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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER ¢ 1897 }OHN Eni éERECKELS: Pr;prietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. d streets, San Francisco PUBLICATION OFFICE. ... Mar Telephone Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS.. <2000 D17 Clay street Telephone Main 1 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL carriers in this city and surr By mail $6 per year; per m (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by ounding towns for 15 cents a week. THE WEEKLY CALL.... One year, by maii, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE ...908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE -Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON M. C.) Riggs House treet, corner Clay; open u es street; open until 9 o'clock. 615 0 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteeath and open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission open 143 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. 1503 30 ¢’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second 9 v'clock. UNSETTLED, BUT FAVORABLE S already remarked in this column, trade is presenting some curious conditions as the year draws toa close. A is more animaiion. Prices are showing more tendency to fluctuate, and there Exactly what this shows is not easy to say. But as there is no general tendency, either up or down, it is diffieult to foretell the eventual result, though shrewd observers see in it a renewal of activity after the close of 1897. It certainly shows life, which is a good sign. The great staples, which comprise the bulk of trade, are very 1d active, others are weak and duil n irregular. Some are firm Itis this irregularity which confuses. clearings, Then, again, the bank which are accepted by common consent as the most reliable barometer of trade, increase one week and decrease the next, and so on. But the fai ire barometer through all this uncertainty keeps steady, which is a good indication. The failuzes throughout the United Statss last week were 250 against 359 the same week last year, in 1895, 325 in 1894, and §0 on. 1e defaulted habilities in against $12,700,000 in November, 18%5. Collections are reported rood and defaultsémall. Wages have been advanced for over 30,000 workmen in the woolen and iron trades. The exports of produce and merchandise from the co y were never bstter than at present. Interior business is reported good in most localities, but speculation is dull throughout the whole country. The New York stock market, which has been stagnant for some time, is showing renswed activity, chiefly on account of a general improvement in rallroad earnings, which are 21 per centlarger than at this time last year. o:mous shipments of wheat to tidewater have materia ted to swell these earnings. dull. On this coast there are few new f¢ activity in farming th prices for wheat ana & ! ovember were $11 600 000 assi In view of these facts nobody can say that trade is ures. There is more nfor a number of years, as the sood v are impell & farmers to seed as much nd as possible, and from present 1ndications more ground be turned over this year than ever before. Thus far the season has been exceptionally favorabie for early operations, owing to the first showers and subsequent sunny weather, though rain is needed+in some districts. The current quota- tions for catile and hogs have attracted increased attention to g, ana this business is also showing more life. On tne farmer has done baiter than the merchant this year, and none begrudge him that prosperity he so richly de- serves, Fiuctuetions in prices have been compara ly few of late, the principal ones being advances in lumber and hides. Wheat continues unsettled in the neighborhood of §1 45, arcund whict figure the market seems to stick. 1If it will only stay there the wheat-growers wili be happy, for there is money in wheat at this figure. Darley is strong, owing to the laie appearance of rains. Wool isduil, but there is no decline. Hops are also motionless, though the growers have realized more than profitable returas this season. Frovisions are quiet at the moment, but packers say that they expect a rush of or- ders for the Alaska mines in a few weeks, and sre therefore not disposed to grumble. The market for dried fr nuts and raisins is the dullest in the list, with a lurther decline in prunes, which are being sold at low prices. Those growers wko sold early in the season, however, got firsi-rate returns. Pork, afier being stationary for a long time, has declined a fraction, but beef keeps steady. The wine trade is in a state of chaos, as the different interests do not seem to bs unanimous s to prices, which are considerably lower than last year. The above points give the commercial situation, both here and in the East. As said at the beginning of this review, the conditions are mixed. But on looking the fieid over it will be seen that the favorable condiiions overbalance the unfavorable one: Since the Grand Jury has peered upon the wickedness that riots by night a few condemnatdfy words concerning the same may be exvected from it, and the wickedness will go right on. It is accustomed to unfavorable remarks and heeds them no more than the Southern Pecific does a Coroner’s censure. There is reason to distrust the rumor that Russell Sage will leave $50,000,000 to charity. 1n the first place Sage is a shrewd enough speculator to know that even this comfortable figure could not buy him a halo, and ss to doing much for charity on general principles it is not Sage’s way. Durrant’s attorneys are said to be undecided what to do next, but the simple method of permitting the law to be ad- ministered never seems to occur to them, One estimate has it tbat a million people will go to the Klondike next summer, and such as get back with money will doubtless put on a million airs. THE LETTER-CARRIERS' BILL. CCORDING to the Philadelphia Record there are inklings A of the formation of a lobby at Washington to push a bl for the better payment of letter-carriers, and the Record in commenting upon the fact says: The letter-carriers are a deserving body of public servants, and they ought (o be iairly paid for their labors; butif they shail make any contributions to the Washingion lobby to promote their inter- ests they wili provoke an opposition in Congress which will be very 8Dt 1o defeat their aims. There is no need of & gang of hired lobby- ists to inform Congress on this subject. A memorial properly stating the argument in favor of such & bill is all that is required; and that ‘would cost very little. Our Philadelphia contemporary is unduly disturbed about nothing. There is no reason why the letter-carriers should not have men 2t Washington to vush their bill and urge action upoa it. Itis customary for all bodies c¢f men interested in some particuler measure to send deputations to Washington to look after it and see that it is not lost in some committee-room pigeoubole. Letier-carriers being but pooriy paid and having little leisure can hardly go themselves to the capital, and have therefore good resson for employing others to guard their interests. The letter-carriers’ bill has been long before the pubtic and has received the approval of the press and the people gen- erally. There is no ground for suspicion that a new bill to be presented this winter will differ materially if at all from that which has been approved in the past. The measure is there- fore one that Congress ought to enact, and anything belping to make the enactment sure is in itself good. It is nov at all likely the appearancs in the lobby of advo- cates of the bill will arous: opposition in Congress. The aver- age Congressman is not movad in that way. Itis more prob- able that the bill would be forgotten and overlooked without the lobby than obsiructed because of it. At any rate, the measure b ing a good one, the people will approve the leiter- ~arriers in pushing it along by all legitimate means. CONGRESS AND BUSINESS. ONGRESS assembles this winter under circumstances so complex that even the most habitual prophets of polities hesitate to predict whatit will do or undertake todo, Everybody waits for the President’s message to be made public before venturing to estimate the probable work of the session, as it is generally recognized that the recommendat ons of the administration wili be the main factors in determining tie course of Congress on all important issues. It seldom bappens that the public mind isso much in doubt of the vrobable action of Congress as it isin this instance. Generally speaking the course that either house is likely to pursue is well understooa throughout the country, and doubts exist only as to details of legislation. That is hot the case at present. The country to-day is uncertain, not as to the method that will be adopted in dealing with the currency, the Nicara. gua canal and other important subjects ot the kind, but whether these issues will be dealt with at all. Even the leaders of both parties 1n Congress are in doubt or d:ffer in opinion as to the work that will be undertaken. Some of them assert the session will be quiet, uneventful and com- paratively short. Others expect it to be stormy, exciting and prolonged until August. Al that can be definitely predicted is that if an attempt is made ‘0 solve the currency problem the session will be a long on: but otherwise Congress may get through its work quickly and leave its members free to go home early in the summer 0 look after their fences before the coming elections. The main reason for the doubt as to what will be undertaken is the prosperity of the country and the content of tha people with existing conditions. At the present time there is not a single political issue that seriously disturbs business oragitates the popular mind. All sections of the country are weil satisfied with the protective features of the tariif and with the monetary system that prevaiis. The general desire seems to be for more business and indusiry rather than for more politics, and there would be no discontent if Congress should decide to let well enough alone this winter and make no attempt to materially change any laws thau affect either our financial, commercial or industrial systems. If the disturbing question of the currency is postponed for the present, so as to leave the country Iree to pronounce judg- ment upon the tariff in the elections of the coming fall, there will be ample time during the session for Congress to consider the claims of various sections for public improvements. This will give California an opportunity to press her just clainrs for recognition. We have many important works long delayed that should be pushed forward, and there are others that should be undertaxen. A session devoted to consideration of internal improvements and theupbuilding of our commercial marige would be satis- factory to us, and probably to the rest of the Union. Possibly the President may take that view of it, and his message to Congress may be of akind that will lead cur lawmakers to avoid disturbing issues and make the s2ssion quiet and short, but none the less a useful one. The Oakland woman who says that an “unseen force” pels her to the Klonaike, there to acquire large sums of gold, should remember one thing—an “unseen force’” may be capa- ble of furnishing a sort of impetus, but it never attends to tue supplying of the necessary g The clash between Captain Lees and Police Judge Camp- bell is a matter of scientific interest. Heretofore the meeting of an irresistible force with an immovable body had been deemed an impossibility. GERMANY AND HAYTL EPORTS from Washington to the effect that the Hayiian i ment nas asked the United Siates to use its good many, rect. s 10 settle the controversy between Ha; and Ger- e not officially announced, are in all likelihood cor- I is natural that Hayti should look somewhere jor a sistance against possible aggression on the part of the great | power that threatens her, and it is only from the Unit'd States that such aid can be expected or hoped for. At the present time there is nothing in the issue between Germany and Hayti that seriously threatens the peace of the | world. Certainly there isnothing that calls for active interven- tioa on the part of the United States. The Germans demand indemnity for the alleged wrongful imprisonment of a German citizen by ytians and the cemand has fused. Haytiasks forarbitration, but the German Government seems to be under the impression that the affair can be settled by a man-of-war without troubling other nations. Under such circamstances all chat can be expected of the United Siates is to induce Germany to arrange for arbitration the according to the Haytian desire, forso longas the Germans con- | tine their demands upon the fsiand to a monetary indemnity, and do not attempt to take possession of any portion of Haytian territory, the Monroe doctrine does not apply, and we have no ground upon which to interfere. The incident is of interest manily as'an illustration that our powerful and dominant po:ition in this hemisphere has its drawbacks as well as its advantages. When any of the small, ill-regulated, half-civilized countries to the south of us gets into any form of controversy with a Karopean nation we shall have to take the issus up and conduct the negotiations. Our State Office will be kept busy, and probably there will be always enough quarrels of this kind on hand toenable the Secretary of State to hurl defiance at some foreign power whenever he wishes to make a grand-stand play and set the eagle screaming In the meantime Haytiis perfectly right in asking for pro. tection against the threatened aggression. Bince it is a reed that great powers shall submit their differences to arbitration rather than to war, it is only fair that small nations should have the benefits of the new rule. Massachusetts reformers who expelled George Fred Wil linms from their club on account ol his tree-silver views mav think themselves broad-minded gentlemen, but they are in error. Had they lived a few hundred years ago they would have been piously hanging witches at Salem. Yesterday Tur Cirn made a few remarks concerning a | skulking scoundrel, but gave no name. However, if the person directly interested wants the name announced to the pubiic, he should not have opened his campaign by being anonymous, THE PURE FOOD CRUSADE. A terated food in San Francisco has resuited in the sending of spurious articles of focd from this city to the tnterior where they are sold and consumed. Efforts to check the sales ‘here have been lesssuccessful than here, it seems, for the Rec- ord-Union says: Right here in Sacramento when it was proposed & few months ago to nave inquiry made into the f00ds s0ld 1o people over the caunters in order 1o ascertain if the same fearfully disgraceful conditions ob- tained here that investigation developed in Ban Francisco, there went up a howl that arowned out the demand foran inquiry, and stnce then uothing has been done. Nor have we heard of anything in the directfon of reform of this character being carried out in any other interior town. This evil was to have been expected. Manufacturers and dealers in adulterated focds who cannot sell them in one mar- ket will try another. Driven from San Francisco, they send their fraudulent goods to other citics in the State, and if driven from all parts of California they would make an effort to un- load on the people of the neighboring States. How to prevent the sale of fraudulent foods in piaces where thelaw is not enforced is a problem of some d:fficulty. It has been suggested, however, that much could be done if consum- ers refuse 1o buy such articles are commonly adulterated unless the goods offered them are guaranteed, or at least dis- tinetly represented to be pure, and then prosecute any dealer who deceives them. The plan is certainly worth trying in localities where the consumers have reason to believe they are being supplied with adulterated articles. If a few resolute men would make the fight, they would do a great deal to put an end to the frand- ulent food trade in their communities. They would, moreover, confer a benefit upon the legitimate food industry of California and we would not have to continue the shameful process of wasting tons of good fruit while consuming tons of glucose mixtures under the names of jellies, jams and preserves. CCORDING to the Record-Union the warfare against adul- been re. | THE COAST PRESS. The dateof iheissue of the Orange County Herald has been changed irom Saturday to Tuursday in order that the paper may be cir- | culated over the county before the marketday | of the week. A special edition of the Stanford Palo Alto will be issued next Friday by the women of the university. The aim will be to make the paper of that day es reprasentative as possible of the interests of Stanford femininity. One of the neatest and brightest weekly pub- lications of the State outside of San Francisco | is the Oakland Saturday Press, edited by John T. Dell. Its original matter is exceedingly clever and its selections show admirable taste. It is bandsomely illustrated with half-tones and on the whole is & credit to the Athens of the Pacifie. Tne Scmi-Weekly Letter is the name of a new publication whica comes from Santa Maria. Its editor and proprietor, J. Faunt Le Roy, de- clares that the paper 1s justa plain business venture and that it will be run on a strictly cash basis, as he “would rather give the paper to the people than be everlastingly dunning them for a dollar and a half.” A very readable paper is the Alameds Argus, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary to- day. The same personality is at the heim now that was in control when the initial number was struck off. The Argus has grown up with Alameda from a small weekly, pub- lished in the midst of cow-pastures, 0 & pros- verous and influential daily in & besutitul and important city. San Leandro is now in a fair way to secure the cannery it has long wanted. Tne Standard of that town believes that the plant will be ready for next year's erop, when ot only canning but drying, evaporating and pickling of fruit and vegetables will be undertaken, and meantime a substantial warehouse will be built to receive, store and ship products and issue warehouse recelpts. The Los Angeles Times has issued, under the | auspices of the Chamber of Commerce of that | eity, a pubiication in magazine form entitled “The Land of Promise: Los Angeles and South- ern California.” It consists of twenty-eight large pages and a cover, and 160,000 copies of it will be distributed in the East and abroad. It is emply jllustrated, and, according to the | Times, “will furnish to seekers efter informa- ton the best and most reliable data about | Southern California asa whole that has ever been sent out under a single cover.” The Tulare Register counsels its reaaers not to worry ebrut what the coming season is oing to be. *“Wet years or dry the Register has complet:d filteen years of life, and s:ill lives and expects to live right along whether it rains or does not rain. It will not borrow trouble and other folks will be all the happier if they do mnot. Wet or dry the editorial department of the Register will | be wprinted next week in brignt, new {type that people can read easily, and | we hope to keep the thoughts as bright | and new us the type, taking our prosperity in moderation and our adversity with composure and husiling right along all the time. The man who has done his best generally sleeps | soundly whether his ventures have panned out | for.unately or not.” In the course of an article booming a beet- sugar factory project aud other euterprises for the city of his nome Will 5. Green of the Colusa Sun delivers bimself as follows: *It1s a long, long distance back to 1850, when we linked our fortune with Colusa, but never for one moment have we weakened in the belief that this was (0 be the city of the Sacramento Val- | ley. Itbasbeen a long and a patient wait. | The m:ddle of the nineteenth century saw the birth of the town and its christening, and the end of the century is nearly here. lis fiftieth | birthday will see the upward move. Loveof | localily, price of place, ouzht to impel us to | { move forward. What if all do notgetrich? | | Thatis not ali there is in life. If it were, how | | tew of us could claim a successful life. We love tne very soil of Coluse. We expect our | ashes to rest in 11, and il spirits are permitted to wander back we expect to 100k over a pros- perous city here and count all the littie things | wherein we had a hand in fts start.” NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. | Delta metal, an American composition, has | been adopted by the French Aamiraity for fit- | tingsof high-préssure boilers, such as valves, | cocks and gauges. The Porpoise, third-class cruiser, of 1770 | tous, has just been refitted in the British navy and underweut a three hours’ commission trial November 16. The horsepower under natural draugnt was 2237 uader 128 pounds of steam, and she logged 155 knots. This is mprovement on her periormarces under simiiar conditions when completed eleven | years ago. Anarmored cruiser building In France for the Jupanese navy isof 9436 tons displacement, 453 feet in length and 60 feet 5 inches beam. Besides (he four 10-inch guus in ber turrets she will carry twenty-four guns, two under- water lance torpedo tubes and one above- | water lance torpedo tube. The engines are to develop 17,000 horsepower and the ship is 1o steam twenty knots under forced draught. While in point ot speed this cruiser has two kuots less speed than the Brooklyn, her armor and armament wiil be heavier. Colonel Miklashevski's lantern for nignt. signaling purposes has had & thorough and successiul series of trials on the Nevi. The | lanterns were hung 100 feet above water at { the marine telegraph siation, and aithough | the wind biew with & force of five to six miies | none of the lantern lights were extinguished. | Tnesienals, with red and green lights, were like vivid flashes of lightuing, and could not be confused. They were seen and interpreted AL St. Petersburg, at a distance of seventeen miles, whereas other lantern signals had proved ineffective at four miles. The Nagasaki harbor works have received a temporary setback 1n their project, althougu the ceremony of commericement of work was held October 23, Toe foreign residents of the port huve raised objectious to having a pier builtout from the foreshore along the Bund, in the foreign settlement. The German snd Eng- | lish residents object to the reciamation scheme i on the ground tnat the present water traffic fucilities would be lost and result in injury to their trade. The progress of the work, being cousidered a national necessity, 18 not likely 10 be loug delayed, altuough a spirited corre *pondence is veing carried on betweea the Japunese Government and the representitives of the foreigners. Work on the Admiralty harbor at Dover is progressing with great dispaich and will no doubt be completed, s intended, in 1901, Itis a work of great magnitude and will involve an expenditure of nearly $18,000,000, The pres- ent Admiralty pler is being extended 2000 ieet and sea-wails of a total length of 13,370 feet are being built of huge conciete biocks faced above water with granite. There will be Lwo eutrances to this baibor, each 600 feet wide, and the total area within the sea-wall is 610 acres of which 315 acres are beyond the ilve-fathom depth and will accommodate twenty ol the iargest battle-ships besides quite a fleet of cruisers and smalier vessels. The height of the sea-wali to top of parapet will be 90 feet, 70 feet being under water. This great work was recommended as {ar back ss 1844, but funds were not available until one year 280, The action of Germany in taking possession of Kiso Chou Bay ou the easi coast of Chins does not appear to have been an entirely un- ELEGTRIG LAMP pletely encircling this aperture. the examination of the ear or nose. FOR PHVSIGIANS. The up-to-date doctor’s office will now be equipped with an electric device, shown here- with, which at once answers the purposes of bracket lamp, forehead reflectors and mirror. The lamp, which is one inch in diameter, is circular in form, flattened from before backward, and perforated by a center aperture about a quarter of an inch in diameter, the filament com- The buck of the lamp is silvere ! and blackened around the central hole behind, and to avold any uupleasant radiation of heat to the eye the back is further protected with non-conducting asbestos material hinged bridee, so that 1t can be adjusted for either eye for use in ophthalmic examinations. The great advantage of the lamp is that the light is always in the line of vision and needs no resdjustment, no matter what the movement of the patient may be. It can aiso be used for This lamp also comes with a two great features of interest in the story of its exceeded. In 1878 the gold coinage was only one other year, in 187 August, Sfeptember and October the coi e doudled. Silver coinage is also goiug on at a ra During Novemb.r 600,000 silver dollars were moith wiil aporoximace $750,000 cracked out by the busy coiner, A. T. Spotts. 1,264 000. the year. ply the demand for sma weze large, business w Leach felt the crowding new office. dollar pieces alone. This was much more than 1896 he coinage one. ing to Superintends has come with the wauing of the year. was the $30,000,000 mark passed. been in operation but eleven montis as compared with twelve monshs in these banner years. Had operations not been suspended during all of Ju'y when the settlement of its affairs and its transfer 1o the new superintendent, Frank A. Leach, wore in progress, the gold coinage for the present year would have exceeded that of 1879. average monthly rate and by the output for September, in the history of the Mint, which, since its establishment the total gold coinaze of the United States in all its history. During the three months of Taere are two reasons for the phenomenal output of minted THE MINT IS BREAKING REGORDS. This is a record-breaking y2ar with the United States Mint at San Francisco, There are year's operations. Oue is that since August 1 it has been swelling the vast total of the coinage oi the United States with a greater flood of gold than has ever poured from its busy stamps in its history. The other is that since that same date it has been unable to supply the vastly incrcased demand for 5 gold pieces and subsidiary silver that the new prosperity has occas oned in the channels of trade. The gold coined during the calendar year to December 1 amounts to over $30,000,000, aud the coinage for December will make the total over $34,000,000. In 1895 the total goid colnage was $23.920.000. Ouly twice in the history of the Mint has this ear’s record been .092,000 and in 1879 it was §$36,209,500. In But this year the Mint has As it the recora is broken by the hich was the largest of any month 2 1854, has coined more than half of double eagles alone was $14.150,000. For some vears the average morthly rate of the total coinage has been about 2,000,000, Itis interesting to know in connection wita this brilliant record that during those three great years in gold cotnage, which were also the banner years for silver coinage, the Mint operations were conducted with two shifts of empioyes and the caps There are now nearly 40 per cent fewer emplo: ity of the Mint was thus than then. pid rate and will approach $7,000,000 for the year. colued, aud the total s r cPinuge for this All ihis inerease has come along with the nes prosperity. In the four months from August 1 to December 1 over $20,000,000 in gold and stver has been In October the number of coins struch was gold during fhe last half of One is the increase in the gold production on the Pacific Coast, and the other and chicfone is the heavy imports of gold from Australia in payment for the heavy wheat shir- ments, and the general baiance of irade in our favor. In one month $3,500,000 in English sovereigns wis received from Australia and about£10,000,000 of her Majesty’s goid coins have gone into Uncle Sam’s melting pots on Fifth street in the past few months. But with all its activily the Mint was unable during the busy season of fall trade to sup- change throughout all the State, and all the Pacific Coast harvests brisk aud the call for the smallor coins was great demand through the United States Sub-Treasury, through banks and through individuals who came to the Mint with sacks of double-cagles to exchange for smaller coins. At times there would be quite a Hne of men with these bags of gold at the cashier’s window. The Mint felt this Superintendent of the new era of prosperity from the moment he took his seat in his During August, September, October and November thera was coined $1,305,000 in five- double the entire coinage of thatdenomina- tion during all of 1806, yet the demand for nalf-eagles was so great that it could not be sup- plied, aud at one time the rushing coiner, who was keeping busy all the dies of this denomi- nation he had, was nearly three weeks behind the orders. now lessened, and there are a few cooling at the Mint, The demand for nalf-dollafs isstill more than the Mint ean supply. During the three moaths from August 1 the coinage of this denomination was coined rapidly, and go out as fast as they are made—mainly to the Sub-Treasury. During of 10-cent pieces was §89,790. 0,000, or 700,000 pieces, aud the public wanted more. The demand for these coins has $257,000. They are still being During the three months mentloned it was The tale of the quar:ers is a similar The total amount of silver coin given out at the Mint In exchange for gold during the four months succeeding August1 was $500,000,which is ordinarily the exchange for a year, accord- t Lench, who sees therein another evidence of the greater prosperity that PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Septimus Winner, the composer of the popu- lar song, “Listen to the Mocking-Bird,” writ- | ten in 18; celebrated his golden wedding the 25th of November. Joel Chandler Harris has sent & Jersey cow | to young Richard ¥olsom Cleveland. He raised the cow himself and hopes its milk will help to make the former President’s son as big aman as his father. Tamie David, the Hindoo couvert, who is now in Chicago trying to “Christianize the Christians,” lost nis caste in India by enter- ing the liquor business and becoming & sa- loon-keeper iu Ceylon. Charies H. Hackiey, wiio has made giits to | his home city. Muskegon, Mich., amounting 1o about 500,000, went to that cily wnen he was 15 years old with §7 in his pocket. When he stariel in business for himseil he hud a capital of only $500. The Prince of Wales has inherited from his mother the facully of really interesting him- self, not feigning interest, in whatever is brought before his notice. It is said by those intimaie with the Queen that she never al- lows hersel! to look bored. Whoever may be introduced to her has her very best attention ior the time being. Hon. Samuel E. Morse, ex-Consul-General to Paris, said, in spenking of city improvements, ata recent banquet in Indianapolis: ‘A city without parks s like a house without win- dows,and however admirable & city may be in sl other respects it can make no pretentions 1o being & modern city until it has a model system of parks.” Kiug Chulalonkorn of Slam was much fnter- | ested in the eruption of Vesuvius, and his iast pleasure trip on European soil was the as- cent of the voleano. At tke crater he had the guide throw in several gold and silver coius as an offering to the elements. The guide re- tained the picces and substituted for them copper, whereupon the King had him ar- rested and wished to throw him into the crater himself. The oldest peeress alive at the present date 1s Jane, Lady Carew, grandmother of tho pres- ent lord. She was a daughter of Major Antnony Cliffe of New Cross, Ireland, was born in 1798 and in 1816 married the first Lord Carew. She is in good health and in {ull possession of her faculties, can converse agreeably and still enjoss a game of bezique, aud il ber life is prolonged until next year she expected evert. The Sinwenpo, & Shanghal native paper, more than six montis ago made the statement that a German officer had had an interview with the Viceroy at Foochow last spring asking for the ioan of the harbor of Tungchungkau in the event of war between Germuauy and Japan, On September 12 a Ger- man ship-of-war arrived at the above-nsmed hazbor, and the commanding officer explained his presence, saying that in the near future s descent was contemplated on Formosa by Ger- many, and that he was reconnoliering with a view of obtaining the loan of four harbors, with permission to puild barracks and work- hops. The foreign papers in China have pooh- poobed this statement as being nothing less than a fake, but the events of last month prove that the native paper knew what it was talking about. For throat and lung troubles use Low's horehound cough syrup, price 10c, 417 Sansome st. | will join the steadily increasing army of cen- tenarians, —_— DISINTEGRATED DEMOCRACY. Wasaington Fost. The Democrats are not harmonizing. This mayr be a sorry state of affairs, but it is the coundition which exists. Not only are the gold Demoerats, who constitute the largest mass that flew off into space from the Demoeratic plane last fall, still revolving in their chilly aud tenuous atmosphere, but even followers of Bryant themselves exhibit some tendenc; 10 break into & thousaud peces. They c{ solidity and discipline. Some of them favor one thing and some are equally Vigorous iu dvocaiing another. They are flying off at all tangents, end all the king’s horses and all the king's men do not seem to be able to put them together again. The present situation must exhibita marked change if the Demucrats expect to present a united frout in the mext Presidential cam- paign. FLASHES OF FUN., Mike—Oi tell yez, iv’s the Oirish thot make the counthry whot it is. 3 Dennis—Indade, an’ itis! Doesn't fvery in- vintion say, ““Pat applied for’?—Judge. “Madam,” said the court, “do I understand that you have withdrewn your action against this man for stealing a kiss?’ “Yes, your Honor; he has returned it and agreed to pay the costs.”—Detroit Free Press He—1 wonder why it is thata woman can’( drive a nail without splitting the board? She—I wonder why it s that a man can’t cut 4 piece of pread without butchering the loaf? —Cleveiand Leader. Bill—T see a Milwaukee railroad has dis- charged saveral Indian conductors for appro- priating money. Jill—Perhaps the Indians believed that none but the braves deserved the fare,— | Yonkers Statesman. “I won'tsubmit to being turned away,” said the disappointed arrival at the hotel. «See here. I'm flush,” and he displayed a roll o1 bills. ‘I know,” responded the clerk; “but I've %ot a full house.”—Philadelphia North Amer- ican, “So you've decided not to buy Lord Hard- uppe’s castle, have you 2 “Yes,” swid Miss Newrocks; “he wanted to include 10,000 bottles of wine at $1 a bottle and sdmitted thatsome of it was forty years old. Why, I can get it right from the yine- yards for less'n that."—Chicago Daily News. 2 —_— AT THE DOOR. T thought myself indeed secure, So fuxt the door, so firm the loek: But, lo! he, toddling, comes 1o lure My parent ear with timorous knock. My heart were stone could it withstand The sweetness of my baby’s plea— That timorous baby knocking and “Please let me in—ii’s only me.” 1 threw aside the unfinished book, Regardiess of its iempting cbarms, And. opening wide the door, 1 (uok My imughing darling in my arms. ‘Who knows but in eteraity, J, itke a truant child snall walt The glories of a life to be Eeyond (he Heavenly Father's And will that Heavenly Father heed ‘The truant’s suppiicating cry, As to the outer door I plead, “71is 1, O Father, only 1 EUGENE FIELD. DEVIOUS DEFINITIONS. Nashviile American. Gossip—A dead!y gas that is often fatal to frienaship. Thunder—The only reliable weather report yet discovered. mmock—An article used as & spoonholder at feast. Peranbulat care 10 push Pedestrian—A person who Is always getting in the way of a bicycle Matrimony—A sort of trust f0r the protection of infant industries. Lecause—Live's legacy to her daughters as an excuse for the inexcusable. Experience—Some. hing everybody gets after it 13 100 late to make use of it. Definition—Something looked up in the diction- ary to-day and forgotten t0-morrow. Faith—The thing that make< a bald-headed man invest in & bottle of hair restorer. —A good thing that but few men ne. FERSONAL. G. Pacheco, & well-known horseman of Igna- s in town. W. A. Moody, a heavy wool dealer of Boston, isat the Palace. J. R. Caldwell of Los Angeles is registered at the Cosmopol:tan. Ex-Congressman A. Caminetti is registered at a downtown hotel. James J. Brown of Benicia is amoog the ar- rivals at the Cosmopolitan. . M. Hamshaw, & prominent lawyer of Amas dor, is staying at the Cosmopolitan. M. C. Peunington, assistant secretary of the Pullman Car Company, is at the Grand. Frank F. Dwyer, the well-known Sacramento merchant, registered at the Palace yesterday. Mrs. A. J. Fairbanks and Miss Ruby Fair- banks, of Petaluma, are sojourniug at the Paiace. J. P. Plageman and wi'e of Chicago are touring the State. They are at the Cosmo- politan. —_— CALIFORNIANS> IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—George C. Perkins, Riggs House ; P. H. Fi zgerald, San Francisco, the Arlington; Miss Helen Eaton, Los An- geles, Normandie Hotel CALIFORNIANS IN CHICAGO. CHICAGO, Dec. 5.—At the Auditorium An- nex—P. M. Kemp, San Francisco; Audito- rium—Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Cassell, Miss Bessie Cassell and Mrs. Fred Graham of Oakland. ANSWERS 1O CORRESPONDENTS. DoLAN—O. A. 8 The picture you have refer- ence to was published on the 13th of Decem- ber, 1896. You can see it by lovking over the files of the paper. MAL MATTER—J., City. It is unlawful to serd matter upon the envelove of which, or postal card upon which any delhineations, epi- thets, terms or language, of an indecent, lewd, lascivious, obscenc, libelous, scurrilous, de: famatory or threatening character, or caleu: lated by the terms or manner or styie of dis play, and obviously intendea to reflect injurd ously upon the character or conduct ot an- other,may be written or printed. It is also un- iawful to use the mails for the transmission of any vulgar or obscene or tnreatening letter. Tre WILLIAM PENN—S, City. There was a steamer called the William Penn, Captain Jacob Meyers, that commenced running in March, 1820, to Burlington, N. J., and to Bris- tol, Pa., up the Delaware, and was conceded to be one of the fastest poats on the river. She was sent around to New York snd burned while on the way there December 16, 1820. Then there was a second William Penu, Cap- tain Jeflries, double lever-beam engiue, buiit at Kensington, Phila, tor the Baltimore Union Liue in October, 1829, On November 4, 1834, she caught fire on the passage up ibe De a- ware_when above the mouth of tue Schuyi- k 11 River (the lower part of the Philadelpiia water front) and was run ashore on the Penn. sylvania side below the navy yard. Five lives were lost, and the value of the vessel and equipment was $70,000. THE 0DD FELLOWS, Local Lodges §¥ill Give a Reception to Their Frierds in Oad Fellows’ Hall Next Tuesday. To-morrow evening the local lodges of the order of Odd Fellows will give a reception in the assembiy ball of the Oad Fellows' building to their friends, This wili be the first of a series of such recep- tions to be given in the interest of the order. The matter has been in the hands of a committee for some time past, and it is proposed to present an exntertainment that will prove interesting and instructive to members of the order and to those who do not belong to it. The stage will be occupied by Grand Master A. M. Drew, Grand Secretary Shaw and other grand officers and about forty of the most influential members of the order, incinding some of the most promi- nent past gran. otficers. The programme that has been outlined will include an address by the grand mas- ter, after an overture by the orchestrs musical selection by ths Knickerbocker Quartet; an address by Rev. E. R. Dille, P. G., on *0O:d Fellowship and its Work for Humanity”; vocal solo by Miss Flor- ence Gordon, pupil of Herr Anton Schott; “Remarks for the boys,”” M. M. Estee, past grand mastér; cornet olo, A. P. Black; vocal selections by a ladies’ quar- tet; ““Ihe Patriarchal Branch of Odd Fel- -lowship,”” an address by Grand Scribe William H. Barnes. The entertainment will close with a tenor solo by Herr Anton Schott. This affair is to be strictly invitational, and admission will be by card oaly, which may ve obtained at the office of the grand secretary or from the secretaries of any of the lodges. There have already been dis- tributed a great number of tickets, and the indications are that there will bea very large attendance. 1t is the purpose of the representatives of the order to zive a number of such en- tertainments with a view to arawing at- tention to the work that is being done by 0dd Feliows in this city and State. Died From Epilepsy. James M. Collins Stevenson street, was taken to the Receiving Hospital Saturday suf- fering from epilepsy a1d died early yesterday morning. Hisbody was taken to the Morgua, g e CALIFORNIA glace fruits; 50c Ib. 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San Franciso, or A W. Balley, manager Hotel del Coronado, laie of Hotel Colorado, Glenwood Springs, Colorado. —_————— Lord Rosebery’s mother, the aged Duchess of Cleveland, is about to start for India for the winter. She is an inveterate traveler, every year taking journeys that most young women, would shrink from. NXEW TO-DAY! How a person can gain a pound a day by taking an ounce of Scott’s Emulsiom is hard to explain, but it certainly happens. It seems to start the diges- tive machinery working properly. You obtain a greater benefit from your food. The oil being predigested, and combined with the }iy pophosphites, makes a food tonic of wonderful flesh- forming power. ' All physicians know this to to be a fact. All druggists; 50c. and $1.00. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. v ) P o