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THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The pushing policeman generally has a
pull. _________
Men who regard life as a lottery nearly
always make a fake of it.
Jury duty is the office that has the
hardest time seeking the man.
Whenever there is municipal corruption
there is a duty imposed upon every citizen
to oppose it. .
Perhaps no one who is able to weigh ill
sides of a question would make a success
ful reformer.
What has the Railroad Commission
done, California? Echo answers "done
California."
The Solid Eight must be taught that it
is a very poor "exercise of discretion" that
violates a law. »j "7
With the news from Maryland Democ
racy may possibly see a Presidential can
didate in Gorman.
The directors of a local laundry company
have slipped their clothesline and are now
airing their linen in the courts.
The Defender is rapidly acquiring a
habit of winning races that may serve her
well when she meets the Valkyrie.
If there was really any need ot a brake
on the third term movement Gorman's
victory in Maryland has applied it.
Does the Railroad Commission intend to
litter up the wind by throwing to it
another Democratic campaign pledge?
The Democratic members of the Railroad
Commission have an opportunity to write
an essay on the frangibility of pledges.
That promised average reduction of 25
per cent in the freight rates of the South
ern Pacific would come in very handy just
now.
On the principle of making hay while
the sun shines, England is grabbing all the
American islands she can before Cleveland
goes out of office.
Perhaps we might make a compromise
with the female suffragists by letting them
serve as jurors in cases where every man
has his own opinion.
The Oregon rancher who applied to the
California Free Labor Bureau for a wife
apparently wants it understood that a wife
ought to be a servant. «
The cessation of the Horr and Harvey
debate leaves a vacancy in the reports
from Chicago that can be easily filled up
by any wind that blows.
Those who observe the crowds at the
theaters and argue therefrom that all lives
have a rosy hue should visit the hovels on
the Sixth-street dumps.
The State Democracy is equally respon
sible with the majority of the Railroad
Commission in the matter of the pledge to
reduce railroad charges.
Having laid down the broom the Mer
chants' Association has picked up the
whip, and is using it quite effectively in
keeping the streets clean.
As the price of a Chinese wife in Califor
nia is $600 it seems fair that Mrs. Tung
Vow should return that sum to her hus
band after securing her divorce.
Whenever England commits an act of
aggression on this continent there is al
ways some one in the Cleveland adminis
tration to say it amounts to nothing.
It seems hardly fair to ask people to
come and help us build up the State until
we quit sending annually $73,000,000 away
for manufactures which we could turn out.
When we observe the most implacable
boycotting going on in Chinatown it is
difficult to keep on saying that the Chinese
are inaccessible to the influences of Ameri
can civilization.
The Government commission that is
making an investigation of the Nicaragua
canal route at this season of the year
ought to be able to file a report that will
be hot stuff all the way through.
It will be, noted that the news of the
Pacific Coast is nearly always of some en
terprise completed or a new one begun,
while that from the East is made up
mainly of cloudbursts or windstorms.
The reformers who think that our coun
try has a decayed morality make the mis
take of taking only a few symptoms and
exaggerating their value. Monopolies may
be powerful, wealth unscrupulous and
political corruption extensive, but there
are things beyond and above all these
inherent in the people, and they account
for the greatness of the Nation.
Captain Mahan, who since the appear
ance of his "Sea Power in History" has
taken rank among the greatest naval tac
ticians of the day, declares in* the Century
that the sea fights in the Japanese and
Chinese war prove that rapid-firing guns
of moderate caliber are more effective
than big guns, but that big ships are more
powerful than the same amount of ton
nage divided among smaller ones.
GORMAN'S VICTORY.
Senator Gorman has won a victory over
the administration Democrats in Mary
land that gives him complete control of
the party organization In the State and
attests that his leadership has been in no
wise weakened by the attacks of the ad
ministration upon him. The event is one
of more tnan local note, but it is doubtful
if at this time the real significance of it in
the field of politics can be rightly esti
mated.
The fight was one that involved a good
many issues. The friends of the adminis
tration were aided by the free-traders, who
objected to Gorman's refusal to support
the Wilson tariff bill as it was first drawn
and by a large number of the better ele
ment of the party, who have been disgusted
by the boss rule which the Gorman ma
chine has so long upheld in Baltimore.
The Gorman triumph, therefore, is a defeat
for the administration, a defeat for free
trade and a triumph for the machine, and
the question now comes concerning the
effect it will have upon the party in the
approaching elections.
That Gorman regards the election with
some dread is evident from the platform
which he made his convention adopt, and
which is peculiar both in what it says and
in what it left unsaid. It indorsed Cleve
land by referring to his inspiring leader
ship " and commending his administration
for " vigor and success in overcoming many
and great difficulties"; but it also com
mended the Gorman tariff which Cleve
land refused to sign and which he declared
to have been the result of "party perfidy
and dishonor." It left unsaid anything
about either Gorman or Gibson, thus pre
senting the curious spectacle of a trium
phant faction indorsing the leaders of the
losing faction and leaving its own leaders
unpraised, unnoted and unnamed.
It was certainly not for nothing that
Gorman induced his convention to adopt
such a self-stultifying platform. That as
tute leader knows in the coming election
he will need every vote he can get. This
looks very much like a Republican year in
Maryland, and certainly the contest will
be too close for Democracy to afford to lose
a vote. Gorman must hold not only his
own faction, but the cuckoos, the free
traders and the anti-boss Democrats as
well. To propitiate the first two he in
dorses Cleveland and the tariff, and to mol
lify the third he hides his head and lies
low in the background.
It seems to be a case of the Kentucky
dodge over again. The Democrats of the
Bourbon State indorsed the administration
and the gold standard, and then nomi
nated at the head of the ticket a free-silver
man, who, on more than one occasion, had
bitterly denounced both Cleveland and
Carlisle. In each case there is an evident
attempt to reconcile the warring factions
of the party and bring them to the polls
together once more. It remains to be seen
what success will attend the dodge. Both
Maryland and Kentucky have for a long
time been hidebound Democratic States,
and political tricks may succeed there that
would surely fail elsewhere. This year,
however, there is reason to hope for better
things. Gorman and the trusts have beat
en the cuckoos and free trade, and now we
may expect the people to beat the trusts,
the Gormamtes and the Baltimore ma
chine.
POOL-SELLING.
Now that the work of reorganizing the
police force is about over and the unset
tled condition of affairs has been replaced
by the installing of the new men in their
places we may reasonably look for more
vigor in the suppression of some of the
notorious evils of the City. The gambling
game of pool-selling in open violation of
the City ordinance is one of these evils
tbat requires immediate attention. It has
been fully exposed by The Call hereto
fore and the police can hardly find much
difficulty in obtaining evidence to convict
the offenders. '7
If the lottery is the most sneaking and
insidious way of enticing people to
gamble, illegal pool-selling is the most
brazen and insolent. It may be impos
sible to completely eradicate the lottery
evil, but it ought not to be difficult to
crush the pool-selling. The one may be
carried on in secret, but the other has to
be more or less open and public. In San
Francisco it is now carried on in the most
flagrant way, and affords the newly organ
ized police force a good opportunity to
display its energy.
POLICE CHANGES.
The changes made in the police force are
no more than the ordinary course of events
in a world where everything is mutable
and where one generation is incessantly
giving place to another. The retiring cap
tains — Douglass, Stone and Short— in
their time rendered good service to the
City and can well afford to look back upon
it with satisfaction. They have, of course,
made mistakes and have frequently been
the subject of criticism, for the oflice of a
police captain is a perplexing one, but on
the whole they have done their duty well
and have materially assisted in making the
police force of San Francisco one of the
most effective in the Union.
The new captains Wittman, Robinson
and Spillane — are not unworthy successors
of the veterans whom they have replaced.
All of them have had many years' experi
ence on the force and have risen from the
ranks by intelligence, force of character
and a faithful performance of duty. There
can be no question but that Chief Crowley
will find them to be able and zealous assist
ants in the wort of policing the city, re
straining violations of the law and main
taining the peace and order of the com
munity. *
A GENIUS DIES.
The death of Richard Morris Hunt, the
greatest of American architects, has come
at a time when the remarkable genius of j
the man seemed only just to have reached \
its prime, for he was but 67 years old, j
though for forty years he had led his pro
fession in this country. He was possessed I
of a remarkably rugged frame and had J
done prodigies of labor, but he overlooked j
the fact that at 67 a man must think of
being careful, and he has died from over
work.
Hunt belonged to the fine old school of
architects who thoroughly grounded
themselves by an exhaustive study of the
world's masterpieces in Europe and the far
East. Apparently he was never fully re
conciled to that bold American spirit
which made his noble art subservient to
commercial demands. It is true that be
designed the Tribune building in New
York, which, as one of the first of the
"skyscrapers" introduced into that city,
received a generous share of badgering;
but his Tribune building, with its lofty
and graceful dome set just inside the cop
ing and serving to complete the general
tower effect of a structure which other
wise would have been only a chimney, dis
closed the redeeming hand of the artist
and resulted in the production of one of
the handsomest structures in America.
But he seemed to avoid as much as pos
sible the demand of American ■ commer
cialism for. . monstrous creations, and
evidently preferred such lines of work as
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1895.
the Lenox , library and . elegant . private
residences. ""„ This means to say that he
loved and respected his art, and sought
always to produce the finest forms of
which it is capable. Conspicuous among
the wilderness of vast acreages under roof
at the Columbian Exposition was the
Administration building, which he de
signed, and which was a marvelous com
bination of the dignified and the ornate,
with not a false line in all its intricate
development.
He was to America what Sir Christopher
Wren was to England, and we doubt that
he has a successor in this country. The
time may come when the present Ameri
can idea of sacrificing art standards to
utilitarianism will be regarded as an ad
mirable form of architecture, but that is
putting forth a long arm of hope into the
future. For the present architecture of
this country, as manifested in business
houses that pierce the sky, exhibits the
bending of the artistic knee to the power
of money, and architecture is not the only
art that cheerfully performs the genu
flection, and often at the sacrifice of its
own pride, glory and nobler usefulness.
A REMARKABLE BOOK.
It is rarely that a technical work, partic
ularly one on physiology, intended for the
use of medical students and practitioners,
proves interesting to that creature vaguely
known as the "general reader," but when
such a book as that which has been issued
by Dr. John P. Scnmitz is presented it
challenges the attention of all intelligent
persons. Apart from the fact that Dr.
Schmitz is a physician and medical lec
turer in this City he has introduced into
his scholarly production some theories
and demonstrations that constitute a bold
challenge to the traditions of the past and
that open up a wide view beyond the
bounds of empiricism.
It is not the purpose here to review this
masterly work, but merely to mention
some of its unique features. In general it
is an able and finely written book and will
prove as interesting to the average lay
scholar as to the specialist in pathology.
The wisdom, patience and scholarship of
the German have received a bold touch of
the daring and originality which a long
residence in California seems to impart to
intellectual tasks, with the result that Dr.
Schmitz has given the most meaty of fruits
and the most fruity of meats for cranial
digestion.
On page 104 he gives the first shock to
ancient tenets. He denies that carbonic
acid gas is a product of decomposition of
the bodily elements, or that this gas exists
in the blood at all ; but asserts that the ele
ments of its production do exist and that the
gas is generated only at those places in the
system where its expansive force will not
produce a rupture of blood conduits and
vessels that is, in the so-called air cells of
the lungs. He will explain, further, that
carbonic acid gas should not be regarded
as the deadly poison which tradition has
declared it to be; further, that carbonic
acid gas is equally as important as oxygen
in sustaining the vital organism; and fur
ther still, and more important yet, that
carbonic acid gas is the stimulating agency
which keeps the vital activities at work.
Hence, asphyxiation from this gas is the
result of overstimulation. Hence, also, an
excess of oxygen is poisonous, the two
central ideas being that both carbonic acid
gas and oxygen have their important vital
uses and that it is a disturbance of their
equilibrium in the system that produces
evil. This may prove strong and unpalat
able meat for believers in the "oxygen
j treatment," but it is evidently fed by the
S hand of a master. " *,%'7-y>'
Dr. Schmitz has dug deeply into so many
of these profound matters that it is diffi
cult to make a choice among them. It is
disappointing to observe, however, that he
dismisses with a word that most mysteri
ous of organs, the pituitary gland, which
determines whether we shall be dwarfs,
giants or ordinary persons, and that he
confesses partial ignorance concerning the
pineal gland, which looks as though
it might be the rudiment of an eye that i
we once carried in the back of the head. !
But the learned doctor has not written to
enthrall the imagination. He has set
forth merely the observations of a hard, !
intelligent and conscientious student.
The illustrations and diagrams, many of I
them, which abound in the book are orig- |
inal and exceedingly instructive. This is !
the case particular in the author's treat- j
ment of nerve functions, and to this ex- J
tent he is somewhat remindful of Herbert i
Spencer in his great works on the physi- |
ology of the brain and mind. Altogether, j
Dr. Schmitz has produced a work which J
must command the admiration of physi
cians and students and the attention of
educated and knowledge-loving laymen.
UTILIZING THE WIND.
The ingenious suggestion made by A.
W. Manning in yesterday's Call for a
stationary windmill for utilizing the
power of our constant winds is a step
beyond the suggestion made by The Call
not long ago that there might be found in
these winds a solution of the fuel problem
of the City. As Mr. Manning truthfully
says, "the wind in this City and on the
coast blows in one direction as a rule about
ten months in the year," and for that
reason he has designed a machine fixed
firmly and facing the general source of the
wind. It is a galvanized iron windwheel
set on a horizontal axle, and may be pro
vided with automatic friction slats to
prevent too high speed. It will turn
equally well if the wind blows from the
contrary direction, and at the ends open
ings and other devices could be easily
arranged for catching and utilizing the
wind from whatever source it may blow.
The power developed by these wheels
can be used in raising water or sand,
which in turn can be employed to run
machinery by means of a turbine or an
overshot wheel, or it can generate elec
tricity fof direct use or for accumulators.
Mr. Manning asserts that wheels so con
structed can be made to develop from
1 to 500 horsepower. This can be easily
believed. The most attractive idea of his
suggestion is the adoption of the stable
form of wheel. The almost universal
type «f windmill used in California is that
which automatically adjusts itself to the
direction of the winds. This requires a
more complicated, delicate, expensive and
easily deranged mechanism than a sta
tionary wheel, which may be made very
cheaply and will be practically in
destructible. ,
The mills in use here are th ose made for
the necessities of the Eastern States, where
the winds are not constant. The Italian
and Chinese gardeners in the vicinity of
San Francisco for years : have been using
stationary mills with perfect success, and
yet no one seems to have taken the hint
from them. -These mills are exceedingly
cheap and primitive affairs, made by any
carpenter with' wood and provided with
cloth sails. They do not cost one-fourth
as much as the patented affairs in general
use and are liable to none of the disorders
which affect those elaborate machines.
One form of windmill which has been \
tried, but not with good success, is a tur
bine wheel with a perpendicular axle and
external fixed- slats so arranged that no
matter what the direction ,of wind the
wheel will receive and utilize it. There
seems to be no good reason in mechanics
why this idea might not be developed suc
cessfully, though it is not essential in view
of the constant direction of our coast
winds. 77 ft
In this matter, as in so many others,
Californians show a remarkable inaptness
for laying aside the traditions and usages
to which they were accustomed in the
East and making original developments of
the unique- conditions which surround
them -here. Instead of employing the
wonderful advantages which our constant
winds offer we adhere to the primitive and
costly production of steam which we
learned in the East, which is followed*
here at an expense many times as great as
that required in the East. The wind power
of San Francisco now going to waste could
undoubtedly be employed for all the pur
poses for which steam is used and at a cost
probably less than that which . the use ot
coal at 25 cents a ton would entail.
SPANISH- AMERIC AN TRADE.
The Revista Hispano- Americano, an illus
trated monthly journal published in this
City, has just issued an extra edition of
thrice the usual size, which will- compare
favorably in every respect with any similar
publication of the summer. The edition is
particularly interesting to us inasmuch as
it is designed to attract the attention of the
merchants of Spanish-America to Cali
fornia, and thus obtain for our manufac
turers and producers generally a portion at
least of the important and valuable trade
of these wide extended countries.
Every far-reaching effort made to pro
mote trade between California and Span
ish-America is deserving of cordial en
couragement and liberal support. Through
out Mexico, Central and South America,
there is a consumption of a large amount
of goods brought from Europe that might
just as well have been obtained here. The
trade with Mexico in particular is worth
working for and advertising for. That
country, already fairly prosperous, is
rapidly advancing in industry and wealth
and will furnish a continually increasing
market for a wide range of products that
can be produced in California. It lies con
tiguous to us. We have speedier com
munication with it, both by water and by
rail, than has any other temperate coun
try. We ought therefore to control that
market, and every good advertising journal
or commercial traveler who goes there to
build up a trade is rendering good service
to the State.
PERSONAL.
Louis Deem, a cattleman of Reno, Nev., is at
the Russ.
Mark L. McDonald of Santa Rosa is at the
Occidental.
W. C. Swain, a lumberman of Marysville, is
at the Grand.
B. G. Little, a lumberman of Eureka, is a
guest at the Russ. iSBB
Dr. P. T. Phillips of Reno, Nev., registered at
the Lick yesterday. .
Henry Postelthwaite, a fruit-grower of San
Jose, is at the Lick.
L. M. Lasell, a merchant of Martinez, regis
tered yesterday at the Grand.
Mrs. John S. Hager and her two daughters
arrived from the Orient yesterday.
narry P. Bridges of the Charter Oak Stove
Company of Boston is at the Palace.
L. F. Bremer, a merchant of Sacramento, and
Mrs. Bremer are guests at the Grand.
T. S. Phelps Jr. and F. H. Stevens, of the
navy, registered at the Palace yesterday.
Jesse D. Carr, the capitalist and Democratic
politician, of Salinas, is at the Occidental.
H. N. Baggs, the Mayor of Stockton, came
down yesterday and registered at the Lick.
Congressman Charles F. Joy of St. Louis and
Mrs. Joy have returned to town and are at the
Palace.
Colonel T. Harrington, a banker of Colusa
and a member of the Governor's staff, is a
guest at the Palace.
J. Nikowski, a prominent merchant of Yoko
hama, came in on the China yesterday and
registered at the Occidental.
Hon. S. G. Hilborn of Oakland, member of
Congress from the - Second District, and his
family, returned from their trip to the islands
yesterday.
Dr. Totherick, head of one of the large hospi
tals in Birmingham, England, arrived here by
the China yesterday, and is staying at the
Occidental.
E. Bourdois, a New York stock broker, and
his bride, daughter of D. S. Parker, one of the
wealthiest merchants in Samoa, arrived here
by the Mariposa yesterday, and are staying at
the Occidental.
Thomas Derby, superintendent of the New
Almaden quicksilver mine, and Frank S. Kelly
have returned from their trip to the southern
part of the State, where they spent some time
at Coronado and Catalina Islands.
Mrs. A. D. Hail and her daughter, Miss Agnes
E.Morgan and Miss Frances E. Phalps, mission
aries from Japan, and Miss E.F. Swinney, M.D.,
and Miss Susie M. Burdick, missionaries from
Shanghai, came in on the China yesterday and
went to the Occidental Hotel. 77;
PICTURING AN ELECTION.
i THB LONDON GRAPHIC'S SARCASTIC METHOD OF
POLITICAL CRITICISM.
The London Daily Graphic continues its pic-
i torial representation of
j the progress of the elec
j tions in Great Britain.
j On the 17th of July It
\ had another picture of
| Salisbury and Rosebery
climbing their different
ladders. On that date the
totals were as follows:
Conservatives and
Union Liberals 230
Radicals. :....... 47
Parnellltes 4
Anti-Parnellltes 13
Total of the minority. 64
So great was the ma-
I jority against Rosebery
that , the editor of the
Graphic perpetrated an
other joke by inserting
the following sarcastic
sentence just beneath the
victorious Salisbury:
"Seventy-six rungs omit
ted for want of space."
The only view to be ob
tained of Rosebery is pre
sented where his bands
are grasping the < ladder
at the sixty-fourth rung.
This method of report
ing the j progress of an
election would scarcely
be practicable in repre
senting the result of Con
gressional elections in
the United States, for the
reason that so many can
didates are to be elected
that the ladder would
cover : more ? than a col
umn of an ordinary news-,
paper. .
AN APPRECIATIVE AUTHOR.
To the Editor of The Call— Sin: Allow me to
thank you for the pains taken in reading and
commenting upon my book, "A New , Gospel of
Labor." Would * that ! all the great papers of
the United States were acting equally fair, and
paying as much attention to the interests of
the producing classes as you . do, : and the
country would,' no doubt, soon be brought
back again into the path of prosperity. Thank
ing you again, I remain, sir, respectfully
yours. - - ; - " "■-.■ "8. Wegener.
Seattle, Wash., July 27, 1895.
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.
. ' - " • ---••'•■•
Reuben H. Lloyd, the attorney, believes in
high wages, and will never pay a bill when it is
made out at a rate below the generally ac
cepted price.
Some years ago Mr. Lloyd was up in Nevada
trying a case for a client, and found It neces
sary to get a brief out before a certain date. He
went to the local printer and handed in his
copy, with instructions to have the book fin
ished and bound by the following Friday at
noon.
The printer promised that the work would be
done, and at the appointed | time Mr. Lloyd
called, and the complete books were delivered
printed in the highest style of art.
"What is your bill?" said the attorney.
*'ril tell you, Mr. Lloyd," answered the type
sticker, scratching his head, "as it was neces-
BECBEN H. LLOYD, WHO BELIEVES IN PAYING
HIGH WAGES. ;
[Sketched from life for the "Gall" by Nankivell.]
sary to put the hands on that job for the last
three nights I will have to charge you a little
more than is the custom. You know speed
comes high."
"Well, what's the bill?"
'Suppose we make it about $30 for twenty
copies?" "-7 7
"Won't pay it," thundered Mr. Lloyd. "Why,
man you must be crazy. Thirty dollars for
that job? Neva-a-ar, sir."
"We'll see about that, Mr. Lloyd. You ought
to know better than to expect it any cheaper.
Ail you have got to do is to say you don't want
the work, and I'll have you in the courts in
about twenty-four hours. Come, now, does it
go?"
"Say, young man, in regard to the courts
I'm a little bit on the law myself. Whenever
you want to bump up against a legal tilt, I'm
your man. Been in that sort of business a few
years, and when it comes down to a good lively
court scrap I'm a trifle partial to them. Now,
get out your complaint and we will proceed to
the bar."
The printer was a little rattled at this sally,
and after chewing his tongue a few moments
he inquired what was the fault with the bill,
and what Lloyd wanted in the matter of rates.
"I'll tell you, my boy," said the attorney,
leaning over in a confidential sort of a, way,
"the bill is too low. Make it $60. Any
man who does work like that and stays up all
night to do it ought to be properly paid. Here's
your money. Receipt that bill and let's go and
have dinner."
"But say, my dear sir, it Isn't worth that. It
would be robbery. Here, great guns! I don't
want the earth. Such a charge is prepos
terous."
Mr. Lloyd now -turned upon the thoroughly
flustered man, and with a withering look re
plied: "Now is a good time to learn a valuable
tip from one who knows. A man's work is
worth all he can get for it."
" Among the passengers on the Mariposa yes
terday were Edward ; Bourdois and hit bride
from Apia, Samoa. Mr. Bourdois is a New York
broker, who, three years ago, met while travel
ing on the continent D. S. Parker, one of the
wealthiest residents of Apia and his pretty
daughter Aliette. It was not long before he
won a promise from her to become his bride. It
was to claim her that he went down to Apia.
The wedding festivities were celebrated at the
residence of Mr. Parker in Apia on July 16, the
day before the Mariposa arrived there on her
way back to San Francisco, and were attended
by all the leading white officials of the islands
and about 200 natives.
There was a double ceremony, the first being
according to the native rite. *. A band of natives
presented themselves at the Parker residence
bedecked in flowers and trinkets, and made
offerings of bananas, fish and pigs, and con
cluded with songs of their native tongue. Then
followed the mors formal ceremony, at which
Mr. Mulligan, the American Consul, officiated.
On the following day the happy couple boarded
the steamer Mariposa, which was accompanied
out to sea by several hundred natives in their
small boats, sinking and waving adieu to the
departing groom and bride.
Miss Frances E. Phelps, a missionary whose
station has been at the inland town of Sendi.
Japan, came in on the China yesterday. Asked
at the Occidental about the effect of the war
on missionary work in Japan, she said: "We
feel that there are going to be very good results
to our work, especially through the army. The
Christian soldiers have shown that their adop
tion of a foreign religion does not interfere
with their patriotism. Before the war a good
many Japanese officers could not see how a
soldier embracing a foreign religion could be
loyal to his country. Now the officers have al
lowed Bibles to be freely distributed among
the men, something they were averse to before
the war. Of course the officers and the higher
classes have not been touched yet by the work
of the missionaries, but there is at least a more
friendly feeling toward us. The Japanese have
very acute minds and delight in mental exer
cise. Unless a preacher is well up in philoso
phy and science his spiritual work is not apt to
be effective.'' 7 - .
SAID IN REPARTEE.
"I think, madam," said the physician, after
a careful investigation of the patient's case,
"I think, madam, the trouble must be with the
liver."
"1 don't see how that can be, doctor; I never
eat it myself and the boarders haven't com
plained."—Philadelphia Times.
"Do yon believe in reincarnation?" asked the
mysticist.
"N-no," was the hesitating reply; "although
I must say that there are some things that
point to the truth of the theory. Every time
Spain kills a lot of Cubans they all seem to turn
up Washington Star.
Mrs. Watts— Why were you not at the church
Thursday night. .
v ' Mrs. Potts— l was out of the city. What was
going on? - •
Mrs. Watts— We' celebrated the silver anni
versary of the boy evangelist's work in the
missionary field. Oh, we had a lovely time-
Indianapolis Journal. • •' ';---.
Wiggles— l always told you that that love
affair would end in a tragedy, and now it has.
Waggles— so?.
Wiggles— hadn't you heard? They
were married Tuesday night.— Somer ville
Journal.
Even Up— Ethel Singleton— tell me. dear,
does a man get really angry j every time he
comes home and finds dinner isn't ready? 7 :
Mrs. Benedict ; (sweetly)— Yes just about as
angry as : a woman gets every time she has it
ready and he doesn't come home.— Puck.
THE PRESS OF THE STATE, AP
PROVES "THE , CALL'S " REPORTS
OF THE DURRANT CASE.
The Call has taken another popular step.
It will report the Durrant trial so \ that its
readers will be able to follow the case and not
waste time on the reading of immaterial mat
ter. This is to be commended, and we predict
that The Call •will le in | extraordinary de
mand, especially while the case continues.
Its one-minute synopsis is a gem.— Vallejo
Chronicle.
The Call declares its intention to report the
Durrant trial without pruriency. That is the
sort of thing that good people have long been
wanting to see in San Francisco journalism,
and now there is a chance to determine
whether they are in earnest about it, and
whether there is enough of them to pay.Ala
meda Argus.
The San Francisco Call seems really to have
enlisted for the war in its fight against uh
cleanness. Its latest promise is to this effect,
that it will waste no space in reporting the
Dnrrant trial, that the reader will be given a
comprehensive understanding of the case with
out his wading through useless columns of un
interesting and tiresome details, that all objec
tionable features will be eliminated to the
greatest possible degree. That's right. Thus
far in newspaper dealings with this case, there
has beeen more of a desire to gratify morbid
and prurient tastes and gather the nickels this
exercise would ensure, than to meet the re
quirements of normal minds.— Napa Register.
NOISY WATERWAYS IN CHINA.
[Nobody can read Julian Ralph's articles on
China in Harper's Magazine without increased
respect for the Chinese. The paper in the
August number, which he calls "Everyday
Scenes in China," gives • an account of the
water life of the country, and describes some
of the odd customs of the common people.]
The farther we traveled in China the more
we were amazed and delighted by the boats
and the water-life on the inland canals and
ways. Every day I noted new extravagances
and eccentricities of form and color in the
floating vehicles around me, and every day
Mr. Weldon caught up his colors and his
brushes and copied some extraordinary boat
or sail that we met. I have several times re
ferred to this subject in these papers, but the
boats of China have not been described here or
elsewhere. The hack-artist of the world at
large* treats their sails— the most picturesque
bits of China— as if they were Venetian blinds,
made of big bamboo slats backed by canvas.
That is not at all how they look. The bamboo
slats are in them, but they are very small and
are only seen when near at hand. Otherwise I
do not think it would be easy to say anything
of them that is not true— they are so dissimi
lar and varied and peculiar. One towers like
a great white steeple or a cloud above houses,
trees and everything. The next may be made
of a woman's apron or a little mat. One is
composed of a single blue shirt, and the next is
a crazyquilt of 100 gorgeous flags. In a day's
journey we saw white ones, red ones, black
ones, and others that were splotched, patched,
tattered or rent. We saw sails made of mat
ting, made of old coats, made of trousers and
of banners. We saw sails with prayers printed
upon them, others with mottoes, others with
pictures, and what might be called heraldic
devices. Most of them were mere parallelo
grams of cotton, but some were like schooner
sails at home, and some were lateen-shaped.
There is no rule as to the number of sails a
boat may carry, and one often sees five spread
on the larger junks, upon three regular masts
and two smaller ones fastened to the vessel's
sides, one forward and one aft.
A great part of the din that beats upon the
air of China comes of the raising and lowering
of these masts and sails, for on all except the
sea-going craft the masts are hinged and are
forever being pulled up or let down. To do
this work the Chinese crews are bunched to
gether on each deck, where they shout with
each output of strength. "Hee-tah, hee-tah,
hoo-ah, hoo-ab, hee-tah," they chant or grunt,
whenever two or twenty or two hundred
Chinamen work together at anything. A com
mon sight in the cities is to see fifty of them
pounding the earth for the foundation of a
new building. Every man, upon a high scaf
fold, tug* at a rope, and all the ropes meet at
one big rock that is lifted and dropped inces
santly upon the ground to harden it. I say
"every man," but there are always boys, and
even baby boys, at some of the ropes. All
shout together, beginning at daybreak, when
all work begins, after which sleep can only be
courted with chloroform. Whenever two men
work .at anything they chant, whether it is at
the work of carrying a coffin in a funeral or.a
bedstead out of a house. . I have known one
man to sing in that way while carrying my
empty hat-box, and have often run upon cooly
children practicing the chant as they shoul
dered burdenless sticks at play In the street. —
From "Everyday Scenes in China," by Julian
Ralph, in Harper's Magazine for August.
OPINIONS OF EDITORS.
There are now no journeymen bandits left in
the valley and apprentices will do well to
abandon the trade and get a job on the Valley
Railroad. Shoveling earth is a useful occupa
tion; returns are just as large and more cer
tain.—Tulare Register.
The next National Republican Convention
will be held at San Francisco. This will afford
every Oregonian the opportunity of his life.
It will give him a chance to see a National con
vention, and for one who has never seen one it
will be a treat indeed.— Salem (Or.) Post.
With the successful use of water power for
generating electricity California may be able
to compete with the East in manufacturing
where it is now impossible, owing to the differ
ence in cost of fuel, which in the Eastern
centers of manufacture is as low as $150 a
ton.— San Jose News.
Our own opinion is that the trial by jury is a
useful institution that has suffered in public
estimation far less from faults of its own than
from the way it is abused in practice. As the
old woman said about the doctrine of < total
depravity, it is a very good system, "if we only
live up to it."— Tacoma (Wash.) Ledger.
Any reform that is worthy of the name must
rest on the enlightened sense of the people,
and enlightened sense comes only by educa
tion, in teaching people the better ways of life.
Sunday laws that interfere with the rational
comforts and recreations of the people can
never stand in j popular government.—
Expositor.
Let us have our pursuit and punishment of
criminals prompt and vigorous; let them be
made ignominious before the world and not
let them be set up as brave manly men, dying
on the scaffold so long after their crimes that
their crimes are forgotten, and then people
will be willing and anxious to let the law take
its own course.— Fresno Expositor. -
The Manufacturers' and Producers' Associa
tion have at last hit the right ' track. They ap
peal to all their members and to other firms to
have their calendars printed this year in Cali
fornia. Now if they will go a step further and
let people knew what they are manufacturing,
by adopting the methods that have given East
ern manufacturers a marset in this State— that
is, advertise their products— they will in time
crowd out the Eastern goods against which they
have been vainly endeavoring *to compete.
The people of California cannot be expected to
buy an article of which they have never heard.
San Jose Mercury. .
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
Punch, Bart., it is now, as Lord Rosebery
made W.Agnes, its proprietor, who is also •_
picture-dealer, a baronet. .
The famous suit of the De Clvry brothers for
half the estate left by the last Duke of Bruns
wick has again been decided in their favor.
The other heir is the city of Geneva. The
estate ls worth millions.
Charles B. Rouse, a wealthy New York mer
chant, who served as a Confederate private
soldier during the war, has given $100,000 for
a fund to collect and preserve the Confederate
relics of the war. -".
Mrs. Johanna Lindberg ; of ■ St. ■ Paul, Minn.,
was adjudged insane and taken to an insane
asylum, the lunacy having been caused by the
excessive use of coffee. She drank five gallons
of the beverage daily.
, Perry H. Thompson, the lock-tender of Cum
berland, Md., who recently received $700,000
from an uncle, intends to open a .factory for
the manufacture of cheap stockings, where
about 500 girls will be employed.
Signor diPrisco, an Italian country gentle
man, recently dug ;up on his estate twenty
eight ancient silver vases of Greek workman
ship. He tried to sell them in Paris for $100,
--000. but under the law forbidding ; the export
of antiquities from Italy Italian Minister
of Education began proceedings against him.
OUT-OF-TOWN PERSONALS.
Santa Rosa, Cal., Aug. Arthur Living
| stone left here to-day for New York, to begin a
| year's engagement with" Brady's company,
which will play "Humanity." Judge Temple
returned" to San Francisco this week, after a
brief visit .to his family here. Judge S. K.
Dougherty, Assistant District Attorney ' Leppo
and Frank Leppo left Wednesday for San Fran
cisco, on their way to Shelter Cove, Humboldt
County. They go by steamer Homer and
will be packed by an experienced hunter to
Horse Mountain, said to be one of the best
regions in the county for trout and deer. Rev.
Owen Hotte of Napa is visiting in Santa Rosa.
Mrs. Dr. Lowry is visiting in San Francisco.
W. O. Hvrup and Miss Stulz of San Francisco
visited friends in Santa Rosa this week. T. 31.
Dempsey, one of the owners of the Evening
News of Seattle, and his daughter, Miss Carrie,
are visiting at R. L. Crooks' summer residence,
near here. Miss Jennie Marshall and her
friend, Miss Fannie Armstrong, have returned
from Cloverdale. They were part of a jolly
party chaperoned by Mrs. J. A. Kleeser to Lake
County. Mrs. M. C. McCallum is* here from
Edinburgh, Scotland, on a visit to her son,
G. S.K. McCallum, the well-known merchant.
Postmaster Lewis, wife and daughter, Miss
Kate, Miss Nettie Royal. Miss Nettie Peck and
Mrs. G. 0. Richards left Thursday for Capitola,
where they will spend a month camping on
the beach at that popular resort. There have
been a number of camping parties in the
vicinity of the petrified forest this season,
enjoying the mountain air. The families of S.
A. Leavy and D. R. Hodgson have just returned
from a two weeks' outing there, and report a
good time, the enjoyment of which is largely
due to the courtesies extended by Mr. and Mrs.
Stevenson, who reside at the forest. Those in
the party were: Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Leavy, Mr.
and Mrs. D. R. Hodgson and family. Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Leavy, Alice Hodgson, Ada Hodgson,
Minnie Leavy, Alfred Leavy, Mrs. H. B. Stevens
of Dallas, Or.. Mrs. James , Clendenln of Hope
land, and Mrs Frank Leavy. I. P. Overton, the
well-known banker, and his family are at
Inverness for a vacation. Hon. T. J. Geary and
family have gone to Inverness for a month.
Attorney O. O. Webber and family have re
turned from their outing at Russian Gulch 1
There was a social dance at the City Gardens
Wednesday night under the auspices of the
Santa Rosa Concert Club. The gardens and
pavilion were lit up with thousands of Japanese
lanterns, and music for dancing was furnished
by a full band. A large number of our most
popular young men and ladies were present
and a very enjoyable time was had. Among
those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Kirsch, Mr. •
and Mrs. Lindsay, the Misses Brophy, Ada
Rovse, May Correli, Kate Correll, Miss Holmes
of " Napa. Wanda and Nora Noonan, Edith
and Gertie Longmore, the Misses Dugan,
Henry Hood, Jesse Cooper, John Brophy, Harry
Yandell, George Dugan, Charlie Page, Herbert
Slater, Professor Gotwaldt, Will Aubenj,
Professor Parks, Thomas Carrolton, Morris ;
Kurlander, A.B. Anderson, A. T.Woodward,
F. Anderson, J. Ferguson, Professor Farley and
others.
Selma. Cal., Aug. I.— Mr. and Mrs."* D. 8.
Snodgrass, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Skelton, Mrs.
W. H. Berry, Mrs. H. Berry and Mrs. John C.
Moore are at Capitola. Captain Barrett and
his family are occupying a cottage at Pacific
Grove. W. B. Good and family, Mrs. R. E.
Zimmerman and Mrs. Boyer and daughter are
at Ockendens for the summer vacation. Mr.
and Mrs. G. W. Terrill, Mr. and Mrs. Pelton
and daughters have returned from Trimmer
Springs. The Misses McClurg are still at the
springs. W. Staley and family and Mrs. W. E.
Whitson are at Paso Robles. Mr. and Mrs. J.
D. Hufl'man and' daughters have gone to the
high Sierras to remain until September. The
ladies wore bloomers and are well mounted
for trail work. They have a camp at the
snow line. T. D. Hawks and the Misses
Hawks, Mrs. Gilmore, Mrs. Dr. Couch,
Mrs. T. C.Walker and Mrs. Professor Couch are
in camp at Poison Meadows. W. E. Clifford
and family are at Santa Cruz. Mrs. T. B. Smith
and daughters have gone to Pine Ridge. The
Misses Parson are visiting the Yosemite Val
ley. M. Sides and bride have returned from
Los Angeles, where the honeymoon was passed.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Lewald have just returned
from the metropolis, where they have been for
a brief vacation. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brown
have a mountain ranch to which they go for
the summer, after the Swiss mannei. They
are entertaining Mr. and Mrs. E. Adams, the
Misses Baird and Miss E. Stammers at present.
Selma, Cal., July.— following board of
directors of the . Centerville and Kingsburg
Irrigation Company was elected at the annual
meeting: J. L. Gilbert, R. L. Staley, A. A.
Smith, A. M. Terry, W. C. Warner, J. T. Rouch,
W. S. Shafer, I. N. Parlier and C. M. Shannon.
J. L. Gilbert was elected president of the board,
A. M. Terry vice-president and John P. Clark
secretary. The attendance at the meeting was
unusually large. A large majority of the stock
was represented.
Gilroy, Cal., August Mrs. E. H. Strange
and Miss Helen Strange are home from Berke
ley and Alum Rock. Mrs. H. Martin Briggs I
and son of Modesto are here for a few weeks.
Mrs. Eli Emlay and family, Mrs. Dr. Moheie
and Miss A. Moheie are at Pacific Grove for •
month's outing. Miss Ouida Sargent will enter
Van Ness Seminary, San Francisco, the coming
term. Miss Jennie Graham will reside in San
Francisco and attend' the Girls' High School,
Miss Agnes Sargent is the guest of Judge Mc-
Cann's family in Santa Cruz. Hon. J. C. Martin
and daughters of Prescott, Ariz., visited the Mc-
Clures this week. Mrs. Merritt Love is at Menlo
Park. Rev. John Stuchell and wife are enjoying
a month's vacation, camping on the summit
of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Rev. T. D. Mc«
Clellan is in town. Chief Sullivan and Sam
Rainey, who have been at Gilroy Hot Springs,
returned to San Francisco. Mrs. A. Lewis is in
the City. Gilroy Parlor No. 81. N." 8. G. W.. hag
issued invitations to the parlors of Santa Clara,
Santa Cruz, San Benito and Monterey to partic
ipate in the celebration of Admission day in
Gilroy. The firemen and wheelmen will also
be present from' adjoining towns. Mrs. J. A,
Richard and children and Mrs. Fred Robinson,
and children of Merced are among recent arri
vals. Mrs. King has returned to Stamford,
Conn., after a short visit to the Eschenbergs.
Miss Helen Ford and Mrs. Clara Kelley are
home from Capitola. Miss Laura Dewart is ate
Capitola. Mrs. M.F.Howe and daughter ara
home from Seabright.
White Sulphur Springs, Cal., Aug. I.— The
guests at White Sulphur Springs, Sonoma
County, are enthusiasts at croquet playing,
many match games lasting until the twinkling
stars come out. Guests registered at this
popular resort for the week are: Mr. and Mrsi
E. C. Lancet and Miss Emilie Lancel, of Ala*
meda; Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Moynihan and the
Misses Josie and Mamie Moynihan, of San
Francisco ; Mrs. Elizabeth Bergen of Berkeley,
Mrs. C. Tomlin of Jacksonville, 111., Miss Bessia
Duffe of San Francisco, Professor D. C. Clark of
Santa Cruz.
CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.
New York, N. V., Aug. I.— Callfornians regis*',
tered at hotels to-day : Pan Francisco— __t
Ames, Holland; Mr. and Mrs. W. Babcock, Ger»
lach; C. S. Ruggles, Imperial.
ON THE WAY HOME.
SALT LAKE, Utah, Aug. Mrs. R. A. Met
Mahen and family of San Francisco are at th©
Walker. They are on their way home.
Bacon Printing Company, 508 Clay streat *
— » » . — ,
Compulsory Exertion.— "The people here ap?
pear to take life very easy," remarked a North- -I
crn man who was sojourning in Arkansas,
"Nobody seems to have any work to do. I,
there a single busy man in the entire com*
munity?"
"Lawd, yes!" replied the native whom he
addressed. "That's a feller over in the other
side of town that's got salt rheum and a Water*
bury watch."— '
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loss of appetite. Try it.
— — : — * * *
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...••.«" •
"Shaving," said the Populist boarder, "ii
merely a habit." ■ , . --.•■:
"So is a beard," remarked the cheerful idiot,
"Just look how it grows on a man as he gets
older."— lndianapolis Journal.
i
MICROBES IN US,
■WHY? ,
BY WILL r CARLETON,
Poet and Athlete,
In Next SUNDAY'S CALL,
This is a remarkable contribution
to current literature. " Nobody "y
' . has a right to be sick," says Mr.
Carleton. Read it in next SUN-
DAY'S CALL. It will interest you.