The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 8, 1897, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1891 St W e L R T e L MONDAY.. ~ JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. LEAKE, Manaker. Address All Communications to W. S. PUBLICATION OFFICE - ket street, San Francisco Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROO) +++.517 Clay street ANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. year; per month 65 cents. SAN FR ters 1 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 OFFICES 9:80 o’c Montgomery ) Hayes street er Clay; open u | { | ) o'clock. ! n until SW. corner Sixteenth and | streets; o 2518 M o'clock, 143 ; open unt open until AN AUTOCRATIC MAYOR. HENEVER objection is offered to the concentration of Wpoliliclf power in municipalities, the ready answer of the theoretical reformers is that the people may always procure good governmert by the simple process of electing a the functions of dictator. We rticle on tbe result of the experi- th an autocratic Mayor has been met with tnis argument. “The people’” aro the refuge not alone of the reform theorists. The bosses are always anxious to submit disputes to their arbitration. In fact, there never was | a corrupt political combination in the world which shrunk conscientious man to exerci are not surprised ti at our ment in Greater New York from a contest at the ballot-boxes. There must be some reason for this willingne = to apreal 10 the peopie for good as well as bad government. Whatisit? No person familiar with practical politics need demand an answer to this question. The reform theorists believe the people can be arcused at any time in behall of honest and economical government; or, what is the same thing, that they can be made to see iheir interest in electing a lot of men to office who promise them such a government. The bosses be- lieve that by personal apveal, by launching false issues, by bal- lot-box manipulation, by stuffing registers and by other sharp practice they can defeat the theorists and obtain control. What is the practical resu!t of these two sources of confidence? That is the queslion every man called upon to vote for the es- tablishment of the one-man power in San Francisco should ask himself. We have seen that by simply dividing the respectable forces in Greater New York the Tammany party, noioriously the most corrupt political spoils organization in the world, has captured the government of that city. duce like resulis everywhere. done in San e fonditions pro- Could not the same thing be !d. As a matter of fact, it has been done over and over again. Oaly a few years | 8goa division among the forces of respectability came near resulting 1n the election of Dr. O'Donnell as MWor of this city. The people, in voting to perpetuate a cynical joke escaped the penalty of their folly by less than 1000 votes. 3 When Horace the consolidation act he created a Mayor without patronage, but he invested him with comprehensive powers of supervision. His theory was that if | the Mayor were stripped of patronage the bosses would have no incentive to put up a corruptible man for the office, but with exiensive powers of regulation and supervision the person elected might easily keep things in order by bringing down uron the departments of the city the wrath of the courts and auditing officers whenever wrong should be discovered. The result of this system has been the election of a long line of responsible and high-minded Mayors. But would this line be continued were all the powers of government concen- truted in the hands of that official? Would not the bosses ae- vote tneir energies todiyiding the respectable vote, as was done in Greater New York, and capturing the office? Our mun pal theorists should take note of tue fact that ‘‘the people’ are no match for the bosses. The reason is that the latter make politics a business, while the people study their public interests only at intervals. The Mayor created by the charter of the C t zens’ Commit- tee of One Hundred is given control of the Fire and Police De- partments, the Board of Pablic Works, the Scboo! Department and the Health Department. With the power incident to this patronage the Mayor would carry the corporations of the city and their army of employes in the hoilow of his hand. Could a skillful politician in possession of the proposed office be easily dislodged by the people? Befors we adopt such a Mayor had We not better wait to see how Greater New York gets rid of Croker and Van Wyck? Francisco? Of course it co: Hawes wrote News is cabled that ti.e Kaiser has spearea boar, and we hasten to congratulate him. The animal was so exhausted at the time that not to have speared it would have been an actual cruelty. Bausalito surrenders to the gamblers, not a proud distinc- tion, to be sure, but it shows that some people have the intel- lectual discernment to know when they are licked. A public official responsible for the conduct of his subordi nates, yet without power to appoint them, must have a touch- ing faith in human nature, or yearn at times for another job. THE MKINLEY POLICY. McKINLEY ranks high among the speakers who know how to say a great deal in a few words. His short speeches are always excellent, both in manner and in meaning. Rarely does he fail on such occasions to present some great truth in a few sentences, or, perhaps, in a single phrase, like that which expressed all the issues of the last cam- paign in the saying “It is better to open our mills to American labor than our mnts to the silver of the world.” -In the short address made to his fellow-citizens of Canton on his arrival there to vote he illustrated once mora his ability 1o say the right thing without teking a multitude of words to doit. “I assure you, my fellow-citizens, he said, “that when I entered upon my public duties I had but one aim, but one pur pose—the good of my country, the weliare of my countrymen, and nothinz could be more encouraging to me, nothing could stimulate me to greater effort than to be assured by my fellow as I have bean assured by them to-night, that they are employed and have steady work."” The s:mplicity of these words does not prevent the intelli gence of the country from perceiving the greatness of the policy they outline. It is no slight thing to advance the prosperity of- a great nation like the United States and to overcome the ad- verse conditions of the Democratic depression so far as to pro-_ vide steady employment for all who need it. In times of peace a nation can ask no more of its statesmen than that they snall foster induszx:y, maintain peace and good order, provide a sound system of finance, securo to every worker the fruits of his labor and s0 increase and expand the industrial enerzies of the people that no man will have to beg bread or teg work. To guard the greatness of the nation and to add to the comfort and the happiness of thq homes of all citlzens is a policy whose accomplishment will bLe a lasting nonor to any edministration. President McKinley can look with satisfaction upon the re- sults alreadv accomplished by tbe Republican varty during hi« term of office. He has brought back prosperity. The mills once more are running, the natural resourcss of the country are being developed, capital engages willingly in new enterprises ard as the President’s fellow-citizens assured him all of them lLave steady employment. He does not have to address the people long declamations full of ponderous phruses anl sonor- ous words in order to appear more wise than other men. His policy does not even have 1o speak for itself. itis justitied by its work and all who bave work praise it, citize | superable, will be removed by THE CALL. ORE ,urgent, pressing and imperative than any other business to be considered at the Cabinst meeting to-morrow will be that of devising means for the relief of the sailors of the whaling fleet icebound in the Arctic Ocean. All the energies of the administration should be promptly directed to that end. The United States has been ever ready to give ald to suf- ferers in other lands. It has sent ships to carry food to famine-stricken peop'e in Russia and in India. Itshould be equally ready to help and to save the brave seamen who have now to face a danger of the most appalling kind. Men who are well acquainted with the northern seas as- sure the feasibility of relieving the sailors in the ice-bound fleet if the task of relief is entered upon at once. In this emergency each day is precious. Speed is one of the essential factors of success. To get a ship ready for the expedition and furnish it with supplies without delay is the duty of the hour to which the voice of humanity calls the Government and the people. It seems the officials at Washington have no authority to use any portion of public money to purchase supplies for the relief expedition. Only by an act of Congress can appropria- ions b= made such for purpeses. This obstacle, seemingly in- If the Govern- ment will make ready a ship to sail for the relief of the en- dangered sailors THE CALL will guarantee to have the pro- visions required on hand to be loaded as soon as the ship is prepared to receive them. The guarantee will be made known to the President and the members of his Cabinet when they meet to-morrow. America has no braver class of men than those whose restless enterprise carries them to face danger and hardship in the Arctic seas. The sailors of the whaling fleets have been ever among the first and truest at every stage of our history to respond to the calls of the nation. No men have been swifter to fight its battles and uphold the honor of its flag. In all our wars our naval victories have been among the most brilliant that shed a luster upon our arms, and the whaling flzets have been the nurseries where the men who won those successes were trained to the courage and the discipline that make heroes. We owe much to our sailors. We are indebted to the men who facs the dangers of the deep. We are under obliga- tions to the whalers who have carried our flag and demon- strated the strength, the skill and the daring of our race amid the desolations of the Arctic ocean. These debts and obligations bind us 10 the duty of making heroic efforts to save the brave in their hour of danger. The voices of humanity and of national patriotism unite in calling us to the task of relief. To these voices THE CALL responds. It is willing to co- operate with the Government in the hizh duty of hastening the relief expedition. It will guarantee ths provisions and supplies the Government has no authority to buy and will forestall the action of Congress in an emergency where delay is fatal and every hour counts -in the saving of life. It will be a high and proud gratification to THE CALL to announce tha news of the success of the expedition and carry to the iriends and relatives of the sailors the glad tidings that their loved ones are sate. Talk about a war scare because Spain does this country the honor to disliks it is nonsense, and novoly knows it better than the correspondents who spread it. Spain can’t, with hope of success, fight any country as big asa Californian county. Her money is gone, credit gone, and patriotism on the wane. Let’s drop such stuff and talk sens What some astute Jawyer will doubtless construe into a fatel defect appears in the complaint of a woman who charges a disagreeable man with baving pointed a gun st her. She does not say whether or not the weapon was loaded. If she can prove that it wasemjty she seems 10 bave a goud case. There is something wrong with the sort of economy which deprives patients at the City and County Hospital of facilities for treatment. At the best these patients do not have an en- viable time, and tfere can bo no shadow of excuse for adding | to their nardsbips. As a matter of curiosity not wholly impertinent, people would like to know whence the Tiburon Indians der ve their right to kill any peaceful foreigner who ventures near their ores. Murder down that way seems even more sefe than in California. A SHORTAGE IN THE APPLE CROP. AST year it was said tue farmers of the Eastern States were kept busy from Thankssiving to Christmas digging their farms out from under the apple crop. The saving wus one of those exacgerations w.ich emphasize a truth. The apple crop of the year was so abundant that prices fell below the sum requisite to pay for the work of getting it to market. It was a good year for fruit consumers, but a bad year for all other classes of fruit handlers, for the heavy apple supply at- fected the market for all kinds of fruit more orless and there was a slump in prices alt along the line. Iv will be different this year. The shortage in the apple crop of the season in the East isone of the notable features of theagricuitural situatien. The Orange Judd Farmer reports that exhaustive and far-reaching investizations into the condition of the apple crop leads to the conciusian that the supply wilt be about 37,436,070 bbis. as against 70,000,000 bbls. last year and 61,000,000 bbls. 1n 1895. The shortage in the crop of the Eastern States will not be made up in any other localtty. Canada, like the United States will have a smailex crop than last year and the ou'put of Eng. land and the Continent w Il be cnly fair. Itis believed, more- over, that much of the Eurovean crop is of the eatlier varieties and will soon be out of the way, so that there is likely to be a considerable foreign demand for American apples. AlL this, of course, will have its effact on the fruic market generally. The Farmer notas, however, that “enormous quan- tities of Bouthwestern fruit, prematurely ripened or Dositively damaged by reaszon of excessive heat and drouth, have been rushed to market,” and aids, “this temporarily hurts the situ- ation, but the undertone is one of confidence, both West and East.” The farmer will not have to spend his time digging his farw from under the apple crop this year, but he will perhaps get as much from his short crop as from the excessive supply he had in 1896. At any rate, he will get enough for his winter apples to pay bim for picking them and nauling them to town. Anything in the apple line that isn’t frost-bitten has money in it this season. Contractors engaged so busily in not building the Hall of Justice have ence more been requested to tell why they do not do as they agreed, and once more the reply may be ex- pected, “We don’t have to.” This answer really seems in- adequate, but it is satisfactory to the contractors, and they seem 1o be the people. Announcement that a danzer point has been reached in the relations of Enxland and France is doubtless true. The danger of the foreign correspondent loading the cables with ground- less surmise, to be retracted the next day and a new lot substi- tuted, was never greater. Train-robbers who first take every‘hing in sight and then wreck the looted cars are so mean that an.offer to hang them would be gross flattery. If Jesse James were alive now he would be ashamed of the company in which he would find himself, Bryan’s views on the silver question have again been pre- sented at great length, but somenow they do not have the as- pect oi importance they once did. However, the enjoyment of Bryan in giving them is apparently as keen as ever. Th re isin the present cmekrgency at least the comfort of knowing that Mr, Hayman can’t take any of our theaters back East witk bim, % THE COAST PRESS. The Redlands Daily Facts has commenced its thirteenth volume. It is an up-to-date reper,and tne crowded state of its advertis- ing columns would seem to indlcate for it a high degree of prosperity. The Fresno Republican NOW Qppears as an eight-page, seven-column paper, having been compelled to enlarge in order to meet the de- mands of an increasing business. It now boasts of being the largest paper in the San Jorquim Valley. The blanket sheet and ‘‘patent outside” have been discarded by the Santa Clara News, which is now an ‘‘al-home’ product and greatly improved in appearance. Instead of the boiler-plate columns it prints readabie matter of alocal flavor, and its editorial page is refreshitg with its breezy comment. The Riverside Globe has gone outof exist- ence. Its proprietor discovered afier a costly experience that there was no cpening for a third daily paper in Riverside, and disposed of his plant to the Ente prise of that eity. L. W. Allum, late city edifor of the Globe, has ac- cepled a similar position on lhe Sania Ana B.ade. The population of ~an Andreas has been in- creasing <o rapidly that houses are nowat a big premium, and the Calaverss Citizen 1s urging the I cal capitalists to build houses for the accommodation of people desirous of lo- cating (h re. This is certainly a strong indi- ation of he vigorous growtk of the mount- ain town, and house-buiiding there would seem 1o promise ample return to 1mvestors. Tne Healdsburg Entcrprise calls upon th business men of that city to wake up and make an effort toward having a beet-sugar fuctory located there. It suggests a mrs:-meeting to boom the movement. If it can be determined thata suflicient supply of beets can be ob- tained to supply a tactory Healdsturg will be i & position to treat with capitaisis in regard 10 the scheme, and it is undersiood thet moncy Wwili be readily invested in such a jlant pro- viding the jarmers will grow the beats. Reno, Nev., is afflicted with un over-supply of “‘mossbacks,” wecording t» the Gazette of that town. They have stood like barifers in the way of Reno's progress, yet she has man- aged to get along fairly well under the cir- cumstances. The Gazette says that Reno's busiuess men hav: not made the best use of their possibi ities, that the piace “~hould have becn long years ugo tue end of the raiiroad division, securing the shopsnow located at Weadsworth and Truckee, and chouid have been & 1own of 20,000 peopie instead of less tha. 5000.” Stockion demands a new postoffice. The present quarters are inadequaie und incon- venient, and the government already owns an excellen: site for & public building in the very heartof tue city, The Mail proposes to stir up a clamor on the subject tant will be heard in Washington. *The postoflice site,” itsays, “is a blot on the city map. Its empu- ness hurts values, Itought to be topp:d with a Federal building, aad the only way to get this d is to bomoard Congress with a stealv Gre of potitions aud memorials and a miscellaneous assortment of kicks until that honorable body gets tired of Learing about the subject.” The editor of the Susanville Mail declares that during the past five vears Lassen County has experienced no sctual “hard times” Money may have been scerce, but he iound that one might ylod along very comfortably without gold £0 lorg as bread uid butter were for thecming. Tu starting out on his twelfth volume he observes that Lussen County has abundant crops ana merkets at excelleut fig- ures, und, there being no carthly reason for complaint, he is going to keep righton pub 1shing s good a paper as he knows how, ma ing no high-sounding promises and being rea- sonably sure that a good-sized slice of the prosperity ple is Mail-ward bound. The Orovilie Register believes that no part of Cilifornia is better situated for generating electricity cheaply than Butte County. There ers nearly 100 streams in tne county that afford power for developing electricity. These sre flowing stieams ail the year, and as they lie mostly within the miniug distriets it is evident that vast quantities of quar'z will be worked there at & very low price. Great elec- tricul piants will generate vast quantities of electricity and this will be distributed throughout the mining sections so that men owning ledges which contain gold ouly to the amount of $20r$250 a ton wiill be able to crush their ore und extract their goid. NEWS OF FORE.Gn NAVIES. Experiments have been mad> in the French navy with paints which would most success- fully conceal vessels from an enemy’s obserya- ton. Gray and bluck met the requirements during dayti-ne, but at uight the electric light made these colors easily distinguishable. During the recent naval manuevers at Brest it isstated a torpdo coated with a newly in- vented paint succeeded in trave sing, without being scen, tue luminous zoae produced by the electric projectors. Half a dozen stern-wheel gunboats are being built by Yarrow for service on the Nile. are 145 teet in lengih, 24 feet 6 inches and draw two feet with & load of thirt tons. They heve two screws, and with 600- horsepower will make a speed of thirteen knots. The material s steel, and the hull is bullt in eleven sections, for essy shipment, and bolted together when ready for launcn- iug. The armament consists of two 12-pound. ers and several machine guns. Lastmonth the Brittsh Asiatic squadron, con- sisting of eight vessels, and tne Japanese squadron of six vessels assembied in the port cf Muroran, Hokkaido, and by precon- certed agreement proceeded to engage in naval maneuvers. Each squadron acted indepeu- dently and formed in bittle iine, engrged in gun practice and boat dril, and each one tried to excal the ofher in smartness. The re- sults are said to have been very satisfactory to the two squadrous from witnessing each other's maneuvers. A dispatch-boat ealled Miyako is ready for Inunching at Kure. Her keel was la.d in March, 1896. She is of 1800 tons displace- ment, tweaty knots spsed and carries 400 tong of coal. The cruiser Akashi, building ut Yokosuka, will also be put in the water dur- ing the present month. The Akashi is of 2300 tons afsplacement, 8000-horse power and is to have a speed of nineteen aud a half knots. Her armament is composed of two 6-inch quick-firing, six four-inch quick-firing, twelve 6-pounders, four macnine guns and two tor- pedo tubes. During the recent court martial of the ¢om- mander of the torpedo-beat destroyer Thrasher for the stranding of his vessei during a dense fog, the fuct was brought out that under slow speed the vessel steered badly and that it was nou safe to run her at less than ten knots. There are maay conditions under which it may not be advisable to run a vessel at ten knots, when, for eximple, fogzy weather pre- vails or when the vessel is picking her way among a number of ships. There are four vessels bulit irom the lines of the Thrasher, allof which, no doubt, have the same tault, and they ere all from Laird’s yard at Birken- | head, Extensive reforms are proposed in the army and navy of China. and it would wppear, uc- cording to the Berliner Tageblatt, as if British influence is again bzing reasserted. It is con- templated 1o establish three dockyurds—one in the north in the Bay of Kian-chian, the second in Nan Kwan and the third in Mirs bay, nesr Hongkong. A board of admiralty- patterned after that of England is to be created. The programme of shipbuilding for parely deteasive purposis embraces two armor-ciads of the Centurion 1type, two cruisers, six torpedo-boat destroyers aud two gunboats. The British battle-ship C®sar has completed her series of trial trips with satisfactory re- sults, and from which the foliowing brief data are taken: Under natural draugnt, eight hours, 10,630-horss power, 16.7 knots; forced- draught trial, four hours, witn .78-inch air pressure, 12.652-horse power and 18.7 knots speed. Uuder thirty consecutive hours’ half- power trial, 10 uscertain the coal consumption, the horse-power averaged 6309, the speed 148 knots and the coal consumed 193 pounds per horse-pwer per hour, Iu the first (wo trials the steam carried in the boilers was 143 and 147 pounds and during the thirty hours’ trinl u little over 142 pounds. The speed was taken by patent log, 101 wuich a coisidernble reduc- tion at nigh speeds must be ailowed. | Cisneros, the beautiful Cuban refugee, 10 in. terview the Jady upon the startling disuppear. ance of William R. Hearst, proprietor of the New York Journal and of its kitchen garden, the San Francisco Examiner. The beautiful Cuban had heard no word of the tragedy. When your correspondent found her she was dining at Delmonico’s. The table was heaped with the richest viands’ The lovely Cuban was found in a most artistic Paris evening dress, a deep vellow in color. 1 wear it,”” she said with her dark, passion. ate, speaking eye:, *‘in honor of the New York Journal.”” When the bewitching little patriot was in- formed of the strange alsappearance «f her benefactor and of the terrible fute that doubt~ to read the Journal through daily snd both the Journal and Examiner on Suudays) Evan- geline uttered a sharp cry. Tears filied her great black eyes and rolled down her beauti- ful cheeks. Her breath came in quick Span- ish gasps. Her tiny foot, also Spanish, beat a wrathful tattoo upoa the floor. With a pis sionate exclamation she clasped her pretty hands. The exquisi tely lovely Cuban girl said nct & ~N Merle aJohnson ~ word. As once before, when she met Presi- dent McKinley, her eyes spoke for her. This is what they said: loss awaits him (there are tumors that Mr | Hearst will b: comnelled by Spanish tyranny | | Her dark. lustrous eyes “Ah! what you have told me fills my soul with grief O, can it be that the good, the | voung, the beautiiai scnor is to be sacrificed? | Ah, where is Decker? Why does ne not fly to the rescue? O, were I man—stay, 1 wnave | beena man. Agein, I will disguise m i and speed to unhappy Cuba. In vain. I dare not. 1 can but pray. Unnappy Evangelina! | Itis thy fate to bring misfortune upon those that biess thee.” The tears were rolling down the charming | refugee’s iace. They spiashed npon her veliow | gown, but Evangelina had forgotien her | clothes. She thouzht only of the man whe had so nobly rescued her, end whose morals, | SAD PLIGHT OF THE FAIR EVANGELINA. A CALL reporter called uvpon Evangeiina ‘\vhose intellect, whose immortal soul was now endangered. O, the malignity of that sentence! However brave, however courageous the iliustrious Senor Hearst might be, could he hope 10 sur- vive such punishment. To read the Journal Huily Gge ) b°PED wiD aails. And on Sundays— a long, low shndder shook tne beautiful Cubar’s barutifal frame. “Perhaps,” sald THEC to assuage the lovely maid’s lonely sor- row, ‘‘perhaps iu—in his absence”—the griei of the young girl rendered sacrel that name so reverenced—<perhaps the Journal will b> mor2 fit torend. Perheps, nay doubt- less, there is no other, however talenied he may be, upon the paper, whose taste is s0—so orange.” It was weil meant, but 0. pitiful heaven! LL reporter, hoping Evaugelina would | lis en 1o no word of comfort. Soddenly a thouzht s:emed to strike her. With the grace of a tawny panther she dasted toward the table. There, beavily bound in deepest yellow satin, lay & copy de luxe of last Sunday’s Jourzal. Evangelina seized it, glanced over its pages. caught sight of the Anne Held story and 1is yard ot kisscs. With one iow moan the beautiful Cuban sank to the floor—an uaconscious, yellow but always beautiful heap. LAY MAcarvm SIOURNA k=2, 156 Kisses Ch. Brudry, for the Compagnie Paris-Lyone iden of reducing the wind resistance, aith zh is increased. the ex pressu with Gooch link motion or tubes—one of which §s seen them. e cylinders ben=ath the boilers are, for the sake of s ber of expariments has been made Witi several testing tne value of different points of cut-off in the high or low pressure cylinders | the attainment of very nigh speeds, no very fast ruuning hiving so far been attained with | NEW JVPE FRENGH LOGOMOTIVE. Tbe locomotive shown in the cut is one of forty engines, constructed to the designs of M. lediterranee. The front 1s so shaped with the it is contended by many engineersat home and abroad that the end frict.on of elungated bodies moving at high velocities Is practically | vegligible when compared with the side friction, and attempis to reduce resistance by pro- | viding the body Witk a pointed beak or prow amount to nothing, because the exposed suriace The engine is a compound, having a low-pressure and two high-pressure eylin- | ders, the latter being outside the frames, and the steam which is condact-a 10 tne chest by distributed by Walschaert's valve gear. The low- 1g room and labor, provided There are two cntirely independen: reversing rears. A Iarge num- of thess engines, but more with & visw to han for PER:ZONALS. J. J. Haley of Los Bauos is at the Cosmo- politan. E. H. Cox, a banker of Madera, is a guest at the Palece. C. F. McG is at the Russ. D. E. McDuflin of El Paso, Tex., is registered at the Cosmopolitan. G. W. Wallett and wife of Chicago, 111, are guests of the Cosmopolitan. General A. E. Grogan of Los Gatos is among the guests at the Califoraia. William Wetherill, a cattleman of Benton, Mont., i8 r-gistered at the Russ. Herman Kind, & hardware man of New York City, isa Iate arrival at the Palace. C. A. Sperry, who ke2ps a general merchan- dise store «t Wesiley, is at the Russ. John J. Doyle, an orchardist and wine-maker of Santa Clara County, is at the Palace. D. F. Cramer and Cliff C. Cramer, mining men of Susanyille, are guests at the Russ. William H. Calligan and A. Tilman, cattle- meun from Reno, Nev., arrived at the Russ yes- terday. Carl E. Lindsay of Santa Cruz, District At- torney of Santa Cruz County, is registered at the Grand. R. H. Willey, a lawyer of Monterey, is at the Grand accompanied by Mrs, Willey, Miss Kena Willey and Robbie Willey. Among the late arrivals at the Occidental last night were Mr. and Mrs. W. H, Kenneay, Mrs. Kennedy and Miss Kennedy, of Dunedin, New Zealand. Madame Genevra Johnstone Bishop of Chi- cago, the oratorio singer with powerful So- Prano voice, arrived here vesierday and fs s guest at the Palace. She first appeared hera last April. To-morrow evening and Wednes- day afternoon and evening she will partici- pate in the Oratorio Festival in Metropolitan Temple. Thursday evening she will sing in Alameda and Friday evening in Berkeley with the University Glee Club. Dr. Julius Goebel, professor of German liter- ature nt Sianlord University. is to begin next Thursday evening befora the German Bramch of the Y. M. C. A. in this city a serfes of six lectures in the German language. The tollow- ing. subjects will be treated in the order named: (1) Faustsage und Faustdichtung von Geerthe, (2) Geethe ursprungliche Faust- dichtung, (3) Faust und Gretchen, (4) Faust uud Mepisiopheles, (3) Der Zwelte Theil Ces Faus, (6) Der Schlus.act des Zweiten Theils uud Geethes Vermuchtnis an die Menschheit. Professor Goebel hns been rated as one of the greaiest living German poets. I. was through hispersonal influence th=t Stanford University secured n few years since the famous Hilder- brand library, oue of the finest private col- lections nf books in all Europe. han, & lawyer from Truckee, CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—Mrs. Dr. M. B. Huff of Pasadena is at the R'ggs House; H. Schlus- ser of San Francisco is at the Arlington. “It seems sirange that they should make such a vulgar display of their wealth.” “Onh, Idon’tkn he sturted as & window- dresser.”—Chicago Journal. A JAR OF M XED PICKLES. “Do you epenk German?” Well, yes; but not to natives of the Father- iand, as they evidenily did not learn the same lunguage as I did at coliege.”—Philadeiphia all. ‘‘Correct the sentence—Don’t never look a gift borse in the mouth.’ " “Don’t never look agilt bicycle on the name- plate.”—Chicago Tribun He—Do you know, what I like about your sister is the way she looks you straight in the face when she’s ta king (o you. Sne The Co The Count—I haf been told, madame, your daughtaire huf ze bad tempalire. The Mamma—Ah, yes, count; but you know she loses her temper so easily, The Count— Ah, how loafly! — Detroit Journal. “I wish you would get your wife to throw her tufluence for me,”” said the woman who was running for office in the Woman’s Club. “I'm sure it would have some effect.” “Yes,” was the tnoughtiul reply; ‘I know when she's ever thrown anything for me it's been effective.”—Youkers Statesman. WRobert—I see by the papers that tnere are geruas in bills, v R.chard—What? Is that so? I must ‘give directions at home that when Dunwell comnes uagain with that little bill to teil him that « do not consider i. safe to receive i.—Boston Transcript. RECONCILIA[ION. O robin. calling 1o your mate (0 rob.n, she has b d me go?), Why stng soloud aud «ing %0 ai The days of s 0y were (ong ago. Th thruth walts (i 1 the sp i .¢ has come To sing the sonxs he sau: of yore; Chil: autumu strices his rapiu’e dumb, (U robin, we shail meet no more!) O robin, calling from the oak (O robin. she was al tome), Gray mists lixe m -veless pall of smoke Hide ail the woodiana and :he lea. T hear th dead Jeaves paiterin 1 hear the whisper of the rala, But mow I hear ihe s.uxs you Sing (0 robin, I mus. love in vain?). O robin, cal ing clear and low. (U robin, mine was a 1 the b ame), You sing as if with fiowers xblow. And fl 1d- ab'ezs the su nmn came. You sing a8 If th - dyiug year Had yet a year of joy 0 .ive, A8 1f the WOFla were iieve: drear (U robin, she will Do forgive!). O robin, calling, ca ling stil (O rosin she has smited on me!), Tril, trill and cail, aud call a .d uill, F1i1 fu.s the air Wi h me.od. The roses never bl omed 8o tair, June never wore 80 d-ar a grace (O robin. cal Ing ever whee. She meets me at the trysting place !y —M. 3. in W estminster Gazette. “A WESIERN Fl H STORY.” New York Herald. Afisherman whils aiggiang bait near Clinton, Tows, uuenzthed & box containing $50,000 in gold and piper money, so a dispatch says. In most instances the “fisi’’ story is told afier the fisherm«n returns from his expedition, | but it may be that this ope is only a “bail story. Yes; sho has an awfuily bad profile. | rell Widow. | NOTEs ABOJT NOTABLES. Professor Ward, the n«lrmmmvr,ol nn{\'\rrl University, has arrived at Cuzco, Pert, where he will make observations. Miss Editn Griswoid of New York hasbeen engogea in patent sociting [or the past | tweive years, and has met with success in her | profession. seemingly it D o sing in Austria, for Mme, Carlotta Woiter, the ceiebra ed di who died recently &t Vienna, has lef p 1 over 1,000,000 flor alty mmounting {0 abour $500,000. Queen Victoria evidentiy expecis to live for many years Ly come, for she is munif:sting & very keen interes toe construciion ol her new yseht, walcn is to take the place of the old Victoria and Albert. Lucia O. Case, wife of & well-known lawyer of Topeka, Kas., and herself a practicing law- yer, annon er intention of being n can- didate next year for Jusice of the Supreme Court on tae Socialist ticket, Mme eska has made ar- 1t is said that rangements with a Warsaw publisher to ua- dertake a complete transiation ¢ Shukee speare’s dramaiic works. Her tran ns of As You Like 1t'’ and “Twelfth Ni already been published. isian authc who and- vo- ht the old Chatenu “Gyp,” the nopular Pe 15 reaiiy Countess of Mirab-au, a greal- niece of the famous Mirabeau of Fre lution fame, has just boug de Mirabesu, uesr A1X. The chateaa was built in 1568 by the founder of the house of Mirge beau. ANSWERS .0 CURRESPUNDENTS City. The City Gar- au Fiancisco, were 1, 1867. cry G dens on Fulsom street, opened to the pubiic Jul Desrr—H., City, “Doni,” as used in fre- te:ruai bodies, means to withdraw from an or. ganizauon. A demit card 1s a card of wiih- drawal. Mustc—H. G., City. 1f you desire to havel piece 01 music published and copyrighted 5¢ had b the copy to a first-cAA0 music wiil advise you exsctly how to proc FOREIGN MINIST] . In or to ubaia a st of the foreign mmh‘n-r? sired it has been necessary 1o write to Was iugton. As soon as ri ed 1t will be pu lished in this departent, FITZSIMMONS- COR H. and W. 8., City. The statement thai Fitz.immons was offered $700,000 to throw the tight at Carson to Cor- betl is' something that s entirely unknown 1o 1hose who are conversant with that contest 5., Oakland, Cal. There e in this city of the sur- vivors of the regiment that was engaged in th: famous charge at Balaklava. Such a list migat be obtained by sddressing a communi- cation to the pension depariment of tne Brit- ish Goverument. Liexs—P K., last held sessiou that “the o days after con of the w forty days after cessriion from lak unficishea coutruct or work THE LIGHT BRIGADE is no 1 obtaine The Legislature at its sed u law which within te: or v.it n any he does e e w.l ed in any proceeding 1o jor close s c's fen. Upon the statement presented it sppeurs that the whole contract was loose.y arawn up, aud to delermine 18 sintus wouid which this dep quire judicial interprotation ftment caunot furnisa. diers' Home, Los Owp Cors—P. D., Cal. The coin described is certainly cent piece of the United Siates of 1801, for the reusun that coins ol that denomination were not issued until 1875. It isnot a qu ter of that date, for none were issued fn 1801. The description furnished is not ciear 1o enable auy oue to state what the coin is. 1l you will p bet ed piece of paper and rub tn ¥ e side s0 as o produvce the 1mpr +i0 o1 the coin and forward that impression, | this department Wil be ab.o 10 tell you waat the coin is. GOVERNMENT La ceraain what lana Man, City. To as- there is open 1o pre-emy tion in the State of California y nave to write to the United States Land Off in the following pieces named: Humb Humboldt County; Independen County: Los Angeles, Los Angeies Murysville, Yuba County; Redding, Gounty: Sacramento, rame Stockton, San Joaquin County; Lassen County, and Visalia, Tuls for informut.on. 1o take up Gover the party intending to do $o must b izen of the Unit d Staies or m clared tntention to become su number of provisions as ro res.d ment sod other matters that : intending teitler st Coun cvelop- il be expin ny of ihe laud NEW pletures, new frames, new lamps, ne tables, new leatber goods and new stationery. Every hing new and everybody invited to see ine new things. Sanbora, Vail & Co., 74l Market stree . et ruits,50¢ 1b. 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