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WEDNESDAY JUDY 14, 1597
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Good-by, Endeavorers.
Have you seen the midday Venus?
Oakland was full of herself and ber
visitors yesterday.
It is a pity the convention didn't stick
it out like Congress.
The counlry voted for a new tariff and
a rest, and it will soon get both.
There are almost as many offers of
ground for a park in the Mi-siou as there
are ideas on the subj ct.
Our relations with Japan are getting to
be of a nature which will require us to act
toward her like a Dutch uncle.
What would it profit the United States
to gain the sugar industry of Hawaii and
sacrifice that of California?
The snags in the way of the tariff move
ment need disturb nobody. The Republi
can party knows how to remove snag's.
Th-re are a good many pieces cf paper
money circulating round town as souve
nirs of the convention and we are clad tc
have them.
The Mission park movement has reached
the fork of tt c road, and there will be a
dccl of trouble in deciding which fork it is
best to take.
Some of our visitors will see more of
California than many people who were
born here, but who have done their trav
eling in loreign parts.
The Sultan continues to ask Europe
"What are you going to do about it?" He
continues also to find satisfaction in the
fact that he gets no answer.
The report that a lake recently discov
ered in Alaska is full of pure coal oil will
never be credited until somebody puts a
match to it and illumines the subject.
Tin's is one of tho few years in our his
tory that a business revival lias been noted
in s i mmer, and as a consequence the out
look for the fall trade is exceptionally
bright.
Bryan deserves all the credit he ever re
ceived as a leather-lunged, swivel-toneued
orator, for he is still traveling and talking
like a brass- bound machine operated by a
bellows.
The report that some of the visitors did
not like the weather we gave them con
firms the belief that some folks when they
get to heaven will complain that their
halos don't fit.
The United States will be called on to
export an unusually large amount of
wheat lo foreign markets this year and
the phrase "good as wheat" will have a
golden sound in the mouths of the people.
The efforts of the workingmen of the
City to have the new Federal building
erected of C.-li'ornia material, and by the
eight-hour day system of labor, ought to
be encouraged and assisted by the citizens
generally.
The Christian Endeavorers came in
time to see the City Hall dome completed,
and perhaps by the time they return tous
we will bave the new Hall of Justice
ready to raise the roof to the sound of
sweet music.
According to the latest revised figures
there are 71,000 more women than men
over 14 years of aire in Massachusetts, and
before long the abandoned farm problem
won't be a circumstance to that of the for
saken woman.
Now that full report* o* Altgeld's
speech on July 4 have come to us, it is
easy to understand why it was not tele
graphed. It was one of those stale old
calamity howls of which the people bave
grown weary long ago.
The Spanish idea that by going to war
with the United Sutes they can lose Cuba
in the shuffle without losing their honor
is curious, and if they ever put it into
practice they will find it about the costli
est curio in the world's market.
At the Tammany celebration of the
Fourth of July letters were received from
Cleveland. Hill and Bryan. The first was
hissed, the second slighted and the third
cheered. The tiger, it will be seen, has
determined to go the whole hog on the
Chicago platform.
An Oregon company is said to have re
ceived an order from Paris for SCOO barrels
of cured horse meat, and thus a field has
been opened for the horso industry with
which the bicycle cannot compete until
pome nation develops a taste for sausages
made of rubber tires.
As the threats of revolt in India have
come wholly from Mohammedans it is
believed in some quarters the movement
is not so much tho result of the famine as
an outburst of fanatic zeal caused by the
success of the Turkish Moslems in the
war against Greece. The theory is that
the Mohammedan priests have persuaded
their followers that Islam is about to
triumph over the cross, and the zealots are
eager to begin the battle.
T a Eirr PROSPECTS.
Until the tariff bill has been finally
adopted by both houses of Congress and
enacted into law by the signature of ihe
President there will always be som'. dan
ger that in its final form it may give in
adequate protection to the industries and
interests of California. It is, therefore,
-.'ratifying to learn from J. D. Spreckeis,
who has just returned from Washington,
that, in his judgment, the conference
committeo is not likely to change the
schedule duties on citrus fruits and other
products in which this State is deeply in
terested.
In the course of an interview published
ln The Call yesterday, Mr. Spreckeis
stated that he found tlio Republican lead
ers in Congress well disposed to give
favorable consideration to the claims of
the>6tate. The members of the commit
tee, be said, were anxious to receive all
ihe information that could be given, and,
he added, that California has obtained
about everything that her representative
people ask for. *.„..•'*..,
It is gratifying to receive such a report
of the situation at Washington. Califor
nia-has so many interests peciiiiir to her
self, that she dad largely to make a sinele
handed light to gain for them the needed
degree of protection. The extent of these
industries and interests is unknown to
the average member of Concress from the
E istern States, and the danger all along
has been that even with the best intention
in the world to do justice to California,
some of the Eastern men might have
done us injury through a mere lack of in
formation on the subject.
Fortunately our battle has been well
managed and well fought. Our delega
tion in Congress was ably supported by
men like Mr. Spreckeis and others, who
went to the National capital and took an
active part in the work of educatiug
Eastern Congressmen and bringing them
to an understanding of the importance of
protection to all our industries, and par
ticularly to those which are expos to
the competition of European countries
having cheap water transportation to the
great cities of the East.
With protection for our industries thus
assured the next thing will be to bring
about an efficient protection for the wage
woricers who carry on those industries.
As Mr. Spreckeis til in his interview:
The difficulties which confront the laboring
men of the United States cannot bj adjusted
in a proper and beneficial manner until laws
are passed and enforced to prevent the immi
gration from foreign countries of low-grade
laborer?. In this respect our workiugmen
must have protection. Men who endeavor to
make their homes habitable and to eiucate
their children cannot compete in the labor
market with the low grades of ignorant meu
who have no care or thought of home and
children.
Protection to industry, protection to
labor. These are the things which are
essential to prosperity in California and
of these we are now fairly well assured.
We can confront the future with sangulno
hopefulness, because we have at Wash
ington leaders who will shape the legisla
tion of the country in such a way as to
take advantage of every favorable oppor
tunity of the time and overcome every
obstacle which opposes "National progress.
SHEEPMEN'S OPPOKTUNITY.
While duly sympathizing with ths Aus
tralian wool-growers in the immense loss
which has just come to them by reason of
the protracted arouth the sheepmen of
this country should be wideawake to the
prospect the disaster promises of an ad
vance in the wool market. It is now a
duty they owe both 10 themselves and to
the whole community to ambitiously ex
ercise every expedient of shepherd skill to
produce the heaviest fleeces this season:
Every judicious forethought and every
dilieent care in providing for each day
abundant and nutritious pasture and
plenty of wholesome water will reap a
rich reward. After reaching 'he average
sum necessary for paying runnine ex
penses every fraction of a pound added
to the fleece and every fraction of a cent
added to he price is clear profit.
It is estimated tbe Australians will lose
one-half their flocks and that these will
amount to one-fifth of ail the sheep in the
world. According to reports the sheep
are not only dying by thousands of star-
ration but they are being slaughtered for
their pelts in anticipation of the failure of
pasture. The reasonableness of the calcu
lation for an advance in the price of wool
will be appreciated by considering what
such a loss amounts to. It would take
every sheep in the United States to fill up
the gap made by the destruction of 50 per
cent of the Australian flocks. Last year's
production of wool in the United States
was, in round numbers, 000.000 pounds,
that of Australasia was 643,000,000. The
yield of the who c world was 2,582,103,000
pounds. By this world's estimate the 50
percent loss of Australia would be only
one-eighth of the whole instead of one
fifth, but even that might make a very
profitable margin in the maiket over the
usual profits.
The advantage cannot last but a few
years, for sheep reach maturity so early
they can by skilled shepherding be multi
plied with marvelous rapidity. This same
facility of multiplication, however, can be
availed of by our fiockmasters in produc
ing an increased amount of wool while the
Australians are catching up.
Competent experts estimate that the
heavy importations of wool brought into
the country this spring to forestall the ex
pected increase of duty under the new
tariff have already reached an amount
sufficient for the needs of the country for
more than a year to come. Under these
circumstances our profits from the short
age of the world's wool crop will go mainly
to the irnpoitcrs rather than the growers
of wool. Nevertheless, there will be more
or less of r refit to all in the business, and
our growers should be on tbe alert toget
their share of it.
JAPAN AND HAWAII.
It is somewhat difficult for the Ameri
can people to eive serious consideration to
the claims of Japan with regard to the
Hawaiian Islands. When the Japanese
Minister at Washington made his protest
aeainst the proposed treaty of annexation
of Hawaii to the United States i*. was re
ceived by the State Department with due
decorum and answered with diplomatic
courtesy,' but the American people re
ceived it with some derision and would
have answered It in that spirit had they
been called upon to frame a reply.
We have never regarded Japan as a
power of sufficient importance ,in the
world to be taken into consideration as a
factor opposed to American progress. The
success of her war Against China was on
the whole gratifying to our people, and
we were as much pleased with her victory
as we would : aye been to see a bantam
whin a shanghai. There was something
gratifying in the display of sufficient
pluck,- vim and vigor on the part of the
little men of the little kingdom in defeat
inj. the Chinese, but nothing; in it that
gave us any reason to believe that Japan
would rise up a. a serious competitor
against us for supremacy in the Pacific
Ocean. ■■ - . "'■"-7.7777-~7'- •■ •■».■
It "seem?, however, that our opinion of
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY; JULY 14, 1897.
Japan is altogether different from that
which the Japanese have of themselves.
Flushed with pride by their easy success
over one large and populous nation, they
have persuaded themselves that they can
achieve further triumphs over any other
nation which comes in their way. Just after
the Chinese war they showed a willing
ness to fight Russia, and some of their
leaders expressed confidence in their
ability to take Australia and Coylon and
drive England out of the Pacific and
Indian oceans.
These warlike demonstrations having
been received dv the Russians and the
English with a degree ol ' patience which
seemed to the Japanese an evidence of
submissive acquiescence, they have turned
their attention to the United States, and
in language diplomatic, it is true, but
none the less clear, have notified us that
they are willing to leave us on the globe
so long as we are content to remain on
our continent, but that if we undertake
the annexation of any islands of. the sea
thej- will wipe us off the map. T i* 7- •_
The reply of Secretary Sherman was of
a nature calculated to restore something
of good sense to the Japanese, but it does
not appear to have been sufficient to ac
complish all that was needed. We are,
therefore, compelled to go to the expense
of sending ono of our war. hips to the
islands when it would have >uited us just
as well to have her at home. Manifestly we
cannot permit Japan to be calling out our
navy on any such short notice as this.
We must by some means teach her gov
erning powers to moderate their pridi
and lower their demands on the rest of the
world. How this is to be done is not
quite clear, but perhaps the arrival of a
man-of-war at Honolulu may go a long
way toward accomplishing it.
MISSION PAEK.
The number of lots offered to the Super
visors as sites for the proposed pare in
the Mission are sufficiently numerous to
afford a wide room for selection. They
d ffer from one another to so great an ex
tent in size, location, form and cost as to
make the decision a matter of considera-
ble difficulty and it will not be until each
proposition has been thoroughly studied
that i's merits as compared with those of
others can be accurately determined.
From the prices asked for the various
sites it is evident the cost of a park of
anything like adequate area will be large.
That, of course, was something to be ex
pected, for San Francisco soil is no longer
"dirt cheap" nor cheap dirt. It is cheaper
now, however, than it is ever likely to be
at any future time, and the true lesson to
be learned from the sum? demanded is
tbat if we are going to' have such a park
now is tbe best possible time to obtain the
land for it.
. Up to this point the movement for es
tablishing a park for the benefit of the
Mission district has been a singularly har
monious one. It is recognized that the
people of that section of the City ought
to have a park area near thtir homes and
commensurate with their needs. Sani
tary science has long ago made it known
that parks fulfill to crowded communities
moro service than that of supplying recre-
ation grounds. They are essential to pub
lic health, and therefore a park in that
saction of the' City would be beneficial to
the public at large as well as to those in
its immediate neighborhood.
Public sentiment being thus favorable
to the park it is to be hoped the difficult
task of selecting the site for it can be ac-
complisbed without creating dissensions
which will endanger the success of the en
terprise. There can be no question that
the movement has now reached the crit
ical point of its: development, and that it
will require good judgment, unselfish pur
pose and a moderation 01 method on the
Dart of its promote ri to carry it through
within the near future.
The people of San Francisco, though
demanding lower rates ot taxation, are
oppo«ed not so much to tho expenditure
of public money as to the waste of it.
There is every reason to believe they will
readily support the taxation necessary to
achieve economically any important
municipal improvement such as the pro
posed park would be. The task of provid
ing the paik, therefore, while difficult,
is not impossible. It. is time we were be
ginning a new order of things, and inaugu
rating an era in which the people wilt
work together for the general good. If
we can bring that about in the proposed
work, the new park will remain for us a
noble monument to mark the commence
ment of the new epoch in our municipal
history, and would hi an incentive for
further improvements in the future.
HAIL AND FAREWELL.
San Francisco takes leave of the Chiis
tian Endeavorers with the sincerest wish
that they may have to the fullest measure
alt the blessings expressed in the familiar
words of parting— farewell and good-by.
The coming of our guests was a pleasure
to us in many way«, their stay was a
profit both in a material and in a spiritual
measure, and in going they leave us
memories which will long be cherished in
our homes, and recalled with pride, grati
fication and gladness.
Almost every feature, not only of the
convention, but of all circumstances at
tenl ing it, was of a nature that is pleas
ant to look back upon. S ich slight d -
facts and mishaps as occurred served only
to make more notable the excellence of
the management which, in handling so
large a crowd under conditions that,
made mishaps probable, so arranged nf
inirs that but few of them took place.
From the railway officials who provided
the means for bringing so unusual a num
ber of passengers across the continent to
the committees who provided for their re
ception and entertainment here and for
the conduct of the numerous meetings
and assemblies, all arede-erving of praise.
San Francisco can recall their services
with gratification, for she shares in the
honor of tlieir success and will derive both
glory and profit from it.
We may count with satisfaction the
gain we have derived from money ex
pended In our trade, from the prestige we
have won as a convention city which will
aid us in obtaining other National con
ventions hereafter, but beyond and above
all these material benefits we will find
gratification in the moral and spiritual re
sults of the great gathering. •
We hava lived for a week under the in
fluence emanating from a host of young
men' and young women zealous for the
moral improvement of the world. We
have heard or r.-nd the sermons of earnest
and eloquent orators, caught the verve
and vigor of the quick, short sentences
uttered In one-minute talk*, heard the
vast choruses singing their anthems of
praise and of jubilee, and from each and
all of these have gathered inspirations
which cannot fail to be helpful to us.
Therefore we bid our guests farewell with
a more than u-nal sincerity in the wish
that they may fare well in all their ways
and in all their work— and may we also
fare well in reaping the harvest of the
seed they have sown. , i . ; - ; ..-.7'->7
Mis* Helen Gladstone will, undertake the
opening ceremony in connection with the
Hotel ior Women Student-;, which has been
erected at Bangor, near Belfast, Ireland.
'AN OLD PEN DRAWINQ By QUEEN VICTORIA
The picture Is that of "The Little Princess Victoria," eldest child of Queen Victoria,
who was born at Buckingham Palace, London, November 21, 1840. It was drawn by her
M-'jesty the Queen February 22, 1841, according to the legend in her handwriting, and
was only lately given to the public. Princess Victoria was married in 1858 to Frederick,
Crown Prince of Prussia, and became the mother of the present Emperor of Germany, and
through her conns his claim to the succession of the Briti h throne on tbe death of Queen
victoria. izzizyyy yyy.-''.
PERSONAL.
J. D. Sherwood of Spokane is In the City.
Ex-Judge J. M. Fulwjeller of Auburn is at the
Lick. ..Z-'Z-Z
Dr. A. B. Jenny of Stoneham, Mass., ls in
town.
P. P. Davis of Porterville is at the Cosmo
politan.
George E. Goodman, the banker of Napa, is
ln town.
Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Tenant ol Martinez are at
the Grand.
M. D. R. Venable of San Luis Obispo arrived
here yesterday.
George Smith, a vlneyardlat of Courtland,
is a visitor here.
Dr. A. H. Suggett of Marysville ii among the
arrivals at the Grand.
J. A. Schiller, a mining and business man of
Denver, is at the Lick.
William Trewarth* of Angels Camp is stay
ing at the Cosmopolitan.
W. McDougall and J. E. Spencer of Fresuo
are at the Cosmopolitan HoteL
George N. Fancher, president of the First Na
tional Bank of Merced, is in the City.
A. M. Bergevln of Chicago, a dealer in Cali
fornia fruits; is among the arrivals here.
Angus McDonald and Dr. George GrotefendJ
of Redding, are among tbe arrivals here.
Mrs. J. W. Jenkins and Mrs. J. M. Barlow of
San Diego are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel.
Dr. A. Tilzer and William P. Adnms. an at
torney, bath ot Portland, are at the Grand.
E. Jacobs, the owner of about 65,000 acres of
grain land near Visalia, is at the Occidental.
.' Harry Posteltbwaite, a wealthy resident
of San Jose, has arrived here for a few days'
stay. ; 77»tJ : '7v\
a E. Holden, who owns interests ln a bank,
tanning and other things at Napa, is in the
City.
h. E. Jung, a leading manufacturer of drugs
of New Or.cans, ha- arrived here. He is at the
Palace.
David M. Foltz. The Call's enterprising
agent in New Yo.k. is spending a short vaca
tion in this City. ■
H. J. Bading, who is largely engaged in
salmon-canning ln Alaska, has returned here,
after a trip to the north.
Mrs. Anna B!od;ett of Brookllne, Mass., and
Miss Estell Ward of Spencer, Mass., are guests
of Captain and Mrs. W. F. Mills, 2007 Fillmore
street.
T. K. Gates of New York, a director of the
Southern Pacific and assistant to President C.
P. Huntington, is in the City, the guest of H.
K. Huntington.
Raphael Weill is home again.. He went
abroad eleven months ago and passed most of
the time since in Paris. He had a good time
and will make the trip again. ' ■■["
J. G. Oxnard, who is prominently Identified
with the extensive beet-sugar factory at Chino,
is among the arrivals at the Palace. Ho has
just returned from a visit to New York.
I. B. Peakes, who was formerly in the hotel
business at Suit* Cruz, and who afterward
figured at the Midwinter Fair as "Papa"
Peake-, is down from his mines in Calaveras
County.
S. M. Shortridge, attomey-at-law, has re
turned to the City from the southern portion
of the St ite, where he had boon attending to
professional business connected with the firm
of which he is a member.
General Wade Hampton, United States Rail
way Commissioner, is at San Rafael accom
panied by his daughter. He is on his annual
inspection trip, and reports, the condition of
the Pacific roads good, physically speaking. .
CALIFORMANS IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, N. V., July 13.— At the St.
C.oud— C. SUch. Holland— B.Hecht. Astor— R.
Knighton. Hcflmai.— C. Siebe. Grand
Union— F. H. Clam. Be videre— Miss P. Stock
well. Paul Langen left the St. Cloud and
sailed on the Saa for Bremen. Fred C. Siebe
also sailed for Germany. ■-:,.,
HOME OF CEN. LEW WALLACE.
Kkkn, Cal., July 12, 1897.
Editor San Francisco Call: Highly appreciat
ing the accuracy of The Call on all subjects,
I write to correct a statement (that might
cause some inquirer annoyance) thai the home
of General Lew. Wallace was Crawjprdsville
111. It ls Crawfordsville, Ind., on the Indian--,
Bloomlngton and Western Railway, some thirty
miles west of Indianapolis. I wish to add my
admiration tor the f.nrness of The Call in
civlng spece to those who differ with us
poltieally. Am a stalwart Republican, but
have great respect for such men as John P.
Irish and Joseph Asbury Johnson. Yours
truly, ! J, N. Thompson.
NEW MOVE IN BUTTER.
New York Hera d.
The shipment of sixty tons of American but
ter to Australia, by way of Vancouver, is an
encouraging incident. Our dairy interests
have been singularly slow to take advantage
of opportunities for disposing ol butter in the
foreign markets. They should study the
methods pursued by ittle Holland.
MISS MARY.
I mist Miss Mary turn de place;
She take de blossom track:.
"I f .'aid de riv^r steal her ftce
- Ku den won't give It bacev!
For every time sbe pass
I beah de river say :
"Miss Maiy, heart's vo' lookln'glass— : "
I wish you look dis way!"
I miss ___l<s Mary fam de place;
He sun done cone ter bed;."'
De re.t ro»e 'low be lonesome now —
.:'. lie Illy hang be head. I.i.'
En every* bar she pass
-1 heab d«m wll' flowers say:
"Heart's a dewdrap ler yo' lookln'glass—
Miss Mary, look dis way !'''
• —Atlanta Constitution.
SATIRICAL REPAR » EE.
London Tit- Bits.
An ancient sage who lived when it was com
mon to erect statues to obscure persons, being
condoled with that no such honor had teen
conierred upon him, replied with wit, but also
with satire: "I preier to hear it asked why I
have no statue rather than why I had one."
A French maid-of-honor at tbe court of
Louis XIII asked a certain marshal to marry
her. '■*.:■■'.:..:■':■.;.-
"You are the silliest man in court," said
she on his relu<*al.
"Excuse me," was ihe witty, but bitter, re
ply, "I think 1 have just proved the contrary."
A celebrated French artist in the days of
Loui- XIII disliked painting the portraits of
ibe la. lies at the court. If be represented
them as they were they accused him of not
produc ng a good likeness, and if he flattered
tnem then the critics asserted the absence of
a resemblance. A Countess, whose handsome
features were disfigured by the application of
rouge, persuaded the artist much against his
will to paint her portrait. ' Monsieur," said
she petulantly after two or . three sittings,
"your c dors are not brilliant enough for my
romplt xion. Where did you. buy them?"
"Madame," answered the artis', "I think they
cumc :rom the same shop where you buy your
own."
A would-be wit of Paris, with more assur
ance than brains, offered to Introduce a young
noolemnii of the provinces to a lady of high
rank. "Allow me. madame," said be, "to
present to you the Marquis de Tlerceville, who
is not such a fool as he looks." "Madame,"
replied the M .rquis, "that is precisely the
difference between my friend nnd mc." .
A countryman, walking through a city
street in which there were many brokers'
offices, was surprised at the absence of mer
cnandhe in the windows. "Monsieur, "hat
do you sell? ' he asked, stepping into nn office.
"Asses' heads," answered the broker, snap
pishl -. "Monsieur must be doing a large
trade," * rej>ined the peasant, laughing
heartily, "for I see that he has but one left."
Slovens should be made to feel that neither
their position nor tneir brains justify their
disagreeable eccentricity. Mahoney, the Irish
wit. Known as "Father Prom," once called on
a literary lady, whom he found conversing
with a gentleman whose manners indicated
his tamiliar.ty with good society, but whose
apparel betrayed his slovenliness. .
'■Did you n«>t notice his well-bred ease and
court y tone?" asked the lady ot Mahoney
after the gentleman had left the room.
"Yes," growled the cynical wit,, "your
friend can we 1 afford to put some polish in
his manner, for he keeps none for his boots."
JAMES WHITCO.ViB RILEY.
Sometime when you are thlnkin' of the "days 'at
ust to be." -•.-..
With a kind o' wore-out fancy and a hart that akes
to see
The gray nairs comin" thicker, with the noontide
of ihe day
A-fae.lln' to the sunset ani the dawn not far
away—
Mayhap you'll panse a minute and look a nlstant
.. wnere - .;: - ...
The shine o' pleasure ust to be, but ses if isn't
there.
But yore Imagination, then, will picture what has
bin.. •*■...-.
And you will roam out on the farm, and oiler on
the green.
Jist as ye did ufor • ye saw the city er the sea,
lv the olden, go den auusblau of th_ "days 'at
ust to tie." - ■•-.
Afore ye routed Bohemia In sorch o' recompense,
At "fix words fur a quarter" dabbled on the high
way fence. "•*' : • '•.
It kant be long, Jim Riley, 'fore ye've got to leave
the toil
Uv tha short life to mingle with the elements o'
soil- • ' . '■■
But ye-'.i make the old earth richer tnan she ever
was before.
By the songs ye sung her children la the hippy
days o' yore, '
And she.l sing yore old-time ditties with a glad
ness full and free
Of the o den, golden gory of the "days 'at ust
to ue." . *
Willis Wilfred Fowler In Chicago Times-
Herald. ■ ■
MEN AND WO EN.
Dr. William Nast, the father of German
Methodism, celebrated his ninetieth birthday
in Cincinnati on Tuesday last.
Professor E. E. Barnard, the astronomer, has
been elected president of the Vanderbilt Uni
versity Alumni Association.
Miss Ida Stella Hall was the only woman
graduated this season from the Boston Univer
sity law school. Miss Hull has been an earnest
student. While in the law school she has
taught In the night school. .
Dr. James Wooiiow has resigned the presi
dency of the South Carolina College. Having
entered upon his 70th year he considers him
self too old to longer bear the cares and re
sponsibilities of the presidency.
The Khedive of Egypt has a private xoo. He
calls the animals after persons and potentates
whom he hates, and when he Is out of humor
after a Cabinet council he makes the wretched
animals pay for their namesakes.
Pope Leo has opened the Borgia rooms in
the Vatican after spending $100,000 on their
restoration. Four years were consumed in the
work, and the Pope was very anxious that it
should be completed before his death.
In the face of the numerous pictures which
represent Queen Victoria on any and every
domestic occasion with her crown on it is
rather curious to learn that she has uot, as a
matter of fact, worn it more than twenty times
during her whole reign.
Mile. Henrietta S. Corradi, one of the most
successiul teachers, of vocal music in New
York City, has recently had conferred upon
her the distinguished honor of the decree of
•Officler d'Academie" by the French Govern
ment.
PRIVATE PURSES OF ROYALTY".
.■-..7,. 1 ondon Chronicle.
• The offer of the King of Greece to forego a
portion of his by no means' excessive civil list
suggests that payment by merit or even by re
sult finds no application in the case of rulers.
Ucquestlonably the richest of European sov
ereigns is the Czar, who has the whole
resources of Russia to draw upon, (hough
his actual civil list dees not exceed a mil
lion sterling. His private fortune, however
must amount to at least four limes that
amount. The -Sultan enjoys also large
personal revenue in addition to the £81H.,UUU
which he nominally draws Irom the treasury.
He disposes of two millions annually at the
very least. The German Empjror is allowed
something under a million, and is by no
means possessed of large public means. He Is
not so rich as the Austrian Em
peror, whose state revenue J aches a
higher amount. Italy cannot afford to pay
King Humbert more tnan £105,000. and every
year the privy purse has to make up for Nrge
deficiencies, From his own subjects the King
of Greece receives , £40 000 per annum and
£12,000 more is guaran. eedby^Engla-.d
Franc- and Russia. Tne. incomes of the King
of Portugal and the Frencn President do not
exceed £50,000 a vnr. and Piesiaeut "*i_
ley gets but £10,000. while the Swiss Legisla
ture provides but £500 for Its chief.
. SIGNS OF BETTER TIMES.
Times are growing better. Look at the ex
cursion trains that have gone to California!
People would not be spending money like
that if they were as hardup as the Tillman
and White men say they are. The willing
workers of America scarcely know what bard
times are.— Des Moines Capital.
The number of business failures for the first
half ot the calendar year 1897 and the amour,
of liabilities involved are below those of the
same period in 1896. This is the testimony of
the commercial agencies' tables. Hero is an
encouraging indication. The bank clearances
and railroad earnings show that the volume
of general trade throughout the country ison
the increase, while the figures of commercial
mortality Indicate that trade is on a solider
basis than it was last year. When the normal
conditions in the business world are com
pletely restored a long period of financial
prosperity may reasonably be looked for. —
Globe-Democrat. >. v-.
Strange echoes come from distant Kansas
echoes of the voices of farmers crying for help
to harvest their marvelous crop., ecaoes of
reaping machines at work in the grain fields
from dawn until night, ana of the laughter of
thousands of women and children who have
temporarily left their homes to aid in gather
ing the most magnificent yield of wheat with
which the Sate has ever been blessed. These
are cheering voices to come from any State,
but they are doubly assuring when they come
Irom Kansas. They drown the gloomy fore
bodings of the demagogue and the grumbler.
They confound the evil prophecies of the
calamity howler, and they send forth to tne
world the inspiring message thai Kansas is all
right, in soite of her whiners and croakers.—
New York Mail and Express. V.*,.*-
WITH YOUR COFFEE.
"Was your husband accustomed to use in
toxicating liquor* to excess?" inquired the
Insurance adjuster.
"Well," she said remlniscently, "he never
used to paint things red, but occasionally he
would get out a pink supplement."— Chicago
Times-Herald. ZZ
"You are fond of watermelons, of course,"
remarked an Ohio friend to Colonel Louie
Veel.
"Certainly, sir, certainly," replied the
colonel. "My only objection to them is the
water in their name, but they are not re
sponsible for that."— Lou. Courier-Jour
nal.
"Do you believe in hypnotism?" he asked
as he looked intently into her great brown
eyes.
"I must," she answered, with all the bravery
she could summon. "I know that you are go
ing to kiss me, but I am powerl.ss to protest."
—Detroit Free Press. ,:. ■ -
Mrs. Hogan— don't yez break yourself
ay r-readin' the paper out loud. Dinny?
Mr. Hfgin-An' fwy should I do that, now?
"Suppose ye was to go deef, how would you
read thiu, at all?"— lndianapolis Journal.
. "What is It, Johnny?" , .
"I want to know, mamma, why they call
this 'rithmetic a textbook. I've looked all
through it, an. there ain't no texts in it no
where."—Chicago Tribune.
"You men," complained Mrs. Wiggins to
her husband, "have no idea how much we
women suff-T in silence." ■* ; • ..- -
"Under the conditions you have named,"
responded Wiggins, "I am constrained to be
lieve that you suffer but very little."—
State Journal.
"He's had a most remarkable career, hasn't
he?". c.7"
"Indeed, he has."
"It has been pretty well ventilated, too,
hasn't it?"
••Fairly well; but it ought to be fumigated
also. "—Chicago Post.
"We can't afford to go through this world
With gloomy faces. "
"Not much we can't; IT we do we make our
creditors think that we are getting ready to
fail, and they will jump on us."— Chicago
Record. '"■'■-■-_
THE LATEST INVENTIONS,
To prevent horses from getting the reins
under their tail a wire fender is attached to
the crupper strap with loops through which
the reins s.ip.
Pneumatic typewriters are being placed on
'he market, the keys being a series of soft rub
ber bulbs opening into pipes with valves at
the opposite ends to force the type levers to
strike the paper.
Words can be counted on a typewriter by a
new mechanism, which has an operating
lever attached to the space-bar to work the
mechanism ol the counter as the space 's
formed after each word.
To file a saw evenly a new guide has a frame
which carries the file in. the center and two
parallel strips at the sides which rest on the
teeth of the saw and keep the file from tilting
and cutting the teeth uneven.
Emergency brakes for r^ i road and trolley
cars have a lever on the platform of the eir
to bo depressed and force a toothed wheel
down into the ground or against a roughened
surface at the side of the track.
Trolley wheels are to be oiled automatically
by placing tubes in the wheel to connect an
oil chamber in the hub with the axle of the
wheel, so that the oil will flow out as the
wheel revolves on the wire.
To strengthen weak ankles when skating a
new device is formed of a brace running up
the side of the leg with clamps for the ankle
and attached to the skate at the heel, thus
keeping the ankle from twisting or turning.
To prevent flies from biting horses on the
under side of their heads a new insect shield
is formed of a nl.bed frame to which cloth is
attached, the frame being of such shape as to
fit the norse's head tightly and exclude all
flies.
A handy device for use in the bath tub con
sists of a soap and sponge holder, having
curved wires fastened together to form a
basket for the sponge, the upper ends of the
wires coming together lo grasp a porcelain
tray for the soap.
A combination for hotels and restaurants Is
a chair which has a box under tne seat to
boll a pair of standards which can be at
tached to the front of the chair for the ieet to
rest on while a customer is having his boots
blacked. • *.•-
Doors in the dining-rooms of hotels and
restaurants can be automatically orened by a
new device, consisting of a lever attached to
the bottom of the door, to be pressed by • the
foot and unlatch thedoor and swing it open at
the same time.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
. United States Bonds— F. M., {.argents, Cal.
The outstanding bonds of tbe United States
are payable either in coin or lawful money of
the United Slates.
Bested Cokbett-S. , City. James J. Corbett
and Mac Donald, the baseball umplte, bad a
difficulty in this City at one time and came to
blows. The baseball umpire bested the ex
champion.
Sandwich Islands -T.J. b., City. What are
now known as the Hawaiian Islands were
named the Sandwich Island* by Captain Cook,
the navigator, lor the Earl of Sandwich, who
was the First Lord of the Admiralty at that
time.
Engagement Ring —A. S., Gibbonsville,
Lemhi County, Idaho.- If a girl ia willing to
marry, but is not engaged, she should wear a
ring on the index finger of the left hand; if
engaged on the second finger of the same
hand. If she marries she wears it on tho third
finger of the left hand. '
. American— G. A. M., City. American. is a
term that signifies a native of the western
hemisphere, stecifically a native of North
America. The name was originally applied to
the aboriginal races discovered by the Euro
pean?, but now to the descendants oi Europeans
born in America, and la the more restricted or
popular sense to the citizen" of the United
Siatps. in the latter sense any person bom in
ihe United States, or one who is a legally con
stituted citizen „t hereof, Is an American.
Technically tie true American is the aboil
gine and his direct descendants.,
Whips— C. 11., Monrovia, Cal. This depart
ment can not advertise the locat. on of the
manufactories of whips," nor will it advertise
any business or flrm3. Correspondents seek
ing information that involves in the reply an
advertisement should inclose a self-addressed
and stamped envelope. - .
The Mint— A. P., Dixon, Cal. The time for
examinations lor tha "United .States branch
mint in this City under civil service roles haa
not yet been announced. For Information In
regard to the examination address the secre
tary of the examiners at the Mint, San Fran-
Cisco. __7__
Legal TENDER-Subscriber, City. Silver
dollars of tne United States arc legal tender in
any amount unless otherwise stipulated in
the contract; subsidiary coins are legal tender
in any sum not to exceed $10. and miior
coins ore legal tender in sums not exceeding
25 cents.
Bryan in Congress— Call Reader, Modesto,
Cal. William J. Bryan served in the Fifty,
second and Fifty-third Congresses, and was in
office from December 5. 1892. nnt'l March 4,
1805. On the 29th of August, 1893, Voorhees
ol Indiana introduced a bill which contained
a provision, which* is generally known as the
••repeal of, the Sherman act." It is in the
following words: . '
Tnat so much of the act approved July 14,
1890, entitled "An act directing the purchase
oi silver bullion and issue of treasury noes
thereon, and for otner purposes, as directs
the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase
irom time to time silver bui.iou to
the aggregate amount of 4,500,000 ounces,
or so much 'hereof us may be offered lv
each mon th at the market price thereof, not
exceeding $1 for 361.25 grains of pure silver,
and to issue in payment lor such purchases ot,
treasury notes of the United States, be, an.l
the same is hereby repealed. '_ ' . .
On the Ist of November the bill, having been
in the meantime in the Senate, came tip again
in the House and was carried by 193 aye* to
66 noes. Bryan voted "nay."
SAMPLE OHIO SILVERITE. *..:
Indianapolis Journal.
It now turns out that the Democratic can
didate for Governor in Ohio is a coal operator
who has had his full snare of experience with
strikes, and once called upon Governor Foster
for militia to defend his property against.
strikers. Very naturally, he ix a silvenie,
since a depreciated dol ar may aff'ir I him the
means to pay miners less than they now re- •
ceive. _____
A HAND IN THE JACKPOT.
. Indian > polls Journal.
The manufacturers of playing-cards are
doubtless mistaken in thinking that a tax on
their product will kill their industry. Indus
tries like card-playing are not so easily
killed. During the war every pack of playing
cards was taxed from 1 to 2 cents, according
to quality, yet card-playing tripped along
quite cheerfully. ■'
Thousands of lbs. of Cal. glace fruit, all
ready, packed in handsome baskets, at Town
send's. No waiting. Palace Hotel building. *
Fjtcial information daily to manufacture?*. .
business house ) and public men by .the'Pran
Clipping Bureau (Allan's), 510 Moutgomer/. V
Endeavorers:— You cannot give your East
ern friends a nicer present tnan Townsend's
California Glace Fruit; s'Jc a pound, ih elegant
fire-etched boxes. Palace Hotel Bulldin,'. * -.
No wind on the bay in the mornings. Just
right for a three hours' trip around the bay on
the steamer Ukiah. Leave Tlburon ferry at
0:30 every morning this week. Tickets 50
cents, children between 5 and 12 years of ago
25 cents. *
BRITAIN'S SUBSIDIES.
Globe-D.-mocrat.
The large sutsidy to the new trans-Atlantic .
line to Canada is given under the express con
ditions that the steamers shall touch* at no
port ;of the United States. For a free-trade j
country. England manages to get in a good;,
many strokes of a. protecive nature. "• :.-■>' :.•■'.
825 -Kate to Chicago via the Great
tan tit 1 -'•• I : oiiie-.
The low rates trade for Chi!st»an Endeavorers
will be open to the? public lis well. An opportu
nity to visit the h»>t never before enjoyed by C.-it
hornians. I'ullman l'alace Drawing-room Sleep.*
irp-cars of ihe latest pattern, Modern upholstered • ■
tourist sleeping-cars run dally through from oak
land pier to Chicago. Si-e time-table in advertis
ing column. Sun Francisco licketoflice 64-4 .Market
street. Chronicle Lvi ding, 'lelepbone ilalaiSJl
Oakland, HIS 1 roadway.
Great .Reduction in Bates to Eastern ,' : - -
CltlCH iHSB|B>".
Via Ponset P.oute and Piedmont Air Line. Only \_ : - .
-(.US 25 to Washington and Baltimore; Philadel- "_-.
phia. $39 25: New York, $40 _.'». and Boston $42. . : *
Correspondingly low rates to other points. Only •'.
route operating personally conducted tourist cars ■
San Francisco to Washington. D. C, without *--* :
change. For further intorciatiou call on or address :' '•
C. 1.. HOPKINS, Pacific Coast Passenger Agent,' "
621 Market straet, bun Francisco.
533 50 to Si. rani, Minneapolis and
ciii.-.itro. mzm
Tickets will be on rale July 12 to the 17th. oood
final limit, August 15; stopover allowed. It's a
splendid opportunity to take a trip to Chicago and
stop oft' at the famous Yellowstone Park. Send
6 cents In stamps for illustrated book, "Wonder
land," to T. K. Stateler, general agent Northern,
Pacific Kail way, 638 Market street, San Frauclsca
"Mrs. Winelowa Soothing Syrnp" .
Has been used over fifty years by millions ot\
mothers for their children white Teething with per- -
fact success, lt soothes the child, softens .he gums, .
allays Pain, cares Wind Colic, regulates tbe Bowels -
and Is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether aris
ing from teething or other causes. or sale by drug
gists ln every part of the world. E> sure and aslc
IM Mis. Whitlow's Soothing Syrup. 25c a botU<_,
Beduced Bates for All
To the East via the Hio Grande Western Kail way,
passing through .Utah and Colorado by daylight.
Through cars by all trains. Tickets, sleeping-car
reservations and full information furnished at 14'
Montgomery a reet.
Corona no.— Atmosphere is perfectly dry. soft; '«■
and mild, being entirely free from tbe mists com-.. :
mon farther north. Kound- trip tick-its. by steam-. -■'
ship, including fifteen days' board at. the ilo.elUal
Coronado, $60; longer slay *'- 60 per day. Apj__/-. '..
4 _Sew Montgomery street, San Franclsca
■ For jaundice and liver complaint. Ayer's.Pillt : '.I
are better than any other. They do not contain a' .'•-■
particle of calomel. . ',' ■
PHANTASMAGORIA.
Kansas City limes. '.-..'
Fully a thousand persons have already seen .- .."
the Barnato heirship, and each one has ob-- "'*••
served that it is coming in his direction. ':■ . ■:■_•
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