The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 9, 1898, Page 6

THE AUGUST 9, 1898 __AUGUST o, 1868 TUESDAY... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. Fu Telephone Main 1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS.. ‘217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Maln 1874 THE 8AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s "served by carrlers In this clty and s rrounding towns for I5 cents @ week. By mall $6 per year: per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE.. NEW YORK OFFICE.. DAVID ALLEN, Adver WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE ...One year, by mall, $1.58 .908 Broadway «...-Rigges House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. EHICAGO OFFICE...... Marquette Bullding €.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. "RANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street. open until 9:30 o'closk. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 oclock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Misston street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2991 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 | “‘Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open untlh © o'clock. 1505 Polk street, opem until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS ‘His Absent Boy amille The Cherry Plckers.” Morosco's- Tivoli—"T1 Trovatore.” boating, fshing, every Sunday. Orpheum—Vaudeville. The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville and Cannon, the Gl3-pound Mau. Olympla—Corner Mason and Eddy streots, Speclalties. £utro's Bathe—Swimming. El Campo—Music, daneiny State Fair—Sacramento, ADOLPH SUTRO’S DEATH. OTWITHSTANDING the long illness of ex- N Mayor Sutro the announcement of his death ] reached the public as a surprise. Ever since he * had been stricken the effort to hedge his condition labout with secrecy had tended to create some wrong . impressions concerning the seriousness of it. That the death of Mr. Sutro is a distinct loss to {San Francisco must be an accepted fact. He was one lof the foremost citizens, and that the material de- | 'velopment in which he was the potent factor m:\dc\j him a ‘miilionaire was evidence of the soundness of | his judgment. Tireless in effort, no effort was per- | mitted to go to waste. A man of splendid energy, he directed all so as to subserve the double purpose | of benefiting himself and the public. In most of his enterprises the people had a share. The beautiful | Heights bearing his name were open to all. His build- | ing of an electric line to the beach gave the five-cent | fare, for which there had long been a vain demand. | The baths he constructed near the Cliff House are | enongh in them- | the most elaborate in the worl selves to make San Francisco famous. What he had intended to do not in a business way, | but purely from been hinted, but before the plans could be carried out a shadow had fallen upon him, and perhaps when he | died tt »ns faded for all time. The one characteristic of Adolph Sutro was his in- domiitable will. No obstacle appalled it nor diverted | it“from its aim. His construction of the Sutro tun- nel was an achievement which no other man could | have perfected. He fought prejudice, jealousy and | capital, but this triumvirate went down before him, and he triumphed. From that time his success was assured. That he made enemies is true, for the activities of commercial life and of politics do not permit other- | wise, but he left none so bitter as to say an unkind word of the dead, resting on the Heights, which had | been his well-beloved home. AN ENEMY TO BE PROUD OF. /\/\ AJOR GENERAL SIE\FTER, so far as may | be judged by official and private reports, has made an excellent record at Santiago. As to the sickness among his men, this was considered in advance to be inevitable, and the attempt to blame | the commander for it is nothing less than ridiculous. We regret to note that the general has the enmity “of the Examiner, but the regret is not on his account, . for the enmity of that sheet is to be desired. It is on fmaccount of the paper itself, which by its action is mak- ing a pitiful display of the qualities which cause it to be despised. When it turns its assaults against any sman, that man, if aroused to anything above indiffer- ence, has reason to be grateful. A certificate of char- acter from the Examiner would, if it had effect, damn a citizen of fair repute. 1f the attacks keep up people will be forced to the conclusion that the Examiner is angry over the cir- cumstance that its representatives, bent as they were on creating mischief, prolix in the propagation of falsehood, were sent out of Cuba in disgrace. They | will have to think that the Examiner, instead of being grateful for the expulsion of a tribe of malign and dis- 16yal. scribes who constituted a reproach to journal- jsm #nd a menace to the public welfare, is hurt. It will ‘bé noticed that no statement directly concerning this affair has been-made in the anti-Shafter organ. It is content to express resentment after the fashion of the guerrillas-it loves so well. Meantime the picture of Shafter remains above the entrance to the Hearstling den. The laurel encircling jt is*fading, but there is no apparent tendency to re- place it with a fresh wreath. o e e e philanthropic motives, had c There is a gentleman at Portland who has an- nounced himself'as a candidate for the Presidency. While not posing as a prophet this paper predicts that he will be disappointed. But he might organize a Coxey army and have a fair show of being at the - head ‘of something. There will be worldwide hope that England and Russia can manage to get along without fighting. If Russia may manage to get along without fighting. If they were to come together the nations of the earth would feel the jar. Shen Provided Spain cannot give up any territory with- out the consent of the Cortes the wisdom of getting that body into session without delay must be apparent to thoughtful Spanish statesmen. One trouble with Massachusetts is that the good old State believes it had the only good National Guard to.send to the front. New York has had a similar " delusion. . At a recent athletic contest the victors were re- .warded by a kiss from a beautiful girl. We venture to predict a boom in athletics. ‘With all respect for Adr;ural Sampson it must be admitted’that he is inclined to be touchy. Nobody is trying to steal his thunder. " Even the prospectors who arrive penniless from the Klondike have something to be grateful for. At least | does not take warning he is one of those fatuous in- _they are back. WORDS OF WARNING. N incredulous reader writes us to say that, with fl all due respect to The Call, he does not believe the figures published in these columns on Sunday morning, which, he says, “purported” to give the vote returned for McKinley south of Tehachapi | at the election of 1896, were reliable. He demands to know whence we obtained the figures, and he adds, defiantly, that he is under the impression not only that the region south of Tehachapi is “solic}ly Republi-l ority of six | can,” but that it is Republican by a maj or eight thousand. : We have no wish to conceal the source of our authority for the statement that Mr. Gage's country returned a beggarly plurality of 1000 for McKinley in | 1806. 1In fact, had we dreamed there was a man in the State unfamiliar with the truth, we should have cited our authority at the time. - The figures in question were taken from Mr. de Young’s almanac. Under the circumstances no one can question their reliability. Mr. de Young is sup- porting Gage for Governor in his paper, and, since his own Senatorial aspirations depend upon the gubernatorial nomination going south, naturally he would be the last man in the world to make a_bad showing for his candidate. But, lest our incredulous correspondent should still think we have taken liberties in figuring out totals, we append the entire vote and recommend him to compute results himself: 1894 1896. Estee. Budd. McKinley. Bryan. Los Angeles . 11,265 7,619 16,891 16,043 | Orange ... -~ 1,469 949 1,982 1,713 | Santa Barbara..... 1,534 1,191 2,004 1,916 | San Bernardino. 2,323 1,360 2,818 2,740 Ventura .. 1,270 962 1,662 1,465 San Diego 2,848 1,897 3,631 3,908 20,699 13,978 28,829 27,784 Majority . 6,721 1,045 The question which these statistics ask in sten- torian tones is this: How can Mr. Gage be elected | Governor of California with a Republican majority of | 1000 south of Tehachapi? Is he stronger in that re- gion than McKinley? What issue does he represent | that is calculated to bring more votes to the Republi- can ticket than honest money and a safe and con- servative national administration? Mr. Gage's opponent in this campaign, should he be nominated, will be James G. Maguire. This gen- tleman carried the Fourth Congressional District of this city in 1806 by a plurality of 8134, or a majority over all candidates of 6867. At the same election Mc- Kinley carried the city by 400. The Fourth District comprises a little more than half of San Francisco and casts about half its vote. To be exact, the Fourth District polled at the Presidential election of 1806 31,277 votes, and the portion of the Fifth in this city is 26,034. Here, then, upon the face of the figures, is a majority of at least 10,000 for Maguire. What has Mr. Gage to offer as an offset to this? A beggarly plurality south of Tehachapi of 1045 and an ‘ idea that this is a “Republican year” and that a “yel- | low dog” can easily win. | If our incredulous correspondent can see nothing | If he | { | | | | 2: ominous in these figures we are sorry for him. dividuals who thinks that God, being on the side of | the Republican party, the heavy battalions of the | enemy need not be considered. But we disagree with | him. This is no time to talk about “yellow dogs,” war sentiment or “Republican years.” If the Republicans who meet at Sacra- mento on the 23d inst. do not nominate a man for Govermor who cam cut down Maguire's vote in San Francisco, their caudidate, and perhaps their ticket, will be defeated. A of views among radical tax reformers is afford- | ed by the scheme of taxation proposed for | France by the Brisson Ministry when contrasted with the single tax system advocated by that class of men in this country, and supported in Oregon. by Mr. Maguire, the Populist candidate for Governor in Cali- fornia. According to reports that have come to us the | French Premier has announced that his Government | will ask the immediate adoption of two social reform bills of an economic nature. The first bill is to repeal | all existing taxes on real estate and personal property | and replace them by a graduated income tax. The | second bill proposes to establish a means by which all working people after they reach a certain age in life shall receive from the Government a pension suffi- cient for their support. The workingman’s pension bill is a development of | the workingman's state insurance system, now in operation in Germany, and therefore is not a French idea. The taxation proposition, however, is peculiar to France. Like that proposed by Henry George, it is a single tax system, but, instead of placing all taxes on land values as he proposes, it is designed to relieve land of all taxes whatever. A proposition of that kind is enough to make the author of “Progress and | Poverty” turn in his grave; and on the other hand it would probably make a French radical shiver to be told that in the United States there are men who wish to remove all taxes from ca,ital and place the whole burden of the state upon the land-owner. The Brisson Ministry, being in office and having a working majority, though a small one. behind them, may possibly succeed in getting their single tax sys- tem adopted, and then we shall have an experiment on a large scale of the feasibility of such systems. The chances are-that it cannot be successfully operated. There is an inherent injustice in all schemes of in- come taxation. If two men have an equal amount of property and capital, and one of them works indus- triously and the other does not, the first will have a much larger income than the second. He will there- fore have to pay more than the other. Thus a tax is imposed upon industry and enterprise while idleness and thriftlessness are given a bounty in the form of exemption from taxation. This injustice, which cannot be separated from in- come taxation of any kind, will be immensely in- creased by the Brisson policy of imposing the whole taxation scheme of the nation upon incomes. It will be further increased by the effort to raise in that way a sum sufficient not only for the expenses of the Gov- ernment itself, but for pensioning workingmen. The proposition is therefore one of the most radical that has been advanced by a statesman for years. Now that it has been advanced, however, we: may expect some of our Populist reformers to take it up. In fact, as Mr. Maguire has been busily informing the Califor- nian farmers that the single tax on land is not an is- sue in this campaign, he may find it expedient to make his fight on a Brisson programme and advocate a sin- gle tax on incomes. STRIKING illustration of the wide divergence | Of course the Sultan scoffs at American demands. | He is a scoffer from away back, and so hardened that he has been known to snigger at the European con- cert. G Dr. Pardee is getting unduly excited. Really, his chances do not seem worth making a fuss about. b vy inclination to bolt Gomez and Garcia both show an the convention. > | stitution, it must be by extending thereto the equal- | years, have given, par excellence, to' their own flag; FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY THE COOLIES OF Hawa@ll. T is evident that an attempt will be made to placate lpublic opinion and pacify imperiled interests in California by canonizing forcibly against the Chi- nese in the sclieme of government to be prepared for Hawaii. We do not propose to be blinded or cajoled by any such subterfuge. The issue, common to white labor and to employers in California, is against Asiatic coolie labor in Hawaii. That labor competes with white labor at white wages in California, and we cannot stand the competition. We want all Asiatic coolie labor deported from the islands and perma- nently excluded thereirom. The Labor Commissioner of California, who investigated conditions in Hawaii a year ago, says in his report: “The most interesting phase of the labor question in the islands is the Asiatic hordes that now infest them and predominate on the plantations. I have seen four or five hundred Japanes¢ walk ten miles to back up the position of one man when only a few days’ work was involved. I have scen murder and riot on the plantations. I have heard the Japanese say that their people have brought the sugar industry to the position it now oc- cupies, and that they propose to hold controlling in- fluence upon the islands at any hazard. I have seen them demanding that white men be discharged and :Japanese taken in their places. I have seen one of our men-of-war anchored in the harbor to defend the planter against his own labor, and I have scen a Jap- anese warship there to encourage the Japanese intheir arrogant and insolent behavior, and to further de- mand that more shall be added to the already over- burdened conditions. It needs no words to picture the future of these islands when once the Japanese be- come the moneyed power, the employers of labor and the labor itself.” It will be noticed that the objection runs not to Chinese alone, but.to Asiatic coolies, and that while the Chinese are ‘hardly mentioned in the report, its exposition of conditions relates to the Japanese alone. 1f Hawaii is to be governed in the genius of our con- ity which the constitution is intended to establish, and does establish, between the States of this Union. The Immigration Commissioner at this port is mostly engaged in turning back Japanese coolie laborers who come here to compete with white labor in California. Why keep on fooling with the San Francisco spigot and leave the Hawaiian bung open? All of the press which favored annexation is put- ting forward the Chinese question as if their expul- sion and exclusion from the islands would satisfy white labor and its employers here. The defeated treaty and the annexation resolutions mention only the Chinese, while the report of the Labor Commis- sioner shows twice as many Japanese in the islands as Chinese. To the Japanese are attributed all the truculence and acts of disorder. Their method is.bold and defiant. No one hears of Chinese banding to- gether and demanding the discharge of white men and the filling of their places by Chinese. But this is done boldly by the Japanese, and we are left to infer that it is successful. For these reasons we demand the deportation of Asiatic coolies from Hawaii; the nullification of con- tract labor laws; the extension to the islands of the labor laws of the United States, eight-hour day and all; and the establishment of exact equality of con- ditions with the rest of the country. ‘““OLD GLORY.” ILLIAM L. STONE, a scholar of some re- W pute in the East, has writter. to the New York Sun a letter, in which he says: “All the newspapérs except the Sun have, within late years, given the title of our ‘Stars and Stripes’ as ‘Old Glory, a name which the English, for 200 but even as far back as ten years our flag was known by no such title; only by that of ‘the Stars and Stripes.” Hence, I ask, why import into the nomen- clature of our flag the same name which England has used for so many generations, namely, ‘Old Glory'? It would certainly seem as if we had a paucity of names when this one is adopted from England.” To the great majority of the American people-this statement will come as news, and strange news at that. Throughout the length and breadth of the land the appellation “Old Glory” applied to the national banner has become one of our popular phrases, as familiar and as dear as household words. It has be- come accepted as something peculiar to our land and to our time; a title won for the flag in our civil wars; a name of honor bestowed upon it by the love and loyalty of an exuberant patriotism. It is something of a shock, therefore, to be told that aiter all we have but borrowed the phrase from the British, and that calling our banner “old glory” is like adopting as a national anthem a song set to the music of “God Save the Queen.” Mr. Stone's reputation for accuracy and general scholarship gives weight to his statement concerning the origin of the phrase, and yet if it be true that the British have preceded us in the use of the term it is certain they have never employed it enough to make it familiar to the general public. Even dictionaries of phrase and fable and other reference books of the kind do not record it as of British origin or use. There has long been a discussion in this country as to the authorship of the term, and considerable study has been devoted to the subject, but Mr. Stone is the first to our knowledge to- trace it back to the English. The question is one of literary curiosity merely, and yet it is of interest t6 all Americans. As the case stands to-day the phrase is-American and not British, by general use and common consent. We have made it the name of the starry banner by adopting it as a familiar phrase in common conversation and embody- ing it in our oratory, poetry and general literature. It requires a special and curious scholarship to know that the term has ever been applied to the standard of St. George, St. Andrew and St. Patrick, but all the world knows it as a name for the beautiful banner of the stars and stripes. It must be remembered, however, that the term has been adopted by us more for the sake of brevity than for anything else. “Old Glory” is not so beautiful a phrase as the “star-spangled banner,” and, moreover, it is not in any way descriptive of the flag. For the higher uses of oratory and poetry, therefore, it will never usurp the true and genuine name of our stand- ard. Tt is short and terse and telling; has a good mouth-filling sound that suits well for cheering and hurrahs, but it lacks the beauty of an exact descrip- tiveness and the suggestion of eternal splendor which are compact in the rightful name of the banner of the stars. e The strange fact develops that a woman who re- cently killed herself in this city had inherited a sui- cidal mania, most of her family having voluntarily quit this world of woe. It seems a pity that she was married. Such a mania ought to be allowed a chance to become extinct. Shafter has not yet been accused of sowing the germs of yellow fever among his men; but then the war upon him has only started. One beneficent effect of the war has been that it | FEXFF X R XX XXX XXX XFFRFRFAFFERLR R R X R R RN “SUNSET” INDULG Editor the San Francisco Cal tion in regard to Wells, Fargo & fend in a greater measure than th holding their patrons up for the Go over their lines, must make a swe holders. I have not heard a sing! who evade paying any themselves. Newman, Cal.,, Aug. 6, 1898. d ok kK ok ok ok koK R ook & X K K XK e but you have overlooked the Sunset Telephone Company, who of- 5 cents every time and keep the 4 cents, which, on a year’s business about paying his just share of the war tax, but it is not exactly right to make them pay added taxes for the benefit of corporations HEER XXX RXERXF XX RXRXX XXX RFRE R REN ES IN EXTORTION. Your stand on the war tax ques- Co. is rignt and should be kept up; e other corporation, for instead of yvernment tax of 1 cent they exact et little dividend for the share- le complaint from a private citizen INIS STURGEON. Kk ok ok ok sk ok ok ok sk ok ke X R R R R TRANQUILLITY. L There was a time when I, unthinking, sighed To muse by Arno’s stream, to watch the sun Rise o’er the Alps, or, when the day was_done, In moonlit Venice on her waters glide, Then E; Greece and Rome were mag- Beyond their worth. race is run, And now I know that there is only one Sweet spot to love, and more than worlds beside, Not thiudt my soul to beauty has grown Vain @reams! their cold, Not that I would not sce her varled store, But that I know in all her chambers old, Than here at home, she cannot show me more Qt peace, content and inward happiness— And these are all aI !morlal need possess. What can it profit me to contemplate The wreck of empires and dead citles old? To mfiy that here trlumphant Caesar rolled, That this 'was Pompey's, that was Tra- Jan's gate, Here sat Augustus In his robes of state, Here Tully thundered his philippics bold, And here, alas! was Nero’s house of gold? | Let not my soul with such delusion mate! | Let me not think upon them while at morn I yet may wander where the brooklet flows Look in the daisy's eve, or, newly born, Feast my heart’s heart upon my native rose; Here Is more wholesome music for my min 1‘hakn1 l:']mgdcms past or present, and more | nd. | | pisd The pomp of ages and the thrones of | Kings, The glory, grandeur of unrivaled state, The flamé, the glitter of the mighty great— What_are they, sweet, unto the sum of | things? | A dream of earth’s, a passage of gray wings Or yet but bubbles in the hand of Fate | That caught her fancy or provoked her | ate. Or this or that, the source of ail their | springs Ran dry at last; she smiled upon thelr | race, She frowned—she breathed upon them and they broke, And were no more to her in any place, | Nor thought of later, when her vision woke To other tinsel, bright and frail as they— TUnworth a sunset or a bud of May. Ay Jlet me keep my placid leisure here, Where I may listen to the robins sing, Where I may breathe the balm of miné | own_sprin Watch mine own tree throughout the pas:‘ln(}r’ year, See bud and bloom and taste their mellow cheer, Each season finding in what time doth ring Some reason deep for hearty welcom- ng— Like mine own crickets piping sweet and clear, Yea, let the old world. pass—the world of ame; e; Give me but nature in my native Jand; Beside her all the show of earth is tame— More in one rose than art can under- stand, In one white Illy more of light and grace Than. Pericles designed or lit Asnasia’s face!—C. G. B., in Chicago Record. THESE ARE FUNNY. He—What is your idea of heaven? She—I imagine it must be something like our summer Tesorts He—Indeed? And why, pray? She—The proportion of men to women will be about the same.—Chicago News. “Did she break down when you told her you were going abroad?” “Naw. I think she felt like doing one, though.”—Indianapolis Journal. “What is delaying the wedding?” in- quired a guest at the ceremony which united an American fortune and a Euro- pean title. “Possibly,” replied Miss Cayenne,"they forgot to put a revenue stamp on the dowry and the Count refuses to accept the check.”’—Washington Star. Bagley—Do you think women will ever quit wearing corsets? Howland—Not as long as there are any obtuse men around to maintain that the things are detrimental to health.—Chicago News. “Women are curious things,” remarked Fogg, as he took his cigar out of his mouth in order to chuckle. “So I've heard before,” sald Bass, ‘“but what is the particular curious thing you have in mnd?”’ “When I got home last evening I found Mrs. Fogg in tears because the girl had broken a plate that Mrs. Fogg said had been in the house ever since we went to housekeeping. And it was only last week that she made a touse over a dish that had been broken, just because it was brand new. There's no knowing how to take a woman.”—Boston Transcript. ———— A SOUTH AMERICAN VIEW. The old proverb says that no man ap- preciates his happiness until he has lost it. If the Latin-American republics fancy that their form of government is suf- ficiently guaranteed by international law, by the respect which they compel in Europe, they are indulging themselves in a delusion which the foreign intervention in the case of Mexico ought to have dis- pelled years ago. The indisputable truth is, although it hurts to confess it, that the independence of these republics continues unmolested simply and solely on account of the powerful Monroe doctrine, which has been their true redemption; which has been like the vast shadow of the great nation of the north cast benevolently over the peoples of the south. ‘What force reduced to silence the char- latanism of the Holy Alliance when it pro- posed to send its fleets to this hemisphere to attack its yet insecure independence and to glve back into the power of Spain her fugitive children? It was this famous principle, the more powerful because it was not then nor is it yet a law. Who prevented Central America half a century ago from becoming an English colony? The American Government, with its Cla; ton-Bulwer and Dallas-Clarendon treaties. Who prevented the establishment of an exotic monarchy in Mexico? The Ameri- can Government, with an “Enough” from Mr. Seward. Who prevented Spain from treating of the reconquest of the republics of the Pacific Coast when she sent them a royal commission and talked of reclaiming them? The same American Government, with a sign from the same Mr. Seward. Who prevented England from taking ali | the spoils she desired in Venezuela? The American Government, with a plain “No” from Mr. Cleveland. 0 prevented Europe scarcely five years ago from re- storing the monarchy in Brazil? h American Government, with its cpportune invocation of the Monroe doctrine. Who prevented the American {sthmus from F’nslln in 1885 into the possession of the nited States? The same American Gov- ernment, which did not desire dominion has awakened within Blanco the power to think. there, but preferred rather to be loyal to Colombia. The power of the United States once Bk T T o e P Dlfi : Our en mi - selves to loitering about the laces of Princes. wa S hrout Broceesions! | all that Ger ! eral legal tender in India, of the coaches of European dignitaries on the days of court festivities, and there will be renewed, from the Rio Grande to Patagonia, atrocious wars of conquest, to last for who can tell how many years or | with what final result? From these da: from these wars we are spared by the | ‘American Union.—El Reportorio Colombi- | ano, Bogota, Colombo. ————————— THE POSITION OF GERMANY. The confederation of States composing what is known as the German empire is twenty-seven years old. Nowhere in the world, except in the United States, has there been industrial and commercial progress so rapid as in Germany since on April 16, 1871, its component States formed “an eternal unfon for the protection of | the realm and the care of the welfare of | the German people.” The total foreign trade of the empire, which was $1,365,- 665,000 in 1872, reached $1,952,808,000 in 18%5— an’ increase of 40 per cent. The exports of articles of domestic production, which in 1872 were valued at $580,165,000, had in- creased by 1806 to $864,327,000—an increase of about 49 per cent, in presence of such | a fall in the price of all the products of manufacture as to require an addition of fully one-half to the quantities of 189 in order to present a fair comparison with \those of 1872. About three-fourths of all | the export trade of Germany is in articles | other than the crude products of field or | mine. They are sufficlently varied to in- | dicate the existence of a highly developed industrial system, and among the coun-| tries which furnish the chief markets for them are to be found Germany’s most formidable commercial rivals, The British | empire and the United States take be- | tween them more than one-third of all the German exports of manufactures, and even with its friend and ally, Italy, the trade of Germany is less than one-half of | that with France, its secular foe. German industry and commerce have between them made notable progress in these twenty-seven years toward the conquest of the worid. Meanwhile _the | 40,000,000 of Germans who emerged from | the war with France had become 52,000,000 in 1895, and are probably 54,000,000 to-day. Some 17,000,000 of them are directly de- pendent 'on’ industrial pursuits, and be- tween 4,500,000 and 5,000,000 on_trade and | Not even in Great Britain are commerce. the conditions of national prosperity more closely bound up with the free expan- sion of trade; equality of opportunity is E any needs to hold its own beside its rivals.” Nothing would seem to be more obvious than that the interest of Germany is to stand for the ‘‘open door” in China, in Africa, and anywhere else that commercial ambition is apt to | assume the form of carving out spheres | of exclusive influence.—New York Times. —_—— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. STEVE BRODIE—E. C., City. At last accounts Steve Brodie, the jumper, was not dead. o COUNT IN CRIBBAGE—-E. K. City. Three fours, a seven spot in hand and another four in hand counts twenty in cribbage. DIRECTORY—C. T., Slerra, Valley, Cal. Your communication In regard to a_di- rectory should be addressed to the office the San Francisco Directory, ~S: Francisco, Cal, S LONDON AND PARIS—S., Berkeley, Cal. The city of London, England, is 64 feet above the level of the sea. and the city of Paris, France, is 115 feet above the level of the sea. MUST BE STAMPED-S., City. Lig- uors bottled for sale must be stamped at the time of bottling, irrespective of the fact that they may be kept in stock to be aged before being offered for sale. INSURANCE COMMISSIONER—G. O., San Quentin, Cal. The Insurance Com- missioner of the State of California is Andrew J. Clunie and his office is at the southwest corner of California and Mont- gomery streets in San Francisco. HAZING—F. C., Berkeley, Cal. Hazing in colleges is not modern. In 1430 there was a rule in the Heldelberg University ‘which forbid the practice by older stu- dents of shaving the heads of new stu- d r filling their ears with wax. OLD REVENUE STAMPS-—C. R, Berkeley, Cal. A G-cent express red stamp of the Internal revenue series of the days of the Rebellion in the United States s offered by dealers at prices va- rying from 10 to 50 cents, according to state of perfection. A 2-cent playing card blue stamp Is offered for 30 cents. These figures will give you an idea of the vaiue of such relics. S COMMANDER IN CHIEF—L. G. and A. C., Martinez, Cal. The constitution of the United States says: “The President shall be commander in chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several Statés, when called Into the actual service of the United States.” From this it is clear that unless called intb the service of the United States the President has not con- trol over the militia of the several States. CLEANING WOOL—T. M., City. The cleaning of wool from sheep 1is called scouring. It consists of immersing the wool in an alkaline lye, which forms a soap with the natural grease of the fleece. This acts as detergent and cleans the wool thoroughly, when it is washed in running water. Then it undergoes a process called willying: that it, it is passed through a machine, which cleans it of dust and other impurities, after which it has to be passed through a ma- chine called a teaser to tear open the matted portions and render it fit for use, An amateur who had “‘a small quantity of wool, sufficient to make up two mat- tresses’” might try the scouring process, but would find that it would be more trouble than the wool would be worth. The easfest way Is to take it to a pro- fessional, who will do the work for a comparatively small sum. BRITISH INDIA MONETARY SYS- TEM—A. D. R., San Rafael, Cal. The present monetary system of British $ndia was established September 1, 1835, on the single silver standard. The rupee and half rupee are unlimited legal tender, but smaller silver coins only for sums of less than a rupee. Gold coins are not legal tender. There is no limit to coinage, but the mint charge is 1 per cent. The debts of India to Great Britain require the an- nual export of more than $80,300,00. The price of silver, however, dropped so low in 1892 that this amount was increased by over $51,100,000 in payment of gold premiums. This fall in silver led to the | closing of the mints to silver on June , 1883, and the avowed policy to return to the gold standard. The law of July 1861, prohibited bank issues of currency. The Government issues currency upon Government securities, receivable for. all debts, public and private. On the day that the mints were closed to silver coin- age they were, by an act passed that day, authorize to dssue rupees at the value of 1s 4d In _exchange for gold bullion or g:ld coins, the rate being 15 pees to the sovereign. Although not ge ‘English sover: were accepted | eigns and half sovereigns in 1893 at the public treasu i of Government dues. That was a mo fied plan of the Government's own Dro- posal to prevent a further fall rather than to raise the gold standard of the K o of court festivities and | o ries in payment | 2 AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Thomas Flint Jr. is at the Palace. Dr. W. T. Barr of Fresno is at the Russ. Robert N. Bulla of Los Angeles is at the Grand. F. A. Hihn of Santa Cruz is at the Oc- cidental. D. G. Bartnett, a rancher of Pacheco, 18 at the Grand. J. S. Anderson, wife and daughter are at the California. Rev. D. Alexander of San Anselmo I8 at the Occidental. @. V. Crowell, captain of the Panama, is at the Occidental. S. R. Young, a mining man of Lovelock, Nev., Is at the Russ. A. J. Hinds, the capitalist, of Cruz, is at the Grand. Santa Sned Gil Burifie GERHRRAREE % man ¢ g vesterday. The - ALL WHISKERS & one cherished £ possession that MUST GO- % remained to him o ¢ was his mustache R 1by a decree AHEHH BV EF O T and & roy: il of the Order of the of the oy . a mystic railroad man's Ties and Wheels, a my: organization, he was or it forever. The doings of society seldom see the Swing to the negligence of onme of the loquacious members certain facts have leaked out and become public property. At & meeting not many years ago High Chief Sproule advised for serious consid- eration the taking off of sky-lip blemish- ments, as he was pleased to call them. Ho suited the action to the word and waited for legislative enactment to wipe out the hirsute distinctions of his fellow conspira- tors. Tt came last week. A notice has been distributed among the greater mem- bers, and it allows but seven days for a divorce of the whisker from the face. “At the seventh complete course of the sphere round the giver of light and warmth let all you vassals of Ties and Wheels see to It that no more the un- gracious and unsightly beard or mus- tache blot out the natural beauty that God In his wisdom has bestowed upon you. For any violation of the décree that this high and mighty council put upon you the punishment is worse than death. So reads the ukase and turmoil reigns on the “street.” Sned Gil Burific was In his cups soon after the receipt of the notice. “Think of it he sald. “Here is Luce from Los Angeles. When T last saw him he had as pretty a pair of whiskérs as brighten up a wintry windy day. Then there is my friend Richardson. Did you ever see those handsome iron-gray mustaches. Beauties, aren’t they? Well, off with them or off comes his head. I didn’t know the rea- son for all those tonsorial excursions. Crane is one of the elected. I haven't heard as yet about Colonel Hitcheock, but he ought to be in the push. Pretty soon there will not be a bearded man on the block. All chins and lips with expres- sions running the scale from the simper- ing schoolboy to the villain in the show. Just imagine the Vanderbilt office with- out a mustache. Isn't it a fine thing for Chauncey and Cornellus to contemplate, and what will old Collis do to the lot of youngsters on his return. Oh, it's ter- dered to part with ¢ this most secret ght of day, but rible! What am I going to do? Drown myself? Not a bit; worse. I'm going to a barber shop and have it done. But let us have a drink or two first to ne 3 me.”” And one more unwhiskered face was added to the ranks of the railroad mén on the “‘street.” W. W. Eldred, the glove manufacturer, of Seattle, is at the Russ. Mrs. James McClatchy and Miss Emily McClatchy are at the Grand. T. H. Buckingham, the prominent fruit- grower, of Vacaville, is at the Grand. E. D. Lyman and G. D. Lyman, of Vir- ginia City, Nev., are at the Occidental. W. C. Peyton, superintendent of Santa Cruz Powder Works, is at Palace. William G. Kerchoff, semite Valley Commissioners, is Palace. George T. Nicholson, passenger traffic manager of the Santa Fe at Portland, ac- companied by his wife and child, arrived in this city yesterday and' is at the Palace. —_— e——— BUTTE MINER'S CAT STORY. An interesting story is told by a miner of Butte, Mont., who owns a ventureseme pet cat. This cat, it is sald, climbs up, and @down the shaft, through drifts, cross-cuts, slopes and levels, and lives with the miners in the mine, who feed it from their -dinner-pails. One day the owner took the cat into the orehouse and thoroughly washed 1its hair; then-he panned the wash water and declares he assayed it for $IS 3L e o EXPERT SWORDSWOMEN. All well trained Spanish- women are taught to handle the sword from their earliest years, and as a resylt they are noted for their admirable fisure and easy walk. the the one of the Yo- at the } Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* f Specfal information supplied dafly to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * } “Has he given up smoking since he be- came engaged?”’ i “No; but he has taken to carrying his cigars in the slde pocket of his coat In- stead of the upper vest pocket next to his heart.”—Chicago Post. & Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters is.a sure cifra of diarrhea, dysentery, il effects of hard: water, fevers, etc. e y Musiec should be pretty well informed, considering the number of music teach- ers we have. ADVERTISEMENTS. MASON JARS AT LESS THAN COST. Mason Pint Jars, . . 38cdoz « Quart Jars, . . 48cdoz « Half Gallon Jars, 67c doz Extra Big Gifts Free WITH OUR New CroP TEAs. QUALITY BEST OBTAINABLE. PRICES LOWEST IN AMERICA. (reat American [mparting Tea (o's MONEY=-SAVING STORES. Telephone No. .Folsom Store Address— 1011 Market street (opp. Powell). 140 Sixth street 218 Third stree 06 Kearny stree 146 Ninth street. 1419 Polk street. 1819 Devisadero 2008 Fillmore street 521 Montgomery ave: 5 Missi reet. 52 Market Street...ce o oo OAKLAND STOR 1053 Washington street e 917 Broadway . . In 1894 the experimental attempt he British India Council to prevent further decline in the value of the ru- ee and to dominate the rate of exchange gelween cutta and London was given up. In January of that vear the mini- mum rate of 153 pence per rupee was no | longer insisted upon, but all tenders for oy ‘were to be considered on their mer- |