold this canal agaiust all comers. The creation of this great navy will be sure 10 be accompanied by the proper lana fortifications of the Pactfic Coast. We shall have s strong fleet on this coast and on the Gulfof Mexico; we shall ha: Davy-yards, naval supply and coalivg stations; we shall have a large increase of manufactaring piants necessary for armored ship building and the making of guns both for coast and ship defense. ‘We cannot dodge our destiry. A country with 20,000 miles of sea- coast, and with half of it cut off from the other half by an isthmus which compels at present a wide detour sround Cape Hocn before the naval forces of the Atlantic seaboard can give the hand io thoss of the Pacific, is a mulitary and naval absurdily. The cutting of a Walerway across the isthmus, which will shorten this detour by 10,000 miles, is & military and naval necessity, unless we proceed om the absurd as- sumption that we are 1o be forever ai peace with all the world. NEVER TOUCH ST:EL TO CIGARS. Boston Heraid. Never touch steel to & tigar. It’s worse than cutting an apple or & pear o pieces preparatory to esting it. The oaly way to eat iruit, if you bave any regard for the fitness of tuings, is to bite into the whole piece as it comes from the tree or the bush or the vine. Itissome- thing the same thing with cigars.. 1i you cut the end off you leavesa hard, sharp-edged surface for the sensitive tip of your tongue 1o play acainst. 1i that doesn't spoil the smoke for you it ought to, and be- sides when you use a kalfe or elipper the nicoiine has nothing to sto P 1t from getting into your mouth. Bite off the end of your cigar always. Don't grip 1t half-heartedly between your teeth and tug and. That tears it and if it does not pull the wrapper off it ieaves loose ends of the filler to your tongue. Bite ciear through clean and evenly. The end is then a littie ragged—enough so when it gets moist to absorb the nicotine and tobe 1ial 1o the touch of your tongue, RUSSIA’S MILITARY STRENGTH. T IS almost impossible to form a correct idea of the gizantic &rmy - @t the disposal of the Czar of all the Russias. A traveler cannot fail to be favorably impressed by the good appearance of the troops he sees at St. Petersburg, Moscow and Warsaw. A military man, how- ever, who has studied the principal European armies in all their branches and has seen the Russian solaiers in war and peace and taken pains to obtain minute information in regard to the latter's organization, eq uipment, armament, discipline and arrangements for mobilization, will arrive ata somewhat different conclusion. Before looking on this side of the story the writer will give some statistic® of the Russisn forces, compiled by the writer from extracts from the archives of the War Department at St. Petersburg, taken by special permission of Grand Duke Sergius in 1894. As far as can be ascertained the figures have not been changed materially since then. The armed force of Russia comprises the ac- tive army, the army of the empire and the Cossack armies. Every Russian subject able 10 bear arms is compelied to join tne army, and not permicted to supply- a substituie. This rule, which formerly applied io Euro- pean Russia only, was in 1887 extended to Siberia also; but the other purts of Asiatic Russia, which are peopled by Mohammedan Cauc: able young men are excmpted irom mili tary service by payiug a fixed tax. The total time of service is fifteen years in Euro- pean and ten years in Asiatic Russia, of which five years have to be in the regu- Finnish_Rifieman. jor army. A much shorter period of service is allowed to men who can prove a certain degree of eaucation. In time of war the reguiar army is angmented by the reserve, but a Landwebr, like in other countries, does not exist in Russia. The number of serviceable men is about 850.000 each year, but of these ouly 235,000 arc sdded to the active army. This accounts for the ex- traordinary strength of the army of the empire. The army is divided in twenty-one army corps (not twenty-six as has erroneously been stated by some writer nd this division is a mere matter of form, a8, tactically, the Russian army is formed by battalions. The army consists of: L Infuntry— 192 regiments (12 guard, 16 grenadier and 164 tine) of § battal- fons and I battalion of non-combatants each, in all about 337.0% men; 26,000 riflemen, 21,000 men in Turkestan and Siverian battalions; 115 reserve battal- ions, of which in time of war 31 regiments are formed, and 2 vattalions of Caucasian Rifte-Druschines. 2 Cavalry—56 regiments of 6§ esquadrons each and 14 regiments of line Cossacks. Besides outside of the regular army there are § esquadrons of Zartars, § squadrons of gendarmes and 18 squadrons of reserves. 3. Artillery—(a) 51 brigades with 336 batteries and 1442 guns. and in time. of war 10 reserve brigades with 80 batteries and 640 guns and § extra brigades with §0 batteries and 320 guns; (0) : batteries horse-artillery and 6 batteries CQussack artitlery ; (¢) 80 regular battalions and 6 independent battalions of Jfortress artillery. 4. Independent troops, 7 battalions of European and 5 of Asiatic sap- pers; 8 pontoon (bridge constructing) battalions, I7 war-telegraph parks and 6 field-engineer parks and 24 local brigades. consisting of 13 battations of infantry—but those do not go into the Reld. The total strength of the regular army amounts to 660,000 men, which, in consequence of Russia’s abundance of reserves, will in case of mobilization be swelled to about 1,690,000 combatants, including 36,600 ommcers, 204,000 horses and 3776 gune With this tremendous number of men the mil- itary resources of Russia are by no means ex- hausted, as the entire irregular Cossack force is not included in the above. It isvery prob- able that in case of need Russia will be able to place trom 6,000,000 to 7,000,000 men under arms. The possession of a large number of soldiers is one thing and the bringing of a considerable vart of these soldiers to a point where and when they are needed is quite another. The drawing together of troops at the time of the Crimean War was connected with such diffi- culties that the apparently inexhaustible sup- plies of men and provisions were of no use whatever. As late as the sixth war of Russia against Turkey (1877-78) the former country required fully six months to throw 300,. Line of Infantry of 000 men across the Danube, and was severely Turkestan. defeated by the Turks in Asia and Europe, andfinally succeeded in gaining the victory only by opposing five men to one of their adver- saries. This war cost Russia 172,000 mea and 500,000,000 roubles. Since then Russia has exerted considerable energy in improving the transportation facilities of the vast empire, particularly in Poland and the northeastern provinces. In order to be somewhat prepared for an unexpected war with Germany or Austria, or botn, the largest part of Russia’s available forces have been tioned in the immediate neighborhood of the Prussian and Austrian frontiersince 1886. But it seems that the transportation of troops to re- enforce the armies on the frontier is still con- nected with greet difficulties, as the German general staff as yet has not found it necessary to guard the Prussian frontier with any troops outside of those which regularly belong to the frontier provinces. It has been comelu- sively proved by the Austrian and French war that the Prussian generalsieff knew the strength, resources and general ability of the Austrian and French armies much better than the war offices at Vienna and Paris, and there can be no doubt that the staff is just as / well informed in respect to the Russian army. g With the exception of two or three army corps, including the guards, the mew and offi- cers possess a much lower grade of intelli- gence than those of other countries, and their diseipline leaves much to b2 desired. In arma- ment and equipment they are far behind the other countries, and the vice of intemperance is very common among offiers and privates. The despotic form of the Government has gradually become very obnoxious to a large part of the peor ndin case Russia® should be vanquished in several battles soon after the outbreak of a war the danger of a revolution would become very imminent, just as was the case in France alter the defeat at Sadan. Tereck: Cossack. Cossack of the Imperial Guard. NAVAL POLICY OF AMERICA. George Washington, annual address, December 7, 1796: To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready 10 vindicate it trom insuit or aggression. This may even prevent the necessity of going to war by discouraging belligerent powers from committing such vielations of the rights of the neutral party as may, first or last, leave no other option. These considerations invite the Uunited States to look to the means, and to set about the gradual creation of a navy. Aundrew Jacison, March 4, 1837: No nation, however desirous o} peace, can hope to escape occasional collisions with other powers, and the soundest dictates of policy require that we should place our- selves in a position to assert our rights if a resort to force should ever become necessary. Our local situation, our long line of seacoast, in- dented by numerous bays, with deep rivers opening into the interior, es well as our cxtended and stiil increasing commerce point to the navy as our onal means of defense. It will in the end be found to be the cheapest and most effectnal. We shail more certainly preserve peace when it is well understood that we are prepared for war. ‘Abraham Lincoln, December 8, 1863: The events of the war give n increased interest and 1mportance to the navy, which will prob- ably extend beyond the war itseif, The armored vessels in our navy, completed and 1n service, or which are under contract and approach- ing completion, are beiieved to exceed in number those of any other power. But while these may be relied upon ior harbor defense and coast service, others of greater strensth and capacity will be necas- sary for cruising purposes aud to maintain our rigntful position on the oceau. No inconsiderable embarrassmeni, delay and public in- Jury have been experfenced from want of governmental esiablish- ments (sufficient 10 number and adequate in character) for the con- sizuction and necassary repair of modern navai vessels. U. 8 Grant, December 5, 1870: It can hardly be wise statesman- ship in a Government whicn represents a country with over 5000 miies of coast line on both oceaus, exclusive of Alaska, and contain- iug 40,000,000 of progressive peopie, with relations of every nature wilh aimost cvery foreign countcy, o rest with suca inadeguate means of enforcing any toreign policy, either of protection or redress. Separated by the ocean from the nations of the eastern continent, our navy is our oniy means of direct proteciion 10 Our citizens abroad or for ine enforcement of any foreign policy. SOME REPORTORIAL MIXES. ‘Westminstar Gazette. : A correspondent sends us some more reporters’ errors. Some are very amusing. Mr. Asquith once referred 10 the Governme=nt's “pigue or temper,” the reporter wrote ‘‘peacock temper.” A spesker at Exeter Hall, replying 10 an attack, said it was ‘‘a doub.elie in the shape of half a tcuth,” which, by the fngenuity of the reporter, appeared as “'a double eye in the shape of half & tooth.” Lord Russell, the then Canon of Windsor, bad been trying, he said, for forty vears to cure drunkards by making them drink in moderation; the local paper hed it that he had boeu trying for forty years todrink in wmoderation, but had never once succeeded. Sir James Graut, in & speech in the Canadian House of Commous, once relerred to & man’s thorax, when ia print 1 read “a man's piekax”; and on another ion his relerence to “food for the gods” appgared “food for the » Insetting up & speech of Sir Henry 1rving’s the compositor made “10any journeys in smeail boats” read ‘‘weary journeys in smail boots,” but this I8 not to the credit of the reporter, but the printer. —_— s occas cods. HUMOR IN SMALL DOSES Scene,German art gallery,pleasant woman (noticing an artist copy- ing one of the old masters)—Why do they paint this picture twice? Her busband—Why, that's quite plain. When the new picture is done they hang that on the wall and throw the old one away. Tit Bits. Ardup looked up bitterly from the book he was reading. The words ‘“‘one touch of nature” had caught his eye and had started a train of thought. “I wish it were possible,” he soliloquized. “I've touched every- body else.”—Chicago Tribune. be'ieve,” said Mr. Cumso, pettishly, “that a woman would stand looking into a mirror all day.” “Not if she saw you looking over ber shoulder, love,” responded Mrs, Cumso, sweetly. And for two seconds a tender smile stole over Mr, Cumso’s face, at the expiration of which time he suddenly gulped, snorted and went out, slamming the door with undue force.—New York Press. “The Alaskan elimate is cold,” it has its aqvantages.” “Whar?” ‘No darned fool ever asks if it's cold enough for ! Pphia North American, e e said the returned Kiondiker; “yet L ns, are still exempted, and there the | PERSONAL. M. P. Barr, U. 8. N, is registered at the P Baldwin. W. P. Coleman, a merchant o t the Palace. “I;. J. Ostrander, a capitalist of Merced, is at Russ House. ‘h;udgo William P. Veuve of San Jose is at the S California Hotel. } E. Farrell, & hotel-owner of Santa Cruz, is i registered at the Lick. ;. W. Herrin, an Oroville merchant, is & est at the Russ House. g“L.A Spitzer, County Assessor at San José, is stopping at the Grand. E. F. Liebling, an insurance man from Port- land, is at the California. Dr. Gossage and wife of Petaluma are regis tered at the Grand Hotel. V. L. Altman of the United States navy is registered at the Occidental. Frank R. Wehe, District Attorney at Dowale- ville, is stopping at the Lick. F. W. B.iss, a prominent physician of Santa Cruz, is registered at the Grand. C. W. Clarke was here from S.anford Uni versity to see the football game. H. P. Winslow, & mining man from Trinity County, is stopping &t the Palace. Dr. J. Moore, s member of the State Dental Board, liviug st Benicia, is at the Grand. Captain George S. Hinsdale has returned from an extended visit 10 Santa Barbara. carl E. Lindsay, the District Attorney of Santa Cruz County, is stopping st the Grand. Barons E. von Abercorn, A. von Schroeder and G. von Schroeder of Hamburg are aithe Palace. Captain 0. J. Humphrey, engaged in the in- surance business at Portland, is & guest at the California. Dr. F. W. Hatch, one of the physicians from the State Incane Asylum at Secramento, is at the Lick House. K. E. Allerdice, professor of mathematics at Leland Stanford University, 1s stopping at th California Hotel. Dr. F. D. Terrill of Sacrameato, one of the directors of the Preston School of Industry, i3 & guest at the Grand. F. Beaudray, who is interested in mines in Trinity County, is a guest at the Palace. He is accompanied by his wife. John Bauermann and wife of St. Louisare making a tour of the State. They are stopping at the Baldwin while in the city. D. E. Knight, who owns some woolen mills at Marysville, and also has other large inter- ests at that place, is a guest at the Lick. Dr. Oronbyatekhs, supreme chief ranger of the Order of Foresters, is at the Occidental. A son of the doctor is with him, accompanied by his wife. . Charles P. Thore, formerly connected with the Lick Paper-mills, is registered at the Palace. He is at present located at Portland and is extensively engaged in mining. Samuel Stephens, a wealthy resident of Big Meadows, has just returned from a five weeks’ outing in Lassen County. He says he had bet- ter sport and caught larger fish than ever before. f Sacramento, CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 9 —F. G. Madden of San Francisco is at the St. James; D. A. M= Colgan of California is at the Metropolitan. ‘El NST, Here In the sun the thrushes slog; Here in the sun ihe talips shine: White clouds wander and wet leaves Swing— Where is the shadow of Winter's wing, And where this sorrow of yours and mine? O WUNDER!” The long, long years and the twilight way Close in a mist of the sun’s own gol Youth is lord of the world to-day— Only the ear:’ dews are gray Unly the iast year's leaves are old. With youth’s wild heart and with youth’s wet eyes We wait once more what the hour muy bring, Youug once more with th> woods and skies, Rich with the sun's ¢ old—rich and wise— O Wind that blows from Paradise! O strunge sofi-whispering Win1 of Spring! HOSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON, in Harper's Magugine. . ANIMALS IN GROUP. New York Hera'd. The ingenuity oi the sporitsman is, per- baps, no better illustrated than by the he puts the English language to in designating particular groups of animals. The following is a list of the terms which bave been ap- plied to the various classes: A covey of partridges. A flock of geese. A nide of pheasants. A beavy of quails. A wisp of snipe. A cast of hawks. A flight of dovesor A trip of dottrell { lows. A swarm of bees. ster of pescocks. A school of whale: A siege of herons. A shosl of herrings. A building of rooks. A herd cf swine. A brood ot grouse. A skulk of foxes. A plump of wild fowl. A pack of wolves. A stand of plovers. A drove of oxen. A watch of nightia- A sounder of hogs. gales. A troop of monkeys. A clatiering of A pride of lions. cloughs. A sieuth of bears. A herd orbunch of A gang of eik. catile. H. BLACK, panter, 120 Eddy strast B CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50clb. 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