The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 15, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15 1897. DECETWBER 15 1897 ~ JOBN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. farket and Tni-d streets, Ban Franciscy o Maln 1863, ;lBLlC.‘\T“JV OFFICE. . .. Telepho! EDITORIAL ROOMS. . . B = 517 Clay street Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL ers in this city (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by 1 surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. per month s THE WEEKLY CALL...... .One yeir, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE. 008 Broadway DAVID ALLEN. ..Room 188, World Building Fastern Representat NEW YORK OFHICE.. WASHINGTON . C.) OFFICE.. €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. Rizgs House Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until Hayes stroet; oven unul 9:3) o'clock. 615 SW. corner Sixteeath and 18 Mission street; open ; open until 9 ocleek. 1505 NW. corner dwenty-second BRANCH OFFICE 9:30 o’clock. Larkin street streets untl 9 o'cio lolk street; of na Kent ; open usntil 9:30 o' clock. i open n 143 N e 1:30 o'clock. pen 9 . pen unii icky sirects ERYAN IN MEXICO. M R. BRYAN bhas left the memories of the fall ecampaign its Aztec aspecis. bebind him and is resting the scmewhat jaded appetite of his followers by going to Mexico to study siiver in Our sister republic, having forzotten Chapultepec in Quer- etaro, is giver a good deal of oflicial politeness toward citi- the United States, and this tendency to formal good 1ers is re-enforced by the increaring loneliness of Mexico as a silver ndard country. 2 Last Mr. Bryan cited Mex co as the only l.ving ex- ample of national felicity and lauded her statesmen for their devotion to the L' To blu<h with pride under flatter nd the Mexican officials are eager to bring the reciprocating blush (o the cheek of Mr. Bryan by lauding zens of ma ‘*svhite me: is human, Last year a committee of citizens of the United States vis- Mexico not jred Toey did travel on passes end they had no theory to establish. in quest of information on the silver guestion. stop en route to hunt and fish. They did not They y bread and went to find facts, let them lead to what conclusion they might, They were not et at boundary welcomes, and nocrowds gathered togape at them. They did not sleep in tne Government palace, and were not chaperoned by a colonel 1n uniform. Other ciizens of tke United States W re laboring men concerned in their d the Ly official domiciled in Mexico did not form committees to meet them, and they sat at no tanquet table and received no assurances of distinguished nsideration from any sotrce. They went among their own class, the laboring peovple cf Mexico, the patient caryates uyon whose shoulders rest the weighty fabric of the state. Of these they made inquiry into wages, the cost and manner of life. They examined their huts, saw their aiet, red into their opportunities for a rise in inqu life, for e tion in tue Government. The report was made, and i1tz state- ment of facts led 1o the conciusion that if the financial system of Mexico zffect iabor at all, it is to keep its wa.es down, to dzcrease their purchasing power, to leave lalor less and less of whatitesrns, and to put it farther away from the table upon I are spread the good things created by its toil. The-e laboring men from the United Siates visited their kind. Mr. Bryan is the guest of his kind. The office-holding class, the politicians, the ruling circle, give him the glad hand. He will see his kind prosperous there, and among them he will near only support of kis financial ideas and such flattery witl likely breed in his fantastic Urain the dream that he is born to unite the two countries and r over them both, as the div nely appointed leader of nations. ell this will not change the condition of the toilers who live on a scant die: and sleep on straw. Mr. Bryan will return, talkinz as he travels, and the orm will bow him over the border and he will s the ] side. Dut ogainst his ccuclusions will stand the stubb):n facts loun! in the condition of Mexican labor by the committee of workingmen from this country, and their fellows wil decide again that our fifteen millions of wo king- men cannot fill their beilies on the east wind of Mr. Bryan’s Thetor THE ALASKAN TRADE CAMPAIGN. whi as chaperon in epeak as he cro citizens on this RRANGEMENTS made by the Alaskan Trade Committee for the campaign of education in the East promise good re-ults and go far toward relieving the city from the charge of being indifferent to her opporiunities or incapable of profiting by tnem. With a comprehensive traveling exhibit of what tte city and the State can furnish in the way of outfit- ting p r ies goinz to the Yukon, and with a comvetent com- mitiee of energetic men to accompany the exhibit, the prospects are we suall draw to San Francisco this spring and hold the sreat bulk of the trade of the new goldfie! Along with the exhibit there must be, however, ex- and persistent adv It will be impossib.e for the exhibit 0 the commitieo to reach more than a small frac. tion of the people. Some means musi be devised for reaching the whole country. The Klondikers are coming from every- where. The wonderful stories of the rich placers in the north bavz been read in small villages and on remote farms as well asin the big cities, and in the aggregate the number of adven- turers who come from the country districts will exceed thoss from the towns. tensiv, 2. is over. The advantages of San Francisco as an outfitting j0int 2nd the importance to miners of the coming mining exposition shou!d be madeknown in every county in the United States. The energy displayed by the Alaskan Trade Committee should have its elfect upon the community at larze. Whnere the committee leads others should be wiiling 1o follow and give sirong suppor:. The money put into this movemant will be moneyinvested in a paying tusiness. Allowing as much as we chooss for exaggerat on in the reports tha® come to us from the Kiondike, there remains enough to assure a biz trad> with that country for years to come, and perhaps for always. Itisa trade worth working for, striving for and paying for. This is the time to show the energy of our people, the com- mercial enterprie of our merchants, the business sagacity of our manufacturers and the abilities of our ship-owners. It is beyond all question that the exploitation of the Yukon Valley is to bz the great achievement of the industrial worid during the comingdecade. Into that vast region will go youth, enerzy, daring, capacily, money and indusiry from all parts of the world. There wiil b2 displayed that marvelous creative power which in the last decade buiit up South Africa. The trade of the region wilt be rich at the start and will increase until the boom of exploiiation is over. It is the biggest obportunity the new era brings to San Franciseo and to neglect it would be to show ourselves unworthy of vur advantages. Nobody wants to criticize the Southern Pacific unjustiy There is iree acknowledgment of the fact that its cars gu; thundering across tie conntry at more than twenty miles an hour. What ox-team ever beat this? But sven a iwenty-mile pace hardly puts the road in & position to dictate to lines which keep up to the times and are not content merely with excelling the record of the wagon trains of '49. Hedorgihae 01 course the vending of flowers is a fearful erime and par- ticularly obnoxious durinz Cbristmastide wlen nobody wants the verdure and bloom. The police are to be commended for carrying these venders to jail. Law and order must bs con- served, and if the guardians of the peace can’t catch footpads and pickpockets they must do something to demonstrate how useiul they are. ation, for an intelligent and appreciated pariicipa- | ine aud ccntinue to adaress his fel'ow- | These men must be reached before the winter | GOVERNOR BUDD’S DUTY. N esteemed contemporarv kindly informs us that in calling on Governor Budd to remove Labor Commis- sioner Fitzgerald, who is now in Washington, we have simply engaged in the commen editorial practice of *‘pawing the air.”” An investigation convinces us that this criticism is just. In making the demand referred to, we appear to have been a trifle callow. The Governor has no power to remove Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald. The only thing he can do with that official is what we have dons, namely: Direct public attention to his neglect of duty, request him to abandon his lobbying expedition and come home and earn his salary—if he can. The power to remove officials other than those elected or appointed by authority of the constitution does not exist in California. Tax-eaters of the Fitzgerald stamp, in neglecting their duties, are thus amply protected ty law. No matter what they do, nobody has jurisdiction either to remove or discipline them. Mr. F'i(zzerald is now in Washington lobbying for the ratification of the Hawalizn treaty. Doubtless he is talling the honorable Senators that the laboring p=ople of the Pacific Coast are unanimously in favor of annexing the 62,000 coolizs and Japs now at the islands. Doubtless he is also telling them that these laboring people—more numerous than Falstaft’s men in buckram—have especiaily requested him to 20 to Washington and misrepresent them. Such being the case, is it not Governor Budd’s duty to write Commissioner Fitzgerald a letter containing some brotherly advice? We grint that the law does not authorize the Governor to deal with Fitzgerald as his offense against the latoring people and the taxpayers of California demands, but there is no statute against writing such a letter as we have suggested. Mr. Budd may appropriateiy request Fitzgerald to return home and attend to the business for which he draws a salary from the State treasurv. He may also appropriately ask him who pays his expenses to Washington. If he is there handling the annexation “sack’ the Executive may suggest that dispensing *‘sugar” at the national capital is a function which properly belongs to Colonel Mazuma, which has no relation to labor and which shou'd be delegated without delay. The fact of the matter is Commissioner Fitzgerald has no business whatever lobbying for the annexation treaty. Heis paid a salary by the State of California for attending to such matters as he can find to do about the Labor Bureau. 1 he is going to lobby at the national capital somebody besides the people of this State should pay his salary. Itis an outrage that the tax- payers of California are compelled to stand the expense of maintaining at Washington a wire-puller for the Dole Gov- ment. Governor Budd, we feel sure, disapproves of Fitzger- ald’s mission. He should write that individual, in the name of the people, a pointed, if not.sharp, letter. SILENCE IS CONFESSION. HARGED with the double offense of circulating a slander zainst Tue CALL and of viriually counterfeiting the title of the Alaskan Trade Committee, the Ezaminer is mute. It does not deny that it circulated the slander with the design of injur'ng the business of Tue Catr. It does not deny that it marked the circular with an sddress intended to deceive the public into the belicf that the slander emanated from the Alaskan Trade Ccmmittes, nor does it deny thatitdid so for .he purpose of bringing that ccmmittee into disr:pute. Before all these charges it is silent. Thisisnot the first time the Eraminer has been exposed in the commission of serious offenses. It is known to have drawn ior twentv-two months a subsidy of $1000 a month from the South- ern Pacific Company; it is known to hav: sent a boy to commit the petty larceny of stealing & copv of Te CALL from the press- room in order to get news that THE CALL had paid for; itis known to have falsified a dispatch from Captain Tuttle of the Bear. Charged with these offenses the Ezaminer found always a sufficient courage, or cunning, to enter some kind of plea of defense. Either it sought to evade the charge by a brazen lia or denied it with vehement vituperation. Tais time, however, itis silent. Before the ev.uence of its vicious meanness which we have published it is speechless. Itisamatterof public concern that thess offansas of the F:- aminer should te widely known. Tue circulator of anonymous slunders is one of the most cowardly, but none the less one of the most dangerous of tha enemies of society. It is impossible to guaid against such moral assassins as the anonymous libeler. How many 1nstitutions, how many prominent citizens have been injured by such cowardly and unscrupulous foes? Is it likely that TuE CALL is the only rival or opponent whom the Ezaminer has attacked in this wav? Has it never used similar means to get even W th merchants who do not advertise, pubiic officials who do rot pay tribute, or corporations that refuse subsidies? More injurious even than the wronz done to THE CALL was that done to the Aleskan Trade Committee. Tue malicious attempt to deceive the public into the belief that the committee was the author of the libel against THE CALL sprang from some other motive than that ot a coward’s uesire to hide himself by throwin: suspicion upon another. It was the malignancy that forever promptsa mind essentially mean to injure al; whom it can, and now that the exposure hss been mads every citizen should be on guard, for there is no telling at whom the nextsiander will be aimed, nor on whom the slanderer will cunningly throw suspicion. PROFESSOR MAHAFFY’S LETTERS. HE Jetters of Proessor Mahaffy of Dublin University, Tpub:nned in Tue CALL, concerning the present agricul tural depression in Ireland, although instructive, are visibly tinged with his political views. THE CaLL knows no politics in this connection, and proposes to jublish letters on the same subject from prominent Irishmen of different politi- cal affiliations, so that our read rs may getat the bottom tfacts, We bave corresponded with Father McFadden, the vatriotie and self-sacrificing priest who has done so much good for the peasantry in his district. We also exrect to hear soon from the well-known journalist and Nationalist member of Parli.- ment for Dublin, Mr. john J. C.ancey. German editors are pratin: about the “interfering inso- lence” of America. To an unbia:ed observer it would seem thet ttey had set up a man of straw and were endeavoring to knock the siuffing out of ir. America has many chances to disapprove of the rapacity of other nations, may deplcre their hoggishness and counsel miidiy the expediency of removing feet from ti:e trough, but as to “‘interfering,” America doesn't do it. Perhaps the scheme to kill all the seals is not who!ly illogi- cal. They bave caused much trouble, and although fairly swathed in red tape are being killed anynow. It would be more dignified to let them be slain legally. The case is like that of the man who vainly tried to coax his dog from under the barn, and then exclaiming, “‘Well stay there, darn ye, I will be obeyed,” walked away with dignity intact. The Bakersfiela wife murderer who mads the plea of in- sanity will eo 1o prison for li'e, as he shoull, so long as the jory feit merc ful. The “homicidal lunatic” who wants to bs turned loose on the commuaity is seilly asking too much, especially when instead of beinz what he claims he isgenerally a bloody-minded assassin whose very excuse is a confession of guilt and a defiance to the public. There are two reasons for not worrying over the report that Conntess Castellane is to leave her high-priced husband. One Is that 1t is not true, and the otier, that it would be of no pas- sible impo:tance if it were true. AR The announcement from Nevada that the names of the principal lynchers are known is not enougn. People wonid 1ke to see the names and observe how they would look on the jail records, ¢ PERSONAL =Dr. C. Rowell of Fresno is at the Grand. Dr. 8. C. Hail of San Jose is at the Lick. J. F. Condon, a merchant of Verdi,is at the Grand. BDr. C. W. Kellogg of Lakeport is stopping at the Grand. George E. Goodman, a banker of Napa, isa the Palace. W. F. Knox, a Sacramento lumber-dealer, 1s at the Grand. Mrs. Stanton of Arbuckle, Cil., is at the Cosmopolitan. A. B. Fox and wife of Santa Cruz are at the Cosmopolitan. C. M. Coglan of the State Board of Equaliza- tion is in the ci G. A. Smith, a Courtland rancher, Is regis- tered at the Grand. C. F. Holton, a prominent Boston merchant, is registered at the Palace. J. O Splizs, County Assessor of Sants Clara County, is a guest at the Grand. Mrs. Swail and Miss Agnes Crosser of Sheri- den, Nev., ore at the Cosmopolitan, James Collins, the well-known fru ©of Courtland, is stopping at the Lick. Bishoo Newman of the Mothodist Episcopal Church of California is a1 the Occ.dental. C. C. Stone, a prominent capitalist of Stent, Tuolumne County, is at the Cosmopolitan. H. R. Duffin, a well-known railroad ticket- brokef ot Los Angeies, is a guest at the Paiace, R. F. Summers and George Kianey of Cher. - kee, Tuolumne County, are at the Cosmonoli- tan, A G. Barker, general sgent of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway at Portland, is in town. F. r. Jewell of Pacific Grove, ex-chancel'or of the University of the Pacific, 1s at the Ozc; dental. O. E. Parker and William G. Gilbert, mem - bers o1 tue New York Board of Trade, are at the Palace. F. J. Carolan, son-in-'aw of George Pullman, the millionaire car manufacturer, has spart- ments at the Palace. 8. Matlock, superinteadent of the B:1l Te'e- phoue system of Southern Califorzin, is regis- tered atthe Palace. W. Sanger Pul.man, a son of the late George M. Puilmun, the slecping-car magnate oi Chi- cugo, and one of the xous whem ihe deceased disinkerited, 1s at the Palace Hotel. Charles L. Teung, a native Korean and a graduste ot Harvara, is at the Occidental. He 1s on the way to his native conntry, where he will take charge ot a mission schoo:. Charles B. Harris of Goshen, Ind., who was recently appointed Usited States Consul to Nagasakl, is at the Occidental. He will lesve on the next steamer to commence his con- sulate duties. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. Miss Helen Eaton of Los Augeles is at the Normandie. Judge Maguire, wife and children are at the Riggs House. CALIFORN ANS CHICAGO, Dec. 14 L. IN CHICAGCO. At the Great Northern —Lester Morse, San Francisco; Audi- turium— Schumacher, San Francisco: A. Halt.an, Los Auge.es; Wellington—M a deriynn Sto Lelaud—A. P. Haif torium A inex—A. C. . Asifield Stow, San Franci:co; i, Los Angeles; Audi- ine, san Francisco. MELANCHOULY. £be leans above me while my pen, i idleness awaitiog Its messace fur the eyes of men, Giows dry, Is d1p , zrows dry My Dear. ani she, de v In turi e utrol the listless b 1be heart for joy aad sbe for b ain; 3 “What mortal gain.” the hexrt inquires, St cowe of moody drifung? Beho.d new Hope's far star inspires Throug ail the years the sweetest lyres, The souls 0f meu upliftng.’” “Behold,” the mournfal sha v replies, “How man perceives, desies—aid ales.” “And dies? Not so b xistence Life’s pi g fm .a Heyoid the view vt bum, nobler foriu ne: Courage awake! ars:: 1ol on Jiurn ndio! the sn.de s g0 & FEANK ! He does not dle. no end.ng, DEMAND An EXPLANATION. Sacramento Bee. State Labor Commissioner E. L. Fiizgerald is in Washingtor, D. C., engaged in loubying in favor of Hawsiian anvexation. Fiizgeraid is quoted s saying he is prepared 10 prove that ihree-iourths of the workingmen of Calilfor- uiu favor annexation if Commisitoner Fiizzerald believes that he is speaking the trutn, he is altogether in- competent. 1f he does not telieve ihatwhat he says is true, he is a knave. The working- men of Califoruia are aimost & unitagainst annexation. Resclutions denouneing the scheme bhave ben passed by the Federnted Trades Council of Sscramento, San Francisco and Los Angeies. [t is almost impossible to find u inbor{ng man who is not outspoken in Lis antagonism 10 this scheme of annexation. They undersiand the propostiion, and re ize that the pauper inbor o1 the islai ds cannot De kept out of Lie United Siaies when once the islands are aunexed. They are fuily aware that they have nothing whatever to gain by muking " the Hawalian Isanas part of the United Stutes, und ihat they woull by such a course. Lavor Comuissioner Fitzgerald shoula un- dersiand shet such is the ease, and it should be demanded of him that he produce proots of his claim that threc-fourths of the working men of Caiifornia favor annexation. The po sition Which Le occupies ate Libor Com- missioner was creaied in the interest of labor in (his State, and wiat he has o say to Con- £russ may have some weight .f 1t is not offset U: Protests from the workineme: Every lator unfon in Califcrnia should take cosmizance of the fact that (his mun is in Wash ngton misrepresenting their interests, and they snould aci accord ngly. When ihey have demonsirated to Cougress Lhat they have been misrepresented, they should theu tura their attention to E. L. Fuizgerald, and de- maad from him an explanation of ihe junket- ing trip 1o Washington, during which ne m s- Tepresented facis to the the detriment ot labor. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. Tho worm the early bird got had probably been cutall night. The women xet a lot more store by kissing than the meu; they get more out of it By the time the average woman has learned what ceferendum s she hus quit 1ussing with politics, After a man once begins noticing and ta'k- ing about a giri’s hair he has 1o keap it up ail the thae or sne acts hurt. T e women are prob.biy wearing balr nets #gA1n just 10 see how much the men w.li stand beiors'they begin on the bustle. When & young man makes up his mind to be forgiving and gentle witn his wite iu every- thing, he seldom thinks about pillow saams. —_— SAVED NEARLY ALL HI3 SALARY " Kansas City Journal. The Populist paper at Lincoln givessome account of the prosperity which has come to Uncie Billy Baker, tne pleasant old fellow Who for tnree term s represenied the Sixth District in Congress. Ho has two fine furms, upou one of which be is feeding 250 head of cattle. and, besides, he owns and occupies a tine home in town. Unele B.lly demonstrated the error of ihe beler (hat a Congressman could not live decently and save money out of Dbis swiary. His expenses in Washingion were bat iittle, if any, more t the sum allowed him for miieage and posiage, and had it not been for the necessity of contributing Iiberally to the campaign fund in the district he mignt have saved nearly the whole of his salary «f ¥5000 & year. He was a poor man when he eniered Cougress, and he is now worth about $17,000. ©CG Or PFIG. New Yora Press. Here is a good story of Lord Rethschild, head of the Hebrew community in London. He once received a Christian visitor ou some ticklish question of business, and the talk be. tween the two at last became hemied, his lordship losing his habitual calm and flaring up pretty fiercely. ~Well, my lord,” snid his Visilor, feining in with u 'desire o' throw oil on the troubled water-, *I hope you are not ROINE 10 eat me.” *My reiigion forvids meo: retusned hisjordship wiih quiey scorn—which Was as neata way of calling a man a pig as 1 have ever helld.y . b Low shorehound con 2h syrup for coughs and colds, price 10¢, o g 417 Sansome st, * SMOKELESS, NOISELESS, LIQUID AIR GUN. A rifle, fired by liquid air, is the latest invention for war. The Inventor is a Frenchman named Paul Giffard, and his new weapon, if all that is claimed for it be true, will revolution- ize the whole theory and practice of gunnery, for cannon, as well as small arms. In the con- flicts of the future gunpowder will be dispensed with. Air liquefied under enoimous pressure is the explosive used for M. G ffard’s new rifle. It isloaded into a reservoir beneath the oarrel. The tiigger is pulled, causing a little vaive to Ay NEW RAPID-FIRE SIGNAL AIR RIFLE. open and permitting a single drop of liguid air to escape {rom the reservoir. The magazine is full of conical buileis, ana one of them aiways lies iu ihe barrel of the rifle until fired and succeeded by anoiher. The liberated drop of air instantly expands in & smail chamber be- hind the bullet, and the power of 1.5 expansion is so tremendous as 1o discharge the projec- | tile with a velocity approximating haif a mile a second. No combus'ion having occurred 1here is no smoke, of course. Stranger yet, there is no sound—no report to give notice that the gun has been fired. In the batiles of the future men will fail without knowing from what direction thev are struck The magrzine holds 150 bullets, and can be filled in six seconds. The prcjectiles can be aischarged in a steady stream. THE DUMPING-OFF PLACE OF DISEASE. | “There is the dumping off place,” said Dr. Hereford, as he waved his hand airily toward alow whitewashe! fence which decorated the near norizon. Certainiy the fence, plain as it was, furnished the only decoration the neighborhood could boast. A few scattered houses, of a poor order, straggled along the road, a tannery iusisted | on its odoriferous presence being recognized, and bef ra us stretched a huge area of swamp, through which the Isiais Creek pursued its sluzgish course. If youlook at one of those beaus tiful, highly colored maps of fan Fraucisco you will see that streets are laid out witn perfect regularity all over this swemp, but for the present, at any rate, such streets do not exist. 1f we | except the tannery, with its rows of bleaching bides, the Pesthouse has the locality all 10 itself. | | lose much | Perhaps I ought 1o apologize for calling the place the Pesthouse. In official parlance the | dria, B3y pr, | equity jurisprudence and imy !in the study of the law. | not the spac { course ot la; | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDceNTS. SECRETARY OF THE TREsSURY—W. C., City. Lymun J. Gage 18 United S.ates Sccretary of the Treasury. ZaxziBAR—F. J., Angels Camp, Cal Zar bar or Zinguebar is the largest city on the Airican se: bonid, and on tue west side of the | island of that name. to Correspondents in THe CALL irsue of the 6th tust. you wiil find n cou pl-te auswer to | your questicn about the usc of the Uni ed tates inauls. A PUrsER—T. E.. § n.u Larbara, Cal. To se- cure a poOsLLION &s PUISer 00 one of the Const st-amers the appiicant should file n letter of avplication wi h the compuny of which he wisnes 10 enter the ». " The principal quulifications requisite are a know edge of ine business and age 10 excess of twenty-ouc. A HUsBAND'S NAME—W. K., City. A wife has & periect rigat 1o take the initials of ner hus- bund’s name. But she has not the right to take his title when having he: cards priated For instance, she has the ight 10 annouuce h'rselt us Mrs. Honry Willlam Jones, butit is 1t etiguette for her to announce nerself as Mrs. Msjor Wililum Henry Jones DisTANCES TO FOREIGN CoU oo 5, Stockton, Cal. In your questio: us to dis- tances from San Franeisco to various places ¥ou do not designate by what route and for son the distances given iearest post routes: To Vienn statuie mil s; Ragusa, Da ma Paris, France, B Germany, 75655 $210; Constaniinoiie, Tu kev, Russis, 8500; Budu- 8080, and Atexan- LiwYer—Enquirer, City. If you desire to study law you should study the textbooks in their entirety. If you do not care to take a course in the Hastings Coliege of Law you should g0 1o a lawyer's office and there read law end familiarize yourself with elementary Iaw, contracts, quusi-contracts, torts, persons aund domestic reiutions, erimuinal law, 1 tutional iuw, international law, comme: Inw bailmeuis, carriers, railway law, inter- siate commerce, real property, partnersnip rtant English sleiutes, us these ure the more essential points This department hns e to enumernte ull the books a country luwyer ought to have. -Aside from a the student should have the power to talk well and present a .ogicai argu- ment. To DISTINGUISH , Oakland, Cal. The name is unknown, and “I'weaty-sixth Street Hospital” sounds more polite and conveys abso. | lutely no significance to the public ear. But the Healtn Department may invent whatever bigh-soundiag title they piease; to the popalace, the plac: will always remain the Pesthouse, | associated in the past with many terrifying epidemics, and lingering in the present, a decay- | iug disgrace to the civilization of which we boest. 1 Itisamisnomer to call the place a hospital, for it has noneof the most rudimentary | requirements of such an institution. Bui!t out of the flimsiest materials, to meet the require- | ments of the smalljox scare ot 1870, the building is rapidly tumbling to pieces, the sanitary | arrangements are of the worst possible description, and everything about the structure pro | clsims long continued neglect. “Sorry to keep you waiting,” said the watchman when he opened the outer gate on which | we had been pounding for a quarter of an hour, “but the faucet in the office has burst and I've | been trying to stop the water.” i Sure enough, when we at last got in we found the barely furnished room which serves as | an office half flcoded with water, the rebeliious faucet which had caused all the trouble baing temporarily plugged up with a cork. “It'1l blow the cork out again soon,” said the doctor savage hat's the sort of plumb- ing we bave o0 put up with here. Butyou should see our sewer. Come and look!” For abvious ressons I dia not wish to approach the sewer too closely. It is simply a ! square, unadorned wooden flume, which crosses the road in front of the building and dips | down iuto the marsh a few hundred feet aw A patch of loathsome-looking green weed marks the spot where al the refuse of the establishment is discharged. "Every now and | again we have to dig the thiug oat and put in new planks,” added the docior, | What with the sewer and the swamp and the tannery there is a coi stant reign of smell at | the Pestnouse. When the taunery lets off the water in which the nides have been sosking the | odor is sald to be something awful, and on & warm afternoon the malarious mua of the swamp does i1s best to rival the tannery. And the primitive sewer is always there. The toilet ar- | rangements within the bui ding indicate pretty clearly its decrepit condition. To compel any person, even if strong and healthy, to live under such conditlons, would be | sheer brutality, but when we consider that the piace is used for the incarceration of men, and women, 100, suffering from the most hideous disease known to humanity, the offense becomes | absolutely criminal. It has been proposed over aud over again 1o shift the Pesthouse, now | 10 the Almshouse grounds, now 1o some other spot, but whether from local opposition or lack | of funds the scheme has elways fallen through, aud the structure remaius, growing daily | more shaky and less and less habitable. | Iam not going to deml with the lepers just now; they have already been pictured by abler pens than mine. Suflice it to say that they seem to be well eared for, and wonderfully hapoy | considering the e¢ircumstances under which they are compelled to drag out their miserable | existence, “No, I've nothing to comp'ain of,” said & white man who kept his hands carefully con- cealed in his pockets, because, poor fellow, most of his fiugers were gone. “The doctor and the nurse do ali they can for us. It's only the building that's so bad. Look at the root.” Ho pointed, however, at the floor, on which & number of old tin pans wore arranged 1n an unsymmytrical pattern. ““That's 14st night's rain.” It appears that it Is the pleasing custom in this institution to distribute pans alt over the floor whenever the slightest snower fallz. Through long custom the inmates are enabled to locate the leaks with exactitude, and it is only when a fresh partof the roof gives way that there is any real trouble. in & smail ward at the end of the building a Chinaman lies dying of cancer of the throar, perheps even a worse disease than leprosy. The cold, wintry breezs whistles through 100 | ¢rucks in the walls, and the floor is quite as liberally supplied with tin water catchers as in | any other part of the building. He is there, noi because of his disease, which is noa-in- fectious, but simply because he is a Chinaman and there is no other piace to put him. | Outof the twenty-one pat‘ents incarcerated here all but three are lepers, twelve of them | Chinese and six white. Included in this list are two women, of German and Chinese nation- ality, respectively. So far as the white lepers are concerned the Sandwlich Islands are mainly responsible for the disease. plantation and lived there until she wus 7 or 8 years old. Doubtless she contracted the malady by mingling in the unguarded way of littie children with diseased natives. Then there are two brothers, of white parents, who were born and reared in Hono!ulu, and who | developed the disease after coming to the United States. Another, a very intelligent en- gineer of some 35 years of age, was also born in Hawaii, and in his case the influence of heredity is disiincily irnceable, his mother having also died or the disease. It is singuler the falth the patients have inanew Japanese remedy called gota. They all usk for a fresh supply of the herb. i | tinguishing the sex of fowi The only white woman, though of German parentage, was born on an Hawsiian | foliowing is laid down s the means of dis- The drake The Guinea hen wheezes, the duc! and the cock both have a peculiar diss greeable chatter, but the hen says “buci- wheat” or “'go back,” which the cock never Tae peacock can be distinguished, even 1 only a few months old, by the foxy red pinion feathers on his wings. In the case of turkeys the breastbone of the cock iy turnet out at tho front point, while that of the neu is straight. As to gcese, the gabble of the common, the Embden and the Toulouse gan- qers is faster, tiner and higher than that of the goose, which is a slow, low bass; and the sereceh of the gander s file, lond aud c.ear, { while that of the goose 1s rougzh bass. Botn ernder and goose of the English gray geese have a cosrse screech nnd gabble, but the screech of lie goose is lazy and scems 1o by partly broken, making two sounds, while the gander gives one clear, loud screech without any breek in it THE TELEPHONE IN POLITICS, Chicago Inter Ocean. The long-distance telephone is to members of the Cabine to keep in close touch with their departments even when absent irom the capital. Many questions are referred to Cabinet officers over long-distance 'phones. Secretary B.iss notin- frequently holds conversation wnile he is in New York with cflicials of his department, a great boon as it allows them | and wnile in Washington he has interviews with his business managers in New York. TPostmaster-General Gary when in Bultimore utiliz-s the same means in icoking niter his department, and while at the capital in supe vis.ng his pr:vate business. Nearly all the Cabinet officers do the some thing, and it ir understood more ihan one member of the Cal inet would nrobabiy not be in such a positio were it not jor the convenlence of modern means of communication, which has no longer | made it recessary for an official to be tied to hi. desk in the department over which he pre- sides. SOME DON’'T Don’t measure reforms friends. Don’t buy expensive presents for people in moderate circumstaunces. Don’i think tha. all the political virtue is in by some of f{ts | your faction. Dow't believe what you hear a rival say of an absent one. Dou’t be impatient with the shopgirls. You are only one o many. Don’t swi off New Year. You wilt have oniy your trouble for your pains. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c Ib. Townsend's.* D — EPFCIAL Information daily to mannufactursry, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery. * Chritmas P “I cannot say that it cures the disease,” said Dr. Herelord, ‘‘no known remedy has yet ' been discovered, but it certainiy alleviates.” Got, in its dried state, locks scmething Iike camomile, butonly the Japaaese know its true crigiu, and thoy guard their secret closely. Itis taken in several ways. A hot in dosas of a teaspoonful at a time. patients all cry out for gota, and the doctor, anxious to please them, promises an abundant rupply in the near furure. Fortunately smallpox hes, it would seem, died out in our midst, or else fresh norrors of | contag:on might be ndded 1o this fittingly named pesthouse. law now stands, an innocent victim ot contagion may be condemued to Lerd with these lepers. 1f youor I were to fall a victim to smallpox te-morrow, and were not wealthy enough to pay lor quarantine in our own homes, nothing cou d save us from the Pesthouse. 1f there | Wwas to be n general outbreak of contwgious diseases the lepers, I presume, woul 1 be crowded | out, and their germ-impregnated rooms given to paiients whose constitutions were niready weakened by illness. 8o that, in the course of a few vears we might look for a fresh crop of lepers, who would not owe their disease to Hawaiian contagion, but to maladministration in | San Francisco. | Come and look at the typhus room,” said Ruddock, the venerable male nurse, whose kindness is that ¢ a father toward the unforiuuates placed under his care. With my mind full of the heroic voluutecr nurse, llawkins, I followed into a large bare | apartment, clean and empty, except for a great stove in the center. It was airy enough in all | conscience. The shrunken weather-boards left cracks through which you could putyour | ers all round the walls, *Tais is where we nursed Miller,” satd Ruddock, quite simply, as if he had no idea of the bravery and se!f-sacrifice invo.ved in the task; “Hawkins took one watch and I the other.” Looking round the place I conld not help thinking that Father McDonald was quite right when he used such vigorous language at St. Peter's last Sunday. Certainly, though the | doctors diagnese the complaint as typhus, it is least open to doubt whether Hawkins’ death was not qui! to the feve Any man, even in the best of health, would probably catch cold if he had tosit up for long | r long might in such a well ventilated npartment, to say nothing of the exhaustion | night afte. involved in watching & de 1rious typhus patient. Nurse Ruddock Limself fnclines to the clerical view of Hawkins' death. “I came through all right myself,” he said, “ont then I am streng and weli and mean 1o die in my boOts, any- way. But Hawkins was weak and suffering from cold already when he came here.” Hawk ns, it will be remembered, had such a horror of the Pesthouse that when his patient Miiler died and he found nimself sickening with the fatal complaint he implored the doctors at the City and County Hospital not to seud him back there. To humor him a tent was erected inthe hospital grounds and there he died, A victim to a system which Father McDonald rightly denounces as a diserace to civilization, J. F. ROSE-SOLEY. NOTES ABOUT NOTABLES. Bishop Leonard of the Protestant Episcopal Mission«ry Diocese of Nevada, Utah and West- e Colorado, says that the Ind:au has no pro- fanity—not a profaue word in his language. Wihen he desires to swear it Is necessary for him to learn English. FLASHES OF FUN, “*Mrs. Jenks s as sharp as tacks.” “What has she done Iately ?" “'She has bougnt evirything she needs, so that her relations can’t give her useful Christ- mas presents.”—Chicago Record. M. Bruneticre, the editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes, is now in Rome, where he is collecting materials for & tosk or an article which is to demonsirate the utier cotiapse of science. He has had one interview with the First druggist—That new clerk of mine sold a prescription yesterday for $1, when itshould have been §3. Second druggist—Then you lost money on 1t? First druggist—I lost $2.—Brooklyn Life, Pope and hopes to get another. A statement recently made by the Soclety of New England Women that there is to be wund no descendant of Priscilla Alden of Masflower fame is proved to be incorrct. A little girl about 12 years of age, named Pris- cilia Miuilens Alden, who lives in the o:d Alden homestead at Duxbury, Mass., which was built in 1653, is niuth in descent from Priscilia and John Aldea. ‘Billets and his wile weren’t en, I believe.” 'No; that was from force of circumstances, The longer the engagement lasted the shorter be became.”—Philadeiphia North American. *“Why o you think that Thompson's wife is the boss of their household?” “Because she always says ‘Yes, dear,’ so sweetly when he sugiests anything before others. You cen tell by his smile of triumpn at such tines, that he isn't used fo 1t Cleveland Leader. gaged long, Hugh de Gray Seymour, the sixth Marquis of Hertford, has joined the members of the arisiocracy who have been obliged to quit their ancestral halls. He has justinformed the authorittes of Alcester, Warwickshire,” neir which his seat, Ragiey ifall, Is situated thitowing to his decreasing income and in- Creasivg expensas 1t is impossib.e for him to keepup the hall and he will be obliged to rentit, Edith—She lost Freddy througl. her own stupidity. A girl shouid never permit herself to appear mors intelligent than the man who is talking to her. That is the rule 1 aiways follow. Berths—But then it fs so easy know. 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