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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FR1DAY, JUNE 7, 1901. 6 Ciec, : G‘hc 1%‘%‘ qw‘ THE Charleston (S. C.) News ERIDAY. L2002 e oS el JUNE 7, 1901 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Commusications to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE...... .‘I'elepho-eA Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE. ..Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. 5 Cents. Terms DAILY CALL (including Suncay), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), € month: DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month WEEKLY CALL, One Year.... : All. postmasters are authorized to receive subseriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mafl subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure a prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. ..1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Manager Foreign Advertising, te Building, Chicage. Marquet! (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.”) YORK CORRESPONDENT: Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH........30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: ‘Waldort-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; PFremont House: Auditorfum Hotel. WWASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...1406 G St, N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—S2 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open untl] $:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'cleck. 633 McAllister, open until $:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 9:3 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 109 Valencla, open untll 3 o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § ¢’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. 2200 Fillmore. open until § p. m. —_—— AMUSEMENTS. Grand Opers-house—*La Tosca.” California—*A Colonial Girl."™ Central—"0Old Glory.” Tivoli—“The Toy Maker.” “Gudgeons. Alcazar—*For Bonnie Prince Charlie.” Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Spec Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every a evening. Fischer's—Vaudeville. Recreation Park—Baseball Sutro Baths—Swimming. Pienic—At Shell Mound Park to-morrow. Emeryville Racetrack—Races to-day. ® AUCTION SALES. By Wm. G. Layng—This orses, at 721 Howard street. By Fred H. Chase & Co.—This day, Horses, at 1732 Market street. day, at 11 o'clock, Trotting 0 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Call subscribers contemplating s change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their new ®ddresses by motifying The Call ness Office. This puper will also be on sale at all summer ®esorts and is represented by a local agent im @il tewss en the coast. T scrap between Major Watterson and Colonel Bryan. The Major declares for 2 new platform and a new leader for the Democracy—"some Tilden to come to the front in some one of the determinative States, commanding, as Tilden did, the means to set 2 national ticket in the field and able to divide, if not to command, the independent vote.” This is supposed to refer to Tom Johnson, who re- sembles Tilden only in being a millionaire. But Colonel Bry s in this the rankest of reorgani- zation, and, taking his pen in hand, remarks in his weekly paper: a man is ready to retire from poli- tics he may safely join the reorganizers; but the men who are candidates, or expect to be, should re- member, fir that political success rests upon the voters, and, czcond, they cannot allow their loyalty to Democratic principles to be questioned. It is necessary for every Democrat who aspires to leader- ship to let it be known that he has no sympathy with this attempt to republicanize the Democratic party.” Whereupon Major Watterson lays down his hand and rejoins: “There you have it flat. This would bar 2ll revision, even 2ll discussion. But Mr. Bryan must be obeyed. Must a great party, three years in advance of its next mational convention, suspend all effort to s'lrengthm its lines, deny itself any and every opportunity to take advantage of such circum- stances as may come to it, and submit itself unre- servedly and absolutely to the word as it issues from Mr. Bryan’s tongue or pen?” The Major then lapses into history, abuses Cleve- land, and fears that the extremism of Colonel Bryan “will prove our undoing if ‘ever we are undone; forcing into existence artificial classes; arraying these one against the other; the bigotry of ignorance, the intolerance of hate, their presiding dieties; all wisdom and patriotism drowned out by the brute force of numbers on one side, the roar of cannon on the other. Mr. Bryan seems to me the archangel of extremism of the present time as Mr. Yancey was forty years ago. If his dominancy is to continue he will lead the Democratic party, and maybe the coun- try, where Mr. Yancey led them.”, This vision of blood rises red on the sight of the Kentucky Major, but does not move the Nebraska Colonel out of his tracks. The two gentlemen ate of less importance than the energy of their wordy quar- rel indicates they think they are. To the rest of the busy country it is merely a row in the morgue between two fellows who are suspected of knowing how the corpse came to be a corpse, and each is abusing the other. But of what interest is it? The country is glad the corpse is on #he slab, and doesn’t care which onc made it a corpse. ——— BRYAN AND WATTERSON. HE political peace has been broken by 4 lively n sce; It is now stated that the chief objection of the British Government to the Hay-Pauncefote treaty as amended by the Senate is that while it authorizes the United States to fortify the canal it requires Great Britain to guarantee its neutrality; and if the lan- guage be subject to any such construction by dip- Jomatists it would seem that Salisbury has certainly 2 right to kick. Local citizens who have served as trial jurors in criminal cases are again clamoring for their pay from the municipality. They should join forces with the wnpaid merchants and contribute what they did not receive to our rapidly increasing fund of patriotist, PRESERVING THE FORESTS.- and Courier, noting approvingly The Call's warning against the coming timber famine, repeats it for the benefit of the Southern States, where the forests of pine, oak, hickory and walnut are rapidly dis- appearing. North Carolina had, probably, the greatest variety of valuable forest trees found in the South. The News and Courier has information from Raleigh, in that State, of legislaticn intended to preserve the for- ests. It says that great quantities of pine, as well as spruce, walnut, chestnut, hickory, maple and other forest, have been bought up of late years, sometimes thousands of acres in a lot, and the timber, upward of one hundred million feet annually, has been shipped in logs to mills outsidg the State. To stop this a law was passed by the last Legislature provid- ing that no corporation shall be allowed to hold or lease more than 300 acres of timber land unless it maintains a mill within the State at which the lum- ber it cuts shall be manufactured, and no corporation, unless created under the laws of North Carolina and having its principal place of business in the State, shall hold more'than 300 acres of timber land. Vio- lation of the law works escheat of -the timber land to the State. This law is a mild protective measure that will for a time arrest the wholesale slaughter of the forests. But it is by no means all that is required. Each State under its police powers probably has the right to regulate the harvesting of timber. States regulate various industrial operations. They direct how coal measures shall be timbered and mined, and how manufactures shall be carried on. The mines, manu- factures and industries so regulated belong to their owners and operators, who are only using their own. But the law permits the use of one’s own only in such way as does not injure another. It is difficult to conceive of greater injury to others than is wrought by the extermination of forests. Wherever it is done the climate is unfavorably af- fected, the fertility of the soil is injured, and all the future suffers damage. This being so, it is hardly a doubtful legal experiment for a State to regulate the cutting of timber con lands in private ownership. 50 as not to interrupt the oncoming growth of forest. If North Carolina can limit ghe area of forest that a corporation may acquire, she may also regulate the amount of timber that may be cut on such tract and the method by which it is to be taken. Instead of permitting trees to be cut down to eight or six inches in diameter, such trees may be protected and leit standing until they have reached a larger diame- ter, and. when they are cut the operation must not | destroy the growing crop. The State of California regulates the age at which calves may be slaughtered for veal, and punishes se- verely the taking of food fishes below a certain size. The dealer caught in possession of immature veal or undersized fish suffers confiscation of the prop- erty, is fined and may be imprisoned. But, consid- ered as a crop, veal and fish are quick growing and the crop is rapidly renewed, so that the loss by im- proper utilization of either is soon repaired. But it is not so with a forest. Under the condi- tions in California, so favorable to coniferous trees, thirty years are required to produce a merchantable tree. . Then why not protect the young timber as well as the young fish and immature veal? We have a closed season for certain fish and game. The deer that range in the forest are protected by law. The bucks may be shot only at certain seasons, and does and fawns must not be killed at all. But when the large interests of mankind are considered what is the extermination of deer compared with the de- struction of the forests in which they find cover? Not only must the States take up this subject on lines far more extreme than the excellent beginning made in North Carolina, but the Federal Government must speedily enter upon the proper foresting of its timber reservations, or they will be destroyed by fire. The duff and dead wood are rapidly accumulating in those reservations, and their destruction is certain unless they are carefully forested. The Government has a bureau of animal industry and distributes lymph to cure swine plague and black leg. But the forests cannot be renewed as rapidly as hogs and cattle. Why not employ a proper force of trained foresters, graduates of the Pinchot School at Yale and of the New York Forestry School at Cornell, to take charge of all these reservations and superintend the clearing of their floor, to prevent the spread of fire? Such work will be 2 great object lesson to the States and to the owners of private forests, and it should be entered upon at once, or the reservations, made to preserve the forests, will become the most potent agency of their destruction. The counties of California are going to show visit- ing Epworth Leaguers with what bounty nature has endowed the State. In a splendid show of natural resources we must be on our best behavior to illus- trate how well we have accepted our advantages for something nature cannot give. e — A WORD TO PESSIMISTS. ISHOP DERRICK of the African Methodist B Episcopal Church has just proven himself at a-conference ir Brooklyn to about as wise a man as there is in this generation. It appears the conference appointed a committee to report on the condition of the country, and that the committee in reviewing the field found many things in the Southern States that are prejudicial to the welfare of the col- ored man. It was the intention of the committee to report the evils and to condemn them, but Bishop Derrick counseled otherwise. He said to them: “A blank piece of paper is a good deal better than a lot of inflammatory rubbish. Just report: . “‘We have examined into the condition of the country, and we find that the United States is at peace with all the world’ That will do first rate.” Of course no one has a right to condemn the com- ' mittee that desired to “roast” the Tillmans and Mor- gans and other blind leaders of the South who are seeking by one means or another to deprive the negro of his just rights. At this juncture, however, when a number of persons are trying to render the negro discontented and dissatisfied with the United States and are promoting all sorts of schemes for an exodus to Africa, it is just as well to act upon the advice of Bishop Derrick-—keep cool and remember that blank paper is better than an inflammatory ap- peal to passion. The negroes are not the only people to whom the wisdom of Bishop Derrick’s philosophy may be com- mended. The whole host of those who are forever looking at the evils of the time and the couriry might well profit by reflecting on it. Why, indeed, should not even Bryan, Altgeld and the rest of their type take notice that the United States is at peace with all the world, and let it go at that? Then there is a mass of reformers of various kinds that might also do well to accept the Bishop’s counsel the next time they are called upon to make a report, and, finally, there is the whole multitude of pessimists. In short, the people at this particular juncture do not care to hear the complaints or the ragings of any class of persons who believe that things are going wrong, and accordingly almost all committees ap- pointed to report on the condition of the. country can hardly do better than to repért: “We find the United. States is at peace with all the world.” The cduntry is all right, and most folks are satisfied. P e 1 Again the English Derby has been won by an American, the triumphant horse being piloted by an American jockey. It might net be unwise for our English friends to take a few days off and tell us really what they can do successfully in the field of sports. o T ——— CHINA AND HER QUESTIONS. HARLES DENBY, who for many years was ‘ United States Minister to China, has contrib- uted to the Philadelphia Record an elaborate review of the salient characteristics of the Chinese and their government, and in so doing has once more pointed out that the Chinese are by no means so bar- barous as a good many Americans and Europeans imagine. In fact, it appears their government and their entire social polity are for them much better than anything a European power could substitute. Of their government Mr. Denby says that while it is “in frame and shape autocratic, it is the most democratic in the world. It governs less, perhaps, than any other government. Its taxation is small, and its interference with the people nominal. * * * There are no political parties, and politics are not dis- cussed in the tea shops. The city furnishes all the ireedom of the rural districts, while in the village the head man is the only authority. There the villagers on suitable occasions cuf the magistrate, drag him from his seat and pull off his official boots—the acme of insult. When he appeals to the Government it says to him that if he cannot get along with the people he had better retire, which he does.” To that free and easy system of government China adds a high respect for education, giving it the fore- most place in the state. Of the mutual helpfulness | of the Chinese Mr. Denby says: “China is full of all kinds of clubs and associations. * * * There are buria] clubs, temperance societies, mutual insur- ance clubs, societies to aid the needy of all ages and sexes. There are guilds for every branch of business. The Emperor clothes all the beggars in Peking once a year, and issues rations to them all through the winter months. Rich men give largely to charity. Schools for boys and girls exist all over China. In Canton alone there are thirty colleges.” That among these various organizations there exist some whose members are hostile to foreigners is not to be denied. Intolerance of alien ideas and prejudice against persons of other lands are feelings that can be found among all races. Moreover, the excellence of the institutions of China is marred to a great de- gree by the corruption of the higheryofficials, and it is not denied there is urgent need of reform. Con- ceding the truth, therefore, of many of the charges made against China, Mr. Denby denies that she has forfeited the right to seli-government, and goes on to ask: “How is it that without protest, let or hin- drance she has become the prey of European powers? By what right was opium forced upon her defenseless people? Why are her provinces parceled out as ‘spheres of influence’ for any power which chooses to arrogate to itself dominion over them? Why to-day is the ominous shadow of partition resting on her | broad domains?” | There is nothing essentially new in the statements of the ex-Minister, but none the less it is well to iha\'e the old truths restated at this time by men who, like Mr. Denby, speak with the authority of per- sonal experience and high character. The peace of China has been disturbed not so much by the Box- ers as by the European aggressions that provoked the Boxers, and the sooner that fact is understood the sooner we are likely to have once more the peace- ful China of the past. l In a local suit now on trial an engineer is credited with an ability to see through the ground. It is safe to wager, however, that he is no better qualified than the rest of us to see through a stone wall. A BRITISH ACADEMY OF LETTERS. EPORTS from London are to the effect that R the Royal Society, a scientific body, has under consideration a project for the establishment of a British Academy of Letters. It is believed the King would cordiaily second the undertaking, and that without any great difficulty it could be carried to success. The chief motive of the promoters is said to be to establish an authoritative body to fix the standard of the English language, and decide upon all questions of grammar, spelling and correct usage of words and phrases. In all our multitude of grammars and dic- tionaries there are hardly any two that agree, and consequently many points of spelling and of gram- matical construction in the English tongue are largely matters of dispute. The Royal Society, having a de- sire for scientific accuracy in language, hopes to at- tain it by establishing an academy with authority to decide on every point on which scholars, grammarians and dictionary-makers disagree. In opposition to the movement it is argued that one of the advantages the English language has over other great languages of the world is its freedom from aca- demic control. By reason of that freedom our tongue has a flexibility and a capacity to adopt new words that is possessed by no other language; and, moreover, since neither in Great Britain nor in this country have we ever had an academy to make a dic- tionary, individual enterprise from the days of Dr. Samuel Johnson down to our time has furnished each generation with much better dictionaries than are possessed by any other-people. . 3 A British Academy of Letters could hardly accom- plish as much for our language as has been done for that of France by the Academie Francaise, for its de- cisions would hardly receive the deference shown to the French igstitution. The establishment of such an institution, however, would serve to give personal dis- tinction and titles to some forty or fifty men of emi- nence in the world of letters, and perhaps that alone may be a sufficient inducement to the promoters to go.ahead with the enterprise. Some time ago there was a-good deal of discussion in the East concerning the advisability of establishing an' American acad- emy, and if the British establish one there will almost certainly be a revival of the movement here. ~The subject is therefore cne that is likely to become of general interest, for should such an academy be under- ‘taken' there would be a lively discussion over the 1 selection of the men to compose it vant, M. Bickes PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS. PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR | e pecrae THE SAN FrANCISCO CALL. Strange Sounds and Scenes Which Enliv- ened the Streets of American Cities of a Century Ago. By Alice Morse Earle. AUTHOR OF “STAGE COACH AND TAVERN DAYS,” “OLD-TIME DRINKS AND DRINKERS,” ETC. (COPYRIGHT, 1%01.) XVI.—STREET SCENES. The stroller along the city streets saw little in 1801 to indicate what any Amer- ican city of to-day would be or, indeed, to show what any of our smaller towns would be. For every village to-day has brick houses, and nearly all have one or two three-story brick blocks. Boston in 1801 was a city of wooden houses ‘‘seldom. enlivened with paint.” There was but one brick house in Tremont street. Mrs. Quin- cy wrote: “The ranges of wooden build- ings, all situated with one end toward the street, and the numerous chaises drawn by one horse, the driver placed on a low seat in front, appeared to me very singular.” Beacon street in 1802 had but four houses. In 1804 the father of Wen- dell Phillips built a brick house there. There were then in -the town fourteen churches. The rent of houses was high. There were no brick sidewalks in Boston except in Washington street, near the Old South Church. The streets were, as the saying was, “pitched with pebbles,” and Mrs. Quincy said every one walked in the middle of the street because there the pavements were the smoothest. Horsemen who galloped in the streets were fined. There were few street lamps; there was no gas till 1834. ~ New York was but a small place. The majority of the inhabitants lived below Cortlandt street and Malden lane. So doubtful did it seem that there ever would be many residents above Chambers street that when the City Hall was built in the first years of the century it was decided that the bac. wall should be of common red stone instead of granite, for “who would see 1t?’ The City Hotel was an important edifice, where now stands the Boreal building. It was the first build- ing in the city to be covered with slate (in 1800) instead of old Dutch tile. There were public gardens; the Indian Queen and Tyler's, and away uptown was Kip's Farm. The Battery was set out pro- fusely with’Lombardy poplars. Noises in the Streets. The streets were noisy, but it was with human sounds, the cries of various arti- sans and vendors; there were none of the clanging metallic sounds of our modern machines of travel and transportation, our whistles, bells and gongs, the puffing rat- tle and banging of our trolley cars, our cable cars, our elevated ro and en- gines, our bicycles and automobiles. There Were sounds of birds and beasts, for hogs ranged the sheets unchecked, as public scavengers, and well-to-do citizens kept pigeons and pouitry in their town yards; and at morn and night lowing cattle went frem their homes in town stables to out- Iving pastures, and thence returned. The ‘‘charcoal man” was a regular city street vendor, who is not yet extinct, with his long, narrow black wagon, his sinister countenance and a mournful cry. In Phil- adelphia a popular member of this calling was ‘Jimmy Charcoal,” who _went through the city blowing a horn and sing- M8 - harcoal by the bushel,, Charcoal by the peck, Charcoal by the fryingpan, Or any way you leck. His loud horn became a nuisance and was prohibited and he triumphantly sub- stituted a great bell. “Sweep-ohs” were frequent; a few still linger; an old sweep still passes my Brooklyn house, singing loudly every week during the spring, but the boy sweeps have vanished. Soft-soap men passed with wheelbarrows and bar- housekeepers rels of soft soap, and cit: make soft who could not conveniently soap were glad to buy from them. They still are seen in New England towns, where theg' sm‘ll buy mnga latl ;;om hm keepers; but the accompanyl com - ity, “hickory ashes,” has vanished with wood fires. In:the Days of the Woodpile. So also have the great loads of ‘‘cord- wood” which were delivered in logg logs in front of houses, and were sawed up on the edge of the sidewalk, even in crowded city streets. The wood-sawyer sawed the logs and sticks into shoft billets, which, when grown to an armful, were thrown down a cellarway with the cry, “Way, piler,” to a comrade in the cellar who was making the woodpile. A brawny fel- low walking past would have a huge ax over his shoulder and two jingling iron wedges hanging from it; his cry was “Spli-i-t wood!” He split the billets into kindling wood, a work the sawyer never shared nor interfered with. Though coal was known of in the eight- eenith century, it attracted little attention till 1820. Several wnion-londs had been brought to Philadelphia and exploited, but the public benefactor was denounced as a swindler. Coal wagons were scarce- ly a common sight even in city streets until 1840. Brick-dust vendors passed with sand- ‘men who sung ‘‘Sand your kitchens; sand your floors.” No one to-day buys floor sand, but every one wanted it in 1801, ‘when there were more sanded floors than carpeted ones. Milkmen carried milk- palls or neckyokes to supply customers; and bakers’ boys delivered cakes and bread from trays and baskets carried on their heads. When the Town Crier Went About. The town crier with his bell added his voice and. clang to the other confused sounds. He walked slowly, with occa- sional stops, crying out lost and found articles, notices of articles for sale, of town meetings—in fact, such local events of temporary interest as would now be advertised |in a newspaper. Sometimes he cried em at the lecture or town meeting. If a stray domestic mal was found, a cow or a horse, the finder was required in early days to put about its ,neck as a sign ‘“a wyth or wreath.” Thus bedecked with green branches, the cow was turned over to the pound-keeper while it was cried. ‘The crier had a vast amount of busi- ness in announcing lottery drawings, and auctions or vendues, which were such a feature of modes of trade at the begin- ning of the century. Some tradesmen had rivate criers. Here is a notice from a oston newspaper: As the method, lately practiced by the Sub- ecriber, in having a Person at hia Door, o invite Gentlemen ' and others to his Public Bales, has given dissatisfaction to some (Gen- tleman Shopkeepers in Particular), to avoid glving Offense for the future he shall desist from that e, and pursue one (as fol- lows) which he flatters himself cannot iving universal Satisfaction, es he £ “Withes 80 to do. The Pubifo are most nestly requested to remember (for_thelr own advantage) that, for the future, Notice will be given, by sounding a Bell,. which he has ear- iven both cally and ‘late, to ‘early an s fl;:not all such who are ‘ghued to confer on thelr Much Obliged and Very Humble Ser- T, The humble and offense-avoiding Bicker certainly belied name. Ways of the Night Watchmen, ° into his box for a few minutes’ shelter and would sometimes snatch a forbidden nap. oe to him if some prow! rogue or roystering blades discovered him; for they would fasten the door on the outside and call “Watch! Watch!” in tones of distress; sometimes they upset the watch box with the watchman in it; for it was not heavy, and was not attached to side- walk or fence. The streets were lighted by heavy oil lanterns, which hung over the middle of the roadway on ropes or wires stretched across from wall to wall or between posts. These lanterns were at- tached to a pulley which enabled the watchman to draw them to the which he would ascend by means of his ladder, and thus refill the lanterns with ‘whale oil. Funerals of Former Days. “Hark, from the tombs a doleful sound,” was indeed a true view of funerals in 1801. Articles in the house of death, such as mirrors, vases, pictures, etc., were shrouded in black or white cloth. The Wwindows of the house were closed, in some cases for several months. In Philadel- ghla the shutters were tied together with lack bands. Mourning was donned even for distant relatives and worn long. Every one went to everybody else’s funeral. Black scarfs and gloves were given to friends and relatives and bells were tolled. The dead were usually carried to the grave by bearers and had to be borne slowly through the main streets and past the Wn all and the streets were blocked with a rabble of curious citizens, old and young, that followed the mourn- ers. Men were appointed by the Selec men to keep free passages in_ the streets. Funerals were forbidden to be held on Sunday, for such vast crowds followed the coffin that they became disorderly. Sar- gent, in his ** a.llngs with the Dead,” writes at length on this subject. York a “funeral inviter” went from house to house of friends giving the hour of the funeral and invitations to it. Gentlemen walked from the house of mourning to the grave; women seldom attended funerals and never were present at the interment. Everywhere liquors were given to all who attended the funeral, whether the dead person were a man of wealth or a pauper. Imprisonment for Debt. Imprisonment for debt was a common practice everywhere. As men could not, of ccurse, earn money while in prison to pay their debts, their releases seemed well-nigh impossible. They had miserable cells and wretched food, and their lives were most pitiable; they ed from every one who visited the jail and even called out to passers by from the doors and windows of their cells. They also ap- pealed through the public press. Such notices as this from the New York Gazette ‘were common: To all charitable Gentlemen We poor, and Ladies: unfortunate Prisoners in the City Hall of New York, humbly beg Leave to mc- quaint you, that we, besides our Misfortunes of Confinement, are under t Necessity for want of Firing, not having at this Time, one Stick to burn, nor_have had for several days. and the greatest Part of us Intire Strangers in the Country, so that we are Quite desti- tute of Friends, as well as all the Necessaries of Life, and unless we are reliev'd by some Charitably Disbos’d Persons, we must unavold- ably perish In this Place. Such Persons as will relieve us of this our great Necessity of Firing, etc., we shall, as in Duty bound, hope that our Misfortunes may be Doubled in Blessings on you and yours. I am for Self and rest of my Fellow-Prisoners, Gentlemen and Ladles, your most obedlent, humble ser- vant, EDWARD DAILY. It is pleasant to know that this appeal ;nc::ewlth rendg-r:‘sipome andl kindness. In 'WSpaper t a week later appears the Tollowing: i To all our Kind Benefactors: We poor unfor- tunate Prisoners. of the City Hall of New York now humbly beg Leave to return to you our most grateful Thanks, for your Benevo- lence which we have received to our great Comfort M this our Necessity. Recelved we have, Firing, Meat and Pence; May others follow your Benevolence, When we in Prison were, you came to see What was our Want, and sad Extremity, We cold and_hungry, sick and naked were, But you us Comfort gave while we were there; Take your reward, which is Eternal Bliss, For you reliev'd us when in great Distress. For this our Thanks to you we freely owe. Pray God may on you double blessings flow. He that unto the Popr doth freely give His double-fold shall of the Lord 1 hope rity may never fail ye: I am, your Humble Servant, Edward Datly. Caring for the Poor. Provisions for the care of the poor have varied comparatively little. Pauper chil- dren were usually “bound out” in pri- vate families; after an interval of time, in the midcentury, during which such bound service fell into disrepute, it is again our custom to-day, and is the best treatment we now know for infant pau- pers. There were workhouses for u- pers, and adult, active paupers could be s0ld for a term of service, the purchaser aying a sum to the town or State. In rm and aged paupers were ‘“vendued” for the smallest sum for which any would agree to give them their ‘“keep”; this sum _was paid by the town to ?hs keeper. pers—men and women-still are sold in this way in this country. ’ Piracy on the Seas. On the ocean groperty ‘Was most inse- cure, for the high seas were still infested ‘with pirates. lerchant ships sailed heav- ily armed and the crews were trained to fight like men-of-war’s men. In 1789 a friend of the Emprcss Josephine, sailing from France to the island of Martinique, was captured by pirates and sold to the Sultan of Turkey, and became the mother of the next Sultan. Theodosia Burr Als- ton, the daughter of Aaron Burr, was doubtless a_later victim of the Barbary pirates. Hundreds of Americans were captured before the bands of the Medi- :fimeé\n';:dbc;nbgecntuu h:eru exter- s rave Decatur having aided vastly in this great work. A memorable trial was that of the sev- en Cuban pirates of the ship Panda who robbed the ship Mexican of Salem and fired her after fastening all the crew be- low. Luckily one skylight of the cabin proved movable and one of the crew crawled out and reieased the others, who put out the fire, but kept up a it smoke till the Panda was out of sight. The trial was carried on in the Masonic Temple in Boston, as the court house was red historic name, De Soto, who doned by the President for a humane ac- tion rendered early in his 'e to a wrecked American vessel. He was saiq to have been the handsomest man ever seen, perfect inface and figure, with Sup- erb eyes and eyelashes over an inch I and the sweetest, gentlest, most lovabje human count expression ever seen on a e ance. ———— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. . BUILDED—Constant Reader, City. Tt is proper to use the word ‘“builded™ in :mkgg of houses or ships that have GRANT IN SAN FRANCISCO-T. W., . times the town crier served as a | Grant arri San T it 2o ey Pl ote Sl | S8 TG, B 0000 chme . o r F called {he Tours of the night and the | o > o Lour 2round the'world, oty umsuar lism o UBIC sews | saci . Off NERSHIP-. D. M., West jon ews . = Al A S e et Scant and defective; honest folk and Sorsen mustm" then the party who wants timid folk made little us of the fll-llf‘hud commence a suit in partition, public streets by night. "In Philadelphia, | gy ARTICLE—H. until the middle of the century, were 8. G, City. In watchmen, usually men, with cape | Speaking, writing or printing the choice coats, lanterns and rattles—very quaint | between “an” and “a,” w aife and primitive figures. Each one had a |ent forms of the same word, is oot shelter box; one is here shown. They |by sound. ore & vowel sound ‘an’" were four or five feet in dlameter, con- |used, as, for “an" old w8 tained a bench for the watchman to it | not “a old woman.' and Betad, Noman. on, a few hooks for clothing and a shelf | nant sound the ~a” 15 useq gs® £ :gfyhu‘loucnigdwrgghtorMan- %meq"am,".m--.a ‘ i Sometimes on cold nights “Charley” crept -:u!u“_. mgA gt GOSSiP FROM LONDON'S WORLD OF LETTERS given to Sir Alfred Milner will cause delay in the publication of the book written about him by E. B. Iwan Muller. The volume was to have been called “Sir Alfred Milner and His Work."” but the honor conferred on him by the King will entail typographical alterations on nearly every page. Iwan Muller was a friend of Milner before they went to Oxford. Curlously enough, the names stand next to each other in the alpha- betical order in the first class of the clas- sical “greats” for December, 1876. The book will open with an account of Lord Milner’s early career, up to his appoint- ment as High Commissioner for South Africa, and will contain a review of South African history. Cavaliere Sindici’s visit to London, quite apart from his lecture before the Dante Soclety, has some public interest. Re: of the human documents writ- ten in revolt by his daughter under the pen name of “ ndra Vibaria” may- be_interested to know that he was her delighted guest, now that she is settled in London as Mrs. Heinemann. Very different was the fate foreshad- owed for her in the circular which her publisher, who is now her husband, issued when “Via Lucls” was published. Her destination was therein described as the convent cell, which no echo of the world's praise or blame was to reach either to O esars. Fiaher-Unwin have in prepara- essTs. er- tion a large book. of reminiscences by Harry Furniss, forming graphy. There will be two volumes of more than 300 pictures, many made s clally for the occasion. The auther tells of his early days, his arrival in Lendon and his floflmm until bis appointment S o of Punch. He also describes 'arllamentary career, his tours in and America, the latter of which fhcluded experiences of a Presi- election. dent; An anonymous autoblography is not often met with in_literature. Such a_volume, however, is about to be published by Messrs. Chatto & Windus. It is the life story of a well-known man of letters. gho title is “The Lover’'s Prog- Aust ress, Himself.” He dedicates it to_all who love. There is a good deal said about the war of 1870, besides many storles of Napoleon III,. the present Em- peror of Austria, Bismarck, Count An- drassy, Johann Strauss, Offenbach, Howe, the medium, and Dumas fils. There ars numerous anecdotes relating to Bohemian life in London twenty years ago. It is not perhaps very generally known that Miss Edith Fowler wrote books be- fore her sister, Ellen Tho: Fow- ler, had made her name with “‘Isabel Car- naby.” Miss- Edith Fowler had already written “The Professor's Children” and “The Young Pretenders.” The sisters, says Mainly About People, criticize each other’s work very freely and, unlike many sisters, take the advice of one another. The younger of the two recently pub- lished another book, the scene of wl is laid in Devonshire, and a serial stor of hers which will shortly appear in bool form, entitled “The World and Winslow," is now running through one of the mag- azines. The two Misses Fowler are absolutely unspoiled by their very considerable suc- cess in the world of literature. Their father, Sir Henry Fowler, it is said, is considerably more interested in their lit- erary efforts than in his own work of the political world and reads every notice of their books with the keenest interest. His stories of bygone Methodism greatly heip- his daughters, adding a lifelike inter- est to their books. indeed! The famous de- Here is news, tective, Sherloek Holi is not dead, after all. He has only been resting and did not end his career over that terrible g;ecl ice in_Switzerland, for his creator, . Conan Doyle, will shortly resume the story of the marvelous feats of the de- tective’s ingenuity. A volume that will appeal to lovers of romantic and legendary stories will be issued before the month is out by Messrs. . H. Bonsfield. It is written and illus- trated by Allan Fea. and is entitled “Se- Hi Places cret Chambers ng o Great Britain.” Now, a secret chamber has always been a favorite subject of the novelist. It was ton who wrote, “How could I help wri romances aft- er It among the secret panels and hiding places of our dear old home?’ The history of the secret panel, opening In a icture which concealed a 'stairway, has geen associated with many strange events. Country houses dating back two or three centuries generally contain “hid- ing holes,” as they used to be called. Mr. Fea's book promises to be interesting. PERSONAL MENTION. Senator Thomas Flint of San Juan is at the Palace. Commander G. H. Peters, U. 8. N, is at the Occidental. C. D. Wright, an extensive land owner of San Jose, 1s a guest at the Lick. H. Morgan Hill has just returned from Paris. He is staying at the California. H. M. Reed of Reedly, one of the most prcmirnent oil men of the State, is at the Grand. W. F. Fisher, owner of the Calistoga Hotel and a prominent fruit grower, is at the Lick. Dr. E. W. Biddle, a prominent physician of Healdsburg, is spending a few days at the Palace. Peter Musto, the well-known merchant of Steckton, is here on business and has made the Grand his headquarters. Hugh Casey, a liquor merchant of Sac- ramento, is spending a few days In this city and is registered at the Grand. The Right Rev. W. H. Moreland, Epis- copal Bishop of Sacramento, is a guest at th: Occidental. He is accompanied by his ‘wife. Mrs. Stephen J. Fleld of Washington, D. C.. widaw of the late Justice of the preme Court, arrived here and is at the Palace. s Captain John K. Bulger, one of the United States local inspectors of steam ‘vessels, returned yesterday from Los An- geles, where he had been on business con- nected with his office. ——— 5 CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, June 6.—The following Californians afe in New York: From San Francisco—F. Ullrich#at the Belvidere; Mrs. J. C. Young, S. 8. Young, at the Grand Union: J. H. Atkins, at the Vie- toria: A. Plummer, at the Bartholdi: J. B. Tompkins, at the New Amsterdam; P, —_——— A CHANCE TO SMILE. Miss Lafin—What has become of Mr. 2 C'fl. Rand—He has taken employment a Egmr mill_for six month? » Lafin—How strange! Mr. Rand—Not at all. He wished to break himself of smoking.—Stray Stories. 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