The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17 1897 Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OF d streets, S8an Francisco EDITORIAL ROOMS.. ....517 Clay street ephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by in this ¢ . ounding towns for 15 cents a week. nth 63 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.... ..One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE. .908 Broadwey E NEW YORK OFFIC ..Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON @. C. €. C. CARLTON, .Riggs House Correspondent. Monigomery street, c yes sireet; oven u atil 9:30 o’ clock. il 9 o'clock. covnty in California in proportion to its means e extent of i1s resources shou!d unite with fan in » determined and far-reaching effort to ine exposition this winter an event that will attract and bold the zttention of the entire country. The ceeasion will offer opportvnities of advancement to all, and all should meke ready to profit by them. It is now foreseen that the most notable feaiure of the coming spring will be the rush to Alasks. Conservative esti- mates place the number of those who will leave the Eastern Etates alrne at not Jess than 100,000. The trade of outfit these men will be the grcatest commercial boom the Pacific | Coast has kn for many yesrs, and manufacturers of min- ing goods and implements will fina a large profit in it. To that extent the benefits of an exhib tion of mines and min- ing will be ma y for the counties wkere manufacturing is carred on, and fer this city, where tne outfitting will be chiefly done. There is another aspect of the enterprise, how- ever, that will show b:nefits for the mining counties and the interior generally, and that aspect should not be overlooked. The Alaskan rush is due to the world’s demand for gold and not to eny desire to exploit Alaska, Many capitalists who come to this coast during the winter with the intention of going 1o the Klondike or other parts of the Yukon Valley next spring will remain 1n California if they can be shown good in- vesimelits in mining in any part of the State. It will be the object of the mining exyosition to mzke just such a showing, and those counties which exhibit the restand most satisfac- tory d vs of mining resources and prospects will certainly attract a large number of investigators and investors to their mines. Cali a cannot afford to fail at this juncture. The whole State, as well s San Francisco, has before it an opportunity that rarely comes 10 any ccmmunity. The people of the United States are now moreinterested in gold mining than at any time since the excitements that followed tLe gold discoverieso! 849. This, therefore, is the time to prove by a visible exposi- tion that Ca! nia is still the best and richest mining region in the world, the surest place ;for men to make investments in niining yroperty. Tie time for preparing for the exposition is short. Itis imperative that the interior counties begin without delay the work of making complete exhibits of their resouices. men of putlic spirit should teke up the enterprise in every sec- tion of the State. The movement has been staried, the exposi- tion will be held; the pioneers, the native sons and daughters and the miners are &t the head of the undertaking. Surely with such leadership in such a cause no county in California will be found laggard or lacking in the task of making the ex- position one of which the State can be proud. A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY. T last the movement for the establishment of a nationai university at Washington seems to have attained sufti- | cient momentum to attract general attention and arouse popular interest. This being so the prospects for success are bright, for it cannot be doubted that when the people ander- stand the movement they will favor it and bring to bear upon Congress an influence that will obtain for the institution an epprovpriation adequate at any rate to lay the foundations and begin the work. The establishment of a naticnal university at the capital was one of the aims of Washington. He urged it in private and in public. He gave to it his influence in official life, and at his death left it by his wiil the sum of $25,000 as an endow- ment. All the earlier Presidents followed Washington in urg- | ng the undertaking of the enterorise, and among the number of its most earnest advocates were Aaams, Jefferson, Madison and Jackson. During the years of sectional strife preceding the Civil ‘War, the embellishment of Washington was partially checked. With the firm and permanent establishment of the Union there revived the patriotic desire to make the national capital a city of wbich the nation might be justly proud. President Grant, | emong the many movements he started for the improvement of the city, revived the idea of Washington, and became a vigor- ous advocate of the proposed university, thus giving a new life to the idea, which had been practically abandoned. The recent success of the movement has been due largely to a number of patriotic women, who have carried on an agita- tion in its favor for a number of years. They have impressed the imporiance of the university upon the popular mind, have solicited contributions for buildings, and have interested a con- siderable number of men of vealth and culture in the institu- tion, so that now there is little doubt that liberal donations will be forthcoming as soon as Congress provides for the uni- versity and founds it upon a broad and liberal bass, The establishment of such a university will be something more than an embellishment of the national capital, and the fulfillment of a wish of Washington. It will fill an important yosition in our educational system by provid n: in the United Etates a place for that scientific research and earnest study for which so many ardent American students now go to Europe. Our foremost educators, scientists and philosophsrs unite in declaring the propased university to be a necessity of our na- | tional development, and it is to be hoped the desire of the pro- | moters will be gratified by the passage of a bill providing for it in time to have the foundation stones of the first building laid July 9, 1899, the one hundredth anniversary of Washington's bequest. — Perhaps the number of people who go to their graves with the credit of having blown out the gas is greatly overesti- mated. Tn acity where the gas is a deadly poison and the landlord has a babit of juggling with it in a manner fatal 10 lodgers it 1s unfair to brand a man as jay, or as a suicide, when he happens to be found deceased in a room fuil of the stuff. There seems to be an inclination to harshly criticize Mr. Rockefeller for suing a voor widow for $17 50 worth of grass eaten by her hcrse. However, nothing of this sort can disturb the equanimity of that good ana great man. Doubtless he could find a text whereby to sustain his action, and would joy in expounding it to his Sunday-school clags, Kansas has a lawyer only 7 years of age, so of course heisnotold enou-h to know better. His legal training will probably suggest to him the wisdom of suing out an injunetion when his motuer threatens him with a slipper, but otherwiss its present use is not clear. If the city were to offer a reward for the scalps of burglars, almost any resident of the Western addition would be able to get a little extra Christmas money. | Active THE CHARTER CONTEST. | HE CALL has more faith in the future of San Francisco | Tthan it can express in words. We believe that this penin- sula is destined somea day to hold on= of the greatest, most brilliant and most beautiful cities in the world. We believe | that as the present generation sows so the generations of the | future will to a great extent reap. In other words, we believe | that the responsibility of laying the foundations of a great metropolis rests upon the San Franciscans of to-day, and that | the manner in which they meet and discharge that responsi- bility will immeasurably influence the future character of the- cit; | At the present moment we believe the pressing necessity of the municipality is a new charter—not a charter designed | to regulate what men shall eat and drink, or to compel them to | g0 to church on Sunday, or to refrain from expectorating on the sidewalks, but a charter which will provide a plain and effective system of government by which the taxpayers can 2et out of the street contractors and taxeaters a dollar’s worth | of service for every dollar expended. More than anything else | the city needs a Board of Public Works under which an en" | lightened system of street improvements may be developed. If there ever was a time in the histcry of this city when its citizens should rebuke claptrap and demagogy that time is the present. Factional fighting to secure control of the Char ter Convention ought to be sat upon so hard that the politi- cians who are engaging in it will never forget the election of | December 27. The imperative demand of San Francisco is a conservative Board of Freeholders who will frame a charter acceptable to all classes, which will change the present sytstem | of government as little as possible, which will rely on experi- | ence rather than theory for governmental precepts, and which will permit the people to inaugurate a progressive system of public improvements without danger of having their pockets | picked. | THE CALL supports the fifteen Freeholders nominated by ! the regular party organizations because it believes that it is i only through their election that any charter at all can be se- | cured. If the Freeholders nominated by the Ccmmittee of One Hundred are chosen nothing but a faction quarrel can ensue. The Phelan-Sullivan- Examiner combination of bosses, with ‘ the demagogues who co-operate in their political schemes for | control, will influence the making of any charter they can pro- duce. The result will be that the conservative masses will vote down their work. Thus $40,00c0—the cost of the elec- tion—and time worth a hundred fold more that $40,900 will be | wasted. | There is but one course for the good citizens who favor a | revision of the city’s organic law to pursue, and that is to support the nominees cf the regular organizations for Free- holders. These gentlemen are representative men; all have ;been persuaded to serve at the sacrifice of their time, some | reluctantly; they are pledged to no particular policy, and they may be trusted to frame a charter under which the city can grow and prosper and which can be adopted. | The sincere men who have been led to support the Free- | holders of the Committee of One Hundred are being used by { 2 Democratic faction for political purposes. They are cats- paws. Later on they will discover that they have been duped, for there is no honesty in factional politics; the “retorm” pre- | tensions of the Sullivan machine are b on nothing more | exalted than a hunger for the spoils of office. A vote for the unpledged Freeholders of the party organi- zations will be a vote for a conservative, businesslike charter and against demagogy and buncombe, POSTAL SERVICE REFORM., ONGR MAN LOUD coatributes to the current num- ber of the Forum an article under the title, A Step Toward Economy in the Postal Service,”” in which he points out the abuses practiced unaer the present classification | of mail matter and makes c.ear ths need of applying a rem- | edy not only in the interests of economy bat for the sake of justice as well. | Tue abuses complained of occur almost wholly in the clessi- fication known as second-class mail matter. The rate of first- | class mail is 2 cents an ounce, but as few letters are of tull | weight that class of mail pays on an average 93 cents a pound ana yields a handsome surplus revenue to the Govern- | ment. Eecond-class mail matter is charged at the rate of 1 cent a pound, and by many persons advantage is taken of the low rate to mail as second-class matter a large amount of stuff that should not be so rated. Mr. Loud quotes the statistics of the department for 1596 showing that the Government received that year a revenue from toe postal department of §77,044,254 for carrying 607,507, | 515 pounds of mail. The cost of handling was $90,626,296, or nearly 15 cents a pound. Thus first-class mail matter pays | more than six times its cost, while second-class pays less than one-fifteenth of its cost. The object of Congress in providing a low rate for second- i class mail was to enable the people to obtain newspapers and magazines at a price that would place them within the reach of all, and there is now no objection to coutinuing that rate for legitimate periodicals. There has erown up, however, a practice of issuing cheap ncvels as parts o! a “periodical li- brary’’ and publisting advertising pamphlets and circulars in the form of newspapers and sending tiousands of pounds of them through the mails as second-class matter. By reason of these abuse+, as Mr. Loud points out, a legit- | imate booi sent through the mails pays 8 cents postage, but | the trashy novels issued periodically pay but 1 cent. The | mple copy” nuisance is said to be even worse than the cheap novel. It isan advertising scheme pure and ple, and all the people are taxed to carry about the country the ad- | vertisements of private parties. This is a flagrant injustice to the community at large, and especially so to legitimate news- | papers and magazines, which have to compete in advertising with these underband rivals. Mr. Loud estimates that this class of mail comprises three- fifths of all mail matter measured by weight, costs about $40,000,(0 to handle and yields a revenue of only $3,000,000. He urges the passage of an act prohibiting the admission of books orsample copies to second-ciass rates. The subject has | long been under consideration, and will ba submitted to Con- gress this winter. Itisa simple business proposition, and, as i it 1s supported by reasons of justice and of economy, ought to find favor with men of all parties. | | So Lees ks dug up the hatchet, and brandishes it fiercely while he denounces Gunst as “a false alarm.” It is as we | feared. Sweet peace, which for a time brooded bird-like, and really seemed to mean business, has simply ‘'got it in the neck” again. This expression is not the choicest, perhaps, but it goes well with the *‘ialse alarm” of the Chief. In an Eastern city a woman has secured heavy damages bacause the water furnished her house was impure, and the use of it had killed a husband valued at $5000. O: course, Spring Valley water may be b:iter, far bettsr, than the sort that is fatal, and yet to read this item over again could not possibly work injary to any Spring Valley official, Probably she rumor that Cubans have been hanging Span- ish soldiers who have gone to them with overiures of peace is based on nothing more serious than the occasional necessity for hanging a spy. Bogzus peace proposals could be more safely transmitted by long distance telephone anyhow. S S The woman who was so eager tosee Durrant that in her excitement she fell downstairs and broke various useful bones may ibink Providence harsh with her, but in ttis view she will find scant sympathy wherewith to soothe and sustain herself. One peculiar thing about a fine for contemnt is that it is usually a high-toned, dignified and impressive bluff. Durrant’s lawyers do riot seem to realize that the public is just as tired of them as of him. PERSONAL Dr. A. C. Winn is & guest at the Baldwin. Dr. F. M. Conn of Seattle is at the Grand. Hon. W. R. Guy of 8an Diego is at tne Grand. Dr. W. H. Cope and wife are here from Pleas- anton. C. L. Smith, an attorney of Sacramento, is in the eity, Dr. D. Walker of Portland, Or., is at the Ba dwin. Johu F. Carriere, a Los Angeles attorney, is in the city. T. A. Peacock, a hotel man of San Rafael, is at the Russ. J. W. Houston, & capitalist of Courtland, is at the Grand, N. W. Moody, Tax Collector of Fresno County, is & tthe Lick. Dr. W. L. Chapman of the Doric is a guest at the Occidental. V. W. Hartley, & Vecaville fruit-raiser, is at the Grand Hotel. O. McHenry, a banker of Modesto, is at the Californis Hotel. Mrjor C. Bryant and wife of San Rafael ere at the Occidental. L. W. Lasell, a merchant of Martinez, is reg- istered at the Grand. B. T. K. Preston, an old-time newspaper man, is at the Grand. W. C. Davidson, United States navy, and wife are at the Palace, Judge William P. Veuve of San Jose is a guest at the California. V. Anderson and wife of Fresmo are staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. N. Heilbron, a well-known stockman of Sacramento, is at the Grand. E. D. Goodrich, & jeweler of New York, is registered at the Lick House. B. Taylor, a commercial traveler of San Jose, is & guest at the Cosmopolitan. R. E Starkweather, a wealthy fruitgrower of Hanford, is a guest at the Lick. Dr. F. E. Voisard, a well-known physician of Woodland, is at the Occidental. R. Reynolds, an extensive farmer of Auck- land, New Zealand, is at the Occidental. L. F. Stolz, one of the prominent residents of Honolu:u, is registered st the Baldwin. T. Daniel Frawley returned from Honolulu yesterday and is & guest at the California. Charles Cox and A. P. Dryden, mail agents of New Zealand, are at the California Hotel. F. R. Worthing, W. H. Lewers and H. A. Carr, of the Frawley Company, are at the O cidental. F. E. Curtis, lessce of railroad eating-houses in Texasand New Mexico, is at the Grand from Los Angeles. Robert S. Barton, manager of the Barton Opera-house at Fresno, registered at the Occi- dental last night. J. D. Hestwood, one of the miners who made his pite on the Klondike, came down from Seattle last night. Dr. E. & O'Brien of the Preston School of Industry arrived here last night, and regis- tered at the Grand. L. J. Maddux, director of the Preston School of Industry, arrived at the Grand Hotel from Modesto last night. Willlam Land, the newly elected Mayor of Sacramento, was in this city fora few hours yesterday on business. Thomas Bain Walker, British Vice-Consul at Honolulu, came here yesterday on the Moana, with his wife and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. 8 H. B. Schwartz and family errived here yesterday from Tokio, Japan, and are registered at the Occidental. Mrs. W. C. Longden and family, who have been visiting in China, returned here yester- day, and are at the Occideatal. F. Johnson, who has been in China for eight yeers, returned bere yesterday with bis family. They are at the Grand. F. M. Addison and P. V. Mohun of the United States navy reiurned yesterday from Honoluly, and are staying at the Palace, T. C. Johnson, & stock-raiser and land- owner, is in the city from Pleasantou, accom- panied by his wife. They are at the Grand. Captain M. Blakeway of the royal service arrived at the Paiace Hotel yesterday, on his way home from Burmah, where he has be:n stationed for years. Madge Carr Cooke, Eleanor Robson and Mrs. J. W. Dacker, members of the Frawley Company, arrived from Honolulu yesterday, and are at the Baldwin. Lars Anderson and wife returned yes. terday from thetr bridal tour in Japan, and Are at the Palace. Mr. Anderson is the son of General Anderson, and was at one time a member of a legation at Washington. J. Scheffer, a civil engineer of Johannesburg, Transvaal, arrived here yesterday from Japan, and is staying at the Grand Hotel. He leit Johannesburg last May, and has been spend- ing some time in India and Japan. He is on his way to Portland, Or. Sir Theodore Fry, Bart., who passed through here some time ago on his way to Japan, returned yesterday, and s at the Palace. He has been visiting in the Mikado's realm with Colonel W. H. H. Stowell, wife and son, who have returned with him. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 —W. C. Coulson and wife, San Francisco, Ebbitt House. Miss Masbke, San Francisco; N. Wellington, Mrs. and Miss Vanderlyun Stow, Mre. Chauncey Taylor and Miss Foote of San Francisco are at the Arlington. Isiaor Jacobs of Ban Franecisco was in Washington to-day,en route for Eu- rope. THE DYING CENTURY. Old cantury, totteriag to th« re All valnly ost thou beat thy breast: A new dawn gilds the mountain crest. Tre glory of thy wondrous day, With all fts gliiter ana_dispiay, 1ntwiiight shadow dles away. Almoit the poet, in whose rhyme The praise Is sung in verse subiime, Begins his lay, ““Once on a time.’” Strange fancies fill thy time-worn brain; Tuou dreamest thou art vourg again, With battie-cry on land and main. And a dread turmoil of unrest Embrolis the Urlent and the West; Alarums sound at thy behest. E’en Israel’s children, In thy throes, Imagine o'er again their woes: And many a hope toward Zion goes The world s mad—men shout and cry— Beholding wenders 1u the sky, Renewing faith in prophecy. Old ceatury, we love thee well, Thy fame the chroniclers will tell When long forgo: thy tuueral knell. For many a noble thought hath sped To nobler aciion by thee led, And many a high-sou.ed word was sald. New hanpiness came In thy wake, Rightea was mauy an old mistake; An age-woru thirst thy springs did slake, Fest thee—new hopes begin to play: Ibey drive thy death horn fears away, Aud usher in the newer day. Reat thee, brave requiem shall be thine, Whose iustrous deeds wiil iong outshine Ihe strange vegaries of decline —Phiiadelphia Ledger. Qrmnrmzm:mmmrq THE CALL has purchased from Poillip Waldorf all the right, title and interest to its agency at Sacra- mento, and has appointed James L. Gillis and Charles K. L'pman to take charge at that place. Messrs, Gillis and Lipman are authorized THE BAB-LE OF FOOLS, Minneapulis Journal. The siliy talk of “sham prosperity,” when work is increasingly sbundaut and wages higher, is the babble or fools, and the fool Democratic organs ought 10 see that they can make no )w itical capitsl by coutinuing 1tin Le face of accomplished facts, g: to receive subscriptions, collect all moneys due, and transact such other business as properly belongs to the news agency of THE CaLyin the city of Sacramento. Ce 22920222222220009929000989 suit of sensation. sacred. Not so. international case. lic press. EXPOSES THE EXAMINER FAKE Misfortune the most cruel is no shield from the intrusion of the Hearst hirelings, who invade any sanctuary, violate any convention in the pur- It would be supposed that the sorrows of a wife whose husband is in prison, as many p:rsons believe, unjustly, would have be:n It was the evil fortune of Mme. Dreyfus to bear part in an The Examiner wanted a letter from Mme. was, of course, impossible to obtain a genuine document of that nature. grief of this unhappy woman was not of the kind that is paraded in the pub- This did not disturb the Examiner. and easy methods of the forger. Here is the specific instance: It The Dreyfus. To it were open the cheap To W. R. Hearst, the Examiner, San Francisco: I know that my husband is innocent and is the vic- tim of the vile machinations o* some whose names are now honored in France. I have proofs which will bring it home to them and clear Alfred’s martial honor and prove that an Alsatian officer who cheer- fuilly adooted France as his father- land could not betray bis trust. Jehovah, God or Providence will ere long crush his enemies and re- store him to me and to those two dear children who believe that he is away on business, and are anxiously awaiting his return, TOUCHING APPEAL BY CAPTAIN From the Examiner, November 21. DREYFUS’ WIFE Would that the case had happened in America instead of in France, where & majority of the people are blinded by sectarian prejudices. I can only end by saying that I am convinced of my husband’s absolute innocence, and mean to prove it. And I lay before you and your earnest and justice-loving American readers some of these, my proofs and evidences of a frightful wrong which has been done one of the bravest officers of France, my noble husband. Lvcie Eveesie D Paris, Nov. 12, 1897. duce. wrote nothing similar. MME. DREYFUS DENIES IT. PARIS, Dec. 16.—Temps says the San Francisco Examiner, November 21, published a letter said to be from Mme. Lucie Dreyfus, dated November 12, saying she had proofs of her husband’s innocence, which she would pro- Mrs. Dreyfus says this letter is false. She knows no one in America and In a hospital in Philadelphis, learning to ve & nurse, is a great-gra nddaughter of John Adams, second President of the United States and one of the founders of the Government. Her name is Emma O'Neill, and despite the fact that she is scarcely more than 20 years old, | she possesses in not a small degree some of the characterisiics of the distinguished famil which she is a proud descendant. She is beautiful and much courted by Philadelphi of ety men, but on her mother’s death a year ago she decided to devote herself to ministering to the sick. FLASHES OF FUN. He—I see that a late medical authority says that kissing is a cure for indigestion. She—I ate a good desl more mince ple for dinner than Ishould. —Detroit Free Press. “Your husband seems to be much balder than he was last year.” “Yes, he’s pretty close to the final stage.” “The final stage ?** “Yes, the vaudeville Plain Dealer. ‘Father,” said the knowledge-seeking boy, “‘what’s a faa?” And after some thought the candid old gen- tleman answered: 'A fad, Rollo, is something that most every- body enjoys except yourselfl.”—Washington star. stage.” — Cleveland “I seem to have & very unfortunate manner of seying things,” remarked Willle Wishing- ton. ‘What has happened now ?” inquired his friend. ““[ remarked to Miss Cayenne that there was one point upon which 1 had made up my mind.” “and was she interosted 2 “Not greatly. &he said she thought that a point was quite 1arge enough for the purposs Washingtor: Star. et o TR ——— WHEN GIKLS USE SLANG. “It is unfortunate that slang phrases are so essily slipping iuto our everyday conversa. tion and taking apparently so fixed a place in our talk,” writes Edward W. Bok in the De cember Ladies’ Home Journal, “and the worst of itis thatso many people are using slang entirely unconscious of the fact that they are doing so. If the common usage of slang were confined 10 & particular order of girls it would perhaps serve as an indicator of character and vass unnoticed. It would, at least, not touch the sensiuilides of gentlefolk. But itis notso coufined. “Slang is invading the very nicest circles; it 1s beginning to influence the talk of our most careful.y reared zirls. Avd this why the habit shovld receive cioser atiention. Girls are for- getting that siang phrases and refinement are &bsolutely forein to each otner. A slang phrase may be more expressive than a term of polite usage, but it is never impressive, except 10 lmpress uniavorably. Itis high time that our girls should realize that they thould speak the Engiish language in their conver- sation, and not the diaicCt of the racotraex, nor the ungo of the baseball field. A girl may cause a smile by the apt use of some slang phrase. “‘But, lnwardly, those who applaud her place her, at the same time, in their estimation. No girl ever won an ounce of respect by being slangy. On the contrarr, many a girl, uncon- scious of the cause, has found herseli grad- ually slipping out of peopie’s respect by the tact that her tak was ‘dotied with slang phrases. ‘She amuses me greatly. But I should not care to invite her to my home no: have my giris know her.’ It is a poor popu- larity for & girl which has as its only basis the cap and belis of 1he jester. The life of the Jgster 1s never long.” Low’s borehound cougn syrup ecures bronchitis, price 10c, 417 Sansome st. * THE SILK TRADE BY SEA. La Science Pour Tous. Recent researches of M. Vidal de la Blache, a member of the French Academy ei Inscrip- tions and Belles-Lettres, have thrown & new light on the very interesting quostion of the origin of the commerce in silk by way of the sea. In examining some texts of Pausanias, written about the year 175 ot our era, M. de la Biache finds it stated that the “country of the production of silk (Seria) is a fluvial delta sit- uated at the lowest part of the Indian Ocean.” This statement is in coutradiction to that of Ptolemy and the geographers who preceded him as to the geographical position of the “Seres”’ (silk country). Before Pausanias wrote silk had been brought into Syria by way of the ses, and many towns were engaged in the manufacture of the goods, but about that time a change was taking place in the directions and routes of commerce. In consequence of the war against the Par- | thians, which broke out in the year 162 and which was followed by a pestilence whici rav- aged all Western A ia, the merchants of Syria, deprived of their communications with the East by land, had formed a company to seek by sea the material on which the prosperity of their manufacturing industry depended, It was about that period, also, that for the first time Chinese fabrics marked the arrivals at various intervals of Occidental merchants (called Embassedors) in Ji-Nan, or Tonquin, which appears to be the Scria of Pausanias, REFLECTIONS OF A BEACHELOR. New York Press. Men believe in women; women believe they believe in men. A womau can never understand why ideal love is 50 rare when ideal women are so com- mon. After the Lord had finished making Eve out of tae rib he had just enough left over to make an auction. No men ever really bas any doubt that the girl he is in love with will marry him, but most men pretend they have because it ullvays tickles the girl. A girl hes an idea that she looks most fascinating to a man when she has a lotof cushions Yfled up around her and is siiting on one of her feet. The women always speak of the President of the United S s with the same hushed tone they u-e when they tell of & man who faints on his wife's grave. Itis always a shock to & woman to find that her nusband doesn’t think near so much of nice pink silk prjamas ss he oes of a canton- flannel nighisnirt with long flaps to it. Up to the time he is 25 the average man wonders how s00n he will want toget married. After he gets to be 30 he wond ers ow long Le will be able to stave (t off. —_——— . — A CENTURY LEHIND (HE TIMES, Chicago Trivone, The manner of the French Government in dealing with the Dreyfus eas: 1s strongly suggestive of old inquisition methods. This is tiue both of the secret trial, in which the prisoner was kept ignorantof ine testimony against him, &s well as the tort SEsiasthim, 5 rture to which | man who rece | The pictures wu | coutroi of | 000 :q ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS- ON TUESDAY—“‘Alamed 21st day of January, 183 Alameds, Cel. The feli on Tuesday. The ed- its farewell 0,at the Colume THE FRAWLEY C: Frawley Compu: week in 1896 in San Franei bia, on the BEET SUGAR—. beet sugar of wi on the editorial v Fi CALL on Saturday, November 20, 1897. . The article on v is made appeared —A. C. 8, City. Ifaman curities the country does liy speaking. The it sufficient, sup- E, City. “Lost n Francisco at the week com- 5. It was pre- Parudis the Columbia meneing September sented by the Frawley «ompan eater aurin, 18! Cycuist—Reader, City. Tne won the long-distance bicy- quare Garden, New York C: V. le: e descent is uamed Cheric Miler, 0. German desce: and lives in Chicago. Iis record is 2093 mi.es and six laps in 142 Lours. MILLER, THE cle race in Madi: HALF-TONE PICTURES—A, B. W., Lathrop, Cal. are printed in the newspa- 1 , known as “hali-tones,” are pictures reproduced from & photograph direct by means of « wire screen piaced 1in front o! thie negative in the process of transfer from pieture to plate. CaRrLsoN-—C. W. K., Los Angeles, Cal. As the paper you mention is not indexed it is not an easy matter to go through the files in » for an item, the date of publication of which is uncertuin. If there is any way by the date cun be fixed within a monti acpartment will be pleased to make the search. pers and magazi HA NDKERCHIEFS—J. D, City. Historical re- search shows that the world is indebted to lwly for the handkerchief. The use of the pocket handkerchief -wes unknown prior to the first half of the sixieenth century. 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