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SATURDAY JULY «. 1895
THE CALL SPKAKS FOR ALL.
The next great carnival will be held at
Eureka.
This is the day to leave orders for The
Sunday Call. _
Japan ought to add a wide bar of blood
red to its nag. _^_^____
We had the coolest Fourth and Boston
had the hottest.
Tammany invited Grover, but Grover
vrould rather go fishing.
In making your Saturday purchases do
not forget to ask for home goods.
British politics is getting so giddy that
every politician has a party of his own.
The revival of archery requires all its girl
followers to provide themselves with a
beau.
The Sequoia carnival at Eureka will
come in good time after we have rested
from the National celebration.
A little more experience in arranging
fiestas will teach us a better method of
celebrating Independence day.
The proposed railroad from Ogden to San
Diego will be a happy deliverance for the
extreme southern end of the State.
The fight for home rule may have to be
done all over again in Ireland, but the Lib
erals have won the vantage ground and
will keep it.
Chicago has taken a conspicuously high
place among American cities by putting
all of her city officers under civil service
requirements.
The police of San Francisco and Sacra
mento have done an exceptionally brilliant
piece of work in running down the mur
derers of the Webers.
If the rubbish of the Midwinter Fair is
not soon removed from the Park, the Civic
Federation will have good cause to organ
ize an anti-debris association.
In his Fourth of July letter, David Ben
nett Hill shows signs of becoming a typical
calamity howler, who because his party is
out of luck despairs of his country.
While the Park Commissioners are work
ing to clear away the ruins of the Mid
winter Fair we have not forgotten the ex
hibitors' obligations to.discharge that duty.
From the Denver dissensions that have
caused a postponement of the proposed
mining exposition, we can learn the value
of main+aining harmony in San Francisco.
As the leading orator of the Tammany
celebration took the Monroe doctrine for
his theme it is evident that organization
is still bucking against the administration.
If J. T. Rogers is correct in saying the
Populists will not nominate a party ticket
in this State next year, some of the leaders
must have been profited by their experi
ence.
The Colorado Democrats, in declaring
that the National party must either adopt
free coinage or be disrupted, has issued a
challenge under which Cleveland must run
or fight.
The Southern Pacific Company's tenacity
in holding on to the park privilege means
leas that its fangs are long and strong than
that the Supervisors feel no pain from the
laceration.
The investment by New York and Chi
cago capitalists in San Joaquin Valley irri
gation bonds is eloquent evidence of the
confidence which Eastern people have in
the future of California.
If the streets north of Market between
Montgomery and the bay were cleaned up,
so that passers did not have to hold their
noses, property-owners would be bettar
able to hold their tenants.
McKinley wisely said at Chicago that
the granaeur of the Republic rests upon
its workingmen, and he might have added
that the Republic owes it to them to pro
tect them iv their industries.
The unusual attentions which the forti
fied defenses of San Francisco are receiv
ing at the hands of distinguished members
of the War Department should be produc
tive of extensive improvements.
James G. Maguire hits pretty hard in de
claring that while in the East tbe contract
labor law is rigidly enforced against white
immigrants, Japanese contract laborers are
unhindered in their invasion of California.
California should never lose sight of the
fact that although hydraulic mining may
be conducted on the streams opening into
the interior of the State only under severe
restrictions, there is a vast undeveloped
mining region in the northern part of the
State along streams which empty into the
Pacific.
In 1870 there were in the United States
252,148 manufacturing establishments, and
in 1890 there were 355.415, being an in
crease under twenty years of protection of
more than 100,000 factories. In Great
Britain, however, the number of factories
were less by over 500 in 1890 as compared
w"it# 1574. Here is the difference between
protection and Irce trade in a Jiutshell,
_ M'KIFLEY AT CHICAGO.
The address delivered by Governor Mc-
Kinley at the great assembly of working
men at Chicago in celebration of the
fourth of July was worthy of the audi
ence, of the occasion and of the mar..
There was in it no vrord< of foreboding,
doubt, hesitation or fear. A true Repub
lican in his sanguine confidence of the
people and patriotic trust in the destinies
of the Nation, he spoke only such words
as patriots delight to hear; and out of his
own ardent loyalty found the eloquence to
express the sentiments, the hopes and the
faith of the American people.
The occasion of his address was an Inde
pendence-day festival held by the Ameri
can Federation of Labor and the Chicago
Trade and Labor Assembly. Naturally,
therefore, labor as the cornerstone of the
Republic was the theme of his speech. He
reminded his hearers of the recent state
ment of the great statistician Mulhall, that
the United States possesses practically as
much energy or working power as Great
Britain, France and Germany combined;
that no other civilized country has ever
been able to boast of •!I,<XKJ,UOO of instructed
citizens, and that no othor country has to
large a percentage of producers among its
educated popu'ation.
Having in this way outlined the great
ness of that cornerstone of labor on which
the prosperity of the Republic rests in ab
solute security, the orator went on to
remind his hearers that whatever may be
the diiHcultics of the present or the prob
lems of the future, the working people of
this country can solve them all by remain
ing true to the taws of our free govern
ment. To use his own language: "Peace,
order and goodwill among the people, with
patriotism in their hearts; truth, honesty
and justice in all the branches of the Gov
ernment — all equal before the law and
alike amenable to it— such a condition will
make our Government too strong ever to
be broken by internal dissensions and too
powerful to be overturned by any enemy
from without."
HOW TO HOLD THEM.
The growth of the City westward and
southward along the great thoroughfare of
Market street and the streets radiating
from it threatens to draw away from the
district lying north of Market and stretch
ing from Montgomery eastward to the
bay the business that once made property
in that section of the City so valuable.
This tendency, already so manifest, will in
crease in the future if something is not
done to check it, and it is evident the prop
erty-owners in the threatened district must
make an earnest and united effort if they
would retain the better paying class of
tkeir tenants.
To achieve this it is not necessary to
work a miracle. The growth of the City
along Market street is natural, and, of
course, will continue under any circum
stances. The removal of old established
business houses and oirices to the new por
tions of the City, however, is not due to
the same causes that produce the growtli
there. The removals are occasioned largely
by the fact that the streets are better con-
structed and better cleaned in the newer
than the older part of the City, and that
the buildings are furnished with more of
those conveniences which modern art and
architecture have made available to busi
ness men. It is fcimply to seek cleaner
streets and better buildings that many
tenants leave the old section for the new,
and in this fact lies the chance for the
property - owners between Montgomery
street and the bay to retain their tenants.
To clean the streets in the threatened
district ought not to be a tasic beyond the
energies of the property-owners. At pres
ent many portions of these streets are so
ill kept they exhale something like the
thousand stenches for which Cologne was
once famous. The refuse of the markets
and garbage of many kinds fill the air with
odors that drive tenants away from offices
that overlook the streets where such of
fensiveness is found. The first thing
then to be done is to make the streets clean
and the air pure and fresh. If this cannot
be done while the cobbles are on the
streets, the cobbles should be taken out.
This is an easily understood proposition.
Good tenants will not stay where the
streets are bad.
After the streets are put into better con
dition the old buildings must be improved
up to the standard of recent structures.
That, however, is a matter which concerns
only an individual owner. Those who
make improvements will reap a benefit,
while others will go without. The clean
ing of the streets, on the other hand, is a
matter of general concern, and all prop
erty-owners should unite in bringing it
about. 'W hen once the downtown streets
are made as clean as the best in the City,
property-owners then need not regret the
gTOWtb. of the City westward. They will
be able to hold good tenants for all time to
come. ________________
SAN JOAQUIN IKUIGATION.
The people of the State had hardly found
tim» to become used to the feeling of sur
prised gratification which the organization
of the Valley road inspired when informa
tion is now given that New York and Chi-
cago capital has taken the unsold bonds of
the Poso and Turlock irrigation districts,
and that the canals will be immediately
constructed. The companies thus backing
the enterprise are said to be Coler & Co.,
New York bankers, and the North Amer
ican Trust and Loan Company of Chicago.
These two enterprises— the Valley road
and the irrigation schemes — are happy
complements of each other, and each wiil
contribute to the other's prosperity.
This investment of Eastern capital is
particularly significant, in view of the fact
that the validity of the bond issue is under
contest in the courts, but the investment
was made under the advice of leading
lawyers, who have given the matter close
attention, and who believe that the in
validity of the bouds cannot be established.
It appears that the negotiations were
pending some time before the Valley road
was projected, and that they were sus
pended by the suits. Apparently, there
fore, it was an understanding of the
immense benelits which the road would
bring to the valley that induced the East
ern men to take all risks and have the
system in full operation by or before the
time the two districts are penetrated by
the road. The assurance of these great
irrigation schemes artds a large percentage
to the value of the Valley road property.
The contests over the issuance of bonds
arose from the unwillingness of some of
the land-owners to burden their property
with the debt which the bonds impose. In
the Poso district, for instance, this debt is
$12 50 an acre, and it is to be extinguished
by a plan of gradual redemption. Daring
this period they of course draw interest,
which is an additional charge upon the
land. The amount of the lien upon the
land thus created is the last thing a prop
erty-owner ought to consider. The ques
tion with him is simply one of making an
investment with a reasonable prospect of
sufficient return. In the case of land
which has been used hitherto for pasturage
the income is comparatively so small that
the land has little value, and hence a debt
of $12 50 an acre, taken by itself, seems
fceayy. When we reflect, however, that
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY <>, 1895.
irrigation will more than double, and in
some cases quadruple, the value of the land
by increasing its earning capacity in that
ratio, an investment in irrigation facilities'
will jay an enormous percentage in profit.
A great part of this increase of value is
added by the Valley road, which will re
lieve the land-owners of the burdens and
exactions which a monopoly of transpor
tation in the past has levied on their pos
sessions and Industry.
TAMMANY'S OELEBKATION.
The Tammany celebration of the Fourth
of July is notable for the letters from
Cleveland and from Hill and for the tone
of the address of the day made by ex-Gov
ernor Campbell of Ohio. These were th«
most important utterances made in any
part of the Union on that day, but they
derive their importance more from the po
litical rank and station of the men who
made them than from any intrinsic merit
in the words themselves.
The Cleveland letter is an excellent
specimen of the art of writing nothing witn
great pomposity. Of course we could not
oxpert him to be very enthusiastic in writ
ing to Tammany, but still as the President
of the United States writing of the anni
versary whose celebration recalls the foun
dation of the Republic, its noble history
and its present grandeur, the people might
justly have indulged the hope that he
would be moved to write something wor
thy of the reading, and from his high of
fice, address the people in words that
would rouse their patriotism by manifest
ing his own. Instead of the sentiments
we might have expected from the Presi
dent of the United States, we get only the
dull moralizings we are accustomed to
from the man Grover Cleveland. His let
ter, therefore, is notable only as another
evidence of his lack of leadership and an
other proof of that hopeless incapacity
which is now becoming so well understood.
Senator Hill's letter was evidently in
tended as a warning, but sounds more like
a wail of woe. He declares the country is
endangered by the spirit of socialism
which threatens to subvert the constitu
tion, impose odious schemes of taxation,
maintain an immense standing army and
navy, not for the purposes of defense, but
in readiness for conquest, or to intimidate
the plain people in tne interests of plu
tocracy. If all this had been uttered by
Peffer or Jerry Simpson it would have
passed without comment. It is, however,
a new role for Senator Hill to play the
part of the calamity howler, and his ap
pearance in it is the more strange as it
was his own party that endeavored to im
pose the odious scheme of taxation upon
the people; and moreover, as he knows
very well, the scheme has failed and the
constitution has been amply vindicated by
the integrity and wisdom of the Supreme
Court.
Ex-Governor Campbell of Ohio is not
near so eminent at this time in politics as
Cleveland and Hill, but he is one of the
leading Democratic candidates for the Pres-
idency, and has possibilities of the coming
man. His speech, therefore, will attract
the attention always accorded to rising
leaders, and the country will not fail to
note that he put aside home politics alto
gether and spoke with no little force and
spirit of the Monroe doctrine and the im
portance to the United States of maintain
ing a vieorous foreign policy. This speech,
taken in connection with the recent utter-
ances of Whitney and Don Dickinson,
would seem to imply that Democracy
was willing to throw Cleveland overboard
in the next campaign and try to save the
party from the task of explaining its short
comings at home by drawing public atten
tion to affairs in Venezuela.
Taken altogether, the proceedings of the
celebration afford another proof that
every Democratic leader is up Salt Creek,
each in his own boat, paddling his own
canoe, and no two of them headed the
same way. Cleveland is sullen, Hill ais
heartened and Campbell eager to ride on
the rising wave of National patriotism.
So long as these divisions last the party
can do nothing, but patriotic Democrats
may at least in reading Campbell's speech
rejoice to know that some of their leaders
are capable of understanding popular sen
timent and moving in harmony with it.
THE SUNDAY "CALL."
To-morrow's issue of The Call will con
tain an exceptionally pleasing and in
structive array of special features. Alice
Rix with her clever pen and Frank A.
Xankivell with his delicate and amusing
caricatures will present articles on social
events and the theaters in which out-of
town seekers after pleasure are handled
artistically, and the salient features of the
drama critically considered. The woman's
page goes carefully over the range of sum
mer fashions and matters of other kinds in
which women are taking an interest. The
children's page also amply covers its own
ground. The sympathetic author of
"Idyls of the Fields" will have another
attractive article for lovers of nature. This
is the closing article of the series.
"A Holiday on Olympus" is a special
feature which will commend itself to the
literary class of readers. It is a verbatim
report of one of those bright and instruc
tive talks for which the members of upper
Bohemia are famous the world over. This
is tbe first of a series which will show these
accomplished workers in a light in which it
is extremely difficult for strangers to find
them — the lifting of a curtain which is
usually kept closely drawn against public
scrutiny. The participants in to-morrow's
dialogue are well known by name to the
general community, and they will be found
to say many instructive things on tbe
question of realism and ideality.
Dan O'Connell will present "A Startling
Transformation in a San Mateo Garden,"
another of thO3e artistically written and
quaintly conceived productions for which
he is noted. Adeline Knapp will discuss
the important subject of "The Higher
Education," and there will be something
interesting about Mrs. Frances Fuller
Victor and her work as an historian.
"Astride a Frozen Anchor in a Gale" is an
account by Denis Kearney of a thrilling
personal experience. In addition to these
features there will be a large number of
special articles and all the news and
regular departments.
AN ALLUBING SUGGESTION.
The Denver Republican, in admitting the
general truth of E. V. Smalley's article in
the June Arena that the proportion of the
arid lands of the West which might be
brought under cultivation by irrigation
may be represented by a single furrow
across a twenty-acre field, suggests that
the question of cultivating arid lands might
be solved by means other than irrigation.
All breeders of animals and growers of
plants know that by artificial selection
very marked variations from the parent
stock may be produced, and this is carried
to so great a length as to make the new
product congenial to a natural environ
ment which would be fatal to the original
stock.
The Republican therefore suggests that
by intelligent and persistent selection
grains might be brought forth which could
be cultivated with profit in the arid regions
without irrigation. The idea is exceed
ingly interesting. Mauifestly -the work of
carrying it out would be the duty of the
Agricultural Department at Washington.
It would probably be discovered that ex
treme difficulty woitld be met in fm-jing
among grains cultivated in watered regions
a variation which could be recognized as
having a tendency toward suitability to
arid conditions, and that the proper
method of procedure would be either to
produce such variations by successive cul
tivations with a steadily diminishing sup
ply of water, or to search for hitherto un
discovered food plants which have a
naturally arid environment.
A radical moditieation of the idea might
be made practical in California in various
ways. For instance, by reason of the mild
ness of our winters and the practically uni
versal habit of plants to bloom and fruit
in the summer, plants which we have in
troduced from sub-tropical regions, includ
ing the calla (a very tender plant), bring
with them their habit of blooming in what
happens to be our non-blooming season,
the winter. Giving this idea a more prac
tical application, it is conceivable that we
might bring hither from sub-equatorial
regions fowls suitable for domestic pur
poses, which will bring their habit of lay
ing eggs at a time when eggs are very
scarce and expensive with us. This could
possibly be extended to many kinds of
vegetables and fruits, our somewhat
limited experience in this direction hav
ing shown us that it is perfectly feasible.
This is a work in which the State might be
able to accomplish much good, as Califor
nia is the only section of the country in
which this can be done and would have a
monopoly of the benefits which would re
sult from it.
PERSONAL.
L. M. Lasell, & merchant of Martinez, is a
guest at the Grand.
Bernard Isaacs, a leading merchant of lone,
is staying at the Grand.
Dr. J. Nichols of Sutter Creek was one of yes
terday's arrivals at the Grand.
Colonel Park Henshaw, a prominent attor
ney of Chico, is at the Occidental.
John F. Weare, a big paint manufacturer of
Chicago, registered yesterday af the Occi
dental.
Alfred Dixon, a merchant of Michigan Bluff,
Placer County, registered yesterday at the
Grand.
Dr. Philip Leach of the navy is at the Palace
and will visit Yosemite and other points of in
terest before his return East.
John B. Henderson of Washington, D. C,
who has been to the Orient as private secretary
to ex-Secretary of State John W. Foster, who
negotiated the treaty of peace on behalf of the
Chinese, arrived yesterday, and is stopping at
the Palace. He left his chief at Vancouver and
came on down here on pleasure.
Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus, pastor of the Plymouth
Congregational Church and president of the
Armour Institute of Chicago, came up yester
day from Pacific Grove, where he has been lec
turing before the Chautauquan Assembly, and
is staying at the Palace. He is to lecture this
evening at Plymouth Congregational Church
in this city.
Master Julius Haug, a native of San Fran
cisco, who is only 12 years of age, and who en
tered the Vienna Conservatory two years ago,
was declared the best pupil in his class (violin)
at the closing examination of 1895. In his
class, the third grade, are nineteen pupils, of
whom Master Haug is the youngest one and
the only American.
OPINIONS OF EDITORS.
Americans of both the North and South con
tinents want no European domination of their
mainland or their islands. Recruits to this
American Idea are being found every day
among the very emigrants from European
lands. So that immigration to the several
countries of South and North America simply
strengthens the gTand idea of America for
Americans. Whether Presidents favor or
slight it, the Monroe doctrine is bound to live,
and on a larger basis than at first conceived.
Long live the Monroe doctrine, and it is no in
fringement of international law to wish Cuba
success, whioh we most heartily do.— Portland
Sun.
So this road which a>Southera Pacific organ
designated as "opera boufle" is demonstrating
that opera bouffe may be a lively kind of per
formance. The conduct of the enterprise from
the beginning has been characterized by
energy. No grass has at any time been allowed
to grow in its path. It is hard to get out of the
habit of hopelessness bred by hard times, but
all the same it is time to get out of it, for the
years of our dependence upon a single railroad
are ncaring an end. Almost before we know,
the Valley railroad and competition will be
with us.— Fresno Republican.
Now that the Whittier Reform School, one of
the best institutions of the kind in the world,
is so full that no more boys can be taken in for
some time, parents may, perhaps, be persuaded
to adopt some of the methods in vopue there
and reform their own children. It is a sur
prising fact that a large proportion of the boys
of Whittier are sons of parents who are in the
middle walks of life and are amply able to
support their own children but have not the
moral stamina to keep them in order.—Stock
ton Record.
No one who has lived in California long, and
who hub thought at all on the subject, would
admit for a moment that the people of this
State, taking them for all in all, are not as re
fined, as well educated and as capable of per
forming the highest duties of citizenship as
those of any other State in the Union. It is
therefore a silly affectation of inferiority to
pretend that we must go outside af the State
for the managers of our institutions of learn
ing.—San Jose Herald.
From all over the country reports are coming
in of increased wages paid to working people
and of reviving prosperity everywhere. No
stories like this were told when the Democratic
party was in full control of the Government.
Now that the hands of that party are shackled
men know that there will be no dangerous in
terference with business affairs, and that con
tracts may safely be made. — Albuquerque (N.
M.) Citizen.
The cultivation of patriotism as a vital force
that binds men together in the accomplish
ment of high and worthy aims and ambitions
should be encouraged, not in a narrow and in
tolerunt spirit, however, but in a broad sympa
thy which will tend toward the preservation
of that which was accomplished by our fore
fathers after the seven long years of the Ameri
can Revolution.— Los Angeles Record.
We had it from the highest Democratic au
thority that the new tariff would stimulate the
trade of this country abroad, and yet the ex
ports the first nine months of its operation fell
more than $(iti,ooo,ooo below those of the
corresponding months last year under the Mc-
Kinley law. But this is about as near as De
mocracy comes to meeting its pledges. — As
torian (Oregon).
Keep up an everlasting racket over the Presi
dential conventions meeting in San Francisco
next y ear, and never let up until we get one or
both. This coast deserves the conventions,
and there is not another as nearly an ideal
convention city in the country as San Fran
cisco. Everybody pull, pull hard, pull all to
gether and we can win.— Redlands Okrograph.
How this State would grow if it could only be
filled up by people at>le to own small farms of a
few acres and all under a high degree of culti
vation. There would not be a State so rich in
promise as our own, for there is scarcely a
limit to our possibilities.— Los Angeles Times.
Faith indeed can remove mountains. Just
now the faith of tne people in the promise of
readjustment of affairs by a new administra
tion is removing the great mountain of mis
trust and depression.— Salida (Colo.) Mail.
Work, however hard, has its compensation
in the satisfied mind of the worker. It is better
to wear out with the consciousness of doing
our part than to rust out with the lack of that
consciousness. — Albuquerque Citizen.
Filibusters after all are only in-Cuba-tors—
they are trying to natch out a revolution.— Salt
Lake Herald.
Herr Anton Seidl is to direct th» Wagner
concerts in Londoa oext season.
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.
'Well," exclaimed Franklyn K. Lane, the at
torney, as he dropped into the bay-window
of the Occidental Hotel yesterday, "I have
landed on the other side of the Fourth of July
without getting killed. There has hardly been
an Independence day celebration since my
childhood that I have not been injured in
some way. My faith in the justice of revering
George Washington has been trembling in the
balance for the last few days, but now that I
have come out of the hurrah and patriotic joy
unscathed and unstained I have been in a
mood to receive him once more as the Father
of his country."
"So you were a regular victim on the Fourth,
Lane. Is that what I understand?" asked a
friend. »
"That's about the size of it. My star of ill
luck appeared when I was 7 years of age. I re
member its arrival very well. I got up on the
morning of the Fourth long before daybreak,
and by sunrise all my firecrackers were gone.
I borrowed all the available ammunition from
the neighbors' boys, but by 8 o'clock there
wasn't even a parlor match in the block.
Well," and Mr. Lane scratched his head a mo
ment, "of course, I had to do something to fit
tingly usher in such an occasion as the one
which was engaging my attention, so I con
cluded to spend the rest of the day, assisted by
several other youngsters, stealing apples.
"We went over a series of fences to one or
chard owned by an old man named Gillett. He
was a tall, lean, rakish-looking craft, with a
stride like the man of seven-league-boot fame.
I was a short, modest youth, only able to move
along under great pressure, and then not too
rapidly. You will please observe the risk I
ran. My clothing consisted of a pair of loose
knickerbockers buttoned on a gingham shirt,
the whole affair worth probably 60 cents. I
was barefooted. When we struck the orchard
where the apples grew I was appointed by a
most oxerwhelming vote to go in and tackle it
first. I had smelled powder that day and was
ready for anything, so I tied the knees of my
trousers tightly and crawled under the fence.
When I reached the tree containing the best
apples I unbuttoned the front of my gingham
shirt and began to stow away fruit. In a few
moments, greatly to the admiration of my
several witnesses, I had filled my trousor legs
and was bulging out with plunder on all sides.
Finally I was loaded to my own satisfaction
and started back, but moved with great effort.
Just as I got through the fence some of the
boys yelled, 'Cheese forGillett,' and in a few
seconds I was alone with my booty. Horrified
and motionless, I stood waiting to receive the
shock of the invincible Gillett, who was very
prompt in arriving.
"I will never forget the scene. He grabbed
me by the back of a large apple which bulged
out in the region of my neck and proceeded to
move me along with violent kicks, each one of
which brought out an apple or two. He
boosted me along nearly a half a mile, kicking
apples out of me at each step, and occasionally
commenting on my cleverness as a daylight
robber. After he had defined me out and left
me for almost dead 1 got myself together and
arrived at ray father's house just in time to
get mixed up in the evening display of powder
and became the central figure fn a premature
explosion of Roman candles and skyrockets,
which accidentally became ignited and spent
themselves against my bare legs and feet. In
my haste to escape I fell off the porch and
broke my collar-bone, besides tearing the skin
off my forehead. See, the scar is there yet.
"Kvcr since that eventful year I have met
with some misfortune on the Fourth of July.
This is the one occasion wherein I escaped, and
1 feel thankful to providence for this my first
year of peace."
BITS OF BIOGRAPHY.
George Meredith, the writer, is now almost
completely deaf.
The Empress of Japan, it is stated, is in regu
lar correspondence with the Empress Frederick
of Germany.
Sir Walter Besant's favorite books are Zola's
"L'AsFOiuinoir,'' and Rider Haggard's "She,"
and "The Light That Failed."
Hugh H. Sherwood of Philadelphia has
brought suit against a street railway company
to recover $500 for the death of a setter.
The Prince of Wales and his family consider
Sandringham their real home, and here their
principal family treasures are to be found.
It is claimed that Lieutenant Bersier of the
French navy has invented a compass which
does away with a steersman, as the compass
steers the Tassel itself.
One of the Shahzada's staff, mistaking the
intention of his hosts in providing soap in his
bedroom at Dorchester House, felt bound to
eat it, and after a gallant effort succeeded in
disposing of an entire cake.
It is said that the estate of George W. Van
derbllt in the mountains near Asheville, N. C,
has already cost its owner $4,000,000, and it
is believed it will require $2,000,000 more to
bring it to the desired perfection.
Friedrich Spielhagen, the novelist, delivered
the oration at the recent meeting of the Goethe
Society at Weimar. He asserted that Werther
and Hermann and Dorothea would survive,
whatever became of Goethe's other works.
The King of Greece has an odd way of spend
ing some of the summer months, lie turns
farmer, and works as hard as though he was a
land laborer. He can plow a field, cut and
Dind wheat, in short, keep a farm going from
start to finish, as though it were his livelihood.
PLEASANTRIES OF THE HOUR.
At the seaside resort: He— You look terribly
bored.
She— l feel that way. The mosquitoes both
ered me all night.— Philadelphia Record.
"Good morning," chirped the summer girl,
nodding familiarly to the hammock. * 'I'll
take a fail out of you presently.— Chicago Tri
bune.
Mrs. Hushmore— You'll have to settle up or
leave.
Summer Boarder— Thanks, awfully. The
last place I was at they made me do both.—
Lile.
Smith— lt Is understood that the breweries
have engaged • carload of frogf.
Brown— For what purpose?
Smith — Because they're so full of hops. — At
lanta Constitution.
"I'm not troublin' meself about the new
woman," hiccoughed O'Murther, making his
way deviously homeward at 3 a.m. "It's th'
ould woman that's worryin' me."— Chicago
Tribune.
Talk of women being timid! Nonsense! Why,
a little meek-faced, thin slip of a girl will wear
balloon sleeves right in the middle of the cy
cione belt, and that without flinching. — Boston
Transcript.
Wheeler (who has just bought a bike)— Do
you think the bicycle has come to stay?
Sprocket— Well, a. good deal depends on
whether you paid outright for It or got it on
the installment plan.— Yonkers Statesman.
He— Wasn't Brown's wife named Btone before
she was married?
She— Yes, and it was a very suitable name.
He— What do you mean?
She— Ob, nothing; only she threw herself at
his head. — World's Comic.
"There's nothing worse in the world than os
tentation," said Garraway.
"Oh, yes, there is," Baid Gorse. "Bostontation
ia much wor»e."
"What is Bostontation?"
"Osteutation plus Boston," said Garraway.—
Harper's Bazar.
"I'm going now; yes, I'm going, going," mur
mured Steigher.
"What an excellent auctioneer you'd make,"
said the heartless but tired Miss Nycegerl.—
Boston Courier.
Playwright (author of Captain Anson'splay)—
Do you think Anse will be able to throw
enough feeling into his denunciation of the
villain in act 2?
Stage Manager— Sure. I've engaged an old
baseball umpire to Impersonate the villain.—
Chicago Record.
Royal Bakixg Powder is well known to
be absolutely free from alum, ammonia
and all impurity. Do you feel quite sure
about any other brand? Alum powders
are poisonous. Better use Royal and take
no chances.
TWO SOCIALIST PASTORS
They Will Publish a Weekly
. in Support of Their
Doctrine.
REV. J. E. SCOTT THE EDITOR.
He and Rev. E. J. Dupuy Will Teach
the Presbytery Marx
Economics.
Keys. J. E. Scott and E. J. Dupuy. both
Presbyterian ministers and members in
good standing: of the local presbytery, will
edit and publish a socialistic weekly in
this City, to be called, in no uncertain
words, The Socialist. This will be news
to the presbytery. The paper will make
its first appearance a week from to-day.
Rev. J. E. Scott will edit and Rev. E. J.
Dupuy will manage the enterprise.
That such a paper, advocating the
doctrines of Carl Marx and recognizing
the legitimacy of the socialistic move
ments of Europe, should be published by a
Presbyterian minist«r may surprise many.
Dr. Scott himself realizes the novelty of
his position, for he freely discussed it
when seen last evening. He was hard at
work on his salutatory editorial.
"I believe," said Dr. Scott, "I am the
only minister in the world who has aught
to do with a paper of this kind. I appre
ciate the novelty, while I realize the entire
reason of my position. There is nothing
in the creed of Presbyterianism which for
bids my being a socialist, for there is no
socialistic belief that is not Christian in its
spirit. My brothers of the presbytery thus
far know nothing of my undertaking.
They will all learn it in good time. I an
ticipate no opposition from them. I have
reason to know that some of the younger
members of the presbytery are sincerely
studying the great problems of socialism.
But. assuming that the presbytery should
oppose my views and my venture I should
stand by my convictions, for I think they
are true.
"We shall meet the issue squarely. \\ c
shall call our paper The Socialist, and not
sugar-coat its purpose by any misleading
title. Under the caption will appear our
motto, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as
thyself.' To my mind, all the real terrors
of socialism are wrapped up in that sen
tence. We shall expect to oe supported
by the socialists of this State. There are
2000 of them. We shall not trouble our
selves editorially or otherwise with Mr.
Rockefeller, or any other gentleman
capitalist. The socialists have about de
cided not to do more battle with the mo
nopolists, but will let them fight it out
among themselves. We have something
else to do."
Rev. E. J. Dupuy came from a hotbed of
socialism — Prance. He was born in this
City, but received his education in France,
and was ordained a Presbyterian minister
there. He topic a leading part in the
French socialistic movement. He is now
pastor of the French Presbyterian Church
m this City.
Rev. Joseph E. Scott was for many years
pastor of the Presbyterian Church at
Menlo Park, and more recently was pastor
of the Woodbridge Presbyterian Church on
Twentieth and Capp streets. The church
property was lately* sold to the Unitarians,
and the congregation is about to build a
new edifice out near the panhandle. Mean
while, Dr. Scott is without a pulpit. He
stated last evening that he became a con
vert to socialism ten years a»o, through
reading Bellamy's Utopian fiction, "Look
ing Backward." Since then he has occasion
ally preached on socialism, and recently
read a paper before the presbytery, in
which he dealt with the church side of the
question.
The Socialist will be an eight-page
paper. The first number will contain arti
cles by such prominent socialists as Job
Harrinian and James Q. Clark of Pasa
dena.
Just how Dr. Scott's radical departure
will affect his brothers in the presbytery
remains to be seen. As for Dr. Scott, he is
pa-pared for any development, and in any
event declares be will be a socialist and —
subject to the ordinary vicissitudes of such
ventures — will grapple weekly with the
questions arising from the never-ending
conflict between Tabor and capital.
ETIQUETTE OP COUKTS.
That It Calls for Some Queer Proceed-
ings Is Here Shown.
In the Austrian court it is contrary to
custom for perishable articles to appear
twice on the imperial table. The result is
large perquisites for the attendants. To
one man fall all the uncorked bottles, to
another the joints, and to another still the
game or the sweets. Every morning a sort
of market is held in the basement of the
palace, where the Viennese come readily
to purchase the remains. And there is no
other means of procuring Imperial Tokay
than this.
Long ago in England even the greatest
men in the land were pleased to receive
such perquisites. In the reign of Henry
11, for instance, the Lord Chancellor was
entitled to the candle ends of one great
and forty small candles per day. And the
aquarius, who must be a Baron in rank,
received 1 penny for drying towels on
every ordinary occasion of the King's
bathing. The ceremonial that the Revolu
tion swept away the first Emperor Napo
leon was careful to revive in a less extreme
form, and it is characteristic of the man
that he made a special study of it, and
went so far as to prescribe the special
forms to be used on great occasions.
Before his coronation, M. Isabey, the
miniature painter, gave seven rehearsals
with wooden dolls, appropriately dressed,
of the seven ceremonials that were to be
enacted. And one ceremony being es
pecially intricate, the functionaries re
hearsed it in person in the Gallery of
Diana at the Tuileries, a plan having been
carefully traced with chalk on the
floor. This was the sort of thing in
which Napoleon especially rejoiced,
and he himself arranged beforehand
all the details of the entry of Maria
Louisa into France, and of" his subse
quent marriage with her. Among other
particulars on reaching what was then
French territory the Archduchess was con
ducted into the eastward room of a three
roomed house near Braunau; the French
Commissioner entered westward; while
the third room in the middle was occupied
by the rest of the party. And M. de Baus
set, who gives an account of the proceed
ings, having bored holes with a gimlet in
the door of the middle room, had a splen
did view of the unconscious Princess. But,
he quaintly adds, it was the ladies who
took advantage of his forethought
The ceremonial of the Chinese court is
somewhat exacting. It used to include, if
it does not now, complete prostration be
fore the throne. Last century a Persian
envoy refused to go through the degrading
°2r- i * Direction s were given to the
officials to compel him by stratagem to do
so. On arriving one day "at the entrance to
the hall of audience, the envoy found no
means of going in except by a wicket,
which would compel him to "stoop very
low. With great presence of mind and
considerable audacity, the Embassador
turned around and entered backward, thus
saving the honor -of his country.— New
lork Evening Post.
The Wheelman and the Bear.
Attorney Arthur Kelly, a young lawyer
of Atlantic City, brought to town a bear
story which is just now a topic among local
sportsmen. Mr. Kelly started from here
to ride to Port Republic, a distance of fif
teen miles. The country in that section is
densely wooded, ana for a goodly distance
the roadway is lined on either side by
thickly growing trees. He was bowling
along merrily on his machine when,
about five miles from his destination he
was startled by a low growl coming from
the side of the road. _v*«i.
On looking in the direction from winca
the sound came he was horror-stricken to
find himself confronted by a large ana
hungry bear. The emotions of the lawjer
at that moment are indescribable, lo
argue the right of way with such an
opponent was not to his liking, neither
was the prospect of returning by the way
he came. In a second he had decided
upon his course of action, and, tightly
era«pins the handle bars of the bicycle he
pushed by his bearship like a gale of wind,
and was well on his way to Port Republic
before bruin realized that his prize had
escaped him.— Philadelphia Times.
PHILOSOPHY POX SMOKEES.
A Man Known by Ilis Cigars and th*
AVay He Smokes Them.
As a test of character tobacco is useful.
A man may be known by the cigars he
keeps, as well as by the way he smokes
them. No man of refined taste will smoke
a bad cigar. The philosophic smoker takes
his comfort in a leisurely way amid proper
surroundings, and is able to shut himself
out from the world and all its petty an
noyances as he follows the curling wreath
into the dreamland of reverie.
The man who allows his cigar to go oufr
a great many times and relights it in suc
cessive spasms of fidgetiness may usually
be set down as an incoherent character,
quite prone to get off his trolley, so to
speak, and certainly lacking in tenacity of
purpose. The man who fumbles his cigar
a good deal and manages to get the wrap~
per unraveled and the fire all on one side,
may be dismissed as a nervous person,
with a proclivity for uncomfortableness,
says the Baltimore Sun. Men who chew
their cigars, leaving their teeth prints on
them and do this for a long time before
lighting them, are quite likely to be stern,
determined men, full of grit and resolu
tion. General Grant used to handle a cigar
in that way and Bismarck is said to da
likewise.
As an index of generosity or meanness
of soul, the cigar is quite trustworthy.
The generous man, if he smokes at all. is
sure to indulge himself and his friends,
when they call on him, with a good cigar.
The man who, with abundant means to
smoke the best, deliberately buys theworsb
cigars, and pretends to enjoy them, is ca
pable of almost any conceivable meanness.
Per contra, the man who can find solace
and refreshment from a cigar of good qual
ity, or a pipe filled with choice tobaccdw
and who'is always ready to open his heart
wide and let his tongue wag the most
merrily when he takes nis friend into the
hospitalities of a mutual smoke talk, is.
pretty sure to be one whose instincts and,
impulses are in the main honest, genial and
right.
Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay atrast. *
Califo^ta Glace fruits, 50c lb. Townsend's.*
A Home of Rest "where tired actors may
recuperate," to be supported entirely by
the dramatic profession, has just been
started in England with Beerbohm Tree
for its first president.
Try our "Atlas Bourbon" and you will want
none other. Molina & Kaltenbach, 29 Market.*
Ocean Excursions.
Steamship Pomona, to Santa Cruz and Mon
terey, leaves Saturdays, 4 p. m., due back Mon
days, sa. a. Ticket office, 4 New Montgomery
street. *
Steam engine cylinders are now bored
when heated up by steam at full pressure
by one English firm of makers, as it is as
serted that if bored while cold they are nob
perfectly true wben under steam.
Do not neglect that tired feeling; it Is a signal of
danger. It is nature's warning. It is a cry for
pure, rich and nourishing blood. Hood's Sarsapa
rilla meets these demands.
If your complaint is want of appetite try half «
wine glass of Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters be
fore meals.
A Topeka newspaper alleges that prepar*
ations are making in that town for a wed*
ding at which the bride will wear bloom*
ers. She is said to be an exceedingly
emancipated type of the new woman.
LA BELLE
CREOLE
CIGARS
MANUFACTURED BY
S. HERNSHEIM BROS. & CO.,
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
RINALDO BEOS. & CO.,
PACIFIC COAST AGENTS,
300-302 BATTERY ST., S. F.
Branch Store— 29-31-33
South First St., San Jose, Cal.
REAL ESTATE
FOR SALE BY
Ties. lap & Sons,
* REAL ESTATE AGENTS
■ And Publishers "Eeal Estate Circular."
4 Montgomery Street,
ana TRUST mum, cower MARKET.
INVESTMENTS.
Sutter-st. Investment— N. side, near Taylor; 22:*
feet front and very fine dwelling; would rent to/
$100; $18,000.
• Fine investment on Geary st.; 50 feet front and
building: 3% blocks from Market st.
Eddy st.: downtown: new 3-story house, 3 new
modern flats; rents $140; light and sunny; $18.*
000. '
Post, near Taylor; 23x68:9 to rear street: old
buildings: 2 stores; rent* $ 53; should be improved,
will pay well: $10,500. .'
4th-st. business lot, bet. Bryant and Brannani
25x80: $5000. • '
Cnainel and Berry sts., bet. sth and 6th: 45:9»
240, from street to street; $14,000; a t>ars;aln.
Clay-street investment, near Drumm; 25x119*8
to Commercial st.; double front; rents $65;
$12,000. * f
miscellaneous property.
! Fine residence and lot 80x137:6; north side of
Vallejo, bet. (.lough and Ocuwia: tine view, a nob-
Btructed, from 2 upper stories: 11 rooms and mod*
em conveniences; house cost $8500; leased at 873
a mouth; only $10,250. .
Washington-street residence, near Central aye. i
32x105; north side; tine residence, 12 rooms, fin.
ished basement, attic: all modern conveniences- •
excellent interior finish; owner selling to leave
town; $12,500. °
Reduced to $9000; now residence: fine marine
view; »W. cor. Green and Buchanan sts.; 9 rooms
saloon parlors, electric bells, attic and basement'
very sunny and cozy; very easy terms.
Pacific aye., north side; best situation: not far
from Laguna; 60, 70 or 120 feet front; panoramic
view which cannot be shut off.
Pacific aye.: north side; any size, 26, 50 or 75
feet front; price reduced to $200 a foot; marine
$3000— Rents $30: two flats and lot 20x73*
Pacific st:. bet. Hyde and Larkln. 5
Cheap; $5000: two flats and lot 41:4x137 -6*
flats. have-. 6 rooms each; N. side Post St., bet'
Brodertck and Baiter; street bituminijsed and ac-
cepted: rents $40.
lioward-st. cottage and lot 30x122:6: bet. 22d
and 23d; one of the best residence portions of th*
street: cable-cars pass: $5500. "
A bargain ; only $7000 for 205 feet front* 87 feet
on Washington. 118 on Jackson; running through
bet. Cherry and Ist aye. V
Locust St., bet. Sacramento and Clay; 25x137:6*
Ipl 1 00. - •* *
, 1^ dero ' nearWashin^ ton: 25x110;. reduced
anS?nborhi;od PttVed: - cars P"». **• 100
oa fi W St.. n jar Cook, W. of Central aye.; 3 loui
26x100; reduced to $1400; ca.ble-cars pas*