The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 4, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4 DECEMBER 4 1807 SPRECKE-I:S, Proprietor. SATURDAY..... JOHN D. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE farket and Tnicd streets, San Francisco Telephone Main 1868, EDITORIAL RCOMS.. <ese0 017 Clay street Teleph: THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by ca in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week, By mail $6 per year; per month 63 ceats. THE WEEKLY CALL. ...One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE. 908 Broadwsay Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE........ ceiaes ..Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. .Riggs House BRANCH OFFICES. 9:30 o’cloc Larkin stre 27 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until ovea until 9:3) o'clock. 613 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteeath and ii9o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open ock. 143 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. 1505 en untic 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second oven 1l 9 elock ONE-MAN POWER. NE point in the letter addressed by Thomas V. Cator to O the voters of this citv, published in THE CALL yesterday, merits more than ordinary consideration. He savs the arter ‘which the conspirators employed to discredit sli rs by the “‘associated viilainies'’ are endeavoring to force he people is in substance that which was defeated at the last election. He might also have added that it is the same charter which was defeated at two other elections. That is, it is'an organic act fromed upon the theory that the rem- edy for a'l municipal evil is the substitution of one-man rule for a careful and conservat ve distritution of political power. This suggestion throws iight upon the combination to whien - we have heretciore referred of the political bosses, cer- tain newspapers and the corporations. There is every reason to believe that the as-ocieted villainies of San Francisco do not want a new charter. The best evidence of this is that their open and avowed organ, the Evening Fost, says they do, We know for a fact that a large propertion of the ‘“push’’ do not want a new charter. They have a “soft” thing under present conditions, and they dresd a change which might in- voive a new deal all around. What more reasonsble, then, that the reilicad organs, the ‘‘push” and the bosses should unite to force upon the peopie a charter which they know in sdvance will be rejectea? Itisa fact—and every ch upon man familiar with the political history- of Ban Franci co knows it—that the one-man theory of municipal government is exceedingly unpopular among our peopie, - Even if that theory were not upon its face a delu- sion and a snare the laie artempt of Mayor Phelan to give us & practical'illustration of it by ordering the police 10 throw an elected Board of Supervisors into the sireet would entirely discredit it. Bat the theory will not stand the test of reason for a moment. If a number of men are not to be trusted to adminyster the laws, on what rational ground should one be trusted? To put it in another form, why is one man more likely to be honest than several? The answer offered to this is that “‘individual responsi- bility” in some mysterious manner makes officials more con- gcientious. No proof is presented except the fact that Presi- dents and Governors are generslly self-respecting gentlemen. Nowhbere in municipalities bas indivilual responsibi.ity re- sulted” in anytbing more than the centralization of | olitical power and the discomfiture of the voting masses. The people, as a bcdy, desire good government. At the ballot-boxes they express thieir preferences conscientiously and with an eve sin- g'e to: the publiic interest. But once place in the hands of & gtrong man the power to confuse and corrupt them and he wit! soon find & way to lead many of them away from their civic duty. Individual responsibility 1n municipalities merely cen- tralizes . political bossism. In San Francirco an autocratic Mayor would simply give us ons boss instead of several. The difficulties with which the people have to contend in carrying on their government are seen in the puzzling situation which now confronts them. There is pluinly a job on foot to defeal any charter. Tle railroad, the Eraminer, the Post, the “pusk,” the bosses and the Buckley Democcrats have evidently €effected a fusion with thatend in view. The idea is to force a c¢harter which cannot be adopted, and for that purpose these cunning. manipulators are supporting the one-man power tlheory of the charter convention, knowing that it is offensive to a majority of our peonle and cannot possibly be approved by them. But it is possible that the voters will see through the con- spiracy, and on December 27 rebuke it. The triumph of the Freeholders nominatel by the regular party organizations woilld not only put an end to the autocratic Mayor idea, but it would rout the slipperiest bana of political freebooters that ever-zfflicted an unhappy people. CITY EXTENSION IN SAN JOSE. SPEUVIAL committee of the San Jose Common Counci| A has reéported adversely to the projected movement for the anncxation of some of the more populous suburbs of the city, on the ground, as statea in the report: ‘It is certainly inconsistent on our pa~t to invite neighboring localities to be- comie a part of the government of which we are ashamed, and which is declared to be extravagant and far from being com- petent.” P ‘What effect this report will have on tbe advocates of the desired movement remains to be seen. They can hardly retort that tbe government is good since a committee of the Common Council has itself admitted the public believes the opposite, but they may adopt the tactics u-ed in New York to coax Brooklyn iglo annexation, and allege that with the addition of the suburbs 1t will be possible for the city to elect a better set o! officials and have a more admirable sdministration. There is _hardly a city in the Union where corporate exten- sion can be.urged onstronger grounds or with more valid argu- ments than in San Jose. Naturally, industrially and commer- cially San Jose has about 35,000 inbabitants, but politically and in the census reports she has bardly more than 20,000. Her reputation is injured by a hard-bound limit which does not ‘permit her to get the credit of her expanding trade and increasing pepulation. To those who judge her by the census reyorts she is a leepy old Spanish town, whose population has bardly had the normal natural increase in ten years, while as a maiter of fact few communities in any State have made a zrowth as steady and as rapid. To arguments for consolidation that apply to all cities and their suburbs, San Jo-e has many peculiar to ber own situa- tion. The communities that encircle her borders have ceased to be suburban in everything except name. Not only are the residences close together, but the main avenues are for some distance from the city limits built up with stores, shops, factories, eating-houses, lodging-houses and saloons. These so0-called suburbs need sewers, lights, police and fire service as .-much as-any portion of San Jose itself, and the advantage of tombining with the city to obtain them is too apparent to every reasonable man to require argument, or even statement, All these arzuments combined, however, will not overcome the objection of the suburban residents against annexation to 1 city governed by gang rule. The committee of the Common - Douncil was prudent in reporting against any attempt at city " sxtension just now. The revlations made by the Grand Jury - and the proceedings thereon in Judge Lorigan’s court incline ‘o the conclusion that the city is not much—if any—worse +han the county; but the people are wise who, having perforce iostand the county government, decline to accept that of the ity ‘also. - 7 . Now that Sybil SBancerson is married the public may rea- sonably hope that she will behave herself and accora to it the se~n of forgetting her. THE OREGON PROTEST. HE most remarkable thing that has ever occurred in the same connection is the Oregon protest against the ap- pointment of Judge McKenna to the Supreme Bench. Whether it is State prejudice or local envy, or an outbreak of that unfortunate spirit of personal jealousy and detraction which has so long been the cursz of this coast and has kept it out of its proper place of influence in the Government, it is reprehensible and indecent to a degree. It is put upon the ground of professional standing. It is vacant of particulars. It contains no charge of unprofessional conduct, and therefore must be taken to run entirely to the question of ability. What proof is there of lack of this in Judge McKenna? His standing in ability is equal to that of John Marshall when he was made Chief Justice by Adams, and of Taney when appointed to the same place by Jackson. Ability is to_be judged by the manner in which a lawyer has acquitted himself in the opportunitizs that come to him. In that respect Judge McKenna’s record is equal to that of either Marshall or Taney. If a man have done well and with his might those duties within hisreach, it is the only evidence men have of his capacity to rise to the heightof greater duties. Judged by this only possible standard, such objection as made to Judge McKenna becomes contemptible. As a member of the California bar he never failed to sustain himself honor- ably before any court. Inthe State Legislature his judgment in serious legislation was sought and followed by the wisest, and in Congress his expanded career proved the theory upon which men who are taithful over few things come to be set over many. expanded experiences, and when the bench and bar of this State commended his transfer to the headship of the Depart- ment of Justice, to fill the position that had its elevation and its traditions established by Wirt, Reverdy Johnson, Jere.aiah Black, Caleb Cushing, Evarts and Olney, and from which both Taney and Clifford preceded him to the Supreme Bench, judgment passed upon his status as a lawyer, by those asso- ciated with him in his varied professional and public career, from which there is surely no appeal to the lawyers of Portland. The Portland attack is conspicuously disloyal to the Pacific Coast. It is not provoked by any unfriendly act on the part of California, and is put on grounds that deserve no con- sideration. Oregon had an Attorney-General of the United States. He was appointed to that place by the cheerful concurrence of California. He was nominated from the Department of Justice to the Supreme Bench, and his confirmation failed through no unfriendly act of this State or its Senators. Years went by and California, the older of the two com- monwealths, at last reached a place in the Cabinet, and her member of that body is about to be transferred to the Supreme Court. It ill becomes Oregon to appear in protest and ques- tion the propriety of the appointment on the ground of Judge McKenna’s ability when that quality is in evidence in his career and the affirmation of his associates. MARCH OUT OF EGYPT. ITH the revival of industry and the coincident opening of the Alaskan trade has come a crisis in the commer- cial and manufacturing foriunes of San Francisco. In the new movements of business and in the exploiting and de- velopment of the great vailey of the Yukon, there are rich profits to be gained by energy and enterprise. These splendid chances, however, are not going to remain oven indefinitely, The city that is to maks itself the oun:fitting point and metrop- olis of the new trade must take possession of it this spring. The imperative necesxity of acting at once, and acting with vigor, if we are to gain and hcld supremacy in the new trad destined to a rapid expansign, that has so suddenly opened before us, constitutes the crisis of the time. Our commercial rivals are active, energetic and persistent. Inferior to San Francisco in wealth, vopulation, mercantile experience and manufactures, Seattle and Tacoma are trying to evercome the odds against them by working together and working with a vim. They are advertising all over the country their claims, their pretensions and their promises. Anythingand everything that will serve to bring Alaskan adventurers to those citiesto outfit for the north is used. East and west theiradvertisements mul- tiply. The'r aciivities, stimulated by rivalry and the prospects of large rewards, are untiring; and unlesswe oppose something like an equal activity they will win the trade from us despite our sperior advantages. San Francisco has boen under the Egyptian bondage of silurianism too long. Apathy is bscoming a habit with us. We let our chances of trade pass us and go to the enrichment and upbuilding of weaker cities, because we are too indifferent to the future. We must overcome this apathy. We must march out of Egypt. With a revival of industry throughout the Union there should bea revival in this city of the full energlesof the people. With the development of the gold fields of Alaska thereshould come once more adevelopment of that argonaut spirit that built up San Francisco from the sand hills out of gold dust ana nuggets brought from the go!d fislds of the Sierras. All our advantages as an outfitting port for the Alaskan trade will avail us nothing if we do not advertise them. We must make them known throughout the Eistand the West. All our native supplies of mining implemants, miners’ outfits, fruits, canned meats, clothing, wines and the rest should be set before the people of every saction of the republic in order that all who are making ready to go to the Jgreat northern gold districts may see how much it will be to their advantage to come to this city to obtain their stores and take their passags. The Alaskan trade commitzee has had fair success in ob- taining subscriptions to the fund for prosecuting the work, but it should have a support even more liberal. We have entersd the first month of the winter and the season will pass rapidly. The rush of the spring adventurers will soon start from the East in order to be ready for the earliest boats that go north. Whatever action we are going to take must bs taken at once. Now is the time to march out of Exvpt to the land of promise. Mr. Bennett, the peculiar person who tried to kill his wife and did not have sense enough to know how, is to be sent back to us from Victoria. He announces, however, that he does not expect to reach this city alive, but he probably will. At any rate, should he arrive fit for the Morgue San Francisco will try to bear up under the blow and hava a somber wagon at the wharf. 1i Zola really has the preofs of the innocence of Dreyfus he would do a good thing by devoting his time to impressing them upon the Government. Not only wouid this right a great wrong, but it would keep the novelist from making any more filthy books, thus being doubly blessed. Ex-District Attorney Page, twice found guilty, issaid to be apt 10 secure a third trial, the ground for this, robbed of its imposing le_al verbiage, being that he has a deep-seated preju- dice against going to the penitentiary. Mr. Page doubtless has the sympathy of every thieving rozue in the country. —_— A question of veracity seems to have arisen between Martin Thorn and his lawyer. Thorn says he is guilty and his lawyer says that his clieat is innocent. Thorn certainly ought to know, and yet it is difficult to imagine an atiorney trifling with the truth. —_— Of course a boxing exhibition is & prizefight. It is strange that the Supervisors are only now arriving at this opinion. If it was not a priz=fight nobody wouid go to see it. As to that opposition o McKenna in the Northwest there is, to speak in the old familiar figure, a colored gentleman in 1he woodpile. And perhaps his name is Hanford. There seem 1o be many opinions as to the amount of money left by the la e Dr. Evans of Paris, but that the estate is worth | looting seems to be a unanimous verdict. His appointment to the bench in this circuit before his | third term in the House closed brought to that grave seat his | THE WOES OF MR. AND MRS. WALTER NGONG FONG. 1 sing a celestlal tong (Bring a gong!) Of the wooing of Mister Ngong Fong, (ing the gonz!) And the love of a muid of a paler shade, Whose regard for Ngong wes s0 8irong (Au—g’iong ) That she sigh d to become Mrs. Fong. This is the first verse. There arc three uthers, in which the groceryman’s poet describes the wedding and honeymoon of the Fongs. *“It was done just to advertise their tea,” said Mrs. Fong. *They didn’t care whether our feelings were hurt or not.” Did they know you 7" I asked. Walter Ngong Fong, his wife and I were sitting on a bench just outside North Hall, over at Be!ke\'ley University, discussing the Fong tuit against Goldberg, Bowen & Co. for libel. No, not personaliy,” answered Mr. Fong, with digaity. “But they know who we are. am well known in San Francisco.” “But it was done from ignorance, *“I belteve it was pureiy malirious, 1 ot from malice,’” I sugrested. nswered the Chinese husband of a white wife. “They ridiculed us,” put in Mrs. Fong, resentiully, “not caring how we'd feel sbout it, | And as there’s a law to protect us from that sort of thing we propose to .ake advantage of it.” The Goldberg-Bowen poet who wrote the verses in the Art Domestic never dreamed of the Iibel suit to foliow. In his mind's eye there was a picture that inspired the doggerel—a picture of the regulation, typical Chinaman, with long, braided queue. He was ciothed in greasy dark blue blouse, his hands were in his pockets, probabiy, a round cap was on his hesd, and he shufiled along, in the literary grocer's imagination, with that peculiar coolie trot that makes one think of the Chinese as beasts ot burden rather than ss men. Now, if in reading this you have the same mental picture that the tea poet had, you'll be a5 unable as he was to take such a marriage seriously. The question is not “What sort of white girl will marry a Chinsman ?” but “Whatsort of white girl will marry what sort of China man For there are Chinamen and Chinamen, though those who are not brown of face and slant ing of eye find difficuity enough in distinguishing those who are, one from the other. Walter Ngong Foug is of medium height. He is queueless and clottied in white man’s garments. His linen is what it should be, he carrfes himself well, and wears a rather brosd-brimmed slouch bat very much like his wife’s Feaora. His face ’8 unguestionsbly Mongo'ian, but it is an assertive, intetiigent face—broad face, with 2 square chin, a black mustache and spectacles, through which his dark eyes meet one fairiy. His manner is Orientally polite, grave and dignified. He speaks Engiish with thecare and precision that gnly & well-educated forcigner gives toa ianguage, aud so shames one into avoiding collo- quislisme. Mrs, Fong may use an inelegant expression, as who doesn’t—thank goodness!— in talking. But her husband speaks English not as it is, but it would be spoken—il we were all foreigners. But, after all, I don’t suppose it was for the correctness of his accent that Emma Ellen House married Walter Ngong Fong five months ngo in Denver. “They sa2id,” Mrs. Fong declared indignantly (“They’” means Goldberg, Bowen & Co. and their grocer-poet), “that we rubbed noses and ate wih joss-sticks.” 1 blushed for Goldberg, Bowen & Co., and I laughed, 100, at the absurdity of this graduate of two colleges end a student in & third Induiging in such outlandish Celestial rites. And Mrs. Fong, a little embarrassed, joined in the laugh, showing her prominent teetn. Mr. Fong smiled perfunctorily. He doesn’t see the joke. He is too sngry. Aud who, white or brown, wouldn't be ? “And we have the papers to prove,” went on Mrs. Fong a little crudely, “just how we were married. Josssticks!” she exclaimed resenttully. This Desdemons, who was won by a brown Othello, all of whose victories are scholastic ones, attended Stanford University for three years, At present both she and her husband are sindents st Berkeley. Why she married him, Iown, I'm as far off as ever from determining. Only, ter seeing and taiking to this strange couple. I have more respect for Othello, and shade—just a shade—less of bewilderment for Desdemona’s poiot of view. This is only a: other incomprebensible marriage. And the world was full of such unions before ever a white girl saw a Chinaman, or dreamed of marrying one. As to romance, there is as much anda as little, I suppose, in this marriage as in the ordin- ary run of marriages, in which bride and groom are more conventionai; to whom the thought of seekiug a mate from over the border of the color line has never occurred. These two se-m to be good iriends. if not lovers. Desdemona isnot pretty. Her face is pale and slightly freckled. Though they are not unpleasing, her eyes lack much that make eyes beautiful. When Isaw her she wore a black gown with a black plush cape, and she looked not quite o presentable a8 did courteous, sell-possessed Othello. Sie is like other young wives in her conception of tne privileges of wives ana the duties of husbands. She looked over her husband’s shoulder when I handed my eard to him. Now, I'm almost sure Othello wouldn't have aoue that, bad 1 been wiser and passed the card to Desdemona first. “Itcan’t see why people shouid be curious aoout us, not so unusual a thing. There have been others like it.” But there was a little embarrassed quaver in her voics that did not uphold her words. “Isaw your cousin,” I said to Mr. Fong, “in the city and he directed me where to find said the wife. “Our marriage is you. “My cousin ?"’ be repeated. here in San Francisco. rolatives are cousins.” : explainea Mrs. Fong, “and in that way they’d have all the Fongs cousins of his, ‘Was it Cuerley Fong you saw? The dentist ?” She sald “Charley” Fong precisely as any other wile might have spoken of her husband’s relative. Now, I happen to know that “Charles”” Fong is a most courteous Chinese gentleman, whose civility forbids his expressing his amazement at women journallsts, except by a series of short giggles. Bui—bui— But, after all, it isn’t philosoohical to judge the world aceording to what you wou'd do or what I would do. If everybody agreed with you and me the worid would be a very dull, monotonous place. And if everybody were ot Desdemoua’s opinion there wou!dn't be enough cuitured Chinege graduates of universities to go around. “Iam studying to become a physician,” said Mrs. Fong, in answer to a question as to the purpose of her university course. “We both studied at Stanford. He (she nodded across at her husband) graduated there, and he went to another co'lege before he entered Stantord.” ©Aud what is to be your profession?’ I asked Mr. Fong. “Mining,” he answered. “I intend to take a complete course, 80 that I shall bs capable of managing and developing mining properties when I return to China.” ‘'With the expectation,” supp'emented Mrs. Fong, “of belng aprointed to some Govern- ment position where such knowledgs would ba required.” “And you will go to Chine, 100?” I asked her. “Oh, yes.” “*And practice medicine?’ “I hope 10,” she answered. “Your people,” I asked, “‘are they here?” My parents and brothers and sisters live in Palo Alto,’” said Mrs. Fong 'And wes there no parental objection to your marriage?” —think—" began Mrs. Fong a little haugnti y. “That it’s nobody’s business,” I concluded. “All right."” And really it is nobody's business. Nor is this marriage, extraorainary as it may seem, any outsider's affair. These two seem thoroughly competent to manage their own lives, and whatever difficuities their unusual union may bring about Mrs. Foog has evidentiy sufficient sirengih of character to oraer her life without reference to the world’s opinfon. Her husband impresses one as a man of intelligence and ebility. He will succeed. And she—I believe she will be fairiy content, reasonably hapoy. That small, Iace-curtained, shinzle-covered cottage over in East Berkeley, where Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fong live. holds two very busy and probably not unhappy people. Outside on the wooden sidewaik the beautiful, flower-faced children of Mrs. Fong's white neighbors play, rusning madly up and down with the ceaseless activity that hardly needs any game as & pretext. “Maud-ie! Maud-le! Catch me, Maudie!” calls & flaxen-haired child whose face has the loveliest coloring. *‘Maud- an old Chinaman! Chinaman! Chinaman!” she mocks in the most approved Goldberg-Bowen sp'rit. And Maud-ie, who is about 3 and perp2tually falling over her long skirts till she is quite buttonless, flies after the pretty child 10 resent the insult. The children are 1n the house and abed, probably, by the time Mr. and Mrs Fong come home in the evening from the university. Yet Walter Fong is too enlightened and his wife is 100 philosophical, I trust, to allow this bit of infantile cruelty to hurt them. But how barbarously !lliberal chiidren and grocers are! MIRIAM MICHELSON. “I have really no cousin; that is, no one nearly related to me According to the Cninese custom, of course, even toe most distant AMONG THE BEATURES TO-MORROW'S CALL WILL BE A NEW STORY BY ~BRET HARTE-G- “Uncle Jim and Uncle Billy,” a typical Western tale. v 7 The Passing of the Sealing Industry. Last of the OId Bailey. An Articmay Frank. Conclusion of Ro;:kfs Island Story. Complete History_of_thc Dreyfus Case. With the “Lion of Plevna.” : : g | | FLASHES OF FUN. Come up to-night,” wrote an Atchison girl tos young man this morning. “l am going to have an evening.” “1 should like to come,” he wrote back, “but unfortunately I have just bad a night.”” —Atchison Globe. NOTE3 ABOUT NOTABLES. It is reported that Pierre Lot will definitely retire from the French navy soon and devote bimself to literary work. Edwin Dun, for many years United States Minieter in Japan, will open large mercantile houses in Yokohama and Kobe. “*So you are an accountant? H’'m, don’t you find so sedentary a life rather debilitating?” “Sedentary? Guess I get exercise enough J. 8. Sirgent, the American painter in Lon- don and a member of the Royal Academy, is running up and down co.umns of figures all day long!"—Boston Transeript. She—Ididn’t bays time to make a ple for dinner, dear, 50 1 had 10 get a baker’s pie. He—Waell, let us give thanks for that— YonkersStatesman. “‘What folks orter do,’”” said the old colored man, ter try ter gib ebrybody aroyn’ ‘em some "scuse for bein’ thankful.” “Yes, with em. d o’ buyin’ new locks foh dah chicken coups.”"—W ton Star. Guest—What a splendaid dinner! oftea get us good a meal as this. Little Willle (son of the host)—We don’t either —Boston Traveler. I don't finishing & porirait of Miss Daisy Leiter, for- merly of Chicago, for the Academy of 1898, Concerning the proposal to create an English Acndemy of Immortals, the poet Swinburne writes: “The notlon of an English academy 18 too serfously stupid for a farce and to essen- tially vulgar for & comedy. Baron von Hollenben, the new German Em- bassador to this coun .ry, is criss-crossed from breast to crown with scars inflicted in due.s, twenty-one of which he has fought, There is asaying in Germany that while the Baron is sometimes marked by a scar his o uenis are often murked by a gravestons. besides h.y record as principal, he h: in thirty-five affuirs. Cure your cold with Low’s horehound cough syrup, price 10c, 417 Sansome st, * HERE'S A NOVEL IDEA FOR AMER IGANS. , A tricycle cab is one of the latest features of the cycle, 0 named after the inventor, and a com which now has 500 of these tricycle cabs in use, according to the New York Hers streets of Berlin. Itis called the Heydt has been organ zed in the German capital pesy Tae cib is bull: on the principle of the bicycle with the difference that it has three wheels instead of two. The two large wheels support a comfortably cushis wheel in the rear is used for steering purposes only. operator sits in the rear and the passenger in f up and down movement of the feet, just as & se or sprocket arrangement. Tt issaid that this new light in weight and can be propelled with gre v t with great favor in Berlin. e o with great case and i great speod. oned seat on their axid and.the syl In this tricyele cab the conchmali or | ront. The conveyance is propeiied by a simplep wing-machine is operated, and there is no chain The eab is eheap and A mijle rids costy Berlin Has Solved the Cheap Cab Question by Applying the Cycle to It. something like a cent and a half, which isin cab service, The cab can be very cheaply cons stablea and fed that expense is entircly done away with and the company The cab is so copstructed as to be suited vs. when no covering is required. there is a stormy weatber it can be easily replaced, th desirea from the weather. The cab bas beea found of especiul benefit fortably and quickly, which isa great advan chairs. finitely cheaper than the charge for tho regular tructed and as no horses are required-to be is making money. %or all Kinds of weatber. For bright, balm hook arrangement which can be deiached. In us affording the passenger all ihe protection to invalids. They can be wheeled about com- tage over the heavy and cumsersome invalid It is said that the company is seriously thinking of introducing the tricycle cabin this country and may s0op send &n agent here for the purpose of looking over the ground. FERSONAL. A. C. Blair, a Los Angel is at the Baldwin. E.T. Fairbanks, & banker of Petaluma, s at the Lick, with Mrs. Fairbanks. George H. Golden, a merchant from Nevada, 18 af the Lick, wiih his daughter. Professor Charles B. Wing of Stanford Uni- versity is staying at the California. Lieutenant and Mrs. E. P. Tomkinson of Victoria, B. C., are g vests at the Grand. C. 8. Beach of San Jose, proprietor of the St. James Hotel, is registered at the Lick. Mrs. E. P. Buckinghem, & wealthy fruit- grower of Vacaville, i3 & guest at the P Dr. C. C. Gieaves of Dunsmuir, & brother of State Senator Gleaves, is registered at the Grand. William P. Edwards, secretary of the Home for Feeble-minded in Eldridge, is staying at the Grand. commercial man, M O'Malley and J. Dana, business men of | Fresno, are among the recent arrivals at the Cosmopolitan. Dr. A. E. Osborn, superintendent of the Home for Feeble-minded at E.dridge, is regis- tered at the nd. Harry Harris, a well-known “plunger,” who was with Riley Grannan on the Eastern cir- cuit, is at tue P lace. Dr. Lorant Hezedus of Budapest, Hungary, and brother, who are making a tour of the country, are now at the Calitornia. CALIFOKNIANS (N CHICAGO. CHICAGO, Dec. At the Great Northern— Edmund W. Marks, Sau Franeisco; Victoria— A. Adelsdorfer, San Francisco; Auditorium Annex—J. Fred Schingmal, San Francisco; Paimer—A. D. Sharon and wife, San Franeisco, on the way home after an extended trip abroad. CALIFORN.AN> iN N=W YORK NEW YORK, Dec. 3. —At the St. Denis—W. L Hughson, Miss M. K. Magee; St. Clair—Cap- tain Doran; Morton—W. J. Feldkump; Hol- Iand—J. W.'Hart, O. H. Burbridge, F. L Tal- | cott; Grand—Mrs. Howard. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Three Californian represeniatives in Cougress are here: Mr. Loud, wiie and daughter are at the Everett; De Vries is at Castle is at the Varnum. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. | POSTAL CARDS—C., Cily. Postal cards have beea in uss more than a quarter of a century, The idea of using such originated with Dr. Emanuel Herrman, a professor o! national econumy in the Imperial Academy of Weiner, in Neustadt, Lower Ausiria. The first were issued by the Governmeut Octuber 1, 1869, and they were then known as ‘“‘correspond- ence kurten.” SEIGNIORAGE—S., Oakland, Cal. There can be no such thing as seigniorage on coinage ot & money metal that 1s admitted to free coin- age. Under free coinage the owner of the builion takes it to the mint, has it converted into coin and takes it away agsin without paying any toll whatever. Seiguiorage is the Government's profi. on coinase, and when coinage is Iree there can be no such profit. SEVEN UP—C. J. 8, City. This correspondent writes: “In the game of scven up whena jack is turned up &s & trump it counts one for the dealer. The dealer, however, refusasto give his opponent & point when he begs, but deals another rousd, and in turine the mew trump turus anciher jack: upon request of his opponeni he runs ‘ihe cards once more. Now does this last jack count if hesruus the cards?” The answer to this question is yes. A Miss AS GOOD A8 A MILE—N., City. There is no certainty 8s 10 the origin of the oft- quoted words, “*A miss is as good as a mil j but it is probable that it was onginally, A miss of an inch is 88 good 8s u mile,” and that corresponds to old Engiish, Damsa a.d Ger. There is reason 0 believe thut ition irom “Amis is s good as hese were two legendary soidiers lemagne—tituiar heroes of a famous sOng—who were as like as (wo peas or the two Dromios, who bore each other's quarrels and who after being adopted as mart; inveked indmerennylz Sebmlal AEROLITES—Subscriber, City. Natural phil- osopuers huve advanced five hypotheses to account for the origin of the stoies that are called aerolites which have at times fallen to the earth—first, ihat they are ejectea fro volcanoes situa upon ‘;he urn{’l mrhc:‘} toduced in the atmos- phere, being formed from Eases exhalea fr:m the earth; third, that they are tarown from volvanoes in the moon; fourth, that they were originally terrestial come s revo.ving srcuad ;x::ne:‘nh':c.ndpnha that they are miniaiure s encountired by the earth o ney through space. i in i oo second, tnat they are STREETCARS—S. C., Santa Cruz, Cal. The average number of streetcars running daily in San Francisco is 593, divided as follow: futter-street Company, 40; Caiifornia street, 34; Presidlo and terries, 18; Geary street, 19; Murket-street system, 451; San Francisco and San Mateo e.ectric, 29; Sutro :ine, 12. The Market-street system includes the fol,owing lines: Market street, Castro street, Haight street, McAllister sireet, Mission street, How- ard street, Folsom street, Bryant streef, Keu- tucky street, Fiillmore streei, Powell street Ingieside, Eighid street, S xth street, Fifth street, Second street and Ellis street, his residence on H street and | THE GORDON Baltimore American. | The big guns roar a chorus to the s0ug | Sung by the tuneless. huriling miusket balls; Verse sfier verse, sumusical and 02, Re-echoes from the grim, gsunt walls. HIGHLANDERS. mountain Men fall, and others fall who take their place; | The toe atove. s “iug at the slain, Pours down a hal wiihin the narrow space, Like a volcand's lurid, burning rain. Then clear, above the batt'e’s noisy din— Eirst imut. now slowly girowing lvud and shrill— The music of the bagpipes, piercing, tain. Like s #t LUCKnow, cumes trom o’er the hill, And Scots from out tte Highlands, fesrless men, | ~ kush dow:: una fill the pass where iay (he dead; Iheir fatoers fought ibus la those brave days whi when Sir Willlam Walluce into battle led. Bo'a: , unmindful of the avage lead. ¢ dash acioss and gain the oiher side: The foe. with Lerror str.cken, wid has flel; ‘Ihe }ighlund men have turned the battle tf e Proud should they be who Lear such val'rous scars, Forgratitude will keep their memory green; They were not Scotchmen fighiing Engiish wars, | " Bat loyal 811 ons batiiing for their Queen. AGAINST ANNEXATION CHICO, CAL, Dec. 2, 1897, | Editor Call-DEAR S1R: I see by the Examiner and Builetin tuat two-thirds of the people of California favor annexstion of the Hawalian Islands. 1have ta ked to many yeopie in. this couaty, and I veniure to say that not oue in ten is in favor of annexstion, and I am toid it is so all over the State outside of San Fran- | cisco. Your J. M. 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