The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 22, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1898. -JANUARY 22, 1898 SATURDAY —_— JOHN D. SPRECK ELS, Proprietor. “Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE....... Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. -2IT to 221 Stevenson strze Telep! e Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKEAND OFFICE .. i iobiionotheecnssaces ..908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE.......... Room 188, World Bullding WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE .. ... Rigge House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street. sorper Clay: open untll 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street; open until 9:30 c'clock. 615 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets; open until € o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock 106 Eleventh st.; open untll9 o'clock, 1505 Polk street cpen until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—* The Man From Mexico.” Californta—*“Courted Into Court.” Alcazar—“A Man's Love" and “Forbidden Fruit” Morosco’s—“The Blue and the Gray.” Tivoli—"Brian Boru. Orpheum—Vaudeville. Bueh—The Thalia German-Hebrew Opera Company. Olympia, Eddy and uchner's Ladies’ Orchestra. The Chutes—Chiquita and Vaudeville. Lybeck Cyele Skating Rink—Optical Illusions. Coursing—Ingleside Coursing Park, this afternoon. California Jockey Club, Oakland Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. By Easton & Eldridge—This d 8t 22( Sutter street, at2 and 8 P. M. By S| a1d, Buckbee & ( tate, at 215 Montgomery stree January 23, Turkish Rugs, Tuesday, January 25, Real Es- 12 0'clock S shown on another page in this issue the Ex- ONLY ANOTHER YELLOW TRICK. / \ aminer has been caught at one of its character- istic tricks. It announced that for a special edi- tion it had secured certain pictures which had never been published. For the purpose of convincing it that its error is known The Call this morning presents the pictures in question, crediting them duly to the Placerville Mountain Democrat, from which they were taken. When an interior paper has the enter- prise to collect pictures and at considerable expense have them prepared for artistic presentation the busi- ness of stealing them is not of a high order. It is, in fact, of just the order to tempt the Examiner. To be tempted, with the .yellow journal, is to fall. It can have the consolation of knowing that it is incapable of falling far. The Mountain Democrat is to be congratulated both for its enterprise and the fact that it had the boldness not to submit to being looted without pro- test. To assist this protest in reaching the readers of papers is but a simple duty which is here undertaken, not gladly, but without shrinking. While the pictures as they appear this morning are properly credited to the Placerville journal, owing to the merest inadvertence the same cannot be said of an article on James Marshall immediately following the introduction. This was taken from the source as the pictures. To the lesson here involved, to the improvement it may possibly produce, to the implied advice, yellow journalism is entirely welcome. same LESSONS OF THE LOS ANGELES FIRE. N the revelation made by the burning of a public ] schoolhouse on Pico Heights, Los Angeles, the question of the value of betterments to the city water property by the private corporation lessee gets a lurid illumination. The insufficiency of pressure in small and worn pipes came near causing an appalling loss of life and did cause a loss to the taxpayers of a valuable piece of public property. The Mayor of the city and the Chief of the Fire Department join in the declaration that a garden hose attached to a proper pipe and pressure system would have 'been more ef- fective than the best fire engines proved to be when compelled to draw on the insufficient supply and weak pressure of “betterments” to the city’s water plant, for which the private corporation demands several millions of dollars. The Call only asks justice for the people of Los Angeles. The life of iron pipe under ground is a known quantity. Given the size of the pipe, its thickness and the average pressure it has sustained and its condition can be estimated without digging it up for inspection. But the pipe is buried. The people don't see it. The most of them don’t stop to think how much its value and usefulness are af- fected by lapse of time. But the water company knows all this. They are inside and deal with the advantage of ample knowledge of the condition of every inch of their system, of the vicissitudes of their supply and of the present value of it all. This knowledge can be placed at the disposal of the people by their city government if a majority of the Council choose. The stolidity of that majority, how- ever, was left to be shaken by an accident which came in the burning of a public schoolhouse and the narrow but fortunate escape of several hundred. chil- dren who were in its class rooms when the dreadful alarm sounded. Accident has exposed what should have been publicly known by means of official action, and now there is no further excuse for official inat- tention. How long does the Council propose to wait? How many public buildings and private homes niust be consumed as object lessons before officials will be mindiul of their oath and their duty? Must the sacriflce be greater than the destruction of property? Will the spectacle of a score of chil- dren burned to death in their schoolrooms, or that of working people passing from the slumber of weariness to that of death in a chariot of fire, be needed to sting these men to action? They have the chance now to act and they may be even excused for pleading that the fire on Pico Heights revealed conditions of which they were ig- norant, and for one we are willing that the people should believe them. We have no vindictive ends to serve and no selfish interests to enhance in this mat- ' ter. We only want justice to the people of one of California’s brightest and best known cities. e et e e Hicks-Beach has warned Canada that it is her duty to do something to add to the naval strength of the mother cquntry. If the mother country can’t get along without aid of this sort it would seem time for Canada to begin wondering what is the use of being a colony and tied to an apron string. In the disagreement of medical experts as to the sanity of a woman now being judicially weighed at Los Angeles it can hardly be said that the unexpected has happened. Perfect agreement in such matters will never be secured until one side or the other shall be thoughtiul enough to retain all the experts, [ @all TAKE A VOTE. HE amendment to the annexation treaty of- Tfercd by Senator Bacon is a trip hammer blow. It follows precedent in the Texas case, in which it was provided that admission as a State should be voted on by the people, and the San Domingo case, for the treaty to annex that country demanded sub- mission to the people. The close corporation which the oligarchy has maintained in Hawaii has from the beginning calmly ignored the 14,000 voters who had the ballot before the conquest of 1893. Of the 2800 voters permitted to use the ballot by the oligarchy a very large num- ber are adventurers who have been domesticated in the islands during the last four years. The Georgian’s amendment begins right. Before discussing issues of expediency and constitutionality it is necessary to find out whether the people want annexation. That is the American way of proceed- ing and the method is based on fair play and a de- cent regard for human rights. When the native-bosn Hawaiians of legal age and the lawfully naturalized citizens have voted on the question it will be time to discuss the other phases of the subject. But it must be understood from the start that there must be a free ballot and an honest count. When the Dole Government formed its new constitution it ap- pointed a majority of the members of the constitu- tional convention. It then dictated m that instru- ment a provision for annexation to the United.States. Its stove was already too hot to hold and it wanted to let it drop. It provided also that no one should vote without taking an oath to support this annex- ation constitution, so that any Hawaiian who was not willing to confirm the oligarchy’s power to sell the country to the highest bidder could not vote at all. This neat juggle has enabled the oligarchy’s lobby- tsts to deny that anybody is disenfranchised and to declare that the electors of the islands are unanimous for annexation. The Bacon amendment smashes this scheme at one blow. It steps outside the Hawaiian constitution and refers annexation to a plebiscite of the whole people. But there must be no further juggle. The amend- ment must not permit a proclamation either from the President of the United States or the ruler of the Hawaiian oligarchy to the effect that “duly consti- tuted electors upder the Hawaiian constitution” only shall vote because that brings the matter right back where it is now, inasmuch as under tnat constitution every elector will have to take an oath to vote for an- nexation before he can vote at all. This oath the na- tives will not take. defeat the Bacon amendment. It cannot afford to make the open record of a republic refusing to sub- refusal puts this country at once in the catalogue of autocracies. We go then further down in the class place alongside of the Asiatic absolutisms, where Shahs, Ameers and Khans are the lords of life and We have heretofore counted ourselves much supe- rior to, Thibet and have been classed higher by the The chief of the oligarchy is on his way to Wash- ington to talk about a Hawaiian “republic,” and the similar in form. Let us see if he will prove himseli a republican by assenting to the Bacon amendment. zens to see to it that no trick is played upon the voters of the islands. People who thank God fer- be trusted. The islanders must be safeguarded against the tricksters who have held themserves m power by ask us to pay. That election must be guarded from the casting of the first ballot to tallying the last one @ POPULIST AMENDMENT. f ; ENATOR BUTLER, a Populist bold of ate a resolution calling for an amendment of article 3 of the constitution so as to provide for to deprive Federal courts of jurisdiction over con- troversies between citizens of different States. shall be composed of not less than nine nor more than thirteen Justices. These, as well as the Judges years. The Chief Justice is to be elected by the nation at large. Each Associate Justice is to be presides, and each District Judge is to be elected by the voters of his district. . considered long enough to permit Mr. Butler to make a speech on it, but it is not likely to live what Mr. Butler is going to say for it. The des sire of the Populists to make a new heaven and a constitution for the United States, but it is not clear why they wish to begin with an alteration in the 1t is true that in most of the States Judges are elected by the people, and hold office for a term of many of the States this method of choosing Judges has worked well and given satisfaction. It cannot of the courts been higher than that of the Federal judiciary, and surely even a Populist can hardly ot change. The juciciary system established by the founders constituticn. © It has won the admiration of every intelligent critic of our institutions. It 4as stood bulwarks of our Government. Under such cir- cumstances the manifestation of a desire to alter sire to alter everything in sight and revolutionize the nation. his party content themselves with efforts to tinker with the tariff, the currency, the railroads, or the verely with statutes and general legislation, but they have let the constitution alone. Their movements new leader from North Carolina, and the country will wait with some curiosity to hear what the re- him and he alone can tell what it means and what he expects to gain either for his party or the peo- The Senate of the United States cannot afford to mit to a people a change in their sovereignty. Such than even the constitutional monarchies and take our death. rest of the world. ease of assimilating the two governments which are If he do it will become the duty of American citi- vently that they have a country to sell are not to armed force, thus increasing a debt which they now out of the box. North Carolina, has introduced into the Sen- | the election of Federal Judges by the people, and The amendment proposes that the Supreme Court of the inferior courts, are to hold office for eight elected by the voters of the circuit over which he The resolution will, of course, be taken up and longer. Nevertheless it will be interesting to hear new earth naturally includes a desire to make a new methods of choosing Judges for Federal courts. years and not for life. It is equally true that in be said, however, that in any State has the standard advocate a change of this kind merely for the sake of the republic is one of the notable i=atures of the the test of time and been found one of the strongest that system, may be taken as an evidence of a de- Senator Butler aims high. Most statesmen of relations of capital and labor. They have dealt se- have therefore been inferior in scope to that of the former has to say for his resolution. It belongs to ple by his project Dr. Chalmers, the State quarantine officer, could ex- cite interest by an article setting forth what he is for, omitting, of course, any reference to his ability to draw a salary, no controversy having arisen on this point. near future.” THE POSTAL SERVICE. ENATOR HOAR rendered a service to the S whole country by his resolution calling for an inquiry concerning the recent order of the Postmaster-General reducing the force of letter car- riers in several of the larger cities of the Union. Al- though ostensibly issued in the interests of economy, the order tends to diminish the efficiency of the postal service, and will prove far from being economical in its results to the business of the country. It is conceded that some reform in the direction of economy is desirable in the management of our post- office affairs. Every year shows in the revenues ob- tained from the mails a deficiency which has to be made up by taxation. The evil is one of long stand- ing, has been fully discussed and is generally under- stood. This is the first time, however, that any one in authority has proposed to remedy the defect by re- ducing the carrier force, and either imposing heavier work on the remaining carriers or else making the mail service in cities slower than at present. | It has been pointed out by Congressman Loud that the main cause of the deficit in the postal revenues is the abuses which are practiced with regard to second- class mail matter. Advantage has been taken of the clause in the law providing low rates of postage for newspapers and other periodicals to ship through the mails tons of papers, documents, advertising circulars and cheap novels. The Government loses heavily on every pound it carries of this kind of mail matter, and while the letter rates pay a good profit it is not suffi- cient to counterbalance the drain. There is also’another point in which economy might be practiced without weakening the service Evidence has been submitted time and again showing that the rates paid to the railroads for carrying the mails are much higher than they need be. This is particularly true with respect to the carriage of first- class mail matter, and it is claimed that even second- class mail could be carried without loss if the rates paid by the Government to the railroads were on any- thing like the basis of freight charges made by the roads to private parties. The one good result likely to follow the order of | the Postmaster-General is the investigation that will result from the inquiry called for by Senator Hoar. From the debate that took place on the resolution it is clear that many Senators are eager to have the sub- Yect opened up and thoroughly considered. Out of | the investigation we may expect to come some wisely | | PURLRAURRALAREERLEERRIRLREERIRUERIRELS SEEKING THE FAVOR OF MENELIK. BYSSINTA has been more prominent- Iy before the world since the black “mperor demonstrated his power by crushing the armies of Italy at Abba Carima and Adigrat, and the personality of Mepelik has become a very captivat- ing actuality. England and France have both hastened to gain, at his hands, fav- orable recognition of thelr overtures for amity and friendship, amd even Russia has made advances in that direction, the object of which are not so apparent, how- ever, as in the case of the two other nations. Their object is well understood. It is the control of the vast and fertile country of the Eastern Soudan and along the upper Nile. To this end England has already wasted over a hundred million pounds sterling in futile attempts to force her way up the Nile to Khartoum and thence south to the lake region, whither she has already carried a railroad from the Zanzibar coast. The French have been steadily approaching from the Congo coast on the other side of the continent and now seem to have gotten the best of their rivals, and this by the grace and favor of the Abyssinfan monarch. His country, lying high and healthy between tho Red Sea and the Eastern Soudan; offers the shortest and most feasible en- try to that coveted region. Hampered by no bitter recollections of unfair treat- ment or unfriendly contact in the past, » & LRRR AR AR AR R R R R AR R R R AR AR R R @ e 8 to Fashoda, on the Nile, there to meet the Marchand expedition coming from the Congo, plant the standard of France and actualize her possession of an un- broken connection from the Red Sea to the Atlantic. These movements have caused the greatest concern in England. | She sees the Nlle country and Ethiopia | slipping from her possible grasp, and is | powerless. All the expenditure in this direction promises to be without fruit. France has outgeneraled her and holds the position of vantage, whose future | value cannot at this time be even esti- mated. | In the whole conduct of the matter the | French have evinced much shrewdness and discretion. Instead of approaching Menelik with an air of offensive conde- | scension, as is the wont of their neigh- | bors across the channel in dealing with | dusky potentates, they have not only accorded the fullest recognition of his imperial dignity, acknowledging his right as a sovereign and independent monarch to sit in the hereditary ruler- ship of his people, but have done their best to make Xhim appreciate their atti- tude of respect and enhance the splen- dor of the evidences of his power and personality. With the sanction and at the expense of the Government M. Legarde had made and carrled with him on his late return from Parls to the Abyssinian court many presents of rich design and costly work- manship, intended for the personal use and adornment of the Emperor and h consort, Taitou. The principal one o sisted of a throne of very particular de- v/ / directed effort to put an end to the ever recurring de- In the meantime the first thing to be done is to bring pressure to bear to have the order reducing the num- ber of letter carriers countermanded. That order was “IN THE NEAR FUTURE.” NUMBER of citizens of Santa Barbara who contributed to provide a right of way through | that county to the Southern Pacific Company | in order that it might close the gap in the coast line and give to Santa Barbara the benefit of a through dressed to Mr. Huntington a petition requesting that | the company {fulfill its obligations and complete the | road without delay. the Santa Barbara Press and make interesting read- | ing. The petitioners stated: “Our citizens, taxpayers, { donors and purchasers of the right of way fteli uable franchise with all the advantages embraced in‘t this free gift, and after seven years of patient waiting, ficiency in a service that ought to pay its own way. | not economy, but parsimony. line from San Francisco to Los Angeles, recently ad- | The petition with the reply have been published in aggrieved that after securing your company this val- no evidence exists as to the near approach of the time | The Throne of Menelik Presented by the French. | when the road will be finished from Surf to Ellwood. | they have been able to make rapid ad- Therefore we respectfully ask you for a prompt re- cognition of our rights and a fulfillment of your hon- orable obligations by giving to the undersigned an assurance that no further unnecessary delay occur in ‘closing the gap.’” On behalf of the company Mr. Huntington replied | in a letter of considerable length. In the first place | he said, “I am not surprised that you complain be- cause the road has not been filled, but I am quite sure you would not complain of the builders of that road if you knew just what they have had to en- counter in the last few years.” He then went on to | say that the Southern Pacific has to be managed cconomically in order to avoid bankruptcy; that he has Southern Pacific shares, bought in the "70’s, on which he has never received any dividends; that “in | fact I have never made any money I could use out of building roads in California”; that most of his money has been made east of the Mississippi; that “I can say, and I think truly, I have never received any | dividends other than from the Central Pacific shares | on any road I ever built or became interested in in California, excepting some street roads in cities.” | Thus discursively he proceeded to point out where he has made his profits and where he has made losses. Finally he returned to the subject of the peti- | tion and said very kindly, “Your long list contains | many good names and I would do anything that could be safely done to accommodate them.” He then adds, “Things are looking better now and we do hope we will be able to complete the gap in the near future.” “In the near future.” After seven years of waiting that is all the answer given by the Southern Pacific Company to men who out of their slender property | gave money and rights of way in order that the road | might be completed at once. It is by just such in- difference to public needs, express promises and | solemn obligations as this, that the Southern Pa- cific Company has roused against it the indignation not only of all whom it has injured, but of all who love justice. The contrast between this method and that pur- sued by the Valley Road in laying track almost as fast as right of way can be secured is too striking to need comment. Seven years Santa Barbara has waited in vain. In less than half that time the Valley Road has laid its track from Stockton to Bakersfield. That is the difference between companies that fulfill their obligations on time and those that postpone fulfillment to the indefinite, uncertain date of “the A Chicago lawyer pleaded for the life of an assas- sin on the ground that there was no other hope of re- generation for the wretch. However, it is to be in- ferred from observation that this hope is hardly worth mentioning. | by the Negus and his | Ras Makonne Huntington tells the people of Southern California that he has not made money out of railways in this State. Still, Huntington is not unreasonable; he does not expect anybody to believe him. Once more it has been demonstrated that Fol- som is not an agreeable prison to escape from. However, if a convict is bent upon suicide the method is speedy enough. Any murderer who chooses to scan the news from San Mateo will come to the conclusion that an indi- vidual of his stripe is regarded there as persona non grata. : vances and have been gracfously received followers. Large ns, with grants of eges and concess! nave been e to them, under h, quickly acting, they have laid and nearly com A4 from Djiboutt on t to Harar the first sectic of a railroad which it is Intended to carr on to Gondar and thence across the Nile and the Soudan to connect with one com- Guif of ing east from French Congo. On the other hand the English, bringing with them the vyet fresh memories of Sir Charles Nap nvasion of their country and the bloody field of Magdala, have made but little advance in the favor of either the Negus or his subjects. While most friendl. env and ¢ mark of consid trations, the French cting him with ev ation to the court of sovereign at Adis-Adaba, the English mission was vet halted near the coast almost unnoticed. M. Legarde was received at Harar with a salute of twenty-one guns, and the French flag was floated at the side of the Abyssinian standard. No such re- ception was accorded his rivals on en- tering the Abyssinian territory. With_Mene ssion_and assist- ance, M. Baucha pushed on_with a well-equipped expedition across Abyssinia | slgn, which is intended to serve both as | a seat of justice and a couch of recep- | tion. On the days of audience the sov keep. | Flattery “The Lion of the Tribe of Juda les_ himself, claiming King David, seats himself * Turque” between the two cushions, while the dig- nitarles admitted to the reception pa before him. This throne Is of fine wood, overlald with gold, with the points and | panels relieved with green and red, the colors of Abyssinia. The curtai purple silk damask, ornament, fringe and tassels of thread of the higt cushions and front piece are likewise of silk damask fin With the throne crosses of gold set wit elik and the members those for himself and the F of particular richness and first being set with ameth nets and the other embellis! i phires, fine pearls ahd_turquoises. collar is composed of three chains int bound, and weighs over one and a quar ter pounds. Each of the four childre received a collar and cros mensurate worth. M. : careful study and left nothi done to further the success of his mission. a went collars {COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS Postmaster G. F. McBride of Etna is at the Grand. ‘W. D. Haslam, a banker of Santa Cruz, is at the California. E. M. Wade, an assayer, of Los An- geles, is at the Russ. V. A. Schilling, a rallroad man of Port- land, is at the Baldwin. H. C. Nash, librarian of the Stanford University, Is at the California. Joseph C. Thompson, U. 8. taken rooms at the Occldental. Sheriff 8. D. Ballou and Mrs. Ballou of San Luis Obispo are at the Grand. N., has During the re- : cent visit of Hon- A DELICATE ¢ olulu's chief ex- COMPLIMENT ‘ ecutivetothe city the following del- TO DOLE. $ icute compliment was paid him. Mr. Dole had just finished his breakfast and was standing in front of the hotel drinking in the love- liness of the morning and ruminating on the uncertainty of life, and other things, when he was approached by an individ- ual of rather doubtful appearance. Mr. Dole was positive that he did not know the stranger, as the only persons that he had, thus far, had the pleasure of meet- ing were Lieutenant Noble of the army and a few hackmen and railroad agents who had gathered on the wharf the day of his arrival to bid him welcome. How- ever, he of the peculiar appearance evi- dently had no doubt of the identity of the eseccsscsscses personage he saw standing in the hotel | entrance, for the moment his eve caught sight of the distinguished stranger his | face became suffused with the warm blush of pleasure and a smile of ecstatic happiness overspread and softened the somewhat hard lines of his cynical coun- tenance, and rushing up he extended the glad hand to the Island President and without giving that gentleman any op- portunity to say a word, commenced: “Judge, I've been looking for you all over the town as I want to put you right on that little matter of Mag's that is to come up before you this morning. You see—"" “You must have made a mistake,” broke in Mr. Dole. “I am the President of Hawail and not a judge.” ““Hully gee!” exclaimed the stranger, falling back. “I took you for Judge Campbell, as I thought there was only one bunch of whiskers like that in the city.” J.M. McGee, & wealthy mining man of Sutter Creek, is at the Occldental with his wife and family. E. W. Bramhall, a prominent merchant of Japan, is registered at the Palace. G. A. Panniman, a merchant of San Jose, arrived at the Grand last night. C. A. Storke, a well-known attorney of | Santa Barbara, is a guest at the Grand. E. E. Fowler and James Howell, min ers, of Livingston, Mont., are at the Russ. J. M. Foote, the County Clerk of Hollis- ter, will be at the Grand for the next few days. B e 4 + MAY BRING | i i | | | General Passen- ger Agent Good- manof theSouth- : TRAVEL ern Pacific Com- ¢ THIS way. + oy Thursday night | to attend a meet- | ing of the Central Traffic Association, | ‘Western Traffic Association and Trans- | continental lines which has for its object the fixing of a permanent and satisfac- tory rate to all points in the Alaskan | mining district for the large travel that | is expected this spring. The meeting was | called by F. C. Donald, president of the | Central Traffic Association, and D. D, | Caldwell, who is at the had of the West. | ern Trafic Association. The steamship | lines running northward from San Fran. | cisco and connecting with the different | points of debarkation for the Klondike | country have so increased their rates that a very material difference is made in the expense attending, travel to that country via San Francisco and via Sound pointa The steamship companies have retused to reduce the rate, as they argue that un- der any circumstances the number of pas. sengers who will g0 northward from this city will be large enough to more than fill the carrying capacity of their vessels. Consequently in order to bring the trafo | to this city the raflroads will have to | make rates low enough to compete with | those which will exist over the more northern routes and as the Steamships will have to be utilized to forward pas. sengers to their ultimate destination, a cut in raiiroad fares in proportion to the increased rates by water will have to be made, and in order to equalize the loss that will accrue to the various roads run- ning west of the Missour! this meeting has been called. Dr. I. W. Powell, one of Victoria's most p;‘omlnem physiclans, is at the Occident- al. H. W. Edwards, superintendent of the San Jose Gas Works, is in the city to wit- ness the Golden Jubilee; he is st the Grand. Akt . *eeescccsosson | are called brisques. Judge Platt Rodgers, ex-Mayor of Den- ver, and Joseph G. Sandredge, a wealthy mining man of the same place, are stop- ping at the California on a short visit to the coast. » G. W. Teall, a large manufacturer of Rochester, New York, is at the Califor- nia. *eoesesecoessess A prominent Bastern gentle- A man, who is stop-~ ping at the Pal- GRACEFUL ace Hotel, in con- TRIBUTE. versation with some friends yes- terday told the following story on General Horace Por- ter, the present Minister to France, which, as he remarked, is too good.to The party were discussing swell dinners and after-dinner speakers, when the gentleman from the East sald: “In our section of the country General Por- ter enjoys a reputation as an after- dinner speaker that is second only to that of Chauncey Depew. On the particu- lar occasion that I have in mind General Porter was in attendance upon the annual banquet of the Sons of the American Revolution, which was held in the Jeffer- son Hotel, In Richmond, Va., last year. The Hon. William Wirt Henry was the toastmaster. Upon his right sat General Porter and to his left was General Fit2- hugh Lee, now representing this country in Cuba, while ex-Vice-President Steven- son was also present. General Porter was not down for one of the regular toasts, but before the banquet was over Mr. Henry ocalled upon him for some remarks. He arose with his accustomed grace and ‘As you all know I had the honor of | being upon General Grant's staff at the time that Richmond fell, I see many here to-night with whom I was not upon speaking terms at that time. When our party left Washington the other day to come here some one in the party asked me how long it would take to reach Rich- mond. I replied that judging by my ex- perience of over thirty vears ago if the Lee family interposed an objection”it would take us about four years.’ With this General Porter turned and bowed to General Lee and took his seat amid great applause. It was one of the most grace- ful things I have ever seen done.” CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Jan. 2L—F. A. Lyon of Sacramento is at the Stuart House. CALXFO}{NIAN IN \VASliINGTON. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—B. B. Nichols of San Diego is at the Raleigh; C. E. Young of San Francisco is at the St. James; A. F. Strong and family of Los Angeles are at the Normandie. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. MARK T'“'AL\':\\;. M. F., Middleton, Cal. The address of Mark Twain Is Hartford, Conn. STEAMSHIP PACIFIC—O. 8., City. The steamship Pacific was foundered in a collision with the ship Orpheus off Cape on the 4th of November, 1875, while on a voyage from Victoria, B. | to this port. THEATERS—Some individual has for months perfodically written to this de- partment asking for the seating capacity of two of the city theaters. The question has been answered several times in the course of a year, and this department has not the space to answer the same ques- tion every few week: EXEMPTION—S. M. L., San Jose, Cal. Under the laws of the State of California chairs, tables and books to the value of $200 belonging to the judgment debtor are exempt from execution, also the neces- sary household table and kitchen furnt- ture, Including one sewing machine, stove, stovepipe and furniture, wearing apparei, beds, bedding and beds i oil paintings, d wn by any m pictures ‘in s ually provided for individual for three months, and three king calves, four hogs and sucking_ pigs, and food for such for a specified time; also the Instruments and chest of a physician or surgeon pectessary ta the se of his profession with his library and necessary office cows and suc —S., Woodland, Cal. There are twenty-three rules to govern the game of bezique and ten paragraphs of advice. This department cannot print them all, but the rule specially inquired about, the one that applies to the last trick, is as follows: “The last trick hav- ing been made, each player counts the aces and ti which are in the tricks the player has taken; these aces and tens For each brisque_ the holder scores ten points, which are added to the score made during the playing by the combination. Brisques are not count- ed when any one of the players makes | the tion: ame by scorings made by combina- * that is to say, when neither of the ¢rs has made the number of polnts f d to complete the game, then he, who, with the brisques counts most over the fixed number, wins; and, in case of | a tie the winner is the one taking the last trick. THE SUN—A Reader, Dutch Flat, Cal. If the earth were so poised in space that { the sun would be vertical at the equator throughout the year it would certainly se exactly in the east and set in the west during the entire vear. This is just what it does on March 21 and September 23, when it shines vertlcally at the equator. As the earth’s inclination from a perpendicular to the plane of its orbit is the same throughout the year, tht causing unequal day and night alte nately north and south of the equator shines more or obliquely, acco: to the latitude toward either pole, ar the moment it deviates from a perpen- dicular at the equator it shines beyond the north pole in our summer. When the sun’s declination is 23 degrees 28 minutes north of the equator, as at the summer solstice, it is, of course, 23 degrees 28 minutes north of an east direction, and will so appear at sunrise and sunset. Cal.glace fruit 50c perlb at Townsend's.* —————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 ont- gomery st. Tel. Main 1042. B William Harper, chief of the Bureau of Information of the Philadelphia Commer- cis® Museums, who has just returned from a tour in South Africa, Australla, China and Japan, reports that our com- mercial relations with those countries have been perceptibly improved as a re- sult of the museums’ labors. ————————— THE most efficacious stimulant to sharpen the appetite 18 DR. SIEGERT'S ANGOSTURA BITTERS. Don't accept an imitation. g THE GENUINE “BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES" are sold only.in boxes. They are wonderfully effective for Coughs and Throat Troubles. —_——— A V100ROUS growth and the original color given to the hair by PARKER'S HATR BALSAM. HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns. 15 cta. —_—— M. Hanotaux, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, who has made a careful study of Cardinal Richelieu and his times, was recently permitied to see and examine a number of contemporary docu- ments in the office of an old notary In Paris. He considers these papers a great find, as they are said to contain all the “actes civiles” of the great priest-states- man. NEW TO-DAY. The New York State Chemist says 'ROYAL is superi- or to every other baking powder.