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6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1897. all DECEMBER 11807 The WEDNESDAY., JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE. ... Markot aud Thi-d sirests, San Francisos Telephone Matn 1868, EDITORIAL RCOMS. .. 25 Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. Ly mail $6 per year; per month 65 cenis. .517 Clay street THE WEEKLY CALL. ..One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE....... . .908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE.. .Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (. C.) OFFICE C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. «..Riggs House BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 kin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and ou sireets; open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 143 inth street; open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Folk street; open untii 9:30 o’clock. NW. ceraer Twenty-second Kentucky sireets; onen tiil 9 o’clock. SENATOR PERKINS AND HAWAIL N several statements, interviews and authorized expressions Senator Perkins has advanced exc:llent reasons against annexation of Hawaii. Availing himse!f of his experience as a merchant and a navigator he has completely exploded the sirategic path of comimerce fallacies, and yet, declaring it to be bad policy, wastefnl, importing future darnger of great magni- tude and morally wr he 2cdmits that he will vote for an- ant it} We have already ssed the means by which he bas come to judgment of what the people want, and their in- suffic ency is =0 marked as te put the Sepator under suspic’on of paltering with a greet question and ecling against his ex- pressed convictions for reasons other than those given out. But granting that he concludes sincerely that the people of this State want annexation and that it is his real reason for supporting a poiicy which he aenounces as wholly wrong, we deny the validity of his conciusion. One Legisiature which elected him to the Senate considered the annexation of Hawaii and voted itdcwn. This is the only orderly and urganized ex- pression on the subject since he became a Senator. Again, it is a novel and pernicious view of a Senator’s duty that he shall violate his knowledge and convictions of right b2cause e feels instructed to do wrong by street-corner interviews and a few newspaper editori Such a view of his duty is inexpressibly degrading to the Senatorial position, Heretofore a Senator has been unchecked in following the conceptions of his duty unless instructed by the Legislature of his State. There have been two prominent and honorable instances of defiance of legislative instructions. Calhoun introducad into the Federal Senate his slavery resolutions, which were de- clarea by Benton to set slavery in antagonism to and above the Union. Calhoun demanded his supyport as a Senator from a slave State. Benton insisted that his allegiance was due to the Union and that Calhoun had needlcssly antagonized such al'eziance in defense of slavery. Thereupon Calhoun covertly secured the services of Mis- souri politicians to pass through the Legislature of that State resolutions instructing Benton to support the pro-slavery and anti-Union manifesto of the South Carolina Senator. Benton promptly defied this instruction, and on the ad- journment of Congress went home and carried to the people his appeal from the Legislature. His re-election to the Senate was involved in the choice of a new Legislature, and he carried a majority of that body. Itistrue that he was beaten by fac- tions among his supporters, which were caused by the intrigues of Calhoun, but he carried the peovle of his State by argument in exposition of his convictions of right and duty, and he stepped out of the Senate into immortal history. Another instance of similar moral courage was in the case of Lamar of Mississippi. He opposed the first Bland free silver bill in 1878. The Legislature of his State ordered him to sup- portit. He defied the instruction, and returned home to can- vass his State, in the election of a new Legislature, before which Le would apvear for return to the Senate. The result was that he carried the people with him by educating them upon the issue, and was re-elected by a unanimous vote of the Legis! ture, white and black, Republican and Democratic. In the light of these high examples it is plainly the duty of Benator Perkins to abide by the last organized expression in this State, that of the Legislature whick voted down annexa- tion, uniess be believes annexation to be right ana politic, in which case ke would have followed distinguished precedent by going to the people to educate them in his views. But be declares himself in agreement with that legislative expression opposed to annexation, but intending te vote for it becanse he thinks the people want it, when there has been no organized expression of the people to that effec . Such a grave matter as foreign policy 2nd a reversal of the principles maintained by our Government for a century and ten years cannot be settied by sirest talk or even by mass- meetings. OQursysiem rests upon the popular will, rationalized by an enlightened understand:ng of every issue and expressed through responsible channels, The p'an of Senator Perkins takes all merit out of the Senatorial office and makes it a putty place to be kneaded into distortion by first one hand and ther, another. We cannot fancy a more contemptible decline of = great office than is suggested by his position, nor can we imagine a more useless incumbent of such a responsible station than one who is whisperel first one way and then another and gossiped out of his tracks by every streei-corner breath. nexation, for the people disy Announcement 1s made that one of the witnesses in the Durrant case has been married. Probably Durrant will have the good taste not to forward congratulations, as he is a public and unpopular character just now. Besides, in all probability he will have an equslly gcod opportunity in due time of con- gratulating the Jady upon having become a grandmother. The organization of “Jilted Lovers,” with a mitten as its emblem, must be made up of a jolly crowd of fellows. And much wiser than those who by attempting to tlow out their brains demonstrate to an unsympatbetic world that they have none to blow. e People saw See go into Arizona to make astronomical ob. servations without much faith in his prospective achievements, but now what See saw will be made intoa large book. And Dr. See did not nave the guiding inteliigence ot a Holden either. The question of the monkey ranch for the Mission has come up again. But it must be remembered that that other question, as to the identity of the man who struck Billy Patterson, has never completely died out. ‘ A verdict of murder in the first degree in the case of Martin Thorn in New York viewed from this distance seems altogether proper. Now Mrs. Nack must take a turn, and she is no blos- som of innocence either. —_— Another gentleman has gone to the trouble to brand the Eraminer a falsifier, even being specific as to de'ails. But the new brana does not show any more vividly than a charcoal mark on a lump of tar. Secretary Sherman is strangely slow in expressing an inten- tion to retire. He seems to have no consideration for the roy of statesmen who have generously booked themselves for the portfolio of state. The New York Journal’s anestion, whether the whole world will be crazy in the year 2000, may eafely be answered in the negative. Long before that date yellow journalism will be dead, The public has almost reached & stage at which it is willing to accept Croker’s estimute of Parkhurst and Parkhnrst's esti- mate of Croker. —— | THE SITUATION AT DAWSON. ULL reports of the situation at Dawson given by our cor- respondent at that plac e in dispatches published yesterday and in others publish=d on the pravious day show that the condition of affairs along the whole length of the Yukon is still menacing and full of peril. The letter published yester- day was mailed at Dawson October 16, a full day later than news gathered by any other paper, and gives the latest and most reliable information from the Klondike region. From this letterit is learned that the arrival at Dawson of the steamers Weare and Bella, which was announced by all the papers in this city on Monday, proved disappointing to the hopes of the people of Dawson by reason of the fact that they brought nothing like the quantity of supplies looked for. The Weare reached Dawson with but 180 tons of provisions in place of the 500 tons expected, and the Bella, instead of bring- ing food-laden barges in tow as was hoped, brought but 6o tons of supplies, and along with them thirty-five passengers to increase the number of persons to be fed. The flaring headlines with which the Examsmer on Monday announced “‘Famine No Longer Menaces the Klondike Miners’’ was but another of the fakes usual with that irresponsible and unreliable journal. The statement of the headlines, in fact, did not accord even with the story published beneath it, and gave to the public a wholly erroneous idsa of the situation. Our later and fuller accounts show that the relation of the food supply to the number of people who must winter at Daw- son is still a serious problem and that as a matter of fact famine does menace the miners and all the people in the region round about. It is likely that some steps for the relief of the threatensd district may be taken by our Guvernment and by that of Can- ada, but the most hopeful visw of the situation is that the warning of impending famine reached Dawson in time for many to make their way down the river to points where there are better stores of supplies. For this warning thanks are due to THE CALL correspondent, whose journey up the Yukon, gathering nsws as he went, is one of the greatest achievements of recent journalism. Bad as the situation is at Dawson ths miners are not yet ready to abandon the country. Starvation threatens them this winter, but even in the face of that menace they do not forget their prospects are golden in a literal sense. New dis- coveries are being i1ade and with the announcement of each a new rush takes place from Dawson. At the time our corre- spondent wrote the latest of these rushes was to Deadwood Creek, where, it is said, the placers are so rich and the gold so near the surface that 25 cents per pan is found in the gravel at the grass roots. The experience of the rush to the Klondike this year will be of great advantage to the more intelligent of those who in- tend to make the venture next year. The wealth of the placers seems 10 be unquestionable, and their extent is over an area so wide that years will be required to fully prospect the streams. Over all the region, however, hangs not merely the Arctic winter, but the menace of famine. Courage and energy can take men there, but unless those .who go have made all their provisions with caution and wisdom they will find gold only to perish of cold or starvation. THE CORPORATION CONSPIRACY. E are enabled this morning to azain extend our hearty Wnongrllulllimslo the fiiteen gentlemen—or !our(ann.‘ until a man is selected to succeed Mr. Fortmann, de clincd—who have b-en nominated for charter Freeholders by the reguiar party organizations. An evening contemporary, which is an authority on all kinds of immorality, political as well as social, deciares that the ticket upon which they have been placed is “the i legitimate offspring of the bosses'’ and is of such doubtful origin that even the corporation press, which is ordinarily partial to everything possessing a shady charac- | are gues FERSONAL. J. McCann is at the Cosmopolitan. Dr. W. S, George of Antioch is at the Grand. Dr. J. Miller Moore, U. S. N., is at the Cali- | fornia. | L. M. Lasell, a Martinez merchant, is at the Grand. C. H. Fairall, a lawyer of Stockton, is at the Grand. C. H. Polly of Fowler, Cal.,1s at the Cofmo- politan. Frank A. Crissey, & banker of Modesto, is at the Lick. Luncan McPherson of Santa Cruz is st the | Baldwin, | A.Daviesof San Luis Obispo is at the Cos- | mopolitan. G. A. Hamilton, a capitalist of San Jose, is | at the Russ, H. 8. Morey, a miaing man of Placerville, is At the Grand. J. M. Day, a mining man of Los Angeles, is staying at the Grand. C. Bradley, a merchant of Pescadero, is registered at the Russ. J. B. Wrighton and wile of Salt Lake City are at the Cosmopolitan. F.S. Wensinger, a largs dairyman of Free stone, is at the Occidental. William Wehuer, a wine producer of Ever- green, is at the California. T. W. Sheehan, a newspaper man of Sacras mento, is at the Occidental. Charles MclIver, the wine producer of Mise sion San Jose. is at the Californla, Thomas MeGill, a newspaper man from Denver, is & recent arrival at the Russ, R. I Dodge, & boot and shoe mauufacturer of Boston, is a iate arrival at the Grand, B. H. Upham of Martinez, proprietor of the Glineta Vinererd, is stayiug at the Lick. Herman H. Graw of Sicramento, one of the proprietors of the Buffalo Brewery, is a guest at the Grand, Louis L Janes of Mill Valley, manager of the San Raisel and Mount Tamaipais Scenic Reiiway, is at the Lick H. J. Sma!l of Sacramento, master mechanic of the Southern Pacific Company’s carshops, ismeking a short stay at the Grand. William Rennie of St. Helena, R. C. Terry of Clayton, P. R. Schmidt of Calistoga, and Wil- liam F. Bornhast of Calistoga, wine producers, at the Lick. D. E. Knight of Marysville, oue of the prin- cipal owners and the business manager of the Marysville Woolen Mills, the iargest in the State, is making a visit at the Lick. Sydney MacNider, & big merchant of Guata- mala and agent for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, errived at the Occidental last night from the Eest, accompanied by Mrs. MacNider. J. Francis, ‘general passenger agent of the Burlington route, and W. D. Sanborn, general agent ot the Burlington route in this city, leit here last night for a business visit in Los An- geles. Professor Oliver Peebles Jenkins, head of | the. department of physiology in Swnford | University, came up from Palo Aito last night and is a guest at the Palace. He 1is lecturing | at Cooper Medical College. | Georze W. Reynmolds of New York, who, | though 71 years ot age, is still on the road as | & traveling man and has teen for fifty years. He has & bee ranch {n San Diego County, from which he sold 40,000 pounds of honey last year. United States Marsnal J. S. C. McCarthy of New York airived here yesterdey accompanied by Mrs. McCarthy and 100k apartments at the Baldwin. Mr. McCarthy issuffering from rheu- matism and has come to California tor his health. Jonn L. Truslow, general agent here of the passonger department of the Sauta Fe system, end H. C. Bush, gencral agent of the freight department of the seme company, will leave this city to-morrow night for Culcago to attend & conlerence there on December 7 of managers of the Santa Fe system. Edwara W. Purser of New York, owner of a large racing stable, srrived here late last night from Chicago and put up at the Palsce. This will be the sixth winter he bas spent in California following the track. He comes from & successful season on the Enstern cir- cuit and is well known for his big bets. ter, has universally repudiated ir, | Upon the apoearance of the political foundling, says this } contemporary, *“the bosses denied its paternity. Political par- | ties as such certainly had no respoasibility in its being. The | journals of the city disownel i. The Chronicle treated it ! | with contemptuous silence. The Bulletin ignored it. The Ex- | aminer denounced it and told scandalous stories concerning its | lineage, and our esteemed contemporary, THE CaLL, was coy ana maintained a very much embarrassed silence,’ thougn | subsequently, it adds, the last-named paper came out in its | favor. | We gather from all this that the Fresholders nominated by the regular organizations a-e opposed, not only by the fake corporation press, but by the practical politicians of the city as well. Such being the case, can there louger be any doubt as to what the people will do at the election on Decermber 27? With- the Southern Pacific, the associated villainies, the Eraminer and the Post, united against them there can be but one safe course for the people to pursue; they will be compelled to vote unanimously for every fusion nominee. In no other way can they protect themselves from universal loo:. We are immeasurably gratified to perceive that the con- temporary from which we have guoted does not include Tae CALL in the combination which has been formed to defeat these Freeholders. Indeed, we aie not exactly clear that, besides congratulating the nominees on the bright prospect before them, we shou!d not also extend the glad hand to ourselves. Association with such conspirators as our contemporary has | described certainly cannot be said to be conducive to the main- tenance of one's morai character, to say nothing of the main- tenance of one’s self-rexpact, On the other hand, we are willing toaccep t whatever credit | may come from espousing the cause of the gentlemen who | comprise the fusion Board of Freeholders. Now that it is| establi<hed by the testimony of a member of the combination | tuat the $30,000 contract Ezaminer, the Bouthern Pacific Post, the political bosses, the associated villainies, the railroad monopoly and those newspapers whose silence makes them objects of suspicion have combined to eifect the deleat of the fusion ticket, it seems to us that in the charter contest the de- fense of those gentlemen is about the only thing that can be undertaken by an honest man or an honest newspaper. In no way could the combination described b: made more beautiful. The addition of the nickel-in-the-slot men, the faro gamblers and the prize-fizhters might strengthen it some, but they could not add to its imposing character. However, as the combination stands, our imagination sickens wher we contemplate the fate that awaits it on election day, December 27. Unless we misiake the temper of this com- munity there will be a slanghter of faking conspirators on that day. Perhaps a layman has no right to question the act of an attorney. It may be thatan attorney knows so much more as to be above criticism. And yetthe thought will occur thata man, even though a lawyer, might be in better business than defeating justice in behalf of guilty and convicted murderers, and piling up useless costs for citizens who never had so much as an impulse to shed blood. “Lucky” Baldwin is probably not greatly disturbed at the report that a woman is on his trail with a pis- tol. Indeed, he doubtless congratulates himself that only one female expres; an intgntion of using him as a target, and possibly is a little sur prised at the forbearance of the sex. Upon reading that the problem of submarine navigation has at jast been solved thereis a natural impulse to exclaim: “What! again?” and to wonder why people go right on solving it, and aiter all it isn’t solved. It is cheering to read that Germany is not to be permitted to bully Hayti, but some curiosity is aroused as to the founda- tion of an evident faith that the United States would inter- CALIFORNIAN > IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, William Griffin; tague, E. Fiizgeral Nov. 30.—At the Ashland— Holland—Mlle. de Lsmon- ; Windeor—E. C. Denigan, F. M. Denigan; Stuart—J. Wand; Union Square—IH. Hirschman; Park Avenue—D. A. Hulse; Imperinl—S. Sproul. CALIFORNIANS IN CHICAGO. CHICAGO,Nov. 30.— e Great Northern— J. C. Butler, San Francisco; Leland—George L Lidgerwood, Los Angeles; Auditorium=—J. A. Landsberger, San Francisco; Auaitorinm An- nex—W. M. Morris, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Holton, San Francisco; Palmer—Mis J. H. Playter, Santa Barbar A. G. Swain, 8an Fraccisco. ABOUT HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION. Puck. Since the overthrow of the Hawaiian mon. archy early in 1893 much of the ““fizz" has gone out of the annexaiion enthusiasm. So far as a study of the wishes of both countries can disclose, neither wants annexation to- day. Three-fourihs of the people of Hawail are bitterly opposed to it, and in our own couatry there is a well-defined reluctance to 2dd 10 our problems of government by taking on a population made up of 3000 Americans and over 100,000 Haweiians, Japanese, Chi- nese and Portuguese. Yet, despite this mutual unwillingness, Uncle Sam seems fatea to pay the penalty for nis indiscreet interference in Hawaiian affairs In 1893. When a squad of his marines helped 1o overthrow that monarchy the ring of specu. iators who are chicfly interested in annexa- tion fastened a responsibility upon him which, with the valnable assistance of our own jin- gos, they have prevented him from throw- ing off. Ther plans tor a perwanent alliance promise 10 succeed early iu the session of Con- gress at hand. After that we shall be in & bet- ter position 1o tel. what we have lost, if any- thing, in gaining this territory,with its richiy and variousiy tinted p ople. POWER OF A MOTHER'S VOICE. A mother sang to her child one day A soug of the beauvtiful bome above; Bang it as only a woman sings, Whos2 heart Is full ofa mother’s love. And mauy atime in the years (hat came He heard the sound of that low, sweet song; It {00k him back to his childhood’s days; Ttkept bis feet from the paths of wrong. A mother spoke to her child one day 10 a0 angry voice that made him start As 1f an arrow had sped that wiy And pierced his tender and loving heart. And when he had grown to mi And was tempied and trled, as !l men are, He fo11; for Lhat mo. her’s augry words Had Iof: on his heart 4 lasting scar. —Charies =, Carter, in simas Ladles’ Home Journal. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. It takes three to make a quarrel Man is the creature of circumstances; woman is the creature of man. One disadvantage of being an old bachelor is tnat nobody ever sends them turkeys, Getting married is a good deal like buying state patenileatner shoes. A guaranies never means anything. Fomininity is alot like tobacco. A girl re. minds you of a cigarette, & woman of & cigar, and & wile of an old pipe. The good people who think it is wicked to let their children believe in a Santa C(laus are probably the same ones that teil them if Ihfl{ eat the crusts they will make tleir nair curl. TWENTY-SIX IN ONE FAMILY. Baltimore American. It is doubtiul whether ano.her county in the State can equal Worcester in the size of & family. Near Bridgeville lives a colored family consisting of Aaron Quail, his wife and tweuty-one chiidren. Twenly-three years ago Quail married Martha Ann Rogers, and twenty-four children were burn to them. One child died. There were three sets of twins. Two venrs sgo his wife died and one year later Quail married again. One child is the result of fere if necessary to prevent. Stanford students complain that the college yell during the football game was too pianissimo, but to many others this tact seemed to be its only good point. that umon. When the meals are served two tables are used, fourteen sitting st ove and twelve at the other, to avola the unlucky thir- teen. Low’s horehound cough syrup cures bronchitis, price 10c, 417 S8ansome st. * FOR THE NATIONAL AGADEMY OF DESIGN. - M AN AT O The new bullding to be erected in New York for the National Academy of Design, above p'ciured, will cover a ground space of 171 feet, north and south, by 200 feet east and west. | The structure will be two stories in heizht on its main facade, and four stories in its rear ele- The main faeade will be of white marble, and if the financial question is properly s0lved the other walls will be of similar material. The striking feature of the structure’s internal scheme will be a center court, sixty feet #quare, covered with glass, which will be arranged as a garden and will serve for the sculp- | vation. ture exhibitions. The gsllery for the picture e: portion of the building will be devoted fo the of the acedemy. begin on the new building in the spring. On the cast there will be an auditorfum, built in a semi-circle. The building will cost £500,000. xhibitions will face the north. The southerly halls, studios and clessrooms for the students Work is to FLASHES OF FUN. “ASt. Lonis bartender is turning to chalk.” “Handled mik punches too recklessly, 1 suppose.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Harzreaves—After all, T believe there is something to the superstition about walking under a ladder being a hoodoo. Istarted out 1o borrow $5 this morning and met Ferry— Walluce—Aana he refused you, and then you found you had walked under a ladder without | notieing 117 “No, but Ferry walked under the ladder and let me have the five.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. *Doubleday is aregular slave of fashion.’” «I never noticed that he dressed particularly well.” “He doesn’t, but he has to work day and night to pay for his wife's clothes.”—Chicago News. He—I have bad but one ides since we meta few short weeks ago. She—I must give you eredit for greater men- tality than I had suspected.—Detroit Free Press. “Clara, don’t you think an old rose silk dress would be becoming to you?'” “Perhaps, but I don’t think it will be com- ing very soon.”—Fhiladelphis Bulletin. “There’s one thing 1 can’t understand.” “What is 112" “When we read thata public man isseriously ll we always feel disappointed if he gets well.”—Chicago R:cord. “Well, I see tnat Messrs. McKinley and Laurier are lkely to come to an understand- ing over the seal question.” “Yes, that's where Messrs. McKinley and Laurier differ from me and my wife."—Cleve- | land Leader. First Boston Reporter—Poor Joues got fired | to-day, Sccond Boston Reporter — What was the | reason? i “In writing a headline for his story of the man who wes saved from a watery grave his iypewniter slipped and the mistake got into the paper. Ii read: ‘Rescued From Brown- ing.’ "—Cincinnati Commerciai Tribuue. THE MIRROR DGES NOT FLATTER. | Answers. No doubt the human race would consider it little short of a universal tragedy if there were 0o looking glasses. Yet, in spite of thelr widespread use, itis an astonishiug fact that none of us have ever seen ourselves as others see us, In the first place, the refloction in the mir- ror does 1ot portray cur likeness with any at- | tempt at accuracy. The hairis wrong in tone, the eyes are not correct in color and our com- plexions sre hopelessiy libeled by this spe- cious household aeceiver. Itiscertain thatif | the looking glasses spoke the truth the saie of | VRr.ous compicxion washes would decrease 10 | half, for any fa r +kin looks gray and paliid in the glass, aiid numbers of women who have | spiendid complexions ruin them by trying to tmprove them because they look bad’ in the | mirror. You may be certain that, however | plain yvour face scems, it 1s by Lo means so | Dinin as it appearsin the telltale mirror. Sec- o.aly, you cannot assume your natural ex- pression while pecring in the looking gless. Theeyo must be in a ceriain position before you can see atail, and the eye, S0 far as ex- pression is concerned. governs the face. The consequence is that you can see only one of your expressions in theglass, and that expres- sion is oue of attentive examination. Al: the other expressions by which your friends know | you, favoranle or unfavorable, you have never seen, and never will see. —_— STYLES IN tOO(S AND SHOES. | St James Gazetts. There are some cever novelties in bootsand | shoes. A broad buckle Is becoming to the foot, | but hitherto has had thisdisaavaniage—that it dces not admit of eny fastening, the buckle being strictly ornamental. Now, however, a couple of invisible luitons have been intro- duced at the side, which keep the fronts firmly on the foot. Satin shoes have been found so perishabie that those who study economy are using colored kid in preference; and they are s0ld in ell the most aelicate hudes—the light est green and the softest cerulean blune— he toes being entirely covered with beads, pai.- leties and tinsel all of the sume shade. Those whe prefer simple footgear have only a singie | buckle on the instep; butsatin shces of all | shades are embroidered in the same way. Colored g.ace kid is more subtile and softer to the ool than morocco, and consequently is being used for the 1ashjonable red snoes. For gocd, hard walking bools porjoise hide is found the best, especiaily for goifing, damp and mud huving no effect on it, Foi town wear and bad weather IFrench caif shoes and boots, with extra thick soles, answer every purpose. Notwitnstanding the advertisements anda snnouncemenis which greet us on all sides, there is never anything very new in practical boots and shoes destined for hard wenr, the variety simply Iving in the amount of broguing and some siight d ffrence in toe- caps. Very little has been done with these this year. —_—_— THE COST OF A BATANGA WIFE. From the Church at Home and Abroad. There is a list of goods which was recently paid by a young man in ouremploy toa father- in-law who had an eye to business before the young man secured his wife. And the time wil never come when his father-in-law wiil not regard it his periect right to ask his son-in-law for anything more that he may want. The iist is thus: E ghiy neptunes, five guns, thiriy-two marks’ (about §8) worth of clotn, three goats, five cases of gin, thiee kegs ol powder, 1wo zine trunks, two umbreilas, one coat, two chairs, two tail hats, three folt Biats, one flag, iour shirts, one ilu of sugar, eight drinking glasses, twelve plates, one lamp, two brass kettles, four smalliron pots, one knife, twenty-five pipes, two jugs, one large iron pot, 1:;‘17:1)' brass wires, four jairs of scissors, and aboul twenty-three marks i cash ($5 75). 5 Quite s iong, cost'y list for this country, when itfs remembered that this young man Teceives bui iwenty marks (about $5) per month for his wages, upon which he must clothe himself as well as divide with others, Wken the fatber-in-law concludes that the son-in-law has paid him enough for the time- belng, for his daughier, he then gives her over 1o the young mau, and she becomes his wife, el R okl abiade BEES ARE GOOD TO EBULLOCK. Schenectady Union. For the pest five yeurs a strange swarm of bees—a different swarm each sesson—| taken possession of & certain part of T. L. Bul- lock’s residence at Mohawkville and made its honey there. Aswarm comes every spring, no one knows where from, and finds that one particular section of the space between the lathing and the clapboa: meets its views of what a hive should be, and the bees imme- diately proceed 1o iay in their winter's stock of honey there. I is entirely imperceptibie toany human being’s senses that the ordi- bary pine lumb>r of which the house is built Possesses any quality different in the place from the same lumber in any other part of the house. But the finer perceptions of the bees certainly discover something peculiariy su.table to thelr purpose in exactiy that spot. So they enter in, and their buzzing and bum- bii g makes the outer wa.l of one room lively with sound all the summer and autumn. Yes terday Mr. Bullock smoked out the industrious littie creatures and scosped out nearly sixty | first, textile training schools; second, any | doiug her errands like the wife of a crofter. | military bounty w. NOTES ABOUT NOTABLES. W. B. Eowell, tha present Assistant Secrc- tary of the Treasury, was a messenger boy in that department of the Government service only fiftcen years ago. The Rey. Dr. £. P. Parker of the South Con- gregational Church, Hartford, Conn., is the possessor of a valuable seal which was prob- ably once the property of the great founder of Methedism, John Wesley. Emperor William has dispatched two water. color drawings, done by himself, to St. Pe- tersburg for presentation to the officers of the cruiser Rossiva, which he inspected during nis visit to Russia. Bordini, a rising French artist, whose works were among the most remarkable exhibited at this year's Salon, is on his way to this country to paint the portraits of several women lead- ersof New York society. Harry de Windt, the famous globe-trotter, says: “I have roughed it for the past fifteen | yearsin Siberia, in Borneo and in Chinese | Tartary, but I can safely descrive my climb over ihe Chilkoot Pass as the severest physi- cal experience of my life.” Ex-Congressmau Frank Jones of Portsmcuthe N.H., a Democrat who bolted the Chicago platform, is mentiozed as the possible Repu b- | i | lican nominee for Governor of the Granite State by Senator W, E. Chandler’s newspaper. Bruno Steindel of So th Germany played | two of Mendelssohn’s most difficult composi- | tions on the piano before an audienca of mu- sical experts before he was 5 years old. Many | expect that he will Lecome one of the greatest masters of modera times. Ex-Governor Northen of Georgla says that | heisin favor of four reforms in the State— policy which will teach scientific farming; third, good roads; and fourth, a reformatory prison for the detention of youthful erimi- nals. Queen Wilheimina of Holland has & new sultor in the person of Prince William Wied, just 21 years old, who Is at the pres:nt mo- men: a lleutenant of the cavalry regiment of Gardesdu Corpsat Potsdam, in the splendid uniform in which he looks £o handzome and dashing that he has become a serious rival to Prince Harold of Denmark in the graces of | Queen Wijhelmina. Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife, lives her own quiet life among the hills of Braemar, The Duchess of File is the wonder of the dis- trict and many an uppish dame has been in- clined to sneer at the modestiy dressed young lady who enters a village shop, orders a pouna or two of that, a few vards of ribbon, etc., and earries them off to her carriage as if she were doiug part of her day’s work. UNCLE SAM AS A LAND-OWNER, New York Sun. The statistics of the General Land Office | show that this country, first and last, has had the prodigious amount of 1,835,017,962 acres of land to dispose of. This area includes everything not in the original thirteen States, as now constituted. These lands fall into four classes. Fiistare | those alreadsy disposed of or appropriated. They include 214,414,395 acres sold for cash, | 102,280,228 taken up as homestends, 1 02 granted to States, 106,554 898 given to ra.lroads and other roads, canals and river- | Improvement projecis, State or corporation; | 70,000,000 in private grants, 60.232,790 in | nts, 16,118,228 1n tina- ber-culture en ‘Ties. and other swma.ler classes, aggregating 741,702,365 acres, unaer this | head. FOT YArious resso .8 these estimates are rough, but they are near enough to the true emounis for practical purposes. Nextwe baye the reserved lands. These in- | clude 81,645,413 scres set epart for the | Indians, 18,993.280 es forest reservations, 3,272,960 es nutional parks, 825,425 for forts sud other military purposes, with enough | ;ndilse_- neous to bring the aggregate to 132,- | )7 Tue third great class comprises the lands of Alasks, In which few surveys and dispossls have yet been made, the aggregate being 369,- 529 600. With the advance of civilization | Aleska may not remain wholly a c.ass by Fiually, we have the fourth cless, or lends | now vacant and subject to settlement, amounting. to 591,343,953 acres. Of these, however, nearly half, or 272,294,120 acres, have not yet been surveyed. Toe largest body of vacant'public lands is in hontana, 71.432.- 917 acres, Nevada following with 61,578,586, and Arizona, California, Colorado, ldano, New Mexico, Utah end Wyoming each having over 40,000,000 acres. But while the-e figures of the extent of the publiclands available for settlement arve so great, practically a large part of the best iand,'in accessible places, is taken up. The arid tracts not susceptible of irrigation and the mountain and forest regions which can- not now be used for tarming constitute a very considerable portion of ihe uearly 600,000,000 acres of vacant pub.ic lands. The oid saying that “Uncle Sem is rich er ough to give us all 8 farm” is not heard much nowsdays. He is still & big land-owner, but has been lavish witn his best possessions. AN AFFA.R OF CALENDAR. Itissoseldom nowadays thata king trans. forms himself into an emperor that a few words of explanation with regard to the recent seli-promotion of the monarch of Coren, which has just been officially ane nounced to the courts of Europe, may be of interest. His assumption of imperial aignity was principally an affair of calendar. In the Orient the tile of emperor is unknown, tire only one known beiug tnat of *Son of Heaye. which, in the Chinese and Corean langusge, is styled’ Huang-Tie. It 1sa relizious tradition and belier with the Buddhisis that the Huang-Tie, as the parson standing nearest the Deity, has the exc.usive right to fix the holy days, and for thousands of yesrs the ruler of China sent annually out to hi- vassals, the monarchs of Corea, Anam, Burmsh vnd Japan, the list of holy days or calendar edited by himself. On Japan b:coming independent, the Mikako at once assumed the right to make his own calendar, and sull exereises it, and now that Corea has baen rid of Chin suzerainty, its ruler, in order to mark his i dependence, hes also taken the titieof Huang- Tie, and is going to make his own caendar and holy days, {usiead of receiving them from i This is what is meant by his assump- tion of the title of Emperor. — TENNYEON LIK.D ‘““MAUD.” Tennyson’s simple-minded dslight in his own reading of his own poems is well illus trated in one of Mrs. Browning’s lotters. The date is 1885: *“One of the pleasantest things which has happened 10 us is the coming down on usof the laureate, who, being in London for three or four days, spent two of them with s, dined with us, smoked with us, opened his heart to us (and the second bottle of port), and ended by reading ‘Maud’ through from end to end, and going away at 2:30 o'clock in the morning. If Thad & heart 10 spare be would certainly have won mine. He is cipitavating wit) his frankuness, confidingness and unex- ampied na:vete! Think of his stopping in ‘Maud’ every now ana then—‘There'sa won- derful touch! Tha.'s very tender. How beau- tiful that is!’ Yes, and it wonderful, | here. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. HoNoLULU—Cuffey’s Cove, Cal. The popula- tion of Honolulu is, according to the latest accounts, 28,061. There is no published ac- count of the uperficial area of that city, and for that reason the information asked for can- not be furnished. RATTLESNAKE Ori—J. S., Oakland, Cal This depariment has no kaowledge of a far in California that is set apart for the pur of raising rattlesnakes for the purpose of ob- taining raitlesnake oil from their budies. The ordinary rattiesnake oil is manuiactured. To REMOVE GILDIN H., City. The lowing is recommeuded for removing t mains of gilding irom old china: Tuke sofy water 8 parts by measure, nitric acid 8 pa common salt4 parts, sul amoniac 1 part it boil, put the cnina into it and rub w stiff brush. AERIAL NAVIGATION—S., Cily. The firs in the history ¢f the world that a flying-ma. chine actually left the ground, fully equippea with engines, boi'er, fuel, water and crew, was on the S1st oi July, 1894, nt Baldwy: Park, near Bexley, Engiand. The flight was of short duration, 1or the machine tore itsel out of the guides piaced to limit its fltght. It demonsirated, however, that the difficuliy of construciing & machine tnat would ift itselt and crew had been overcome. time NATIONAL HoLiDAY—S.. Benicia, Cal. In the United States there is no nationel holiday, not even the Fourth of July. Congress has at various times appointed special holidays In the second session of thejFifty-third Congress it passed an_act making Labor day a public noliday in the District oi Columbia and has recognized the existence of certain holidass for commercial purposes in such legislation as the baukruptey act, but with the exception named there 18 no general statute on ihe sul- ject. The prociamation of the President de- Mgnating a day of thanksgiving only makes it a holiday in those States which provide by v for it. " The Federal courts and officers of the United States vernment, however, ob- serve the legal holidays of the Biates in which they are located. CrrizeNsure—S,, Cuffey’s Cove, correspondent asks: A ceriin ship captain. a native of the TUnif Staes and descendaut of the Piigrim Fathp thet following of h's avocation »alis o fofe ports and eisewhere. IHe marries an knglisa widow In Australla. She has a minor son, and they as & famiy come to this country, (ha cap- tein’s pative country, and make thi3 their pec- maneat home. When the family reacnei this country thason of the cantain’s wife was still a minor. WIIL that son, when he attains the age of mrjority be a citizen of the United Staces aud be entiied to vote? The term, “married woman, or who shall be married,” in the act of Congress, February 10, 1855, means that whenever a woman, wuo under previous acis might be naturalized, is in a state of marriage 1o a citizen she be- comes by that fact & citizen also. His citiz ship, when r it exisis, confers under th act, citizenship on her. From this decision, in 'the case of Kelly vs. Owens, reported in Wall 7, is established the fact that in tue case cited the Australian widow, when she married the American captain, became a citizen o! tha United States, and thus becoming a citizen made her child a citizen, but upon attaining his mejority he would have the election of the country of which he desired to bea eitizen. If upon attaining his majority he should do any act thata United State. citizen would be entitled to pe:form, such as voting, serving on and the like, that would constitute his n to become An American cilizen. Thi Cal. ) HOUSE .FADDED wilH HONEY. Yarmouthport Dispatch. Workmen have discovered a large quantity of houey in the wails of the old Hawse house This house has sheltered many gener- ations of Cape Cod people. Itisnow under- golng demolition. It was supposed the house hsd not been occupled for some time, but there wss a sound of smothcred groans when the work of tearing awey hegan. When an opening had been mude in the walls the occu- pants proceeded to drive away the intraders, and used their weapons of defense to such effect that the workingmen were forced to re- treat. The bees that had sought the quiet of the s'umbering walls had been unceremo- niously aroused from their sleepy existence. There were myriads of them. The work was sbandoued until the cool weather, when the honey will be removed. One whole side of the building is solidly packed with honev, and it is expected hundreds of pounds will ba taken out. CALIFORNIA glace irui 50c 1b. Townsend's.* —_—————— A FPECIAL Information daily to manufacturars) business houses and public men by the Pray Clipping Bureau (Alien's), 510 Montgomery. , Lo Fine Display of Art Goods. 8.and G. Gamy, 113 Geary stieet, are show- ing now their European importations for the holidays, and invite their patrons and the public 10 view the many fine and interesting novelties received and uupacked so far. * e As A preventive of Bright's disease dri Watson's Scoteh Whisky. —————— BOGUS RAW OYSTERS. nk ( The municipal authoritizs of Parisare just now engaged in the suppression of an alto- gether novel form of focd adulteration which is assuming phenomenal Sproportions. Real oysters are expensive in Paris, and so, with the object of suiting slender purses, artifici-1 oysters on the halishell have been invented, which are sold at 20 cents a dozen, and tney are so cleverly made and lock so nice and fresh that, ouce lemon juice or vinegar has bien added, they cannot be distinguished from the reel arti especially when white wine is taken inconnection therewith.The oniy genuine thing about these cysters 1s the shell, the manufacturers buying second-hand shel:s at a smail c and fastening the spurious oyster in place with a tasteless past N municipal lsboratory has not yet prociaimed the ingredients of which these bogus oysters are composed, but has announced that they are of a harmful character. ““Mra. 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Twenty million dollars is thesum whicn the French Government proposes to devo'e to the Paris Exhibition of 1900. Nearly $10,000,000 will be consumed by the construction of two palaces in the Champs Elysees, and those in the Champ de Mars, in the Espianade des In- valides and on the Quays. Th- bridges seross the Seine are to cost $1.000,000, and chanieal electrical serv.c:s another $1,000,000. In one word, Francs iroposes to do the whole thing on a scale of unprece- dented magnific nce. KEW TO-DATY. Nature makes the cures after all. Now and then she gets into a tight place and needs helping out. Things get started in the wrong direction. Something is needed to check disease and start the system in the right direction toward health. Scott’s Emulsion of Cod- liver Oil with hypophos- phites can do just this. It strengthens the nerves, feeds famished tissues, and makes rich blood. tender, beautiful, and he read exquisitely in a voice like an organ, rather music than pounds ot excellent honey. speech.” 50¢, and $1.00 ; all druggistz. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York