The morning call., 1893-06-27

thrice over expended on it to great COM
mercjal port. No doubt the Barrow-ln-
Furness Company that built II would be
glad to obige any other harbor conserva-
tors with one twice the size, and Tor con-
sideration would supply plans to other
constructors Such sand and mud litter
would make short work of a deep channel
in the ooZe of the San joaquin and the
ordinary gravel detrituS OF the Sacramento.
1t may yet prove OF great service on the
Nicaragua canal when the American peo-
pie buckle down to that work In earnest
James Gordon Bennett has made up his
mind that he can be happy without drly-
ing a coach. On recent return from the
Bots de Boulogne, he had his horses spin
ming fast when he entered the gateway OF
his house and came a cropper on the pave
ment 1t looked as if it might be the lasi
time he would hold the ribbons. GOOD
nursing and the doctors have Brought him
round, and now he is to get rid of his
coaching stud. The cOachman who drives
for him will not take such risks. Mr.. Ben
nett has tried almost every kind of sport
and grown tired of all. If he could only
instill into himself the collecting mania ior
bric-a-brac and pictures, he would have
an undying hobby for untold millions and
ceaseless vigilance.
The diamond merchants of New York
are dropping into insolvency owing TO
falling off in the demand for gems. Strln-
gency in the money market even hardens
the diamond, as a luxury which can be
dispensed with 1t will be well if dta-
monds do not fall off in price for other
reasons. New discoveries at the Cape
promise glut of stones, unless by corner
ing the market there Is artificial restraint.
This is what Mr.. Rhodes, the Cape Pre-
mier, is said 10 be tempting.
The japanese have seemingly made up
their minds to colonies Hawaii while they
have the chance. They are an ambitious
people, fond of rowing now that they are
at liberty to change their country, and
their own land is overcrowded with 81
600, 900 or IS, 100000. Their immigration TO
Hawaii is welcomed by the plan tiers be-
cause their labor is both cheap and suit
able. On June Is a steamer landed 100
Japs at Honolulu, and they found imme-
date employment. Some of the planters
no doubt oppose annexation to the United
States from a belief that contract labor
would be doomed, and that neither japan
csc nor Chinese could be hired as easily as
under present circumstances.
President Diaz, it is reported. will visit
Europe this summer. He is head of a
republic more secure in its government
than other States in Central and south
America, and visit to old countries may
result in efforts at greater progress in his
own. The President can hardly pass
by Chicago if his tour is one of informa-
tion on how the world wags. The exhibit
ton would reveal much.
AS rule Mohammedans and Hindoos get
along fairly well in India and Burmah. with
the British to play policeman, but religi-
Gus feasts and professions give anxiety.
At Rangoon a magistrates discretion was
at fault. lie would not let the prophets
followers kill cow near a Hindoo temple,
and to prevent 10 had to kill number of
Mohammedans. Slaughter in either shape
was abhnrrent 10 the HndOoS, but perhaps
they preferred the sacrifice of the MOham-
medans to that Of the cow.
DR.. Cornelius Herr, the man who could
throw any further light necessary on the
Panama scandal, and whose estimony has
not been very anxiously desired by some
people who are suspected, is on his death
bed. One report announces his death.
His extradition would have been secured
but for the severity of his illness. In
sense be had his liberty at Bournemouth,
but he was under surveillance constantly.
etili thirst for exposures there may be
revival of Panama mud-throwing, but
France as a whole wou id like to be spared
further determinations.
1t is very regrettable that Peru cannot
get a change of Government without
revolution or its eQuivalent-a dictator
ship, but it is the way in the popular
government of the Spanish-stock repub-
lies. From Panama it is reported that
General Caceres. a brave officer who has
been ann 0unced as candidate for the
Presidency, has anticipated the methods
of the ballot-box by installing himself in
office. The possibility is that he will be
just as much respected high-handed
usurper as if he had waited for the forms
of election. He may also make an excel
lent President. But there is the draw
back that others harbor the same notion
that if their turn came to be Dictator the
country would be saved. Every usurper
has valid excuses satisfactory to him
self.