The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 24, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1897. CKE}.S, B ro;;tictor. N D, SPRE All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. ~ JoH Addre: o Market and Thi-d streets, San Franc Telephone Matn 1868. i’l BLICATION OFFICE EDITORIAL ROOMS evee. D17 Clay street Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by fers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. L $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. ...One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE 908 Broadway Fastern Representative, DAVID ALLI NEW YORK OFFICE .Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE +oieeenn...Riggs House . CARLTON, Correspondent. street, corner Clay; open until oven until 9:3) o'clock. 615 SW. corner Sixteenth and 518 Mission str! h street; open until 9 o'cleck 0 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-se 3 oven 1i.i 9 ’cloc THE SAN PEDRO APPROPRIATION. Las only roused them s ECRETARY ALGE statement that no money is avail- able for work on San Pedro harbor during the present fis- cal year, so far from depressing the yeople of Los Augeles to new efforts. The Harbor League is exvecied to meet to-day to arrange to send a delegation to Washington to urge the matter upon the attention of Congress, and a mass-meeting of cit.zens has been called for Saturday night 1o protest st the thieatened delay in beginning the work. Ali that Los Angeles desiens to advance the coastruction of the harbor will have the support of the rest of the State. THE CALL has notified Secretary Alger of its willingness to advertise ai for bids for the work and notices to contractors at once, so that tke contracts may be let and the work be bezun as soon as the appropriations become aveilable at the commencement of the s would expedite the construction somewbat, and it is 10 be hopea ihe Secretary will yet sce his way clear to ccept the proposition of THE CALL and save that much time i issue where time is of so much importance. repeatediy had cause for ccmp! fiscal year. has int of the ent of Ler int: rests, and of delay ¢ work for which Congress has made ap- Francisco is still waiting for a postoffice g that should have been completed years ago. Several cities havs been treated almost as badly under similar cir- cumstances, and now comes the delay at San Pedro to add to the public irr neglect of the undert ational Goverrm pub San in proy buildi otl aking ation er ch Caiifornia claims gton. ion at the manner in w nored or negiected at Was es are either Los An test agsinst ® just cause to hold a mass meeting of pro- in a work which has bzen so thor- ghly considered, studied and restudied as that of the pro- josed harbor Szn Pelro. After along and arduous contest the people believed the question was settled by the action of Congress in appropriating money for a barbor and the decision of the Gov com on that the site of the ha:bor should be at S.n Pedro. The expectation was that work would begin at once, and it is aggravating to learn that a new appeal must be taken ess and the old fight gone over again alm ing. Every community in Califo: a matter of con urther delay o nm should rezard this issue ern io itself as well as to Los Angeles. The wrong threatened to that section in this instance may bave its parallel in a similar wtong to some other community later on, California is a long way from Washington. Members of Con- gress from the populous East know little of its needs and its just claims for putlic improvements. Witn that bandicap the State will alwa s people act together in pr 's be a loser unless all ing cvery Californian claim to a successiul conclusion. A CHANCE FOR THE LAW. CHANCE nal law of California to show what it can do in the way of promptly punishing criminals or the cr when there are no perplexities or obstacles in the way 1s afforded by the killing and attempt at robbery at the Grand Hotel at Baden. That crime is involved in no semblance of | and serious difficuities confront the progress i the two suspected offenaers, one is in the hands the police, and bas made a confession, while the other, no mystery though at large, is an ex-convict well known to detectives and therefore likely to bz y capiured. In @ case of this character the law will probably be able to proceed with precision and promptness. There are no sensa- tional features to arouse morbid sympathies with, or antipathies against, the accused men. There will be no great notoriety to be gaired by either the lawyers who defend or those who prose- cute the prisoners. Consequesntlv when the case ccmes into court there wi.l be no motive for any of those grand stand plays with legal technicaliti's that delay justice always when they ntly defeat 1t. By ouserving the history of this case we may be able to de- are used and not infreg termine whether the seeming paresis in ou: criminal courts is inherent in the law itself or is caused by something peculiar to sensational cr . Ifthe two men charged with the crime at Raden go swiitly to punishment, while other prisoners con- victed of crimes even more offensive to humaaity live in com- fort to die of old age at San Quentin, it will appear that the delay of justice in these special cases is due to certain points in the law to allow advantages to rich or sensational criminals which the plain, ordinary offender does not have. Impartial law should make no difference between the low mu:derer of the normal criminal tvpe and the extraordinary murderer whose nature or position in society renders him a psychological wonder and a nine days’ sensation. Tue pro- cesses of (rial in one case should be the same as in another. It is of course impossible to place the man without money on an equality with men who have money, but in murder cases the law should make an effort t do it. At any rate, Caliiornia law has apparently a plain case be- fore it in the Baden crime, and it is to be hoped will take advan- tage'of it to mark out a path by which justice can move swiftly to the punishment of crime hereafter, whetner ccmmitted by a plain eriminal or by the so-called moral monster. Yellow journalism was never busier than now. Not only has i1, alter infinite labor, induced France to investigate the guilt of astate prisoner, and Mexico to send an expedition to vunish the Seris for eating people, but it must by its own un- selfish devotion keep both these great schemes under way. Only the nece v of attending strictly to two republics so in need of their guidance has prevented the yellow fellows from assuming charge of the tides with a view to giving the moon a needed rest, a project they intended to take up as soon as they hed forced Spain to retire Wey The prospect of an arbitration treaty between this country and England does not seem particalarly brigat, but it must be a consolation to the thoughtiul to reflsct that the United States aoes not have much to arbitrate. With a fortitude and calm- ness that may or not be the envy of nations, it hasa habit of yielding anything that is in dispute. The Supreme Court has won admiration by confirming the sentence of a guilty man merely because he was guilty, and had been proved so. There were several imposing technicali ties and some precedents in opposition to this course, too. Notwithstandine that beef has gone upthe man who has just been fined $500 for biting a small piece, not particularly pa‘atable, from a friend’s cheek may look upon 20 centsa pound for tough steak as comparatively reasonable. Weyler's reception in Spain was very cool, but any time he wants one hot enough to bring the average 'way up he may get it by visiting the United States, l JUDGE LORIGAN'S CASE. N an endeavor to vindicate himself from ths charge of [ having improperly influenced a Grand Jury to withhold an indicument against one of his political friends Judge Lori- gan of the Superior Court of Santa Clara County has adopted a line of evidence that is at once amazing and extraordinary. When the statements of a grand juror who witnessed the al- jeged impropriety were first published in THE CALL Judge Lorigan was given an opportunity to explain and justify. In- stead of doing this he chose to fall back vpon his judicial dig™ nity and treat the charge with contemptuous silence. Later on he appears to have thought better of this determination. Silence evidently did not meet the expsctations of the public. Therefore, in pursuance of his peculiar plan of vindication he summoned the Grand Jury before him and asked each member in regular order whether or not he had divulged the “*secrets’ of the jury-room. He did not ask the jurors whether it was true that they had attempted, in spite of his protests, to indict a man for embezziing public money, nor whether the charge that he had gone into the jury-room, misstated the law and ordered them to drop the proceedings was true. He did not refer in any manner to the charge made against him. He merely wanted to know what member of the jury had been | giving him away. Surely Judge Lorigan cannot expect the public to take im seriously in this matter. * Even the display of passion in- cident to the use of the unjudicial words, ‘“‘Judas,” ‘“‘scoun- drel’” and “cur,” cannot avail to clear him of the charge of having entered the rcoms of the Grand Jury and ordered that body to quash an ipdictment which had been properly found against one of his political friends. It ought to be un- necessary to remind Judge Lorigan that no su:h evidence as he has produced in his defense is competent to acquit him. The charge against him was specific and unequivocal. Ex- Justice of th: Peace Dwyer was indicted by the Grand Jury for withholding public money. Judge Lorigan entered the jury-room in violation of law and ordered the indicturent quashed, notwithstanding a section of the Penal Code author- ized it to be found. He is chargel with having done this at the behest of the political ““gang” of San Jose. The honest way to meet such a charge is by denial and the introduction of exculpatory evidence. Judge Lorigan seems to have an idea that his judicial ermine ought In some way to shield him. He evidently thinks there is something ethereal a~out a Superior Court Judge which renders it unnec- essary for him to explain any charge affecting his integrity. This is a mistake. Superior Judges are only human, and although the law guarantees them ample protection in prop- erly discharging their duties, it provides them with no security against criticism when they are caught practicing machine politics or shielding crime. If Judge Lorigan is an innocent man he is pursuing a most extraordinary method of vindica- tion. Certainly he cannot imagine the public will accept as proof of his integrity that he has intimidated and discharged the Grand Jury and “‘branded” the ‘member who is suspected ““scoundrel” and a “cur.” of having given him away as a ‘‘s. WHAT ARE ADM.NISTRATION MEAS- URES? 8 a last resort the proponents of annexation are declaring that the acquisition of Hawaii isan administration meas- ure, and must, therefore, have united Republican support. It is worth noting that this cry comes from many who will not support administration measures in domestic roiicy. I¢is un- derstood that the administration was committed in the in- augural address to the plan of a currency commission, to report a comprehensive reform of our banking and financial system. Indeed, the President, in a special messaze last July, asked Congress to at once authoriza the appointment of such a com- mission. The bill in line with that purpose passed the House, but when it reached the Senate was killed by a motion to ad- journ sine die, which was supported by the very Senators who now profess such awe for administration measures. In a strict sense there can be no administration measure, international in character, in the sepse of a measure of the President as a party leader. It is a wholesome maxim that partisanship stops at the seashore. Eevond that line every party has nothing to consider except the welfare of the whole country and the rig.d observance cf constitutional require- ments. Beyond the seashore we present this republic to the observation of the family of nations and the scrutiny of their people. Sell-respect requires ihat upon such a field we stand strictly by those professions which made us a free nation. We cannot play republic at bome and remorseless tyrant abroad. Therefore, no party measure can be known in international affairs, and hence there can b2 no administration measure in foreign policy. Grent proposed the annexation of S8an Domingo. All of the sreuments now made for taking Hawaii were made in sup- vort of that measure, but the highest and most revered leaders of the Republican party in the Senate opposed it and defeated i*. Grant was a strong-willed man. The country was in the very honevmoon of its gratitude to bim as the military genius who had saved the Union, but his own party refused to gratify him to the extent of srubbing the constitution and changing the time-honored policy of that Union he had preserved. It is plain, then, that precedent and propriety jimit ad- ministration measures to domestic policies. In the support of these we will challenge the competition of the best Republi- cans, and we expect to see Senators who are now so subject to what they insist is obedience to the administration on annexa- tion fly the track when the administration exploits its domes. tic policies. Thbe Kaiser issaid to bave made a threat to crush Norway as he had ‘‘already crushed Greece.”” In this unpleasant inti- mation there is information not only for the two nations most concerned, but for the world at large. Doubtless Greece has been crushed, and the author and instigator of the process in thus coming to the front with a confession removes a load of suspicion from various rulers, iacludine the Sultan, who was belteved to be the bad man in the case. As to Norway, the peo- ple there are so constituted thatrather than be crusbed, even by so disiinguished a crusher as the Kaiser, they would posi- tively act in so disagreeable a manner that the war tord would be pained. James Duffy of Massachusetts is reported to have made some wonderful discoveries in the treatment of metals. The report 1s circumstantial, and might be saccepted had not the title ““wizard'’ been tacked to the gentle man’s name. Edison is the only known wizard who has accomplished anything; the rest are all juston the point of it. Calling a man a wizard is about as bad in effect s dubbing him “Honest Jehn.” Heat once comes under susplicion. Almost daily of late there has been printed information that some embezzling banker has gone to j:il for a long term, But usually on the same page is to be found additional infor mation that some other banker, who had been treated in a sim- ilar fashion, is rejoicing in a pardon. Thus news which ought to be cheering is brought down to an unimpressive average. A local article sets forth that it is very hard to induce men to serve gs substitutes in the Fire Department at $10 a month, which isnotonly trve, but surely to the credlt of the men. A laborer ought not only to be worthy of his hire, but the hire should be worthy of the laborer. Mexico has a way of treating criminals, and countries of greater pretensions could raise their morai average by imi‘at. ing it. It consiets merely in punishing criminals when their guwlt has been demonstrated, and seems to be a good thing. When we read that a new wharf costing $250,000 has sunk into the mud at Lislon we can understand that the fashion of doing public work in the United States prevails in the older civilizations. Just as Judge Lorigar had made up his mind to scorch for the Supreme bench he began with both hands to sow the path with tacks, and vet is «aid to hove to escape a puncture, FERSONAL. D. K. Minor, o merchant of Arcata, is at the Grand. T. S. Milton and wife of Belvedere are at the Baldwin, W. E. Gerber, a Sacramento backer, is at the Grand. E. L. Barkus, a merchant of Oakdale, is st the Grand. Deputy Sheriff F. L. Borgwardt of Bakersfield isat the Russ, James G, Sandielge, a mining man of Denver, is at the Russ. J. Copeland, a mining man from Downie- viile, 1s at the Lick. E. A. Churchill, a banker at Napa, is regis- tered at the Paiaca. Colonel J. A. Herdin, a cattleman of Santa Rosa, is at the Russ. Dr. George C. Pryor, U. S M Isiand, is a guest at the Palace. John W. Mitchell, a prominent attorney from Los Angeles, is registered at the Palace. Thomas E. Johnson, & capitalist from San Jose, is at the Lick. He w:li return in a few days, F. W. Gorgeson, cashier of the Humboldt County Bank at Eurcks, is registered at the Grand. J.J. Kimball, a capitalist, is here on a visit from Red Bluff. He will remain at the Paiace during his stay. H. T. Barnett of Sonora, a brother of the Bar- nett who was recently shot by stage-robbers at that place, is at the Russ. Congressman Marion de Vries of Stockton arrived last evening on & business trip and registered at the Occidental. E. H. Cox, a banker, arrived in company with his mother last evening from Madera. They are guests of the Palace. George A. Smith of Portland, an owner of large tracts of land in the Sacramento Valley and in Oregoy, is at the Grand. H. C. Brown and wile, the owner of Brown's Hotel 1o Denver, arrived last evening and will remain at the Occidental during their visit, W. R. Clark of Stockton arrived in this city last evening for the purpose of attending a meeting of Railroad Commissioners, which is to be held 10-day. Reginald White and wife, who left for Mon- terev on their wedding tour but a few days ago, have returned to this city and are regis- tered at the Palece. James G. Sandidge, a wealthy mine-owner of Denver, is at the Russ. He will be in town for afew days attending to mining matters in which he is interested. from Mare CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Nov. 23. L. Levy; Burtholdi—F. Shepard, Mrs. J. ‘Tnompson; Netheriand, Mrs. Bianchard; St. Denis, M. Bulkley; Grand Union, H. W. Grat- ley; Everett, T. W. Huntington; Vendome— H. Spear, Wiiliam Bollweg. Ed N. Pasauale left the St. Cloud and sailed on the Kaiser Wilbelm der Grosse for Bremen. F.Schulize is here buying, At the St. Cloud, F. CALIFORNIAN> IN CHICAGO. ICAGY, Nov. 23.—At the Great Northern— Henry Bohlo, San Francisco; 8. L. Wooster, San Franeisco; Mrs. C. L. Lafe ana daughter, San Bernardino; S. H. Bulcher, San Fran- cisco; Napoieon We.ls, San Francisco. At tne Palmer—Robert F. Harrison, CGrant, Cal. B Plummer, San Franci-co. BULLDOG> OF DARGAI GAP, The following lines were written by Richard Mansfield, the actor, after reading the account of the recapture of Dargai Ridge by the Gor- don Highlanders: Bulldogs, hark! Did your courage fail? Bulidogs hark! Ind your giory pi.? W hat of the slander .hat say Docaved!" A.d “Gone to the dogs since the Light Brigade!” or the blocd and bons that humbled Nap, "Twas there ugai, boys, | the Dargal Gap! Did you hur ihe swish of the flying sh t? The'rol ¢f the drum and (he rattie po.? ‘Ihie music (hat rose c ear o'er that yell And ihr led throus h the rank . aud stirred up hell! ddie. head up, siep iorih! Con e, Highluni A crown of glorv ! “Cock of the ~orth You . ock of tha North,” aye. pipe s way With bo h stu ps § e, and you won the day! ) ot may lean your backs against comisdes nosw, They il molsien your 1ips and ihey'si kiss your row. For ihey fought like men. and a man may weep Wheit h Iav8 a man 0 his last long s eep. Bulidogs who siecp on the Darkal Ridge. tin! Quick, march! and over the bridge! he pip: r's ahead, and the samv old sir, To pipe you to Heaven and ve eraus there! And you'il teil *he buliies who humbled Nup, ‘The §10.100s 8t0ry ¢f Dargai Gap. EICHARD MANSFIELD. New York Commerctal Advertiser. The charge of the Clan Gordon ‘at Dargai smacks of a more heroic age, when war was picturesque and personal, and men fought as individuals, not as carefully fitted parts of tactical units. The charge is an anachronism in modern warfare, Long-range rifles and machine guns have abolished it, and the cal- culated advance by rushes o & broken firing line bas taken its place. The fiery spirit of the C.an Gordon Would have been vaporized in the hoiter breath oi a battery of maxims, leaving the regiment mere carrion ha.f a mile irom the object of aitack. The tribes- men had 10 max:ms, of course, and the li- dian frontier war is not modern warfare. But it is vastly more picturesque and & higner school of individual daring. This is what makes the little wars of Engiand so valuable in tue trainiug of her a They give plag 10 the personal education. They ke:pa cor- ner of the stage for the hero. They fire the imagination ot the soldier abroad and the civilian at home, and the mutual reaction precipiiates a fine and high national spirit. GEO. A. KNIGH T ON CALIFORNIA., . ‘Washington Post. George A. Knight of San Francisco, Cal, is at Willard’s Hotel. He has stumped the State in every national and gubernatorial campaign in the interesis of his party. He expects to remain here until Congress sssembies, as he has business here with the Senators from his Stare. Mr. Knight, in speaking of the population of this country, sald toa Post reporter: “Of the 70 000,000 of people in this country at least 60,000 000 of them live east of the Mis- souri River. Why, in my State there are only 2.000.000, ana we heve 300 miles of sea const. This 0uly goes 10 show how large our country is and how much room thers is oui West for the surpius population of the East. As tor the climute we never have any winter. In fact, God conld not make winter out in Cali- fornta if he wanted to without violating every law of nature.” WHITTLINGS. ‘The Tndependent. In giving thanks for your blessings don’t forget the criticisms you have received. He who kuows the wenkness of his own wings is sure of successful flight. The wor.d is full of human milestones, since it is more easy to point than to plod. It is bett:r to say a liitle worse than you mean than to mean a little worse than you sav. One song sung amid a storm is better than a whole concert when the sun is shining. Long before submitting to the inevitable it is wise 1o be sure it .s the inevitable, People whose eloquence reveals rascality are alwayssaid, by the rascals, to “lalk too much.” When one knows that he doesn’t kilow everything it iy worth more to him than all the rest that he dces know. The world seems a nairow place when we wish 0 avoid our encnies, but wide and vast is it when we part from those we love, The number of things that men novelists and critics don’t know about women is ex- ceeded only by the number of things that they think they know. LOKD SALISBURY. Westmins:er Gazette. In conneetion with the rumors of Lord Salis- bury’s early retirement, it may be stated that it is just over ihirty years ago since bis lord- ship first held office, haying been appointed Secretary of State for Indta in 1866, Here is & summary of his official 1if Eecretary of State for India. Secretary of State for Inala Foreign Secretary. Premier and Foreigh Se Premier and Firat Lord of u Premier und Foreiza Secreta 188792 Prenster and Fore.gn = ecretary . 1895 Lord falisbury sat as M. P. for Stamford for thirteen years hefore his first appointment as a Secretary of Siate. 1866-67 1874-7% 1878-0 1885 85 18867 Low's norehound cough syrup for hoarseness, price 10c, 417 Sansome st. * THE EDITOR HIS OWN GOMPOSITOR. KEYBOARD OF THE MONO!YPE COMPOSING Since the first printing machine, Koening's single cylinder press, to which Mr. Walters of the London Times applied stean, mads 1its ap- pearance in 1811, that branch of the art of printing has kept tull stride with the progress of inventive genius in other lines, and with the aid of steam and_electricity the printing press of the present day leaves but little to be destred. In the matter of tpre-setting, however, there was but litile advence on the simple hand- labor methods of the days of Gutenberg and Caxton, or, indeed, over those of the Chincse of the cighth century, until a very recentdase. It was not, however, for lack of attempt, for beginning with the first Lype-composing ma- chine, made by Church in 1822, one inventor after auother has tried to solve the problem of making a machine that would take the place of the brain, eye and hand of the compositor, MACHINE. the Mergenthaler coming nearest the solution. Tolbert Lanston has produced and piaced in operation in London a novel monotype ma- chine. The affair is in two parts, the key- board, on which the operator performs the mental part of the work, and the casting- machine, by which the type-casting and set- ting in place, with proper spacing and justifi- cation of lines, is automatically performed. The two parts may be in separate rooms, thus relieving the brain-worker of the noise and heat of the mere mechanical part of the work. The first produces a perforated ribbon of paper, with the spacing and justification of the lines provided for. This ribbon is pugento the second machine, and working automati- cally by menns of compressed air brings the molds into contact with the melted metal, and bright new type are molded, pressed, hard- ened. cooled ‘and sent to take their proper places in the printer’s galley. THE BEST OF HUMOR. In the South it is the earliy flofl that catches the germ.—Chicago Times-Herald. Guest (in cheap restaurant)—Here, waiter; tnis meal is simply vile, Iwon't pay for it Wkere's the proprietor? : Waiter—He's out at lunch, sir.—Philadel- phia Record. sh Ouce a friend of mine and I agreed that it would be helpinl for each of us to tellthe | other his fau.ts.” “How did it wor “We haven’t spoken for Chicago Record. nine years.’— Brette—I never saw such a co'd audlence in my life. Light—Didn’t they warm up a bit? Bretre—Weli, when they spoke of bringing out the author I believe some of the audience got hot.—Youkers Statesman, “‘Barker prides himself on never saying an | unkind word of the absent.” ~On, that's it. is 112" “That's what? What are you getting at?” “Why, I have Leen wonderlng for a long time what it was about Barker's conversation that made 1t 50 hopelessly dull.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. “What a wonder{nl linguist Mr. Marston is. He speaks six Ianguages.” “I'm surpriced. Ididn’tknow that he could talk atall.” ©Oh, I sce you've never met him, except when he happenet to be accompanied by Mrs. Marston.”—Cleveland Leader. Mrs. Porkenham (of Chicago)—So you passed right through London and never siopped to see the Queen? Mrs. B aconstreet (of Boston)—Yes. Mrs. Porkenham — Gooduess gracious! 1 shoula s soon think of passing througb Da- kota and not stovping for a divorce.—Judge. “What was the richest find you made ?” And after long thought the returned gold- sceker answered, “A pound of ccffee iu an abandoned shanty.”—Washingion Star. “After all,” said tbe coliege president, “foot- 1 has one good point.” “What is 1t ?” asked the preacher. “People who play it get over the habit of kicking at things.”—Chicago News. Bill—The term artist has & wide signifi- cance. Jill—How so? “Why, it is applied to men who draw well citner pictures or corks.”—Youkers States- man. b “Inever let my husband go to a church ba- zaar without me.” “Why not?” +Because those other women would seil him every useless and expensive thing in the place.” —Chicago Recor.l REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. Nowadays a man can’t go aown cellar with- out the snow-shovel’s staring him in the face. When Cmsar was stabbed his wife probably sa1d it was just bccause he didn’t dress warmly encugh. L All women know other women whom they can’t afford to know on earth, but expect to meet in heaven. A woman can never see a man with a mourn- ing band around his hat without feeling l- most as if she knew him. A woman that insists on kissing her husband more than four times a day would put mo- lasses ou her watermelon. It's a funny thing that the men who always eat nothing but healthy tood never look any healthter than the.men who don’t. THE MUNCHAUSEN CENTENNIAL New York Sun. Most people fancied that the material for centenaries was pretty nearly exhausted. They thought that the end of it was in sight with the anniversay of tns vattle of Trafalgar. Butno; the Germans have now broken the record. They have just celebrated the cen- tenary of the far-famed Baron Munchausen. Unenlightened mortals hereabouts used to think that Munchausen was a legendary hero. There are few people who have not read the | story of his exploits, and many have seen them and enjoyed the spectacle hugely in the old Englisn pantomime. But the Baron was by 1o means nn_imaginary character. He flourished in flesh and blood, and the panto- mime did not present anything more than u mere sketch of nis adveniures. we are told by the German newspupers, to one of the most anclentfamilies of Germany, and his descendanis gave Brunswick many distinguished statesmen. THE WORD OF AN INDIAN. Towa State Register. This incident recalls one of similar import brought {rom the Indian Territory by Indian Commissioner Pray and told by him to a com- pany of Des Moines friends. While he was at one of the agencies a number of young men drank whisky and became unruly. They dis- turbed the p:ace. They were tried and con- victed ana sentenced to do a certain number of days’ work on the highways. The next morning the Indians under sentence without guard of any kind went to the piace designated anud dia their day’s work. The nextdey they did the same, and s0 on until tne terms of their sentences had been fulfiiled. Tney never snirked, and nothing was required from them except their wora that they wouid fulfill the conditions of the sentence. “Is the wora of an Indian worth more than the word of & white man? WHERE THE Ki. K COMES IN. St. Louls Republic. Talking about the brutality of football, the plavers of tnat game are not kicking half as nard as the people who are trying to kill it He belonged, | to Hanover and | | | Fally Cleveland. | James Jesse Strang, who forty years ago be- | been added to the National Portrait Gallery, NOTES AEOUT NOTABLES, Mr. Cleveland’s boy was named Richard in honor of Mr. Cleveland’s father, Rey. Richard William B. Howell, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, was a messenger-boy in the depart- went fifteen years ago. Henry Ward Beecher always used to break down when asked—as he was every Suaday when a boy—1o recite the catechism. Miss Susan Randall, daughter of the late Samuel J. Randull of Pinusyivania, isa clerk in the Friends’ Library in Germantown, Pa. Chauncey M. Depew never drinks anything ata banguet except the driest kind of cham- | pagne, and if he is to speak he drinks no wine all until after he has finished his speech, | Two glasses of brut champagne are usuaily his limit. Mrs. Elizabeth Strang, who died recently in Lamoni, lowa, was the widow of the famous came the self-elected successor of Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet and king of Beaver Island, Mich, A bust of Charles Stewart Parnell has just Londou. It is the work of Miss Mary Graat, and was hung in the great British gallery of celebrities on the sixth anniversary of the deatl of the great Insh leader. It is said that the Princess of Wales is be- coming extremely sensitive to the effects of music, and that there i8 one air, irom an ora- torio, to which she can never listen without shedding tears. Asa youug girl the Princess used 10 practice the piano a great deal, and could spena many happy hours alone with the instrument. ¢ The great French sculptor, M. Falguiere, hes just completed a gigantic s tatue of Liberty for the Pantheon. The figure of the goddess holds inher right hand & youug poplar tree, which se fs striking into the earth. Her left hand is raised in admiration and, with her head upturned, she is gazing at the leafy branches above he. Ou the ground behind, and clutch- {ng at her robe, isan old woman symbolizing Ignorance. HARD ON AMERICAN WOMEN Grace Atherton in the Centemporary Review. The fact tht 80 per cent of the actions for divoree are brought by women would appear to tell heavily against the men of the coun- tre, but, as & matter of fact, a large percentege of these divorces go by default, which implies either collurion or indiffe ence on the part of the delinquent. Many men, it is estimated, permit the oftending wife to bring the suit rather than to disgrace her and her children. Nevertheless, the divorce revoiution has been brought about and is maintained by women. The typical woman of the United States to- dsy s & mental anarchist. The reasons for this are several. She is a composite of all the races of earth, if not in blood in peint of view. She is a product of experimental democrac’, and, like hef country, blindly but fiercely siriving for an ideal. She h been thrown largely on her own resources unlike the women of the Old World, she hasdone her own thinking. She lives in an electrical atmosphere. She is a spoiled child. She finds herself a component part of & life that is ever changing. and changes with iz She hns come to regara herself as by far the most jmporiant element in thas life. She is & child of'the hour, of the minute; she does not strike roots. Her independence has begot an abnormal amount of individuality. Is it a matter for wonder that, finding the man she has married unsatisfactory, she tosses him aside and begins life anew? It might be argued that many of the conditions enumer- ated apply equaliy to tEe men; but it must be remembered that the latter have less time to reason and analyze. They are essentially a race of nervous, incessant workers; they seem 1o be possessed by the idea that if they pause to take breath the imperfect structure of their republic will fall to pieces. Even the rich men die in harness. THE DULL DARWIN. Chambe:s’ Joornal. Since the days of Sir Isaac Newton there has not arisen a greater man of science than Charles Darwin and yet he was considered by his father and *schoolmasters as “a very ordi- nary boy, rather below the common standard in -ntellect.” “To my deep mortification,” he teils us, “‘my father once said to me: ‘Ygu care for nothing but shooting, dogs and rat- catching and you will be a disgrace to your- self and all your family.' " Young Darwin haa “strong and diversified tas es.”” So hus many a boy whois considered dull and stupid because h s tastes do not coin- cide with those of his companious or are not of the kind that his parents and teachers con- sider most profitabie. Tne boy Darwin was called “Gas,” Lecnuse with his brother he got upasmall chemical laboratory in the tgol- house of tne school garden and spent his leisure hours there making gases and com. pounds instead of joining the boys in their games. He was also pub.icly rebuked by the head maater for wasting his time ‘“on such ! AN WERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, SHOOTING RaRRITS—T. J. B., City. There iy no law of this Scate that protects rabbits. CuBa—R. C. D., City. None of the powers have yet recognized the’Cubans as belliger- ents. JULIAN'S AGE—C. R., City. Martin Julian: who hes figured in boxing contests, is aboUa 40 years of age. THE FOUNDATION—C. J. A., City. The founda- tion of the bulding to which your inquiry is directed is saud. CHICAGO'S POPULATION—E J. C y. It is estimated that the coored population of the city of Chicago is about 23,000, EHARKEY-FITZSIMMONS— M. est price of aamission t) the S mons fight was price. THE GaME LAW—T. J. B, City. The game law 6f California says thatitis 1awiul to shoot quail between the 15th of February and the 15th of August of each year. STANFORD AND CALIFORNIA ford and University of a meateh game in 1891. The firsiga March 19,1892, and inat was lollowe match December 17, of the same year. CuBAN LEAGUE—F. McC., Visalia, Cal headquariers of the Cuban League in Ne York City is at 115 Broadway, rooms 1.5. Communications ean be addressed to Colc E. Allen. N CAVILL—Swimming, City. There must be some mistake about the swimming match re- ferred to in your communication, for Charlcs Cavil, the Australian swimmer, was drowned in Stocxton last May The galleries th are open 1o the public in this city are the one at tne Hopkins Institute of Art and the one a the museum. Tnere is no fee at the las named, but a small fee is charged at tue fir named. FATHER DAMIEN—T. L. H., City. The monju- ment to Joseph Damien de Veuster, pop!i!] known as “Father Damien, the leper priésg, was, 50 this department is informed, erected at Kalawawo, Molokai, where ne died, April 15, 1889. Gov T Laxp—A Reader, Diamond Springs, Cal. You can obtain all the informa- tion you desire ahout Government land by ap- plving to, or communicating with, the land office of the district in which the land you de- sire to be informed about is located. THY FATHER'S BREAD—S,, City. This depart- ment has found the quotation “Who made thee master of thy father’s bread?’ in a poem entitled “An Eastern Legend,” that was pub- lished in the press of this country some time ago. It was published anonymously. 2 Mes. Frrzsta y. The wi‘e of Robert Fitzsimmons did not during the fight at Carson, Nev., between her husband and Corbett “step into the riug and encourage her husband and abuse Corbett.” Once during the fight she arose from her seatand ca led out 10 her husband,*Remember, Bob, you're fighting for me and the baby ANOIHER CALAMITY. St. Paul Ploveer Press. Railroad men everywhere are holding the McKinley administration responsible for the calamitous car famine now prevailing all over the country. It has gone on booming busi- ness and mannfactures regardless of the ability of the railroads to handle the increased traflic, and as _a cousequence innumersble shippers are suffering unpleasant delays. An administration that can’t bring 12 prosperity by degrees more suited to the railway and car- building capacity of the country, insiead of in such unmanageable waves,1s declared to be unworthy the confidence of conservative interesis. Fine Dispiay «f Art Goods. 8. and G. Gump, 113 Geary stieet, show- ing now their European importations for the holidass, and invite their pairons and the public to view the many fine and interesting novelties received and unpackea so far. * e e Mark Hopkins Institate of Art. The first weekly concert of this season will be given on this (Wednesday) evening and evers iollowing Thursday evening. Admission r Open daily, including Sundays” e pudding, finest in the Mearketst, Palace bldg. * Sazem o £PECIAL Information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Pross Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery. * e “GOLDEN POPPIES,” a California calendar of 1898. Also “Chinese” calendars now r.ady for mailing at Sanborn & Vail’s, 741 Market. * ———— As A preventive of Bright's Watson's Ecoteh Whisks e COULD NAME THE SECOND BEST. world, 3 1bs $1. Qisease drink s In an article on the ‘“Longest Reign,” Justin McCarthy recalls an anecdote of Lord Brougham. 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She already plavs difficult compositions, and is now practicing on Liszt’s “Rbapsodie Hon groise’” Little Helen has traveled with her parents in nearly all European countries, and has lived for'two vears in Ita y NEW TO-DAT. The germs of consump- tion are everywhere. There is no way but to fight them. ; If there is a history of weak lungs in the family, useless subjects.” Darwin the philoso; has tnught us that evo.ution s & sjow nr&‘:g and his teaching was exemplified in Darwin the boy. —_— AMERICAN sKILL LEADS. Chicago Tribune, It orders for locomotives keep pouring in upon the factories of the United States as they have been doing lstely, it wili not oe long before American railway engines will be pufling in every corner of the glob-, iatest large order, which lmounu‘lgt;il.ly?sxl‘: locomotives altogether, includes twentv-one ior the Government 'ratiway in Finland, twenty-four heavy broad-gauge locamoncs for the Government of Brazii and ten for the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada. This, in connection with the recent large orders 1rom foreizn countries fr Ameriean steol rails, indicates the superiority of American meth. ods in the iron and steel manufacturing busi- mess, & SUper ority wnich eventually will e this fight must be constant and vigorous. You must strike the dis- . ease, or it will strike you. At the very first sign of failing health take Scott’s Emulsion of Cod-liver Qil with Hypophosphites. It gives the body power to resist the germs of consump- tion. - s0c. and $1.00, all druggists. drive foreign competitors out of business, $COTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New Yorks &, ?