The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 22, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22 6(;17'70BNR 22, 1897 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propriztor. Addr s All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE ... .. 10 Market street, San Francisco Telephone Maia 1563, EDITORIAL ROOMS ...517 Clay street 4. THE SAN FRAN carriers i By mail $6 pe CO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by city nud sur cunding towns for 15 cents a week. ver month 65 cents, year; THE Wi LY CALL. .Oue yeir, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE. ..., o:eioeii e otz ion - Wb . 00 908 Broadw:y NEW YORK OFFIC Roowms 31 2 g 34 Park Row. Montgomery street, corner Cla; Harves sirect; n until 9:30 o’cloc ii9o'clock. 2518 Mission stroet; 143 Ninth street; open until 9 o'cleck. 9:50 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty open until open unul 9:3) o'clock. 615 SW. coruer Sixteenth and open THE CITY HALL PARK COMMITTEE ROMPT action has been taken upon the much approved suggestion of J. B. Reiustein that a committee be appointed to devise ways and means for recovering for park purposes the lots lying between the City Hall and Market street. On Monday the Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution requests ing the Mayor to appoint such a committee, and the Mayor lost no time 1n complying with the request. tee chosen is in every respect a good one. It B. Reinstein, Irving M. Scott, Claus Spreckels, F. W. Dotrmann, Dr. W. F. MeNutt, L. R. Bunker, R. J. Tobin ani A. B. Maguire. The tave tne confidence of the pablic from the start. No one will suspect these ceatlemen of “‘putting up a job,” nor will any one question their ability to arrange terms that will be fair both 1o the people and to the present cwners, Wwho. whatever may be the legal quaiity of their tities, bought the property overlooked. The comm consists of Ernest Eller:, W. committes 3 Denick M. in good faith aud have cquities that cannot be With the appointnient of this commiitee we may consider the first important preliminary step in the enterprise has teen well and satistactorily taken. The movement is now intrusted sagacity and piblic spirit, To most of them, if not to all, it will be a labor of love to serve the public interest in the promotion of a work of the kind provosed, and they may be counted on to devise some means by which the desired improvement can be made without 100 great a cost or too much del 1o the hands of men of energy, The readiness with which the people Ihave responded in favor of providing a suituble park for the City Hall attests the good judgmentof the Grand Jury in bringing the issue before the pub.ic at this time. The approval of the pian has been almost unanimous. THE CALL has made an exiensive canvass of public sentiment on the subject, giving a fair bearing to both sides, and the voices in favor of the project have far out- numbered those opposed to it. As a matter of fact the demand for the park is almost universal, and it is certain that many Wwho now oppose it because they iear it will cost too much will advocate it if there can be devised tor obtaining ita plan at once speedy and economical. Now thata committee has been appointei to investigate the subject thorou:nly and make areport upon it the move- ment may be said to havs entered upon a new phuse. I¢ has been discussed hitherto as a general proposition Now we shall have to consider details ana defizite terms. If ihese can be made sausfactory 10 the public we may reasonably count upon see.ng restored to the city a park which should never have been alienated, and we rely upon the commitiee to make tnem so. Two children in the southern part of the State Lave just been divorced after a marital experience of three years. Of course this outcome is to be expected when kids are permitted to take upon themselves obligations of which they know no more than a chickadee does of astronomy. But in this parti- cular instance there are some parents, who seem to have given consent to the wedding, and youngsters with so littie chance of inheriting good sense are, perbaps, not to be too greatly blamed. A man who bas been arrested on the charge of passing bo- gus checks expresses surprise that nobody hastens to his rescne with & good and sufficient bond. He has, bowever, no real cause for anything approaching indignation. Several men who were not even suspected of b2ing crooked have caused their confiding friends a lot of trouble merely by getting them on a bond. Besides, the straw-bail business is Just now at a low ebb the straw having been thoroughly threshed. d The rumor that 100,000 voters are to be purchased for Tracy in New York at the rate of $20 aplece does not impress us as truth. In the first place a voter who can be bought for the sum mentioned can easily be bought for a tenth part of the amount; and though the Eastern politician may occa- sionally expend a little money he would regard the waste of the extra $18 as an abrolute wickedness, From the inner room where sit in august seclusion the grave and decorcus gentlemen composing the Police Commis- sion there floats a painful rumor that Gunst and Lees still re- gard each other with that cold and haughty glance known vul- garly as the glassy eye. Is it possible, as already surmised, that Gunst is dissatisfied with Lees because the detectives have failed to ferret out the gamblers? Secretary of War Alger is almost too cautious in relation to San Pedro. His fear that the people of California may secure 8 harbor there is not based on an intimate knowledge of the situation. And his apparent belief that they do not want such 8 harbor is due to an entire misapprenension of the facts. Mr. Huntington is not the peopls of California. The more that is kuown about San Quentin, the more the wonder grows thai now and then a convict tries to break out. The natural impulse would seem to be for him, having had ex- perience of the luxurious life afforded there, to make a wild effort 10 break in. Itall accounts of the conduct of State asylums are true the necessity of transferring some of the officials from those insti- tutions to others, where they will have no responsibility be- yond pounding a driil or running a jute loom, will be clear. There seems to be a fad just now for beating hotels. The indiscretion invelved is considerable, for the landlord is the one person who has been able to huve the criminal law made an in- strument by which he can collect an honest debt. Only nine weeks were consumed by a Chicago jury in ascer- taining that Luetgert was either guilty or inmocent and thac they didn’t know which. The beauty and utility of the jury system continue to be impressive, Some cof the office-holders who think they cannot be re- moved ‘‘at pleasure’ may perhaps do so on the ground that the process of removal is one that does not involye any such emo- tion. 1f Weyler persists in his determination not to resign, the simple expedient of backing him against a brick wall ana fifl- ing him full of lead suggests itself as pracrical and pleasing. The Boston professor who went abroad and won a Countess &nd a fortune is to be commended for having put the law of reci- procity into practical effect. Senator Wolcott does not seem to have accomplished any- thing for silver, but all accounts agree that he has had a rat- tling good time. The young man who steals money to gamble with and suc- ceeds in declaring a dividend has yet to go into the business, | those rights. the Mission-street newspaper drab, which loudly claims at all | ! AN APPEAL TO JUSTICE. ‘ HE memorial of the native Hawaiians is an appeal to the Tcnnstience of the civilized world. Whether we wish it so or not, it puts the United States on trial in the high tri- bunal of national morals. lts statement of the case of a people who love their birthright rises in dignity and pathos to the plane heretofore occupied alone by our Declaration of lnf]c- | pendence. It pierces the pretense and exposes the hypocrisy | of the Dole oligarchy as pitilessly and as truthfully as the pen of Jefferson did the colonial policy of George 11 Adopting the noble rietoric of understatement, it needs no invective, and uses none, to make the blood tingle in the veins | of every lover of fair play and justice. It presents annexation as at present proposed as acquisi- tion by conquest and not the agreeable assimilation of two peoples by a peacdful submission of sovereignty. Having | been the victims of conquest, deprived of all civil and po'itical rights, in effect made prisoners of state on their own soil, it is | proposed now to hold them in such subjection by force while | the sovereigniy of their country and their birthrights therein are traded off by conspiritors. For seven hundred years, since the days of Strongbow, Ire- land has impressed the world by her protest against a domina- tion she regards as foreign and the imposition of a sovereignty without her assent. She has raised up enemies for England in every modern nation, and is now able to serious!y threaten the integrity of the Biitish empire. Yet England appeared in Ire- land as an invited military assistant in a faction fight, and from that foothold took final sovereignty. The Irish are a virile race, resentful and patriotic. The Hawaiians are tropical, amiable, physically non-resistant. These qualities we call weakness and against them propose to put our power and en- terprise. But when we do it we inseminate the world with in- credulity of our professions in favor of the rights of man and estop ourselves from protest against the invasion anywhere of We have arraigned Spain in her Cuban policy, have de- | manded that she submit to the will of the majority in that island and by withdrawal of her military forces leave that| majority to select the form of domestic government best suited to them. Yet no appeal by the Cuban junta, nor expression of Cuban purpose and patriotism by Ethan Allen, or even Scnalor} Morgan, has equalad in power of statement, in impression upon the conscience of men, that voice uttered by Hawaiians in support of their birthright. The United States will present a fine spectacle parading through Europe as a champion of the majority in Cuba, and at the same time deaf to the voice of the majority in Hawaii. The natives in this memorial present an alternative which the American people cannot safely ignore. When they offer to | submit annexation to the whole body of electors, including all who had the suffrage under the constitution of 1887, and agres to abide in good faith by the result, they put us in the position where we cannat proceed with the matter along the lines laid down by Senator Morgan. If w2 do we walk into infamy and carry upon us the stench of an outrage unequaled in history. DUTY OF THE COMMITTEES. T is d'fficult to ascertain from the published reports of their utterances exactly on what ground the so-called “reform’ factionlsts in the Democratic County Committee oppose the nomination of a non-partisan board of freeholders. It is true times to represent them, has launched a gauzy story to the ef- fect that several of the local political bosses have formed a | combine for the purpose oi controlling the selection of free- holders and through them the making of the charter; but its accounts of the arrangement are upon their face imaginary and plainly the result of an understanding among the “reformers.” | Mayor Fhelan’s Committee of One Hundred will in a few days finish the coarier upon which it 1s now working. Having | been developed in the office of the Mission-street boodler that instrument will probably, when completed, contain all the pro- visions necessary to give that journal and its following of polit- | ical jobbers control for some time to come of the city treasury and the municipal patronage. Therefore it is plain that the ; purpose of this newspager manmpulator is to prevent non-parti- | san action in order that a Board of Frecholders may be nom- | inated wio, in the event of their election, will accept the char- ter framed by Mayor Phelan’s crowd of eminent “reformers.” The motive is one of control and, as usual, an attempt is being | made by beating the air and crying *‘Step, thief!”’ to obscure the issue and carry the day. Bat, while this is all as plain as a pikestaff, it is not easy to determine the ground on which the sincere members of the Democratic County Committee—those members who are usually | averse to pulling the chestnuts of blackmailing newspapers out | of the fire—oppose the selection of non-partisan freebolders Surely a municipal charter should never be the subjectof a political fight. Such an instrument is intended to provide the city with a scheme of government, and 1t is expected 10 last, perhaps, for ages. Not only should newspaper bosses be forced to keep their hands off a charter convention, but the political | bosses also may well be asked to assist the people in securinga | charter acceptable to al! cla.ses. The proposition to force a Phelan charter, or the charter of any packed committee, upon the voters, is bossism in its worst forms. It is something that cannot and will not be tolerated. If any such scheme succeeds the charter proposed will have to be defeated at the polls. On the other hand, therearea thousand weighty reasons for non-partisan action, not the least of which is the fact thata non-poliiical board of freeholders comvosed of capable men of character would command the confilence of the voters. Char- ters, 1o some extent, must be iaken on trust. And it is safe to say that a cook=d-up instrument representing the interests of a political faction would stand no chance whatever of adoption. The Republican and Democratic County Committees, in the interest of the public, should take this matter up. They can render no more important service to the cily at the present juncture than by nominating a Board of Freeholders which shall, in equal parts, represent the best elements in their re- spective parties. Beyond doubt such a board would be chosen at the election to be held on December 27, even though the Phelan reformers should run an opposition set of candidates and continue their present attempt to throw dust in the eyes of the public by shouting “stop thief.” Texas takes a just ality, but even so ad- mirable a quality as this may be carried to an unpleasant ex- treme. For instance, when the Lone Star State finds itself in possession of some promising cases of yellow fever and tries to unload them upon California, tbere is no dount that the spirit of generosity is being permitted torunaway. The yellow fever germ from Texas should be stopped at the border. ‘While prison reform is being discussed, always with the idea of making life within prison walls more pleasing, it is worth considering that almost every day men are commitung crime for no other purpose than to be sent 10 the penitentiary. The reform which is needed is evidently one which will have Do tendency to strengthen the present marked resemblance between a convict’s life and a picnic. Lily Langtry’s thoughtfulness in withdrawing her horses from the turf just now when they have been winning will prove to the scoffing that the lady has s heart, something concerning which there had been a serious doubt. Itoniy remains to be demonstrated whether the move is due to grief or to a sense of gratitude, The unvelling of a monument at Weisbaden to the father of the Kaiser was notable for one thing above all others. The Kaiser was there and did not make a speech; neither does the report of the affair say aoything about his not feeling well. PERSONAL. | Dr. Clarence Miner of Fresno is registered at the Lick. L. M. Lasell, the Martinez merchant, is at the Grand. J. J. Morey, & banker of Watsonville, is at the Grand. Jeseph Goldman, a merchant of Merced, is | 8t the Grand. M. J. Curtin of Sonora is registered at the Cosmopolitan. A. H. Bar of the Denny Bar Company of Etns is at the Giand. N. View, & prominent rancher of Dixon, is at the Cosmopolitan. Captain H. E. Boyes of Agus Rica Hot Springs is at the Lick. Philip Sweed, a merchant of Petalums, is visiting at the Grand. F. D. Cobb, & Stockton merchant, is st the | Baldwin with Mrs. Cobb. H Ruleigh Barcar, the newspaper proprietor of | Vacavilie, is staying at the Lick. | J. F. Parkinson, the lumber merchant of 0 Alto, is staying at the Grand. T. W. Sheehat Journalist ot Sacramento, is eamong the late arrivals at the Occidental. Ernest Bluck of New York,a jeweler of Maiden Lane, is a late arrival at the Palace. Joseph C. Hopper of Kennett, Shasta County, merchant and mining man, bus & room at the Grand. E. W. Conant, a merchant of Eureka, accom- panied by Mrs. Conant, arrived at the Bald- win yesterday. Mrs. Morris Newton, accompanied by her family, arrived at the Palace yesterday from her Calistoga home. Lieutenant and Mrs. Dion Williams are at the Palace. Lieutenant Williams is connected with the marine corps. Sheldon Jackson, late missionary in Alaska, Who recently returned here from Seattie, isa guest at the Palace. He is lecturing in this city. Miss Alice Deming of Sacramento returned yesterday irom Ausiralia, where she has been visiting 1or the past six months in the col- onfes. Medical Director John G. Wise, fleet sur- geon of the Pacific squadron, with head- quarters on the Baltimore,isa guestat the Caiifornia. J. B. Tully of Nevada City, on his way home from Hillsborough, New Mexico, where he has charge of a mive, arrived at the Grand yesterday. Mrs. Fraser and Miss Fraser of Stockton, wife and daughter of the president of the Farm- ers’ and Merchants’ Bank, are guests at the Occidental, Mrs. E. J. Champerlain of Eureka, a literary woman prominent in the Order of Eastern Star and among Good Templars, arrived yes- terday at the Grand. Captain John Irving, manager of the Cana- dian Paciric Navigation Company,whose home Is iu Vicioria, B. C., is & guest at the Palace, accompanied by Mrs. Irving. Edward Chambers ot Los Angeles, general freight agent of the Southern California and Santa Fe Pacific roads, departed last night for home after a week’s stay here. E H. Davis of Chicago, manager of the Sauta Fe fruit and refrigerator line, who came here with ihe other officials of the Santa Fe system about a week ago, departed last night for Chicago. H. Burrell, proprietor of the Australian, a big weekiy pubiication of Melbourne, Aus- traits, arrived here yesterday in the steam- ship Australia for a visit. He is secompanied by Mrs. Burrell and has apartments at the Occidental, Frank Simpson, the Boston capitalist, and his traveling companion, John F. Hooper,who arrived at the Palace from the East Wednes- day night, intending 1o sail for the Orient in the China yesierday, missed the boat and are still in town. C. A. Storke, the Santa Barbara lawyer and ex-Assemblyman, is up from the south on business connected with the adjustment of the estate of the Inte Alexander More, and inciden- tally on & visit to his son, a student at Stan- ford Umiversity. Mr. Storke is a guestat the Grand. Miss Consuelo Howard, daughter of Captain Howard, superintendent of the Oceanic Steam- suip Dock, returned to her home here yester- day, after making the round telp to Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii in the steamship Acsiralia, the officers of which combined in meking the voyage especlally delightful to her. James Fairweather of Sydney, Australls, an emissary from the colony of Vicioria on his to Scotland te arrange for the purchase of alarge dredger, was a passenger here yester- day in the Australia. He isat the Occidental and will spend a few days looking about here 10 see {f such a dredger as he wanis may be obtained in Sin Francisco. J. A. Wauchope, a mining man of Auckland, New Zealana, ved here yesterday, accom- panind by Mrs. Wauchope. He will examine California mines and later those of the Klon- dike reglon for the purpose of reporting on them., Wauchope is & nephew of the Earl of Glasgow. He will leave here Sumday for couver. Atpresentheis & guest st tne California. Among the arrivals here yesterday in the steamship Ausiralia were several Stockton society people, who have returned from s visit to Hawail. Miss Peters, daughter of Captain J. D. Peters, after whom one of the river steamers is named; Miss Julia Wcbber, daughter of Captain Webber, after whom another river steamer is named, and Miss Fannie Millar. Frank Coffee, proprietor of the Oceanic Pub- lishing Compauy of Sydney, one of the biggest coucerns of its kind in Australia, arrivea here yesterday and is a guest at the Occidental. He has been personally instrumental in having over 1000 varietics of California trees imiro- duced into Australia, and is here partly to encourage further exporiation of fruit trees from this Siate to the colonfes. H. Gordon, late mining engineer for the Government of New Zealand and now en- gincer at a salary of over $12,000 a year for the Anglo-Contiaental miniug syudicaie, an English concern, with a capital of $10,000,000, arrived here yesterday from New Zealand and is at the Palace. He will visit Cripple Creek and may look to the Klondike districts in the interests of the syndicate he represents. Alfred Shepherd of Edinburgh, Scotland, a barrister who went to Austrulia to adjust the Miidura estate, wnich was in a complicated condition, and several other large estates, re- turned y esterday from Sydney, accompanied by Mrs. Shepherd. They are at the Palace, but will shortiy resume their homeward journey. Mr. Shepherd was sent out by a pig Scottish syndicate, and while in Ausiralia organized for his principals toe Assets Redlization Com- pauy, which has nearly $40,000,000 behind it. Mrs. McLemore, wife ot Lieutenant McLe- more, U. 8. N nd Mrs. Winternalter, wife of Lieutenant Winterbalter, U. 8. N., arrived here yesterday from Houo:ulu, following their husbands, who came here in the Philadelphia recently, but have since their arrival been transferred 10 the Baltimore, which will leave here Monday or Tuesday for Honolulu. They went aboard the Baltimore to visit their hus- bands. Mrs. Winterhalier was formerly Helen Devaurex, the actress, known in the theatrical world as the ““California Diamond.” CALIFORNIAN . IN NeW YORK. NEW YORK, Oct. 21. — At the Murray Hili—y. P. Newman, Mrs. Newman. Grand Union—D. Hughes, Miss Hughes. Everett—M. Huatington, Mrs H. E. Huntingtos, Miss Huntington. Imperial—J. Steinberger. Hol- land—A. A. Wigmore. Stuart—F. B. O'Brien, —_— INSANITY IN PRUSSIA. Famtly Doctor. The steady incresse of insanity in England bas long been attracting attention, but it seems from a recent German official return that in this respect Prussia is not s whit be- hind us, if, indeed, it is not tending to fill its lunatic asylums ata more rapid rate than this In 1871 the total namber of lunatics in Prossia was 55,063, in 1830 it had risen 1o Has the royal gentleman tumbled at last? | 66,345, while 11 1896 it had gove up to 8;).93:. : It h\:l cuhriu\ll.y interesting tc note It is pleasing to read that a battle-ship of the new navy has :,’.‘;" T g g g :xm:;‘u':““’n"l"“; managed to smash a few small craft. Notthatanybody wished | among women. Of 100,000 Prussiun males it seem- 278 are found insane, but in alike num- the little boats hard luck, but it has become so customary for every naval vessel that gets into a mix-up to get the worst of it that a change is really refreshing, 1 ber of women only 243. From figures giv in the same returi it would seem that biind- ness is diminishing, whil deat- muies is xll‘l,u’l MQ. s WEAR DIAMONDS ON FINGER NAILS. “With rines on her fingers and bells on her market, but the fashion of wearingrings on her finger naiis was left for the fin de siecle younx |° toes,” 1s an oid way for fair woman to go to woman of 1897 to insugurate, the Chicago Times-Herald says. There are no: many young women as yet, it is true, whose desire to show how unsullied by toil their hands are has led them to put diamonds at their finger tips, but every now and thea one sees & girl on the streetcar or in a fashfoneble store who acts seli-consciously and keeps her ungioved fingers half inclosed in their palms. Watch her closely. First thing you know she will wave her hand and little sparkles of light will rush out at you. Then if you smile and ke a remark to your companion you will see the fair lady hurriedly hide her finger tips again and be thoroughly unsuccessful in her attempt to appear unconcerned. Fioger-nuil jewclry is about the latest thing that manufacturers of gemmed novelties have brought out. o There are both rings and pendamts, and they are made in quite a number of forms, but all of them hava just as light a setting as is consistent with the safe fastening of the stones. The pendants most affected consist of nected by fine gold chains instead of by solid bars. two or three small stones, sei tandem, and con- That makes them less awkward to the wearer and also more effective when they are flashed. The jewels are attached to the nails by a screw arrangement such as is often used for dia- mond earrings. perforating them, and that is an operation The nails do not have to be especially long, but great care must be taken in which is usually left to a manicure. New holes must be made every week or two, and the more common practice is to transfer the gems from one finger to another whenever & new Lole must be made. When rings are used instead of pendants they are usually only about hall the diameter of the ordinary finger ring and are studded all around with very small stones. FLASHES OF FUN, Agent—Can’t T sell you & card of patent pants butions ? Miss Ancient (indignantly)—Sir, Tam asingle lady, and— Agent—Al, madam, I can’t believe thata lady of your attractions could possibly be single. Ivsashrewd way of yours to get rid of me. Miss Ancient (simpering)—T'll take a dozen cards.—Judge. 01d Gotrox—Am I, with all my millions, too old for you? Miss Mabei—Oh, no. sible.—Lie. Grandpa—Don’t get scared, Willie; the tiger is about to be fed; that’s what makes him jump up aud rosr so. Willie (easily)—Oh, I ain't grand ain’t ready.—Tit-Bits. That would be impos- “What T want,” said the man who was talk- ing about taxing a flat, “‘is some place where the rooms are big enough for me to turn round in.” “Certainly,” relied the sgent *Toat can be easily arrauged, as you are not an un- usually large man. Stand up, please, and let me get your exact measurements.”’—Washing- ton Star. Visitor—You don’t mean to tell me that you have lived in this out-of-the-way place for fifteen years ? Citizen—I have, for a certainty. Visitor—1I'm surprised. I can’t see wnat you can find here to keep you busy. Citizen—Neither can I That's why I like it—Richmond Despatch. Kodak—1I succeeded in developing a splendid | negative in a strong light vesterday. Lens—How did you manage it ? Kodak—Asked Miss Richleigh to marry me,— Chicago News. Only a banch of vi Lightly tossed away, Or picked to pleces a1d s'rewn upow Tise floor of the hired coupe. Ouly a couple of hours 12 sort of celesial bllss, And I'il nave to eat free lunches for A month, on account of this. —Cnicago News. “I have noticed,” said the Cheerful Idiot, “that a man takes much more satisfaction in the knowledge that he has made an ass of himseli than he does in knowing that others have made a monkey of him.”—Indianapolis Journal. WHEN 1 AM D=z=AD. No tears for me! Weep I you will For souls that are {n bon iage still: When from this prison-house set free— No tears for me! No flowers for me! ¥or bridal bowers, For youth and beauty kevp your flowers, To giadden life these fair things be: No flowers for me! No weeds for me! Nay, rather wear The garments that [ deeny’d most fair And say and tashion’d fivtiugly: No weeds for me! Ko stone for me! Only to rest With the green turf upon my breast— Graven on yonr heart my name will be. THE WRONGED HAWAIIANS, Dixon Tribune “Might does not make right” 1san axiom that has been repeatedly demonsirated in the history of nations, and it seems strauge that its truth must be forced upon a country like ours which hus suffered so much in the past. If we cannot undo the wroug that has alresdy been done, let us atleest add nomore to the shi of so-callcd liberty-loving Americans eave the waiians to themselves. SUBJECT FORGRAVE DISCUSSION Los Angeles Herald. The subject of annexation has not been suf- ficienily aired before the people of this coun- try. Itsnould be more thoioughly diseussed before the treaty now pending betore the senate is acted on. It s & question of the greatest gravity, and sympathy with the few Americans on the isi s should not over- come sober judgment. The stepof snnexation, when once taken, sannot be retraced. MOTIVES SINISTER AND SORDID. San Diego Union. The fact is that the more clearly the Ha- waiian annexation scheme is understood the more reason there appears to be for the sus. picion that it is & measure the controiling mo- tive of which is sinister, sordid and forbidding. This belief bas been steadily gaining of Iate, and it is not sirange that the advocates of annexation prefer bluster without figures. STEVENSON T«ir PIONEER. Pasadena News. A monument to Robert Louis Stevenson has been unveiled in Sau Fraucisco. There is an- other Stevenson whom San Francisco ought also 1o honor—Jonathan D. Stevenson of ‘Stevenson’s Regiment'’ fa: He is a part of Ban Francisco's history. He was also a dise tinguished Mason. and that order would be in- tezested in honoring his mewory, ratd of him, | papa’s the same way when his meals | | EROWN EYES. The sea comes solbing 1n10 the sands, Sweet brown eyes nud clover white: And high abov - rock and zleaming shors | he seagull screams io its flizhi; The south wind sings & loue, snd song, As be tamb es (he grasses over, its echoes 1iug in my yearmng heart, eet brown eyes and clover. “The summer Is dead,” is the south wind's song. ~weet brown eves and c.over white: The sunshine i1 pale, the moonshine dim, And the stars have a sickly lisht: From uplands mistiy and meadows gray | . Comesthe rest ess cry of the plo | The uight and the day to me are one, Sweet brown eyes ana clover. The years are many, (he years are long, Sweet brown eves and clover white In this gray old world there are few in love, rhere is usugh: that 18 zlad and b ight, And 1 yearn for & lane, with the wild rose in bloom, With the May winds murmaring over, Ang a face ihat T hol1 as (he dearesi of earth, Sweet brown eyes and clover. —Boston Post. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Dr. Frieda Lippert has been appointed physician of the new girls’ high school in New York. She will have the chair of physi- the young women. H. M. Stanley has accepted an invitation to be present on November 4 nextat the open- ing of the extension of the railroad to Bulu- wayo. Mr. Stanley leit England for Africa on October 9. The Knights of Pytnias have raised $12,000 for & monument to John F. Rathbone, the iounder of the order. It will be placed in New Forest Cemetery, Utica, the owners of the cemetery donating a plat of 10,000 feer, The Revue du Palais, the new French legal review, invited Tolstoi to defend his non-resist- ance principles in its columns. This he did stoutly, even to the point of maintaining that oneshoud not kill a robver, even if that were ibe sole means of preventing him from killing & child. J. St. Loe S'rachey, who has teen connected with the Loudon Spectator for some years as joint editor and joint proprietor with Mr. | Townsena, formerly held by Mr. Hutton. In consequence of thischange Mr. Strachey sev- ers his connection with the Cornhill Mag- azine. The youngest heir apparent in Europe is the infant son of Prince Ferdinand of Bul- | garia. Although he wiil not be 3 years old till next January,few children have been | more discussea than Prince Boris, for tne question of his religion has raised a greatdeal | ot feeling on the Continent, his mother being an ardent Roman Catholic, while the religion of the baby's iuture kingdom is Greek Orthodox. Harry Mayham Keator, captain of the Yale University baseball team lnst year, has ac- cepted & position in Wiilston Seminary, at Easthampton, Mass., as director of physical education and sssistant in science for the coming year. Mr. Keator was prepared for college at Willston, entering Yale in 1893, Caspar Whitney, in making his all-American college team, put Mr. Keator in center field and made him eaptain o “SIR WILFRID LAUFIER'S GUNS,” London Chronicle. There have been for some time past serious rumors, to which we ourselves hesitated to give currency, as to & notsble development | of Canadian armaments. Now the London correspondent of the Birmingham Post— whose information as to the Coionial Office is not likely to be altogether wrong— deciares that & new scheme of defenses has been matured for Monireal and the river below, and that Sir Wilirid Laurier has at once on his return set about buying heavy guns and field batieries. We are not surprised. The unhappy sostile aititude of the United States and the destruction of the arbi- tration treaty force the Government of this country to calculate dangers which are shocking to contempiate, and which we have hitherto been very willing to ignore. If by eny chance we jound ourselves threatened with wer in Amersica, there would be little doubt that the main idea of the authoriiles at Washington would b: a raid on Canada. Against such a risk the empire must be prepared. We sincereiy hope Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s guns will never have to be fired, but the Canadisn irontier is exactly one of those points where the best way of avoiding attack is to be ampliy ready for defense. — WE LEAD THE WORLD. New York 3ail and Express. In the s.ngle State of Massachusetts there are more than 1200 miles of electric railway, while in England, Scotland and Ireland com- bined there are only 200 miles, Moreover, nearly all the eleciric roads in the Britiy isiands have been built and equipped by American contractors. This countiry Kn led all others in the use of electric power for traction purposes, and the construction of similar roadways in other nations is con- ducted aimost exclusively in accordance with American models sud Weihods, | season 1n which rail, quail and d | hu ology, and also give attention to the needs of | | assistant editor, succeeds 1o the position of | ANSWERS TO CORRES PONDEN [S. Probabiy the giant was Sterop. GOAT ISLAND—A. 8., The nl:cizhl,“:; Goat Istand is 344 fect sbove the sea level. Jighthouse on Goat Isiand is 79 fcet above the sea level. Syow 1IN snow full in & runeisco on eil 1, 1881 or 1883. There was some top of Mount ixmalpaisa on the 1st of Janurry, 188: A Giaxt—L Z., Cit you want 10 Know abou AN ARCHITECT—A. R, San Jose, Cal The most practical wny for a young man to become an architect is to take lessons in architectural arawing aund then serve an spprenticeship under some firsi-cluss erchitect. A LAUNCH—Call Reader, Port Costa. Cal. To obiain a license to run a steam launch on the bay of San Francisco you shouid muke appii- chtion et the office of the Inspector of Stea { boats in the Appraisers’ buiid ng in San Fran- | elsco. ., City. So far as able to discover the may be an eo October 13 THE GAME S| this depurime ed has been shoriened only in The open season 38 iron to November 15. CIviL SERVICE—Call Rerder, City. A person wishing to take an examination efore any of the departments that are under the civil ey ice rulessiou d apply to the clerkt of the CIvil Service Commission in the depariment whic! he wishes (0 enter. YANKEE SULLIVAN—J. E. W., Pdsadena, Cal. Yenkee sullivan, a pugilist, whise neme was Frank Ambrose, but who was aiso kuown as Frauk Murray, committed suipide in_ the rooms of the Vigilance Commiliee in 1856 and was not hanged by that commiitee as ha: been claimed. LANDLORD AND TENA L., San Jose, Cal The law of the State of Californis says thatin all leases of lenements from mo= ih to month the landlord may, upon giviz notice in i £ piration of the month, change (he terms o the leass to commence at the end of the month. No WEIGHT TAKEN—I.S., La Gra-'ge, Cal. The weights of Corhett and Fitzsimm&ns were not taken when they entered the ring at Carson, Nev., March 17, 1897, or the resfon that the weights of heavy-weights are notfaken. Such fighiers may eater the ring at 154 pounds or over. From those who ciaim to ‘know it aps pears that just before the fignt Corbett weighed 180 pounds and Fitzsimmons 1734, TAPRORISM Ability is a poor man’s wealth.—M. Wren. A graceful and honorable old sge is the childhood of immortality.—Pindar. Every action of otr lives touches on some chora that will vibrate in eternity A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in iis lowest estate.—Sir P. Sidney. Every man is valued in this world as he shows by nis conduct that he wishes to be valued.—Bruyere. Noman can be provident of his time who is not prudent in the choice o his company.— Jeremy Tayior. Doing is the great thing. For if resolutely people do what Is right in time they come 10 like doing it.—Ruskin. Hearts may be attracted by assumed quali- ties, but the aff:ctions can oniy be fixea and retained by those that are real.—De Moy. Never forget whet & man has said to you when he wus angry. If he hsas charged you wiih anything you had better look it up.—H. W. Beecher. Itis continued temperance which sustaing the body for the longest period of time and which most surely preserves it iree {rom sick- ness.—W. Humboldt. Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not :usoluiely nim at something high or good vurpose 1s the eternal condition of suces Munger. TEETH FILLED WIi.H GLASS. Philadelphia Record. The latest use for zlass is instead of gold as a material for stopping decayed teeth. Itan- swers splendidly, and is far less conspicuous than the yeliow ‘metal. Of course it is not ordinary glass, but is prepured by some new patented process which renders it soft and malleable. Glass, too, is being extensively used for church’ bells. It can be toughened so that there is no risk of its cracking, aud the tone 18 said to b, beyond any yet inveated, perfect, soft, souorous. Tae color of this new bell glass is a deep, rich green. ng Townsend’s.* CALIFORNIA glace fruiis, 50¢ Ib. e o “Don’t go by fust impressio: said Uncle Even. *“Whah'd folks be now ef de man dat diskivered de oystuh hadn’t stopped ter pry open de shell?’—Wasbhingtoa Star. - GENUINE eyeglasses, specs, 15¢. 33 Fourth st® . EPECIAL information daiiy to manufacturers, business bouses and public men by the Press Cilpping bureau (Alien's), 510 Monigomery. * e PODEAN GOLD. Oaklia; Enquirer. California’s true Klondike is in Australia. Anotber steamer is on her wav up from the Antipodes. bringing 400.000 English sover- eigns or $2.000,000 1o San Francisco. This will make the tofalsnipmentsirom that source for the season $8,000,000. This is the kind of trade which couuls in making a country prosperous. ANTI “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth ers for their children while Teething with perfes: success. 1t toothes the child. softens the gums, ai lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrheeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure anl ask 10r Mrs. W inslow’s Sooth Syrup. 25canotiia et THE California Limited on the Santa Fe routa will bezin 18 third annual season on Monday, t'¢ tober 1he time of depariure is 4:30 p. um.{ from Market-street ferry. Equ pment consis s of standard Pullman epers, buff*t smoking-car and elegant dini , managed by Mr. Frea Harvey. a1d will have all the mo 'ern comforts, making it the most Juxurious service ever given between Califernia and the Fast. Reservations ou_this magnificent train made a: 644 Markes sirbet, Chronicle buildinz. g CORONADO.—Atmosphere s perfectly dry. sot and mild. being entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. iound-trip tickets, by steam. ship, lucluding fifteen days' board at the Hotel 13 Coronado, $60; longer stay §2 00 perday. Apps 4 Dew dlouigomery sireet. San Fraaclsco, or A, W. Baiiey, manager Hotel del Coronado, late of Hotel Colorado, Glenwood Springs, ¢ olorado. Guest — Garcon, heaveu. Garcon (very calm)—Funny! I thought it wl;sl the salmon of the gentleman at ihe next table. Second guest—Garcon, your trout isn’t as fresh as it wns the other day. Garcon—Must be; it 1s the same one.—! this partridge smells to & ————————————————————————— KEW 70-DAY —— If you cannct get beef, mutton will answer. You may choose between milk, water, coffee or tea, But there is no second choice for Scott’s Emulsion. It is Scott’s Emulsion or nothing. 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