The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 1, 1897, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL MONDAY " JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. NOVEMBER 1, 1807 Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. 710 Market street, S8an Francisco PUBLICATION OFFICE. ... Telephone Main 1863, EDITORIAL RCOMS. +517 Clay street Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents s week, By mail $6 per year; per month 63 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE.. ve.-.908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE........ - .Roows 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, cor: 9:30 o’clock. Larkin st Mission s until 9 o'ciock. Polk street; open unti 2nd Ke! ner Clay; open until il 9:3) o'clock. 615 corner Sixteenth mhd 2518 Mission street; open inth street; open until 9 o'clock. 1505 :30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second 9 k. THE TIDE STILL WITH US. OLITICS in New York and the yellow fever quarantine in the South are the only present drawbacks to the progress of the business revival, and both are temporary and local The eifect of the former is an apathetic condition of the stock market, and that of the latter is a pronounced falling off in the dem for goods in the Southern & Of the two, the latter is the more serious, for the South is a large consumer of provisions and the lines of goods used on bviantations. The recent decline in hams, bacon and lard was directly caused by the fever quarantine. Still, the trade of the country continues to show a marked gain over the same time last year. This isexhibited by the bank clearings, which showed an increase of 22.9 per cent last week over the same week in 18°6. Every city in the country gained except New Orleans, which lost 14.3 per cent. The in- crease was evenly distributed over the Eastern and Western States, indicating & uniform condition of trade everywhere. The gain in San Francisco was 15 per cent. The failures for the week were 219, against 270 last year and 299 two years ago. The great staples continue in satisfactory movement, with- out excitement. Wheat has been slowly tending upward, and at the close wasa few cents higher than it has ruled of late. The export movement in this cereal from Atlantic ports is heavy, and it is this that hardens the market. Wool has quieted down and the sales during October were much smaller than in September, though it must not be forgotten that that month was a wonderfully active period in this product. Purchases of iron and steel, though smaller than of late, are still heavy enough to keep the mills ahead of their capacity, and the manufacturers have been obliged to limit their forward en- gagements in consequence. Mecney is easy all over the country, and{there is no longer any disposition to hoard it. On the contrary, capitalists are now anxious to place it out a: interest, and are not as finicky about thie security as they have been for the past four years. This agreeable change 1s well illustrated by the offers of agents to joan farmers on their ranches. It was oniy a few weeks ago that the boot was on the other leg and the farmer was doing the soliciting, and in vain. The reason for this change of front is, that whereas country prop- erty has been losing money ever since the panic of 1893, the rise in wheat, hops, wool, beef, grapes, wine, prunes, hay, hides and a number of other important staples has made the farm a v safe propcsition from an interest point of view. On all sides defaulted int rest is being paid up, mortgages are being lifted and the whole complexion of tbe farming industry has undergone a marked change. Hence the capitalist is reason- ably sure of getting hiainterest promptly, and, as the security is now safe, that is all he wants, The local market shows a number of variations during the past week. Wheat, barley, butter, cheese, ecgs, rice and quick- silverare higher. Hides, sugar, nuis, scme kinds of beans, and corn are lower. Wool and hops are quiet, but steady. Beef is firm at the advance a fortnight ago. Dried fruit still but there is a steady outward move- ment all the time, and orders for European export are con- tinuaily being received. ates. of is quiet, In fact, the European demand for California dried fruit is rapidly growing, and at the present rate ot progress it will not be many years ere that part of the world will be regular customers for large blocks. California fruit-growers are watching the cevelopment of this demand with great interest, for it means a stable and wide market for our fruits. 1f the wine trade could be opened up in a similar manner the value of fruit and grape land in California would be largely enbanced, and those who entered into either industry would be reasonably sure of profitable returns on their invest- ments for the rest of their lives. Thus it will be seen that trade is on a good footing all over the country. The dullness in several lines is more than offset by the remarkable activity in others. As lozg as the bank clearings continue to gain and the failures continue to fall off no better signs of prosperity can be desired. A train-robber just sentenced to life imprisonment explains smilingly that be will be free in two years. He must be under 2n impression that s train-robber goes to prison with a puil equal to that of an election crook, whose offense is regarded in many quarters as statesmanship. Train robbery is not only dishonest but yulgar, and sends nobody to the State Senate. THE MISSION PARK SCHEME. M UNICIPAL schemes that carry with them the possibility of private gain are not easily killed. They may be de- feated time ana again, but always those who hope to profit by them find some opportunity to revive them and pre- sent them to the public under new forms. This fact is well known to all students of city volitics, either here or eisewhere, and therefore it will not be surprising to our readers to learn that among the probabilities of ths not distant future is a re- vival of the Mission park scheme. As the tax levy for the ensuing year has been fixed, and as there is no expectation among the promoters of the scheme that the public would agree to bond the city for the purpose of purcbasing the ground for the proposed park, the revival of the subject at this time can be only with the purpose of mak- ing something like a campeign of education for it. It seems to be the idea of the schemers that by keeping the project inces- santly b-fore the public the people will either agree to it or else become #o tircd of it as to let it go through at the time of fixing the next tux levy through sheer weariness of fighting it. Possibly when next brought before the people the project will have a form somewhat aifferent from that which was so universally condemned when first advanced. Instead ofa zoological garden atiachment, as was proposed, the cominz scheme may ofler an aquarium, substituting for the rejected monkey-house a tank for suckers. Or possibly the public may be enticed by the prospect of an entire circus in the Mission in place of the menagerie. Seriously, tte threatened revival of this old scheme will bear watching. The arguments against it that led to its rejec- tion this year wili not pass with the passing of the season. The city has no need for another suburban park. Goiden Gate Park has not yet been completed, and yet even as it stands it affords sufficient recreation ground !or the requirements of the people. It is more accessible than would be a park in any portion of the Mission, and therefore more beneficial to the public generally. We had better fnish the work of planting the park we have before we undertake to create another for which we have no use. It is not worth while at t'.is time to go over again the argu- ments against n scheme which was so fully discussed but a little while ago. In fact it is a folly on the part of the pro- moters of the project to begin o soun a renewalof the agita- tion. There is no way to bring the issue up as a matter of prac- t'cal politics for a year to come, and for that space of time at any rale the monkey-garden boomers would do well to give the public a rest. THE POLITICS OF AN ABSENTEE. ASSING strange and badly mixed are the politics of the Pabsemee editor who, in order to avoid the courts in San Francisco, is now inflicting his presence on New York. With a yellow jcurnal on each side of the continent he plays both ends against the middle—shouts for reform in one quar- ter and stands in with the gang in the other. Itis an extraordinary Janus face the absentee presents just now to those who are in a position to see him from both the New York and the San Francisco pointof view. In New York he denunces the single-taxers and oppeses the election of Henry George to the Mayoralty. In San Francisco he pro- fesses friendship for the new school of economics and advo- cates the election of Maguire to the Governorship. In New Yotk he upholds the Tammany machine and runs with tha bosses and the toys who are working for Van Wyck, while in San Francisco he denounces the machine and clamors for a reform movement in the Democratic camp to overthrow Rainey. What is the politics of a man who is for the machine and against the machine? Who lauds Boss Croker and scoffs at Boss Rainey? What are the economic principles of a man who is against a single-taxer for Mayorand for a single-taxer for Governor? Who fought against George while he was alive and fights for Maguire, who lives on the George plat- form? Hypocrisy has played many remarkable antics in the world, but never before has it played them so brazenly as in this case. Why exalt the Democratic machine in New York and denounce it in San Francisco? Is the New York machine more virtuous than that which operates here? Is it not a well-established fact, known of all men, that the Tammany machine is the most corrupt and most corruping force in American politics? Did not Henry George declare from the stump, but a short time before his lamented death, that Croker should be in the penitentiary, and if elected Mayor he would try to send him there? Why, then, does the absentee support Croker in New York, while jingling the cap of many | bells as a reformer in California? The game played in San Francisco by the abssntee is well understood by the people of San Francisco. The local Demo- | cratic machine is denounced by the vellow journal here be- | cause for the moment it does not grind the grist the absentee i desires. Boss Rainey being unsusceptible to other arguments, the lash is cracked loudly to see if he is susceptible to that. The absentee objects to a non-partisan charter in San Fran- cisco as much as he objects to courts in San Francisco, and the Democratic machine nct being subservient to his will, his command has gone forth to crush the machine. Things are evidently different in New York. In that city the organ of the man who plays the reformer in San Francisco grinds a machine tune without a variation. Tammany Hall, whose corruption has led to the revolt in this campaign of thousands of Democrats, who like Hznry George are honest in their convictions, has the warm commendation of the yellow journal there. Every iniquity of the machine is upheld, and every boss and tool of its evil work is supported. Yellow journalism has brazenly flouted public opinion on | all questions of decency and morality so often that many | people were persuaded it had the courage of its depravity, and was at least free from hypocri This belief was unfounded. Brazen in morals it is hypocritical in politics. The absentee wears the mask of party loyalty in New York and of reform in San Francisco with an equal cunning. The politics of the | absentee is discernible in his double dealing, but who in the | midst of this mixture of policies can discern his principles? Seldom has there been a case more mystericus than that ot the Berkeley student who wove about herself a set of distress- ing but absolutely fictitious circumstinces, and overcome by this artincial woe killed hersell. Insanity is a malady so strange that it is possible the suffering of the poor girl was no less keen than had she really died in token of g:ief over the taking off of a lover to whom she had been unkind. That there was no lover save some phantom of ;her mind do:s not render | the episode less pathetic. THE COAST PRE>S. The annual review and harvest edition of the California Fruit-Grower contains much valuab e statistical and historical matter con- cerning the fruit industry of this State, and represents much care, labor and expense. It is an excelient reference numbsr. The Tuolumne Reflex, & brizht weekly pub- lished in Sonora by G. A. Helmore, bids fair to become one of the prominent journals of that tection of the country. The initial num- ber is repiete with live matter, and, judging by the advertisements, the merchanis of Tuolumne County are able to tell & good thing when they see it. The Loe Gatos Mail is defendant in a libel suit, brought by the president of the Board of Town Trustees of that place. Ten days ago & complaint in the case was filed, asking for $209 damages, upon which the Santa Clara Journal remarks that “when & man sues a country editor for §209, with the expeciation of getting it, there is no longer any question about returning pro-perity.’’ The Escondido Tim.s has just begun its twellth year. The paper has done creditable work for the advauceient of the interesis of the town in whiéh it is published, and now calls upon the eitizens to pull together for the establishment of needed industries and for the settlement of vital municipal questious, in or- der that eirangers may be attracted tnither and induced to locate and become home- builders. The town of Bakersfield is again discussing the subject of incorporation. The leading women of the place have enlisted themselves in the cause, and the Californian declares that there is no more potent factor in the com- munity than the Womaw's Ciub, and that its determination to make incorporation an issue is directly in line with the aims and purposes of the organization. Their interest and in- fluence in the movement will insure it a sup- port in quarters where heretoiors there has been only an antagonism which led to defeat The Board of Eupervisors of Humboldt County have made a proposition to the S uper. visors of Siskiyou County to the effect that 1t the latter bady would order the construction of & wagon road from Sawyers Bar to the county iine Humbold: County would compl the road to tide water. And there is a aispesi- tion manifest to accept the proposition. The Dunsmuir Herald says that *Siskiyou County should seek an outlet by this wagon road by all means. It wiil help the county in many ways and bring new settlers in from the coast that otberwise would ot come, and it may be we can market products of Siskiyou to tide water.” The Los Angeles Times is authority for the statement that there has never been a pertod of greater development in the country towns of Southern California than the present, es- pecially in the way of the erection of resi- deuces. Ontario and North Ontario have made great growth in the pastiew months. Chino has really been boomiug. Pomona has every carpenter at work. Half the houses in Azusa smell of fresh paint, so rapid has been the growth. Covina has been bailding ex- tensively, but there is not a vacant house in the town; and so it goes everywhers, the country districts keeping pace with the towns. This building activity is not earried on for fun, but Is made neczssary by the constant in- Crease In poputation. In describing Butte County and its re- sources the Oroville Register presents the fol- lowing facts: Butte Couniy’sareats 1763 square miles. It iies on the west flank of the Sierras— mora than half the county being amid the foothills, while the remainder is in the Sacra- mento Valley. The county is well watered by the Feather River and its numerous tribu- taries and by several large creeks which flow into the Sacramento River, which touches the western border of the county. The ciimate is semi-trovical and the orange, lemon, olive, fig, loquat and guava flourish luxuriantly. The mountainsare heavily tim- bered with sugar and pitch pine, oak, cedar, medrona, etc, Stock-raising and fruil-grow- ing ure extensively carried on in the foot- hills. Grain, hay and fcuit are produced in large quantities in the valley. The rainiall in the valley is twenty to twenty-four inches; in the foothills at 1200 feet thirty-six tucnes and in the mountains forty-eight to fifty inches. The total assessed value of property s $13,340,526, rate of taxation §1 85 oa the hundred, value of county building+ $100,000. There is fifty-nine miles of railroaa, 114 miles of telegraph lines, 150 miles of telephone lines and 350 miles of irrigation ditches and canals. There are seventy-five school dis- tricts, 104 teachers, 4168 school children, one normal and two high schools, and in 1896 the total school expenditures were $78,244. All county schools have eight-month terms. According to the Yreka Journa/, no county in the State has shown a greater prosperity than has €iskiyou. “Itis true there has been no boom, but in every section of the county there has been a steady growth. Around Yreka agreat deal of bullding has been going on, and the town has improved both in popu- Iation and in business. In the entire western section new mines nave been deveioped and every fown has felt the benefit of this in- creased activity in the mines. Especially has this been so along the Kiamath, where several wealihy companies have iuvested largely and introduced big plants, Siskiyou is rapidly approaching the lead as a mining county, and will no doubt head the list in a few years, especially as quar z mining is pieking up r.d Jedges are being developed. The duiry inter- ests are algo quite a factor in this county, ao increased demand for Siskiyou butter and checse having been felt during the past sea- son. In the Mount Shasia section the milis have all been in operation tnis season, and under 4 good tar:ff the lumbermen wil! all get a good price for their lumber and next year we will see greater activity in this line. The new road which has been built over Squaw mountain will open up a vast belt of timber and will largely increase the output of lumber from Siskiyou. No county in the State h; greater resources than Siskiyou, and her fu ture is certainly very bright.” S NEWSE OF FOREIGN NAVIES, The Powerful left Porismouth October 7 for China, where she wiil be stationed as flagship of the Biilish squadron. 1}With the increase in number of ships in the Japanese navy it is siated that an ad ditional squadron to be callod the Leikai Kantai (western sea squadron) will be formed next year. Four first-class ganboats have been ordered by the Britisn Admiralty, to be butit by con- tract. They have been named Brambie, Britomart, Dwarf and Thistle, and take the place of namesakes that have been condemned. The Canopus, one of six batt'e-ships of 12,950 tons building for the British navy, was inunched at Portsmouth Octover 13. The christening was performed by Mrs. Rice, wife of the admira!-superintendeat of the dock- yard. The Gilysk, a guuboat of 963 tons, was launched October 5 from the Admiraily y on the Neva, near St. Petersburg. She carries one 4 7-inch, two 2.9-inch and four 1.8 inch’ rapid-fire guns, and is intended for Chinese waters. Assistant Paymaster F. W. Walker of the British guuvoat Wildfire was dismissed from the service by sentsnce of court-martial for baving appropriated 1o his own use $30 left to his salekedping by onc of the crew of the vessel. Two new ranks ar: to bs Japanese navy, corresponding to commaudas and lieutenant junior grade in the United Siates navy. One advantage to the naval offi- ceristhat he will serve only two years in those grades before he is eligible for prome- tion, while heretofore the time was four yearsin the grades of ensign and leutenant- commander. created in the Itaiy has passed a law for the formation of an auxiliary fleet of cruisers of steamers of 7000 tons to steam 18 knots. Two steamship companies, Navigszione Gnerale and La Veloce, have agreed to buiid three and four steamers respactively that will come up to Government requirements aad entitle the companies to the attending subsidies and other advaltages. Reports from the bedside of Mr. Flannelly are that he is | greatly improved. He is now familiar to the public as the man who killed his father and then the cflicer coming to make the arrest. Of course he is getting better. Such people always do get better. They have nothinz to worry about and can be cer- tain that the State will keep a protecting arm about them as they pass through the ordeal of trial and see that no harm comes to them. THE CONTEST IN NEW YORK. | EW YORK is red hot. Itis not an off year in politics for N her people. The beautiful season of Indian summer finds them in no mocd to pass the time wandering amid the | groves of the park or by the baunks of the romantic Bronx to meditate upon the posetry of autumn. They are fignting one another with tongue, pen and purse to decide whicn faction among them shall have the honor and the profit of inaugurat- ing the government of that Greate: New York which all fac. tions hope to see grow into the greates: city known to the his- tory of the worid. The contest is in évery respect a faction fight. Itis true the party organizations are in operation and have tickets in the field, but the rank and file of neither party responds with loy- | alty to the leaders. Six candidates contend for the Mayoralty anad three of them claim to be sanguine of success. It is con- ceded that even the superb organ zing power of Senator Platt, backed by the open support of the Governor of the State, can- not bring the full Republican strength to the polls for Tracy, nor can Tammany whip into line for Van Wyck the host of voters that in former years have made New York almost as solid for Democracy as the Sotid South. The death of Henry George, who was the most potent per- sonal force in the campaign, has wrought a great change in tke situation, but political experts are divided in opinion as to the exact nature of the change. In its essential elemenis the con- test remairs, howaver, a faction fight. The aeath of the leader ot the bolting Democrate has not changed that Iact, whatever else it may wrought in the way of transformation. It is the beliet of the leaders that in the closing days of the contest the factional elements will weaken before the strength of party loyalty. The argument on which this belief restsis that the intelligence of the voters will show them that a aivi- sion in the ranks of their party will tend to the success of the organized opponent of the party. Republicans will se¢ thata vote for Low will help to elect Van Wyck and Democrats will see taat a vote for George will aid Tracy. The olid party spirit will revive, and when election day comes men will drop their factional differences and votejtbe party ticket. There is no question of the essential truth of this arzument, but doubt intrudes at the point where the claim is made that the factions will break away from the indepenaent ticketsto vote for the party tickets. It is possible Republicans may reach the conclusion they cannot elect Tracy and make a general stampede for Low. Itis equally possible that Democrats may doubt the success of Van Wyck and cast their votes for George or for Low. Itisthisdoubt that inflames the campaign and heats the city redhot. On the day of e ection a little thing may determine which way the rush will tarn. Every means known to asiute and ex- perienced politicians wili be used to zain the votes that would have gone to Henry George, but which his son can hardly hope to hold. At present it seems to be anybody’s fight. A cam- paign canard started on election morning may decide the issue. The only moral to be drawn from the sitnation is the evil of faction fighting among the friends of good government. Had the reformers who know so well the importance of defeat- ing Tammany united with the Republican party in support of such a candidate as ex-Secratary Tracy they couid now look for- ward with the assurance of viciory. Asitisthey have buta slender chance of winning. Buch is always the fate of men xho while professing a desire fior honest government are will. ing to work for it only on condition that they shall bs permit- ted to direct the work and run the government, Cwmiar, 8 British battle-ship of 14.900 tons, made her eight hours’ trial trip O:tober 7, under full power with natural draught. The stipulated horsepower of 10,000 was excecded l One of the sights of the last Paris Exposition was a great giobe. Tha even larger one pictured above has been planned by T. Ruddiman Johnston and is to be constructed during the coming year and put on exhibition in London. Its surface wilt have an area of 22,000 squure feef. This, if stretched out in a strip a foot wide, would and is 10 have a diameter of 84 feet, It is to be in the proportion of 1: 500,000, xtend a distance of more than four miles. Every geographical inct of importance is to bo notea on the suriace of the globe. Every town ot 5000 population will be designated, and larger cities will be laid out in their proper pro- portions. Oceans and atmospheric currents, isothermal lines, the zones, the homes of the various races and the habitat of plants and animals will also be indicated. by 630, end with 148 pound: of steam and 96 revolutions the ship mede 16.7 knots. She was, nowever, not dowr: to her mean draught witnin 18 nches, and it isdoub ed that the vessel will make the intended spsed of 17.5 | knots on 12,000 horsepower unless the so- called patent log is used. The Russian battle-ship Petropolawsks, built at St. Petersburg, is nearly ready for her trigls. The ship is of 10,960 tons displace- ment, and has an extreme length of 375 feet, beam 70 feet, and 25 fect 6 inches mean draught. The engines, of 10,500 horsepower, were bu'lt in Engiand, and her nickel-steel armor, 10 inches thick, was madc at the ljora works, Russia. The armament will consist of four 12-inch and twelve G-inch guns, besides « large number of Hotebkiss rapid-fire guns. Courts-martial were neld October 14 and 15 on the commanding officers of the torpedo- boat d-stroyers Thrasher and Lynx, which stranded September 29 and were nearly lost. Commauder Robert Travers of the Thrasher pleadad in excuse that the irregular tides and currents were responsible for the accident, and the court took this view of the affair, sen- tencing him only to & severe reprimand and caution to be more careful in the future. Lieutenant Garnet Armstrong of the Lynx was acquitted of blame for the aceident to his vessel. The engine-room complements of the Brit- ish cruisers Powerful and Terrible consist of 1 chief engineer, 7 other commissioned en- gineers, 4 chief engine-room artificers, 14 en- gine-rcom artificers, 27 leading firemen and 291 first and second class firemen. The num- ber of firemen is not considered too great and the admiralty having reduced the force application has been made by the com- mandiog officer to aliow the origina! num- ber. The United States steamship Columbia in her record voyage across the Atlanticin August, 1895, had 196 men all told in her en- gine and fire rooms, but this number was found inadequate, and forly-five additional had to be taken from the sailorsand lands- men force, making atotul of 221. The horse- power of the Powerful and Terrible is 25,000, while that of the Columbia is 18,500. The British cruisers having 48 boilers, with 96 furnaces, against 18 potlers, with 68 furuaces, in the Columbia, accounts for the greater fire- room crew in the British ruiser: PERSONAL. M. Lauer, a merchant of Alturas, is at the Grand. Ex-Judge A. P. Catlin of Sacramento is at the Lick. R. E. Jack, the San Luis Obispo banker, is at the Palace. J. A. Horen and wife of Sonora, Cal, are at the Cosmopolitan. QH. 8. Allen, a mining man of Sonora,isa guest at the Grand. Judge J. M. Mannon of Uklah is among the late arrivals at the Lick. A. J. O'Conor, a San Diego capltalist, is a late arrival at the Grand. George E. Stickle of Angels Campis at the Grand. Heis a merchant. George F. Buck, a Stockton lawyer, is mak- ing a short stay at the Lick. James C. Tyrell of ihe Grass Valiey Tidings is registered at the Baldwin. G. Long and wife or Sacramento are among the guests at the Cosmopolitan. A. J. Francis of the A. J. Francis Cooperage Company of New York arrived yesterday and is at the Grand. B. T Booze of Oakdale, the general freight and passenger agent of the new Sierra Rail- way Company of Caluornia. Mrs, Booze ac- companies him. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Marshall of Washington, D. C., arrived at the Occidental last night from the <t. Mr. Marshall is & member of the United S:ates Geological Survey. Eduarda de la Cuesta of Santa Barbara, Su- peryisor from one of the northern districts of the county.is at the Grand is in the city. He ts accompanied by Mrs. de Ia Cuesta. Dr. E. Myers of Springfield, O.. is at the Grand. He is one of the doctors of the Cham- pion Coliege of Embalming, which will holda conyention in this city from November 2 to 6, with headquarters at the Grand. THE MORN-S NG. T re 13 & €0Ug sun by the waking bird, A song (ha. the lisping iwaflets Uhrse 10 hear; Hardiy by mortal ear I8 its music beard, Dear ¢ is (0 the flowers as t:6 dew s dear. In the cbilof themorn th: brittle boughlets break, aning ‘the sound Of its swee:est tones io ke, *Tis il ed with the trill and cry of the jov of morn, Wi.hihe wall and sob of ihs burs.ing bud ia n, ‘With & whisper glad for the many flawerets torn, Witn a sweet wali sad for muny return-d again Tothe heaven of flowers ere Lhe swest duy comes to see To the uuknown father of all that bade them be. ey Sol el ila Ty el e Y The sonz was known 10 us all ere we cou'd speak, When in the h ly arms we helplexs Ia Known 'tis yet (0 the childiike poet mesk, Loy toall who have le: the worid’s fierce day Dry from their sou s the b'ess d asw of morn, Barn up the flowers of charit - with them born. AARON Maso, in New York Sun, PEOPLE TALKEL ABOUT. Mrx. Lily Langtry benefits to the extent cf £300 ($1500) yearly by the death of her hus- band. Mrs. Humphrey Ward, who has been writing tor only ten years and has produc:d very lew books, has earned $300,020. The PrinCess of Wales is building a large riding school at Sandriugham and around its extreme circumerence is a cyeling track. Lieuienant Winston Churenill of the Fourth Hussars, son of Lady Randolpn Churehill, for- merly Miss Jennie Jerome, daughter of the iate Leonard Jerome of New York, is acting as war correspondent for the Landon Daily Tele- graph in Tadia. Charles Arnold intends to come to America soon to produge & mausical melodrams, ‘‘Panl | Ot never know! o the Alps,” of which he and David Christie are the authors. Samuel Potter, the composer of “Tommy Atkins,” has iurnished music for the piece. Wiuston Bell,one of the few colored men | practicing law in Baltimore, has been serving | 85 & weiter during the summer at u hotel near Bostou. He has been practicing law but a snort time and finding it hard to get clients 1s compelled to work auring the summer to help pay his expenses. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School. Canon Gore of \Westminster Abbey, London, who is mow visiting in this counury, is d nounced by the Catholic Caampion (Episco- Ppal) as a dangerous heretic and it applies to him the words of St. Paul, “Though we cr an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be eccursed.” THE HUMORI T3, Father McMuff (severely) — You should be ashumed of yourself, O'Donnell. You never know when you have enough. 0’Donnell—An’ shure yer riverence is roight. Whin Ol gets enough Oi'm insinsible.—Puck. RFuiler Boose—I have b:en accused of drink- | ing like a fish, but dut’s false on de face of it. Tanksey—How's dat, pard? Fuller Boose—Cause ter drink like er fish I'd have to be wet ail over, an’ dav’s a condition 1 wuz never yet knowed to be in, sce?—Truth. She looked trusting swiled. “Papa says 1 shall never have one cent of his money if I marry you,” she said, “but I am glad of that. I prefer to owe everyihing to my husband."” “But you forget,” he returned nervously, “that that will make it necessary for your husband to owe evervthing, IOD.”~CMCI‘o Post. nto his eyes ana The football season comes again, So, rouse ye braves wi b flaunting hair, While echoing over hilis and piain Avplause proclaim» your merits rare, W ho heeds the diplomatic row Conductea In st civil tones? Tha’s far too mild to suit us now. 1t blacks no eyes and breaks no bones. ‘These Bebring disputants mus: learn That c'er their words we can't enthuse, The sealskin gives us small conce ‘Ibe pigsain’s what tLe word pursues. Vashington Star. THE sSAw. Pliny says that the suw was first invented by Dadalus, but according to Apollodorus, it was the invention of Talus, who used the jawbone of a crocodile to cut through a picce ot wood, and then made an iron instrument in imitation of it. The saw is represented on the monuments of Egypt, from 2500 to 3000 years B. C. Asearly as A. D. 1327 sawmiiis ANTIQUITY OF | driven by water-power were iu peration at Augsburg, and it is beifeved before tnis that they were in operation in Paris, driven by the currentol the Seine. The first sawmill erected in the Norway uineries was in 1530. Sawmills were numerous in lialy in the six- teenin centary. Tney were notintroduced into Engiand until 1663, when a native of Hoiland' built one, but’ was compelied to abandon it Ly opposition of the populace, car- penters and other artisans, who saw 1o good in such a new-fangled contrivance.—Journal of Bullding. MODERN WAK ETHODS, New Yorz Tilbune. Emperor Willtam is' claiming credit for the invention of a new war macuine called a “‘battle-line destroyer.” It isa sort of motor- car of thick steel, with portholes for machine- guns, and in it are a dozen soldiers, who are thus protected from the enemy. The machine i8 to charge right down into the enemy’s line, firing volley afier vol.ey as it goes, and, of course, rendering cavalry unnecessary. It will mow down the o 1t charges them, and a few dezen ought to be sufficient to annihilate an entire army, if not b own up or stopped by n falien tree or ditch, and if the enemy pio- vides easy roads lor their approach. It is hard.y necessary to add thai the Emperor’s inveuiion is merely the war chariot of the ane cients io u modern dress, and that it has been talked of and condemned by praciical malj. tary men for vears. — BACIERIA AND LIFE. Whether life is possible In the sbsence of bacteriain the digestive iract 1sa problem not easy 10 solve, says the ludianapoiis Journal. In the early experiments of Nuttall and Thier- felder guinea pigs were select-d assubjects, but it was atterward decided that more satis- factory resuits conld be obtained with chick= ens, as it was believed that these cou.. be secred free from bacteria from birih, Eggs ready to be hatched were according.y wushed in antisepties and plicad insult-ble sierile apparaius. Despite the utmost care, however, b cteria were «lways present, and are found to be derived from the eggshell, leading to the unexpected conclusion that they exist in the ovldlucl before and during formation of the shell. —_— GOLD IN ANCIENT IRELAND. Ireland of predistoric times was the gold country of Europe. In no other couutry, at any rate, has so much manufactured gold of early ages been found, not less than 400 specimens of gold antigues being coatained in the museum of the Royal Irish Academy alone, while the British Museum gold an- tiques illustrative of British hisiory are en- urely Irish. Tiinity College, Dublin, has many fine specimens, and there are (1rge pri- vate coilections. Naiive gold oecurs in seven localities in Ireiaud, end the ancient miners may have hai sources of supply that are now worked out or lost. HE HA . ONe. St. Leuis Repubitc. A Moscow dispaich says: “Mr. Prinsklent- sky is making a uome fr himself as a pian- ist.” Nobody needs it worse, and he ought to hurry up. —_— JUST A S1AGE JOKE. Minnenpolis Journal, De Wolf Hopper is figuring in & divorce case, Mrs. Hopper shoild get alimony en keep De Wolf from the door, T 2n0%e) o 10 DEELARE W, Democratic General Com- mittee to Meet Wednes- day Night. Petitions Went Around Yester- day and the Call Will Go Forth To-Day. The Outcoms of This New Party | Depends Mainly on Registrar Hinton's Decision. Wednesday night will be Boss Rain night to roar for right and liberty— proxy. 1t will be the turn of the }_ln_m ites and the others who are affiliating with him to save the party organization from Boss Sullivan and his friends. That meeting ot the Democratic Gen- eral Committee will be held then, fo Metropolitan Hall was engafiad )‘este}: day, and the time fixed by Cliairman F. J. Harney and others of the campaly committee. g . The petition for the meeting, which must be signed by at least fifty ot the 450 members, was in industrious circulation yesterday in triplicate and in sections, and it wil! be ready for use to-day. It is asserted that it will contain more than fifty names. Especial efforts will be mad? to get a majority of the 450 together Wednesday mgut on account of its morzl effect, though only a quorum of 150 is needed to do the business of the evening—throwing Dictator Suliivan and others out of the party, electing P. J. Harney chairman, adopting resolutions and indorsing the campaien committee. The sub-commitiee appointed night pe- fore last to frame resolutions to be pre- sented spent some time yesterday think- ing up strong words and fierce phrases in which to denounce the Sullivan coterie. Tbe official cail for the meeting will be sent out by Secretary McGovern to-day. The Sullivan campiign committee rested vesterday from its labor of selecting for appointment a new county committee of 110 members, but will resume operations this evening at the Grand Hote During the week two party machines will be in fierce rival operation, and by that time active outside members of the party witl begin to line up with either fuction. In the pending local Freeholders’ cam- paign, which is the occasion of the row, the question of what the issue will be becomes the question of what Registrar Hinten will do when two Demcerstic tickets are presented to him for place on the ballot. He must decide which repre- sents the established party, and both factions stronely claim that the recogni- tion will be theirs, The Raineyites count on political influences ana the Sullivanites on Hinton’s sympathies. Itisconced:d that the State Central Committee will ‘ake no hand in the mess, so that the Registrar's decision will settle it, except an appeal be taken to the courts, all of which hints of more future troubles. Some of the old and beaten but strong Buckley faciion of the iast campaign are ready toget in benind the Su livan wing, not because they love Sulivanand his friends, but because they are ready for “anything to down Rainey.” Many nore are ready to play with the Rainey end if they can get alittle encour igement, think- ing that there is where tbe nex batch of plums will come from. Many . hings are working to bring about as merry a local Democratic war as has everentertained the populacs in the pa-t Thre» Wise Japanese Came to Town. Y. Kamada, Y. Tokugawa and Y. Saitno, three wise men from Japan, arrived here yes- terday irom the East and Europe en route to Tokio by way of Vancouver snd are guests at the Palace Hotel. Mr. Kamada is a graduate of Keiogijinku College, Tckio, and in ad tion to being now a feilow of political econs- omy is also a regent of that institution. Three years ago he was a member of the Japanese Parlinment. Y. Tokugaws is & recent gradu- ate of the College of Nobility of Japan and Y. Saitho a graduate 6! the Tokio French School. They sre completing a two years’ tour of the world, duri g which they have visited many countries for the pleasant purpose of observ- ing and studying at their ease the commercial, social and poittical institutions of foreign lands and !ater using that information for the bonefit of students in Japan. e e CALIFORNIA glace fruits,50c Ib. 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