The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 12, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, .1897. 6 Th NEGRO RIGHTS FOR HAWAIIANS. ‘ ” i N the course of his mission to Hawaii Senator Morgan was = e k f the native leaders to define the status of TUESDAY.. OCTOPER o r_897 asked by one of e native lea JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. wer....710 Market street, San Francisco Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS............... erecennn . Telephone Main 1874. PUBLICATION OFFICE veees D17 Clay street 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....cccccovereooeenscons, o r, by mail, $1.80 CAKLAND OFFICE.. sesssnsesasessanshesassess-sDUB BIOMAWEY. NEW YORK OFFICE... Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. S—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 39 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 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 ® o’clock. 15053 Polk street; open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentvcky streets; open till 9 o’clock. THE LATEST YELLOW TRIUMPH. ELLOW jourralism has certainly achieved & signal tri- umph, if it be true, as claimed by one of 1ts represen- tatives in this city, that it has succeeded in aiding Evan- gelina Cisneros to escape from her Cuban prison. Delivering prisoners from jail by disorderiy methods is always a clever operation. But it has, we believe, ever since the days of Dick Turpin, been considered as somewhat lawless in character. In fact, although the lawyers employ only the slowest and most conservative means for releasing people from jail, they are generally recundly abused for their ingenuity. Moreover, if our memory serves us, no yellow journal in the country has been 80 prolific in this kind of abuse for years past as the one in this city which now claims to have paid for getting Senorita Cis- neros out of jaiL It has been for some time quite apparent that yellow jour- nalism is a victim of moral obliquity. The incident under con- sideration proves that it is anable to distinguish the difference between right and wrong. If it is proper for any person to aid in forcibly releasing Senorita Cisneros from jail, why is it not alzo proper for him to aid in the same way Durrant or any other individual charged with crime whom he believes to be innocent? We are not discussing the probable guilt or inno- cence of the young Cuban woman. The sbstract question now is whether or not under any circumstances it is justitiable to assist in jail-breaking, even it sueh assistance were not, asin this case, liable to result in international complications. As we understand it, Senorita Cisneros was imprisoned by General Weyler in pursuance of legal forms. She was await- ing examination on acharge of having conspired to bring about the assassination of Spanish officers. The yellow papers toox up her case for the purpose of creating a sensation, tried her according to the editorial rules of evidence—which are to suppress all testimony for the prosecution—declared her in- nocent of any offense whatever, and proceeded to lay a plot for forcibly releasing her from jail. The fact that this was a wiil- fal interference with the legal process of a friendly nation and likely to lead to a war, in which the United States might be called upon to sacrifice a hundred thousanc lives and a billion of treasure, cuts no figure in the moral aspect of the case. The point at issue i Is it right to assist persons charged with crime to break jail pending an investigation of their offenses? Ifan affirmative answer is returned to this inquiry, it is time for the people of California to look after their jails and brisons. We Lave a yeliow journal In our midst. Suppose that journal shou!d take it into its saffron head to try and acquit Durrant or Eubanks or some other alleged criminal ac- cordiug to the editorial rules of evidence hereinbefore referred to? It would move upon the works of Warden Hale at San Quentin without delay. The result might be that, in attempt- ing todeliver the particular object of its solicitude from jail, it wouid turn ail the inmates of the prison loose upon the com- munity, This would, indeea, be a serious matter. What remedy would the people have against such a proceeding? Yellow journalism 1s execution proof by reason of its owners living away from the scene of its exploits, and therefore irresponsible. The only hope we have to express, in view of the triumphal release of Senorita Cisneros from her Cuban prison by the Ezaminer-Journal combination, is that the gentlemen who conducted that infraction of the law will not take it into their yellow skulls to break into San Quentin or Folsom prisons, This seems to be all that is left for us to do. THE ELECTIONS OF THE YEAR. LTHOUGH this is what is known as an off year in politics there are to be in November a sufficient number of im- portant elections to show the trend of public sentiment and demonstrate whether thers has been any considerable change since the Republican tidal wave of last year. In some of these eontests the campaign is being waged with great ardor on both sides and the issues to be determined are by no means slight. Massachusetts, Ohio, Iowa and Virginia are to elect Gover- nors; Ohio and Maryiand are to eleet Legislatures which will choose United States Senators; New York is to elect a Chiet Judge of the Court of Appeals, Kentucky a clerk of the Court of Appeals, and Nebraska a Judge of the Supreme Conrt and regents of the university. In addition to these State campaigns there are to be several important city elections, including one in New York City, which, when all things are taken into consideration, is perbaps the most notable contest of the year, It is a foregone conclusion that the Republicans will carry Massachusetts and the Democrats Virginia; so that the only interest in the elections in those Btates is that occasioned by the rivalry between the radical and the conservative branches of the Democratic party. In Towa the contest is keener be- cause of the alliance of Populists and Silver Republicans with the Bryanites, but there also the conservative Democrats have put up a ticket of their own, and there is no doubt of a Repub- lican victory over the inharmonions factions that are fightingt. The campaign in Ohio promised at one time to be exciting, but the Democrats and Populists have sofarlost hope that they have well nigh abandoned the field. The Repubiican campaign is being made with vigor by Governor Bashnell and Senators Heunna and Foraker, while the opposition has hardly been able 10 have a mass-meeting large enongh to attract attention out- side the locality where it occurred. In Maryland Senator Gorman is making a fight for his political life. Dissensions in the Republican party in the State give the astute Democratic leader a chance to win, and ne knows well bhow to make the best use of it. In all other States the strife between the conservative Democrats and the Bryan- ites continues to divide the party, but Gorman managed to draw up a platform that seems to be eatisfactory to both fac- tions in Maryland, and he may reap the reward of his skill as a harmonizer and an organizer by achieving a triumph where all the trend of public sentiment is against bim. The contest in Kentucky turns on the comparatively minor office of clerk of the Court of Appeals, but strangely enough it is one of the most exciting of the y Conservative Democ- racy in that State, led by Carlisle and supported by the Courier- Journal, is contending with the Bryan wing for supremacy, and the struggle is being waged with all the ardor so characteristic of Kentuckians. Either wing would vrefer to see a Republican triumph to that of the rival faction. The office at stake is small, but the question whether the Carlisle or the Blackburn following repre- sent the majority of the Damocratic party in Kentucky is of vital importance to many a politician, and therefore the cam- paign is fought everywhere with all the desperation of men who know that it is to end with a Waterlod for one side or the other. The death of George A. Kaylor, s journalist well known Jocally, will be much regretted. Faylor was an honest, honr- able and competent newspaper man, earnest in his chosen call- ing, and to the iast brave in the face of adversity, the natives under annexation. The S:nator replied that they would probably have the same rights as the negroes have now in the Southern States. Whereupon the natives grew inquisitive as to the scope of those rights. They asked 1if the negroes were free to vote and have their vote effectively counted ; If in Alabama, for illus- tration, the Senator’s own State, there is a free ballot and a fair count for the blacks ? To these inquiries no answer was made. It is no wonder that the natlves seek information of this kind. Under the constitutional kingdom of Hawaii the natives were electors. The voters numbered approximately 15,000, about as large a percentage to the population as we have in California. After the revolution of 1893 the franchise was restricted, and this re- striction was embedded in the constitution of the so-called republic. There is perhaps a lack of information in the United States about the composition of the convention that made that constitution. After the revolution Dole’s scheme was called the “Provisional Government.”” That Government arranged for the constitutional convention. It restricted the suffrage so that the number of electors fell to about 3000, but even these were not permitted to control the convention. The Provisiona] Government itself appointed a majority of the members of the convention and permitted a painfully restricted electorate to elect the minority. first by Dole, the natives saw this deprivation put into the constitution by an act purely autocratic, in which even the re- stricted electorate had no efficient voice. Senator Morgan has said to the Hawaiians that as long as their country was a kingdom we did not desire to annex it be- cause of the difference in the form of government, but new that it is a republic the assimilation is natural and proper. But no republic ever began by arbitrary restriction of suffrage to a minority composed of 2 per cent of the people interested. The United States started in public representation based upon a wide suffrage. Our Constitutional Convention originated in general suffrage, and the constitution itself provided that it should be operative only upon such of the original thirteen colonies as adopted it. In its adoption the people again had full and free expression, and two States, Rhode Island and North Carolina, elected to stay out of the Union and did not enter it until after the first Congress met and Washington had been elected President. The oligarchic constitution of Hawaii continues President Dole in office without submitting himself to the vote of the people, even under the arbitrary restriction of suffrage. Washington in the Constitutional Convention first partici- pated in the establishment of general suffrage and then sub- | mitted himself to the whole electorate as a candidate for the Presidency of the United States. It is sometimes said that | he received every electoral vote, but this is not true. Thej independence of the voters is shown by the number of candi- | dates voted for and the electoral vote each received. It was | the field against Washington. He received 69 elecioral votes | and John Adams, John Jay, R. H. Harrison, John Rutledge, | John Hancock, George Clinton, Samuel Huntington, John | Milton, James Armstrong, Benjamin Lincoln and Edward Telfair received a total of 69 votes, so that the field tied | Washington. In that way this republic began, and not by an ‘ arbitrary limitation of suffrage and the seizure of the Presi- | dency by force. When Brazil overthrew the empire of Dom Pedro the actors in the revolution went immediately to the people for | confirmation of their acts, and the United States of Brazil were at once founded on the shoulders of the people by popular suffrage. The great fear that besets thoughtful men in the South rises from the suppression in several States of a majority of the electors because they are black. Not arguing the right- fulness of negro suffrage nor considering its wisdom, it is intrenched and guaranteed in the Federal constitution, the source and written charter of all our rights of person and property. If persistently violated in the denial to men of the right preservative of all rights how long will it stand for pro- tection to the other rights without which life is intolerable? | There was a peculiar point, then, to the inquiry addressed to| the Senator from Alabama. It was a question by people dis: franchised in their own country by a constitution in making | which there was no popuiar voice; addressed to a Senator Shorn of the right of suffrage arbitrarily at | PERSONAL. Dr. H. H. Clark of Santa Cruz isat the Grand. James McNeil of anta Cruz is at the Palace. J. H. Fliat, & aruggist of Marysville, is at the Lick. J. Levy, a merchant of Pescadero, is at the ok, Dr. Clinton Cushing has returned from Europe. 8. Lewek, a hotel man of Marysville, is at the Baldwin: R. A. Long, a lawyer of Willows, is visiting at the Grand. Dr. and Mrs, Thomas Flint of San Jusn are at the Grand. J. R. Rone; Cosmopolitan. W. M. 8tack of Yellowstone, Nev., is at the Cosmopolitan. Dr. C. W. Nutting of Ztna isat the Baldwin with Mrs, Nutting. J. Grover. a Colusa merchant, is a late ar- rival at the Grand. William Vanderhurst, a Salinas merchant, is at the Occidental. citizen of Santa Cruz, is at the & guest at the Palace. Joseph Dinkalbergar ot Dawson City, Alasi is at the Cosmopolitan. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Singer of Boston are guests at the Californis. C. W. Andresse, 8 mining man from New York, is &t the Baldwin. R. A. Boggess, & mining man of Sulphur Creek, is at the Occidental. J. H. Tibbits, & mining man of Arizona, 1s a0iong the latest arrivals at the Grand. Mrs. Thomas Fox, wife of Postmaster Fox of Sacramento, i¢ 2 late arrival at the Lick. C. C. Ortega, an insurance agent of Sonora, Tuolumne County, is at the Cosmopolitan. W. J. McGarvey, & county ofticial from Red wood City, is a lu: rrival at the Baldwin, C. W. Pendleton, an Assemblyman of Los Angeles, is making a short stay at the Grand. W. C. Tighe, a Madera merchant, has come to town on business. He is registered at the Lick. C. R. Donne, a mining man of Sutter Creek, is in town. Hehasa room at the Occidental. H. Frankl, s merchant of San Simeon, is in town. His name appears on the register at the Lick. M. B. Harriman, one of the owners of the Bonanza mine at Sonora, arrived at the Lick last nignt. P C. E. Clinch, & mining man of Grass Valley, is at the California. With him are his wife and chiid, J. W. Taggart, a Santa Barbara lawyer and amateur actor, is in town. He has a room at the Grand. A. Thomas, & Los Angeles merchant, is here with Mrs. Thomas. They have apartments at the Palace, W. M. Stone, the banker of Arcata, isat the Occidental, accompanied by Mrs. Stoge and Mrs. T. Barr. Charles F. Lott, a lawyer of Oroville, isin the city. He is making the Litk his temporary headquarters, H. C. Somers, the well-known commission merchant, has gone to Portland snd Seattle for a fortnight, Wingham Liddell of Fresno, coliector for the Fresno Water Works, i8 in town and nasa room at the Lick, Major Frank MecLaughlin. of Oroville,. the Republican politician, is at the Palace. Mrs. seLaughlin is with him. H. M. La Rue of Sacramento isat the Occi dental. He has come here to attend the meet- ing of the Railroad Commissioners to-morrow. Digby Bell, the comedian from New York who plays this week at the Columbin, is stay- ing at the Occidental, sccompanied by Mrs. Digby Beli. Lieutenant-Colonel Seymore, who recently { arrived at the Palace, gave a diuner last night in the Tapastry-room at the Palace toa num- ber of his friends. Arthur L. Pearse, a mining man from Lon- don, representing Eaglish capital in mines on this coast and in British Columbia, is regis- tered at the Paince. Professor John M. Stillman, vies-president of Stanford University, hesd of the depari- ment of chemistry and an early graduate and former head professor of the Universily of Californis, is at the California. TOO HIGH, Ten years sgo me an' Mary Soruggs Was singin’ in the choir, A hol 'in’ of the rame hy mnbook, An’ shovin' nigh and nigher: And foiks turned round to K and hear ‘Ther music sweet, an’ when her Sopranner struck up loud au’ clear Icome in with my tenor. 1ast night the eung in onr town - % Miss Marle Sciugini, Ard 1 went to the opery-house Ter buy seats, ike a g eeny. ““Two seats—five doilars ench,” they says: I backs off quick. an’ then her representing a State where by force and craft a majority of | the voters are deprived of a franchise guaranteed ‘them by a | constitution which was adopted and has been amended by | free expression of the popular voice. | The question brings into focus the greatest issues thati concern not only the native Hawailans but men everywhere : who have faith in popular government as the best shelter of | human rights. Professor Ross doubtless treated in an able way of the sub- ject, “*How Best to Deal With Criminals,” but he omitted the necessary rule: “First catch your eriminals.’” As a matter of fact much sentimental nonsense is written on this topic. The object of shutting up a burglar, a footpad or a murderer is not to relorm him but to vrotect society, and once in jail nelther quail-on-toast nor prayer s going to make him better. Telegraphic advices state that the outlook is *‘dark for Mrs, Schofield.” reful reading of the news does not uphold this extreme view. The worst thing Mrs. Schofield seems to face is the probability of conviction on a charge of murder. This does uot involve ary particuiar hardship. The woman must depend upon her conscience for punishment and a conscience cares nothing for jury verdiots, Attempts to excuse an instance of brutality at Fort Sheri- dan on the plea that to drag a soldier by the heels and prod him with a sword as he goes is not unecommon tomenow fail to convince. There is nothing in a soldier’s contract with Uncle Bam providing for gliding along on his ear at any time the din- ner of an officer has failed to set well. The gentlemen who predict that gold will come out of the Klondike next year by the hundreds of tons may be happy in that assertion, for most of them have c'aims. They must ex- cuse an incredulous public, however, from sharing their en- thusiasm. Ordinary folk like to see gold before they count it. Police Commissioner Gunst is understood to have said that Chief Lees is a liar. The Chiel is a bigger man than Gunst, It must be that the ailing spine Mr. Gunst took to Europe to get repaired is as good as new now. Judge Cook’s ruling against police-court stenographers will be heartily indorsed. The best stenographer that ever lived has no real right to Graw pay at the rate of a President of the United Siates. PRSI S There is a rumor that Luetgert will be graduated from the court to a dime museum, which, if contirmed, will strengthen acemmon impression that the man ought, on general principles, 10 be hanged, Thirty-five people up near Portland meekly stood while two other people robbed them. It may be added, however, to the credit of the thirty-five that none of them was scared to death. According to & recent sermon Satan is in the toy pistol. While we bave never taken the trouble of sayins this, 1t has always been with us a suspicion amounting almost to bel.ef. The arrest of aNew York volice detective on a charge of murder indicates that he had overlooked a valuable clew. 1f guilty he had a chance to make a record. Manuel Fellows is to be congratulated. He is in San Quen- tin under sentence of death, and, of course, has nothing but the encroachmeants of old age to fear. £0 ranner s.r. ok up loud, and 1— Istaid out with niy Lenner. —Detroit Free Press. THE CITY nALL PARK Napa Reglster. Jf THE CALL has i1s way those old rookeries outin the immediate vicinity of Ssn Fran- cisco’s City Hall will be removed and in their place & city park, beautiful for situation, will be established. In the promotion of this scheme our cheers are {r THE CALL. It will | cost something, but everythivg worth having costs something. Alameda Argus. THE CALL favors the condemnation of the lots that stand between Market street and San Francisco City Hall apd turnibg them into a park. These lots onca belonged to the City Hall plat, but were estranged from it and sold more than twenty-five years ago. Why such emasculstion was pefmitied is not apparent now. Perhaps somebody profited, but more likely the prospect of getiing a million dollars, which it was represented wduld meet the expense of erecting the buiiding and thus relieve tho tax- payers of all burden, was the real res<on why there was nota protest. Itisseen now what worse than folly 1t was to sell these lots and have coops and shacks erected tnereon as a foreground to the municipal pile. How much better it would be if nothing but ofnemental grounds intervened between the eity’s chief thoroughiare ard the imposing building. SIWASH SUPERSTITION, Seattle Post-Intel igencer. Superstitition holds sway in the Indians’ minds just as it does in their superior cousius, but in them the trait looks fantastic and wildly grotesque, if not ridiculous, They be- lieve that the Chinook wind dance drove away the snow from the pastures where their horses should be grezing. Tne tamanowash men, or doctors, calied upon the gods of wina to drive the suow away, and with knives the more fruatical slashéd their bare arme. In questionable contrast to this the enlightened wnite man f{asts and meeis in churches to pray for rain, Chief Seattle did not want the city named after him, because, ne said, every time that his name was mentionea ne wouid turh over in his grave, and it would distutb his rest. One the curious asages ot the Indians is to bury the possessious of a dead Iniian with him. One old kiootchman of the Quinisult tribe wxs possessed of three $20 goid pieces when death overtook her. When she was laid away in the woods one of these gold s Was put in each hard and one in her mouth. There is good imitation of the feith eu: smong the Indian supersitious. They have Wwooden images which they pound on the floor to drive away disease without medicine. The noise is encugh to kili an invalid, but very olten he gets well instead. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. ; A girl will never sdmit that her sppetite isn’t generally delicate. If people thought as they spoke, the devil woull;wuk as 'o thiuks. The microbe in a woman’s tesr has one eye opened and one eye shut. Every woman wiil believe her husband is £00d to her if he ki-ses her often enough. A really broad man is one who.doesp’t elaim that he 13 a better Chrisiian than any one elis who says he isn’i. In every woman's ideal of & house there is a corner sumewhere fixed up with & los of Hindoo cloth #nd a bead portiere, REPUBLILAN LUCK. Baltimore American. There will be six eclipses in 1898, There were only two this year. There seems 10 be moreof everything uader this business admin- | tration, : 3 R. E. Jack, the banker of San Luis Obispo, is | ‘A PRISON AS INJRIGATE AS A MAZE. Here is the plan of & non-escapable prison, made on the same plan as the famous boiler- iron prison of Oswego. The aprestapce of this prison, says the New York Herald, is like a Rreat rat (rap in thatonce in you cannot get out by any irregular way, bui must be released by the man in charge, and it is like a tquiirel cage inasmuch as it is rotary. A prison of this sort is composed of three principal parts, the building consisting of four walls and a roof, in which it is contained, and the central revolving cylinderof celis. Every partof this cyiinder is made of the best iron obtainable, and the whole is mounted on ball bearings in such & way that 1t may be revolved at the will of the officisl in charge. Soaccu- rately 18 the cylinder balanced and-so well are the bearings adjusted that it is quite easy to move it by means of a hand crank anc rack, theugh in actual practice the power of a motor, elither water or electric, i generally used. In shape each cell is exactly like a hotlow wedge, whereof the bigend is formed by 2 seg- ment of the cyliader’s ouiside circular shell, while the smaller end touches the cylinder’s core. The roof, floor and sides of each cell are finest-tempered chisel or the keenest file made made of chilled boiler iron,so hard that the would hardly make an impression upon it. None of these cells nasa door, though each has an opening for going in and out. This opening, however, cannot be used for this purpose excepting whenit isexactly opposite ] 5 TIRR4LH T LTy LT T ORE NEW STEEL Now Being Considered by the T Ear, SR B g S (e ey nr“"" i R [mgsmmurlmmta'u'- Rhdsgngine (ARAEEBEANINE LONNLIRRDj ih :mméeemum (IR g gaen Wittt - : 1 "m{‘l'ln' LT LT AL TRAP PRISON, New York Penological Society. a corresponding opening in the entrance, and eatered at the same time. no two cells on the same tier or story may be Outside the cylinder of cells, but entirely disconnected with it, is the wire cage, and this looks Imost exactly like a gigantic stat made of thick steel bars, chilled to a hardness fully equal to that of the cylinder, the cylinder and ceids just enough to be out of reach, even should a separated from prisoner get possession of tools for cutting his It is but ionary squirrel cage wheel set on end. way out. Connecting with it are the cage-iike entrance galleries, one for each tier, each containing a double set oi doors. When the prisoners are to be taken out for exercise, or to enter upon their duties in the shops, they must pass out singly, the cage being revolved just far enovgh as each leaves his cell to bring the opening of the next cell into line with the entrance cage, and they must enter in similar fashion. When the last cage are locked by one movement of the place, so that 1t cannot be moved. prisoner has gone in the doors of the entrance hand; a second movement fastens the cage in The building inclosing such a prison need be no more than a mere sheil of brick or stone, and ihe prisoners may be watched in conies on the inside of the shell's walls. While this form of jail may not be adapted doubted advantages for jails in which only a f their cells at all times from galleries or bal- to great penal establishments, it possesses un- lew prisoners are to be confined. BE WMERRY WHILE YOU MAY. Talking about freaks—A Kentucky man last week patented a water filter.—Kansas City Times. ‘“-Ha, scoundrel!” exciaimed the stage lover. “You have reached the end of your rope! “I know it,” calmly replied the stage viilain, “but there are others.” And he threw away the remnant of the cheap cigar he had been smoking and lighted another.—Chicago Tribune, “They bave appointed & woman to clean the treets in Chicago.” ope she won't follow the example of my wife. “Why s0?"” “Because if she does she’ll take everything out of one street into another before she com- mences to sweep.”'—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Vegetarian—My friends, life is as dear to the aumb animals as to man, and it would be impossible ior me to satisfy a v-ant that neces- sitates the taking of their lives. Individual (pointing to vegetarian's shoes)— Say, did the calf thatonce owned the hide in those shoes die & natural death ?—Judge. Life on earth would certainly be A peaceful delicious dream, 1t women were only as g od as they loox Aud men were as guod as they seem. —Chicago News, ah Is some friends,’™ said Uncle Eben, ‘“dat is like de rainbow. Dey looks fine an’ bends polite, but dey’s gone when de sun ain’ hinir’.”” —Washivgton Star. INDIAN SUMMER SONG. A lul'Ing song of locusts—the hum of goiden bees, And you seemto hear the sap flow through the ibrilled veins of the Lrees: And the hazy, mazy, daisy, dreaming world around you seems Like a_mystic land enchanted—like a paradise of dreams ! Blue smoke from happy huts— A rain of ripeued nuts. And far away, o'er meadows ringing, Sweet s0und as of A wWOmab SIngInK: *A omin’ throagh the rye— (omin’ through the rye!” And the faint. uncertain, silver tenor of a bell That sammons sl the winds Lo prayer in mauy a cioistered deil; And thena thrush’s music rom groves with golden xieams, The wild uote of a mocking-bird, and still the dreams! the dreams! Blue smoke £ om h: A rain of ripened n; And far o'er meadows ringin, Sweet sounds as of a womkn singin, “Comin’ through t Comia’ through & AU appy huts— uts, INSULTING THE AMERICAN HOG. Pniladelpbia Ledger. The manner in which public sentiment in Germany is being worked up against Ameri- can pork and otner food products is exposed by the trial of a wholesale pork merchant at Cologue, who was arrested for selling diseased meat. He asserted that the pork came from America. On investigation it was found that all the spolled meat, and there was an enorm- ous quautity of it, came from Servia. There is but one apparent reason why the knuvish merchant should have misrepresented the source of Lis supplies, and that is thathe thought it would please the authorities to have such &n accusation against the United States und they would be ditposed 1o deal more leniently with him. Fortunately for this country, tne Judges were not influénced by political considerations and pushed the in- vestigation to the dis v of the truth, e POPPY AND CHRYSANTHEMUM. Santa Rosa Republican. The chrysanthemum should be the State flower of California, with all due deference to the eschscbolizia, whose golden chalice made 1t appropriate for this distinction, for this queeniy flower nowhere reaches the noble per- fection that it attains under California’s skies; and the name, stymologically, is “‘flower of goid.” Wny not let the p ppy and chrys- antnemum share the throue, the former raling in the semi-year when it dots the land- scape with its shining nuggets and the latter holding regal sway in the sutumu deys when itattains 1ts rovai prandeur, GLAUL OF IT. York Tims. Up at Stromsburg a farmer sold his wheat, paid his mortgage and floaiing indebtedness, bought his wife & new range and sewiug- machine, tock $100 to go to Buffalo and gave himse:f and hh-'gwr tired wile 10 outing and had §300 left. hen he had finished all the business hé wijed his brow with his shirt- sleeve and remarked, “I voted for Bryan last 1all, but I'm —— glad he wasn't elected, PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. The Prince of Wales now finds it necessary to practice absiinence from bread. General Blood is in India just now, but there is a General Slaugnter in London. The latier is on the retired list. The Duke of Connaught has made himself very povular at Aldershot. At no time has auy member of the royal house shown such energy and originality in military affairs. So-Mayou, who has just received his diploma from Cobb University School at Lewiston, Me., 18 the first heir to an African throne who ever graduated from an American col- lege. Professor Vallauri, the Latin scholar, left his whole fortune of $00.000 to the Turin Academy of Sciences to found prizes for the best works on physical scieuce and on Latin literature. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s carefully eon- cealed age is exposed to a rude world on a tablet in Kelioe parish church, near,which she was born, March 8, 1806. Sie was, there- fore, six years older than her husband. Colonel Michael V.S8heridan, who has just been transferred to the Department of the Missouri by orders from Washington, is a brother of the late Phil Sheridan. Mike Sheridan was Little Phil's chief secretary when the latter’s headquarters were at Chi- cago. A. J. Sampson, who has just been appointed United Siates Minister at Ecuador, .ives in Pheenix, Ariz. He is s lawyer by profession and was the first Attorney-General of Colo- rado after that State was admitted into the Union. He was the United States Consul at | Paso del Norte, Mexieo, during President Har- rison’ miuistration. Heis a native of Ohio and about 55 years of age. FENIMORE COOrER’'S HOME. Washington Post. Judge William H. Johnson, whose home is Oneonta, Y., one of the most accom- vlished and popular lawyers of Central New York, was seen at Willard’s the other even- | ing, Ho is one of the members of the board of statutory revision, whose further duty also is to act as legal advisers to the New York Legislature. The Judge is a great admirer of the works of James Fenimore Cooper, who dwelt in the same county of Otsego, at Cooperstown, the county seat, by the waters of the famed Otsego Lake, which Cooper was fond of mentioning by another name in the “Daerslayer.” I believe,’” said Judge Johnson, “that all of the novelist's immediate descéndants are dead. four years a0, and there were two maiden daughters, the last of whom died within a short time. It seems that even the genius and fyme of the author did not make him popular with bis neighbors, and ola inhabitunts of the town remember thut the dislike was based on his disposition 1o exclusiveness and his aristo- cratie bearing, He also wrote a book thatcon. tained some eriticisms ou his own people, and that tended :o further heighten the genersl feeling of disiike. Still there is a monument 10 his memory at his old home, aid succeed- ing generations will have only admiration for the man that by his wonderful skill in story- L.um mede for them so many pleasant ours.” —— REMARKABLE LONGEVITY, Solano County Courier. An examination of the last great register of Solano.Lounty affords us a proof of some won. derfully iife-preserving properties of Solano County climate, there being ssventy-two resi- dents of Suisun Township over the age of 215 years and thirty-eight in Montezuma over the age of 226 years. Twenty-one oi these patri. archs were born in California, the eldest being set down as 445 ye old and, therefore, was born 1n California forty- two years before Columbus discovered America. The oldest of these patriarchs, 805 years of age, first saw the lignt of day 400 years pefore the discovery of America by Coiumbus and 528 yvears before the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers on the shores of Mussachusetts Bay. It is a remarkable fact and diminutivensss of statur nseperable, as the height the t !".5' at 11 imches. Of the nnfive‘é}l:l'itlo'rt B John F. Gordon is set down ss 445 0id and but 7 iucnes high, James g is 400 years oid and 10’ inches Righ. t who n?l ued in Tennes- e is credited with b, reached tre lilitputian altitude of 1 iner" of course these geutlemen are 0 that great age o ars Mecessari us whio were born in this countr; its duoovc’t!! b¥' C(;I“ncnfinu-. -m: ’u?:w:o:i)-lcr names 1orty-two > We Want the fact men- | tioned in our histories, i A son who was a lawyer died three or | rasponsibl their ages and height, therefore, v&e xrh':“flzn; b must be correc d Vision of our history is necessary. if we h men liviug among ANSWER 5 TO CORRESPONDENTS. Davip S. Terry—A. F. R., Redding, Cal David §. Tersy was killed by David Neagle a Latarop. San Joaquin County, Csl., on th 14th day ot Augusi, 1889, SALVATION ARMY—H. T., Visalia, Cal. For information abou: the Salvation Army ‘colo:‘- ation scheme address a commun cation to ’fs‘:lgminn Army Headquarters, 1139 Market strect, San Fraugisco, Cu..”" Vorers—P. H., C In those States of thd Union in which aliens who have declared ir intention to become citizens are per- gfl(’;d‘wvole, such alie:s have the right to vote at all elections. The right to vote is regulated by the States. West PoixT—W. P., City. For information about qualification, etc., for entrance to the military academy tt West Point write to the Consresswan of the disirict in which you live and he wiil forwerd you a priuted siip con- taining all the requirements. To AMADOR COUNT City. The bicscle road to lome, Amador Cotnty, is from San Franeisco to Stockton via Livermore 73 miles to Lod: 14 miles, to Galt 10 miles, to lone 28 miles. To reacis Juck-on in the same county teavel twelve miles Levond lone. PARDONING POwER—Sabscriber, City. The President of the United States has not the power to grant a pard . to an individual con- victed of & crime in n State court. f-l;.:l;‘l:sc:’r;lc power 10 grant & pardon to indivic E : i . ited States. victed of crimes against the A GLOVE CoNTEsT—W. H. W., Oakland, _C:\I. If in a glove contest between Smith and Dixon W. takes Smith and D. takes Dixon and the referoe deciares the affair a draw, then each party draws down his money. 1f on tne other hand W. bets that Smith will win and D. that he wili not, in the event of the fight being de- clared a draw W. would iose, because Smith did not win the figh A BALLOON—P. C., Oakland, Cal. The buoy ancy of a balicon depends upon the weight of gas with which itis inflated, compared with the weight of commoa air, bulk for bulk. Hydrogen is the lightest of all known sub- stances, A cubic foot of atmospueric air sta temperature of 34 weighs 527.04 troy gr while & cubic foot of hydrogen is about teen times and a half lighter. Coal gas is two aud a half times Jighter than wr. If a balloon having a capacity oi 1000 pounds of atmospheric a rat 34 degrees was filled with coul gas it would weigh, including covering. gas and appendages all told, about 600 pounds and would rise with a force equal to the dii- ference of these two numbers or about 400 pounds. The cost of a balloon depends ou the material used, and the size. HUNGER AS A MOTIVE. The rowels of nature’s most powerful spur, hunger, are continually reddening the flanks of the primitive community, says Monist. The apostle’s scathing arraignment of the Cretans, “whose god is their belly,”” would literally ap- ply to every savage tribe and many a civilized one. Hunger is one cf the mainsprings of progress. At its imperative command the ilint was chipped into the ariowhead, the dart | and the spear. In its bonor the net was ‘woven, the hoe was maae and the soil broken. To appease its cravings the wild bull is broken to the yoke, the foresis are felied and the diteh is dug threugh the marsh. On its errands the ship is launched on the perilous deep and the band sent out upon the warpath. luto its service have been im- pressed the winds of heaven, the Steam | Wreaths of the caldron nnd the glittering | ehaits of the lightning. It is the real Alad- din’s lamp of civilization. The ceaseless west- ward flow of the buman stream and the march of the “'star of empire’” have been at the behest of its genii. Whetner it be born of a barren soil and a cruel sky, or of the pressure of over- populaticn, it has played a leading part in | molding the destinies of the nations. In the fail of every world empire, from Assyria to Rome, the conquering race has in- variably come irom the mountainous or bar- | ren Jand or from & sterner sky. And still to-day the nations of the bleakest | belt of the temperate zone, where the struggle | with soil and climato is severest, the Scotch, the English. the Dutch and the North Ger- mans are overrunning the whole of the in- habitable globe and bid fair to far outdo Alex- ander by more peaceable aud far more stable means. SIZE OF THE UNIVERSE. Spare Moments. To form some idea of the largeness of the earth one may look upon the landscape irom the top of an ordinary church steeple, and then bear in mind that one must view 900,000 similar Jandscapes to get an spproximate.y correct iden of the sizs of the earth. Pluce 500 earths like ours side by side yet Saturn’s outermost ring could easily inclose them. Three huundred thousand earth globes coula be stored inside the sun if holiow. Iia human eye every hour was capable of looking upon a fresh measure of world ma- terial 5400 square miles large that eye wou!d need 55,000 years to overlook the surface ot the sun. To reach the nearest fixed star one must travel 20,500,000,000 miles, and if the velocity were equ 1'to that of a caunon-ball, it would require 5,000,000 years to travel that distance. Besides single stars we know of sysiems of stars moving round one another. | Stili, we are but a short way into space us yet. | Outside our limiis of vision and imagination there are no_doubt still larger spaces. The Milky Way holds at least 20,191,000 siars | and, as each is a sup, we prcsume it is en- | circled by at Jeast fitsy plancts. Couuting up these ficures we arrive at the magnitude of 1.000,955,000 siars—s thousand miliion stars. Who'can comprehend it? 8till, this is ouly a part of the universe. The modern telescopes have discovered more and similar milky ways still forther away. We know of some 3000 nebui® which repre- sent milky ways Jike our. Let us count 2000 of (hem as being of the size of our Milkv Way; then 2000 by 20,191, 000 equals 40,382,000,000 suus, or 2,019,100 {000,000 heaveuiy bodies. —_— A LAUDAEBLE DESIRE. St. Louls Republic. It is observable that nearly all the notable aadresses thus far delivered at the Mothers' National Congress, in Chicago, have come | from ladies before whose names the title | “Miss” is prefixed. This may be aceounted for on the theory that many of these excelleut females desire to show marriazeable men what they could do if they had s chance, —_— T HOPELEss. New York Mail and fexpress. Evidently Spain is now mad at America simply because this Government has not taken radical ground with regard to Cu rently there 1s no use in trying to pi old Spaiu. —_— " EDUCATION GETs HIGHER. Providence Journ The cause of higher education advances with steady strides. 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