The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 22, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1§95. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. : 7SLBSCIHPTION RATES: CALL—#6 per year by mail; by carrler, 15¢ k. DAIL 1—41.50 per year. AN FRANCISCO acific States Adver- nder building, Rose and York. CALL (Dai tisiug ¥ Duane streets, FRIDAY. _MARCH 22, 1895 California first. Home goods for home use. self-protection. Home protection i The manufacturers talk business with a true eloguence. ter doesn’t agree with you, wine. The way to advance the Union is to ad- vance your own State Local patriotism should touch the busi- ness men as well as the heart. Railroad building is not difficult when undertaken by the right men. Of hydranlic mining it may be said lit- erally, “there’s millions in it.” Sausalito is not only rightly incorpor- ated, but has the right spirit in her, Even our hens and cows are blushing because we ship eggs and butter from the 1t is doubtful whether the Burroughs di- vorce case was designed for a side show or a free ad. The size of Cleveland’s girth increases with his fondness for bloated English bondholders. Ii the people of the United States would pey only in silver, England would be very glad to take it. —_— It is worth noting that in the Oriental war China stands for silurianism and Japan means progress. The only way to protect ourselves from competition with the East is to use what we manufacture. Until the Lake Merced controversy is settled, no San Franciscan will be in a hu- mor to take wat Sutro must be wedded to the Board of Supervisors, for he scolds it like a silurian talking to his wif ‘We tax our ships and then ship our taxes away to buy things abroad that can be produced in California. Don’t forget that the prime element in building up California industries is the maintenance of the Republican system of protection. The statistics of California industries submittea to the Manufacturers’ Conven- tion are a proof that speeches of figures are more effective at times than figures of speech. The Standard Oil Company might be able to explain why the great petroleum resources of California are not utilized in the advancement of our manufacturing in- terests, —_— It has been a long time since we heard the term Honorable Bilks applied to those who make no effort themselves, but are con- tent to line their ribs with the fat which others glean from industry. The letting of the contract for 10,000 of the 35,000 tons of steel rails that the San Joaquin Valley Railroad intends to start operations with was one of the promptest pieces of work ever done in this country. One of the needs of California is a scien- tific study and utilization of the peculiar climatic conditions which invite to the establishment of industries which might produce many expensive articles of luxury imported at enormous cost. . Since having been informed that John ‘W. Mackay Jr. and Miss Consuelo Vander- bilt are to “‘wed,” we are not yet decided whether to be astonnded over her decision not to buy a prince or amazed at his deter- mination not to buy a princess. The con- solation of knowing that either could have done either remains. The orange-growers of Los Angeles are pursuing the right course in calling upon Senator White to explain the reduction in the tariff on oranges. Any member of Congress who fails to stand up for full pro- tection to every American industry should be made to explain, apologize, recant and atone, and then step down and out. It is difficult to see why it should be so much more dreadful to take such little things as harmless bacteria into the stom- ach and fatten on them than to eat such larger beasts as cows and pigs. Of course it is hard on the poor little cocci and things to be eaten, and we would cheerfully strain them out and save them to their wives dnd children if we only knew.how. Of course, t0o, we may boil them; but is that a less cruel death than digesting them ? Now that Police Commissioner Gunst has carried his point to make policemen wear helmets, it is respectfully suggested that he apply a pair of shears to their coat- tails. The American idea of having big policemen and of increasing their apparent size with high helmets and long coats is amusing to a man from Paris, where the police are small men. The theory there is that agility and alertness are better than great size and the physical indolence which naturally goes with it. # F. W. Dobrmann stated an important truth with terseness and a telling effect in saying to the Manuiacturers’ Convention that every merchant who is not ignorant . or narrow-minded understands the general advantages of home manufacture, and also that to sell home products requires less profit and less loss by overstock and depreciation, and that therefore he can afford to sell goods manufactured at home at a much smaller advance than if he had to import and carry in stock the same class of goods. We are to bave good times ahead, be- cause progressive men will dominate them and make them good., As was said to the manufacturers by R. 8. Moore: ‘The new valley road, with Claus Spreckels at the helm, is, if I may adopt figurative lan- guage, the herald of the new California, blowing a blast on its horn which has awakened the whole State and will arouse it still further. This road, it is certain, will start other roads, deprive the East of its artificial privileges in our field, and give home energy, home enterprise, home brains and home money a fair chance to do California’s work and get their just re- ward, CALIFORNIA FIRST. The addresses delivered and papers read at the Manufacturers’ Convention are worthy of something more than the casual reading generally given to newspaper reports. They not only embody facts and statistics peculiarly interesting at this time by reason of the light they throw upon the existing condition of our in- dustries, but many of them also give ex- pression to those fundamental truths of trade and industry thai are important at all times and should be thoroughly under- stood by every community. These truths are essentially the same as those which underlie the great National policy of pro- tection and reciprocity. To make the Nation great we protect the Nation’s in- dustries, and to promote prosperity at home we should promote home industries. Business and patriotism unite at this point. It is America agninst the world in industry as in war. We must stand for our sister States in opposition to foreign nations; and among the sisterhood, for us at any rate, California must be first. It is to the interest of all Californians to promote the industries of California. We should make a market for local goods and manufacture the goods to supply the mar- ket. No citizen should buy any foreign ar- ticle that competes with American prod- ucts, nor any Eastern article that competes with California products. This is not merely a philosophy to be preached, but a code to be practiced. For thirteen years the proprietor of the CALL has been a pur- chaser of news paper, and during all that time has never given a contract to an East- ern paper-mill, nor ever used Eastern-made paper save at one brief interval, when the Pacific Coast mills were unable to supply the demand. To help home industry there- fore is not only our principle, but our ha- bitual practice. It should be the same everywhere. It isa shame to import paper b across the continent when our own mills could supply as good papér at ascheap a price if only they found a sufficient pat- ronage to be run at their full capacity. California first. That should be the motto of every household in the State. Home prosperity and home industry can never be separated. The American people have in the last two years learned by bit- ter experience the value of protection. Free- traders are very few in these days and the protectionists are more numerous than ever. It is beginning to be understood that we should carry protection to its logi- cal conclusion and build a tariff wall around the Union that would shut out foreign goods altogether, provision being made by reciprocity treaties for trade with countries that produce articles we cannot | produce at home. With such a tariff, the industry of the Nation would be prosper- ous and the wages of workingmen ' sécure. The next step then would be for each lo- cality to fosterits own industry and make a market for its own goods. That is the true industrial system. It isthe one that we should follow. Protection for all the States, and patronage for California first. AN OBJECT LESSON. The history of the construction and op- eration of the South Pacific Coast Railroad prior to the year 1887 and of its transfer and subsequent manipulation furnishes an instructive object lesson to those who are interested in the subject of competing raii- roads. The work of building the South Pacific Coast Railroad was begun in 1876 by a cor- poration controlled by a directorate of men who were independent of the Southern Pa- cific Company and who furnished finances for the first work on the road. Between 1876 and 1886 the labor of eonstruction went on until it was practically completed in the latter year. During this period of construction and operation the officers of the corporation rendered annual reports, at first to the Commissioners of Transportation, and later to the Railroad Commission, as to the cost of the road and of its equipment, and as to the earnings from its operation while the work of construction proceeded. These offiial reports are exact and lucid. They disclose simply and truthfully what this railroad cost and earned during the decade of its construction and operation as a com- peting road through one of the most popu- lous and productive portions of the State. Let us examine briefly these figures, drawn from their official sources, as the first chapter of our object lesson. The biennial report of the Commissioner of Transportation for the year 1877 shows that the South Pacific Coast Railroad Com- pany had constructed its line from Dum- barton Point dcross the Santa Clara Valley to Los Gatos, a distance of nearly thirty miles. The cost of this portion of the road was $627,620. The cost of its equipment was $80,890, making the total outlay requi- site to prepare the road for operation $708,500, or'$23,650 per mile. With the construction of this railroad through the Santa Clara Valley, and with its opening to operation in the year 1877, an era of active, earnest competition for the transportation of the people and prod- ucts of that section of the State began, and thereafter continued for the next ten years. During that period the South Pa- cific Coast Railroad was completed, and including certain small leased lines, it ex- tended from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, with branches to New Almaden and Boulder. Inall it had about 100 miles of track. The report of the officers of the road to the Railroad Commiszion adds the second chapter to our object lesson. It shows that the total cost of construc- tion and equipments of the South Pacific Coast Railroad was $2,909,441 25, and that there was a net outstanding indebtedness of $1,945,999 44. It further disclosed that the railroad during the period of its opera- tion had earned in net profits $1,503,441 81 for its owners, and hence that the road in the midst of the difficulties attending its construction, and under the fire of an active and bitter competition, had been a most profitable venture for its projectors. During the year 1887 James G. Fair gained control of the South Pacific Coast Railroad Company and soon opened nego- tiations for its sale to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Asa result the roid was transferred to the latter corporation for the purchase price of $5,500,000 in bonds, upon which 4 per cent interest pgr annum was guaranteed. The corporation was straightwayreorganized or rather vas super- seded by a new corporation. The report of this new corporation to the Railroad Com- mission supplies the third and last chapter to this object lesson before its moral is ap- plied. Itthenappeared that,whilethe cap- ital stock of the old corporation was $1,000,- 000, the capital stock of the new one'was $6,000,000; that the debt against the road was increased from $2,000,000 to $5,500,000, which was the amount of the Fair bonds, and upon which there accrued annually interest amounting to §220,000. This interest has been regularly paid out of the earnings of the road. Since 1887 the South Pacific Coast Railroad Company has been part of the system of the Southern Pacific Company, and has been operated under a lease to that corporation by which the net income from the operation of the road is applied to the payment of the interest on its bonds, with possibly a modicum of profit to the lessee. ‘What moral may be drawn from these | hamper it. chapters of this object lesson and applied to the conditions and projects of the pres- ent time? This is the moral and the logic of it which we submit to candid minds. If almost twenty years ago a competing railroad could be constructed into and across the heart of the Santa Clara Valley at a cost of about $23,000 per mile, and could there be operatea for ten continuous years with such success as to earn $1,000,000 for its projegtors from its traffic in the teeth of constant competition, and could further, during the same period, in- crease its value to more than double its cost, and is to-day paying interest on $5,500,000 at 4 per cent, which is more than 10 per cent per annum on the original cost of the road, does not the prospect of a competing railroad into the same section, which has in the mean time more than doubled in population and more than quadrupled in wealth and in annual production, hold out as sure and as practical a promise of success to its investors as did the South Pacitic Coast Railroad to its projectors nearly twenty years ago? And further, does not the same logic apply to the San Joaquin, and is not a like promise and prophecy shouted out from all the great valleys of California which are clamoring for com- peting railroads? A TIMELY HINT. One of the most important suggestions that has been made at the Manufacturers’ Convention was that by George W. Dickie. After showing the prominence of San Fran- cisco’s maritime interests and her great achievements in ship-building, Mr. Dickie vigorously assailed our policy of taxing our ships o heavily and pointed out the fact that these vessels have to come in compe- tition with those which have no such bur- dens to bear. Here is the most startling part of his arraignment: T made some figures the other day fora San Francisco house of the cost of a special steamer for service on this coast. The cost was, say $80,000. I was then asked to give the monthly cost of running this vessel in this State. In this case the State, city and county taxes just equaled the captain’s pay, and it further showed that if our clientsshould have their New York agent get a ship built there, register her in the New York Custom-house, the annual expenses seved in taxes would enable the owner to give the preference to an Eastern builder of § 000. This is the legislative en- couragement we get for home industry. Mr. Dickie deserves all credit for calling the attention of so intelligent and public- spirited a body ef men to this important subject. Instead of doing all in our power to encourage so valuable an industry, we have been doing everything possible to The geographical position of San Francisco with regard to ocean com- merce clearly indicates the tremendous im- portance which a reasonable encourage- ment of this element of our commercial prosperity might be made to assume, and in additiop to that we have an ideal har- bor and an unlimited natural supply of much of the most important material en- tering into the coustruction of vessels; with regard to material which we have to bring hither from a distance we have thoroughly efficient plants with which to bring it to the perfected form for use. The great ship-building plants which we have give employment to thousands of opera- tives and havelong ago demonstrated their ability to compete with the leading ship- yards of the world in the production of first-class vessels of all kinds. These are supplemented by numerous small plants, which line the bay at intervals from Ala- meda to Benicia and which are needed to turn out the smaller craft, which it would hardly be practicable to have built on the Atlantic Coast and brought hither round the Horn. The amount of capital invested and the number of men employed are already surprisingly large and these give further employment to many others remotely con- nected with the industry. That this in- dustry, vital in so many ways, should be fostered is a self-evident fact. THE PHILBROOK BILL. An act has succeeded in passing both branches of the Legislature and is now in the hands of the Governor which provides that “no person shall be deprived of the right to practice as attorney or counselor in any court of this State because of words spoken or written by him in the argument of any cause pending in any court, unless for such words he shall have been tried by jury and convicted of criminal libel pur- suant to the provisions of the Penal Code of the State of California.” It is known as the “Philbrook’ bill, because that is the name of its reputed author, and also be- cause it provides for his restoration to the list of licensed attorneys, despite his recent disharment by the Supreme Court. Without any reference whatever to the authorship of the bill or to the clause which would remove its author’s disabili- ties, it is evidently a blunder of legislation in its present form. The glaring and gap- ing defect in the measure is this: That it forbids the disbarment of an attorney for any words whatever spoken in court. It will be noticed that it is only after a tria] and conviction of criminal libel that an attorney, by the provisions of this bill, can ‘be disbarred. But there is no such thing as a trial or a conviction for spoken words, for the reason that such words are not libel at all, but are merely slander, and slander, however atrocious, has not been made a crime. It will be seen at once that this defect is all-sufficient to work the undoing of the Philbrook bill. There is, however, a kernel of reason and justice within this measure which shounld survive and be given form and force in later legislation. The power of Judges to visit the penalty and dishonor of disbarment upon attorneys or any punishment of like se- verity upon laymen for contempt of court should be limited to cases where a jury has pronounced the alleged offense to be a crime. No Judge should be permitted by law to occupy the place simultaneously of complainant, court and executioner. There is only one exception to this rule of justice, and for that the law already pro- vides. The exception is where the order and proceedings of a court are being inter- fered with or its dignity is being violated by an express contempt. Under such cir- cumstances a court should be enabled to compel order and to maintain its dignity by immediate action, imposing a moderate fine or even a brief imprisonment upon the offender. It is necessary for courts to possess this limited power for self-defense. But when Judges claim the right to go beyond this‘limit and to arraign citizens by summary processes and punish them with severe penalties for offenses against themselves, the right of trial before an American jury should be gnaranteed to the alleged offender. : This is justice. Thisis consistent with our principles and canons of liberty. This should be law. The right of trial by jury should apply to contempt proceedings as it already applies to every other cause involving the liberty of a citizen. — It is quoted as an evidence of the pro- gressive liberalism of Japan that no less than sixteen native Christians are em- ployed as chaplains in the army. This means a broadness of religious freedom that many more civilized countries have not reached yet. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. A great many men and women Who have no idea of the brain fag involved think it would be pleasant to get $100 a day for keeping an eye,or for that matter a pair of eyes,on'a bunch of racehorses and dropping a red flag at the right time. That is what James B. Fer- guson of Kentucky has to endure every day he goesout to the Bay District Track. In & word, he is the starter. In speaking of his onerous employment yes- terday afternoon he said: “As far as horse- racing is concerned I find that I like the duties imposed on me to that extent that it takes away the color of hard work. Of courseitlooks easy to stand near the stake and start off a bunch of hard-mouthed horses, mounted by a crowd of roljicking, strong-headed boys; but when one comes down to the actual work it ceases to be a sinecure. Now,for instance, sup- pose there is 2 mile race and every boy isout to win from the jump and some particular horse has a failing which can be accentuated JAMES B. FERGUSON, THE STARTER AND WRITER. [Sketched for the “Call” from life by Nankivell.] by worry. Isn't it natural to suppose tMat every one of those boys will try his best to worry that animal and fret him into astate that makes it impossible for him towin? They will do it every time they get a chance, and while I have to see that each entry has & good, fair start, I have to keep a very watchful eye on the kids. Theéy do not mean to exhibit a spirit of deviltry, but if you give them enough rope they will own the whole track. “I like the buys, but they think ‘Fergy,’ as they call me, is pretty severe sometimes. “Now, there you go asking me about the effort it is for & horse to run on a muddy track like it was to-day. I am a starter, not a trainer. 1f you want any points on training go and ask James Rowe or some of those men who make a life study of it. You see every man must con- fine himself to the particular business he finds himself best adapted to. I don’t believe ina man trying to handle several different kinds of business at the same time. Whenever you want a couple of yarns for the Sunday CALL on incidents of the racetrack, and particularly the starters, you cen call on me and I will respond. I can write anything for the newspapers and fill up all the space you assign me. Oh,yes, indeed, I am considerable of-a writer.” “I supposed you were & starter, Ferguson?” remarked a listener who had dropped into the Palace Hotel billiard-room, “and that you thought & man should confine himself to one thing and not try to do several others at once.” “Well, of course, that’s true; but I always stand in on any proposition that helps the newspaper boys along. Imay be going out of my class to get a game, but with & good handi- capper and a fair start 'm not airaid of the result.” Just then “White Hat” McCarthy sauntered up with & subscription for & sick jockey, and “Fergy” threw in a heavy gold piece. George Schneider, president of the Bank of Tllinois, with offices 1n Chicago, is at the Pal- ace. Mr. Schneider isa well-known character in the city by the lakes. Many years ago he es- tablished the Staats-Zeitung, & German paper which has since grown to be a power among that people. He has for several years been the treasurer of the Chicago Press Club,and isa welcome figure smong that body of bohemians at their social gatherings. In political life Mr. Schneider has for years been a prominent figure. He was a fast friend of Lincoln, and was a delegate to the convention held in Cni- cago in 1860 which gave the illustrious son of Illinois the Presidential nomination. He was also a delegate-at-large to the Republican con- vention held in Philadelphia in 1856, when John - C. Fremout was the nominee, and was appointed Minister to Switzerland by President Hayes in 1876~ Jist at this time the panic came on, however, and he found that his private interests would not admit of his ac- cepting the position. Mr. Schneider was also the first Collector of Internal Revenue ap- pointed at Chicago, holding office from 1862 to 1866. This is his first visit to San Francisco and he said yesterday that he thought it to be agreat town. “You have splendid opportuni- ties and your water communication and gen- eral resources meke Californiaa world in itself. There is & great future before it. This Oriental war will bring great chances, of which San Francisco will reap the benefit.” Mr. Schneider came out with a party of Chicago and Detroit people to attend the opening of the Prescott, Pheenix and Arizona Railroad, and after that event came on to this city. The Palace Hotel had an unexpected caller vesterday in the person of A. G, Fletcher, Game and Fish Commissioner, who in the afternoon had appeared before Judge Low and secured a search-warrant upon the statement that, to the best of his belief, there were concealed in the cold-storage rooms of the hotel divers quentity of quail, pheasants, duck, geese and trout, for which the season closed March 1. The Commissioner unearthed about everything imaginable in the line of meats and game except the species of which he was in search, and at last concluded that his information had been of an untrustworthy nature. MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. Mrs. Rogers,who sang the part of the old nurse in Mascagni’s “Ratcliff” on its first per- formance, is an American. Madame Vital, the French singer who had studied the role, sprained her shoulder only a few hours before the performance, and in order that the opera might proceed, Mrs, Rogers learned more than half of the long and difficult part, and ap- peared before the most critical audience in the world, at less than a day’s notice. She must certainly be possessed of more than even the usual amount of American pluck. Edmund Missa, s young French composer, has just produced a successful opera ‘‘Ninon del'Enclos,” at the Opera Comique in Paris. ‘The work is spoken of in the highest terms, the {fourth act in particular being declared to be & perfect musical gem. The poem of Lenska and Bernede is not in verse at all, but in prose. Indeed it is the latest fad now among compos- ers to discard poetry altogether in their libret- tos. Prose is said to be more eifective and more modern than verse. Herr Willy Burmester, the violinist, concern- ing whom 5o much has been heard from Ber- lin, was a pupil of Joachim at the Berlin Hochschule, but after one tour, heing dissatis- fied with himself, he withdrew to Helsingfors for three years’ practice of the violin® in pri- vate. Such artistic modesty is rare, despite the whimsical idea of & German writer, that Herr Burmester purposely fixed upon this northern height for so lengthy a residence because the intense cold necessitated a prac- tice of ten hours & day in order to keep the fingers warm. At any rate, Herr Burmester has since won a name as an executant of very remarkeble powers. A certain Senor Rubio, & solo player on the violoncello, lately tried to give a concertin London before noon, in order that the musical critics not being otherwise engaged would all be in attendance. He discovered, however, that there is u law in England prohibiting concerts before 12 o’clock, and the disappointed vir- tuoso has had to abandon what one writer sar- donically calls “his before breakfast perform- ances.” Mexico, a country that liberally supports grand opers, is just having a magnificent new opera-house built at San Luis de Potosi. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Professor John Fiske isan able man in several branches of learning. It is interesting to know that, according to a recent biographical sketch of him, he was the prize infant prodigy, in America at least, of modern times. At 7 he was reading Latin authors, at 8 he had read all of Shakespeare and a great deal of Milton, and at 9 he was deep in Greek. He seems, indeed, to have taken to Greek as a duck takes to water, for at 15 he had dipped into nearly all the extant classical authors and was reading Plato at sight, while attending to such inei- dental recreations as mastering trigonometry, analytical geometry, surveying and navigation. According to the Belgian blue book on the the subject of the purchase of the Congo Free State, it appears that Henry M. Stanley re- ceives from the King of Belgium £2000 & year when on duty in Africa and £1000 when in Europe. While in the service he must neither publish a book nor deliver a lecture without the King's permission. The Japanese Mikado is very busy these days. He is examining e detailed account of the ex- penses chargeable to the war with China, and isalso reading a treatise prepared by experts giving an account of all the military opera tions in which the Japanese troops have taken part. The Mikado is a good student and has & very active mind. Poor Liliuokalani says that she wants no more efforts made in her behalf in this coun- try; that everything possible has already been done. We hope the irony of the remark was unintentional.—New York Tribune. PLAINMARCH WEATHER NOW THE EQUINOCTIAL STORM IDEA IS LIKE THE GOOSE-BREAST STORY. MR. HamMoN TELLS WEY IT Was Not “FaIR AND WARMER” AS HE PREDICTED. Yesterday's rainstorm, given energy by a good 1s0-horsepower wind that would keep up with the overland mail train, was the spring equinoctial storm. The sun crossed the line. For some time now, if the plane of the earth’s orbit, and: the eclipticand a few other of those things, work as they have done for several mons, the refulgent orb of day will spend its time north of the equator. This thing of crossing the line has long been celebrated by man in a variety of ways, and there has been for ages an abid- ing belief that when the sun accomplished the same feat twice a year'nature cele- brated it by getting up, all over the two temperate zones, disturbances that have been called equinoctial storms. The “‘equi- noctial fury” of March and September gales has for centuries been celebrated by the makers of the ballads and stories of the sea, and the most enlightened, every-day people have up to the present day made sage observations about the to-be-expected- ness of storms occurring about the 21st day of March and September. 1In fact if the storm comes two or three days before or after that time the average weather- wise man observes that that must be the equinoctial storm and that it is a little late or early. But in making up his reports and pre- dictions yesterday Mr. Hammon, the offi- cial weather man, didn’t pay any more attention to the astronomical happenings than he did to the warnings of astrology or the condition of the breastbones of geese. According to Mr. Hammon equi- noctial storms have been relegated to the plane of scientific contempt_occupied by the goose-breast and ground-hog stories. He says that there is no such thing as an equinoctial storm, and thus another idol is sbattered. He says that meteorologists do not and never have recognized ‘“‘equinoc- tial”’ storms, but that the popular belief has led investigators to give some special atten- tion to refuting the theory. Some time ago H. A. Hazen, not the General Hazen who was once at the head of the weather serv- ice, but a well-known_professor connected with the service in Washington, wrote a paper giving the results of several years’ observations of March and September storms in various regions of the temperate zone. He showed that durin§ a long series of years the storms on the 20th, 2Ist and 22d of those months were, on the average, no more frequent or severe than the storms of any other three-day period in those months. He made a similar ten-day showing for those months. Other scientific articles of like tenor have appeared in the meteorological journals. The scientific dictum is that if it storms on or about the 21st of March or September it is because there is a “low” getting in its work in the neighborhood. “l don’t know how the fiction of equinoctial storms got into people’s heads,” said Mr. Hammon “unless it was the result of theola idea of planetary influence on the weather, coupled with a vague knowl- edge of the earth’s shifting its axis in its relation to the sun. The months of March and September are subject to frequent changes of tfemperature in the tem- rate zones, and hence to frequent storms ecause the degree of heat received from the sun is undergoing its most marked change. Butstorms are not to be antici- pated on a special day, and the mere posi- tion of the sun in relation to an imaginary line has no effect on the weather. “In this region, as elsewhere, the rate of storm movement in March is more rapid, but still there are not so many changes on the Pacific Coast as in the East.” The storm that stormed yesterday was the same old storm, and it fooled Mr. Hammon beautifully. He had predicted fair weather for yesterday, and he had to endure the chagrin of carrying an umbrella from morning till night.” But then it was the first mistake he had made for some time, and then a weather prophet ought to be let off in March because that month is vefifrisky. is storm came in from the ocean to the Puget Sound region several days ago. It had to hustle to get the rain here on St. Patrick’s day, but it succeeded. The area of low barometer has stayed around Puget Sound ever since, keeping San Francisco at its southern edge. ill this time a ‘‘high has been occupying Southern Cali- fornia and crowding northward, Night before last everything indicated that San Francisco and vicinity would be captured by the western end of the high yesterday and hence enjoy nice weather, but durin; the March ni%?tthe brooding *‘low”” chase the high back a few miles south of the Golden Gate and gave us rain all day long. To-day is apt to be showery but not as ba% as yesterday, Mr. Hammon says. he March weather this year was much finer than usual up to the 15th inst. Since then it has been more like itself. Children Will Hear the Concert. The free tickets gemerously issued by the American Concert Company to school children for the aiternoon of March 80 will also be good on the preceding Monday evening, March 25, when stereopticon views will be given. JOAQUIN MILLER HAUNTED BY SPIES. THE POET IS PRACTICALLY A PRIS- ONER IN THE CITY OF HONOLULU. HIS COTTAGE HOME GUARDED. HEe Spoke His MIND Too FREELY TO PRESIDENT AND MRS. DoLE. dtis possible that Joaquin Miller, the Poet of the Sierras, will arrive in San Francisco by the next steamer from Hono- lulu as a ticket-of-leave man from Hawaii with instructions not to return until he has learned how to write newspaper cor- respondence in accord with the spirit of the powers that be. Mr. Miller was received with open arms by President Dole and his political household last December and thereupon the poet wrote some letters to several newspapers, in which he extolled the young republic and its rulers and the arti- cles just bubbled over with pleasant and pretty sentences, such as Mr. Miller knows so well how to indite. Now, however, it is stated that Mr. Dole and his government colleagues are more than ready to oven their arms and throw the poet out of Ha- waii, bag and baggage, sonnets and all, without saying, “By your leave, sir.” And it is,all due to the fagt that the has written too much and has talke freely of what he has written. C. W. Ashford, ex-Attorney-General of Hawaii, exile and ex-leader ef the legal profession in_ Honolulu, who is now a guest at the Lick Hcuse, related the cir- cumstances of Joaquin Miller’s favor and disfavor with the Dole Government last night. ‘I became very intimate with Mr. Miller before and after the alleged insurrection of January 6, said Mr. Ashford, “and he told me all about the queer experiences he had met while in Honolulu just before I sailed away on the Arawa. My own ob- servations corroborated all he said. ““It is my belief that Mr. Miller will come back to America by the next steamer, with injunctions not to visit Hawaii_again ex- cept under certain conditions. For several weeks previous to the sailing of the Arawa Mr. Miller was watched by spies of the Government, his footsteps were dogged by detectives and his cottage at the base of Puypui (Big Hill) was constantly under the surveillance of the Government police. The poet soon became aware of the fact that he was constantly kept under guard, and he explained to me the ‘reason for it. He told me that when he first landed in Hawaii he was deceived. ‘I thought,’ he said, ‘that I had come into a young and struggling republic. While laboring under that impression I wrote a lot of articles for American newspapers, in which I lauded the efforts of the provisionals and praised them for their patriotism. But I was very soon undeceived. I found that the so- called republic was nothing but a scurvy oligarchy—a species of tyranny carried on by false pretense and under a ralse name.’ “Mr. Miller then told me,” continued Mr. Ashford, “that he had spoken his mind very clearly and emphatically to Mr. Dolé and™ Mrs. Dole, with whom "he had established an intimate friendship. This friendship had its beginning on the day of the attempted revolution, when Mr. Miller shouldered a_gun and joined the Government forces in their march against the enemy which could not be found. The friendship had its ending for %bod and all a short time thereafter when Mr. Miller's eyes were opened to the truth, and he told Mr. Dole and his colleagues that they were a set of tyrants over an inoffensive and helpless people. That very day the poet found that he was watched by spies on all sides. Mounted policemen were sent out to his cottage, two miles from the city, oet too S and paraded in front of his garden gate day and night. Oune day when I went out to call on Mr. Miller Ifound a dismounted policeman in front of the garden grazing his horse. When I asked him what he was doing there he re- lied that he was holding down his regu- ar beat and keepin%’his e&/es on the poet’s home. But notwithstan in% these signs of evident disfavor Mr. Miller continued to visit Mr. and Mrs. Dole every Sunday. But he had broken friendship with all the other Republicans because one day when he had spoken his mind rather freely he had been threatened with arrest and con- finement in jail if he did not keep his mouth shut. “On the Sunday before the Arawa sailed for San Francisco I met Mr. Miller. He was just returning from a visit to Mr. Dole. He remarked that he and the President had not parted as friendly as usual, be- cause he had read to Mr. Dole some letters which he intended to send to America by the Arawa. Mr. Miller then read to me some of those lettérs, and I must say they were scorchers—red-hot arraignments of the Provisional Government and an em- phatic denial of what he had previously written while under misapprehension of the true state of affairs, accompanied by apologies therefor. After reading these letters to me Mr. Miller said : ‘“ ‘T want you to do me a favor. I can- not trust this correspondence in_the hands of the postal authorities of this Govern- ment, because I know my mail has already been tampered with. You are going away on the next steamer, the Arawa? Well, T want you to take a packet of letters—these and a few more that I wish to add—and see that they are safely landed in America. Will you do it?’ “I promised to do as he desired. “ “Very good,’ he said. ‘I shall be at the dock just before the steamer leaves and will give you the packet.’ ‘““But he did not come. The Arawa came and docked and took on passengers and cargo, but Mr. Miller did not appear. The vessel sailed, but it carried no cor- respondence from the Eoet of the Sierras. Among the articles which he was most anxious to have printed was an account of his visit to the jail where the political prisoners were confined and which he had incautiously read to Mr. Dole. It is my opinion that Mr. Miller and his letters were kept away from the steamer by Government force.” PERSONALS. H. M. Reed of Reedly was at the Grand last night. Mayor Robert Effey of Santa Cruz is at the Palace. A.C.Bingham of Marysville was at the Palace last night. B, D. Sinclair of Placerville was at the Ligk last night. J. D. Grant of Healdsburgis a guest at the California. The Rev. H. White of Stockton isa guest at the Occidental. B.F. Sargent, an attorney from Salinas City, is at the Lick. . 'W. P. Rouse, 8 mining man of Denver, is reg- istered at the Palace. R. 1. Bentley, attorney from Sacramento, is registered at the Lick. S. R. Murdock, an extensive stock-raiser of Colusa, is a guest at the Palace. George H. Warfield, cashier of the Bank of Healdsburg, is at the California. Thomas Crouch, the large mine-owner of Butte, Mont., is again at the Palace. J. C. Mogk, superintendent of the big irriga- tion canal at Colusa, is at the Grand. F. W. Madera, the new passenger agent of the Burlington, is at the Occidental. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS, A crank always wants his name kept before the public, but he never wishes to pay for the advertising.—Los Angeles Express. The silurian never objects to the other fel low doing the work that benefits hi‘m aswell ag the fellow who does the work.—Contra Costa News. . Grover may be a poor marksman as far ag ducks are concerned, but he managed to hiy the Democrat bird in a vital spot.—Los Angeles Express. % The Legislature has been very gemerous to Governor Budd. It has provided him plenty of material with which to cover himself with glory.—Fresno Republican. As it is estimated that Cleveland’s friendsin Wall street have made about $25,000,000 out of his three bond issues, it is probable that for him, at any rate, the financial cloud has a golden lining.—Lakeport Bee. If the Republican party does pick up with free silver coinage, as it is alleged it will, and sticks to its protection ides, it will then oc- cupy & consistent position and get into power and stay in power for & decade.—~EastOre gonian. When you buy a Chicago ham—Chicage has the money and you have the ham. When you buy a home-bred, home-fed, home-cured ham the ham and money are both in the State, one to eat and the other to use in producing ane other ham.—San Benito Advance. The old bogie man of the Chinese Empire is dead. Butwhat are we to think of the new- great power across the water? For the first time since the conquests of the Saracens the world has a first-class military power outside of Christianity. It is a novel condition inthe world’s history. What is its implication?— Redlands Fac SUi’POSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Father—So you wish to make my daughter your wife? Suitor—Well, it's the only way I can see of becoming your son-in-law.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Father—Nowadays it costs me more to mend shoes than to buy new ones. Daughter—You must be mistaken. “Why do you think so?"” “If it did, patched shoes would be fashione able.”—New York Week “I want to git a collar fer my husband,” said the hard-faced woman, “and I declare I have plumb forgot the size. giner'ly buyall his collars end ties fer him, tdo.” “‘Ah!” said the astute clerk; “then you probably want a thire teen and a half or fourteen?’ “Yes, that's right; but I don’t see how you gues: it so easy.” *“‘Oh,Ihave noticed that a man, who fets his wife buy such things for him usually wears about that size.”—Cincinnati Tribune. Rosina has been reading in the paper that Crispi advocated the system of reciprocity in the Chamber of Deputies. Rosina—What is meant by reciprocity? Giacomo—It means an exchange in which neither pafty gainsan undue adyantage over the other. For instance, if you give me a kiss— so—1 feel bound to give you one in return—so— that is reciprocity. Rosina—This 1s not bad, but I altogether fail to comprehend why an old gentleman like Crispi should attach so much importance to it. —I1 Cartino. Attorney (badgering witness)—Now, sir, wouldn’t you like ‘to swear— Witness—Yes.—Spare Moments. More have filed answers to the petition of J. B. Quintero de More that part of the estate of Alexander P. More be distributed to him. They allege that the petitioner is not the son of Alexander P. More, and_that he was never acknowledged as such. More asked to have $87,000 distributed to him on the strength of him being the ille- gitimate son of the testator. Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * s ik 2 'VERMONT maple sugar, 15¢ 1b, Townsend’s.* THE new Easter Cards, Booklets and Easter Novelties have arrived. Sanborn, Vail & Co. * B J. F. CUTTER'S OLD BOoURBON—This celebrated whisky for sale by all first-class druggists and grocers. Trademark—Star within a shield, * A e e e CUR-IT-UP; heals wounds, burns and sorgs a3 if by magic; one application cures poison oak; it rélieves pain and abates inflammation. * ——————— HusBAND’S Calcined Magnesia. Four first premium medals awarded. More agreeable ta the taste and smaller dose than other mag- nesia. For sale only in bottles with registered trade-mark label. 14 " = —— How many members of this Legislature have lived up to their pledges? Call the roll.—Log Angeles Herald. FoR that tired feeling, or when you are wealk, nervous and worn out, Hood’s Sarsapariila is just the medicine to restore your strength and give you 2 good appetite. It purifies the blood. — “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup’ Has been used over fifty years by millions of mothe ers for thelr children while Tecthing 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. bottle. THE 25¢ a MOUNTAINS BETWEEN US. Between us and our Eastern brethren there are a thousand miles and more of moun- tains and desert plateaus. Transportation charges are high; why don’t we make our own goods ? WE DO— ‘We make SHOES thatare not only equal ‘but in some respects superior to Eastern goods. 0 ‘We do more—we sell them direct to the people of San Francisco and suburbs (none others) at what Eastern and all other deal- ers pay. In short: SHOES RETAILED AT THRE FACTORY AT FACTORY PRICES. -ROSENTHAL, FEDER & CO,, WHOLESALE MAKERS OF SHOES, 581-583 MARKET ST, NEAR SECOND. Open till $ P.I1. Saturday Nights till 10,