The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 27, 1897, Page 6

TH SAN FRA NCISCO JALL, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 27 The éA i'l%[)—\\' JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propt fetor. ess All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. ..Market and Third streets, San Francisco hone Main 18683, ;’L BLICATION OFFICE Tele EDITORIAL RCOMS. veres D17 Clay street THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by s for 15 cents a week, .One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE. 908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE. ..Room 188, World Building respondent. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE ..Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Cort BRANCH OFFICES. Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 « oe open u 3) o'clock. 615 SW. corner Sixteenth and 18 Mission street; open 3 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock 15053 nti: 9:30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ) o'clock HEAPING COALS OF FIRE. cumstance that Tue CALL should have clad tic correspondents of both tt Chronicle and Ez- er, and yet it is true. The fact is siated here as being of terest and not likely to be mentioned by the journals vicaricusly accept of TuE CALL's bounty. In equipping for the rescue of the ice-bound whalers the Chronicle nifes’ed not tbe least concern. On the ciined to throw aspersions upon the plan, t and other to ridict to belittle the idea that necessity for it existed. When, withou perfected, as to dignify the occasion by appoint- ing Lieutenant Hamlet as its correspondent. Mr. Hamlettakes to the field of his new duties an outfit of clothing paid for by THE CALL As the Examiner, the case is about the same except that the yellow journal did make a holiow pretense of wishing fo ao something for the whalers, but did not do so until 'Inziru.n had not only broached the subject but made an offer to pro. vision a rescue ship and equip the men on board to withstand the rigors of a winter near the pole. Hence the tardy offer of the yellow sheet was not on!y unnecessary, but a characteristic tance or approval, the plan was piece of impertinence, such as might have been expected from a | pervert—for th ewspaper world, as well as the world of people, has Yet the Eraminer needed a representa- tive, too, and secured Lieutenant Camden, who also wears, and CaLL ts mons ie is welcome to, a suit provided by THE ill-clad to the dread cold of the far north if this paper can The Ezaminer showed at Icast enough consideration gent not to ask him to brave the trip under e sort of clothing it furnished the sailors. that this brief recital is not in the TeE Cary is glad to be of Not being able to sup- belpit. for its temporary the protection of t Iet it be understood nature of a compla far from it. aker contemyporari tance 10 its w ply tbeir correspondents with suck clothing as is esseniial, they cpon this paper, which gladly be wished that the quality of gratitude was not wholly abs from the two contemporar: that they would appreciate an act that must save to them a few loved naturally rely responds freely and ies, t T Cart, knowing them, expects no appreciation. not organize the expedition for relief ot the whalers for the purpose of booming itseli, and such profit as its needy neighbors can derive from the courss it pursued is accorded without reserve. Yet it does seem strange that a correspondent of each of these aspiring imitators should be wearing clothing conated by THE CaLL HE U relations between the press and the police in the nited States, though ordinarily cordial, are sometimes so rained as to raise important problems of public concern, interesting to note how the relations be- e regarded in other countries, and it is therefore tween similar bodi Considerable France is cot by the publication of some advance sheets of the memoirs of M. Goron, ex-chief of the Criminal investigations Department of Paris, and a review of them by a correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger quotes the author as being on the whole favorable to the co-operation of the press with the police in the discovery of crime and the con- forthcoming viction of eriminal M. Goron maintains that the police must be friendly with the press, and give all information not likely to prejudice their investigations, the arcument being that as reporters are more numerous than detecti ves, are more intelligent and have more money they will, 1f forced to investigate for themselves, obtain quicker and botter results, and by publishing them put the criminal on guard. The press, he seys, is a powerful ard use- ful auxiliary to the palice if properly used. Absolute discretion is, moreover, impossible, says M. Goron, for a detective who would scorn a bribe in exchange for information will frequently fail to resist the tem tion of seeing his name in the paper which will be read by his wife. Despite the expressed opinion that the police should give information 1o the press as far as compatible with the work of capturing criminsals, it seems the cflicials in Paris did not al- ways do so. Hence incidents. M. Goron relates that on one cecasion M. Ciement, the Commissary of Police, found an en- terprizsing journalist concealed in bis firewood-box, where he had been compelled to lie for some time in order to learn facts the commissary would not tell him. It was probably from a consideration of such incidents that M. Goron reached the conclusion that the police should work in harmony with the press. 1t saves the reporter the trouble of crawling into wooaboxes, and gives the policeman a chance to tee bis name in a newspaper which his wife reads. AMERICA GAINS AND BRITAIN LOSES. CCORDING to a report recently received at the State De- A partment from William B. Smyth, United States Consul at Hull, England, the effect of the Dingley tariff bill has Leen almost as marked in Great Britain as in this country,with tl e essential difference, however, that the effect here has been to revive industry and there to depress it. Mr. Smyth reports that the industrial depression which prevailed in Great Britain in the years following the passage of the McK.niey tariff has been reproduced by the Dingley law. He points ont that during the time the Wilson tariff was in force the British marulacturers had a great trade with the U nited States and c¢id a rushing and prefitable business while our mills were idle and our workingmen out of employment. So clearly wes this the effect of the free-trade act of the Cleve- Jand administration that, as Consul Smyth says, the Wilson vill might have been defincd as “‘an act Tor the revival of British trade.” With the return to the protective pclicy our manufactories have been able o resume bu , our labor is employed and prosperity is returning to all lines of industry. This means, of course, a falling off in the British trade, as the home-worker is no w supplying the home demand, and the British worker and merchant must seek another market. In this situation of a ffair« the manufacturers and commer- cial bodies of the United Kingdom are reported to be busily. engoged in devising means to extend British trade with South America, where they are meeting with sharp competition from Germany. In that field alsc, however, y wil: before long have to face American enf@prise. In the Eastern Siatesa con- certed movement has teen started 10 increase the trade of this country with those to the south of us, and it is inevitable that in a ccmparatively few yeers the reciprocity treaties the ad- ministration is empowered 10 arrange uncer the new tariff will give us such an advantage there that only piuck and energy wiil be peeded to win their markets for our products. Great Britain must be content 10 piay a smaller role in the future. The =ra of ber industr al supremacy is about over, No man shall go | : 1 t is thrown upon the subject so faras | LEGAL NON-PARTISANISM. N evening contemporary which does not indorse the action of the regular Republicans, regular D2mocrats, regular Populists and Citizens’ Republicans in nominating afusion Board of Freeholders expresses the opinion that in effecting the amalgamation of candidates the various county committees have been guilty of *‘betraying ’ their parties. Our contem- porary appears to base its idea partly on its enthusiastic ad- miration for what it calls *‘straight politics’ and partly on an entire ignorance of the laws which govern the committees to which it refers. As a matter of fact, both the Republican and Democratic county committees called conventions in accordance with the laws of their organizations, which conventions by formal reso- lution indorsed the fusion programme. The Populis:s were authori by their rules to act as they have acted, and the Citizens’ Republicans indorsed the fusion Freeholders in pur- suance of a party law which empowers their County Commit- tee to take such action. In fact, so far as we have been able to perceive from the newspaper reports, the course of none of the committees has savored of ‘‘political batrayal.” Every- thing has apparently been done in accordance with party law. As we understand this matter, the entire fusion pro- gramme rests upon the well-established principle that charac- | ter-making has nothing to do with party politics. On all sides there is a strong disposition among the people to repudiate any organic law which represents the wishes, aspirations or theories of a class or faction. The objection urged against the Citizens’ Convention of Charter-makers all along has been that nosug” gestion by any person outside its membership has been toler ated. Indeed, it is quite clear that the disposition of these charter-tuilders to consider themselves the people of San Fran- cisco is the cause of the fusion movement of the regular party organizations. Hadthe Citizens’ Committee shown the slight- est desire to frame a charter acceptable to all interests there would not in the nature of things have been more than one Board of Freeholders nominated. THE CALL, in common with all good citizens, desires to see a new charter adopted. But it is not willing to aid in fast- | ening upon the people an instrument which represents the theories or fosters the interests of a portion of thecommunity. If the city cannot have a charter that will protect everybody and promote general progress it would better get along for a | while as itis. What we want, and what we believe the pec- ple of San Francisco want, is a strictly non-partisan, business- like charter, framed by business men, for business purposes, and fre= from the claptrap and demagogy of partisan conven- tions or “‘reform”” closets. Unless such a charter is presented at the next election all the work now being done will be wasted. The people of this | city are too intelligent to attempt to govern thzmselves with theo They know that practical experisnce 15 the only safe guide in muni:ipal affairs. It will in our opinion be better | for the city to bzar th= ills it has than fly to those which may | be concealed in a charter framsd by theoretical reformers, | mousing politicians or poiitical masqusrad:rs in ssarch of an office. Charter-making is business, not politics. The regutar organizations have conceded this, and in nominating a non- partisan Board of Freeholders of ability and character they should fairly b2 givan crelit for a desire to promoe the best | Interests of the city and its citizens. es. | To be refused a landing because of their beauty has been the peculiar experience of two sisters at the port of New York. Had they been cross-eyed, pigeon-toed and freckled they would have gotin without question. This seems haraly fair, especially }:\s many women have come over simp'y by reason of being ! handsome enough to draw people to a theater, and the people | 30 drawn have felt often like demanding their money back. The girls who find the New World so inhospitabie are said to have untarnished reputations, and while, of course, this puts them on a different plane from the others referred to, the di ference certainly ought not to count as a disadvantage. Reading about aman who was nearly torn to preces whileia a cage of lions at Chicago, a question naturally arises wby the man was there. Certainly the display ot a fool courage is no creiit to anybody, and when a lion takes this view of the case he must win the respect of thoughtful people, and ba given credit at leasi for having more sense than the man. A stranger would be apt to ask why the Southern Pacific is permitted to overcrowd its boats. Butafter living here long enough to find that if that company desired to make Market | street into a canal, and tie its boats to the pillars of the City | Hall, there would be many afraid to oppose it, he wouid ask no i more concerning trifle “THE CALL” BULLETINS. HE rapidity and the fullness with which Tue Cart bul- letined, not only in San Francisco but in other cities, re- ports from the sporting events of Thanksgiving day fur- nished a striking illustration of the value to the public of this feature of Tur CALL'S news serv.ce. Persons interested in the | games of the holiday did not ave to wait until next morning or even until late in the afternoon to learn the results of the! various contests. Assoon as points were made at the football games, Or races run upon any of the track-, the news was pub lished on Tue CaLu bulietin boards and made known to the general public as accurately as to those who were watching from the grand stands. While the bulletins of Thanksgiving dav were especially notible by reason of the many sporting events of general in- terest on that day, and by the further fact that, being a holi- day, a larger number of people than usuai had time to read the bulietins as they were posted, THr CALL's service on Thank: giving can hardly be called exceptional. Ever since the paper passed into the control of the present manazement great at- tention has been paid to the development of this phase of the news service, and in the more important cities of the State Tug CarL every day gives to the public on its bulletin boards all imporiant news as swiftly as electricity can convey it. As adistributor of news the work of Tue CALL is continu- ous. It does notend with the publication of the paper in the morning, but goes on through all the hours of the day and late into the might. When anything of no'e happens in any part of the world it is published to the public as qu ckly as the information can be conveyed to THE CaLL office, ani the man who could spend his day in front ot one of the-e bulletin boards would be able to read the day's record for the world almost co- incidently with the happening of the events. The bulletin-board service is but one of many evidences given of the determination to make THE CarL superior to all competitors in the work of gathering, editicg, publishing and disseminating news. Through the channels of the Associated Press, the New York Herald and its own corps of special corre- spondents, THE CALL gathers the news more completely and more reliably than any other paper on the Pacific Coast, and through its daily columns ana its hourly bulletins it surpasses all rivalry in distributing it. From Lquisiana comes the story of the proper way to con duct a feud 10 a finish. It was a nice little feud with only four people mixed up in it, and happily the four got together the other day, erch well armed. There bas been a quadruple inquest, and the yeance that reizns in the erstwhile riotous neighborhood is somethinz beautiful to see. 1f there is « Scuth American country that has not just had a squabbie, or is not, figuratively, dancing about with a chip delicately Lalanced on its shoulder, 1o hear from it would be refreshing. Don’t the people down that way do anything but fight? puiria N Colonel Chinn of Kentucky will find if he shall get to Con- gress that there the gavel is mightier than the bowie, The colonel would have difficulty in reconciling himself to so un- natural a state of thines and would better stay at home. Down in Georgia they lynched a negro the other day for | weil stealing a mule. It was nota very good mule either, but almost ny excuse will do wken the people want a little amusement. FERtONAL Jesse D. Carr, the Sslinas capitalist, is at the Occidental. W. F. Peterson, a confectioner of Sacramento, is at the Grand. Dr. D. A. McIntos! isat the Grand. N. E. de Yo, a merchant of Modesto, is reg- istered at the Lick. Charles F. Light, a Boston lawyer, is regis- tered at the Grand, Dr. and Mrs. J. Benepe of Sebastopol guests at the Grand. Harry Van Allen, a merchant of Pheenix, Ariz., is at the Ru John M. Mitcnell, a well-t £alinas, isat the Russ, Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Hopkins of Menlo Park are at the Pa.ace. F. C. Lusk, a lawyer and banker of Chico, s registered at the Palace. C. M. Hartley, an orchardist of Vacaville, is a late arrival at the Grand. Rev. J. D. MeDonald, & Catholic priest from Sacramento, is at the Cal fornia. Charles F. Eastor. of Et Montecito, a suburb of Santa Barbara, is a guest at the Occidental, Mrs. P. B. Fraser, wife of the Stockton banker, is at the Occiaental with Miss Fraser, Captain A, Thompsox, a shipmaster of Ta- coma, Wash., is among the late arrivals at the Grand. John T. Sullivan, manager of the Sea Be Hote!, of Santa Cruz, arrived at the California yesierday. Julius Goebel, head professor of German in Stanford and poet and lecturer, is registered atihe Califcrnia. Mrs. G. H. Rowe of San Rafael will soon atart for Rome, Itnly, and wi'l leave New York on December 30 in the steamship Kaiser Wil helm 1L Mrs, Hester A.Ilarland, oresident of the Chiid Study Club, conducted a meeting in the Occtdental yesterday, at which several sub- jects pertaining to child life were discussed. J. Francis, general passenger agent of the Buriington route st Omana, will arrive here tuis morning by train from Portland. Helis on n general tour of inspection of offices. Robert Capelle, general Pacific Coast agent of the Norih German Lloyd Steamship Com- pany, will return to this city to-day, after an absence of several weeks i e Northwest, Mrs. Jerome Lincoln of 555 Harrison street, sccompanied by Jerome Lincoln Jr. and Miss Lincoln, wiil leave here to-night for New York, whence she will sail on December 4 for Europe in the North German Lioyd steamship Fulda. Mrs. Lincoin will spend the winter in Naples and the holidays in Rome. a physician of Spokane, are do resident of THE ANSwER. The great man knelt in prayer: ¢ suid, “Permit thy blessing now 1o rest Upon thy servant’s heat! Men gnash thelir teeth und scowl at mi O, give them eyes, that they mry see! My worldiy store 's great, O, Lord; My power lacreas s day by auy; Hers 1 bestow, us thou dos: kuow, 11 thers [ tike aw Yet men cry ou’, rev Lord, give them i1ng me, o3, thiat they may see. “Upon thy footstool. I ord A huudred spires rise Throuzh them thy servant points the way 10 glories {n the skies— Suli, men stand here reviiing me, O, give them eyes, that they may seel” behold Unto the grea: man knesiing there A tuuudeious vo ce replied: “Thy wor diy 8 ore indeed is great, Thy power vait und wide— But who, thou worm, h's given to thee Authority 10 act for me? “I see the traces of thy hanl! A s.arving child I there Deep in the shadow of the spire Lhat thou bas reared inuair! Speak ou , thou wo m! Who vested thee With power o rearrange for me? *IHere thou hast taken ten away, There tho1 hast given one— Who fixed (ke toll 0 be retained For this (hat thoa hast dope? Epeak ou ! tpesk vut! Who vested thee With rights to give a d take for m-2" £ k. KISER in Cleveland Leaier, FLA HES OF FUN. Ethel—Tommy Prescott's mamma is deaf. That must be awfui! Jobnnie—Ob, 1 don’t kuow. I'll bet she never tells him little boys should be seen and not heara.—Harlem Li e. “Miss Macsere is immensely the Scorcher’s review of her nove “But I thought it was unfavorable?'’ “Soitis; but it cails her ‘this young au- ihoress.” "—Pick-Me Un, leased with Incle Alex, why do people saw wood and szy nothing?”’ “Because the words a man wants to say when he is sawing wood would get him turned out of church.” —Detroit Free Press. Parson—Young man, in order to succeed in any undertaking in life you must Legin at the bottom and work up. Young Man—That was not my father's motto. He began at the top and worked down. Parson—And made a feilure of it, no doubt! Young Man—Not on your life. He made a fortuue digging welid. —Chicago News. ““Well, boys, you've got me all right, and now thar’s just one favor I want to ask of you. | Dou’t take me back to my home county to be tried.” “What's the reason, old man 2" “Wull, you see, they've gone and 'lected my old woman Prosecutin’ Attorney.’'—Cleve- land Plain Dealer. TO THE SLOT-MACHINE. (On Hearing That 1t “Must Go.”) Good-by, old box: we've had our fun; 1 course, I've paid the blil. Though oft i"ve iri d for aces up They never came until Three times the price of all I've won Within your slot were jugged. Good-by, old box, I will 1ot weep Because that slot is plugged. NOTES ABOUT NOTABLES, Rochefeller, one of the richest men io the | world, says in youth his greatest ambition was to become & trapcze p The Comte de Montbrun, whose death occu; red at the age of 87, was one of the few sur- viving pagesof Charies X. His father was the known cavalry general who fell at the Moskowa. riormer. The newest Prime Minister under the British Crown 1s Mr. Haultain of the Northwest Prov- ince of Canada. He was born in England, but has passed most of bis life in the western varts of the Dominion. He 13 a barrister with & good local practice, and is about 40 years of age. Foreign gossips siy :hat Queen Olga of Greecs hias an anchor tattooed on her shoulder as a token of her affection for her father, the late Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, and that Princess Waldemar of Denmark, wile of the sailor son of King Christian, is £1so marked in like fashion, with the addition of a crown. An obituary of the late George M. Pullman states that he believed in teaching his child- ren to work, and that there is not a member of his family who is not able toearn a living atsome trade or profession. It then gravely continues: “His eldest daughter draws & sai- ary of $10.000 a yedr for naming the sleeping- cars turned out by the company.” M. Frederic Mistral, the great Provencal poet, is about to present to his weli-beloved country of Provence a museum, which is in- tended to illustrate the history, manners and customs of Provence and Languedoc. This museum is at Ares, and is locaied in an old convent in the Place St. Trophime. The open- ing ceremony will take piace next spring, when the Felibriges and Cigaliers will fore- gather ia their thonsands. e THE BEE'S O IN.ON OF LORIGAN, Buperior Judge Lorigan of Santa Clara County called Grand Juror Carroll from the bench a cur and & scoundrel, & perjurer and a Judas, not really because Lorizan believed Car roll to be anything of the kind, but because Lorigan thought that Carro!l had given out something from the Grand Jury room which did not reflect much credit on Judge Lorigao, We do notknow what Carroll said about Lorigan—but Lorigan has proved that he is all of it, and more too. TeN cents for a bottie of Low’s hore- bound cough syrup, 417 Sansome st. ¥ Gespel at the For forty years, says the New York Herald, verted into & prison during the Revolutionary of the most tragic incidents of that dark time, from that hous: that he was taken on October and the rhyshmic shufll> of danciug leet. For muny years the venerable buliding has no one has been permitted to enter its portals. Among the leading articles is to be one on the Human Monster Who Has Been a2 Mys'ery and Terror in Fracce. Eistorical Light, Sat;ez Tower of Babel. Shall the Old Missions b of Artists and Others. The Siege of Paris. By A Study of Street Continuation of Rose-Soley’s Island Story. those thick gray walls that Major Joiin Andre spent 1he last d. converted into a public reort, and those dark: TO-MORROW © WILL % CONTAIN 3 MUCH ® OF INTEREST and Profane, on the e Preserved? The Views O.e Who Was There. Gallows’ Foct. Mendicants. THE OLD ANDRE PRISON AT TAPPAN. the old stone house at Tappan, which was con- War, and abont which cluster memories of one has been closed to pubite view. Itwas behina of his short Iife, and it was 2, 1780, and executed as a spy. Now it s being :d rooms will re-echo with merry laughter been an chject of curiosity to sightseers, but For forty years the old mansion had been the property of Dr. Jam the interior would 1o dust. But the storm demolished a portion of t Property 10 Charles A. Pike, a wealthy residen ephens. and had not a vuolic. While preserving the rooms in their tionable or injure the building. The room on the north front, which was M that time, as the back part has been partition iront room that Alexander Hamilton and othe this frontroom is the one in which Major And by 01d'boards. There is no record as to when the old hous the Mabry Tavern. Its subs quent owners Henry Gasner, Henry Storms and resiore it as nearly as possible to s original fo gather there for dancing, but will not allow any feature of amusement that where, tradition says, he saw them rear the scaffoid for his execution. Thomas Wondle, L. T. Stephens. 1he latter purchased it forty yesrs ago. severe storm recently destroved a portion of it I peobability have been jealously guarded until the walls crumbled he front wail and Dr. Stephens disposed of the t of Tappan. Mr. rike will renovate the frout n. The house will tnen be ovc red to the at form, he wiil permit social parties to wouid be objec- pres #jor Andre’s prison, is smaller than it was st ed off into another ‘apartment. It was in this 1s visited the unfortunate young man. Back of re s.ept, and a window looks out fo the west, This window is closed e was built. In the Revolution it was known as have been Frederick Blauvelt, Philip Dubey, Sneden, Henry Ryerson and Dr. Jumes THE ROSETTES ON TrE BRIDLES. New York san. The bridle of prety much every hsrness has nas of the frontor on each side, placed at the brow band. 1 | reat varicty. Some are made of tin, some of German silver, and some of German silver covered with a thin sheet of silver. Some rosettes are plain, some are embossed. They sell nt prices ranging from practicaily nothing to $2 a pair. Rosettes of this kind are often engraved with the monogram or with in- itials. Engraved rosettes are not infrequently seen on business harness. There are costlier rosettes that are used on carriage harness only, and are made some of leatlier and some of siik ribbon. These are made by hand in varfous sizes, and of various colors and combinations of co ors. Handsome rosettes of leather seil at $2 50 to $5 e puir, depending upon the the ribbon roseties atirom %5 to $10 a pair. Rosettes of thiskind ore rot sold with the haruess. They are bought separa‘eiy, as ornaments. Ribbon ro- settes costing $10 n pair wight, for instance, be bouzht to atiach to the bridles of a fine double harness costing, suy $£100 a set, THE FIFE. Chamters Jo It is eaid by some that we owe the file— “ear-pierc ng,” as Snakespeare calls it—to the Swiss; and Sir Jumes Turner, who busied himeelf in writing on military matters, names it the “Allemaine whiste” In France it was employed st least as early as 1534, in which year it was ordered by Francis I that each band of 1000 men was to have four drums avd 1wo fifes. A few years Inter, in England, we find | “drommes and ffyffes” inciuded in the muster Shakespeare refers to th of London citizens in the “Merchant of Venice” of “the vile squealing of the wry.necked file.” An old writer observes, {rdeed, thata “iyfe is n wry- neckt musician, for he iooks away from his instrument.” About the reign of James II the fife lost its popularity fora time, Sir James Turner observing keep a fifer in his company and maintain him, 100, for uo pay 13 al.owed him—perhaps just as much as he deserveth.’’ APFLIES HERE. Chicago Times-Herald. . Sanitary measures for schools are of the first importance. The epidemic of diphtheria among the scholars in the public schools of Indianapolis shou!d prove an invaluable ob- ject lesson througnout the whole country. The germ theory o1 disease proves the abso- iu ¢ necessity of interdicting the promiscuous use and interchange of pencils or any other article which & child micht thoughtlessly touch with the l1ps. A step beyond the sepa- ration of such objects and the insuring of their individual use remains to be taken. It woud be & compiratively simple matter to render schoolrooms and ~their contents en- tirely innocuous by the free use of antiseptics in the daily cleaning. Nothing short of scien- tific cleaniie s should be toterated in our common schoo, ANOTHER SOLOMON. Spare Moments. A horse-dealer in alScotch town having hired & horse to an attormey, the latter, either through bad usage or some other cause, killed the horse, when the dealer insisted upon pay- ment by bill if it was not convenientto pay cash. The attorney had no objections to grenta biil, but said that it must be at a longdate. Tae dealer told him to fix his own time, when the attorney drew a promissory note, making 1t payable ou the day of juigment. An mction was raised, when the attorney as<ed the presiding Judge to look at the bill. Having done so, the Judge replie: “The bill 1s perfectiy good, and as this is the day of judgment, I decree tbat you pay to- morrow.” ChEAP LUXURY. The courts of Canada appear to place & low value on a kiss. A recent dispateh from To- ronto brings the information that at the Coburg assizes J. F. Hendricks, a white-haired man aged 76, was tried for kissing his pretty niece, Mrs, Effie Pilkey, a schoolma’am. The upon it rosettes, more or less ornamental, one | Thess rosettes are made in very | musician, not (he instiument, when he speaks | With us, any captain may | | kissing, 1t transpires, took place at midnight, | The | during a drive 1o her mother's house. | ledy sued for $2000, but the Judge held thata | man had a rignt to’ kisx female relatives | jury awarded a verdict of 20 cents CHINESE WHEELBARROWS. Cassier’s Magazine The wheelbarrow man wears across his shoulder a sirap which is attached to the shaft on each side. Boxes, bales of goods, or whatever the load may consist of, are secured to the wheelbarrow by ropes. There are seat- ing accommodatlons for four people, two on each side, and a cushioned seat is provided for the passenger, who genera Jy sits with one leg resting on the'front of the burrow nnd the other hauging-over the side in arop> loop which serves as a foot rest. On Plain wheelbarrow & sail set, when a fair wind pro t0 be a great help o the trundling of the barrow over alevel way. Since the institution of cotton mills at Shanwhai the wheelbarrow has been exten- | sively used asa passenger venicle, especially for carrying workwomen to and from the miils. One man can wheel six women for a disiance of sbout three miles, moruing and vening, the charge bzing 1s 5d per month. The average earnings of a wheelbirrow man are nbout 814d per day. About 4000 licenses are issued uonthly to the the foreien seitlements at Shanghal, where, being under the municipal regnletions, they are pernaps the best in China. Sometimes as many as fifty barrows may be seen in the streets, traveling oue behind the other, each carrying two barrels of Eoglish Portland cement and pushed by one man. quently a load is carried on one side of the varrow only. and it i8 extraordinary to see a Chinaman skilifully balancing and propeliing it. The upsets and accidents, t0o, are remark- ablv few when it is corsidered that about 4000 o these vehicles are in use in the streets in addition to a iarge traflic of other kinds. THE SPANISH SOLDIER IN CUBA. Westminster Rev! The Spanish soldier 1s probably the best wiry, easy to feed ana house, and always un- complaining. But as his disposition is excel- lent, so Is his officer worthless, the Spanish | aristocracy corrupt and gcod for nothing; the Spanish plebs serviceable, obedient snd ductiie. The simplest maneuver is to the Spanish officer an unknown quantity. But the most deliberate and devilish evil of all 18 the dishonesty in high plaees. The amount of money—the property of the Spanisi-peo- ple—misappropriated by the officers ot the Spanish army must amount to millicns of pesetas per month. “We know it,” said an ex- | Miuister sadiy to me in Madrid, a week ago, “we know even over here.”” Dend soldiers are kept upon the listed strength for month after month, and their pay continues to be rezulaily drawn by their cap- tains. Moneys that were destined for the | commissariat are coo!ly pervertedinto regular sonrce of official income. A should-be-uext- to-penniless captain, living like a lord in the cosiliest hotel in Havana, readily owned to me that he had been able t»send home to Lis wile's keeping $6000 tn half a year. GEMS OF THOUGHT. No man lives without jostling and being jostied. Inallw he has to elbow himself inrough the world, giving and taking offense. His life 1s a battle in so far as itis an entity at all.—Carlyle. In the moral world there is notning impos- sible it we bring a thorough will to it. Man can do eversthing with himself, but he must not attempt t00 much with others.—W. Hum- boldt. A mere literary man is & dull man; a man wiio is solely a man of business is a selfisn man; but when literature and commerce are ] united they make a respectuble mau.—Dr. Johuson. The high prize of life, the crowning fortune | of a man, i to be vorn fo some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.— Emerson. Necessity is the plea of every infringement oi human freedom. It is the argument of i,\-mms; it is the creed of slaves.—William Pitt. He that calie a man ungrateful sums u: the evil that a man can be guilty of.—Swift. Without action thought caunot ripea into truth.—Emerson, all without impairment of Teputation, and the | the Great | ure oceasionally seen with | same number of | wheeibarrows plying for hire in the streets of | Very fre- | fighting material in the world. Heisbrave, | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS CHRISTIAN ENDEAvoR—A. L. M., Rio Vista. The convendon of the Christian Endeavorers of 1897 was held in the city of San Frans cisco. GEISHA—H. II. Thi play cal ed “Geishw” porforme o prior 10 the one that is now being pel jormed. IRTIsH—M. H., City. “To cross the ferry of the Irtish’” means 10 be laid on the shelf. Tha ferry of the Iriish i3 crossed by those who are exiled to Siberin. In Russii the ferry is res garded as “the ferry of political death.” MoNULTY'S CASE—S., City. John McNulty, who killed one Collins in San Francisco March 25, 1888, was sentenced 1o be executed, but that sentence was comniuted Lo imorison ment for life by Governor Markham in 1894. ETERNAL SLEEP—S., Sacramento. The words, “Death is an eternal sleey are crecited in books of reference to Joseph Fouche, who lived in France from 1763 (0 1820 his oraer, 1n 1794 those words were placed on the gates oi cemeteries in Paris. DUELING—W. S. S., department has not been able to discover “any work that is devoted to the discussions that authorities of this and other cou ries took rart in 10 hibit dueiing. :te are A B hber of bosks 1n the I braries thel treat of dueling, and in these vou W d duta upon the subject of prevention aud prohibition, Goops IN TRANSIT—D, . Santa Rosa, and B. J. R., Berkeley, Cal. Goods bought in the Dominion of Canada cau be sent through the United States to other points of British terr:- tory in the Klondike, provided they are bonded. The fuct that an individual is un- known wquld not make any_difference in ihe matter of giving & boud. What the authori- ties want is that tie bond given for the goods in transit shall be good and sufficient. The amount of tariff collected by the British au- thorities cannot be given in this depariment for want of space, but may be ascertained by consulting the Canacian tariff. A 0., Vallejo, Cal. Whil n s TRAINED NU the recommendation ol a physician is narmfal in the css> of an ap; Licant for ad- mission into a school for trained nurses. it is not absolutely mnecessery. The applicant should apply persomally or by letier 10 ! The most desirable age he superintendent. o e i tess from 21 to 1. The applicant must be in soind heuith and must present ox wpplication a certificate ol good characier given by some responsible person. After ap- proval the app icant will be reccived un pro- bation for two months. During the months of trial, and previous to obtaining & position in the school, the applicant must be pre- pared for an examination in rerding, pen- manship, simple arithmetic and English dic- tation. The examination is 10 test the appli- cant’s ebility to read aloud well, to write legibly and (o take notes of lectures. TEMPERATURE—W., Philo, Cal. The'lo\v.est recorded temperature is 90.4, taken at Wer- chojanski, Siberia, 65 N., 134 E., January 153, 1885. The aifference of the reading of the thermometer when exposed to the sun and when in the shade dejends upon the con- ditions and the amourt of circula'ion there is aroand the instrument. The reading of two instruments exposed at tua same tinie may vary from 1 to 50 degrees. There wasan ex- periment made on the top_of Mount ¥hitaey on the 9th of September, 1891, at1:40 P. M, for the purpose oi testing the sun’s heat ona thermometer which had been placed in a biack box, packed in such a manner that no sir conld reach it. the face of the insrru- meut was covered with common window glass and then exposed 10 the snn’s rays. It regis- tered 113!5 centigrade and 240 Fahrenhe This s sa:d to be the highest record. There an instrument known as the Bregue which gold and platinum show the change in temperature. | | | | | in east LALY TENNYSON. From the November Atlantic. In 1830, 0n a path in a wood at Somersby, | Tennyson came unexpectedly upon a slender, | veautirul giri of 17, and impulsively said to her, “Are you a dryad or an oread wandering | here?” Six years later he met Emily Sellwood | again, on the occasion of the marriage of his brother Charles to her youngest sister. The | friendship ripened into love, but for lack of | means the marriage aid not take place unti June, 1850, the month in which “Ii Memoriam” was published. The cake & dressex came t0o Jate, una the wedding was sc quiet that Tennyson declared that it was iue nicest wedding he had ever atiended. Of Lis wife he said, many years later, “The peace of | God came into my life before the altar when I wedded her.” Of this marrisge the son writes: “It was she who became my iather’s aaviser In liter- ary matters. ‘I am proud of herinteliect,’ he wrote. With her h: always discussed what he was working at; she transcribed his poems; to her. and to no one else, ne referred for a fical criticism before publishing. She with her ‘tender, spiritual nature’ and instinctive nobility oi thcught, was always by his a ready. cheerful, courageous, wise | sympathetic counselor. 1t was she who shielded his sensitive spirit from | thie annoyances and trials of life, answering, for example, the innumerable let- ters addressed to him from all parts of the worid. By her quiet sente of humor, by ‘her | faith as cicar as the heights of the Juno-blue heaven,’ she helped him aiso to the utmost in | the hours of his depression ana his sorrow; | and to her he wrote two of the most beautiful of his shorter lyrics, ‘Dear, Near and True.' and the dedicalory iines which prefaced his last volume, ‘The Death of Oznove.’ " CALIFORNTA glace fruits, 50c ib. Townsend's.* i e Turkey Dinner Sunday, 25 Cents. Fifty fine fat young turkeys at the Ralston, 315 Bush street. ke —————————— £PECTAL information daily to manufactursry, | pusiness houses and public men by the Press | Ciipping Eureau (Alien’s), 510 Moutgomery. * st ey Fine Display of Art Goods. | S.and G. Gump, 113 Geary sticet, are show- | ing now their European importations for the holidass, and invite their patrons and the public to view the many fine and interesting novelties received and unpackea so far, ... 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