The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 12, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1897, SUNDAY. _DECEMBER 12 1807 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. ;’BELIC;TIO. OFFICE. Telephone Main 1 streets, Ban Francisco EDITORIAL ROOMS. 1422517 Clay street THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail §6 per year; per month 63 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL..... ..One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE ..908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLI NEW YORK OFFICE ...Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON @. C.) OFFIC % ...Rizgs House C. CARLTON, Correspondent. fontgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9 Hayes sireet; oven unul 9 o'clock. 615 open until 9:30 o’clock. EW. corner Sixteenth and open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open | street; open until and Kentucky sireets; open 1il9 THE CAMPAIGN OF SLANDER. HE campaign of detraction with which the charter framed by the Citizens’ Committee is being supported by a certain unspeakable newspaper hasnow reached an interesting stage. All the citizens whose names have been submitted to the Board of Election Commissioners by the regular party organizations are charged with having entered intoa conspi- | racy to stuff the ballot-boxes at the charter election. There are several hundred of these gentlemen, and according to the Charter Committee and its organ they are jointly and severally, at the instigation of the political bosses, about to commit a ditor Broderick and Attorney Creswell, Democratic mem- bers of the Election Commission, are charged with bsing ac- | cessory to this proposed crime, because they have persisted in | follow:ng the law which regulates the appointment of precinct officers. Mavor Phelan and Tax Collector Block are lauded for their announced willingness to violate the same law in the interest of the Charter Committee’s ticket. Thus we have pre- sented the imposing spectacle of two officials who are willing to violate the law in the interest of a “pure’’ charter, with two who are unwilling to violate it in the interest of an “impure” and hundred citizens who are charged in the several It has been said that no honest cause was ever promoted by misrepresentation. Tnis means that truth and honesty do not require slander and falsehood to uphold them. Yet we have before us a body of citizens claiming to possess all the virtues who gratefully accept vilification, slander, libel and falsenood as a means of forcing upon this community their peculiar views of government. Can their cause be won by such means? That 15 question we are curious to see answered. We have demanded toknow whether the committee of one hundred acknowledges the leadership of the newspaper which libels ignored, and we are ther thus practically Our demand has been e at liberty to assume that the sheet referred to is the committee’s organ. We have told the members of ittee that their o is lackmailer; thatits proprietor once signed Southern months of edi after twent entire city. this comn n a convicted contract with the $30,000 for thirty ic Railroad monopoly te accey srial silence, and t tract was brokan -two months of payment; bave toid them that their organ would sell them out at the first opportunity and that 11s effort to cornnect the non-partisan freeholders with the bosses and corporations was simply an effort to repeat the railroad contrect performance; we have told them that assoc: ation with such a sheet could not fail to bring shame and di grace upon them, for a bood!ler that will not stay bought is the most despicable of ail boodlers. Yet the members of tho Citizens’ Committee continue to accept the good offices of this sheet and impliedly, at least indorse its charge that hundreds of their fell ensare rogues and ballot-box stuffers, We are anxiousto see what view the people at large wil! take on December 27 of this condition of affairs—of a combin- ation of purists led by a railroad contract newspaper and sup- ported by the adherents of ex-Boss Buckiey, whose chief claim to consideration is an ability to slander opvonents and charge | conscientious official political corruption. this cor who are trying to enforce the law with | Evidently the charier contest is going to mean a greatdeal to the peop'e of this city. If men can be elected to office by the methods which the Charter Committee has adopted, a distinct premium will be placel upon vilifica. tion as an instrument for promoting ‘“pure government.”” Is 1t possivle that tuch a verdict can be secured? We shall see, JOURNALISM AT THE CAPITAL. 8 all Ameri 1s feel an interest in the cevelopment of the national capital into a great metropolis, it is gratifying to note that with the movements there toward a fuller | artistic, educational and social lifs there has come also an energetic movement in journalism that is winning for the press of the city a high place in the front ranks of the best papers of tbe day. A striking illustration of this new spirit is to be found in the Washington Post, a paper that worthily up- hoids the standard of the most brilliant of its predece s:ors at the capital, and has accomplished a fuller measure of success than any of them. Wuile it makes a special feature of its home news, as does every other popular newspaper, it is broadly national in tone and scoype. The editor, Mr. Scott Bone, bas proven himse!f one of the ablest and most resourceful uewspaper managers of :he day; the editorial writer, Mr. Richard Weighiman, cannot be ex- celled in the art of terse and telling comment on news and politics; while the paragraph work of H. L. Merrick has won & national reputation, as his brizht incisive articies are copied from the Atlantic to the Pacific. With such papers as the Post to rouse her people at home and spread her fame aboard Washington will soon develop an individuality of marked force. It will be known as something more than the city where Congress moets. Where journalism flourishes everything must flourish, and in the success of such papers as the Post a proof is found that Washington city is at- taining the proportions of a genu ns metropoiis, whose full news is Lo be sought in her own papers for the reason that tele- graphic digests cannot d o n e o Pennsylvania is puzzled over the case of a murderer who, although under sentence to be hanged, is said to bs legally dead and henceimmune from the noose, but the lay mind, with its accustomed stupidity, fails to grasp the situation. Ifa man is alive enough 1o be kept in a comfortable cell and fed three times a day it would seem that he might be deemed alive enough to undergo less pleasing experiences. At least if the Sheriff must recognizs his prisoner as deceased, in the name of consistency he ought to cutoff the rations from him. with an appetite is an anomaly. A corpse By the side of the six days’ bicycle race at New York pu- gilism becomes humane and the footbali gridiron but a place for the gamboling of lambkins. The race is not only bruzal but senseless to the point of drooling idiocy. It can only work Jasting injury to every participant, and even the victor will get only the sort of glory of which a leather medal would be a fit- ting token. From the fact that would-be and worthy patients are being barred from the City and County Hospital it is clear thut a | after Andrew Jackson’sinvasion of that Spanish province in pur- | other part of the world. double injuastice is being done. Not only are those who shouid go in being kept out, but some are in who ought 1o be fired out and kept out. AR = i If the Supervisors continue to refuse to issue permits for bo xing contests nobody will stop to inquire if the reason is that Dusses to the events are few and hard to get. WiHY TEXAS WAS ADMITTED. HE history of shifting sovereignty in Texas further Trevcals the utter want of analogy between the cases of Texas and Hawaii. Louisiana territory, with its land- ward boundary dimly defined, had belonged alternately to France and Spain. By the treaty of St. lidefonso, in 1800, Spain ceded the province of Louisiana to France, and in 1803 France ceded that province to the United States. The indefiniteness of the landward boundary immediately caused disputes of sovereignty. The subjects of Great Britain were in posssesion west of the Yellowstone to the mouth of the Columbia, and this disputed sovereignty in that direction was not settled until Polk’s boundary treaty with Great Britain. The same dispute existed as to the westward and south- westward boundaty, including the whole Texan territory. To this, in the popular estimation, we had the same right that we had to Oregon. By our treaty with Great Britain we gave her the coast line she now occupies on Puget Sound. Had we persisted in our original contention we would have pushed the Louisiana boundary clear to Russian America, and the British possessions would not now have a port outletting on the Pa When the possession of Florida became a necessity, and | suit of predatory Indians who harbored there,the resulting trouble with Spain was settled by the treaty of 1819, by which, for the sum of $5,000,000 and the cession of our right to Texas, { she ceded Florida to us. The King of Spain delayed ratifica- | tion of this treatv until after Spanish sovereignty in Mexico was ended by the Mexican revolution. In his ratification the King admitted that the limit of time for ratification fixed in the treaty had expired. This left Spain in-the attitude of accept- ing the cession of Texas as a partof her Mexican province after she had been ousted from sovereignty to that soil. It was claimed by Benton and others that, while that part of the treaty ceding Florida was valid and complete by reason of Spain’s jurisdiction to that province remaining unimpaired, she could not take title to Texas as part of Mexico after losing jurisdiction, and that Mexico took no rights in Texas by virtue of thedelayed cession to Spain. That Texas had been considered a part of our soil between the treaty of 1803 and that of 1819 was repeatedly shown in the discussion of the issue in Congress. In 1838 Preston, Senator from South Carolina, said: “Does any one doubt® can she not rejoin the republic of the United States?” This was two years after the battle of San Jacinto and pressed the prevailing opinion that Texas was originally ours under the Louisiana cession, and its cession by the treaty of | After the acquisition of Louisiana our citizens had gone to | Texas as they went to Oregon, and remained there. They tinguished them by war and practically put the territory back | where it was under the treaty of 1 803. So, when Texas was sumed the sovereignty imperfectly surrendered in 18 19. Any one with a bit of knowledge of public and interna- fours with Hawaii. Hawaii has had autonomy, acknowledged by us since 1820. No exterior jurisdiction, extended by treaty, ing sovereignty once possessed and imperfectly surrendered by | us, but we are proposing to destroy an autonomy we have seven years. There is no power in this Government to do that by an morals to do it by {reaty with the island oligarchy. CUR COMING EXPOSITION. | | discovery of gold in California by holding an exposition of mines, and having made vreliminary arrangements to of the Siate to carry out the undertaking on a scale of such magnitude and completeness as will make the expcsition to which the exposition is to be devoted. This is the era of expositions. Every summer sees one or the most popuiar of public enterprises, and yet so frequent | have they become that unless some special excellence is vro- something out of the ordinary to make ous exposition notable throughout the nation. We must put into it the glow and the the richness and the amplitude of California resources. That our exposition is to be held in midwiater is in itselt can successfully open and conduct such an entertainment at that season. That much our climate does for us, but that sition will draw no more than the tourist travel and attract to | us only the idlers who wish to spend a winter of comfort in the pleasure of the season. We must provide an exposition that will make San Fran- in mines and mining, whether in California, Ala ska or any ‘We must make an exhibit that means mining resources of the Greater West, and exhibit to the visi- tor every eppliance modern ingenuity has devised for mining ‘We shall fall far short of the opportunity before us if we do not make the exhibit something more than a form of celebrat- tion of all our resources, a prospectus of the developwent that is to be. demands of the time it will go far to redeem for us the Alaskan | trade we are now in danger of losing. Among the thousand are many who know nothing of the country and nothingof the industry. These per-ons will be very glad to avail themselves industry before entering upon their venture, and if our exposi- tion is rightly carried out and rightly advertised we shall draw | look upon our show, but to purchuse supp'ies and equip them selves for the Alaskan venture. trade is the tesk of winning investors to the gold mines of Cal- mfornia and her sister States. Every county in California is ! mining counties are particularly so. Each county therefore should contribute its quota to the exposition. All should share that Texas could rejoin the republic of Mexico? Then why | the treaty of separation between Texas and Mexico, and ex- 1819 was defective. denied the rights of Mexico to the territory, and finally ex- admitted as a Stats by joint resolution in 1845, we simply re” tional law will see at once that at no point is the case on all has ever destroyed that autonomy. There we are not resum- recognized, acknowledged and made treaties with for seventy- act or resolution of Congress. There is no right in policy or AVING decided to colebrate the semi-centennial of the that end, it now behooves the people of San Francisco and | worthy of the State, the occasion and the magnificent industry more of them open in Europe and in this country. They are vided in each particular one it fails to attract. We must do giovy of California gold, the snap and vigor of California life, an attraction. Noother land in the norihern temperate zone much is not enough. Ii it is to be the chief feature, the expo- the sunshine with something in the way of novelty to add to cisco this winter the gathering place of all who are interested business for business men. It should set forth fully the rich | either in our own land or in any other. ing the discovery of zold in 1849. We must make it an exposi- If the exposition is carried out on a scaie suitable to the i who intend to engage in Alaskan mining in the spring there ol a chauce to study a comprehensive exposition of the mining to our city a great host of people, who will come not meraly to ! Not less important than that of drawing to us the Alaskan more or less interested in this phase of the exposiiion, and the in the work, for all will share in the benefit, Orne Bpanish orator has been foaming at the mouth and chareing that the people of the United Stales instigated the re- call of Weyler. Well, they tried to instigate it anyhow, and it they could have instigated a projsct whereby Weyler coula have been backed agains: a wall and numerously perforated they would have done that, too. S Pl i Yellow journalism has been trying to make a hero outof a vrofessional criminal, which is a surprising fact only from the grade of criminal chosen. Tne man is a vulgar and chronic thief, whereas vellow journalism dearly loves a murderer and is never happier tban when deputizing some of its feminine talent to crown him with halos. Liitle is known of the histrionic ability of the admiral’s daughter who has just taken to the stage, but she already spells ber name Edythe, which is no small step toward fame, FIFTY THOUSAND MORE. RIGHTENING prospects, reviving trade and increased B activity in all departments of California life have shown themselves in the demand for space in the New FEra edition of Tue Carw and 1n orders for copies. To supply this demand and meet these orders it has been found necessary to prepare for uing 50,000 copies in addition to the 30v,000 originally proposed, and to expand the number from sixty to seventy-two pages. This grand edition is to be in every respect a Californian paper. Itistobe devoted to an exposition of the new erain California by Californian writers and artists. From the paper on which it is printed to the beautiful art work with which it will be itlustrated, all will be accomplished by Californian in- dustry, skill, talent and enterprise. It will be an edition which our pecple can take a just pride in sending to the East, or to Europe, as an evidence of what California can do in the way of journalism, : It must be borne in mind that the edition is to be of the new era in character as well as in name. Itsseventy-two pages are not to be fillea with descriptions of matters that have been rendered stale to the public by being written up every holiday- season. It will deal with existing conditions, with the feat- ures that are characteristic of the present tim:, with industries that are alive and growing, with enterprises that are advancing by leaps and bounds under the stimulus of the ardent aspira- tions and sanguine hopes of & vigorous peopla cheered by the { dawn of a new prosperity. The opportunities that now show themselves in California are many and promising. They have attractions for capital- ists, for home-seekers, for men of enterprise of all kinds. The New Era edition of Tue CArLn will make th opportunities known to all the world., It will snow what California has done, isdoing and can be expected to do. It will be a sum- mary of Californian resources and development thav can be read with profit as well as interest in every part of the Union. At the present time the issue is designed to consist of 350,000 copies, but the limit is not fixed at that sum. Whatever be the number required the edition will be made equal to the demand. Eviry voter in California is to have one, aud thou- sands beyond the borders of the State will also receive copies. The enterprise grows as it advances, and by next Sunday we may have occasion to announce again that the big edition will be augmented in the number of coptes of the first issue by 50,000 more. Anythbing el been an outrage. than the conviction of Allais would have The facts were clear, the law explicit, the guilt self-evident. Yet failure to convict would not have been a surprise, for in formulatling decisions Police Judges have been known not to permit themselves to be influenced by law or fact. Rumors that Mrs. Luetgert, for whcse murder Luetgert is on trial, is still alive, continue to project themselves into the situation. If true the woman is certainly so mean a specimen of heartiessness that it becomes a wonder her husband, thu shown to be innocent, was not guilty long ago. Hayti seems to think that Uncle Sam shou!d have fought ber battle for her, but the basis of this opinion is not clear. Uncle Sam is not noted for wearing chips on his own shoulder, and as in such asdo prance around thus equipped seems to have little to offer but advice. Spain has been greatly cheered by reports of a victory over the Cubans. It seems that there were 3000 soldiers against 230 | insurgents, but the latter could not have been feeling well, for while not accustomed to yielding to such trifling odds they bad to give up. The remar kable features of the “fears” lest Germany or England should annex Hawaii are that no such fears exist, and that anybody has nerve enough to think it possible to make anybody else think they do. Kansas quietly boasts of progress, but when school children there, aged zbout 14 years, attempt to Iynch one of their num- ber there can hardly be any doubt that Kansas has struck almost too swift a gait. —— Mr. Allender’s suggestion that murderers be hangea early in the morning is not bad, but there shou'd be an early date as well as an early bour. After all Clevelaud is still a notable citizen. When he hunts ducks the country continues to be informed about it. That New York barber who "has collected insurance on at least fo ur wives ought to be abated. He is an epidemic. THE RANCH BOY’'S STORY. Denver Post. That city gal at our house: by Jinks, but It was fan To hear the awfol things she sall an’ see the things she dons! She didn’t bave uo savey of a ranchin’ life a bit, AD’ kep’ us Kids & lafiio’ till I thought we'd havea fit! She sald the icosters’ Crowin was thelr morniug soug, an’ when The spotted calf was baw:in’ an’ a trampin’ "round e pen S he sald it wasa gHevin’ 10r the absence of 1is maw— A’ ignoranter creetur’ than she was I never saw ! M aw ca ught her in the kitchen with a bowl o' cream, an’ there She stood a stuTin’ at It in & woy to raise your bair, An’ when maw asked what fur, she said In voice as fing as silk She’s stirrin’ butter in it fur Lo make some buttermilk. S he talked about the hosses bein’ steeds with shiny coats, Aw’ asked me If the burros wasn't Rocky Mouutaln goats, An’ when the turkey gobbled I jest thought fur cer:ain that T'd flummix when sbe asked me what that goose was laughin’ at! One day she said she would really like to milk a cow, It 1'd be 30 obligin’ as to edicate her how, A 1’ 50 1drove ol Cherry in a corner of the fence An’ told her fur to hunker at’ git ready to commence. She grabbed vne of the pickles rry In her fist, An’ when the milk came squirtil onest thought 1'd fist Fall dow n an’ dle a laftin’, it wa trazeous fua To see her grab her skirts up 1o b d an’ scream an’ run! But all the same I liked her, fur she sald Abe Lincoln, he Was once acountry rooster iist as ignorant as me, An’ inthe futur’, maybe, if I tried I might bs seat To Le & congress feller or to be the president. But 1 have bin & thiokin® when it comes to ignorance, Mine stackin’ up with her'n ain't a triflia’ circumstance; I tell you, honest injun, jist as 1I’ve bin tellin’ maw, ignoranter creet e was is seldom saw. WAS BOWEN CAST OUT BY THE MORMONS ? SAN FRANCISCO, December 11, 1897. To the Editor of the San Francisco Cali—DEAR SIR: On December 5 THE CALL publisbed a dispatch from Sait Lake headed “Cast Out by the Mormons.” The leaders of sald cburch are charged with expel. ling from the church one of its members, a Mr. Bowen, for having aided & nou-Mornion office-secker in opposition to a Mormon candi- date. The article further says: “The leaders of the Mormon cburch are in a position to either prove that Bowen was expelled for ressons other than have been stated or order his reinstatement. Failure in either case will but confirm the ides that is now prevalent through- out Utah that the manifesto of the leaders was issucd merely as a blind.” Inreply we will sey: The manifesto issued » few years ago | declares that ecclesiastical authority will not be exerted to direct the votes of members contrary to thelr will, but it has been left for anti-Mormons of recent date 1o interpret it thus: The Mormon offi- cials have 1o right to direct in their own ecclesiestical affairs. The facts in the present case sre: Mr. Bowen wes scing as a teacher in the churcn. A teacher is an assistant 1o the bishop, sub- ject to his order 10 be called inio service or dismissed at will. The oty of a teacher is to visit the members in the church and endeavor 13 assist in maiutsining bharmonious and broineriy relations one with another. Now _if this officer does mnot eunjoy the iull confidence of his brothes and sisiers he is at once disqualified for tuesejduties. Those acquainted with the proceeatings of Mr. Bowen saw evidence that he had resorted to rather low tactics and was trying to use his ecclesiastical position for pclitical pur- poses. These people, knowing that his actions were unchristian,ike and contrary to the tenets of the church, ceased to respect him in his position as a teacher, Then the only thing for the bishop to do was 1o release him from these duties. In what way snall our leaders act? 1f they have to do with political sffairs, breaking their pledee, they are open 1o criticism; but ii, on the other hand, they put down ec- clesiastical interference in politics, should they in turn be vpen to the censure of nnlbhlolmons’; We undersiaud that Mr. Bowen isa member in & quorum of seventy and still retains his standing in the same, 88 well us his membership in the church. There is no cause for alarm. The flag of unsullied freedom still waves over Utah. The institutions of this great repubiic remain there Intnct. Those who have lost faith in the Mormon bledges are those who Lope they will be broken that it may be un excuse for re- newed altacks against our people. Anti-Mormons have made and are making capital of statements and actions of Mormon oficials, when the same words and actions in any other ecciesiasiical body would be passedidly by. e have been loyalin the pust, we are ]og-l to-day; give us equal rights with ofar feilow citizens and we will b» ever joyal in the future. E. H. NyE, President California Mormon Mission, —_—eee AN OVERDUE BILL. New York Mail and Express. Now that Turkey has received & large sum of money as indemnity from Greece there is a little bill of some $200,000 due to the United States from the Turkish Government which the Sultan has been formaliy requested 1o step up and settie. This old sccount should not be permitied to run any longer, Parliculariy in vi that we need the money. oz 4 G i GHANGES IN ARMY UNIFORMS. Great chauges ara to be made in the dress uniform of the army and distinotive uniforms are to provided for the several branches 0 the service, says the New York Sun. The cavalry will receive attention first, because its present dress uniform is unsuitable for tae work, and because it is, asin other countries, the *“show” corps of the army. Its oflicers are men who stood high in their class at West Point. The men are the dandies of the service, a superior class of men, who take pride in their appear- ance and spend part of their pay in having their dress uuiforms refitted, and sometimes, it is said, replaced with uniforms of better cut and materfal than those supplied by the Government contractor. PROPOSED ARTILLERY HEAD-DRES +0n parade and for ceremonies the cavalr y now wears a heavy and ugly helmet, about as unsuitable for a rider as the bearskin hatof a drum-major. The trousers worn are not riding trousers. and the vellow facings scarcely serve to relieve the plainnes s of the dark blue coat. The change to a hussar uniform, with its black fur busby, tight tunic, braided scross the breast, riding tronsers and Hessian boots, will put our fine cavalry on a par with the English, French, German aud Austrian cavaliry. ‘Itisalmost inevitable that the uniforms of the fnfantry and aruilery will elso be mede more attractive (o bring them up to the smartness of the cavalry. As stated, chenges in their headgenr are probable. The suggestion that for the artillery there should be adopted a busby similar to those worn by our cavairy in the Revoiution is warmly apvroved by many officers. This busby, an faverted bowl of felt or metal, fits the nead snugly and will not fall off during rapia riding or driving. Surmounted with an adap- tion of the Indian crest or headd it would be distinctively American. The busby is 1ot worn anywhere in the world at present, which gives it great merit in the eyes of those who do not like 1o see our soldiers dress like foreigners. One curious effect of he change of uniform in the army will be thatit will causc a change in_the dress uniform of 100,000 guards- men sooner or later. The officers of every State in the Union and a majority of the men wear uniforms strongiy resembling the uniforms of the army, and s State laws in most of the States and usage in them all require that the State troops conform'to the dress, drill and qis- cipline of the army, cbanges from their present uniforms are inevitabe, | 'WALES WEARS A BRAGELET. { S A | For whom dces Albert Edward wear the bracelet? An X-ray | “skiagram™ of the Prince’s left hand, which is now being published | by the London illustrated papers, and a copy of which is given here- with, shows that the heir apparent wears a ring on the little finger ot Tbe X:-Ray Photograph That Betrayed the Prince of Wales’ Bracelet. his left hand and a bracelet around his left wrist. The hand is said to be a sound aud heslthy one and the bones are well formed. The bracelet seems to be a small one, bu: it undoubtedly has a history which wou'd be interesting reading. Some years ago the wearing of bracelets was a short-lived iad h “roung men about town,” but the Prince is now an oid *‘man about town,” and yet he still sticks to his bracelet. NOTES ABOUT NOTAELES. J. W. Bouton of New York owns a lifesize portraitZo! Major John Andre. The portralt wes picked up in a second-hand sbop in London, and was painied by Andre himself. Professor George H. Darwin, son of the famous Darwin, who is lec- turing in this country on the tides, saysit willnot pay toutilize them asamotive power. A smeil mountain siream would furnish more power than the rise and fall of ten oceanic liners, Neale and Johneon, English cxplorers in Rhodesis, are convinced of the truth of pative stories that somewhere in the African wilas stands a great bullding with massive stone doors, which have not been opened 1n Tecent centuries. The Englishmen believe It is a Ph enician structure and they will try to come at it. Kurt Dewischelt, 8 German scholar. claims that the early quarto editions of Shakespeare’s plays were piratical editions printed from shorthand notes taken in_ the theaters, that the shortihand system used was that of Timotby Bright, and that innumerablie contradic- tions between the quartosand the first authorized edition can be easily explained by the defects of the shorthand system and its writers. A HISTORICAL PARALLEL. New York Commercial Advertiser. There is new rumor of a sanguinary conflict between French and British troops in the Lagoes hinterland; thatis, the part of ihe Niger ments insist that their troops are nnder strict otders to avoid conflict, both have been rushing expeditions into the disputed territory and hurrying re-enforcements to their nearest base of operations. There is a curious similarity between these obscure skirmishes in the heart of Africa and the years of petty conflict between the French and Eng- 1ish in the woods and on the waters of North America a century and a balfago, out of which grew the seven years’ war apd the transfer trom France to England of one empire in Americaand another in Asa, and in which our colonists were trained for the revolutionary struge gle and the fouuding of the great western republic. Probably no ¥even years’ war will grow out of the obscure skirmishes in Afric. Trade and dipiomacy take the place ol baitle in this century, but the actual outcome of the commercial and diplomatic struggle tor parii- tion of Africa may resemble that of the eighteenth-ceniury siruggle for North America ana India. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. . New York Press. The average parents are a great improvement on their children. No girl over 27 can possibly be as old and as innocent as she thinks she looks. Probebly whenever Robinson Crusoe loocked at his parrot he thought of nis wite. Assoon as a moth tastes a sex-problem story she begins to turn up her nose at campnor balls. Every man wheu he prays for a thing hasa sneaking inclination to tell the Lord that he would do as much for him. Most women that have husbands go through life with the idea that a bachelor necds reformiug just because he is. THE COUNTRY IS SAFE. Washington star. The news which comes from Maine that a large number of sardine- canning firms have suspended business because of a scarcity in the herring supply is comperatively unimportant. 8o long as motives and iacilities for tampering with the pumpkin pie do not present themselves the bulwarks of American Juxury may be considered safe. Valley in dispute between these two nations. Though both Govern- | PERSONAL Dr. C. H. Gibbons of Jackson is in town. Professor Driver and wife of San Jose are at the Lick. F. H. Minor, & lumberman of Arcata, is at the Grand. E.H. Campbell of the United States navy is at the Baldwin. . . Hicks, & merchant of Tacoma, is at the California Hotel. A. P. Glidden, a contractor of Madera, is fn town on business. H. Hirschel-Cohen, & merchant of London, 15 at the Palace. Judge S. Soloa Holl of Sacramento wasin this eity yesterday. R. F. Watson, & mining man of Marysville, is at the Palace Hotel. H. Thompson of Terra Haute, Ind., is & guest at the Cosmopolitan. Ross E. Sargent, & Stockton capitalist, registered at the Russ. W. T. Alexander, an attorney of Tacoma, ., 1s at the Palace. E. Starkweather, a capitalist from San Jose, 1s at the Cosmopolitan. S. Migliavacca, a wine merchant of Napa, is registered at the Baldwin. Dr. J. Miller Moore of the United States navy 18 & guest at the California. Colonel A. J. Perry of the United States army is & guest at the Occidental. w. s, a Virginia City miner, is spend- fng a few days in the city. W. B. Morris, s fruitraiser of Santa Clars, is at the Russ with his wife. R. Althul, n banker of Los Angdles, is spending & few days in the city. J. L. 8perry, the well-known hotel-keeper at the Big Trees, is at the Occidental. H. G. and A. M. Laage are here from Los Ah- geles, guests at the Cosmopolitan, Captain Cooper of the British ship Royal Forth is a guest at the Occidental. Hiram Johnson, a mine-owner from Breck- inridge, Colo., is a guest at the Russ. W. W. Middlecoff, a grain dealer of Btock- ton, isspending a few days in the city. George Mainhart, a mine superintendent of Grass Valley, is registered at the Grand. Grant Mays and A. F. Hemphill, merchants of The Dalles, Or., are at the Lick House. J. Shoemaker, who is interested in mining property in Grass Valley, is at the Grand. H. B. Hall and A. P. Johnson, miaing men of Sonora, Tuolumne County, are in the city. A. D. Scroggy of the Alaska Commercial Comvsny of Seattle registered at the Baldwin yesterday, E. W. Morgan, a merchant from New York, is paying the coast a visit and is registered at the Palace. E. T. Mills, a manufacturers’ agent, returned recently from Los Angeles and reports busie ness brisk there. W. H. Snedaker, general agent of the Rio Grande and Western Rasilroad, returned from | Los Angeles yesterday. John Kernell, the Irish comedian rom the Eest, who will appear at the Orpheum, is reg- istered at the Balawin. James Hermaun,a hop merchant, returned yesterday from the East with his wife. They are staying at the Cnlifornia. Dr. W. H. Davis of Detroit, Mich., = member of the drug firm of Park, Davis & Co., arrived here yesterday and is stopping at the Palace. Mrs. Wiiliam C. Gates came up from Los Angeles to join her husband, “Swiftwater Bil” of Klondike fame. They are at the Baldwin, D. Bashac and wife, accompanied by Mr. and | Mrs. James McCoal, all of Walla Walla, who have been touring the State, sre at the Cos- mopolitan. Attorney-General W. F. Fitzgerald, who for the past few months has been in Weshington looking after the State’s interests 1 murder cases, will return next Wednesday. Senator A. § Chapman, owner of the Taylor mine and several other valusble mining prop- erties, arrived in this city last might from Bonora, where he has been looking aiter mining interests. Harry Hamilton, contractfng freight agent of the Chicago and Northwestern Raiiroad, resigned yesterday. He left for the East last night and it is presumed that he will give his services to some other road. He was with the Chicago and Northwestera for & number of years. CALIFORNIANS IN CHICAGO, CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—At the Great Northern— Max Kohn, Lester T. Morse, San Fraueisco; J. L. Pendleton, Saratoga; st the Wellington W. T. Bowers, San Francisco; at the Auditor- ium—R. Baliour, San Francisco; =t the Au torium Annex—J. Parce and wife, Mrs. Fior- ence Ward, Miss Ferguson, San Francisco; Captatn and Mrs. Charles P. Low, Miss Low, Santa Barbara; at the Palmer—V. Clatchy, Sacrament CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—J. M. Underwood, San Francisco, National; W. H. Coleman and wife, Los Angeies, and M. Manasee, San Fra cisco, St. James; S. H. Bethea, Dixon, W | lard’s: Sam 5. Green. manager of the Hotel and Wine Reporter of San Francisco, Shore- | ham. iTOO MANY NAMES IN THE PRAYER. London Figaro. | _A little four-year-old girl was saying her prayers the other night, and after her “Now I iay me” esked God 10 bless her papa, mamma, cach one ol herbrotbers and sisters and Mr. and Mrs. Black, mentioning alady and gentle. man of whom'the child wes very fond, who had dined with the tamily that night. Her wise older sister of 6 yeurs listened criti- ically 10 the prayer, and when it wes done s severely: Lisn’t necessary to pray for any one out- side your own famiiv. You shouldn’t haye preyed for Mr. and Mrs. Ble God might gels0 many name WAGE FAVORS WELCOME. New York Mail and Fx;ress. An increass ranging from 5 (o 20 per cent fn the wiges of 15,000 employes of the Missourt | Pacific Railroad isa gratifying token of busi- ness improvement in the vast region tributary to thai extensive system. It proves that the roads are enjoying a growing trafic at rates which justify higher prices for lhbor, and it means ihat these great corporations are ready and willipg to advance wages as rapidiy as business wiil permit. The action of the Mis. | souri Pacific is an assurance that railway (n. { terests are rapidiy approaching a shoreughly sound condition GREAT SHEARING OF LAMBS. Chicago Inter Ocean. The Transvaal Rand mines are petering out after a K-itish investment in them of $750,000,000. Tne greater part of this €normous sum is an utter loss to_the peopie who played in it. Ceeil Rhodes, Barney Bar- nato und u few othersmade big mouey; but their piles were created not by mining, but by shearing the fleeces of thousands of un- sophiscated lambs. G UILLET fcecream. 905 Larkin. Tel, East 108, e - - H. Brack, pamter, 120 kddy strass St CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend's.* et FPECIAL intormation daliy 10 manufacturars, business houses and public men by ths Prags Clipping Bureau (Alien's), 510 Montgomery. * e e “GOLDEN FOPPIES,” ‘‘Chinese,” “California Girl,” and all otner calendars, Christmas cards, photographic views and souvenirs for the holidays at Sanborn & Vail's, 741 Market,* e Hospital Day in Our Churches. An interdenominatiopal conference of the ministers of this cily 1s called to meet at the Youag Men’s Christian Association, corner of i Mnmn;nd Ellis streets, Monday, Deeember 2 P. M. The purpose of the conference is to agree upon & Sulurday aud Sunday when an annual coll-ction shali be taken in ail places of worship for the benefit of the hospitals having iree beds. To this meeting are invited the ministers of whatever {aith or creed. It 1s aesired to establisha bhumane and charitable custom, which shall RpYel\l to the whole city, representation is expected. el e Princess Beatrice hascomuleted an oratorios which will be executed early next year. SLman o e B £rop that cough with Low’s horehound cough syrap, price 10c, 417 Sanscme st.® Alarge