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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1898 TUESDAY oo MARG JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. | esTEs s L S e e PUBLICATION OFFICE... .Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS .217 to 221 Stevenson street Telep] e Mafin 1874 | Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. ; THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAW)Is | served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year, per month €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL..............One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFIiCE .. ..808 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE. .Room 188, World Building | REE SILVER FUSION AND CONFUSION N Mr. Towne's silver and fusion speech he says that we have words in the language, from the ancients, showing the different things that have been used for money. Thus pecunia is from pecus, a herd of cattle, showing that cattle were formerly used as money and a standard of value. In the Hebrew tongue shekel means a lamb, showing that lambs and sheep were money and a standard of value among the Hebrews before the name was given to a coin. All | this is true, and, being true, one is astonished that Mr. Towne does not apply the truth in his argument. To be consistent he should arraign the ancients for | demonetizing, in turn, cattle and sheep. They were money once, and a measure of value. But the cow gave way to the sheep. In that day the sheepbug overcame the free-coinage-of-cows party, and as cows were disused as money did prices fall? Was there a steady advance in the value of sheep and a deprecia- WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE.. .. Riggs House €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. . ERANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street. eorner Clay cpen uncl 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: open untit 630 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street; open untll 9:30 c'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock SW. corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets; open until So'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock 106 Eleventh st open untll9 o'clock, 1505 Polk streat cpen, until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second cnd Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. “Robin Hood | We Forgive Her.® 01 The Geisha.” audeville. 3 Co. Hall-Marino, the Violin Virtuoso, ta and Vaudeville. Mining Fair and Klondike Exposition. Club—Races at Ingleside to-day. Paclfic Coast Joc! AUCTION SALES. By Frank Dutterfield—This day, March 1. Oriental Rugs, at 116 Butter street, at 2 o'clock. d—This dayjMarch 1, Furniture, at 3y Frank W. Butte street. at 11 o'clock & Doyle—Thursday, March 3, Horses, Carriages, on street, at 11 o'clock h 7, Real Estate, at 14 Mont- Monday, M; ock H. Umbsen: ST Madison & Burke—Thursday March 3, Real Estate, at 626 ok PROCTOR @ND THE BULL-FIGHT. ENATOR PROCTOR comes from one of the S most staid and proper of the New England Stat Vermont is not only reckoned a moral model po , but upon its escutcheon there is no stain of woodén nutmeg nor ham carved artfully from the native tree. That a Senator from that State should conduct himself with propriety must be regarded as next to inevitable. That he should go about braced up to sustain an almost visible weight -of dignity would be regarded as natural. Yet Senator Proctor | has been to a bull-fight, and on Sunday at that. What ! will the elders in Rutledge, Weybridge and Middle- | bury say? It is bad enough for a common man to go to a| bull-fight on ar a e is a Vermont Senator | going to a bull-fight on Sunday. But he When Proctor shall return to the green mountains of his beloved State can he look them in the eye and say “Not guilty?” It doesn't seem likely. Still, if Proctor went to the troubled island not as a smelling committee to sniff for signs of war, but to see the insides tossed gayly from a decrepit horse, to cheer the matador, to thrill | at the sight of beauty enjoying itself in gazing at the | arena, perhaps the seriousness of the situation has been unduly impressed upon us. THE BOYCOTT IN CHINATOWN. | WNERS of property in Chinatown have been ‘ forced to organize an association for the pur- ] | : pose of combating a peculiarly vexatious form of boycotting practiced by the bold highbinders | of that locality, and the publication of their griev- ances against the offenders adds a new and interesting chapter to the record of ways that are dark and tricks that are vain, for which the heathen Chinee is peculiar. It appears t whenever a Chinaman is evicted from a building in Chinatown for non-payment of | rent, or other cause, and not infrequently even when | one leaves a building voluntarily, a flaming red poster | is stuck on the premises giving notice to all Chinamen | that from $50 to $100 must be forthcoming for the highbinder societies before a new tenant will be al- The cinch seems to be com- lowed to occupy them. plete. White people do not care to become tenants in Chinatown..» The property-owner, therefore, must look to the Chinese for occupants of his buildings, and, as they are more or less willing subjects of the highbinders, the boycott stands until the fine is paid and flaming red poster removed. | It is not going to be easy to devise a remedy for this state of affairs. So long as the majority of the Chinese in this country make no ¢ffort to relieve | themselves from highbinder domination, it will be | difficult for white men to free them by any Iaws} he may In this, as in all things else, “who would be free, himself must strike the blow”; and the Chinaman shows no desire to strike in this in- stance. As a matter of fact, the new tenant who de- murs to enter upon the vacant premises until the blackmail has been paid may be himself a sharer in the spoils. One of the property-owners whose buildings had been placed under ban proceeded to thrash lwoi *enants who had moved out and whom he suspected | of having had the boycott established. The results, | according his statement, were good, for the | beycott was immediately removed. Whether this | reniedy would work in all cases may be doubtful, and | under no circumstances could it be generally adopted. | Our laws could never sanction the right of a landiord | to thrash a tenant simply because he moved away from the landlord’s premises and advised other people | not to rent them. \ 1 Tt would be a complete solution for this and a host of similar evils if the Chinese could be induced to boycott the United States altogether. San Francisco would not be injured if the whole race refused to cccupy premises in any part of the city. So long as they are here we will have to endure their highbinders | angd to some extent submit to their exactions. The property-owners of Chinatown will have public sup- port in any law they can devise for preventing the blackmail that has been levied upon them, but few people will have much faith in the success of their efforts. No statute can transform the Mongolian into a white man. nor can it rid of Mongolian vices a country where Mongolians are permitted to live. pass. to People who have been contending that Hawaii would make a strong outpost in time of war can see even now how absurd the theory is. of the islands would simply mean something more to defend and nothing more to defend it with, i ey For fear that confusion may arise, it is. well to ex- plain that the Corbett who is fighting for a seat in the Senate is another fellow. | 16 lambs to 1 cow? The possession | tion of the products of human industry, by reason of | the sheep standard, which the people refused to en- dure?> Was there pursuit by hue and cry of the authors of the cow-demonetizing crime of the year X? Did the ancients finally return to the cow standard or did they adopt the bi-animal standard, at a ratio of As a matter of fact they did neither. They learned the loss in exchange that is in a fluctuating standard of value. They needed a standard at all only as they emerged from the age in which commerce consisted in direct barter of the articles exchanged. Naturally they chose as a primi- tive medium of exchange the article they had found in barter to have the most stable value. As they were near to the nomadic period, cattle had been found suitable for the purpose. But good years and plenty of forage inflated the cow currency. Its value fluc- tuated. It was no longer a stable standard. Sheep, by reason of their fleece which could be worn on the pelt by men as a garment, or could be drawn into a thread and woven into fabrics, had uses superior to cattle, which made their value more stable, and then the cow was demonetized, because human experience had found a better medium of exchange. This simple story of primitive conditions and progress as com- merce grew and the need of 2 common measure of value increased is the story of cvery advance on the same line, to the present time. Men have gone by ratural selection from one standard of value to an- other. When they reached the use of gold and silver and pecus and shekel were translated into coin terms, the metals were subject to thesame lawsthat hadaffect- ed the primitive standards which preceded them. The ancients had witnessed the effect of these natural laws, but were ignorant of the cause. Before the Middle Ages were over *these laws were discovered. Mr. Towne has not heard of them yet, if one is to judge his knowledge by his speech. The law which governs th: selection and circulation of money is that when two kinds of money of equal function and privilege but of unequal intrinsic value are put in circulation, the one of less value will drive the other out. It is for this reason that in every country in the world where gold and silver have free coinage and full legal tender function gold is driven out and silver remains as the depreciated legal standard of value. Mr. Towne is fighting against this natural law. He professes to advocate bimetallism, at a ratio of 16 to 1, when the actual ratio is 32 to 1 and fluctuates as ilver goes up and down. If his party prevail, there will be no bimetallism. We will have silver mono- nietallism and the single silver standard as our legal ‘\ measure of value. Then will appear the consequences | which followed the greenback issue. Men will exact in prices enough silver to make the gold value of what they sell, and the apparent rise in price will be the actual fall in the purchasing power of legal money. In effect, then, Mr. Towne is crying in the political wilderness for a return to the cow standard of value, and his attitude is against every advance in the stan- dard which natural law has caused. le\-o]vcd from the investigation of the fees of the Police Court reporters, now said tohavebeenunder- taken by the Grand Jury. For a long time the stenog- raphers in these courts have enjoyed incomes en- tirely disproportionate to their value to the munici- pality. The figures of the last fiscal year show that one of them received $7000, which is more than is paid the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; that another received $5200, which is more than is paid a Superior Judge; and that two others drew $4200 and $4900 respectively, showing that a certain uni- formity in fees prevails in all the departments of the courts. It is reasonably safe to say that if these four stenog- raphers were put on salaries they would not do one- quarter the business in transcripts they now carry on. This statement may be explained by the further alle- gation that the chief qualification of a court reporter who draws his fees from the public treasury consists in his ability to create business. If Police Judges and stenographers did not combine to multiply fees the places of the latter would not be worth one-half what the returns indicate they yield. In other words, it is perfectly certain that the princely revenues of the Police Court reporters are due, not to the transaction { legitimate business, but to writing out transcripts that are never used, or to reporting cases that should never be reported. 5 As the law stands there is no remedy for these abuses. The Supreme Court has decided that when a statute or the constitution creates a court it impliedly grants the incumbent the power to provide himself with the material necessary to exercise his powers. Accordingly all a Judge need do when he wants a POLICE COURT REPORTERS. T is to be hoped that something practical will be | book or a chair or a sofa or a transcript is to order the article and send in the bill. The Auditor is for- bidden to question the account and the Treasurer must pay it on demand. This explains the fees of the Police Court stenographers. They are their own auditors. In one way only may they be brought up by the Grand Jury. If they have presented bills for tran- scripts never written out or have Incorrectly com- puted the folios in those actually done, they may be indicted for a felony. It is doubtiul, however, whether offenses of this kind have been committed. The Police Court stenographers have no occasion to rob the mu- nicipal treasury. Their incomes are ample for all legitimate purposes. Doubtless in a few years they will have worked the business up to an even more remunerative point than at present, since it is ap- parent that each successive year yields: more fees. They are now paid better than the Governor of the State. What should be done is to place them on salaries. The next Legislature ought to pass an act either to regulate their fees or to abolish them. If something of this kind is' not done, it cannot be long, in the natural order of events, before the Police Court stenographers will-incorporate, and, with the Police Judges, take possesion of the city. This might not | be a bad thing in itself, but innovations are not al- ways pleasant, and this one should be postponed as long as possible. THE CRISIS AND THE PRESIDENT. CCORDING to all reports it will be some time fl before the result of the investigations of the Naval Court of Inquiry into the cause of the destruction of the Maine will be made public. This delay will be regarded everywhere as an evidence that the ship was blown up by treachery and not by acci- dent, for it is clear that if the facts now known to the members of the court tended to confirm the theory of an accidental explosion they would be made pub- lic at once, in order to allay popular excitement and put an end to all fears of a possible war. In these days and possibly weeks of suspense, it is fortunate that the country has a President in whose stalwart Americanism the people have an unfailing confidence. It is true that the final issue of peace or war is not in his hands, but-in those of Congress. Nevertheless, it is well known that to him is intrusted the conduct of the Government in dealing with the crisis, and upon his management will depend the course it will take. ‘A President cannot declare war, but he can so shape our foreign affairs as to make it well nigh inevitable, and on the other hand, while he cannot prevent Congress from declaring war, he can so direct events as to avert the pretext for it. On the President, therefore, rather than upon Congress, the people rely in this emergency. It is with gratification they note, however, that there is no shadow of disagreement between the two. Con- gress has thus far made no effort to force the hand of the Chief Executive. It waits with patience and with readiness his initiative and his lead. The leaders of both houses and of all parties will be prompt to re- spond to any call that may be made upon them, whether it be to arrange for a peaceful solution of the issue or for war. The patience and confidence displayed by the American people during the whole period of thiscrisis has been one of the best proofs of their assured strength and determined resolution. There has been no sign of undue excitement in any part of the nation. Even in Wall street, where every passing disturbance of the peace of the world is made the occasion of a flurry, there has been no notable break in the even tenor of its way. All classes of people have gone about their work, neither seeking was nor showing a desire to evade it. In his recent address before the Union League Club at Chicago ex-President Harrison, speaking with the wisdom derived from his own experience as Chief Executive of the nation, said: “We are not a hysterical people. We can wait, and we will know our duty when it shall be revealed. We csn understand that in a time like this there are grave responsibilities devolving upon the President of the United States, single responsibilities that he may not divide with any man. Let us stand about him, strengthening him in the calm assurance that this great country desires only what is right, and can wait until the facts are known before it issues its proclama- tion.” In that sentiment the great mass of the American people agree and unite. The yellow journals that live on sensations, and the noisy demagogues who are forever seeking notoriety by making a clamorous tumult over every sort of aiisis, may lash themselves the issue is settled, but the nation at large will not be disturbed. President McKinley ha&.pmygd his valor and his patriotism on bloodier battle-fields than are hands the people trust the responsibility of the time and await with confidence whatever result may come. o s ——— AN F Senor Trujillo, Chief of Havana's Secret Police, has succeeded in doing anything more impressive than get his picture in the papers the fact has been suspected of conversing through the same, and has a pair of whiskers which to the tropic breezes must be a source of endless joy. “put his men at work on the case.” All Chiefs do this. They put men at work on any case, and throw about the whole affair a dignified and impenetrable the men discover as to force the duty of revelation upon some reporter who has not been enjoined to silence. the Havana police may say they have ascertained. If derogatory to the position of Spain it will never come to notice, and if tending to put Spain in a fav- the Spanish themselves. However, Trujillo’s whis- kers are fine, and for the faithful reproduction of them in the daily prints, the republic, even when torn into a fury during the time, that will intervene before likely to be caused by any war with Spain, and in his IMPRESSIVE CHIEF. kept concealed. The senor wears a tall hat, being Immediately after the Maine went down Trujillo air of mystery. So reticent are they as to that which As a matter of fact it makes little difference what orable light will never be accepted by any people but by the thought of war, is grateful. One of the divers in the employ of the Government at the Maine wreck has been caught stealing. IHe is said to have robbed the chests of the dead seamen. It would be interesting to know if he is the same diver who is so freely quoted by certain New York papers. The person who would steal from a dead sailor might naturally expect his veracity to be called in question if he chose to advance theories as to how the sailor happened to be dead. —_— When the gold fever seizes upon a person its grip is considerable, and nothing has been opposed equal to the task of shaking it off. However, when we read of a Boston party fitted for the Klondike and waiting to learn whether their services will be needed in fighting Spain, we learn with surprise that there are emotions stronger than the desire for fortune. e ‘Wade Hampton’s idea that in the event of diffi- culties the North should do the fighting may be all right so far as he is personally concerned. But there is a younger South than Generai Hampton seems to know. It would not regard immumity from the privi- lege of enlisting as in the nature of a boon. A new explosive known as mirex is said to be far more powerful than gun cotton. If it shall be proved that the gun cotton on board the Maine sent that gallant ship to the bottom, the best use for mirex would seem to be to get the enemy to load up with it. Havana Royalists say President McKinley is afraid to charge the destruction of the Maine to the Spanish. If they can get any comfort out of this idea they are welcome to it, and better extract from it all the joy they can before it shall be suddenly dissfpated. If Weyler expects his statements to receive any con- sideration he must see that they are accompanied by affidavits and a generous exhibit of corroborative evidence. COLLECTED IN ' THE CORRIDORS. F. J. Moore of Portland, Or., is at the Palace. F. Barrett and wife of San Benito are at the Lick. Dr. H. A. Smith of Astoria is a guest at the Grand. Lieutenant R. F. Gardner, U. S. A,, is at the Occldental. Dr. E. S. Bradley of Chicago is regis- tered at the Grand. C. 8. Knight of Fort Wayne, Ind,, is a guest at the Palace. J. O. Hestwood, a pioneer of the Klon- dike, is at the Grand. Fred Cox, the Sacramento banker, has registered at the Grand. Donald McLeod is a guest at the Ocel- dental from Portland, Or. R. D. Stephens, ex-Postmaster of Sac- ramento, is at the Palace. Dr. C. A. Devlin, a prominent physician of Vallejo, is at the Baldwin. George K. Porter, a mining man of Northern California, is at the Lick. Lieutenant Guy Brown, U. S. A., and his wife are guests at the California. F. Moore arrived in the city yesterday from Portland and went to the Palace. George E. Goodman, the banker of Napa, is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife. : George N. Freeborn of Providence, R. I, is one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Occidental. 0000000000 Mrs. X. is a o O young and at- o WILLIAM WAS o tractive matron o BROUGHT o Who, among her other accom- : TO TERMS. © ;iishments, O knows how to ©000000Q@00 ryp 4 good bluff and make it stick. She lives at a very fashionable hotel, where dress is in- dulged in to an extent that causes hus- bands to work over hours to meet the bills of modiste, milliner and dry-goods man, that come in with the frequency of flies in summer time and create twice as much worry as those pests of warm weather. Mrs. X. is allowed a goodly sum of pin money by her indulgent spouse, but it is not always made to stretch sufficiently far, and Mr. X. has been called upon to meet the deficiency so often that he has finally grown tired of it, consequently when his wife made mention of a new bounnet the other night, which she could not possibly get along without and which he listened to her tale of woe to the bit- ter end. Then, taking up a piece of pa per laying on the table wrote the follow- ing upon it: * When lovely woman, moved to folly, Wants a bonnet chic and gay, The way to get her wish, dear Mollie, Is for her to save up and pay. And handing it to her fled from the room before she could read it, going down to his club. He had arrived there but a short time when a messenger boy ap- peared and handed him in an envelope this note from his wife: “DEAR WILL: You did not know your little wife was something of a poet her- self, so, no doubt, this will take you by surprise. Let me know what you think of it: When lovely woman wants a bonnet And wants it badly, dearest Will, She’ll have It, just depend uvon it, Though friend, not husband, foots the bill. The ' milliner is making for Mrs. X. the best thing in bonnets that she can turn out on an order from Mr. X., in which he tells her that speed, not expense, is the important factor. J. B. Peaks, proprietor of the Sea Beach Hotel at Santa Crug, is staying at the Palace. 8. K. Nestor, a wealthy merchant of Geneva, N. Y., is registered at the Palace with his wife. F. A. Shephard of San Mateo and A. J. Tee of Astoria, Or., two well-known ho- tel men, are staying at the Baldwin. E. Black Ryan and family will leave the Occldental to-day for their home at Menlo, where they will remain until next fall. M. H. Foley, a mining man of St. Paul, Minn., and Charles H. Wacker, a mer- chant of Chicago, are registered at the Palace. Mrs. Phebe Hearst and party arrived here in their private car last They came from New York via the City of Mexico. F. W. Blanchard, a bdanker of Los An- geles, and Professor E. W. McCormack of Stanford University are registered at the California. | Ernest T. Watts, a member of a family of wholesale dry goods merchants estab- lished for many years in Manchester, England, is stopping at the Grand. Circuit Judge W. B. Gilbert of Port- land, Or., who has been on a pleasure trip for several weeks In the interior of this State, has returned to the Occiden- tal. O. D. Foster of Santa Cruz, secretary of the Pacific Coast Commercial Com- pany, which intends to run steamers be- tween here and Dawson City, is at the California. +S YE WOULD. If 1 should see A brother langulshing In sore distress, And I should turn and leave him comfortless When I might be A messenzer of hope and happiness, How could I ask to have what I denled In my own hour of bitterness supplied? If 1 might sing A little song to cheer a fainting heart, And I should seal my lips and sit apart When I might bring A bit of sunshine for life’s ache and sma: How could I hope to have my grief relieved 1f I kept silent when my brother grieved? And so 1 know That day is lost wherein I fail to lend A helping hand to some wayfaring friend, But if it show A burden lightened by the cheer I send, Then do I hold the golden hours well spent And lay me down to sleep in sweet content. —Rdith Virginia Brandt, in Jewish Com- ment. THE ASEPTIC BARBER SHOP. They have a barber shop in Baltimore run on strictly sclentific principles, ac- cording to the Baltimore Sun. Dr. Bernard Barrow, a young graduate of the Maryland University, conceived the plan of the aseptic shop, and his ideas have been carried out in its estab- lishment under his daily supervision. Sterilization is the basis of the plan, and the object is that none but sterile objects shall touch the skin of customers of the barber chairs. Thus are germs killed by. heat, and the shop becomes aseptic—free from living germs. - ‘When a customer is to be shaved he reclines in the chair and is enveloped in a “gown,’ as the barbers call it. The barber then washes his hands with soap and water, and after rinsing them, dips them in a chemical solution to neutralizg any germs which may be lurking about his finger tips or nails. Previously he has trimmed his nails short and has but- toned closely around his wrists the sleeves of his working jacket. Sterilized towels come from the dry heat sterilizer in bunches of ten In a linen cioth. One of these is pulled out from the bundle by the aseptic hands of the barber and deftly tucked about the neck of the customer. Lather rubbed up in a sterilized cup, with a sterilized brush, is applied, and a sterilized razor is used to scrape off the growth of beard. Sterilized brushes and combs are used, so that nothing comes in contact with the customer except it has previously been through the sterilizer. All the implements have aluminum handles, so that they are not affected by heat. They are furnished in numbers, so that as fast as one thing is_used it is forwarded to the sterilizer. Back in a corner of the shop are two copper sterilizers, heated by electricity and in charge of a young man clad in a | spotless and sterilized apron. As the she did not have the money to pay for, | night. | cups, brushes, razors and combs come from use they are put on a marble top table, from which they go to the steril- izer. Each razor is strogped before it iIs sterilized, so that it is then in readiness | for instant use after remaining the speci- fled time within the hot precincts of the | sterilized boiler. | | THE AMERI(;AN FLAG. Out of the fullness of their reverence for Old Glory the Loyal Legion of the United States are taking earnest and timely action against the desecration of | the national ensign. | These soldiers of the leglon have felt | their hearts leap within them at the sight of the beloved bunting going on before the serried hosts into the very teeth of | hurtling death. They have seen the glorious oriflamme | flaunting the skies as batteries roared and contending armies flung themselves against one another in the crash and shock of conflict. The flag means too much to men who have seen it under such circumstances to | have it plastered on dead walls or pressed. | into service as a soap label. The legion would have its use as an advertisement inhibited by statute. The defenders of the flag are doing the country a real service in thus emphasiz- ing the duty of deference toward thesym- tol of our national life. Respect and love for the colors ought to be among the first | sentiments implanted in the hearts of the | youth of the land, and those of mature years should never fail to teach a simple but impressive lesson in patriotism by sa- luting the stars and stripes. In the summer camp at the national military academy the flag is displaved on the color line, and woe to the thoughtless young militant ‘who neglects to dip his cap every time he crusses the path -in which the glorious colors are stacked. What is enjoined by discipline upon the future officers of the army ought to be in- spired in the breast of every free man by atriotic emotions. Americans should ave such devotion for the emblem of the grandest country the sun shines on that it would not bé necessary to resort to legislation to secure for it reverential treatment. Let the sons of Columbia stand by the flag and protect it from base uses. They would not see it trailed in the dust or go down in defeat. Neither should they con- | sent to having it commercialized and | cheapened by mercenary uses.—Detroit Free Press. Oh, Dixie lan'—she ain’t fergotteny Des lief fight ez make cheap cottor, Fight aw. Fight away— Fight away down South In Dixie! | We got voung men en ol time stagers— | Million_colonels en a billion majors, Fight away Fight aw Fight away down ‘South In Dixie! Dar's bills at home dat’s onpaid vet, suh: Des lief fight ez die in debt, sub, | ght v Fight away down South In Dixie! So, come, Brer Spain, en take yo' lickin', De spurs is sharp on de Southern chicken, Fight away, Fight away— Fight away down South in Dixie! Atlanta_Constitution. SOME TRICKS OF THE TYPES. “What is this?’ exclaimed a com- positor who was expecting to be pro- moted - to a proofreadership shortly. “‘Sermons In sto books in the run- nihg brooks! Impossible! He means, of course, ‘Sermons in books and stones in the running brooks.’” And a new read- ing of Shakespeare appeared lext morn- ing. A sporting compositor thought “Cricket on the Hearth” must be a slip of the | pen. He made it “Cricket on the | Heath.” | A writer on angling had the joy of see- | | ing his sentence, “The young salmon are | beginning to run,” printed “The young | salmon are beginning to swim,” another | | thoughtful compositor having been at | work. Happier was the transformation of the sentence, “Bring me my toga” into “Bring me my togs.” There is a less subtle vein of humor in the story of the editor who wrote during an clection, ““The battle is now opened.” The compositor spelled “battle” with an “0," and the other side said, of course, that they had suspected it from the first. It was by_a similar mistake that the late Baker Pasha, who might falrly be | described as a ‘‘battle-scarred vetran,” | was called a “battle-scared veteran,” the libel being by no means purged when the | newspaper called the gallant officer a | Hhottle-scarred veteran.” Owing to an error in printing the an- nouncement, A sailor, going to sea, his wife desires the prayers of the congrega- tion,” became “A sailor going to see his wife deserves the prayers of the con- gregation.” 2 The statement, ‘“Messrs. —'s serves cannot be beaten,” was | vitiated as an advertisement omission of “b” in the last word. Tnnocently gay was the newspaper re- port which said that the London ex- press had knocked down a cow and cut it into ‘calves.’—Gesta Typographica. | | | | | | | | | TS, pre- rather by the ORDER AND OUTLAWRY. It is a little humillating to observe that, | while Dawson City, which is on Cana- dian territory, has been notably free from crime and violence this winter, Dyea and Skaguay, on our own side of the line, | have been terrorized by desperadoes. The report of Governor Brady of Alaska shows a condition of affalrs that calls for prompt action by the Federal au- thorities unless a reign of terror is to exist when the influx of gold seekers be- gins in the spring. The United States | Marshal is powerless and the decrees of the courts are laughed at. Troops will probably be necessary to enforce order, but it is to be regretied that lawlessness has already begun to manifest itself. The system of mounted police which has proved so effective in the wilder regions of Canada and Australia would no doubt have operated as satisfactorily on our own territory, and the establishment of such a system is worth the consideration of the Federal authorities. It would do away with the use of troops in main- taining order and would put the police power where it belongs—in the hands of the civil authorities.—Chicago Chronicle. | e 1 A GOLDEN SPECTACLE. | New York Tribune. The spectacle of the United States treasury declining to accept gold in place of currency is an interesting one in con- trast with its scratching all around for all the gold it could find in the last ad- ministration. READY FOR THE FUNERAL. Philadelphia Ledger. There are abundant indications that the Hawalian annexation scheme is dead. Its promoters concede that the treaty cannot command the requisite two-thirds vote in the Senate, and it is believed that the Morgan bill to annex the islands by reso- lution will not be pressed. THE SOURCE OF PROSPERITY. When the capitalists of this country learn that the secret of prosperity is not in bearing production, but in increasing the purchase power of the masses, which’ is an insurance of the products of farm and shop, the problem of promoting gen- _eral prosperity will begin to be success- tully solved.—Louisville (Me.) Journal. ————— FORGOTTEN FALLACIES. Globe-Democrat. The price of wheat continues to conduct itself with a total disregard of the price of silver. All who believed in the Pro- fessor- coin fallacy should be cautious &bomy accepting any other free-coinage eory. THE GAME OF GRAE. New York World. A quarrel between Great Britain and France as to which is the rightful ewner of somebody else’'s property in Afri not wholly devoid o? a humorous ascpuéclt!. THE WORLD'S SUPPLY HOUSE. The report that Russia has ordered American armor plate for two of her new vessels at the rate of $500 a ton should do something toward settling the contro- | and-128 longitude west. overcharged and that $500 a ton repr :grfts only a gnoderate profit over the cost of production. The fact that Harveyized steel plate was chosen in preference to that made by the Krupp process is an- other element of satisfaction, since thz\.r. is the material with which our own ves- sels are defended.—Philadelphia Ledger. —_———— IN THE PUBLIC EYE. One of the most active workers in the University Settlement for Women in Bombay is the daughter of Austin Dob- son, the poet—Miss Mary Rachel Dobson. Her work is principally among the Par- sees. Many of the endowments in the uni- versity and schools of Edinburgh have been made by women. Lady Malcolm of Paltalloch left a large sum to a school in wnis country for reviving lost mysteries ntiquity. Ole”,l a8 ’\\'entworlh Higginson writes that hen Wendell Phillips was speak- ing more tamely than usual the young Abolitionists used to slip to the back of the roem and start a hiss; it never failed to rouse him.” Ex-Senator John B. Henderson has thoroughly stndied the problem of the West Indies. and he predicts European flags on the Islands will be pulled down one after the other until there will be a powerful republic of the “United States f America.” 5 oGeneml Sir Hugh Henry Gough, G. C. B., V. C., appointed Keeper of the Jewels in the Tower of London, is the younger of two distineuished brothers, both of whom won the Victoria cross while fight- ing to preserve the integrity of the Indian empire during the Sepoy rebellion of 1857. Professor Charles Eliot Norton will re- tire from the chair ef modern languages at Harvard this year. the succ r of Longfellow and Lowe and head of the fine arts department, Professor Nor- ton has strenuously fought and worked for the highest ideals in art and in citi- zenship. As the literary executor of Lowell and the translator of Dante, Pro- fessor Norton is well known wherever there are intelligent readers of the Eng- lish language. DENTS. ANSWERS TO CORRESP BELLA VISTA—A. O. §., City. There was not a Bella Vista Hotel in San Fran- cisco thirty vears ago, but there was, Stockton street, near Jackson, the Belle vue Hotel. P i GORDON HIGHLANDERS—H. S. C. City. There are two battalions of the Gordon Highlanders in the British army. The first is the Seventy-fifth foot and tie second is the Ninety-second foot. CALL FILES—A. O. S., City. There is | n the office of The Call a file of the pa- per from the date of the first issue, De- cember 1, 1856. There is one reporter on the paper who has been such for more than thirty consecutive ars. LAKE DEASE—J. H. C., Cottonwood, Cal. Lake Dease is in latitude 58% north It is at the head of It runs_into the river which flows into the Mackenzis River that empties into the Arctic. HENRY STREET-—Inq., Fitchburg. There are three streets in San Francisco called “Henr: One from the west side of Sanchez, between Fourteenth an. Fif- teenth, west to Castro; another also known as Havelock from old San Jose road, near Ocean avenue, and the third, also known as Fulton, on University Homestead, commencing near the inter- section of Castro street and old San Jose road. TO CLEAN FURS—G. S., City. The following is given as a recipe for clean- ing dark furs; Warm a quantity of new bran in a pan, taking care that it does not burn, to prevent which it must be actively stirred. When well warmed rub it thnrouihl)' into the fur with the hand. Repeat this two or three times: then shake the fur and give a sharp brushing until free from dust. HABEAS CORPUS-L. A. W, City. In the Penal Code of California there ap- pears under title XII the following: *Of special proceedings of a criminal nature —Chapter 1, of the Writ of Habeas Cor- pus.” Further on there is, “The writ of habeas corpus may be granted by _the the Laird River. | Supreme Court, or any Justice thereof, by the Superior Court or a Judge thereof.” The writ may also be issued by Federal Judges. BEN BOLT—J. F. B., Alameds, The wora€ of the sohg “Ben Bolt” were written in 1843 by Dr. Thomas Dunn Eng- lish, who a few years since represented the Newark (N. J.) District in_Congress. It was first published in the New York Mirror on the 2%th of September of that jear; and the author thought but little o t. When it became popular he had_the words set to music by Dominick H. May of Washington, D. C., but as the air di not satisfy him he composed the music himself. The author is still alive. PENNIES—C. E. N., City. Pennies of the United States coined in 1856 do not command any premium; those coined in 1857 command from 2 to 7 cents premium. BICYCLERS—F. M., San Jose, Cal. It has been reported that Gardiner, Lehr and Kaser, a Frenchman, not Kiser, an American, have been signed by Morgen & Wright, but this bas not been con- firmed and the salary arrangement has not been made public. John West is the trainer of these men. Kaser will have to return to his native land to arrang. with the military authorities befora he can carry out the contract, if it has been made. If that is arranged he will return ‘about May 1. Cal. glace frult 50c per 1b at Townsend" —_—— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by tha Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_———— French oval frames, all sizes, new and stylish mouldings; Torchon mat boards Il?“gold‘ Bndbciolnr 3"(?} h‘m\dr(‘ds of new ngs in cabinet and Paris . Sanborn, Vall & Co. et —_—— Husband's Calcined = Magnesia.—Four first premium medals awarded; more agreeable to the taste and smaller dose than other magnesia. For sale only in bottles with registered trademark label.* —_——— REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. A pound of accomplishments weighs more in a worhan than a ton of learning. A girl's argument is a little like reason and a lot more like the characters you see on tea boxes. After a girl has tried getting her fam- ily to act indignant with a man she be- gins to try to look piteously at him. A cat can swim just as well as a dog, only it is so lazy that if you throw it in the water it would rather drown. ‘When a man has curious little dents in his shirt bosom they are generally made by the round ends of hairpins. A woman never cries so hard when her little child is lost that she hasn't strength left to spank it when it's found.—New York Press. 1f you sufferetrom looseness of the boweis Dr. SIEGERT'S ANGOSTURA BITTERS will cure you. Be sure you get DR. STEGERT'S. — e *BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES" are unri- valled for relleving Conghs, Hoarseness and all Throat Troubles. Sold only in boxes. —_————— The Institute of France has taken for- mal possession of the estate of Chantilly, which the late Duke of Aumale gave to it in trust for the Republic of France. In- ventories have been taken showing that its contents include 577 pictures, 282 minia- tures, 50 statues, 2600 drawings, 3000 en- gravings, 3685 medals, 1453 manuscripts, 575 volumes printed on vellum, 2400 other books, and artistic furniture, jewelry, arms and China. ADVERTISEMENTS. The Certain Protection of our bread, biscuit and cake from alum ::I'IYA over the cost of that article. As e American company had to with the European m-“k’?n at :u: te vantage as to distance, it seems | to conclude that the Russian Government is ** is in the use of ROYAL BAKING PowDER only-