The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 30, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30 1897. ..NOVEMBER 30. 1897 TUESDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. 1 streets, San Francisco PUBLICATION OFFICE. ._.__.Market and Thi Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS ..517 Clay street Main 18’ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in thie city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week, By mail $6 per year; per month 63 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. .One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE.. ...008 Broadwey Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE. .Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE......p...... C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. .Riggs House BRANCH OFFICES— 9:30 o’clock. 339 Harves stree Larki : open until 9:30 o’ on open u until 9 o'clock. 143 Yolk street ndiKant Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until oven until ) o'clock. 1ock. V. corner Sixteenth and 1l 9 o’clock. Mission street; open open until 9 o'clock. 1503 NW. corner Twenty-second et “THE CALL” AT DAWSON. OST arduous, most successful and most useful of all the feats performed by journalists in quest for news amid the frozen wilds t surround the mining camps and wns ot Alaska and the Klondike was that accompli-hed by Tyxg Cary correspondent, Sam Wall, in msking his way up the the face of athousand difficulties and fety after nearly all who had Yukon to Daws in ers, and arriving there in s <taried with him abandoned their efforis to reach that goal as ask too perilous to be undertaken. The importance of Mr. Wall's dsring journey up the Yu- son is not to be measured solely by the news he has sent back a to San Franci co, though that in itself has a high value to all who are interes in Alaskan and Klondike affairs. The cbief sefulness of bis heroic undertaking lies in the fact that he carried to Dawson itseif the information of the condition of the lower river, and made known the impossibility of any large amount of supplies being trought to Dawson this winter. By season of this information the people at Dawson weres warned of the menace of starvation that conironted them and set to work devising means to avoid the danger. Thanks to the ene-gy of THE CALL correspondent in carry- y to threatened people, there is now rea- ' this news prompt son to believe steps will be taken in time to avoid the worst sequences of a lack of food. Muny Dawson people have zone, or will zo, down the river to points where food is stored Others have made their way over the passes to Junean d returned south for the winter. Those who remain have ned the true nature of their cituation in time to prevent e a waste of {ood. There may be short rations in winter, but there is not likely to be starvation, a anything li Dawson this and for this happy escape from an impending calamity thanks are mainly du the tireless energy and unconquerable reso- lution of Sam Wall, the man who represents THE CALL on the Kion . 1t does not in any way detract from the merit or the value of Wall’s servics as a news-carrier from Fort Yukon to Dawson that certain steamers succeeded afterward in reaching the lat- ter point. Their success was an accident due to a fortunate rise in the river. His was the outcome of courage and persever- ance. They risked nothing for nothing. Mr. Wall risked everything to carry the news to Dawson and get Dawson news t and reliable for THE CALL. corre We have frequent!y had occasion to direct the attention of the public to the superior! of the Alaskan news service of Tue Cavw over that of all rivals, but on this occasion that supe- le it hardly needs to be pointed out in order to be perceive . THE CaLL is not represented on the Klondike by eccentric J nal fakers and wordy space-writers: but by genuine newspayer men who know what news is and riority is so notal s, se are not averse to doing the work necessary to get it. erybody will be pleased and surprised to learn from the Chronicle, which certainly ought to understand its owa emo- tions, that it is bubbling over with sympathy. We, in common with the rest of the community, shall take interest in observing these welling floods of kindness since our attention has been called to them. It is believed, however, that the sympathy with which the Chronicle has been thoughtiul enough to equip itself isof acheap variety and not calculated to stick to tne ribs of the afflicted to whom heaven vouchsafes the boon of in- curring Once in a while a suic:da not easily to be explained gives to a rumor of the existence of a suicide club. Parhaps there are suca organizations, but that is nothing to fret about. A man who would join one ought not only to be encouraged, but commended. Bunching the fools in thiy manner simplities the work of the fcol-kill Probably the report that Kinz Humbert intends to abdi- cate is as true as that ascribing a similar plan to Victoria. As a matter of fact when either iets go the title to a throne it will be upon the assurance of a betier job—and better jobs are scarce. Itis to be feared that the cause of temperance received a blow when information that Yale’s mighty football team had trained on champagne was thoughtlessly sent out to the world. Nothing could be more evident than that Serator Perkins eeds an exchange editor. THE FRUIT INDUSTRY. HEN making the opening address at the recent conven- \lv tion of fruit-growers at Sacramento Mr. Elwood Cooper asserted that in the opinion of many orchardists the time has come to stop planting fruit trees in California because the supply of {ruit is now greater than the demand and there is no prospect of finding on profitable terms a market sufficient to take any large increase of the output. We pointed out at the time that this view of the situatiofl was at variance h the well-known conditions of the orchard industry in the State, ina-much as the past season has bees a very vrcfitable one, and in no good fruit-growing section has there been any decline in the yrice of orchards or any attempts on the part of fruit-growers 1o tell their holdings, It appears, however, there are others who, like Mr. Coover, think tbhe limit of profit has been reached in the orchard indus- try. One of these is quotea by the Oroville Mereury as decler- ing that the planting ot orange trees should stop, and the Mer- cury adds: It is the same old cry which has been raised by certain classes ever since the planting of orchards for commercial purposes bogan in Catifo-nia. Many who make money themse!ves do not want compe- tition to increase, and others never favor any great forward movement for some reason best known to themselves, usually an inborn disposi- tion to “kick.” Under proper conditions the orange is a very vrofit- able tree at present, and there is no reason to doubt that it will con- tinue to be so for many years 1o come. Our Oroville contemporary is correct in its dizgnosis of the complaint. The cry of overproduction has been heard ever since the fruit industry tegan in the State. It has no better justification now than in former years. There is an abundant market for fruit and the market is increasing. People who used to regard most kinds of iruits as luxuries are now using them as a da:ly food. The problem for us to solve is not that of limiting produc™ tion, but of improving the facilities for transportaiion to mar- ket. Lower freight rates and nct fewer fruit trees is the neea of the time. This we may hope to accomplish in the mear future. In fact, ail prospects in railroad circles justify the belief that within a time comparatively <hort we shall have a competing line to the East and that the freight policy of *‘all the traffic will bear” will pass away With the monopoly that established it. 615 | | | | duced the FOREIGN COMPLICATIONS. N the attitude of Germany and the ambitious designs of the I Kaiser we may see foreshadowed the international results of the annexation of Hawa When it is claimed by annexationists that such policy is necessary to our commerce and to our national welfare, it must be remembered that other nations have absolute equality of right to protect their commerce and their national welfare. Germany has made a demonstration on China, which, apparently, veils her designs on Samoa and Hayti. If we take Hawaii we sacrifice all the moral power of pro- test against German absorption of the other island countries, If we stand upon the Monroe doctrine the world must heed our protest. If we abandon that safe ground by taking Hawaii we must take our place in the company of the grabbing nations, which wipe out small countries and override the wish of weak peoples, under the pretense of protecting themselves. In that case our protest must be backed by a naval and mili- tary establishment equal to the country that maintains the strongest standing army and spends the most of its people’s substance upon warlike armament. In other words, we at once plunge into the maze of European complications and lose the advantage we have so far enjoyed of isolation and a purely continental pi This is perfectly understood by every European Government, and is their reason for a passive attitude toward the annexation of Hawaii. If that policy succeed we must look for a very rapid in- crease in our standing army and finally to all the changes in our Government which always follow chronic militarism. The fathers of this republic all warned their posterity to complication in European affairs. That warning pro- Monroe doctrine. It impressed our people with the policy of continental It fostered that spirit of mmetrical development which gave to us the Louisiana territory, Florida and the vast domain acquired from Mexico. It has been our strength and the cause of our progress. Since the beginning of :he century, with a standing army at no time numbering more than 25,0co m2n, we have extended our institutions over more territory than has been added to any other nation, though others have had a thousand soldiers to our one, and have aggrandized less territory, at an awful cost of life and treasure. Why should we change now? What we have is scarcely exploited. .It will sustain a dense and homogeneous population. It has resources worthy of the keenest enterprise and promising the greatest rewards. Why should we change to a policy that, under the specious name of fest destiny,”” puts us in that path of false glory which avo expansion. 25, ys led to the grave of nations? are considerations which should be carefully studied by American statesmen. They were prescnt in the councils of the founders of this republic and should not be absent from ours. THE CORPORATION TWINS. HE combination between the Eraminer and Evening Post, T(!:c ultimate purpose of which is the defeat of the Board of Freeholders nominated by the regular party organiza- tions, presents a forceful illustration of the dangersof pro- gramme journalism. Tnat the “‘orders” issued by the corpora- tions to the two organs have in some mysterious manner be- come mixed is established by their respective attitudes. The Ezaminer opposes the fusion cf freeholders because they are the spawn of the political bosses and because they have been nominated to make a charter for the associated villainies. The Post denounces them because they have been irregularly cre- ated. The latter sheet characterizes fusion as a species of political lewdness which should be prohibited both by the morzl and the statute law, Neither sheet brings to the attack any argument or fact worthy of consideration. Whateach says abont the freebolders indicates that the asscciated villainies, in sending their letters | of marque, have not considerel it necessary to furnish them with the grounds upon which they are to flout the effort to procure a non-partisan charter. They have veen directed gen- erally to oppose a new charter, and being left to their own re- sources for arguments have, as is the practice among corpora- tion newspaper hirelings, adopted the weakest and most imbe- cile reasons conceivable for their action. Ordinarily it is the practice of the Eraminer to advocate measures for the purpose of damuing them. Lver since that sheet drew $22,000 from the Southern Pacific foreleven months’ silence on political topics its advocacy of anything has resulted in a condemnatory verdict by the people. Usually the Post opposes measures for the purpose of securing their adoption. The associated villainies which retain the two sheets thor- oughly understand the characler of their influence. Tiey know that it is only by keeping their real sentimente concealed and thereby exciting the pecpie to vote by contraries that any- body can be iooled .nto adopting corporation measures. Had there not, thereforc, been a misplacement of “‘orders” h respect to the fusion freeholders, we should now see the 7 es with cclored enthusiasm, and the Post opposing them with owl-like earnestness. Indeed, both sheets are denouncing them upon grounds that indicate unmistakable confusion of thouzht. The fact that by agreeing on this public question these corporation satraps have for once the nature of their regular employment shows how hara it is to run a corporation newspaper. Journalism is at best a difficult and hazardous business. But what a terrible thing it must e to conduct a journal for associated villainies which do not even take the trouble to diagram their *‘orders,” or, perhaps, address them so they will get into the proper miner supporting those nemix disclose offices. The present being a period of profound politicai peace, when men may appropriately discuss the lessons to he derived from such accidental exposures of newspaper chicanery as this, it may be well to note the fact that the ugreement of the Ezam- iner and" Post as to the fusion freehoiders is illustrative of some- thing more than the dangers of corporation journalism. In- dced, it gives point to the old saying that the truth is mighty and will prevail. Ever since the aiscovery of its contractual relations to the Southern Pacific in 1834, the Edaminer has kept up a steady fire upon that corporation. Tne purpose has been to counteract the exposure of its true character to the people- Bu at last the truth arizes to overwhelm it. By the confusion of written “orders,” or the misinterpretation of verbal ones, its relations to the associated villainies are again disclosed. Thus the mighty truth is once more vindicated. T ere is now but one thing for the organs to do; they must let go and take a fresh hold. Uni'y with them means disaster; dnviiiou, victery. Everybody is familiar with the expression, “Mad as a batter.”” Perhaps the siznificance of it is not quite clear, for there seems no reason why a hatter should be madder than any one els. But perhaps the particular one on whose tem- perament the old saying was based had wanted to compete in supplying belmets to the police force of histown,and the Commissicners instead of giving him a chance bad let the contract to an out of town firm. Before men will ever sanction a law compelling them to marry in accordance with Charlotte Smith's ides, they must be assured that Charlotte is already provided with a husband. There are perils before which even the brave shrink appalled. And to consider another phase of a serious matter, how many kinds of an idiot can one Smith woman be? Conservative people will be glad of the determination on the part of the District Attorney not to hurry Durrant to the galiows. There aad seemed (0 be at one time a prospect that the poor man would be hanged within a decade, but this has vanished, and the chance to accuse anybody of indecent haste has gone glimmering, There seems to be for some reason a degree of concern as to the whereabouts of one Satto, a gentleman who has a habit of disappearing once in a whils and is just now indulging it. There must be some expianation of this concern, and 1t is prob- bly due to a really distressing habit Satto also has of coming back again. PERSONAL. Dr. J. Gillis Rodley of Chico is at the Grand. De. J. F. Summers of Fresno is at the Cosmo- politan. Colenel J., C. La Due of Emigrant Gap is at the Russ. T. Wright of Marysville is at the Cosmo- politan. £d F. Smith, a Sacramento horseman, is at the Lick. Ex-Mayor Sam V. Rucker of San Jose is at the Palace. Dr. and Mrs. L. C. Gregory of Eik are guests atthe Grand. Dr. L. E. Cross of Stockton is & late arrivel at the Grand, P.Y. Baker, & banker of Fresno,is a guest at the Grand. E. Clarke, a lumberman from Sissons, is & guest at the Russ. J. H. Freeman and wife of Stockton are at the Cosmopolitan. Thomas 0. Toland of Ventura is a late ar- rival at the Falace. J. H. Gunu, a hardware-dealer of Healds- burg, is at the Russ. Sam Frankenheimer, a merchant of Stock- ton, is at the Grand. Rev. Father D. Maher of Forest Hill is regis- terea at the Baidwin. Siate Senator Thomas Flint Jr. of San Juan is staying at the Grand. Thomas Caulfield and daughter of Petaluma are at the Cosmopolitan, L. Rosenberg, a Ukiah merchant, is making a short stay at the Grand. J. H. Davis of Santa Clara, accompanied by Mrs. Davis, fs at the Russ. W. E, Nevills, a mining man from James- town, is a guest at the Palace. Colonel D. B. Fairbanis is in town from Pet- alums. He has a room at the Lick. Sheriff Sam L Allen of Sonoma County is at | the Kuss, registered from Sinta Rosa. J. F. Fiedler of San Luis Obispo, Recorder of San Luis Obispo County, is at the Grand. E. L. Bresse, the grain merchant, has re- turned to this city atter a visit to Mexico, County Assessor Charles 0. King ot San Luis | Obisvo County, is registered ut the Grand. E. M. McGettigan of Vallejo, late Supervisor 10 County, is registered at the Russ. Willmans, a rancher, stock-raiser and mine-owner of Newman. s & guestat the L ck. Fred Cowley, mansger of the hotel on the summit of Mount Tamalpais, is at the Bald- win. C. R. Scott of Portland, Or., who Is interested in railwey offairs there, is a guest at the Occi- dental. Rev. Dr. Wilson, editor of the Pacific Metho- | dist Advocate, has returned from a visit to Los Angeles. Given Moore of Rockford, Iil, a manufac- turer of agricultural implements, 1s staying at the Palace. Mrs. Frank McLaughlin, wife of the well. known politician, is at the Palace with Miss Agnes McLaughlin, Ex-Mayor B. U. Steinman of Sacramento, now a hotel proprietor, 1s among yesterday’s arrivals at the Palace. Percy Parsons, an artist from London, is at the Occidental, where he has a number of his paintings on exhibition. Mr. and Mrs, W. H. Nicholson of Erie, Pa., are at the Callfornia. Mr. Nicholson 1s presi- dent of the Erie Iron Works. A. B. Carlock, a banker of Fort Joues, is reg- istered at the Grand. He reports very encour- aging indications of good times. John H. Bliss of Erie, Pa., president of one of the largest bolier-making works in this country, is a late arrival at the California. Senator R. F. Pettigrew of South Dakota spent Sunday with his aunt, Mrs. L. 1. Wool- ey, and her family at Center street, Oakland. Mrs. Willlam Peyton, wife of Colonel Peyton of Senta Cruz, accompanied by Miss Peyton, arrived at the Palace yesterday eveniug from Santa Cruz. A. W. Wood of Detroit, Mich, who has min- ing interests in Cali‘'ornia, returned to the Paiace yesterday from a visit to the northern part of the State. R:d E. Mayoard of Los Angeles, at one time football ma iager for Stanford University and intercollegiate champion quarter-mile runner, is & guest at the California. Mr. and Mrs. E. Black Ryan and Miss Daisy | Ryan will shut up their country home in Menlo Park to-morfow and move to the Occi- dental o spend the winter in the city. Charles A. Tt known jockey, arrived here last night on the Ceutral overiand truin, accompanied by Mrs. Thorpe, and took apartments et the Baldwin. John W. Mackay, accompanied by his son, Clarence H. Mackav, and Andrew Lydig, left last night for New York by the Sunset Limited | The patty isen route for | direct for Chicago. London. L. Fickert of Tehachapi, a bigger and older brother of Charlie Fickert, Stanford’s giant footbali piayer, left nere ls was 10 witness the Thauksgiving game. There isa third Fickert, younger than either of these | and longer than the football player,and he | may enter Stanford nex: year and try for a ploc on the Varsity cleven. Amonz the late arrivals at the Occidental is H. C. Brown of Denver, the caplialist and owner of the Brown Puiace Hotel, a fine, abso- lutely fire-proof hotel, nine stories in height and having over 400 rooms. Mr. Brown has not been in California since 1857. He will be here several days and then w.ll o 1o the re- sorts in Southern Caiffornia, where he will spend the winter in order to avoid the severe coid weather of Danver. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—At the Stuart—J. F. Burtol Imperial—T. J. Birbour, M R. Hig- gins; Murray Hill-R. D.ckson; Morton—Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Hety; St. Denis—W. L. Hugh- son; Park Avenue—L D. Jacks: Sturtevant— R. C. Lewls, J. F. Stewart; Grand Union—A, McBean, J. K. McBea . 1. Nichols; Hol- Mrs. G. W. McNear, Miss McNear, Miss Hoffman—S. Rinaldo. A. Eloesser is here buying. CALIFORN ANS N WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.-G. W, Root Jr. of San Francisco is at the Raleigh;J. ¥. Childs and wife, Davisville, and C. F. Michaels and wife, S8an Francisco, are a1 the Ebbitt House. THE CODS’ MISTAKE. When, in & merry mood, the gods (Gave speech Lo niortal man, Poor Love, atone, *gainst crushing odds, Wit earnest plea, op. osed Lhe plan, ‘The others, heedless of his fears, Bu: tick ed with (heir human 10y; To his complaint turned careiess ears And voied down the foo ish boy. And so the truth «f faithtul eyes, ‘The pre.sure of the guile ess hand, Which jovers, - nilticss ot disgaise, vuld read ar ght and un erstand, Gave way 1o m st mis.eading speech, Wnich 'en deceives without intent, And lovers. ta ing each to cach, Gave grieyous hurl they never meant. Then Love. his protest come to naught, Lovke: sadly on the earth below, To mourn 1hé ruin that 18 wrought By unwise g fis the gods bestow. He saw true hearts by words betrayed, L While esch it fuitn in silence Kept, The other gods fu | merry mude; But Lie in hopeiess anguish wept. —Detrol. kvening News. DIED OF LAUGHING. Springfield Republican. William Thornton, or Lapine, a well-known French resident ot Ware, literaly died of laughing one day last week. He was tnlk- ing with some you g men in his store in Col- lins’ block about 2 o’clock and was laughing immoderately at some jokes they were teliing. While doing sc he siooped to i1ft something outof the window, and was taken with a se- vere hemorrhage ot the lungs. He staggered back 10 a chair and in five minuter was dead. He had been a sufferer with lung trouble for some time and his lungs were very weak. He was 32 years old. THE RETORI, Chambers’ Journal. Here i3 a retort which a “dull” student once made: Professor—You seem to be vers dull. When Alexander the Great wss your age he had already conquered the world. Student— Well, you see. he nad Aristotle for a teacher. £roP that cough wi.h Low's horehound cough syrup, price 10c, 417 SBansome st.* “SLOT” MAGHINES ON GAS LAMPS. | A “slot” machine of very novel end ingenious contrivance is about to be introduced in London and other cities of Great Britain. Itis the invention of Dr. Mansfield Robinson, and ix proposed to heat water, tea, coffee, beef extract, ete.. with the wsste heat from thestreet gas lamps and furnish it on cemand for a small sum—the bot water for half-penny agallon | and the other fluids in proportion. The machine is entirely automatic. I has been on exhibition at the Crystel Palace for some time and hes attracted great atten- tion. Itissimplicity itself. In a spiralcoil ard heating chamber, p aced about & foot above the flame, cold weter supplied from the water mains is converted by heatinto steam, wnich is expelted through a safety valve down a pipe iato an iron coil placed in a tank at the foot of the column. The steam then boils the waterin the tank without coming into contact with it and the fluid is ready for au tomatic delivery to any one who places a half-penny in the slot. The presence of the safety valve and the absence of any space in which steam can ac- cumulate insure safety in working, & matter of no small importance in appuratus to be erected in the pubiic street. The hot water ndicate, wuich hss taken up the invention, iscon; vinced of its commercial value and proposes to pay the half of the gas bills of the municipa bodies which permit the system to be adapted (o the street lamps in their distriets. This, of DIRECTIONS PoR REA PENNY meTer PUT A PENNT N HOT WATER FROY THE LAME POS CURIOUS NEW MACHINES IN USE IN LONDON. course, is a strong inducement, seeing that it will tend appreciably to reduce local taxation, | and at the present moment it is estimated that the taxpayers of London, who are inveterate grumblers, are required to foot a gas bill ot §1,250,000 per annnm. It is anticipated that the advantages of being able to obtain for an expenditure of a penny a day a gallon of hot water in the morning and another in the evening will commend irseAf‘ 1o the working ciass, and in the industrial district the promoters of the enterprise look for a | rich harvest. At public demonstrations of the vaiue of the invention & slot machine adjoining | the apparatus supplied pennyworths of tea, coffee, cocos, and fluid beef, and cups of these beverages were made witn the aid of a vessel attached by achain to the tap of the hot water tauk, while a supp.y of soap could be obtained for the purpose of ablution. The experiment of he upparatus on the strects of London will be watched with interest, but whether the | 1 which it may prove | SLOT | | piacing Tavention be riccessiul in this respect or not. thero are otner directions | of undoubted uii ity, seeing that it can be sdapted to the ordinary gas burners of public build- | fngs ana private houses, und used for either boiliug water, for heating or other purposes, or | for suppiving tre motive power for machines. | It1s not surprising to learn that there have been attempts to cheat the penny-in-the-slot | | | | | | | meter. In the meters which were firstsuppiied the weight of the penny set the mechanism in motion, but with the pattern now in vogue it is necessary to turn a handle after dropping in the coin, aud if a penny with a piece of twine attached be introanced by any person of felonious purpose the throwing machine simply cuts the cord and annexes tha coin with the coolness of & living gas collector. The coilections ure mede ut intervals of about three weeks, and there has been at times an actual dearth of copper money in South London, owing to the fact that £10,000 in pennies | have been licked up in tie gas company’s coin-meters. Since this meinod of supply was | introduced the officials assert that they have not lost a dozeu of their coin-meter consumers | | 990, iorpe o1 Geneva, Nebr, the well- | night after a | woek's visit, the primary purpose of which | astriking testimony to the popularity of their system. Mrs. Bingo—The next act is the last isn’t it? Bingo (behind a high hat)—How do I know? Mrs. Bingo—You've been out twice, haven't you ?—Puck. “Never mind,” said the legitimste sctor’s friend, “posterity will doubtless recognize s the reply, “but you forget so far erned, posterity is made up ex- clusively of deadheads.””—Washington Star. He was crying, but he finally managed 1o blubb r through his tears: “I wisht I was a girl.” “Why do you wish you were a girl?"” asked the father, who was mainly responsible for the tear: | [ain’t so easy to wallop them,” answered the boy, hardly realizing how great the truth be hed hit upon.—Chicago Post. It was the beginning of their wedding trip. “Dear,” she inquired anxious'y, “in the ex- citement of leaving, did you say good-by to pepa and mamma 2"’ No,” he replied; I said ‘au revoir.’ ” Berthe—Do you believe in love at first sight ? Ethei—I belleve tnere are persons one fs more likely to love before one has had iime to get acquainted with tuem then afterward.— Boston Transcrip “Well,” sald the Congressman from Owat- tamy, “I guess the Indian problem has been solved at last. We'll soon be rid of the red men now."” Low so 2" “They've iaken up Leadex. N Hoax—Is this your little baby ? Joax—Sometimes +Idon’t understand.” | «Why, when we're among my relatives it’s miue, but to my wife's folks {Us never any- thizg out *our Mary’s baby.’ ’—Philadeipuia Record. asked one of his constituents. football.”~Cleveland A TALE OF T. O COUNTRIES* New York sun. Bishop Doane of Albany delivered an ad- dress to the clergy of his dfocese on Tuesday, and we quote one typical paragraph: “The more miudfu: men in Evgiand look with amazement and astonishment on what sometimes teems to them the unbridied vio- leuce of our partisan newspapers, the feeling of hatred and dislike of England aud America. Ilam sure of the absence of all such feeling among thoughtiul jeople at home. With these extreme expressions of violence the English Gove.nmeni, ihe English peop.e and the Euglish press have been most patient.” For every unkind and untrne word uttered sgaiust England in American journals within tnhe last ten years, we can snowa hundred English pages jammed with ignorance and bit er hatred of the men, women, manners, in- suitutions and iaws of our owu land. It is something more than a eentury since a Bishop of the Episcopal church in America, address- ing a congregation of American gentlemen, has veniured to eharacterize the prejudi-e, misiniormaiion and insolence wnich habitu- aliy pervades the comments of English news- papers on America as the ‘‘patience” of Eng- lishmen with the Amer.can peopie. ROYALTY INGOG ON THE WHEEL. Chcago Record. Bieycles sre about many as anywhere, eveu in the most exclusive circles. They count many votaries in the im- perial family and court. That was seen re- cently while & number of princes and prin- cesses were v.siting at Chateau Friedrichshof, where twelve wheels stood in the stasles. Prince Henry, the Emperor's brother, is an enthusiastic bicyclist, and while visiting his mother the other day in Cronberg he rode, in- €cogaito, 50 Lo speak, to Frankfort on his wheel n presented nimself in the shop of a deaier and repairer to wait until a much-needed change had been made in his tire. The dealer, who did notknow him at firsy, chatted on abont wheeis and wheeling, and the Prince chimed in, showing a thorough understand- | ing of every part of the wheel. popular now in Ger- | i | 1t consists of the double doors of the house NOTE> ABOUT NOTABLES. | Among the recent acquisitions of the Nn-! tional Portrait Gallery in London are por- | treits of Sir Richard Burton by Lord Leighton, | of Willtam Morris by Watts and of Coventrsy Patmore by Sargent. General Carre Beilemare, & French officer who distinguished himself at the siege of Paris in 1870, has, in his old age, turned poet | and published a history of the last Napoleonic regime in verse under the title, “L'Empire’s c'est la Paix.” | The Sultan of Turkey is greatly influenced | in his public policy by a Swede, Carl Jensen, who was a common artisan, employed, be- fore Abdul Hamid’s accession, in the work- shops of the Yildiz Kiosk. John M. Langston, who died in Washington recently, was the first uegro to be elected to office by & popular vote. In 1852, after grad- uating from Oberlin College, he lived in the little town of Brownheim, Lorain Couuty, Ohio, and was elected Township Clerk by & large majority. He served for three years, and returned to Oberlin in 1885, when he was elected a member of the Board of Education, slso by a popular vote. John Ruskin, who is opposed to railroads because they disfigure rural scenery, and for other reasons, objects aiso to ail forms of cycling. Hislanguage Is quite radical: “To walk, to run, to leap and to dunce are virtues | of the human bod. ; and neither to stride on | stilts, wriggle on wheeis or dangle on ropes, and notuing in the training of the human mind with the body will ever supersede the appointed God’'s ways of slow walking and hard working. George Dudiey Seymour of New Haven will soon give an inleresting-relic to Yale College. of the Rev. William Russell of Bran ord, | Conn., where, in the year 1700, the trusteesof | the future Yale College met and presented | forty bocks, each trustee, as he laid the vo umes down, seying, according to the tradi- tion: “Igive these books for the founding of acoilege in this enlony.” REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR, New York Press. There is no marrizge in heaven. That's why. Love is like people—the younger it is the ofener it gets huugry between meals, One of the funniest habits women have is putiing on their hats while they are in their shirt sleeves. Jonah’s wife probably acted very sarcastic when he turned up three dayslale with that whale story. If women want men really to think they are angels they should begin by not wearing cor- seis and letting their hair hang down their backs. | What makes old bachelors act so inde; - ent is because they know that way aofif."fl, i her heart the average woman hes lots of re- spect for them. Love at first sight is a question of the other first. O soe The principal danger in gettin falling in love afterward. | o L& married iy Some men iook 50 good in meeting th in:krs you wonder if the Lord ¢,§ tui'e i: oke. No woman will ever admit to anoth woman that she is perfectly si 3 ot Tamanithet Pt y satisfied with her If a ship was becalmed in the tro) cgar and only obe matcn ubosrd, 1t wou iy mighty easy 10 get up a ureeze. _— THE BOOKS WANIED, From F. B. Perking’ “How to Make Town Li- e braries Successful.” e first mistake likely to be made in estab- lishing a public library is choosing books of to(l: tnonghtlnlhor too golid a character. It is vain Lo go on the principle of coliect; that people ought to read, and n“enl’r;fimlork‘: ing to coex them to réad them, The oply g;:ctlcll method is to begin by supplyir g ks that people already want to read. and afterward to do whatever shull be found possible 1o elevate their reading tastes, | scounirels, as perjurers and Judsses. AN>WERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A EREscH oF ETIQuETTE—A. M. P, City. It certainly isn breach of tsbie etiquette for & pereon to shovel food in the mouth with 8 nife. . City. Thespeed that eloped by ihe tripic-screw eruiser Min- wolis on her trial trip July 14, 1894, was 3 073 knots. you 2 d t John C. lHeenan and Tom™ Sayers was given_in Answers to Correspond- ents Thursday, Novembzr 25, in reply to a ed'by another correspondent. question er PBuiLpixa Frox THE TABLE—J. C. J., City. In the game of casino players cannot build from the table; that i<, if a player builds a seven with two or more cards he cannot take up an- other seven from the table place iton the build and eall it sevens. He must wait until it comes his turn to play again and if he has & en hecan tuke up that seven and the build. FOREIGN BANK £ W., Gity. Following are the latest figures concerning the foreign banks asked about: Bank of England, in thoue sands of pounds sterling, notes issued 55.815, notes in reserve 29,152, coin in reserve 2140; Bank of France,in miilions and hundred thou- sands of francs, notes in circuiation 3083.7, coin on hand 3314.7—later figures show, S:p- tember 24, 1896, notes in circulation 3,490, ) trancs, coin on hand 3,329,858 francs; Deutsch= R bank, in thousands of marks, notes 11 circulation 1,17 ), coiu snd bul- lion on hand 1,013,488; Bank of Austris- Hungary, in thousands of florins, note- in cir- culation 507,808, cash on hand 307,005: Bank of Italy, notes w_circulation 1,126,153 lires, cash and reserve 581,226 lires; Bank of Bel- gium, in thousands of tranes, 469,662, reserve 24 619; Bank of Kussia, notes iu c:rc‘ulufis 101 000 pounds sterling, assets, g 78,125,000 pmxmds sterling, siiver 16.935.000 pouncs steriing, notes in reserve 10,753,000 ds sterling’ (gold and silver converted s per pound and other figures at 10 rubles per pound); Baunk of Switzerland, notes issued 18 096 francs, on hand notes and cash 1 21 francs; Bank of Spain, notes in _circulation, 961.900,000 pesetus, gold and silver on hand 495,000,000 pesetas. There is no Bank of Hoiand; but there is the Bank of Netnerlands, a privat institution, the only bank authorized to issu bank notes. Amount in thousands of guild< notes in circulation. 203,683; reserve 500,000 guilaers. The last portion of the question asked cannot be obtained in this city A letter would have 10 be ad- dressed to the Minister of Finance of each of the countries named. at 6 er: fund, A DISGRACE TO THE BENCH. Sacramento Bee. The Bee declares that never has it heara from the Bench in California such an infa- mous speech as that which proceeded from the lips of Judge Lorigan. His inquisition of the Grand Jury, as he accomplished it, was without warrant of law or authority. He had no right to turn thumbscrews on that body as he did, and Carroll was well within hisrights when he refused to answer the arrogant and insolent demands of this autocrat. Judge Lorigan is himself before the bar of public opinion. He is charged with isterfering with the due course and process of law by standing as & shield between s Justice of the Peace and his indiciment by the Grand Jury. True or false, that charge has been published. In place of meeting it Judge Lorigan arros gates 1o himseli the authorily of a Czar and uts the thumbserews ou the Grand Jury. For what purpose? Not to discover if thers might be some leason why Justice Dwyer should be indicted, but simply to find out who it was among the Grand Jury who took the name of Judge W. G.Lorigan in vain. H3 came to o grend juror who refused 1o answer his insoleut and impertinent questions—ques® tions which he had no right to ask uader the proceedings which he cstablished. He then castigated that belpless grand juror asa cur, & scoundrel, n perjurer and a Judas. Now Grand Juror Carroll may be all thess things. We do not know him. But, no maticr what he is, he isa fur betier American citizen to-day in that jury-box than Judge Lorigan is on the bench. Justlook al this matter for a moment: A Superior Judge under a cloud drags the mem- bers of & Grand Jury before him to find who may have givea for I reports from which was born that cloud. ke runs across a grand jury- man who refuses 10 answer his arrogait ib- quiries—and from the bench proceeds to casti- gate that freeborn American citizen with ail the virulence and billingsgate of a Bowery blnckguard. Imagine what power this man has arrogated to himseli! He has virtuaily threatened with punishment every member of the Grand Jury who would dure to breathe a word of suspicicu against this august Cmsur of the bench. He hns held himself as superior to the law and above the people. He uas prociaimed himself the sovereign over the words and acts of grand jurors. And he has viriuaily said to them: “pon’t dare to_breathe or even think a word againstme, or I will denounce you from the bench, where I reign supreme, as curs and Tt the man is not insane, and a fit subject for Stockton, ne shonid be kicked from the bench asa diszrace to the judicary, & disgrace to Americanism, a disgrace to humanity. Superor Judge Lorigan of Senta Clara County called Grand Juror Carroll, from the bench, a cur and a scoundrel, a perjurer and & Judss, not really because Lorigan believed Carroil to be anything of the kind, but be- ause Lorigan thought that Carroll had given out something from the Grand Jury room which did not reflect much credit on Judge Lorigan. We ao not know what Carroll said about Lorigan—but Lorigan has proved that he is all of it, and more t00. CALIFORNIA glace iruits, 50c Ib. Townsend's.” i s e MocHA pistache, pineapple chocolate cake, 905 Larkin street. . . 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