The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 4, 1895, Page 6

6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DATLY CALL—#6 per year by mail; by carrier, 15c per week. SUNDAY CALL—$1.50 per year. WEERKLY CALL-—#1.50 per year. The Eastern ofice 0f the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Burcau, Rhinelander bullding, Rose and Duane stree! MAY 4, 1895 Don't forget the roses. There is pleasure at the flower show. Street improvements are always in order. Japan may yield to Russia now, but she will see her later. Festivals of flowers never fail to yield good fruit of some kind. Remember that this is the day to leave orders for the Sunday CaLL. Lower freight rates on fruit are among the brightest prospects of the season. Ttis too late in the year for the great strike of coal-miners to induce a frost. The man who wishes to own the earth is never willing to assist in improving it. If nature abhors a vacuum the mind of 8 silurian must be regarded as unnatural. To Comptroller Eckels’ mind the only “sound” money is that which has the ring of gold. As the Cuban insurgents have gained a victory it is in order to speak of them as revolutionists. Eastern papers exult in baseball and open streetcars, but still complain that the strawberry is haggard and sour. The recent irequent killing of desper- edoes will probably serve as a check to dime-novels and sensational newspapers. A pavement of basalt blocks set in con- crete would be a great advance on such blocks with a roving commission in sand. If present prospects hold good the Dem- ocratic party will vanish from National politics in 1896 in a whirlwind of faction fights, It will not be until irrigation has been generally resorted to that horticulture in California can free itself from meteorologi- cal moods. While we are building railroads and holding flower shows the Eastern people are talking politics; but ours is the most politic plan. Connecticut Democrats propose to hold a State convention for the purpose, we infer, of trying to find out what Cleveland meant by sound money This is getting to be a pretty hard age when “Romeo and Juliet,” the prettiest love story ever written, is deemed a fitting subject for burlesque. It would be a great misfortune to ap- point as Health Officer any man who can- not come into the official post with a clean bill of political health. It is a good sign of the times that the old familiar phrase about the ‘“‘maintenance of parity’” has lost its efficacy as a dodge on the silver question. As Buffalo desires to entertain the next Republican National Convention, the inference is she wishes to atone for intro- ducing Cleveland into politics. In retiring from Corinto with a promise that Nicaragua will pay the indemnity de- manded, the British may be said to retire with everything except honor. Although the mines of Trinity County are yielaing handsomely, we can imagine Low they would boom if Eureka had a railroad to San Francisco Bay. There are probably a good many persons who are opposed to cremation through some kind of instinct that fire after death is not a very comfortable thing. In the presence of the war which is raging at Berkeley the little affairs in the Orient, Nicaragua and Cuba assume the pallor of a firefly in the presence of the sun. In flooding the country around Peking to prevent the possible advance of the Jap- anese, the Chinese have given a literal ful- fillment to the expectation that they would take water. Great Britain may as well take notice that the Monroe doctrine may be allowed to sleep during this administration, but under the next it will comé forth like a giant refreshed by his slumbers. The latest British project for making money in Egyptis to construct worksat the cataracts of the Nile to generate power and transmit it electrically to mills adja- cent to the Egyptian cotton-fields. The strong efforts and persistent work required to bring the next Republican Na- tional Convention to San Francisco afford a good opportunity for all sections of the State to practice working together. After we have learned how profitably to extract the gold that so richly impregnates the black sand of the Pacific Ocean beach, the next task will be to extract the gold which exists so abundantly in the water of the ocean itself. Now that there is prospect of Bohemia securing a permanent jinks ground in Redwood Canyon, on the Throckmorton ranch, it is sincerely hoped that when the Bohemian owl is placed under the mystic spell of this wonderful forest it may ac- quire sufficient courage to oven its other eye. The relations between bicycle-owners and those customs collectors who think that owners of the machines ought to pay a duty when bringing them into the United States are so cool that the ocean itself is likely to solve the problem at .any time by freezing and thus presenting a bicycle highway. The remote origin of the great beds of placer gold that may be traced so fardown the Pacific Coast may always remain a mystery, but the recent great discoveries of gold in place in the Yukon region of Alaska and our knowledge of the existence of glaciers which, in past years, crept far southward from the frozen north, may serve to indicate that Alaska is the goose that laid the train of golden eggs all the way down the Pacific, and that the gentle creature has kept her finest eggs in the original nest. A COMPETING PAVEMENT. The action of the Btreet Committes of the Board of Supervisors in directing the Superintendent of Streets to prepare speci- fications for a pavement consisting of basalt blocks laid in concrete is another evidence of a genuine desire for improved pavements. This method has been long in use by some of the cable lines for paving the space between the rails. Citizens who are desirous of observing the great difference between blocks so laid and those resting loosely on sand have only to glance at Sut- ter street, which is but one of the thor- oughfares that has been so treated. Be- tween the rails the blocks are smooth, level and immovable, and the rest of the street is abominably uneven. Further, no repairs of that part of the pavement lying between the rails are ever necessary; it is indestructible and will last until it is worn through; and many years are required for that, as basalt is the hardest and most durable stone employed for pavements, granite not excepted. Laid in concrete, with care taken to leave as smooth a sur- face as that which the cable companies leave, it is incomparably superior to loosely laid blocks, and undoubtedly is more economical in the end. In all pavements which have concrete for a base there is always the trouble which the occasional necessity for cutting through it presents. This has been done now and then to reach underground pipes, conduits and sewers. Evidently basalt blocks laid in cement would make a pavement rather difficult to cut, but it is conceivable that a machine could be devised which might lift it by employing powerful leverage. This difficulty of cutting through a pave- ment having a concrete base was thor- oughly canvassed when Boss Shepard was laying the splendid pavement in Pennsyl- vania avenue, Washington City, and again when London and Paris were constructing their asphalt pavements. The decision was made that the extra cost of cutting through such a pavement was altogether insignificant when compared with the economy of the pavement itself, and that injury to the pavement could be avoided by cutting the trench with sloping sides like a V and refilling it with fresh con- crete, which would form a perfect union with the edges of the cut. It is presumed that these expectations were fulfilled. The ideal pavement, used largely in European cities, is a continuous concrete base about eight inches thick, on which rests an asphalt surface about two inches thick. Sometimes ‘a cushion of softer asphalt is introduced between the concrete and the top dressing of asphalt. The asphalt used in Europe is the true asphalt, brought largely from Lake Trinidad, and is first refined and then mixed with pul- verized granite. The bituminous rock of California is a different product, but, properly handled, is fully as good and vastly cheaper, and its most remarkable feature is that it generally is found properly mixed. In streets cut longitudinally by cable conduits we are presented with a condition that complicates the task of laying a con- crete pavement. It isin the arch of the pavement that much of the strength of a concrete pavement resides, and unless the pavement between the tracks of the cable road can be made to serve as the keystone of the arch a pavement with a concrete base in such a street might prove a disap- pointment. In all these matters the great principle is this: The best pavement is the cheapest. THE SUNDAY “(QALL.” The salient literary feature of the Sunday CarL to-morrow will be ‘““The Wonderiul | Clock of Toulon,” by W. C. Morrow. It is a detective story of crime and mystery involving a marvelous mechanism in whose cogs and wheels there dwelf some- | thing of the immortal soul of the maker that endowed them with a ghostly power | and rendered the clock not only a precious heritage to the family but a guardian of | its integrity. An article of a personal and scientific nature dealing with a subject of sufficient novelty to be regarded as a matter of news of world-wide interest, is an interview with Professor William Ramsay, one of the dis- coverers of the new element in our at- mosphere, to which has been given the name of Argon. Norecent achievement in chemistry has been more remarkable than the discovery of this elusive element, and the article in the Sunday CaLy, in addition to the information it gives about Professor Ramsay, might be called a chapter from | the romance of science. It may be doubted if any journalistic articles of recent date have attracted more attention or won more favor than the series of *“Idyls of the Field,” which for some time past have been running in the Sunday Caun. These papers, giving graphic descriptions of insect and bird life, are not only interesting as quaint bits of | literature, but are also full of information | valuable to all who are interested in natu- ral history. The paper that appears to- morrow deals with birds common in this section of California, and will be found entertaining from the first line to the last. In addition to its literary features the Sunday CALL contains all the news of the day, and while giving due attention to foreign affairs, makes a specialty of Pacific Coast events and contains an elaborate record of all local happenings. Regular departments of the paper contain reviews of the l::cst books, a summary of science and art and answers to inquiries upon a wide variety of subjects. Altogether, the Bunday Cary is one of the best family newspapers in the world and should not only find a place in every California home, but should be extensively circulated in‘the East as a means of advertising the State. THE DETROIT SPEECHES, 1t is significant of the predominance of the money issue over all other problems now before this country that the dis- patches containing reports of the speeches made at the Deiroit banquet on Thursday evening were devoted almost exclusively to the speech of Comptroller Eckels on the currency and that portion of Chauncey Depew’s speech which referred to the same subject. It is also significant that neither Mr. Eckels nor Mr. Depew, both of whom are advocates of the gold standard, saw fit to deal fairly with the issue or to discuss the question on its merits, Mr. Eckels, in describing the claims of the bimetallists, said: *‘Their demand to- day, interpreted in the light of their acts, is that the United States shall at once abandon its present standard of valne and substitute therefor, irrespective and with- out the co-operation of any other conntry, a single silver standard. Nowhere is there promise given of an attempt, through international agreement, to make every dollar of silver which shall be coined the equal in value of every dollar of gold which comes in the mint and fairly inter- changeable therewith. Mr. Depew said: “The United States is a debtor—National, municipal, railway and individual—to the extent of about fourteen billions of dollars. Of this one-third is held abroad. A well-defined policy to pay our debts at 75 cents or at 50 cents on three thousand millions of dollars of our securities coming home for us to take: There can be but one standard of value. A dollar must be worth 100 cents anywhere in the United States and 100 cents any- where in the world.” £ It is not pleasant to say of distinguished and eminent men that their words are silly, and yet it would be difficult to find any other epithet that would so fitly de- scribe these utterances. The statement of Mr. Eckels that the bimetallists demand that the United States shall go upon & single silver standard is false. Itis true they do not seek an international agree- ment to make every dollar in silver equal in value to every dollar in gold. They would be foolish to do so. The dollar is an American coin, and no international agreement can affect it one way or the other, unless we chose to surrender our financial independence. Moreover, to seek to make a silver dollar equal to a gold dol- lar in value by legislation would be simply to maintain the system of the gold stand- ard which we have now, and against which the bimetallists are protesting. 1f it were possible to carry absurdity further than Mr. Eckels, Mr. Depew would have done it. The talk about a 50-cent dollar is a contradiction of terms. Every dollar contains 100 cents. Nor does the fact that we owe Europe something over four billions of dollars, as Mr. Depew esti- mates, constitute a convincing argument why we should not act independently of Europe, if we feel like doing so. We did not ask permission of Europe to demone- tize silver, and why should we ask per- mission to remonetize it ? TO0 CHECOK INEBRIETY. Dr. W. J. Gavigan's assertion that “dipsomania and coufirmed inebriety, whether inherited or acquired, are phy- sical disorders, and as such require physical rather than moral means alone for their relief,” will probably not pass unchal- lenged by those great moral agencies which aim at & cure of a kind other than or in addition to physical restraint. Dr. Gavigan has earned the deepest gratitude of the community for having conceived and carried to a successful issue the Legis- lative enactment providing a home for in- ebriates under the control of the Board of Health, for the scandals which have risen out of the private treatment of such cases in the past were most deplorable, and the | new scheme, which he has done so much to promote, is an immeasurable advance upon the old. It will be cheerfully granted, too, that physical restraint may always be useful; but any insistence that physical rather | than moral means must be depended upon assails the very foundation of right conduct as based on the exercise of a will that has been educated by moral forces. A discussion of this phase of treating drunkenness has been rendered all the more timely by the ruling of an Eastern Judge that Dr. Keeley, the inventor of the “Keeley cure,” must disclose the formula of his “bichloride of gold”—a product which the ordinary chemist must hold his breath even to hear mentioned. The con- stitution of the “Keeley cure” compound is pretty well understood in medical cir- cles and the belief there is that certain drastic nervines, including strychnine, veratrim and some others, are employed, which produce so radical a rearrangement of the nerve cells as temporarily to dis- organize to a certain extent any nerve habit to which the system may have been addicted. At the same time, however, the value of the imagination in prolonging the abstention—the operation, in other words, of a “moral force’’—has been regarded as the most valuable of the *‘gold cure’s” con- stituents. Aside from this, one of the oldest and ac- cepted beliefs is that drunkenness is a neurosis, and that all neuroses are amen- able to a greater or less degree to what we term ‘‘moral agencies.” Thus, wonderful cures of certain kinds have undoubtealy been affected by many agencies which' approach and affect the nervous system in a manner analogous to that by which nerve habits acquire con- trol. This is the scientific explanation of faith cures, and also of the hypnotic in- fluence, whose efficacy within certain lim. tations is undeniable. Experts in the treatment of the manifold forms of hysteria are aware of its force. In addi- tion to all this is the generally accepted belief that a strong religious faith acts as a powerful deterrent against an inclination to indulge in the grosser vices. The only point that we desire to make in this matter is that the new institution for the treatment of inebriates should not ignore the efficacy of moral influences in the treatment of drunkenness. Simple physical restraint from access to alcohol almost inevitably means a return toalcohol when the restraint is removed. The im- planting of moral force which shall not persist beyond the exercise of the physical restraint offers to the wise and humane physician the highest opportunity for the application of the broadest scientific knowledge. FEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Signor Demetrio Alata, & telegraph operator in Milan, claims to have invented a method of transmitting musical notation by wire. Baint-Saens has been making an extensive tour of the far East, and it is likely that he will give the world some Orientalized music in the near future. General Trochu, the military governor of Paris during the siege of that city in 1871, is reported to be very fecbte and near his end. He is living in retirement at Tours, M. Jules Verne, though in his 79th year, ‘works for five or six hours a day. He 1s now engaged upon a story for 1897, but he has five meanuscripts ready for the printers. Mrs. Castellane’s income is & paltry 8500,000 a year, and on this miserable pittance she and herhusband must subsist or go to the poor- house. Everybody in this world has t;ouhlem The King of Italy is credited with dispensing more charity than any other of the crowned heads of Europe. And he has probably a larger percentage of subjects who need charitableaid. There are at present no less than fifty-eight ‘persons awaiting trial at Berlin on charges of lese majeste, their crime consisting in having dared to criticize unfavorably the Kaiser's “Hymn to Aegir.” King Humbert has laid the cornerstone of & monument to Garibaldi on the Janiculum at Rome, which it is hoped will be ready for the 29th of September, the twenty-fifth anniver- sary of the recovery of Rome to Italy. £ Prince Blucher von Wahlstatt, the heir of old Marshal “Vorwaerts,” is to marry Princess ‘Wanda Radziwill, & cousin of the Count de Castellane, who married Miss Gould, and a dis- tant cousin of Emperor William. Rudyard Kipling's father. John Lockwood Kipling, proposed to his mother, Alice Macdon- ald, on the shore of Rudyard Lake, England, and was accepted. The author was named Rudyard in honor of that romantic episode. Muskogee, Venita and Tahlequah are all striving for the honor of furnishing a place ot residence to ex-Congressman Springer, Judge of the new United States Court in Indian Terri- tory, on the theory that the successful town will become the metropolis of the district. There are private reports that Huxley is dangerously ill and not likely to recover. His bealth was poor during all the winter, and des- pite the mildness of Eastbourne he seecms not 10 have escaped the bronchisl the dollar would lead to two thousand or ‘which, upon the heels of a long frost, have well- Sivastaed Engtana, " ot bave wellnigh AROUND THE CORRIDORS. 1t 18 said that Ysaye is a great man for sport and the life of the Bohemian. He is particu- larly fond of outdoor sports, such as fishing and hunting, and has done considerable of the former since his arrival in this country. While in Washington, D. C., Vice-President Stevenson took him over into Virginis, where they had great success in catching the king of gamy fish, the speckled trout. A cousin of the Vice-President, by the way, is the United Btates Embassador at Brussels, which is-the home ot Ysaye, and he with his secretary drew the contract with Messrs. Johnston and Arthur which brought the noted virtuoso to this country. 1t was through the Embassador that Ysaye met the Vice-President. Ysaye has expressed a desire to go fishing along some of the streams of California, and 8 few of hisad- mirers have arranged a trip which will go into the annals in red as a fishing story when the tales of their catch are told. s Ysaye is one of the merriest of men. During his visit in America he has acquired enough English—particularly American slang—to carry on ordinary conversation, but, like all for- eigners, our idioms are not easy for him, and he frequently says things better left unsaid. His friend and manager, R. E. Johuston,is always on the lookout for his mistakes, and is ever correcting him. Ysaye's traveling costume is of Belgian ori- gin, baggy and very suggestive of Castle Gar- den. He is simple in his dress, and when traveling is always looking for lunch counters where he can buy apple pie, of which he is very fond. Once when passing through Indianapolis from New York to St. Louis there was a delay of over an hour. Ysaye invited all the colored porters working around the depot to eat pie with him, an inyitation which they accepted in the spirit in which it was given. Ysaye is much interested in the colored people, having seen but one before his arrival in this country. The porter on a Pullman car remembers his trip with Ysaye for a month afterward. The violinist is coming here with the anticipation of having & good time, and it 18 believed he will have it. He has heard much of the Chinese quarter and will be a most in- terested spectator, when the jolly party that has been formed to do the honors take bim there and show the sights. He 18 to take this trip the evening of his arrival. Captain C. N. Sperry, sttorney for the re- ceivers of the Atlantic snd Pacific Railway, was speaking of the possibilities of that road making a connection with San Francisco through the Valley road or otherwise. He said: ““Of the three overland roads, the Central Pacific, the Southern Pacific and the Atlantic and Pacific, ours, it seems to me, is the best for transportation of fruit owing to the fact that it is comparatively free from dust, particularly that terrible alkali dust that you encounter along the Humboldt in Nevada. I know that many people have the impression that in summer the further morth they cross the better on account of the heat, but while itis hot enough for 500 miles crossing the Mojave Desert the rest of the way over the Atlantic and Pacific is far superior to the Central Pacifie. Idon’tthink it is any warmer Cross- ing that short stretch over the Mojave Desert than through Nevada, but even if it is you are free from that infernal alkali dust and can ride with the car-windows open. The Atlantic and Pacific runs, except for a short distance, through country in Northern Arizonsa and on East of high altitude, and the trip is all through pleasanter in swmmer than on the Central Pacific and far better, of course, than the El Paso route. This will all be appre- ciated when the road has connections here and the Southern Pacific ceases to divert all traffic to the other routes.” M. H. Mead, who has lived most of his life in Sierra County end is interested in mines there, has great hopes for the mpining future of that county. “There are as good and as extensive mines here as in any other part of the State. The great trouble is the want of capital, ana the reason why capital has not gone there as freely as to other and adjoining counties is simply because we are a little out of the way snd too near home. That is not a paradox. If our mines were in Alaska or Mexico it would be no trouble to get up an excitement over them. However, our future is all right. One of the great advantages with our mines is that they can nearly all be worked with tun- nels without any hoisting. Then, of course, we have an abundance of timber and plenty of water.” PERSONAL. G. A. Puerschel of Visaliaisat the Occldental, J. McPike, a leading citizen of Napa, is at the Baldwin. T. J. Sherwood of the Marysville Appeal is at the Grand. Dr. George H. Jackson of Woodland is stay- ing at the Grand. Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Robertson of Livermore are at the Palace. W.F. Knox, s lumber merchant of Bacra- mento, is stopping at the Grand. D. L. Roscoe of the United States Coast Survey steamer McArthur is at the Baldwin. M. H. Alexander, one of the prominent at- torneys of Cincinnati, Ohio, is registered at the Pelace. J. Lounsperg of the big grocery firm of Acker, Merrill & Co., New York, is registered at the Palace. E. L. Jones of the Pittsfleld Iron Works of Pittsfield, Mass., registered at the Palace yes- terday. Sheriff W. C. Conroy of Placer County came down from Auburn yesterday and is stopping at the Russ. G.B. Edwards,vice-president of the Germania Fire Insurance Company of New York, top- ping at the Palace. T. M. Brown, who has been Bheriff of Hum- boldt County for many years, is in town and staying at the Russ. Edward Walden Jr., & vineyardist of Geyser- ville, and Mrs. Walden were among yesterday’s arrivals at the Occidental. James E. Mills, a mine-owner of Plumas County, and Mrs. Mills, have come down from Quincy and are registered at the Occidental. H. R. Gray, vice-president of the Hanover Fire Insurance Company of Chicago, and Mrs. Gray, arrived in the City yesterday and are registered at the Palace. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Billy, the Goat—That manuscript I just ate has given me an awful pain. Nanny—Yes, dearest; that's called writers' cramp.—Harper's Bazar. It doesn’t make any difference how good the theatrical business may be, the ballet girls always have to kick for their pay.—Philadel- phia Record. Tipple—Had you known your husband very long when you married him? Sibyl—What a foolish question! Do you think I'd have married hh’n if I had?—Truth. A Cincinnati firm exhibits & chicken with two pairs of eyes. The chicken with four pairs of drumsticks and no liver is familiar in every boarding-house.—New York Recorder. “Some men,” said Uncle Eben, “hab er way ob makin’ yer think dat yoh lacks in compre- hension, when de real fack is dat dey is con- cealin’ dah own ignunce.”—Washington Star. It is going the rounds of the press that the Sultan's expenses are $30,000,000 per annum. The press seem to forget that the gentleman has more than one wife living with him.— Houston Daily Post. Uncle Philander (standing before chewing- gum slot machine)—This here thine’s a cheat. I put my penny in all right, pushed the little Dizness an’ thet piece of gum come down inter sight, but here 1've been watchin’ an’ waitin’ half an hour an’ the gol darn jigger hasn't begun to chew it yet!—Pittsburg Dispatch. BacoX Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * e e PLAIN mixed candies, 10c 1b. Townsend’s.* e ‘WINE-DRINKING people are healthy. M. & K. wines, 5ca glass. Mohns & Kaltenbach. 29 Mkt.* e Dr. Levingston Pilloried By James H. Barry in this week’s Star. The paper literally teems with roasts of rogues. * ——————————— The accidental dropping of a fare into the slatted floor of a streetcar constitutes the legal payment of the fare. A PROGRESSIVE PAPER. We note with some degree of pleasure that the CaLL will construct a new publication nouse, to be located at the corner of Third and Market streets, in San Francisco. It will with- out doubt be constructed after the model of such buildings as were erected by the Tribune, Hersld and Times in New York, closely fol- lowed by the San Francisco Chronicle. We rejoice in this evidence of the permanency of the Call as one of the great leading journals of San Francisco, because its advent as the lead- ing metropolitan journal of the coast has already been fruitful of some salutary reforms. Notably among these is the new policy of the San Francisco press concerning the growth of the interior. Until the CALL established the precedent of writing up xrunlmus_ly the at- tractions offered by the various interior points, the San Francisco press did nothing in this relation withoutample pay. Wehave personal cognizance of an instance where a San Fran- cisco journal charged a town in the Sacramento Valley $1500 per page to describe its location, surroundings and commercial advantages. It is the testimony of the people of the village that they never heard from the publication; that it did not induce a single inquiry concern- ing their locality. The instinct for growth is so strong in new communities thata vast amount of money is always obtainable for the purposes of inducing immigration. Eastern publications have reaped & rich harvestout of this disposition. The New York Sun sentan agent to California instructed to give the State a general write-up for $150,000. After a diligent canvass he found it impracticable to secure a consensus of action concerning the State. It did succeed in securing write-ups of a few localities. The metropolitan press, both daily and weekly, have for the past twenty years found the write- up industry a prolific source of profit. The new management of the CALL placed its col- ums at the disposal of enterprising localities in the State free, and for the first time, therefore, in the history of journalism in this State the metropolitan press has manifested a laudable disposition to promote the growth and pros- perity of the territory supporting the City in which these publications are published. As the originator of this liberal policy, the CALL deServes well at the hands of the people of the Pacific Coast.— Sacramento Record- Union. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Tt 1s & shame to go abroad with ready cash in these stringent times to purchase an article that might be produced at home as well.— Eureka Nerve. We Americans go to Europe to spend our money on Continental pleasures. The titled nobility of Europe come to America for revenue only.—Visalia Times. By working together as a community more is accomplished in six months than in ten years of waiting for outstde capital to come in by reason of our “glorious prospects.”—Coronado Mercury. As a wise man’s day is worth a fool’s life, 50 are a few good, reliable, energetic men worth more to any community than as many hun- dreds of idle talkers. The former will have a worthy enterprise in active operation whils the latter are preparing a resolution setting forth its numerous advantages or hunting around to find somebody else to put the thing in motion.—San Diego Union. ‘When the poor man goes to buy coal oil that he may not be surrounded indarkness at night and finds that under the great Wiison free- trade tariff it has greatly advanced, the echoes of the Democratic stump-speaker’s voice rings in his ear. Of course the rise is due to combi- nations and trusts, but Cleveland, Wilson et al. were going to abolish all trusts with their little free-trade scheme. Rah!—Hanford Sentinel. San Francisco has at last begun to realize that to prosper herself the balance of the State must prosper. In order for her te reach the hali-million mark in population other localities must increase also. The recent visit of her Half-million Club to Los Angeles and other southern cities hes had a good effect, and we hope to see it extended. To increase our population and extend our prosperity the whole State must work together.—Winters (Cal.) Express. \ It is important that the people own all the stock of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad. If the stock has to be placed outside of the State then the earnings of the road will also go from us. With the stock held 1n California the earnings will be left here to invest in other enterprises. There is no doubt that the road will prove a paying investment, and noman can invest $100 to better advan- tage than in one share of the Valley road stock. Get your name down on the 11st before it is too late to invest.—Kings County Democrat. No single thing within the hope of accom- plishment will be fraught with such far-reach- ing andgenerally good effects as the capture of one or both of the great conventious for San Francisco. Every part of the West will partici- pate in the resultant benefits, and every part should contribute the weight of its influence to the movement to bring the conventions to the Pacific shores. With unity of action and earnestness of purpose we can win the prize.— Los Angeles Herald. 1t would be,impossible to srouse the San Joa- quin Valley to new vigor without also awaken- ing and benefiting the entire State. The bond between us all is close, and an absolutely selfish interest would be an impossibility. Give tnis central valley adequate and just transportation facilities and the impulse to new life would be felt from Siskiyou to S&n Diego. New, united end progressive California is a fact; it remains with her citizens to see to it that the spirit of enterprise is not ephemeral.—Fresno Repub- lican. In this vicinity our people take a greater pride inowning s big wheatfleld, off which they can make & fair living, than they doin owning a besutiful home and & small tract of 1and on which they might make just as much money. We must encourage the small farmer and fruit-grower, for he is the man we must look to to make the changes in the community which are desired. Unity of purpose and con- cert of action have wrought wonderful changes in Southern California, and they willdo like- wise for Merced.—Merced Sun. An effort is being made to secure the next Republican National Convention at San Fran- cisco. It istime the Pacific Coast was recog- nized with the location of a great political con- vention, and the citizens of Oregon should use every effort to assist in the consummationof the plan. While, of course, San Francisco and California would reap the great advertising results from the locationof agreat National convention, Oregon is sure to catch some of the crumbs that fall. Whatever benefits San Francisco and California also inures to the benetit of Oregon. For their interests are in a great measure identical. The press and politi- cal leaders of Oregon should use every pressure to secure the convention next year for this coast.—Oregon City Enterprise. —— EXPOSED BAD MEAT FOR SALE. Chinese Merchants Violate the Board of Health Laws. Two Board of Health Market Inspectore, Captain Hanson and William Weiss, re- ceived information yesterday which caused them to turn their steps in the direction of Chinatown. At the corner of Washing- ton street and Fish alley they found, at the store owned by Tuck Hing & Co., seventeen immature calves which are for- bidden to be exposed for sale. Going fur- ther to the store'of Lee Hop & Co., at 1009 Dupont street, they found another con- signment of eighteen in the possession of that firm. In the latter case the prohibited meat was found piled up in a back room. The two inspectors procured an express wagon and the meat was sent to the dead- horse factory. The maximum penalty for exposing such meat for sale is six months’ imprisonment or $500 fine. It is stated, however, that the laws re§ -ding such cases are in a very weak condition, afiow:n many loopholes through which the wily Celesti: make his escape. may His Thumb Crushed. Frederick Marsh, a pressman employed in the pressroom of the Pacific Paper and Box Com; y on Mission street, had the thumb of his Toft hand crushed in the press yenterday. He was taken to the Receiving Hosp! Dr. Deane amputated the thumb. [tal, where 10 FIGRT SWEATSHOPS, Union Cigar-Makers Will Meet in State Ct‘nventlon To-Day. CHANGE IN THE UNION LABEL Californla Products for California Consumption the Watch- word. Cigar-makers of California wiil meet in convention in the assembly hall of the International Cigar-makers’ Union No. 228, under Metropolitan Temple, at 1 ». M. to-day. The purpose of the convention is to systematize and more effectively unify the cigar-making industry of this State and of the Pacitic Coast. The cigar-makers want protection against the non-union labor and the “sweatshops” of the East, and they pro- pose to do all in their power to secure what they want. Every cigar-makers’ union in the State will be represented. There will be dele- gates from Sacramento, Oakland, San Jose, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco. The basis of representation is one delegate from each union and one for each fifty members over the fraction of fifty. This apportionment gives the number of dele- gates to the respective cities as follows: Sacramento 2, Oakland 2, San Jose 2, Los Angeles 2, San Diego 1, San Francisco 7. The convention will be called to order by M. L. Gable of International Union No. One of the main objects of the conven- tfon will be to form a State Label League in order to disseminate facts on the condi- tion of trade in California as against East- ern cigars. There is a proposition to change the present union label, so as to make it embrace all the unions on the Pa- i George W. Van Guelpen, secretary of the San Francisco union, said : “Itis very strange, but the cigar busi- ness is very much 5epressed in this City at the present time. San Francisco is to- day the best market in the United States for the sale of cigarsin proportion to pop- ulation. For the number of cigars con- sumed here there should be at least 5000 cigar-makers employed. And yet, as a matter of fact, there are only about 300 union cigar-makers employed in this city. Of that number there are continuously seventy or eighty out of employment, and :}m others are employed only a part of the ime. ' “The majority of cigars sold here are made in the sweatshops of New York, Cin- | cinnati and other Eastern cities, and the wretched tenement-house system fur- nishes a large quantity. These are some of the evils that the cigar-makers’ conven- tion hopes to do away with.’* SCALPING IS STOPPED. Railway Ticket Agents Sign an Agree- ment Binding Themselves to Main- tain Tariff Rates. The local railway ticket agents held a meeting yesterday in the Palace Hotel, and with a few exceptions signed an agreement binding themselves to maintain passenger rates on transcontinental tickets. C. H. Speers, assistant general passenger agent of the Santa Fe Company, occupied the chair, and F. F. Connors was secretary. Four companies were not represented at the meeting. They were the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western (John Fugazi, agent), the Denver and Rio Grande, Union Pacific and Canadian Pacific. Agent Sne- daker of the Rio Grande Western at- tended and signed the agreement, though he did not participate in the preliminary meetings, and it was thought that he would rermain out of the combination. As he came into the fold the Denver and_Rio Grande will follow, because the two lines act in harmony. The Delaware line is friendly disposed and will sign the agree- ment, but there the matter ends. Agent Sterns of the Canadian Pacific refuses to sign until D. W. Hitchcock of the Union Pacific unites with the majority, but as Hitehcock is firm in his refusal to join the association it is highly probable that two important companies will continue un- trammeled by an agreement on rates. The agreement is a very comprehensive document, covering all details of passen- ger business and leaving no loophole for escape of agents who break the rules. It states that the object of the association known as the ““San Francisco and Oakland Passenger Agreement,’ is to conduct the F ssenger traffic for which the several ines represented in the association com- ete at rates and commissions from time 0 time agreed upon, and to take no indi vidual action relative to any alleged di: turbance in rates or commissions without first bringing the matter to the attention of the association and securing action thereon by it. Also to co-operate in secur- ing the limiting or discontinuing the sale of tickets reading via circuitous and un- natural routes, which have the effect of promptly scalping and reducing rates be- | tween points reached by direct routes. | The secretary is given power to call meet- ings for investigation within three days | after notice of charge has been served upon the offending agent. Members shall be fined $1 for failing to attend meetings. Street commissions are abolished. Ad- vertising which may have the effect of reducing tariff rates is prohibited. Agents cannot buy second-hand or ‘‘scalped” tickets nor deal with brokers. For every violation of the agreement a fine of $25 will be imposed, and if an agent refuses o pay the fine it will be deducted from the deposit of $100 which each member has to lace in the treasury as a pledge of good aith. The agents also agree that if tickets are bought in_their offices by way of test the money }mid shall be returned on pre- sentation of the tickets by the secretary. | Permanent organization will be effected | in a few days. O0IL TO DROP TO-DAY. Result of the Standard Oil Company’s Absorbtion of the Leading Local Business. There is no longer any doubt that the illuminating oil business of W. P. Fuller & Co., formerly Whittier, Fuller & Co., has been completely absorbed by the Standard Oil Company. J. F. Littlefield, secretary of the local company, stated yesterday that he knew nothing of any such transaction having been concluded or even being con- templated. He thought that the scarcity of the crude material fn the East created a gen}gonry panic and oil jumped accord- ngly. From another source it was ascertained that the Standard Oil Company has pur- thought that as a result of Mr. Fuller's visit East and the significant fact that Mr. Tilford of the Standard Oil Company is in this city at present,and that the Fuller eople are referring customers for oil in ulk to the Standard Oil Company for prices, a sale probably has been eg‘ected. e e MANUAL TRAINING. Additions Which Will Be Made in the 3 Course of the Commercial High School. v When the graduates from the grammar schools of the City or at least those of them who decide to continue on through the Commercial High School take up the course in that institution they will find an interesting curriculum prepared for them. The course of study for both boysand girls has been extended and made much more interesting and many of the features which made the Polytechnic High School 80 popular have been incorporated in the commercial school. Prominent among the additions will be a course 1n manual training for boys. Al- ready the mechanical department has been fitted up and the engine is ready to start the lathesand planes at any time, but they will be made to wait for the new comers from the grammar schools, who will begin with the July term. There isalso a fully equipped blacksmith-shop all ready for the boys and a carpenter-shop, with tools enough for any one who wants to learn to use them. This latter department has been used ina perfunctory sozt of a way for two months, but it will start up as an established feature of the course with the beginning of the new school year. for the girls a course in cla i sewing, cooking, wood-c Sitrear bly the rudiments of hous ing and of caring for the sick will k ided. Some @ of this course, too, has lat been intro- Auced, for the principal of the school has fitted up a room for clay-modeling and for wood-carving, but, as with the boys’ course, the different branches will not be fully established until the pupils now in the eighth grades of the grammar schools are admitted. The instructor in the course of mechan- ics will be Frank Gardenir, who served in the same capacity in the Cogswell School. The other instructors have not as yet be selected, however. When the added tractions of the Commercial High School are known among the graduates it pected that the list of applicants will be greatly increased. ————————— A Journalist Remembered. M. Kollman ot the California Demokrat of this City has been the secretary of the German Press Club, and so well has he performed the duties imposed upon him thatat the meeting of the club, held a few days since, the club resented him with & handsome jeweled ocket. Mr. Kollman is an energetic news- paper man, deserving of the compliment paid m. ———— THE wonderful cures of scrofula, salt rhenm and other dreadful diseases of the blood prove the great curative, blood-purifying powers of Hood's Sarsapa- rilla. Its effect is often magical. e For COUGHS, ASTHMA AND THEOAT DISORDFRS “Brown's Bronchial Troches” are an effectual rem- edy. Sold only in boxes. o> S — SLEEPLESSNEss, Indigestion and Pain are hor rors that PARKER’S GINGER ToNIC will abate. HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns, 15 cents. ————————— LUXURIANT hair with its youthful color assured by using PARKER'S HATR BALSAM. HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns, 15 cents. .- App 20 drops of Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters to every glass of impure water you drink. — e The total cordage required for a first- rate man of war weighs about eighty tons, and exceeds $15,000 in value. IF YOU SMOKE SMOKE TOBACCO. In a 10c cigar you want good tobacco and nothing ut tobacco—not drugs to make up for the natural aroma that the tobacco lacks. There’s only one such cigar. the ROBERT MANTELL. Be careful about substi. tutes. Every ‘‘Mantell” has this tag on. EAL ESTATE FOR SALE BY A Thos. Magee & Song, REAL ESTATE AGENTS And Publishers “Real Estate Ctreular.” REMOVED TO 4 Montgomery Street, UN 0¥ TRUST BUILDI'G, CORVER MARKET. VERY FINE INVESTMENTS, Rents $180; make offer of $22.000; solid 4-story. building, 2 stores below: Fourth st., nr. Folsom3) lagge lot. NW. cor. California_st., bevond Laguna; 58 and 8 S-story. and planked basement honses: 1o finest order: $1800 just spent on them rents $120; price $17,500; al rented. - Ellis-st. corner; rents$274 50: $30,000: 90x125; covered with 6 2-story dwellings and 9 flats: both streets in good order. Corner on Howard st.. nr. 3d; 3 storesand flats; $18,000. A una ost si., bet.' Powell and Mason; bulldings; $50,000. o ann osiand Post st., nr. Taylor: 23x68:9 to rear street; old buildings; 2 stores; rents $53; 0 and wil pay well: $10,600. - “hould be improved 450 feet irom Market. st.: Drum: ; 59:9x50: 827,500 very io» necting 25 feet on Clay and 3 fronts, £32,750: Tents $250; ered with good buildings. WESTERN ADDITION RESIDENCES AND LOTS. Elegant residence; fine view of bar; N. side Washington st., neer Central ave.: 82 feet front; fine -aiory and attio home; 13 roomsz2 baths and 'uiences; i i Wood: $12,500. es; house finished in hara Only 82000 cash, balance easy payments: new residences now being finished, with all conveniences; W.side Buchanan, bet. Vallejo and Green; fine view of bay: $7250 each. Very cheap: elegant residence and northwest corner; Ed}' and Gough; 137:6x120 to rear street; faces Jefferson square; very fine residence, in first-class order; $45,000. Make ofier—Valiejo and Octavia; corner; 25x 112:6 and very comfortable residence of 9 rooms and every convenience: fine view: $10,500. ¥ ot $35,000. . cor. on, Pine st.; cow chased the entire oil illuminating busi- ness, with all the stock formerly controlled by W. P. Fuller & Co., including the wagons and all other apparatus. This arrangement was completed when Mr. Fuller went East recently, and there was evidently an understanding regarding the white-lead market at the same time, as that article has dropped from 634 to 5){ cents a pound, which in all likelihood wil favor W. P. Fuller & Co. To-day oil will drop 1 cent, which with the reduction a week ago will make a falling off of 2 cents from the highest re- cent point. Harry J. Lask, who is well informed in regard te this subject, although not com- mitting himself to any definite statement, Plerce st.: 2 fine, nearly new houses and lot; 87:6x105: bet. Golden Gate ave. and Turk; will be sold cheap. WESTERN ADDITION LOTS, Broadway, near Octavia; lot 34:6x127:8; only ‘ 500. NW. cor. Pacific ave. and Broderick 263108 & very sighty lot, with view otbay) Pine and Buchanan, NW. corner, 55x81:3; strects sewered and Fine st. bivaminied. S10.00e Make ofter: Grove and Lyon corner: $7:6%100; 34D7£sel;:§slr?ble for residence or business. % eT0 st., nr.Washi ; $3800 H street paved: fife Telghbotiised. i e Ty st., north side, nr. Cook, ave.: Blots, 25100 only 51600 each, © o Lots 25x137:6; $1760: or any size front at same rate; Union st., bet. Devisadero and Brodericks street sewered ; cable-cars pass. Octavia st., west side, nr. Filbert; 25x85; $1175.