The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 17, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1897. | Call £ ..OCTOBER 7. 1807 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. SUNDAY Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION DEFICE. ..710 Market streei, San Francisco Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS 517 Clay street Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE.....cco0vuen.t ...908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Monigomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 0 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open nntil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o’clock. 1243 Mission street; open until 9 o’clock. 1503 Polk street; open unti! 9:30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentvcky sireets; open till 9 o’clock. Roows 31 and 33, 34 Park Row. THE GAYETY OF NATIONS. HERE 1s something in the grotesque that excites a smile, Don Quixote of old charginz bo!dly upon a windm:ll causes a laugh, and the modern Quixote, boasting of achievements never accomplished and of deeds never even cons templated, is more ludicrous than the ancient knight. At least the knight had a brain, albeit somewbat muddled, and wasat beart a gallant gentleman. Perhaps to take seriously the boaster of nowadaysis not the wisest course. More natural that he be regarded as a clown jumping through a hoop and tumbling into the sawdust of the arena, bragging as he rolle of his acrobatic prowess; then he promotes the gayety of nations and is not wholly wasted. Taken seriously he would bs irritating. The jingle of the bells on the cap of a fool may be diverting, but it is a failure as mu- sic. There may be grins, but applause never. This thought leads naturally to consideration of a paper published in New York, this paper being in the field of journal- ism a veritable Quixote. No windmil!l is too fearful for it to tackle, no problem too great for it to meetand solve. And baving tackled and solved, it chortles in such biithesome glee as to nearly overwhelm itself with the wave of adulation. Yet it emerges from the fulsome tide sputtering delightedly, and ready to be ridiculous again. It has attached to its staff kings, statesmen and potentates; prelates take its orders, presidents baste to do its bidding; #nd the beauty of the thing is that none of the people are aware of the fact. Each is quoted without having said anything, told to do that which he had indubitably intended to do, and praised for having followed instructions of which he never heard. This paper claims credit for all reforms, but declines to be reformed itself; poses as a censor, and is one of the foulest of daily orints. If anybody anywhere in tne world, from Cuba to the Klondike, performs a notable feat, calmly yet in rather large type it announces that it alone is responsible. eless to try to reason with it. There is no normal intelli- gence to which appeal can be made. Let it be regarded as a Don Quixote in type, its pranks partly excusable, as the leer of the inbecile, however displeasineg, cannot be resented. Or let it be regarded as a joke, not a bright joke nor particularly clean, but conducted under tue license of ths jester, a contribu- tion to the gayety of nations. There is another paper sspiring to a similar rating, but 1t has not yet attained even to the distinction of being a bad joke: on the contrary, it is more in th2 nature of a vermiform appendix much in need of amputation. Death has rescued Langtry from any occasion for worry about his wife and robbed of interest the question of the legal- ity of their divorce. People in thisland have only a meager idea of the manner of Langtry’s life, and can simply surmise what has become of him; nevertheless the thought that he cannot possibly be any worse off than he was while in the flesh is entirely natural. Oaly the incongruity of congratulating a dead man will serve to check an impulse to do something of the kind. Once more there come from Trinity County accounts of rich strikes. There is no particular reason for doubting the truth of them, and yet the probability of a mad rush in that direction is not exactly great. People of ordinary powers of memory will recall that there was a rush in that direction only a little while ago, only equaled in 1intensity by a rush imme- aiately after to get out again. Probably Mr. Waymire has not the slightest objection to the report that he is slated for some place of dignity end importance; but we search vainly for some ground for the rumor aside from the circumstance that, like Barkis, he is so very, very wiilin’, Spectators at a show in Cincinnati expected to witness the “Perils of a Great City,”” and as the house fell on them 1t is to be assumed that survivors really got more than their money’s worth, Gorman’s offer to sacrifice himself on the altar of his party is generous enough; butdoes it not overlook the fact that an SAN QUENTIN GRAIN BAGS. FROM the jutemill at San Quentin there have been sent ont that they are prison-made goods, and it is probable there will be a further output of a similar kind unless immediate The reason assigned for omitting the prison mark irom the bags 1s that the Pritish Government imposes restrictions upon fore, be of advantage to our shippers of grain to have the San Quentin sacks served to them in such a form that the British free labor. We are by this simple means to outwit the Brit- isher and benefit our grain shippers. love and war, but all the same stratagems should not be too diaphanous. The men who have planned this method of da- Bull 1s too stupid to sqe anything that is not plainly marked and conspicuously advertised. It is their idea that by the mere cials of the foggy island will be convinced of the innocence of the sacks and admit them to their ports without asking ques- This view of British stupidity may be correct. Perhaps the British Consuls on this coast see nothing and hear nothing. Perhaps the British manufacturers of grain sacks never keep a lookout to see that their business is not injured by the impor- gem is going to be a complete success in fooling John Bull. But after thai will come other considerations. tinguish them from the products of free labor, are once sent out, and we have profited thereby, there will be little chance for us to men. Sooner or later that fact will be made known, and then al! California sacks will be objected to as the product of prisons. every State in the Union whase people object to the competition of prison labor. We shall have given ourselvesa bad reputa- deceiving the British will be overbalanced by the loss resuiting irom cheating ourselves. the long run. If we are to have a large trade in shipping grain in sacks, we should make use of that demand to build up an manent profit by squere dealing instead of a flesting one by trick which cannot long deceive the British no matter how l animal fit for sacrifice must be without spot or blemish? alarge number of grain sacks bearing no mark to show steps are taken to prevent it. the importation of prison-made goods, and that it will, there- Gévernment cannot distinguish them from sacks made by It may be true that everything is fair in commerce as in ceiving the Britisher are evidently of the opinion that John process of removing tihe prison mark from grain sacks the offi- tions, Perhaps they are maintained simply for ornamental purposes. tation of prison-made goods. Perhaps our S8an Quentin strata- When these San Quentin sacks, bearing no mark to dis- build up a sack-making industry in the hands of free working- We shall then be confronted, not by Great Britain only, but by tion, and it will not be long before the profit we have made by In this, as in all things else, honesty is the best policy in industry of making sacks by free labor, and thus gain a per- blind they may be in matters of commerce, A MORE BEAUTIFUL SAN FRANCISCO. UBLIC opinion expressed by many citizens in interviews Ppublished in THE CALL is strongly in favor of embellish- ing San Francisco by recovering for park purposes the tract between the City Hall and Market street. Itis true some of the citizens interviewed are opposed to the improvement, but this was to be expected. All men have never yet agreed on any particular project. The appearance of these adverse opinions among the expressions favorable to the establishment of the park serves but to show the fairness of THE CALL in giving a hearing to toth sides, and to afford a basis on which to estimate the comparative strength in the community of the two parties. Those who are opposed to the improvement are few, and their opposition is made mainly on the ground that to opena park at that point on Market street would interfere with the continuity of business. This fear, as we have pointed out be- fore, is groundless. Numerous parks break the line of shops on Broadway, New York, but the trade of that city has never been turned from that thoroughfare. A series of great parks, | St. James Park, Green Park and Hvde Park, break the lead- ing streets of London leading from the city to the west, and | yet London trade has moved steadily westward in spite of them. It will take something more than a comparatively small park to check the westward advance of business along Market street, and all opposition to the park on that ground is hardly more reasonabls than the hesitation caused to a child by the fear of a bogy man. The mass of the people have no such fears. There has grown up in San Francisco an aspiration for municipal beauty, and the desire for it is shared by the great majority of her influential citizens. We are beginning to understand some- thing of the possibility that lies before this city, so happily situated and marked by nature for a high desiiny among the great capitals of the earth. In that understanding we recoz- nize the importance of making it beautiful as well as rich in order that it may not be inferior in anything to the cities of the East. There is a commercial as well as an artistic value in beauty. Men and women are willing to pay the price that art costs, | whether it takes the form of a noble picture or of a well or- | dered and splendid capital. Regent Reinstein has directed at- tention to the well-known estimate that the adornment of Paris brings to that city a revenue equal to $100,000,000 a year from | visitors, who go from all parts of the world to enjoy life amid the artistic surroundings that are found there. | Nor is this commercial value of municipal beauty ill founded. Itis worth all that it costs. It is no slight ad-| vantage to have well-paved, cleanly swept and well-lighted streets, broken here and there by parks bright with flowers | and sunshine and adorned with statues of men whose lives | are an inspiration to memory. San Francisco can better aff ord to make herself splendid than to leave herself shabby. She can make municipal improvements at a less cost, in the long run, than she can do without them. As for the particular improvement involved in the pro- | posed park at the City Hall, its value is so apparent that even the opponents of it do not question that it would beautify the city, and are doubtful only of its effects on the retail trade | in the immediate vicinity. Public opinion, voiced by the great i majority of citizens impartially interviewed by THE CALL, ig‘ for it strongly and earnestly. All that is nesded is for some | good plan to be devised for accomplishing the desired end. | Of course, no one would willingly see any wrong done to the | present holders of the property, but the land must be recovered | for the city. 1t was originally dedicated to park purposes, and to those purposes it must be reclaimed. Killing his mother and grandmother as a preliminary to getting married was the ypeculiar method of a New Jersey | yvouth. He wanted money wherewith to embellish a litile | home. While there is something beautiful about the domestic | instinct there is hardly a doubt that this particular lover went to an extreme such as wiil tend to destroy or at least greatly mar the jov that is supposed to gather about the well-regulated ; hearthstone. While the smitten young man may not succeed in adorning a home, as an adornment for a galiows he may find | that he can be quite useful. In the great economy of affairs there seems to be a place for almost eve RIVER IMPROVEMENT WORK. A. NURSE, chief engineer of the river survey, has filed a report with the Commissioner of Public Worksset« ®ting forth the result of his surveys of the Sacramento 2nd San Joaquin rivers, together with a statement of the needed improvements therein. This prepares the way for be- ginning the work for which appropriations have been made, and it is probable that within a comparatively short time we ; may see something accomplished. It goes without saying there will be a zood deal of gratifica- | tion in seeingz this important enterprise fairly under way. The | improvement of the rivers will materially advance the welfare, | not of the river counties only, but of the whole State. The benefit to traffic will be feit in every partof the common- wealth, and the upbuilding of the vast area drained by the two | rivers will so effectually enhance the prosperity of the people of that section that they will be able to afford a better market for the trade and commerce of all other sections. An immediate advantage will result from the beginning of the work by the very fact that it will put into circulation a con- | siderable part of the money appropriated for the purpose, and | which for some time has been lying idle in the State treasury. | The circulation of this money, together with the employment of labor by its use, will add to the rapidly incressing business | activity of the people, and will count among the influences which are making for prosperity in all lines oi industry. Another advantage to be gained from a speedy beginning ! of the work 1s the argument it will afford California members of Congress in urging an appropriation from the National Government to carry on the improvement the State has begun. The United States should assist liberally in the task of opening | these important rivers for commerce. Streams of far less mag- nitude snd navigable facilities in parts of the Union have been improved at the expense of the nation without local govern- ments doing anything for them, and now that California shows a willingness to bear a share of the cost we can with unim- peachable j ustice ask for at least as much aid as has been given to others, It is pointed out by the engineer in his report “that in view of the magnitude of Jocal interests long devastated by floods, it is 1o be hoped the incidental restoration of better con- ditions resulting from the proposed plan of river improvements may serve as an incentive to concerted action of land-owners and lead to the construction of the greater portion of the neces- cary levees this fall and winter in order that no delay may attend the building of an eas:ment as early next spring as the weather and the river stage of the water will permit.” If this hope is suifilled we shall see a great gain in the way of improvement in the river counties within a time compara- tively short. We thus have reason to expect benefi's of many kinds from the undertaking of the work without further delay than is necessary to provide for the proper operation of it. Iy is to be hoped, therelore, that the rerort will be found accept- able by the Commissioner of Public Works and the Auditing Board o that the enterprise may go forward at once. One gentleman sends from the Kiondike cheering news that he is garnering at present a milkpan of gold each day. Unfor- tunately the exact dimensions of the pan are not given, so the reader is left somewhat in the dark. However, any pan of gold isa pretty good thing, and the opportunity of skimming it would be appreciated. A woman accused of larceny, and mdubitably guilty of it, has thrown herself upon the mercy of the court, which may be a good thing. However, people who indulge in theft and who have in any measure been students of local events would much | we bave a right to boast. prefer taking their chances with a “‘pull.”’ OUR DAIRY INTERESTS. AIRY interests in California are sufficiently large and promising to justify the establishment of a school for in- struction in the science and art of dairying as a part of the technical education provided by the State for the benefit of its people. What oor dairymen have accomplished thus far has been attained by experiments made by individuals at great cost and often at great loss and it is now time that the State shou!d as- sist this, as other industries involving scientific training, by the maintenance of a college where the results of experiments can be stored up for the information of all engaged in the in- dustry, and whers young men can receive instructions in the methods of conducting the dairy business amid the conditions that prevail in California, As men advance in civilization they improve in their manner of living. Certain forms of fo0d accounted excellent at one age are abandoned at another for better articles of a similar nature, The country that produces the kest brand of any particular food takes possession of the market and the producers of infe- Tior articles are crowded out, This upward trend of the course of living is more marked in this age than in any other, and America must keep pace with it or suffer even in her own mar- kets from foreign competition. It will be useless to call upon men to patronize home in- dustries unless home industries produce articles equal to any in the market sold at the same price. When other nations and | States are doing their best to improve the quality as well as in- crease the quantity of the products of their people, we must follow the example. Instruction in dairying is given by the leading nations in Europe and by several of the more impor- tant States in the East. Their dairymen are being aided lo‘ improve their products, while ours are working at adisadvan- | tage by reason of the lack ol that State assistance enjoyed by their competitors elsewhere. Conditions of soil and climate in California are so various, and in all varieties are so different from those which prevail in other parts of the Union us to make dairying in this State something like a new experiment in indusiry. The expe- rienced dairyman who comes here from Europe or from the Eastern States finds half his knowledge of the business to be useless under the conditions that prevail here. He has largely to learn bis trade all over again, and it would be of great ad- vantage to him if there were a school in the State where he could receive information as to the proper course to pursue in establishing a dairy farm in any particalar locality. In epite of the lack of past experience to guide them in their work the dairymen of California have built up an industry whose products are among the things of which By making tests at their own ex- | pense in different kinds of grasses and feed and various breeds | | of milk cows, they have succeeded in making their industry one | of the most important in the State. They have demonstrated | that it has in it the potency of becoming equal if not supe- rior to the dairy industry of any other State in the Union, and it would well repay the commonwealth to aid them in accom- plishing that possibility by prov.ding for instruction in the science and the art that is needed to attain it. THE SITUATION IN NEW YORK. AVORITE scheme of the practical politicians for defe: ing the election of independent men to office is to split the respectable voters up into different and contenaing factions. Whenever municipal reform takes a start the first thing these manipulators do is to offset it with more and equally as promising “reform.” In the meantime orders are itsued to the members of the orzanization which they have in | hand to stand together in solid phalanx and work steadily for the election of the men who can be controlled after they get into power. It is easy to perceive, even at this distance, that the politi- cal bosses of Greater New York lLave made preparations to once more divide the forces of respectability in that city and put their men in charge of the new government. There are | four candidates for Mayor in the field, viz. Judge Van Wyck (Temmany), Seth Low (Citizens’ Union), General Tracy (Re- publican) and Henry George (Labor Union). George 1s expected to take a few votes away from the Tammany candidate, but that he will draw a very large number from that individual is extremely improbable. Measures will be taken long before election day to break his organization into fragments. Low and Tracy, however, will squarely divide the respectable ele- ment. Both are men of eminent ability and distingunished character, Tracy is an ex-Cabinet Minister and Low is prob- ably the most competent municipal administrator in the United States. As Mayor of Brooklyn, a few years ago, he made an enviable record. That this diagnosis of the situation in the greater city is based upon sound reasoning is sapported by a telegram printed in the papers the other day giving an account of a careful ante- election canvass by a New York newspaper of 52 representative voting precincts in the big city. These precincts were taken from 29 of the 35 Assembtly districts in the territory which con- stitutes the present city of New York. The opinions of 3640 | voters wege secured. Of these 1186 declared that they were for Van Wyck for Mayor, 928 said they were for Low, 876 were for Tracy and 661 for George. If this canvass has been impartially conducted—and it 1s given out with every evidence of a sincere desire to foreshadow the result—it is quite plain that Tammany will carry the municipal election in November. The reason for this will be that a large majority of the Democratic v.ters of | the greater city will stick by their party label, while the re- spectable peopls will spliton Low and Tracy—probably about even. If the followers of Tammany were as independent as those of the Republican party Van Wyck and George would divide the Democratic vote; but the figures given -render it quite probable that the latter candiaate will get as many Republican as Tammany votes. In fact, he iz quite likely to pick up all or nearly all of the dissatistied and crank element in that party. It is noted that the precincts from which this vote was obtainea gave the Republican candidate for Governor last year a plural- ity of 1409. A triumph for Tammany, however, will not astonish a great many people. The Republican politicians created the greater city for the purpose of making it Rapublican. Itis the history of all gerrymanders that deleat overtakes the party which enacts them at (he. very first election after they go into effect. Matters have changed considerably in Kansas when it is necessary for a farmer to use a gun to jinduce a bank to accept money on a mortgage, yet such has been the experience of at least une grain-zrower of that State. The debt had not ma- tured, but the farmer had the money and was anxious to stop the interest. The bank knew the interest would be forthcom- ing and didn’t care to lof good thing. By another year poor Mrs, Lease won’t have anything to be miserable about, and then how miserable she will be. A lady who has just haa the peculiar experience of being defendant in a suit for breach of promise and who loct the case is in the city, and, of course, being a blonde, is spoken of as a “dashing” blonde. It would be interesting if some reporter who is a.ways discovering a person with this strange and as yet unexplained faculty of “dashing’’ would let other people know what he means. By this method he could shed upon a won- dering world a ray of light such as it would be glad to receive. —_— Of course people are always willing to learn even if to do so invoives the necessity of sitting at the feet of the correspond- ents. Yet when we are told that railroad interests will oppose the elevation of McKenna to the bench, there is a not unnatural tendency to wonder if the time to secure a new set of instructors is not approaching. e THE PLOT OF ANNEXATION. Sacramento Bee. The San Franciseo CALL the other dey published a remarkably able paper from ex-Justice Myrick ot the Supreme Court of Califor- nis, in which he gave some swinging, unanswerable arguments agninst the annexation of the Hawailan Islands. The Bee has been a vigorous opponent thereto ever since the scheme was first broacked, and itis glad to seeso many influential newspapers and so many think- ing men coming over 1o the side of right and justice. This paper has gove deeply juto the matter on many an occasion, hut its primal and | that the young fellow sinks his ambition in the sea that rolls below | most potent reason for its vigorous denunciation of the annexation plot is one of {:rlndple—lhlx nation shouid not be the recipieat of stolen goods, knowing the same to have been stolen. THE LARGEST INGOT EVER GAST The casting of the largest ingot ever formed in this country took place recently at the works of the Bethlehem Iron Company. The picture of the big ingot is reproduced from the Iron Age. It is of nickel steel, made for a 16-inch gun, 16 feet 7 inches in length and 74 foches in diameter. Its weight is 222,300 pounds, A service, especially on the Pacific Coast, was in many respects & failure; that the boys in general were anything but a superior class, and their deportment whilg in the schoolships and training quarters was not such as to lead one to exult in their efficiency as fu- ture crews for Uncle Sam’s war vessels. The officer said several other discouraging things of the young sailors, which from a quarterdeck view are doubt ess true. Juvenile Jack from a cadet’s standpointis notalways a choice article, but as he does the drudgery of the cruiser as well as the muscular part of the fighting, he is enlisied and tol- erated. The naval apprentice and his needs—from the said standpoint— is a lively theme for the young progressive officers in the navy who write for magazines during their waich below. Mary excellent and comprehensive articles have been written suggesting and digesting scientific methods by which he may be liited up the ladder of promo- tion until he reaches the dizzy eminence of a gunner’s mate, or possi- bly a sallmaker. Surely, write these marine essayists, the youngster shou!d be satisfied with this glorious reward. With the red badge of a petty officer’s rating sewed on the sleeve of his blue flannel shirt he is a fellow of proud distinction on the forecastle or down in the fire- room. Only base ingratitude to the republic that educated him and otherwise preparcd him to scrub the deck paintwork and polish the engine brasswork would cause him to turn contemptuously from these callings. But he sometimes does it, and possibly for good and sufficient reasons. For the edification of the shore-going reader 1t may be in order to give at this juncture a leaf from the log of the naval apprentice, and show how rich in promise to him 1s his protession. He is eniisted to serve till his tweniy-first birthday. No qualifica- tion is required, except as to nativity and such physical proficiency as the medical examiner may find in the candidate. The enlisting officer takes it for granted that he is a good boy and has a taste for the sea. Asa general thing the young fellow is a home-boy and brought wp under the watchful care of his parants; enthusiastic, aspiring and ambitious, but wholly ignorant of what he will be thrown up against on shipboard. He is allowed a £45 outfit and §9a month in wages, and his years of training begin. The book portion of his education which he receives during the first twelve months of his service is about equal to that taught in the lowest class of a city grammar school, consequently his literary attainments are not of a lofty order. Even the simplest rudiments of navigation—that abso* lutely necessary qualification of a youth if Le would rise in the sea- faring profession, if oulv to the command of a lumber scow—are denied him. He wmay tack back and forth scross the oceans from sixteen to to sixty and never be able to find a meridian of longitude. He learcs 10 steer by tie compass, handle the sails if his ship has any, and patch his own clothing. He picks up a small amount, comparatively, of gun and torpedo knowledge, and aiter ke gets out of Lhe superannuated old schooiship into a modern vessel he dips alittle into the marvels of | electricity. And, after yearsof service, he can only possibly reach a warrant-officer’s rank—that is, boatswain, gunner or sailmaker, or carpenter, if he bas learned that trade et some navy-yard in connec- tion with his sea duties. As there are only about 150 of these billets in the whole service, and vacancies only occur at death, disebiiity or old sge, it may be easily seen how limited are the chances of the can- didate ever finding even that low-grade promotion. This is ail there is ix it for the naval apprentice, and who wonders THE NAVAL APPRENTICE. NAVAL officer on th's station attached to a training-ship was recently reported as saying that the apprentice system of the bim? Of course the quarterdeck wonders. Theadmlral, the commodore, the captain, the lieutenant, the en- sign, and even that other student of naval science, the cadet, is higher above him than the clouds that float over the royal trucks. The shoulder straps and gold lace will never adorn his peajacket. His name will never blaze with a special' flame on the bulletins ot war. He will only be a part of the gear of the guns when battle burnsaloug the smoky deep. It is not intended to speak lightly of the bluejacket’s ealling. Se: victorics have been won by the nameless men who worked the bat- teries along the bloody decks. Nor would we disparage the officer fighting and dying with his erew when the billows closed on hisshat- tered ship. They were bo h American sailors, and the flag of the Great Republic waves over the sea because they placed it there. Why should not ihe naval apgrentice as wei! as the naval cadet be given the same opportunities of rank advancement? The records show that the volunteer officer was not behind the graduate of West | Point or Annapolis when the army and navy of the country played at real war. In the soldier arm of the nation’s defenders the serzeant | and the corporal may step irom the ranks into a lieutenant’s uniform. Aman {sno worse a commander from having learned to be com- manded. Napoicon made marshals out of grenadiers and they helped him conquer kings. The head of the navy is a civilian and the chief of the army is a voluuteer. When a similar system of advancement obtains in the cruiser as well as in the barracks, when the training-ship boy can look forward to the duy of his promotion, to shoulder-straps and gold lace, the ol- ficer-writer may not deplore the decadence ot the sailor appren tice. Tne simple plan of turning a naval apprentice into a navalcadet may not, and probxbly will not, fill the biliet with bétter ofiicers, but it will fill the snips with better sailors, and this bit of an idea is worthy of consideration by the navy essayists of this day and generation. APHORISMS OF TENNYESON, From ‘Life of Lord Tennyson.” True progress is gradation. Hope 15 the kiss of the future. Educa tion, as we call education, would have spoiled John Bright. Every agitator should be made to prove his means of livelihood. Itis the suthors, more than the diplomats, who maxe nations love one another. In a war, we English do not listen to arguments until we are vic- torious, Evil must come upon us headlong if morality tries to get on with. out resigion. Writing to order is what I hate. They think & poet can write poems to order as & bootmaker makes boots. . I dread the losing hold of forms. There must be forms, yet I hate the need for 5o many sects and separate services. To decry one original poet in order to magnify another is like despising an oak tree because you prefer a beech, and almost as sen- sible. Vice sometimes appeers 10 me as the shadow of idleness. Ido not feel horror when Isee sin and misery, but shame for the sake of God. All the magazines and daily newspapers which pounce upon everything they can get hold of demoralize literature. This age gives an author no time to mature his works. The higher moral imagination enslaved to sense is like an eagle caught by the feet in asnare, baited with carrion, so that it cannot use 11s wings to soar. The report that I dislike Americans is whoily without foundation, though itis true that I have protested against the manner in which some of the American publishers have pilfered my work. The power of practical creation seems to be utterly ignored now. This modern realism is hateful and destroys all poetry. No man with an imagination can be tied down for his ideal. FREE TRADE I|> SELFISHNESS, New York Press. An interesting light on the Dingley law isshed by the letters from free-trade importers in otherwise dull trade popers. They kick with- out an effort at justification, merely because they have 10 pay a tiny percentage of tueir big profits to the country that supports them. Of patriotism, sense of justice or fuiroess or even sense ol gratitude to the 'nl\em of government that makes their existence possible there is not a sign. . l NONE IN AMERICA, Chileago 1imes-Herald. A Toronto gentleman explains in a current review just “what the British possessions in America wonld do in the event of rols war between England and the United States.’’ It wo\l?dpbe :wfi; | Farmers' Institute. FPERSONAL. J. Trengrove of Antioch is at the Cosmopoli- tan, J. A. Muir, a aruggist from Los Angeles, 18 at the Palace. Miss S. Holthe of Merced is staying at the opolitan. Col-i‘::ui Lyon of the United States navyis at the Occideutal. J. C. Bull, a contractor of Arcata, is a guest at the Lick House, Edward Cahill of Elmira, N. Y., s visiting friends in the clty. L. E. Cross, a physician of Stockton, is mgis- tered at the Grand. J.M. Day, a Los Angeles mining mar, s a guest at the Grand. Lieutenant J. D. Bryan of the U. 8 8. Rush is at the California. T. W. Bullock, a Chicago merchant is a guest at the Paiace. W: W. Chapin, & Sacramento merchatt, isa guestat the Palace. Judge George E. Williams of UnionIsland is a guest at the Lick. Richard Garvey, 8 mining man of bs An. Reles, is at the Palace. J. A. Cann, paymaster in the nav, is a guest at the California. H. E. Picket, a Placerville mining 1an, is registered at the Grand. W. P. Singer, a merchant from Chi¢go, is registered at the Palacs. J. P. Lewis and wife of San Jose ar regis tered at the Cosmopolitan. W. E. Dun of Stockton is amonghe rivals of the Cosmopolitan. Professor E. H. Griggs of Leland Snferd University is at the Palace. W. E. Edmonson, chaplain in the "nited States navy, is at the Grand. John Thormann, & wealthy vineyarist of St. Helenas, is at the Grand. R. B. Oullahan, an insurance man ofStock« tor, is a guest at the Grand. H. R. Stephens, a prominent mercint of Exeter, isregistered at the Lick. John C. Fisher, Collector of Port, iiregise tered at the Palace from San Diego. Mrs. G. G. Briggs, owner of a large rich at Davisvilie, is registered at the Lick Hose. Mrs. J. B. Baker of Merced, who is Ire for her heaith, is a guest of the Cosmopolin. P. B. Fraser, presidentof the Merchais’ and Farmers' Baok of Stockton, is at the Pace. H. W. Patton, a well-known newspayr man and politician from Los Angeles, ist the Palace. & B. Ricaby, business manager « the “Corinne Company,” is registered i the Baldwin. Charles Weatherwax, secretary of & El Dorado County Miners’ Association, is; the Russ House. Thomas Clark, president of the El Jrade County Miners’ Association, has headqtrters at the Grand Hotel. Thomas Clark of Placerville and Dr. Jack- son of Hangtown are among the mininmen registered at the Grand. E. 8. Sullivan, manager of the Standd Oil Company at Los Angeles, is in the cit He will remain here for ten days. Raleigh Barcar is registered at thdLick irom Vacaville, He is an attorney, amalso one of the Commissioners of the State kane Asylum at Napa. J. A. Fillmore, general manager ol the Southern Pacific, is expected to reach pbme to-day from a three weeks' business 1 to New York and other Eastern points. C. 8. Cotton Jr. and wife, of Seattle, arejerc on their wedding tour. They are gues|at the Calitornia. Mr. Cotton is & son of lap- tain Cotton of the U. S. & Philadelphia. W. H. Milis of the Cential Pacific Railmi returned yesterday morning ‘rom Santa Res, where he delivered two addresses b:fore 3 He was much impresel wilh the besuty and fertility of that portin of the State. Perry P. Bonham, wife and daughter, of Pasadens, are in the city for a few days, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Lake. Mr. Bonham a prominent business man of Pasadena. He and his family are returning from a vacation at Lake Tahoe. CALIFORNIAN . IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 16.—At the Plaza— J. Bond; Manhatiaa—Mrs. Currey, L. J. Emery, Mrs. J. Heeht, Miss Hecht; Windsor— T. Hart, G. Drysdale; Park Avenue—Misses Lowry: Imperial—S. H. Salmo, J. Steinberger; Hoffman—A. Adelsdorfer; Netherland—Miss F. Dean; Vendome—O. Lippitt. A. H. May left the Plaza and sailed on the Campania for Liverpool. J. D. Langworthy of San Diego glso sailed for Liverpool. FLASHE-> OF FUN. “Why did you discharge Darrow? Didn't he do his work satistactorily?” ““Oh, yes, he aitended to business all right, but my typewriter got to thinking the blamed fool was the best-looking man in this town.”— Cleveland Leader. Miss Vanderwhack—Now, will you listen to me while I tell you the plain truth, Chollie? Chollie Fiveociock—I'm all ears, Miss Vane derwhnack. Miss Vanderwhack—That's just what I was gOIng to say, only 1 was going to put it differ. ently.—Town Topies. —_— H. BLACK, pamter, 120 Eddy straes. ——————— CavLIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ 1b. Townsend’s ———————— EpEciAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Pres Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery, * ———— The villain—Egletts was placed under ar« Test last night as ne was leaving the stage. The heroine—What was the charge? 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