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I I ill MONDAY SEPTEMBER 18. 1893 NOTICE Any of our patrons who fail to find TUE MORNING CALL for sale by trainboys will confer a favor by notifying this office if the fact, naming the date and train. Jf Call subscribers who intend leaving the city will notify the business office of their change of address the paper will be forwarded to them regularly. THE CONFLICT IN BRAZIL. The pending conflict in Brazil has no world-wide importance.

It is merely the fermentation of the elements which were roused to activity by the transition of the country from an empire to a republic. It was hardly to be expected that a country of 14,000,000 peotde could change their form of government and their institutions without some friction. To outsiders it appears that Marshal Deodoro Fonseca, who was chosen President; in 1889, when the Emperor Dom Pedro II was dethroned, was a man of ability and honest purpose. But his term was stent in quelliug or endeavoring to quell insurrections. They wore him out, and he resigned, in 1891, when he had three years still to serve, and he was succeeded in an orderly legal way by Vice- President Floriauo Peixoto.

He found the same obstacles in his path, and, like his predecessor, spent his time in conducting civil war. The latest incident in the war is his retirement from the city of Kio in consequence of the occupation of the harbor by an insurgent squadron. Whether this involves his final overthrow -remains to be seen. The trouble with Brazil is its enormous size and the want of unity among its people. It is nearly as large as the United States, and the greater portion of its area is arable.

The various States of which it consists are empires in themselves, and have little or no affinity with their sister States. When the old regime was overthrown several of these resolved to set up for themselves and severed their connection with Brazil. One of these was the province of Rio Grande do Sui, which expelled the agents of the Rio Government and has carried on a war for independence ever since. Another was the enormous province of Matto Grosso, which is as large as Alaska, and abounds in gold, iron and all manner of agricultural products. This province communicates with the outside world by the Paraguay, and has no commercial intercourse with Brazil roper.

It declared its independence and its 100,000 inhabitants announced their intention of becoming one ot the sovereign nations of the world. The example has been followed by other provinces, and bloody wars would be raging if the belligerents could get at each other. It is possible that Peixoto or his successor may succeed in reuniting the disjecta membra of the empire, but the chances are that he will not. Wheu tne War of Independence ended in this country it was found a difficult task to induce the thirteen independent colonies to form in a consolidated republic. Large concessions had to be made to lute recalcitrant States into the Union.

And this, though tbe States were all on a narrow strip bordering on the ocean, and were within such easy access of each other that during the war armies had marched from end to end of the strip. Indeed, there were many level-headed men who doubted very seriously when the constitutional convention was in session whether the divergent interests of the several Slates could ever be reconciled. The obstacles in the way of union are more formidable in Brazil. Matto Grosso's interests are more closely allied with those of Bolivia or Paraguay than they are with those of Brazil, and the people of the valley of the Amazon have little in common, save the accident of consanguinity, with the people of Minas Geraes and Espiritu Santo. There is a stage in the evolution of communities where the centrifugal force is Irresistible, and each community seeks a destiny of its own.

The subsequent stage, where centripetal force acquires power, comes into play afterward. South America is in the former stage. Half a dozen independent States now divide the territory which was once embraced by the Spanish province of Peru; and, reasoning by analogy, it-, seems likely that Brazil may go through the same process of disintegration. The tendency of modern government Is, however, to consolidation rather than to secession. But much depends upon the character and habits of a people.

If Brazil were inhabited by a people with the training of Americans it would be absurd to look on a division of the republic for a remedy for the evils that now threaten it. Rebellion may be overthrown, but when once the independence of provinces is recognized the work of reuniting them takes often centuries of time. THE ALASKA SURVEY. The return of the Alaska boundary survey party enables the public to measure the of the work they have undertaken. There appears to have been four American parties in the field and five Canadian parties, yet thegVound surveyed is only the narrow strip of the Alaska waste lying south of Cape Spencer and north of Sitka.

This strip is by no means an unknown country. There are mines and fishing stations all the way from Wrangel Island to the mouth of the Cbllcoot River; but the maps of the region are generally fanciful, and it was necessary to correct them by astronomical observations in order to establish a reliable base for a future delimitation of the position. It does not appear that any ot the parties entered the debatable ground. The work of the season was confined to a survey of the course of the Tnku River with the inlet into which it empties, of the Stikine River with some of its tributaries and of the bases from which the surveyors started, Sitka, Wrangel, Taku Inlet and Burroughs Bay. These points, and others in their vicinity, are familiar to travelers who have made the Alaska trip, but their exact position has only now been determined by trigonometric survey.

The country between the mouth of the Cbilcooi and Portland canal, which, according to the treaty, constitutes the south boundary of Alaska, is exceedingly interesting. The mainland is washed by an inland sea, whose seaward boundary is a congeries of islands, broken into all manner ol fantastic shapes by the western swell of the North Pacific. The warm Japan current modifies the climate, and the genial breeze which it brings, coming into contact with the cold air currents from the Canadian range, causes an abnormal precipitation so that the islands are fertile, aud are generally covered with a copious flora. They have not been settled, and it is Impossible, to define their agri- cultural possibilities: but there is no reason why they should not grow grain and other Plants of the northern temperate zone. Two or three islands in the jaws of Clarence Strait, which are in dispute between the United States and Canada.

are clothed with a dense growth of healthylooking fir. The mineral promise of the region can only be inferred from the output of the Tieadwell mine. If there are other such mines on the islands, and it would seem that there should be, a new field of mining adventure may some aay be opened there. Thus far uo coal has been reliably reported except from Yaketat Bay, near the base of Mount St. Elias.

But it will be a curious freak of nature if the coal beds of Vancouver should be found to disappear at the northern extremity of that island and not reappear again till the whole Alaskan archipelago has been traversed. By all reasous of analogy there must be coal, and good coal, on some of the islands which are strung out from Prince of Wales Land to Cape Cross. Next year the surveyors will turn their attention to the country between the mouth of the Chilcoot and Mount St. Elias, where the boundary line turns to the north. This is even a more interesting country than the inland sea aud its islands.

Mount St. Ellas, wrapped in everlasting and impenetrable fog. is one of the unsolved problems of geography, and the country behind it, which is a blank on the maps, is believed to be seamed with rivers and dotted with lakes, so that it reproduces the last stage of the diluvial period. To what use, if any. these ancient bodies of water can be turned is not now apparent, but it is as well that the lioe of demarcation between the American waters aud the Canadian waters should be drawn.

If the streams should be found to flow over auriferous gravel there might be trouble hereafter in deciding to which country they belonged. The most interesting field of survey in 1894 will, however, be the range which goes by the names of Chilcoot and Chilcat. It is marked on the map as being in Canada, but this has been questioned. On the west i side of this range the Chilcat and several other rivers take their rise and flow into the ocean or the inland sea, while on the east side other streams he.id and flow eastwardly, feeding the bikes which are the source of the Yukon. Some day a portage will be established across the range from one watershed to the other, and the journey from San Francisco to the gold mines on Forty-mile Creek will be reduced from ten weeks to three, lt will be the business of the Government surveyors next year to show how this can be done.

COMING THROUGH CANADA. The following is from an administration paper: Some of the Canadian newspapers are raising a mighty hullaballoo because the United States Treasury Department lias seen fit to stringently enforce the immigration laws. This action has interfered with that peculiar Canadian industry, the smuggling of Chinese and other uud-sirable Immigrants over the border. The Dominion Government Itself has beeu deriving revenue from the tax on Chines-, and ther fore the howl has an official note In it. It Is to be hoped that the customs officials charged with the duty of turning back proscribed Immigrants at the Canadian boi dei will not relax their vigilance for a moment.

Canada should not be allowed to make money out of the traffic at our expense. If she loads un with undesirable foreigners let her keep them. Every one knows that the most effective way to stop the smuggling of Chinese into the United States from Canada is to enforce the Chinese registration act. When it is understood that Chinese in the United States will be deported unless they can produce a certificate of residence, there will be no inducement to bring Chinese into Canada. Toe effort to stop Chinese from coming in over the Canadian border is well enough in its way, but the better way is to give Chinese to understand tbat only those who are provided with certificates can remain in this country.

TIN PLATE AND STATE BANKS. The Chicago Herald in its ardent advocacy of free trade some times forgets the rules of 10-iic it would apply to the discussion of other questions. Ih McKiuley's re- cent speech at Akrou, Ohio, he said that the splendid tin-plate industries that have been built up in this country. would necessarily be abandoned unless labor could be obtained at European To this the Herald replies that tho party that was intrusted with power last fall was distinctly pledged to repeal the MeKinley duties, nnd that no tin-plate mills should have been started after the election. The Herald reasons as if the election had turned upon the tin-plate issue, It forgets that THE MORNING CALL, SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1893.

about one hundred Democrats were elected in the South on the so-called force bill issue. It would be as just to say that because some States Right Democrats got a plank In the Chicago platform declaring for the repeal of the tax on State bank issue the common people are in favor of wild-cat money. It is true the MeKinley tariff was to an extent involved in the last national election it is also true that the repeal of the tax on State bank currency was in the platform upon which success was and it is still further true that when Congress meets it has the right and power, to correct the blunders of the platform. Taere is no more reason why Congress should kill the tin-plate industry than there is why it should revive the State banking system. SPECIFIC DUTIES AND ADVALOREM DUTIES.

The fruit-grower of this State would feel relieved by the showing made by a freetrude contemporary in respect to duties on fruit if complete reliance could be placed upon that showing. It appears that the only considerable changes that can he made will be in the method of collecting revenues from foreign fruit. The specific system will give way to the ad valorem. For example, in place of a duty of cents a pound on figs there will be an advalorem duty of about 40 per cent for revenue purposes. So with prunes and plums.

The rate of duty will not apparently be materially decreased, but in place nf a specific duty of 2 cents a pound a revenue duty of 50 per cent on the foreign valuation of prunes and plums will be collected. There is some ground for this whittling away of the tariff question and some fiction in our contemporary's argument, if the foreign prune-grower should estimate his shipment at $10 a ton the duty on it at 50 per cent would be but So a ton. Our contemporary assumes that the ad- valorem duty is based upon the American valuation after the duties are added, whereas it is based upon the valuation in the place of production. Under the Me- Kinley tariff there is a specific duty of 2 cents a pound on foreign prunes. The foreign valuation of prunes makes the duty neither more nor less.

There it a solid wall of protection to i American prune-growers. The foreigner can get into the American market by pay- ing cents a pound on his shipment. As prunes have been selling this year at less than 2 cents a pound the rate of duty is over 100 per cent. It is fortunate in one respect that the necessities of the Government will compel the maintenance of duties at something like 40 per cent on the foreign valuation. This is a good deal better than nothing.

There is constant danger, however, that foreign goods will be undervalued. Highgrade cloths which w'll sell in our market at S3 or So' a yard may be invoiced at S-. The 50-per-cent duty would in such case be laid on the invoice valuation. It would be -'i cents a yard. On S3 cloth 80 cents duty would hardly nay fur the difference between the labor met in Europe and in this country.

But a 40-per-cent ad- valorem dirty will stand between our industries and absolute ruin. "WHAT DO YOU THINK OF US?" As Henry Irving, the English actor, was getting ready to go Saturday night a Chronicle reporter approached him and put the important question that heads this article. The reporter continues "The great actor-manager turned a look upon his inquisitor that spoke volumes." Probably he did. He must have felt all the look implied. To be asked such a question fr probably the ten thousandth time such a moment must have impressed the actor with au Idea that we are, as he afterward said, "a wonderful lot," a job-; iot at that It is all very well to be courteous to strangers.

Courtesy is the quality in the civilized worid which costs the least and does the most good. Genius may be frrgetful or rude, learning may be silent when it should speak, money may be too much occupied with itself to do its duty to others, but, genuine courtesy compensates for ail deficiencies. It even seals critical unless they happen to be the lips of a Kipling. But when courtesy becomes obtrusive and challenges admiration Itis more offensive than rudeness. it Wen becomes something more than a sign of provincialism it is an indication of imbecility.

Courtesy cannot be imagined as challenging a compliment, and yet what uuder the circumstances could a visitor do but praise? It is time for California to work itself out of tins "What do you think of us" period. While no community cau be indifferent as to what other people think of them, there comes a time when the question ceaseS to be asked. Irving has been given a grand one far beyond his merits as an but no one quarrels with the spectacle the city has made of itself. It simply reminds us that we are still very young, still impressionable, with more impulse than judgment, more ostentatious correct in deportment. But misplaced enthusiasm could be forgiven as evidence of generous esteem if the typical idiot had not obtruded with the question, What do you think of us? SPEAKING THEIR MINDS.

The Philadelphia Inquirer declares the United States Senate a nuisance. It has arrived at the opinion through a perusal of the debate on the silver repeal bill. The Inquirer, which does not often get angry, and is consequently more likely to make a serious business of it than it otherwise might, continues in the following vein The time has come to speak plain words. When a legislative body persists In playing wl li a great country -md defying Its plain mandates theu should the people speak their minds freely. And the Inquirer, representing tens of thousands of citizens of Pennsylvania, but voices their when It arraigns the management of the Senate of the United States as a menace to business ana financial stability.

The offense of the Senate consists In devoting more time to the consideration of the silver repeal bill than the Inquirer thinks it should. The Call has before remarked that the advocates of repeal are apparently fearful of the effects of discussion. They are not content with the assurance thai repeal will come in time, but insist that it sball come at once. There have been some intemperate expressions reported from the San Francisco sanl lot. Discretion in that quarter has not always been held to be the better pait of valor.

Without doubt the cause tbe orators of the sand lot have advocated has lost friends through the plainness of speech that has been indulged in. But we do not recall any" expression from the sand lot so unfit to be uttered as the following from the respectable Philadelphia Inquirer: A NATIONAL NUISANCE. The Senate of the United States Is becoming a national nuisance. THE REED RULES. If the Democrats had only the narrow majority tbi- Republicans had in the House ol which Reed was Speaker they would be compelled to abandon the bill to repeal the Federal election law or to adopt the rule that a quorum is present when it is present.

Now Republicans sit In their seats in silence and compel the to maintain a quorum of their own members. As a rule filibustering is indispensable. but since so much has been said tn condemnation of the Reed rules the Republicans may pardoned for giving their opponents an object lesson in the way of demonstrating their usefulness. P. D.

Armour is one of the capitalists like Drexel of Philadelphia who bas laid up treasure in the good op'niou of his fellow men by founding a collegiate establishment on a pattern needed- in every great city of America. There are universities enough in every State where the learned professors maybe recruited with brilliant results, but much is needed in technical education in all branches of engineering, chemistry, the arts, industrial and fine, and mechanics. From the college founded by Armour the student is able at once to enter upon a practical business career as a specialist in one of man branches for which an education lv science or artistic training is necessary. The institution has been very broadly planned to include almost every conceivable feature of modern industrial and artistic work, and with a thousand students in its classes it must soon exert an influence on the country's progress, ouch work lessens the distance between the man of colossal and the proletariat. M.

Charles Fere, a French authority on nervous diseases and alienation, especially in infancy, traces their increase, which is at an alarming rate, to the rapid growth of drinking habits and other forms of excitement in recent years. Suspecting the cause he tried a singular experiment. To ascertain the effect of alcohol on embryonic life he subjected hens' eggs during the process of incubation to alcoholization by means of fumes. Some eggs were treated twenty-six hours and others fortyeight. The growth of the chick was delayed and monstrosities were common.

Another lot of eggs was exposed to the fumes during a hundred hours, and the result was retardation of development so marked as not to be more than twenty hours of ordinary hatching. Tie doctor hence concludes that the children of drunken parents are only imperfectly developed, and warns the Aryan stock that if it continues to debase itself with drink the Hebrews, Arabs and -why not the Hindoos will become the dominant races. This is a dismal outlook, but it will not be iv our time. The recent crisis in Australia and the prevailing dull times where have had uo effect on the revenues of the sub-marine cable companies. In periods of prosperity the commercial world is glad to use tbe cables, and in periods when business is awry and distracted the commercial world is compelled to use them.

This is the theory on which Sir John Pender explained unvarying prosperity to one of the companies, receutly, which paid 10 per cent on its preference and 4 per cent on ordinary shares, effect of having telegraphic communication between places widely severed is that a bank crash may be averted by a few ticks of the telegraph. Some of the Australian banks collapsed one day and were up the next. The fact that telegraph business does not diminish when money is stringent and confidence is unsettled seems to lost sight of in the South American publics where civil war-is raging. Whatever side gets pussession of the wires the general policy is to interdict the sending of messages, except those which mendaciously circulate favorable retorts about the party iv power. An English prison chaplain traces many crimes to the evils of betting.

Betting is stimulated by newspapers publishing the odds and giving tips of winners. The men who hazard these guesses are mostly the mahdis of the turf. To test the matter he took the tips of eight sporting papers with reference to a week's racing on one track, when they were announced and before the meeting. The results were remarkable. There wr-rw eight races, seven prophets, seventy-nine prophecies, and of these five prophecies were right and seventy-four wrong.

One paper named two winners, three named one each and the rest were hopelessly wrong. In England the men who make these prophecies do not go to the races at all, as a rule, aud are not good judges of horseflesh. They simply follow the public performances of the animals, the conditions or distance -md weight and make up their tips from a slate. Tens of thousands of men aud women put faith in these drift into systematic betting, with wagers varying from four cents to hundreds of do I la is, and enormous sums change bands because the multitude has the erase of gambling. By-and-by clerks rob the till, or otherwise cheat their employers and become unsettled in habit.

It is a demoralizing practice, and and the telegraph are responsible fur much of it. One of the new features of the intelligence department in warfare and during the progress of battles is the utilization of balloons and the photographic camera. Provided the wind is not blowing a gale, a balloon may be kept captive attached to a wagon and moved about in rear of headquarters or any part of the line, lt is now said to be possible to take photographs of positions held by an army. showing the uuits of the force for a radius ot seven miles from the balloon. These can be transmitted to terra hrma, developed and printed from so as to supply copies within an hour.

Hence by a succession of these photographs, and by noting the time and aspect from the point of observation, a general may be able to follow movements accurately as they are taking shape. By going up to a great height it may not be possible to observe these movements by smoke or any other device. Smokeless powder certainly will, not conceal the army from which volleys are poured forth. Probably the telautograph instrument will prove a great aid to the strategist in the held. It will supply plans from a balloon.

The Chinese do not abate their wistfulness to enter the United Slates, although most cf them are now menaced with deportation as a consequence of non-registration. They have been arriving at New York from Cuba in the familiar guise of merchants and students, with plausible excuses for preferring a circuitous route. It is a considerable descent in dignity from this role to be packed into a closed 'car as bananas and sent id to Washington State from British Columbia, Bananas are yellow and so are Chinese, but the colorable pretext hardly suffices. Customhouse men at Tacoma are investigating. While they are looking around the back doors more Mongolians will steal in at the front.

It is easy work in Puget Sound. Two preachers of a sect in Wisconsin seem to have peculiar views on muscular Christianity. They deemed a brother in the faith to have too much property, and undertook to drive sin out of him by pounding him black and blue until he could hardly breathe. Then some of the brethren interfered with the discipline, and now the cast-gators are hiding in a cornfield and wondering how much sin they have ou their own backs. A special census of foreigners in France shows that there are resident 7024 from North America and 4828 from South America.

Most of the 7024 are doubtless from the United Slates, and the number is not as large as might be expected. Tbe Belgians are the most numerous. They number 405.855, and the Italians are represented by half those figures. Germans only number 83.330, of whom the larger proportion are probably In Paris. There are 39,687 British subjects, nearly half of whom are in the Department of the Seine.

In these figures there is surely little to alarm France about the presence of the distasteful foreigner. A good deal of money is put into circulation by these residents. Train-robbers have scored another brll- liant exploit sufficiently illustrious to give them a career in the penitentiary for the rest of their lives. The art of holding up a train has been reduced to masterly a'taiuments. Wtien the engineer does not obey driving orders there is always some one.

familiar with tbe throttle-valve and brakes, and the express business seems to be thoroughly comprehended in all its If trains carried a special defensive force it would, perhaps, not make much difference in results. Trains would then be derailed and many persons killed. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Francis Parkman, the historian, has returned to Boston from bis summer sojourn at Newcastle, N. greatly improved in health, though not yet entirely a well man.

Attorney-General Olney is an enthusiastic tennis-player, and has constructed a court near his residence in Washington. Ou fair afternoons he indulges in the sport, in which he shows great proficiency and expertness. Abraham Lincoln is said to have a living counterpart, as far as personal appearance is concerned, in an Alderman In the little city of Brewer, Samuel E. Stone, who is by trade not exactly a railsplitter, he being a carpenter. Walter Besant has been talking to a London reporter about bis American tour and here is what he has to say of Chicago: "You have not seen America at all until you have been to Chicago." Mrs.

Cornythe, who lives at New Britain in the BUmarck archipelago. is one of the greatest traders in the South Seas. She is half American and half Samoan, her father being a former American Consul and her mothers native woman. H. M.

Curtis of Newcastle, N. who has been postmaster at that place since 1865, has resigned because, according to his own language, he "no longer cares to breast the troublous waves of political life or combat the pernicious influence of the spoils system." Uncle Joe Ardle is an aged African who, until the Charleston eartiiquake of 18S6, lived in a cabin on the banks ot the Savannah River. The earthquake scared him, and he built a sort of nest in a big oak tree, where he lived contentedly until the recent cyclone came along and blew him out. The late Duke Ernest of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha had an itch for writing, and, although he did not write at all well, publishers were anxious to print his book because of the glory in it, and because the Duke, owing to his exalted position, refused to accept any share of the receipts arising from the sale of his works. Dr.

Joseph G. Bryant, who is President Cleveland's physician, and who attended Mrs. Cleveland during the recent interesting event at the White House, is one of the most accomplished and skillful physicians of New York City. He is only 48 years old, hut has accumulated a fortune in his practice and has been a professor at the Bellevue Medical College since 1877. A GREAT THOROUGHFARES.

Work on the Extension of Colusa Street to be Resumed. The work of grading Colusa street and continuing it to Kentucky street will in a I short time be resumed. The propertyowners on the line of Colusa between Pennsylvania avenue and Kentucky streel, which is at present entirely underwater. have arranged with William Hollis for its 1 grading, filling in and macadamizing. The work when resumed will be (Tarried onto Kentucky street as originally intended, Hollis has secured the cutting through and grading of Pennsylvania avenue from I Colusa to Yolo, and is getting everything in readiness to use the materia! taken from that street to fill in Colusa and dumo the i rock into the bay at the extension of Colusa street.

The grading and macadamizing of that thoroughfare from the San Bruno road to Pennsylvania avenue has been completed with the exception of a few hundred feet the San Bruno road which is tube acquired by purchase by the city. The sidewalks have, for a width of four feet, been planked, and the street presents a handsome appearance. When the work of extension is completed at San Kruno road and to Kentucky street a short and direct route wil! be given between the Mission and Potrero to Army street. The latter runs from the San Kruno road to the San Miguel bills. Colusa street is the termination of Army street, and the Board of Supervisors has recently ordered the entire street to the bay named Army.

California glace fruits. 50c lb.Townsend's.-* Schreiber's. 834 Market street, correct place to breakfast, luuch, dine or after the opera. J. F.

Cuttek's Old This celebrated whisky for by all flrst-c ass druggists and grocers. Mar within a Reduced Rates via Northern Pacific Railroad. Greatly reduced rates to tfea World's Fair via Shasta roun- and Northern Pacific Railroad. T. K.

State general agent passenger department, 638 Market street. Francisco. Both Pooe and Campbell were accustomed to ring for pens, Ink and tea at unreasonable hours of the night that they might record the thoughts that occurred to them. Midwinter Fair Subscriptions. The committee of the Midwinter Fair has decided on ibe plan of publishing a subscriplion blank in dally papers, which may be tilled Id by parties wishing to subscribe to the fund.

This blank will be tumid in another column, and all aie earnestly requested to assist iv the good work. Veteran Firemen's World's Fair Excursion Leaves San Francisco September 19 via R'o Grande and Hock Islmd railways, stopping at Salt Lake, Washington aud other Eastern chles. Choice of first-class or tourist Pullmans through without change. Last special World's Fair par.v. For full information and tickets apply to J.

G. McCalL manager, 22 Montgomery street. Wigwam Theater, Monday, Sept. 18 Special engagement of two great attractions, a genuine Aictlc Alaskan. EsKimo village consisting of ll people and a pack of Eskimo dogs and a mammoth collection of curiosities: "Denver" Eo Smith, the famous pugilist, and Peter Matter, the Irish champion; George and Pauline Kidd.

sketch artists; and Bobee. Alice Dan Cieehan, Jennie and the Wigwam Theater favorite. Al Leech. The show open" with a laughable comedy entitled, "The Desk-cation." Every evening. Matinees turday and Sunday Prices 10c.

25c and 35c. Free 1 he largest collection of Alaska curiosities cv brought to country can be seen every day during the week in front ot the Wigwam Theater. Real Estate Sales. Jacob Heyman reports the sale of one lot on Schuyler street, Bernal Heights, for lots in th- Hey mau Tract for S2000; one lpt, block 23, Abbey Homestead for S200; One lot near Midwinter Fair grounds for $450, ana two on Silver avenue for $900. Do you have distress in the stomach after eating, or faintness.

heartburn, headache, or other dyspeptic symptoms? Hood's Sarsaparllla will tone the stomach, give an appetite, and cure you. Now la the Time to Visit the World's Pair Commencing Friday. September 1. the fare to Chicago and return via the Union Pacific win be 980. The Union Pacific the only line running through Pullman sleeping-cars and dining-cars San Francisco to Chicago, without change, in three and a half days.

All tickets good via Salt Lake City and Denver. For sieeping-car accommodations and tickets call oa D. w. Hitchcock, general agent. No.

1 Montgomery street. San Francisco: R. Ellsworth, agent, 918 Broadway. Oakland: or G. F.

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For saie by Druggists lv every part of the world Be sure and ask. for Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup. a bottle NOTES O'TH FAIR. What Eastern Papers Say of Our State.

SOME CHARMING FEATURES. A Diverting Letter Received From a Gentleman Who Thinks He Can Assist Us. Happenings at the Midwinter Fair headquarters yesterday added several artistic and interesting features to what already bids fair to be the crowning glory of California's enterprise. "The Fair" is with us, and even Sunday, which In ordinary business affairs is but a dull day, is not permitted to be a day of rest to the officers in charge of our coining exposition. Secretary Badlam was on hand yesterday and did not leave his office till the middle of the afternoon.

Assistant Director-General Comely and Mr. Trusdell, who manages the distribution of news items, were also at work for a time, and altogether there was a thorough business aspect to the Midwinter Fair beadauarters. It might very naturally be expected that local prejudices would cause our Atlantic coast neighbors to throw cold water upon our exhibition, but the patriotism and good feeling, which knows no boundary lines, has bred a desire that we shall succeed. From Eastern papers which arrive daily at the office of the department of publicity and promotion good-natured comments are being clipped ana preserved. The Evening Call of Lafayette, says with characteristic and commendable enterprise, the Culifornians have gone to work to develop their idea of a midwinter exhibit in the Land of Flowers, itself a magnificent exposition of nature's bounty.

The California fair will be, in reality, as to many of its features, a minature World's Fair, with some of the mistakes of the exposition at Chicago, rectified, and many of its excellencies as to both quality and quantity copied as near as may be on a mure moderate scale. In a recent issue the TJtica (N. Tourist says: "The exposition will, it is true, be a drawing card, but neither it nor any other will ever produce one-half of the magnetic power that California's incomparable climate has over the Eastern mind. California needs nothing more than her soft airs and her flowers, her bluemantled mountains and her hospitable. people, to cause the inhabitants of the East to come within her sun-kissed borders at a time when the snow king stalks along the Atlantic coast." A little closer home we have other favorable'commeuts.

The Reno (Nev.) Gazette has this to s-y of us: "Knowing that the Midwinter Fair is an assured success, it would be well lor some of our far-sighted citizens to take steps to see that Nevada is properly represented. An exhibition of our products and resources will be of infinitely more benefit to us if exhibited near home than in Chicago, and there is none too much time to work up a proper exhibit." The Standard of Ogden, Utah, compliments and encourages us with the following: "We are re-illy tributaries to Francisco, for we belong to the Pacific states, and we will in the end reap the benefit of the influx of new capital, tbe opening of new industries and the proper development of its old ones. San Francisco ought to be to us what New York is to the Atlantic coast." Mrs. D.J. Murphy of this city, who is now In Chicago, writes encouragingly and says people who are now visiting the World's Fair seem tolthink that our Midwinter Fair is but the necessary complement to insure full enjoyment of America's beauties of nature and art.

Mis. Murphy says the Midwinter Fair Is the "talk of the town," and that such expressions as "1 wonder if that will go to San Francisco?" and "I wonder if this exhibit will be improved upon in California?" are quite common and may be heard at almost any time when one strolls through the exposition grounds. The new bids for the Manufacture buildings and the bids for the Mechanical Art- building, designed by E. Swain, will be opened to-day. The Mechanical Arts building will be placed on the south side of the grand court of the exposition.

It will be 324 feet in length by 160 in width, and will contain all the usual mechanical exhibits. A thirty-foot gallery will run around the interior of the building, and this will leave a dear space of 100 feet one way and 264 the other la the center. On one side of the building, near the pump exhibit, will be placed two fountains and two large tauks to supply these fountains. The operating power will he furnished by the pump exhibit, which will immediately surround the i lanks. The project! roof, with prayer towers on each side, a magnificent and lofty arch entrance and brilliant coloring, will make this building a wonderful adjunct to the exposition, and will greet the eye and attract attention by the grandeur of its proportions immediately upon one's entrance into the grounds.

Its estimated eostis 570.000. The boiler-house will be 234 by 35 leet in dimension, which will furnish power to operate all the machinery in the exposition, and will furnish electric light. It will be in the rear of the Mechanical Arts building, bnt separated from it by a space of six feet. In it will be thirty boilers 100 horse-power each. On Thursday next bids for the Fine Arts building, of which Mr.

MeDougall is the architect, will be turned in. P. C. Grandmouzin, a local sculptor, submitted to the directors a few days ago a design for a fountain illustrative of "Progress." Secretary Bad la in took a suap-shot photograph of it yesterday and I the design will receive early consideration. The base ot the design is in the form of Greek cross, on the arms of which sit fema figures representing the four Pacific States.

California, Oregon, Washington and Nevada. California holds in ber lap tiie "horn of plenty." Oiegon a sheaf of grain, Washing'on the woodsman's ax and Nevada a miner's pick. On each arm of the base there also stands the emblem of the Native Sons, a Caliiornia bear. In the center of the design, and raised above the other figures on a pedestal, stands Mercury and two trumpeters to herald the approach of the youthful god of the ancients. Along with Mercury comes Cupid, and the effect is highly artistic and pleasing.

The til height of the design, if adopted, will be about twenty-five et. Mary E. Hart writes to the directorgeneral asking for permission to bring California's historical exhibits from Chicago aud place the collection on exhibition here. The executive Committee decided to attend to California's historical exhibit itself and not permit any one outside of the committee to have anything to do with it. All the time of the committee is not taken up with matt-rs of serious import.

In fact some very diverting things happen occasionally. Written applications for employment are numerous and never cease, and some of them display perfectly the weakness and vanities of human nature. Oue letter received yesterday furnished considerable It was from a gentleman with an abnormally developed desire to work for everything resembling an exposition. The writer explained that the vagaries of fortune and a desire to wander first drew him to the confines of Melbourne, where he labored for the exposition there, with the result of obtaining properly attested credentials and "recommends." Next the winds of fate cast him upon the hospitable shores of Montreal. Montreal was in the throes of an exposition fever and 10, our traveler warmed up for the occasion with every one else, aud found himself strictly "in it." He obtained a job ami cheered the affair on till "after the ball." Then he gathered some more credentials and "recommends" and wailed for some more expositions to turn up.

He waited ii iii a Mir lia- too long. The winter was coming on and clothes for winter cost money. He thought he could dress lighter, cheaper and neater in our Southern States, where pajamas, a yellow sash and a bicycle shirt don't cost so much money as Montreal overcoats. Aud so again tbe winds of fate propelled him, and with the aid of protecting Providence and a strong pair of shoes he landed, with a grip full of credentials and recommends, In "the South." Again our.friend was "in it." In rapid succession' he "did" innumerable Slate, county aud district fairs and expositions of all kinds and qualities, and in each place added to his baggage with a lot of new credentials and "recommends." He was an honored and trusted employe of the Florida Exposition and is now laboring hard to make the World's Fair a success. There are mauy things about tbe World's Fair management that the writer does not like at all, and yet he thinks the fair should not be decried.

It is scarcely necessary to say he wishes a nosition here. He finds it somewhat difficult to explain that he is in a very embarrassing condition financially. During the stormy (and windy) career as an exposition manager his credentials and- "recommends" have accumulated to an alarming extent The fact is he has about 250 pounds of extra baggage, consisting mainly of this material, and very little money, not enough to pay for his excess baggage. Would the executive committee advance him 550 to pay his traveling expenses to California and thus secure a good man?) The executive committee will probably answer the gentleman sometime before exposition closes. lDa THE M.

E. CHURCHES. Result of the New Pastor. The California State Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which adjourned last week, left most of the pulpits of that denomination in this city undisturbed, though a few changes, mostly in the smaller churches, have been made. Rev.

Drs. Hirst, Case, Dille and McClish are still pastors respectively of Simpson Memorial, Howard-street, Central and Grace, while Rev. T. H. Woodward remains at the First, Rev.

Thomai Filben at California-street, Rev. Arthur Anderson at South San Francisco and Rev. E. P. Dennett at the Potrero.

Rev. John Kirby is now at Van Ness avenue, and Rev. E. Wenk is at Epworth. the late pastor of the latter.

Rev. A.H. Briggs.having been transferred to the Centella at San Jose. Rev. E.

R. Willis who was last year pastor of Trinity, is presiding elder of the Napa his former pulpit is occupied by Rev. W. S. Bovard, a brother of Rev.

F. D. Bovard, late presiding elder of the San Francisco District, who is now pastor of the First church of Alameda. Rny. Mr.

Bovard, the new pastor of Trinity, is one of nine brothers, five of whom are preachers and a sixth having recently died. His first sermon in his new charge was preached yesterday morning in the church at the corner of Sixteenth and Noe streets, aud though he is vet a young man the discourse gave evidence of an intellectual ability as woll as a spiritual apprehension of the truth which the minister of the gospel is sent to proclaim which gratified his hearers and went far toward inspiring them with confidence of his success as their pastor and as a minister of Carist. His text was John "And if I be lifted up from the earth will draw all men unto me." In accounting for the drawing power of the gospel he attributed it to the religious instinct in men, which is stronger than the social instinct, that for accumulation of wealth or any other. Tha religion of a nat on always constitutes a prominent department of its history, and the priesthood, wherever such an institution has been allowed control, has ever been a powerful factor in the actual government, no matter who the openly recognized sovereign may have been. It is upon this religious this unusual longing of the human soul and the ability ol the gospel to satisfy it as nothing else can do that our hope of and our faith in the final conquest of the world for Christ is to rest.

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