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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1895. = CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. — SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—46 per year by mail; by carrier, 15¢ per week. SUNDAY CALL~#$1.50 per year. WEEKLY CALL—$1.50 per year. The Eastern ofice of the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Bureau, Rhinelander building, Rose and w York. " _.APRIL 15, 1805 This week for the fiestas, There are frolics to the front. The excursion is the thing to get on to. The language of flowers means business this week. making forma good Business and merr} ‘combination. will be proudly pointed forn The fiesta ¢ %o as typical of Ca From the way the elections are going the Republic is a Nation of Republicans. 7 Economy without industry is as becom- ing as a diamond stud in a beggar’s shirt. It won’t be long before California festi- wvals will be celebrated allaround the world. If you do not know which one of the fiestas will be best you had better see them | all. No visitor can doubt the true glory of our | climate when he sees the beauty of the floral fetes. Ten chances to one the Queen of Beauty won't be any lovelier than the Maids of | Honor. You have never done enough for San Francisco as long as there is anything else that you can do. There are hardly ten men in the country who know whether Cleveland is fishing or writing a message, and they don’t care. | Demoralized Democracy is in doubt whetner to nominate Cleveland for a third | term or hunt up a candidate in the far South. The Half-million Club excursion, which | leaves this city at 3 o’clock this afternoon, is a pledge of harmony and a promise of | prosperity. If public sentiment in favor of free silver | coinage continues to increase as rapi in the past year there won't be any over it in Sufficient money has been practically pledged to build the valley road from Stock- ton to Bakersfield, but as much more is needed to build it from Stockton to the bay. An enterprising Texan announces that | he will show the world his State can grow as good olives as California, but by and by | a big blizzard will come along and stop his little blow. It noted as an evidence of the con- servative way in which Delmonico’s estab- lishment in New York is conducted that | it was not until last week a telephone was put into the building. It did not need the spoken assurance of the California Press As: ation to the Half-million Club to prove that it will do | all in its power to forward the club’s ef- forts to build up the State. The failure of a bank at Fresno, instead | of discouraging the people thefe, has only made them realize all the more the neces- | sity for prompt work to make prosperity 80 generous as to render failures impos- sible. Cleveland’s attempt to head off the pro- posed convention of Illinois Democrats to consider the money question can be best pictured by imagining a barnyard goose trying to block the way of a perplexed donkey. | The great advance in the price of oil reminds us that California’s possible re- sources in this commodity offer the most inviting opportunily that we have for securing large private fortunes by the use of a little enterpri Every attempt of England to interfere with a Central American State increases public sentiment in favor of the immediate construction of the Nicaragua Canal, and to that extent John Bull's bluster may be said to yield good results. The San Jose S8chool Department is wor- ried because California-born Chinese chil- dren are demanding admission to the public schools, and it realizes that if it lets | ’em alone they will not go home with their | pigtails hanging behind them. { The ancient handiwork of men excepted, | California has more strange and beautiful things than the whole of Europe for trav- elers to enjoy, and hence there should be the most earnest effort to secure some of the American money that Europe receives. | Those wealthy Californiane who are | waiting patiently for enterprising Eastern men to come and develop the resources | of the State and thus add to the wealth of the inactive residents, are by their neg- ligence furnishing the best possible reason for Eastern men to keep away. ‘While it is true that the wonderful pros- perity of Southern California was the cre- | ation of enterprising men from the East, gpome of the public-spirited men of San Francisco are showing that Californians themselves are capable of accomplishing wonders when they set about the task. Every resident of the interior who visits the Half-million Club to thank it for its splendid efforts in behalf of the State could show a practical interest by sub- geribing to shares in the valley road and signing the CaLy's pledge to ship by that Iine. As there seems to be much mystery asbout the surveying parties which are working so industriously in the San Joaquin Valley ahead of the People’s road surveyors, supposedly for the purpose of trying to shut it out, we suggest that they are possibly the spirits of departed hopes. James E. Keeler, director of the Alle- gheny Observatory, one of the brilliant young astronomers whose work in making the Lick Observatory famous, is well re- membered in California, has announced his discovery that the rings of Saturn are composed of numerous satellites. This is not so remarkable as his further discovery that- these satellites, as his spectroscopic | these fe | the civilized world, eclipsing those of old examinations have proved, travel at differ- ent rates of speed. The discovery is as important as that of the fifth satellite of Mars. THE FIESTA EXOURSION. The excursion which, under the manage- ment of the Half-million Club, leaves San Francisco this afternoon to attend the fiestas ought to be not only large in num- bers, but of a character thoroughly repre- sentative of the best elements of the City. It is something more than a pleasure excursion. Manifesting as it does the first notable act of co-operation between San Francisco and the southern cities in the general interests of California, it is in some respects_a celebration gof the begin- ning of the néw era.'filfgues éfi:thwarfl to illustrate that new, united and progressive California of which the Half-million Club is so devoted a champion. There is more than a holiday pleasure to be found on an occasion of this kind. There is something of patriotism in it. The patriotic significance of the move- ment will not be overlooked in any of the many cities the excursion will visit. The tour will be everywhere regarded as an evidence of the coming of the new order of things. It will be looked upon asan as- surance that San Francisco at last has begun to take an interest in everything that concerns California, and that her people are now prepared to give not only a ready sympathy but an active aid to every enterprise, from a floral fair to a new rail- road, that may be undertaken anywhere on the Pacific Coast. This being the aspect in which the excursion will be re- garded it goes without saying that 4 most cordial and approving welcome will greet the excursionists all along the route, and this tour will be one of the most joyous and inspiring ever made in the State. Of the fiestas themselves it may be said they will form the most fitting celebra- tions for the beginning of the new birth of California patriotism. Like that patriot- ism they are destined to grow into greater things with the coming years. Each suc- ceeding season will see new towns plan- ning festivals of this kind, and improving upon those held in the past. We are rapidly learning to enjoy our climate. We are becoming adepts in the wholesome, happy pleasures of out-oi-door life. We are drawing closer to nature’s heartand beginning to appreciate the charms of a free untrammeled existence amid the de- lights with which our wonderful climate surrounds us. We cannot indulge this freedom at all times, of course, but we are taking longer holidays and more of them, and are making better use of them. The time will soon come, therefore, when every county in California will have its annual floral fete in the spring and when vals will be renowned all over Venice or modern Nice. For these greater | things to come, the fiestas this year will make a good preparation, and all who have a chance to enjoy them may account themselves lucky. AN INEVITABLE FATE. The Southern Pacific Company is doing excellent service for the valley road by pushing forward its work of extending the coast line from San Luis Obispo to Santa Barbara and by shortening the peninsular entrance to Ban Francisco by beginning | the construction of its cut-off through the Potrero and the San Bruno hills. By these two means it will save about a hundred miles in distance between Los Angelesand | San Francisco, and hence will shorten its schedule time between San Francisco and New Orleans by about five hours. This will be a great gain to the Southern Pacific, which necessarily regards its over- land business as the supreme considera- tion. Atthe same time it will shoulder the whole 8an Joaquin Valley out of the system of transcontinental traffic. This means a great deal in divers ways. The | route from Saugus via Santa Barbara and | 8an Luis Obispo to San Francisco, besides saving about a hundred miles or five hours over the San Joaquin route, will be ex- ceedingly picturesque and the ideal route for tourists. Instead of carrying passengers through the long stretches of the San Joaquin Valley, the new line will intro- duce them to a charming succession of coast, mountain, forest and valley scenery. During the summer months the heat of San Joaquin Valley is uncomfortable to travelers who are confined m railroad trains, and the new route will obviate that difficulty by transporting them through a region which is cooled by the pleasant breezes of the Pacific. Further- | more, the Southern Pacific has always la- | bored under the disadvantage, not only of having a southern line of monotonous scenic features, but one devoid of the very valuable charm which a view of the ocean brings. The new overland route via San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara will far- ish all the lacks of the present route ugh the San Joaquin. It is inevitable, therefore, that the San Joaquin Valley isto be sidetracked by the Southern Pacific, and that its beautiful cit- ies and orchards and vineyards will not be given the chance to tell their story of opportunity and wealth to the#¥isitor who reaches these shores by the southern route. Nor will those travelers from the north or by way of the Central Pacific to San Francisco be given the opportunity on their return via the south—whether by the Southern Pacific or the Santa Fe line—to see the San Joaquin Valley; for by avoid- ing it they may save five hours in time to Los Angeles and be enabled to enjoy the delightful scenery of the S8an Luis Obispo route. In incurring the enormous ex- pense required to construct a line from Santa Margarita to Santa Barbara through the most difficult country that the South- ern Pacific ever assailed, it took into ac- count beforehand the great advantages which this line would enjoy on the score of overland traffic. Ii the residents of the San Joaquin Valley underestimate to the smallest ex- tent the tremendous disadvantage under which they will be placed by this new ar- rangement they are lacking in the percep- tion required of them to make their wonder- ful valley what it ought to be—the leading wealth-producing and home-making sec- tion of the State. And if they are unable to see in the advent of the valley road an almost providential means of escape from the inevitable calamity which the Southern Pacific has prepared for them, they are not deserving of the benefits which a wholesome manifestation of en- terprise would secure. Their only salvation is the valley road, and they will not deserve it unless they offer every inducement in their power to secure it. This road, and it only, will look to it that visitors to California shall see what the S8an Joaquin Valley is and what superb inducements it offers to the makers of homes and the builders of a common- wealth. FARM WAGES AND FREE TRADE. Any farmer who has been induced to co- operate with the Democrats or the Popu- lists because he sincerely believes the Re- publican system of protection does not benefit the farmer, will find a convincing proof of his error by reading the report of the British Board of Trade on the condi- tion of farmers and agricultural laborers in that country under the free-trade system. According to these reports the farm laborers of Great Britain are to-day re- ceiving no higher wages than they did when free trade was begun in 1845, while the condition of the farmer himself is much worse. Fifty years ago the wages paid for farm labor were about 11s & week while at present in Cambridgeshire they are reported as having fallen to 11s and 10s 2 week ($2 75 to $2 50). In Essex they have fallen to 10s, and *‘some are receiving 9s and even 8s” ($225 and $2) a week. In Norfolk wages are 10s (§250) a week. In Suffolk and Wiltshire 10s and 9s ($2 50and $2 25) a week. Women'’s wages are gener- ally 10d and 1s (20 to 24 cents) a day. ‘This is what free trade has done for the farmer and farmband in the land whose industrial conditions are best fitted . to profit by free trade. Nor does the evil effect of the system end with the depres- sion of agriculture. As farming has be- come unprofitable, even with the low rate of wages paid, the land is being aban- doned and the rural population seeks a home elsewhere. The more energetic and thrifty come to America, while the others drift into the cities, where they become competitors of the workingmen already there, and thus tend to lower the rate of wages in the city also. As a result the British manufacturer hasno farming popu- lation to buy his gooas or supply him with food. He has to look more and more every year to foreign lands to find a mar- ket and obtain the necessaries of life. Thus the tendency is toward the comple- tion of a vicious circle which, beginning with the depression in agriculture, leads to the depression of every other industry. There is certainly nothing in the situa- tion of the English farmer, therefore, that can entice any intelligent ‘American far- mer to favor free trade. We have had in this country a very disastrous lesson of the folly of attacking the protective system, but it has been nothing like so disastrous as that which the English farmer 1s now undergoing. No true American would like to see farm wages reduced to $2 50 a week, and yet that is what they would come to if Cleveland and Wilson had their way. Fortunately any danger of further attempts in the direction of free trade is very slight at present, but none the less it is just as well to bear the subject in mind and note what free trade means for the very people who have been trying to coax us to adopt it. - PERSONAL. Raleigh Barcar of Vacaville is at the Lick. Dr. Ruggles of Stockton is at the Grand. Jesse D. Carr of Salinas is at the Occidefital. J. Otis, & sheepman of Cloverdale, is at the Russ, Dr. C. E. Stone of Marysville is a guest at the Californis. W.E. Nye, a dentist of Healdsburg, is staying at the Lick. W. H. Fennill, 8 mining man from Oakdale, is at the Grand. C. A. Berding, a merchant of Ferndale, is a guest at the Russ. George Myers, & merchant ot Fresno, is stop- ping at the Grand. Dr. R. M. Ashby of Roseville registered yes- terday at the Grand. L. T. Hatfield, a Sacramento attorney, arrived at the Lick yesterday. C. F. Montgomery of the Antioch Ledger is a guest at the Oceidental. James Boyce, a rancher of Ferndale, is among the guests at the Russ. John M. Fulweiler, a prominent attorney of | Auburn, is staying at the Lick. Hervey Lindley, the well-known politician of Los Angeles, is stopping at the Palace. nator J. H. Seawell of Ukiah came down yesterday and put up at the California. J.C. Buell Jr., a contractor of Arcata, came in yesterdey and registered at the Lick. Dr. R. M. Hunt of Nevada City arrived in town yesterday and is staying at the Lick. Dr. Thomas Flint of San Juan and Mrs. Flint were among vesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. Charles B. Whiting of the Colusa Herald came into town yesterday and registered at the Grand. Ex-Congressman James A. Louttit of Stock- ton and Mrs. Louttit registered at the Lick yes- terday. U. 8. Grant Jr. and Mrs. Grant arrived from their home in San Diego yesterday and went to the Palace, Sheriff Frank Morrell of Arapahoe County, Arizona, is among the guests at the Russ. He brought up two United States prisoners who had been convicted of robbing the Postoffice at Williams and sentenced to five years' impris- onment. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. California ought to get better acquainted with itseli.—Stockton Record. The genesis of & bad habit was a bad thought. Too many grieve over the past, dream of the future, but never act in the present.—Santa Cruz Record. The world is gradually, slow though the process be, emerging from its shell of bar- barian practices, and sooner or later there will come &n era when war will be but & dim mem- ory of the past when men might kill indis- criminetely €0 that rulers might gain historic fame.—Phenix Gazette, Alaska, which is a Territory of the United States in name, should be made one in fact. Its mines and fisheries yield $16,000,000 a year, yet it has never had a topographical or geological survey and land cannot be pur- chased or pre-empted. The climate in many thickly populated states in Europe s more severe then in many parts of Alaska.—Baker City Democrat. We notice that there have been important and very successful auction sales in San Fran- cisco during the last month. That is a sign. When people begin buying land it shows that they are taking their money out of banks and stockings and investing it. That in turn shows & return of confidence, & loosening of the wheels of finance and commerce that is the harbinger of a fuller prosperity. —Alameda Argus. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. “How did Mrs. Lovely happen to be dropped from thé Woman's Right Club?”’ “She spoke in praise of her husband.”—Brooklyn Life. “Do you know the count actually addresses her in public as her treasure?” “Treasure? His English is & little bit off. He meantin- vestment.’—Indianapolis Journal. “If Ishould ask you to marry me,” he said, smiling softly and sweetly, “would you say ‘yes'?” “My dear fellow,” she responded in & tone of gentle reproof, “you talk to me as if I were recelving my first proposal.”—Detroit Free Press. Kitty—Johnny, let's joggle Bridgetand make her drop the dishcloth. Johnny—What's the good o’ that. Kitty—Mamma says when she drops & dish- cloth it's a sign that somebody’s going to call; and 'm just hungry for company, Johnny.— Exchange. “No,” said the “emaciated” young woman, “Harold and I will not marry. The engage- ment is broken off.” *‘What was the trouble?” “He does not agree with me in polities, and I am compelled to believe that his ideas about housekeeping are hopelessly crude and cha- otic.”—Washington Star. Superintendent (to citizen sweeping the streets in the hot sunlight)—You'd better put on your hat, Mike; this blazing sunshine will affect your brain. Mike—Sure, do you think I'd be sweeping the streets if 1 had any brains, sir?—Harper's Young People. New Pastor—You say your late husbend died suddenly? ‘Widow Buxom—He did, sir; he wasn't long oin’. 2 New Pastor—No long, weary months of suf- fering upon a bed of sickness was his lot, then? ‘Widow Buxom—No, sir; poor man. New Pastor—What did he die of? Widow Buxom—Struck by lightnin’, sir.— 1 Boston Courier. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Edward A. Rix, the engineer whois putting up the compressed air plant for the operation of the pneumatic guns at Fort Winfield Scott, strolled into the Palace Hotel yesterday and watched the carrying tubes come into the of- fice from upstairs. He scratched his chin a moment, smiled and turned to & CALL reporter with: “Some day there will be tubes all over this city and the delivery methods now in vogue, | which occasion a great loss of time, will be gradually supplanted by the more rapid deliv- ery made possible by compressed air, This, of course, will be between central stations only, as the meintenance of individual plants will be too expensive. The establishment of sta- tions will facilitate business to an enormous extent. For instance, a package dropped in & tube with a terminal at the Palace Hotel could be sent to the Presidio in about two minutes, or, in other words, consume about as much time as one would employ in sendinga tele- phone message, counting the ‘Hello, Centrals,’ and lingering for switches. There could be & central station down town somewhere among the lawyers, and papers, deeds and various E. A. RIX CHATS ABOUT COMPRESSED AIR. (Sketched for the “Cald by Nankivell.} documents could be sent out to the City Hall in a minute and thus facilitate legal business, which, I hear from the attorneys,is very an- noying sometimes, “There is another point worth considering. Suppose you dropped a letter in Station D, which had for its point of delivery Station K. it could be put in the tube and sent over there in a few seconds, whereas now it is taken up by the carrier, taken to the central postoffice, and probably the next day finds its destina- tion.” “Will it ever take the place of any other motive power?”’ “Most certainly it will. On all hands we hear of nothing but electrieity, when, s & mat- ter of fact, compressed airis capable of many things which electricity can never overcome. The latter power has caused air to be over- looked, but engineers and inventors are mak- ing such strides in the direction of pneumatic machinery that even the electricians are look- ing on in amazement, “In Paris they deliver small packages, say up to three or four pounds, twenty-five miles, and aside from this they have compressed air fac- tories where they fill cylinders with air and sell it all over the city for motive power. All you have to do is to couple it onto your pipe leading to your engine and turn on the cock. Instantly its power is in action and the ex- haust, being nothing but pure air, is not un- healthy. It is perfectly dry and always cold. It has the advantage of being less dangerous than steam and is portable. Consider all these things and then you will see how easy it 1s for 8 thinking engineer to pause in his electrical tirades and think of something which up to within & few years ago was lost in the shuffle.”” “Compressed air is used in Milwaukee for re- frigerating purposes,” remarked a bystander. “Well,” answered Rix, “there is a fellow in Paris who has built a refrigerator around the exhaust of his engines and has placed his mother-in-law there. Her body is preserved in o perfect state and his wife wants to be put be- side her when she dies. This, however, is not an argument in favor of compressed air.” Professor Oscar R. Gleason, the horse-trainer, is staying at the Baldwin. This is his first visit to California, but he has been all over the rest of the Union and has a pretty thorough knowledge of the horseflesh of the country. He was talking last evening of the relative merits of different sections and said: “I rode through your park to-day to see what your horses were like and was wonderfully surprised. From what little I have seen I believe that this is go- ing to be the best part of the whole country for horses on account of the equability and mildness of your climate and that is what counts for more than anything else in breeding horseflesh. The poorest horses I have seen anywhere were up in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia. They are very small and have no breeding. In fact, half their stock is what you would call cayuses. Ihave seen more good horses in your park to-day than I have seen since I left New York. All the best horses in the East come from the South and West, from Kentucky, Illi- nois, Iowa and Nebraska mostly. Of course they raise horses in New England and the Mid- dle States, but they are nearly all underbred workhorses and trotters. They have not the climate for thoroughbreds. In Canada most of the horses are cold-blooded animals—that is, horses with no breeding.” Frank O’'Neill of the South Coast Paper-mill at Boquel, who is in town, in speaking of the great decrease in the output of paper in the past few years in this State, attributed it to the fact that there had been a reduction of rates in freight on the classes of paper made here, which enables Eastern manufacturers to run into the State their surplus stock and sell at low rates. Not more than half es much paper is being manu- factured now ns was a few yearsago. The larg- est mill in the State, the California of Stockton, has been dismantled and the machinery taken to Oregon. An interesting fact stated by Mr. O'Neill shows how the Southern Pacific makes a direct attack on California industries, and that was that the rate of freight on all classes of paper not manufactured hére is much higher than on paper of the kinds made in this State. England’s Censor of Plays. Mr. George Alexander Redford, whose appointment some little while back as xaminer of Plays, in succession to the late Mr. Pigott, raised in some quarters such an outery of grief and dinafopoint- ment, is in his 48th year, says the London Graphic. He is the eldest son of Mr. George Redfcrd, and has always been an ardent student of the stage. It is stated that his qualifications for the post rest chiefly upon his intimate knowledge of the duties, acquired during a long and close acquaintance with the ’f.u Mr. Pigott, for whom he acted for some years as assistant, and on many occasions as his deputy. The office of Examiner of Plays is worth about £850 a year. The itself is only £320, the larger part of the income being dfrived from the fees payable on new plays. ALL ARE KIND COMMENTS, What the Interior Press Has to Say of the New “Call.”” SETTING A PACE FOR RIVALS Its Action With Respect to Lotteries and Fakes Meets Universal Approval. SENSIBLE AND PRACTICAL. Alameda Argus. The CALL surprised its contemporaries a short time ago by announcing its deter- mination to cease the publication of lot- tery advertisements. It did this on the goqd ground that lotteries are illegal, and heir promotion by newspapers against the written law, which it Is a newspaper’s duty to uphold instead of to covertly trans- gress, is wronfi. Now the CALLis asking the clergymen to lend a hand against the lot- tery evil, which it declares to be a menace to the thrift and prosperity of the masses. The tone of the Cary in” such matters is always excellent. It goes at reformsina sensible and practical way, and dees not indulge in hysterics or spasms in connec- tion with its crusades. Itisa decent, dig- nified and ably conducted journal, whic! we are sure the people of the Pacific Coast are in a mood to appreciate. 2 el R DOING A GOOD WORK. Gilioy Gazette, The San_ Francisco CArLLis doing good work to help along the proposed valley road by asking from shippers a pledge to send frieght by it in preference if the rate is just as low or less than that charged by the opposition. It solicits in this work the assistance of the country press, which will doubtless be willingly and cheerfully given. There seems to be no good reason why this partof the Santa Clara Valley, so rich’ in products and so rapidly adding to its pop- ulation should not be included in the itinerary of the valley road, while there are very many which can be put forth why Gilroy should be an importantstation upon it. When it is definitely settled that Gilroy as well as San Jose will be a station on the road, there will be an awakening here and plenty of pledges for freight as well as sub- scription to stock and donations of rights of ‘'way, depot sites, etc. R APPRECIATED IN HUMBOLDT. Eureka Times. The San Francisco CALL of a recent date expressed a determination to assist this county to gain railway connection with the outside world as soon as the valley railroad was completed. The Carr, under its new mnnugenu‘nt, has shown a disposition to give Humboldt County proper recognition and has recognized our importance and geographical position. It is a relief to be counted a part of the great State of Cali- fornia. We were becoming weary of being laced within the boundaries of Oregon or ashington simply because it required a sea voyage to reach us. The action of the Caxy is appreciated by our people, who are liberal. A NO PETTY JEALOUSIES. Gaudeiupe Reporter. The San Francisco CALL of last Wednes- day was, as usual, a great paper, and it showed very plainly that its new editor and propriefor, Charles M. Shortridge, has very carefully removed each vestige of moss there may haye been upon his back. The Examiner having published a merit- orious editorial favorable to the San Joaquin Valley and San Francisco Rail- road, the CaLr firom}ffly reproduced itand complimented Mr. Hearst upon his public spirit on this and other occasions. While these courteous, manly actions are not common, it goes to_prove that the CALL is to be a paper for all, with no petty jealous- ies to counteract its usefulness. —_——— 1S A GREAT PAPER. Susanville Mail. The San Francisco CALL is speeding its way to the front and will soon take its lace as the leading paper of the Pacific Joast. In a brief period of time, a few short weeks, since the present proprietor assumed control of the paper, it has im- proved in a marked degree. It differs widely from many of its contemporaries in that it gives the news in a concise, clear- cut manner, with the sensational part which characterizes the majority of the leading papers of the Coast, eliminated. The CALL is a great paper and is destined to be the leading one of the Coast, if itis not already. B SS FATR IN ITS DEALINGS. Morgan Hill Sun. The Cavry, one of the ablest journalsin the country, and also one of the fairest, last week diverged from the course usually pursued by metropolitan journals, and in a magnanimous manner gave credit to an opposition sheet—the Examiner—for the good work that Eaper hasdone in its efforts to push the work of nssmmfi the San Joa- uin Valley road. It is really the proper thing for all newspapers to do to emulate the illustrious example set by the Carn and bend enough to give credit when credit is due. The CALL makes many friends by its manly course. s P A STARTLING INNOVATION. Willows Jowrnal. Yesterday morning the rejunevated Carn surprised us by heartily commending the Examiner’s efforts, and in the afternoon its example was (oilowe_d by the Report. Is the valley road, in addition to its other beneflts, about to bring on the mil- lennium? It looks that way, as far as local journalism is concerned. The new proprietor of the CALL has given the local public 2 good man; surprises, but the in- troduction of the fashion of appreciative comment upon the enterprise of con- temporaries overtops them all. pambinl i e SAYS IT IS A GOOD BARGAIN. Alameda Argus. The CaLL is to have a new steelframe, fireproof building at the southwest corner Third and Market streets. It is stated in general terms that it will be a magnificent modern structure, and an ornament to that part of the city. Evidently Mr. Short- ridge is getting on. Without any doubt the $360, which he paid for the great paper would fall at least $140,000 short of tting it away from him again, and yet e has not owned it three months. —_—— SHOWS THE RIGHT SPIRIT. Selma. Enterprise. The CALy is showing the right spirit in looking up the interests of the interior and working for the upbuilding of the indus- tries of the State, fully realizing that the interests of all sections are identical and that urban and suburban prosperitx must be coexistent to be permanent. This is a lesson as yet unlearned by many metro- -politan journals. B — e DOING A GOOD WORK. Fresno Republican. i The San Francisco CALy is doing & com- mendable work under its new management in advocating the interests and advertising the resources of the interior portions of the State. The WeEkLy CaLr, like the daily, is now in the front rank of Pacific Coast jo ism. Tis i g MAKING PROGRESSIVE STRIDES. St. Helena Star. The 8an Francisco CArr, under the man- ment of its new proprfemr, Charles M. Shortridge, is mnklnT wonderfully pro- gressive strides. Its latest move was to change the location of the business office from Montgomery street, where it has been for thirty years, to 710 Market street. Im- provements are noted almost aaily in the appearance and different departments of the paper. The success of the CALL and its proprietor is assured. ——— NO FAKES IN THE ¢“CALL.” . Stockton Mail. The San Francisco CALL yesterday pub- lished a suggestive cartoon which illus- trated the dléerence between fake journal- ism and legitimate journalism. The pro- prietor of the CALL is an uncompromising advacate of the latter and seems in a fuir way to carry out his intention, expressed some time ago, to make the CALL the best daily newspaper in San Francisco. s SUBSCRIBE FOR THE ¢ CALL.,” Auburn Argus. One of our pioneer residents says that he has “grown firea of patronizing a metro- politan newspaper that has become the ex- clusive organ of one religious organiza- tion.” He has dropped that paper and is now reading the CALL and says it isa great relief to him to have a paper that laces all church organizations on an equal ooting. A WAKING UP THE FOSSILS. Cottage Grove (Or.) Echo-Leader. Under the new management of Charles M. Shortridge the San Francisco CALL has become by far the ablest journal on the Pacific Coast. Itis waking up the slum- bering fossils of the Golden State, and with its indomitable push and enterprise the most intimate friends of California will not recognize the State in five years. RN G 0 A GOOD TIME FOR SAN FRANCISCO. Pendieton Oregonian. California’s two greatest newspapers, the Examiner and the CaLy, are pulling to- gether for a greater San Francisco and greater prosperity. This is the best evi- lence that can be gathered that “‘there is a good time coming’” for San Francisco. s s A BLOW AT FAKES. Livermore Herald. The CALL on Wednesday gave fake and coupon journalism a powerful blow by means of two page illustrations, one show- m%{ the legitimate and the other the ille- itimate newspaper. The other city dailies should take the hin: — SETTING THE PACE. Bakersfieid, Californian. The CALL is to have a fine_new building on the corner of Third and Market streets, diagonally opposite the Chronicle office. No use talking, the old CALL is setting the pace for its contemporaries in lively fash- 1on. AN APPRECIATIVE COMMENT. Zos Angeles Times. The San Francisco CArL is rapidly get- ting there. Itis now to have a new steel- frame, fireproof building—a regular sky- scraper—at the corner of Market and Third streets. Sl cngle IS GREATLY IMPROVED. Red Buuf Cause. The Carrn has been greatly improved since the change in its management, and it now ranks among the best papers on the coast. STARTLES - SAN FRANCISCO, Marysvide Appeal. The CALL continues to startle San Fran- cisco newspapers. The Examiner thinks the millennium is approaching. 5o s SOME GOOD ADVICE. Colusa Sun ‘Whenever you live in a town do not talk against it. Somebody may believe you. PEOFPLE TALEED ABOUT. Charles D. Walcott of the United States geo logical survey has had conferred upon him the Bigby medal of the Royal Geographical Society of England. At arecent ball in Parls Mme. Casimir-Perte wore more pearls and dismonds than any other woman present. She displayed more gems than she wasin the habit of wearing when mistress of the Elysee. Wade Hampton is not particularly gallant, judged by his expressions. He declares that women and horses “are just alike and require the same treatment. There's only one way to get along with them. Use your strongest curbs on the fast ones and lash the slow ones like the devil.” The President is having his portrait painted for Don M. Dickinson of Detroit. The artistis & young Michigan man, who has gone to Wash- ington to secure the necessary sittings. The hardest feature of Mr. Cleveland’s face to paint is his eyes, which are remarkably blue and, it is said, choleric. Dr. William Howard Russell, the doyen of English war correspondents, recently cele- brated his seventy-fourth birthday. He began his work with the London Times in 1843, and represented that paper during the Crimean war, the Indian mutiny, the Civil Warin this country, the Austro-Prussian war, and the Franco-German war. Senor Canovas del Castillo, at the head of the new Spanish Ministry, is one of the homeliest men in Europe, being squat, paunchy and asymmetrical, with a face that is intensely un- prepossessing. He is & reactionist of the most pronounced kind and a thorough believer in the divine right of kings to do as they everlast- ingly please. His wife isa very haughty and unpopular woman. Marion Crawford’s new book will be called ‘‘Adam Johnson’s Son.” In it the author goes back once more to his Italian field. He isso prolific & writer that one will probably not have to wait very long tor the continuation of the married-life happenings of Catherine Rall- ston, nee Lauderdale, promised in his very re- cently published book, “The Rallstons.” | Vaszary, the Primate of Hungery, isa man of the most simple tastes, and when he first entered office his task was rendered doubly hard by the fact that hitherto he had been-but & poor Benedictine monk. He drove to the primatial palace at Gran in a public cab, carry- ing on his knees a cage containing his pet canary. The death of W. 8. Kimball, the tobacco mil- lionaire, at Virginia Beach, will be a sad loss to Nantucket. Mr. Kimball took great interest in the island and owned a fine villa at the Cliff and otherreal estate. He introduced quail, jackrabbits and_other game, that are breeding freely and will add to Nantucket's attractive- ness for sportsmen. Henry Koshiva, the young Japanese who was recently requested by the Japanese Govern- ment to return to his native country to perform military duty, has received an order from the imperial Government rescinding the first com- mand. No reason for the latter edict is given, Young Koshiva belongs to a wealthy family end is studying military tactics in America, He is now at Pawtucket, R. I. Advice About Sleep. Never awaken a person who is ill even to give him medicine unless by definite in- struction from the physician. It is bad to sleeg in'such a way that the light will strike the eyes before it is time to wake in the morning. It is unwise to go to bed hungry and often equally unwise to retire immediately after a heavy meal. Avoid sleeping in an undergarment that has been worn during the day. It the change from woolen underwear to a cotton night dress produces a chilly sonsation, then provide one of soft, light lannel, Such a garment has the additional advantage of requiring less bedclothing. . Edison claims that people do not need several hours of continuous sleep, and that a few minutes or an hour of un- conscious rest now andsthen is all that is required. He says that the habit of slee was formed before the era of artificial sight, when people had no other way of spending the hours of darkness. At one lime he worked for seventy-two hours without sleep. But we doubt if he ever wins the world to his theory, even with his wizard’s power of turning nightinto day. X medical journal gives this receipt for sleep: Dismiss from the mind the cares and worries of the day, forgive all enemies, relax the brain and commit one’s self to the great power that rules the uni- verse in confidence and hope. Few public men have followed - this rule more absolately than Glaastone, who sleeps like a child from the moment his head touches the pillow. After the defeat of his home-rule bill in Parliament in 1886 he went home in the early mornius and slept as usual his full complement of eight hours.—Congregationalist. e -——— The Board of Health of New York City has received a gift of $25,000 from Mrs. Minturn to establish a pesthouse where tients will receive better attention than is commonly accorded them. She was moved to this deed by the incarceration of a friend in the miserable quarters now used. CrEAM mixed candies, 25¢ Ib, Townsend’s.* ———————————— BACON Printing Company, 508 Clay street. ————— When flying at its highest speed the housefly makes 600 strokes of its wings per second, and the dragon-fly 1500 Blood Is life, If it is pure, rich and healthy. It is disease and death if it is loaded with impurities. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the great blood purifier. Get only Hood’s and do not be induced to take any other. «Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup’’ Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth- ers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, al- Jays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrbas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Drugsists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 25c a bottle. i of the Japanese women in the rural di?{roi?ts are skfiled agriculturists. This outdoor work accounts for their health and strength. BUT STILL POPULAR. WHOEVER HAS TRIED OUR BICYCLE SHOE SINGS ITS PRAISE. UCKINGHAM | & HECHT’S DICYCLE SHOES For Mary A SOFT, FLEXIBLE, STRONG, CORRECTLY SHAPED SHOE AT $3-00 For John QUALITIES, WITH A LARGER VARIETY, $2.50 Black Oxfords Black Lace = - = $3.00 Tan Lace = = = = $3.50 THE COLORED BICYCLE SHOE IS MADE OF THE *“ BELLMAR TANKAF ” And is just right for riding over dusty roads in Summer. Kasts 738-740 Market St. Headquarters for BUCKINGHAM & HECHT'S FINE SHOES. = ' CALIFORNIA \ Title Insurance and Trast Company, MILLS BUILDING. Money to Loan on Real Estate at i Lowest Market Rates. Real Estate Titles Examined and Guaranteed TPHIS COMPANY WILL EREAFTER MAKE and continue Abstracts of Titles for the use of attorneys at short notice, aud st the usual rates charged by searchers. ‘We are prepared (0 \'crlr:‘ys-u Abstracts made by her seacher of reco) e fhciiities for searching and the reputation and responsibility of the company are 80 well known that the abstracts furnished ¢an b depended upon 88 being most complete and Teabie, | 5 A TADIES' GRILL ROON Has been established in the Palace Hotel N ACCOUNT OF REPEATED DEMANDS ‘made on the management. 1t takes the place of the ety restaurant, with direct entrance from Market st. Ladies shopping will find this a most desirable place to lunch. Prompt service and mod- erate charges, such a3 have given the gentlemen's @rillroom an International reputation, will preval 1n this new department. STHEVERY BESTONETO EXAMIN tgulmlflt them 10 Spectacles mEyEYon wi nts of his own invention, whose led. ‘My success has