The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 28, 1900, Page 6

v THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1900. Che ' +Sobase Call. THE POLICE AND THE LAW. OR some time past the police authorities have been formulating for the control of vice a policy not before practiced here but which has Communiestions to W, 8, LEAKE, Mamager. : .Telephone EM e Third. S. F. . .Market a e Press 1. .217 to 221 Stevenson St. e Press 202. EDITORIAL ROOMS Tele; Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Inel ng Postage: DAILY CALI, (Including Sunday), ohe year. $6.% DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), § months. 3.00 DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 3 months. 150 | DAILY CALL—By Single Month. 5 DAY CALL, One Year.. 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, One Year. 1.00 | All postmaste are subscriptios Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Ma par subscribers in ordering change of address stould be > give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS In order re a prcmpt and correct compliance with their request ves+.1118 Broadway OAKLAND OFFICE €. GEORGE KROGNESS. 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December 23, at 12 o'clock, track fHZ LAW OF @BDUCTION. ahy of Omaha paid $25,000 ior s son from the hands of kid- natural act; criminals an was a perfect] ave to the which will probably e similar offenses against will be one of the 1as been everywhere all parts of the country there is i that the evil be countegacted ntless pursuit of the kid- vght and properly punished. and, however, cannot be car- ed out by The Call yesterday ject genera the law, against v is not stringenf enough 1 offenders as those who ab- irpose ot extoriing ransom the ‘subject to-day purpose of emphasizing that point. In view 1 eration 1 to kidnaping by the success aha it is imperative that our v in amending our law in this quate penalties for the com- 15eS iie has hitherto been free and easy for sidents have not had to go uards, and the children of our have been able to go about the onaire; B school and to “wisit the 3 ygrounds with as much freedom m danger as the children of ordinary citi- 7€ Ii abduction go unpunished, however, t w soon be little safety for the child of 1 man unless he be guarded every time he leaves To treat kidnapers leniently will be in the ure as foolish as it would be to treat lightly a man should assault the President. With the increase our population we have developed many of the 1 tendencies of the Old World, and we must guard against them with all the force and vigor of American law rimi e issue, we repeat, is one of urgent importance. s well known that criminals are very subject to suggestive” influences. A notorious crime com- mitted in one part of the country is almost sure to be followed by similar crimes elsewhere. For ex- ample, when the case of one woman killing another by sending poisoned candy through the mails was reported, there followed several cases of the same kind, not only in different parts of this country, but even in Great Britain. In fact, in one British case it was brought out in the trial that the crime had beer committed without any other cause than the sugges- tion of it to a weak and vicious mind. In that case the person poisoned was an inmate of a poorhouse who had not an enemy nor a friend in the world, and absolutely nothing was to be gained by the murder. The criminal had merely pondered over the crime committed in this city, had come to the conclusion it could be easily and safely done, and thereupon had proceeded to act upon the thought. It is, then, fairly certain other criminals will be tempted to intimate the kidnaping of young Cudahy. There is at present in this State no law of sufficient force either to deter or to punish. Let us have the defect in our Penal Code remedied as promptly as the Legislature can act. It Governor Pingree of Michigan gave a dinner the other day to the dignitaries of the legislative, judicial and executive departments of state, and the response was the absence of invited guests. Even in dispensing wine and the other good things of life a2 man may discover that he is not the whole show. T msd Lord Salisbury recently told the British people that the welfare of the empire was more dependent upon the proper housing of workingmen than upon foreigy wars; and accordingly ‘it appears the old man occa- <ionally has lucid intervals in which he talks senss that is all wool and a yard wide. | .Herald Square Monday evening, De- | first | | been tried elsewhere with what are said to be good re- suits. The policy virtually consists in licensing places where vices are practiced, thus rendering it more profitable for them to operate under police super- vision than to carry on the trade otherwise. It is claimed for this policy that it enables a muni- cipal government to control vices which it cannot | | wholly suppress, and thus to destroy much of their | evil. It is argued that the plan will put an end to the 1hribing of policemen, to blackmail, to the spread of | vile diseases, and drive out of the domain of vice it- | | self those who carry it to the extent of crime or to loathsome excesses. Whether such a policy would be good or bad in ‘itlnfi city is a question in the general problem which | will have to be postponed until another is settled. | | Under our laws no such programme can be legally | | carried out. It is indeed expressly forbidden. | Section 337 of the Penal Code says: “Every State, county, city, city and county, town or township oi- | ficer, or other person who shall ask for, receive or | collect any money, or other valuable consideration, | | either for his own or the public use, for and with the understanding that he will aid, exempt or otherwise ist any person from arrest or conviction for a vio- | 1ztion of section 330 of the Penal Code; or who shall | issue, deliver or cause to be delivered or given to anv person or persons any license, permit or other privi- lcge, giving or pretending to give any authority or right to any person or persons to carry on, conduct, { open or cause to be opened any game or games which are forbidden or prohibited by section 330 of said code; and any of such officer or officers who shall { vote for the passage of any ordinance or by-law giv- | ) | ing, granting or pretending to give or grant to any | | person or persons any authority or privilege to open, | | carry bn, conduct, or cause to be opened, carried on or conducted, any game or games prohibited by said | section 330 of the Penal Code, is guilty of a felony.” Section 330 of the Penal Code, to which the section | quoted refers, forbids gambling games and the main- | | tenance of - gambling "places. So far, then, as | icensing gambling is concerned the policy now under consideration by the police authorities is out of the | question. | Perceiving their inability to carry out their pur- | posed programme by legal methods, the authorities | are reported to be contemplating a means of effect- | ing it by indirection and evasion. The plan is to have | the keepers of gambling dens, brothels and similar places of vice arrested each month, to release them on an amount of bail proportioned to the magnitude of the place they maintain, have them forfeit the bail, | which will then pass into the city treasury, and thus | obtain for themselves the privilege of carrying on { their trade under police supervision. The bail money | forfeited monthly will be equivalent to a license fee, | and virtually the licensing system will have been es- tablished. { It has been calculated that the revenue to be de- rived in that way would amount to something like | $100,000 annually, and that in addition there would | be the saving of a large expenditure now necessary to control vice under the present plan. Whatever view may be taken of the general policy i of license and supervision as against the known de- fccts of the present system or lack of system in deal- ing with vice, there can be but one view of the pro- posed evasion of the law. That is something which cannot be tolerated under any circumstances. While ‘thc law stands it must he obeyed. The obligation is | binding upon every citizen, and upon the officers of the law the obligation rests with all the responsibility of official duty and all the sacredness of an official | cath. Bad as affairs have been in San Francisco, they will become much worse if the custodians of the },l““' set an example of violating the statutes either | directly or indirectly. It is to be borne in mind, moreover, that in this | case, so far from there being any justification of eva- sive tactics, there is not even an excuse for it. The 1Legi>lature will soon be in session, and if the law"® | be prejudicial to public welfare a repeal or an amend- | | ment can be promptly obtained. To the Legislature, | therefore, the police authorities should.have recou se. ‘Let them present their programme on its merits. Let them explain the benefits. they deem certain to re- sult from it, and then let them ask the Legislature for authority to go forward with the plan. If that be done the proposed policy can have a fair trial, but if an attempt be made to enforce it by evasion it will be doomed to failure from the start, and to an igno- minious failure at that. | ot e Oakland, by authority of state, has a Kentucky colonel, appointed by the newly elected chief execu- tive of Kentucky. It is perhaps idle to remark that the officer is congratulating himself that he is out of | range of the duties and consequences of his position. | LAND QUESTIONS IN IRELAND. NE of the political surprises in British politics | O is the recent announcement of Thomas W. Russell, a Unionist member of Parliament from Tyrone, in favor of a scheme of relief for Are- land that in its way is quite as radical as anything advocated by, the extreme Irish party. Mr. Russell proposes that the Government buy aut the landzd proprietors and then sell the land in small tracts or farms to the present occupiers. It is a plan to put an end to the big estates of the past and to establish ir. Ireland that system «of peasant proprietorship that prevails in France. | In the recent speech at An(rim Mr. Russell is re- ported to have proclaimed himseli a stronger Union- ist than ever, and to be utterly opposed to those who are agitating for the separation of Ireland from the rest of the kingdom; but he went on to say he is not now and never has been a Unionist “for the purpose of maintaining an unjust and ruinous land system that is paralyzing everything in the country and wearing out the lives of the people in a hopeless struggle.” For an understanding of the full significance of | | that declaration it is to be borne in mind that Russell is in close relations to the present Ministry. He has | served under Lord Salisbury as Parliamentary Secre- tary for the Irish Loql Government Board, and has been always counted on as a stanch supporter of British conservatism in Irelandi By reason of that fact his speech is taken to mean a good deal more than an individual opinion. It has even been sug- gested that post‘sibly several members of the present Cabinet agree with him, and that a compulsory land purchase act for Ireland may be among the measures brought forward by the Government at the coming session. | The breaking up of great landed estates by legislation would be a novelty in Great Britain, though it has | been accomplished in Australia, in New Zealand and in Prince Edward Island. Different means were resorted to by each of the different colonies, and in | neither of them was 12 srogramme of action exactly ' | | lay their hands on to be their rightful prey. S I the same as that which Russell proposes for Ireland. The intent, however, was the same, that of taking the land out of the hands of nfen who did not make right use of it and placing it in those who could be expected to develop it to the uttermost of their means. Consequently Russell has ample . precedent for his proposed programme and may succeed in procuring its adoption. I newspapers for the purpose of discovering something in the way of information concerning the mental attitude of the people of this country toward the rest of the world at the beginning of the century resulted in bringing to light, among other curious items, these lines, published in the Boston Centinel of April 12, 1800: THE ALLS. Trance fights all. Britain pays all. A Russia threatens all. Prussia humbugs ell. Switzerland is pearly plundered by all. Spain does nothing at all. Germany thinks itself all in all, The United States is spoliated by. all. And, lest destruction should come upon all, May heaven have mercy upon us all. —— OUR PLACE IN T,H.E WORLD. XPLORATIONS made through the files of old Amen. That was the way the world looked to a newspaper | man when the century began; and looking back upon the time even from this distance we can perceive that the view was essentially accurate, There could be no ‘doubt about France fighting all. That was evident enouglr in the thunder of Napoleon’s guns and the marching of his restless armies all over Europe. That Britain was paying for all was a matter of common fame. Her money was poured out like water to raise | and'eqnip armies to resist the march of the conqueror. Russia’s threatening attitude was not so notable then as it is now, but none the less the threat was there. Prussia in 1800 was humbugging herself more than .any one else, as we kriow, since the weakness of her | show of power was revealed a few years later at Jena, but of course the Boston man could not foresee that astounding battle that crushed a nation at a single biow. Switzerland was not being plundered exactly in those days, but Napoleon was taking almost any- thing of hers that he coveted. Spain was actually doing nothing in any line of endeavor either of peace ot war in that year, but she had to rouse herself a little later. Just why the “Germany” of that time should have been suspected of thinking itself “all in all” is not clear. It bad been overrun by Napoleon and had nothing to boast of in war, but probably the Boston man referred to its high intellectual preten- sions in the domain of philosophy and literature. Finally, the spoliation of the United States by all was indisputable. Both the British anq the French deemed our commerce and anything else they could In the end we had to fight the British to protect our sailors from being dragged off our ships upon the high seas | whenever the British chose. In that year the population of the nations is esti- mated to have stood thus: United Kingdom Italy Spain . United Stat Since those days the world has changed. France no longer fights, Britain is not paying for all, and, in fact, has come to us to get a loan to pay her own war bills. Prussia has been swallowed up in Germany and has no longer any international importance. Switzer- land is not being plundered. The United States is not being spoliated. In one land only has there beer: no change. Spain is still “doing nothing.” At the present time the population of the powers is estimated as follows: Russia United States Germany Austria-Hung: Great Britain Such are the national results of the changes of the century. No single nation is-now strong enough to fight all, or pay all, ar threaten all, or even to deem itself all in all, and that fact may be counted among the good things the century has brought. THE END OF ESTERHAZY. HORTLY before the holidays the French Goy- ernment adopted the amnesty bill, which was designed by the Ministry to put an end to the | Dreyfus affair, not by doing justice, but by dismiss- ing the whole thing and letting the good and the evil pass away together. It was a casc of letting the “dead past bury its dead,” and from the standpoint | of political expediency was perhaps the best thing to be done. It happens, however, that justice has a way of | working out its laws through those revenges which Shakespeare says are brought by the “whirligig of | time.” France has extended her amnesty to all con- cerned in the scandal and the crime; the French peo- rle have shown a willingness to forget if not forgive, ay it is the Christmas season, when even the most ufiserable can draw something of consolation from the promises of Him whose birth the holiday cele- brates; and yet in this very time.of good humor, 1f not of happiness, there comes like a cry from the depths of utter despair a wail from that Major Ester- hazy who was one of the bitterest of the enemies ! of Dreyfus. It appears that since his flight to England Ester- | hazy has sunk lower and lower in poverty as well as in disgrace and shame. In his squalid misery he has turned to his wife for help, and is reported to have written to her a letter in the course of which he says: “I have been unable to write to my children re- cently, not having the money to buy a postage stamp. " I am at the last extremity of strength, courage and resources. I have not eaten for two days until this morning in the workhouse. I have no clothes, am shivering With cold, and am compelled to warm my- self by entering churches and museums.” A Such is the tale that comes of the way in which justice is working ou: its revenge despite the offi- cial amnesty of the French Government. The case is another demonstration that after all this is a moral universe, and that in the long run evil does not yield anything but evil. The fate of the officers who were most conspicuous in their efforts to destroy Drey- fus has been terrible. Cuignet died in prison and Henry committed suicide to save himselt from prison, Esterhazy was supposed to have escaped from danger and to have gained at least security from want for the rest of his life. Now comes this story of his wretch- edness and his misery, physical and moral. It is evi- dent the amnesty of Governments is not recognized as valid in the great courts of natural justice. L, —— o The British are right as far as they go in saying the war in South Africa is all over. but they do not g0 far enough. They should say it is all over the country. MINISTE Wily Chinese Diplom ner Successes Boston Communications Drawn Out A EDITOR CALL: Kindly permit me a children. and base competition, to overtaxi questionable good to all concerned. to the children under his charge. Berkeley, December 27, 1900. they are by their education.” up educational novelties. ! Francisco Normal School lald down a our schools. I, sir, had held the old-fashioned notls purpose of teaching youth to submit al N And let the ape and tiger dle, education so much val San Francisco, December 27, 1900. R WU TAKES : YCUE FROM DEPEW Mr. Chauncey Depew, 'Tis sad, but 'tis true, That Minister Wu Is taking your cue, And soon wi'l have two— His own and the one He has taken from you. —Boston Transcript. FOR PEDAGOGICAL RUMINATION. of the Teachers’ Convention. The Call, while invifing communications. 6h‘mbleek- of general interest, does not hold itself responsible for the views of the writers. e B e PRIZES AND MEDALS IN SCHOOLS. als for pupils of schools. People with most excellent intentions offer prizes to Many earnest educators who love the young people see this tendency with deep regret. Prizes beget low and materialistic motives and lead to vying the mental powers. often do not participate in this kind of lower ambition and prize winners do not, generally speaking, I am convinced, render society the best services when they go out into the world, where unselfish devotion to high causes, frequently left unrewarded, should be the gulding star. It people wish to offer assistance to real education let them help poor and honest scholars to pay their way through school; let them provide school libra- ries and Jaboratories with the necessary outfits and thus do a permaftent, un- It is my firm belief that school authorities should not encourage this evil connected with the giving of prizes and medals. The true teacher will always know how to hold out a high and noble motive Yery respectfully, was to be the ruling power in life; that neither intellect nor will, nor will guided by intellect was to control in love, or war, or religlon, or apparently even in minion, absolute if possible, of intellect. The reeling faun, the sensual fes Was the Tennysonian ldea of the aim and end of all education. nted reverses all this, small wonder the Hooligan, Larrikin and the Hoodlum increase and muitiply in our midst. at’s Recent After-Din- in. Embalmed Verse. i fter Consideration of the Work few remarks in regard to prizes and med- The noblest children ALBIN PUTZKER. INTELLECT OR EMOTION, WHICH? EDITOR CALL: As a patriotic Californian of thirty-five years’ standing I také much interest in the rising generation. Now “nine-tenths of men are what At least Locke said so. Thus it happens that I like to frequent conventions where our teachers most do congregate and pick Sometimes I run across one. the English section of the State Teachers’ meeting. Professor Burk of the San 1 did so this morning in an educational axiom that ‘“‘emotion™ ae lon that schools existed mainly for the 1 their passions and emotions to the do- To shun If the new the EDWARD BERWICK, of Monterey. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. A. C. Kilvey of Santa Paula Is at the Grand. David Starr Jordan of Stanford is at the Occidental. Senator John B. Irish of Downieville is | at the Russ. B. F. Shepard Jr. of Fresno, an ofl man, is at the Grand. F. A. Hartman, a Los Angeles mining man, i§ at the California. A. H.'Denny of Etna is at the Grand. Mr. Denny is a merchant. John Sparks, a Reno, Nev., and miner, is at the Palace. Professor M. B. Anderson of Stanford University is at the California. rancher the late arrivals at the Grand. R. B. Brown, a prominent Upper Lake | mining man, is at the Occidental with his wife. C. C. McCray, secretary of the State Commercial Travelers' Assoclation, is at the Russ. 8 Colonel H. B. Maxson of u:h; V&Jnl!ed States Geological Sul Wi eadquar- ters in Nevada, :g-tf':fi:_pu.c.. J. Scott Harrisen, Who is connected with the Government. -al Land Office in ‘Washington, is ré at the Palace. Harry White, f¢ yor of Seattle, is at thd Palace. Mr. White has exten- sive mining interests in Alaska. He will be here a week or ten days. ; B rrit Ford, assistant general pass ugGe:It of the Union Pacific at Omaha, who has been seriously ill at the Southern Pa- citic Hospital, was able to be removed to the Occidental yesterday, and he will probably be well enough to go home next week. —_—e———— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. RANGE CULTURE—Subscriber, Mer- ctg. Ca). For the latest California litera- ture on orange culture communicate with the office of the State Board of Horticul- ture, Sacramento. NEWSPAPER RULE—J.T.,Orland, Cal, Newspapers do not give to any one who may ask the authority for the publication of articles. It is a rule of newspapers not to disclose the source of information. BY PUBLIC AUCTION—M. P., Oak- land, Cal. Goods confiscated for violation customs laws are sold by public 2¥|cg‘:n. Such sales take place at no reg- ular fixed date, only when there is occa- sion for such. MUST PAY POLL TAX—C. L. L., City. The fact that a man is a seafaring man . empt him from ent_of ‘L‘Ifi' a1 the State of California. The only ones exempt from the payment of tax are: _Paupers, idlots, insane :}2::01“. and Indians not taxed. COIMRADO MINING MAN—B., Sacra- mento, Cal. If a person desiges to com- municate with a prominent mining man of Colorado whose address is not known, a letter directed to him ht be sent to the State Mining Bureau, Denver, Colo., with request to forward to the party named. TONNAGE—O. B. 8., City. Gross ton- nage or net tonnage is the carrying ca- pacity of a ship expressed in cubic tons. cement tonnage as.applied to war vme-pel-w“ is the quantity of liquid dll?llfiefl by a solid bo.\ being placed in it. A buoyant material sinks to a level where the pressure 1 is sufficient to counterbalance weight. < \ CITIZENSHIP—Subscriber, Lumpkin, Cal. If an alien comes to the United States and in ;lmo becomes a citizen by naturalization, “his children, 1f minors at the time of the naturali m, become citizens by the act of the father. O who a citizen by the act of his father can take up Government land. He must make affidavit that he is a citizen. 1f required, he may have to add that he 18 % by naturalization of his father. CONTINENTS—E. L., City. The ques- tion, “How many continents are there?” has never been definitely settled. Furope, ‘Asia, Africa, America and Australia have wfld H:- l'xb:o five continents, al as gn l-l:m”v some m'im \ - Dr. Julius Koebig of Gilroy is among |+ A CONTRACT—H. F., Niles, Cal. What | America are classed as one continent. One authority gives as the continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, North erica, South America, Australia, Oceanfo Islands | and the South polar region. Modern us-| age however, recognizes: Eurasia, Afri- ca, North America, South America, with Australia classed as both a continent and | island. The Antarctic continent is the name given to a great body of land sup- posed to occupy the South polar region. POSTOFFICE 'VENUE—Subscriber, Petaluma; Cal. In answer to another cor- respondent there was published in this | department, under date of December 22, 1900, figures showing the revenue and the | expenditure of the Postal Department since 1865. | MT. HERCULES—R. C. S, Palo Alto, | Cal. The announcement appeared in the prominent papers of the day in 1839 that aptain J. A. Lawson discovered Mt. Her- Southeast nd that he based its height feet, upon esiimates. cules in the Stanley Range, New Guinea, a as given, 327% rights you might have against a trans- | portation company that failed to take you | to destination, putting you off at a long | distance from that point, would depen ?n what construction a court would lace on tHe contract you signed. should consult a reputable attorney. FROM GOLDSMITH: kee, Cal. You smith's “Deserted Village,” mean the river Altahama iIn Georgia, Torno Cliffs | on the river Torna, which falls into the | gulf of Bothnia, and Pambamarca, mountain near Quito. WHITEWASH-T. P. G., San Miguel, | Cal. The following is the formula for | making the whitewash that is used on ! United States Government buildings and fences: “Slack one-half bushel of un- slacked lime with boiling water, keeping it covered during the process. Strain it and add a peck of salt dissolved in warm | ‘water; three pounds of und rice put in | boiling water and bollea to a thin paste; | one-half pound of ?owflered Spanish whit- ing and a pound of clear glue dissolved in warm water; mix these well together and | let the mixture stand for several days. | Keep the wash thus prepared in a kettle or portable furnace, and when used put| it on as hot as possible with painters’ or whitewash brushes.” THE MORMON TEMPLE—Subscriber, City. The question in relation to non- Mormons having been admitted to the Mormon temple was submitted to Presi dent Lorenzo Snow, of the Church of Je- | sus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt | Lake, and the following is the answer: a It is not true that no non-Mormon or Centile | has ever been permitted to enter the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City. The, president of the church has been urged repeatbdly to grant special favors, but this he could not consist- ently do without hurting the feelings of ladies | and gentlemen whom he would otherwise have | been pleased to show courtesy to. Immediately prior to the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple the non-Mormons of the city, generally to- gether with strangers who happened to be in the city at that time, availed themselves of an invitation to view the interior of the bulld- ing. Since then Its doors have been closed to all excepting church members in good standing. | CORRADYE—W. F. B., Oakland, Cal The word corradye in the charges that were formulated against John Smart, ab- bot of the monastery of Wigmore, which stood at a point eight miles from Ludlow in the county of Herfordshire, England, and which is found in the “Item. that one Richard Gyles bought of the abbot and convent of Wigmore a corradye and a | chamber for him and his wife for the e guage on 01 visibns or allowances for intenanee, mainte) ailment, pension. Ori; y it was ap- fed to “the right of free quarters due -om the vassal to the lord on his eircult but later it was applied specially to -2 ! tain contributions paid lnnuany’;yy rem jous houses. Sometimes the contribution might be commuted, and then it would practically be und an annuity or pension.” Notes says the word has tury dealt with now chiefly a historleal term, thou; viving as the name of some local ¢ A GAY SEASON is promised at Hotel del Coronado, Cal.." this winter with a tournament, h sur- ty. | agement of Mr. Frea Harvey. EDITORIAL UTTERANCE The Best Goods. Our locomotive makers are getting con- tracts from India in the face of brisk British opposition. It's the old story—the Dbest goods for the lowest prices and with the quickest delivery. In other words, it's hustli _&romu versus plodding con- servatism.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Question of Representation. The objections to iicreasing the size of the House of Representatives are many and they should have full consideration But these objections are neither so nu- merous nor so important as t an equable distribution of repre and pelitical power among the PHILADELPHIA PRESS. Inducement to Democrats. The reduction of the representation of the States which suppress the colored v is desirable, therefore, as a matter of stract right to all parties and it is desir- able as a means of deiivering the Demo= cratic party from a condition which pre- vents its growth amd perverts its princi- ples. Compelled to appeal to the whols country, and more particularly to the pop- ulous States of the North, for success, Democrats would have every inducement to be Democrats and no inducement what- ever to be anything else.—CHICAGO CHRONICLE. A Needless Amendment. Several thousand attempts have been made to amend the Constitution. If ail these annexes had been tacked on to the organic law it would by this time touch everything in the heavens above, on the ea beneath and in the waters under the earth. Happlly, our national legis- lators, on the whole, have, in their de: ings with the fundamental law, intell gently discriminated between the tran- sient and the permanent. The project for n anti-polygamy amendment, being need- less an '{Jporfl’:xoul. will have a very career.—ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMO- sh CRAT. The Metric S; The United States was the first nation to adopt the characteristic feature of the metric system, namely, the decimal divi- sions, in its monetary system. But in the failure to take up the decimal measure- ments of weight and space, and clinging to the arbitrary and complicated stand- ards of quarts, pecks, gallons and yards, we have lagged far behind the rest of the world. There is no doubt that the extra time spent in calculating by the old sys- tem compared with the easy decimal calculations of the metric system. amounts to a serious total in the labors of this nation.—PITTSBURG DISPATCH. Always Do Their Duty. It is impossible for any body of men to measure up more entirely to the de- mands of their duty than e American army and navy officers do. Whether sweltering in the torrid climates of San- tiago or Manlla; whether charging forti- fled blockbouses, when all assailants ought to have been killed, or engasing ironclad ships armed with ns that should have sent murder and destruction out at every discharge, the American army and navy officer ‘vas ready with his | life to testify to his sense of duty, and his country’s escutcheon would have es- caped all tarnish while defended by him although the peril to him had been a thousandfold greater than it was.—RICH- MOND TIM Principles of Democracy. What the ex-President says about the fundamental prineiples of Democracy, as expounded by Jefferson and the fath may be accepted. But the Democrat arty has no_monopoly of pure democrat- Mr. Cleveiand and his asso- clates sh an apparent desire to appro- priate the Prlnclp es of Lincoin. They are good principles, too. But the trouble w the Democratic party now, as at almo any time during the last half of the cen- tury, has been that it persistently grafts upon the pure Democratic stock a lot of business-disturbing issues in the attemp: to rally the discontented in all walks of life to the tattered flag of Jackson. Thers is cause for Mr. Cleveland's eriticism, but the present pitiful condition of the Den ocratic party is a repetition of oth s(afi‘es in its history.— PITTSBURG D PATCH. Quest for the Pole. ‘The pole is the intangible goal of glory seekers. The aim to reach it may charged directly with the loss of fo hundred explorers’ lives and not less than two hundred stout and splendid ships It is a region made romantic by its peril and shrouded with t impenetrable veil of tragic mystery. Men have come from the search crazed or crippled, but eager to begin anew. Such is the fascination of the adventure— Like an icy fleece the snowfleld spreads And the ey founts run free— And the bergs begia to bow their heads And to plunge and safl in the sea So runs the song in commemoration of Lady Franklin's sorrow. It is a deadiy undertaking and the hearts that face are stout. There is a long record of pe and disaster to recall. It will not det the adventurers. Pes s c doctrige. DS the new tury will reveal to us the mystery that lies beyond the cieerless fleids of fce that surround the poie.—CHICAGO JOURNAL. ———— Plenty of fruit at Townsend's. . —_————————— All new stock of candies at Townsend's.* —— New fire-etched boxes at Townsend's.® —_—————— Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel.* — e Townsend's California glace fruits. e und, in fire-etched boXes or Jap. bas- g:u A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market street, Palace Hotel building.* Spectal information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Alien's ont- gomery st Telephone Main 1043, . The Philippine Isiands are already cov- ered with a fairly complete telegraph o system. Under Spanish rule this prol ably would not have happened in a thou- sand years. The California Limited | On the Santa Fe starts for Chicazo Tussdar morning. January lst, at nine o'clock, will leave daily thereafter at same hour. ant will be a duplicate of the Limited of last sea- son. except that entirely new equipment has been provided. The Pullman Sleepers each contain ten sections and two drawing rooms. The Observation Car, with its wide plate giass | windows, affords unobstructed views of tha surrounding country. All meals en route ars served in new Dining Cars, under the man- This sumptuous train runs from San Franciseo to Chicago in 7 hours. Get a handsome Folder, describing | & tully, at Santa Fe Office, 641 Market stree:. —_————— It is sald that the Suitan of Turkey has many tastes in common with men in gen- eral. He likes all sports and is a gool shot. He collects old and odd_weapons, is fond of dogs and is a splendid horse- man. —_—— RHEUMATISM As experience stands, the most promising way to treat an old settled rheumatism is: to set up the general health. Whatever makes health, in other respects, is good for rheumatism, ~ We don'’t say it will cure it. Sometimes it does; sometimes it don’t. Your chance is better with Scott’s emulsion of cod-liver iie | oil than with anything else now known. Byand by there will be a sure ‘cure; it will make a big noise in the world when it comes ‘We'll send you a littde to try if you like. SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearlstreet, New Vork /