The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 3, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, Call OVEMBER 3, 1897 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. .......... 710 Market street, San Francisco phone Main 1868, PUBLICATION OFFICE.. Tele EDITORIAL ROOMS. 17 Clay street Telephone Main 1874. SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by u this city and sur-ounding towns for 15 cents a week, per ver wonth 65 cents. THE THE WEEKLY CALL. .Ong year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE.... ..908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN, NEW YORK OFFICE ..Room 188, World Building BRANCH OFFICE y; open until ; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 9:30 o’clock ¥ open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and open until 9 o’clock. 2518 Mission street; open ck. 143 Ninth street; open until 9 o'cleck. 1505 open unti: 9:30 o'clock. NW. cormer Twenty-second sven tiil 9 clock. A YELLOW SUGGESTION. S the fermination of the baseball season will soon compel e Mission-street yellow feilows to look about for a new method of bunkoing the public, we respectfully suggest that Senorita Evangelina Cisneros, the Cuban heroine, presents v explored mine of inexhaustible wealtb. The Eastern r of the colored animal in this city deliberately abducted e young lady upon her arrival in New York, together with Until the latter, at the instigation of league, had reieased her from Weyler's prison the vellow pzpers in question had the least idea that they had conceived the great scheme of breaking into her bas- tile and bringing her to America. The feat of the Eastern yellow fellow in capturing her and ber rescuer soon after their arrival at New York was, to our d, more brilliant than even Mr. Duval’s exploit in fooling General Weyler. Now thatshe belongs to yellow journalism, why, we repeat, would it not be a good idea to cage her up as Adgie does her lions and exhibit her throughout the country as a curiosity 7 Mr. Daval might, for a consideration, be induced to do something to add to the interest of the show. He could, for instance, ride a greased pig or climb a slippery pole. Our suggestion is founded upon no disrespec: for Miss Cis- neros or Mr. Duval, her rescuer. It 1s based upon the fact that the aavertising era of the incident is about ended. The New York end of the Hearst colorea combination has lately been devoting its undivided aitention to the restoration of Temmany rule in the Greater City, and it bas dropped Mis« Cisneros and restored her wardrobe, which it had borrowed for photographic purposes. The financia! necessities of some of the Hearstlings, consequent upon the close ot the baseball sea- son, the necessities of the yellow sheet itself, which is losing subscribers and money,and the possibilides of a three-ring show, with Miss Cisneros and Mr. Duval as star attractlons, 1 point to the sugeestion with which this articie 3 ue baseball *rakeoff is not a circumstance to the e that subsists in this scheme. Ler rescuer, Mr. Duval. the Cuban neither of n Yellow journalism does not pay the salary of the President his inet, does not specily the hour at which the sun h morning, no: control the movements of the This information is free and for the benefit of the yellow t, who has been misled by long contemplation of his ness into thinking this greatness real, and also to iten the innocent from abroad, who may think that people tuke these strange and noisy freaks seriously. tides, own g enl Political prophets are having an unusuaily busy season, particularly in New York. Their guesses are not all correct, Indeed, a suspicion arises that prophets never before went into the business so poorly equipped with information. The only action to be derived from scanning their figures is in the owledze they convey that anybody who wants to can be as zood a prophet as anybody else. That babit of starving horses to death or near it seems to have broken out again. There should be some simple method How would. tke plan of not only passing sen- offenders but enforcing the sentences do for a ze? To be sure, this course would be radical, but the tor- ng of borses is not a nice practice, and we owe the faithful mal something, of checking tence upo c Justice has been having a lively time at Alturas. When the District Attorney in open court receives five knife stabs from an ex-Judge it can be readily understood that the august tribunal, where Justice is supposed to get in her work, is notin n for nothing, se Blanco is not to be blamea for “‘breathing war in Cuba.”’ He could not well be tiere and breathe anything else, despite the fact that Spain still clings to a pleasing theory that an absolute freedom from war is one of the noticeable features of the island. Budd’s action in pardoning Sternberg wili have the entire approval of Matoney. But if there is any conscience in the bosom of the executive it will enter such a protest that even tue smile of a Mahoney will not mean happiness unalloyed. The brizht policeman across the bay who arrested three wheelmen innocent of statutory offense has been shorn of au- thority. Nevertheless he may have haa some excuse. Perbaps these riders were going along with the monkey stoop. While the police are arres inz innocent people as vagrants they mizht do even better by laying hands upon some of the ‘‘sure thing'’ men, about whose vagrancy there is no question. The telegraphic reports that Weyler is under suspicion do not go far enough. Why, t e man was convicted long ago. MAKING A CITY CHARTER. (¢ AKING a City Charter” is the title of an article in ]\/\ the curient number of the Merchants’ Association Review, which well deserves attention from ail who are interested in seeing the present movement fora new charter d 10.a uccessful conclu-ion. The article emphasizes the uat the charter will not bs acceted if it bears any mark ibject to any suspicion of partisanship, 1t says: It goes without saying that partisanship should bave no place in making of a city charter, any more than in the construction of a Organic laws are not made for any person or for any are destined for all the people and, 1f rightly built, for The moment that narrow partisan interests are forced upon work its course becomes poliuted and its value im- 12 must be devoid of every instinct of patriotism who would t1hus mar the blessings justly due to pdsterity, th patred This truth 1s that which THE CaLL has been impressing upon ihe public ever since the issue arose. The very first thing to be done in the work of cha:ter-making is to elect a non- partisan board of freeholders. If any party or faction or clique, or asy combination whatever short of a combinat on of 1l parties, en.eavors 1o elect fresbolders pledged to frame a chart according to partisan or clique ideas and for selfish advantagor, then the who e movement for a new charter will ndangered, We have had a g eit deal of experience with charter- making in this city, and every part of that experience teaches the one jesson that uniess the intellizent el ments of the city nb: brovght 1o work together for the formation and the gption of a charter all efforts to accomplish enything in that direction will be vain. The only safe plan before the promo:ers of the present charter enterprise is to arrange for a mnon. ia tisan boa d of freeholders and to head off any partisan movement in their ranks. In that way there is saiety. In any ©.ber there is certain discomtiture. The Merchants’ Association Review is right, There must be no partisanship in the new charter. be THE ELECTIONS YESTERDAY. EPORTS from the elections of yesterday show that re- R sults are not widely different from what are usual in off years. The predictions of political experts have been fulfilled in almost every instance. There is nothing in the news of the event that will occasion surprise, unless it be the record of affrays in Kentucky, where the contest bestween the silver and the gold Democrats seems to have been carried on with pistols as well as with ballots. Despite the defeat of Tracy in New York, where the bolt of the mugwump reformers from the Republican ticket opened a way for the success of Tammany, the elections as a whole constitute a Republican victory. The most important election of theWay was that in Ohio and there the party of protection and prosperity obtained a genuine triumph over the fusion of all the opposition factions. Ohio will have a Republican Gov- ernor and a Legislature that will re-elect Mark Hannato the Senate. The old Uhio custom of going Democratic in off years has this time been set aside. The State is now firmly in the Republican column and can be counted on to stay there as long as present issues continue to dominate our politics. No Republican will underrate the loss of the cify of Greater New York. The contest there next to that in Ohio was the most important of the year, and at one time there were bright prospects that the new city government would be inaugurated under Republican rule. Had all the opponents of Tammany been able to work together these bright prospects would to-day have culminated in a sweeping victory Unfortunately that was not to be. A group of obstinate and headstrong reformers decided that if they could not rule the city they should throw it into the hands of Tammany, and the event proves they were powerful enough to accomplish that result. Instead of a Mayor of whom the city could be proud, such as ex-Secretary Tracy would have been, New York will now have a man whose only reputation is that of being the figurehead of Tammany. While regretting the loss caused by the dissensions in New York, the Republican party can congratulate the country upon the overthrow of the Democratic machine in Maryland and the election of a Legislature that will send to the United States Senate a Republican to take the place of Gorman. The great Democratic boss and wire-puller of the Senate has been defeated at last. His long career has been no credit to himself, his State or the Senate, and his defeat is a distinct triumph for honest politics as well as for the principles of protection and sound money. With the assurance of the re-election of Senator Hanna and the election of a Republican to take the place of Gorman, the Senate will be more strongly Republican than heretofore. There will be less danger of deadlocks on important measures and less necessity for compromises that are injurious to the welfare of the country. In that respect the elections of yester- day have an important bearing on national affairs, and their influence will be felt for years to come. Outside of New York the opposition to Republican pros- perity has nowhere achieved a success that will give it any | encouragement. Fusion has again failed to win anything for | either of its elemsnts. It is evident the people have grown | weary of erratic politics. They have learned by experience the value of Republican policies and Republican administrations, and hereafter the support given to them will be consistent and steadfast in off years as well as in years of national contests. We are indebted to the Eraminer for a picture of Nero in his justly celebrat:d bat reprehensible act of fiddling auring the progress of a fire when he ought to heve been helping baul the hook-and-ladder truck. However, we note with surprise that the gentleman woos the spirit of melody by means of an up-to-the-present-date violin, the same not having been in- vented for many years after Nero had left the staze and gone to another fire. While he was reaching centuries ahead after modern effects it is a wonder that he did not get something more than one fiddle, whose best effort could not rise above the roar of the flame. What Nero really needed was a trombone. MARSHAL BLANCC’S MANIFESTO. UBA has no longer anything to hope nor, indeed, has she much to fear from Marshal Blanco, who has now suc- ceeded Weyler as Captain-General of the island. His manifesto holds out no promise of a recognition of the inde- pendence of the country, nor does it offer terms of local self- government of a character sufficiently attractive to incline any considerable number of Cubans to accept them rather than to continue the war. If the manifesto accurately declares the determination of the new commander and of the Liberal Ministry in Spain, the situation in Cuba is virtual'y the same as it was before Weyler was recalled. As nothing has been changed but the man, it is not likely that change will mean much. The policy of the new man is virtually that of the oid, and unless he possesses a greater ability to command, to conciliate, to plan and to exe- cute, the war will drag along until scme foreign power inter- venes to check it, or until one side or the other drops its arms trom sheer exhanstion. In his address to the Spanish soldiers in Cuba, Blanco | speaks of the war for independence as an “infamous revolu- tion,” and says to the troops: *“This I expect to suppress soon through your heroic efforts and with the concurrence of the whole country, which will unhesitatingly <ide with us to fight thevictims of hallucinations, who aspire only to what must bring their complete destruction.” In conclusion he says to the army: ‘‘Let there be war on the stutborn enemies of the Spanish people, with protection for those who seek the clem- ency of Spain, and let this war, which dishonors us, and is making us penniiess, settle these questions forever.” Whatever may b> the differences of opinion on the main features of this preclamation there will be no dispute as to the accuracy of the phrase which describes the war as one which dishonors Spain and is making her penniless. Neither the Gov- ernment, the generals nor the trocps of Spain have drawu from this contest anything but dishonor, and the waste and expense of it have brought the nation to the verge of bankruptcy. According to statistics recently compiled by the London Spectator the debt of Spain as given in the last official report is about $1,400,000.000, and of that sum about $45,000,000 has been incurred to carry on the Cuban war. In addition to the Span- ish debt there is a further debt of about $350,000,000, which is known in Spanish finance as the Cuban debt, inasmuch as it is based upon bonds issued against Cuban revenues. If the war debt is added to the so-called Cuban debt there will be a sum of about $400,000,000 which Spain expects Cuba to pay. If Spain cannot conquer Cuba she must add that sum to her already overwhelming load of debt, and the consequence will be bank- ruptey and possibly repudiation. The existence ol these debts moves the Spaniards to fight hard to recover control of Cuba, and they have an equally po- tent effect in prompting the Cubans to fieht for independence, If Caba falls now and that burden of debt is piled upon her the fate of her people will be one of the most deplorable in historyg The longer the war continues the greater becomes the evil that threatens both countries, and it may yet reach a point where civilization will have to interfere to put an end to 1t in the name of humanity. Not long ago a rash man tackled a young lady at Pacific Grove with intent to annex her purse, and an instant later he fled, builets from her pistoi singing about his ears. Now a San Jose miss, accosted rudely by a fellow who had never been introduced to her, hits straight from the shoulder and knocks him out. After a while the fostpad and masher will ] better than to try their zames on California girls, Oakland girls continue to do what they are pleased to call “seek fame on the stage,” regardless of the solemn truth that there is little of that article to be found there, and that much of this litile has already been gobbled by people having no spe- cial claim to it. 3 rn England seems to be worse scared about the pro-pects of war between the United States and Spain than Uncle Sam has thought of being. PERSONAL. B. Galloway of Walnut Creek is at the Russ. Dr. John Foshay of Albany, Or., is at the Grand. F. D. Cobb, & Stockion merchant, s at the Baldwin. Dr. William Cole of Guerneville is at the California. State Senator N. E. Malcolm of San Jose is at the Grand. Judge John H. Garber of Salinas is visiting at the Grand. J. F. Kelby, a merchant of Cleveland, Ohio, is at the Palace. Dr. Vapelius of Germany arrived at the Palace yesterday. A. J. Larsen, a newspaper man from Lodl, is staying at the Grand. A. Scott of the Belleview mine, Tuolumne Ceuaty, is at the Cosmopolitan. W. F. Prisk, a newspap -r man of Grass Val- ley, is registered at the Occidental. £. Storms of Stratton & Siorms, cigar manu- facturersof Chicago, is at the Palace. James Miller of Reno, Nev., is at the Russ, registered as an Eastern cattle-buyer. Walter Tryon, a mining man of Angels Camp, is making a shor. stay at the Grand. William Flinn and George H. Flinn, lawyers of Pittsburg, arrived yesterday at the Palace. George E. Wilhoit, who is connected with one of the Stockton banks, is a guest at the Grand. Thomas B. Hall of Hall, Lawis & Co., the big Sacramento commission merchants, is at the Grand. Arthur Spear gave a dinner party at the Occidental last nignt to eighteen of his young frienas. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Ford of Humboldt are guests at the Russ. Mr. Ford owns a creamery at Humboldt. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Shortridge and Miss Shortridge have taken apsrtments at the California for the winter. John Raggio of San Andreas, who owns stage lines in Calaveras County, is among the late arrivals at the Grand. James McCudden, a contractor of Vallejo, arrived at the Baldwin yesterdey, accom- panied by Miss McCudden. Mrs. P. B. Fraser, wife of the president of the Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank of Stock- ton, is a guest at the Occidental. S.A. Vance of Eureka, owner of the Vance House of that place and part owner of the Vance Mills, s a late arrival at the Grand. F. A. Dwyer, the New York bookmaker and general racehorss sporting man, arrived at the Baldwin last night direct from tie East. W. Marvine, a chaplain of the United States army, en route from Washington, D. C., to ons of the military stations in Arizona, arrived at the Russ yesterday accompaunied by his family. Among the arrivals at the Californiais H. C. Nash, Iibrarian of Stanford University, author of and one of the charactersin the recently produced and remarkably successful faculty drama, “The Train-robber,” which was pre- seuted as one of the features of tha Kirmess in the university museum last week. J. B. Douner, the new superintendent of telegraph for the lines of the Southern Pucific, installed himrse!f y -sterday in room 42, on the fourtn floor of the Union Trust building, next door to General Manager Kruttschnitt’s office, and in the identical room lately occupied by St:phen T. Gage, and vacated only the day be- iore simply to give the new officer a p ace | ¢ 0se to the other officinls of his department, but Mr. Gage, thouzh now over in the Crocker building, is said notto have left the raiiroad. HOW LORJ TENNY ON REVISED. Hallam Tennyson's Memoir. SWEET AND LOW—THE ORIGINAL VERSION. Bright Iy the moon on the deep. Bright are the cIiffs {n her beam. Sleep, my lictle one, s.eep? Look! he smil:s a1 d opens his hands! He sees bis father io distan. lands, And kisses him there {a & dresm. Sleep, s.eep. Father is over the deep; Father will come (o thee s000. Sleep, my pretty one, sleep! Father will come .0 his babe in the nest, Siiver sails ali out of the West, Under the 8 Iver moon. Sleep, sleep. THE FAMILIAR PUBLISHE) VERSION. Sweet and low, sweet and low, ‘Wina of tne Western s Low, low, breathe and bl Wind of ihe Western se Ov rthe roliing waters go, Come frum the dying ni0on and blow, B ow him ugaiu :0 me. ‘While my littie one, while my pretty oae, sleeps. Sieep and rest, sleep and rest, Father wili come (0 thee 500m. Rest, sest, on mo her’s breast, Father will come to thee soon. Father wili come (o thee, babe in the nest, Siiver alis all out of the West, Under the silver moon. Sleep, my little one: siesp, my pretty one, sleep. —_— BRAIN FOWER IN PLANTS. Westminst ette. There is a very intcresiing article on this subject by Arthur Smith in this month’s Land Magazine. He points out that those ac- quainted with the habits of plants know that they have the power of adapting themselves to circumstances, and have many movements and traits that are the very reverse of auto- matic und insunctive. Numerous instances could be given in which not only are the signs of sensibility as fully developed in the plant as in the animal, but many phases of animal | life are exactly imitated. In this connection Mr. Smith citesithe mi- mosa, “sensitive not only of the most delicate touch, but, like several other genera, of the apyroach 'of darkues- or of even a shadow thrown upon it On repeated or rough touching tue leaf stalk sinks down and the whole lenf hangs as if withered. After a short time the leaf stalk rises and the leaves ex- pand agal; 'This trait of leaves assuming a withered appearance is,” Mr. Smith xoes on to say, 'very aualogous to that whict is found in many invects, and, in fact, in all partsof the animal kingdom, of teigning death at any one’s approach or when slightly touched.” Again, the nl:er of piauts, Which is the same pliysiologically as animal sleep, goes to prove, Mr. Smith holds, the existence of a nervous system in the members of the vege- table kingdom. Then the carnivorous plants afford further evidence of the existence of n;;voun energy orbrain power. Mr. Smith adas: ‘‘When we see the irritability of the sensi- tive plant transmitted from one part to another, exhausted by repeated artificial exci- tatio and renewed aiter a period of repose, it is difficult to dissociate it from animality. Still less can we wilness certain orgaus taking determinate positions and directions, sur- mounting iniervening obstacles, movin, spontaneously; or study the manner in whicn they are affected by stimulants, narcotics ana oisons, and yet decinre these phe:omena to caused by s different power from that which produces simiiar uctions aud effects in animals” Itis, moreover, *‘a wonderful fact that the first embryonic forms of plantsand animals, birds and beasts, fish and fowl, the mimosa and man, are so0 exactly similar that the high- est powers of the miscroscope are unsble to frace any distinction between them.” Were these facts, well enougn known in tne scien- tific world, more generally recognized, what & new interest it would impart to the denizens of the gardens and the flelds! CORRECTEL WAR STATISTICS. Globe- Democrat. Recent correciions in the statistics of the Union army in the Civil War swell the aggre- gate of recorded deaths to 360,207. The num- ber killed outright in dction was 67,058 and 42,581 died of wounds, but this total of 109, 39 was less than halt that of the deaths from disense, which sggregated 250,568, An army 1 Union soldiers numbering 29,498 died in prison. Itseems there are more than two chances (o one that the soldier who dies for o 1897. THE GANROBERT MONUMENT AT ST. GERE. presence of the notables and officials of Italian, Turkish and Russian armies. symboiizing the triumpbal return from Algiers. French army and inaugurated the and Reichshofen be was summoned to the French people. The statue is In bronz: and is the work of the eminent artist, M. Lenoir. resents Canrcbert in full uniform holding the baton of a field-marshal in his right nand. At the two sides of the pedestal are placed two statues in stone—the oneofa Zouave and the other of a wounded guardsman, both enveloped in garlands of flowers last the iaol of the French people, was born at 8t. Cere, June 27, 1809, the military schooi into the army and earned and received rapid promotion while in He was made brigadier in 1850 and divison commander in 1853. the Crimea and in 1854 succeeded Mar-hal St. Arnaud as commander-in-chief of the go of Sebastopol. Alma, which finally caused him to resign the command to Marshal Pellissier in 1855. He was made a marshal of France in 1856; commanded a corps of ths French army at the battle of Solferino in Italy in 1850. the field at the head of the Sixth Corps at Chalons. After the disasters of Forbach in all the eneagements during tie investiture and capitulation of that place. trial of Bazaine his grand and martial bearing won for him the increased favor ot The monument to Marshal Canrobert was dedicated at St. Cere last month.in the France and representatives of the English, It rep- Francois Certain Canrovert, to the He wert from Italy. He went to He received a wound at In the Franco-German war he took Me:z to re-enforce Bazaine, and took part At the FLASHES OF FUN. “In #ll the groceries now you can buy self- rising flour.” «'1s there any place where we can get a sell- rising cook?'—Chicago Record. Hello, Jerry; got your new flat all fitted Not quite. buy u folding toothbrush Say, do you know where I can ?"'—Chicago Record. “No,” said the honest farmer; “I would not ’ve bought that there gold brick at all ef he hadn’t told me that I was gettin’ it extra cheap, as they wanted to dispose of all their 1897 models ”—Indianapolis Journal City Child—Do country towns where you go have theaters? Actress—No. Country towns never have theaters. They have only opera-houses, acad- emies of music and temples of Thespis.—New York Weekly. “Of course, I couldn’t hear what he was say- ing,” remarked the friend who had been wail- ing in the lawyer’'s reception-room, ‘‘but I coulda’t help being impressed with the in- tense earnestuess of your caller’s voice.” “No doubt, no doubt—he wanted a loan.’— Chicago Journal. re you ajir ?” asked the transom. es,” answered the door, with some saarp- ness. “Why " “QOh,” said the transom, ‘I merely wanted to know 1if you intended to put your in it.” Not requiring a key to this joke the doore knob chuckled hoarsely.—New York Press. “The enemy,” said the courler, “is approach- ing in force. “Is your information authentic ?”’ asked the general. “I have it from the highest authority,’” sald the courier. It was just telephoned down from the balioon.”—Indianapolis Jouraal. “Is your son making any headway in col- lego . Any headway ? Ishould say he wes. You ought to see him bucking the center.””—Chi- cago News, Henry Peck—Here’s o newspaper that asks if American husbands are henpecked. Mrs. Peck—Well, sir, I would like to know what sort of an a er you would make. Speak right out, sir, you needn’t be airaid. I am sure I hay: always been meek and docile. Well, why Gon’t you speak ? Honry Peck—No; I should hate to think they all are.—North American, Papa—Alice, I thought I heard a loud smack in the hall last night. Alice—Yes, Mr. Upsley made tnat noise with hislips when I told him you had made $50,000 in a wheat deal.—Cleveland Leader, HERRMANN'’S GIFT TO M’KINLEY. Mme. Adelaide Herrmann, the widow of the famous prestidigitateur, relates the following incident, which occurred at the last meeting of President McKiniey and Professor Herr- mann, between whom a strong friendship ex- isted: When he was last in Columbus, Pro- fessor Herrmann called on Major McKinley, who was then Governor. As he started to go Professor Herrmann sald: “Major, I may not see you again, and I have never given you anything by which you may r;aa,mbu me. Let me make you a present of this Taking his hand he placea s fine diamond ring on one of his fingers. Major McKinley thanked nim and admired the ornament. his country will be carried off by disease in- siead of & bullet. The figures show tne greatstratn of army life upoa the vital pow- ers, aud also suggest that tue sanitation and medical supervision of troops should receive the closest attention. — - ONE WAY TO LEARN SANSKRIT. The learned Oxford professor, Max Muller, once asked Vivekananda if Ramkrishna, a great Hindoo religious teacher, knew Sans- krit. The answer at first was evasive, but finallly Vivekanands said: “When Ram- krishna was ia the jungle as an ascetic a beautiful woman came down from heaven 23d taught him the language.” ‘*Nonsense,’” was Muller's reply, “ihe only way to learn Banskrit is to get & grammar and a dictionary and go to work.” —_— Miss Helen V. oswell, the organizer and head of the Woman’s Republican movement in New York, is a mining engineer and ranks high as a mining drafisman. Shortly after Herrmann left a friend who was present safd: “'Oh, by the way, Governor, will you let me see that ring?” The Governor held up his hand, but was as- tonished to find the ornament gene. There was no need to ask questions about the mystery. Herrmann had left as a memento, instead of the ring, the memory of a clever trick of which the Major was the viciim, A BODIE OBITUARY. Bodle Miner-Index. Milt Aldridge, the old-time Bodie sport, “passed in his ehecks” a short time ago on board a|Stockton jrain, while on his way to Paso Robles Hot Sprines. He has pulled his last;card and won’ t shuffle the pasieboards any more in this portion of the universe, but if there s any kind of a game whei he will surely take a haud. “Mil and a humorist, and many persons here will remember the jokes that gurgled out of him like molasses out of a jug. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Miss de la Ramee, known to fame as *“Ouida,” is eccentric in dress. She favors light colors, quite out of h rmony with her age and ap- pearance generally. Her face Is not innocent of powder, and her hair 15 arranged in a curly mass with ribbon on it. The number of pilgrims to Burns' birth- place last year was 38,000. During the same period 30,000 persone visited Shakespeare's house at Stratford-on-Avon, and 1108 paid a tribute to the memory of Thomas Carlyle by going to see his old home at Ecclefechan, President Alfred Coolidge of the Second National Bank of Colfax, Wash., has raised au immense quantity of wheat this season and sold it at a rate equaling $34 20 an acre, while the land itself could not heve been sold atany time these past three years at $40 an acre. Colonel Isaac Avery Wheeler, who died In Atlanta, Ga..a few days ago, was for along time editor-in-chief of the Atlanta Constitu- tion. Although a devout Methodist and of a peacelul disposition, he had fought four duels with men who had cast aspersions on his motives. Professor Charles Edward Colby of Columbia University, one of the world’s leading scholars in chemistry, dica in New York a few days ago, aged 42 years. In 1889 the chair of organic chemistry was created at Columbia in order thai he might fill it. He had a European reputation, and was a member of the national chemical societies of France and Germany. Miss Mary Ann Crotherof Philadeiphia, who recently celebrated her 104th birthday, ciaims to be the oldest old maid in the world. Not- withstanding her great age, she is active and ‘vigorous, doing some of the light work in the house every day. She goes upstairs without help, and up to mine years ago, she walked regularly every Sunday to church, & distance of one mile. THE NEWSPAPER AS A COLLEGE. Harper's Weekly. The opinion entertained by a great many more or less prejudiced persons that & good newspaper office is the best school going seems 1o gain some justification from certain pas- sages in the newly issued volume of essays and discourses by Fresident Ellot. Discussion wherein modern education nas failed 1o do all that was expected of it, Dr. Etiot says: These, then, are the four things in which the individual youth should be thoroughly trained, i his jud ment and reasoning power are to be sys- tematically developed: Observing accurately; re- cording correctly: comparing, krouping and in- ferring justly: and expressing cogenily the results of these mental operaiions. ‘Lo observe accurately and record correctly are the particuiar things 1n which every re- porter for a good newspaper is drilled every day, and Le does not get far in his business without getting practice, almost as regular, in comparison, influence and cogent expression. If pracizce in these things is the best thing for the judgment and reasoning power, we ought to be thankfui that so much of it goes toéquip the newspaper man for his momen- tous jo 18 no class of men in the country whose state of mind is of more importance to us than the newspaper men. Itisa comiort to be able to tnfer from the statements of authority that there is no class that is in & better wav to have its mind deveioped. Ol course ail pupiis are notscholars, and the fact that newspapers constantiy print inaccurate reports and draw unwarranted fuferences only means that che task 18 quite difficult, and that the learners dg impertect work. —_— SQUEAKED ONCE TOO OFTEN. Spare Moments. Maccabe, the ventriloquist, was a great practical joker. Several years ago he was on board a river steamboat, and having made friends with the engineer was allowed the freedom of the engine-room. Presently a certain part of the machinery began to creak. The engineer oiled it and wentabout hisduties. In the course of a few mn‘nte LG Was heard again, and the engineer rushed over, oilcan i; - cate the same crank. N i«g-lnil‘:i{::ux‘m hifi POSt, but it was only afewm ore the sa. 1 ¢l aklnx {,oudler ?zlg ever. Eascancies reat Jupiter!” he yelled. ¢ i befl"cmdj_ yelled. “The thing’s re oil was administered, but the engineer began to smell a rat. Pretty soon umkcr:mk squeaked again, when, slipping up behind Ma- cabe, he squirted half a pintof oil down the Joker's back. said he, ‘T guess that crank won't ““There, squeak any more,’ of superiniendiug all creation. There | | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, THE PosT—E., City. The first number of the Evening Post of Sen Francisco was issued De- , cember.4, 1871 RODEG—G. City. - Rodeo is a small place in Conira. Costa County facing San Pablo Bnly, distant by ferry-and Tail twents-seven miles {rom the San Francisco ferry landing. A pacty of cupitalis e years ago buiit abattoirs there for the shter of cattle. AMERICAN—J. D. B., City. American is ep- plied to a native or inhabitant of the Western Hemisphere, or, specificaliy, of North Amer- jea. In the more restricted sense 1t is applied toacitizen of the United States. Under the broad appi‘cation of the word it would not bs improper to sey that a person born in Canada is an American City. It was on the 8:h o! Decemb:r, 18 tnat the outlines of aman’s face were observed on a pane of glass in the window of a house, 2119 Mason street, San Francisco. It attracted a great deal of attention at the time, but 1o on'e ever gave isfactory explauation of how the picture, Which bad the appearance of s smoke pic- ture, was made to appear on asheet of plain glass. i INTEREST—B., Alameda, Cal. Thelu( of this State says: Parties may agree in writing for the payment of any rate of interest, and it shall be allowed according to x_hcdwrm- lor ’;20 agreement until the entry of judgment. Tne patiies may In any contract in writing whereby any debt is secured to be paid, agree that if the interest of such debt is Dot punctu- ally paid it shall become a part of the princ pal and thereafter bear the same rute of inter- est as the principal debt. FACE AT THE W W., City. The relative RELATIVE RANK rank between the officers of the army and navy of the United States is as foliows: Army. Navy. General. Admiral. Lieutenant-general, Vice-admiral. Major-general. Resr-admiral. Brigadier-general. Commodore. Colonel. Ceptain, Lieutenant-colonel. Commander. Major. Lieutenant-commander. Captain. Lieutenant, senior gradi N First lieutenant, = Lieutenant, junior grad Second lieutenant. TALC—T. D., China Flat, Cal. Talcis a mag- nesian silicate unctuous to the touch of shining luster, translucent and som times transparent when in very thin plates. The principal varieties are foli- ated, massive (including soapstone or steatite) and indurated. The prevailing colors are white, apple green and yellow. Indurated taic is used in pluce of chalk to trace lines on wood and cloth; tale is used asa lubricator and when finely ground and used in paper pulp it imparts A gloss to the paper. Talc powder is also used for poiishing alabaster, serpentine and the like. The Chinese call it figure stone and use to it make idols of. PROPER COLOR FOR WARSHIPS. New York Sun. The order just issu:d by Secretary Long to give Commander Kimball’s flotilla coats of bottie green is the result of experimen'ts last- ing through years. The proper color for warships is a matter as important in its way as that of the uniforms of soldiers. As seariet and other brilliant hues huve been found to make troops conspicu- ous targets, compared, for exemple, with dark biue, or with tk:e gray and the butternut that the Confederate armies wor’, so experience shows that there is a decided preference as to the colors for vessels, when the object is that of escaping an enemy’s attention. Germany, afier exhaustive experiments, adopted biuish gray for her coast defense ships and torpedo-boats, although yellowish brown was als: at one time much _favored, a8 bring not but (he bluish gray was the 1 shable under electric light. T g ugo chose for their coastguard ships a lead color, with a slight tinge of green; and this bad an exceilent sarvice testin the Chilean war on the torpedo- boats Lynch and Condell, which entered Iquique and Coquimbo harbors and were reely vi ble afier dark a few hundred feet away. The blockade runners in our Civil War were painted a lead color, and tne Cush- ing has worn that among the other coats of various hues to which she has been subjected. But, on the whole, while the French gray, the reddish brown and other coiors have shown good results in practice, it has been decidec that for our coasts, keeplng 1n mind also other advantazes of the color, bottle green i bast. Wili the big craft follow the lead of the lit tle fellows in ihis matter? Not necessarily, justnow. When, niter our first modern cruis- érs appeared, the Navy Depariment ordered thatail iron and stee: vessels, abandoning the time-honored black, should come out in white suits, with trimmings of straw yellow for yards, funnels, and $o on, the transformation was very popular, and the new phrase, ‘‘the white squadron,” has lasted to this day. The suips, 100, Were cooier and healihier, on tropi- cal stations, for their light-colored raiment. But presently came an objection on account of the difficulty of keeping them clean, espe- cialiy when coaling was frequent, and the cost of repaiuting was considerable. Of course. too, the objection that white is too conspicuous must be covsidered. Still, we snall probebly see the favorite white con- tinued for a time on battleships and_cruisers, it being assumed that, when hostilities threaten, these vessels can easily slip on a war paint of neutral tint. But meanwhile it seems settled thaiall our torpedo boats shall be clad inbottle green. 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Itkeepsthem well and strong all wintcr" It prevents their taking cold Your docto~ will confirm | this. The oil combined with the hypophosphitesisa splcn-, did food tonic. 50c. and $1.00, all druggists. BCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York