The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 9, 1895, Page 6

| THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1895 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—48 per year by mall; by carrier, 15c per week. — 4 FRANCISCO CALL (Da tising Burean Duane streets, N Rose and sing all around. ve in_these days. who established the ck on Congress. Grover may have to call an extra session of Congress to provide a revenue. Silver conven pumerous as pi are getting to be as The people who fee most are the silurians. train of progress Oakland wants a b Bt San Jose and complete the cir evard to meet us t. The fam ous incubators of Petaluma have &atched prosperi s well as chicker No citizen can do the best for himself tinless he does the best for the community. The Supreme Court left just en the income tax for the next Cong: bary. zh of s to The San Jose bounlevard will be as noble & feature of California as was the Appian ‘Way of Rom What is left of the e tax will hardly pr enue h to pay for the inquisitio Petaluma’s new centrifugal cream sepa- rato; g to the perpetual motion of industry. It appears that Oscar Wilde was not i like to be mlone in h n't alonein h The accid g of a Par n.in a duel has aw; ned all France to the dangers of the s A silurian’s eves have as dead a luster as two cobblestones mounted in the orbits of & dead donkey’s The bed oc den is so 1 turns over the Norway and Swe- n one of them a lottery ticket not ind to the Santa Clara served to save the ning their fruit. Even the frost is k Valley, for it has onl farmers the trouble of th From the w: at bimetailic leagues t it appears the silver tide witl be at the full flood in 1896, The decision of the Rupreme Court on another the income tax may be A in these days proof that whatever hap happens r The only monopolies that California de- sires are those which she will always have, and they happen tc the ones that the Almighty has created. Admitting that the press and the pulpit gre the two great moral forces of the time, 1o what extent and in what direction are they exer power? In asserting that he has never been drunk Cleveland deprives himself of his only forci jon of the appoint- cretary of State. n work at Stock- ton on the Valley road, and it will not be long before the iek of the locomotive will exult over the downfall of monopoly, neers have b Colorado is not ahead of California, for . while that State can boast of ten feet of snow we are blanketed with a layer of sun-warmed atmosphere forty miles thick. The CaLy is recei ng letters from its subscribers praising its course in the mat- ter of lotteries, and this shows that there is a large element in the community to which vice is not attractive. In deciding that a tax on incomes de- rived from rents or from State, County or Municipal bonds is unconstitutional, the Supreme Court has left the present meas- ure a plain tax on thrift and energy with- out a single redeeming feature. If real estate owners could know that one of the best evidences of silurianism is the demanding of higher prices than prop- erty is worth, and that silurianism is fatal .o progress, they would probably be less willing to appear in the catalogue of terti- @ry remaine. According to the Railroad Age there were only twelve train robberies in 1890, but they have been rapidly increasing in number. In 1892 sixteen were reported and last year there were thirty-four. The t lots in the | imed that there | THE INCOME TAX. { { | While the decision of the Supreme Court | in regard to the income tax does not make as clear a sweep of that iniguitous meas- | ure as could have been desired, it atany rate | lops it to pieces so completely that the | rempants will hardly be allowed to linger | long on the statute-books, and at the next | session of Congress we may expect to see it ended. 3 The Court decides the law to be uncon- stitutional in so far as it taxes incomes de- rived from the rent of lands; from National, State, County and- Municipal bonds; and also in the provisions discriminating be- granting exemptions to individuals and the fact that lying all about and com- pletely environing them is a vast world that with the last century has learned the necessity of moving on established lines. The mere tearing down of an old edifice without a definite plan for a new which shall take its stead no longer hasa place in the architectural scheme of nations. TLet us suppose that the ruling spirits of the Cuban revolt were men of high charac- ter and substantial means; that in some way—secretly if need be—they had or- ganized themselves into a band of patriots determined to liberste their country; that thereupon they had formulated their grievances against the Spanish Govern- es Adver- | tween one set of taxpayers and another by | ment and placed them in the hands of all civilized countries, with an appeal to co-partnerships, which are not granted to | Christendom for aid or interference; that ‘rporations having similar incomes de- ved from like property values. The first of these features of the law is declared to be unconstitutional because it involves a direct tax not properly proportioned, and | the second because it violates that uni- | formity of taxation which the constitution | requires. With these exceptions, the court | ! allows the law to stand, simply because the Justices being divided on the proposi- | tion, there was not a majority to rule against it as a whole. { Under this decision, the law is even worse than it at first appeared. Exempt- ing from the operation of the tax all in- comes derived from rents and from the s and bonds of the Nation, States, nties and Municipalities, there will be ; ttle else to tax except incomes earned by | thrift and energy. The vast Astor fortune | will pay no tax on the income from the rent of the family holdings in real estate, which embodies the bulk of it, and the wealthy holders of bonds will be equally exempt. It is the merchant, the doctor, the Jawyer and the host of successful tradesmen and professional men who will have to pay the tax, and it thus becomes more than ever a tax upon industry rather than upon property. It remains to be seen whether the law ill now yield a revenue sufficient to pay for the machinery of the inquisition re- ired to collectit. It is certain it will not yield anything like the amount which those who favored it so fondly expected, and there is not likely to be much opposi- tion to its repeal. The Carr has fought the law from the beginning as an in- famous socialistic class tax, as well as an unconstitutional one. The unconstitu- tional features have now been stricken out by the Supreme Court, but the iniquity of | the measure still remains. It is to be re- gretted that the court did not agree with | those of its members who held the whole measure to be unconstitutional, and thus put an end at once to a system of taxation | so unjust, unequal, inquisitorial and un- American, T00 MEAN TO GIVE Tt is reported from Stockton that some | ichest men of the city and county ng to subscribe anything toward | competing road, notwithstanding the | fact that theywill derive more benefit from | it than the poorer and more progressive | men who are so liberally working for the | general good. These reports are not surprising. Such men exist in every community, and Stock- ton in confronting their greed and mean- ness has no more exasperating problems than other cities of the State. Humanity | has not yet devised a proper and effective | | metho4 of dealing with men of this char- acter, though the evil of their presence in nity has long been recognized. e not only useless themselves, but | they discourage usefulness in others. It| takes a great deal of public spirit in some | men to go forward, invest their money, | take risks and work hard and faithfully for | the welfare of the community, when they | see these rich, lazy, selfish, grasping, narrow-minded, greedy rascals hovering around to share all the profits while dging none of the work. It isnotin human na- ture to submit patiently to this kind of robbery, and it is not to be wondered at | that in all lands and in all ages the stingy, sneaking, avaricious landlord has been the object of the denunciations of all who live near him. ‘When too many men of this character get together in a community they kill it. They are a species of parasite that not only absorb the life-giving sap of a tree, | but also wind around it with a force that | crushes every branch that reaches out for the sunlight. By one means or another a | community must shake itself loose from the thralldom of such men or perish. Their | blighting effect, felt everywhere, must be everywhere counteracted, or it will baffle | every enterprise, thwart all efforts for the common good and put an end to progress. | It becomes important, therefore, for vigors | ous, brainy, public-spirited men to be al- | ways ready to shake off the paraisite and | prevent the blight. They must keep alive | in the community the spirit of progress by setting before others the example of zeal, | energy and liberality in all public under- takings. | No city in California can at this time afford to stop in'its career to wrangle with | meanness. Progress is the order of the ! day. Stockton, as her progressive citizens well understand, must go ahead with the work of raising the promised bonus for the competing road even as San Francisco has gone ahead to raise the millions necessary to launch the enterprise. The rich men | and big property-owners who are too mean o give any belp to & work that will benefit them so largely must for the time being be ignored. Sooner or later, however, they | should be made to feel that they are the objects of popular scorn and that their names are subject everywhere to aerision | and contempf ELEMENTS OF REVOLUTION. | The Cuban revolt is no more than a | revolt—it has none of the elementsof a revolution. In its scheme for freedom it shows only the restiveness of the slave under the whip of the master—not a moral rebellion against iniquity. Its aim of reformation locks only to freedom, with- out a definitive idea of what that freedom industry has revived briskly this year and | shall mean or bring. in the absence of possible aid from the nations a scheme of government had been planned and at least put on paper, includ- ing, say, a constitution and laws providing for a form of government. In that event the respect, sympathy and possibly assist- ance of some great nations might have been secured. The absence of all these things is ob- servable. No appeal has been made, no scheme of government proposed, no bene- fits of freedom suggested. Revolutions, in order to be successful, must be based on an alternative higher than that of a slave who resists being beaten and robbed by his master. Even temporary physical success would not mean a moral victory. What- ever wrongs she may have practiced in the government of Cuba, Spain must receive the moral support of the world in the ab- sence of a better showipg on the part of those who aim to overthrow her authority. A SUBSTANTIAL CITY. There is now at work at Petaloma—so quietly that the importance of it has been nearly overlooked—a United States dredger enlarging the navigation facilities of Peta- luma Creek. Next to Napa River this is the most important of the navigable streams flowing eastwardly into San Pablo Bay from the mountains of Napa and Sonoma counties. Like Napa City Petaluma enjoys the ad-| vantage of both water and rail transporta- tion, for besides being at the head of navi- gation of Petaluma Creek it is on the main line of the North Pacific Coast Railroad. The fact that steamers ply regularly be- tween it and San Francisco createsa whole- some competition, which has contributed substantially to the prosperity of the flourishing city and its vicinity. Petaluma has successiully demonstrated the fact that poultry-raising in California can be made one of our most profitable industries. To the shame of California, it must be confessed that we annually snip hither from the Eastern States large quan- tities of eggs and butter, and yet the poultry and dairy business of Petaluma furnishes convincing evidence that these two partly neglected industries in California can be profitably conducted. It was the great | success made by Petaluma in the poultry| business that led to the invention and manufacture of the Petaluma incubator, | which is produced by that city and used in every part of the Pacific Slope. It was only a year or two ago that Peta- loma made another great stride forward. TUp to that time her immense dairy busi- ness had been conducted on the primitiye lines—not too clean—which had always prevailed in California. When the inade- quacy of this method became clear to the dairymen of Petaluma they organized into communities, and each community pro- vided itself with the latest improved machinery for treating milk. Under this | system the milk, warm from the cow, is placed in the separators, which in an in- stant, by mechanical means, separate the cream from the milk and in another instant manufacture it into butter. Un- cleanliness and the deleterious effects of sour milk are completely avoided. It is for these reasons that the butter of Peta- luma is so popular in 8an Francisco and brings such excellent prices. These are the leading industries, but, in addition to them, are others of great import- ance. One of them is the Carlson-Currier silk mill, which, with 1600 spindles and over a hundred operatives, transforms the cocoons into thread for all purposes. Besides an extensive steam saddle-tree factory, shoe factories, a pickle and preserve factory and numerous others, the lumber and milling interests of the city are important. Sonoma County is very proud of its southern extremity as thus developed in the region of Petaluma, and is justly ex- pecting a further increase of its prosperity from that source. AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT. The Boston Standard is a new daily started two weeks ago by Major Alfred R. Calhoun, who hitherto has been known as the author of “Marching Through Georgia” and of some excellent stories. He has gathered about him w corps of men and women who are distinguished, as he also is, for an intense love of their country and for their elevating influence upon the morals of the people. In his salutatory Major Calhoun announced that he would publish ali the news that the people ought to haveand suppress none that they should know, “and without fear of or favor to any party, creed, sect or society it will en- deavor, with God’s help, to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, let the consequences be what they may.” No advertisements of any character which would have a tendency to demoral- ize the readers, no advertisements of lotteries or other robbing and swindling enterprises are admitted to its columns. On the contrary, every agency having the moral and material welfare of the people as its object is encouraged. 7 The most interesting feature of this dar- ing venture is its immediate success. It leaped at once to a circulation almost, if not quite, equal to that of the old dailies. This was not because it contains more news, for it deliberately suppresses or barely mentions those kinds of news which are the richest morsels of ordinary daily journalism. Like the CaLy it refused to publish the inconceivably vile details of the Wilde-Queensberry ‘‘sensation.” Its by the aid of the bicycle it is believed that | It is not sufficient in these days that he the robbers will soon be able to make an | Who rebels against constituted authority average record of a hold-up for every day | shall assert the bald right of liberty and of the year. | urge oppression as his excuse. Ireland | does not ask for that, Her showing isthat Du Maurier has suddenly risen infinitely | of a subjugated nation, inteiligent, rich sbove the other popular authors of the | and powerful, jealous of order and respect- day, for in speaking of the “Trilby” boom, he says: “Indeed, this ‘boom’ rather dis- | tresses me when I reflect that Thackeray | never had a ‘boom’; and I hold that a *boom’ means nothing as a sign of literary | excellence—nothing but money.” This is | the humility of the true artist, and would | not be conceivable in the case of the Ma- rion Crawfords. The Brooklyn Eagle acknowledges the receipt of a letter from an indignant citi- | zen declaring his intention to sue the pro- prietors of a local hotel for not supplying the table with stewed prunes. It is to be regretted that the name of this worthy gentleman is not given, for he is a true ‘benefactor and deserves honor. The Eagle should at once procure his name, notasa guarantee of good faith, for none is needed in 2 cage of this kind, but for publication smong the immortal patriots of the land. } the world, and seem to be in ful of the law, willing to acknowledge the greater physical force of the nation that holds her in subjugation, but claiming an intelligence and a love of order and peace equal to that of the dominating nation, and demanding only that she may enjoy the fullest blessings of Christian civiliza- tion by being permitted to institute such a home rule as shall best serve her own ethical aims without in the smallest de- gree impairing the sovereignty of Bngland over her. It is not so in Cuba. The insurgents there have failed to show to the civilized world that they might be the better for the success of their revolt. They stand simply in the attitude of an oppressed race that desires freedom. It is not sufficient to assume that out of liberty they might work their own salvation. They have not stated their case fully and intelligently to of policy, evidently, is based on the belief that in cultivating and then pandering to whatever vicious tastes may exist in the community, newspapers are a power for immeasurable evil; that no newspaper has a moral right to publish that which is de- basing; that in every community there is & large uncorrupted and incorruptible ele- ment that is eager for decent and helpful journalism, and that the financial rewards of journalism must manifestly be greater if the community is lifted up by manly and wholesome journalism than if lowered by degrading newspapers. The innovation of the Standard has de- lighted while it has startled all Boston. A week ago the Rey. Dr. Brady, a clergyman of that city, preached a sermon on that paper before an audience composed of thousands assembled to hear what he should say about it. His sermon wasa memorable one. Among other things he said: 5 ¥ There are some features about the Standard’s beginning that do not exist in regard to any other daily in Bostonm, or, indeed, anywhere else for'that matter. Its policy was not hatched under & mercenary incubator in & counting- room. It was commenced to foster righteous principle and character snd virtue. It musi not and will not pander to any special clique, party or person who is outof harmony with absolute equity. No journalist, living or dead, ever had a more magnificent opportunity than Major Calhoun. Let us hope that God may put his best into the gifted gentleman and that he mey give his best through the Standard to every Massachusettsenian, and through every Massachusettsenian to every American. And above all, I trust the Standard will herald the truth n bugle notes about those fundamental eternal principles without whose corporate and personal practice the most illustrious na- tions fall into docay. Let the Standard do this on the platform it has chosen and Boston will want it, snd New England wjll read it, and the other States will copy it, and the world will follow its example. That & leading clergyman should bave the courage to denounce the leading papers of his city and hold up their young rival to the admiration of his hearers is both an evidence of a revolt on the part of a great moral agency against an evil and an example for other clergymen to follow. The policy of the CarL is identical with that of the Standard, and the fact that the people here are ready to welcome such an innovation is shown in the great accession of new subscribers which the paper is re- ceiving. We do not desire to dictate any course to the clergymen of San Francisco, but if they do not find in the Reév. Dr. Brady’s attitude a high expression of one part of a clergyma’s duty to the commu- nity our conception of a minister's obliga- tion must be revised. PERSONAL. Judge C. O. Clarke of Mott is at the Russ. Rev. J. Reynolds of Virginia City is in town. Dr. R. 5. Markell of Cloverdale is at the Grand. Dr. A. J. Chesy of Portland, Or., is at the Palace. 8. F. Geil of Salinas is staying at the Ocei- dental. T. W. Patterson of Fresno is registered at the Baldwin. G. L. Holland, & Nevada City mining man, is in the city. Andrew Markham, a Santa Rosa capitalist, is at the Lick. D. Lubin, & wealthy Sacramento merchant, is at the Grand. Attorney R. H. Willey of Monterey is in the city on business, H. Schwalb is registered at the Occidental from Germany and Hawaii. Dr. Thomas Flint, a prominent surgeon of San Juen, is visiting in town. 5 . Railroad Commissioner W. R. Clark of Stock- ton is staying at the Baldwin. J. D. H. Chamberlain, a leading Eureka attor- ney, is registered at the Grand. L C. Steele, & wealthy resident of Pescadero, is registered at the Russ House. C. E. Tinkham of the Sierra Lumber Company of Chico is staying at the Grand. _ Caleb Dorsey, an extensive stock-raiser of Oakdale, is staying at the Grand. James O'Brien, s wealthy mine-owner of Smartsville, is staying at the Russ. A. Clark is a guest of the Lick. He is an extensive mine-owner of Forest Hill. T. C. Law, a Merced attorney, brother of Su- perior Judge Law of that county, is at the Lick. F. F. Thomas, the superintendentof the noted Gwynn mines in Calaveras County, is at the Baldwin. Alexander B. Bates, ehief engineer of the Yorktown, is at the Occidental with his wife and child. D.T.Smith, an extensive manufacturer of barbed-wire in Worcester, Mass,, is staying at the Baldwin. Railroad Commissioner La Rue came down from Sacramento yesterdey and registered at the Occidental. Gus Gumpertz, tressurer of the new tele- phone company st Stockton, is registered at the California Hotel. Cadets E. H. Campbell and G. L. Holsinger, of the United States cruiser Baltimore, arestaying &t the Occidental Hotel. H.L.Déhis of Chicsgo, chief clerk in the passenger department of the Rock Island Rail- road, is & guest at the Occidental. Frank H. Gould of Stockton, chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, is at the California, sccompanied by his daughter. 1. L. Delano, the owner of the large quarry at Rocklin from which came the stone for the Lick monument, is in town and makes his headquarters at the Lick House. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Provisions should be made at once to equip all detectives and police officers with high- grade bicycles of the best possible make. The “cop” who chases a eycle-mounted robber on foot, on & handcar, or even on the back of a racehorse, is sure to be distanced.—Wheatland Four Corners. ‘The fan Francisco CaLL advises silurians to use cobblestones for life-preservers when they 20 swimming. The silurian is never in the #wim, but many of them will be drowned by the tidal wave of prosperity which the new railroad will bring about.—S%ockton Indepen- dent. A good citizen will support the town he works in, Stragglers seldom do. They straggle in and straggle out and straggle on forever. Give consideration for others who live to enjoy the same privileges you do, namely: Peace, happiness and prosperity.—Vallejo Chronicle. All maritime nations spend money freely for the removal of derelicts from the seas of com- merce, but nobody seems to take the trouble to remove the numerous derelicts from the sea of politics.—Hanford Journal. A man who can meet misfortunes as they come and continue on in the even tenor of his way s sure to prove his moral worth to his fellow man without effort on his part.—. buquerque Citizen. A Federal Judge has decided that a corpora- tion ean be restrained from selling too cheap. The farmer with a surplus of wheat ought to invoke the aid of such & genius.—Woodland Democrat. And so Cuba wants to be annexed to the United 8tates. We do not blame her for want- ing to get into good company.—Dixon Tribune, SUPPOSED 8pring poets and hens Are alike in some ways. They both have their pens, And they give us their lays. —Philadelphia Record. Father—So you wish to make my daughter your wife? Suitor—Well, it's the only way I see of becom- ing your son-in-law.—Chicago Inter Ocean. 0ld Man—What! You have 10,000 thalers in debts and want to marry my daughter? ‘Would-be Son-in-law—Why, ain’t your daugh- ter going to have so much as that?—Fliegende Blatter. Determined Citizen—Surrender, you (bang! ‘bang!) infamous scoundrel, or (bang!) P'Il blow you (bang! bang!) full of holes. Cool Burglar—Hold on! In the interest of humanity, 1 ask ye to wait a minute: “‘Humanity, you beast!” (bang!) ““On account o’ yer family. Give’em a chance t' escape afore ye hit some of 'em.” And he coolly walked away to the time of the second pistol.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. TO BE HUMOROUS. “What has your representative done singe he’s been in Congress?” “What's he done?” “4¥es.” “Built two houses, paid off & mortgage an’ opened a grocery-store.”—Atlanta Constitution. She—One can judge the chazacter of a man by his opinion of women. He—Yes? . She—Yes. Now what kind of 2 man would you say always held women in the highest esteem ? ‘He—A bachelor, T should think.—Detroit Free Press. “Colonel, what would you do if 8 man called youa liar? Imean a friend?’ “Well, suh,if be were areal near and dear frfend, I would show him the respect of attending his funeral after it all were over, suh,”—Indianapolis Journal. . AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “This,is Nevada's season at the Palace Hotel," said Colonel K. B. Brown last night, as he put his feet up on one of the painted columns left by the late Sharon and Raiston as monuments to their ideas of architecture. “Iam always glad to see spring come, for with it comes hundreds or soof the leading citizens of the sagebrush State, They take up their residence in the Palace Hotel court as naturally as the peo- ple from Sactamento drift toward the Grand. This accession of Nevadans is particularly noticeable after the close of the Legislature, COLONEL K. B. BROWN. for then hsalf the politicians of the State | come down to thaw out after the cold winter. The true Nevadan makes it & point of honor to stick by his climate so long as the mercury is fooling around the zero notch, but as soon as the buds on the sage- brush begin to swell and the birds commence | to make the hillsides vocal with delicious music | the silver State denizens desert their homes | for California. At this season of the year Ne- vada is inexpressibly delightiulso far as cli- mate is concerned, but there are very few up there to enjoy those advantages. The greater | portion of the population may be found in Cal- ifornie, Chicago or New York.” “The history of this last Legislature,’ re- marked Julius Kahn, a local attorney,in the Baldwin yesterday, “reminds me strongly of my actor days. You see, when we used to start on the road at the commencement of the sea- | #on everything seemed of a roseate hue. The men were the finest fellows you ever met. The ladies were all beautiful and their voices were incomparably sweet. “It never was long, however, before some- thing happened to mar the scene. The leading lady was making up to the manager, the heavy man monopolized the soubrette or the singing chambermaid favored the comedy man. Soon the members of the company were mot on speaking terms and at last one felt, ‘Oh, Lord! will the season never end.” “8o with our last aggregation of law-makers. When the Legislature convened the remark was frequently heard that it was an exception- ally fine body of men. Dodge of Alameda and others said to me that the session would be an historical one because of its purity. But we all know how it ended—extravagance, &t~ taches, bugs in bills and then Biggy's bomb- like charges of bribery. “There was oneresult of those charges which amused me vastly. At noon of the day on which Biggy caused that sensation I had been talking to & number of members about the ad- journment, but they all scouted the possibility of an early end of the session. After Biggy's charges, however, they quickly changed their minds, and within twenty-four hours the hour of sdjournment had been set for the very day I preferred. Suitme? Well, I should say yes. You see, I was opposed to a little bill which I knew the Governor would veto, and I was afraid that if the Legislature remained in ses- sion it would pass the bill over his disep- proval.” ¥ Myron Angel, a pioneer newspaper man of San Luis Obispo, who has been spending a few days in the city, says that the go-abead spirit which pervades this part of California is be- ginning to act in his section. San Luis Obispo is making and planning numerous improve- ments. Mr. Angel was for years editor of the Tribune in his town, and to his energy and persistence is largely due the construction by the Government of a breakwater in Port Har- ford Bay. He is author of a history of his county, and has perhaps done more than any other one man to advertise its advantages abroad. “The CALL has taken some tremendous strides in the past few months,” remarked Mr. Angel. «It has all the elements of & great newspaper. By the way, it is fortunate for our part of the country that the ordinance relative to the use of bituminous rock on the San Francisco streets, lately passed by the Supervisors, has been vetoed by Mayor Sutro. San Luis Obispo County has whole mountains of bituminous rock, and the material is shipped up north by sea, having to be melted beiore shipment. If the rock melted before shipment were to be legislated against, why, then, one of our indus- tries would receive a severe setback.” “The forward march on the road to pros- perity appears to have been resumed with re- newed spirit and vigor from one end of Cali- fornia to the other,” observed J. J. Humphrey, president of the Bank of Farmington, Wash., who is on his way to his northern home after a month'ssojourn in Los Angeles. “We of the far Northwest must be content for the time to profitby your example. In Eastern Washing- ton we have a good climate and wa fer- tile soil, but we have been putting in the whole acreage to wheat, and now wheat has fallen so low as to render it an unprofitable product. Now we are setting out orchards in every direction, and move- ments are on foot to establish sugar-beet fac- tories in various localities, the farmers promis- ing to raise the requisite quantity of sugar- peets, which give excellent resmlts. The Northwest has gone through a siege of hard times, like all the rest of the world, but the sun of good times is driving off the clouds, and the State of Washington will show up well in the procession.” “We have got everything we could possibly wish for down our way,” said T.C.Law ot Merced in the lobby of the Lick last night, “except prices for our produce. We could not have ordered the seasons better if we had had the directing of their courses. Everything that has been planted in ourcounty this season will yield a crop,and & big one, too. All we want is a market. If you give us that we will esk for nothing more. “The valley railroad? Yes, that is going to benefit us greatly, no doubt; and, by the way, we are particularly fortunate in our position in respect to that. The railroad has got to come to Merced—that is, it must pass through thet county to reach Fresno and the south. Of course, we are going to do our part, but we are not dying with anxiety to know whether or not we get the main line, as are our friends over in Stockton.” Lee Fairchild, poet and politician, has re- ceived overtures from General John M. Clark- son of the Republican National Committee, looking to his selection as one of the orators of the party of protection for the campaign of 1896. PEOFPLE TALEED ABOUT. Senor Mendonca, the Brazilian Minister at Washington, has the Napoleon craze, though it dates back long before the present fad. sses articles of furniture used by the Em- peror, his snuf-box and various household be- longings, some ornamented with the imperial bees and others with the letter “N.” Alto- gether the collection isa very valuable one, as it contains several unique pieces. The late Lionel Mores of New York City was born and reared in the house erected by his great-grandfather early in the eighteenth cen- tury. His grandfather and father also first saw the light in the same mansion. Although it can hardly besaid that Queen Vietoria edits the Court Circular, her Majesty as a rule glances through the proofs and freely cuts out anything which does not meet with the royal approval. It is & curious eoincidence that Lord Beacons- field and Lord Randolph Churchifl should leave personalty to thesame amount. Lord Randolph left $375,000 and Beaconsfield only 8 few dollars more. Alphonse Daudet believes in the notebook as ahelp to suthors. He always carries one of these little books with him wherever he goes and jots down brief notes of his observations. Lady John Scott, who gave “Annie Laurie” to the musieal world, still devotes her time to relieving the troublesof veteransof the Cri- mean war. Rev. Dr. McGlynn, who lives in'the pretty little rectory adjoining his church in Newburg, devotes all his leisure to the cultivation of flowers. MINISTERS' MEETINGS. Baptists Listen to an Address ¢ Methodism »*—The Congre- ‘gational Club. on The Baptists Preachers’ Association lis- tened yesterday morning to a talk by Rev. F.D. Bovard of the First M. E. Church, Alameda, upon “Methodism.” The speaker gave an interesting history of the Methodist body on the Pacific Coast, supporting his state- ments with a number of statistics. He began with an account of the founding of the Powell-street Church in 1851 by Bishop Taylor, touched on the division of the State into two conferences in 1875, and gave a detailed account of the active work of these conferences. The property of the Methodist Episcopal church was ‘also de- scribed, and its educational institutions. “We desire,” said the speaker, “to unite our two colleges of Napa and Santa Clara. | 8o far we have no theological college.” Dr. Bovard also stated that the Metho- | dist body had recently adopted a new plan | with regard to old and disabled clergyzen. | Instead of being made to feel that they are objects of charity they are now given com- pensation in proportion to the services | they have rendered in the days of their activity. No discussion followed the paper, the ministers present merely asking questions | of the speaker whenevér they wanted a | point enlarged upon. At the conclusion of the meeting resolutions were against Sunday funerals. passed The Congregationalists yesterday after- | | ter upon + Consecrated Ministr in which he urged | that every consecrated Christian should let himself be gunided by the golden rule and the sermon on the mount. When | church and ministry are truly consecrated then there is little to fear. Rev. T. Kimball, Rev. William Tubbs and Chaplain Rowell were appointed a | committee to draft resolutions of regret for | the death of A. L. Rankin, for many years { a m;mber of the Congregational Monday | Club. | “Next Monday Dr. Herron will address | the club on “The Christian Revival of the Nation.” The auditorium of the Y. M. C. A. has heen taken for the occasion and the ministers of all Protestant denominations have been invited. - Rev. Mr. Emery of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church has been appointed by Bishop Nichols locem tenens cf the Church of the Advent. | Sacred week will be observed all this week in the Grace M. E. Church. There vaning. will be special preachers eve: ————— THE WIDOWS OF SOLDIERS. Free Ceftificates of Their Husbands’ Death Asked For. A rather unusual bit of manuscript with about sixty signatures was filed with the Board of Supervisors yesterday. It reads: We, the undersigned, as citizens, have peti- tioned your honoreble body in regard to & re- uest that was made six years ago by the then onorable Board of Supervisors requesting the Mayor on behalf of all destitute widows of veteran soldiers of thelate rebellion, who are not able to pay for the death certificates of their late husbands, that he give per- ,mits to them to obtain free of charge certificates of their late hnsbands’ deaths, and also of any deceased children that had died in this city and county, and also copies of marriage certificates. Since that request six years ago in no case has it ever been refused un- til to-day, this 2d day of April, 1895, when his Honor was called npon and politely asked for a rmit for a destitute widow of a veteran sol- ier of the late rebellion to obtain from the Board of Health a certificate (free of charge) of the death of her late husband. The widow was refused the permit. Her friends wentand saw the clerk of the Board of Heaith in regard to the matter, and he said he would give her a certificate free of charge if she had a permit from the Mayor, as had been the custom for years, and if his books were overhauled they | would not show fifty certificates issned free of charge to destitute widows in the lastsix years. Hoping and trusting that our magnanimous and merciful board will take this matter into consideration and pess a resolution requesting his Honor the Mayor to issue permits to desti- tute widows of veteran soldiers of the Jate re- bellion for them to obtain certificates and copies of mln'ugo certificates free of charge, we are respectfully, ete. At the meeting of the board it was re- ferred to the proper committee. LIVING IN PORTLAND. The Whereabouts of an Eloping Couple Has Been Discovered. Several weeks ago Lizzie Behan, the 16- year-old daughter of John Behan of the Occidental Hotel, eloped with Roy Ray- mond, 2 notorious politician. An account of the affair, together with the photo- graphs of the pair, was published m the CaLL at the time, and not without result, it appears. The police telegraphed to all parts of the State for news concerning the absconders, but without result. Finally a letter was received from a resident of Portland, who stated that he had read the account of the elopement.in the CALL, and that he was convinced he had seen the couple in that city. Another letter was received by Sec- retary McComb on Saturday stating that Raymond had been identified, and t if it was desired his arrest would follow. John Behan, the father of the girl, an- nounced his willingness yesterday to prosecute Raymond for bigamy in swear- 1ng at the marriage license office that she was of legal age. He swore out a warrant for Raymond’s arrest, and it will be sent to Portland to-day to be served. HYDRAULIO MINING PERMITS. Favorable and Adverse Action by the Debris Commission. The Board of California Debris Commis- sioners met yesterday and considered a number of applications for permits and other matters pertaining to hydraulic min- ing. Several applications for permits were laid over for investigation, and will be acted upon at a future session of the board. The following permits were granted yes- terday: The Grizzly Hill, resumption of work, and the Dry’ Guich, both situated near Volc:np, Amador County. The application ef the Rattlesnake Bar mine was refused use there are no ade- quate provisions for holding the tailings. —————— A Step Nearer for Florence. G. B. Holladay, attorney for the “gypsy” » Bl Coffe; CouetTor & Sew el o8 teSnmicel srsunde: His motion was denied. noon listened to a paver by Gilbert Dex- | “A Consecrated Church and a | NATVE KERAMIC AR, What a Clever Set of Ladies Are Doing in China Work. A New Clubroom Daintily Fur- nished Promises Future Progress. The California Keramie Club bas seftled itself into smali but dainty querters. snd will to-day practically introduce itself asa club with a bome. Miss Minnie C. Taylor's studio at 231 Post street has been invaded by the club and practically absorbed, except that Miss Taylor will three days in the week main- tain the identity of the place as her studio. The rest of the week it will be the Keramic Club. All sorts of artistic and feminine taste is displayed in the arrangement of the goom, and the members feel naturally proud of the result. To-day there will be what the ladies term an “Easter pitcher sale.” This means that the keramic exhibition will be devoted solely to pitchers—little pitchers with big ears and big pitchers with little ears—but all valuable representations of keramic art. There are but thirty-five members of the club, and each has contributed a pitcher, so that there will be exactly thirty-five pitchers for sale. The proceeds of the sale will be devoted to the purchase of journals from all over the world that are devoted to the interests of keramic art, so that the club members may be posted on all the current events in the line of keramics. The members of the club are intent upon correct reprodnetion of the most noted wares. They fully believe that they can reproduce Royal Worcester, Crown Derby, Royal Berlin, Minton, Delft, Doul- ton, or any other kind of ware famous for its tints, tracings or decorative effects, and judging from the pitcher exhibition they ave good grounds for their belief. Itisquite exclusive—this Keramic Club— and only a clever enthusiast in china art work is likely to secure admission. The new clubroom is to be the general loung- ing-place for the members, who will talk tones, softness, trankparency ‘and the like to their hearts’ content. They will also work out through discussion original de- signs to be brought out after the manner of old-established factories, and altogether rove that S8an Francisco is not one bit Eehind the rest of the country, even in keramics. Under the window seats of the room there will be arranged a set of loek- ers in which the members will keep their precious possessions in the way of designs and completed work, and when a visitor calls any member may be enabled to show just what she is doing or what she pro- poses to do. 5 Mrs. L. L. Baker is the president; Mrs. J. 8. Adams, vice-president; Mrs. D. S. Culp, secretary, and Miss H. T. Bacon, treasurer. The members are: Miss Cathella Adams, Mrs. Adams, Mrs. | 6. J. Beeht, Miss Fiora Bell, Miss Edith Brown, | Mrs. James F. Crosett, Miss M. T. Cashman, Miss A. E. Dugan, Mrs.'S. E. Dutton, Mrs. J. B. Dyer, Miss N. de Valin, Mrs, C. W. Farnam, Mrs. D, W. Guptill, Mrs. Theo Gray, Miss 4. F. Herrick, Miss Jennie Hobbs, Miss Helen Philip, Mrs. D. W. Perley, Mrs. H.-A. Root, Miss L. Richardson, Miss N. Sinnott, Mrs. William | Sagendorf, Miss Gertrude Soule, Miss C. A. Shurtlefl, Miss Minnie C. Taylor, Mrs. Adolph Unger and Mrs. T. J. Tourneux. The club was organized a little over three years ago and gave its first exhi- bition in the maple room of the Palace Hotet in October, 1891. The next annual exhibition will be held in the same place some time in next November, and by then it is believed that the Keramic Club will have made long strides in both member- ship and progress in keramic art. WOMAN AND THE BALLOT. An Open Meeting by One of the Local Suffrage Clubs. Justice Hall, in Pythian Castle, had not a vacant seat last evening during the open meeting of the Young Woman’s Suffrage Club. A programme had.been arranged for the evening as usual, but the principal feature was to be an address by Congress- man James G. Maguire. He failed to ap- pear, however, and Mrs. Laura de Force Gordon took his place on the platform, Mrs. Gordon’s address was upon the ob- ject for which the club has its existence— the securing to women of the right to vote. The remainder of the programme in- cluded vccal and instrumental music by members of the club and by its friends, and also a debate between Mrs. Auna Smith and J. Harriman on “Shall Women Have the Ballot?”’ _The evening closed with a general discus- sion of the topic of “Woman’s Suffrage.”” —_————— Baco Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * e s Pineapple and cherries, 50c Ib, Townsend's.* ———————— PRETTY cards, silver and decorated porcelain noveltie s, praver-books and Bibles for Easter. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street, * e .— Ripe Tomatoes, Just received from Chingo Valley. cheap. L. G. Sresovich & Co. —————— Archibald Forbes says that the ideal war cor- respondent should have “‘the angelic temper of awomen and the suavity of a candidate for office. 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