The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 16, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1897 ....OCTOBER 16, 1897 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. SATURDAY... Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE. vee.....710 Market street, Ban Francisco Telephone Main 1868. . EDITORIAL ROOMS.. vees D17 Clay street Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week, By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL....... «.One year, by malil, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE .808 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE, BRANCH OFFICE .Rooms 31 and 82, 34 Park Row. 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9 Haves street; open unul 9:30 o'clock. 615 open until 9:30 o’clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open 19 o’clock. 1243 Mission street; open until 8 o'clock. 1503 reet; open until 9:30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second Kentucky sireets; open til 9 o’clock. ufacturers in co-operative effort deserves all the encour- agement that can be given by the community at large. For that reason the movement recently startel to provide better facilities for transportation between this city and all points along the coast, from Alaska to Mexico, ought to find sufficient support to carry it to complete success. The merchants of San Francisco have for too long a time relied upon the geographical advantages of the city to maintain their commerce and trade. They seem to have believed that no one could take away from them that which nature gives them a right to expect. Being assured that the bay and the Golden Gate would be always here they became confident that the trade of the Pacific would be equally a permanent attach- ment of the port, From this happy feeling of confidence they have had a rude awakening. Little by little our trade has been cut away by more energetic and enterprising men in cities to the north and south and east of us, until now we are forced to see that our commercial supremacy can be maintained only by adding 1o our natural advantages the sagacity and vigor required to make use of them in the contests of commerce. The new movement undertaken by our merchants is the outcome of exisiing conditions. It is a necessity of the time and the circumstances. San Francisco is now in the position of Chicago when she found Milwaukee, Cleveland and other lake ports rising into eminence around her and striving tor ner trade. We must imitate Chicago and demonstrate our fitness to hold the metropolitan place 1n this section ot the Union. In this rivalry there need be no sectional jealousy or fear of mutnal injury. Milwaukee and her =ister cities along the lakes flourish while Chicago goes ahead. The progress of the larger city helps the prosperity of all the surrounding communities that trade with her. So will it be on this coast. A revival of commercial energy and enterprise in San Francisco will be of benefit to all the ports that trade with her, and the exertion of vigor here will stimulate vigor elsewhere. The movement is therefore one on which the whole coast can congratulate itself. It isa good thing, push it along. A TIMELY MOVEMENT. HATEVER tends to expand the commerce of San Fran- cisco and to join the energies of her merchants and man- Vainly a listening people yesterday strained its eager ears to hear the loud and cheering explusion indicating that a kiss of peace had occurred between Gunst and Lees. Alas! There was no such blissiul osculation to break the silence. Neither gentleman seems to keep kisses in stock and, as for exchanging them if they bad any, there isa painful suspicion that they would rather exchange brickbats. Ex-Collector Welburn is to be congratulated. Not only has a jury declared him innocent, but by inference expressed a be- lief that the ousted official is a toweriny monument of truth standing grand and solitary among a lot of witnesses who seem to swear to any old thing that comes into their heads. But this is a little hard on the witnesses. To read that a crowd of Police Court lawyers have been thooting at each other does not at first cause any particular feeling of regret, but after reading the account through ana noting that not one of the lot got plunked a person would be more than human not to experience at least a passing pang. Miss Cisneros probably did write a note of thanks to the yellow journa! that now takes much joy to itseif as posing as her delwverer, for the lady bad been quite a while in jail, and to fool her would be a comparatively easy matter. If Sausalito’s gamblers continue defiant it may become nec- essary for San Francisco to lend Gunst and Lees to that sport. ridden village. Then how the gamblers would run | While it is pitiful to know that an officer has been killed in line of duty, there is some consolation in the fact that there are brave men who do not hesitate at any peril. ENFORCING SANITARY LAWS. I of the thousand sources of offense against sanitary laws. In this fertile field under the influence of the favorable con- ditions prevailing in our trade and industry there have grown up evil as well as zood products. Tares have flourished almost equally with the wheat, and in some trades have nearly crowded out the wheat altogether. Thus in a land where pure tood is so abundant the people cannot consume it, the adulteration of food has become com- mon; and in a city where the climatic conditions are such that wholesome air should be in every house, shop and factory we have many working places where articles of general consump- tion are prepared for use under conditions that are almost cer- tain to fill them with germs of disease and death. It is to the credit of the Board of Health that under the present management it has been making strong and continuous efforts to rid the community of some of the worst of these plagues as a preliminary step toward relieving it of all of them. Its latest work has been done in the inspection of the cigar factories of Chinatown, and it has found ample justification for closing some of them and compelling the cleansing of others. It is to be hoped the board will find full support from the law in its efforts to eradicate from the city all vile and filthy shops of this kind. Some of these Chinese cigar factories are about as foul as the sewers that drain them, and the cigars they send out to be sold reek with offensive matter that accu- mulates on the floor and tables and fills the atmosphere of the room in which the work iscarried on. There is plenty of space in San Francisco for the manufacture of cigars under whole- some conditions, and the factories where such conditions sre maintained should be freed irom the competition of the cheap and nasty products of the cheap and nasty dens. T is a hard task and it will be a longone to ria San Francisco The man who was arrested as a stage-robber and proved to be nothing of the sort naturally feels aggrieved. It is so easy to catch a man who has no reason for running away. To grab & few of the fellows that have acquired the hold-up habit, while more difficult, would be much more to the purpose. Action against the officer, threatened because of a wrongfal arrest, would lie much more gracefuliy if brought beczuse of a lot of right{ul arrests which are still to be made. Spain it is now said intends 10 yield to the United States. This is one way of putting it, and perhaps the most pleasing to Castilian pride. To acknowledge a necessity for yielding to Cuaba would not of course be a fitting climax to a campaign marked by more impressive bluster than ever before emanated {rom a nation in the act of getting a deserved licking. Doubtless there is much merit in the scheme to form a new Territory out of Alaska. Any one to whom this view of the matter does not present an aspect of charity is at liberty to ask ‘he gentleman who expects to be Governor there. OUR PLACE IN THE CABINET. CCORDING to dispatches from Washington, it is now A settled that Attorney-General McKenna will succeed Justice Field upon the bench of the United States Su- preme Court. The retirement of the former from President McKinley’s Cabinet will deprive California of representation in the Executive Department of the National Government, unless another Californian shall be appointed in his place. There are several rumors regarding the succession. One is that ex-Judge James A. Waymire, a member of the State Assembly from Alameda County and a friend of the Presldent, will be tendered the portfolio of the Department of Justice. Another is that the position will be offered to Nathan Goff, | United States Judge on the West Virginia circuit, with a prospect that it will be declined. Another is that Judge Cal- houn of Ilinois, late special Commissioner to Cuba and a lawyer of distinction, is the President’s second choice. None of these rumors are based on anything more substantial than surmise. If those which put Goff ani Calhoun in the race are no more authentic than that which names Judge Way- mire for the Attorney-Generalship they are as fleeting and evanescent as midsummer dreams. But rumors are not the realities with which the people of California are now called upon to deal. The substantial fact connected with the retirement of Justice Field is the probabil- | ity that Attorney-General McKenna will become his successor, and that thereby California’s place at the National Govern- | ment will become vacant. What are we to do in such a con- tingency? Shall we per.ait an Eastern lawyer to take the place, or petition the President for a continuance of the favor by which he recognized the political action of our people in the last campaign? The understanding the Republican leaders in this State | have of the situation is this: President McKinley’s managers% in the canvass of 1896 promised, on behalf of their principal, | to recognize California in the distribution of Cabinet favors, provided the State should give its electoral vote to the Repub- lican candidate. Our people gave their suffrages to McKinley in the face of a strong disposition to vote for principles which appeared to promise the rehabilitation of silver, largely upon the expectation that the State would receive Cabinet recogni- | tion and continue to be represented throughout President Mc- Kinley’s term. Now that Attorney-General McKenna is about to retire, is it possible that our seat at the President’s official | table is to be filled by a man who never saw California? This | matter is sufficiently important to attract the attention of the | Republican lsaders of the State. Of course we are aware that the regular thing to do im- mediately upon McKenna’s retirement will be to get up a fierce | Republican quarrel and defeat all the aspirants. But at this time nothing of that kind should be tolerated. The Republi- cans of California should make certain calm representations to the President. What we desire to know is, will the claims of California to a place in the Cabinet be recognized after the resignation of Attorney-General McKenna? Surely we have other lawyers competent to discharge the duties of that high | office. The name of the man who receives the appointment will make no particular difference, so long as he is a Califor- | nian and is able to represent us with credit in the Cabinet. For the year the fncome of the Puilman Company was just a trifle short of $9,000,000. That this is a comfortable figure nobody will deny. Indeed, it is so confortable that wonder arises that the corporation has not adopted the suggestion to pay its employes and not depend upon the public todo this | irom an impulse of charity. Commenaable as charity may be there are times when il acquires a distinct tired feeling, and ~ne of these is just as it is forced to donate coin so that the Pullman dividend may lose no part of a chronic and pleasing rotundity. WAGES RISING IN HUMBOLDT. D that witbin a short time one of the largest lumber-miils | of that section will resume operations with a full crew of men, after having been shut down for fifteen months, while an- | oiher larze lumber company has given notice to its employes thattheic wages will be increased, beginning with the 1st of next month. These dispatches are in accord with the trend of the times in all lines of indusiry. With the rise in the price of the products of labor there has been an increase in the wages of those who produce them. Asin thecasesreported from Eureka, this increase comes in a double way. Men who have been out | of employment are receiving it from the mills thatare resuming work, and those who have had work are to receive better wages than before. This double increase, extending as it does to every section of the Union and sffecting almost every industry, means an enormous benefit to all classes of people and carries to the home of every workingman conclusive proof of the advantages of the protective tariff. 1t is particularly gratifying to note the improvement in the lumber industry and the lumuver distriets of California. No class of American workingmen received a harder biow from the Democratic tariff than those engeged in the business of prepar- ing Jumber for the market. In this State that great interest was well migh kilied outright. M:lis were closed, workingmen were thrown out of employment, and in several cases the own- ers of timber lands who had been accounted capitalists were virtually ruined. The Republican {ariff cannot make up for ail the ruin wrought by Democratic biundering. It cannot restore the past nor procure for the mills or the workingmen the money they might have earned in all these years of experiment with free trade. It can, however, provide for the future, and it does. We are now to have protection and prosperity from this time on, and the operdng mills and advancing wagesin Humboldt County are among the first fruits of it ISPATCHES from Eurekas, published yesterday, announce ——— 3 Army disciplineseems to be a thing apart from the plodding world, and if the story from Fort Sheridan is true the world is | better for this. Civilians cannot grasp the idea thatan officer | has a right to order a soldier dragged by the heels and to zccel- erate the glide by jabs from a sword. Yet the soldier subjected to this treatment has been put on a diet of bread and ‘water, possibly because his clothes got mussed. The public would like at least to hear that the cffi-er was sharing this diet. APPROACHING THE LIMIT. HAT there is no limit to the shamelessness of yellow jour- nalism’s pretense has often been remarked and is generally believed. Yet the Framiner, as the tailend of the yellowest journal of the unsavory lot, can occasicnally surprise its warmest detestors. Yesterday, for instance, it printed as a fact that the Queen of Spain had sent a message to the Fops annouucing the reseue of Miss Cisnerosand that the news caused great satisfac- tion ac the Vatican. That such a piece of misinformation can be regardea as anything but an insult {o readers is out of all consid- eration. In the first place it assumes that the Pope, the solicitation of the yellow journal in question, attempted to irfluence the Spanish Government in behalf of the prisoner, an allegation which nohody believes, and which nobody of intelli- gepce is expected to believe; that his effort having failed, the bead of the Goverrment causing the failure sent a message of a congratulatory nature to the august personage whose petition nad been dishonored! How stupidly blind a yellow journal | side. FERSONAL. J. E. Butier of Sacramento is at the Russ. C. C. Crow of Crows Landing is at the Cali- fornia. E. J. M1sto, 8 merchant of Stockton, is at the Grand. R. 8. Raw, & mining man of Placerville, is at the Grand. J. J. Davis, a Santa Monica merchant, is aying at the Grand. Dr. Robert Crees of Byron Hot Springs isa guest at the Baldwin. A. Hatt, the Napa winemaker, is at the Grand with Mrs. Hatt. Alexander Moore, a rancher of Pescadero, is Tegistered at the Russ. Dr. C. Mealand of Sacramento is at the Baldwin with Mrs. Mealand. D. 8. Rosenbaum, the Stockton merchant and banker, 1s at the Palace. Pamruke Alexandre, a Greek from London, isalate arrival &t the Palace. J. 8. Goodman and P. S. Cram, mining men from You Bet, are guests at the Lick. B. F. McCuliough, a cattleman of Landing, is & late arrival at the Grand. J. Martin Smith, ayoung New York club- man, arrived at the Palace late last night. Captaln 8. H. Morrison is in town from Santa Clara. He is a guest at the California. George C. Turner, a mining man of Cedar- ville, is at the Russ, accompanied by his wife and two children. George F. Kleinberger ot New York, well known to the dry-goods importing trade, ar- rived at the Palace last night. Malone Joyce, traveling passenger agent of the Missouri Pacifie, left here yesterday for Portland, to bs gone two weeks. Clarence A. Mackay of New York, son of John W. Mackay, the millionaire, arrived at the Palace last night to visit his father. Thomas Rhodes of El Paso de Robles is at the Russ on his way home from Santa Rosa, where he attended the grand camp of the Foresters. Percy L.Schuman, late Lieutenant-Governor of Iliinois, now Interested in siiver mines in the northern part of California, is a guest at the Palace. E. A. Cooper, traveling passenger agent of the Chicago and Alton Ratlroad, returned here | yesterday from a ten days' trip through the Northwest. Among the arrivals at the Palace last night from the belated Central overland train wera Rev. Edward T. §. Reld of Edinburgh and Rev. Charles Bernard Beard of Dundee, Scotland. John B. Coleman of New York, the compara- tively young but well-known bookinaker and horseman, arrived at the Baldwin yesterday ready for the coming racing season at Ingle- | He has been on a hunting trip since his arrival in the State, about two weeks ago. —— CALIFORNIAN . iN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 15.—At the St. Cloud, M.. Gutierrez; Hoffman—A. Lieben- thal, W. P. Morgan; Gilsey, Dr. E. B. Perrin: Imperiai—Miss A. M. Crowell, Mrs. Crowell, Mrs. J. Latham, Mrs. H. G. Otis; Murray Hill— P. Stanford. F. H. Coyne; Cosmopolitan—F. Maobauan, W. G. Gra- ham; £t. Denis, T. J. Lamoureaux; Holland— Miss Scott, Mrs. W. Willis. —_— | Crows i CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 15.—Captain J. F. Evans of Sin Francisco has returned from New York and is at tae Riggs. M. S. Rosen- thal and wife of San Franclsco are at the Arlington. THE HUSBAND AND THE BOOK. James was reading, his desr little wife was sewing, and the fire was burning low, accord- ingto the story told by the Poughkeepsie News Press. “James, dear, will you bring me up a scuttle | of coal from the c+11ar?” said his wife. | “That's just the way with you,” said James, with a frown, as he putdown his book and rose from the armchair. “Just the way with me?” “Yes!" he suapped. As soon as you see me enjoying myself you have something or other | o f F The Strange and Interes for me to do. my reading?” ““Well, dear, I will do it myself.” “Yes, and tell everybody—your mother ex- pecially—that you haveto carry your own coal up from the ce lar. No, I'll do it. Let | me mark my place.” So he marked the place in the book at which he had ceased reading and when he went down 10 the cellar, grumbling all the way, she picked up the volume and found it was a love story, and that the passage that he | been absorbed in was as follows: “My darling, when you are my wife I will shield and p:otect you from every care. The winds of heaven sbail not visit your face too roughly; those pretty hands shall never be soiled by menial task: lew; your happiness” Just then reappeared, and, dropping the senttle upon the floor, said: “There’s your coal! Give me my book.” D.dn’t you see I was absorbed in your wish shall be my | EVERYTHING THE WRONG WAY. Tid Bits. The Chinese do everything backward. They exactly reverse the usual order of civilization. Note first that the Cninese compass points to the south instead of the north. The men carry on dressmaking, and the wome. carry burdens. The spoken language of China is not writ- ten, and the written language is not spoken. B are read backward, and what we call Toot notes are inserted at the top of the page. h’rhe Chinese surname comes first instead of he Chinese shake their own hands instead of the hands of those they greet. The Chinese dress in white at funerals and in mourning at weddings, while old women alwvays serve as bridesmaids. The Chiness inunch their ves: and mount their horses from the o The Cuinese vegin dinner with desseri and end with soup and fish, can be is not fully understood, but surely the Ezaminer is ap- proaching the limit. Possibly Governor Budd does not appreciate the fact that there are a number of lawyers to whom the taking of a single foot of 1and from the Fair estate wonld seem actually a crime. These lawyers have the utmost confidencs in their ability to take away anything that can be made subdjact to that process, ‘Wey ler does not seem to let go of a good job w‘ith any better grace than he aisplayed while holding it, and this is not saying much for h'm. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. n’t the nerve to claim that Cupid ever got married. The more a woman thinks she knows about poiitics the less fruit she cans. A gizl spends lots of time wonderin; she won'd say if she got kissed an Qoesn’t say anything. whai then woman tekes to wearing s s collar and necktie it is time for her husband to sew irills ou his nightshirt, OF THE SUNDAY CALL’S MANY FERTURES, CONTINUATION OF W. C. MORROW’S STORY, “A REMARKABLE WOMAN.” Gomical Aspirations for Histrionic Fame. With Other Matter Govering a Wide Field in Science, Literature, History. e aar s e o TS S SRS R e | —Chicago Post. ! development amoug women of a loyalty to VOU MAY REGISTER VOUR OWN MAIL. The latest development of the slot machine is an invention designed to make every per- son his own registered-letter clerk and to fa- cilitate the forwarding of regisiered mail. Three of the machines were placed in pos.tion yesterday, says the New York Sun, one in the registry division of the General Postoffice, one in en aicove of the lobby of the Equitable bullding and one in the branch postoffice at Forty-second street and Park avenue. The How the Slot Machine Looks. use of thete three machines has Zbeen sanc- tioned by the Postmaster-General, and under his orders they are to have a six weeks' trial, What may happen after that is conjecture merely, but the assumption of the inventor of the machine is that if its work is satisfactory it will be adopted as a regular adjunct to the postoflice system. While the machines are being put to their official test an sgent of the postorics is 1o be in constint attendance at each. He wiil ex- plain the working of the machine to the public and see that no une tampers with the mail. The charge for registering a letter ic 8 cents in addition to the regular letter posiage. The machine makes the same charge, assuming that a single 2-cent stamp is suflicient for the regular postage. Under the law a letter pre- paid by one 2-cent stamp must be forwarded and any exirs postage collected at the other end. To worX the machine you drop a sfiver United States dime intow spout at the upper right hand side. A square iron cover flies up sutomatically and rev.alsa roll of waite paper. Opposite certain lines you write the name and address of the person to whom your letter is to be sent and your own name and address, At the right nand upper end of the machine is & smail lever. You press this back and the letter-siot in front opens, and into this you drop vour letter. Tnen you se:zs the handle of u big crank at the right and force it back until a bell rings. As you do this the iron caver closes and locks over the writing tabier. Now you draw forward the big lever until a bell rings. As you do this a duplicate of your writing on a separate piece of paper is slipped outof the machine on tne jefi-hand side, and upon this paper is imprinted also th> posi- office da e marks, the serial pumber of the iet- ter and the signature of the Posumaster. This is your receipt. Your original writing re- mains in the box until the letters are re- moved and then it goes wiih them. At the same time that your receipt is printed the letter isdated. The next thing is to get the letter to the postoftice without giving the leiter-carrier a chance to tamper with originals of the receipis. The box has & hop- ver bottom so consiructed that it can be opened only when the mail bag is attecned to it. The maii bag can’t be «pened either, ex- cept in conjunction with the hopper or at’ the postoflice. "The strip on which are written the names and addresses drops into the bag with the letters. The dimes fall into & brass cylinder in the order in which they are dropped into the ma- chine, and the postman, if he finds a bad one, can tll at once, by order, which letter it belongs to. Such a let- ter will be neld and its sender notified to pay ! x‘:hckpo“mln in good coin and get his bad coin ack. | to throw _out bad coins il theyare uuder weight. When the coin first drops into the | slotitgoesinto a delicate valance, where it is weighed. 1fitis 100 much worn 10 be current | the scale rejects it, and instead of passing into { the machine and starting tne posting opera- | tions the coin drops out of & hole in the iront of the machine and fails on the floor. The i ventor says he Las spent three years in perfecting the machine. CAP AND BELLS. Mr. Hunker—I think it is perfectly ridicu- | lons, the way yoa girls are nmitaiing Cleo de | Merode's style of dre sing her hair. | Miss Giigal—Isn'tit? Do you know, I think it 1s almost as ridiculous as the way you boys began to wear your hair pompadour after Cor- | beit threshed Suilivan.—Harper's Bazar, Delance met Sallfe on the bridge, and kissed | her on the spot; | The brooklet murmured down below, but | Ballie murmured not. —Harper's Bagrr. Willie—Pa, what are the three graces? Pa—Faith, Hope and Charity. Wilile—What are the disgraces, Pa? Pa—Oh, they are too numerous to mention.— Chicago News. Sandy MacPhorson (scornfully)—Hoot awa, | mon! ye wadna pay 20 guineas for siccan a wheel as that? | Donald Macgregor (hotly)—Hoot awa, yer- | self! That's the best make o’ wheel in &' Scot- land, and 1t’s worth sax o' that puir thing ye hae!—Puck. “That, sir,” said the phrenologist, piacing | the tips of his long, bony fiugers on the bump | of Biggongs’ head, “is your bump of locomo- | tlon, “‘RIght you are,” replied Biggongs. “Igot that last night while learning to ride a bicycle,”—Tid-Bits. Father (severely)—You know, of course, tha & girl has taken the highest mathematical honor: at Cambridge? Son (undergraduate)—Oh, well, you know, the girls have nothing e!se to do but study. We fellows have really so much else to attend | t 1 | eago, received recentlp direct from Deshasha, | Alberton, Howard County, Md., on the Balti- g PEOFPLE TALKED ABOUT. Professor James A. Breasted, of the depart- ment of Egyptology at the University of Chi- Egypt, a consignment of antiquities of un- usual value. Among them is the mummy of Mery, priestess of Hathor. Solong as there are writers of books tnere willbe many who will never resort to the Ppainstaking labor of Wordsworth, as indi- cated in the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth: “William has come back tired; he has spent all the day In thinking of an adjective for the cuckoo.” Tamagno, the tenor, has lost 1,700,000 francs in a real estate speculation at Rome, according to the Figaro. He bough'a build. ing and the adjoining land ata hign price on & tip from an lialian Deputy that the Govern- ment wanted the property for a new Ministry ‘valueless land on him. A Baltimore paper is authority for the state- | ment that probably the oldest station agent in the couniry in point of service is James A. Gary, the Postmaster-Generai ot the Uaited States. He was appointed agent at more and Ohio Railroad, years ago. The chapel in the Sorbonne Churech, in Paris, built by Cardinal Richelieu for the burial place of his family, is in a ruinous con- dition, aud scaffolding tor its repair has been standing in it for adozen years, while the re- and the city are dispuiing which shail puy the bills. The state demands the control of the chapel if it spends the moaey, while the Richelieu family object on the grouad that the Cardinal expended his own money in building it. Probably thev would be giad to some forty-four FW-o- ting Colony at Soledad. to that we don’t get much time for i1 Tit-Bits. Deoks “That fettles §1!" exclaimed Cupid, as he picked up an arrow that had failed to reach its mark. *That’s the last time I shoot at a new woman. Why, the point is bent double.” — CLUB WOMEN AND CLUB WORK. Harper's Bazar. ‘‘One tendency of club life.”” says a woman Who is & club member of long standing, *4is its their societies, common enough among men, | but which tradition, if uot fact, has accepted s not o much so among women. I can tell an old club woman, afier a few minutes’ talk With her, from the way she speaks of her club. The member new to ciub 1ife does not at once get that spirit of fealty which training and association bring, and she considers her or- ganization apart from herself, I regard the cultivation of club nonor one of the most | beneficent influences of the movement among | | women."” Which remark is true enough, and admits perhups of a ifttle more accentuation. There are still 100 many club women destitute of the R control necessary to choke down a clever ch whose utterance is at the expense of their organizition. The club is still a train- ing-school, aud as such is an arena—as what congregation of persons is not?—for the dis- play of human nature. Many happenings are easy material 10 the bright, Witty woman for humorous caricature. Her thoughtlessness, however—for it is usually this rather thau any malicious intent—is more harmful to her club than sne realizes The laugh is for- gotten, while its eause lingers in the memo: That club honor and esprit de corps that proiects the weaknesses and folb es of fellow Club members from one’s own cleverness and sense of humor is what is especially valuable, aud should be, like lamily pride, inherent and instinctive. It has come to be so among men. The per- manence and continuity of their club life will insure its similar universality and potency among women. — S MEANEST MAN IN AMERICA. Rocnester Post-£xpress. The meanest man in the United States lives in Atlanta. Jowa. He took his girl to & theater and her ticket won a bicycle that was offered by the managers. He claimed the bicycle, as he had bouzht the ticket. And yet Charlotie Smith would compel such a man to marry. | itis prinied, of service to any miua, young or Tepair it themselves, but they are too poor. Danish papers have printed & private letter by George Brandes, in which that eminent critic moralizes on his recent serious iliness, which confined him to his bea 100 days and | brought him to death’s door. Incidentally he | refers to his choice library of 7000 Danish, | Swedish, Norwegian, German, English, Rus. sian, Polish, Itslian, Latin and Greek books, allof which he Las read, most of them more than once, in the original languages. He thinks that for asick man there is no better reading than Micnelei's “History of France.” A FLAINI. 1sing but as a bird. 1know not why nor how, Simply and without art 1t fows out from my h- art, 1 know not why nor how Unil the sound is heacd, Isiog bui 8s & bird. 1 can no longer sing, 1 know not why 1,0r how, Simply and without art Love crme into my heart, 1 know not why nor how, And changed is everyibing, T can no longer sing. I think my heart must break, I Know ot why nor horw, Ah! leave me s you came, Love, let me be the same, Nor know the why nor now, And yet, for luve's dear suke, My heart it wauts to breax. Mal FALLACY OF CHILDKEN’S BOOKS. The notion of the writers is that the books | must be written down to the level of the in- fant mind. They have succeeded. They have got below the level of any kind of mind. They are as mediocre and almost as common- place as half the novels that are Lought and read by adults. Isdomestic twaddle, because olda? The pondcrous Dr. Johnson lived when the attempt to dilute the minds of children was just beginning to be made, and he character- ized it with his usual directness and good sense. In that inexhaustible and wholly charming storehouse of anecdote and enter- tainment, “Johnsonian Miscellanies,” edited by Birkbeck Kill, there is a record of John- son’s disapproval o1 putting Mewbery’s books into the hands of children, as too tnfling o engage their attention. ““Bables,” he said, ‘do not want to hear | about babies: they like to be told.of giants and castles, and of somewhat toat can siretch and sumulate their litle minds.” They like genuine stories, and & genuine story has always a strong flavor of humean nature or some supernataral lift init. 1t is quite troe that the young mind Wauts the siories put into simple lapguage, without superfluous flourisies—just as thé signs used by deat mutes discard everylhing that does nos di. rectly produce the lmage o the mind. Tne signs aporoach the linguistic s*imolicity of Zsop's Fables. And this nccessity for sim. vlicity is the apolog: for some of the books written especlally 1or chi dren—that is, the class represented by Lamb's “Tales From Shakespenre,” and prose tales from Homer aud generuliy the Greek legends and the fatry stories and medieval Darratives, half-supes. natural. 3 The “reductions” of good books for of ealidren are, however, on the bord:l:-eu“ns; of the admissible, and 'in most cases it iy better for ihe children, as soon as they ean read ea-ily, t0 read Shakespeare and a good translation of Homer or have them reaq to them. If the real thingsare not put into their hands they will reaa somethiug and go on andenfeebie their minds with the g tractive volumes that are pietuly iliustrateq and re- quire not so much mental effrt as the convew. | sation at a little girly tea-partv.—From \he “Editor's Study,” by Charles Dudiey Waynes iu Harver's Magazine for October. 3 ——-Q PROFITS OF THE pRIZE EXHIBIT. Sprivgfield (Msss) Republican. Star Pointer, the champion pacer, could not i have earned much more than Mr, as the chief attraction at the Ka. Fair at Wichita. When hang nearly $2500 as his share ot l;d o Bryan frankly said that he had never before Bryan did nsas State check for e receipts, Mr. her the fetters or the | nning them over in | i Aside from this the machine is constructed ! * | paper (the Ssffron of Commercs building, ena found that the | Deputy had unloaded his own comparatively | | cial corps of ANSWERS TO CORRESFONDENTS. FAGE VALUE OxiLY—L. N. R., College Park, cal. There is no offer of premium by deslers in old coins for & $10 piece of 1853 or a quar- ter of a dollar of 1843. TIIRTEEN YEARS AG J. B, City. Thisis another correspondent who asks a question ‘but neg.ecis to include the essential partof it “Whers could I get o copy of which was printed thirtesn years ago?” Correspondents should earefuliy and concise.y state that wiich they wish to be informed about. WooLpAcKs—M. N., City. The following is | given as th: origin of the expressicn “London bridge is built ou woolpacks.” In the reign of Henry IL Pious Peter, & chaplain o Mary, Colechurch, built a store bridge in | of thé wooden one that had been destroyed by fire. The Kiug assisted him by & tax on’ woo., hence the saying. THE GUILLOTINE — F. 5 years it was asseried that Joseph Ignace Guil- lotine, a French physician who lived duri the Reigu of Terror, invented the instrument of death that bears his name. In the tnir- teeath century an instrument very similar to that now used in France was usel in ltaly for beheading criminal City. For many ., Salinas, Cal, C. . 0’Donneli was e itating against | the Chinese in o before Denis Kearney became a public speaker agaiust the Chinese. The former was speaking on rutject before the August riots of Kenrney was one of the safety commit 1t was shortly after that riot that he took the Chinese question. TION—H. Foop—A. F. G, City. This depariment i | ready 10 assist corresponcents in search information, but it cannot answer questic i that ate in tnemseives incomplete, 1his cc respondent wants an ansyrer to the foliow | “Will you kind1y tell me whui food one p | must take jor one year and quantity of enc ! 1don’t wish to go short, nor io pack too muc | asT have 10 study economy?’ I the corr | spondent will exp ain what be wants tae food | for possibly an auswer may be furnished. | | EARLY CALIFORNIA MAIL—S | regularly established Uaited St | letters for California and Ozegon was sent gn the Falcon from N w York to Chagres on 1st of December, 1848, the ves el s(oplyinv,, Ho he | Havana on the way. From Cungres mail | was earried up the Chugres R.ver, thence over- | land to Panumu 6nd irom there taker by ihs | California Stesm Packet Company’s vessels o San Francisco and to Astoria. The postsge was 40 cents for exch half ounce or iraction thereof and to that was added locai postas | between san Francisco aud points in Cel: | fornia. LIGHT. Be not much troubled about many things, | ~ Fear oten bath no whii cf substance in it, Aud lives but just a m nuie, | While from ti e very snow the wheat blade springs. | Anilight s like a tower | That varsts in full lexf from the darkest hour; | And he who made the ni ht | Mede, too, the flowery sweetness of t Be it by task, through his good be liznt; YELLOW JOURNA.ISM IN 1900. Fresno Republican. | Following is the announcement of a yellow | journal of the year 1900: “In our Sunday suppiement we will furnish to our patrons the following interestiug read- ing: “How the special confiderce man of this Sewerbird) buukoed the Pres'dent of the United States. | “How our commission of jail-breakers res- | cued Durrant, whom we know 1o be as inno- tasan unborn bate, from San Quentin. ‘Tae clever manner in which our squad of incendiari-s reducsd the buildings of our estecmed contemporaries to ashes. “Our seducer-in-chiet gives some spicy in- formation concerniug his vieums “How our train-wrecker wrecked one of Uncie Colli’ excursion trains, causing the death of 30514 persons. “How we puisoned the water of the Spring Valley Water Company. Oue ton of ‘Rough on Rats’ was used. ““The Sunday after we hope to give a Start- ling account of the assassination by our spe- bomb-throwers oi the Czar of | Russia. We have decided that he is unworthy to reign, aud he's got 1o go. We aiso hops Ly that time to have embroiled the United States and England. Ii this Government won't em- broil, then our high commission of revolu- tonists wiil set 10 work to overthrow it We're tired of republics anyhow. Now is the time to subscribe " R. M. SHARP AND ENIENTIOUS. i Ram’s Homn. A fool’s company is not hard to find. Opinions never change the weather. Honesty hes never found a substitute. Gold loses its shine when it i gotten by guilt. A giant among giants is notaware of hisown ze, The best safe for your money is & prudent wife. The man robs others who does not m ke the best of himseif. The ass mightsing better if he didn’t pitch his tune so high. Everybody sa who 1s “'getting there. Call a little man great, and other little men Wwill throw up their hets. To get the good out of the Years we must learn how to live each hour well. 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