The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 8, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCY CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1897 DECEMBER § 1807 WEDNFSDAY.... JOEN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Markot and Tnird streets, San Francisco Telephone Main 1868. Fl’BLIC‘TION ‘OFFIC EDITORIAL ROOMS............ccccunurenenacccccncsonel ...017 Clay street Telephone Main 1 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by ers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. 161l $6 per year; per month 65 cents o By m ..One year, by mail, $1.50 908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN, NEW YORK OFFICE...... -Room 188, World Building Riggs House Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 30 o’clock, kin street; 9 Hayes street; oven untl open until 9:30 o’clock. SW. co; 130 o'clock. 615 er Sixteenth and open until 9 o'cle 518 Mission street; open untl 9 o'clock. 143 Ninth street; open until 9 c'clock. 1505 Polk street; open unti: § NW. corner dwenty-second Ke PROSPECTS OF THE SESSION. TATEMENTS made by leaders of all parties in both houses of Congress in commenting upon the President's message tend to the conclusion that the session will be a quiet one and that the busine-s will be confined : lmost wholly to Lills of an unexciting character, with the exception of that telating to the proposed annexation of Hawaii. Whiie the President’s recommendations in regard to cur- rency reform Laye been well received, there seems no disposi- tion among Republican leaders to take them up at this session and force that issue to the front in the coming campaign of next fall. Senator Hale points out that the President himself dces not press lor immediate action on the subject, and Sena- tor Allison frankly declares “‘we shall be able to get along if we do not get any currency legislation; and as the situation vresents itself it looks asif it might be impracticable to secure legisiation on the lines of the President’s recomme:dations.” The views expressed by these two eminent Republicans are confirmed by declarations from leaders of other parties. Sena- tor Smith asserts that at the present time the reforms proposed “‘are impossible of enactment’’; Senator Teller announces tha! any attempt to enact them would lead toa prolongea fight, and Democrats and Populists in the House are equally positive in lhe assertions that at this session currency reform on the lines commended is out of the question, From these statemenis it appears that currency reform will not be pressed to the front u=zless the plan suggested by Secre- tary Gage should develop an unforeseen strength later in the Hawaiian annexation is to bave the right of way, and at present the prospects are the scheme will be defeated. 1t is certain the treaty will not receive the required two-thirds vote in the Senate, and the alternative proposition of annexation by joirt resolution is otjectionable on the ground that it would afford no means of forbidding the entry into the United States of the Chinese now in the islands. With the exception of these two points, the prospects are the recommenlations of the President will receive cordial sup- port. He will be sure to find Congress reedy to aid him in his efforts to upbuild our merchant marine, to arrange reciprocity treatie-, to extend our foreign commerce, to provide for the de- velopment of Alaska and to settle the problem of the Pacific railroads on a basis which will provide for the recovery of every dollar of the debts of the roads to the Government. STANDING FROM UNDER. UR interesting contemporary, the Evening Post, is to be congratulated upon the spirit with which it has re- nounced participation in the anti-charter conspiracy of the Buckley Democrats and Eraminer. It is true that our con- temporary did not forsake the company of the Mission-street booaler until it had been severely trounced by THE CarLr; but so long.as the lamp continues to burn every erring sinner may return, and we rejoice as heartily to see our contemporary at this time take an independent stand on the charter question as we woula have rejoiced had it perceived its error at the be- ginning and never joined forces with the Examiner. It is especialiy gratifying for another reason to congratu- late the Post upon its rezeneration. When we contemnplate its situation had it maintained its unsavory association to the end our imagination sickens. The Sullivan Democracy has joined the Buckley Democrats and Ezaminer and indorsed all the Charter Convention nominees but one, This *‘Democracy” is bossed by Colonel Sullivan, Mayor Phelan’s secretary, and is really the Phelan Democracy. Its dominant idea in politics is bulidozirg. Whenever thingsdo not go to suit its leader he deems it his duty to call out the police and “‘reform’’ them. The great achievement upon which this Democracy relies for public favor is the attempted dismissal of the Board of Super- visors by Mayor Phelan. It will be remembered that the Post bitterly assailed the Phelan-Sullivan idea of government during the farcical at- tempt of the Mayor to grao the legislative arm of the municipal machine. Indeed, there were days when it actually became bysterical over that affeir. The spectacle of a blind pool now vetween the Post, Ezaminer, the Buckley Democrats and the Phelan-Sullivan Democracy would have been a sight for the gods. We are glad that our interesting little contemporary has deserted the combine. Such an association could have done nothing else than convict it of downright insincerity 1f not of willfal corruption, for, be it known, men do not change their fixed convictions Jizhtly. When they are found doing so thare is always reason to believe that ‘‘solid” arcuments have been applied. ‘We note what has been sald about our support of the Free- holders’ ticket nominated by the regular organizations, A few days ago the Post said this ticket was our bantling. Now it asks us why we do not tell tne public to vote for it. This apparent inconsistency may be answered in a sentence: The fasion ticket is not our ‘‘bantling,” and we do not consider it neces- sary to advise anybody to support it, for the very simple rea- son that everybedy is going to do that anyhow. We have too much confidence in the good sense of the people of this city to imagine for an instant that they are going to vote for Free- kolders suppgrted by the Eraminer, the Buckley Democrats and the Sullivan Democracy. To assume any such thing would be equivalent to assuming that they are crazy. And this brinzs us to a consideration of the unfor- tunate situation in which the Chartar -Convention Freeho/ders haye bzen placed. These gentlemen are all well xnown, and, so far as we are aware, respectable citizens. Doubtless, if elected, thsy would make an honest charter. They have been indorsed by the Non-Partisan party and to tbat extent are resp:ctably connected. But if the electors are to judge them by the company they are in, it will have to condema them. It is uscless to tell the people that the political freebooters who are supporting them have been en- listed for patriotic or uaselfish motives. No one will believe a word of it. o The FEvening Post has been unable 1o stand the odium of association with such a combine. Why does not the Com- mittee of One Hundred and its nominees come out and repu- diate the conspirators? They would make votes by doing so. —_— session. People who paid licenses ior the privilege of running the late lamented nickel-in-the-slot macnines and can’t get their money back understand now how it feels to be at the other end of a sure-thing game. Perhaps Chief Lees made the remark that Mr. Gunst was Josing his mind just as the Chief was in receipt of large, hot pieces of it. A charitable view of the Christmas magazines might be expressed in genial recognition of a possibility of their having been worse. THE PRESIDENT ON HAWAIL HE financial propositions of the President’s message are Tderived from the platform of his party and were indorsed by a large popular and electoral majority in 1896. The votes that made up that majority were not cast exclusively by former Republicans. The necessity of financial reform domi- nated the votes of men outside the only party that promised tosecure it. The President in his statement of this policy is not only a party chief calling his followers to fidelity to their undertaking, but he is the commissioned leader of the people advancing in line with their expressed wish. When we turn to his annexation proposition the scene changes, and the responsibility and position of the actors change with it. The platform of his party did not demand annexation. That policy was not impleaded in the issues of the campaign. It was not a subject of discussion. It was not put among the purposes and promises of the party and was not passed upon by the people. In presenting it, therefore, the President is not acting as a party chief nor a popular ‘ Portland, Or., is at the Lick Honse. leader. He is simply an individual urging his personal views in a great public matter, and these are not of greater weight than if expressed by any other citizen of equal character and | standing. It was expected that his individual opinion would find place in his first annual message. But it was expected also that he would answer the queries that run through the coun- try with the discussion o annexation. Are the Asiatics now in Hawaii to be free commoners in the whole country? After years of exertion to limit among us this undesirable popula- tion, are we to have its number doubled by annexation? What part of the constitution will compel the courts to for- bid the freedom of the whole country to the Chinese now in Hawaii? None of these inquiriss is answered by the message. Again, there is abroad a question as to the form of gov- ernment to be used in Hawaii. Is that country to pass a no- vitiate as a Territory? Thereafter is it to be admitted as a State? If so, what will be the status of - the 98 per cent of its people now denied the ballot and excluded from participation in the Dole Government? On all these subjects the message stimulates rather than allays apprehension. The President says: ‘““What the con- ditions of such union shall be, the political relations thereof to the United States, the character of local administration, the qualitv and degree of the elective franchise of the inhabitants, the extension of the Federal laws to the territory, or the enact- ment of special laws to fit the peculiar conditions thereof, the regu- lation of needs of labor therein, are all matters which the treaty has wisely relegated to the Congress.” Here is an alarming admission that “peculiar conditions’ in Hawaii will require peculiar legislation to fit them. Itisa confession that we are about to take into our body politic an element incapable of constitutional assimilation ; that we are to bid farewell to our system of equal government under ths censtitution, and, bowing to the necessity of monarchies which deal with their crown colonies under peculiar conditions un- known to their home government, find in that variant policy an element of weakness rather than of strength. The people had a right to expect a detailed statement of the form of gov- ernment intended for Hawaii, by which the planters of the islands will be given rights denied to the farmers of the United States, and by which the people of the Unit=d States are to continue in the enjoyment of freedom and franchises denied to the people of Hawaii. Lincoln’s cry raised in his Cooper Institute speech in New York, that slavery South and freedom North presented an irrepressible conflict, and that the Union must bzcome all free or all slave, was a declaration of the absolute need of one Union and one law for every State and every person under the flag. In consecration of that principle blood and treasure were spent as freely as the forests give their autumn leaves to the gale. What evil genius can lead the American people to abandon it so soon and embark upon a sinister experiment, declared by the President himself to present such “‘peculiar conditions” as to require repudiation of all for which Lincoln stood? Having at such cost rid ourselves of the cause of one irrepressible conflict is it possible that at further cost we will embrace the same pest, infect us with the same disease and put upon the future another like burden! THE PACIFIC ROADS DEBTS. E of the most gratifying features of the Presidential message is that dealing with the Pacific railgoads and their oblizations to the Government. The debts of these roads have long constituted a serious problem, and for a time it appeared the Government could not in any way be saved from loss except by a refunding scheme that would have sub- jected California to the domination of the monopoly for fifty years to come, and enabled it to extort from our industries and trade every dollar of its obligations to the Government. There is no longer any problem in the matter. The diffi- culties have been solved. The Union Pacific has been sold for a sum that repays to the Government every dollar of its obli- gation, and the President has adopted in regard to the other defaulting roads a policy which can be counted on confidently to yield equally good results. Tne policy is the simple one of having the roads sold, with the Government as a qualified bidder, standing ready to bid them in if the amount offered by outsiders is not sutficient to meet the governmental claimes. The first application of this policy will be called for at the time of the =ale of the Kansas Pacific, which is to take place December 16. The Presicent says be believes he has authority under the act of 1857 to have the Government qualify asa bidder and bid in the road, but inasmuch as this might lead to Government ownership he refers the subject to the con- sideration of Congress. That consideration should not be long. The President is right in saying, “The Government rather than accept less than its claim should become a bidder and thereby 1he owner of the property.’” It is not at all likely the Government will have to bid in the road. Its appearance as a bidder will simply have the effect of preventing the sale at a price less than the governmental claims. Evenif it should have to bid in the line, however, the purchase would not entail governmenta! operation of the trains, nor a long-continued possession before the line eould be sold on good terms, as all evidence points to the conclusion that it is worth much more than the Government claim and the first mortgags lien. The action of the President in dealing with the defaulting roads has been satisfactory throughout. He has socompletely guarded the interests of the people as to not only silence the clamors 8f the corruption howlers of the yellow journals, but to knock the wind out of them. All they can do now is to Rgasp for breath and splutter something about having “dictated the policy.” ' Doubtless the charge against Police Sergeant Helms that he sent to one hospital 8 man whose wound had been over- looked in another may safely be lert to the Commissioners. But it would seem that a doctor who had done the overlooking would be in a position to do now what is technically known as “singing small,’”’ and let somebody else atiend to the loua coms plaining. An attemot will now be made, of course, to discourage prize-fighting, since another pugilist has been killed in the ring. However, it is the possibility of such episodes that is the only value of the manly art as practiced ior a purse. An ex- tremely narrow view is baing taken when the utility of killing off the brulsers is ignored. Dr. Hall is to ba congratulated. It is not every man ac- cused of murder ¥hocan get out on $5000 bail, particularly when he has a reputation such as the dsctor has managed to acquire. Why not quash the case against him and have done with it? Even if guilty he will be let off. Among the recommendations of the President’s message must be reckoned the disapproval of the English press, PERSONAL Judge McGarvey of Ukiab iy at the Grand. Captain Thomas Doig of Astoria is atthe Russ. Judge John M. Fulweiler of Auburn isig town. Dr. J. B. Burns and wife of Stockton are in town. Mrs, V. M. Clement of San Jose is registered at the Palace. Bishop Willis and wife of Honolulu are at the Occidental. E. Pincus, a prominent merchant of Wheat- land, is at the Russ. Joseph D. Biddle, the Hanford banker, was at the Grand yesterday. George C. Dent of New York issmong the arrivals at the Cosmopolitan. T. Threlfall, one of Amador County's best known mining men, is in 10wn. M. MeMahon, & prominent capitalist of Chicago, is &t the Cosmopoliten, Benjimin P. Barker, a winemaker of Liver- more, is registered at the Baldwin. Wiiliam Currfer, a prominent merchant of Joha J. White came down from Fresno yes- terday and registered at the urand Hotel, Lieutenant Leroy Ettinger, U.S. A., stationed at Vancouver, Wash., is at the Occidental. Mrs. F. T. Baldwin, widow of the late Judge Baldwin, is at the Baidwin Hotel from Stock- ton. B. Tibbey and family arrived here last night from Butte, Mont., and will spend the winter here. Sheriff Ben Thorn of San Andreas, Calaveras Couuty, registered at the Russ House last night. W. C. Parker, & wealthy orchardist of Wheat- land, is at the Grand. He is accompanied by his wife. N. M. Standaher, an extensive cattié-owner of Dillion, Mont., isa guest of the Cosmopol- itan Hotel. Judge J, M. Walling of Nevada arrived on the overland last night. He is siopping at the Russ House. George L. Arnold of the State Board of Equal- ization came up from Los Augeles last night, accompatiied by bis wife. Mrs. Moses Hookins of the Hopkins estate arrived yesierday from New York. She has apartments at the Palace. C. C. Crow, one of ths prominent citizens of Crows Landing, Stanislaus County, i8 at the Oceidental for & few days. W. Sanger Pullman, son of the late George M. Puliman, csme up from Burlingame yes- terdey and is siaying at the Palace. Edgar Burcle, A. H. Bromly and F. D. Har- vey, of London, arrived last night at the Palace. They areon their way to New Zeaiand to ex- amine some mines there. John L. Truslow, general agent of the pas- senger department of the Santa Fe Pacifie Ratroad, left for Chicago yesterday on busi- ness connected with the road. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—At the Holland—Mr. and Mrs. C. Fair, J. C. Kirkpatrick; Imperlai— G. A. Knight; Ashland—F. C. Madden. Miss Henrfetta Hoagg arrived on the Fulda from Genos. CALIFORN.~NS CHICAGO, Dec. 7.—At the Auditorium An- nex—Charics M. Hunter, San Francisco; Palmer—Hans Schiebe, San Francisco. IN CHICAGO. THE WORDLESS VOICE. A dweller in a hut alone, fed from a dish of wood, A drinker of th- flowlng brook, & chil of solitude, A sieeper on a bed of leaves may find toat life .s good, And hear bigh music on his way that bids his soul rejoice, 1 his wis: exr has lesroed to hear—to hear ths Wordless Voice. & of Lhe gien: It tatks among the Tushes In the fluttering of the en, It flows nlong all valleys where any brook can 0w Where any siream can catch the gleam of sun- ligh. or ot snow. It spesks beside all pathways that wind beneath all trees, And spesks f:om all the chanting shores that circle ail the s | And trom the nills hat know no plow, and from b shadeless l-as, suguage ot of men, but plainly un- v 1t spe ders:00d By men who love, below, above, all things and deem hem govd. The noises biown about the world beneath the scornful stars, The cann ous of the captains and the thunder of the war Tne sound ihat tears the jangied years and ail their music mars, Canno:drown down ihe Wordless Voi.e that from the 1 ence speaks: *T1s blown (o mea from every glen aad floats from altue peaks Dark for the world would be the dsy that saw that Voc: withdrawn; Then wou.d the day be empiiness, the race of men but spawn: No twil gt peace woud fail &t night, no hope _ would come with dawn: No drewms would haust the sk line, no fancies thioug the glen, Nod wi i The wretched weight of iron fate would crush the | Youug Women’s Debating Soetety.”—Chicsgo hearts of men. Up from the deeps of slience the awful mountains rise, And sk And in the peace of silence sleep the ctern!ties: And 1rom ine soul of siieace (hat was ere time began Comes torth the Voice (hat bids rejo.ce and spesks iis word to man. SAM WALTER Foss In New York Sun. — : the deeps of slience are arched the sacred s, WHAT THE STARS FORETELL, Zadkiel, whose almanac for 1898 has just been issued, does not prophesy smootn things for the coming year. April, 1898, promises to be a decidedly exciting monih. ™he United Siates will then enter upon sn adven:urous foreign policy, apparently direcied against Canada. Atthe end of amonth “an awkward imbroglio” awaits our Government, which, however, will extricate itself somehow, oniy to nave 1o contend against opponents botn poweriul and persistently hostile. In October “foreign affairs will again look unpromising. An emeute in Egypt or. the Soudan is pred cied, and yet more fighting on the borders of Indis. Almost the only piers- ant event predicted by Zadkiel is that some useful reforms will ‘be inavgurated iu the Postoflice. _The stars are unkind to crowned heads. The King of Sweden is doomed to death, the Czar's Liealth wiil give constant auxiety and the German Emperor will be in dauger of yet another accident, the nature of which is not indicated by the stars. QUEER FUELS. Some of the materials used for fuel in vari- ous parts of the worid seem extrao:dinary. In certain shoemaking towns 1n Massachusetts, such as Lynon, the: re sOome vary poor peo- ple who burn uothing else but leather chips {rom one end of the winter to the other. Tuey get them from the factories by the wheel- barrow Joad. Such chips of course smolde r with & great deal of smoke. They iorm incan- lescent masses, which have 1o be broken up time to time with the poker. In Egypt it is caid that mummie: those of cats, ibises and other ani sacred by the ancient iuhabitants, h empioyed for and Alexandr: Dried fishes, particularly the salmon, have been and perhaps are to this day, employed 10 some exient as fuel by the Indians in parts of British Columbia. They contain enough oil and muscular fiver to burn well. —_— hiefly s heid e been running tralus beiween Cairo 14 THE AFR.CAN GRAB GAME. New York World. A sickening feature of the African land- 8TabIng is the canting hypocrisy which at- tempts 1o base tha title to stolen territory on {‘treaties” with the various negro potentates in the district. Such a tit.e bout lid as the title to a traveier's watch obta the persuasion of a revolver on a lonel: roll, but it i« urged by Gresat Britain with that Pecksniffian regard for the sanctity of treaties which nes marked the foreign policy of that nation ever since these treaties began 10 estub- lish her coioninl aggressions. NO CHANCe: (OR iHE MAN. St Louls Giobe-Democrat. The right of wowen to searcn the pockets of ber sleeping husband is to be tested in a Penn- sylvania court. It is suggested that as women have no pockets, at .east none that can readily be found, even by daylight, the equity of the case has never yet been properly considered. PRISON MANAGEMENT AND DISGIPLINE. Editor of The Call: cipline. ons, seen many prisoners, t. I am asked (o give an opinion concerning prison management and dis- Iam notan “expert,” though I am not entirely ignorant. ked with prison captains, wardens and chaplains. I have alsoa I have visited many pris- kind of running intelligence on the snbject gained from reports, discussions and writings of those who have made ihe crimes and miseries of the world their study. What is a penitentiary for? Firs:, itis for hment of the protection of society by the pu crime. It should be a place of punishment—bhumane, not cruel; severe, not unjust; a place of punishment, not a boarding-house. The criminal should be required to work hara—that is, up to his normal physical cepacity. 1f there is no profitable work that he can do he should De providea with sand to shovel or pigs of iron to hit. ond—All just ana reasonable sentiments agree that punishment shounld be graduated as nearly as human judzment can decide to the moral state of the criminal, and have distinet reference to his reformation. namey: Punishment must sim to protect I suppose these things are fundamentaland elementary, soclety and offer the criminal opportunity and help to reform. Any other view implies that society has no right to be, and that punishment Issimply punishment with no moral end or aim. To bring these two things—punishment and REV. DR. HORATIO STEBBINS, reformation, protection to society and hope practical problem to the criminal—together in equilibrium is the It is a difficuit problem, *nd maybe cannot be solved according to abso- lute or eternal right, but it cun be approximated. This approximate solution may best be found in a board of directors mede up of men of sound knowledge and character, who should inform themselves by study and travel of the best methods of prison management, to hold office with & small salary attached for a time | equal 1o that held by the Judges of the Supreme Court. A prison captain should be appointed by the airectors, with great authority, responsible to the directors—a man of large expe- rience, common-sense, judgment and discretion; who has seen enough of mankind, good and bad, Dot to despise human nature; with courage enough not to be cruel and firmness enough not 10 be melted by feeble sentimentality; a man of authority without conceit, with the man- ners of a soidier and a gentleman. Such & board of directors and such a captain would solve the problem in five years and giv2 our penal sysiem rank among the most enlightened, just and humane institutious in tne country or in the worid. The constitution and laws of California admit and provide for such an institution. I wili not discuss details of management and discipline further than to suggest that the pardoning power s uld not be ve-ted in one man, but in a commission, maybe the Directors. The method ¢f prison government heretofore has been absurd. It was the fashion to make the Lieutenant-Governor Superintendent I beligve, of the State prisons. In the light of reason and common-sense it was as | 28 10 make & Durham bull the leader of & regimental banc. uals. ex off absur It is the system, I say nothing of individ- When the new constitu- tion was established an opportunity was offered to renew and reform the prison management, but the opportunity was thrown away, and the first the public knew the Board of Directors Weat 10 pieces over some “harnesses” or some such thing. HORATIO STEBBINS. FLASHES OF FUN. Miss d Faque—IHow much is this watc with the little diamond on the bach? Jeweler—That s he same price as the other, but I haven’t auy works to fit it. Miss de Faque—Oub, that makes no difference. I'll take it.—Bosion Herald, E, “I see Plimley's wife has a new sealskin Yes, he's had a streak of luck.” “How was that?” “Got his thumb smashed the day after he took ou: an sccident policy for $50 a week.” Cleveland Leader. “The world owes a man a living,” remarked the perverted philosopher. ~That's perfectly true,” replied the practical friend. “‘And the world stauds ready to meet the debt. What you find the most fault about is that it isn't as easy 10 draw checks asitis to draw your breath.”—Washington Star. ““‘Wnat makes Brown so quietof late? He hasn’t a word to say, and he used to be a great er.”” 8! 1n training.” “lu training for wnat?” “ie expecis to marry the presidentof the Evening P.st. May—I wonder why some men grumble about everything so. Mndge—To show the keenness of their per- ceptions, of course.—Detroit Free Press. He—It really dcesn’t seem possible that Queen Victoria can be as old as that. She—As old as what? He—Why asold as this paper infers. She—How old is that: He—It doesu’t exactly say, but it has an articic here entitled “Some Yacts About Vie- toria, B. C.”—Boston Courier. “Ever notice,” asked the stove, “what a modest cresture the clock i»?" “Referring, I presume,” said the woodbox, ““(0 her holding her hands tefore her face?" “Why, n0; 1ot so much that as her habit of running herself down.”—Inaianapolis Jour- nal. —_— HUGE CALIFORNIA CRYSTALS. Calaveras Prospect. A short time ago a man named J. E. Burton of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, secured the right to prospect for crystals in the Green Moun. tain mine in Chiie Guleh, near Mokelumne Hill, and a force ol men was put to work with that object in view under the superin- tendency of J. J. McSoriey. Last Tnursday tho explorers were rewarded b; discovering a large aeposit of elegant crystals that far o ceeded their most sanguine exvectations. Some weighed between 200 and 300 pounds, aud were so large that the box of the car would not contain them. Ther were found in asandy deposit that had the appesrance of having becn at one time a vast whirlpool, back of the old works, about 1000 feet from the mouth of the tunnel and avout 300 feet perperdicular depth from the suriace. The ob- Jjee! was to secure some crystais large enough to cut therefrom balls from six inches to & foot in diameter. to be used as the lens for telescope, and their hopes were more than realized. These balls are said to be valued from §20,000 to £50,000 each. REFLECTION> OF A BACHELOR. New York Press, ‘When a man tninks he has an air of be generaily looks lazy. TRuoNS Any sensible man would a good deal rather be liked by children then by grown people. Even at preachers’ meetings you won’t see E many umbrellas left standing out in the Lal The really popular woman is the one who knows how not to remind & man of what he wants to forget. Men like to be flattered because they know it 1sn’t true; women like 10 be flattered be- cause they don’t. The only thing a woman likes better than to be jealous of a lot of women is to have a lot of men jealous of her. Way down in her heart every woman thinks her husband loves her, but they all get lots of pleasure out of imagining they don't. Tne devil no doubt told Eve that if she would only eat the apple she would know how to make the janitor turn on tne steam heat. 1 have noticed that when divorced people go through religious revivals they don’t aiways get marrie When a man first falls in love he tears around ircus tiger the first iime it has ever seen an umbrella. —_——— Cure your cold with Low’s horehound cough syrup, price 10c, 417 Sansome st. * FEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Senor Joaquin Cerci, the new Spanish Con- sulat Poiladelphis, was a successiul lawyer in Madrid until he entered the dip.omatic ser- vice some years ago. Miss Eunice Davis, who is living in Ded- hem, Mass, is the oldest woman abolitionist living in the United States and the only sur- viving member of the Woman’s Anti-Slavery Beard of Boston. General James F. Wade, who presided at the court-martial held at Fort Sheridan, has been in the United States cavalry since he was 18 years old. He is ason of the tamous Senator Ben Wade of Ohfo. Congressman Barney of Wisconsin will pre- sent at the next session of Congress petitions asking that body to award Mrs. Mary North- wood of Milwaukee a medal for bravery in rescuing a boy {rom drowning in Lake Michi- gan. Dr. J. F. Alexander, Presidentof the Georgia Board of Heaith, hes suggested that negroes who refuse to be vaccinated shall not be hired. He believes thatsuch a course would soon stamp out smalipox zmong the colored people. Dr. John Fiske contradicts the story that he is to succeed Justin Winsor as librarian of the Harvard University Library, with the assur- ance that “itis about as true as would be the report that I was goivg 1o jump over the moon.” A Norton County (Kans.) paper, in speak- ing of Miss Kate Johnson, the County Trens- urer-elect, says: “She is good looking, jolly, well fixed financlally, fuil of busines, likes company, but couldn’t be dragged into & pink tea with & four-norse team.” The Empress Frederick of Germany pos- sesses u remarkable tea service. The tea tray bas been beaten out of an old Prussian balf-penny. The teapot is made out of a Ger- man farthing, and the iiny cups are made from coins of the different German principal- itles. BIGGEST BOOK IN THE WORLD. The Chinese department of the British Mu- seum Library contains a single work which oc- cupies no fewer than 5020 volumes. This wonderful production of the Chinese press, says Tit-Bits, was purchased a few vears ago tor £1500, and is one of only a very small num- ber of copies now in existence. It is an encyclopedia of the literature of China, covering a period of twenty-eight cen- turies from 1100 B. c. to 1700 o. . It owes its origin 1o the literary proclivities of the Em- peror Kang-he, who reigned from 1662 till 1722, In the course of his studies of the ancient literature of his country Kang-he dis- covered that extensive corruptions had been allowed to creep into the modern editions ana conceived the idea of having the text of the originals reproduced and preserved in an au. thorized form. ‘This was a_mighty concsption, truly, and in the execution it remains unique down to the present time. For the purpose of carrying out the work Kang-he appointed a commission of learned men to select and coliate the writings to be reproduced, and employed the Jesuit missionaries to cast copper type with which to execute the printing. The commission wes occupied for forty years in its great task Before the work was completed Kang-he died, but he had provided_that his successor shoula see the book completed, and he faith fully carried out his trust. The book is ar- ranged in six divisions, each deuling with a particular branch of knowleige. The divi- slons are thus designated: 1, writings relat- ing to the heave: 2, writings relating ta the earth; 3, writings relating to mankin writings relating to inanimate nature writings relating to philosophy, and 6, v ings relating to rolitical economy, —_— SCIENCE RUN 10 FOLLY. Boston Transcript. ‘I look forward to the time,’” said Lord Kel- vin, In au interview, “when the whole water irom Lake Erie will find its way to the lower level ot Lake Ontario througn machinery, do- ing more good for the world than that great benefit which we now possess in the contem- plation of the splendid scene which we have presented before us at the present time by the waterfall of Niagara. Iwish I could think it possible thal I couid 1ive 1o see this grand de- velopment.” Graud fiddlesticks! ciation of the magniticent waterfal ing tustead of diminisning in this country, all dove of nature in iis noblest and in its go tiest manifestations is incre: ing. And what. B'el’ilppllcllillon Odellul service mnay be made, it is safe to ict the cataract will be preserved. u?ffidxe‘n‘fl.'-‘: hope that it will not is a patheti science run to folly, B R ot Tt | that at certain seasons of the year the Yuko ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 4a . H. 8, City. The flirst Sun. , fell on the first day of the APRIL. 1855— day in April, 18 mouth. ZONE-CENT PIECE— W., Napa, Cal. No vre- Tium is cffered for a United States one-cent jiece of 1864. THE YUKoN RivER—Subscriber. It is cmmu) ELECTRIC CARS—E. M. B., Gardner, The motorman in charge of an electric streetcar can atwill, by turuing a switch, reverse and back his ear without changing the position of the trolley. River cau be dredged. An effort in that dire tion will be made in the spring of 1898. CoxstL—J. J., Monterey, Cal. There is no i American Consul at Guatemals, but there is an Eavoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni- potentiary F. M. B. Young at Guatemala,:who also represents the Uuited Siates at Honduras. TurQuoISE—M. J. M., City. To ascertain the value or a turquoise such as you describe you 1t 10 a first-class jeweler, who will give the desired information. No one can tell you what it is worth without examin- ing it =Poers—Subscriber, Watsonville, Cal, This Qepariment cannot determine by the ques- tion, “Will you g.ve the names of noted poets?” if the writer refers to ancient or mod- eru poets, or dving or dead. The question should be'more specific. TARIFF T¢ KLONDI . G. B, City. It is impossible to publish an answer to the gen- eral question, “*What are the duties on an out- fit and provisions to enter Dyea?” for the reason that the tariff is different on each arii- cle, and the correspo dent does noi designate what the outfit counsisis of and what provi- sions would be taken. CorNAGE.—Subscriber. Congress by act ot April 2, 1792, established the United States Mint, which was erected 1n Philadelphia. The ry and first metal used were imported were first_coined, in 1784 1oilars, in 1796 quarters aoil dimes, and hail-dimes in 1796. Ten-doll# s were first coined in 1795, five-doll P appeared the same year, but two- a-nali-doilar picces were not coined until 1896. 20 WARSPITE AND SAN FR co—Spoke Driver, City. The British war vessel Warspite carries four 22-ton guns, ten 6-inch, four 6-pounders quick fire, four 3-pounders quick fire, ten ma- chine guns and_two light guns under 15 cwt, including boats’ guns. The armament of the United States vesss San Francisco is twelve 6- nch breech-loading rifles, four 6-pounders, 3-pounders, two_1-pounders rapid firing, :37-millmeter Holchkiss revolving can- non nd four Gatlings. 10M-HOUSE INSPECTORS—L. A. 8., City. desiring to apply for positions in any ed custom-house should write for an application blank and information to the sec- retary of the local board of examiners at the custom-house in which they desire employ- ment. InSun Francisco direct tne letter of inquiry to ‘Secretary Board of Examiners, p 4 Civil -ervice, Custom-house, San Cal.” The minimum age limita- cars: there is no maximum limita- The applicant will be furnished iufor- 1 about time and place of exaaination. nipectors have to pass 8 first-grade ex- ation, which ineiudes spelling, arithme- ic, letter-writiug, penmanship, copying from vlain copy and copying from rough copy. N ght inspectors have to pass & third-grade examination, which iucludes all that there is in the first gfade, except copying from rough dralt. KENTUCKY SUPERSTITIONS. tion is Louisville Post. It would astonish you to know the number of persons in this State ‘‘who are not supersti- tious but who do believe in signs.” While re- turniog from Western Kentucky last week I sat taiking with a party ot seven gentlemen in the smoking compartment of a Pullman car, when one of them pulied from his pocket a *‘zraveyard rabbiU’s foot,” which he said had always brought him good luck. Another of the gentilemen exhibited the feather of an old goose which had been given him by a negro charm-seller in the Purchase. The owner said he knew the thing was a mere trifle, but he wou.du’t part with 1t for any amount of money. A tbird member of he party had an old sieel pen which hed been used by the Governor of a Southern State in writing the pardon of a condemned man. This von-beiiever in *strange signs’ / said he pized the omen higher than any- thing be possessed, as he had succeeded ever since he got it. The sleeping-car conductor carried in his pistol pocket an Irish potato shriveled to on third its former size, which *never failed on & rheumetism case.’ A fifth gentieman had this to say: “Fellows, I'm no believer in those aningless emblems, but I can’t help feeling ly il I fail to see'the new moon over my =ht shoulder,” The only two members of the party who had eft the car, smiling at the *vapid ¥, 100, were doubtless beiievers in if they had only expressed themselves. CALIFORNIA glace iruits, 50c ib. Townsend's.* ——— £PECIAL fnlormation daily to manufacturere, business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery, * _— e ,——— As A preventive of Bright's disease drink Watson’s Scotch Whisky. & B Mark Hopkins Institute of Art. Open daily, including Sunaay. Grand con- cert Thursday evening, December 9. Signor Fernando Michelens, the great tenor, will ap- pear: also ozhersoloists. Admission 25 cents.” R — IT WILL BE A BAD BARGAIN. Chicago Chronicle. The treaty of annexation will probably bs retified within a few months and we shall then have to undertake the pleasant task of keeping order among the heterogeneous crowd of Asiatics, half-breeds and American adven- turers 2000 miles away from our nearest port. It will be a marvel if even the most enthusi- astic annexationists are not sick of the bar gain withiu two or three years from the ratifi. cation of the treaty. e — ““Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrap’ H as been used over fifty years by milllons of motn ers for their children while Teething with pertecs success. It toothes the child. softens the gums,at- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowaly and is the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether erising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and 88k 105 Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, 20C8botia ————— CORONADO.—Atmosphere is perfectly dry. soty #nd mild, being entirely free from the mists com- mon further norch. 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