The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 10, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 10 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. , San Francisco PUBLICATION OFFICE . ..710 Ms Telephone Main 1863. EDITORIAL RCOMS... verees D17 Clay street Telephone Main 1874, AND SUNDAY) is served by THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL g towns for 15 cents a week. carriers in this city By mail §6 per year (DAILY r-ound in THE WEEKLY CALL. ...One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE...... teceecienseess.908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. -Room 188, World Building NEW YORK OFFICE Moutgomery 0 Haves stree street, corner Clay; open until open until 9:3) o'clock. 615 open until 9:30 o’ W, corner Sixteenth and open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open 143 Ninth street; open until 9 o’clock. 1505 v 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second open 1il1 9 " THE BEST NEWS SERVICE. Mission streets EGINNING to-morrow THE CALL will furnish its readers B s general news service ever given to the people of the Pacific Coast. Itwillaccomplish this by arrangements it has made with the New York Herald, in accordance with which THE CALL is to have hereafter the full dispatches of the great New York daily To those who are acquainted with the comparative stand- | e Herald as a newsgatherer it will not be necessary to with the best foreign as we of anything in the way of praise er commendation of its news utation of the Heraid dispatches for fullness long since been established, and under the its service. The and accuracy h management of augmented. The news s editors is being continually erget of the Herald is in fact the chief feature of the paper. To that everything else is subordinate. The Heral ely indifferent to politics. It scorns fakes and never invents sensations, but wherever there is news to be had, whether in the Arctic or in Central Africa, it ge:s it, no what may be the how great the expense of time and energy. By reason of the long devotion of its ma ers to the one object of arranging a news service superior to any other in the world, the Herald has built up one that has the confidence of the public, and the most reliable dispatches obtained from any quarter of Europe are those that come from the Herald correspondents. The alliance between THE CALL and the Herald is a natural and, in fact, almost an inevitable one. The two papers being pub d on opposite sidss of ths continent, are not rivals; and as both are working for the same object of get- ting all nd gstting it not only early but accurate o their advantage to work together. The Hrald | readers ave the benefit hereafter of the Western news gath=re HE CALL, whie our own readers will h ave through this arrangement the best and most complete foreign as well as general nsws service ever given to the California pud THE PROPOSED MUNICIPAL POTENTATE. HE question whether it will be good nolicy to create an au- tocratic Mayor for San Francisco is one that will address itself, not to the imaginations of the freeholders who will be elected to frame a charier on December 27, but to theirsound, practical business sense. The fact that the city bas been ruled by political bosses in the past cuts no figure in this argument The problem is essentially one involving a distribution of mu- nicipal authonty. The pertinent inquiry is and will be, Would the people be safer iu the hands of one man, invested with the power to make Governors, Senators, Congressmen, legis'ators and officials for them, than in the hands of several individuals whose legal functions might be a check upon the selfish or ambitious pro- s compara cost or matter e news and f will re pen sities of one another? There is no question that the moment an autocratic Mayor is created the bosses will capture him. That is shown by the recent experiment in New York. Shall we, then, abandon mul- tiplicity of counsel for autocratic responsihility, many bosses for one bess, divided power for concentrated power, and set up an uncrowned king to rule us? We have heard of the possessors of aristocratic prerogative, threatened with the wrath of the people, flying to despotism for protection, but we have never heard of a rational people turning their government over to a p cal potentate in the hope of getting *'good government.” Mayor Van Wyck of New York possesses not cne-tenth of the power proposed to be con- ferred by our local theotists upon the new charter exacutive of this city. The former is a bureaucratic administrator, with large powers of appointment and charged only with the execu- tion of the laws. A complete check upon him is found in the numerous municipal council of the greater city. The proposed Mayor of San Francisco is to be the source of all power, legis- lative, executive and judicial; he appoints everybody, makes, executes and expounds the laws. We do not discuss this matter in its popular phase from a theoretical standpoint either. We know that the people of this city are opposed to an autocratic Mayor. Several charters bave been defeated mainly for the reason that they created such an cflicial, and we are satisfied that if another proposition is submitted 1o concentrate power in the way indicated it will also be defeated. In our judgment the best way to kill the new charter will be to put an autocratic Mayor in it. Information that a preacher at Ls Angeles has committed suicide is certamiy melancholv envugh without the explana- tion given that his mind nad become deranged tiroush the prceess of initiation into the Salvation Army. It is startiing | to note that he had been tossed in a blanket. To be tossed in a blanke: is not populariy supposed to be any part of the plan of salvation, and if the report be confirmed new difficulties it is ¥ 10 see have been cast before the peunitent who is worrying about the condition of his soul. The spectacle of a prince driving a gold spiks is enough to show that when building a railroad this country can put on as much siyle 2s any other. " That the prince is ouly callel such by courtesy, and that the spike will be withdrawn witnhout loss of time, are facts which might tend to mar a pleasing glamour and, therefore, need not b> mentioned here. Another of those incomprehensible idiots who conceive the publication of a bogus death notice to be a joke has turned up. There seems to be no way of gettinz even with an absolute fool; one can ouly pray that tne fool-killer, spurred to action by such evidence of his own neglec , may supply speedy oppor- tunity for the writing of a zenuine notice. Perhaps the honorable Board of Supervisors will pardon the expression of an opinion that in estopping the presentation by merchants of gifts to customers they are swallow nz acamel with a very large hump. A man who held four medals in token of his bravery and 1rowess as a life saver is about to be buried ss a panperin Alameda County. Republics are said to be ungrateful, but they have no monopoly. People who attend the yell,w journal’s bail game are not apt to see any playing worth mentioning, but there is usually a very fair pugilistic exhibition, for which no extra charge is made. Football playing is now a felony in Georgia. Wonder what they would do with a yellow journal baseball tournament down that way? Probably make it a capital crime, Durrant’s lawyers, in saying that they have another card to play, strengthen a suspicion that they came into the game in the first place with a co'd azck, A CONTRAST WORTH NOTING. | EFORE public interest in the expedition for the relief of th2 B sailors of the whaling fleet off Point Barrow is weakened by the coming of new incidents, it will be worth while for the people of California to take note of the difference between the method pursusd by THE CALL in dealing with the issue and that pursued by the Examiner. It is the difference between legitimate, honest help and a fake of pretended help; and it is time that even the wayfaring man, though a fool, should un- derstand this difference, for it is a matter of i.aportance to all who are in any way affected by newspapers. As soon as THE CALL learned that a fleet of American whaling ships was icebound in the Arctic Sea under circum- stances that threatened awful suffering among thz crews of the ships, it at once took steps to procure from the Government a relief expedition. When the Secretary of the Navy announced that he had no authority to provision a relief ship without an appropriation from Congress, THE CALL offered to furnish all the supplies needed for the expedition. This offer of THE CALL was not made as a bluff, nor for | self-advertising. It was made to meet an unforeseen emergency | which threatened to defeat the plan of sending immediate reli=f i to the whalers. Moreover, it was honestly made. It was not based upon a condition that others should subscribe ten times | as much as THE CALL subscribed. It was not made upon the proposition that THE CALL would pass the hat around and if others gave much then THE CALL would give some- thing. It was not in any senss a bluff or a fake. Itwasa plain business, honest proposition. It meant simply what it said; it the Government could not at once provision a relief ship THE CALL would do so at its own cost. The Examiner paid no attention to the nsws from the whaling fleet until the action of THE CALL gave the move- ment for relief the importance of a sensation. Thereupon the Examiner saw the chance to circulate the hat and take up another of those ‘subscriptions it has found so profitable. It | gathered no news concerring the whaling fleet, but offered to contribute §25co to the relief fund and to obtain from a base- ball combination 82500 more, provided the public would drop £50,000 into the Examiner hat. The offer of the yellow journal was worth nothing. In the first place, before $50,coo could be collected by private sub- scription the Arctic winter would have set in and it would be impossible to get anywhere near the icebound fleet before next | summer. In the second place, the offer had a suggestion of fraud on the face, inasmuch as it placed the Examiner subscrip- | tion at §5000, thus claiming the baseball rake-off as a part of the Examiner donation, when it has been but a short time since the Examiner itself declared it had nothing to do with the baseball scheme and had no control whatever of the money it took in. In the third place the offer was worthless, for, as the editor of | the Examiner is an absentee who cannot be reached either by private citizens or by law officers who desire to collect money from him, his subscription lacked a great deal of being a guarantee. 1’ i Here then is the contrast between honest help and a fraud, between legitimate journalism and a fake. It is to the interest of the public that this difference should be well and widely noted. Human nature is so curious a thing that it is safe to wager that the sailor who was washed off a whaler recently and made three desperate attempts at suicide, and had in each in- | stance k cked loud ana long because somebody with a stomach | CLOSING TEE SLOT MACHINES. DlSTRICT ATTORNEY BARNES, by giving the opinion the meaning of the Penal Code of the Siate, has pre- pared the way for a reform that promises to be &s sweeping as had to walk carefully to avoid falling in, and to-morrow it may be so tizhtly closed as not to leave a slot biz enough to drop a | The subject as considered by the District Attorney is simply one of law. It daid notconcern him in any degree | immoral, whether it promoted the gayety of nations or tended to cause profanity in the mouths of the peorle. It was suffi- the Legisla ure, and az a consequence unless the courts over- | rule him or the Police Department is negligent, the slot% It seems that the lJaw draws a line between the slot machine played for cigars or drinks and the slot machine played for a distinction should be made, unless experience has shown that the telephone is not a lottery inasmuch as the citizen who | glad to lose some o! its slot machines, even if it cannot be rid of all of them ¥ a lottery, but, like all other lotteries, is a swindle and a fraund. The public does not see the inside of the game. It is an and more dangerous forms of risking money on the chance of getting something for nothing. There are many novelties of loss a good riddance, but among all these there is none we will surrender more readily than the nickel-in-the-siot machine. | drowned ajed protesting against fate. Yet that sailor had pump or a surgeon’'s needle had interfered with him. that the nickei-in-the-slot n achines are lotteries within a revolution. But yesterday the town was so wide open a man nickel in. whether the machine was good, bad or indifferent, moral or cient to him that the slot machine is a lottery, as detined by machines must go. chance at the preat telephone game. It is not clear why the plays it has no chance. Be this as 1t may, the public wiil be There is reason to believe that ihe slot machine is not only insidious temptation to gambiing. It leads the way to worse civilization which humanity could well spare and count the Put it on the list. It never will be missed. France is not doing an extremely dignified thing in keep- ing the supposed traitor Dreyfus in a cage as though he were a raging teast. The growing sentiment that the man is innocent | adds force to this view. It Dreyfus can at Iast clear his name | there will be something more than an apology due him. He ouzht at least to have the privilege of taking his restored sword | and therewith investigating the vital anatomy of the ofiicials who have devoted so mu time to coptriving tortures for him. AMERICAN BACON IN ENGLAND. ECRETARY WILSON, whose activity inthe conductof the Department ot Agriculture permits nothing affecting the welfare of the American farmer to escaps his attention has been making some investigations into the bacon trade in Eng. | land ana has fcund that the yroducers of bacon in the United ! States are not getting as large prolits from the market as they | would if they made a more careful study of its demands. | At the date of the investigations of the Secretary it was found that American bacon in the British market brought only 614 cerits a pound, while bacon from Canada or Denmark brought from 11 to 14 cents. The cause of the difference in price was the excessive fatness of the United States product. Oar farmers, it seems, put too mu.h fat on their hogs to suit the British taste, and as a consequence it has to be sold as a 1 secona-rate article in that market. The fatter a hog can be made the roore he weighs, and as he is sold in the American market by weight alone, the farmer naturally pute on the animal every pound he can carry. As the price of hog meat isalways higher than the price of corn, there is money in the process of converting ihe one into the other. This being so, it is not easy to see how we are going to provide a remedy for the excessive fatness the British compiain of. Will the hog-buyer pay more per pound for a lean hog than a fat one? Wiil the farmer sell a lean hog when he has the means of making him fat? There would be money in 1t for usif we could send bacon to the English market that would bring 14 cents a pound instead of 61fcents. That much is beyond guestion. Tne difficulty is to find a way to reduce the fatness of American hogs so fong as corn is low. Fortunately science is discovering many uses for corn in addition to the old-fashioned ones of making corn bread, fattening hogs and producing whisky. The new uses may cause the price to go up, and then there will beless of it fad to hogs. The result will be doubly beneficial, for whatever will raise the price of corn will raise the priceof bacon, and the fu. ture of the American farmer will pan out like a K'ondike claim, ® | da | this lan PERSUNAL. W. P. Thomas, & lawyer of Ukiab, isat the Grand, Frauk A, Cressy, a banker of Modesto, is at the Lick. R. H. Wiliey, a lawyer from Monterey, is at the Grand. Dr. D. Johnson, U. S, A., is a guest &t tne Occidental. M. Dinkelspiel, & Suisun newspaper man, is atthe Grand. C. C. Crow of Crows Landing is & guestat the Occidental. Jesse D.Carr, a capitalist of Salinas, is at the Occidental. John A. Melntire, a Sacramento mining man, is at the Grand. George A. Smith, a vineyardist of Courtland, isat the Grand. E. C. Farnsworth, a Visalia lawyer, is stay- ing at the Lick. Dr.and Mrs. H. S. Boys of Pasa Robles are guests at the Russ. T. 8. Spalding, a merchant of Woodland, is & guest at the Grand. L E. Justin, a merchant of Portland, Or., is registered at the Lick. H. E. Adams, vice-president of the Stockton Gas Company, is at the Grand, Colonel and Mrs. 0. Summers of Portland, Or., have arrived at the Baldwin. B. F. Hartley of the Zantgraf mine at Auburn is registered at the Grand. Frank A. Cressy, a lawyer of Modesto, is among the late arrivals at the Lick. V. 8. McClateny, editor and propriotor of the Sacramento Bee, is at the California. E. McGettigan of Vallejo, late Supervisor of Solano County, is & guest at the Russ. D. C. Hobart, « mining man from Silver City, N. Mex,, arrived at the Oceldental yester- Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hollow of the Arlington Hotel, Santa Darbara, are late arrivals at the Grand. Oscar B. Hinsdale of Gardiner, Or., and for- merly of Santa Barbara, arrived at the Lick yesterd Samuel McMurtrie, the railroad contractor, came up from San Luis Obispo yesterday and isat the Palace. F. Cutting of Oakland of the Cuttihg Pack- ing Company arrived at the Palace yestezday with Mrs. Cuiting. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, on the!r way home to Syduey, Aus ealia, arrived here last night from the East and are guests at the Palace. Miss Maud Jeffries, a society belle of Mem- phis, Tenn., arrived at the Palace last night from the East, accompanied by her brother, Norman Jeffries. H. M. La Rue of Sacramento errived at the Occidental last night. He isin town to attend amseting of the S ate Ratiroad Commission, of which he is a member. Norman Greig and Gregor T. Greig of Gless- gow, Scotland, arrived here last night on the Central overland train from the Eastand are guests at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs. 8. M. Seaman of New Orleans are guests at the Palace. They left home shortiy before the yellow-fever epidemic broke | out and nave been avoiding New Orleans ever since. William R. Sterling, a mannfacturer of Chicago and a member of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, will arrive in this city to-day on the overland irain. While here he will be a guest of the brotherhood in San Francisco and in Oakland. NextSunday evening he will ad- dress the Brotherhood of St. Audrew at St Luke’s Church, Dr. Allen of Duluth, Minn., who recently retnrned from Alaska, will depart to-day for Prince William Sound, Alaska, the headqiar- ters of the Pacific Wnaling Company. He will bo gone a vear. He says that there are now probably 300 men waiting at Prince Wiiliam Sound o get into the gold fields as soon asspring comes. He says taat no map vet published of Alaska does more than roughly approximate the location of rivers and moun- tains, and thatnone so far issued have been anywhere near cotrect. CALIFORNIAN 5 IN NE ¥ YORK. NEW YORK, Nov. 9.—At the Plaza—J. N, Bookman; Colonnade—S. Morris; Grand—Mr. and Mrs F. Beaulry, Miss Gaorgie Williams leit the Plazi and salled on the Trave for Bremen. CALIFORN 3 IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—L. G. Baldwin of Los Angeles is among to-day's arriva's. Colonel J. F. Evans of San Francisco leit for New York tc-day. CALIFORNIANS IN CHICAGO. CHICAGO, Nov. 9.—Jjohu B. Sibley of San Francisco is at the 8 S.ierman House. THE DYING DAY. The trees stand brown sgainst the gray, ihe shivering grav f fie d and sky: The mis s wrapt rcund tue dying day The shi01d poor umys wear as they dis; Poor dav, die 300m, who lived I + vein, ‘Who cor uot bring my Love again! Lown in the gnrden breezes cold Deada ros 1ir g stalks blow chill between, Only above the sodden mold ‘Ihe wiluflower wears his hea As th vgh s:ll reigned the rose-crownel year, And sunimer and my Love were here. The mist c-eeps close atout the house, The «m; ty iouse, al' s.i1! and chill; The d 504 eAnd Lrem » ing Loughs Scratea at the drippinz winaow »lil: Poor day lics drow. ed in fl. ods of rain, ‘And giosts knock at the window pane. New York Weekiy. SOUNDS A T MELY WARNING. Oceans de Biade. In aninterview for the Sun Francisco CALL T.V. Powderly, Commissioner of Immigra- tion, sounds & time.y warning regarding the evils of unrestricted jmmigration. He says: “Immigration shouid be restricted to the need of the American Republic, instead of being permitied to flow in unnecessary cur- ren't, nccording 10 the order of the Czar or the whim and caprice of the immigrant. Healthy, honest immigrants shou d be directed (o where they may find homes and employmen: ; all others should be exciuded.” These senti: ments every thinking person can heartily in- dorse. The time was when the United Siates, having thousands of square miles of virgin land, could weicome and take care of num- berless foreigners who were desirous of homes, but that day has passed. The difficu.ly now 1s 1o provide for those already here. It isevi- dent ihat a proper restriction of immigration wou'd aid materially in tue solution of the industrial problem WHERE COLUMGIA I> MENACED. Santa Cruz Penny Press. There isn't the slightest questicn that the annexation of Hawaii will resnlt in the degradation of politics. And the Lord knows thut politics in the United States is now bad enough. Butit wili do more. It will degrade society. It will dezrade the American work- men. It will cause the American statesmen to blush, American society 10 shudder and American industry to bow under the yoke of a worse bondage tban sfilicted the negroes of the South forty years ago. The Asiatic races | 8rc not wanted on American soil, and the in- creased numbers contempiated by the anuexa- tion of Hawaii will set this couniry back half & century. The thirst for poiitical power in of the free and the home of the brave haslikeness unto the iteh. THE “CALL'S® NEW HOME. Redlands Citrograph. In about ten days the San Franeisco CALL wlil move into the new Spreckels building, on the corner of Third and Market streets. Then THE CALL wiil be located in one of the hand- somest buildings in the country and have, by long odds, the most complete newspaper estab- ishment west of Chicago. THE CALL has been making rapld strides of iate, and is now abreast of any mdrning newspapar west of the Misscuri river. We congratulate 1ts owner on its rapid advancement and predict for it a brilliant future. NO MOR:= T: E M:RRY CLICK. Kanias (ity Star. Some inventive genius has devised a noise- less poker chip. It is made of soft rubber and the keenest ear in all the city volice cannot deicet its presence ns it chase: its fellows in and out of tha intricacies of & jackpot. The chips that pass in the night will no Jonger ive the alarm (o the minion of the law who 8 listening at the keyhole, and no longer can the fesiive sport play tne old tume on the :‘;::1 which Came 50 easy wheu the stack was THE APPEAL OF THE SAFFRON GLAN. Young and lovely William R. Hearst shall not languish long in the gioomy Casa de Recojiaas, Brave and bold hearts have been touched by the tale of bis sufferings. The awful fate that awails the unhappy prisoner—set fortn in Monday’s dispatch to THE CALL from its New York correspondent—has aroused the demi-civilized world to action. We may have grown callous and worldly in this hard-hearted nineteenth century, but the spectacle of young and lovely Willie Hearst doomed to read his own paper has stirred every yellow fiber in the hearts of the American people. The awful brutality of thesentence, this out-Weyloring Weyler, has sirained the tning too far. The Spanish Gover nment must be reminded that this is the nine- teenth century; thatthere is an unwritten law of nations which forbids and which will pre- vent the execution of such a sentence, beside which the horrors of the inquisition pale into insignificance. America is aroused, aye, and Europe, 100. Courage, lovely New York boy, imprisoned in the terrible casal Let not thy bionde beauty pale and wither in the cruel dungeon! Letnot the awiul sentence which has been passed upon thee chill and dishearten thee. For thatsen- tence shall not be carried out. Kindred spiri such men as William R. their sympathies engaged by the awful plight of this brother mind, this brother s tions are being circulnted, petitions are being Hearst admires end would imitate, have felt Peti signed by such nemes as must influence the fiends in whose cluiches a young and lovely hero languishes. THE CALL has not space in to-day’s issue to are interested—vitally interested—in rescuing mudness, aye, and death, were preferable. Bul ceived from the flower of the Hearst clientele. reader that all 1s being done for the beautiful colored of prisoners could hope for. Yours faitht Jac opinion will not tolerate. Dictated. To the Editor of the San Fransiseo Call New York with great pieasure. sympathy with the unfortunate young tive's speedy release. VAN S Tothe Fditor of The Cali—DEAR SIR: Casa of Recojidas. tender, refined feelings have been outr templated in the carrying out of the Hearst, maker—human or otherwise—can bear To the Editor of The Call—DEAR SIR: in their clutches. their protest. marked the middle ages is, happily. f duties—sanguinary or merely thievish, tive. Let William R. Hearst go free. AR kAR AR A ARk A A AR R kR A R AR Ak kA XA AR Ak A kA Rk kA Ak ARk ko To the Editor of The Call—DEAR SIR: Tam happy to add my name (o the mon- ster petition to the Queen of Spain in behalf of the noble Wiliiam R, Hearst, at pres:nt imprisoned in the Casa de Recojidas in Havana. 0ld as I am and inured as I am—throngh a life of some adventure—my blood freez:s at the sentence imposed upon this youthfui New Yorker Let tvrants bewarel Tnere is & height of crime, ol cruelty, which public : His Majes pends tue royal signature to the pet.tion for the release of Willlam Hearst of His Majesty begs to assure you of his entire mau and of his hope of the yellow cap- Ppleasure as I do now sign this petition for the release of William Hearst from the Suain must listen to the voice of the yellow people all over the world, whose Humanity stands aghast at the revelation of such fnfamy. No sausage- ing, of the horrors awaiting the noble N read of the barbarous cruelty of tue Spanish fiends who have William R. Hearst A time has come, I think, when the world—even those who are not yellow, strictly speaking, yellow; who are merely lemon-colored, as it were—must enter The dark ages are past. are men—human, merciful, warm-blooded men. enjoy our leisure, while in the nineteenth century such inhuman sentences, such frigntful punishments may be inflicted. 1 do not enter into the question of the guilt or innocenca of the young cap- 1 aj peal only to those who have hearts in their breasts. Yours for outraged humanity, print the names of the distinguished men who the lovely New Yorker from a fate to which t we print a few of the letters that have been re- A perusal of their coutents will couvince the and unforiunate youth that the mostsafiron- Loxpoy, Ergland, Nov. 9, 1897, ully, K THE RIPPER, per Whitechapel "Arry. BRUSSELS, THE PALACE, Nov. 9. v desires to state that he ap- RIBER, for Leopold, King of Belgium. cuicaco, Iil., November 9, 1897. I never sfgned anything with so much aged by the tale of horrible cruelty cons brutal sentence passed on Wiiliam R. for a moment to think, without shudder- ew Yorker. Yours most heartily, .UETGERT. SAN QUENTIN, Nov. 9. I was inexpressibly shocked when I The animal-like savagery which orever burfed. We are not Indlans. We We cannot go about our daily as the case may be—we cannot work or THEODORE H. DURRANT. PR SRR e TR ST S T T T S T ST LT ey GYGLE WITH GABLE JTTNEm D o INSTEAD OF GHAI — Itlcoks as if there would be as macy varieties of chainless wheels by the time that the '98 cycling season has opened as there are colors and birds’ eggs. Scarcely a day passes but some new device to do away with chains on bicycles is patented or placed upon the market. There are many men of mechanical minds who do not like the bevel-geared wheel. One of Thomas A. Edison’s right-hand men, says the New York World, has invented a wheel that is a chainless one and has not bevel gears. he is quoted as indorsing the working plan of the new machine. n aseries of six steel cables made of piano wire. stitute for a cn In brief, the plan is to sub- Each wire Is one-sixteenth | of an inch in diameter and ot seven strands, each strand having seven wires.088 of an inch in diameter. leys or sprockets. 10 the face of the driving sprocket and then th justoble screw can take up any siack. The carrying Closely together that ihey ahnost touch, which absolntely airtight and waterproof. The whole cable is twisted and runs {n groves cut in the driving or driven pul- Tue lower section of the cabie s carried up over au iale pulley placed close cough a conceutric slot so arranged toat an ad- Pulle)‘s enable the cables to be run so t permits a casing to cover the whole, meking it The weight of the cables is 0 small that two sets can be applied—one to each side of the machine—and the weizht wiil still be less than that of a chain. Ether of the twosets could | be used to propel the wheel in case of the other breaking. The inventor claims that the en- \ire apparatus of the driving gear is simple in its construction and that it can be puton any modern machine ata trifiiug expens He says thatitdoes away with the friction caused by | cogs and chain links and that to repair it is easy, as new cables can be carried in the too. kit or pocket without incouventence. FLASHES OF FUN. From the mornitg watch till the fail of night That dusky Enave from a *onthern clime Turos ahandie with atl his migh:, And plays. for the hundreth mil.ionth time, aisy, Daisy.” and “Sweet Marle” “‘1he Only Gir “IL Cavalleria, And “‘Pom-tiddley-om-pom, pom-pom-pay,” And I dare no- say what 1'd like to say While the orsan goes ou playing. —Pick-Me-Up. Briton—Vooley v00 donny mwaw— The proprietor—Pardon! Monsieur can speak the English to me. Briton—\Why 80? Can’t you understand my Frenc? The proprietor—Monsieur, I am from the South, and find 1t difficult to comprehend the true Parisian accent.—Pick-Me-Up. «Colonel Blood,” says the current issue of the Weekly Battle Axe and Loyal Mississip- pian, *-hss called at this oflice and demanded & retraction of our remark that he was a famous liar. We retract cheerfully and fully and do so by hereby stating that the esteemed colonel 1s an infamous liar.”’—Indtanapolis Journal. Gt Critic—You are not matntalning the high standard which you set atyour theater when the season opened. Manager—No; I've stopped encouraging art togive the people what they want.—Pniladel- phia North American “Something must be done,” said the business manager of the struggling sheet to the editor ol thesame. *‘We're losing circulation every day.” What would you advise?” asked the editor. “‘Well, to tell the truth, I'm und:cided. I don’t know whether we should start a voting or aguessing contest. Which do you prefer?” Chicago Post. “Jackson is in love with the landlady.” ‘Hes he admitted 12"’ ‘No; but he eats the cold buckwheat cakes,” Chicago Record. “The jury were out several days and theu failed to agree.” “That shows the folly of masculine juries— a jury of women would have disagreed much sooner than that.”—Detroit Free Press. “The trees remind me of Eden before the fall.” *How 807" . “The pare limbs with only a leaf or two for costume.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. EtoP that cough with Low’s horehound cough syrup, price 10c, 417 Sanscme st.* PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT, M. Casimir-Perier, it is saia. has had enough | | of retirement. He fs preparing to contest | again his old seat for the division of Nogent- | sur-Seine, which became vacant on his elec- | | tlon to the Presidency of the French republic, | Chess-players often die of brain disease, and | | the latest example is Berthoid Euglisch, the | Austrian champion. who was famous for his proficiency. Since 1879, when he first be- | came widely known, he has engeged in fre quent contests with masiers in the art. For his new brok entitled “‘Following thi { Equator’ it is said that Mark Twain will re- ceive $40.000, the whole of which he will turn | over 10 his credilors, to whom he owes about | $20.000 more. He has been invited by an | Euglish publishing-house to write his auto- | blography, and is said (o be considering the | ofter. Herr Lange, the overseer of the estates and | factories of Prince Bismarck, who is known 1o | | all visizors who have enjoyed the ex-Chancel- !lor's hospitality in the Saxony forest retrout, is about to resign his place on account of old age. The Prince 1is extremely fond of Herr Tange, and regrets deeply his coming retire- ment. Major Sellman Hannegan, who died in Wash- fngton the other day after a long service gs doorkeeper of tne diplomatic gallery in the Capitol, was a son of Senator Hannegan of In. diana, a famous man fu politics between 1840 and 1850. Senator Voorhees and Maj Hannesun grew up together an ates s Bt d were warm Princess Carl of Denmark (formerly ) Wales) Is the Iatest additton to the tiyt :rl:gy:: authoresses, and has been employing all ife time she has spentin Denmark by writing a play. She has adopted the pseudonym of “Grabam Irving,” the latter name being cho. sen on account of her great ad, Sh g miration for Sir New York Press, Lots of marriages hinge on a swingi ging gate. A girl always speaks of of being married. AL ENT R A good woman is the sal e s altof the earth and a If love came when f wouldn’twant it when 1l“cl:m:’.""ed ey Whenever & woman gets an ide: looking pale she nlways lullnulle: !toh;::ll‘.leu:! band thatshe Is worrying about his healtn. When & girl thinks she is in love with a man €he ca llw-{l test it by trying to imagine him eating ainner in his Eimealr shirtsleeves with no | get a hack.” —_— —_— REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR. | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. TuaT STORY—C. K., City. The story referred to was woven on some facts. SALVINI—S,, City. There is no son of Tom- maso Salvini on the stage at this prezent time, NEW YorK Laws—G. H., City. Generaily, an account in the Siate of New York outlaws in six vears. i - A WAY-UP RESTAURAN will be & restaurant on Claus Spreckels buildin —f. 8., City. There the top floor ot MixisTER To RUssta—B., City. Cifton R. Breckinridge is United States Minister to Rus- sia, 0 says the Russiaz C Lasca—M. y The poem ©Lasca,” by Frank Desorcz, can b: fouad in | Book 52 of Standard Recitations, which any booksel.er can procure for you for & dime. ANNEXATION—C. K, City. You can fird a | number of articles on annexation in coun c- tion with the Hiwaiian Islands in the Rev of Raviews, Current His 0:y and other per fcals of recent date to be found ii the F Public Livrary. e THR (UBAN QUESTION—C. K., Cily. There is no hundbook of Cubau questions m;l the rev- ory of the troubles rom e o niny be. found In succesding numbers of Current History GROVER CLEVELAND Cleveland was a bachelor ried Miss Folsom, the 1. He hus a son not thirty days old yet, but e has none thirty years of age. city. Alexander S lvini, son of Ivini, the great Italian traged! died in Florence, Italy, December 15, 184¢ tie was born in Rome, Italy, December 1861. His fataer s still nving. TYPEWRITER — A. O. 8., City. Tho_ price charged by typewriters in San Francisco va- ries with the operators. The general chargo for taking matter in shorthand from dic- tation, transcribing on typewriter and fur- nishing one copy is 10 cents per folio. “THE SILVER K) City. The que: tion, “Is there person in Frankfort-on-the Main, Germany, known as George Scheisn- berg, “The Silver King’ ?" has been submitted 1o a number of persons well posted in German affairs ana the reply in each case has becn, “Not known.” CORBETT-JACKSON—Reader, city. The fight between James J. Corbett snd Peter Jackson in San Francisco, before the California Ath- letic Cilub, May 21, 1891, was declared by Hiram Cook, the réferce, “no contest,” and each participant received $2500. Sixty-one rounds were fought. PoOLICE COURT JURISDICTION—A. 8., city. The Police Courts have jurisdiction only of misdes meanor cases, and the penalty for misde- meanor generally is not to exceed imprison- ment for a term of s X mortns. In cases of misdemeanor where the Legislative power has fixed the penalty by imprisonment at mors than six months the Police Courts have juris- aiction only to eximine into the facts o: the case to_determine if a crime were commitied and if there is reasonable ground to suppose that the accused committed it, in which case the court sends the accused before the Superior Court for trial. INK STAINs—H. 8, City. Ink stains may be readily removed from white articles by means of a little salt of lemons, diluted muri- atic scid, oxalic acid or tartaric acid and hot water; or by means of a littie solution of chlorine or chloride of lime. When the stain is caused by ink manufactured with logwood a red mark remains, wnich may be rewmoved by the application of a iittle chloride of lime. All strong acids and alkalies tend to injure tne fabric; tnerefore immediately the stains ars removed the spots should be well rinsed and repeatedly. This is for ccmmon ink stains. For the removal of indelibie ink or marking ink stains other methods are employed. TYPE-WRITING BY TELEbRAPHY. It begins to look &s if not only telegraphy without wires but type-writing by wireless telegraphy were withiu measarable distancs of being an accomplished fact. An {nvention which seems like!y to render ielegraphic com- munication as direct and privete as is tele- ! { phonie, says the London®Daily Telegraph’s Berlin correspondent, was dispiayed recenily 10 & select company in the Hotel Kalserhof. It has been christenad by the hybrid name of “elescriptor,” and akes the form of an elec- tric typewriter. 1his apparatus, which Costs about £25, can be electricaliy connected by, means oi & calibell with any other similar apparatus, and the message. which i3 typed off through the keyboard et one end, wil be reproduced in plain letiers and numerals on a piate ai the other end. In other words, if, as the inventor ¢ aims, long-distance communi- cation can be establisned, he telescrivtor will do for writing what the 'telephone effects for speech, and tne publicity and complexity of ordinary telegrapuic business w..i be done away with. The German Postmaster-Geieral issaid to take a Lively interest in theinven- tion, which is the result of eight years' labor on the part of an Austrian engineer named Hoftraann. TURNING s.LVER INIO GOLD. It appears that there 1s little doubt as to the ability of Dr. Emmens to transform silver into | gold by means of & mechanical treatment. A | London paper says that Dr. Emmens’ resalts have been verified by well-known English chemists, and about three weeks ago M. T reau, the famous French chemist, indorsed the conclusion. Dr. Emmens is now prepar- ing & machine for subjectiug silver to 8 pres- It has attracted the attention of Mr. Edison, and | 5ure of 8000 tous per square inch, and hopes to preduce 50,000 ounces of gold per mouth. He i3 also experimenting as to the transmuta- tion of otlier metals into one another. “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup" Has been used over fifty years by millions of math ers for their children while Teething with perfec: success. It toothes the child, softens the gums, al- Iays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowais and is the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale oy Lruggists in every part of the world. 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