The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 20, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1897. | FRIDAY ... ...... 1807 OVEMBER 19 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Thid str Telephone Main 1868, ts, 8an Francisco EDITORIAL RCOMS 517 Clay street Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 63 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE. Sy . 908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE. § -Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C.) OF! 3 Sl IRIggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFIC ry street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 3 n until ) o'clock. 615 | il g Ninth street; open 1il 9:30 o’clock w open 9 518 Mission il 9 o'c open u 143 ck. corner Twenty POLITICS IN SANTA CLARA. ANTA Clara County iz cleariy in need of a thorough course volitical housecleanine. sde by the Grand Jury and THE tem where a broom could be used to 4 it isa sure conclusion that when evil is tolerated he investigations now being CaLL disclose sevzral 1 the judic 10flaw the political machinery of the com- ed with corruption. that this should be so. ties that has a just right to earthly The land, subdivided into sin the hands of an intelliigent and cultured ts whose homes, among trees and v.nes, are 1 and profitable. Prosperity dwells in tke Santa Clara the rural commur an paradise, nty even when hard times prevail elsewhere, and the roads, ches and pleasure and health resor!s in g mountains are among the things of which the State is proud. In fact, when there comes to San Francisco e tourist who wishes to see something of rural life in Califor- nia he is generally taken to Santa Clara County, in order that Le may see it in iis perfecrion and feel the fullness of its Il these good things have made the people of Santa Clara 1t to pol Tu the delights of their orchards and the enjovments of their homes they have neglected the public The prevail has made the taxpayers | less of the waste of public money. So long as the highways of which the county is justly proud are kept in good order and no open scandal occurs, the officials are allowed | to do almost anything. The inevitable result has followed. The legitimate and wholesale strife between Repu ans and Democrats which fets one party as a watch upon rhe other and compels each to vie with the other in honest public service has passed away. Politics has fallen into the hands of a combination that uses the machinery of both parties to serve its purposes. The con- sequence has been the infusion into the public of an evil service. £ prospe more or less cal which, growing by slow but steady degrees, has now shown its traces even in the adminmistration of justice itself. As aninvestigation of these evils is now being made by the Grand Jury of the couaty and will probably be brought before the courts by due process of law, THE CALL pronounces no | juagment on the specific cases of corruntion which have been reported. It may be that the accused parties will be able to prove their innocence, and THe Carn certainly hopes that it will be so. Nothing can bs gained, however, by hushing up the charges. The only proper course to be pursued in the in- terests of justice and of the people will be that which leads to a fuli, fair and open Investiga:ion of the whole subject, and in tnat THE CALL will give its aid as a champion of pure politics in ail parts of California. comt A JUBILEE MINING FAIR. s MINING fair held in celebration of ¢ thing in the right place attherigat time. In fact the proposed exhibition fits so well all the circumstances of the time that the idea of Loiding it mi connection with the e jubilee of the discovery of gold | be beyond all gaestioning the right )t be justly termed an inspiration. The moment it is presented to any citizen he at once agrees with it, and is ha lined to believe he was first to think of it. | The fiftieth anniversary of the gold discovery in California ds.the world in the midst of a mining excitement hardly less marvelous than that of fiity years azo. Asamatter of fact, owing to the superior facilities for traveling and the larger population in the United States, the rush to Alaska in 1898 will be much larger than the rush to California in 1849. A new set of argonauts will sweep through San Francisco under the eves of the surviving argonauts of the old days, and nothing could be more appropriate in celebrating the anniversary of the past than an exhibition showing the mining appliances of the present in contrast with those of half a century ago. A mining fair in San Francisco this winter will be, how- ever, something more than a part of a celebration of things pa It will be a matter of interest for the present and of im- vortance for the future. It will suggest business rather than sentiment. For every verson who visits it to see what mining was in California in 1849 there will be a hundred who will study the exhibits tolearn what mining is to bz in Alaska. It will, therefore, be an attraction to all who are planning to engage in any kind of Alaskan enterprise next year, and will draw to the city thousands of persons from all parts of the Unlon. There is no reason to doubt that the number of persons who will go to Alaska or the Canadian Klondike region next year will be very large. Iastern papers report the organization of parties in all parts of the Union to make the trip, and from Boston, New York and Philadelphia vessels are being made ready to bring passengers around the Horn. Californians re- turning from the East confirm the stories of the excitement ihere and assure us thai thetrade of the year will be well worth making extra exertions to secure. As the whole country is virtually in ignorance of the con- ditions under which mining is to be carried on in Alaska it is certain that many of those who intend to go on that venture will gladly spend some time in studying an elaborate exhibition of appliances used in all departments of industry. The fair, therefore, will bricg thousands of prospective miners to the city; and once here it will be almost a matter of course for them to purchase their outfits from our merchants. An object of equal importance to that of drawing the Alas- kan outfitting trade to the city which the fair may be expected to serve i1 that of recalling the attention of the East and of foreign countries to the immense mining resources of California ana her sisier States of the West. Despite the golden quartz ledges of South Africa and the placers of the Alaskan and Brit- ish Columb an rivers the western portion of the United States remains the best and most profitable gold-mining region in the world. This fact will be made clear by the exhibits at the pro- posed fair, so that it may be expected to serve us the double benefit of bringing mining men to the State and inducing them to remain here to invest their capital and their energies. That story sbout the genileman who, out of baser metal, is to make gold in large and imposing quantity, is an interesting one, and well worth the space given it in the news columns. At various times other gentlemen have been going to do the same thing, and they were accorded space. This particular genins deserves equal encouragement. [t may be that by his efforts maoy people, who otherwise would have scant chauce, will yet be able to tread golden pavements. - Ivis & satisfaction to iearn that the Seri Indians are to be punished by Mexican troops. These savages need to learn that visiiors to their island home have qualities in adcition to being edible. ! I | employes. THE “STUFFED” SCHOOL DEPARTMENT. HE statement of School Superintendent Webster to a Trepurter of THE CALL that the present Board of Educa- tion has increased the number. of teachers employed in the department to such an extent that large numbers of them | have nothing to do, while others are teaching small classes of four or five pupils, ought to provide the Grand Jury with material for a very interesting investigation. Mr. Webster says he has reported to the board that forty-seven classes in (hé: department average a daily attendance of less than twenty children, and at the same time has called its attention to the fact that the minimum number per class has been fixed by the rules at twenty-five. Yet he says no attention has been paid to his report in favor of immediately consolidating some of the classes. The condition to which Mr. Webster points is not at all new in this city. The law forbids the dismissal of teachers, except for cause and after a public trial. Consequently the only way a Board of Education can provide for its favorites is to create more teachers and more classes. It is easy to make new classes by reducing the number of pupils required to constitute a class, and in this manner the work of providing places for teachers with a “pull” has gone on until the pay- roll of the department has been simply stuffed with useless | Year after vear in the evolution of this process the appropri- ation necessary to maintain the School Department has been increasing, whils the statistics of attendance fail to show that there has been any corresponding increase in the number of children. Perhaps it will be difficult for the Grand Jury to put its | hand upon any act of the school board which will justify any i legal proceedings against it or any of its members, but that | body can, by collating the facts and presenting them to the | public, disgrace the men who are responsible for the condition | of affairs reported by Mr. Webster. Many of the members of | the school board are ambitious of political preferment. Inde=d | their main object in making places for more teachers is to manufacture political capital and promote their ambitions. If it can be made plain to them, therefore, that loading down | the payroll of the School Department with useless employes will damage their standing before the people they may repair the outrage upon the taxpayers exposed by Superintendent Webster. The School Department is a public trust and a man elected | or appointed to aid in administering its affairs who does not rise to the.dignity of his responsibilities should be disgraced and driven from public life. STATE ASSESSMENTS AND COUNTY TAXES. HEN the State Board of Equalization reduced the| assessments of various counties it did not confer so | great a benefit upon the people of those countias as it | doubtless intended. Certainly the officials who, being charged with the duty of raising revenues for county work, have been compelled to increase the tax levy in order to make up for the reduction in assessments, are by no means well pleased with the situation. The average citizen takes little note of the rate of assess- ment except at the time when it is being fixed, but he is always attentive to the rate of the tax levy. 7The rate of taxation is forever under d.scussion. The taxpayers compare the rate of one year, with that of another and judge the business ability of the Supervisors by the extent to which they increase or diminish the rate. Home-seekers and intending investors compare the tax rates of rival counties or States and select for their homes or their investments the iocalities where the rate is least. It is easy enough to say that this fashion of estimating tax- ation is absurd. It is easy enough to explain to intelligent men that a certain amount ol money being necessary for public purposes a low assessment requires a high tax levy, while a high assessment will permit of & small levy, the actual burden of taxation upon property remaining tie same in both cases, These explanations, however, avail nothing. People cannot be always expluining. Many persons never know whether an assessment is too high or (0o low, but they can readily make up their minds about a tax levy. It is this peculiarity of thé pub'ic mind that has turned awry the good intentions of the Board of Equalization toward the counties whose assessments it reduced. The taxpayers in those counties have forgotten the reluction, and are now won- dering why their Supervisors are imposing a higher levy than was promised in the happy days when the Supervisors were | running for office. The result is that newspavers friendly to the accused officials are everywhere trying to explain matters, and finding the effort to be a vanity and a vexation of spirit. The Fresno Republican is one of the papers most earnest in its attempts to geti a true understanding of the situation into the mindso! 1ts readers. Recently it made an elaborate ex- pianation of the problem in that county, going over the whole subject from 1891 to 1897 inclusive, and showing that while the county tax ratethis yearis$1 96 as compared with $1 75 last year, the burden of taxation is really almost to a fraction the same in the two years. Itfurther shows that the iower rates of taxa- tion some years ago were due to larger valuations of property, All of which will have little or no effect on pubiic opinion. The people will look steadily on the higher tax levy, and they will see notning else. The moral of the situation is plain. A Board of Equaliza- tion whose members are repressntatives of d:ffsrent sections instead of the Btate as a whole will always be more or less sectional in its actions. Each member will seek to favor his own district by reducing the rate of asses:ment. If he succeeds in doing so he will be popular, and then the county Supervisors will have to raise the tax levy and bear the costof the Equal- izer’s popularity. 1t is & poor system in every respect. Let us elect a Board of Equalizers by the State at large and get rid of these inces- sant changes in assessmentrates. There is always just so much money to be raised for county purpoges, and if assessments aro kept from year to year at a normal rate Supervisors can be rightly held accountable for the rate of taxation they fix, for then a high levy will mean a waste of money somewhere and not a mere accident of equalization as at present. It would seem that a Society lfor Prevention of Cruelty to Children might find enough legitimate work to do without go- ing aside to try to rescue a murderer. While the person in whom the society is now mani esting a displeasing interest was engaged in sticking a knife ;nto a defenseless citizen, nobody was cbserved rushing to the rescue of the victim. The tendency 10 rescue the wrong fellow is so manifest that at times it grows almost tiresome. —_— i After all there is very littleimportance to be attachad tothe fact that one low-browed, hulking ruffian in a ring can whip another. The extremely reerettable circumstance is that there is no method by which each can whip the other, and do it so effectually that a single inquest will do for the pair, A young man in Michigan who strapped on two revolvers and tried to scare his friends succeeded so admirably that one of the friends, while all a-tremble with a most satisfactory fricht, shot and killed him. Thus are the labors of the fool- killer occas:onally made light. Since the Cisneros woman has proved to be such a flat fail- ure as a show, yellow journalism haslost that sweet and unself- ish interest in her concerning which it was wont to make so many appreciative remarks. —— Suicides on the ferry routes are to have the benefit of a searchlight to do the final act by. This will render the episodas spectacular and very like!y add much to their popularity. Something to break the growing friendship between Messrs, Huntington and Alger would not be rated as a public calamity. Some of the jewels of that San Jose ring seem likely to be knocked from the setting. MOST VALUABLE BOOK IN THE WORLD. . aed TISYIAYAN SVINYENEA Q)I\N).h —FEUE ABN = e TUOTAST h ==y MDA A SETNIN KL HARA INBISTAA BINS z2%k TRES IS HANNNhRAIRGRS W (IEY Ly Qe AR S 1SGAhERIY i:; DA TARSRNATRIA- 3 e "I\N\p‘)()nlflfl S ARG KRV RGNS AT (v e KAYAN NSTY. G RN sy =% TN N A RNEG) - AN AP SN \P\N&\:\\\a_ PAG FROM THE MOST VALUABLE BOOK IN THE WORLD. The most valuable book in the world is kept in a fireproof room in the library building of the University of Upsala, Sweden, ina heavy oaken case, with thick plate-glass cover by day | and in & steel safe by night. At11 o'clock each day 1t is taken, in its oaken case, from the safe and pleced before a marble pillar on & table, there to remain for the pubiic eye until 2 o’clock in the afternoon. Notfor an instaut, no matter who the visitor is or what his rank or standing, is he allowed to be alone with this priceless volume. It eannot be seen except in the presence of one of the professors or an authorized attendant of the university. This much-prized book is the “Codex Argentens,” the translation of the four gospels into ic, made more than fifteen hundred years ago by Bishop Uiphilas, whose ances tors had lived somewhere in the reeion north of tie Danube. Someof his relatives had been captured and taken to Rome as siaves, and there he had been educated in the church. S¢nt a missionary 10 the savage people of the north, Bishop Ulphilas spent many years of bis life among them, and finally, in the year 381, with infinite care and pains, he transiated into the Gothic tongne the four gospels of Matihew, Mark, Luke and John, and they are pre- served to us to-day. The book is not a large volume. Its leavesare of parchment.colored a deep purple, and the strange iettering is done in silver, dull w th the tarnishi: gs of centurfes. Three photographs | of pages of this Codex have been made—one for the British Museum in London, ane for the N tional Museum in Berlin, and the o:ie reproduced by the New York Herald through the cour- tesy of the Outiook. The cover of the book is iu silver of a beautiful pattern, though a thousand IMPORTANCE OF THE SUGAR INDUSTRY. It Promises to Be a Most Potent Factor in the Attainment of California’s Highest Prosperity. for the cultivation of sugar beets than any s dvanteges s other Statain the Doven. and ine tome sevms not far distant when 1t will lend all the othvt industries. The reasons for this seem obvious. Our climate, with its mild winters and ra less summers, makes it essicr and cheaper to culiivate the bee.s; the ground can be pioVw and prepsred almost any time during the winter, teginning in the fall, whie weeds are {ml S0 troubiesome and can be more easily exterminated durivg our dry summers, when the young plants can be ket growing by surface cultivation. The beets can be dug at any time during our splendid fall weather, and ueed no costly storing, as in the Esstern States, and they can be delivered atany time afiet digging. These adveniages will be at once apparent to every practical farmer. Besides this the returusore immediate; there is no waiting for years, as in the returns trom orcharl and vineyard orin the olive industry, where it takes from six 10 eight years before an olive orchard will pay. It takes no costly outlay for cellars, machinery and dryers; the product of the ficst season has its cash value as soon as delivered at the factory. WILL IT PAY? Mr. James Bardin, in a lectnure before the Salinas Valley farmers, has elucidated this aues- tfon thorougnly, and I quote his figures, as they state most clearly expeuses and income from 225 acres in 1892, and were as iollows EXPENSES. 1 Cost of labor at planting. o o sdgg $ Cost of seed 450 o0 Use of sowing-machin 1::6 ;u Grain for teams while plowing 130,00 Hay, 25 tons, at $8 per ton. 2 Use of teols, wear and tear 150 00 £1,4: Cost of planting g Wages, including blacksmlth and cook. Coal, fuel and hauling.. Boarding hands. 2 Wear and tear of team and tool; Feed.. Cost of harvesting. TOTAL RESUME. Lebor by Chinese at $1 65 per ton....... 2 Freight to Watsonville, 75 cents per ton Cost of planting, as above Cost of harvesting Total expenses. | INCOME. 12,163,393 pounds, or 6081 tons and 1392 pounds (an average of | pounds per acre) at $5 per ton | Expenses... tons and Leaves balance. Mr. Barair states further that he bought a Iot of poor calves, cows and yenrlings to feed with the 1ops and refuse, and sold them to Mr. Moffatt of San Francisco for meat for the holidays at a profit of $500, which would bring the net income to $13,212 65, or $58 72 per acre. This may be an exceptionably favorabie case, due to good management and careful cului- vation. But we must not forget that freight to Watsonville had to come out of it, which is now excluded by tue immense factory at Salinas that Claus Spreckels is building, and which will alone consume the product of 30,000 acres per year. The simple fact thata man sprung irom the laboring classes, after a careful review of the industry in Germany and France, is risking $4,000,000 in the enterprise, should convince the farmer that it s safe for him to embark init. But I hear the habitual growlers say: *If Claus Spreckels did not see a sure road to wealth in it he would not embark in {t.” And what if he does? Will it make him less a benefactor of the laboring classes, showing them a sure road to an honorable living aud wealth, if he gains by it individually? Itis my devout wish that we had more of such men amoug us, men who.are willing to rick capital earned by honest exer- tions and foresight, in enterprises to make this State what it is destined to be, the home of millions of nappy and industrious people where we now count them by thousands. We hear already of eight d:fferent parties looking for locations for sugar factories. We should welcome years or more younger than the book itself. 8O The early history of the book is not knowa. 101648, duriug the Thirty Years' War, and of Upsala, having oace been so.d. 1t not be estimated, because no money There are 157 leuves. ciphered. tor 400" crowns. alue is set upon it. Many of ihe pages are indistinct with age, but all are clearly de The ancient binding passed away centuries It was captured ss a spoil of warin Prague finally came into the custody of the University Its value in money now couid ? UNSER KARL LR R R R L R R R L R L R R R R L R R R A R R R R LS E’ E E E E | THE SUNDAY CALL OF NOVEMBER 2f, Will Contain the Following Leading Articles: A Strong Story by REVIEW OF THE MAYBRICK CASE. “THE CORPSE-FLOWERS OF HUMANITY,” Being Something About the Arsenic Habit. DESCRIPTION OF THE SIEGE OF PARIS, By a Participant in the Franco-German War. YACHTS IN WINTER QUARTERS, The, Picturesque Aspect. PATHETIC STREET CHARACTERS. WHIST DEPARTMENT REVIVED FOR THE SEASON. é BRET HARTE &uu;umwmwuum&mwuuuumuflmmm PER® ONAL L. Katz, a merchaut of Sutter Creek,is at the Grand. Professor Perrine of Stanford University is at the Palace. A. E. 8achs, a horseman of Chicago, s now | at the Baldwin, Thomas Scott, the Sacramento suctioneer, 18 &t the Grand. A. J. McCone, State Senator of Nevads, 1s at the Occidental. A. F. Collins and wite of Petaluma aro at the Cosmopolitan. H. C. Stiles, an Under Sheriff of Redding, is at the Russ House. Superior Judge E. C. Hart of Sacramentoisa guest at the Grand. H. P. Stabler, a raucker from Yuba City, is registered al the Lick. W. R. Newlon, a Pacific Grove capitalist, is registered at the Grand. William A. Farrish, a mining engineer of Denver, is at the Palace. C. H. Gallagher, an Under Sheriff of Delano, is registered at the Russ House. W. 8 Fisk, U. 8. A., is at the California while on a visit nere from Portland, Or. George W. Siewart, a commercial traveler irom Stockon, is at the Baldwin. TSN, County, is registered at the Russ. T. H. Berkey, n well-known Stcramento merchant, and wife, are at the Baldwin. Taylor Gearhart, a mine-owner of E1 Dorado County, s ai the Lick, with Mrs. Gearhart. Rev. Dr. Alexander of the Presbyterian Theo- logical Seminary at S8an Anselmo is at the Oc- | cidental. J. W. 8hort, a Fresno lawyer and attorney for the Irrigation Company,is a guest at the Caiifornia. Dr. Driesbach Smith, head physician at the Napa State Insane Asylum, is a late arrival at the Californis. Charles Rule of Duncans Mills is at the Grand. He is extensively engaged in the cattle business. Major G. C. Reid of Washington, D. C., a member of the United States Marine Corps, is at the Occidental. E E Nichols, proprietor of the Cliff House at Denver and the Florence Hotel at San Diego, isa guest at the Palace. General A. Mackintosh, Governor of the Northwest Territory, is among the recent ar- rivals at the Occidental. E. D. McCabe, Governor Budd's private sec- retary, is at the California. He came here to attend the Elks’ banquet. Robert Duncan and wife are registered at the Occidentel. Mr. Dunean is interested in Alaskan mining property. Attorney-General D. M. Eberts of British Columbia arrived at the Occidental yesterday and regis:ered from Victoria. George N, Clayton, Northwestern passenger agent for the Wabash Railway, is in town ;own of Eurka, Sueriff of Humboldt | ] looking aiter the local end of that corpora- | tton’s aftairs. Professor William Henry Hudson of the de- partment of Enclish at Stanford and author oi “Idle Hours in a Library,” is at the Cali- | fornia with Mrs. Hudson. Mrs. Margaret Irvine of tnis city, the widow of the late James Irvine, formerly vice- | president of the State Investment and Insur- | ance Company, returned to San Franelsco last night from Paris, accompanied by her sons, James W. Byrne and Callaghan Byrne, and took apartments at the Occldental. Licutenant W. F. Cozgswell, twenty years a reporter in the United States Senate and House of Representatives, recently arrived in this city and is staying at 2615 Kearny street. He is connected with the historic Coggswell fam- {ily. Heis studying oratory nere and will ad- dress the Oregonians prior to the next elec- tion. —_— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Nov. 19.—At the Astor—E. Pas- | quale; Ashland—Miss Heskell; Imperial—S, Lewis; Holland—D. Morion; Gilsey—Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Staufor Everett — C. S. Wells; Windsor — Miss Barnum; Manhattan— G, B, Johuson. CALIFORN[ANS’ IN CHICAGO. CHICAGO, Nov. 19.—At the Auditorfum An- nex—Lutrain McMillan, San Francisco. Great Northern—Mirs. J. F. Fugazi, Sydney Sprout and wife, San Franeisco. Victorla—H. H. Me- Kay, Los Angeles. Paimer House—W. H. Har- rison, G. D. Ciymer, wife and two children, J. 8. Brown, A. Sateh, San Francisco. Dr. | William S. Matthews of San Franeisco con- [ ducted chapel exercises at the Northwestern Uniyersity to-day as the guest of the facuity. | Dr. Matthews isa member of the university alumni. and is stopping in Evanston on the | way East, where he wiil attend the Methoaist congress, which will open at Pittsburg Mon- day. —_— REFLECTION> OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. trom hotee ail Tho pred Yang hotstared singlo rishes he din' have ahd loves hit for Maw Th 7] navile vhen Ehied o itst hoy to deny either believe it or disbelseve it. her go bicycle riding. R Low's nmuymp for boarseness, price 10c, 417 Sansome st. * them all. We need this combination of capital and labor. Has it ever struck the public sense and mind, if 30,000 acres are needed to supply but one factory at Salinas, to how many of idle men, women and children this will give paying and healthy employment? It is estimated that at the factory alone 700 men will find employment. But how many more will find it outside? It is a mistaken notion of such men as vebs and others of our public agitators that they can better the condition of our laboring classes by pitiing them against their employers. Their interests are fdentical; one cannot exist without the other, and it is only by harmoni- ous action this can be brought about. The capitalist should be wiiling to help the laborers and when the latter Is employed he should give & fair day’s labor for fair wages. It is the boest of this country that it is the {reest on earth, and that every boy born to-day can aspire to the bighest office in the land. But he can only reach that goal by hard and intelligent work. Our best men, Lincoln, Garfield and many others, came from the ranks of laborers, but they were workers, indeed. Therefore, we should welcome any enterprise which will hold forth a promise of remunerative labor for everybody who is willing to work. It is estimated that this country spendsabout $100,000,000 to $120,000,000 annually for sugar, sent to foreign countries. Why shouid we not keep this at home instead of enriching Europe? If 1t is true that he is the happiest man who has the fewest wants, is it not equally true of nations? If we can keep this money at home to divide among our laboring men and women shou!d we not try hard to do so, instead of sending it abroad? But there is yet another phase connected with the industry upon which I have not as yet touched, and yet it is & very important one. Thousands of acres of our best lands are culti- vated but slovenly. They have been sown in grain with a tiliage of a few inches deep every year, until now they refuse to yield crops. This will not do for sugar beets nor any other crop, and I believe it will lead to & better system of culture for them all. To give a good crop of beets the ground must be well prepared by plowing in the fall and fallowing with a subsoil stirrer, which wiil loosen the soil so that the rcots can go down and draw moisiure from below. This wili show the advantage of deep tiliage for all crops, and thus bring about s revolution in general farming, a resuit devoutly to be wished. GEORGE HUSMANN. FLASHES OF WIT. oger is reported to have “seid, when his fate ne had reac and cast his nativitee, that a mols | on the face showed that some.ning would | take place, but not what that something ould be.” No doubt that honest astrologer sounded the science of mole-reading to the bottom. «‘Compared with the care of a house you must find flat lire very free and easy.” “Frec? Wel', I should say not. You forget | about the janitor.”—Chicago News. “Well,” said old Millyuns as the family sat down to dinner, “I guess the Baron means business,” “On!” exclaimed Lauraand her mother in chorus, “tell us why!” “ie came around to the office this morning and asked me to lend bim $50 on account.”’— | Cleveland Leader. “Tommy,” said the teacher, “whatis meant by nutritious food ?” “Something thatain’t got no taste to it,” re- plied Tommy.—Tit-Bit: GENUINE Plum Pudding. Townsend’s. St MoLassEs Horehound Candy at Townsend’s.* o CREAM Mixed Candies, 25¢ 1b. Townsend’s. * e “Why weren’t you on hand yesterday to cut the grass, John?" “Very sorry, sir, but I had to parade with the unemployed.”—Life. —_———— TREAT your friends 1o Townsend’s California Glace Fruits, 50c Ib., in fire etch boxes, * et As A preventive of Bright's disesse drin Watson’s Scotch Whisky. = Hendry—So you take stock fn that yarn? Why, T wouldn't believe thatstory if I told it myself | Cowgage—Well, in that case, neither would L—Boston Transeript. ‘ GOLDEN PoPPIES,” & California calendar for 1898. Also “Chinese” calendars now r ady for maiiing at Sauborn & Vail's, 741 Market, * ‘Do T not detect a trace of brandy in this mince pie, madam ?” asked the tramp &t the door. “Yes, my good man, you do,” replied the good woman; “but don’t be alarmed, there's not enough to intoxicate you.’ “‘That’s what Iam alarmed about, madam.,” Youkers Statesman, “No, Ethel,” he said, “I don’t believe I will ! come in this evening. I understand your father is at home.” ‘‘But you never have been afraid of papa | before,” she protested “True,”” he admitted, “but it is only re- cently that I have learned that he 1s an ex- football star who was equally good at either a running or a drop kick.”’—Chicago Evening Post. — e EPECIAL information daiiy to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Prasi Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery. * i TFine Display of Art Goods. 8. and G. Gumy, 113 Geary stieet, are show- ing now their European importations for the holidays, and invite their patrons and the public to view the many fine and interesting novelties received and uupackea so far. * — The King of Siam, it is expected, will spend two or three weeks in Eeypt, and great prej- arations are being made. Abdin Palace ha: been cleaned. aud sll the reu aining military bands are working hard on the Siamese na- tfonal anthem. Literary Notes. Senator George F. Hoar has written three arti- cles for THE YOUTH'S (OMPANION describing a boy's 1ife in Concord sixty years ago, in which he §1Vis not on y grapi ic aetails of his own boyhood, but reminiscences of some of the famous men who lived in his hirtoric town, inciuding Emerson, Hawthorne and Thoresu. g “BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TrOCHES” relieve Throat Irritat ons cAused by cold or useof the THE MEN WHO LOSE. Here's to the men who loge! What though their w ork be e’er 30 nobly planned, And watch-d with zealous care, No glorious halo crowns their efforts grand; Coutempt is faliure’s share. Here's to the men who lose! 1f triumph’s easy smile our struggles greet, Courage is easy then; I he king is he who, after fierce defeat, Can up and fight again. voice. The genuine sold oaly in boxes. Here’s to the men wholose! S T The ready plandits of a fawalng world | PARKER'S Hatr BALSAM keeps the hair soft and Ring sweet in victor's ears: "I e Vanquished banners never are untu For them there sounds no cheers. | plentiful and restores the color when gray. HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns, 15 cents. ——————— The birds have another advocate in the per- son ot Mrs. Orinda Hornbrooke of Newton, Mass. Inarecent lecture before a ministers’ association tn Boston she madesuchan im- : earers that it was sug- Beetea that she bo apmointed “bird mimsion: ary,” with a fund of $5000, to aid 1iu present- ing her subject gemersliy and devoting her entire time to it. i XEW TO-DAY. e e Here's 10 the men who lose! i he touchstone of true worth 1s not success, ‘There is a higher tes ‘Lhough tate ma; And bravely do on rkly frown, onward to pre: s best e Here’s to the men who lose! 1t 13 the vauquished’s paises that I sing, And this is the toast I cnoos: “A hurd-tought failure s a Here’s o the men who lose ! noble thing; —Boston Traveler. MIMEOGRAPH JIm BUDD. The Bee edltoiial, November 17, 1897, The Governor of California had his Thanks- ¢ g1ving proclamation printed on a mimeograph machine. As he has sent one to the Governor of each State in the Union, he will no doubt be known throughout the country as Mimeo- graph Jim Budd. Cost of printing Thanksgiving proc amation: State Fr.nting Office, November 6, 1895, £ ta e Printing Office, Novembar 9, 1 556 55 mnl‘:i%’s?;.‘ (autog: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MOLES. Evening Wisconsin. o A ‘knowledgeable person’’ has arisen in England who is able to tell what “moles mean.” For instance, he or she kuows that a mole in 8 particular place foretells to a man long imprisonment, to 8 woman that she will have two husbands, and will probably live out of the country, while if the marks be in other places they indicate ‘*untimely death by arowning,” or *“that the individual will die by the hand of justice.” This appears to be a modern revival of une phase of the very ancient art of divination, for there is a rec- cord of an early British monureh who con. sulted utrolozg for an explanation of the omen suggested by a ‘‘nsevus,” or mole, on i the royal cheek, and to whom the court astrol- Royal makes the food pure, wholesome and defictous. 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