The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 17, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Market and Thi-d streets, San Francisco Telephone Main 1868, hPl BLICATION OFFICE EDITORIAL RCOMS. 517 Clay street THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DALY AND SUNDAY) is served by ng towns for 15 cents a week. THE WEEKLY CALL...... .One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE. 908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE.... -Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICI ...Riggs House BRANCH OFFICE 9:30 o'cloc street, o open until | onen u g ) o'clock. 613 | = SW. coraer Sixtgenth and DANGEROUS BUSINESS. 0 charge amonz= the many serious ones which have lately been preferred against Colonel Sam Rainey by the ergan of the “reform” Democracy equalsin gravity the pub. sed allegation that be has deliberately taken to wearing a plug hat and a pair of creased trousers. It is safe to say that if this charge can be established it is all up with the Democratic T cal unterrified will never follow party of San Francisco. a political dude. Notwithsta ng the antipathy heretofore manifested in his own party s leadership—based, we believe, npon noth- g more substantial than the fact that he is a skillful practi- cal politician who occasionaliy wins a “fight”’—Colonel Rainey has enjoyed the respect and esteem of ail the district and pre- cinct bo: ohb s of both the priccipal political organizations of this city. This respect and e:teem have been in a bigh degree attrib- ble to the ci umstances that Sam is a granger and prac- tices the ennobling art of agriculiture, The well-known fact that Le conducts a poultry and vineyard ranch at Warm ngs, Alameda County, given him the character of a sage. He has been regurded as a good man becanse he is popu- v supposet to wear high-water trousers, a slouch hat and a oy vest, and to be ab'e to hold a plow and stand an occa- sional drink of his own wine, we have no hesitation in pre 2 thatif it can be hed tha: he has taken to wearing a plug hat and a pair of creased panialoons his days as a boss in this town are num- bered. le t It has been incre hat as an honest granger Sam 1 do any of the bad things with which his enemies d him. But asadude tue worst will be believed. mself could not have survived a plug hat and a pair of creased trousers. It ought to be easy for the “‘reform” Democracy to authen- ticate this charge. If Colorel Rainey has appeared in the cor- ridors of the Palace Hotel arrayed as alleged, hundreds of wit- | nesses should be available to prove thedamning fact. No point could be made more fatal to the political supremacy of the colonel than proof that he hasactually abandoned his farm, his rapes and his chickens and adopted the zarb of a society It ought to be scperfluious to remind the Democrats of y that it is but a step from plug hats and creased trou- e leadership ot acotillion cla-s on Nob Hill. ver, there is reason to beiieve that if Colonel Rainey is zuiliy of the charge in question, the Democratic party itself isin danger. It will e remembered that Boss Buckley's power was never aisputed until he bezan to wear a plug hat and smoke two-bit cigars. He adopted this practice in the early part of 139). In the autumn of that year the Democracy ran up against Senator Stanford’s Senat; 1 boom, and was wiped cut. Possibly there was no connection between Mr. Buckley's plug hat and cigars and the boom, but the Democrats of to-aay should profit by experience. They should remember the old adags that a sti nine. Verbum sat sapiente. RIVER IMPROVEMENT WORK. CTION taken by the auditing board of the Commission «f Public Works at the meeting in Sacramento on Mon- day is conclusive ev.dence of an earnest intention to have the work of river improvement begin as scon as possible and carried on with strict regzard to economy. Bids for some of the work on bo'h rivers were accepted and contracts awarded subject to the approval of the Secretary of War, while all bids for other portions of the proposed work were rej cted on the ground of excessive charges, There can he no question of the importance of the pro rosed improvements of the rivers. The Sacramenio and the 8an Joaquin as highways of commerce ought to be worth more to the State than many ralroads. They offer a cheap means of transportation to the people of the great interior valley: and tne saving they will make in matters of commerce will more than repay ten times over the cost of keeping the chan- nels open for boats of considerable tornage. It is not, however, to commerce o rly that river improve- ment is iniportant. griculture, in the whole region along the banks, will be benefited by the opening ¢f tLe channels so that the water may at all seacons flow freely to the sea instead of ove:flow the banks and flooding the country for miles The benefits to be derived in this way are not less im- portant then those expected in the way of improved transpor- tation, and the two taken together wiil, by their resuits, amply justiy the expenditure of every dollar the improvement may cost the State or the nation. Itis to be regreited that the auditing pboard felt itself bound to reject all bids for dredging Newlown shoals, but as the re- jection was made in the interest of economy there wiil be no complaint on the part of the public.” If contractors cannot be found to undertake the work at a reasonable price, there will remain to the State the recourse of purchesing a dredger and doing the work itself. Such a course, in any event, would haraly be inexpedient, as river work will be continuous year aiter year, and a State dredger would never lack “for employ- ment. In the meantime it is worth noting that in the opinion of some experts a svstem of jetties alonz the banks of the river will hav: the effect of so increasing the current that the New- town shoals will be <wept away by the force of the water. This is in accordance with the results obtained by the jetiies constructed by Capiain Eads to deepen a channe!l at the mouth of the Mississippi. If the plan should prove effective, it would put an end to a somewhat vexatious problem and be hailed as & zreat reliel by buth the engineers and the taxpayers. arcu:d. If the nickel-in-the-slot machine is a gambling device it may, according to law, lose this character by the offer to throw in a non-smokable cigar or a non-edible sandwich for every coin deposited, but according to common-sense it can’t do anything of the sort. Denial of the rumor that Huntington is cominz to Cali- fornia to live bas arrived on schedu's time. It was hardly necessary, for nobody beiieved the rumor, but we have grown accustc med to it, and its ebsence would have been noted with regret. 1t is strange that Weyler should be permitted to constitute bimself a disturbing influence in Spanish affairs. Take his typewriter away from him and be would be helpless. Captain Merry has bad such a hard time getting a firm grip on his job that the joy of final victory is probably keener than | tbem the transportation they had paid for, that born of the fact that the salary is $10,000 a year. Sometimes it is a little hard at this distance to tell what the English are fighting about in India, but that they fight like soldiers and heroes there can be no guestion, ANNEXATION AND CLIMATE. HE Chronicle, adhering to its theory that climate can be Tchangcd by annexation, already sees in its mind’s eye a white population of several millions in Hawaii. It is quite sure of this because the islands formerly supported sev- eral hundred thousand natives prior to their civilization. It sees a great demand for white labor there and a rush of the unemployed to the cane and coffee plantations. Now can the Chronicle point to a spot on the globe where sugar cane is raised by Anglo-Saxon labor? Can it cite a locality within the tropics which supports a large Anglo-Saxon population? Can itgive any reason why such a population has not already appeared in Hawaii, where for fifty vears the laws and policy of the Government have invited it and where there has been no mdre restriction upon personal liberty than in the Un'ted States, and the legal protection of person and property have been as good as here? The prophecies of the Chronicle are a deliberately set lure, a part of ths plan to induce this country to shut its eyes to the dangers that wait upon annexation. Anglo-Saxon institutions can be maintained only by Anglo- Saxon people, and a state composed of them must depand not upon alien or servile labor, because a laboring population is the fountain head from which spring the genius and the strength of every such state. In climates where the Anglo- Saxen cannot exist as a laborer there is no source from which to recruit a population and maintain th: conditions of equality between labor and its employer upon which free institutions must depend. Where the climate forbids such equality the relations of capital to labor are those of master to slave, and you have a state founded on an aristocracy with labor under its feet. All this is demonstrated in Hawaii to-day. The Dole Government is as far from being a free Anglo-Saxon state as Russia. It rests upon the consent of a less percentage of the governed than does the kingdom of Dahomey, or the rule of any chief of the man-eating tribes of the Congo basin. Com- pared to it Persia is a primitive democracy and Swat a smiling commune. A FIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD. R. 0. T. SEWALL and his twenty-three fellow-passen- gers on the Pul'man car San Vincente during its recent west-bound trip from Denver to San Francisco deserve the thanks of the ccmmunity for the galiant fight they made for the rizhts of the traveling public, and it is to be hoped the example they set will be followed by all others who are treated in a similar way by that or any other offending railroad. According to the statements of the passenyers they held tickets from Denver to San Francisco via the Denver and Rio Grande Rio Grande Western, and also tickets for passage in the Pullman car San Vincente to this citv. A broken axle delayed the train from Denver, and on arriving at Grand Junciion it was found that the Rio Grande Western train with which connection should have been made had pulled out, and the passengers were thus compelled to wait for another train. The delayed train arrived at Grand Junction at 3:23 A, . and about 4 A M. the Pullman conductor aroused the passen gers of the San Vincente and informed them he had orders to turn them all out, to wait in the station-house uniil the next train came down. The passengers, however, refused to leave the car. They be!d to theirrights and, after much trouble, suc- ceeded in compeliing the officials of the corporation to give rived in this city, after having been delaved, according to a statement of Mr. Sewall, twenty-four hours by the Denver and Rio Grande and Rio Grande Western and three and a half hours by the Central Pacific. Whether the blame in this case lies with the Denver and Rio Grande or with the Rio Grande Western is a minor matter, It is the duty cof these companies to arrange their affairs <o that the traveling public shall not be subjected to inconvenience and Ioss of time. The cemand made in this case, that passen- zers should leave their sleeping-carat 4 o’clock on a cold Novem- ber moruing to wait for hours in a small, yncomfortable station- house, was a gross outrage, whose injustice is not lessened by the fact that the passengars refused to obey it. It has been frequaentiy noted by okservint and fair-minded travelers in the United S:ates that the American people sub- mic too readily to the exactions of corporaticns. We area good-natured people. Wa are accustomed to roughing 1t The xicker is not popular. We will submit to almost anything rather than take the trouble to make a fight. By reason of these national characteristics the American traveling public is imrosed upon by almost every kind and class of railway offi- cials irom the president of the road to the Pullman car porter, The order given to the passengers of the San Vincente to turn out bafore daylight in the morning is notan extraordi- nary case by any means. Similar off:nses are common. There have been frcquent complaints made of the roads involved in tnis case and of delays at that particular junction. Mr. Sewali and his fellow-passengers, therefore, rendered a service to the traveling public when they made not only a protest but a fight and won it. They deserve thanks for their pluck as well as congratulations on their victory. THE EXPRESS AND LOS ANGELES, HIS Is Our Moving Day,” is the caption of a striking cartoon on the first page of arecent issue of the Los Angaies Erpress. It pictures an important step in the prozress of the pxper. The move wss made from an old office to a new one, from small quarters to large, commodious office from a worn plant to a fresh one. which acquired contro (11 Under the management iast spring the Erpress bas rapidiy advanced from one improvement to another, and now not only renders a fuller service to the public but in its new location has better means for doing so. With the civic patrioti-m so characteristic of the press and the people of Los Angeles, the Erpress makes its moving day an occasion ior celebrating, not ounly its own prosperity, but that of the whole city. It g.ves in a specal edition a summmary of the advance and growth of Los Angeles since the foundation of the Ezpress, and in doing so recalls a story o' progress, energy and enterprise of which ail California may be justly proud. Thbe Erpress was founded in the spring of 1871. At that time Los Angeles had less than 6000 inheb tants, There were not more than half a dozen two-story luildings in the city. There were but four churches and four public schools, one of which was exciusively for negroes. Only seven teachers were paid out of the public schooi fund. The only raiiroad was one which ran to Wilmingior. Thbree trips a month were made by steamers to San Francisco. In respect to time Los Angeles was twelve days distant from Chicago and the Express figures it out that the number of tourists or prospectors seen on the streets did not exceed two a month. That was the condition of the cily less than twenty-seven years ago. To-day the tourisis and prospectors in Los Angeles are almost too numerous to mention. The school vroperty is valued at more than §$1,224,000. Ther: are fifty-iwo school buildings, with 458 teachers aund thirty kindergartens with seventy-one teachers. The extcnt of the tradeand industry of the city can hardiy be fixed in figures, for the count of one day isrence:el inedequate by the growth durnz the next. A post- al census taken during the present year by the city authorities gives a population of 103.000, and the Eapress estimates that within six years it wi.l at the past rate of increase reach a total exceeding 200,000. Wearenotsamong those who believe that Los Angeles sounds her trumpet 100 often or bra.s too much. We can never have more of hepeful, cheerful, sanguine, buoyant words than the world needs. Itisonly the calamity howler thal irritates, and only the wailer who depresses. We have, therefore, nothing but compliments for the Express on the success it has attained, and the best of good wishes for the continued prosperity of the en- terprising city which it serve<. Mr. Sovereign’s announcement thal he Is not training for the Presidency of the United States does not come as a sur- prise. He is a busy man, and there does not appear any reason why he should waste his time in any such fashion. They finally ar- | PER ONAL E. F. Bernhard of Fresno is at the Lick. C. A. Tillson, a lawyer of Modesto, is at the Lick. O, S. Baker of Auburn is at the Cosmo- politan. State Senator J. M. Gleaves of Redding is at the Grand. . Lusk, a Chicolawyer, Is making a short st1y at the Palace. Miss V. Harms of Chicago, Iil, s at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Dr. and Mrs. W. 8. squiere of London arrived atthe Palac: yesterday. Colonel and Mrs. Babbitt of Mare Island are guests at the Oceidental. Dr. J. Sutherland of A'buquerque, N. M., is late arrival at the Grand. M. Goldsmith, a merchant of Stockton, is R&mong the guesis at the Grand. J. W. 0’Donoghue, & miniog man from Vir- glnia City, Nev,, is at the Russ. C. Seideman, a merchant of El Paso de Robles, is registered at the Lick. D. A. Peckinpath and wife of Port Susan, Wash., are at the Cosmopolitan. George E. Goudman Jr., a banker of Napa, is at the Palace with Mrs, Goodman. James McCudden, a contractor of Vallejo, is at the Baldw.n with Miss McCudden. Soeriff George S. McKenzie of Napa County i8 atthe Grand, registered from Napa. Brigadier-General M. W. Muter, N. G. C., 13 at the California, registered from Fresno. W. D. Cleary S-. of Stockton, one of the own- ers of the Shzep Ranch mine, is at the Lick. Dr. C. C. Gleaves of Duasmuir, & brother of Senator Gieaves of Redding, is at the G and. F. J. Brenaon of San Jose, late clerk of the, State Senate, arrived at the Grand yesterday. Mrs.” Frank C. Short of Fresno, wife of the i-known Fresno attorney, is at the Palace. E. E. Holbrook, Saer.ff of San Benito County, isin town from Hollister. He hasa room at the Grand. T. B. Bassett, a mining man of Redwood City, who recently found a turquoise mine, is at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Yancer of Newmaa are at the Lick. Mr. Yancer is & lumber merchant of Stanislaus County. Attorney Frank McGowan of this city lelt on the steamer Pomoua for Eureka, Cal, to at- tend to legal business. -Congressman A. Caminetti of Jackson, lawyer and member of tre State Code Com- mission, is at the Lick. A Duvall of Livermore, one of the biggest vinevardists and wine-producers of Alimada County, is at the Grand. J. Mundorf and wife of Sonora, Tuolumne County, accompanied by the Misses Kittie and | Marguerite Mundorf, are at the Cosmopolitan, Colonel I. H, Polk of Los Angeles, superin- tendent of the Bradbury mine, and Mrs. L H. Polk, formerly Miss Bradbury, are guastsat the Palace. W. G. Curtis, enginecr of the maintenance- of-wsy department of the Southera Paeific, is expected home tc-dny, after an absence of several days on a tour of insp:ction. G. Pacheco, a horseman and rancher of Ignacio, Contra Costa County, is at the Grand He is a descendaut of the well-known Pacheco family of that county, after whom the town of Pacheco was named. Alfred Edwards, & Sinta Barbaira bank di- recior and cashier, errived at the Occidental yesterday, accompanied by his sister, Miss Ed- wards, He has come here partly (0 witness o Thavksgiving the playing of the Stanford ieam, on which his \Jrolhg’(-twlm’. Jack Rice, is one of the racklers. CALIFORNIANS IN N=wW YORK. V YORK, Nov. 16.—A* the St. Cloud —H. D. Hart. Vendome—H. W. Aldis. Imperini— A. L. Pearse, B, Lathrop. Park Avenue—Mrs. N. H. B iun. Gilsey—Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Laton. Bartholdi — F. A. Marrioit. Denis— M Bulkey. New Amsterdsm—W. P. Chalmers. Netherlands — C. F. Koni, Mrs. C. F. Kohl Sinclair—N. Wells, St. CALIFORNIANS IN bb:llCAGO' CHICAGO, Nov. 16 —At the Great North- ern—John J. Meyers, John J. Gtil, Herbert Fleishacker, San Francisco; k. H. Kennedy, Stoekton. Victoria—H. R. Williar, San Fran- cisco: Auditorium Annex—C. M. Hunter, San Francisco. Palmer House—Benjawmin Schloss, San Fraucisco. CALIFORNIANS N WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, November 16. — Samuel Flint of San Francisco is at the National; C. R. Dovan and wife of San Diego are at the Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Smith of San Franei-co are the guests of the former's sister, Mrs. Bayne, at 1629 Massachuse'ts avenue. FOREST LEAVE> IN AUTUMN. Red Cer the forest peers the settin The line of yello That crown’d tne eustern copse. and chill and dun Falis on the moor the brief ovember da. Now the tired huncer winds a part And ech. bids good-night from every giade: | Yet wait awiile, and see the calm leaves float Each Lo bis Test benea b their parent shade. How like decaying 11fe they seem to glide ! Aud yet nosecond spriig have they ia store, But where they fail, forgotten 1o anide Is ail their portiou, und ihey ask no more. 800n o'er their heads b'ithe April sirs shall sing, A thousand wild flowers round them shall ua- fold, The green buds glisen in the dews of spring, And all be vernal rapture as of old. TUnconscious they in waste oblivion lie, I: all the worl 1 of bus iife around No tuought of them: in all the bounteous sky Nodrop for them of kindly influnce round. Man's portion i 0 die and rise_again, Yet he complains, while these uomurmuring art With their sweet lives, as pure from sin aud stsin As bis when Eden beid his virgin beart. And baply ha'f unbalmed his murmuring voice it sound in hoiven wereall his second life Ouly the first e ewed—t e heathen's < hoice, A'rounc of listless joy and weany strite. For dresrv were this earth. ifearth were all, ‘Though brigitened oft by dear fection’s Who for the spancles wears the funeral p But caich a gleam beyond It and ’uis bliss. kigs— Heavy and dull this frame of limby and heart Whether s'ow creeping on cold ear h, or borne Or oity steed, or loftier prow. we dart. O'er wave or fie d: yet breczes laugh to scorn Cur puny speed, and birds and clouds 1 heaven And fi-h. 1fke living shaft 1hat pierce the main And siars that shoot (hrough freczlng air at eve Who but would follow, mizht he break his chaim? KEBLE. A NEW ANTI-SOPORIFIC. OUmaha Wor d-derald. David Mathleson, a sturdy Scotchman and one of the most level-headed men in Buffalo Counly, i3 the Populi-t candidate for Register of Decds. Mr. Matnieson 1s now engaged in bis first campaign, and is winning all kinds of votes by his speeches. He never made pub- l{c speech until a few weeks ngo, when he a tend.d a meeting in a country precinct and was called upon 10 make a few remarks. The speech was & short one, but it was to the point. He said: “Ladies an’ Gontlemen: A’m th’ candidet on th’ Popullst tecket fur Register o' Deeds A’ suppose yon want tae know something aboot ma qualifications. Well, A’ wus fur twelve years u bukekeep-r in th’ auid kintry afore A’ came toe thes kintry. A’ csm’ tre thes kintry and settied on & farm in Buffalo Koonty. A’ ben aresident o’ thes koonty nu fur uboot fourieen years. Jurin’ w’ that time A’ hae ured un' suffered o’ th’ drawbacks that th' 1est o’ yo farmers haeenjured. Whan A’ wus workin’in 1’ auid kiniry A’ wus fura time on a nicht shift an’ A’ used tne get awful sleepy along about th’ early hours o’ th’ mornin’. Tae overcome this ‘A’ used tae eat pepperment, drenk coaff -¢, an’ iiher thengs o’ thol kind tre keep me awa A’ wusna long in tnese kiniry whau A’ had tae put a mor'- gAKC on ma furm, wn’ whan A’ used ta: la: awake nichts thenkin’ hoo A’ wus goi .’ t pay it off A’ thoeht tae ma’sel’ what a iule wus in 1’ auld kintry tae e * drenk tha’ stuff fur th’ purpose o' keepth’ awake nichts, whan et cud hae ben done sae much - asier by simpiy puttin’ a mor'gage on ma’ property.” EXTRAORDINARY LENGIH OF A GUN Flagstaff (Ariz ) Sun-Democra A 17-yeartold oy o! Jerome killed a moun- tain lion a few daysago with a shotgun that :lllenllled six feet and two inches from tip to P GANNOT ALWAYS BELIEVE VOUR EVES. The 0'd adage “seeing 1s believing” does not always hold good. Besides the menta preju- dice that may give a bias to the mental per- ception of tue 1mage on the retina of the eve, the physical formation of even a perfectly normai eye issuch as todiscredit in some re- | spects its sccuracy as & machine when com- pared with the camers. Seeing is so depena- ent on the which it is exerci-ed as to render it anything but infallible. Indeed, there are few things 80 deceptive as the human vi-ion. Not so many pairs of eves are perfect anyhow, and even those fall tar short of photdgraphic accu- racy. Optical tllusions are the main depend- ence of the sleight-of-hand man and the magi- cian. The comparison between the eys and the camers, as pointed out lately by Dr. Lindsay Johnson fu the Straud, cannot be earried very far. In fect,the resemblance really ceases when it issaid that the retina takes the place of the ! fensitive plate. In the case of the camera tbe intensity of the image increas:s with each moment of exposure, while with the eye the the reverse is the case, the retina soon becom- ing {atigued if an object is regarded intently for avy length of time,and the image be- comes more and more indistinct and even dis- torted, There are many cases of optical delusion, end new ones are constantly being discov- ered, Afewof the best ara here illustrated. Mechanical Foreshortening. It vertical lines drawn on & plece of paper are held nearly parallel to the line of sight elther horizontallr, vertically or between the 1o, they are immensely foreshortened. Writ- ing whose length is 50 out of proportion to its width as to be almost entirely 1llegible, ex- cept with close scrutiny, can, by thus chang- ing the conditions under which it is viewed, be made plainly legible, as evidenced by the above cut. False Perspective. One peculiar case of illusion is that in which a picture purposely drawn out of per- spective d-ceives the spectator and produces in his mind an inverse effect from that whicn would be obtatned if the drawiug was cor- rectly made. The London Mail latelv gave an interesting example of this. Three silhouette figures representing, respectively, Lord Ran- dolph Churcnill, Lord Salisbury and Mr. mechanical conditions under | Gladstone, were shown walking down a corri dor in tne House of Commons, which was drawn in true vanishing perspective, while the fizures were draw in false. The resuit | | was that, though all three fizures were of ex- | actly the sume height (¢s can be demonstated the above illustration) to differ one from | by mgasurement on they appeared to the eye auother very much. | The Gray and Black Lines. | Itisnot generally known, yer vevertheless | true, that the front of the eye is never a pore i tion of a perfect sphere, but has greater cury- ature in one direction than another, the direc- tion and degree of the curves varying in dif- ferent eves, somet'mes with the same person. This causes the peculiar effect produced by the two sets of lines in the above fizure. Viewed as the page stands one set appears gray and the other black. Hold the page siaeways and the colors change positions. The Triple Gubes. The above figure shows how our conception i of an obj:ct can be interpreted in more than | 0ne way. Our imagination can accpt either. The fignre at first glance is taken as one cube resung on the edges of two lower cutes, the top o eszch being white. By shifting the di- rection of the eye to one or the other of the | { outside vertical edges of the upper cube the | relative positions of all three are changed and in the transition from one group to the other a distinct muscular movement is felt in tne eye. Again, the group can essume the form | of two cubes, but not so readily as in the otner case. Lines of Equal Length. Two lines of equal length fitted at the center | and ends with V-shaped pieces can be made to | appear longeror shorter at will (as shown in the diagram) by changing the relative posi- | tions of the V pieces. The distances A B, BC, | | aband bcare all equal, asmay be ascertained | | by measuring the white dots to the points of | the V's. METEORI [ES. The strife wes long and bitter, You couldn’t cali it less, And still they ¢ alm the football game Was hard:y a suceess. For thouzh scme men o1 e!ther side Are maimed for Iife. "tis said. And several lost a1 eye beside, Not one was sent homwe deal. —Chicago Recora. Fair Cyclist—Where does this road lead to? Native—One on’em leads to my 'ome, an’ t"other goes straight 01, —Pick-Me-Up. 0ld Harding—Well, I guess that youug Dabsley’s determined t0 marry our Lib, in spite of everything. Mrs. Harding—Why do you think so, Jere- | minh? 0ld Harding—Why, you know,she sang to him and played the piano night before last, aud here he is again.—Tit-Bits. Bills—Itis s» late thut I am almost afraid to ask the landlady for breakiast, Mills—Keep your nerve; none but the brave deserves the fare.—Cornell Widoyw. Miss Youngly—So you've onls known him a month? Don’t you think youre taking a gieat many chances in marrying him? Miss Oldwaite (candi®ly)—Dear me, no. the only chance I've had in ten years. He—There's no use crying over spilt milk. She—Of course not. There's plenty more to spill.—Brooklyn Life. “Bird, the tobacconist, soys the trust drove him out of business.” “Yes, pretty much all his assets consisted of book accounts.—Chicago Journal. “Aren’t you taking Mr. Harvard at a dis- advantage by asking him to stay to dinner in his business clothes?"” temporancous dincrs T ever knew.”—Judge. The Wife—The baby has been jabbering away there for about an hour, and I can’t un- derstand a thing she says. The Husband—I've noiced, dear, the littla thing grows more like you every day.—Yopk- ers Statesman. “Did you see thata young couple are to be moarried in & wi.d beast cage?” “Poor man! He’'ll kuow he's caged to start with.” “Pocr woman! Tamely permitting her:elf to be linked with a brute.””—Clevelana Piain Dealer. “Don’t tell me that the man who does the biggest blowing always gets to the front.”” “Mention an instance in which this has not been the case.” “Huve you ever seen the tuba player leading a brass band?”—Cleveland Leader. Ham!let McBooth—Was the piece well done? Iago Wrie/lo—I guess so. Tue critics roasted it.—Boston Herald. KANSAS C.TY hE EEMS HERSELF the Lawrence (Kans) Journal, November 4 1897 Itissaid men will sign any kind of a peti- tion without examining it. Taere is a man down at K.nsas City who will not do that in the future, no matter what he may have done in the past. His name is Greenwood, and he is Superiniendent of Schools. The other day he signed » recommeudation for the New York Journsl. and gave an order to have the paper piaced in ail the xchools. To those who have never seen the paper, as Mr. Greenwood never had, it may be necessary 10 say that it is u daily paper tuat the best people do not care to have in their homes. The Superintendent awoke t e next morning o find such a storm raging about his head as he had no: before vx- perienced in & lifetime. He wus iaughed at. jeered, abused and scorned. The patrons of the schools were inaignant snd demanded a revocation of the order, and the Superintend- ent was only too glad to ob2y the demand. The story teaches that men suould know wnat ihey are doing before they do it. Editorial from CouGHs and colds cured with Low’s hore ound cough syrup, price 10c, 417 San seme st od . | neighboring resort of Baden Baden. o, auntie, Jack i3 one of the most ex- | NOTES AEOUT NOTABLES. Booker R Washington and the prominent negroes of the South have determined to hold annual demonstrations on the anuiversary of theemancipation proclamation. It §s more than fiteen yearssinca the Em- press of Austria was last photographed. She has completely withdrawn herself from public | 1if2 and is fond of traveling incognito. Thomas Arnold, fatter of Mrs. Humphry Waerd, the uoveiist and social reformer, has lived for many years in Dublin, where hegg a professor in the Catholic University i, fellow of the Royal University. A monument is to Le erected in Paris, in the Place Malesherbes, to Dumas the younger, | In the same square there is a statue 1o the elder Dnmas, and the name of the little park wili be changed 10 “Dumas.” A recent visitor to the home of the famous author, Erank R. Stockton, says that the touch | of the Lady is shown i every room in the house, except the study of the author, and here the Tiger holds undisputed sway. The Czar of Russia and the King of Slam are oid friends. They met in Darmstad: o few days ago, where the Czar had been staying on | & brief visit, the King having reached the The Duchess of York has ordered a magnifi- cent embroidered dress from the Poor Ladies’ | Work Soctety of Ireland. It will be begun at | once, as 1t can be divided and given to differ- ent ‘embroiderers. It will be of rich white | sotin, ornamenred in diamond and silver. The dress will cost $500, «nd will be made up by a Dublin firm. Seuator Foraker of Ohio is building one of | the largest and finest residences in Washing- ton, in the very midstof the new fashionable residence quarter, at the corner of Sixteenth street and Madison piace. The house prom- fses 10 be a beautiful specimen of architecture ard islarge enough to accommodate a con- siderable colony of 'he Senator’s friends, TRAPS AND TRAPPING. Harper's Round Table, The ways of trappirg are as various as the ingenuity of savege or civilized man can de- vise. Ilike bestthe traps that one can make. They seem to give the animal a fairer show; they develop our own coustructive faculties; and the nearer we vet to the savage way the m re fun it always is. Steel traps have & place that wooden traps can never fi.l; but give me something that 1 can make with my own hands, with the simplest tools, out of what- ever materials the spot affords where the ani- mal lives. Of all the animals in this country there is none that #ffords less harmful sport than the rabbit—more properly hare—of which there areseveral spcc es. Its wonderful powers of increase enab e it to hold its own, as far too many of our best and mo-t valuable animals do not. Furluermore, rabbitsare very easily trapped. x i Every one krows its little trail, as broad one’s hand, through the bushes or brooms sedge, or its tooiprints as it hops over the clear snow. Here, where the path goes unaer & fence rail, it hus stopped to gnaw. The rab- bit fcliows' this path in senson and out, though in the fAr north, where the syow keeps piling and piling up. its lttie road cnange with each successive snowial | Trap. pers there put out alarge number of snares setiing them right in t e miadle of the paths’ ‘N H.STORY. Memphis ~cimiter. S Horses have played no inconspicuous part in history, in some justaices being even dei- tied “Saddle Whits Surrey for the field to- cried Richard 1IT at the battle o Bosworth feld. Black Agnes was the favorite horse of Mary Queen of Scots. Bucephulus, lhedflvokrim charger of Alexander the Great, used to kneel when the Kin, unted him. He cost $16.500. nd was 30 years old when he di-d. Chosroes 1T of Persia had a horse, Shib- diz, calied the Persian Bucephalus. Orelio was the favarite horse of King Roderick, and ANSWERS 10 ( ORRESPONDEN.S \'EP.KES—Wiideod, Cal. The name of Yerkes, he of observatory and telescope “flmvi is_g neraly prononnced. with the final ¢ silent, as if writien “Yerks.” sevator Horr—Wiidwood, Cal. R. G. Horr, who wasat .« time United States Senator from Michigan, and later financial writer for the New Y rk Trbun-, died in Plainfield, X. J., December 18,1896 ONE OF 1836—Coilector, City.—Deslers i% coins do no: offer ony premium for & $5 piece of 1836, bu’ they offer suen for sale at from $7 90 to $8 50 esch, nccording 1o the condi- tion in waich the pieces nre. A SETTLER'S RIGHTsS—Wiidwood, Cal. If & settler has obia ned a palent 1o the land he pre-empted it becomes his privats property, and he is entiiled to whatever the land may hoid, be it timber, mineral or other valuables. MAIL STAGES—Wildwood, Cal. The superin- ten.eit ol tue railway mail service of the Posteflice Department has charge of fixing the time for the srrival and departure of meil stages that connect with raiiroad trains. COAL AND GiS—P. C., Oakland, Cal The diff rence {n the use of & gas siove and a coal stove would dzpend vefy much upon ‘he con ditions. A gas stove will give more rapid re- surts than a cosl stove. The amount oi heat in each would be governed by the supply. CRACKED HANDS—P. & iand, Cal. It Is stated that an ointment comnos-d of the f lowing ingredients: Camphor 6) griins, boric acid 30 grains, lanoline avd wh v line of each haliranoutnce will preveut human nands from cracking irom cold atmosphere. It is also recommended as a remedy for Ccrackel Oakland, Ca s MENT—A. The following is the iuscription on the Stey- enson monument: TO REMEMBER ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. To pe hon si. to be kind. to earn a little, to &pend a little less: to make upon the whole a fawily hapuier for his presence; to renoun when thut saall be necessary and not be emb tered; (o Krep @ few friends. but these without capitulation—above all, on the same grim condi| tion. 10 keep friends with himseli—here isa task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy Lecal TeNpErR—Wildwood, California. In the United States, presumably your question Tefers to the United States, gold coin, silver dcllars, subsiiiary silver ¢ minor coins, United States notes, Tressury notes and Na- tional Bank notes are leval tender. Gold isa legal tender in any amount, silver dollers also, except when specified in the contract: Uuited S ates notes, unlimiled unless otherwise spec fied in the contract; ‘Irensury notes, unlimited unless specifiea: subsidiary silver coins, not to exceed $10, and minor coins, not 1o exceed 25 cents. Foreign coins are not legal tender in tne United States. SHAKESPEARE .IN LONDON, John Fiske in November Atlantic. Shakespeare’s London was a small eity of tfom 150 000 to 200,000 souls, or about the size of Providence or Minneapolis at the pres- ent time. In cities of suca size everybody of the slightést eminence 1s known all over town, and such persous are sure to be morc or less acquainted with one another. It is a very rare exteption when it is not so. Belore his thirtieth year Shakespearc was well known in London as an actor, a writer of plays and the manager of & prominent theater, In “that year Spenser. in his “Colin C.out’s Come Home Again,” aliuding to Shekespeire under tne name of Ae ike,” paid him this compiiment And there, though | st, not least. Is Aetion A gentler <h v nowhere b- found; Whose muse 11 hugnt’s inveniion Doth, itke bimselt, hervicully soand. Four years after this, 8, Francis Mers published his book entitled **ralladis Tamiu, a very interesting con tribution to literary his- tory.” The auih 1, who had been a literary in- structor in the University ot Oxford, was ihen living in London, near tie Globe Theater. ln this book Meres teils nis readers thrt “the sweet, witty soul of Ovid lives in meliflaous and honey-tongued Shukespeare; witness hig ‘Venus and Adon s, his ‘Lucrece, sugared sonnets among his private iriends,” ete. To suppose that surh a muan &s this in a town the size of Minneapolis, counected with a principal theater, writer oi the most popu- lar playsof the ¢ay, a poet whom men were already coupling wito Homer and Pindai—to suppose that such a mau was 1ot knowse to all the educated people of the town is simply ab- surd. Toere were probaply very few m women or children 1n London, between 1Z and 1610, who d.d not kuow who Shakespeare was when age passed them in tne siree nd as for such wils as drank ai» and sack at the Mermaid, as for Raleigh and Bacon ana seiden and the rest, (0 suppose tnat Shekespesre did not know them weli—nay, to suppose ihat he was not the leaaing spirit'and brightest wit of those ambrosial nights—is about as sensible to suppose that he uever suw & maypole. \ / CALIFORNJA glace fruits,50c Ib. Townsend's.* e As A preventive of Bright's disease drink Watson’s Scoteh Whisky. ¥ - “CALIFORNIA Porries” is the nicest calendar published for 1898. All other calendars and Christmas cards uil ready for mailing. San- born, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. z e €rECIAL Information daiiy to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Buresu (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery. * s e Fine Display of Art Goods. §.and G. Gump, 113 Geary stiect, are show ing now their European importations for the holidays, and invite their pairons and the public 1o view the many fine and interesting novelties received and unpackea so far. ¢ AR s iy “BLOOD MONEY.” Pittsburg Times. A French critic has seriously wounded a dramatist in a duel brougnt about by the former’s strictures on the latter’s work, which now ought to get such an sdvertisement as ;:\1‘ ljompens.ue the playwright for bis loss of ood. “Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup" Fas been used over fiity years by millions bf moth ers for their children while Teething with perfecs success. 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The actor intends todwell there permanently when he shall have retired from the stage. Heisa native of the Peri- gord district, and wants to end his days near the spot where he was born, and far irom the tomult of Paris. NEW TO-DAY. Coughs and colds need not be endured; they can be cured, and that quickly. Many mixtures are tem- porary in effect, but Scott’s Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil with Hypophosphites is a permanent remedy. The oil feeds the blood and warms the body; the hypophosphites tone up the nerves; the glycerine soothes the inflamed throat and lungs. The combination cures. This may prevent serious lung troubles. / Xanthos the famons charser «f Acullles. Copenh raily the horse of the Duke of Welling- ton, was 27 years old when he died. 50c. and $1.00; all druggists. $COTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New Yort