The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 15, 1895, Page 6

1 1 ‘ i THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, ditor and Proprietor. " SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—$6 per year by mail; by carrier, 15¢ yer week. of the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- Burcan, Rbinelander building, Rose and time for a genuine Legislative kes to see another man all right now, r subscriptions. It is a wise Solon that never lets hisright d know what his left hand was reach- Farmers who have been longing for rain well cheer up. St. Patrick’s day is ps the Sens t combine would ze along with the Per) 01 nt were stronger he ery time the wires of ‘mination to the monopoly in ransportation system. 1t is not surp: that the starving man who drowned himself in the bay was dis- covered to be a hun ian. The teachers’ pension bill managed to get t the roast with the fat fried out of it, but it will bear watching hereafter. The Sacramento Grand Jury will havea chance to make a State reputation on the bribery scandal if the Legislature drops it. Good men may sometimes make mis- but Seymour and some others must ittle more careiul onrailroad proposi- tions. S as rolling off a log, ou roll off the right side; but otherwise it is liable to be a drop from a precipice. With telephone war in Santa Cruz, talk promises to be cheaper there than ever before, but it will mean business, just the same. attache who can throw light on the Senatorial combine he has a good chance now to show that he is worth something to the 1f there is ar Now that a terminal in this City is secure, Joaguin road isin position to se- The defeat of the appropriation for the ventilation of the Capitol at Sacramento is d with enthusiasm by the evil odors h the present Legislature will le4ve for contempt , but lawyers are left free to badger witnesses in the same old pleasant fashion. The investigation into the charges made by Senator Biggy should be conducted on the broadest 1 The peopie wish no dark-lantern dodge, but an electric search- light turned on. 1i money could really talk it might be eble to do justice to the meanness of the man who keeps it locked up in a vault in- stead of giving it a chance to circulate and meet the peopl: As it cost the United States last year $3500,000 to patrol the Bering Sea, and will cost more this year, it might be cheaper in the end to whip England, sink the poach- ers, kill the seals and then quit the busi- ness. Attorney Choate in arguing against the income tax before the Supreme Court pointed out loopholes in the act by which Astor and Vanderbilt could escape entirely from the tax, and then very emphatically sdded: “It looks as it there werea job in it.” The people are often wrong in minor matters or on new and unconsidered ques- tions, but on all great policies that have long been discussed they are nearly always right, and a statesman never makes a mis- take on such policies when he follows the people. The announcement that an Ohio sman bas invented a gun eight feet long, operated. by electricity, that will discharge a thou- sand shots & minute, gives reason for be- lieving that the fool-killer may at last be equipped with a weapon equal to the needs of his trade. Now that the woods are getting full of youngsters who, following Shakespeare’s rule of wisdom, are able to know their own father, the shrewdness of James G. Fair in devising a dollar for each of such contin- gencies shines like a diamond on the bosom of modern morality. The demands of Japan upon China are very slight in comparison with what were expected. The annexation of Formosa, an indemnity of $250,000,000, and the tem- porary possession of two ports, may be accounted as clemency when contrasted with what Germany wrung from France. ‘The destruction of Tesla’s workshop by fire may delay the achievement of the great electrical results he has been work- ing for, and is therefore a matter of serious importance to the world. Science morethan legislation is making the destiny of men in these days, and the world could better afford to lose ten Senate chambers than the workshop of a genius like Tesla or Edison. If Bachman of Fresno was correctly re- ported as saying in the Assembly, “Asa oewspaper man I wish to say it is our duty to throw mud,” he has but a limited con- ception of his duty. A genuine newspa- per man never throws mud atanybody who doesn’t first dump mud on the public. A genuine newspaper simply points out where the mud came from, and thus keeps the community clean. AY THE END IS AT HAND. The enormous power of the Southern Pacific Company over the welfare of Cali- fornia has been exercised during the last quarter of a century only by the consent of the people. That this company, in the pursuit of its private interests, has inci- dentally made possible such development of this splendid State as all may see, none candeny. Itis not necessary to discuss here the question whether it has distrib- uted benefits as great as those which if has received. Thatisa threadbare subject at best. The strange, new thing which now confronts us is the evident fact that this magnificent poweris waning, and that the beginning of the end is at hand. The one overshadowing misfortune that California has suffered has been the lack of sympathy and co-operation between the company and the people of the State. It would be superfluous to discuss the rea- sons for this. Sofaras we are informed, the controlling spirits of the company are men of distingnished ability, and clean and generous in their private relations with the community. Doubtless the com- pany has been charged with innumerable sins which it never committed, and cer- tainly it could never have been worse than countless knaves who have worked them- selves into office by playing on the un- popularity of the railroad. A statement of the whole truth must include the ad- mission that the people, by permitting whatever wrongdoing is chargeable to the company, cannot evade their share of the moral responsibility for its acts, nor plead exemption from participation in whatever material damage they may have suffered from its aggressions. But all this is merely retrospective, and is valuable only as it may show us that we are not competent righteously to judge others until we have examined ourselves. It is more important to face the new con- dition of things and in dealing with it be guided by the wisdom which our short- comings in the past should have taught us. Discipline, not revenge, should be our motto. Evidences of the disintegration of the railroad’s power are multiplying Demagoguery is disappearing before the advance of a broadening perception and an enlightened understanding. Timid men are growing courageous, and strong men are putting forth their arms. Legislators and other public officers who betray their trust in the interest of the railroad are now denounced where formerly they were en- vied. The moral sense of the common- wealth is growing finer and stronger. The recent violent agitation against official corruption in San Francisco is but another evidence of the growing spirit which is making men less fearful of the railroad and more ready to assail it for its sins. The Trattic Association, with its tireless, patient, dignified, intelligent work, was the crystallized expression of a cool and judi- cious desire to rid the State of the ham- pering monopoly of transportation. It dared openly to face the Southern Pacific and fearlessly announce its intention. Strange to say, the heavens did not fall, nor did the sun turn back in its course. The members of the association went calmly about their business, safe in person and inspiring awe for their daring. Out of their efforts grew the organizati powerful company of capitali railroad from San Francisc in open competition with the Southern Pacific and with the declared intention of reducing transportation charges to such a figure that the farmers of the San Joa- quin Valley might thrive,a largely in- creased population be assured, and the growth and prosperity of San Francisco placed beyond doubt. All these things have inspired the timid with courage and the wealthy with pride and enterprise. It is a revolt of the people and the death: of railroad power. NOT ALL BAD. The- passage of the San Joaquin ter- minal bill, is a matter of such profound importance to the people that very natur- ally there is the warmest approval of all who voted in favor of the measure and a hot indignation against those opposed to it. The coincidence of Senator Biggy’s charge of corruption in the Senate adds to this indignation, and as a consequence the righteous wrath of popular judgment is not likely to discriminate among men, but to pronounce an equal condemnation upon all who stood apparently for the in- terests of the monopoly against those of the people. It is to be admitted that such condemna- tion is not unreasonable. The issue in- volved in the bill was so great, the terms were so clear, the benefits to be gained by its passage so vast, and the popular senti- ment in support of it so strong and so well founded, it is not easy to see how any intelligent and sincere man could oppose it. It must be remembered, how- ever, that men do not always look at sub- jects from the same point of view. “Many men of many minds” is an old proverb whose truth has been approved by the ex- perience of a hundred generations, and it is not doubtful that some men are as sin- cere and honest in error as other men are in the right. In the case before us, the issue involved questions of constitutional law which may wel! have perplexed those who pay more attention to the letter of law than to its broad principles, and dealt with matters of such great moment that men of little enterprise may have been sincerely troubled at the thought of entering upon them. We do not deny, therefore, that there may have been some sincere oppo- nents of the bill. We regret, however, that a man like Senator Seymour should have been among them. His vote in opposition is one of those acts which it is hard to ex- plain. On the one hand, it is difficult to believe that a man of his known integrity and approved worth could have voted against his convictions; and, on the other hand, it is equally hard to understand how a man whose knowledge of the State has given him such a comprehensive under- standing of its needs, could have mistaken the right course to pursue ina case so plain as this. Senator Seymour has so often proven his usefulness to the State and his regard for the public welfare that he will not be irrevocably condemned by his constituents because in this.instance he blundered. Nor should he be so condemned in the State at large. He should have put himself into sympathy with the great policy of the people, but failed to do so, and a political blunder was the result. Other men may have erred in the same way, and the people should be willing to accept all explanations where honesty is discernible. In fact, if those who voted against the bill on hdnest grounds prove their regard for the welfare of the people and the State by getting at once into line on the issue and going forth to work for the San Joaquin road and doing all in their power in a legitimate way to break down the monop- oly control of the transportation system of the State, they will be judged leniently. This, however, does not apply to those men whose course was too plainly the re- sult.of subserviency to the monopolyy.ora desire to be bought, for their infamy to be mistaken. The members of the San Fran- cisco delegation who opposed the bill need offer no explanation. The people know very well how to gauge their motives and judge their conduct. Nor need any of those who have lied about the intentions of the promoters of the road offer any ex- cuses, There are some lies”that are too clearly the result of malice to be excused on the ground of a possible mistake. With both of these sets of men—the Legislator who wished to be bought and the malicious liar—there is but one course to pursue. The people must kill them politically and nail them like dead skunks to the barn door as a warning to others of their tribe to keep off the premises. A SHAMEFUL CHARGE. The Ezaminer yesterday made the extra- ordinarg assertion that “the bill to permit a Harbor Commission controlled by C. P. Huntingt#n to give away the entire water front has ‘gassed both houses of the Legis- lature.” TDisisa direct charge that the Harbor Commission has sold out to C. P. Huntington, and that it will exercise its power for his benefit. It would be just as easy to say that in opposing the oniy plan that has been devised to relieve California of the burden of railroad monopoly the Ezaminer has sold out to C. P. Huatington and is exercising its power in his behalf. The eminer’s charge is an insult to the Harbor Commissioners, an insult to Gov- ernor Budd and Mayor Sutro (who have been added to the commission), an insult to every member of the Legislature who voted for the bill, an insult to the Governor in case he should approve it, an insult to the Traffic Association, an insult to the public-spirited citizens who have sub- scribed their money to the valley road and who have waited only for this bill in order to proceed with the greatest work ever nndertaken in California. All opposi- tion to this bill and all attempts to bull- dose the Governor out of his expressed intention to sign it are blows aimed at the only hope of relief that we have had the opportunity of cherishing, are in effect di rectly in accord with the labors of the rail- road lobby at Sacramento, and strike at the most vital matter that involves the prosperity of the State. Men must be trusted in every business. There is not the faintest shadow of right to assume that the Harbor Commission will turn over the entire water front orany part of it to the Southern Paci Against that remote contingency, which is not deserv- ing of the smallest attention, and which even the corruptest Harbor Commission would not dare to precipitate, and which could be stopped if it made the attempt, is the absolute certainty that the bill will relieve the State of the monopoly which has hindered her progress, will develop one of the richest and greatest valleys in the world, and will insure the prosperity of San Francisco. What grander benefits might come from this beginning—what outreachings may ensue that shall resuit in a complete riddance of the monopoly’s hold on California—it is now impossible to foresee; but it is clear that the crushing of this opportunity fora rival road to plant its feet in San Francisco would be the blasting of every hope. INVESTIGATE NOW. The enforced absence of Senator Biggy immediately after he had made direct charges of an attempt to bribe him was most unforturfate, but the delay will in no- wise serve as an adequate excuse for the Senate to forego an investigation alto- gether. It has been determined to hold the investigation Saturday evening, the last day of. the session. This does not seem earnest and genuine. Although Senator Biggy’s charge was the simple one that Senator Dunn had promised him $8000 on behalf of the Southern Pacific Company to vote as that company might desire on any measure affecting its in- terests, and that Senator Dunn informed bim that other Senators had agreed to ‘“‘stand in” on that basis, it is absurd to assume that g fair investigzation would stop at that, or could be made in the time allotted. The subject has as many dark ramifications and is crowded with as many skulls as the catacombs of Egypt. Mr. Nougues, who represents Senator Biggy and the reform movement of San Francisco, has advised the Senate that it can appoint a committee and arm it with power to act after the adjournment of the Senate. The plan is so simple that it would be idle to say more of it than that it fits the difficulty exactly. And it cannot be doubted that the Senate contains a number of self-respecting men who have the courage and honesty to drag the whole shameful truth to the light. This is a duty which they owe as much to the State as to themselves. It is bad enough that “‘cinch’ bills are invariably introduced in the Legislature which are coolly and auda- ciously aimed at the pockets of rich cor- porations; it is vastly worse that no Legis- lature adjourns without making an open discovery of bribery. The moral senti- ment of the State is emerging from the de- graded condition which hitherto has made these scandals fit subjects for cynical pleasantry and enabled the men who created them to remain respectable mem- bers of the community. Shame, tricked out in cap and bells, may no longer pick our pockets with the accustomed impunity and then laugh us out of our anger. So far as the information of the people is concerned on the score of the men who may have embraced the opportunity which Senator Biggy declined, many will be able to base a conclusive opinion on the record of the rollcall. Many, indeed, may be satisfied with the disclosure made by the vote in the Senate on the bill authorizing the leasing of State lands to the San Joaquin Valley Railroad. However that may be, it is one thing to suspecta crime and another to prove it; and it is one thing to know that a crime has been com- mitted and another to punish it. Taking the case of the San Joaquin Valley road, if there are any Senators who voted against the bill from motives which did not regard the interests of the Southern Pacitic Com- pany, they will give evidence of the fact by doing allin their power to make this investigation thorough. SAVE THE MEADOW LARK. There is still time remaining in this ses- sion for the Legislature to save the meadow lark, and the time being ample the Legis- lature should certainly have the wisdom to profit by it. The fact that the bill for the protection of song birds omits the meadow lark has occasioned no little regret to many people, and the réport that the omission was made purposely at the insti- gation of a Legislator who contemptu- ously declared the meadow lark cannot sing has infused the regret with a keen sense of indignation. We envy not the man whose earscan hear no music in the voice of the meadow lark, nor do we envy the heart of the man who desires to destroy him, whether he can sing or not. Joyous in the morning and cheerful all day is the meadow lark. He is the blythe spirit of our fields and in- carnates beneath his feathers as much of the choicest animation of CalNornia as can be found in any visible form among us. Can he sing? Well, if the Legislators could legislate half as well as the meadow lark can sing when he doesn’t half try, there would be such sweet concert of voices in the Capitol as would fill the whole State with harmony and thrill it with rapture. Every man who as a boy has walked the fields of California and lis- tened with a young delight to every natural voice from the chirp of the cricket to the howl of the coyote and found within him- self a faculty responsive to the notes they utter of joy in the consciousness of healthy life, knows that the meadow lark not only can sing but does sing some of the most liguid, lyric melodies ever warbled amid the blooms and the blossoms and the sun- shine of the world. Save the meadow lark. He has all the enemies of other birds, and more, for as he builds his nest on the ground his eggs are a prey to animals that do not molest tree-nesting birds. He is slaughtered for the market to feed the jaded palates of epicures, and is often killed solely for the sake of the killing. Give him a chance to live and breed and add to the tuneful glory of the State. _California cannot afford to lose him. He is a native of theland we love and is worth a thousand imported song- sters. The Legislators should throw around him the protection of law. Let them do this before they adjourn, and then go home with the consciousness of having done something for the harmony of California. Some of the men who opposed the ter- minal bill were undoubtedly sincere and honest in the belief that it would have been better if amended in some respects. That issue, however, is past. Let the op- ponents of the bill now getin and prove their regard for the public welfare by doing all they can as individuals to promote the San Joaquin road and any other competing line that promises relief from monopoly in transportation. The prospects bright and promising that the people can afford to drop old time quarrels andsover- look slight differences of opinion for the sake of establishing a basis of harmony for future co-operative action SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Itis possible to build a railroad from Oak- land to Stockton that will be nineteen miles shorter than the present road of the Southern Pacific. That means a great saving of time to & large passenger traffic between the two places. The valley road will undoubtedly be constructed on & direct route, as the road would thus be enabled to give stronger compe- tition to its opponent. Thus constructed a traveler can go from Hanford to San Francisco in less than seven hours, whereas they are now twelve hours on the road.—Bakersfield Demo- crat. The directors of the San Joaquin Valley Rail- road have got so far in their work that they are comparing the various routes between San Francisco and Tulare. If the line runs through this peninsula there are several routes which it may follow between South San Frantisco and San Jose. Whetherany of these will offer ad- vantages superior to those of the present South Pacific line, through San Mateo, Menlo Park, Santa Clara, San Jose and old Gilroy is a ques- tion for the engineers to answer.—Santa Cruz Sentinel. The CALL is making & vigorous campaign to secnre the meetings of all the national conven- tions in San Francisco in 1896. It isearlyin the fight, but it is swinging effective argument —not the least of which is a hefty coin sub- scription 1o help the good work along. We sincerely hope that the CALL will make & win- ning fight. To get one or more of the national conventions to San Francisco will prove the best advertising California has received since the discovery of gold.—Watson e Pajaronian. The American people want American news, and it is_time, remarks the CALL, to wipe the Oriental fracas off the face of journalism and give the space to live news of home affairs. Aud that is what the CaLy is doing. It has startled the San Francisco school of journal- ism and gratified the people by giving home news the chief prominence in its columns.—San Jose Mercury. Men who die poor may have the consolation of thinking that their reputation for sanity and decency will not be attacked by their own children. The number of will contests is so great and the forms of attack on the wealthy decensed 5o varied that it seems asif the only way 10 escape slander after death is to die in the poorhouse.—Stockton Independent. ze?” is & query pro- an erticle in an exchange. It appears to depend on the material on which you work. It civilizes the good and makes the bad worse. In short, it is a method of intensi- whatever quslities already exist.—Pasa- dena Star. The San Francisco CALL announces its deter- mination to go out of the ‘‘fake” business and will henceforth refuse to publish lottery ads of every description. The stand taken by the CALL on this subject should meet with hearty commendation.—Ontario Record. If one-tenth the reports be true the desider- atum of the hour is not so much a committee of the Legislature to investigate rottenness on the outside as it is for a committee from the outside AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Ex-Judge Sconchin Maloney has at last’de- clared himself on the subject of corporation control. While discussing the present politi- cal status of the State of California he said toa small audience in the billiard-room of the Palace yesterday evening: “Not one of the assembled multitude congre- gated within my range of vocal maneuvers realizes the vast and limitless importance of the threatened invasion of corporation con- trol within the jurisdiction of the munici- pality of the city of San Francisco. Neither are you able to grasp, with any degree of com- pleted comprehension, the difference between the rights of the individual and the unjust, soulless, designing desires of the monopolies which surround the entire population and which will inevitably assume absolute and re- lentless controi over all the inhabitants of the State of California. No, you are not sufficiently endowed with the essential gray matter to ob- serve the prime and indisputable cause of the bondage you are compelled to accept and which constitutes a great portion of your daily pebulum. “I will tell you. “It is the intermediate demagogue who, while posing asa servant of the people, is in reality a political mountebank through whose machinations the higher order of public pil- lager deals and thus manipulates his marion- EX-JUDGE MALONEY DISCUSSES CORPORATION RULE IN SAN FRANCISCO. [Sketched from life for the *“Call’ by Nankivell.] ettes to the complete satisfaction of himself and the mystification of the groundlings. I tell you, gentlemen, that the people of this State are rapidly degenerating into a greatly misunderstood, and I might say,a hesitating population. They mean to become posss of those things which are valuable acqu tions to progressive mentality, but the circum- toinvestigate rottenness in the Legislature.— Sacramento Bee. Good - morning, Mr. Huntington. Is there anything else you want? Ii thereis and you don’t see it just ask for it. Don’t be bashful, old man; and if the people object reach for it; that'll be all right.—Los Angeles Herald. An industry that is suffering at the hands of negligent officials is the fishing interests of Eel River. A fish hatchery is the ome thing needed.—Fortuna Advanc PERSONAL. Dr. F. H. McNeel of Santa Rosa is at the Russ. W. Thompson, an attorney of Fresno, is at the Grand. S. Ewell, a merchant of Marysville, is at the California. Dan Ray, a merchant of Galt, is a guest at the Occidental. Dr. W. D. Mackenzie of Portland is registered at the Palace. €. W. Ashford, one of the refugees from Hono- lulu, is at the Lick. George A. Ryan, a lumberman of Eurekas, is registered at the Russ, N M. Goldsmith, a merchant of Stockton, was at the Grand yesterday. Dr. T. Rouse, & mining man of Denver, was at the Palace last night, J. F. Conroy, an attorney of Los Angeles, is registered at the California. D. Griffith of the Penryn Granite Works, Pen- Tyn, Cal., is at the Russ House. James H. Wadsworth, a_prominent resident of Yreka, is registered at the Lick. H. H. Main, business manager of the San Jose Herald, was in this city yesterday. Captain E. H. Bolles, whaler, New Bedford, Mass., is & guest at the Russ House. Charles M. Coglan, secretary of the State Board of Equalization, is at the Lick. J. Morgan, one of the largest cattle-owners of Cherokee, was at the Grand last night. A. R. Colborn, a wealthy manufacturer of Michigan City, Ind., is & guest at the Cali- fornia. George Anderson, junior member of the An- derson Fruit-Packing Company of San Jose, is here on business. Hon. John L. Gregoyich of Eureka, Nev., isin the city. He was tendered a reception by a aumber of his friends last night. Carlyle’s Poor Clothes. The sage of Chelsea was_indifferent to his personal appearance. His tailor was Thomas Garthwaite of Ecclefechan, who recently died. Even when Carlyle lived at Chelsea he still tronized the village tailor, though thepqnmr did not think much of the honor, . ‘“Ihey tell me that Tam was a great man in London,” he used to say: ‘‘but he never was thocht sae muckle o’ here. He wisnae ill tae please. He just wrote for a suit and I sent it, and he ‘wore it till. done, and then he sent for another, and never a word abooly:’ht. He was a gude enough man that way. . v stances which surround and intercept their or- iginal theories as to the conduct of a State are s0 discolored and dismantied by designing as- sociates that the natural outcome is the com- plete elimination of a righteous desire and the consequent enthroning of misleading and mu- tilated information. “Here we are on the yawning edge of a great issue, which is now causing great minds to throb and pulsate in vain endeavors to solve the probable outcome, and at the same time intelligently cope with the stupendous in- fiuence of the monopoly. There is but one way to do it, and that is to decimate every sugges- tion of the mountebank and let the masses see with whom they are dealing. The reaction will then be apparent, and the curse of an offended race will fall upon the usurpers of our rights with more terrible consequences than those produced by the inquisition. The public must have their — “What are you going to have, Judge Ma- loney?” came from the bar, and in a few mo- ments his Honor was plunged into the discus- sion of the opera hat and its relation to the grand stand at the racetrack. Frank Smith, half owner in the “Sammon” gold mines of Oregon, said last night at the Russ House that everything was very dull up in the Webfoot State and that he sometimes wished that it were twenty-five years ago, when he used to do general advertising work in New York City. “Those were the days when we hustled, and made money, t00,” continued Mr. Smith. “I was well acquainted with Hubbard cf New Haven, Conn., and have heard him re- late the story of how he went into a large dry- goods store one morning, the proprietor of which was never known to advertise whatever. Taking a counter stool near the door, he sat down and awsited results. This was at 8 o'clock in the morning, and by 9 he had been approached by at least a dozen clerks, who asked if “they could do anything for him”; always receiving the reply that “he wes only resting” they went their way. He kept this thing up until 11 o'clock, standing off clerks and floor-walkers alike, but by this time he was the center of much concern. At last the proprietorin per- son came to him and said, “You seem to be very comfortable here, but maybe I can do something for you.” “Oh no,” replied Hub- bard, “I am only resting. You see I have been very poorly of late and my physician adyises perfect quiet, and having learned that you never advertise in any shape I thought that this would be a spot equaled in solitude to the environs of the pyramids of Egypt and in quiet to the primitive forest.”” Hubbard says he was put out, but the little joke bore fruitin after months, and even to this day the concern in question is & large advertising one. “0ld Orizaba is threatening another erup- tion I see,” said Milton Caldwell, who knows Mexico from end to end, as he sat in the Occi- dental yesterday evening. “To most Ameri- cans,” he continued, “Orizaba isbut a name. To the schoolboy at his geography it {s known as one of the highest peaks in the world, but to the man who has ever sailed on the Mexican Coast it is known as ‘the barometer.” Going from New York to the City of Mexico, by the steamer route, Old Orizaba is the first wonder- ful sight. As the ship approaches Vera Cruz the time-worn old volcano crest is seen long before the coast is visible. It is locally judged to be nearly 18,000 feet above the level of the sea, and while the curvature of the earth hides the shores of Mexico that peak is seen way up among the clouds. This geographical logic has to be forced on many persons aboard the steamers before they will believe that the pink spot in the clouds is the voleano’s erest. It is seventy miles back from Vera Cruz, but is seen long before that city. The Mexican sailors on the coast call it the barometer, because they say that wheh Orizaba's peak is clearly seen no ‘norther’ is probable within the next twenty-four hours. The ‘norther’ is a gale that sweeps down the coast and wrecks nearly | everything in its path. Big steamers need all their ground tackle or plenty of sea room to withstand its force. Orizaba may threaten, but I hardly think she will ever become really active. If she does partof Mexico’s most fer- tile land will be laid waste.” “The best-paying branch of work for the newspaper man to-day is in the advertising field,” said George T. Burroughs, who has held almost every position in newspaper work on the largest dailies of the East, and who was at the Occidental yesterday. “The business, how- ever, requires genius, and the man who sesses that faculty in the largestdegree will of course meet with the greatest measure of sue- cess. Iknow advertising men in the East who are easily making $100 to £150 & week now,who, when they were ‘on the staff,’ were luckyif they made one-fourth of the amount. Speaking ebout advertising reminds me of a peculiar ed | feature I recently saw in Chicago. It was & wagon fitted up in such a manner thata large number of advertisements can be displayed upon the rods and sides by means of & strip of canvas arranged in the form of an endless belt and which is continuously in mo- tion as the wagon passes along the street. The day of the ‘all-round’ newspaper man has, I believe, gone forever, and by that I mean that the opportunities and pay for that class of men are rapidly growing less. The coming newspa- per man is he who has a special field whicn he has studied well and understands thoroughly. The hand of the college graduate is upon the ‘general work’ field, and his influence upon wages has made itself painfully manifest in the East, at least.” M. H. Holt, & miner well known in this city, has just returned from the vicinity of Copper- opolis, where he says there is likely to be a grand rush of prospectors, judging by the num- ber who have recently put in their appearance there. “The excitement,” said Le, “is caused by the discoveries of an old miner named John Brown, who is known =all over Calaveras County. He has recently been prospecting be- tween the old camp of Telegraph City and Copperopolis on land owned by & man named Oxendine. Thisland has been used only for grazing, but Brown made a contract by which he was to give the owner of the land a stated portion of the yield of ore in case he found anything, and his investtgations led him to & vein of white rock which showed well and which, upon following it up, developed a pros- pect from which he extracted over $1000. The white rock found contains a fine quality of gold; and in addition to this another miner named Lewis has struck it rich in a gravel-bed in the same locality, from which he has taken out pieces of gold as large us a small hickory nut.” “There is & proposition under consideration in this city to build an electric road in Lake County, which, if constructed, will, in my esti- mation, prove not only of great benefit to that portion of the State, but will also be a fine in- vestment for the men behind it,” said A. F. Hughes, a civil engineer from the northern portion of the State, at the Grand last night. “The proposed road will extena from Ramsey to Lower Lake, at the southern extremity of Clear Lake. The distance between the two points is, I believe, a little over twenty miles, and there is a grade of about 100 feet to the mile between them. There is a plentiful sup- ply of water, and all that would be necessary in order to secure all necessary power would be to dam the water atintervals along the route and put in local generators. Surrounding the lake and all through that section are a number of springs and ereeks which are already in great favor and are visited by thousands of people every year. If communication by rail was opened to Lower Leke the steamers now in service would give access to all points along this splendid body of water.” PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. The St. James Gazette of London thusex- plains how Rudyard Kipling got his first name: Rudysrd Lake, which has beaten the record this winter of all English waters by covering itself with two feet of solid ice, had previously Dbeen immortelized in a very different fashion. It would be irreverent, and to some extent incorrect, to say that this mere is Rudyard Kipling’s godfatber: but to it he certainly owes his name. Nearly thirty pears ago John Lockwood Kipling was strolling along the picturesque shore in the charming companion- ship of Miss Alice MacDonald, when he plucked up coursge to make there and then an offer of his hand and heart. To commemorate that happy summer evening’s walk the son of their subsequent marriage was named Rudvard, and ne certainly has given the genus loci no cause for shame. The medical advisers of the Prince of Walés make queer distinctions when their royal pa- tient is under the weather. The Prince recently had a severe cold. His doctors allowed him to attend a meeting of the Aged Poor Commission of the House of Lords in the morning, forbide his going to the Queen’s drawing-room in the afternoon, but permitted him to join her din- ner party in the evening. The late Professor Blackie, the distinguished Scotchman, was a man of many eccentricities, One of them was his fondness for a Panama bat, which he wore on every possible occasion, even at times in his dining-room. With this hat on his head and large dressing-gown around him he wasin his proper attire, as he considered it, for receptions. Colonel Monteil, the leader of the French ex- pedition in West Africa, which, it has been rumored, has been surprised and half de- stroyed, won high reputation as an explorer in his journey of 1891-92 from the Niger to Tri- poli. He is an officer in the French marines. Sardou is now busy with another play of the French revolutionary period. It is called *Louis XVII,” and is based on the story of one of the persons who claimed to the deuphin, son of Louis XVI SUPPOSED TO BE HUD}OROUS. Druggist—What the dickens have you rung me up forat 1 o’clock in the morning? The tattooed man—Don’t git hot, boss. T only want a little morphine for the ossified woman. She’s dyin’ terrible hard.—New York Herald. Patron (in basement restaurant)—Gimme pigs’ feet and & dish of mashed potatoes extra. Waiter (shouting the order through his hands)—Trilby for one; Little Billies on the side.—Chicago Record. “I wonder what keeps her dress from slip- ping off her shoulders?” “Er—the attraction, I suppose.”—Halifax Herald. “It seems,” sadly mused the postage stamp that had been bought at the corner drugstore, “that I am driven from piller to post.”—Cin- cinnati Tribune. “What has your Representative done since he’s been in Congress?” “What's he done?” “Yes.” “Built two houses, paid off & mortgage an’ opened & grocery-store.” — Atlanta Consti- tution. GUILD OF NEEDLEWORKERS. Meeting of the San Francisco Branch Yesterday Afternoon. At the residence of Mrs. Frank M. Pixley yesterday morning the members of the San Francisco branch of the Needlework Guild of America held a preliminary meeting to arrange details for the work to be accom- plished during the current year. Mrs. Pixley, Miss Beaver, Mrs. Burnett, Mrs. Eyster and Mrs. Martel advanced ideas regarding the best methods of dis- tributing garments and the desirability of every article furnished for the needy being simple, warm, comfortable and of durable material. A request was made that all em- broideries and ribbons should be rejected in making the clothing for the poor and that flannels and heavy textures be select- ed in the manufacture of articles of apparel, as_comfort was the all-important consider. ation in meeting the needs of hospitals, homes and_charitable societies, which are as a rule and by preference the beneficiaries of the guild. g . he total number of articles recei distributed by the guild in Novemel:zs,dlggf was 5694 pieces, including garments for men, boys, women and girls, bedding, towels and miscellaneousarticles. The pleasure and satisfaction experienced by the poor dm rletcewmg Pewfiwelfimflde cloth- ing was dwelt upon in the i I %‘3 & swfi'e“y?l{ < report of Miss s. William R. Smedber - urer, received $189 45, and, a; &:h;etmsg all expensf: f:% :gntionery, postage, ex- ressage, ete., §7 remai g“rkl‘l‘ fd.’ ained as a balance Th ose present at the meeting were: M;i Gwin (president), Miss Greer% Mrs, Sg;;? berg, Mrs. John Hemphill, 'Mrs. N. B. Eyster, Mrs. H. J, Ames, Mrs. D. W, Nes- field, Mrs. J. K. 8. Latham, Mrs. Frank M. Pixley, Mrs. C. W, Poindexter, Mrs, Julian E. Carzi' Mrs. Fol, er, Mrs. J. L. Marte] Mrs. onso A. Wigmore, Mrs. Oyrus . brown, Mrs. A. W. Perry, Mrs. J. M. Bur- nett, Mrs. John Landers, Mrs. J. H. Gl more, Mrs. Luke Robinsonana Mrs. Deane. — AnothSt Missouri cow. went to dri hole in the ice—this was in Glnsgnwn—kfl?gz: 1{]13 :,he hole and perighed. Sunny South | L0V PRICES FOR LOUMBER. LOCAL DEALERS ARE SUFFERING BY REASON OF THE WIL- SON BILL. Curs Mape HERE BY BRITISH COLUMBIAN. SAWYERS HAVE T0o BE MET. The lumber industry of California, Was}:- ington and Oregon has been severely crip- pled by the operation of that portion of the Wilson bill which places lumber among the articles of merchandise that may be imported free of duty, and lumber manu- facturers and dealers of the coast States, and particularly of this city, keenly realize the disadvantage under which they labor since the new law has been operative. E. C. Herrick, president of the Pacific Pine Lumber Company, yesterday gave his opinion of the condition and outlook for the trade in this c! “There is no whol fornia doing business at a Hard times affected this le dealer in Cali- rofit at present. branch of bus ness in the same proportion as other branches, but up to the time of the sage of the obnoxious Wilson bill umbermen transacted their business at fair profit. When the duty was taken off, the I;Z!rit.ish Columbia lumbermen, seeing v a better market, ! timein shipping immense quantit lumberto S n Francisco, and the dealers here, already well supplied with lumber manufactured in this country at a far greater cost than that imported from Brit- ish Columbia, had_to cut their prices to meet their competitors rather than allow them to capture all the trade. J “In many instances the selling price of fir and pine was thus lowered at least 15 per cent. y “The British Americans can manu ture lumber and lay it down in San Fran- cisco cheaper than we can. Their laborers, Chinese and Japanese, are paid but 60 cents a day. The original cost of timber is virtually nothing, as they pay but 40 cents an acre annual rental for “their timber lands. They ship largely by foreign ves- sels, chiefly Norwegian. ; “On the other hand, the American man- ufacturer never pays his laborers less than $1 a day and board. Our timber lands cost from $15 to $40 an acre, and the cost of portation is much higher than in the sh provinces. “All things considered, we do not look for an improvement until the Wilson bill is repealed. We are trying to hold our own, but are not striving to increase our trade under the disastrously low prices.” MRS. COSTELLO’S DEATH. A Coroner’s Jury Finds That She Was Not Poisoned by Her Husband. The Coroner held an inquest last night into the cause of the death of Mrs. Costello, who died suddenly last Saturday morning at 747 Brannan street. Her father, John Lynch, accused her husband of having poisoned her. Lynch and his daughter, a sister of the deceased, testified that Costello had often abused his wife and had threat- ened her life. A large number of witnesses subpenaed at Lynch's request testified that they knew nothing of the case. in this count: Costello’s death was caused_by an internal hemorrhage, and the analysis by Charles L. 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I early spring every one needs totake Hood's Sarsaparilla to purify the blood end build up the system. Hood’s Sarsaparilla makes pure blood and gives new life and energy. ——— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup’ Has been used over fifty years by millions of mothe ers for their children while Te thing with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 25c a botdle. FOR CITY FOLKS "ONLY. We sell at RETAIL in San Francisco and suburbs because we can do a larger business that way than by exclusive whole- saling. Everywhere else on the Coast we do a large exclusively wholesale business and retail trade is positively refused. San Franciscans and suburbanites have reason to highly value the privilege of getting their ° SHOES Direct from the leading factory at FAC. TORY PRICES, And they do. ROSENTHAL, FEDER & CO., WHOLESALE MAKERS OF SHOES, 581-583 MARKET ST. Open till 8 P. I, Saturday Nights till 19, Dr. George Rachel testified that Mrs. '