The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 14, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1897 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PL‘BI,Ié;TION OFFICE Market and Third streets, 8an Francisco Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS.. S o 17 Clay street Telephone Main 187 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents & week. By mall §6 per year; per month 63 cents. 4. THE WEEKLY CALL. .One year, by mall, §1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE. .....908 Broadwsay Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C.) OF . . C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. Riggs House Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until BRANCH OFFICE: k 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; 1 9:30 o'clock. 615 | arkin s open until 9:30 o ‘. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 143 Folk sireet; open until ¢ cpen until 9 o'clock. 15 NW. corner Twenty-second HE movement begun by THE CALL to send relief to the sailors of the whaling fleet ice bound in the Arctic has been thus far successful in every particular. Owing to the representations laid before the authorities at Washington, the 1 the Bear to carry the needed set forth as speedily as Government has arranged toser supplies and the expedition wili possible. The Government did n ind it necessary to accept the ®offer of THE CALL to completely equip the expedition with all the food and supplies required to relieve the destitute men. Nevertheless THE CALL has been able to be of service to the expedition, and will furnish furs and other articles to add to the comfort and the safety he crew of the Bear and of the sailors they are going to save. Lieutenant John G. Berry of the Bear will act as the cor- respondent of THE CALL on the expedition, and H. N. Wood, first assistant engineer, will as a spacial photog- rapher. Thus we will be able to the public the earliest and most reliable ge, and to illustrate the account with photographic pictures of the more notable scenes of the expedition. There is every reason for believing the news Lieutenant v will send us will be the glad tidings of relief carried to nd sailors from suffering act news the voy Ber the north in time to save tt and destitution, and that the photographs will show us pleas- ing pictures of the voyage and of the relief. Certainly what- ever can be done will be accomplished by the Bear and the brave men who go with her. THE CALL having been instrumental in causing the ex dition to be sent north is glad to have the' opportunity to add to the supplies provided by the Government, and it is further gratified by being able to assure its readers of so excellent a news service on t respondent and photographer. Despite an occesional hint to the contrary the day of the vigilante has gone never to return. That day was marked by a crudeness that would ill comport with modern ideas. Then there was prevalent a notion that a criminal deserved punish- mient; that the intent of the law was entitled to respect, and the highest mission of an attorney was not necessarily to con- fuse the judiciary, confound tbe statute or prove that the people were powerless to protect themselves against assassins. Captain Jenks of the National Guard having been found guilty of cruelty, in that he starved certain worthy horses, must view his second trial for the same cffense with much interest. 1f prouounced innocent by the military tribunal he wiil natu- rally be torn by conflicting emotions and for the rest of his days be puzzied to know whether or not feeding horses on pine spliniersand permitting them to gnaw the splinters from the plank themselves isreally a crime. Afler all the Pullman twins are to be congratulated. True, their father’s will cut them off with a mere $3000 a year, but each was engaged to a young woman who seems promptly to have demandea freedom when this change of fortune became known. In gratitude for escape from two girls who appreciate their own value and do not projose to sell to any one not able to bid high, the boys ought to bless the thoughtfuluess of the late millionaire. The enteate cordiale once existing between San Francitco and Mr. Hayman, and recognized in its prime as a thing of beauty, seems to have received a vioient wrench. Yet the threatened withdrawal of the gentleman from our midst can b2 contemplated almost with calmness. By a determipation to brace up, people learn to endare even such bitter blows as this. A man and woman in Nebraska ran for the same office ana the man was elected. Then the woman was at once married to the man, thus securing the office after all. When women go into politics they evident!ly take their wits with them. Mrs. Nack has confessed, it is true, but to confess that somebody else is guilty 1s an easy thing, and often fails of beine impressive. AN EXPOSITION ON TIME. l on the buildings and grounds now being prepared for the Paris Exposition of 1900 Lz Petit Journal stated recentiy that the construction of the principal edifices has been advanced to such an exten: it is fair to presume all of them will be so far completed by the fail of next year that inside work can be car- ried on during the winter of 1898-99. Tnis gives promise of an accomplishment which will be in itself one of the triumphs o. the century—an exposition that will open on time. It is ciear that if the French can have their buildingsroofel and ready for the interfor work by next fall tke cxhibitors will be able to begin installing their exhibits by the fall of '99 and will have from six to eight months in which to get them in place be- fore the grand opening occurs. The laggards then will have none to biame but themselves if they are late in the prepara- tion of their exhibits and have to show hasty and unfinished displays during the first beautiiul days of the fair, when curi- ity will be fresh and the world most interested in what is dis. played at the great exposition of the century. Thae manner in which the French have gone about the work of arranging this exposition is in striking contrast with that pursued at Chicago. The American waited long before begin- ning, and then did everything with a ru-h, finding his satisfac- tion in the speed he made in erecting colossal sheds and covering acres of bare earth with sod and flower gardens. The Frenchman starts early. He will not rush. He will have nothing to show in the way of speedy accomplishment. Nev- ertheless he will get there, and, what is more, he will get there in better shape than the American did. The Puaris Exposition will probably be virtnally complete on the dav when the Presi- dent of the republic touches the button and sets tihe machinery moving. It will be worth our while to consider whether the French way of starting early is not on the whole better than the American way of moving rapidly. California is to have a display at the show in Paris and it will certainly be advisable to have it ready when the exposition opens. We must decide, therefore, whether we shall get to work apd make prepa’ rations for our exhibit at once, or wait until the spring of '99 and then do everything in a hurry. In reflecting upon this problem, mcreover, we must bear in mind that a start in good time is worth a dozen spurts made too late. N the course of a short review of the progress of the work NOVEMBER 14 1807 he expedition as is afforded by its special cor- | WHITE LABOR'S MENACE HERE is a good deal of gush and star-spangled greed Tand pseudo patriotism among the high-priced fulminates regularly exploded by the annexation press, but there is fittle attempt to justify a colonial policy, and a strange shy- ness in answering whether Hawaii is to be a State. The background fact to the whole movement is the fear of what the Chromicle used to call ‘“‘the Missionary gang,” which Dole’s oligarchy represents, that the reciprocity treaty will some time be abrogated and they will lose the subsidy so long paid by the United States. When the McKinley bill substituted a bounty for protec- tion on raw sugar tie so-callld American patriotism on the islands took a Fourth of July turn. The reciprocity treaty stood untouched, but as all raw sugars of equal grade came | into the United States free those of Hawaii enjoyed no monop- oly of free entry and therefore no peculiar profit attached to their export. While the profits of free entry were lost those of a bounty were not gained, and then came over the planters | a great longing for the old flag and 2 cents a pound sugar bounty. This caused the revolution of 1893. How any one can read the correspondence of Minister Stevens on file in the | State Department at Washington and deny his active part in i the overthrow of the Hawaiian Government passes all honest comprehension. In that corréspondence he says, advocating | annexation and discussing the sugar bounty, that six months before the revolution he discussed that subject with the plant- ers and had their assurance that if annexed they would be content with a sugar bounty of 1 cent a pound. It is time now to face facts in this whole business. Every sugar-planter knows that the plantations cannot be worked by white labor. If sugar planting is to continue it must be with Asiatics or “blackbirds.” The laws of the United States run against servile labor, and the tendency in that direction is more pronounced every year. If annexed are we to have one kind of law for Hawaii and another kind for the rest of the country? If our existing laws are applied to Hawaii servile labor must either cease there or be limited so as to destroy sugar and coffee planting entirely. The planters have enjoyed the profits of a virtual subsidy, amounting, according to Senator Perkins, to nearly one hundred millions of dollars since 1875. In fear that they are to lose that golden egg they want annexa- | tion so as to substitute for it the other golden egg of protec- tion. They regard the United States as a fool goose that lays that kind of eggs for them to suck. If annexed they can only { continue their sugar production by remaining a colony, to be put under labor laws different from those enforced upon the | rest of the republic. If they enter the Union as a State they | must come stripped of servile labor, and with the snake-palm waving in their fields instead of cane. They are playing a desperate game now to escape the con- sequences of abrogating reciprocity, but we warn them that when they ask our people to take the novel step into a colonial policy which subjects white labor in the beet fizlds of California to competition with yellow labor énly 2000 miles away in the cane fields of Hawaii they will find our people refusing to stretch the stars and stripes over free labor and | coolie. The means they are taking to faol us into annexation | will not win then. By wey of punishment for some trickery that the police do not regard as commendable they have ‘“closed the doors of the | City Prison against’’ a certain lawyer for a week. If what they | say ol the feliow is true these doors shou'd heve been closed | with the lawyer on the inside, Thereisnothing connected with the legal profession so calculated to bring it into contempt as! the brood of harpies who infest the juil corridors, preying upon | the hapless prisoners there, many of whom are the moral and | mental superiors of the ill-bsgot limbs of the law who are per mitted to p'y @ vocation which is nothing, by their methods: | but the meanest frrm of robberv. | IS IT LEGAL PARESIS? i HE unfortunate feature of the complication which has Trcsul(ed from the latest attempt to fix aday for the execu- | tion of Durrant is not that the State Supreme Court has | interfered to prolong the murderer’s life for a few days, but ‘ it consists in the fact that the legal haggling which is now | vexing the public has a tendency to bring the law itself into | contempt. The legal mind experiences no difficulty in grasping the reasoning of the Judges who have within the past months several times passed upon the Durrant case, but the general public has little or no idea of it. The conspicuous fact with | which the people have to deal is that the authorities of this city are engaged in a death struggle with the-attorneys for the murderer over the question whether or not the penalty of l the law shall be inflicted. The people know that Durrant | has been duly convicted, and that two Supreme courts have upheld the verdict of the jury. How his execution can be pre- vented by the interposition of legal technicalities they cannot understand. The feeling that in some way or other the famous crim- inal will eventually escape the noose is founded upon nothing | more definite than a general lack of confidence in the capacity of the law to execute itself. Probably in the end Durrant will be hanged, but before that event ttanspires his attorneys and the Judges who so complaisantly listen to them will have in- flicted more damage upon the law than they will able to re- pair in years of strenuous etfort to promptly prosecute crime. | It is the people’s lack of confidence in the law which leads | them every now and then to take a murderer away from the | officers and hang him up without a trial. In other words, the basis of lynch law is a feeling that the courts and their officers i are unable in many cases to punish crime. So we say that the unfortunate feature of the Durrant complication is the ten- dency it will have to put a premium upon lawlessness through- out the State. It has been said that when technicalities are successfully worked in defense of crime it is symptomatic of a govern- mental disease called legal paresis, In view of the fact that San Quentin Is now crowded with convicted murderers who | cannot be executed, would it not be a good idea for some one! to propose a remedy for this complaint? Evidently the body politic is suffering from a disease which is liable to generate serious difficulty. If the trouble is with the Penal Code that statute should be amended. A STATE OF MIND. HERE are several reasons for believing the proposed State of Manhattan will never be anvthing more tangiole than a dream of boodlers. The people of this country, or at least the houses of Congress representing them, have to con- sent before New York, now one co:ruption-ridden State, could be divided into two of the same general character. Al- ready the influence of New York is greater than it has any logical right to be, its voice louder, its ten- dency to regard all else as jay too marked. One New York is enough; the country does not care to contend with the arrogance of a pair. When the metropclis has proved itself notably advanced in mattcrs of government, when its present politicians have for the most part been seat to jail, its affairs pessed to the control of honest men, its swollen head been reduced, its manners menaed, it may perhaps be accept- able as a State. The decision, however, will rest with the juag- ment of a generation yet unborn; for the New Yorker of to- day will never see his big ambition assume a shape definite enough to come to a vote. Croker has plenty to do in run- ning a city without having thrust upon him the responsibility for one State and a hali interest in another. Appointing 8 new membe: for the Cabinet is just now a popular and harmless form of amusement, but Mr. McKinley is too busy to join in the sport, although he could come iuto the game with an invinciole hand CONGRESS AND THE CUBAN CRISIS. MONG the problems Congress is likely to be called upon A to tolve at the coming session, none is more interesting to the general public or more important in itceif than that of the Cuban war. It is certain the friends of Cuban independence will make a strotg ¢ffurt to induce our Govern- ment to take some action favorable to the cause of the patriots, and present indications point to the conclusion that their efforts will be at least partially successful. In the current number of the North American Review, the Hon. Hannis Taylor, late Minister to Spain, in the course of an elaborate discussion of the whole controversy between Spain and the Cubans, strongly advocates immediate inter- vention on our part. He declares that since Spain has resolyed ‘“by fire and famine to destroy those she cannot conquer, the time has certeinly arrived when the Government of the United States must either discharge its duty to itseif and to humanity, or it must abdicate the high office with which destiny has clothed it.” Events occurring since the writing of the article by Mr. Taylor confirm the views taken in it. Reports from Spain to the eficct that the Government would offer the Cubans local eelf-governmen: as a compromise have been promptly met by announcements from the patriots that they will accept nothing less then independence. This leaves the situation as it was before the Liveral Ministry came into power in Spain. The war, if plunder and piliage can te cailed a war, is to go on and Spain is to pursue the old tactics of mwaking a desert where she cannot rule. . Tt is not easy to determine how far Congress should inter- fere in ilie war or what steps it should take to put an end to it. Mr. Taylor is of the opinion that we could bring about a res- toration of peace and the establishment of Cuban independence without running any risks of becoming involved in war our- selves. In the article to which we have referred, he asserts that his knowledge of the internal conditions and resources of Spain justify the beiief that if moral pressure be exerted by Congress and the President acting together, it will be sufficient to accom- | plish the end in view. Continuing the subject, alter pointing out that the resolu- tion shoula be expressed in such language as to afford Spain no just cause of offence against the United Siates, he adds: *‘The undertone of the resolution should Jeavenodoubt as 10 the fact that, in the event the application of such moral influence fails to produce the necessary results, we resarve the right to take such further action in the premises as may be made necessary by future events. The mere passage of such a resolution by deciaed majorities in both houses, couvled with a hearty con- currence on the part of the President, will, I cannotdoubt, so completely prostrate the present Cuban policy of Spain that it wiil diein a short time without further action on our part.” When statements of this kind are advanced by a man ol the official experience and political eminence of ex-Minister Taylor, it is evident something may be expected f-om Con- gress. Itis well known ihat many of the most influential men in each house are in favor of taking prompt and decided action to put an end to the war, and possibly the issue may prove to be one of the first broug vt forward when Congress meets. i THE BRITISH POLICY IN EGYPT. PEECHES made by members of the British Ministry at the Lord Mayor’s banquet ihis year Lave been more definite and more enccuraging than those which disappointed public expectation at the banquets of the last three years. The Greek auestion, which Salisbury was so incarable of answering in any decisive and :esolute woras, iias given way for a time to the African question, and on thas subject bis Lordship has spoken with distinctness and vigor. “'Our objects in Africa,’” said Balisbury, ‘‘are strictly busi- ness. We wish to extend commerce, trade, industry and c vili- zation; to throw open as many markets as possible; to bring together as many producers and consumers as possible, and to | open the great natural hichways and wsterwsys of the conti- nent. We wish trede to pursue an uuchecked course on the Nile, the Niger and the Zambesl.” There can be no questioning the candor ot that statement. Undoubtedly Great Britain expects to gain something in the | way of military strength and to add to herim 1al prestice by annexing large tracts of Africa to the possessions she alieady boids there; but nevertheless Salisbury was essentially rightin bis statement. Her main object is trade. The empire means business to the merchants and manufacturers, and there are a good many of them who would rather sacrifice the empire than lose the trade. The candor with which the objects of Great Britain in Africa were stated adds to the significance of the words that immedistely followed. Perhaps Balisbury was equally candia 1 saying, “In doing these things, while we wish to bebavein a neighborly manner and to show due consideration for the feel- | ings and claims of others, we are obliged to say there is a limit to this particular set of feelings and we cannot allow our plain rights to be overridden.” France, with her forces approaching the line of British in- | fluence in Africa, and Germany recalling the Kaiser’s letter to President Kruger, will take note of those words and.either determine to leave British trade alone or get ready to fight. Salisbury, however, did not close his speech with that bu_le | blast of warning. It may bave been eyen that he uttered it only to please the jingos. At anyrete he hastened toquiet any fears his words may have excited among the merchants. He declared a confident hope that "“the powers may gradually be broughtto act together in friendly spirit as to all questions that may arise, until at last they may be welded into some inter- national construction which will give the world as a resnlt of their great strength a long spell of unfettered commerce, a prosperous trade and continued peace.’’ The speech seems 1o have been designed as a plain declara- tion to Europe that Great Britain intends to extend her trade and commerce in Africa by extending her control over the country, and that ii necessary she will fizht to accomplish 1t, It is to be regretted that Salisbury did not have it in him to speak with an equal plainness when the liberties of Greece were | at issue. He might then have achieved peace with houor, as he | now hopes to keep it with trade. CURRENCY REFORM FROSPECTS. ITH the elimination of the tariff question from politics Wby the passage of the Dingley bill public attention bas been directed more strongly than ever to the issue of | currency reform, but according to reports grave doubts exist | whether it will be poss ble to carry any cffective measure deal- ing with the subject through Congress at the coming session. | Senator Caffery of Louisiana, one of the foremost men among the Democrats, is quoted as having stated recently | that while an administration measure of currency reform might be carried through the House under pressure of party disciplive “there is absolutely no possibility’’ of such legisla- tion in the Senate. The Senator is good authority on such matters, and unless a notabla change has come over the minds of some of the opponents of the proposed reform, any -decisive bill on the subject will probably be fought to a standstill in the | Senate, not only at this session, but so long as that body re- mains without a working majority of thorough-going Republi- cans free from any taint of financial heresy. The situation is one that will put the McKinley adminis- | tration to asevere test, Ifitcan succeed in devising a scheme of reform tnat will win the support of a majority of mem bers ot both houses of Congress, it will have achieved one of lhe. greatest volitical triumphs in our history. The task is difficult but not impossible, Senator Caffery to the contrary notwithstanding. The moneiary coniroversy is by no means so bitter at present as it was when it last can:e be- fore Congress. The revival of prosperity has brought a return of gocd sense to many silver fanatics and there will be a greater willingness among former antagonists lo reach a basis of agree- ment. Thischange in the situation will be helpful to the ad- ministration, and with the able and strong leaders of the party to support the measure in both houses there is a chance of success that is well worth putting to the test. H There does not seem to be ground for the agitation observ- able at the Presidio over the rumor that colored troops are to be stationed at this post. It may be remembered that the colored troops fought nobly, and that, after all, this is to a great extent | stmilar substances on this earth and readily spring to the horseshoe | give what soldiers are for i mens. 2 METEORITES %_WL" HE products that come from a strange or distant portion of the obe are imbued with a particular charm as their lormation is he outcome of unfamiliar environments, though our world ‘s but a small piace, and the remotest land. the highest summit, the deepest ocean-bed afford only environments that are a modification of our own, with which they are in permavertand unbroken con- nection. Time, travel and device also combine ‘o familiarizo us witn unfrequented or inaccessible localities. The whole world is skin visibly to the intelligent voyager. A few centuries ago the metallic mass recently brought irom the ice-bound coast of Cape Yorke, north 1atitude 76, would have been an object of interest and study, but now, unless it bears the brand of some othar world besides our own, Lieutenant Peary’s task will be regarded as labor in vain. We may rove aronnd our aliotted plamet, bu the matrix of the meteorite is beyond our range. Across the vast voids of space it comes, we know not whence, and obedient to the laws of grayity and motion elights in our midst. 1f we thoroughly consider its past, as swift, silent and unseen it speeded through the ether wastes age after age, until the earth im. pingea on its path, we may realize how different are its antecedents from those of a terrestrial muss ot any nature. Though we rarely hear ot it, it wou!d seem an allowable departure from the cold dig- nity of scientific research to be profoundly impressed by a first personal inspection of a genuine aerolite. When such ethereal frag- ments were first subjected to chemical analysis it must Lave been an amazing revelation to find that not & single constituent wasunknown in the laboratory. Wherever they have come from their ingredients can be matched here below. The following list, twenty-four in num- ber, shows their identity with about one-third of the ele- mentary substances of our own globe: Oxygen, hydrogen, nitro- gen, chlorine, sulphur, phosphorus, carbon, silicon, iron, nickel, cobalt, chromiurm, manganese, copper, tin, aniimony, aluminum, magnesium, caleium, potassium, sodium, lithium, titanium and arse: For this reason science looks askence at the suppcsed meteorite that has not been observed when in the actof falling. Fortunately there is & difference in the grouping of these elements in the stones from heaven and the stones of earth. This non-terrestrial combinatfon is the required brand that protects enthusiastic mortals from scanning with awe and emotion & mere earthly bowlder of volcanic origiu. Schriebersite, sonamed from Carl yon Schriebers, a Viennese stu. dent of cosmical science, is a compound ofiron, nickel ana phosphor- us, and has never been found except in aerolites, as if the tusions and pressures of the mundane crusi were uusuitable to its produc. tion. Some other min- eral combinations are also seserved to these wandering masses, which, however, differ among themseives, by far the greater number being of stone resem- biing earthly rock of voleanic origin, with a smell percentage oi irom, and while others are more evenly com- posed of st and fron, and a few have been found of mnearly pure iron. All, how- ever, contain more or less of the mincral combinations peculiar to them, and oth'r- wise afford the dis- A Meteoric Stone Seen to Fall in Servig, 1877 criminatihg mineral- ogist much scope for investigation and theory. Occluded hydro- gen and other guscs are detected in such quantities in the iron me- teorites s to give rise 10 the supposition that they were necessarily once in the condition of the metaliic vapors known to be constantly cast forth from the sun. Perhaps these cold, hard iron bodies were once glowing vanors cast into space with more than ordinary violence by the heat throbs of the sun, or even by those of some more distant sun in the universe. This theory, which is advocated by several solar physfeists, awakens many thoughts us to the long journey of the stellar vapor, safely encased and eventually unsealed in this inhab- ited sphere. Some cons ftuents scem endowed with more magnetism than magnet when the metal is reduced to powder. Hardnessand mal- leability are attributes of the iron masses, as is attested even by the early records, since we read of stones from heaven supplylng the war- riors of old with shields and swords, and in the present day they are used for the manufacture of horseshoes, gunbarrels and other articles for which hard metal is needed. During the present century the observed fall of 261 aerolites is well attested. These bodies, now distributed among the museums, vary in welght from about half an ounce to 500 pounds. Many his- toric accouuts of similar falls dre regarded as fully reliable, though the number might be largely increased if evidence were more accu- rate and complete. In eleven instances ouly the fallen object was composed of iron. The Agram meteorite, named from the capital of Croatia, where it descended on the evening of May 26,1751, was the first of this species that wes found, and during the process of temp.r- ing and etching strange eighi-sided figures were developed in certain polished planes. These evidences of octahedral structure have since been found in o:hor iron meteorites and still beer the name of Wid- mannstatten, the ironmaster of Vienna who first detected them. This noted meteorite is now in the Smith collection of Harvard Coliege. 0.W. Hufftington, Ph.D., and other mineraiogical sutborities con- sider the Widmannstatten figures to be the result of such & complete separation of the constituents, and perfect crystall.zation, as can oc- cur ouly when a heated body cools very slowly and gradually, the elimination of incompatible material during the process creating the geometric ouilines. These are oiten so shapely as to seem like care. ful designs, which would be somewhat startling, were we 1ot aware of nature's capacity for geometrical figures as seen in snowflukes and in many geologieal formations. Some lines are heayy and irregularat the edge, others fine and sharp, and deviations from the eight-s'ded structure are also frequent. The mess is more easily broken when a severance of its parts is attempted in accordauce with the octahedral sides. This figuring, however, is not exclusively peculiar to cosmical jron, as was formerly supposed. It appears in iron melted directly from volcanic rocks, and O. W. Huntington explsins in the proceed- ings of the American Academy, 1890, that from depending too muen on these features the iron masses conveyed from Greenland some years ago have been clsssed as meteoric, and he also asserts that Spccimens of cast iron are (o be found in all the large museums of the wor.d under a similar false classification. In answer to Nansen's skeptical comments on the recent metallic importation from this same polar land, Peary lays stress on the iact that Nordenskiold’s pseudo meteorite was rounded. rusty, showed no Widmannstatten fignres and rested noar rock similar to itself, whereas his colossay mass shows these figures, which he erroneously styles the trademark of & meteorite, and besides was found in gaeissic surroundings. However, as a velcanic rock may chance to be stranded far from kindred formation, in- congruous surroundings are as litle proof that it is not merely & home product upheaved from some polar volcano as the other evidence he has presented so far. PERSONA W. A. Marshall, a merchant of Kelsonville, is at the Russ. ©. Walter, @ raczhorse owner of St. Louis, is atthe Baldwin. s 2 D. S. Rosenbaum, 8 merchant of Stockton, is at the Palace. A. J. Kinskey of Los Angeles is staying the Cosmopoiitan. @& James F. Dennis, s attorney of Reno, is & guest of the Palace. G. McLennon of Seattle, Wash., 18 registered at the Cosmopolitan. A. P. Winslow, a miner of Wardner, Idaho, is registered at the Russ. A.de R. Taylor and wife of Ladner, B. C, are guests at the Cosmopolitan. E. E. Nichois, manager of the Florence Hotel of Sun Dicgo, is at the California. A. Phillips and T. W. Thompson, railroad men of Los Angeles, are at the Occidental. James Hewston, an orange-grower of River- side, and Miss Hewston, are at the Occidentai. E. R. Ray of Jamestown and W. R. Wallace of Ei Dorado County, both mining men, are at the Grand. D. Stewart, J. McPherson and Robert Leonard, ull of Scotland, sre among the recont arrivals at the Cosmopolitan. Lonis Lachmand, en exiensive hop-grower and dealer of Portland, arrived in the city yesterday and is at the California. A. H. Sylvester, of the United States geolo- gical survey corps, 18 at the Occidentel. He arrived yesterday from Washington. Wilson Mizner arrived in the city last night on the steamer Walla Walla irom Dawson City and is stopping at the Occidental. C. H. Bishop, a planter of Kauai, Hawaiian Isiands, arrived in the city yesterday from the East on his way home. He is at the Occiden- tal. Rev. W. F. Nichols, Bishop of the California Diocese, accompanied by his family, arrived from a trip to Eurcpe yesterday and are at the, Occidental. John J. Carter arrived from Nashvi'® Tenn., yesterdey and 1sat the Baldwin. de will be one of the judges during the racing season at the Oukland racetrack e e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YOFRK. NEW YORK, Nov. 13.—At the Plaza—Mrs. J. Sloan; Manhattan—E. juiton; Cadillac Mrs. Barnum ; Jefferson—E. T. Allen; St. Denis . L. Hughson; Holland—Mr. and Mis. D, Murphy; Park Avenue—Mr. and Mrs. M. Dreyfus is here buying, b Sheldon. CALIFOR;H/;NS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON Nov. 13.—R. W. Gorrill and wife and Miss Grace Gorrill of Oakland, and Mr. and Mrs. William H. Van Dyke and Miss C. Van Dyke of Los Angeles are at the Shore- hem. CALIFORNIANS CHICAGO, Nov. 13 —At the Auditorinm An- nex—W. H. Taloot, Mr.ard Mrs. C. W. Cook, Mrs. Carey W. Thompson, Mrs. A. Packard, San Diego; GreatNorthern—Jonn W. Maillard, San Francisco. IN CHICAGO. INVITATION TO CALIFORNIA, Come to the land of the suusel sea, Where the year is wrapped fn golden wea her; Where the months are stfung oa sunbeam threads Aud bound with roses and pinks together Grack HIBBARD. o Red Bloff Sencinel. Under its new management the San Frane cisco CALL bas made rapid stridesin furnishe ing the latest news and mecting the require- ments as a clean, able and fearless exponent of the public good. The relief of 300 whalers who are imprisoned in the ice in the Arcuc was undertaken by THE CaLL, and John D. Spreckels, its proprietor, offered to provide ail of the provisions for a relicf expedition if the Government would furnish a vessel. His per- sonal influence secured urgent appeals by telegraph 1o Secretary Loug from Senators Perkins and White and Congressmen Barh DeVries, Maguire, Loud, Hilborn, Barlow &n d Castle, e resvlt was_that within sixteen hours the Government had taken favorable ac- tiog in matter, and the revenue cutter Bear will go north’ aud attempt to reach the unfortunate sailors. This action of THE CALL 18 true journalism, and Mr. Spreckels has placed it in the lead of its profession in Caiiforuia. Erop that cough with Low’s horehound cough syrup, price 10c, 417 8ansome st.* et Sl e Sao H. BLACK, painter, 120 Ed4y strass = S g e CALIFORNIA glace fruits,50c 1b. Townsend's.” e e fFrECIAL Information daliy to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Ciipping Burezu (Alien'’s), 510 Montgomerys. * — e One of the good stories in the life of Tenny son is of 8 poetical competition in which he once engaged with Fitz Gerald (who figured delightiully in the biography) to see who could proauce the most successfui line in Wordsworth’s most deadly duil manner. There is a dispute as 0 who actually wrote the winning line, but here is the line i self, which certainly deserves first prize: ‘A Mr. Wilkinson, a clergyman.” XEW TO-DAY. NO WASTE OF WORDS. Evidence Which I« ht to the Point and Relitble. Judge Krank Ives of District. Court of Crockston, Minn., ssy<: For some time {1 have ued Btusrls Dyrspepsia Tablers with seeming great beuefit, with few ex- ceptions, I have not been su free from iu- digestion in twenty-five years. George W. 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Ifind them pieasant to take, convenient to carry. ] Rev. G. D. Brown, Mondovi, Wis.: Ths effect of Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets is simply marvelous; s quite hearty dinner of broiled beefsténk causts no distress iron showed a complete resemblance, it was inferred that they, too, had fallen, ttough unobserved or unrecorded. Of this class are the Coahuila frons of various size which were found scattered over adja- cent areas in Mexico, and either came &s & siower or formed one of enormous size that was broken by the force of atmospheric friction. ‘The magnificent fireball seen by many reliable persons 1a Califor- nia on the evening of July 27, 1894, and now kunown as the Candelaria meteor, was never found. It expi.oded in the air before reaching the earth and was probably entirely pulverized, floating down as imper- ceptible dust on the unconscious world, Thus, besides their inhate difference, such phenomcna may be classed onanother scale as seen descending, but not found: Found, but not seen to fali: Seen (o fall and found. The latter, true messengers from infinity with no taint of doubt, are, even inascientific sense, material and veritable samples from the worlds of space, links between us and the uiseen and 1nacecssiole. It is admitted that the probable distinction between the shooting star and the »erolite is chicfly one of size, but as the noted meteoric displays of 1833 and 1866 iniied to simultaneously sprinkle the globe with specimens an impression gained ground that such bodies are all dissipated in the upper atmosphere. Even the Mazap 1 meteorite that was sctually seen 1o fall, and was picked np in Mexico during the great shower of November 27, 18! is by some authorities not aceredited to the swarm of Andromedes then in the actof sweepiug Dby the earth’s atmosphere. This is carrying theory to an unwarranted extreme. With the ex. ception ot & fcw senolarly men there was little inteliigent observation of the great star showers of the past, and still less of & co-operative watch for aerolitic downpours. A few (scatlered groups, upwuard-guz- ing and terrified, are disqualified witnesses in such a cise. No doubt hundreds of thouseuds of the luminous bodies are entirely dissipated in the upper air, but hundreds may have come down unnoticed ard if of stone would' not afterward be easily detecied. As the previous great meteoric showers commenced a year or 1wo in advance of their allotted perfod, the expected phenomenon of 1899 wil!, 110 doub, mple signs of its approsch on the 13th, 14th and 15:h of the present mouth when the earth crosses the meteoric orbit; and as thousands of earnest, intellizent observers are on the alert not only 10 witness the maenificent sky scene but to detect aero'itic fallsshould they occur, even the coming days ma prove that the Leonids and other shooting stars yield to the earth’s surface unpulverized speci- RosE O'HALLORAN. since I began their use. : Over 6009 peonis in the State of Michi- gan alone in 1894 were cured of stomach troubles by Siuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. Ful®sized nackage may be found at all drug:ists at 50 cents. Send for' little book on stomach dis- eases, mailel free by Stuart Co., Mar- shall, Mich. o o e g L o RS &8 (. What is Champagne? A, It is Moet & Chandon “White Seal.” N. 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