The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 13, 1897, Page 6

G HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY OVEMBER 13, 1897 — NOVEMBER 13 1897 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Commu ations to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. 10 Market street, San Francisco 1863, PUBLICATION OFFIC Telephone EDITORIAL RCOMS .eeee D17 Clay street Telephone THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by ers in this city and sur-cunding towns for 19 cents a week. r month 63 cents. 5 per year; THE WEEKLY CALL. ...Ons year, by mail, OAKLAND OFFICE .908 Broadwey Fastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE ..Room 188, World Building Montgomery street, ¢ 52 open until BRANCH OFFICES ) sck. 339 Hayes street; open lock. 615 open until 9:30 o’clock. SW er Sixteenth and open untii 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open 143 Ninth street 9 oclock. 1505 v 0 o'clock. NW econd 18119 clock WHY FEAR THE BOSSES? N common with many people who desire to promote the Francisco by securing the adoption ncere. egrets that the various volitical or-anizations of the city, including the Citizens’ Com- mittee of One Hundred, have not seen their way clear to agree on the selection of a non-partisan Board of Freeholders. We believe that the prospects of aby charter which may be sub- mitted would have been greatly strengthened by non-poiitical material interests of San of a new charter THE Car action on the part of those authorized by law to nominate Freeholders. Partisan methods for making a charter having failed so often it seemed to usthat reason as well as policy dictated their abandonment as unpopular. Consequently, as W, in & modest way we sirongly advocated a kn union of elements for the general good. But it appears that our counsel has been rejected. our readers All par- ties a tions are going to nominate Freehol!ders. Last night the Citizens’ Committee selected fiftcen candidates, who, i will be indorsed by the Suliivan Democrac The ocrats, the regular Republicans, the Buckley Popu- lists and several other pariies will have tickets in the field. Probubly the ballot will contain the names of forty or fifty citi- zens more or less qu We ed thatall name their most represe jed for the work of making a charter. = will endeavor to re ass parties and factio tative men and, therefore, it is ex- iremely probable that the voters at the election on December C L bave a list to select from of exceptional excellence. eelection will be conducted according t0 law, which pro- vides for an Au ian ballot, be held under the of the Board of Electicn All this the case, what occasion is there for the apprehension of the organ of tue y that the political bosses stantly fill and will spices Commissioners. be will capture the Fr sheet is the with alarm that those individuals are scheming to get hold of the Fieeholders. With childieh per- sistency 1t every morning shouts, “Bos.,” “Boss, “Bss.” and ch rzes, in a general way, that the bosses are b-nt on def-ating civil ~e 1vice fixing the charter so that the local corporations may take po-session of the city. How can this be done with the absolute power of :election in the han s of the There will be forty or fifty candidates for Freeholders How the people, placed in possession of the facts recarding each candidate, fail to select a board which wil: be iree from bo-s control—that is, provided the people do not ref, m and peopie? on the ti want a boss-made charter? W henever the devil dons the livery of heaven in which to dispense his favors, it is safe to assume that he hasajob on hand which will not bear investi-ation. So 1t may confi- dent)y be assumed that when boodling newsparers, fresh from the contaminatien of $30,000 railroad contrac s, begin to rail about bossism, ostensibly in the interest of *‘reform,” there is something crooked in the wind, especially when the known facts of the situation demonstrate that there is no occasion whatever to fear tho bosses. We would have preferred part san e nomination of Freeholders, but since that cannot be, we are perfectly willing to submit the selection of a board from the nomin-es of all parties to the people. In doing this, we are bound to view with suspicion the course of non- action in the the organ of one volitical faction, which seeks to divert public attention from the character and fitness of the candidates by shouting ** Boss!” and assailing the intearity of all candidates ket. Unless we are mis- taken, in a matter of grave public business, such as is now in hand, the people will place the stamp of their disapproval upon that kind of work. = except those who are upon its own There will natu-ally be some interest iaken by the public in the sort of economy the Southern Pacific is induiging in, as the public must sometimes travel and has a seltish desire to keep its bones intact. Whether it is wiser to discharge track- walkers and let trai take their chances of an occasional tmash, or to pay the walkers and thus safeguard the trains, seems to be a problem now engaging the minds of railroaa officials. We would suggest that a decision be left to popular vote, and predict that in this case the humble track-walker will have his job back sgai YELLOW FEVER AND CLEAN STREETS. NLESS some of the best authenticated reports from New Orleans are absoiutely false there are reasons for believing no sufficient foundation exists for the generally accepted theory that a yellow fever epidemic 1s the re. of unclean streets and houses. One of the papers of the city, the Daily States, recently published an elaborate communication on the subject, in the course of which the writer said: It will be n that the virulence of the present fever is found in the upper d s of wniscity. At the very start of this fever the }eopte of that district, al great expense, put that locality in thorough sanitary condition. The streets were cleaned, the accumulation of filth from the gutters taken up, and the premises disinfected, and yet, 1he fever not on s own, but continued to spread, until at present writing it may be considered, in this locality, to be epiaemfe. Now look at that section of the city bounded by the New Besin Canel uptown, the New Orleans Canal downtown, Claiborne avenue, and the lake, fn which portionis to ve found the larze majority of the drainage canals of this city, and as to the conditions of filth no one will contest their ciaim to being, possibly, the most loathsome in tue world. Thatsection has had but lttle, if any, cleaning done. Few of the gutters have beeu stirred, and vet, with all these draw- backs, Where has not been any case of yellow fever in that section, or, if any, very few, as compared to the portions where the filth had been stirred and carried away. From these facts, which seem to be undisputed, the writer draws the conclusion that the fever germs have their habita- tions in the filth and refuse of the gutters and canals of the city, and would stay there if they were not scattered abroad by the stirring up of those places during the cleansing process. He therefore suggests that the gutters and canals be left un- disturbed from June until frost, ana that nothing be done in the way of purification during that time, except by the liberap use of disinfectants. It is quite likely that much wisdom is to be found in the susgestion. Sanitary regulations are excellent everywhere, but the appl cation of them ought to vary with the conditions under which they are to be usel. A method found bencficial in a cool climate may be injurious in the sweltering heats of the tropics, Processes employed to advantage in regions where the atmosphere is diy may be pernicious where the air is moist and hot day and night. N:w Orleans cannot with rafety follow Northern cities in their sanitary practices as closely as she would be wise to do in some oiher things. One of ths wildest yarns that ever strayed across the Rio Grande border is that detailing a scheme by which England 1s to furnish a million immigrants to Mexico, and Americans are to be barred. The Interesting feature of it is that anybody should bave tue nerve to start such aiale and expect it to be | that the excuse for them has disappeared. They are no longer believed. A PHANTOM CAMPAIGN. N attempting to prejudice the anti-annexationists the Chronicle procures a dispatch from Washington to the effect that the gobbling of Hawaii is opposed only by the sugar trust. - Only recently papers like the Chronicle have had much to say about the sugar trust and its representatives in the Senate. Pending the passage of the Wilson 'tariff and of the Dingley tariff papers like the Chronicle now favoring annexation, and many of them like it, changing front on that subjact, made ceaseless din about the Senators who were controlled by the trust. Looking over the list of Senators now quoted by the Chronicle as favoring annexation it is remarkable that it in- cludes every Senator heretofore accused of being for the sugar trust, while in the:list of opponents of annexation there is not the name of a single trust Senator. This is quite interesting. | Did papers like the Chronicle lie when they said these annexa- | tionists were trust Senators, or do they lie now when they set up the trust as the only opponent of annexation? Theirs has been a phantom campaign from the start. They have torn | patriotic passions to tatters zbout a phantom republic in | Hawaii, which has no existence. They have conjured a ph:m-i | tom Japanese greed for acquisition of the islands, which never The Chronicle knows of phanton matrimony In } prospect to give Japan a claim on Hawaii, such as Spain as- | serted on England through the marriage of Paillip Il and the daughter of Henry VIII. Phantom fleets have been seen fly- | ing the flag of Japan cruising around the istands with warlike | intentions toward San Francisco. Phantom armies of the | Mikado have been landed in Honolulu as coolies, ready to pull long swords from down their backs and make it dolorous for { Dole. Now there is a phantom majority in the Federal Sen- | ate for annexation made up of Senators heretofore accused of belonging to the sugar trust, while that saccharine phantom gnashes its sweet tooth and leads into the fray against the <ceizure of Hawaii every Senator heretofore praised for being its enemy. After all what possible interest has the sugar trustin | making a fight against annexation? Let reasonable men ask : themselves. The sugar refiners want the raw material as | | cheaply as the n get it. Under the reciprocity treaty they i get the raw sugars from the islands free of duty. If annexa-| tion is accomplished they will still get the same sugars free of duty. Nothing will have been acded to or taken away from the sugar trust if the United States abandon their time-honored | policy of international equity and government by the consent ! of the governed. The class to suffer ultimately will be the | beet-sugar planters of the United States, and especially of | California. The reciprocity treaty may by its terms be abro- gated, or, in line with the theory of protection, free entry mayv be transferred to other products of the islands non-competitive with ours, and so our farmers and white -labor empioyed in producing beet sugar may not feel the competition of the low wages of the Asiatic Izbor, which alone can be profitably em- ploved in producing cane sugar in the islands. But if annexa- tion succeeds all prospect of protection is withdrawn and a great and rising rural industry of this State is subj:cted to a | competition against which it must struggle. The defeat of annexation means a prospective broadening of the acreage profitably given to beets. For this reason far-seeing men oppose it and for allied reasons the equally watchful labor | leaders of the State are fighting it. | existed. SACRAMENTO. | | PROGRESSIVE IDEAS IN ACRAMENTO having set & good example to otlier cities of { the State by the election of a Mayor representing the best and most progressive elements of her population, is now | | likely to furnish another example equally good in the construc. tion ot 2 grand highway or boulevard that will be a source of pride to the county and a benetit of no small importance to every citizen, The earnestness with which the project of the proposed hizhway is being advocated in Sacramento is the more signifi- | caut because in other sections of the State the campaign for| good roads is discussed mainly as an abstract proposition. A | considerable number of enterprising men in every county are | urging the work of road improvement in a general way, but 1t in Sacramento that a definite enterprise is proposed and a definite means advocated for undertaking it. Road improvements are always good. A noble boulevard constructed in any part of the State is an object lesson for v'sitors and an incentive to simiiar works on the part of other connties, as well as an advantage to the people of the locality through which it runs. These educational eff:cts of a grand highway will be more poteat in Sacramento than in any other county, owing 1o the fact that it is the seat of the State capital— the scene of the gathering of legislatars, of conventions, and the placs where the leaders of our rural indusiries assemble an- nually at the State fairs. | If the progressive movement so well started and so ably | supported in Sacramento is pushed vigorously forward and ! accomplishes notable results during the coming year, the influence will be felt to a greater or less extent throug out the commonwealth. Sacramento is not richer nor more populous than several other counties. What she achieves can be achieved elsewhere. If she takes the lead in constructing good highways the campaign for road improv -ment will soon be a campaign of action instead of talk in the State generally. The circumstances of the time are propitious to the hopes of those who expect gocd results from the new spirit of is only improvement and progress in the capital city and her county, The rev.val of trade and the increasing profits of industry have bad their effeci upon the minds of the people. The calamity | howlers who were so noicy a few years ago have been silenced, | and the predictions of those who prophesied a return of pros perity with a return to protestion bave been fulfiliel. Busi- ness and industry are no longer harassed by fears of im_ end- ing disaster, and men can enter upon new enterprises both public and pr.vate with confidence of profitable resuits. COUNSEL TO THE ERRING. TO give advice to the Examiner with any ilea of inducing that sheet to reform would be, of course, a waste of time, But it might be advised to be consistent in its knavery, and thus avoid becoming ridiculous. For instance, after informing its readers that the foreign rews service of the New York Herald is out of date, it takes opportunity to steal from this service as often as it can. Such conduct is not surprising, but it is an evidence of bad policy. When yellow journalism has direct wires 10 the ends of tie earth, to Andree’s balioon, telephone connection with Mars, correspondents sitiing on the thrones of Evrope, prelates ready to smuggle news out of the Vatican, jail-breakers who at shortest notice burst through impissable walls and rescue maids forlorn, why should it need to take advantage of the facilities employed by decent, sane news- papers? Why should it at the same time rail against the very thing it is busily engaged in committing larceny upon? Such | conduct 1s ingratitude, and this is reckoned a crime. Besides, tt.e Herald's cable news can be found in THE CALL, where it can be read without the eyes being pained and offended through contact with column after column of Durrantese ravings. Of course people will have more or less fun over the high- hat ordinance, but equally of course the ordinance is a good thing. It should be :igidly enforced, and any lady ignoring it deserves 10 have Ler millinery gently but firmly lifted off, even if most of the hair comes with it, —_— By way ot settling a question of current interest the sug- gestion that Durrant’s attorneys expect to get their reward in heaven may not be wholly useless. Justice in this country can never look herself unblush- ingly in the face until a few of the brand of ‘‘whi‘e caps” ram- pant in Ohio have been lynched. Suicides among young women are becoming so common interesting, CALIFORNIANS IN CHICAGO. CHICAGO, Nov. 12.—At the Great Northern— F. D. Bates, San Francisco. At the Leland— A. L. Richards and wife, Miss M. Richards, Mite E. Richards, san Francisco; H. H. Eddy, Santa Barbara. At the Auditorium Annex— Mrs. L. D. Keesing, San Francisco; J. H. Thompson and wife, Miss Tillie Trengove, Miss Careleta Tyrrell and G. A. Nutting, Oak - land; C. N. Sterry, Los Angel PERs - NAL. Dr. W. 8. Taylor of Livermore is at the Palace. J. T. Marsh, a shorekeeper of Chico, is at the Russ, L. N. Wood, a merchant of Visalia, is at the Russ. Congressman Marfon de Vries of Stockton is at the Grand. Hermen de Laguna, a Los Angeles lawyer, is & guest at the Grana, H. Miller, a merchant of Seattle, Wash,, is at the Russ with his wife. J. M. Wilmans, a mining man of Newman, arrived at the Lick yesterday. A. C. Rosendale, a merchant of Pacific Grove, is a late arrival at the Grand. P. A. Buell, a lumber-dealer and millman of Stockton, is registered at the Graud. L:oa Carterf, a landowner and former butcher of Senta Barbara, is at the Grand. Dr. Ord, the venerable pioneer residentof Pucific Grove, is a late arrival at the Grand. State Senator E. C. Voorheis of Satter Creek is at the Palace with his daughter, Miss Voor- beis ot Oaklaud. Professor Edwara Howard Griggs, head of the depariment of ethics in Sianford, is regis- tered at the Grand. Professor H. C. Nash, Itbrarian of Stanford University, aud F. J. Teggart, assistant libra- rian, are guests at the California. S. H. Babcock of Salt Lake, traffic manager of the Rio Grande Western Raiiway, will ar- rive here this morning from Portland, Or. Mr. and Mrs C. V. Shaver of Fresno are guesis at the Grand. Mr. Shaver is president of the Fresno Flume and Irrigation Company. Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Bartiett of Ventura arc at the Grand. Mr. Bartieit is Pacific Coast Steamship agent at Veniura and has been for years. Philo Jacooy, the well-known rifle shot, is confiied to his bed for & few days, owing ton rupiure of a blood vessel on his right leg. The accident 1s not serious. Wfiliam Ogilvie of Victonia, B. C., the Cane- dian Commissioner and engincer expert sent to the Klondike last summer, arrived here yesterday and is a guest at the Palace. Walter Hobart has so far recovered from the operation for appendicitis that he 1sup aud sbout. He was strolling in the Palace Hotel court with friends late last night, evidently | littie the worse for his surgical ordeal. AN 1KISH LOVE SONG. In the years abou: twenty (When kisses wre plenty) The 10v6 01 an Irish luss fell (0 my fate— 50 Wiisome ana shghuy, S0 saucy and spright ¥, The priest was & propaet that chiristened her Kate, Soit gray of the dawning, Br g t blue cf the moral g, The sweet f her: ye there was 20LhiDg to mate; A nose like & falry’s. A cheek like a che ry' Anda smile—weil her smile waslike—nothing bus ate. To see her was passion, T0 (0v. her, tie fasnion; What wonder my ueart was nnw liing to wait! Atd, darng (o ove her, 1 soou did discover A Katharlae masking in mischievous Kate, No Katv unraly, But Ka'herine, traly— Fond, serious. put.ent, and even sadate; Wi'hagow in her giad ess Tra banishe saduess— Yetstay! shoud lcredit the sunshine to Kat: Love cannot outlive It, Wea th eannot oergive it— That saucy surrender she made a the gate. O Time. be but human, spate the girl in the woman! Yon gava me m Ka harine —ieave me my Kate! —KOBERT UNDZRWOO ) JOHNSON iu ¢ ovem- Ler Century FLA=HES OF FUN. Doctor—The residents of this city require a change of air &t least once a year. Composer—That's whai; every one is sick of “Sweet Rosie 0'Grady.”—Up to Date. It issaid, to console a man when he loses his money, that he is now in position to find out who are his friends. That is no consola- tiou; & man is happiest when he doesn’t have 10 know who his friends are.—Atchison (Kan.) Globe. “H:llo, 01d fellow. I'm glad to hear that your wife is well. Didn’t the doctors tell her she couldn’t recover ?” *Yes, and if they’d told her that she must g2t well she would have fooled them just as vadly. Isaved her by teiling them her ais- position.”—Detroit Free Press. “Everything seems to go contrariwise,” said the ship-bui der, gloomliy. “What's the matter?” “When we build a man-of-war it goes straight 10 the bottom, and when we turn out a sub- marine torpedo-boat it sticks to the surface like & life-preserver.”—Washington Star. Critic—Where did you get the idea of that story? Author—Out of my head. Critic—Gracious, how glad you must be that it's out.—Philadelpbia Call. “‘The horse has another point of superiority over the wheel.” “What is it When a horse is getting ready to shy at Anyihing you can tell it by his ears.”—Chicago Record. BOOMING A SU.@WEx RESORT. scsion Herald. Dr. Nansen appéars to ba booming the Arctic regions as a great health resort. Ac- cording to his testimony the atmosphere of the frozen zone is nbsolutely free from all disease germs, and no such thing as bacilli or microbes can’ survive there. It will have to be allowed that this is a handsome recom- mendation, though 1t is somewhat hampered by the danger of freezing to death. These Are But Few of Many Features to be Seen in TO-MORROW'S CALL. IMPRISONED Merced St Arctic whalers are ice-bound and in danger of death in consequence. The San Francisco CALL broke the sad news to the State and nation, offering at the same time to furnish supplies for the.r relief provided a vessel could be hnd to transvort them. The Calitor- nia Congressional delegation ns & unitsent word to Sccretary Long of the Navy to equip and dispatch & revenus cutter or other vessel to the rescue of the siilors, who number several hundred. IN ARCTIC ICE. Low's horehound cough syrup for coughs and colds, price 10c, 417 Sansome st. ¥ The daughter of the x of Collts P.Huntington complains persistently and publicly ¢f the hard-heartedness of the foster father of the wife of her father's half- brotner’s son. Which sounds rather involved, and is, truly, not a little difficu’t of comprchension. But toe degree of relationship subsisting between Countess Olga ot Chicago, of Cincin- nati, of New York, of the Orpheum—of any WOES OF GOUNTESS VON HATZFELDT. bali-brother of the father of the husband of the adopted daughter THE PREHISTORIC CITY OF THE DESERT, JUST FOUND AND VIEWED BY A SUNDAY CALL MAN. FEELINGS OF A SON WHO SLEW HIS FATHER. SENDING A YOUNG WIFE TO THE ASYLUM. REMINISCENCES OF EUGENE FIELD. REC- OLLECTIONS BY AN ASSOCIATE g OF THE POET AND WIT. lady herself. own published statements. naturally inexperie icus, the happ ced; she I Hes she never heard theatrical manager? York theatrical manegers. for the rent of four rooms. tow's avarice young lady than yourself? relative whom you had never seen baiore? Huntington have a cousti Other men hay subject to th notoriety of the stage. “Ieslled upon Mrs. Huntin utional stage.” But, like other stage-struck girls, ‘rom ber purpose. she is to be admired nections of hers. all that's rezsonable, do they owe her more th over one’s unfortunate fellow creatures. dition that Mrs, Huntington aid. The Countess has rej | own daughter. Sheisu discontent? Why this uvarice ? po-e that the offer mad knowledge and consent ? treat her Taere have bee | wine of life. loud to her by Mrs, | noblesse oblige. American girl migh'—he frequently does—be one who woald have tenefited her. | Toe anathematized man of m he cares at all for the public’s op, lons deser space. place but Hatzfeldi—and Collis P. Huntingion of San Francisco is no more difficult of comprenension than is the siete of miud of the young themselves atone’s disposal? Would she have been c cus and as public in her praise of Mr. Huntington as she is 10w in her cm‘dcmnn'uon.‘lmd he given her what ostensibly she wanted—a letter of introduction to some New York We heard tois shocking tale some time ago. New York papers also puulished it. Now that the Couutess and her mother, the divorced third wife of the banished German Count and unsuccessful theatr in Sau Francisco, the papers here repeat the tale tae pretty Coun 1,” said the young Countess, home with her in San Francisco ana to have my voice cultitivated, if 1 would give up the this titled singer at the Or Without doubt, that was her own affair. If it was mereiy the glitter and iempted her, she is, of course, under no obligation 10 the distant conrections of distaut con- She doesn’t owe them the sac Idon’t know what kind of woman the Countess of Haizieldt may be. | know that her words and her actious, as reported, make one doubt the old traditions of Tne ordinary American girl would preier, I thiuk, to starve in one room rather than ask & stranger, however weelthy, to provide her better apartments. coma stige-struck. sense of gratitude, and if she rofuses a favor she retains, at least, a gracious memory of the fon he is shrewd euough Hatzfeldt, will justify his teatment of her if she but be given time encugh and newspaper 1 must frankly acknowledge myself unable to sympathize with the much-interviewed young Countess, except in the matter of being inte:viewed—which, evidently, she con- siders no infliction. As to Mr. Huntington's cruelty, I know notning of that, except {rom her The young Countess von Hatzieldt must be extraordinarily worthy, she must be super- <, nodoubt, hitherto led the mosi sheitered, the most luxur- of lives—to judge by her expectations. What did she expect of (he man who was so distant.y related to a distant relative of hers? that even the nearest relations are not consumed by anxiety to put ent, would she have been as garrul- The Countess von Hatzfe!dt arraigns Collls P. Huntington be‘ore the bar of public opinion. His crimes are these: He refused to give the young lady letters of fntroduction to the New He advised her to live in one room if she could not afford to pey He presented her with $10. It was telegraphed from New York and the al manager, have arrived s loves to tell of Hunting- 1f you were Huntington and your son-n-law's father’s half-brother’s child came to you for letters of introduction to theatrical managers, would it not occur to you that her mother, an actress, or her father, himself a theatrical mansger, could be of more assistance to the Or fi, being Huntiuglon, you were aware, or you suspecied that the letters of intrcduction were merely & pretext, wou'd it not be probable that your con- tempt for the pretext woutd be greater than your afict.on for your son-in-law’s dim, distant Iiis hinted that Huntingron disapproved of the Countess’ bistrionic ambition; that he objected to her use on the stage of the name that his adopted daughter bore. Poorer men than ld-tashioned prejudice against actors all the conventional horror of tne family name figuring on play-biils acd and actresses. *and she offered to give mea pheum would not be swerved If she preferred independence, the notoriety of the vuriety stage that in the name of fice of her plans. But why, she owes them? The possess:on of great wealth does, morally, oblige one to assume a kind of guardianship But it does tmplies supernatural virtue or unworldliness or breadth of mind. Tue pretty young Countess would doubtless meet the same treatment from poorer women. There fsn’t one woman in ten in America to-day who would no: nave made the same con- not follow ihat mereiy the being wealthy cted the offer of such & home as Mrs. Huntington would give to her vilegad to do prec:sely as she sees fit. bewsiling, this scornful Why this audible, never-ceasing reiteration of the Counte Huntington wes made without Mr. Huntington’s Or does she teel aggrieved that before a stranger would consent to s a daughter she stould require from the Countess the renouncing of a singe career? little, vaigar women, titied and otherwise, o whom notoriely was the But where is the occasion for of Huntngton's sinful * woes ? Does she sup- repetition I only The ordinary But es a rule she has some for all I know, all his unpopularity. But if to ses that Oiza, Countess von MIRTAM MICHELSON. ciass. placement of 14,850 tons to their 14,900 tons. differ {rom the latest in a row fore and aft instead of two abreast. a heavy battleship. firing cannon, with thirty smail rapic JAPAN'S NEW NAVAL PROGRAMME. THE BATTLESHIP SHIKISHIMA. A naval correspondent in the Dally Graphic says that Japan will be a power to be reckoned with in the far East more than ever when she hes completed the extensive and somewhat am- bitious naval programme she has marked out for herself and speaks with gratification of the fact that, profiting by her recent experiences in uctual naval warfare, she has t rned to Eng- land, not only for the construction of her new battieships but also for their design, which approaches very closely that of the most recently completed Br.tish battleships of the same The one now under construction for her and nearly comp’eted at ihe Thames Iron Works, Blackwall, will rank in size with vessels of the Majestic and Magnificent class, having a d; Sheis to b: called the Shikishima ana will glish battieships in appearance principally in having three funnels Sne will be extensively protected with. armor- plating on the most approved plan, and will have a speed of 17.5 knots, quite a good rate for As armament she will carry four big guns of 11.8 inches caliber, twelve 5.9-inch quick- iring and machine guns. r torpedo work she wili have five tubes for the ejection of the whitehead torpedo, all of which, with one exception, will be below the water-line. In view of the rapid development of quick-firing ordnance which has taken place in the last few years it is very probabls that by the time the ship is completed, some time within the next fifteen months, the above-water tube will be an anachronism—in & battleship, at least— s0 greet would be the risk of using it in acifon. Itis intended to follow this ship with others of the same class, besides the several cruisers 10 be cons‘ructed in England and at San Francisco, 2922991, REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. A man may be careless about big things, but he is lots neater than a womsan. It is too bad folks can’t get vaccinated for love the way they do for smallpox. No girl's skirt hangs nearo nice behind as she thinks it does when she louks sideways at it in the shop windows. The main advantage about a course of Del- sarte lessons s that it is supposed o bhelp a girl'to describe a new nat gracefully. A woman’s ideal of married lifs is gencrally an old couple in :ineir dotage that sit around atmeais squeezing ¢.ch other's hands under | the table. PEOPLE TALKED ABROUT. S2nator Caffery of Louisiana was consider- ably annoyed by quarantine officers on his last trip from his home to Washington, and will devote much of his time this winter to se- curing a be.ter and more uniform system of quarantine inspection, The Italinn novelist, Gabriels d’Annunzio, has been elected a Deputy. In one of his cam- paign speeches, which created a great sensa- tion, he declared that there was «uly one way for Italy to get out of the present political morass, and that was by returning to the cul- ture of the beautiful, to which the country owed its former greatn Th> English sporting newspapers have de- voted much attention to “Tod” Sioan, the American jockey, since he has begun winning races on the English turf. Sloan’s magnificant style of liviug astonishes tue English sports- men. He hns apartments at the Hotel Cectl, with his valet, and goes back and forth by traiu to the various race meetings. Sir Arthur Haliburton, the British Under Secretary of State for War, who has just re- tirea after a career of forty years in public service, 1s a son ot Judge Haliburton of Nova Scotin, who is known in American literature as “Sam Slick.” He enjoys the distinction of being the only colonisi who has rizen in the Rritish imperia servi e 10 the top of one of the great deparimenis of sate. Paul Bourget, the young French novelist, who, like one of Balzac's heroes, went to Paris to struggie for fame, is & mortal to whom fate was especially kind. When James Gordon Bennett decided to establish the Paris edition of the Herald, he became impressed with the works of young Bourger, aud it was through the columns aud the influrnce of that paper that he received an audience not only from France, bui America as well, The German Emperor ascribes his good health and vigor 10 the excellent advice given to him by hLis favorite doctor, ana he has learned by heart the latter's “rule of life,” which is as follows: Eat fruit for breakfast Eat fruit for lunch. Aveid pastry and hot cakes. Oaly take prtatoes once & day. Don’t take tea or coffee. Wu.k four milesevery day, wetor fine. Takea batheveryday. Wash the {face every night in warm water. Sleep eight hours every nighw ANSWERS TO CORREF ONDENTS. —R H. A,, City. The Sconchin” Maloney is “'ECONCH Easiern address of New York City. CaTHOLIC MAsS—S. R. G, San Jose, Cal. The Roman Catholic mass is celebrated in but one ‘anguage, the Latin. MOTHER LANGUAGE—S. R. G., Sen Jose, Cal. It has never been aefinitely d:mrmme'd which is the mother language of the worid. Ethnologis:s differ, es innguages can be traced back oniy so iar zud then a halt has to be called. JokES—T. J. B., City. 1f you have real good jokes and wish to dispose of them you must submit them to some reputable newspaper or periodical that desires to use suck. No editor wil. recept such without passing on them and no repuiable eaitor wili after having declined them make use o! them. P(STAGE STAMPS—A. J. §, City. There is no law that probib.ts private citizens from re- ceiving postage stamps in payment of goods so.dand then disposing of the stamps so re- ceived at less than face value s depart ment cannot inform yow of any piace whers you could dispose of stamps. When the Gov- ern s once been paid for stamps it cures not what purchaser does with them; he may use them on letters or packages or may give them away if so disposed. Jose, Cal. Not being en ent is unsb.e te not given wore glowing 1 they existe history deperim why orians “hav sccounis of the Siayonians wh ¢sa nation.” lhere are a number of books thet trea atlengtiu of these jCople asanation. At the present time there 1s nothing on polisical buard that wouid lend one 1o thi “that S.avonia wisl rise agaln to the station it once hield when 1t was a kingdom. CHam Mills, C: woman who presides at & meeting should be addressad by & member of the body depends upon the character of the mecting over which she presides. 1t presiding in a chapter of the order of the Eastern Star she suouid be ad- cessed as matron,” if in alodge Ql tne Rebekahs as “noble grand,” il in a circ of thie Companions of the Forest as -worth chief,” and so on. she is aldressed by yq® title of the office she fills. 1f presiding ata meeting cailed, say, o1 citizens at large for a specific purpose, ard it is not under the aus ces of any organized body, she is addressedas Mrs. Chairman.” It 1s aiiowable to address her as “Mrs. Chairwomean but th use of that expr is rare. e tern chair- man’’ is U lied 10 one who presides over an assemb) 1 meeting of a corporat, committee or the e, irrespective this —D. H., Alameda, Cal schoo: for the revenue- {fications for admission e periection in mathematic cutier service. into thatservic algetrs, ¥, trigonoms physics, chiemisiry, grammar, his ! raph French, Germa: Spanish. Those' who are eligibie to sion 1n_toe uch as have val service withoat examinati | served four yearsin the Untied Stit:s Nn Academy and have hed two years' sca serv afloat vefore graduation. The application for aamission must be made within four years afier final graduation. A certificate of final graduation is considered sufficient proof of the qualification of tne applicant for tue posi- cutter United States. The appiicant oral standing and must not eurs of uge at the time of tion of third lientenaut 1u the revenu e of the be of good servi mu le mor: than application, ARMY RATIONS—W. D., Beulab, Cal. The fol- lowing is the table of United States army rations for 100 men, given in pounds and ounces: Meat componenis—Fresi beef 125 ponuds, or mutton when the co: does not exceed that of b or pork 75, or bacon beef 1 vhen me 1not be arie isn 1 Bread componeni—F.our 12.8, or nard bread 100, or corn meal 125; or troops when in the field and 1 10 bake their own bread 4 b Vegetable compenent—Beans 15 pounds, or pease 15, rice 10 ot hominy 10, or pota.oes 100, or vola- ounces and onions 4 1-5 cunces p potaioes 1115 ounces and ca 445 \ces other man, iomaioss ported in » wholesome ¢ tauce. Coffee and sugar compone green 10 pounds, or rossted ¢ ff e 8,or tea (:reen orb.uck)2, suger 5 pounas. or mola: 2 gallons or sv.up 2 gallons. & poients—Vine gills per pounds, biscs pepper 4 ounces. candle 'compone ap 4 when illuminating oil is quartermaster's departmes ounces. pounds; candle furnished by t t, 1 pouna 8 VOICE FROM THE VOICELESS. Chicago Tricune. Can the dumb be made to speak? Inventor Ber iaer says they can, and that, too, without much diflicuity. He h sdevised an apparatus which he asserts will produce sound in the mouth, and with its aid all & mute will have to do to talk as well as anybody is to go through the motions of articulation with the tongue, lips and t Of course, will be in a monoione, but it w cal purposes. If this is ir inve Ton will be of great vaine. entisis should now set to work to discover some wey to make the dear hear. That ought not to be any more difficult than it is to make the dumb talk, and when the way is found it will be of far greater value, for mutes are few, but deaf persons are nuinerous. CRrEAM mixed candies, 25¢ ib., Townsend’s,” ———— BEsT peanut taffy in the world, Townsend's.® —— “Why on earth are they encoring this woman?” “Perhaps they see that she wants practice.” Plck-Me-Up. TIME to order Plum Pudding for Thanksgiv- ing at Townsend’s, Palace Hotel building. * sassevetioegas Bty i As A preventive of Bright's disease drink Watson’s Scotch Whisky. » -~ FPECIAL Information daily to manufacturars, business bouses and public men by the Prest Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Montgomery. * gy s S “Call”” Buys Sixteen lypewriters Mr. W. S, Leake, manager San :'nuc.s(‘oy CA placed an order with L. & M. Alexande 110 Montgomery street, for sixteen (16) No. 2 Smith Premier Typewriters. These machines are to be used in their editorial rooms. After thoroughly investigating all machines the Smith Premier was accepted on account of the simplicity of its construction, its dura- bility and tne neatness of its wor . .. CALIFORNIA FRUIT IN LONDON. Porterville Enterprise. It seems that tie great drawback to our fruit gaining a greater foothold in England ! owing to the freight rates being so high that by the time ihe fruit arrives in London only the well-to-do can sfford to purchase the same. Tue fruit arrives in fine shape, even in betier condi ion than that coming from Within & few miles of Loudon, and if oaly tue prica could be brought low enougn for ‘the middle classes to purchase the same California fruit would be consumed in preference to all other. Ii remains with the railroad and steamship companies whether or not the English mar- ket wiil become a profiiab.e one to the Cali- fornia grower. The fruit industry of this Stnte is recoming iwrger every year,and the growers must have good markets to dispose o: same, We feel sure if these companies put their heads together they can lower the freignt sufficiently for both the grower and trans- porier to make & ressonable profit. — e KEW TO-DA e Royal makes the food pure, wholesome and delicious. 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