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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-03
PROGRESS OF TELEGRAPHY.

The news received from London that
the young Italian electrician, Marconi,
has now SO far perfected his apparatus for
wireless telegra phlng that he can send
message twelve miles will prepare the
world to believe in the reliability of in
creasing this distance till poles and wires
can be dispensed with. 1t will be like the
cases of the Morse system and the tele-
phone. Increase of distance will develop
with further study and experiment.
The first efforts at wireless telegraphy
extended only hundred yards, and at
that time it seemed wild dream TO ex-
pect messages could be sent more than
half mile. Later four miles was consid-
cred wonderful, and when the limit of
eight miles was reached, in trials on the
British ChannG, the instruments passed
from the toy stage to a mechanism capa-
bic of much commercial and military use
Now the inventor talks of the possibility
of sending messages across the ocean.
The wonderful ease and cheapness with
which communications can be trans
mitted when this method has had time to
develop will perhaps be nearly as great
stride in the progress of commerce as
that made by wire telegraphy. From the
description of the invention it would seem
possible that every business house might
at slight cost have its private telegraph
service.
How multiplicity of such instruments
could be prevented from confusing in
reference with each other is puzzle;
but no doubt inventive genius will find
way. at first the instruments would
send out their electric influences alike in
all directions, but now refectors have
been arranged so as to confne the radia-
ton of the current to any point desired
We live in such an age Of wonders that
no new thing science brings forward is
able to surprise US. Marconis discovery,
though, is great reach in mans mastery
over nature. 1t will dou btless result in
benefit to the interests of both commerce
and peace.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-03
DESTRUCTION OF OUR FORESTS.

suppose we need not go mourning the buff
faloes, says John Muir in :he August Atlantic.
In the nature of things they had to give place
to better cattle, though the change might have
been made without barbarous wickedness.
Likewise many of natures five hundred kinds
of wild trees had to make way for orchards
and cornfelds. In the settlement and civili-
cation of the country, bread more than timber
or beauty was wan ted; and in the blindness
of hunger, the early settlers, claiming
heaven their guide, regarded Gods trees as
only larger kind of pernicious weeds ex-
tremely hard to get rid of. Accordingly, with
no eye to the future, these pious de-
stroyers waged interminable forest wars.
chips few thick and fast, trees
IN their beauty fell crashing By millions,
smashed TO confusion, and the smoke of their
burning has been rising TO heaven more than
200 years. After the Atlantic Coast from
Maine to Georgia had been mostly cleared and
scorched into melancholy ruins, the overflow
ing multitude of bread and money seekers
poured over the Alieghanies into the fertile
middle West, spreading ruthless devastati ito
ever wider and farther over the rich valley of
the Mississippi and the vast shadowy pine re-
gion about the great lakes. Thence still west
ward the invading horde OF destroyers called
settlers made its fiery way over the broad
Rocky Mountains, telling and burning more
fiercely than ever, un Ill at last it has reached
the wild side OF the continent, and entered the
last OF theI great aboriginal forests on the
shores OF The Pacific.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-03
PERSONAL.

Charles B. Bacon of Fort Bragg is in town.
y Charles Goddard, mining man of Arizona,
is a the Russ.
here.
George H. Stewart of Boise. Idaho. is at the
Palace.
The Baron Van der Brugger of Belgium is at
the Palace.
E. J. Taber, business man of Elko, New, is
in the City.
som, is in town.
rivals at the Lick.
Francis Doud banker of Monterey Is
among the arrivals here.
]. NJ. Williams, well-to-do merchant at
Newmans. is on visit to this City.
w. W. Wyckoff of York, Nebr., reached here
yesterday. He is on q business trip
William G. Follansbee. mining man of
Chinese Camp, is in the Bay City. He is here
on business trip.
William Gilchrist and E. C. Dixon were yes
terday made deputy collectors OF the Internal
Revenue Department
H. G. Whiting of Burlington, Iowa, and DR..
E. L. Holyoke OF Lin coin, Nebr., are among
the arrivals at the Grand.
A.. B. Butler, the widely known raisin-
grower OF Fresno, is in the City. accompanied
by Mrs. Butler. They are at the Palace.
Congressman Marion de Vries of Stockton
was one of the arrivals at the Grand lest
night He has recently left Washington,
d. C.
Fred Conn, the owner of large borax mines
at Big Pine. is one of the arrivals al the Russ.
Mr.. Conn has been the owner of the borax
mines there for number of years.
Stewart Menzies has returned to the City
after vacation of three months in England
and Scotland. He is much improved in health
and strength by reason of his journey.
party consis ting of Lawrence Larsen OF
Washington, d. c., Gaines Larsen of the
United States navy, and Mrs William McKin-
ley of Boise, Idaho, are at the Occidental.
Rounseville Wildman editor of the Overland
Monthly, who was recently appointed United
States Consul at Hongkong, will sail for his
new post OF duty, on the steamer China, next
Thursdav
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-03
TWO SCULPTORS AT. HOME.

"No trait in the character of Edward KEN
eysis more pronounced than his domestic
ity," writes Forest Crissey in his article,
1.-TWO Sculptors at Home" in the August
Woman's Home Companion. "His wife is his
chosen companion in all that claims his at
tention or interest. She accompanies him to
the prairieS and mountains of the Far West in
search of big game, and he confesses that her
presence gives him the stimulus of rivalry, for
she is a crack shot with eating rife, has
a splendid physique, which finds keenest ell
joyment in the hardships of a hunters life
and loves the excitements of the chase as
ardently as the sculptor himself
Sin the line of his work she is equally Fl tied
by nature to enter into his most intimate
thoughts and emotions. Her fine artistic
sense las already made itself felt ia several
pieces OF sculpture, which have brought her
deserved recognition. But it is her true eye
tor things mechanical and her constructive
strength and resourcefulness which appeal
perhsps most strongly to her hus bands ad-
miratiou. Together they labored on the
'Kemeys groups of animal figures in the
grounds of the Worlds Columb ian EXPOSE
ton, and he points with pride 10 the fact that
she built their Skeletons or framework, d
most difficult mechanical task.
although they are charming entertainers
and are always in demand as guests, Mr.. and
Mrs Kemeys accept few invitations and pre-
fer the quiet of their home to social life, save
when the latter is OF the most pronounced in
tellectual and artistic character. The greater
number of their evenings are spent within the
charmed walls OF Wolfden or their residence"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-03
THE OMAHA EXPOSITION.

Omaha is now calling the attention of
California by means of travelling repre-
sentative to the great trans-M Mississippi
and International Exposition which is to
be Geld in that city next year from June
to November. All the counties of the
State should make preparations to meet
the opportunity thus presented. The ex-
position promises to be an immense one,
and it occurs at time when the whole
country is in the full tide of reaction
from the long depression. The fact that
it is a distinctively Western exposition
makes it imperative that our products
should be well represented there.
Although the State did not make any
appropriation for the exposition an
equivalent for State action can be attained
by all the counties acting in concert in
raising the necessary funds. Some
agreement could be reached by which the
fair proportion for each county to con-
tribute might be ascertained.
AS the exposition opens on June ], some
of the fruits for exhibition there should be
prepared now and LAID aside ready for
shipment. To leave verything for next
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-03
PRICES AND WAGES.

Since the passage OF the new tariff bill a
strenuous effort is being made by the
free-traders to brighten the people by
prediction of prices being SO high that the
comforts of life will have to be greatly
curtailed and the work necessary to earn
living will have greatly to be increased.
Fortunately a calm review of the situa-
ton will prevent the effort at alarm from
having any serious effect.
A rise in prices is not to be regarded as
an evil when it goes hand in hand with an
increasing general prosperity. The rise in
wheat, for instance, is not causing any
weeping in the land, but, rather, an ex-
ultant rejoicing. The reason is that no
one will regret giving the farmer little
more for his crops, because all are conf
dent that the revived prosperity OF the
tiller of the soil will be a foundation on
which all other branches of the COM
munity can build a betterment of their
fortunes.
AS it is with wheat, so it will be with
products in general. An increase in
price to the seller of each product will
enable him to buy more of his neigh Dor,
and activity will result all along the line
of trade. With increased prices wage
earners will get more pay for their work,
and an all-round revival of industrial ac-
tiyity will far more than com pensate for a
little extra paid to one's neighbor for his
wares.
1t has been very pertinently asked of
what avail was it to cut down the price of
foreign woolens from 50 TO 81 rs, when the
wage of those who buy was reduced from
81 to 81 so. Even worse was it when from
the stagnation of business the wage-earner
lost his job altogether.
Laying all arguments from theories
aside and taking the policies of protection
and free trade by experience, we find that
in 1890 and 1892 the prosperity of the
country was far ahead OF 1893 10 1896
under the reduced Wilson tariff law. If
the proof of the pudding is in the eating
the change back to a higher tariff need
not be dreaded. The prophets who pre-
dict harder times because of higher prices
cannot prove their words by either past or
present experiences.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-03
EVADING THE ISSUE.

The issue involved in the enforced re-
tirement of President Andrews from
Brown University because of his support
of the doctrine of bimetallism continues
to occupy prominent place in the dis
cussions of the Eastern press. 1t is alto
gether proper that this prominence should
be given it, for the question is one of
Importance to the country and should not
be passed over as a matter of little
moment.
The Providence Journal commenting
upon the affair says: 1.-THE whole Popu-
Iistic press and platform of the country
now have au opportunity. which they will
doubtless improve, to hurl their thunder
bolts against the old-fashioned but sound
ideas OF those responsible for the govern
ment of this institution of learning"
This is an evasion of the true issue at
stake and is dangerous because it implies
that the question is one of party politics.
For that reason if for none other it should
be promptly refuted.
The Popocrats cannot as a party de-
nounce the action which drove Professor
Andrews from his position because in
several States they have com mitted SINH
lar offenses themselves. Last winter the
Popu.ists of Kansas undertook to remove
professors from the university of that
State because they did not teach the
econ omic dogmas of Populism. A similar
effort was made by the Democrats in
Texas to reform the teaching in the uni
versity there, and but few days ago. the
president of the board of curators of the
University of Missouri announced in a
public letter that professor of that insti-
tuition would not be permitted to inocu-
late students with any kind OF political
doctrine he may wish to formulate. 1"
This means of course that only Democratic
economics are to be taught in the Univer-
sfty OF Missouri.
1t is not the Popocratic press that Brown
University will have TO fear. Those who
have regretted the course pursued in fore
ing the retirement of President Andrews
are the men and women of all parties who
believe in intellectual liberty and desire
to see the fullest freedom of thought
maintained in our universities.
Unless some unforeseen and impro ba BILE
war intervenes, the political questions OF
the United States will turn upon econo-
mics and sociology for the rest of this
generation. If therefore professors in
our universities are to be required to
teach the doctrine of the dominant party
on the board OF trustees we shall have a
shifting of professorships after almost
every election. The plea of the Journal
for '.old-fashioned and sound ideas is OF
no avail. In the history OF the intellec-
tual development of our race it has not
infrequently happened that new ideas
uaro cnup1ar fhap tho old
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-03
FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT.
The Minstrel Entertainments by Courts
Kensington and Star of the =,
West, A. o. +.

Unions square Hall was mfortably flied
last Saturday night by an audience that had
Assem- bled to listen to the minstrel entertain
ment that was given by Courts Kensington
and Star of the West of the Ancient Order of
Foresters. The first part was given by circle
OF members OF the courts, who were blacked
up, and they are entitled to the credit of hav-
ing given very good show. The singing was
unusually good and the jokes that were given
by the endmen and the interlocutor had the
merit of not having been taken from the
chestnut-box. The second part was made up
of specialties that were thoroughly appreci-
ated. The following named were the partici-
pants in the first part:
In terlocutor, W. J. Locke; bones-J. L.
Glennon, ]. r. o. DonnelI; tambos - John
Keough. Charles B. Aubry; balladists-Geor
B. Ferguson, J. j. Geary, John J. Collins, Rob
ert Ray.
The features of the second part were: Over
.ture, orchestra; specialties, Claire Eek; ami
NAL limitations, E. J. Erickson; specialties,
Keough and Crotty; Hard Tt mes quartet. L.
Glennon, ]. J. Collins, S. j. Crowley, c. b.
Aubry.
The entertainment was far above the range
of amateur presen tation, and the following
named committee of arrangements has reason
to feel proud of its success: c. P: Stanley,
chairman; +. G. MCGUIRE secretary; w. j.
Locke, John Keough. w. ]. Thorpe, T. Penn
berthy, Charles b. Aubry, W. e. Conklin, II. J.
Oliver, George Nisbet S. J. Crowley, ]. L.
Glennon, E. Strohmeier, N J. Savage.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-03
a NOBLE LIFE.

The death OF Miss Margaret Culbertson
ends devoted and useful life, and her
passing away will be long regretted in
this City, where she labored so bravely and
where her wisdom and experience in he1
chosen line of work could still have been
of so much service.
In the noble and much needed work OF
rescEing slaye-girls from Chinatown she
for years took an arduous share. 1t is sad
to-think that one of these should have,
five years ago III a fit of anger, given
her benefactress the blow from which
she never recovered. 1t is not the individ-
uai girl, however, but the system in which
she was trained that we should blame for
the offense. The memory of it should fur
nish another keen incentive for efforts to
prevent Chinese iniouities from gaining
foothoEd on these shores. If the Mon
goIs are to permanently remain in the
midst of our civilization they must be
made TO amend their ideas about woman
slavery.
1t is n ordinary philanthropy which can
devote itself Extraordinarily to an in
ferior race for a score of years as Miss Gull
bertson did. A great proof OF kindness
was given by her when she resolved to give
her youth to this laborious occupation.
Wonderful endurance and patience was
shown by her persistencein the good work,
and strongest evidence of moral greatness
of all was perhaps given when she heroic
ally strove to res ume her old active serv-
ices at the mission after being physically
disabled.
Outside of the Roman Catholic church
canonization in the literal sense is I'M
known, but fguratively speaking Miss
Margaret CulDertson will be canonized by
the loving hearts of thousands who know
of her noble work and sympathize with
her lofty aspirations.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-03
THE LAW AND THE DOCTORS.

To The Call: The present Board of Health
has surpassed its predecessors in reformatory
work.
It's recent compulsory action, after a year
and a halfs delay, in executing the law
against the non-registration of births, is
commendable.
Now if they will enforce Sec. 13 of can Act
to Regulate the Practice of Medicine in the
State OF California" viz: "Any person prac-
ticing medicine or surgery in this State with
out license shall be punished by fine of not
less than $50 nor more than $500. or by i'm
prisonment in the County Jail of not less than
thirty days, nor more than 365 days for each
and every offense," then they will be en-
snrined in the grateful hearts of the 800 reg
ularly licensed physicians OF this City.
The non-registr alton of a few births by over
worked doctors does but a 1.-THE of mischief
to that of the 400 quacks plying their nefari-
Gus calling in a community kept in Ignorance
of their true medical status by the leniency of
this same Board OF Health.
MARION THRAsHER, MD.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-03
STRUGGLE OF THE NEGRO.

The history of the American negro, says w.
E. b. Du Bots In the August Atlantic, is the
history OF strife-this longing to attain self
conscious manhood, to merge his double self
into truer and better self. In this merging
ne wishes neither of the older selves to be
lost. He does not wish to Africanize America,
for America has too much 10 teach the world
and Africa; he does not wish to bleach his
negro blood in flood of white Americanism,
for he beIieves-foolishly, perhaps, but fer
the world. He simply wishes to make 1t pos
sible for a man to be both negro and an
American without being cursed and spit upon
by his fellows, without losing the opportunity
OF self-development
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-03
...$2.36S,

The aggregate amount of the certificates and
treasury rotes of 1890 in the foregoing table
lis $500, S7S 953, and being deducted as it
must be from the total the money supply will
that all the reduction that should be and in
deed must be made? Is it possible that W e
have $346, 681, 016 in United States notes or
green packs still in existence? That is the ex-
nineteen years ago, not even one OF the lonely
SIG at the tail end of these figures having
been lost or destroyed in nine teen years IL we
TO believe the treasury reports with the
ohildlike faith OF the Bulletin.
All readers OF ordinary intelligence know
that as plain ma tier of fact there cannot be
any such sum as 1916 ,6S1 DIG in green backs
in existence, Notwithstanding the solemn ar
rey OF these unchanged figures for nineteen
years by each succeeding Secretary of the
nual loss of one quarter OF per cent per an
mum or 25 cents out of each,$1O0 there can
not be less than $29 1902 349 lost and destroyed
even within the last thirty-tive years.
Is it not likewise true beyond the shadow OF
doubt that there is no such sum as $671, &c.
$50 in gold, as re ported for July l, 1897? un-
dertake to say that it should be reduced to
half that sum, and that can show why this
reduction must be made If we stand by facts
which cannot be refuted. Then, again, the
total amount of silver coin is given as 1921
431, oil, which is more than $4,000. 600 too
much, as can be easily proven.
In word, to cut the matter short, claim,
and this is the cause of my criticism, that
there is no valid reason why these reductions
should not appear in the treasury reports, and
we should have total reduction of 1874, 49,
426, leaving the actual oney supply not a
dollar more than 81 800, 591 ,1O5, instead OF
the absurd amount OF So, 36S, lie, 81. as re-
ported, and which the financial orthodoxy of
the Bulletin accepts as ''nspired" official
inerrancy. JOSEPH AsBURY JOHNSON.
/ Essex street. July 81, 1897.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-03
MEN AND WOMEN.

Miss Christine Law has been appointed as
sistant clerk of courts for Ham pden County,
Mass. She is the first woman in the State to
hold tn is Office.
Captain John Klugh OF Company F, Two
Hundred aud Ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers,
was recently appoint ted postmaster of Frank
linton, Pa. Captain Klugh is "a years of age,
and probably the oldest postmaster appointed
by the present. administration.
The tomb OF President William Henry Har.
rison at North Bend, Ohio, is being recon
structed, the brick structure being replaced
by one Of blue limestone. There are twelve
bodies, including four children, in the tomb,
and vacant receptaeles for the interment of
others.
The Munich portrait pain ter, Franz Won
Lenbach, has finished a portrait of the distin-
guished historian of Rome, Theodor Momm-
sen. The picture is now on exhibition in the
international exposition in Munich. Near it
is shown another new work of Lenbach, por.
trait OF Bismarck in cuirassier uniform, that
was finished this year.
Mrs. Eliza D. Stewart, who organized the first
woman's temperance union in the West cele-
brated her eighty-frst birthday at Spring
Ohio, recently. Mother Stewart" as she is
called, organized the first union at Osborn,
hio, with 100 members in 1873. Since then,
up to recent years, she has employed her en-.
tire time in active crusade work.
Commodore Robert Phythian, superin.
tendent of the naval observatory, who has
just been placed on the retired list, entered
the navy from Kentucky in 1853. He will be
succeeded as superintendent of the obserya-
tory by Commander Charles H. Davis. who
was the special escort of the Princess Eulalie
on her visit to this country during the Worlds
Fair, and is now member OF the Naval In.
spection Board.
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year will be to get left on many important
features OF a complete display.
The enterprise of Omaha, the Gate City
OF the Greater West, is praiseworthy,
and should be enthusiastically backed by
every one of the trans Mississippi States.
The city claims to be il the center OF a
population of 10000. 900. 1t will have
some special features, notably the grand
military spectacle of 100000 of the Ma
tional Guard, which will attract great
crowds. Times will be flush and people
inclined to travel and to extend their
business and to select new fields OF enter
prise. The chance to advertise California
properly must not be missed.