The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 30, 1895, Page 6

6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1895 —_———— NEW TO-DAY. S SRS L e ST CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. = = ~ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DATLY CALL—$G per year by miail; by carrler, 15¢ per we T LL—$1.50 per year. The plédge is the thing. There is no tax on generosity and enter- with s The true definition of journalistic ethics is manliness. Whenever you see a silurian shy a cob- blestone at him. Any art that makes matrimony inex- pe 1t is ignoble Every subscription to the new road counts for prog Grain and fodder are claiming the atten- ion of the Prussian Di Promise your business to a road that will give you the benefits of competition. in Nicaragua brings it orotectorate. Iiit is a disgrace for a divorce snit to be published, then divorce itself is a disgrace. Every rev rtoa Un ne It is about time to make Great Britain understand that the Menroe dottrine is a buzz saw. ite must be a pretty windy sub- re to believe all the talk open safes. uggested that the next silurian who mming provide himself with a ade of cobblestones. The sudden rise in silver caused by the and will join the bimetallic thrilled the whole West conference has with hope. British Parliament see trouble ahead and America, with no ap- nce of making a successful bluff | aquin road is pledged to ness of merchants, all 1d pledge their business to promote the road. If you wish to enjoy some of the bright- and best articles of current journalism, ng your leisure to-morrow, be sure to get the Sunday The first blast of the whistle which the first train of the valley road shall emit will send a thousand old ghostsand hobgoblins eking to the wood The angel of peace that is spreading its Vi over the Orient is still sufficiently 1 to d and a pair of very expen- ver shoe buckles. The report that the F thinks more of us since we undertook the construction of the San Joaquin road is not unexpected— in fact, we think more of ourselves. v of a war between France and over the possession of a re- p of darkest Africa is one of the radoxes of the era of the world’s greatest The possib and It is announced that a daily paper has been started in Greenland called Aviagag- tiotis Nalenginnamik Sysaraminassassimik, and if it doesn’t fill the long-felt want to the bottom and stick out a yard or so at the top, there is certainly nothing in a name. z evidence of the awakened s in California that all s of people are subscribing to the competing road, and that the workers, in proportion to their means, are doing as much for the good cause as the capitalists themselves. The gentle pirit of the peace-loving Robert Louis Stevenson may not be exnlt- ing over the fact that Charles Thomas Taylor has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for charging him with hav- ing furnished ‘arms and ammunition to the rebels, but it is probable that the white cloud on which his spirit is sitting is not shedding any tears on the tropics. In declaring, while acknowledging her suit for divorce, that she would rather have Mr. Massen for a friend than a husband, Marie Burroughs has made a peculiar dis- tinction, which is an attempt to divorce friendship from matrimony. If a woman’s husband cannot at the same time be her friend, we have encountered a mole that burrows under the foundations of the home. The arrival at Healdsburg of the machin- ery for the great creamery to be established there, is an important event forall that sec- tion if not for the entire State. California has the possibility of becoming one of the richest dairy States in the Union and every step in that direction should be hailed with gratification as another evidence of the tendency toward a diversified industry which is so necessary to prosperity. It is an old superstition in the South that every Friday each jaybird in the world takes a grain of sand to Satan, and that in this way the destruction of the world will eventually occur. This ought to be a hint to each resident of San Fran- cisco to pick up a cobblestone when he goes to the beach and throw it out to sea with all the strength that abidesin his arm. This will eventually solve the cobble- stone problem. A bank in a little town in New Hamp- shire has devised a way of escaping the in- come tax by surrendering its charter and obtaining another from the Legislature which allows it to reorganize as a mutual savings bank. The scheme is not com- mendable in itself, butas it reveals the in- justice of the law in taxing one kind of banks and not another, it serves a good purpose in exposing as well as escaping the iniquity of this un-American statute. The proposed form fora ballot in New York, designed to enable illiterate voters to vote intelligently, divides the ballot into five columns, the first of which is marked with an eagle for Republicans, the second with a rooster for Democracy, the third with a bunch of grapes for Prohibi- tion, the fourth with a plow for the Peo- ple’s party, and the fifth is blank for Inde- pendents. The illiterate can vote a straight ticket by simply makinga mark under one of the pictures. | any event, an open enemy is far more ad- i [matures to the pledge, and we trust thit WELCOMING THE PLEDGE. The Cavry’s pledge from shippers to pat- ronize the new railroad has roused extra- ordinary enthusiasm. It may be taken for granted that the few shippers who may re- fuse to sign it are those who fear the re- venge of the Southern Pacific or are opposed to the relief which the new road will bring. These latter, of course, will be known as the open iriends of the old monopoly, and, if they have the courage so to declare themselves, they will deserve all the credit that belongs to courage which is not supported by lofty principle. In mirable than a deceitful friend. Those who do not love the Southern Pa- cific and its methods, and yet who are fearful of revenge if they declare them- selves openly for the people, will have no excuse for refusing to sign the pledge. The Cary will guard their signatures as a sacred trust. It is only those who are willing to come out in the open and an- nounce themselves the friends of Califor- nia whose names will appear in the ! published roll of horor. It is not antici- pated that any citizen who might be in a position to travel or ship over this road will be found either timid or recalcitrant. The natural expectation is that every man will do his duty and be proud to have the fact known. The following assertions made by Isaac Upham, one of the directors of the new road, should be treasured in the memory: It is becoming generally understood that this is the people’s road and that they are to own end control it, and the more people interested in it the stronger it will make the organization. The road will not be run in the interest of in- dividuals, but will serve the requirements of the city and the country through which it will pass. That is an original idea of obtaining promises of traffic from people in the city and interior. While such promises would have no legal strength, yet the moral obligation would be strong and, I believe, lasting. We should be able to obtain assurances from large corpora- tions and companies in this way. * * * If 1000 shippers could be secured in the valley who would pledge their support to the road that would in itself be a great accomplish- ment. It is a pledge based on manliness and not on the law: and it is so broad that the in- genuity which could find an excuse for not signing it must be of an uncommon order. Here it is: For the purpose of giving not only moral but substantial aid to the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway I hereby agree, rates and facilities being equal, to petronize the pas- senger service and forward over the said road all freight I may have for transportation. Name, Address. Adolph Kutner of the firm of Kutner & | Goldstein, one of the largest houses of the | interior, announces that his firm will posi- | tively give preference to the new roai. This one house pays $150,000 a year to the | Southern Pacific for freight charges, axd | its members are anxious to sign the pledde. | These are not alone among those who are | eagerly awaiting the receipt of the blank | in order that they may sign it, but their action is of tremendous importance and is an example for others. | The preparation of the blank pledge is | being rapidly pushed, and in a few davs | every shipper will have an opportunity io | sign one. As it will be an exceedingly dii- i ficult task to reach them all by direct | means, headquarters for the distribution &f the blanks will be established throughoit regions affected by the new road, and they will be announced in the CALL. ‘We shall send a request to each news- paper on the lines of the proposed road to co-operate with the CALL in securing sig- | each and all will heartily join in the gocd work and do all in their power io indude their readers to sign. AN IMPORTANT VOTE. Last Monday the Board of Supervisors, by a vote of seven to five, refused to refer to the committee of the whole for further consideration, an order passing to print the resolution placing certain restrictions on the form in which bituminous rock shall be delivered to the city for pavement uses. This was a very important action, not only as it concerns the matter in hand, but pos- sibly in a general and ulterior sense that goes to the very character of the board; and it is well that both the action and the vote be remembered. The motion to refer tothe committee rof the whole was made by Supervisor Spreckels, chairman of the Street Committee, which had this matter in charge, and yet the three other mem- bers of the committee voted against it. The first vote to refer, stood as follows: Ayes—King, Dimond, Taylor, Spreckels, Hobbs — 5. Noes — Scully, Benjamin, Hirsch, Morgenstern, Hughes, Dunker, Wagner—7. A slightamendment required the motion to be resubmitted, and the re- sult was the same as at first, except that Mr. King was absent. The resolution which was thus refused further and more careful consideration provides that bituminous rock shall be delivered to the City in its “natural state.” Thus it shuts out rock which might be brought hither in vessels, confines the supply to sources tapped by the present rail facilities, and consequently renders competition impossible. This end is ac- complished thus: Bituminous rock in its natural state cannot be shipped profitably in vessels, because it becomes compacted in the hold, and hence the expense of un- loading it is too great. But the shippers have been putting it through some kind of process at the mine by which it becomes friable; in that state it is easily placed in large sacks, is shipped without compact- ing, and is delivered at San Francisco in a form much easier to handle and apply to the streets than if it were in its natural state. The reason that has been given for excluding it is that the treatment wnich it receives at the mine destroys the cohesive- ness of the bitumen and thus renders the material unfit for pavements. It would seem that this problem might be handled in a much better way, to say nothing of the harm which the creation of a monopoly bringsand the suspicion which might be aroused by that act. If it is true, as demonstrated by actual trial and by chemical analysis and mechanical tests of strength, that the sea-shipped rock is worthless, then by all means it should be excluded. But have these tests been made, and if so, have they been thorough? If not, the majority of the board have clearly placed themselves in a position where a defense of their conduct is necessary. I1f these tests should be made and it should be found that this rock is as good as any other, then its exclusion is an exceedingly bad thing. The rock has to be made friable by heat before it can be placed on the streets. Why cannot this be done in whole or in part at the mine? For that matter, could not the Supervisors estab- lish a standard of cohesiveness, strength and chemical analysis, and require that all bituminous rock conform toit? And why could not a sound bond be required asan additional safeguard to insure the perma- nency of the pavement? Such restrictions would be practical, business-like and mani- festly honest. These conditions would be just as wise in the case of rock brought in its natural state as in that of any other. The Carr-does not care where the rock comes from, so long as it is good and the charge for it is reasonable. For this reason it opposes a momnopoly. It desires to see the rock come from every source where it can be reached, and it wants competition. This is what eyvery good citizen desires. It has not been explained why Mr. King absented himself before the second vote was taken. He may have had private business which was more urgent, but, if 50, it needed to have been very important indeed. Admittedly he had excellent company in the first vote. Those gentle- men represent important interests, and have personal reputations of a high order. Noone would think of entertaining the slightest suspicion of their motives, and their vote wasa clear expression of their desire to live up to their reputations and exercise their power for the City’s good. Hence the vote of the whole board on this matter is very important, and all the more so if hereafter it should be repeated on other occasions that present a choice of this general character. While it is not sug- gested that those who voted for the refer- ence of this order to the committee of the whole should be regarded as desiring to set themselves up as leaders, it is certain that the honesty of those Supervisors who vote with them will not be questioned. It would be fair and generous to assume that the majority have voted without due con- sideration. They can give evidence of that fact by undoing their action of Monday night or produce reasons why they should ‘not. Any good man may do a wrong thing inadvertently, but he will lose no time in rectifying the wrong if he can. THE CITY GOVERNMENT. The general movement toward a better order of things which has begun in all parts of California is certain to affect municipalities as well as corporations and individuals. There are certain enterprises and undertakings in the way of improve- ment that can be carried out only by city or county governments. These improve- ments in many cases have been long needed, and it is evident that public senti- ment is now prepared to support the local government in undertaking them wherever the local officials are at all trustwcrthy. The trend of opinion in this direction is particularly noticeable in San Franci The strong expression in favor of munici- pal improvement and development made by President Craig at the mass-meeting of the Half-million Club was in full accord with the sentiment which prevails among progressive men, and the applause with which his remarks were greeted em- phatically manifested public opinion on the subject. We are, therefore, face to face with the desired improvements as an issue of practical politics, and it is time for our people to consider them in that light. The first essential to success in public affairs is to have the right men in charge of them, and in that respect San Francisco at this time is particularly fortunate. Some of the members of the Board of Supervisors are undoubtedly subject to just criticism, but on the other hand there are members who have the full confidence of the public and have well merited it by their ability, integrity and zeal in the service of the community. It is not too much to say that with men like A. B. Spreckels, C. L. Taylor, J. K. C. Hobbs, Joseph I. Dimond and others on the Board of Supervisors, San Francisco can safely look forward to an era of mu- nicipal improvement, provided their efforts find a reasonable support from the com- munity at large. They are in the fullest sense representative of the best elements of the Cit; They represent its property, its capital, its trade, its culture, its energy and its enterprise. They are taxpayers, and feel every burden laid upon the peo- ple. They are business men, and under- stand the importance of economy in all branches of work. They are sagacious, progressive men who know what the com- munity needs; and to them and their sup- porters on the board, therefore, the tax- payers and the people generally can look for a careful guardianship of every interest of the municipality. ‘We are not unaware of the existence of reports concerning the organization of a pool or a ring among the Supervisors ex- clusive of these gentlemen. Ifthere is any such ring it will have to be welded of tri- ple brass and steel to withstand the pressure of popular indignation as soon as it is made known. The people are in no humor just now to tolerate in municipal legislation anything suecgestive of fraud, extravagance, jobbery or boss control. Any Supervisor who may be inclined to such a thing had best reflect a little. Every member of the board will have to measure up on each issue as it arises with the men we have named and be judged by their standard. If any Supervisor, there- fore, has any doubt how to act or to vote on any particular question ,he would do well to hear the arguments and watch the vote of these men, in the hope that some valuable information may be gained and the reasons for their votes understood and adopted as a basis of action. San Fran- cisco needs a good administration at this time, and it behooves every Supervisor to remember the fact. THE RAILROAD TIME-CARD. ‘When the CALL passed under its present ownership the proprictor discovered that the daily papers of the city were not pub- lishing the time-card of the Southern Pa- cific Company. Thiscard had always been published down to last autumn as an adver- tisement, and the company had always paid for it as such. It was withdrawn a few months ago, the company explaining that it could not afford to pay for the pub- lication. The newspapers refused to pub- lish it free, probably on the ground that the publication was a valuable service to the company and that they were not bound to render it without compensation. The new proprietor of the Cary discov- ered that the people of the City were sui- fering great annoyance and inconvenience by reason of the non-publication of this card, He asked the Southern Pacific Com- pany to furnish it to the CALL as an adver- tisement and the company declined to do s0. This was its privilege. It was attend- ing to its business and the CaLL will never quarrel with it for that. The Carn then prompily began the free publication of the time - card, for the reason that it was an im- portant matter of news and that its non-appearance was a serious deprivation to the public. Whether or not the publi- cation would be a valuable service to the Southern Pacific Company—as it certainly is—was a matter of no concern whatever to the CarL. The company is heartily wel- come to any benefit which it may incidentally receive from our course in giving the people the news which they want, need and are entitled to have. It was our duty to publish the card and we published it, and we shall continue to publish it free just so long as the company does not wish to pay for it. It is our policy to serve the people first by giving all the news, and it will never grieve us in the least to advertise any private interest in carrying out that policy. It is a pleasure to announce that the Chronicle has recently taken a view of the matter similar to the Cary’s, and that it 1 also is now publishing the Southern Pa- cific’s time-card without cost to the com- pany. THE SUNDAY “CALL” Beyond the b;rders of our own land, the drama of revolution and development in Hawaii is the most interesting and the most important of current events to Cali- fornians. Every particle of news and the judgment of every notable observer con- cerning the subject rightly engage the attention of our people. It is, therefore, with pleasure we announce an article by Joaquin Miller on Hawaii to be published in the Sunday Cann. From the pic- turesque vigor of his style, Miller's prose is hardly less beautiful than poetry, and as the theme is one of ereat interest, his article can be read both with pleasure and profit. The issue of the CarL to-morrow will be rendered further notable by the publica- tion of the opening chapters of Captain Charles King’s new story, * Fort Frayne.” Captain King has long held a place in the front rank of American novelists, and his stories are not only true to the facts of army life, but are full of the spirit of gen- uine romance. The new story which will be published in the CavLL is one of the best he has written, and every one should be sure to look for it. Many other features of the Sunday Carr deserve particular notice. There is a graphic description by Baroness Althea Salvador of the famous Parisian restaurant the “Black Cat.” Frank Carpenter gives an instructive account of ‘‘American Diplomacy in the Far East. “A Deserted Village, the Story of Guadalupe,” will in- terest every reader, and a nautical sketch, “The Racing Barges of the Navy,” will be found attractive not only for the subject but for the style in which it has been treated. In addition to these special articles and stories, the Sunday Call will contain all the news of the day both at home and abroad, reviews of new books, up to date comment, gossip and miscellany, together with pic- torial attractions of various kinds. It is the favorite family newspaper for Sunday reading, and has something of interest for everybody. Leave orders for it. WHERE PRAISE IS DUE. Through an inadvertence, which, we are sorry to observe, has offended the Post, the CALL’s report of Mr. Bunker’s recent speech seems to have omitted the praise which he gave the Post for its able work in behalf of the Half-million Club. Now that the Post has called our attention to this omission we hasten to say that it was wholly unintentional, and that it gives us pleasure to acknowledge the Post’s invalu- able services to the people of this State and City. It is the plan of the Cain to give all its contemporaries the praise and credit which justice and generosity are always willing to accord to worthy deeds. With equal justice it will candidly oppose any course on their part which it deems injurious to the community. We had hoped that the policy of the CaLwL in these regards had been made so clear by its conduct that such a plain statement as this would be un For the information of our European ex- changes we would announce that C. P. Huntington, President of the United States, is about to pay California a visit; that the natives of the Mosquito Territory are 2 remarkably large and vigorous species of this familiar insect; that the war between Milpitas and Guatemala has been brought to an end through the interposi- tion of Li Hung Chang, and that in the fashionable centers of America the ger- man is danced on bicycles. PERSONAL. D. M. Foltz of San Jose is in the city on busi- ness. Dr. R. H. Ashby of Roseville is at the Grand. ‘W. M. Pickett of Napa registered at the Lick yesterday. Thomas Richards of Sonora was at the Lick last night. F. A. West, a wine-grower of Stockton, is at the Occidental. J. H. Henry, the street railway owner of San Jose, is at the Palace. T.J. Field, a real estate man of Monterey, is a guest at the Palace. 'W. F. Peterson, a merchant of Sacramento, is & guest at the Grand. J. H. Toplay, & merchant of Vallejo, was at the Grand yesterday. D.E. Knight, a capitalist of Marysville, was at the Lick yesterday. A. M. Duncan, a Supervisor of Mendocino County, is 2t the Grand. George I. Faw, a grainman of Nogales, was at the Occidental yesterday. J. H. Flickinger, the fruitman of San Jose, was at the Palace last night. Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Lewis of Los Angeles were registered at the Palace yesterday. George M. Brown, president of the Marquette Railroad, from Saginaw, Mich., has rooms at the Grand. About thirty-five members of two Raymond & Whitcomb excursions from the East are at the Palace. —— SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS, Clerk—How was that underwear I sold you? Customer—Fine. I gave it to our night watchman, and he hasn’t closed his eyes since. —Clothier and Furnisher. An Augusta man says he recently stopped in a village where the hotel had two large rooms, one for the men and one for the ladies. Half of each room was made into beds. He said there was & sign hung out on the porch which read: “Persons wishing to take a bath will please notify Mr. Jones a half hour beforeband, £0 that he can have the creek demmed up.’— Atlanta Constitution. ‘“Henry,” said Mrs, Faddington to her hus. band, “I wonder if it wouldn’t be & good idea for us to raise our own vegetables, and save what they'd cost in market?” ““No,” replied Henry. “Times are too hard. We've got to economize.”—Washington Star. “You don’t seem to hold a very high opinion of the latter-day woman.” “Idon’t. She has ceased to be a lady and hasnot yet succeeded in besoming a gentle- man.”—Life, ‘“Your husband,” twittered the enthusiastic friend, “is one man in a thousand.” ““Oh,dear, no,” protested Mrs. Jackson-Parke, “he is one in only five.” -Indianapolis Journal. ““Is this Tegular chicken salad?” Landlady—Well, I snould say not; this is made of chicken.—Chicago Inter Ocean. s i PEOFLE TALKED ABOUT. Mr. Edison, the great electrician, receives many amusing letters. Not long ago he was startled by an epistle from s Western damsel asking him if he could not invent an electtri- cal contrivance that would enable her to see the face of her future husband. Andrew J. Houston of Dallas, Tex., a son of General “Sam” Houston, has presented to the city of Cincinnati the dagger which Santa Ana surrendered to General Houston at the battle of San Jacinto. Rudyard Kipling has been spending several weeks at the capital. He has been making a close study of George Washington relics. Mrs. Mary Lease won’t run for Mayor of Wichita. Her job of Charities Commissioner is worth & lot more. Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay strest. * . ————— PLAIN mixed candies, 10¢ Ib. Townsend’s.* UP-TO-DATE IDEAS. I read an article in the CalL by a San Francisco engineer, attempting to prove that “perpetual motion” is impossible. There are several things pertaining to devices of that character which he did not take into account. In the first place, he seems to have forgotten that such powers exist as centrifugal force, inertia, or momentum. These so-cailed practical people seem always to forget that motion, and not rest, is the nor- mal condition of things, and that we are living on a part of a gizantic perpetual-motion machine, the solar system, and that many of our homes contain a perpetual-motion machine, entirely unnoticed as such, in the mercurial barometer. I know that engineers are in the habit of “poohpoohing” attempts at perpetual motion, but they have also until recently done the same for the flying meachine. They always lose sight of the fact that force is independent of direction, so that given a perpetual force it is only necessary mechanically to harness it to produce motion in eny form, either perpetual or intermittent. An illustration of this, and apropos of the present subject, is a device which can utilize the force of & stream to propel a boat in the opposite direction to that of the stream. Why then should not gravity, which is but & stream of force in the direction of the earth, be harnessed to make a wheel go around? Ihave a machine which fulfills the require- ments of the perpetual-motion problem in that through its inherent capability it can run con- SN tinuously. Itis based partly on the idea of the mercurial barometer on a large scale, It has been submitted to many competent engi- neers and they without exception say it is com- mercially practical. Isend you the accompanying sketch of the machine: The device utilizes the force excited by buoyancy, which acts ina direction oppo- site to gravitation. Three fluids of widely dif- ferent specific gravities are employed, namely, atmospheric air, water and mercury, and its method of operation is as follows: There are two beltwheels located in a frame, one directly above the other, and around these wheels is an endless hollow belt. To this belt are attached & series of vessels, each having a valve at one end. Surrounding the bottom wheel is a tank filled with mercury. From the tank rise two exten- sions, one about fourteen times as high as the other. The longone isfilled with water, which, being thirteen times less specifie gravity, is supported to a depth in excess of the mercury in the other upper extension in the proportion of 13 to 1, in other words & column of water thirteen feet high is sustained by a column of mercury one foot high. With this explanation of the sketch any in- telligent mechanie can jollow out the working of the machine and see that the power which it will develop is only dependent on the buoy- ancy of the floats on the belt, each of which exerts an upward pressure of approximately fifty pounds a eubic foot. So,if there are ten floats of one cubic foot each immersed in the water, the force exerted will equal 500 pounds upward pressure against no resistance except the nominal amount of friction on the bear- ings. The only limit to power is size. 1t will be readily seen that as each vessel emerges from the quicksilver into the water a vacuum will be formed therein precisely as in the mercurial barometer. The hollow belt per- mits access of air to the interior of the vessel, thus preventing its collapse. Its buoyancy, being a hollow vessel sub- merged in water, causes it to tend to rise and 80 exert an upward force on the belt to which itis attached. Each vessel, of course, operates the same as the preceding one and their com- bined upward thrust is the power developed by the machine. This, doubtless, seems very simple now, but it is the result of very many failures and many more partial successes. The commercial suc- cess of this machine is only a question of money and mechanical skill. BENJAMIN FINGLASS, San Bernardino, March 26, 1895. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. There is one thing that may be truthfully said about the late James G.Fair—he had a strong will power.—Berkeley Gazette. It is poor cconomy to erowd the schools. Give us the best schools, the best teachers and the best accommodations for the schoolchil- dren.—Pasadena News. How worthless those old mud flats were until it was learned that the valley railroad wanted to use them. Now they have risen to water-front importance.—Oakdale Leader. Every voter should be required to read and write the English language. The right of suffrage should not be granted to any man ig- norant of the language.—Gilroy Advocate. Home industries ought to be built up and encouraged. Nothing does more for the pros- perity of the town. Why should we continue to spend money abroad for things that we can, make at home.—Willows Journal. “Iam being reilroaded to the penitentiary,” declared Jury-fixer Hurley in the Superior Court in S8an Francisco on Monday. It will be good news to a long-suffering people if some wretch deserving of such a fate is getting there, if only by slow freighi.—Sacramento Bee Governor Budd’s action in approving the bill repealing that section of law which al- lows contract marriages will meet with general approval. The marriage laws of California are entirely too loose and their enforcement is not sufficiently rigid to properly guard this sacred institution against the encroachment of the unscrupulous.—Selma Irrigator. Take @otice that England is provoking a quarrel with Nicaragua in s manner which is characteristic cf that aggressive power when it has designs. The chances that the Nicaragua Canal will be constructed by the United States Government or by American capital are dimin- ishing. The late Congress, by adjourning without having passed the Nicaragua bill, has exposed this country to a complete loss of the great enterprise.—San Diego Sun. THE genuine merit of Hood’s Sarsaparilla wing friends wherever it is fairly and honestly tried. Its peculiar merit is clearly shown by its remarkable cures. It makes pure, rich blood. ——————— THE use of Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters ex- cites the appetite and keeps the digestive organs in order. - K EEP looking young and save your halr, its color and beauty with PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM. HINDERCGENS, the best cure for corns, 15 cents. e For relieving THROAT DISEASES AND CoveHs use * Brown's Bronchial Troches.” i AROUND THE CORRIDORS. rince of Fresno tells a story. Lfi;rinct that ideas :s t;) r;n:cct titutes & “dangerous Weapon’ V! = z::;ing to the gun-carrying habits l‘)i( :nc{(::;. munity. Tyndall, the hyprotist and mind- reader, was arrested a short time .glot x‘n" i o ey o wisoncr, muoh alarmed at the at night and the p: , muc! e ect of being immured in some g;c:gpeou till morning, begged to be Lankne: ;g Judge Prince’s office. This was doufi, explained the situation to the attorney. i T had seen his pistol,” said Mr. Prince. e was a derringer, and, though it carried & 4 caliber ball, had a barrel only about two ‘nf{ ‘:: in length. Now the ‘gun’ of the practic: Fresnoite is usually about as long as your arm. aid: . so“l';muted for carrying a concealed Weapon, eh? Let's see it.” “He brought it forth. I dangled it between two fingers and said to the policeman: «Say, you didn’t arrest this man for carrying this, did you? This? Now, see here. It’s only unlawful to carry concealed dangerous wea- pons, I'd be willing to let him shoot atme from across the street with this thing all day at 10 cents a shot. You don’tcall this & dan- T apon do you?’ & The officer begen to grin. 1" s evidently figuring upon the chances a 1. : would have of doing efiective work with the derringer. Then he said he guessed I was right and let my friend go. : «But,” the Judge concluded gravely, “if you carry sawed-off shotguns around in your clothes in our town you will have to look out, 1 assure you.” L. H. Ward, a gentleman largely interested in electric railwey construction in the East, was at the Baldwin yesterday. He says that the introduction of the trolley in portions of that section of the country has proven dis- astrous to the steam railroads. “This is par- ticularly true ot localities in Connecticut,” said he, “and the effect upon business has been 50 great that within the past year the attitude of steam road owners toward the trolley com- panies has changed from that of mild indiffer- ence to one of violent opposition. Ithas been geénerally understood that the trolley lines in the State had interfered in & manner with the passenger receipts of the steam railroad com- panies, but the extent to which this interfer- ence has gone did not become apparent until a short time ago, when one of the chief officials of the New York, New Haven and Hartford road appeared before the railroad committe@ of the Legislature and presented a collection of statistics showing the decrease in the way traffic on theirlines in the State. The results shown where the trolley lines are in competi- tion are surprising. The decrease runs all the way from 30 to 90 per cent. In reply to a ques- tion as to what reason he could assign for this fact, the official referred to said that it was impossible to evade the truth, and that the decrease in business on the steam roads ‘was due solely to the fact that the electric lines afforded reliable, rapid, frequent and cheap transportation. The growth of the trolley lines in this country has just commenced and it will yet revolutionize passenger and ireight trans- portation.” Judge Dante It illustrates Captain M. E. Cousins, who is in command of the steamer Arceta of the Oregon Coal and Navigation Company, and who registers at the Baldwin, said last night that the only subject talked about at the points he touched along the California and Oregon coast, between this port and Coos Bay, was that of the new valley railroad. “I have been a sea captain on the Pacific Const for several years,” said Captain Cousins, “and in my experience I have never heard so many expressions of genuine favor as are now given to this new project. “The policy of the CALL in getting pledges of great shippers to say that they will support theirfriends who propose to build the road is most excellent, and I will herald the banneron which the CALL has written its new proposi- tion to every eye of the coastdistrict. They, and when I say they, I mean the people up along the coast, are as smart as the best, al- though they are sometimes considered pro- vincial, and with all their ready money or other means they will indorse the CALL'S sug- gestion. “I say this knowingly, as Iam in a position to be acquainted with their opinions.” Captain Cousins is a Yale graduate. He is as well known along the upper California and Oregon Coast as any skipper afloat. He says that the people up thatway think thatafter the San Joaquin road is completed they will get a coast road themselves. A. Wiley, proprietor of the Arcata Union, is in the city. He knows Moses Greenwald, who was arrested with others on a charge of coun- terfeiting Chinese certificates. “You can scarcely imagine,” said Mr. Wiley, “how shocked the citizens of Arcata will be when they learn of the trouble Mose isin. Why, that boy—he is only 21—was the pride of his native town, and great thingswere ex- pected of him. He is the youngest son of a fam- ily of five ehildren—four sons and a daughter. The deughter is the wife of David Wood, at one time Justice of the Peace, and now bookkeeper for P. A. Gaynor, in Arcata. Mose was book- keeper for the Excelsior Redwood Company till December last, when the company cut down their salary list and he lost his position. He stood high,and brought letters to the Spreckels from his former employers and prominent bnsiness men of Arcata. “He became acquainted with Foss, T presume, at the Oceanic dock, for he wanted the Spreck- els company to appoint him purser of one of their vessels. “His father, Julius Greenwald, is a leading merchant of Arcata,and it really seems that fate must have decided to break the old man’s heart with the fall of the idol of his declining years.” J. M. Hollis, who owns a fruit orchard up in the Vaca Valley, was at the Grand yesterday. He says that the apricots were about all de- stroyed by the frosts of several days ago, but that he was surprised recently to find a few trees which showed a disposition to blossqm out again. “There is still a good prospect for prunes,” said he, “and I am becoming more and more convinced that this is the best variety of fruit a man can raise in this State. In the first place you don’t have to hurry to get in your crop when it ripens, and then again they can be raised at a profit if sold at even 3 cents apound. From present indica- tions I believe that the price will be better than that. I have always noticed that a partial failure in otber fruits gives the price on prunes a better tone, and I think there will be money in them this year.” A gentleman who has lately gained much celebrity in the legal world is expected at the Palace early next week in the person of Frank Nye, Prosecuting Attorney of Hennepin County, Minn., and the person who secured the conviction of Harry Hayward recently in the now famous murder case. Mr. Nye has another distinction, for he is a brother of Bill Nye, the humorist, but it is said neither re- sembles that gentieman nor shares his humor- ous nature. Mr. Nye is sceking rest after the arduous dutles performed during the trial mentioned. FOR THE CONVENTION. One of Washington’s Prominent Legis- lators Favoers San Francisco. Colonel T. V. Eddy, member of the ‘Washington Legislature from Everett, is at the Baldwin, accompanied by his wife. This is the colonel’s first visit to San Fran. cisco, though he has been in busi in the Soung country for several years. nfls: is one of the most prominent Republicans in Western Washmgt.on, and is using all his influence to bring the National Con- vention bqttl::e Pacib‘fi:: Coast. While con- versing with a number of old acquai at theqmtel yesterday he saidn?q TR oo I have not been here long enough to an enthusiast over c.mmFm- elfmate,ble:x?eg have pretty good weather on the Sound, but when the question of where the National Re. publican Convention should be held isbrought ug. Iam heart and soul in favor of San Fran- cisco. I notice by the papers that all your mer- s and manufacturers are pulin together to ‘p-troniu home industry. That is the proper spirit in which to secure the betterment of an: gg‘;nnn:_r\;m.z%& & was tbhee making of the Soun § 0u Cattry, ar the making of a new Colonel Eddy will take in the fiesta ex- ;::l;}lvon, :tnd‘before rehtuming to his home erett will visit the principal cities of the State. 5 3 ol “If you don’t take Langley’s Directory, you don’t get the names.” Qut Monday. LADIES’ LAUNDRIED SHIRT WAISTS, 1895 STYLES. GHOICE PATTERNS, EXCELLENT FIT, PERFECT MANUFACTURE, FOUR STYLES OF COLLARS FOUR STYLES OF CUF} TO SELECT FROM. Prices are 50¢, $1.00 and §1 ) Superior to Any Goods Ever Shown g These Prices. KOHLBERG, STRAUSS & FROHMAN, 107 AND 109 POST STREET, AND—— 1220-1222-1224 MARKET ST, The last three numbers of THE ‘ CENTURY . were out of p within @ week of issue. TheTApril CENTURY, Ready everywkere Saturday, Marck jo, contains the most interesting chapters of Prof. Sloane’s Life of Napoleon that have yet been published. “With each successive instalment,” says the Critic, “ the value and thorough- ness of this work become more apparent.” The present chapters are devoted to «The Rise of The Conqueror.” Bonaparte is now on a stage propor- tionate to his powers, and he enters upon his first, and what he afterward considered his greatest, campaign — the overrunning of lialy (1796). Here are vivid descrip- tions, with splendid-illustrations, of the Bridge of Lodi, the siege of Mantua, the battle of Arcole, etc. The April CENTURY is full of interest,—illustrated articles, important serials, complete stories, ete. One feature is an authoritative account of -the latest electrical discoveries of NIKOLA TE including the first description offf I new oscillator, combining the sieam e; gine and dynamo in one mechanism of the highest economy. The text (by T. C. Martin, editor of Z%e Electrical Engincer) and illustrations deal with A New Power Machine, Telegraphy without Wires, Ilumination by Phosphorescence, Electric Lamps in Free Space, and other marvels. Here are shown, for the first time, photographs taken by hosphorescence, with portraits of Mark g‘wain, ‘{oseph Jefferson and Marion Crawford, made in Tesla’s laboratory. A A large edition of the April CENTURY fas been printed. Ready everywhere, Saturday, Marck 30. Price 35 cents. THE CENTURY CO0.Ugion Sauare, SRV TETSDVED GVOGR/ED OV Irs TIME TO THINK About Outing Shirts — to look around and see which are the best to buy. You have heard and read ABOUT STANDARD SHIRTS, And perhaps you look for B this tl:\derfinr when buy- ing White Shirts; but do you know that STANDARD includes a line of Percale and Outing Shirts that diss count all others for style, wear and fair price? All dealers. NEUSTADTER BROS. Manufacturers, SAN FRANCISCO. 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