The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 16, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRAN CISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16 TUESDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. 1807 ; i Proprictor. .Market and Third streets, San Fran hone Matn 1863. seo PUBLICATION OFFICE | EDITORIAL ROOMS. 517 Clay street | Telephone Main 1874, DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by | ounding towns for 15 cents a week. month 65 cents. CO CALL a THE SAN FRANCI carriers in this city a By mail $6 per year; p THE WEEKLY, CALL..... . .. OAKLAND OFFICE. 908 Broadweay | ...Ono year, by mail, $1.50 | | i | Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLE NEW YORK 0O ..Room 188, World Building | C.) OFFICE.. C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. WASHINGTON (D. Riggs House BRANCH OFFICES 9:30 9 Hayes street; opea until 9:3) o'clock. 615 | Montgomery street, corner Clar; open until ‘ ; open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteeath and open untii 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open 143 Ninth street; open until 9 o'cloek. 1503 | NW. *clock | o’clock. corner Twenty-second | open unti. ¢ ks oven i THE COMING SESSION OF CONGRESS. experts the coming session | cf Congress will be one of the longest and most impor- | g to others it will be duill and CCORDING to some politic iant in our annals Tt. ordi There are proph business by proceedings ely to alarm financiers, and there xpect it to solve every problem that | prosperity on a permanent ba-is. is safe to say that none of these extreme piedictions will be verified. the table. are those who confidently coufronts us and establis A pudding is Legislation never comes exac in the form ex- pected by hope or by to the eloguence of radicalism, but when it comes to take action it follows the counsels of moderation. The coming Congress | will not so! problems of politics, and certainly it will It is a Congress under the influence of | statesmen of more than ordinary ability, well versed in eco- | nomic It did good work during the extra ssssion, and icn to be equaliy industrious and judicious in | the coming one. all not disturd business. can be count The sent:ments of the pessimists have been:expressed by | the New York Past, which, from a wild free-trader has become a | wilder calami In a recent issue it declared: ry to say, 1s viewed | the orderly, indus- If a vote could be question whecher there snould ming twelvemonth it would cided in the negative by so iarge a majority that the efficmative 10t be wo g, reasons for not wanting | ion would be the fear wanton oulbreek of foreign | nent sh 1ue This is the utterance of a party gone crazy. s nor the President at all likely “wanton outbreak of foreign embroilment.” zens on sa du among lest son d take place in cons Neither Con. | to enter upon any | Itis possible that | some steps may be taken to c.eck the devastation of Cuba, but it is not in the slightest degree probable that anything will be e to lead with Spain. I: we have any war with that country it will be only because Spain in her madness forces war upon us. d toa v The representatives of the business interests of the country, so far from being averse to the a-sembling ot Congress, are | eager to have the :ession open and the work of legislation | bezun. There is much to be done. There is need of le sisiation | in the way of currency reform, proection and encoursgement | to American shipping, the improvement of rivers and harbors, the construction of the Nicaragnz canal, the establishment of a | Department of Mines and Mining, the creation of a more com- plete governmental system ior Alaska, s0 as to foster the devei~ | opment of the gold districts, and many other matters in which | the business and the industry o the country are concerned at ‘ this time, | The coming session will not bring the solution of all the | difficulties of the time, but it will be s busy one and a useful one. There has never been a session of & Repub ican Congress that has not in some notable way advanced the welfare of the American peopls, and there is no reason to fear that this one will be an exception to the rule. A case has arlsen: wherein a po nt in the Geary act is said to be involved. This is difficult to understand. Readers of the papers have learned to regara that law as having no points not | already settled in favor of the Chinese, and to consist in its present form of a series of loopholes strung together as loosely as the meshes in a whalenet. There is no such thing aan[ whalenet, but tor the sake of illustration there ought to be. | Such a net would affect minncws about as the exclusion act | does the Chinese. Once more the announcement is made that the rickel-in- the-slot machines are doomed. Perhaps this is true, but they continue business at the old stands, apparently unaware of | what has happened to them. Somebody should explain to them that not only are they doomed but that the process has | been repeated several times, and that some consideration is | due the hard-working and faithful doomers. When President Dole says that the veovle of Hawaii will never again submit to a monarchy he ought to expla:n that by ‘‘the people” he means 2 per cent, and that, according to his peculiar method of counting, the other 98 per cent, not being partisans of his. cut no figure. This being done the public would better understand the value of the Doleful de- | duction. Because Rev. Myron Reed of Denver declares he will prose- cute the game wardens who Lave varied the enjoyment of the season’s hunting by potting a number of Utes, he has to hear himself denounced as a sensational preacher. And doubtless in the chorus proclaiming his graceless state the attentive ear can catch the fervent accents of the game wardens themselves. That committee on public morals, it is to be feared, has not yet succeeded in elevating Barbary Coast to an extremely lofty piane. The dives of that section are still able to produce a murder on short notice, the murderer being soothed and sus- tained by the knowledge that his act will not cause him serious inconvenience. It could almost be wished that some of the assassins who become pious and profess a deep and abiaing love for their feliow-men would manifest these pleasing symptoms before re- | ducing the number of their feilow-men. No wonder that New York is tired of the horse show, be- cause it not only is not a horse show but an exhibition ot | people, all of whom are uninteresting ana many of whom do not know as much as a good horse. Inspector Dockery has been pouring bad milk into the sewers, it is true, yet an occasional whiff from the sewers proves conclusively that something worse than bad milk is the matter with them. It seems strange at first glance that an old man should have committed burglary with intent to break into the penitentiary- Yet, by reading how prisoners at San Quentin fare, wonder ceases, Since the vermiform appendix of the New York Journal is causing it so much trouble, wonder arises that the usual pro- cess of removal has not been resorted to beiore this. There is still talk of a war with Spain. There is also talk about the moon being made of green cheese, but thoughtful people do not regard 1t as impreseive. It would be a public blessing if future mention o!f Durrant could be limited to a brief and early obituary, i | and mothers of the republic. AN ELECTIVE SCHOOL BOARD. E concur with a morning contemporary in_the opinion that the resolution of the Citlzens’ Charter Conven- tion, have been taken. nial football of the place-hunters. to create a Board of School elected by popuiar vote, is the very worst action that could | The cause of it is undoubtedly the presence f in the convention of a number of persons who b:lieve that the | patronage of the School Department should bz made the bien- The convention has pro- Directors to be vided for the appointment of nearly every other administrative board under its charter, and why it has departed from its pro- gramme in creating a School Board is a mystery. If there is any department of the city government which ought to be taken out of politics and placed upon a pedestal of civil service reform so high that it cannot be reached by | mortal boss, that department is ths Department of Publici Schools. Those engaged in the work of teaching in the schools are in charge of 2 material portion of the superstruc- ture of the nation. Upon them rests the responsibility of | molding the minds of the youth who are to become the fathers For persons invested with such | fuctions to be subject, even in a remote degree, to the influ- ence of party politics is lit:le less than a public calamity. It is true the Citizens’ Convention intends introducing civil service reform into the charter it is now engaged in per- fecting, but in regard to the schools it proposes no change in the present law. un The School Department is now practically er classified competitive rules. Teachers are not eligibie for appointment until th-y have passed an examination, and, a public hearing. | once commissioned, they can be removed only for cause afier Yet, notwithstanding the stringent nature of the law regu- sorbed in salaries. ears. If a Board of School Directors, to consist of four of five citizens, could be appointed by the Mayor at intervals of two or three years, so that it could not be entirely changed at one | time, the School Department would show immediate signs of | | lating the department, the politicians elected every two years ¢1s who declare it will seriously disturb | t5 the School Board find little or no difficulty in evading it. | They cannot, during their short term, dismiss many teachers, | but they are at liberty all tae tims to create more places and ‘ load the payroll down with useless employes. never eaten as hot as it is brought to | done until the appropriation for the department is mainly ab- Occasionally a board attempts to openly fear. Enterprise m:ay-llsnn with delicht | defy the lawv. Then a scandal ensues, and the entire depart- | ment is thrown into confusion, while the teachers, fearing that some arrangeient will be made to dismiss them, are set by the This has been improvement. One thing the charter convention should re- member : ills of municipal governmen the law is occasionally evaded in all of them. upon him. Civil service reform will not of itself cure all the We now have the competitive principle in force in the police, fire 2nd school departments ; yet We do not be- lizve in investing the Mayor with too much power, but the au- thority to appoint a School Board is one of the powers which should, witi proper checks to preveat its abuse, b conferred Natural apprehensions arise from the fact that the Super- visors’ Committee on Morals has been visiting the tendertoin, The gentlemen comprising this body were selected because of a degree of purity to marked as to constitute them living ex- amples—specimens of the trul ton, wicked place. language and stay up late of nights. good. The tenderloin is a wan- Tbe peoyle who congregate there use bad A spotless trio wandering | among them, even with the landable purpose of teaching them to lead a better lile, would te subjected to the danger of con- tamination. The pubiic feels that it cannot afford to thus risk the bloom of innccence, which is the crowning glory of a Sue pervisor. phone. Let the reformers do their investigating by tele- POSTAL RECOMMENDATIONS. P OSTMASTER-GENERAL GARY has made public the terms of the report he will submit to Congress at its forth- coming session, and as was announced in his recent inter- view with the Washington correspondent of THE CALL he makes a plea for the establishment of postal savin;s banks the main feature of his recommendations, but at the same time warmly urges an extension of mail delivery in rurai districts and the enactment of legislation to put an end to abuses in conrection with the carriage of second-class mail matier. The proposed establishment of postal savings banks will be one of the most important matters ' brought before Congress at the coming session. The subject has been under discu-sion in a desultory way in this couniry for many years, but as it has never come before the people as a question of practical politics public opinion bas not reached a definite conclusion concern- ing it. In a general way the sentiment of the country is favorable to the measure, but whether any particular bill on the subject will meet public approval is to some extent ques- tionable. At the time the Pestmaster-General announced to the Cary correspondent that he would recommend the creation of postal banks Tne CALL interviewed a number of leading bankers in this city on the subject and discovered that even among bank- ersthere had been but little conSideration given to the prob- lem. strong opposition in some quarters. Most of those interviewed were favorable, but there was These interviews undoubtedly represented fairly enough the attttude of the public on the proposition. The recom- mendations of the Postmaster-General wili be given an atten- tive hearing, but whether or not they wiil be carried out will depend mainly upon the ability of the advocates of the measure | to preseat a bill which will be atorce justto existing banks, fair to both the Government and the depositors and feasible on an economical basis. The recommendations in regard to rural mail delivery ougnt to find prompt approval trom Congress. Rural delivery has been tested on forty-four different routes in twenty-nine different States, under conditions varying frcm those of thickly settled communities with good roads, like that around G ampbell, in Santa Clara County, to those of the backwoods of Michigan and Arkansas; and uccording to the recent report of First As- sistant Postmaster-General Heath: “The general results ob- tained have been so satisfactory as to suggest the feasibility of making rural delivery a permanent feature of postal adminis- tration in the United States.” The proposed reform in the regulations of second- class mail matter involves a number of problems more or less complex. The issue has been under discussion a long time and the facts are familiar to Congress and to a large portion of the public. It is not disputed that grave abuses exist under the present rules and that the annual deficits of the postal service are due almost whoily to their effect; although it is urged with justice that the deficits would not be so large if a more economical | arrangement wers made with the railroads that now seem to be paid far more for hauling mail than is required as a just compensation. Taken as a whole the report merits the favorable consider- ation of the country. 1t affords conclusive evidence that the new Postmaster-General will try to make bis administration of the office something more than the performance of routine work. He aims at the improvement of the service in many ways and deserves public support in his efforts to accomplish all that he undertakes for the gensral good. — Not inconsistently a Los Angeles lad who recently made an attempt at murder for robbery claims that he is beyond the reach of the law, but he a:cribes his immunity to his tender years, which is not the correct explanation. Anybody who tries to kill, particularly if the effort bp successful, is apparently beyond the reach of all laws save such as can be used to shield and cheer him. — People in North Dakota give tangible evidence of being tired of having tbe Supreme Court thsre run for the benefit of murderers and in this they may be certain of a large chunk of Californian sympatby, Of course, hanging a trio of guilty wretches about whom the judicial arm had been lovingly thrown was extreme, but it was not so indecently extréme as the conduct of the court. | | ern Pacific line, PERS NAL. W. H. flaw of Eureka is at the Lick. Thomas B. Dozier of Reading is at the Lick. | Dr. R.N. Musgrove of Haoford is staying at | the Grand. P. J. Carrol and wife of Benicia are at the Cosmopolitan. J. B. Baker and wife of Merced are at the Cosmoyolitan. Rev. Donald G. MacKinuon of Stockton is at the Occidental. Forest L. Alford, a lawyer of Tulare, is regis- | tered at the Lick. | J. A. McMillan and wife of Omaha, Nebr., are at the Cosmopolitan. Jerome Churchill, a banker aud land-owner of Yreke, is at the Grand. W. T. Robinson, a mine-owner of Mokel- umne Hill, is at the Lick. E. 0. Milier, & Visalia lawyer, is among yes- terdany’s arrivals at the Lick. T. E. Coliins, D. E. Collins and J. Collins of Fresno are at the Cosmopolitan. Jobn L. Coster of Watsonville, manager of the Spreckels sugar refinery, is at the Grand ., Eheriff T. M. Brown of llumboldt County 1s in town from Eureka. Hehasa room at the Russ. Ex-Governor James H. Kinkead of Nevada is at the Palace, registered irom Virginia City, Nev. 8. Ulimann, the New York horseman and bookmaker, arrived here yesterday and is at the Palace. Lieutenant-Commander and Mrs. Perkins are in town from Vallejo. They are guests at the California. E. O. Larkins, a lawyer, real-estate dealer, bank director and well-known citizen of Visa- lis, is & guest at the Lick. Walter S. Moore, a well-known political leader of Los Angeles and late Chief of that city’s Fire Department, is here oa a short Dr W. E. Mack of Chico, recently returned from Alasks, whither he went with the steam- ship North Fork, 18 making a short stay at the Grand. 0.J. Smith, & prominent mining man from Reno, Nev., atd Mrs. 0. J. Smith, formerly the wife of tue late Senator Foley, are guests at the Palace. Oscar Lewis, mannger of the Manufacturers, and Producers’ Association, has been con- fined to his b:d for several days. Last Wedne day ho was obliged to go to his home at 2608 Sucramento sireet, and his condition hus not warranted his going out of doors since. William B. Storey Jr., general superiniend- ent of the Valley road, visited cn Sunday the engineering corps at work in the marshes westward of Siockton. He reports that the surveyors have already completed two surveys across the tule lands from Stockton to F checo landing, a distance of about twenty miles, and have fnvestigated the character of the foundations upon which the roudbed and several bridges would have to bs built. Two other surveys may be made before it is decided finally to adopt the shorter but more ex- pensive tule Toute or the longer and cheaper course round the shore, paraliel to the South- CAJFC;RN\;‘J IN NEW YORK. 15.—At the St. NEW YORK, Nov. F. Mitler; Grand—T Burn: ton—Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Hi Ailen, W. T. Barton; Jefforson—Mr. and Mrs. E.T. Alleu; New Yori—E. F Metro- poiitan—T. A. Corbet etherlands—W, R Cowles, W. H. Crocker; Bartholdi—W. Emer- son; Park Avenue—W. Frank, Misses Lowry; Manhattan—Miss Gray, Miss Shreve, Mrs, W, S. Wood : Belvidere—M. Haurwitz; Hoffman— T. J. Nolan; Broadway Central—Capiain A. L. Soule, Mrs. Broome. Imperial- E. T. CALIFORN.ANS IN nA_SHINGTON WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—Captain A. P. Soule and wife vi San Franciseo, Riggs House; R. F. Harrison and E. B. Deweny of Graut, Raleigh Hotel; John Curre of San Francisco, Normandie; Mrs. A. H. Lynn of San Francisco, Ebbitt. CALIFORN.ANS IN CHICAGO. CHICAGO, Nov. 15.—At the Auditonumi Annex—Char es Field, Los Angeles; Palmer House—Mrs. R. T. Van Norden, J. W. Kichards, Ban Francisco; F. W. Covey, Palo Alto; A. Meinecke, L s Angeles. MA.ER DCLUKOSA. Tecause of one smail low-laid head all crowned With golaen hair, Forevermore all fair you’ig b:ows to me \ halo wear. Ikiss them reversntly. Alas! Iknow Tue pain 1 bear. Because of dear, bat close-shut holy eyes Of heaven's own blue, Al little eyes do till my own with tears— Whate er thelr hue: And motherly : gaz- their innocent Clesr depihs iuto. Because of little pa'lid lips, which once Mv name did call No childish voice in I count &t all my joy their joys to share And sorross small. Because of (itile, dimpled hands Which foided lie, All little hands heuceforth to me do have A pleading cry: I clasp them as th v were small,wandering birds Lured howme to fly. Because of little, deaih-cold feet, for earth's Rough rouds unmeet 1'd journey leagues to suve fiom sin or harm Sucn little feet, And count the lowlics: servi-e done for them So sacred swee | M. E. FAULL m the Advance. PRINCIPLE DEARER THAN LIFE. L L, Nov. 6, 1897, Editor Call: The following must form part of all biographies of Henry George, and | should be introduced in all school readers as an incentive to the young to imitate the virtue of the wise and noble. When Mr. George was convaleseing from the attack which seized hym shortly after the death of his beloved daughter, the “boom,” | which hed partiy died away when bis sickness becime known, reviyed. Family and iriends sought as much snd as tenderly as they could to dissuade him from accepting any nomination. Walking with me along the shore road front- ing his house, his hand upon my arm, he sai “Tell me, it I accept, what is the worst that is likely to huppen to me?” I reniied: “Since you ask me, you have a ;\gnll to be toldi—most probably it will be atal” ll”e then said, “You mean that it will kill me?” 1 answered, * ForT HAMILTON, fost probably, yes.” He said: “Dr. Kelly says the same thing,only more positively. He says it will certainiy kiil me; but I have got to die, and how can’l die better than serving humauity? Besides so | dying w uid do more for the cause than any- thing that otherwise Imignt be abie to do in the rest of my life.” Later 1o the same conversation he said he would wait and see what Tammany would do. If itdid what was right he would not accept. Feeling that such sentiments as_those of Henry George should not be lost, but pre- scrved for the elevation of the human soul, I wrote them down and intrusted them to Tom L. Johnson for preservation and future publi- cation shortiv ufter their utterance. When Mr. George sccepted the nomination tendered him at the great meeting in the hall of the Cooper Union he said: “From now on until election [ am yours even though it kill me. And in nearly all his speeches he showed that he knew his death was at hand and was fearlessly 1acing it for the good of mankind. ‘Greater love hath no man thau this, that he give up his life for hie friends.” The friends of George were maakind and to serve mankind he h»s civen up nis life. Re- spectiuily, MONTAGUE R. LEVERSON. —_— THE PREHI,IORIC RUINS. Alameda Encinal. That was a valuable and interesting discov- ery which has been made on the Mojave Desert and which was described in 1HE CALL the other day. The prehistoric ruins on the sum- mit of Biack Mountain are almost if not quite the ouly thing o1 the kind so far found in ifornia. The only wonder is that these h ve Boue 50 long undiscuvered, or at least unnoted. itis probabie that further research and exca- vation may disclose some inieresting facis, and a thorough survey of the ruins ought to be made with a view of iRl determining their ori- For throat and lung troubles use Low's | to see if my wife isn’t going to get up and at- decay. The resin of the wood accumulated in BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S NEGLEGTED GRAVE. Benjamin Franklin's grave is in a negiected condition, says the Philadelphia Times. No appropriate stone rises over it, the ground round about it is uncared for and the tomb of the greatscholar and statesman is as obscure as that of 8 man whcse name and fame were RO part of the glory of his country’s history. His grave is destitute even of a headstone. It iscovered by an old-fashioned marble slab, which was placed there a hundred years ago and is now worn and discolored by age. Nothing hus been done to it since Frauklin was buried there, and even the modvst Arrange- ments of the grave are not kept in the perfect condition that is expected of a great man’s tomb. The earth on all sides is bare of grass, the common thaiching of the commonest rave, and &n air of total desola‘ion is about tne whole place. The sexton said that the descendants of Franklin would not do anything to repair the grave, neither would they allow anybody else todoanything. Every day he has received offers of subscriptions from visitors, who are distressed by tne forlorn appearance of Frank- FRANKL! GRAYE IN ITS PRESENT CONDITION. 1in’s resting-place and who would like to see it improved. structed, that Frankiin wished it so, ‘‘being a plain man, averse to display of any N6t long a0, at his own expense, he had the fadine inscription recut, or else even the only dis- tinguisning mark, the name, would be gone ero this. 3 1i he had not doue o the last resting-place o' .n¢ grestest man, outside of Washington, in American history would have Leen forgotten and unknown. Who is responsible for this con- dition of uffairs?” Not the Living reiatives of Frankiin. The responsibility rests with the Americat people, to whom the mun beiongs. They should see to it in the future that what Little is there (0 mark the grave is keptin betier order tnan it has been in the past. Before he died Franklin provided jor his own gravestone and instructed a stonecutter of his acquaintance 1n every de sil, even 10 the inscription w.ich was to be pluced upon it. He In reply he says, as he has been i desired to be buried beside his wife. who had died some years before, and a_common slab was The inscription arranged as he ordered it reads: to be placea over them boih. Everything was done as he desired, and the work was paid for out of his estate, and stands to-day the same as when he died. THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI EXPOSITION. The above is a drawing of the Auditiorium planned for the Trans-Mississippi and Inter- national Exposition at Omaha from June to November, 1898. It shows a building which will be an artistic aadition to the other beautiful structureson the main court. It will occupy & space 135x246 feet. There will be two principal entrances, one on the east and the other on the norih side, facing the lagoon. The exterior of the building presents the appearance of two storles surmounted by & high balustrade, back of which ajpears avother story. The whole desizn shows a very studied treatment along classic lines of the Corinthian order of architecture, liberally em- bellished with ornamentation drawn from the iuexhaustible resources of the French renaissance. The first st ry is of ash ar work, with arcued openings, whiie the second story is treated with columns on the principal facades, back of which appear open logglas, tweity feet in depth. The balustrade surmoun‘ing the second story guards an open promenade twenty feet wide, back of which risesa “clere story” .iberally treated with Corinthian coiumns. Ateach'corner of the building is a equare pavilion rising above the main lines of the stzucture. Statuary is iree.y used on the exterior of the building, designed along lines which con- vey atonc: to tiie eve the general characier of the bui'ding and the use to which it is de- voted. Ateach coriier of the pavilions are life-s zo figures representing mus ¢, dancing, ete. Alarge pediment on the east iacide contains an allegorice group depicting the muses. Surrounding this pediment is a statue of heroic size repres-nting Fame. The interior of the Auditoriuw is arranged on the lines ot a Greek theater, with the seats {1 a semi-circle, facing south. The main floor has a seating eapucity of 4000 and the stage 500. Opening irom the Auditorium and arranged around the sides are from tweive to ifieen lerge rooms, each about twsnty feet square, which mayv be used for committee roums, dressin -rooms for 'heatrical people, ete. The interior is most artistc, being treated along the same lfnes as the exterior, with the fres use of ornamental columus, but no massive columns apoeur to break the view of tne audience from any point. The im- mense roof of the structure is supported entirely by truss 7ing intricate engineer- ing problems. Especizl attention ha- been paid by the aretitects to the probiem of acous- tics, and they express the beliel that the building will be entirely satisfactory on that point NOTES AEBOUT NOTABLES. Miss Kate Rochfozd of Devon, Tows, hesbeen admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of South Dakota. A JAR OF MIXED PICKLES. “See, madame, did you ever see such a homely mau es that over by the chimney cor- ner? “Sir, that is my husband!” “Ah, madame, Low true the proverb is that the homeiiest men always have the hand- somest wives " —Guulois Mrs. Van Cott, the evangelist, generally known as ‘Mother Van Cott,” is to found an institution in the Catskills to shelter unfortu- nate women. Mr. Younglove— What do you do when your puby gets sick at night? Mr. Oldpop—I generally lie still and wait One of the pulpits from which John Wesley preached stands in front of a Wesleyan chapel at Wednsebury, England. It consists of a horseblock from which the founder of Meth- odism preached no less than forty-five ser- mons. In his time it stord by the side of a building in one of the open spacesof that town. tend to it.—Chicago News, A fine distinction in ecclesiastical idiom ala Standard Dictionary: We repair to church to mend our ways.—Church Economist. It is stated that the blood of Cromwell still runs, through female lines, in tne veins of the following well-known persons: The Marquis of Ripon, the Earis of Chichester, Morley, Clarendon, Cowper, Lord Amthill, Lord Wal- singham and the Countess of Rothes. Among cimmoners who can claim kinship with Oli- ver is S.r John Lubbock, M. P. “Do you think there is any such thing | as periectlon in thisjworld?’ she cooed. 0n, yes,” he rep.ied, drawing her closer; “1’m very near to perfection now.”—Yonkers Statesman. “Michael, what kind of a tree is that?” “The one beyant the binch, mum?” s, that large tree."” “Wid the little green one to the 1ift?” es, what is it?" “They do be calling that s shade tree, mum.”—Brookliyn Life. It has taken seven vears to build the colossal mausoleum of Czar Alexander II inthe Krem- lis at Moscow. The statne, by Opekouchine, is sixteen feet high. Iistandson a pedestal of Finland granite twenty-three feet high, and is surmounted by a granite cupola, the gilt bronze reof of which rises toa height of 100 feet. 1t has cost 1,500,000 rubles. The refining tendencies of Nicholas IT are indicated by his recent rescript pardoning 200 Lutheran pastors of the Baltic provinces who had been deported to distant parts of the Rus- sian empire for various offenses against the ecclesiastical laws as enforced by Pobiedonost- seff, the procurator of the Holy Synod of the Greek church, and the evil genius of Alexan- der IIL Colonel Robert Warburton, who accompa- nies Sir Wiiliam Lockhart in his expediiion against the Aridis, as political officer, 1s an ex- pert in Oriental affairs. His mother was an Afghan Princess of high rank, who married an officer in the East India Company's service, and the present colonsl has always been in close touch with the native chiels, He has lived at Lundi Kotal for long periods, and takesa patent interest in the welfare of the tribesmen. Charlie—I've justaverted the most howwible twagedy. Chappie—How? Charlie—Why, a big, wude man pointed a pisto: et me and said he'd shoot me if I didn’t give him $5, andI gave him the money. Chappie—Just fawney.—Phtiadelphia Call, —_— SEAWEED ~NDL AMEER. Harper’s Round Table. The main source of the amber supply is the sea coast of the Baltic Ocean. It is fossil gum, originally the exudation of a species of conifer now extinet. This grew in luxuriant pro- fusion hundreds of thousands of years ago on the marshy coasts of northern Europe, when the climate wes much warmer than it is to-day. The natural history of amber is thus explained. The immense forests of amber pine underwent their natural downfall and large quantities in bogs and ponds and in the soll ot the forest. Where the coast was slowly sinking, the sea by and by covered the land, and the amber, Which nad been graduaily hardening, was it last deposited at the oceai bottom. “But in higher regions the pine con- tinued to flourisn, and so amber would still continue to be washed down (0 the shore, and deposited in the later jormed green sand, and the still later formed stratum of lignite or browu coal. ‘The gum became fossilized by its long burial uunderground. More than two hun- dred specimens of extinct life, animal aud vegetable, have been found embedd.d in amber specimens, including insects, repiiles, lants, leaves, shells, fruii, etc,, which have een caught in the liquid gum and eutombed there for a.l time. Some oOf these specimens are 8o curiously beautifvl as to be almost priceiess, ana one English collector has a A TOMB OF BURIED ELOQUENCE. Speaker Reed in Itlustrated American. In order that oblivion may .ot entirely engulf us, the Congres: has established its Record, a periodical which appears every day when Congress is in session, and lor several days after, in order to publish speeches which have been belated in correction or which first see the light f day in print. Of course, such arecord is not at all the truth, though most men respect the proprieties and do not insert in the speech offensive things, or things unfair to men not present. Never- theless, the writer of this articie happens to cabinet of them which is valued et £100.000. | know of three speeches a: .east which were One plece embalms a lizard about eight | never utered, containing charges that would inches long, a litile jeweled monster verfect | never have been made in his presence, and in its form ana colori g, which has no like in | wnich may sometimes be cited to show what anything ex siing now. Indeed, in many in- | was “huried in his teeth.” But Provinence stances science is able solely through this | has a ba.m for every wound. If the poison is medium to study ails of animal 1ife which | there it is buried very deep, for tnere are on perished from the earth many hundred thou- th few tasks more hopeiess than a hunt for +and of years ago. There are flies preserved | a scene yot well remember among the volumi- wiilh wings poised as if for flight, where the | nous verbiege of the Congressional Record. Frumlllc sheen glowing the yellow sepulcher | Murder, treason, stratagem and spoiis could horehound cough syru rice 1 Sansome st. ot e ‘4'” s as brilliaut as if they were floating alive in | find no safer sepulcuer tnan in that tomb of the sunshine. the buried eloguence of a century. ANSWERS TO CORRE>PONDENTS, EUCHRE—J. M. M., City. In euchre a lone player must take all five tricks to score four. PHOTOGRAPHS ON DIAL s, Kenneth, Cal. Pnotographs oa (ials of watchesare Irans- serred generally from original photographs. Soidiers’ Hom! v RUTH CLEVELAND—E. C. G., Cal. Rath, the oidest daugnter of G C.eveland, was born in the City of New ¥ MIDDLE-WEIGHT—E. F. C., Coutolene, Butte County, Cal. Ia sporting parlance middle- weight is 8 wrestler or boxer betwe n light weight and heavy-weight or frola 140 to 160 pounds; in the case of & boxer ususlly 154 pounds. Lawyer—J. C., City. This department hes repeatedly announced that ir does not set { forth the merits of any individnal or firm, and for that reason cannot in.orm you who is ‘the best and smartest probate lawyer or court lawyer in San Fr e Two DistaNces—W. J. Y., Alameda, Cal. Th distance from the ferry landing at the foot of Market street in San Francisco to Poiat Ri mond, the proposed terminus of the San Fra co and San Joaquin Valley Raiiroad, is 7 710 miles. The distance from the same terry landing to Southern Pacific moie, Ouk- land landing, is 3.5 miles. PEpDLER—O. S., Oaklavd, Cal. There is no county in the State of California in which a peddler can dispose of his wares without a license—that is, legally, To ascertain the cost of & peddier's license in Sauta Clara and in Sonoma counties you wiil have to direct yo communication 1o the County Clerk ats Jose and to the County Clerk at Santa Rosa. LARGEST STEAMER—H. J., City. The largest steamer afloatat thistime is HIF Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. Her lengthis 648 feet, beam 30, horsepower 30,000, tonnage 13,800. Next comes the Crmpania and Lucanis, sister ships. Length 620 fcer. beam 65, horsepower 28,000, onnage 12 Next comes the Kiiser Frederich, Fennsylvenia, Georgie, St Louis and others' thatare classed as the biz liners. MiLes—E. B, City. The following gives yards the length of miles of various na American and English mile 1760 yards, S¢otc! 1984, Iri b 2240, German 8106, Prussian and Duich 6480, Ica.ian 1766, Vienua post mile 8296, Swiss_mile 9153, Swedish and Danisn 73415, Arabian 2143, Roman 1628 or 2025, Werst’ 1167 or 1337, Tuscan 1808, Turkish 1826, Flemish 6869. NEWSPAPER PICTURES—G. A. 8., Kenneth, Cal. As a ruie the pictures printed in the modern daily newspapers are by the zinco process, the only one at this time that can be successfully used on fast presses. The pictures are drawn in India ink, photographed on z:ne and then etched by means of acids. The name of the artist who draws the piciure often appears at the 100t or side of the picture; sometimes only ihie initiais of the artist’s name. The pictures in periodicals and magazines are ususlly pro- duced by what is known as the half-tone pro- cess. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. Lake County Bee, The San Francisco CALL will attempt the res- cue of the whalers frozen in in the Arctic Ocean. The paper appealed to the Governmeat for the use of a vessel for the undertaking, promising at the same time to furnish all the necessary stores, provisions, ete. The Govern- ment immediately offered the services of the revenue catter Bear, which vesselis now being fitted out at Seattle. Ever since 1HE CALL changed hands, about three yerrs sinc-, there has been a constant improvement, aud now that journal ranks with the bestin the reliability o11ts news and in magnificent enterprise—but has none of the objectionaple features of **yel.ow” journalism. Oue of the most striking innovat.ons, as we'l as the most popular, is that of publishing a page of “personals” from Caiifornia towns in the Sunduy edition. From three to five incnes | of space is accorded to Laseport weekly in this department. Commencing to-day THE CALL will Teceive {allof the New York Hersld’s important dis- patches, wnich have beeu nckuow.edged for n generation as the most complete, reliable and concise of any in the country Some time between now and Christmas THE CALL wi | move into their magnificent build- ing on Market and Toird streets, undergo a complete change of dress and introiuce ail of the most mproved mechanical appliances. . FRIENDLY ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Woodland Home Alijance. 4 The San Francisco CALL is doing excellent seryice for the State by giving the most im. portant cities in the interior a write-up, in which many facts of interest to home-seekers are ziven. Our city has been fuvored by being includedin the list. An article headed “Wooa- land, the Richest City of Its Size in the United States,” appeared in THE CALL contarned the pictures of the late J degast, one of te fourders of Hesperian Co lege; L. Charmak, Mayor of Woodland; aiso cuis of the Hign Sehoo.. City Haul, Holy Ro- sary Acadamy and Hall of Records. The ben- eficial resuits toour city cannot be overesti- mated, for THE CALL hss an immense circula. tion and the facts given in the artic.e will reach thousands of people in this sud other States. This work 1s dolie gratis by THE CAL and all that remaius for the residets 0. Woou laud to do is toread and circulate the free coples that have been sent to the local sgent for distribution. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. Vew York Press, The cld maid’s capid carries a club, Sin causes most as much unhappiness as cold buckwheat cakes. No man ought to be expected to love his wifs as much before breakiast as he does after dinner. Adam was afraid to sit under his genealogi- cal tree for fear the monkeys would throw things down at him, The average Curistian would probably get awiully mad if he overheard his wife prayl for any other woman’s husband. Just before a girl takes off her hatintha theater, she turns around to see what sort of & looking man is sittine right behind her. THE ASSAULT On SANTA CLAUS. Philadelpbia Record. Some of the churchmen seem disposed to make an assault on Santa Claus with the idea of driving that personage out of his Christmss stronghold. Tbey might as well try to abolish Moses. Why don’t the spiritual gradgrinds tackle some less tough and lustv, less good | and_gracious, less delightful and lovable oi- fender against their co.d, hard, matter-of-fact philosopuy? Santa Claus fs out of theirreach. Hels safely intrenched in the unquestiomng falth of childhood. He won’t buage. The iconociasis had better select some less difficult undertuk- ing. As long as babies are born into the worid Santa Claus will continue to make his Christ- mas pilgrimage- business houses and public men by the Press Ciipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mouigomess. SNl e The Queen of Italy has sent Cardinal Gib- bons, Archbishop of Baitimore, 8 large photo- graph of herself in court costume. The Queen guve the photograph (o Miss Virginia McTavish to present to the Cardinel, wiih a request for copies of all the books that Cardi- nel Gibbons hus wriiten. Miss McTavish wilt take these books to her Majesty ou her return to Italy. e KEW TO-DAY! s e Royal makes the food pure, wholesome and delicious. Abselutely Pure 4