The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 31, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 189T7. Call OCTOBER 31, 1897 CKELS, Proprizctor. EAKE, Manager. " JOHN D. SPRE Address All Communications to W. S. L 710 Market street, S8an Francisco sin 1863, PUBLICATION OFFICE. ....... g Telephone EDITORIAL ROOMS........ Telephone Main 1874, +eee 517 Clay street THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents s week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. ..One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE. 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. . Roouwns 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. 27 Montgomery street, o: 339 Hayes street; open u r Clay; open until 1 9:3) o'clock. 615 BRANCH OFFICES— 30 o’clock. Larkin street; open until 9:30 o’elock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Missi s; open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open util 9 o'clock. 143 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. 1505 ¥ rect; open unti and Kentucl 30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second 9 ’clock eets} open t THE THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION. N remembrance of God’s goodness to usduring the pastyear, I which has been so abundant, let us offer up to him our Thankegiving and pay our vows unto the Most High. ‘With these solemn words President McKinley begins the proclamation: appointing the annual feast which custom has made an established part of our national life, and they will be read and received throughout the republic in the spirit of sin- cerity with which they were written. The observance of Thanksgiving will be no perfunctory service in any part of the United States this year. With glad hearts the people already anticipate the day. A tense of thanksgiving is felt throughout the length and breadth of the land. It has been & season of good harvesisand favorable markets. The worker has reaped the fruit of his labor, and as the President points out, “Industry has prospered, the condi- tions of labor have been improved, the rewards of the husband- man have been increased and the comforts of our homes multi- plied.” The prosperity of the year has brought to us something more than material benefits. With ths return of better times and the settlement by popular vote of disputed questions, there have passed away most of those misunderstandings and antag- onisms which at one time threatened to array the people into hostile classes and disturb the social and political order on which the welfare of all depends. Where there was once mis- trust there is now a mutnal confidence, and labor and capital rejoice together in the dawn of a new era full of promise to boil Our sense of gratitude in thanksgiving will be increased when we consider the conditions of other lands. In many of them the crops have failed, there is scarcity in the homes of the people, some suffer beneath the bl ghtof famine and over many impends the menace of war. In no other land has nature been 20 provitious as to us, and nowhere else has the Government so impartially fostered the welfare of all. We have only to give even the slightest study to the conditions that prevail bevond our borders to find new reasons for rejoicing in our land and in ourla Uncle Collis, on his next trip West, should lecture his hired men on the subject of politeness. This quality is too little cul- tivated by the Southern Pacific, and yet, from a business point of view, it is a good policy. With a littie politeness judiciously cmployed the traflic would be able to b:ar more. Passenger belated at Ogden by Providence and kept there by grace of the railroad company are apt to shout jor a competing road, and in the meantime seek some other line in going back, even if this involve a tussle with mal de mer. The policy of making business for its eating-house by caus. ing passengers to miss connections at Ogden will not in the long run help the Union Pacific nor give Uncle Collis more quarters to drop, and therewith mark his trail through this world of woe. There are eating-houses, even in Ogden, not owned by the railroad company. There is no reason why General Longstreet should not be entirely capable, aespite his great age, of performing the duties of Railway Commissioner. So far as the public has ever been permitied to know anything about it, these duties consist of taking an occasionsl excursion, keeping track of the consequent mileage and drawing a salary. We have been hearing for a long time that Spain is soon to learn from this Government “what’s what'’; which is some- thing Spain needs to know. Now we are ready to take an act- ive interest in the spectacle of that country in the act of receiv- ing the long-promised information. News from Ogden that passengers holding tickets to San Francisco are delayed at that place by the discourtesy of the Southern Pacific is not surprising to the experienced. Dis- courtesy is cn= of the Southern Pacific’s strong points. It would appear that the way Rev. Mr. Brown got his latest coat of whitewash was to make a raid on the whitewash bucket and give himself a few hasty sloshes with the brush when nobody was looking. Weyler did not propose to retire without scoring a brilliant coup. He has just planned and had executed one ot the most cowardly and brilliant murders that has adorned his Cuban career. Since an Oroville jury has found a man guilty of man- slaughter for having killed his wife, a curious world would iike 10 know what is supposed to constitute murder. Probably the young women who .are nursing a case of typhus at the County Hospital aré too busy to realize that they are heroines, but this is exactiy what they are. “Westward the course of empire takes its way” still. but it must be remembered that it does not depsnd upon the South- ern Pacific for means of transit. Colorado game wardens seem to think that there isan open season for Utes all the year round. A FORTUNATE ESCAPE. ROM London dispatches published in THE CaLy yesterday F it appears that the British law against the importation into that country of prison-made goods does not appiy to the bags in which grain is shipped. According :o the state- ment of the secretary of the Commissioner of Customs *‘the foreign prison-made goods act of 1897 is intended to apply to gocds which are themselves thie subject of the mercantile transaction which has taken place upon the importation thereof, and not to cases or coverin:s used merely for the car - riage of these gools.” This gives the San Quentin authorities a fortunate escape from an awkward situation. Toeir cunningly devised scheme for beating the Br.tish customs officiels by removing the prison mark from bags made at San Quentin can now be re- considerd and dropped quietly. It wasa foolish move under any circfimstances, and now that a simple inquiry made of the British Customs Commissioner shows it to have been unneces- sary, it eppears even ridiculous. How much better it wonla have bern for the San Quentin officiais to have fownd out the true meaning of the British statute before they undertook 1o evade it? As tuie affair turns out no material harm has been done. The sacks in which our grain is shipped will pass the British customs officers whether made in prison or not. There will bs no inspection and the trick devised at San Quentin will not be discovered and published to the world as an illustration of the way in which peovle who object to priton-made goods them- selves can slyly impose them on others. As all is weil that ends well, the San Quentin directo:s are all right this time but they should profit by the experience and be sure not to try it agaln, AN EXPOSURE OF IGNORANCE. S the day set for the sale of the Union Pacific approaches, the Examiner finds itself more and more entangled in a labyrinth of falsehood, contradiction and crass ignorance, First it was a clamor for delay in the sale. Then it was the charge of a “‘base conspiracy.” Next came the announce- ment of an increase in the bid of $5,000,000, Which was in- stantly heralded as an Examiner-journal triumph. Then came a reversal of the thought, and the yellow suggestion that the $5,000,000 extra bid was only proof of ayet baser conspiracy. Next came the news that Attorney-General McKenna might postpone the sale of the Union Pacific until December 15. Screaming headlines and long primer set in border pro- claimed another “‘triumph,” only to be taken back next day, when the news came that the syndicate had agreed to pay the full amount of the Government claim over the main_line, | leaving the Kansas-Pacific claim to be adjusted later. Now the Examiner is unhappier than ever, and if possible its ignorance of the whole situation greater. For instance: The separate sale of the Union Pacific under the conditions stated is gross betrayal of the interests of the Government. It removes al once from the market most of the possible bidders for the Kansas Pacific and the Central Pecific. The overland railroad system, from the Missour! River to the Pacifie, ia which the Government is inter- ested, is able (o support itself if it is taken as & whole; butifa thousand miles of its main line is taken away the remaining portions cannot form an independent road. What is meant by taking away a thousand miles of its main lin=? Is the Kansas Pacific any portion of the Union Pacific line that has any relation to the route from the Mis- souri'River to the Pacific? And again, “‘the separate sale of the Union ‘Pacific is a gross betrayal of the interests of the Government.” How can this be? Was anything but a separate sale con- templated from the beginning? Could there be anything but a separate sale? The roads are separate, their bonded inter- ests are distinct. The original foreclosure proceedings divided them. The orders of sale divided them. Different days of sale were set. As Attorney-General McKenna says, ““There never was any purpose to sell them together.” The Examiner also asserts, in its bungling way, that with- out its connection with the Union Pacifi¢ the Kansas Pacific will be worthless, and that put on the market by itself it would not bring the face of the first-mortgage bonds. This is mere assertion issuing from the rashness of ignorance. Attorney- General McKenna says he has no reason to doutt that on December 13, when the Kansas Pacific is to te sold, it will bring the full amount of the first-mortgage bonds, and at least th: face of the Government loan. In fact the upset price is $12,390,000, which would give the Government $5,000,000. Nobody doubts it will bring more. The Kansas Pacific is a fine road. more direct than any other. Operated by the Union Pacific it was always subordinated to the main line; operated independ- ently it would, in connection with the Denver and Rio Grande in the West and its choice of a dozen connections in the East, become a formidable link in another great overland chain to the Pacific. No fear that those who may secure the Union Pacific will | let the Kansas Pacific get away from them. But what shall be saii of the charges of conspiracy? Of all the political slanders that impinge upon the ear the silliest is this reiterated attack upon the honesty of the President. | For weeks and months the people of San Francisco have been compelied to hear this falsehood yelled from the Mission-street kennel. for it ; there is no sense in it. If the yellow velpers had four legs they would be carried to the pound on first complaint of any reputable citizen. The squabble over the date of the millennium, and particu- larly the allegation that that blessed veriod bas arr.ved, is a | matter of public interest. acter of the season in question ir, of course, somewhat vague Ministers are supposed to know more about it than anybody else, and the frequency with which they demonstrate that tkey | do not know anything whatever concerning it tends to confuse, However, it is tolerably cartain that if the millennium has come along without making a sensation, in fact, without arousing a | suspicion of‘its presence, it is a very different affair from the one that people had been led to expect. TREEPLANTING ON THE PLAINS. ECRETARY WILSON, in addition to his other labors for the advancement and improvement of the agricultural interests of the country, has marked out a plsn for the development of the subrarid regions of the West that promises results of great magnitude and importance. This plan is jo follow the scheme of tree-planting which bLas proved so bene- | fictal in the prairie States by similar plantations on the dry and half desert plains. In the prairie States the work of tree-planting was left to private enterprise, assisted and encouraged only indirectly by the Government; butin the new movement the Government will bave to take the lead. The conditions are not so favor- eble to tree-growinz in the one case as in the other. Many experiments will have 1o be made to find what classes or species of trees are best fittea for the soil ana climate of these tree- less areas, and it is likely extensive importations will have to be made from foreign lands. Itis the Government that must undertake this work of experiment, and that 1s what Secretary Wilson is nlanning to do. While the work of the proposed experiment stations in tree-growing will be directed mainly to the reclamation of the semi-arid lands, it will not be confined wholly to them. It is reported that the Secretary will ask Congress for appropriations large enough to justify the establishment of experiment sta- tions for the introduction of valuable trees suited to al! the various climates ot the Union. This would make the forestry division one of the most important branches of the Depart- ment of Agriculture, and if intrusted to proper management, would develop into one of the most useful bureaus supported by the nation. The work Secretary Wilson is doing and the greater work be is plennine for sgricuiture are proofs of the advantage it is to ‘an industry to have a strong and capable man to repre- sent it in the Foderal Cabinet. What is being done for agri- culture will therefore strengthem the demand of the miners for an equal place in the councils of the nation. Nor will the wfluence of the work be felt by miners only. Tha people gen- erally will be encouraged by this evidence of the value of gOV- ernmental supervision to extend it to mines as well as to fields and forests. The Republican administration, by show- ing what can be done for the we!fare of the country by compe- tent statesmen carrying out well-devised policies will win public confidence 10 an extent which will enable it to go forward to new enterprises with the full support of Congress and the people. Even yet there is hope that the people of the State will not be required to apologize to Durrant for having objected to his pastime of slaughtering girls. He bas suffered much, it must be admitted. Think of his agony as month after month has gone without bringing him a single chance to choke anybody to death. No wonder thata lot of tender-heartea lawyers are at work for him. i 528 Al People working on behalf of Mrs. Maybrick do not go about it in the proper way. Their first duty is 10 demonstrate that for a young and pretty woman-to kill her husband is not a crime, and thie they seem absolutely to have overlooked. JESSCESCRNEY ‘Tt seems but yesterday that the news columns were full of frightful tales about the heat thatmade desolate the East, and now they are telling of snow blockades. All this when there are railroads leading to California, Exposed to the full glare of pablicity, the Union Pacific piot seems to have been a wicked scheme to prevent yeller journalism from dictating the policy of the country. It connects Kansas City and Denver by a line | There seemed no reason for it; there was no reason | Information as to the precise char | | | potential criminal; the taxes are unequal; life and property are most | publican says: | less he not only thinks that the devil exists, but tLat the con- A CHANCE FOR MISSION WORK. OT very long ago the peepie of the San Joaquin were somewhat disturbed by the publication in a Boston paper of an appeal for m naries to settle in the San Joaquin and teach the inhabitants of that lertile valley the art of right living. The appeal was toucning because it was sent to Boston by a resident of the valley, and was potent because it emanated from a woman and was couched in the language of loving gen- tleness, £33 3 In the discussion that promptly followed the publication of the letter of appeal there were many voices in the San Joaquin itself that commended the request and indorsed the declaration of the need of a fuller and a better life in that region. It was edifying, and to some extent gratifying, to note the readiness with which s6 many newspapers in San Joaquin confessed to shortcomings both moral and intellectual, and the eagerness with which they seconded the appeal for miissionaries from Massachusetts. In the spirit as well' asin the letter of their words there was much to encourage the hope that San Joaquin aspired to higher things, and had that willingness to learn that | never fails to profit its possessor. i | , Alas for the hopesof those Who lookea fo Beston to give THE OLIVE BRANGH OF GOLD. Olive Branch of Gold Deposited by President | Faure on the Tomb of Alexander Il help to California, Alas for those who dreamed that from rural Massachusetts there would come missionaries to teach our rural communities bow to live thd intellectual life and at- tain 1o culture. Boston bas work nearer home. Rural Massa- chusetts needs missionaries Lerself—needs them so badly in | fuct that it is more fitting the San Joaquin should send teachers | to Massachusetts rather than thatthey should come from there | to the San Jeaquin. In what was probably a moment of mental aberration some Boston philosopher paused one day from the congenial task | of condemning the rest of the world and took a casual glance | at what was going on. in rural New England. To his surprise be found it by no means up to Emersonian standards. In his | amazement he gave a shriek that drew general attention to his ] discovery and as a consequence there has been an inquiry into | the condition of sffairs in Western Massachusetts. The New | York Post in summing up the results of the inquiry says: Down to within twenty-five yearsto question the excellence of | New England town government would have seemed like questioning | democracy itself, Tosay that this picture is ne longer recognized as | true would be & poor descrtption of the chauge which has taken place. | In these same town governments the very same system is found to | produce to-day the very opposite results. There is plenty of crime | and poverty, tramps infesting & community in which the word itself | was once unknown and village hoodlums, every one of whom is a insufficiently protected and astate of great general dissatisfaction exists, reflected every day in the local press and brought deliberately | to the attention of the public by repressntative men. Criminal statistics collected by the Springtield Republican show that in proportion to population more murders are com- mitted in the purely agricultural counties of the State than in | | Boston with allits slums and crowded tenements. The Rs- | The slums of Europe have had little or no psrt in our recent record of red-handed crime, If this inquiry teaches anything at all, it is that where the population is sparsest, and the religious, social | and intellectucl pessibllities of advanced civilization are lewest, | there murder is most rampant and unrestrained. In our small towns | in Western Massachusetis the police arm ts practically powerless: | The practical lesson of this inquiry is that the State or country must | maintain, or at least invigorate, the police power of these sparsely settled districts. | With this record open before them, the people of San | Joaquin can hardly doubt of their duty in the premises. In-| stead af asking missionaries from Massachusetts they should send a few to that State by the first train. EXIT GENERAL WEYLER. ERAL WEYLER'S departure from the palace at G Havana to make way for the coming of Marshal Blanco was virtually the closing act oi his career as Captain- General of Cuba. It istrue be will remain in autbority until | bis successor arrives, but this will be only a matter of a short | time, and from his piace on shipboard in the harbor the dis- comfited and discredited commander will turn his thoughts more toward what be hopes 1o do in Spain than to anything he might yet accomplish in Cuba. The retiring general has failed in all his undertakings. His policy has resulted in arousing the sympathy of the civilized world for the Cubans oppressed by his cruelty without gaining for Spain any compensating advantage. 1t is not always the warrior most cruel in action who inflicts the most harm upon a people. Some of the stern and terrible commanders ot the stronger side in bygone wars bave won a respectable place in history by the fact that the severity of their measures has | crushed out opposition and established peace, while less drastic policies would have only prolunged the struggle and increased the waste and loss of life snd property. | Werler is not one of that class of despots. He has not won forgiveness by success. His cruelty accomplished nothing for | himself or for the Government he served. He devastated the fields and burned the homes of the patriotsin vain. He carried bis war to the extent of imjrisoning women and inciting the assassination of Cuban chiefs, without succeeding in terrifying the people into subjection. He was a tyrant in all things ex- cept the ability to tyrannize. His failure has been absotute | and he retires with the reputation of a butcher without being { able to point to a single advaniage gained to justify or palliate | the butchery. 3 Itis the general belief that the retirement of Wevler means the beginning of the end of the Cuban war. Marshal Blnnco" will find no party among the Cubans to support him in his efforts to compromise the contest by providing some sort of home rule for the island under the control of Spain. Weyler’s | regime has filled the chasm between the mother country and | the colony with the blood of too many Cubans for any relations to be resumed again with the Spanish crown. Cuba must be free, and if Bianco is to be well received lie must bring freecom with him. . Actor Mansfield bas been . bedien in an action atlaw be- cause he tried with an inferior company to fill a contract that called for a good one, Aside from the natural satisfaction in seeing Mansfield beaten on general principles the verdict may justly be regarded as a sort of triumph for the public. The critics who are saying that America is producing no literature clearly overlook the records being piled up by the pugilists. Seldom has the output been so great, and for lit- erary merit we will confidently compare it with any that is be- ing done by the pugilists of any land. The Kentucky minister who denied the existence of the devil and was shot at by his orthodox and outraged congrega- tion probably had nis waning faith promptiy revived. Doubt- gregation is possessed of him. —_— That Chicago crank who announces an intention of follow ing in the footsteps of Guiteau could with advantage to him- self recall that the final footsteps of the individual in question failed to find anything solid upon which to make an impression. By the row yellow journalism made over the fight between two yugilists who, when not engaged in literary pursuits, are much given to this sort of thing, the inference is fair that yel- low journalism bet on the wrong mai Information that Weyler is quartered on a ship is good as far as it goes. According toa fashion once in vogue he would have been “‘drawn’’ before being quartered. it s o) A FLAN THAT FAILED. Cleveland Leader. “Idon’t like that man Parker’s way. He is always so positive about everything. These positive people are very disagreeable—never give other people credit tor having sense at all.” “Why don’t you justbring proofs come time when he is so posi- tive and show him where he is in error. A few doses of that kind will cure nim:" “Uve tried jr.” ik “Well, aidn’t1t have any effect?” “No; made him worse. You see, it always turned out that he was right after all.” PAVING THE WAY FOR SPEED. “Boston Globe. London messenger-boys are to be supplied with roller-skates to enable them to get around more quickly. Now let Iondon a ppro- priate several miliions to make suitable pavements for the boys, ana the joke about their slowness will be buried ia oblivion. sy On setting out from Paris for St. Petersburg President Faure was providea with many costly and splendidly designed presents with which to emphasize his declarations of esteem and friendship for the Czar and his people. Among these was & rich and delicato testimonial of love and re- spect for the Czar'simmediate predecessor, the late Alexander I1I, the actual founder of the Franco-Kussian alliance. The first act of the French President on his arrival at St. Peters- burg, after his reception by the civil and military authorities, was to visit the tomb of the late Czar end deposit thereon, with reverent ceremony, the superb brancn of ollve in' chased gold, the work of Falize, which was as we:l a wonder of the artist’s skill as & beautiful | and expressive token of the high regard entertained by the French people for the late ruler of all the Russias. When the Czar Nicholas visited France last year he made an espe- cial point 10 pay his respects at the tomb of the late lamented Presi- dent of the republic, Sadi-Carnot. So Carnot’s successor went to Russia, prepared to render appropriaté homage to the memory of the illustrious father of his noble host and aliy. The branch itseli—a work of simplicity pnd the most exquisite delicacy—is copied true after nature herself, in fine gold. Every vein of the leaf is reproduced with a perfect exactitude, and the whote 1z of marvelous execution and a credit :o the house of Falize. A ribbon of gold entwiues about the branch, among the leaves and ruit, und carries, aitacned to the lower eud by small chains, two medals of gold—the one with the arms of Russia, and on the reverse the date of the death of Alexander 11T aud the date of the visit to his tomb, October, 1894—August, 1897. The other, engraved by Roty, presents the helmeted effigy of the French republic. and on the re- verse the inscription: “The President of the French Republic to the Memory of Alexander JIL" On the ribbon of gold which attaches these medals to the olive braneh is engraved this Latin sentence: “In pace concepta firmat tempus” (Things conceived during peace are consecrated by time”). This beautiful work of real simplicity of design and form was encased in a casket of ebony lined with white velvet, on the cover of which was a grand plagae of gold-decorated fine carved work. It represented the figure of the defunct Emperor surmounted by the crown of the Czars. On the two sides two other round crowns, an oak and = laurel, are united by a palm andstem of olive crosswise. | The ribbon which surmounts the erowns carries the device, “Maait ultima Ccelo” (“The supreme crown is in Heaven”), | When most of the memories of this occasion have faded in the | minds o' the Russian people this act may perpetuate itself, not only | because Alexander remains by the acts of his own reign and those of his son, who has voweu to emulate his example, the 1dol of the em- | pire, the beloved sovereign who reigns still irom his tomb, but be- | cause that this people, who live iu constant communion with their dead, understand that in supreme moments they can go like him and kneel at a shrine. The tomb of Alexander is in the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, where repose the remaiuns ol all the defunct Czars. At the footof each tombend in the acjoining chapels masses are continuaily recited for tne repose of their souls. At the sides of Alexander IIT are his mother, his father, Alexander 11, and his eldest brother, Nicholas, who diel before being called to the throne. NMERRY AUTUMN. 1vs all a farce—these tales they tell About the breezes sighing. And moans asur o'er field and dell, Because the year Is dying. Buch principles are most absurd— 1 care not who first iaugh: "em; There's nothing known to baast or bird To make a solemn autumn. 1n so'emn times, when grief holds sway, With countenance dis:ressing. You'll note the more of biacs and gray Will then be used in dressing. Now purple tints are all around; The sky isblis and niellow: And e’en the grasses turn the ground From modest green to yellow. The seed burrs all with laughter crack On featherweed und jimson: And leaves tha’ should be dressed in black Are all decked out in crimson, A butterfly goes wingiog by; A singing bird comes after: 4.nd nature, all from earth to sky, Is bubbling o'er witn laughter. S Be R o Don’t talk to me of solemn days To antumn’s time of splendor Because the sun shows 1ewer rays, And those grow s aat and slender. ‘Why. It's the elimax of the year— The highest time of living! Till uaturally its burning cheer Just melts Into thanksgiving. PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR. NOTES ABOUT NOTABLES. The faculty of Budapest University has voted to confer on the Queen of Roumania the degree of doctor of philosophy. J. H. Carroll, recently appointed Consu! to Messina, Italy, is a desgendant of Charles Carroll of Carroliton, and is said to be the only one of the family who was ever a Republican. General Cassius M, Clay, who as Minister to Russia negotiated the treaty for the purchase of Alasks, and who a year or so ago married a girl of 16, is rejuvenating himself by having a cataract removed irom his eye. “It seems to me,” said ex-Secretary J. Sterling Morton the other day, “‘that we are soon to have an outflow from the large cities ot the | Western country. The condition of the farmers has improved steadily, | until to-day it is far better than that of the masses in the cities.” Major Belle Reynolds, who was elected president of the recent ‘Woman's Parliament at Los Angeles, Cal, went through the Civil War with her husband, and by her bravery and devotion to the wounded soldiers gained fame and the rank of major, conferred on her by Governor Yates of Illinoisa, A blind woman, Miss Bouley, took one of the first prizes for coun- terpoint and fugue at the Paris Conservatory this year, while two others of the sex shared the harp prize at the Brussels Conservatory, Miss Hantson was awarded first prize “with the greatest distinction,” and the first harp prize was also given to a woman, % Congressman J. H. Walker said in a lecture in Boston the other day: ““I thizk if the Book of Proverbs should be destroyed by accident ‘Tom’ Reed would be called upon as the best man in the world to rewrite them. The man doesn’t live who can state & proposition, or anything, in fact, so clearly and so effectively in the smallest number of words as Mr. Reed can.”” Hon. Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago Tribume, in speaking of his first meeting with the late Charles A. Dana, over fifty years ago, said that It huppened when he made a visit 10 Greeley. “I had got up & club for the Weekly Tribune for several years and had written some communica tions for pubiieation in his paper of no great merit Then it was Mr. Greeley introduced me to Mr. Dana.” REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. Babies never seem to have much regard for women’s rights, A woman's faith will remove mountaius if they aren’t there. Fate repays good men with wealth and honor; it repays good women with meu. Every girl 1s awfully conceited about the way she could make a husband love her. Whaen a baby looks so wise 1t is knows not to know baby-taik. It always pleases a girl half to death to have a man kiss her rougnly, then push him away like she was afraid he would do it again. " generally thinking how much it THE EMPTINESS OF HONOR. Eyracuse Standard. A story is going the rounds concerning Jerome K. Jerome. Re- cently that zentleman pave a harvest nome supver tohis peasant neighbors in the vicinity of Goulds Grove, near Wal ingford, Oxon, and aiter dinner the health of the host was enthusiastically received, Mr. Jerome returning thanks with impromptu humor. : Two of the guests were overheard to argue as to wha Jerome famous. 3 5 Ao e, "g. ::H;l books,” uidhone. definitely. “No, ou't,” was the contemptuous retort; “he ro men in a boat and then won the race; that's what he doms.y"Ed il —_— A HOFEFUL INDICATION. Philadelph'a Record. The uuprecedented demand for small farms in the West is an al- together hopeful indication. It meansa better distribution of the povulation, large harvests and large freightage for the railways and the ships, and an impetus to the development of Vi ‘which 1t has not seen for years, " 0 Wejurn oy PERSONAL, A. L. Hawley, a Seattle merchant, is s guest at the Palace. i M. F. Stowe of Chicago is registered at the Cosmopolitan. Ex-Congressman A, Caminetti of Jackson is at the Lick House. John Taylor and party, of Toronto, are slug- ping at the Palace. 4 Dr. Clarence E. Porter of Philadelphia stopping at the Palace. J. B. McCune, a manufacturer of shoesin Boston, is at the Palace. Professor E. H. Griggs of Stadford University is registered at tha Grand. C. H. saunders of the steamer Acapulco is staying at the Russ House. Cbarles M. Smith and wife of New York City are at the Cosmopolitan. E. Sanchez, a wealthy coffee-planter Gustemals, is at the Baldwin. L. A. Dougherty, a prominent Alabama mer i chant, is stopping at the Patace. Lieutenant J. F. Bryan of the United States steamer Rush is at the California. Mr. and Mrs. George L. Bailey of Camden, N. J., are stopping at the Lick House. G. Granelli, one of the leading merchants of Stockton, is stopping at the Grand. Congressman Marion de Vries and wife, of Stockton, are sojourning at the Grand. Captain Garland of the United States navy isamong the guesis at the Occidental. George W. Ware, a Cincinnati merchant, is among the latest arrivals at the Palace. W. S. Drown, the well-known mining man, accompanied by his wife, is at the Baldwin. John H. Baltz, a well-known Philadelphia merchant, is among tha guests at the Palace. Frauk Short and wife of Fresno arrived in the city yesterday and are registerea atthe Palace. J. Rice, a prominent rancher of Fresno County, is among the guestsof the Cosmos politan. A. A. Grant, a leading member of the bar Albuquergue, N. Mex., registered at the P: ace yesterday. T. Daniel Frawley and his stock company arrived from Victoria, B. C., and are stopping at the Baldwin. Z. A. Willard, a Boston capitalist, whoh extensive real estate investments in Califor- nia, 1s at the Baldwin. Mrs. H. E. Parmentier, wife of Lieutenant Parmentier of the United States steamer Alba- tross, is staying at the Baldwin, Waverly Stairley, collector of internal rev- enue at Sacramento, was in the Citv yesters day on business connected with his office. Mrs. John Nelson Miller, wife of Admiral Milier of the United States Navy, arrived from New York last evening and registered at the Palace, B. T. McCullough is at the Grand. He is a promiment stockman residing at Crows Land- ing, and is shipping cattle to the Hawaiian Islands. United States Senator Frank J. Cannon ar- rived on the steamer Peru from Japan yester- day and will leave for his home to-morrow. He 1s at the Palace. C. C. Pennock of Alaska is registered at the Baldwin. He has & number of prospectors in ihe Klondike country and contemplates.soon sending fifty more miners up the Yukon. Hon. P. C. Jones, who served as Minister of Finance in President Dole’s Provisional Cabi- net, arrived here irom Honolulu yesterday on thesteamer Peru, accompanied by his wife. They are at the Occidental Hotel. Mr: Jones is at present president of C. Brewer & Co.’s banking and safe deposit institution in Hono- lulu. He reports everything quiet on the isiands and business of all kinds flourishing. A large sugar crop is assured and the coffe planters are doing well. Mr. Jones is a strong adherent of the aunexationist party. He says everybody is patiently awaiting the action of the American Congress upon the treaty an- nexing the republic to the United Statss. Mr. and Mrs. Jones will return home en the Cop- it which is to leave here on November 18, IN NEW YORK. 30.—At the Imperial--W. B. Redding, M. Clayburg, J. Je- CALIFORNIANS NEW YORK, O:T H. 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