The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 14, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1897. Call DECEMBER 14 1897 TUESDAY }Oi'iN ;! SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Market and Tt phone Main 18 PUBLICATION OFFICE. “d streats, San Francisco Te EDITORIAL RCOMS... 517 Clay street Telephone Main 1874, 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 ceats. THE WEEKLY CALL. One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE ....908 Broadwey Fastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE........ ..Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (. OFFICE C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. Riggs House BRANCH OFFICE 9:30 o’clock fontgomery street, corner Clay; open until 339 Hayes sireet; open unul 9:3) o'clock. 615 open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteeath and open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. 1503 0 0'clock. NW. corner 1wenty-second open 119 o’clo ntil 9 o'cloe Yolk treet; Ker op ucky s QUESTIONS THAT MUST BE ANSWERED. HE Citizens’ Committee of One Hundred, having in hand a reform charter and a reform ticket for Kreeho!ders, is to be congratulated upon the pure atmosphere in which it is | prosecut'nz its work. Its newspaper supporter has now been | convicted of accepting money from ihe railroad on an *“adver- | 1is! coentract which there was a stipulation for thirty months of editorial silence; of theft in stealing an early copy of er from iis pressroom; of falsifying a dispatch to which was signed the name of Captain Tuttle of tha revenue cutter Bear, and of artempting to injure TxE CALL by dissemi- nating a iibelous circu under a counterfeit designation. Yet this journal is the organ of the Committee of One Hundred and is leading its campaign for a *‘reform” charter. It is the i the committee bas chosen for printing the literature of its cause, and in tehalt of the com- mittee charter it every day libels somebody and brings reproach upon the city and its citizens. rhe Committee of One Hundred business men. Msny of its membars own property 1n San F all entertain a greater or less character and future of the public to und in this p: trument which 1s composed mainly of and ancisco, interest in the Do these gentlemen wish the have accepied the leaership slanderer? If the Eraminer who could be prosecated criminally it would now be in for blackmail, petty larceny, forgery and libel. Do the members of the committee desire the pubiic to think that blackmail, forgery and libel are the moving forces in their efforts to secure a new charter for San Francisco? If they do not—and we are forcad to believe that they do not— why do they permit the Eraminer to represent them in this contest? | | | | tand that th of the Mission-street boodler and were an individual D> they think their cause is going to be promoted by such advocate? If so, why do they not apply to Warden Hale of San Quentin prison fcr more moralists able of presenting | their case to this community? The Sun Qientin bastile | abounds with men unequal 1o the task of holding up a railroad corporation, stealing copies of newspapers to obtain news, fal- | sifying telegraphic dispatches, or circainting libelous circulars 1o dumage the business of r.vals and defame a wkhole city. We are informed that the Merchants’ Association is largely responsible for creating the Committee of One Hundred. Mavor | Phelan is said to bave appointed the latter at the request of the cflicers ot that asscciation. What answer has the Merchanis’ | Association to make to tiie foregoing questions? Does Mr. Dobrmann or Mr. Freud accept the leader hip of the Mi: street boodler in this contest? on- Do they think blackmail, for- mate instrumentalities for ef. Are they proud of their con- . larceny and libel are le s in organic law? nection with the Eraminer? The people of San Francisco demand answers to these Ou every side we hear them speculating upon the fusion which has been consummated between Association, questions. the Merchants’ the Committce of One Hundred, the Buckley Democrats end the Eraminer. The sentiment gencrally ex- pressed is ons of ax An aliiance batween ths gentlemen and the Police der. z-ment. same te could not occasion more won- Can it be possib.e that the charter-makers of the Ciiizens’ Committee are 5o blind as not to see that the moral gorge of the city is going to rise against any charter advocated by the Mission-street blackmailer? Are they unable to see whenca their association is leadinzs them ? THE HAWAIIAN PROBLEM. HE Chionicle attempts to retrieve the position lost by its admission that failure of the annexation treaty carries with 1t the failure of exclus'on from the United States of the Hawaiian Asiatics. That paper says now that “‘the power to regulate the goings and comings of these people will not be lost to Congress by the failure to define it in a formal treaty with Hawaii’’ and that “itis practicable to pass a special Ter- ritorial law coverir g their case.”” WL the Chronicle please point out the clause in the Federal constitution, the deci-ion of a court or the precedent in our legisiative history that justifies the prohibitiou of freedom of all our territory to the inhubttants of any part thereo:? Tnis issue is vart of the whole probiem involved in the future polit cal staetus of the islands, if annexed. come not as a § They are to ate, nor are they to pass a Territorial novitiate. Their complex affairs require a plainly defined guvernment with legislative, executive and judicial powers. The widta of the departure from our sysiem cof government is exposed in such admissions as the Chronicle makes. It is certain that no eminent constitutional lawyer has yet found any stanaing in our jundamental law for the poitical system necessary for Hawaii as partof our domain. The Chronicle induiges in some mild child’s vlay when it talks about Hawaii draining off our Chinese !abor because wages are better in the islands than here. Here:ofore the Chronicle has published that even the Portu- euese laborers in Hawaii were paid oaly $6 per month, and Americans and Scandinavians only $10 per month. On such a tcale the wages of Chinese must be “out of sight’ indeed! The Chronicle in the sume connection admits that the island planters must have Asiatic labor to work their cane fields and josists that they must seek it in Californiz. We have said that this republic cannot afford to incor- porate with it any country in which American labor cannot exist. The foundation ani siructure of our system of govern- ment is a laboring vopulation, out of which are drawn the men who make and administer our institutions. If tne Chron- icle is telling the tru'h it is our witness to the fact that Hawaii lacks and wust forever lack this element necessary to the life of the republic. By its own statement Hawaii is by rature suited to two distinct classes, which cannot assimilate. The members of one cannot enter the other. Theline between them must remain forcver distinct and impassable. The land-own- ing planter and the laboring coolie are to stand there in the relation of baron and serf. The present Chinese population of Californi; , unrecruit- able under our exclusion laws and non-family rearing, is terminable by mortality. When this generation passes it wil| disappear. 1f, as is insisted, the island planters must now re- sort here for their supply of Asiatic labor, what will they do when mortality terminates that supply ? Herein is *'the peculiar condition,” the ‘‘needs of labor” referred to in the President’s message. When the sapply is exhausted, eranting that it will be resorted to, are we to have legislation permitting the importation of Asiatic labor into one part of the United States while exciuding it from aif other parts? Will the i-land planters have the advantage of cheap Asiatic labor over our sugar-beet farmers? These are practical questions, and the advocates of annexa- tion must answer them. | civitization. THE IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION BILL. ENATOR LODGE, who has charge of the immigration S restriction bill that was t> have been brought up in the Senate this morning, has agreed to postpone it in order to make way for the bill providing for the next census. The delay is not expected to be long, but it is to be hopad no fur- ther postponements will bz permitted, and that a more thor- ough system of restricting immigration will be enacted as speedily as possible. The evils of unrestrained immigration have long been felt both in th: East and in the West. The great mass of the people are strongly in favor of putting a check upon the in- coming of cheap laborers and vicious persons to the country. They have demanded restriction for y ars past, and all parties have pledged themselves to provide it. The time has now come to keep the pledge, and the adm nistration of prosperity is relied upon to do it. In his inaugural =ddress President McKinley said: “A grave peril to the country would be a citizenship too ignorant to understand or too vicious to appreciate the great value and beneficence of our ipstitutions ard laws; and against all who come here to make war upon them, our gates must be promptly and tightly closed.” From that statement it is clear the President is a strong supporter of the policy of restriction. There is no danger of a veto if a proper bill is sent to him, and upon Congress de- volves the responsibility of preparing such a bill and getting it enacted into law befo:e the rush of immigration with the com- ing spring. The revival of prosperity in the United States wiil be | sure to attract cheap laborers from Europe, and unless some guard is set they will form serious competitors to American workingmen in nearly all forms of industry, as well as infus ing a dangerous element into our population. Prompt actlon is therefore necessary on the Lill, and it is to bs hopsd that those who ara sincere in their efforts to exclude vicious immi- gration on ths eastern side of the continent will have an eqval regard for the Pacific Coast, and vote also against the admis- sion of Hawaii and its thousands of coolie laborers. THE DEADLY GAS-METER. C vice to the public in calling attention to the dangers at- tending the use of gas in this city. His suspicion that many persons who are supposed to have committed sui.ide by gas asphyxiation may have been guiltless of se!f-murder is seemingly well founded. In the past two years such deaths have averaged more than ons a week and the Coroneris justified in believing that all of them could not have been due to deliberate suicide. Whether his conclusions are well or ill founded it is clear that the evidence in favor of the suspicions of the Coroner is so strong as 10 make it worth while for the city authoritiss to carry out a thorough and rigid examination of the gas supply of the city and the manner in which it is applizd tor use. If there is nothing wrong with the nature of the gas, nor any careless- | ness on the part of the gas company or innkeepers in the way it is supplied, it will be just as well to let the fact be known, while if there is anything wrong the re: too promptly nor too firmly. It has not been long since the people of Boston had a campaign of education on this very subjact of dangerous gas. Deaths by gas asphyxiation had bzcome too common there for the idea of suicide to be credit:d in evary case, while the well- known carefulness of many of the victims preciuded the theory that they had come to death by reason of their igno- rance or carelessness. The Boston investigations disclos=d the fact that water gas is dangerous beyond all conception by the general public. It is not only much more poisonous than the ordinary coal gas, but it is comparatively odorless and cannot be so readily de- tected when escaping. It is the general opinion among ex- perts that the use of such gas for illuminating purposes should be prohibited by law as something altogether too dan- gerous to life to be permitted in any home or hotel. There is ro occasion for making a sensation of the sub- ject. Nothing can be gained by jumping at the conclusion that our gas is extra dangerous and denouncing the gas com- panies as poisoners of tue people. Such methods do more harm than good. What is needed is a thorough and impartial investigation by comps=tent experts. Lst us find out what is wrong and then proceed to apply the remedy without a day’s | delay. FOSTAL SAVINGS BANKS. O recommendation made by the President or member of his Cabinet ‘has attracted mors attention or won a wider favor with the people than that of Postmaster-Gen- eral Gary urging the establishment of postal savings banks. Tue issue has been long before the pablic, and in a general way has been eiaborately di-cussed, so that the recommenda- tions of the Postmaster-General are not in the nature of a nov- elty, but come, as it were, in response toa pooular demand, as well as a public need. Postal banks bave proven beneficial wherever they have been tried. N> country where they have been operated has ever abol'shed them. They are found useful, not only in mat- ters of finance, but as promoters of thrilt, inasmuch as they afford to the people a means of providing for the preservation of their savings with as much security as that given to those who are rich enough to invest in Government bonds. 1t bas been vointed out by the Posimaster-General that postal banks will yield a benefit to the community by reason of bringing into the channels of finance, and therefore into use in commerce and industry, large sums of woney now hoarded in localities where there are not sufficient banking faclities, These zeneral advantages cannot be doubted, but at the same time the benefits will be likely to accrue more to workingmen than to any other class. They will be provided through the postal banks with places, even in the :mallest villages, for de- vositing their savings with security as ample as that pro- vided in the largest cities. The importance of the subjzct is such that a strong effort should be made to assure the establishment of such banks by Congress at the present session. For that reason memorials should be promptly sent to Washington on the subjecr. 1t is to be hoped the convention of the American Kederation of Labor, now in :ession at Nashville, will pass resolutions urging action. Every voice from the people counts t Wasuington, and none is more potent than that of organized labor asking legislation for the general good. SAN FRANCISCO ILLUSTRATED. HE Evening Bulletin celebrated the holiday season yester- day by publishing an illustrated inaustrial edition of forty pages, devoted mainly to an exvosition of the in- dustries, commerce and general condition of San Francisco The number was a notable one, and by reason of the spiendid’ | showing it made for the city and its trade will do much to encourage the holiday spirit of the people and make business lively. 1t is certainly gratifying to see thatso good a report can e made, not only of existing conditions, but of the prospects of the city, and this edition of the Bulletin will serve as a good introduction to the elaborate account to be given of all Cali- fornia in the forthcoming New Era ‘edition of TiE CALL. Durrant’s atiorneys say they have some sensational evi- dence in store. They have been saying the same thing for about two years and a half. Perhaps they lost the key to the storeroom. L et ‘When Weyler left Cuba there was hope that Spanish rale in Cuba wouid give eviaence of at least remote connection with But it doesn’t. ORONER HAWKINS has rendered an important ser | "M | For all good things go by edy cannot be applied | | fatled PERSONAL F. J. Drake, a miner of Jamestown, is at tho Grand. Fred Cox, & banker of Sacramento, Is at the Grand. J. Arthur Lang of Los Angeles is at the Grand. Senator A. F. Jomes of Oroville is at the Palace. M. Shinas avd wife of Paso Robles are at the Coswopolitan. Mr. and Mrs. S, V. D'Unger of Seattle are at the Occidental, R. ilinckley of Portland, Or., is staylng at the Cosmopolitan. A. D. Birmingham, a merchant of Salinas, is at ihe Cosmopolitan, John L Koster, manager of the Watsonville sugar refinery, is at the Grand. H. G. Clatfeiter and wife and C. C. Swan and wite of Chicago are at the Cosmopolitan. Charles Mclver, a wine-grower of Mission San Jose.and Mrs.Mclver are at the California. N. W. Clayton, general mansger of the Salt Lake and Los Angeles Railway, 18 at the Bald- win. John Muir, general agent of the Pacific Mall Stesmship Company of New York, is at the Palace. A. Tognazzini and R. Tognazzini, who have largs dairy interests in Sau Luis Obispo County, are at the Grand. C. D. Taprell, manager of the Hotel Van couver of Vancouver, B. C., is at the Palace, Leison the way to New York. Lieutenant-Governor W.T. Jeter and wile of Santa Cruz and Senator Thomas Fiint and wife of San Juan are at the Palace. J. Murray of Winnepeg, general superin- tendent of the Western division of the Cana- dian Pacific railway, is at the Palace. John G. Moore and family of New York is at the Palace. Mr. Moore s the senior member of the banking firm of Moore & Schey. Mr. and Mrs. H. Abbott end Master H. H. Abbotto! Vancouver are et the Occidental Mr. Abbot: was until recently the general superintendent of the Pacific diviion of the Canadian Pacific Rallway. He is a brother of J. J. C. AbLot, who u few years 850 was Premier of the Dominion of Canada. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—R. L. K 2app and wife of San Francisco and M. . Cassell and wite and Miss B. Cassell ot Oakiand are at ihe Raieigh. Mrs. J. Owens of Los Angeles is at tue Ebbitt Hous CALIFORN AN5 N CHICAGO. CHICAGO, Dec. 13.—At the Great Northern— W. M. Morr.s, Ralph S. Buck, M. Newficld, San Francisco. Audiiorium Aunn:x—A. M. Bar- | Bett, Frederick Brand, San Francisco; Mr.ana Mrs. N. P. Binisdeii, Los Angeles. Mrs. India Scoit Wiliis and uiece, Miss 1.:dia Scott, are at the Auditorium. Mre, Wilis 1« the widow of the late William Willls, once secretary of the Bank of Ca:iornia. Sae 18 a leadér in Sun Francisco socie y. They huve been visiting for the past two mouths i1 the Eust and will spend several days in this city b:tore return- ing hiome 10 San Frane; UNcEALITY. Not all the beauty of (he summer sea, t all the splendor of (he summer sky. Can bring content to lodge - n hour with w For sumumer tiwe goes by. Not «ll your kisses, all your beau'y bright Which is my sun, your volee which is my song, Can cage for me tue pivions of deiignt; You wili not love me ong. nd joy fs briet, And life is very long and ver; cold =0 Wy dreams mourn the aeah of love and leat Ere yet their year grows oid. But when the winter comes and rou are gone, The flowers all faded un i the songs all sung, My arcums wiill keep the (rown the years pat on W hen love aud time wer: youug. ail Mali Gazette. EUGENE FIELD's ITEMIZED EILL Weshington FPost. In the winter of 1885 the Indianapolis friends of James Whitcomb Riley te:dered him a complimeniary tenefit, upon which oc- casion Bill Nye and Eugene Fiela offered their services, and in conjuuction with a number of local celebrities the occas on proved to be the greatsocial event of the scasan. Tue Grand Opera-house was crowded to the doors. occupled ihe stage and prefaced his lecture by bumorously referring to his friend Eugene Field, whom he designated as an “educated Bohemian from Chicago in search of a job."’ His remarks were greeted with geuerous ap- plause, and after the usual interlude Fielt made his appearance and the audience agsin went wild with enthusiasm. He did not presenta very imposing appear- auce. He was thin and tali—not so ta.l as thin hair—what there was of it—and eyes nght of color; his physique was anguler aid willowy, and nis conventional dress suit to adorn his persoual “'tout ensemble” Lo any percepuble degree. With all the solemuity that he was capable of assuming—and he wus an artist as well as un uctor—he began by sayin ‘This is the first time I have had the hon.rof ming'ing with Indisnapoiis people upon their own ground. I have met them 1n my gyrations throughout this and other couniries; in the Orfeatand in the Occident they have been my companions! 1 have splita bottie with tuem in the shadows of the Pyramids and wept with them on Mount Sinui over the broken commandments. I have taken them home {rom the Bacchanahan halls ot reveiry and administered the frapped consolition aft rded by crushe! ice—so soothing to a fevered brow — wuen ali Euioje was in the throes of an unseemuy Mardi Gras. Agzain, I hLave met them on the Khine—at Cincinnati—end celebrated former friendships, and have help high carnival with some of your f vored sous in numerous places of popular resort. My com ng among you this evening was occasioned by a seifish motive upon the partof Mr. Nye, and I snall, therefore, Le indebted to_him largely for ail the pleasure thit may be nfforded me while bere. Whiie hard at work iu my office—as I usually am—I received from him the loliow- ing teiegram: ‘Meet meat Indisnapols to- morrow morniug 10 assist st Riley's venefit— an-wer quick. Bill Nye.' “Now, laaics and gentiemen, I knew at onca what contritution was expected from me in of ihis spiendid testimonini to my iriend Riley. Nye does not own a dr:ss coat—mine s him. I mention this circumstance that ou may nnderstand my reply 1o his telegram: Can’t poxsib.y come. Riley cau surely pro- vide you with'a aress coat. Eugene Ficld. “In & short time I received the foliowing additfonal message: *For — sake, come. R ley’s coat won't fit me.” Thisapoeni touched me—Nye hast uched me before—and I yielded. Hustiiy throwing some munuscript anl other useful mpparel into a vrip I boaraed the first train, aud here I am. CUSTOmM> OF CHR.STMAS. “Giit-mnaking is one of the most gracious features of Christmas and one that 1 pray may survive all other outgrown customs,” writes Florence Mull Winterburn in the December Woman's Hume Companion. “When love and sympathy are close counselors there is litile fear toat we shall make tne mistuke of leuv- ing out of cur little one’s stocking the par- ticular thing ne has sel his heart upou get- ting. And if his choice 1s beyond us to gratiiy, letus come as near to itas we can. and not couvert this season into a sorcof convenience for ourseives, tnrusting upon bis reluctan: scceptunce such prosaic artic es as shoes, hats and other ess=niia s of the toilet. “Far prettier is the German custom of bestow- ivg gaudy trifles that bave 1o use In them- selves, butare partot the glitter and fasnion of the hollday. When itis pos ibe nothing is 0 goud 10 ‘have as the traditional Christ- mas tree. Iu aiter years memory hangs about it fordly, and we biess in our hearts the kind hands that toox so much trouble 10 give us plensure. <n the stocking hung upon Christmas eva has a romauce all its own. The breakfast table dresscd with holly berries gifts piled unde: snowy napaius isa gracefu. custom, aad is far nicer than the blunt handing out of our gifis. me trouble shou d be taken to create the welcome element of surprise. We il like it, but it is one of the greates: delights in & child’s experience. ‘““He finds oui before we would choose to have that waat is looked forwsrd to most eagerly seldom turns out well. It issad philesophy, yet true, that it is dnngerous to set one’s hesrt on anything in this worid. But the love that hides its intention uatil the hour of fulfili- ment, and then lets out 1is secret in an oui- burst of geverosity, is the best substitnte that is ever offered for the spacial Providence— Snin Claus and all other gracious myths, An examp e of genetosity 1s scidom lost unon children, if it is irue, not artificial. They are very wiiling to live up to their litile knowledge, if we allow them tne chance, and part of our duty to the day is 10 encourage in vur young people the same kindl:ness we cul- lvaie in ourselves. It is s0 much easfer to learn in youth to b. genial, sympathetic and generous than it Is sfter’ embittering ex- periences have hardened our 1 earts, " —_— —_— Low's norehound cough syrup for boarszness, prige 10c, 417 Sansome st * l KRKAKARERRARRAA KA KK ARIAKK k& % ttt*ttitttfltfltttttt*i: * inevitable, wrong and that of THE CALL right. having been detected and branded. [From the Examiner of Dec. 1.] MINERS ARE SAFE. Accurate Reports From Dawsor Indicate No Danger of Famine. The course of the fake-sensation jour- nals in misrepresenting the situation at Dawson City is to be deplored. The fact that they were beaten on the news, that they did not get a correspondent into the Klondike until two months after the Examiner expedition, with Josquin Miller, E. J. Livetnash and Willlam Kreling, the photographer, had arrived there, and even the fact that their corre- spoudents were not eble to get the news after they arrived in Dawson, offer no excuse for the famine reports that they are spreading across their front pages. The reports sent to the Examiner by Mr. Livernash are the careful and con- servative siatements of a trusiworthy man, and the people may depend on what he says as facts. Mr. Livernash had been in Dawson two months when he wrote, and he understood the situa- tion as well as any one. It was bad enough, for he found undoubted scarcity, and a necessity for sending down the river to Fort Yukon the men who had come in without supplies. But thereis a big difference between scarcity and starvation. It is the difference between life and death. Two steamers had got through, and these two steamers carried some 300 tons of provisions—enough to feed 1200 people for the winter with comfort, These provisions, with those alreads in Dawson, are enough to keep life in the men who are there. It is true that the scareity will be severs on the destitute, and the fact that they have goue into the Kiondike in the face ot warnings of the need of food and money may Yot make the men who have plenty very good-humored about supporting them. But as many of the destitute have been shipp2d down the river where suppli>sare more plentiful, and as the charity of the camp is zenuine though rough, the people can feel assurance that the danger of starvation is not grea It is & gross wrong that the relatives of the adventurous men who have gone to seek fortune in the north should be tor- tured by need'ess alarins for the sake of afew nickels. They may b reassured in regard to the situation by reading the information that Mr. Livernash hus sent out through the Examiner. 23630 2028 5 304 2428 34 5 32404 33 058 00 2 0 0 Ok 0 24 2 02 0 308083 58 34 b0 2 0 300 22 20 2 0 32 O 2 2k 2 2 Ok 224 2 20 2 X000 2 e 2 e 22 R 4 4% k%% % HOW THE EXAMINER EXPOSES ITS OWN LIES CONCERNING THE KLONDIKE FAMINE. Necessity arises for displaying another lie of vellow journalism. extracts from the Examiner printed below tell their own story. that sheet'to be as unreliable in serious matters as in others, and that dzarly as it loves a sensation it prizes a falsehood more. denied the possibility of famine in Dawson THE CALL had published from its courageous correspondent, Sam Wall, information that famine was Now that Mr. Wall’s reports have been verified, the Examiner, in large type and wide columns, demonstrates that its former position was This is not an uncommon circumstance, except that usually the yellow sheet having lied sticks to it firmly after paper, the first having appeared December 1 and the second Dscember 13: Tk kR AR R R AR AR AR Rk Adok ek ok ek ok ko Ak koo Kk kokok ok k ek The They show At the time the Examiner Here are two items from that peculiar [From the Examiner ot Dec. 13.] MAD RUSH FROM THE KLONDIKE. VICTORIA, B. C, Dec. 12.—The prophecy of old miners that the wi der- ness road from the Kiond:ke back to civilization will be marked this winter by dead men’s bones is now all too certain of fuifiliment. F.r, by the steamer Topeka, arriving this morning from Dyea, news is received that more than a thousand ill-provisioned men stampeded from Dawson during the latter part of October, and, impellea by the haunt- ing fear of famine, are now madly jorciag their way over the moun- wins. Auk, the Indian mail-carrier wto brings this report, ieft the Yukon capiial fully ten days afier the Dualion party. He says that the vanguard of the terror- stricken army is foilowing less than a week behind him. He pessed many men ou the way out, nota few of whom had only just reached the Klondike, after enduring iunumerable hardships on the journey inward, and, speaking from long experience of the country and f{is winter condition, Auk declares. that fully 25 per cent of the stamped- ing army will never live to recite the ‘terrors of their flight from the north. The river steamers Bella and Weare, it now appears, did not land more than 100 tous of provisions on their arrival in Dawson, in the early part of October, owing to their having been held up at Circle City, and that wnich at first secmed saivation for the baleaguered residents has provel but a moekery of their misfortune. The only bright view of the present situation it that the crossing of the pass above Dyea and Scaguay hes lately been greatly facilitatea through the rapid advance of the tramway-buiiders at the former point, and the great progress made in the work of building the wagon- road from Skaguay, at which 108 men have been employed, under Superin- tendent Blackett. Within a month the road will be in excellent coudition for sleds of all kinds. The Topeka brought sixty passeugers, but oniy Auk, the Indian, came through from Dawson City. 0 o4 24 X4 4% SAID A CITY GERM TO A COUNTRY BACILLUS. “I'm a little afraid,” said the tuberculosts bacillus, “that we shall be discovered.” «Wnat conld have induced him,” exclaimed the rheumatic tendency in disgust, ‘to quit Miipitas and old Dr. Dingley! E completed our work undisturbed. It was his eyes,” said the bacillus thoughttully. versthing was so peaceful there, and you and I might have “They've troubled him so much during the pats few months that he vowed he’d come up to San Francisco 10 see about glasses, 2s soon as he could leave his business. Now he has come, and I suppose it’ll be all over with us. 1 shall be hunted and worried, nd you — *0n, 1—1 may as well give up,” remarked the rheumatic tendency despairingiy. “'Tisn't a fair fight we have with these city doctors. You may outwit them, but I — “I fear all those strange instruments and appliances. cover?” Who can tell what they may dis- “How in the world can an industrious bacillus, the fatherof a flourishing family, hope to nourish his chiidren if these doctors are permitted everlastingly to poke and peer and pry Iconfess I'm alarmed.” “Do you notice,” asked the tendency wistfully, “how very prominent the rheumatic symp- toms are to-day? 1wish now 1 hadn’t been quite so active during the fall, but the season was o favorable and his general condition so promising that I could not resist. You know how the enthusiasm for work, under proper conditions, grows on one.” “:0n, yes, * sighed the bacillus, “but I'm more to b2 pitied than you. His frequent colds, his self-neglect, and, as you say, his overworked condition tempted me to go ahead. I never believed he'd carrs out his threat to come to the city, and now as he sits so pale and anxious in the chair, with the doctor eying him with that air of professional solicitude, his body, his face, his vers volce shout tubercolosis. Even Dr. Dingley would understand and suspect my plan for the spring campaign could he sce him to-day, with tae fresh cold he caught last night.” “I have thought seriously of coming to San Francisco to live—the changing weather woula | be 50 good for business. But, on the whole, I'll stay with Milpitas, which is a good placs where a steady bacillus, with no bad habits, may make a comfortable living for his family, provided, of course, this doctor —- “Pardon me,” interrupied a typhoid germ that had joined them unperceived, you, but that I see you're from the country and —" venture to adaress “Indeed!"” exclaimed the two verv st:fily. '—and I may pe of use to you. wouldn’t Imay as well confess that when he entered the inner office 1 joived you, and have listened to your conversation with much interest. Ihope you wiil pardon me,” conciuded the polite germ. “Not at all, not at all,’ murmured the bactllus, much embarrassed. “I must tell you that I hope to become a near neignbor of yours. Iam tired of city life. Sanitation, you know, has become such a fad in the city, and, besides, business is greatly overdone here. I fancy that there is room in Milpitas for an indusirious, competent germ,” | he added, conceitedly, “who can show a record of success in cvery case attempted.” “But, ventured the rheumatic tendency, “I shou d have thought you'd not have changed your residence just now, when you knew the doctor was shortly to examine him.” The germ laughea heartily. ““Ah, my poor friends,” he said, patronizingly, “so that Is the bugbear you have conjured up to distress yourseives with. That is the very resson Ispoke in the first place. Thisdcctor is a speclalist.” “Wel.?' “Well, “But he can’t help secing—" Ab, yes, he can. said the bacillus and the tendency together. answerea the germ, in a bored tone, *you are pretty rural.” Do you suppose eny self-respscting specialist will notice any disease but the one he's treating? Tnis doctor is examining the eye—mind you, the eye. To him the patient is simply an eye, more or less abnormal or diseased. around or about that eye. He sees nothing above, below, He may examine the other eye, but that’s as far as any really tip- top specialist will go. 1f the patient were to die in this chalr, right under the doctor's nose, the specialist would go on calmly and very cleverly with his examiuation of the eye, pro- vided, of course, the drew his last breath.” etient were not so inconsiderate as to permit the eyelid to fall while he “Taen you think——,” bogan the bacillus, joyfully. “That you need have no fear whatever,” said the germ, graclously. Curtain falls on the baciilus, the tendency and the germ hand in hand, dancing merrily, in all good-fellowship, as the patient leaves the inner office and the boy closes the door be- hind him. MIRTAM M ICHELSON, NOTES ABOUT NOTABLES. The Duchess of York is the only British Princess who has ever given her name to a foreign town. Mayville, near Boulogne, was christened after the future Queen Consort. Archbishop Williams of Boston, has present- ed 1o the public library of that city a set of iweniy-eight volumes of the *Acta Sanctae Sedis,” containing all the decisions of the Cardinals of the Propaganda of the Roman Catholie Chureh, Count M. M. Tolstoi has made another dona- tion to the city of Odessa. A few years ago he gave 35,000 rubles for establishing a | special diphiheria ward in the municipal hospital. He has now given a sum of 12,500 rubles for suppiving this ward with heating and other eppliances. Professor Theodore Mommsen is credited with bringing ehout muco of the troubles in Austria-Hungary by his fiery writings. He is 80 years of age and of & very diminuiive size. In 1870 he was known for his haired of France. as the “Franzosenfresser,” or eater of Frenchmen. His batred of Bimarck is a reiigion with him, aud he once chailenged the “Iron Chancellor” to mortal combat on the field of honor. Governor Northen of Georzis, in his speech at the Atlanta Exposition, said that he trusted the occasion would prove the eutering wedge which would bring apout a more perfect unity between the North and the South, which is mutched by £ir Bosle Roach, who recently said, in speaking of E:gland and Iretand, that he “was an enemy of toth kingdoms who wished to diminish the brotherly affections of the two sister countries,” FLASHES OF FUN. “Hathley has a wonderfully we!l-stored mind, basn’t he?” “He ought to have—he never takes anything out of it.””—Ch ¢igo Juurnal. “Whois it? What do you want?” (Voice from Without) *“IVs Willie (hic), grandma, forgot (bic) lateh key. “Gooduess me, how much that dear boy's voice sounds like his father's’’—Brooklyn Lite. “Depend upon it, where there s smoke there’s fire, hy do you say that?” 've proved t. It was azainst the rules to smoke in our ofices. Ism .ked and was fired.” —Philadelphia Nort) American. ay, wot do you t'ink of Coxey now?” “What's he done?” “Wot's he done? Why, I followed dat fellow all the way from Ohio to Washington. Dat's | right. Istuck by him troo ifck au’ tin. knows my seniiments every tims. Wot's h» dene? :a7, he's gone an’ stasted a new par y wid a platiorm which means ‘Work for ever,- body.” How's dat for inatitude 10 Lis vest frens, eb?"—Cleveland Plain D.aler. he There had been some narsh words from each ou the faults of the cpposite sex, and she finuily gave what she thought would be a parting shot. “You rail at us,” she said, “and make fun of us, but what, I ask you, would you do without women? “Get rich,”” he replied promptly : and she was 80 indignant that it tc 0z her three weeks tomake up her mind to ask for & new bon- net.—Chicago Evening Post, 20242420 24 20 2 W 0 o 2 3 20 25 o 2 0 20 24 06 2k O 2k 2 0 5 !fi*iiiiiit*fiili‘lfi‘liiitfifil#"tii!lf‘i!fl'! 20 54 240 3 24 54 54 2 54 24 3 3 2 2 o o 24 20k 2 0 b 3% ANSWERS TO CORRE=PONDENTS. TnE BENICTA BOY—F. W. I, City. The ques- tion asked abont (he ifecnen-sayers fizht wug answered in Answers to Corrdspondents ou Novemter 25, 1597 TAY BRIDGE DISA§TER—S,, City. On Sunday, D:cember 28, 1879, Tay Bridee at Duundee, Scotland, was partly destroyed by a gale whi'e & North Britih ma 1 train was pas f A gap of wbout 3000 feer nicety persons weid drowne BARBER IN THE A.P. H.F., City. An individual who wishes to enlist in the nav ss a barber would have t» give proof nis ability to fili the bill. For full 1uiorma tion on tuat sutj:ci apply at the navl cruiting office, 10 Califorula street, San F: cisew. POPULATION OF IRELAND—T. M, census in Irelaud it iaken every In 1861 it was 5,798.50 5,412,377; in 1881 it was 5, 10 was 4,704,750, a decrons 10 9.1 per cent sinee the was estimated that in 1596 There is no estimute for 1 City. ien ye A “Camr”—J. A. K., San J In t stock exchange a “¢ail” is the privilege cured by contract and for a consideratio | claiming or. deman Hng or receiving (u) a c tsin Lumber of shares of some particulur stock, at u specified p 1iod, or (b) the difference of valus at | time of making the demand over that speci { fied iu the couiract it the price has rise | bence the document veruacular use by a people es the trad and native meaus of expression. Some ianguages have dwapresre and the LgypLan; others have | ceeded by tougues descended irom | Laun and Anglo-Ssxon; some by artifics process of instruciion urs suil uscd for wri- ing and speakiug, as Latin, Sauskrit and bee brew. ¥ A “PUT” N., San Jose, Cal. In stock dealing a ¢ isa contract by which t party signing or making it agrees, in consid eration usually of & sum of mouey, that he ;A accept and pay forspecified securities or ¢ moatiies, which the pariy named there the bearer of the contrac, at or within & named, shall, at the option of the Intter, 10 sell ihe former at a specificd price 1 { used chi.fly in the siock market for specul | tive purposes, aud if the inteut of the purtic ! 1s 10:eit.e the diffeence o1 pri mone | 1s tliegal. In otner words & **put” is an op to deliver or not to deliver, ata tuture day. de OUR NEW POSTAL CARDS. New York Herald. The Postoffice Department is soon to issue an entirely new set of jostal cards, acd inci- dentally, as a result of greater economy their manufacture, the Government is 1o save at least $50,000 a year. The cards are to be slightly smaller than those now in use, and as millions of them are issued by the department annually a part of the saviog is atiributable to tuis reduction in size, There ere to te three styles of cards in the new issue. Tae ordinary single card for hoth domestic and international use is to be 315 513 inches. There s to be & smaller ciru tor auinestic use oniy which is to be 2 15-16 by 415-16 iucues, and e double return card for both domestic and internationnl use which 13 | to be 525 by 6)5 inches. The smalier eard is | an entire.v new size; the ordinary single card {isto be & quarier o1 an ineh narrower than the corresponding card now in use, and the doable reply card is also reduced a quarter of | an ineh in wiath. No coarge whatever is to be made in the design of either the single international card, the double domestic or the double interna: tional card. New designs have been adopted | for the ordinary domesiic card and the new | smaller domestic card. | The ordinary card will have a portrait of | Thomas Jefferson, threc-quarter face, looking | 10 the left, just as it appears on the present | card, but surrounded by a somewhat fulier | oitve wreath, aud naving atthe bottom, in | very small capitals on & curved tubiet, 't | nume ‘Jefferson.”” To the left of the portrai: | | i | | | | | 1 are three straight ltues of lettering. The is made of the words ‘‘Postai card—one cent, in gothic capitals. The second line coutains the words “United States of Americe.” in or- namental capitals npon n plain biack tablet surrounded by a single fine black line, witb| | hearcshaped fiulal at either end ana'a ser” | ciccular ornament at the boitom, having | straizht line extension irom each side ru ¥ | ning'parallel with the tablet. The third lind is made up of the words, ““1his side for the ad- dress on.y,” in very smail gothic capitals. | . The singl> small card contains a portrait of John Adaws, three-quarter face, in the upper | right haud corner, looking to the left, sur- rouuded by an olive wreats, and with the { name “John Adams” upon a scroll at the bot- tom. To the left or the portrait are three lines of ordinary romau capitals. The fiist con- tains the words *Fosta. card—one cent.” The second iinc contains the words “‘United States | o1 Americ’ in capitals. The third line con- 2ins in quite smail letters the words ~This { side is for the address only.”” Between tne second and third iine is an ornamental dasa. —_— REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Express. (The only real fool on earth is the jealous 0ol The thermometer of marriage is the doctor's bill. No girl can sob her heart out and chew peanut brittle at the same time with any suc- cess. The more seli-possessed and dignified a | woman acts the easier a big-eyed baby can make her go all to pieces. 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