The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 17, 1895, Page 8

T —— o THE SAN FRANCIS J0 CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—4#6 per year by wail; by carrier, 15¢ wer week. SUNDAY CALL-$1.50 per year. or sear. the SAN FRANCISCO States Adver- ig, Rose and CALL (Da! tising Bure: Duane streets, New York. The news is festa The fiestas illustrate the State. hock of the tragedy is over, but the et to come. The trial Don’t on your shoppi g trips. Sound money me: both er and gold, and the people know it. Having no boom California is booming her blooms. By next year San Francisco should be yeady to have a grand carnival of her own. A good celebration of the newly awak- ened harmony in the State is itself a har- mony. Read all about the b relieve your mind from the strain of the tragedies. It may as well be conceded that we never had better things in spring bonnets thah at present. Wailing voices come from all parts of the East complaining that the price of spring flowers is too high. Eastern readers will please take notice that a single department of a Califotnia fiesta is equal to forty picnie The great trouble w kinds is that it overestimates its ab both to deceive and to corrupt. = Philadelphia ne have devised a new phrase to describe a stingy customer; they call him “a bloke with a slim gilt soul.”’ The publication of such terrible tragedies as the Lamont-Williams affair is more a warning to mothers than to the officers of the law. Senator Stewart has promptly called rover’s hand on the sound money propo- tion, but it isn't likely the fat prophet will show down. All kinds of improvement are needed in San Francisco, and there is no intelligent citizen who cannot find some work of the sort that will be congeniai to him. rejoices in the coming of the strawberry and the pessimist complains of the ap- proaching retirement of the oyster. It is so pleasant to read that rich or titled persons always *“wed poor people marry, and the divorce court records show that there is really a great difference, It would seem that Los Angeles ought to be sufficiently intoxicated with her deli- eious climate without seeming to welcome a dist that is to be set up by Eastern capital The citizen who is negligent o the ex- ternal appearance of the City should deem himself responsible to 4 certain extent for the presence of any moral turpitude that may appear. ‘We would be glad to have Mr. Cleveland give us the name of the party that advo- cates silver monometallism—not neces- sarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. As an aluminum cannon, made by a Canadian mechanic, is said to weigh only 15 pounds, while an iron one of equal size weighs 180, the invention may be safely classed as :a big improvement in light artillery. The male resident of Sonoma County who would not cheerfully resort to bribery in the election that is to determine which of the pretty girl candidates shall be queen of the carnival may be a good citizen, but no girl will break her heart for him. If the streets of SBan Francisco should appear to be lacking in something bright during the next few days, it might be re- flected that the Half-Million Club excur- sion to Los Angeles was expected to carry southward many of the most enterprising citizens. In drafting its new constitution Utah makes the sad confession contained in the constitution of California—that county and municipal governing bodies canriot be trusted with authority to issue bonds in aid of telegraph and transportation enterprises. If the population of Sonoma County might be judged by the vote that is being cast for the queen of the Santa Rosa car- nival, either the fair contestants are so pretty as to make many men disloyal to a favorite beauty, or there has been an enormous recent accession of settlers. At a recent meeting of the Gardeners’ and Florists’ Club in Boston it was stated the flower business in that city had shown no falling off during the past two years, notwithstanding the depression in all other industries, and the fact may be cited as an evidence that Boston is prepared to sacrifice everything rather than the beauti- ful. Every year comes the threat that if there are not good rains in April and May there will be a short crop of grain, and the | humor of it is apparent when it is re- flected, first, that irrigation would reduce the problem to a certainty, and second, that grain-growing in California is gener- ally not profitable, and- that fruit-grow- g is. The looseness with which county author- ' ities guard the custody of important papers entrusted to their care has been demon- strated at Fresno, where some valuable letters in the Sanders murder case have disappeared. It will probably be neces- sary for many more such lapses to occur before proper measures to prevent them are taken. - Aslocal political bodies entrusted with the government of State, county and city con- cerns cannot be trusted with authority toin- cumber their jurisdictions with a bonded debt created to aid private enterprises which ought to be a public benefit, the people who elect such bodies, and intend that they shall represent the popular standard of integrity, have before them a problem that honest men have cause to ponder seriously. reet to look for California goods | to bloom this year | utiful fiestas and | th knavery of all | is is the season when the optimist * and thatonly | THE SOUTHERN FIESTA. It is altogether becoming and whole- some that even in the most substantial concerns of life we should now and then indulge in that sort of levity which lifts us over and above sordidness. Thus, the pleasant farce of the city of Los Angeles “turning over her keys” and ‘‘surrender- ing her authority” to some agreeable fic- tion of power born of the “‘Fiesta dynasty’” is justas welcome to the hearts of grown-up men and women as the Maypole dance is to children. At New Orleans every year, on the oceasion of the Mardi Gras festival, there is a pompous parade |of the Mayor and Aldermen to the ‘“‘Eastern Gate,” or something like that, in which is borne a ridiculous gilded key of prodigious size. At the ‘“Eastern Gate” i the solemn cavalcade is met by the King | of the Carnival on the Field of the Cloth of Gold; and although the King is gener- ally dreadfully masked and stuffed, he re- ceives the ‘‘key” and the official *‘freedom | of the city” with excruciating unction and | condescension. Then begins the most | wonderful of American festivals—the only | American festival worthy of the name. | Los Angeles has made an admirable be- | ginning in the introduction of her “fiesta,” which is a fairly good S8panish rendering of “carnival.” If this charming city of | the south had the time and courage to re- } sume its original Spanish name, and trans- | late it literally into “The Pueblo of the | Queen of the Angels,” it might be spared | the trouble of explaining the beauty of its women, the glory of its flowers and the genial splendor of the sunshine that floods it. And so the great festival—an event which | 11 serve as the beginning of future carni- | vals that shall rival in time the Mardi | Gras of Rome—has come into swing; and | further up the coast, at Santa Barbara, the same $pirit is abroad, throwing roses and kisses instead of confetti and serpentines, and all the warmer and sweeter. for that. | The solemn gray ghosts of the old padres | hovering mayhap about the bells in the | tower of the ancient mission will not grieve to see the present generation honor- | ing their God by rejoicing in His bounties; and in the tolling of the chimes away up | above the city which is rioting in its own | loveliness there may be mingled a benedic- | tion that has been waiting for a century to find a voice. Some of us belonging to San Francisco are now at Los Angeles and Santa Barbara enjoying these exquisite pleasures. Many who did not go will regret their stay away, for this is a great event—greater even than many of those who are en- joying it can understand. It has not | only a local value, but it has been accepted | as an occasion for the cementing of the separated interests and aspirations of the | people of California; and let us hope that | the benediction of the gray ghosts in the | towers of Santa Barbara Mission, and the gracious spirit of a hopeful past that must hover over the soil of the Pueblo of the Queen of the Angels, may fall upon the hearts of living men and lead them to base the work of the future upon the hopes of the past. | | | | TELEGRAPHING PICTURES. In this issue of the CALL appears an lustration which was transmitted by tele- craph from Los Angeles. It depicts the eception of the Queen of the Fiesta. In another part of this issne the method of transmission is minutely described. Ina word, the plan consists in drawing the original picture on a sheet divided into | minute squares, which are numbered per- | pendicularly and lettered horizontall | and these figures and letters are sent by | telegraph, and when received are worked out on a corresponding sheet in the hands { of the receiver. This necessarily gives an | accurate reproduction of the original draw- ing. The principle is very simple, and is strietly analogous to the making of a plat from field notes and the telegraphic trdans- mission of moves on a chessboard. Evi- dently it is a perfect scheme for the tele- phing of pictures done in outline, and it has no limitations of line or hatch shad- ing, except those imposed by time. A few years ago a very delicate and in- tricate machine was devised for this pur- pose. Its plan was to trace with a needle the lines of a drawing laid on a board crossed minutely by wires, each wire hav- ing such a distinctive resistance or trans- mitting power as would serve to influence an ink-bearing needle at the other end of the line to follow the course taken by the needle at the sending end, thus reproduc- ing the picture as rapidly as it was traced. But the mechanism was too delicate and intricate to be reliable, and so the contriv- | ance was abandoned. Mr. Willoughby’s invention, used in the | CALL to-day for the first timre in a newspa- per, is evidently infallible, and is so simple and so utterly independent of electrical engineering that it is bound to be sacces; ful. That the inventor isa San Francis- can, and that his invention appears first in a San Francisco paper, isa matter of par- ticular interest. AN UNUSUAL QUARANTINE. At the third annual California State San- itary Convention, held in this City Mon- day afternoon, one or two speakers urged thdt a quarantine be created which shall keep consumptives out of California. The two objections urged against these unfort- unates were that they imposed a burden on local taxpayers, and that they consti- tuted a menace to the health of sound resi- dents. One of the speakers made the decla- ration that “in the County Hospital of Los Angeles nine-tenths of the patients are non-resident consumptives from the East.” It was further urged that the presence on trains of persons so afflicted was dangerous to other travelers. These assertions all may be accepted as rue, for they have been made by gentle- men belonging to one of the noblest of pro- fessions. But the whole subject is very broad, and to its consideration all possible wisdom and patience should be brought. As a major premise, it is conceded that some parts of California offer an approxi- mate natural cure for consumption and other tuberculous or inflammatory dis- orders of the respiratory organs. But the areas in which the best results may be ex- vected are narrowly defined. They cer- tainly are not to be fouhd anywhere near the coast; and though the climate of Los i Angeles is more beneficial in such cases than that of places nearer the coast, still Los Angeles is by no means the best place in California for consumptives. . The temptation for them to live there is the beauty of the city and the medical, social, business and other superior advantages which may there be found. It is hard to understand, however, how pauper con- sumptives, who become a charge on the residents, could have found the means of coming from the Eastern States for the purpose of living at Los Angeles. Far better than Los Angeles for con- sumptives, and far better’ than any other part of the State, i3 the Colorado Desert, which stretches from San Gregorio Pass in California far to the eastward of the Colo- rado River in Arizona. In that region lie Palm Springs, Inyo, Yuma and other settled communities, Yuma particularly being a town enjoying all the necessary 1 conveniences of a city. At Palm Springs there is a large hotel equipped for the care of every manner of invalid, with an able resident physician at hand, and at Inyo are adequate accommodations. All this means to say that those con- sumptives who come to California for the benefit of the climate and choose any spot outside the Colorado Desert, whether in California or Arizona, most likely do so through ignorance of what is best for them. This should serve as a suificient suggestion to the State Board of Health and the Sani- tary league as to the work of education that it is certainly their privilege, if not their duty, to perform. A part of this work might be the promotion of isolated senitariums on the desert for the care of these unfortunates. A most excellent ground for such a movement would be the familiar knowledge that such institutions, equipped with able specialists and estab- lished in a climate which has been known to work almost miraculous cures, would be far more efficacious in the treatment of such cases than the open hazard which any California city would present. The altrurian phase of the matter hardly need be considered. Yet, while all na- tions, Btates and municipalities erect un- questioned safeeuards against the intro- duction of malignant contagious and in- fectious diseases it has never been the rule to exelude diseases, the spreading of which can be prevented by simple hygienic means. Consumption belongs to this class of ailments, and hence, that civilization which would quarantine it must, by so doing, confess its inability to understand and apply the simple preventives against its communication which are known. Apart from this feature of the case is the larger one of a common duty to help others where we may do so with reasonable safety urselves. All these considerations are weighty and deserve the most generous attention. THE OIVIC FEDERATION. | There is abundant work in San Fran- cisco for a Civic Federation and abundant reasons why such an association should be organized to undertake it. The elements of the City that tend toward evil are always more or less combined, and any movement that tends to form a union of the better elements of the City is distinctly good. Civic federations have verformed im- portant work in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia, and have achieved notable successes in several smaller cities. These ‘T achievements attest the value of such or- | ganizations under right leadership, and | there can be little doubt that by pursuing | similar methods results equally beneficial may be obtained here. The whole secret of the success attained | by such organizations seems to be that of | a division of labor so far as investizating evils is concerned, and a unity of labor in carrying out any remedial plan. The as- | sociation is divided into sections, each of | which is charged with some particular | work. In that way every department of | civic life is covered, and every member of the association is able to devote himself to | the work that is most congenial to him. | When, however, any course of policy has | been decided upon, the whole association acts together, each section having the sup- port of all the others, and is endowed, | therefore, with a far greater force than it | could possibly have alone. Of course, any mode of bringing good, upright, intelligent men into actual touch | with all departments of municipal affairs | is bound to be more or less beneficial. It | has long been a subject of remark by erit- ical foreigners who visit this country that | many of the best business men in Ameri- can communities are so lacking in local | patriotism they take no part in the| management of public affairs. That this criticism has been only too well founded | no one can deny. Fortunately a change is | coming over our people in that respect. | Good men are coming to the front in | munleipal politics in this City as well as elsewhere. We have seen a proof of this in the defeat of the bituminous rock &r- dinance, and the strength of public senti- ment which sustains the Mayor and the four Supervisors who were instrumental in defeating it affords assurance that whatever the Civic Federation may do for the public welfare will not lack for ap- proval and support. PUSHING THE WORK. The work of advancing the San Joaquin railroad goes bravely on. The directors are losing no time in the work, but are préssing forward the preliminary arrange- ments with a rapidity that promises to make the construction of the road one of the marvels of speed in American enter- prise. It is'but a short time ago that the project existed only as a plan in the minds of a few far-seeing men, but already it has assumed aform in which there i much of actual accomplishment as to assure the future. From the tone of the meeting of the directors on Monday it is evident the prompt work of the past will be continued without a break. Bids will soon be called for to supply ties, and possibly the plates, for the road, to be delivered in Stockton within sixty or seventy days. Director Upham is quoted as saying: “By that time the rails will be here from New York with spikes, locomotives and construction-cars, and building will be started right off. The 10,000 tons of rails, with all necessary ties and irons, will con- tinue to arrive in good time thereafter to keep the construction work going on steadily. We ought to have the road from Stockton to Bakersfield finished and in running order this year.” These are encouraging words. They give assurance that if only the right of way can be promptly obtained, the com- peting road will be realized for the San Joaquin much more speedily than was expected. It would be a grand festival to celebrate the opening of the new year in the great valley by an excursion on the new road. Bakersfield and Stockton could exchange the congratulations of the season under these circumstances with words of businessas well as of pleasure. Even without an excursion the day ot the opening of the road would be a notable one, and if the hope is realized of accom- plishing it this year California will have & just right to be proud of the newly awakened enterprise and energy of her people. NOT EQUIPPED FOR WORK. The recent frightful murders in this City have revealed the fact that the Morgue has no adequate mechanica! and chemical ap- pliances needful in such institutions. When a CALy representative inquired the weight of Blanche Lamont’s body he was amazed to discover that the Morgue had not even a pair of scales. As the girl’s weight, in view of the question as to whether her assassin had carried her up to the tower of a church, was an important | matter in the case, it would seem that some provision for weighing the body | money issue has a right to claim for itself all analyses have to be let to persons who are not City officers and therefore not bound by the oath and bond of office. Worse still, it was ascertained that the appropriation for this year for chemical analyses was only $300, and that the fixed price for a single analysis is $25. This all seems so absurd, childish and primitive that it is published with much hesitation. To say that such a condition of affairs is absolutely disgraceful would be dignifying the shame. It is conceivable that sach a Morgue so equipped might be suitable for a village, and that unotficial and inexperienced chemists might be will- ing to analyze the viscera of any corpse for $25. and might have the courage to swear that the analysis had been thorough; but certainly, as an adjunct of the ma- chinery organized to examine into the obscure and complicated crimes of a great city, the Morgue of San Francisco is a shameful burlesque, and the City is more disgraced by its presence than it could possibly be by the absence of any sort of a Morgue. STEWART ON COLEVELAND. Senator Stewart’s answer to Cleveland’s letter differs widely from the document that called it forth. The Senator has made use of none of those sonorous words of un- certain import with which the President’s letter was filled. He has written not with | vigor only, but with clearness also, and | meets Cleveland's yague declamation about | “sound money” and ‘‘safe currency’’ with a directness of statement that, to say the least of it, is refreshing by the contrast. The Senator very appropriately chal- lenges that vagueness in the President’s letter which the CaLy alluded to yesterday, and, addressing him directly, says: “You have excited the curiosity of the people by your frequent use of such phrases as ‘sound money’ and ‘safe currency,’ but you have ! never condescended to satisfy that curi- osity by stating what these terms mean. What is ‘sound money’ or ‘safe currency’? The people would like a definite answer, as they do not understand what you mean.”’ These words addressed to the President might be addressed to the gold-standard | advocates generally. For a long time now | the gold men have been endeavoring to prejudice the minds of the unwary against bimetallism by denouncing it asa debas_ed currency, an unsound money and a dis- honest dollar. They have also claimed a superiority of morals and of knowledge for themselves by loudly asserting their cham- vionship of honesty and solidity in finan- cial affairs. These lofty assnmptions can- not be allowed to pass unchallenged, and the Senator very justly calls attention to them as a part of the President’s letter which merits the severest condemnation. If either of the two great parties on the the exclusive honor of being the champion of integrity and honesty, it would be the bimetallists. Certainly they have not sought to debase any part of the money of the constitution as the gold-standard men have by demonetizing silver; nor have they sought to enrich one class at the ex- pense of another by inereasing the value of the coin in which all debts must be paid. As Senator Stewart forcibly says the gold men have disregarded not only the teachings of the fathers of the Republic, but have reversed the usages and customs | of the civilized world which have existed for thousands of years previous to 1873. They have destroyed one-hali the world’s metallic money and enhanced the value of the other half fully 100 per cent. They have compelled the debtor to surrender more than double the amount of property to liquidate his debts that the money he borrowed would have purchased at the time he incurred the obligation. This being the record of the two parties, it is certainly an impudent assumption on the part of any advocate of the gold stan- dard to refer to bimetallism as a scheme of financial debasement and dishonor; and even if the man who does it holds the high office of President of the United States, he should not be allowed to go unrebuked for his attempt to assist his own party by de- faming his opponent In demanding that British shipping shall be on a par with that of other nations in the matter of the Nicaragna canal, England is displaying the solicitude of a sealskinned woman who fears that the weather is going to be cold. EDITOR DE YOUNG AFLOAT. M. H. de Young, proprietor of the 8an Fran. clsco Chronicle, is on his way to Europe with his wife and children. He left New York Tues- day morning for Liverpool on the North Ger- man Lloyd steamship Havel. Mr. de Young did not go abroad to edit his newspaper permanently from foreign shores, after the manner of James Gordon Bennett. He was not in ill health nor scared out of the country by the income tax, but took the trip incidentally for pleasure, and chiefly that his children might have the advantage of learning French and German from those who speak it. The De Young youngsters will be kept abroad just long enough for them to grow to be pro- ficient lingulsts, and will be brought back in time to avoid learning to dislike their own country. Mr. de Young expects to be gone a year, with an intermission in November to attend the meeting of the National Republican Com- mittee, of which he is a member. Before leaving, the California editor took the opportunity to talk to his fellow publishers through The Fourth Estate. “Our newspaper world,” said Mr. de Young, “is moving toward perfection with marvelous strides, butin the evolution of the press I ex- pect to see some back stepping, which will put uson a firmer footing and the right road to the attainment of our ambition. “The papers are entirely too big. Anyone who has anything to do lacks thetime to read the papers through. In fact, busy men have to rely on one paper for their news. This was not true in the past. With smaller sheets it was possible for active men to view the world from dhe points of view of all the papers. Both they and the newspapers were better off. “White paperis now & matter of great mo- ment with the publishers, for we use so much that it is e terrifying item in the expense of production. A little more editing and con- densing will be a relief, not only to our pa- trons, but to our pocketbooks. 2 “The growth of newspaper illustration is sur- prising, and is setting the publishers of the weekly illustrated journals to severely serious thinking. If the daily press advances as rap- idly in the direction of liberal {llustration, as it haes recently, then the weeklies devoted partic- ularly to that sort of business will find them- selves without an occupation. ‘“Another factor in the ‘publishing world is the number of cheap, but splendidly illus- trated and carefully edited magazines. I can- not see how the older concerns can avoid re- ducing their price, unless the public re- mains true to their style of literature and faith- ful to old traditions. ‘It is stated that the business of the adver- tising agents is dull in New York. Thiscannot be true for along time, as my own'experience should prove. Mr. Elliott, my business man- ager, came East recently without the idea of soliciting advertisements. He met old friends, and incidentally was handed advertising con- tracts amounting to $30,000. “In addition to this other advertisers asked for rates, and, getting them, assured us of con- tracts still larger than those I have mentioned. ought to have been at hand. Its absence may prove a serious obstacle to justice. Further inquiry revealed the fact that the Morgue has no microscope, the need of which was urgently required in the case of Minnie Williams. It was learned alsothay there is no chemical laboratory, and that “The Coest has grasped the importance of the linotype. There will be shipped to the Chronicle this week thirteen regular and one head-line machine. My contémporaries will also use the linotype. The newspapers near the Pacific are in the march of progress and do ;:f_ bring up the rear.’—New York Fourth Py ; AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “In all my experfence 1 had but one eriminal threaten me_for the sentence I passed upon him,” said Judge Rising in the Palace Hotel yesterday, in answer to a question bearing on that point. “It was in Nevada in the early days, and I had sentenced a rascal named ‘Rattlesnake Dick’ to thirteen years at hard labor for beating & companion on the head with & bottle. When he leit the courtroom he remarked that he would kill me as soon as he got out. Do you see the animus of the fellow, huh?” an expression which is characteristic of the Judge. “Well, to shorten the story, the Board of Pardons released him after a few years of his term had been served, and some friends in- JUDGE RISING. [Sketched from life for the “Call” by Nankivell. formed me that he was coming to Virginia to carry ont his threat, huh? Sure enough, the next day just about the time I was adjourning court for the noon hour in walked Dick. He seated himself outside the railing and looked at me with a bad eye, huh? When I left my chair, instead of going to the right, as was my custom, I walked to the left toward the Sheriff and requested him to lend me a derringer, which he did, huh? “I placed it in my pocket, where it could be reached with rapidity, and walked down the aisle in the direction of the fellow, with my eye straight on him, huh? As I approached he rose from his chair, and I inquired what he wanted. “«Judge, he sald, T am peaceful.’ ««Well, what do you want, then? “Nothing particular, only I just gotout of the penitentiary and if you could spare it I wonld like to borrow ten.’ Huh? “I was really thunderstruck at the fellow’s audacity. Iknew if he got his bands on any money that he would have to be jailed again before sunset,so Irefused. Huh? I ordered him to walk downstairs ahead of me and saw to it that he made a straight line from B street down toC and out over the Geiger grade. That was the lastIever saw of Rattlesnake Dick, and I have no doubt he was glad of it, for I heartily believed that he thought very little of me, huh?” “Is it usual for crimnals to threaten the Judge who passes sentence upon them?”’ “No. Most men realize that the facts, the lawand the jury are the things that lead to their conviction and begin to look upon the Judge as & person placed there for the purpose of executing authority vested in him as a magistrate. It is plain law and nothing else, huh?” Judge Rising was elected District Judge of Nevada for a succession of terms covering thirty yearsand one month, the longest occu- pancy of any one elective office on record in the United States. All the Judge had to do was to declare himself a candidate and he led the ticket. Many times he had no opposition. ‘Few people are aware that a womanonce sat on the Supreme bench in California,” said ex-Secretary of State Thomas Beck at the Palace Hotel last night. A look of incredulity over- spread the features of his listeners. “It is & fact, nevertheless,” continued Mr. Beck. ‘It was in—; well, never mind the year, but I was then Secretary of State and court was beéing held in Sacramento. Judge Wallace was on the bench, and among those in the capital city during the session was Colonel Shafter and & number of his officers. The colonel was ac- companied by his daughter, & very young, bright and bandsome miss. “One morning at the breakiast-table in the Golden Eagle Hotel Justice Wallace said: *Miss Shafter, I feel quite slighted. Since you have been in Sacramento you have not deigned to visit me. Won’t you come up this morning and sit with us in pank? My colleague, Judge Crocker, is absent, and you might as well oc- cupy his seat.” ““‘Oh, yes, I'll come,’ returned Miss 8hafter, and the subject was dropped, and I am sure Judge Wallace never dreamed that the invita- tion would be accepted. ‘“‘About an hour afterward Miss Shafter, ac- companied by one of the officers on her father's staff, came into my office and said thatshe wanted to go to the Supreme Court. Would I take her? Withpleasure. And away we went. A young attorney was arguing a case when we entered the court. He did not notice us as we quietly seated ourselves, and went on with most brilliant eloquence. Judge Wallace laid his hand on the armof the empty chair and nodded to my companion to take it. «'Shall I go up? ghe asked of me. “‘Why, certainly,’ I responded. ‘It would be discourteous to the bench not to do so.’ “She hesitated a little, but as Judge Wallace regarded her with & smiling invitation and patted the chair provokingly, she arose and firmly, and with the grace of & queen, walked up the aisle to the platiorm. The judges arose and gravely bowed. Wallace stepped forward and, extending his hand, escorted her to the vacant seat, and each justice was presented in turn and shook the tiny hend of their dainty assoclate. Miss Shafter was quite equal to the oceasion, and bowing to the standing audi- ence, took ber seat and let the case proceed. That young attorney, though, lost his head and afterward lost his case. Whether he wished to make an impression on the new as- sociate, or whether the strangeness of the pro- ceedings fattled him, I never learned, but he got badly tied up in his peroration. “What did Judge Wallacedo? ‘Why, at din- ner that evening he conferred with the new judge and insisted upon her occupying a seat on the bench nextday. After dinner he asked me to take & walk with him. ‘Beck,’ said he, “if you bring that girl into court in the morn- ing, I'll have proceedings instituted to declare your position vacant.’” —_— SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. China will undoubtedly be a large purchaser of silver aiter the war ends. This is n:o of the reasons why that metalis advancing.—Marys- wville Appeal. It requires thirty-two janitors and costs over $27,000 & year to keep the Sen Francisco City Hall clean, and it isn’t kept very clean at that.—Stockton Record. ¥ With the successful man time is never reck- oned. A limited number of hours’ work each day may bring comfort and even com- petence, but never success. “Keeping ever- lastingly at it” is the secret of many & man’s prominence in his business or profession.—San Diego Union. The CALL advises people to fight the income tax, but it would hardly be fair when the thing is down and has most of the stuffing kicked out of it.—Fresno Republican. One of the people’s needs.is home rule in taxation—the right to raise ourshare of taxes, school, Government, State, county, city and town, s we see fit. In possessing this right better government would be possible.—Pendie- ton Oregonian. Argentina is offering a field for the sale of California agricultural implements, and Stock- ton will supply the demand. The city by the slough got the valley road because of its enter- prise, and the same spirit has set it at work constructing harvesters for the farmers in the South American republie.—San Jose Mercury. The CALL fs urging the construction of a boutevard to connect San Francisco and San Jose, the building of & railroad to tap the Humboldt country, and of another railroad along the coast from San Francisco to Santa Cruz. Each of these schemes is an excellent one, and will undoubtedly be carried to a suc- cessful conclusion in the future.—Sante Clara Index. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. “So the insolent fellow refused to pay his rent?’ ‘““He did not say so in words, but he in- timated it “How s0?" “He kicked me down- stairs.—Le Figaro. 01d Subseriber—Do you have an astronomer to write those astronomical articles you're run- ning in your paper? Editor—Why, certainly not. Why should we when we have space writers of our own to do it—Roxbury News, “Mudge, don’t you think it would be a good thing for you to practice some economy?’ “Can’t do it. No gentleman can go lugging a bottle around all day.”—Indianapolis Journal. “Any of your boarders left you, Mrs. Hash- croft?” asked the butcher. “Your meat bill this week ain’t more than two-thirds what it usually is.” “No, there haven’t any of them left yet,” said the landiady. “But I've gota new boarder who uses scented bair-ofl.”—Cin- cinnati Tribune. Mrs. Toogood—I don’t see why it is that men find so much pleasure in such a brutal busi- ness as prize-fighting. Broken-face Bill—I don’t see how we can help it, lady; the women is crowdin’ us men out of all the professions, and there ain’t nothing else fer us to do. That’s the only reason I'm in it, lJady.—Rox- bury (Mass.) Gazette. “No,” said the gentleman from Boomville, T wouldn't like to brag about the invigorating quality of the atmosphere out our way, but I will simply cite that & feller in our town is making & good living by compressing it, and sending it East to bicycle-riders to use in filling their tires. It has such elastic and lively qualities that the speed of the machine is in- creased from 40 t0 80 per cent.”—Cincinnati Tribune. “Well,” ¢aid Mr. Sorkins, “I've quit worryin’ about the fate of the country and the destiny of our present social system, and things.” “Have you solved sll the problems?’ “No, I haven’t solved any of ’em. But my daughter Minerva Jane will be at work on her graduating essay pretty soon, and I guess I may as well make my mind easy and find out all about it when she gets through."—Washington Star. UP TO DATE IDEAS, To the Editor of the San Francisco Call : In the CatLof the 2d and 8thinst. you published cuts of snlkies and saddles for speeding horses. Allow me to submit a design more on the humane plan, which is as follows: The rig is to be & cart with the axles bent so that the horse is directly under it. The driver sits in front, and other passengers sidewise on seats running lengthwise over the horse's back. There is, of course, a steering apparatus and also an arrangement with a wide band under the horse, so that in going down hill the animal can be lifted bodily off his feet and given a rest while the whole party coasts. And the lifting machine comes into good use if the horse tries to run away, as a turn of the crank leaves him working his legs in the air to no purpose whatever. Yours respectfully, M. C. JoNEs. Sacramento, April 16, 1895. e Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay streot. * ———— STRONG hoarhound candy,15¢1b. Townsend’s.* T GEORGE W. MONTEITH, law offices, Crocker B building. ———— ONLY experienced men employed in our fur- niture-moving department. Morton ) Delivery. Phnna,l;n:in.w. ml“ ——— A man who is hyfinctized and kept asleep for a week in full view of the pubiic is one of the attractions of the London Royal Aquarium. BILIOUSNESS is caused by torpidity or inaction of the liver. As a liver regulator and stimulant Hood’s Pills are unequaled. They act without griping or causing pain, promptly and efficiently. —————— AqE tends to kill the hair and turn it gray. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM renews color and life. PARKER'S GINGER TONIC the best cough cure. e e b “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup’ Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth ers for their children while Te-thing with perteot success. It soothes the child, softeus the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Disrrhwas, whethet arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 25c a bottle. : ————— A Paris doctor the effect of liquors on the voice states that none of the great singers have ever been teetotalers. - Wine, taken in modera- tion, he believes is useful for the voice, but beer thickens it and makes it guttural. Malibran used to drink Madeira, Take No Substitute.. 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LAKE STREE 82:8| |32 % 56‘;—23"25;25 zs-isi e ||| |11 [g 120 120 £ & S | (8 e olg i % |5 sl % ] I3 G > |8 Bl 2 | g =8 5= & la ol B el | S A8 IR 8 ! B3 ‘ 8 = 8 | LG = ‘ 2 2 - [ J E - S . 120 120 E] B e s | L ‘ | g u:oveshjln_zs 25|25 15| 82:8. CALIFORNIA STREET. Streets sewered and macadamized. Lots ready to build on, Callfornia-street cars pass. _Sutro electric-cars within one block. FOR SALE BY MADISON & BURKE, 626 Market Street. A LADIES' GRILL ROOK Has boen established in the Palace Hotel ACCOUNT OF REPEATED DEMANDS ‘ltement. It takes the piace p%mm i service such as have given the n:z?:rm Grillroom an internati tatior 1 this new depariment. P IHO% Will proval blace to lunch. |