The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 25, 1897, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 189 MONDAY... ...OCTOBER 25, 1897 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. 0 Market street, S8an Francisco Telephone Main 1863. PUBLICATION OFFICE EDITORIAL ROOMS ceeee0..017 Clay street 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surzounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 63 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL........ . One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE ..908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. .. BRANCH OFFICE! 9:30 o’clock. Roows 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. 527 Montgomery streat, corner Clay; open until Hayes street; open unul 9:30 o'clock. 613 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o’clock. SW, corner Sixteeath and Mission streets; open untii 9 o’clock. 18 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 143 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street; open untii 9:30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky sireets; open till 9 o'clock L week. Wheat suddenly raliied at the close in sympatby with an equally abrupt rise at Chicago, and this gave the whole cereal situation a much better aspect than it has worn of late. The course of the wheat market during the past four years has been an excellent object lesson in the predominating importance of this grain in relation to all other markets. It used to be said that cotton was king; now it appears that that woolly monarch has been dethroned by wheat. It isseen that the whole world of commerce ebbs and flows with wheat. When the cereal is up times are good, when it is down times are hard. In this country wheat and the tariff are twin governors of com- merce. When both are down we have a panic, and vice versa At present both are up, and the nation is doing more business than ever before in its history. The other local staples are 1n good condition as a rule. Pro- visions are lower, as the fever quarantine in the South bas cut off that important demand at the Western packing centers and left them with unexpected stocks on hand. Hops, wool and hides are firm, though the demand for the first siaple is poor at the moment. Beef is strong at the recent advance. Pork is steady. The situation in the East has undergone some change dur- ing the week. After the heaviest buying ever known in Sep- tember the aemand for many important staples has fallen off somewhat. This is not due to any slackening in trade itself, but to the necessary halt in purchasing in order that the pur- chased goods may be distributed. If these periods of relaxa- tion did not occur at intervals the markets would become con- gested, and overtrading wou!d exhibit itself in enormous stocks, a strained money market, and consequent paralysis in all branches of business. In this respect commerce is like the man. If, to employ the familiar and uncouth phrase, he bites off more than he can chew, he i¢ forced todisgorge or suffer the qualms of indigestion. Ia times of feverish speculation this often happens, and the unavoidable resultis a forced liquida- tion, which leaves a mass of wreckage in its wake. Bur it must nos be inferred from this that business is aull. Far from it. The bank clearings of the country last week showed a gain of 25.2 per cent over the same week last year, aud only one important city—Minneapolis—showed a loas. New Orleans, which has lost for some wesks owing to the fever quarantine, exhibits a gain of 17.2 per cent. The gain in San Francisco was 12.3 per cent. These clearings show that we are still leading 1896 by a large percentage. There is another reason for this falling off in the demand for merchandise. The usual auiumn wants have been supplied, and in some lines the winter stocks have been laid in. These lines will now ease off consideranly in voiume of trade until the spring demand sets in. Still another reason STOPPINC TO BREATHE. OCAL trade conditions were rather more unsettled last is that the Wesiern merchants overestimated the consumptive demand for | | are used for a lator supp fall goods, bought too heavily, and are now bolding aloof until they clear off their decks. Regarding the state of trade from the latter point of view it is gratifying to observe that notwithstanding this iull in pur- chasing on account of overbuying there is no evidence of finan- cial weakness anywhere. This is shown by the failures, whi were only 205 last week, against 292 during the corresponding | week a year ago, 259 in 1825 and 329 in the same weok 1n 1833 Were the merchants of the United States on any other thun a sound financisl basis the clearings would fall off under the car- rent conditions and the number of failures would increase. Changes in the industrial situation are not marked. Some lines of manufacture are fuliy as active as they bave been, while others are quieter. There is no decrease in the number of men employed, while wages are generally higher than they have been. The production of iron and steel, machinery, class, stoves, constructural work and woolen good continues heavy. In order to profit by the recent enormous call for iron many mills have started up and in spite of the great demand 1t is feared that the production will outrun the consumnption, and this is an unfavorable point in the outlook for this industry. The New York money market is rather easier, with a de- cline in the rates for call loans, and the tendency in the surplus reserve of the banks is toward an increase. In fact, mouney is in ample supply all over the country. e e The telegraph tells of a mother who, to amuse her babe, pointed a pistol at the child’'s head, playtully snapping the trigger, and of course blowing the head off the infant, “inno- cently,” as the dispatch naively adds, *taking its life.”” The habit of amusing a babe by killing it may be the climax of all that is innocent, and yet it would probably not strike the average observer this wa; THE COMMITTEE MEANS BUSINESS. ROMPTLY the committee appointed to devise ways and means for recovering for park purposes the lots between the City Hall and Market street has begun its work. This of course was expected. The members of the committee are business wen. It was known they would consider the recovery of the park as a business proposition and attend to it on that tasis. There was no surprise, therefore, in the gratifi- cation with which the people read in Tue CALL that the first meeting of the committee had been attended by all the members except one, unavoidably detained by other affairs, and that it had at once organized for the accomplishment of the task before it. San Francisco needs this park as an essential part of her municipal adornment, and the penple of San Francisco are eager to obtain it. Every citizen who bhas any feeling of civic patriotism or any sense of artistic aporopriateness recognizes the value of the proposed open space between our main thor- oughfare and our chief municipal building. To have soid the lots and made the Oity Hall site virtually a back street lot was a folly that becomes each year more wpparent and more irritating. The people have long revented of it and are now willing to atone for the blunder by buying the lots back sgain at a fair price, paying the holders what the vroperty is worth without questioning whether their title is sirictly legal or not. The committee will have very litile to do in the way of making a campaign of education on the subject. Public opin- ion is now almo<t unanimous in favor of the park. That mueh was clearly shown in the interviews published in Tug CALL at the time it made a canvass of representative men on the sub- ject when it was first broached by the Grand Jury. The chief task of the committee is to devise ways and means for recovering the lots ata cost which will not be ex- cessive. This work it is well fitted to perform. Its members are well acquainted with the values of land in the city, ana can be relied upon to devise and report a plan for obtaining the park on terms that will be fair both to the property-owners and the taxpayers. That atany rate is what the people look for, and with such competent ana energetic men to manage the business it will be some very serious difficulty indeed that will vrevent the realization of the popular expectation. 2 A THE ARGUMENT OF TYRANNY. PEAKING of the memorial which the Hawaiian people have addressed to the President, the Congress and the people of the United States, protesting against the pro- posed annexation of Hawaii to this country by treaty with the Dole Government, and demanding, in accordance with the Declaration of Independénce, that the people of Hawaii shall have a voice in determining the Government that shall rule over them, the Chronicle says: Questions about new territory have never been referred by our Government or any other to a vote of aboriginal natives. If that had not been the rule the greater part of America and all of Africa would now be uncivilized. As for the Kanakas, they do not know whatis best for them, least of all what is best for the United States and for progress, and so will have to be treated aboutaschildren are when they refuse to attend school. They must be gently but firmly put in the’right track. This is the argument George 111 used in his war against the American colonies ; it is the argument Spain is using now against Cubaj it is the argument Great Britain would have used against Venezuela had not the United States interposed and suggested arbitration. It is the argument of tyranny always. It has been used in every war of spoliation by a strong power against a weak one since the world began. Itis an argument the United States is destined not to maintain, but to overthrow. The people of Hawaii are not barbarians; they are not unfitted for self-government. They have for years maintained a Government of such just laws that Americans have gone there to live and to invest money. Itis a land of schools and churches, a land of free speech and newspapers. It s in vain we will seek to justify ourselves in our own minds if we im- pose upon such a people a Government without their consent. Only a despotic Government can justify to itself a despotic act of aggression, and the United States is not a despotism. The Declaration of Indepsndence, the constitution of the United States, the Gettysburg address—every sacred docu- ment of our history, declares against the wrong the Chronicle now advocates. To annex Hawaii without the consent of her people will be to stultify the past, stain the present and en- danger the future of our own great republic. Somebody traveling under the title of “Frizco Slim” is about to be tried for something or other at Chicago. That heis guilty is a fair presumption. To permit so pleasing a name as San Francisco to degenerate into *Frisco” and then carry it about the country is in itself a crime. We instruct the jury to bring in a verdict of very guilty indeed and to fix the penality at hanging. e — An army officer accused of cruelty to a soldier admits tha; he did everything with which he is charged, but contends that to draz a private by the heels is a legitimate part of military dis- cipline, If such views receive tha indorsement of the court, the crime of desertion wili come to be regarded asan evidence of manhood. There seems to be no occasion for alarm among streetcar employes because of the threat to discharge tnem if they fail to keep out of saloons or to refrain from gambling. To abide by this rule is not only possible, but people have been known to make such a rule themselves and live up to it without being burt a bit. Oi course now that a stage-robber has been killed the usual process of listing all the robberies within the memory of man and placing them to the credit of the deceased is under way. This saves a large amount of trouble, and neither hurts the reputation of the robber nor makes him any deader than he al- ready is. A CONSPIRACY AGAINST LABOR. E bave insisted that climatic and physical conditions Wcannot be ignored in discu sing the annexation of Hawaii. Anglo-Saxon ‘labor cannot be domesticated there. The conditions are tropical, and the production of the ds will decline unlessthe ropical races and their congeners isl On October 16, 1881 the San Francisco Chronicle in an editorially indorsed interview with Mr. Jameson, said of the importation of “blackbirds” from the South Sea Islands: “The inducements to the simple-minded peonle to cross the wide ocean into a horrible term of servitude are the same as tian pioneers, time out of mind, have offered to the unin- formed varbarian, to wit: waisky and glass beads and other glittering trinkets of corresponding value. The leading missiona M the vanguard and buttress of true religion in the kingdom * * * employ slave drivers who correspond to the ‘Simon Legrees’ of the Southern Sta: work consists of hoeing around the sugar cane, stripping it of certain leaves that it may ripen and of cutting it when it has ripened, It isthe most monotonous and laborious of work.” As to the climatic conditions under which labor is carried on, the Chronicle did not leave us in the dark. The Burean of American Republics, in its annexation pamphlet just issued at Washington, says: “On the isiand of Maui there isa large area of splendid coff-e land. * * * Maui is also & very fine island, besides its coffee lands having sugar plantations, The slopes of the main mountain of Mani are covered with small farms where are raised potatoes, corn, beans and pigs. Again, here are thousands of acres lying fallow.”’ Buton October 28, 1881, the Chronicle said: ‘‘Maui is de- void of trees, being a dry, red a0l which pulverizes readily, and as » breeze is always biowing over the isiand the dust flies in such clouds that the Kanaka and Chinese field hands have 1o wear thick veils covering their necks and faces, No whie man pretends to work in the fields. The heat is overpowerinz and the dust would soon blind him aad so irritate his luugs and air passages as to create a constant and destructive coagh. Added to all this is the lack of water fit for hum@an use. The water bas to be hauled in casksa distance of nine to twenty miles from Wirluka for the use of overseers and superintend . ents, and the field hands bave to drink the warm and very dirty water that is brought from the mountains for irrigating. Every man who is at work on the Sandwich Islands under con- tract has been shamefully imposed upon. The statement bas been made that the climate is healthy, while the reverse is the fact.”” Who, then, is being imposed upon now by the Chronicle and its lellow advocates of’annexation ? The planters, as seen by the last news from the islands, are importing Asiatic coolies by the thousand now, filling every cultivated island with that form of labor which the Chronicle used to denounce as “siavery,”’ with the intention of securing a supply of cheap Asiaiic labor which will come in direct com- petition with the white labor ot this coast. Itis set forth by the Bureap of American Republics that the islands can produce unlimited quantities of all the fruits now raised in California, and the faciiities for preparing them for commerce are unequaled. When the protection of our tar- iff laws is extended to them they will add to it the protection of a climate in which no white man can work, and ot wages for which he could not support life, ana the renewal of destructive Asiatic competition with our white labor will be complete with the success of the “‘missionary” conspiraey. — In objecting to the expense of repairs to the navy the present Secretary is very unlike some of Liis predecessors, They were not only willing that appropriations shouid be liberal, but didn’t care a cent whether the boats to be mended were afloat or had been for a period of years at the bottom of the sea. - * Dime-museum schemes for getting the man Luetgert as an exhibitare hard to fathom. Out this way the spectacle of a person suppused to be guilty of murder and yet going unpun- ished has long lost all power to appeal to the curious. There is a woman at Fresno who is said to have cansed the deaths of several men. Ii would seem entirely proper to take measures to abate her. Why she should have any privileges denied tbe typhus fever does not appear. Chiet Lees might with advantage set some of his men to the task of detecting the rest in the act of detecting a criminal or two. The | THE (OAST PRESS. The San Bernardino Sun has adopted type- selting machines, and the appearance of the paper has been materially improved. The Oroville Register exhibits & commend- ab.e spirit of enterprise in preparing an edition devoted to the mining resources of Butte County. The Monterey New Fra has begun its eighth year of publication, and exprestes its happi- ness at the community’s appreciation of its efforts to furnish a newsy paper. Elsie M. Witkinson and Mayne V. Langford are tne editors of a handsome eight-page, three-column weekly, the Skylark, which has just made its appearance at Acampo. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has issued a large special Klondike edition, htving in view solely the benefit ana welfare of Seattle, which itis intended 10 boom ss an outfitting point [ for Ataska-bound travelers. H. E. Boqthby and E. L. Shipman have pur- chased the Oakland Leader trom W. C. Holli- way, and the new proprietors will endeavor to make the paver a model of its class, both edi- torially and typographically. The special mining edition of the Placerville Nugget 1s replete with formation concerning the glowing prospects of El Dorado County’s golafields, and mining men generaily wiil be interested in the publication. Old El Dorado’s rich gold vield of the past wil, according to the Nugget, be discounted in the future. The Scott Valley Advance is the name of a new weekly publisied at Atna, Siskiyou County. The editor is Henry M. Calkins, and the business manager M. H. Balfrey. They tutend o make a clean, dignified journal, which shall be a worthy exponent of the in- terests of the whole western portion of S you County. Roma T. Jackson has sold the Arroyo Grande Oracle to James F. Lyon and Laurence P. Hourihan. The retiring proprietor avows that the Oracle “4s well established, has a good circuiation, a good patronage, en invincible prestige, all the preferable prerogatives, pul s, perquisites aud otner journalistic bric-a-brac that the most ambitious newspaper men and the most discriminating constituency could desire.” An important change 1n Berkeley journalism is announced. Tue interests of the Herald. World and Advocate have been consolidated and the new daily, the World-Advocate, fully equipped in cditorial and news depariments aud with ample mechanical facilities, will endeavor to be known us a wide-awake,reliable local newspaper, independent in politics ana primarily devoted to the material advance- ment of the beautiful university city. J.B. Warren will be tne editor, George F. Henshall, city editor, and F. W. Marquand, business manager. The new publication will doubtless rank among the leading newspapers of Ala- meda County. The people of Tulare are advised by the Register to devote the winter months to dis- cussing and acting upon propositions to establish needed industries. People now have considerable money with which to venture on Dew idems. Says the Register: “We have almost secured a creamery at different times, but the matter kas becn allowed io lapse. The principal reason for this has been that the movement started a little too late or one sea- son and too early for the next. So it hes been with packing-houses and cauneries. We have always been a little 100 late. There are vari- ous industries we need and that we can get. Let those who can help take hold, and those who cannot help directly may help indirectly by keeping their mouths shut.” The Social Economist, a weekly paper con- ducied by San Francisco clergymen, invites congratulations on the completion of its sec- ond volume. The editor declares that the sen- timent of socialism has made large advance in the past two years, that seifish sel-interest is growing unpopular and that men are be- ginning to rea ize that true self-interest must take account of the interest of others. The leading editorial sets forth that “‘some of our sociaiist leaders think we do not know what soclaiism means. Thet, of course, necessi- tates us to think some of onr socialist friends donot know what socialism means’ Thus honors are easy in the camp of the brethren, But as the Economist has fared well during two years of hard times it enters greatly encour- uged on & mew volume in the era of pros- perity. With referencs to the proposition now before the Yosemite Park Commission- ers 1o omstruct & road from the famous valley bv way of Tiga to Mono Counts, thus «ffrding an outlet into the State of Nevada, the Bridgeport Chronic'e-Union, says: “It strikes us tnat the people of East- ern California and Western Nevada have some rignts in the premises, and are entiiled t0 a road over which they can visit the great valley that belongs to the people at large, and not solely to the citizens of the San Joaquin Valiey or Southern Californis. It will not be many vears bofore a railroad, connecting us with tne East, will be running through Mono County, and then tourists from the East can go to Yosemite from this side of the mountains and go out of the val- ley on the other side, and those from the other side can come out here and take the cars en route to their Eastern homes end thereby visit Mono Lake, the Dead of America, and view the graadest scenery con- nected with the psrk and which noce of the tourists who bave visited it from the San Joa- quin side have ever szen.” NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Japan has ordered one sea-golng torpedo- boat and eight coast torpedo-poats from ship- yards in Germany. A Brennan torpedo plant has been Inid at, Fort Victoris, Isle of Wight, by the British Admiraity, and all the workmen employed were sworn 1o secrecy. Forty-five competitive designs for a sub- marine boat were recently submitted to ihe French Admiralty. Nine designs were offered by naval officers, of whom five were given goid meda.s. None of the designs came up (o the first prize requirements, but the second prize, £1000, was captured by a Russian engineer. His plan is to use steam as the propelling power while the boat is on the surface and electricity when submerged. The design is to be improved upon and the boat wiil be built &t ouce at Cherbourg. The British cruiser Crescent, which arrived st Portsmouth September 23, eight days from Hulifax, during which teip she averaged 14 knots, had the customary trial trip four days later, and with 10,400 horsepower worked up to 97 revolutions and a speed of 183§ knots. The speed, however, was by patent log aua is thereiore of no value as 1o correctuess. The €bip at her trials in May, 1893, made 186 knots with 10,370 horsepower and 98 revolu- tions, and » comparison between the trial trip, ectual sea specd, and her latest perform- auce, indicaies the gross insccuracy of the patent log figures. Modern naval vesse.s are expensive to bullds aund aiso costly to maintain in serviceable con- Qition. The British first-class barbette armor- clad Rodney is 1o have a refit aiter a three years' commission in the Mediterranean, atan estimated cost of £86,105. She was built in 1888 and has had seven years' commission. The first cost wes $3,849,615, and 1ne repairs up 1o the present time have amounted to $£447,305. Including the contemp.ated re- pairs, which will be completed in about nine months, the grand total cost of repairs during the ten years of the ship’s existence afloat wil be very close to 14 per cent of the first cast, orl at the rate of 1.4 per centper ancum. The Rodney’s machinery is apparently In good condition, as the entire sum for repairs is to be spent upon the hull only. Russia is projecting a new port ia Russian Lapland, at a piace calied Ekateriosk. This iocality has been selected with & view of en- abling warships to enter the Atiantic atall seasons of the year, for during the long win- ters the other naval stations at Cronstadt and Libau are icebound. Work on this great nn- dertaking has been quietly carried on during toe past two years and most of the Govern- ment buildings in the new town will be com- pleted shortly. The value of Ekaterinsk as a naval station lies in the fact that it will afford an excellent basis of operations for the Rus- sian fleet in a war with any Earopean power, that it will offer protection to the fleet if out- 1 \FAMOUS DESIGNS IN “ROYAL GHINA"| A very interesting “commemoration plate” has just been added to the treasures in porce- lain of the Danish royal family, minster Gazette. 1n 1888, oa the Danish Exhibiti the first of these vlates was “published.” Only & dozen plates in all were manufactured, the design being the trademark of the Royal Danish China Works, which consists of three wavy lines, in dark blue, surmounted by the royal crown. They were manufactured as trade specimens, but the Crown Princess bought them, and forthwith collectors of china were seized with & mad desire of possessing one of the rare | plates. Next. in 1892, a second plate was | tdded on the occasion of the Danish golden wedding. This plate, of which several hun- dreds were made, is now very rare. Two years later, at the Crown Prines’s silver wedding. & third plate, the handsomest in the royal col- lection, was brought out; in 1896 yet another royal plate was dedicated to Princess Maud, andin the same year, Princess Louise, their | Majesties’ granddaughter, received one on her marriage to Prince Frederick of Schaum- | burg-Lippe. Then at the beginning of the | present year another new plate was manu- | factured in honor of the engagement of the | Crown Prince’s eldest son, Prince Christian. Two thousand plates of this design were man- ufectured, and the anxiety of collectors of curlos to possess themselyes of a copy was so Exhibition Plate. Princess Maud’s Plate. Princess Louise’s Plate. Golden Wedding Plate. Silver Wedding Plate. great that a long tail of people thronged all aay long in front of the royal manufactory in order to secure one of the precious plates. The seventh and last of this interesting reries of roval commemoration plates was menufac- tured for the eightieth birthday of the Queen, which was celebrated last month. There is yet one interesting royal plate whiel is perhaps the most famous of the set. It is called St. George's plate, and was manu- factured for the purpose of raising funds toward the establishment of a leper hospital in Icetand. numbered or deteated, and the ships could re- tire into its fastness in the north, behind the zuns and fortifications of this new Cronstadt. The town and port w1l eventually be con- nected with St. Petersburg by s railroad, the larger portion of which has already been con- structed. The jollowing singular notice was printed October 6 in the North German Gazette. Rerlin: “Latterly it has been repeatediy mentioned in the press that a Press Bureau has been es- tablished at the Imperial Admiralty with the object of circulating throughout the empire naval artic.es in support of an artificial agita- | tion on behaif of an increase in the marine. A Press Bureau with this object in view does | notexistat the Admiralty. The intelligence | department has the duty of imparting to the | press 1ews of public interest, in addition to | which it gives explanations and information | on navy questions to any one concerned. This isnot only the right but the duty of the ad- | ministration.” Tuis is quite a new departure in a German governmental department, and the Emperor is evidently very desirous ot educating the public to his 1dea that Germany needs &n ex- tensive naval establishment. THE HAWAIIAN the friends ot tne weak. It.then becom: say forcibly edvisedly. The United S that body authority todo this? suliea, fairs have nothing 1o say. Not the tives from any world what the isiands want! for the native Hi unable to resist country so powertul as be it remains for the American Senate to say. ber of Americans could be in favor of the forcible annexation of Hawaii. than it has 10 aanex Mexieo or British Columbia. Senate voted unanimously in favor of annexation. Praciically, they have been disiranchised and To show how the little ring of conspirators are carefully excluding the na- participation in leglslative matters. it is neces attention to the difference between the last registration under the the last registration under the monarchy. registration lists have just been closed, visional Government, the registration gave 4477, but the registration of 1890, e lest, by the by, under the monarchy, showed a votizg population ot 13,5 And s0 they are going to discover what the popuiar wil ing this paltry 2687 to vote! Two thousand and six hundred voters in a popula- tion of 109,000 are to control the destinies of the islands, and yet they call it a Tepresentative governmeat—a popular government! The number of Americans there is less than 3 per cent of the population. that proposes to wag the dog; to voice popularsentiment there; to inform the Was there ever anything more ridiculous? Miss Michelson, the specisl correspondent sent to Haweii by THE CaLr, tells of many earnest mas--meetings of natives on the various islands to protest against this contemplated and unauthorized seizure of their country by the American people. Miss Michelson was assured that the nativesare all opposed to annexation—bitterly opposed to amnexation—and thatif the United States seizes their country it can make no pretense of honesty or fairness or friendship alian people. But the Hawaifans are feeble—a mere handrul, residence is Portiand, Me., is here on & visit to hisson on Jones sireet. Mr. Baxter was thrice Muyor of the Hub City, and devoted all his salary to public improvements. Rev. Dr. S . Cryor, pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church, addressed a young men’s meeting in the Y. M, C. A. building yesterday afternoon, taking for his text *“The Genesis of Sin and Satan.” He said that God aid not create siu; he could not; sin is a personal act, the disobedience to some moral law. Principnl Reid of the Belmont School arrived at the Oceidenial last nighi, accompanied by the Belmont football team or its way back from Ukiah, where on Saturday it surprised the natives and a large partisan crowd by de- feating the Ukiah High School team by a score (48 to 6) that completely shattered an overestimated local idol. Among the arrivals here on the belated Cen- tral overland train last night were two Sisters f Charily, members of the French Order of Sisters of St. Joseph, the governing head ot which is in Paris. They are at the Oc- cidental, have come direct through from Paris, and are on their way to Tahiti, whither they will sail in the ba:k City of Pa- pete to-morrow. One is Sister Meiaine, mother superior at Papeete for the past twelve Q LI I L I I R R L R R R R R LR R R AL LRI I L] D FARCE-COMEDY. Eureka Californian. It has hitherto been the bosast of the peop e of this republic that they were es amazing that any considerable nume We ates hias no more right to annex Hawail It is vrged that the Hawaiian Very true; but who gav- vishes have not been con- the management of af- people; their ary only to call ligarchy and . Advices from the islands are that the and that Hawaii has 1066 voters, Oahu In 1894, under the Pro- in Hawaii is by aliow- Think of it! And this is the tail 202000902299229222220002222922229929292229228 our own—and what the outcome shall Much is hoped from the tradi- tional conservatism of that body. Treati2s of realgravity it seidom ratifies without the greatest deliberation, and frequently not at all. PERSONAL. Sam V. Rucker of San jose is at the Palace. Dr. Thomas Flint of San Juan is at the Grand. Dr. G. C. Simmons of Sacramento is & visitor at the Californis. Dr. L. E. Cross of Stockton is a recent ar- rival at the Grand. Dr. J. I Stephens of Petalume is among the guests at the Grand. J. M. McCune of San Luis Obispo is & late arrival at the Russ. 3 Charles J. Noack, a Sacramento jeweler, is siaying at the Lick. Robert Hamilton, a Chicago mining man, is staying at the Grand. F. T. Sweet, a lawyer of Martinez, is making a short visit at the Lick. Dr. A. M. Henderson of Sacramento is at the Califormia on a short visit. W. W. Dooglas of Sacramento, Deputy State Controller, is at the Grand. J. H. McNamar: hotel man of Merced, is & guest at the Cosmopolitan. C. Schart of Hamburg, Germany, arrived last night, and is at tae Palace. Frank Phiiips, a recehorse man of Chicago, arrived at the Palsce lust night, J.T. Judd, » mining man from the City of Mexico, is registered at the Grand. Hugh Farrell, the bookmaker of Lexington, Ky., is a late arrival at the Palace. L. Hirschfeld, a merchant in Kings County, isin town. He bas aroom at the Lick. W. H. O'Neill of Anaconda, Mont., arrived at the Russ yesterday with Mrs. O'Netil. Superior Judge George H. Buck of Redwood City arrived at the California last night. D. E. Knighr, manager of the big woolen mills at Marysville, is among the latest ar- rivals at tne Lick. Georg® H. Brooke, the king of football kick- ers and coach of the Stanford teaw, is making ort siay at the California. Walter Hobart, the young millionaire re- centiy operated upon at the Palace for ap- pendicitis, is still in a favorable condition. State Senator Thomas Flint Jr. of San Juen, the newly elected Masonic grand master, who is also spoken of as a future probability for Governor, is in town aud h partments at the Grand. George McLean, the wealthy bacheior min- E 816, Kauai 421 and Maui 384, making a total of 2687. gl ing man of Grass Valley who jor some weeks past has been dangerously 11l at the Lick, is in a doubtful condition and nis prospect of living are said to be unfsvorable. ExaMayor Baxter of Boston, whose present years, and for thirty years before that a Sister of Charity of the same order at Martinigue. The other is Sistar Therese, a very beautiful young Irishgirl, who has recently completed her preparatory training in the convent at Paris, THE FILTHY DOLLAR. T hold a dollarin my crasp— A ragged-looking thing! az- at it and wonder what iseases 1. m. y bring, Perbaps but yesivrday 'twas held By seme one who was rich, Or by some wretched y erson with The jaund.ce or the iten! There’s a spot upon one corner— 1 000, perhaps: whois ot | Fur tals joor, fllthy scrap some soul May huve bren doomed to hell! €ome b.ud all red wi h murder May have held 1t 'en to-day — It m 'y be foll of adeadl germs, W5o stiall presnme to say ? In fancy T can see it On 1ts ravels through the land; Now he d b. dalniy finzers, Now i1 some griwy n:nd-— Last week owned by some fallen wretch. Pan! v.le, dishonored thing— Yet men wil' fight and die for It. And consiituie it King! Faugh! Torn, dishono ed, solied and rank, 1 cast 11 hence—but stay Iguess Il grabii up azaln, Lest it be blown awa. ! Ob, filthy scrap, sli stiued with blood, 1w shthat | knew how I might get forty thousand such Abominatio s now! —Cleveland Laader. —— —_— NOTE ABOUT NOTAEBLES, Governor Lon V. Stephens of Missoun will ride a bicycle at the head of a great bicycle pa- rade to be held soon in 8:. Louis. Miss Braddon is well known es a careless dresser. She gurbs herself s she wishes, with. out considering public opinion. Her gowns ate, iherefore, often old-fasaioned in style, and leave much fo be desired in beanty of coior. Miss Braddon st 1l wears the long drop earrings in vogue twen:y-five yeers ago. Dr. HuKing Eng and Miss Wap Chinese delegates to the Womnni‘;;:;::l:: be heid fu London in 1898. The former, whg is known as the ““Miracie Lady,” on aceount of her success fa the art of healing, obtained her degree of doctor of medieine at the Woman's Meical College in Philadelphis, The eminent widows of F; An unusualiy contrary lot, Dumas refuses to permit the ublie any of her husband’s mlnuscn:‘:u. n;:i“:lnm:, Gounod steadily opposes the Performance oi auy of (he composer's early works. Mme, Tance seem to be Mme. Alexander MacManon and Mme. Carnot have both de- Clined the pensions offered by the State. L Ashbourne,” seys the London Tllus- 4 tnt:;u.\lens. “is i be the next Vlceroth! Canada. It scems on'y tbe other day that Lord Ashbourne was s rising Irish lnvly;r named Gibson in the House of Commons.h £ calef qulifica tion for the new postis a ¢ l;m of manner which has made him popular with the most vehement of his political Oppo- nents.” sister Mary Ellen Ellis, who dlfi_d at Walte namston, England, the other day, in her 824 year, was the last survivor but one of the de- voted band of Roman Catnolic Sisters who ac- companied Florence Nightingale on her mis- <ion of mercy to the Crimei, Bister Mary Ajoysius being the other. During the Jubilee exercises Sister Ellis was decorated by. the Queen with the Order of the Royal Red Cross in recognition of her services. FLASHES> OF FUN. “Theosophists say that evolution is divided into cycles.” “What make?’ —Judge. <ind of & fellow is Willowsnap? Briggs—What kiad of a fellow Griges_I don't know. I've only seen him when he was with his wife.—Puck. B“Would you like light rolls for breakfast, sir?? Courier. Friend—TI've just been reading your liftle volume of fugitive verses. Author—Why do you call verses”? 3 Friend—They escaped from your pen, didn’t they?"'—Chicago News. I'm a heavy tragedian.”’—Boston them “fugitive “That Mr. Racetout is so interesting; he seems to be s very polished gentleman,” said Miss Gusher. : “Yes,” said the man who knows him, “h,? s not only polished, he's positively slick.”’— Cincinnati Commercial-Iribune. “What!” exclaimed Miss £quidgikins, his maiden aunt, “you buy lottery tickets! Oh, \ George Sappleigh, 1 am astonished—I am shocked! \Why, that 1s nothing less thau gambling!” “Well, perhaps not,” he replied, “but I can’t see as it’s any worse than speculating in grain or stocks, and, besid I've got & system through which I can win about nine times out of ten.” “George,"” she said, assuring herself that no- body else was within hearing distance, “is the system something that could be learned by any one else?”’—Chicago News. ANSWERS TO CORRE=PONDENTS. TERRITORIES—O. S., Alcatraz Island, Cal. The Territories of the United States are at this time: Alaska, Arizona, Indian, New Mexico and Oklahomu. A PARTNER—W. G,, City. If youhave a part- ner who ueglects the business you had better consult an attorney, and he will, upon & state- ment of the facis, vrobably advise you 1o come= meuce an action for a dissoiution of copart- mersuip. ENow—B., Oskland, C The answer given in tnis department in relation to snow in San Francisco was Correct. The question asked was if it snowed in San Francisco either on the 1st of January, 1581, or on the 1st of Jai Uury, 1883, and ilie answer was that it did not. Tuat 1t suowed December 31, 1882, is notdisputed, but it was not the inlormation asked for. CasiNo—Subscriber, City. In- the game of casiuo the count is as follows: Cards, spades, big casino, iitile casino and ace. It A and B are playing and A nceds one to go out and B needs five, aud at the end ol the play A has inree aces aud B nas spades, big casino, lictie casino aud one sce, ihere being no cards, B counts first and wins, for he has ome for spades, two for big casino, one for little casino and one for his ace, which gives him the re- qui.ed five poiut PAWNBROKER'S, Y. Z., City. The three gilded bails woich usualiy represent the business of a pawubroker are taken from the coat-of-arms of the Meuici family of Lombardy. The family was one of mouey-lenders. and in their time wuen one wanied money it was commou o say: “Go 1o the has turce golaen balls on its co In time other money-lenders adopted asa sign a group of three balis painted biue on & white ground, and then the color of the balis was changed to goid. THE CENTURY—Subsecriber, City. The first century included the years 1-100, the second century the years 101-200, and so on. The nincieentu century commenced with the year 1801 and will close with the year 1900, and the twentieth century wili commeuce Janu. ary 1,1901. A century begins with the first day of it first year and does not end tll the close ot the lasi day of its hundredth year. This mode of reckoning is ofien confused witn the common mode of stating the age of a per- sou; ote born at the beginning of the Chris- tian era would be cailed 1 year old during his second year—that is, during the course of the year 2;°2 during the year 3; 40 during the year 41, ete. —_— CALIFORNIA glace fruits,50¢ 1b. Townsend’s.* ———— EPECIAL Information daily to manufacturers, business bouses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * e ‘““Alas!” cried Socrates, as he looked at the poison ¢up, “with all my knowledge I cannot find the key to this lock.” “What lock?” demanded the jailer. sighed the sage.—Puck. “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth ers for their children while Teething with perfecs success. 1t t0othes the child. softens the gums, al- Iays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrheas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Lruggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask 10r Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, 25cabotls ————— THE Calffornia Limited on the Santa Fe route il begin its third annual season on Monday, Oc. tober 1he time of departure is 4:30 . x. from Market-street ferry. Kquipment consisis of standard Pullmad sleepers, buffet smoking-car and elegan: dining-car, managed by Mr. Fred Harvey. 81d will bave all the modern comforts, making it the most juxurious service ever given between California and the East. Reservations on this magnificent train made at 644 Market street, Chronicle building. —_———— CORONADO.—Almosphere Is perfectly dry, sof #nd miid. beins entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Kound- trip tickets, by steam. ship, Including fifteen days board a: the Hotellat Coronado, $60; longer stay §2 50 perday. Appis 4 New Mouigomery sireet. San Francisoo, or A, W. Balley, manager Hotel del Coronado, laie of Hotel Colorado, Glenwood Springs, ¢ oloredo, —_———— We do not understand this reference to the wreck of asubmarine boat in New York. She sank at her dock, according to report, but be. cause a submarine boat becomes submarine are we to look upon her asn wreek? Isn't that her business?—Chicazo Po —— e NXEW TO-DAY) Scott’s Emulsion is not a “baby food,” but is a most excellent food for babjes who are not well nourished. A part of a teaspoonful mixed in milk and given every three or four hours, will give the most happy results. The cod-liver oil with the hypophosphites added, as in, this palatable emulsion, not only to feeds the child, but also regulates its digestive g functions. Ask your doctor about this. 50c. and $1.00 ; all druggists, SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York,