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The morning call., 1891-09-19
THE CITY SAFE.

At the request OF Mayor SandersOn eX-
Justice McKinstry has prepared an opinion
on the power of the State Board to raise the
assessment of the city for city purposes.
The eminent ex-J is clear that the
State Board possesses 30 such power. He
quotes from a former decision Of the Su-
preme Court that ''the constitutional fugc-
tion Of tile State Board is discharged when
it has raised or lowered assessment rolls so
as to eGuailz5 state taxation between the
several counties" The State Board may in
crease OF lower the entire assessment roll
OF county, but it has no power to make
its revised assessment the basis of county
taxation. This opinion will be satisfactory
To our taxpayers. 1t raises barrier to the
exercise by city officials of any assumed
right to apply the city tax levy TO the State
Boards valuation. The morality of a
proposition to allow the State Board to
create an assessment roll after the city au-
thorities have fixed the tax levy could not
be defended and we are glad to receive
from such high authority as ex-Judge Me-
Kinstry the assurance that there is no law
Tor such a proceeding. The matter will
doubtless rest where the Supervisors placed
ii Monday night The parties that would
like the handling of an extra 81, 100000 do
not Like to face the taxpayers, against
whom this outrage was contemplated. So
far as this action of the State Board relates
to State taxation its ability to do injustice is
unlimited. If it finds an individual assess
ment in any county too low it appears to
have right to raise the entire assessment
within that county. The law presumes
that the board will exercise some judgment
in arriving at conclusions. but If it does not
there seems no help for it. Its arbitrary as
sessments must stand even if they are
shown t. be unjust. As matters stand the
action Of the State Board in raising the as
spssment roll of San Francisco $50, 900, 600
will cost the city about $4,000. the differ
ence between the proceeds of the tax oD the
State assessment and on the city assess
ment. This is bad enough, but not so bad
as it might be. The flank movement against
the dollar limit has been defeated. The
city still has power to fix its own tax rate
and to fix the valuation Of its property for
purposes of taxation.
The morning call., 1891-09-19
SIXTY YEARS A TEACHER.
An Aged French Woman Whose Mob
Existence Is Sweet Harmony.

An Aged French Woman Whose Noble
Existence Is Sweet Harmony.
In Poid-du-Nord, borough of some 1000
souls, lives Nine. Chrysoline Talma, the
dean of French school -miStresses. Born on
the 9th Of June, 1914, she can boast of sixty
years of constant teaching in the same To-
cality, writes Paris correspondent of the
Chicago Herald. Yes, three-score years of
service in schc0l-house-can you realize
what more than half a century's work as a
rural pedagogue means? Ia this case it
means a woman who tok mp her quarters
among little girls, not as matter of COM
pulSiOn, but because she liked to be near
them while they were scholars. 1t means
that she held off deaths knell signal for de-
parture to another world and remained to
fight and trampie under fCot that destroyer
known as ignorance.
Standing In the presence of this gray
haired veteran of devotion to duty / was
overwhelmed with feeling of my own in
significance. Untiring efforts, never-failirg
patience, maternal affections, absence of
ambition, what not of other rare Qualities
have marked the everyday life of sixty
years hard labor as village school-teacher!
I ak about the praiseworthy efforts OF Sis
ters OF charity-why, here we have an ex-
ample set by scholastic lay-woman that is
worthy the emulation of all women the
who vaunts his actions before many eyes
and deals in sentimental effusiOns regarding
deity. No, her record these three score
years has consisted of daily patient acts, an
unbrOken chain of things accomplished
that make her noble existence sweet har-
mony.
For sixty long winters the dear old soul
has jumped early out OF bed to be at her
puSt In time to listen to the same words, tore
peat the same instructions, to hear the same
eternal and unchanging lessons, and this
without giving up to fatigue or ever growing
impatient because of its monotony. Not
withstanding all the mournful vicissitudes
of human life. of deaths icy grip, of sor-
rows, trials and other tribulati0ns OF a mum
dane existence, this woman has been proof
against all sickness and sufferings, and the
many little ones whom she has taught to
fight the world have never known her face
to wear aught but smiles, her mouth to utter
other than kind words.
Sixty years a choolmlstress-just think
of it, One year only would be enough TO
send yOu or me to the insane asylum. As
each October arrived the same work of the
ten months before August to be gone over
again, the same A B C's to be repeated, the
same four rules of addition, MULTIPLICATION,
subtraction and division TO be brushed up,
the same terrible struggles in orthography
to be resumed, the tongue twisted again and
again to drive out the patols pronunciations
which pupils had contracted, each day to
go over the same neyer-changing tasks, and
so on from daybreak to twilight day after
day and month after month during more
than half a century!
The morning call., 1891-09-19
"woRsE-THAN-wAK TARIFF"

II the platform adopted by the New York
Democrats on Thursday had been written
year ago there would have been some ex-
cuse for the reference 1t made to the present
tariff. There was a time when the asser-
ton that the Mckinley tariff did increase
the average of duties which rested on esti-
mates of its probable workings. But that
time has pretty well passed. We know now
that the average rate of duty under the
present tariff is lower than under the pre-
ceding tariff. The per cent of free goods is
larger. The revenue collected is less. In
every respect the present tariff imposes
lighter burdens upon the people than any
tariff since 1860. And still the New York
Democrats go on the record as opposed to
the Mckinley worse-than- war tariff" II
is true the new tariff raises the duties on
certain kinds of foreign goods. French
champagne, Havana cigars, high priced
cloths ana other articles of luxury pay a
higher duty than under the old tariff. Tin
plate and other articles which compete with
our industries are also included in the list.
But there is more than compensation in the
foreign articles Of necessity that are placed
on the free list. The reference to the
"Blaine reciprocity bumbug" is at least
premature. No one knows exactly how
reciprocity will work. The English people
are apprehensve that it will realize all Of
Mr.. Blaine's expectations. The time has
not come to say that it will not. The DEM
ocrats in some States claim reciprocity as
their exclusive stock in trade. The Repub-
licans want nothing better than the tariff
issue Tor 1892. The partial experience we
have had affords abundant evidence that it
is constructed on correct principles. It in
creases duties on foreign lHxuries and on
foreign products that compete with our
home industries and removes duties from
foreign necessities. The promise is better
that the Increased duties on tin plate will
transfer that industry TO the United States
than the promise the tariff on iron and steel
held out five years after it was made ef-
fective.
The morning call., 1891-09-19
EASTERN DEMOCRATS.
Reception to Be rendered to Prominen

Reception to Be rendered to Prominent
Politicians.
The Joint Committee of Democratic clubs.
composed Of three representatives each from
the IrOQuois and Manhattan clubs, Young
Mems Democratic League, California State
Democratic Club, and the State Demo-
cratic Club, met in executive session yester-
day afternoon al 207 Sutter street.
The principal business was the arrange
ment for the reception of the party of six
Eastern Democratic politicians. comprising
Chauucey f. Black, ex-Leutenant-Gover-
nor of Pennsylvania, President aud
Lawrence Gardner, Secretary of the Ma
tional Association of Democratic clubs {;
Senator Charles A. Faulkner of West Vir-
gina, Congressman William d. Bynum of
Indiana; William McAdoo, eX-COngress-
man from New Jersey, and Congressm an
James Beck of Philadelphia.
The party started fromi ashington, d. c.,
on the 18th inst. in q special car, and after
stopping at various points in Illinois, Min
nesota, North Dakota, Washington and
Oregon, will arrive in San Francisco ON the
Slh prox.. remaining in the city three days.
The committee has arranged for public
reception and mass-meeting in the Metro
politan Temple on the night of the pariy's
arrival, on which occasion addresses will
be delivered by the visiting statesmen.
The morning call., 1891-09-19
TRANs-PACIFIC DAsHEs.

The New York Herald devotes leading
article to an outburst of ecstacy over the
recent transportation Of the Japan mails
from Yokohama to Queenstown in twenty
days by way of Vancouver, the Canadian
Pacific and New York. 1t points out that
they travelled at an average rate of 500
miles a day, and sagaciously observes that
this is wonderful, considering that a hun
dred years ago it took two days to carry the
post-bag from Philadelphia to New York.
1t would be more to the purpose to compare
the performance Of the Canadian Pacific
with some other performances of the present
day.
The Empress Of India consumed nine
days. nineteen hours and a half in crossing
the ocean from Yokohama to Vancouver.
The distance on the line she followed is
1874 miles. Her average speed therefore was
1917 miles an hour. This is rapid going,
certainly; but the TeutOnic. the City of
Paris, the Furst Bismarck and their sister
ships make fheir twenty miles an hour
quite regularly. The City of New York,
which conveyed the Japan mail from New
York to Liverpool, took five days and some
hours to cross the Atlantic. which left some
thing over five days for the trip acrvss the
Ahhb 10 HOW dDUuJ the IlID6 OF
the Atlantic express, and on more than one
recent occasion half day has been knocked
eff that record. There was thus nothing
extraordinary in the performance which the
Herald considers unparalleled; though, as
it might easily have aseertained By inquir-
ing, both the steamer on the Pacific and the
railroad train through Canada were pushed
to their utmost speed to make record.
The Canadian Pacific steamers have an
advantage over the steamers which sail out of
San Francisco of about 400 miles on the
voyage to Yokohama, the distances being
respectively 4374 miles and 1850 miles. But
short route Is notall that a steamship line re-
quires to build itself up. 1t must have busi-
ness as well, and that the Canadian steam
ers nave not got and cannot get. There are
no exchanges of goods between China and
Japan on the one side and British Columbia
on the other. Ships plying between the
two have to rely for income upon their
subsidy, the pay they receive for
carrying the mails, a small amount of
passage money from Engishmen returning
from the Orient, and the freight money on
small quantity of -four shipped from
Oregon. In tue season they carry a few
cargoes of tea TO this side of the ocean; but
competition has reduced the rate of freight
age till there is no money in that. How hard
they are pressed may be inferred from the
announcement made semi officially and
The morning call., 1891-09-19
NO LOCAL INCREASE,
The Thirty Per Celt Extra Affects State
Taxes Only.

The Thirty Per Ceht Extra Affects State
Taxes Only.
A special meeting of the Supervisors was
called yesterday afternoon to receive the
opinion OF ex-Justiee McKinstry on the in
crease of the assessment roll by the State
Board of Equalization.
The policy of the opinion was heralded
by the proceedings of the Board of Super
visors On Monday night. when upon the
recommendation of the Finance Committee
a resolution was passed instructing the Au-
ditor TO make the increase oD State taxes
only. AS there was nothing more to be
done the opinion was received, read and
fled. Its closing paragraphs say:
1t is my opinion that lhe Board Of Equalization
has no power 10 Increase the assessment, and
has not Increased the valuation of properly upon
the assessment roll In San Francisco for the pur-
poses of city and county taxation.
Thai in providing for the collection OF and col
lecting taxes for city and county purposes Ibe
local tficeTS should be governed by the assess
ment roll without regard TO any Increase thereof
by the State Board OF EQUALIZATION, but hat the
State taxes should be collected with reference to
the inere sed valuations made and directed by the
R0ard
The morning call., 1891-09-19

King was their able employer, responsible to his
country Tor the zeal, conduct aud ability OF
both" At time when the European horizon
bears snch somber hue. it would seem proper
for the young Emperor Of to-day 10 heed Bis
marcks recent warning 10 the students at
Kissengen and SET an example for his subjects TO
follow.
When the Presidents proclamation announc-
ing the opening OF the new Oklahoma strip OF
500, 600 acres to settlement is issued the excit-
ing rush OF a couple of years ago is likely TO be
repeated. and cowboys. land-boomers and old
WesTerners will make a dash to secure choice
locations or the sites OF future towns. Governor
George W. Steele, who estimates that $4,000
people are in readiness to take advantage OF the
Presidents proclamation, calculates that when
Oklahoma secures all the additions now antlci-
pated the Territory proper will be three times its
present size. Ii now has 100000 acres This
does moi inciuGe the seventh county, which is
No Mans Land, near the Kansas border, aud
which of itself has nearly 100000 acres
The Bavarans are inclined 10 jeaously guard
their privileges. The Kaiser has urged that the
Prussian NJ illtary Code be adopted instead OF
The Bavarian. The Prussian Code is regarded
by King OGto's subjects as not only severe but
tnhuman, whereas that of Bavaria is exception
ally mild. Again It Is reported that an
attempt is to be made in the Federal Council TO
compel baFaIia 10 give up neT Iocal postdEe
stamps and adopt those issued by The imperial
authorities. AS an actual result of these and
other inlerIerences with the autonomy of Bavaria
Prince Luitpold. the Regent, has been of laie un-
der criticism for not taking an unfiinching stand
in behalf of the native Institutions OF The king
dom.
The expedition to the Grand Falls OF Labrador
has successfully accomplished the object IL
had in view. The falls are said by The
explorers 10 afford a magnificent spec
tacle. The final plunge OF the Grand
River where it contracts 10 width of
$50 feet is 200 feet, but series of rapids above
iHe falls carries the water down for 500 feet, so
that the river has total fall of 700 feet from
the Height OF Land 10 The canyon into which 1t
drops.
Among the features OF the Austrian maneGyers
The use OF prinling-press on the field to
strike of the orders from headquarters 10 field
officers. MolIke was not backward in reyolu-
Iionizlng the tactics of war by taking advantage
OF telegraphic and railroad facilities, and each
year sees other innovations added.
The morning call., 1891-09-19
Colonization in australia.

W. B. Chaffey, one of the men who
founded Ontario, San Bernardino County,
arrived here on Thursday. He is now
located with his brother in Aus stralia, hav-
ing come by way of Suez and srent several
weeks in England. The Chaffey brothers
have grants Of land in Australia amounting
to 500, 900 acres, and are taking the water
out of rivers with centrifugal pumps and
running it through great canals and lateral
bitches. They have brought out over five
thousand English settlers. One OF their
grants is for 250000 acres along the Murray
River in Victoria, and the other is for the
same amount in South Australia. On the
Murray River they have thirteen large CEN
trifugal pumps working along distance Of
fifteen miles. The town of Mildura has
been built up with 1000 people, and the
region about is cut up in small tracts, and
the coionists raising oranges, lemons, prunes,
figs, apricots and grapes.
The morning call., 1891-09-19
BURIED HIS BOY ALIVE.

Canadian Farmers Tar and Feather a
Man for Brutally Furnishing his Son.
Wori has just reached here from New
bury that Fred Bendel. farmer who lives
in the suburbs, as punishment for some
offense committed by his young adopted
son, dug hole Thursday night, laid the
boy in il and covered him up. After the
lapse of few seconds, thinking the lad had
had been sufficiently punished. he released
him from his living tomb to find him almost
dead from suffocation and fright. The boy
is so seriously hurt that he is not likely
to recover.
The outrage coming to the ears Of neigh
bors they determined to avenge it, and last
night number of able-budied men visited
the farmers house and gave him coat Of
tar and feathers.-Lond0n (Ont.) special to
Chicapn Infar Ocean.
The morning call., 1891-09-19
WEATHER FORECAST,
DEPARTMENT OF AeR1CULTURE,
W.. r-uER EI-EI.AI--

WEATHER BUREAU,
san Francisco, September 1S, lsSl-o P M
Weather Conditions and General Forecasts
The cyclunic disturbance of Wednesday night IS
central i'm British Columbia north OF Montana.
Tie southwest quadrant stiIl controls the weather
OF tbe Pacific Cosst States. Cloudy and threaten
ing weather with hight rains prevails Throughout
washington, Oregon Northern Nevada and North
western Cal fornIa. The barometer is rising quite
rapidly in western Washington and western ore
CON but failing decidedly in Eastern California,
Nevada Utah and Northern Arizona, which con
d. dtions are favorable for the occurrence OF local
rains in these sections. Decidedly cooler weather
prevails throughout oregon and Washington, and
the temperature has fallen in Northwestern Calf
fornfa. Elsewhere the weather has been warmer.
The winds have shifted TO southerly throughout
California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah.
Forecast Until s p. NJ. Saturday.
For Northern CaitorGia-Fair weather, except
light rain IN tho extreme northern portion and in
the mountains ia the southeast portion; south to
west wlnas; generally cooler Fog and clouds along
the coast.
For Southern California-Fair weather except
light rains in the mountains in the northeast por-
ton; south TO west winds; generally warmer, ex-
cept nearly stationary temperature on the north
west coast. Fog and clouds along the southwest
coast
FOR Oregon and waShjnpton-ClOudy weather,
with light ralus followed by fair weather in West
ern Washington and western oregon; south TO west
winds: cooler in the eastern portion, slightly
warmer in the western portion.
,JoHN p. finley,
Lieutenant Ninth Infantry. A 5. o., in charge.
The morning call., 1891-09-19

EDITORIAL NOTES.

At the last session Of Congress the Senate
Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
gave the subject OF extending the Capitol at
Washington 10 meet the growing demands upon
1t for space a great deal of consideration. They
finally directed the architect OF the Capitol to
make plans for Its extension. Architect Clark
has just completed the plans which call for an
expenditure OF S2300.000. He proposes the con-
struct0n Of additional connections between the
rotunda portion and the wings and an extension
OF the west portco. That portIcO which Is
above the magnificent terraces, which are about
being completed, was originally Intended to be
Of imposing character. The architect pro-
poses to carry out that Intention. He would
lengthen 1t and throw 1t further out from the
building.
The Standards Berlin CORES pondent says the
effort TO reconcile Emperor William to Prince
Bismarck has completely failed What a con-
trast Is that between the Bismarck OF today and
the Chancellor OF a few short years ago. Gen.
eral Wolseley, In recent article declaring that
the present German Empire Is the handiwork OF
three great men, all eminently remarkable In
their own line and after their own fashion
added: Fhe world viii, think always regard
Prince Bismarck as the greatest of the three,
while it acknowledges that each was, as 1t were,
the mathematical complement OF the sum OF the
other two. The general scheme for the creation
OF united Germany-the dream OF CENTURIES
was undoubtedly tue work OF Prince Bismarck
and evolved out Of his own brain. He was tile
architect of that great edifice. Won Moitke was
the contractor who built It, and the splendid old
The morning call., 1891-09-19
"Four Years at West Point.,,

-Four Years at West Point" was the sub
ject Of very interesting lecture delivered
last evening at the Howard Presbyterian
Church on Mission street, by Lieutenant
w. G. Haan of the Filth United States
Artillery. The speaker gave his hearers a
graphic description of cadet life at the acad-
emy from the time of entrance until the
happy day of graduation. portraying to the
great delight of the boys the life of the poor
''Pleb" in his unwilling subjoction to the
vigorous course of haziDg, SO promptly pre-
scribed by fOurtt-clasS men,
The morning call., 1891-09-19
srRsCRIPTInN RATES

DAILY CALL dncluding Sundays, Sc per year by
mail POSTPAID Is cents per week, or IS cents per
calendar month, through carriers. DAILY CALL,
I'VE copies, three months, So 25. SUNDAY CALL
ts!xteen paggs) 81 so per year. postpaid. SUNDAY
CALL and WEEKLY CALL. 81 so per year post
psid. WEEKLY CALL {eight pagesl. 81 % per year
postpaid C!ups OF ten (sent one address,, $40.
The morning call., 1891-09-19
Good-Hv TO the AdelnhI.

An old-established firm has purchased the
old Adelphi Theater building. on Callfor-
MIA street. west OF Kearny. 1t is under
stood that the premises will be fitted up for
stabling uses for the accommodation Of the
many horses and teams of the firm. A
branch OF the Salvation Army is in the
bnildinO
The morning call., 1891-09-19
SPECIAL NOTICE FOR THE SUM
NER MONTHS.

Subscribers who intend going to the
country during the summer months can
have THE DAILY CALL mailed to them
for a week or longer at regular subscriP-
tien rates. I5c. per week. Give order to
carrier OF send to business Office.
The morning call., 1891-09-19

seS Montgomery street, near Clay, open until II
O'Clock p. NJ BRANCH OFFICES: 40 Market
street. nssr Kearny open until IL O'Clock midnight
SSe Hayes street, open until $3.50 O'Clock; sos
Lsrkin street. open until 80 O'Clock; 25ls Mission
street. open until o'clock p. lI.; and 1l6 Ninth
Efrnef npen until 9 30 p. N.
The morning call., 1891-09-19
NOTICEI

Aay Of our patrons lrio fail to find THE
MORNING GALL for sale By trata-boys
uiH confer a faror By notifying this office Or
heJact, naming the date and train.
The morning call., 1891-09-19
Lookinr for a swindIer.

The police are looking for smooth
tongued fellow who has been canvassing for
the defunct McKinney's Coast Directory.
Recently he received subscription from
Mrs. A. Hassal of 729 Suffer street. The
price was 81, and she gave him 500 piece
to change. He went out to change ii, and
she is still waiting for his return.
The morning call., 1891-09-19
Az usnal. ONLY n FaL..

The officers sent to Oakland by the In
ternal Revenue Office to look into the SEN
sation that opium had been landed In a
casket or plunger. from a schooner, have re-
ported that the pluDgef contained q child,
who died on board the ship, and that the
rumor which was published was fake"
The morning call., 1891-09-19

If you suffer from any disease of the blood.
stomach disorder, or difficulty with the liver and
kidneys, try the peculiar medicine, Hoods Sarsa-
parIla Be sure to get Hoods. Take other.
The morning call., 1891-09-19
THE MORNING CALL
PUnIICATEON OFFICE:

Has larger circulation than any other
newspaper published IN San Francisco.
The morning call., 1891-09-19

Two BANKS ExAMINED.-The resources and
liabilities OF the Bank OF san Miguel and or the
Petaluma Savings Bank are reported at I26,-
165 81 and 1881, ,012 &c.
The morning call., 1891-09-19

AFTER CORNER LoAFERs.-By direction Of
Chief Crowley the policemen are endeavorIng 10
break up the gangs Of boys who hang around
tba raatr
The morning call., 1891-09-19

ONLY one-hfth cash required to be your own
landlord at The grand auction sale OF elegant busi-
ness and residence property at Twenty-fourth and
broadway. Oakland, this afternoon. William j.
Dingee auctionser.
The morning call., 1891-09-19

ORDERED TO PAY ALIMoNY. Judge Levy
has made an order directing Rober, Baker 10
pay his wife S25 month alsmony. She Is suing
for u divorce On the ground OF extreme cruelty