The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 10, 1897, Page 6

6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER REPRESENTED. AN$WERS TO CORRESPONDENTS* HE PERSONAL ) ‘1 3 dsospalios -] P Mrs. H. L. Tripp is here irom Sauta Rosa. T HE ROM ANGE OF POVERTY' THE SEASONS—E. <; M,, eity. Cmm:::nn:: : 1 y four seasons —spring, summer, au jc HE appearance of a State officer from California as alob | Dr. L M. Procter of Placervilie is in town. lg;x" n:du:‘mm.p — i a ton i i i ic George E. Goodman Jr. is at the Palace from “OI course, dear,” he said, “I like to see you dressed &5 you are now, with that pretty thing s S5 i Tl o fiina; FRIDAY.... i ..DECEMBER 10 1897 k-});:s‘stor .[:nn:xa(.:lon = V_Vashmg;on ls;lpubh' _sctan.lraI; Hap about your neck, the soft lace and the flowers. I wouidn’t have those lovely hands, with their m’;‘\'—":g:‘s’;';m“, SR L T T e e PRIDAY ...oocuconcmeeniontosemnarenensoneeece e e State Labor Commissioner, whose office consists o! s JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propriztor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. 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EN may become so great that quarrels between them are M of public concern, and to see the quarrel assuaged, the heated passlons cool, and each weeping upon the neck of his erstwhiie enemy, is a benison and a joy benign. Asit was with Richelieu and the Duke of Lorraine so with Napoleon and Ney. History has no episodes more gladsome than the record of the spectacles they afforded while dancing nimbiy upon the grave wherein had been buried the hatcher. So also with Gunst and Lees. History is merely at its old trick of Nothing could be more touching than these moaern giants of affairs, even as the giants of olden time, capering a duet above the tomb where hate and bickering. duly deceased, molder to forgetfuluess. repeating itself. Thai Gunst and Lees have “made up” is no longer a secret. That they bave, figuratively, exchanged the kiss of reconci:ia- tion and good-will bas been heralded to a delighted world that with reason had been trembling for its own weliare. Nolonger does Gunst opine that Lees isentering dotage. No longer is Lees firm in the convicti that Gunst is losing such mind as No. Each is certain now e other is a pentieman, an upright citizen, a model cial, and each respects the judgmentoi the other. Itis better so. Iow could a Chief of Polica enter heartily into a contest with crime knowing that a Commissioner of Police had spat upon his (the Commissioner’s) hands, andjwiti a wicked look in his eye was reaching for theax? H ow could a Commissioner, determined to suppress gambling and kindred evils, be c onfident of success while the Chief had wires to pull and a neck to protect from sudden severing? The thing was impossibie. Not only was concern widespread lest wrong- doers be given too much show, but there was danger that in the excitement one or both of the gentlemen might bursta lung or vessel of biue and boiling blood. But with the smack sealing tneir mutual forgiveness apprehension vanished, THE CALL congratulates Gunst and Lees ana everybody. But it hores that neither the party of the first part nor the party of the second part will be found lingering in the vicinity of the grave on whose fresh mound they now cavort so gayly. There’s such a thing as grave robbery, and the hatchet might be dug up. THE “111TIE WHITE CZAR” N the course of an article in a contemporary an advocate of the charter {reeholders nominated by the Citizens’ Com- mittee of One Hundred says the charge that, if elected, those freenolders will constitute the Muayor a “little white 'isa “sham cry” and ‘an absolutelv false statement.” The writer then quotes the Merchants’ view as authority for the assertion tiat the charter framed by the Citizens' Commit- tee, and which it is supposed their freeholders will adopt if elected, contains no “little white czar’’ or any other kind of a czer, black or yellow. He admits, however, that in the charter the Superintendent of Streets, and Surveyor, at present elecied, are merged into the Board of Public Works, which wili be appointed by the Mayor, and that that official will also appoint the commissions set up to administer the Fire, Police, Health and KElection depart- ments ‘“‘now in the hands of the Governor.” Asa matter of faci, the Fire Commissioners are not now appointed by the Governor. Thaz official sclects but two of them. Nordoes he appoint Police Commissioners, except in case of death or resig- nation. The Election Commission is and always has been elected by the people. But we would like to have the writer of this article explain, if he can, exactly what there would be left of the government of San Francisco after the Mayor had appointed the Board of Fublic Works, the Police, Fire and Health boards and the Elec- tion Commission? A politician in control of those departments, even under “civil service,” would not eniy dominate the per- sonal interests of upward of 2000 of the most active and ener- getic men in San Francisco, with all their friends, relatives ana dependants, but he would actually be in possession of the elec- tion machinery of the city and the ballot-boxes., The power thus centralized would be easily worth 20,000 votes, for through the Police Department the Mayor could contro! the saloon e'e ment, which is usually good for 10,000 votes alone. Whatever may be the result of the election on December 27 the members of the Charter Convention of One Hundred may set one thing down as settled: No organic law will ever be adopted by the people of this city which contains a political boss such as has been created by ibe instrument under discus- sion. Therefore, it is a waste of time tor ihe people to vote for freeholders pledged to adopt or favor any such charter. Three charters with “little white czars” in them have already been overwhelm:ngly defeated at the polls. The coming election will cost some $40,000, and $2500 more will be expended in frar- ing a charter. If the taxpayers desire to throw this money away it will be a good idea for them to elect a majority of the men who have been nominated by the Charter Committee of One Hundred. Those gentlemen, it is true, have only been pledged to “‘home rule, eccnomical government and civil ser- vice reform,” but no stream was ever known to rise above its source, If elected they will undoubtedly swallow the commit- tee’s charter, “little white czar” and all. n Leaven saw fit 10 besiow upon him. that czar,” When doctors disagree matters get serious for the patient, unless they disagree so heartily that all withdraw from the case. The little tiff between twodignified gentlemen of the Su- preme Bench is somewhat analogous. The courts can tangle up the law mightily when different members diagnose the tacts and the statutes from different points of view. Whereas, il Judges were to accept the statutes as the makers intended and the facts as they exist, there would be no more monkeying (if so crude a term is permissible) with that truly great and grossly abused, intangible, elusive and fieeting quality known as Justice. In a community where laws are effective lynching can never be justifizble, and even when courts do not punish crim- inals lynching is a reproach to the people. It is to be hoped that Nevada will not further mar its fair fame by exhibitions of bruta! n.ob rule. Yetif it must do so, if the spirit of venge- ance has been aroused so that nothing but blooa will appease it, there are a lot of lyachers over there who seem to be an badly in need of hanging as anybody. An explanation from streetcar men who have the habit of spatchin: hats from newsboys would be timely and interesting, The moral difference between this act and that of picking pock- €ts is obscure. SR . It is pleasant to reflect that therz may ba a rival gas com- pany in San Francisco. The present service is bad and the meters ruling the destiny of the pocket-book altogether too agiie. salary and no duties, because the Legislature refused an appro- priation to grease a fifth wheel, is reported to be at the capi- tal urging annexation as the representative of ths State and its laborers. The fact is that labor unions, granges and commercial bodies all over the State have repudiated annexation. Com- missioner Fitzgerald’s claim is conspicuously false. No doubt he represents somebody, but it is neither the State administra- tion, of which hs is an appointed offic:r, nor any of the pro- ducers or producing interests of California. He went to Hawaii last summer as the guest of the Dole Government, pretending then that his mission was to substi- tute 50,000 white laborers from California for an equal number of Asiatics now working the sugar plantations. While he was in Hawaii a proposition developed to assess each planter a cer- tain number of barrels of sugar to be used in electing members,| to Congress from California who would support legislation favorable to the plantations of the islands. This sweetly precious political scheme was pzrhaps also in the interest of California labor ! b The Commissioner returned in due time to California, an- nouncing that he had succeeded in arranging to supplant coolie with white labor, and led everybody here to suppose that he would immediately enlist white labor and bsgin sending it to Hawaii. It soon appsared, however, that the announcement of his intention to do so was all there was of the scheme, for it was never heard of afterward. It is evident that he went and returnsd under cover of an official pretense, and that the business that occupied him was far away from the announced purpose of his mission. His presence in Washington is covered by another pretense. It is proclaimed that he is there to induce Secretary Spaulding to order that California material be used in the Federal buildinz in this city. As that was already determined, and there is no intsntion to use any other material, the only issue being between marble and granite, this pretense is disposed of. He is said to also intend to get Con- gress io amend the eight-hour law. As we have a delegation in Congress to attend to that, and its members have not asked the assistance of this Commissioner whose office consists of a salary and a letter-head, it is safe to say that betterment of the eight-hour law will get no more help from him than did the substitution of white labor in Hawaii. His real purpose in Washington is to aid the annexa- tion speculators. The Governor should take official notice of the scandal, and recall him to his official duty of drawing his salary orremove him from an office in which his neither ornate nor uss{ul. FINANCIAL REFORMS. N line with the party platform and in sympathy with the support that came to his candidacy from outside his party Iincs the President treats the issue of financial reform in his message frcm a sound and scientific standpoint. The Presi demand obligations of the treasury, saying: “T e Government money now outstanding consists of $246,651,016 of United States notes (greenbacks), $107,793.280 0* treasury notesissued by autbority of the law of 1590, $384,963, 504 of silver certificates and §61 280,761 ot standard silver dol- | lars.” This is the most important official declaration yet made since the administration came in. It recognizes the siandard treasury as a redeemable form of currency to the smount of the difference between its nominal and intrinsic value. This clears the financial air and makes plain a point that has, so to spesk, been illuminated with obscurity by the discussions of the fiatists. Tre round the treasury is plain and practical. The demand obliga- tions of the Government in the form of greenbacks are used to comyel the treasury to supply all the gold needed in our inter- national finance. The Government has no gold revenues, there- fore when its reserve in that metal is depleted it can obey the law only by buying the needed gold with a bond issue bearing interest. The President’s policy in effect 1s that when a Gov- ernment note is redeemed in gold it shall stay redeemed until gold replaces it in the treasury. Toaccomnplish this requires changes in the law which Congress must consider. In effecting such reforms it will be seen 1bat it is entirely consistent with the President’s views to make redemption final, with the result of leaving gold in the hands of the people instead of storing it in the treasurv. The $157,000,000 now i n the reserve, or redemption fund, if outside tbe treasury and in circulation, would be an ample store for the banks to use in gold payment, and would enable them to take the place of the Government in supplying gold needed for export in the natural and healthy processes of trade. The President recognizes the vicious and dangerous sympathy vetween public and private creait) He well says: “If we are to have an era of prosperity in the country, with sufficient receipts for the expenses of the Government, we may feel no immedaiate embarrassment from our prisent currency : but the danger still exists and will be ever present, menacing us as jongas the present system continues, And, besides, it is in times of adequate revenues and business tranquillity that the Government should vrepare for the worst.” This is a needed trumpet call tosummon out of their in- difference the business men of the country. A few months ago the cepletion of the gold reserve in the treasury put pri- vate credit everywhere in peril, and the business classes were clemori for reform legislation on the lines now laid down by the President. But the repletion of the gold reserve, mainly by the bond issue of less than a year ago, and a favor- able rate o exchange and a trade balance in our favor as against the rest ¢f the world, have temporarily assured the pubiic credit, and private credit, feeling the tonic, has forgot- ten its past weskness, and the few who are urging that the President’s recommendations be heeded and tbat the promises of the varty pluiform be redeemed are finding it difficult to command the attention of those who were recently so nervous and noisy and fearful of the danger which the executive now warns them still exiets, —— It is sad of course to realize that French and German sol. diers have lately been killed in Africa by crude and unanpre- ciative natives. Such episodes interfere with the march of that benizn civilzation which is wont to blaze its way with bayonets and mark its trail with the blood of the other fellows. Still, there 15 a grain of mitigation in the thought that the slaught- ered expeditions were morally on the plane of hizhwaymen; that they were bent 0n tneft, with such incidental marder as mizht be essential to the obtaining oi loot. Eventhe benighted Afr.cin knows enough 10 realiz3 that he is being robbed, and if nis intelligence does not reach the standard of grasping the ct that be was made for this purpose, possibly he shonld not be too barshly condemned. As the Eraminer prides itself on its deteciive ability it shonld not overlook the chance of winning $500 by finding out and exposing the rascal who has been distributing anonymous c.rculars, to the annoyance of honest men and the peril of his own soul. New York papers speak in the highest terms of a San Fran. cisco play tried there, and then r cord the fact that the play failed. Thisissimply a method they have of calling their own town jay, without employing any offensive terms. It is neat aad effective. It may re remarked that the displeasure the Spanish feel over the President’s message is not indicative of any weakness in that document. If the displeasure wore more keen or wide- spread people of the United States would really be glad of it, Perhaps, after al, the Turks areless heartless than gen- erally supposed. True, they recently captured novelist Robert Barr, bur they let him go again without attempting to exact a ] promise from him not to write any more. dent takes a significant advance step in his summary of the | silver doliers 23 part of the demand opligations upon the | President’s statement of the difficulties which sur. | W. J. Scheider, & merchant of Oroville, isin the city. E. K. Smart, a lumber-dealer of Dutch Flat, is at the Grand. Professor Julius Goebel of Stanford was in this city vesterday. Louis Gerlach, a Stockton capitalist, and wifeare at the Grand. Guy Mete: merchent of Providence, R. L, Is visiting the coast. L O. Stephens, ex-Coroner of Fresno, isat the Grand with his wife. Jesse D. Carr. the millionaire cattleman of Salinas, 1s at the Occidental. G. N. Stanley, a hotel man of Detroit, Mich., is registered at the California. H. Levinsky, one of Stockton’s promineat lawyers, is at the Grand Hotel. S. E. Holden, a Napa banker, is in the clty. He is accompanicd by his wife. F. Williams, a miring man of Sonora, is spendiug a few days at the Li C. A. Campbell and E. S, Griffith, merchants of Sacramento, are at the Palace. Professor F. J. Taggart of the Stanford Uni- versity is at the California Hotel. J. F. Carriere arrived from Los Angeles yes- terday, and is at the California Hotel. D. A. Waldo, a prominent merchant of Red- lands, is registered at the Cosmopolitan. G. W. Burchard, an attorney of San Jose, registered at the Grand Hotel yesterday. B. McGlinley, a mining man from Butte, is at the Baldwin. Heis accompanied by his wife. Thomas Fitch Jr., a leading attorney of Stockton, is at the California, accompanied by his wife, Dr. D. I. Burkhart and wife came down from Scattle yesterdey. They are staying at the Russ House. Fred Mason, a Sacramento fruit man, rived here yesterday, aud is regisiered at tue Grand Hotel. Allen W. Etter, & merchant of Redding, came here yestexdmy with his wife. They are at the Baldwin. O. J. Feirbanks, a capitalist of Petaluma, eame to the city yesterday and is staying at the Russ House, J. M. Thompson, one of New York's promi- nent business men, arrived here yesterday, and fs at the Palace. 1. R. Lewls, ex-Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, arrived yesterday from San Jose with his wife. G. W. Pritsworth, wife and child, of Napa, accompanied by Mrs C. Felix, are among the guests at the Cosmopoiitan. J. G. Hamilton, oneot the lead ing merchants of Hollister, came here yesterday on business. He was accompanied by his wiie. William BeDell, passenger agent of the Penn- sylvania Ruilroad, went o Los Angeles yester- dey on business connected with his road. CALIFORN.ANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—At the Pl Me- Cartny; Sav R. Bradbury, R. T. Bradbury Jr., Miss Bradbury; Imperial—G. F. Eperhard, G. H. Eberhard, F. A. Brand; Marlborough— €. H. Moran; Hoiland—F. F. Baldwin, Miss H. W. Boss, Miss E. Crockett, C. J. Freeborn; Gilsey—Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Radgesky; Grand { Union—J, CALIFORNIANS IN CHICAGO. | CHICAGO, Dec. 9.—At the Great Northern— | J. G. McKinuey, Los Angeles; Auditorium An- | ex—L. M. Fietcner, E. R. Folger and wife, John L. Sabin, Miss Pearl E. Sabin, Charl:s L. | Ackerman, E. 8 Irwin, Willlam L. Hugh-on, { San Francisco; Leland—JI. B. Towle, R. G. | Smith, A. R. Glover, san Francisco; Welling- on—Mr. and Mrs, F. A. Shepard, Wilbur F, | Knapp, Sin Francisco; Palmer—A. C. Swain, San Francisco. | CALIFORNIANS (N WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, De born of Oa ton 9.—Congressman Hill- aud and fumily are at the Hamil- Colonel George A. Knight of San Fran- co is at Willara’s; H. Banning of Los- Angeles is at the Raleigh. AIN. The miduight rain comes pawering down, The winds are howling by, And clouds of darkness. hué and gloom Enshroud the span.e 1 sky. THE MIDNIGHT Yet. corciess [ parsu: my wa | Not heeding Nature s iown And ail witnin is brignt as ¢ 1hough rain comes pattering down. He who has learned his Maker's ways, is m.rey and His love, Can view them through tie endless mist 1nat shioudeth all above. Ay, though Lie sees the faded flower, At sutumu’s brown, Or heuwi L+, at midnicht’s lonely hour, The raln comes pattering down. The flower, he knows, will bioom agatn, And swee be the scene, When a u's russe. brown shall change To spring's enchanting gree: A <Lt wiii be the morning’s 1ight Unclouded by a frown, Thoush now, amid tnis howling night, Tre rain comes pattering down, Thus, lct us feel Thy presence, Lord, In darkness and in light, Wuen biessings shed around their bloom, LT 50rrow s cast (helr blight. And let us sti | Thy ways pur sue; Il we wear a crown, salls wmidnight dew, wes pattering down. —Anonymous. TABLE APHORISMS. 11l nature dampeneth the salt of repartee. As the sweetest cream ungathered doth turn clabbard so the cream of love, neglected, doth turn sour. As one must break through the sheil of the ezg to reach the golden yelk so mustone oft times break through tneshell of a friend’s difh- dence 1o reach his go.den heart. As the rarest wine doth turn to vinegar l\l”\l\llh neglectso doth the most exhilarating ove. As a bone in the throat taketh away the ap- preciation o! the most sppaiising dish s0 thoughtless work marreth the sweetest com- pliments. As beer too long in the drawing becometh flat and insipid so doth wit too long drawn out lose its sparkle. Mar not thy salad with overmuch of vine- gar, nor the saind of thy conversation witn overmuch sarcasm. A sauce piquant,though good with fish,would make an irritating “piece de resistance.” Be- ware thut thy entire conversation is not made up of the “sauce piquant” of personalities.— What to Eat. THE WORKING GIRL IN SOCIETY. “The social position of the working-girl is recognized, and itis with her to be a success in soclety or not,” writes Ruth Ashmore in tbe December Ladies’ Home Journal, of “The Soclal Position of the Girl Who Works.” “She is quick of wit, and she need make no mis- takes if she notes what the older women do. She will be wise if she makes for herself a iriend of some woman in society who is older than herself and who is kind of heart. But she must not presume upon this kindness. The girl who works, like the girl whose duties are in her home, must learn what tact means. ‘A well-munnered, tastefully dressed, agree- ablegitl s & social detight. Beauly is not a sociel necessity, but a desirable personality is. Therefore, make yourseif agreeable. Share your pleasures with your neighbor, and be- hoid, when your neighbor hasa joy you wiil be invited to divide it with her. Selfishness is & zirl’s social ruin. Tact, which is Society’s word for cousideration and symoathy, is the art you must cultivaie. And what is tact after all? Iiissaying and doing the right thing at tne right time and in the right place. Aand that s nothing more than you ere asked to ao by the greatest of all Teachers, ‘ihe doing unto others as you would tiey should do unto REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. No girl is really in love with a man till she thinks she wouid like to sit and watch him when he is asieep. When a girl has tried every other way with 81man she takes to telling hiia sne wishes he would make her hate him. There isn’t as pitiful » sight in the world as a woman who has once got the idea that to- bacco smoke sticks in the lace curtains. After a woman has been married two years ber husband always acts apologetic when he £1ts down next the aisie at the theater. No matter how much a woman hates a man she has once been in love with she wili never let another womau say ke is not g0od-looking. | tiny pink nails, spotled for the worid. But, don’t you know, sometimes I wish we weren't s0O well-fixed, and that we lived in four litt'e rooms—just you and I alone, together. Shut your eyes and imagine 1t. “Whep I'd come home about this time to dinner, I'd find you busy and bustling about the kitchen. Fancy how delightful it would be for me to eat the dinner you yourself had cooked, dearesi. “Your face would be rosy with the heat of the kichen, when you met me at the front door— instead of our sour-iaced, irreproachable James—and I'd take you in my arms, big gingham apron and all, and give you a good hug, out in the hall, merely as part payment, not at all to close the account. nd then we'd sit down to dinner in & box of adining-room right off the kitchen, just youand I with nary a solemn black waiter to listen and watch. You’d put things on the table yourseif, sweetheart. You'd help me and I'd wait on you, and there shut in, just us two ¢ from the whole world, we'd eat the simple meal you had prepared, and we'd eke out what our poverty denied us with a wealth of love and laughier and peaceful content. *“And thea after dinner, I'd take out my pipe and smoke, as I watched you flitting busily in and out, singing like & plump robin about your work. I'd follow you into the kitchen and while you were washing dishes and cleaning things up I'd tip back the rough kitchen chair and puff and puff—too full for utterance, of dinner and the delight of being with you undis- turbed, unwatched. “And in the evening, I suppose, we'd scheme a bit about the future and hope for a raise in wages for me and a new gown for you, eh? And we'd go off to bed early, for we'd be hard workers and early risers, “0h, I can see the dear little interior, all warm, yes and smelling cozily of dinner, every room homelike and telling its tale of living; every bit of furniture and every attempt at deco- ration a symbol of so much accomplished, so mueh earned} “Ab, the poor man’s not so greatly to be pitied. How a man must feel his home hls, his own, whnen he has worked for it, paid for it, lived it! And what a reserve of strength ana courage he must draw from that cozy little bower, where everything tLat's given him 1s due 1o his own labor or a labor of love—his wife’s. * = *" He sat awh:le looking dreamily before him, idly patting the beautiful hand that lay in his Then he missed her assent, and murmured, still hali-enthralled by his reverie: b, deare: She satsilent for a moment. and then, respending as she always did to the fullness of his every mood, she nodded. “Yes. It would be lovely. You see all day while I was busy about the house I'd be think- ing of you carrving your hod—don’t move, dear, my head is so comfortable! Yes, carrying your hod up and down the vertical ladders, whistling cheerily about your work, exchanging alau hing, ehaffing word with your red-faced comrades, merry and content despite your mortar-flecked clothes, your rough, coarse hands, your tired feet in their big brogan, and your unshaven face 'neath a shapeless hat with its down-turned brim. “0i course, dear, I love to see you dressed as you are; there’'s something about your elothes that speaks of you, not of your tailor. But after all clothes are not everything, and I'm sure Ishould love you just the same in your blouse and overalis. *‘And then you know it’s loveiy for a woman to know that everything she has she owes to her husbend’s persoual effort, not to some vague sncestor or unseen manager. Her one gown represents just 5o many journeys up and down the ladders; her simple bonaet is the fruitof a day's work spent over the scalding lime; aer boots, so many hodluls of heavy bricks, and all the rest of it. “'Really, dear, one can Imagine that such a man’s wife should be fonder of him than of a | husband whose labor consists of signing checks. Eh, dear? “And then the self-denial. Think of it. When jou'd come home cold and dirty at night—of course, vou'd have to sit on the dummy, for you’a feel yourself outof placs inside with the weil women coming home from shovping and the well-to-do business men, club men and the rest—when yowd come home having denied yourself a glass of beer or an exira pipe that I might have a pair of gloves, think what a welcome I'd give you—after yow'd gotten cleaned up. OB, 1 can just see you sputtering over your wash-up and coming into my kitchen in your great, heavy boots, your face red and shining from the wind and weather and soap, and your hair nicely slicked back! “You mightn’t be so attractive as you are now. dear, but imagine how fond a woman couid be of such & husband! You'd chop my kindling and make the fire for me on the cold wet mornings, and go errands, and eat quantiiies of food without ever dreaming ot such a thing as being fastidious. You wouidn't kuow a pate de foie if you saw one and & canvas | back would be unheard of. And you'd haye but ous suit of ciothes, ready-made, en? And on Fundays we'd go out to the park together with the crowd of people like us. And we’d come back to our li home content to begin another week, I ai home keeping things clean and | couking for you, and you at your hod—how fidzety you are to-night!—downtown somewhere, knowing nothing of teas and tueaters and concerts; with an awe of soclety, but perfectly satisfied with our station, knowing how out of the question a change was—just we two, selis sufficing, in our own narrow, little, comfy world. En, dear?” He did not answer for a moment, and looking up innocently, she repeated: ‘Wou'dn't it be idyllic, dear? Justus two, you knew. Me at home and you at your—" “Yes, yesl” he agroed, hurriedly. *Yes. Ofcourse. Iwonder what that cook means by delaying dinner! Not7? Well,any way, 'm famished. Perhapsyou can hurry her.” MIRIAM MICHELSON. FLASHES OF FUN. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Mrs. Darley—Yon are so late. You should | Rider Haggard, the novelist, has purchased | have been here two hours ego. I got so tired | Cliffit Grange, near Lowesiaff, in the south of | waiting for you. | England, as a residenc Mrs. McBride—l'm very sorry, dear, but I came as soon ss ever I could. You see, Jack geve me his cont to sew a button on this morn- ing before he went to the office. Mrs. Dariey—I see! Wers the letters 8o ine | teresting as that?—Harlem Life. The Prince of Naples, one of the best numis- matis's in Europe, has been made an bonor- ary member of the French Numismatic So- ciety. Don Livio Borghese, second son of the Roman Prince Borghese, is about to marry Mlle. Yorges, daughter of the rich Hebrew banker of Paris. “I'm sorry,” said the employe of an insu- rance company in Europe. ‘‘but we can’t sc- cept you; you're s bad ris “But you sceepted » man who was going to Cuba as a soldier for Spain.”” “That's a differcnt case altogether. ButI'll tell you what we can do. Come around after you lose your seat in the Reichsrath and we'll give you another opportuuity.”—Washington Siar. Dr. Joha Watson (Ian Maclaren), pastor of | the Sefton Park Church, Liverpool, has been | ‘“called” to the Presbyterian Church, Keu- sington, London. Heis said to be carefuliy considering the invitation. Emilo Molinier has acquired for the Louvre the collection of medieval Egyptian art work, objects in marqueterie, ininid brass, etc., formed by M. Baudry, the architect, during his residence in Cairo. *“Why did the boy stand on the burning deck?” asked an Allegheny girl, “It that’s a conundrum,” replied her friend, “I'll give it up, for I never guess conundrums. Why did the boy stand on the burning deex “Because it was too hot for him to sit down.”—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telexraph. John F. Bétz, the Philadelphia brewer, has received two thoroughbred horses from the stables of the King of Wurtemburg in return for a team of American trotters presented to the King two years ago by Mr. Betz. He—How is one to tell that a love is only Platonic? She—Oh, weli—when it develops into the other kind you can look back and see the difference.—Cincinnati Enquirer, William E. Cramer, who is the oldest editor in Wisconsin, when he first bought the waukee Wisconsin fifty years ago, wrote his own editorials, did his own reporting, hunted subscrivtions, made adverusing contracts and | ofien made up the forms for pres:. “How dreadful in Dr. Smith to marry his cook!” “I don’t know; probably she had threat- ened to leave.”—Detroit Free Press. Teacher—Of course you understand Qifference between likiug and loving? | Pupil—Yes, marm; I like my father and | motner, but I love pie.—Boston Transcript. | Besides the presents sent to the Emperor and Empress of Russia, the Negus has, through Mr. Leoutyeff and Ato Joseph,sent & hand- some gray horse to the Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich. The animal is of pure Abys- sinjan breed, resembiing in many respects the Arab horses. the | He—Why is it that men can keep secrets better than women? She—Because men generally know a lot of things which they woulan't want told on Louis Douglass ol Washington has presented | & life-sized portrait of his iather, the late Frederick Douglass, to the Bowdoin Grammar School for girls in Boston, and it has been hung up in the main schooiroom. It is saia to be the first portrait of a negro American ever hung in a public schoolhicuse north of Mason and Dixon’s line. themselves.—Brooklyn Life. “LIKE" FOR SAS B Something has already been said regarding | tne Eng.ish use of the word *like” with the meening “as if,” in such a sentence as “He acted ke he did not want to sea you,” says the Boston Advertiser. Since the criticism was made, certain examples of the use of “like” in English lierature have been sub- mitted, but in practically all cases so far brought under our notice not one has justified the objectionable use. In fact, most of the cases cited seem to bear out the criticism already made. Curiously enough, in the attempt to cite Shakespeare in support of the “‘Englishism' Among the novices on bicycles at the pres enttime may be counted the entire suite of | the Archduchess Stephanie of Austria, whose maids of honor have enrolled themselves as pupils at one of the first cyeling schools in | Vienna. Rumor attributes 1o the Arch- | duchess herself the desire of riding a tricycle, as being more comfortanle and less risky than | the volatile wheel GRANT COULDN'T SWEAR, In the second series of papers by the late | silver haif-dime of which scoms s0 prevalent across the Atlantic to-day, a number of the quotations made have been drawn from plays tnat (according to the agreement of modern critics) Shakespeare himself did not write. While perhaps it is unnecessary to review the quotations in detail, it may be said, as a resuit of the examiuation of tbe guotations culied to our atiention, that nowhere did Shakespeare with evident intention use the word “like” in the conjuuctive sense in whicn it is employed te-day by so many English writers, who 1aight ressonably be expecied to use correct diction. In this statement the Advertiser is upneld by eminent Suxzkespearean critics who have been consulted in this connection. The weight of their opinion is practically to the effcct that, while in a somewhat involved sh: teuce, Shakespeare, like some other great poeis who have written voluminously, may have been betrayed by his context into an oc- casional grammatical error, and while such errors may be aiscovered quite frequently in portions of plays not written directly by the reat poet, it is impossible to find such a plain, blunt vioiation of the prover sense of the word “like”’ as fs evident in the sentence quoted ix the first paragraph, or as may be iound in the modern novels which are open to criticism in that connection. —_— —_— For throat and lung troubles use Low's horehound cough syrup, price 10c, 417 | Sansome st. W Charles A. Dana, descriptive of the “men and events of the civil in the December number of McClure’s Magazine, a graphic por- trayal is presented of the characteristies of General Grant during the Vieksburg cam- palgn, as the persozal representative of the War Department, when Dana shared Grant's mess and often his tent. The Federal army was about 1o be transported across the Mis- sissippi from & point w Vicksburz, known as Hard Times, on the Louisiana line, to ate tack Grand Gulf, an the opposite side of the river. Mr. Dana relates the following incis dentof Grant: “Late in the evening of April 29 I left Hard Times 1o ride scross the peninsula to De Suroons plantation, where it was proposed to cmbark the troops. The nignt was pitch durk, and,as we rode side by side, General GranU's norse gave a nastystumble. 1expecied to see the general go over the animal’s head, and I watched intently, not to see if he were hurt, bui if be would show any anger. I had been with Grant dsily now for three weeks, ana I had never scen him ruffled. nor heard him swear. His equanimity was b coming & | curious spectacle to me. When I saw his horse lunge my thought was, ‘Now he will swear.' Foran instaut his moial status was ou trial; for Grant was a tenacious horseman, snd instead of going over the animal’s head as I imagined he would he kept his seat. Pull~ ing up his horse he rode on, and, to my utter amezement, without & word or sign of im- patience. Auditisa fact that though I was reference says that he is a native oi Loudon. It is not customary ing a young ludy for That iscon- Kissing—S. L. S, city. for a gentleman, on mec the first time, to offer 1o kiss her. trary to the rules of etiquette. HALF-DIMES—Mrs. F., City. The only silver that command a preminm are 794. 1795. 1796. 1797, 1800, 1801, ANSWERS T0 CORR T5—B., Santa Rosa, Cal. Theunswers that are published in “An- wers to Correspondents” in tue San Francisco Datly CALL ure trausferred to the weekly ed. tion of the paper. CoppEr ColN—M. T., Los Augeles, Cal. The copper coin of which you sent & tracing is one tnat was colned in tne reign of GeorgeIV. It does not command a premium. Such are offered for sale for 20 cents TRAINED NURS B. H., City. A person desiring to becomc & train uurse should make application a either the City and Cennty Hospital or at the Children’s Hospital and Training School for Nurs:s, in this city. TED STATES Boxps—M. H. City and W. Ocennside, Cal. All the acis s ruary 8, 1861, down _to one in 1896, authc izing the i:suance of United States bonds p vide that the principal and interest shali aid in “lawful money” or in “lawful coin ut none of these acts say in specific terms thut the same shall be paid in gold. ER AND CoprER—Coin, Oukland, Cal 1s no premium offered on copper cents 6, 1837, 1849, 1857 and 1865, nor on & 1854, A 3-cent piece of 1867 and one of 1872 command premiums ot from 27 to 33 cents, according to state of preservation. This department does not adver- tise those who are engaged in the sale of eoins. SAN FRANCISCO—A. O. €. Lodi, Cal. The city and county of San Francisco were consol: idated by an act of the Legislature, approved April 19, 1856. The boundaries are now wha: Pprior to that time was the county of San Fra cisco, and the officers elecied in the city and county have jurisdiction over every part of the territory. “There are no county judges in the City and County of San Francisco. BAGGAGE — Nimrod, City. 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