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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 6, 18 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, — SUBSCRIPTION RATES: lun.z GALL—36 per year by mail; by carrler, 15¢ T week. BUNDAY CALL—$ WEEKLY CALL—#1 The Eastern offics 50 per year. 50 per year. of the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Dally and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- Rose and tising Bureau, Rhinclander building, Duane streets, New York. Once more to work. Buy home goods this week. Enterprise is a good word for everybody, For President of Guatemala: Grover Cleveland. California products are best for Califor- nia people. The soft enap nearly always turns out to be a bad job. By building up California San Francisco will increase. Roses make the flower show, but the queen is a daisy. Secretary Gresham’s illness has reduced the size of his official void. You make a customer for your own goods when you patronize your neighbor. The holiday season is coming and the hammock will soon be in full swing. The Valley road will solve the problem of great wheat fields in the San Joaquin, For some time to come events in Cali- fornia will be lareely composed of picnics. While Democrats are separating on the question Republicans are coming together. In the Oriental shufile no one seems to be paying any attention to what becomes of Korea. The good Eastern people who enjoy cy- clones can see no charms in the climate of California. It looks now as if Japan would have to fight Russia for permission to make peace Wwith China. Any community that enters vigorously into the work of improvement always comes out well. Local enterprise can hardly make better ways for itself than by carrying out the bLoulevard projects. Every San Franciscan who smokes a home-made cigar puts honest money into his neighbor’s pocket. President Cleveland cannot be induced to believe that bimetallism would offer | him a coin of vanta This week Santa Rosa will illuminate the State with rosy glow and give the light of welcome to everybody. The only defense that silurians can bring forward for opposing any public improve- ment is that there is a “job in it.” How can we expect a desire to make the City attractive when its residents lack the enterprise to cultivate beautiful flowers? ‘With new railr talked of on ever there ever was s in Californ nd new floral fetes side, it is hard to realize h a thing as a depression The one blight on the joy of the world fs the report that there are not corn husks enough in the United States to supply the tamale trade. The Half-million Club can accomplish more by dispelling the darkness of silurian intellects than by illuminating the summit of Mount Diablo. The proposed cheap excursions from ©Qhicago to California by the Half-million Club will be putting Eastern enterprise on California wheels. The war between Japan and China is over, but it will be ten years yet before five-sixths of the residents of China will learn that there has been a war. ‘When a silurian hears a suggestion abont bonding the City or paving the streets he @iscloses his peculiar order of intellect and morals by hinting at corruption. In voting to bond the city for the pur- vose of raising money to complete her sewer system, Fresno has seta good ex- emple for San Francisco to follow. The gentleman from Philadelphia who promises to give us dollar gas has only to keep his promise in order to prove himself | exactly the right man in the right place. Until “metropolitan journalism’ broad- ens 5o as to become cosmopolitan, it will never be anything but narrow and insular, with a smirk for the city and a sneer for the country. Stockton was justified in holding a jolli- fication on Saturday night over the pros- pective building of the San Joaquin Rail- road, for in her case the prospect is not only in sight, but in reach. It being impossible that Cleveland should be nominated for a third term there is no epparent reason for expecting that he should get from under the coat tails of Wall street and join the procession of free coinage, One of these aays those hardy citizens Who require contracts to be made payable in gold will be confronted with a law that will compel them to recognize all of Uncle Bam’s money as being good enough to pay bonest debts with, There is a growing sentiment in favor of extending the Monroe doctrine into a declaration of the right of the United States to act as arbitrator in all disputes between any country on thiscontinentand & European power. ‘William M. Bunker expressed one of the most condensed pieces of wisdom on record when he declared that the public school children should be instructed in the Tesources of California and taught to patronize home industries. Secretary Carlisle’s announcement that he will open the Kentucky campaign with 8 speech on “sound money” causes us to wonder if the dear old man has heard the roar of the lion thatis stalking between the Mississippi and the Pacific. In denouncing President Cleveland and @emanding the unlimited coinage of gold and silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, the County Democratic Convention of Chicago bas made the first sawdust-spilling incision that will in the end reduce the Atlas of the Democracy to a rag. THE SANTA ROSA FETE. In the multitude of flower festivals of various degrees and merit which have been engaging the attention of California ever since Easter, it would seem there might be some danger of a surfeit of sweet things and that even queens of beauty would cease to have a charm. That there has been no evidence of any weariness on the part of the public with the prolonged repe- tition of festivals, is one of the bef:‘,proofa of the infinite variety possible ih such fetes and the unceasing delight which hu- manity finds at this season in the glory of blooms and blossoms and the beauty of fair maidens moving among them, While almost every city and town of any note in the State will have something in the way of a flower show during the sea- son, especial honor will be given to those where the people have had the energy to raise the fete to the dignity of an open air festival, broad enough to include the whole town in its scope and brilliant enough to increase the fame of the State and attract visitors from every side. Among these towns Santa Rosa will take rank, and if half the expectations of her friends are realized the grand fiesta which she holds this week will give her a repute abroad as a festal city not unworthy to be associated with Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. The arrangements for the festival include all the features that custom has rendered familiar in such celebrations. There are to be a flower show, a brilliant tableau and ceremony at the Athenenm, a street parade of flower-adorned carriages, open-air con- certs, a battle of flowers and a great floral ball. Around these familiar observances, however, there will be woven & thou- sand new fancies of decoration, cere- mony and merriment, There is no section of California that does not offer to its people some charm or ad- > peculiar to itself, out of which 1 devise some novel attraction and achieve some unrivaled result. Santa Rosa has abundant charms and advantages of this kind in her surrounding country to draw upon, and, with the artistic skill of her fair women to arrange them for dis- play, we may be sure her gala days will be distinctly marked from those of other cities, and have an individual grace and glory that will remain in the memory of those who see them as things of beauty and joys forever. METROPOLITAN WEEKLIES. A question of journalism interesting to the press and not altogether uninteresting to the general public, has arisen in New York between the Herald and the Tribune with respect to the true scope of the weekly edition of a metropolitan daily. The Herald has recently consolidated the weekly with the Sunday paper and pro- poses to concentrate all the energies hith- erto employed on the weekly in making the Sunday issue as attractive to rural readers as to city people. It has made the change upon the ground that the news features of a metropolitan weekly are not needed in these day “The legitimate field of weekly news is filled to the satisfaction of Jocal readers by country and town papers that now stud the various States like stars in the sky.” The Tribune while wishing the Herald success in the new departure, denies that there is anything to justify it, and claims that the wide circulation of its own weekly all over the country is a proof of the exist~ ence of a popular demand and therefore of a public need of a weekly summary of news issued by a metropolitan daily. California is too far removed from the East for us to undertake to enter into the dispute between these two great papers, each of which is supposed to have a clear understanding of Eastern conditions. It is certain, however, that in California there is a demand for a metropolitan weekly newspaper, notwithstanding that the rural press of the Coast is even more rogressive and expansive than that of the st. The best local papers are those which give most attention to local affairs, and the farmer who wishes to keep posted on all the events of the world needs, in addition to his local paper, a weekly sum- mary of the news from a metropolitan di Another advantage of the news features of a metropolitan weekly is that the weekly can serve in this way to supply the people of other parts of the continent with information that is not telegraphed from the section in which it is published. Few people in California would care to read a daily published in Boston and few in Massachusetts would care to read-a daily published in San Francisco. The news of the day and the comment on it are old before the daily can cross the con- tinent and are therefore uninteresting. A good weekly, however, like that of the CALr, contains a great deal of information on the industries, resources and affairs generally of the State, that are interesting to intelligent men in all parts of the coun- try even though the paper shouid be a week or a month old. This continental demand will justify the publication of a weekly by a metropolitan daily for a long time to come, and the growing subscrip- tion for the WEEkLY CALL is an evidence that the local need is also active. A BAD OUTLOOK. The people of the great level stretch of the Mississippi Valley have had another severe experience with the swift wina- storms that sweep over that vast expanse. Closely following the cyclone that in fowa on Friday, besides destroying a vast amount of property, killed fifteen persons and badly injured three times that number, came two other cyclones on Saturday, one in Northern Texas and the other in Illi- nois, that were hardly less disastrous. As there seems no possible way of guard- ing against the destructive violence of cyclones, the outlook for the future in the Mississippi Valley is appalling. The de- struction of property and the list of fatal- ities increase every year with the increase of wealth and population. Now that the western side of the great valley is but sparsely settled, the windstorms can traverse many miles without injuring anybody, but if the region ever becomes as thickly seitled as Europe or even as the Eastern States, the destruction every year will be enormous, and there will bea heavy annual tax upon the charity of the people of the rest of the country to provide relief for the sufferers. The cyclones come as regularly as the seasons. Noman knows what path any of them will take, but it is certain that some wide region of valley is going to be devastated by them every year. Every settler in the valley lives in the belief that hisown home wiil be spared and finds some comfort in the thought that in com- parison with the immensity of the area subject to the storms, the path of any particular cyclone is narrow and short. Nevertheless it would secem thata pru- dent man whose means did not permit him to build a storm-proof house would seek to make his home somewhere else. On the Pacific Slope there are millions of un- cultivated acres on which a man could live in a tent without fear of having it blown awa¥, but such is the farce of habit among men thateven those who have suffered by storms will rebuild their wooden houses in the cyclone area rather than come West and be safe. [ rnians, while sympathizing with the victims of these calamities, have good reason to remember with gratefnlness the gentle weather of their own mountain-pro- tected land. No doubt the level surface of the Mississippi Valley is of great advantage in many ways to the inhabitants. It is easy to construct highways and railroads in those States, easy to plow the soil and harvest the crops, bit for all these advan- tages they have a heavy penalty to pay in the unbroken sweep of the mighty winds. Even at the present time the cyclones count their victims every year by the hun- dreds, and when the population grows denser they will be counted by the thou- sand. The outlook is not pleasant, and whosoever has a friend in the big valley had better invite him to come West. ESCONDIDO REJOIOES. The people of Escondido are rejoicing and rightly so. Indeed the cause of their j ng is such that the whole State may rejoice with them, for as it is the fulfill- ment of well considered plans and the out- come of well directed energy, it gives en- couragement to all enterprising men and affords reason for believing that many another California community by equal perseverance may achieve as good a cause for a similar rejoicing. We cannot make a better statement of what the rejoicing is about than to quote the exultant language of the Escondido Advocate: “One thousand inches of water from 8an Luis Rey River roared and tumbled down through the new irrigation ditch of the Escondido district Monday night, wound around Rodriguez Mountatain past Bee Canyon and Horsethief Canyon across ‘Washout Gulch, swirled around the horse- shoe bend at Hellhole, dashed through the tunnels near Bear Valley, and finally rested behind the massive wall of the dam in Von Seggern Canyon. The foaming ad- vance line of the flood reached the dam at 10 o’clock, and that hour marked the new era for Escondido.” The free-flowing rhythm and sonorous ring of the words of the Advocate are none too exultant for the occasion. Irrigation on an ordinary scale has become a com- monplace in California, but such extensive irrigation as is provided for by the great complishment at Escondido is by no means common, The system includes a conduit twenty-two miles long, in which there are three miles of flume. It passes through two tunnels, one of 356 feetand the other of 450 feet, both cut through solid granite. From the great reservoir twenty- one miles of pipe will run out over the dis- trict, affording irrigation for 13,000 acres and providing for the building up of an- other of those localities whose bloom and verdure are full of prophecies of the com- ing glory of our arid lands. It is a_satisfaction to record the accom- plishment of such enterprises as this, and no matter in what section of the State they occur, every Californian must find a high degree of gratification in reading of them. Success in any locality or in any under- taking stimulates energy everywhere. All California tends to advance when any sec- tion of it actually advances. From the successes of the southern part of the State the press in the northern counties are drawing the strongest arguments to en- courage progressive men there, and as a consequence the achievement at Escondido may be largely instrumental in leading to the undertaking of not less important en- terprises elsewhere. A WEARISOME OOMPANY. As the head of one of the greatest uni- versities in the country, Dr. David Starr Jordan is entitled to a reading when he writes. That may sometimes prove to be bis misfortune. It is not difficult to find fault with that which any one may write, for even if there should be an agreement as to standards of literary form, there will be disagreements on the score of their ap- plication to the ethical concerns of life so long as there are contrarieties of opinion on ethical matters. Nor does any fault which may be found with Dr. Jordan asa litterateur employing his pen in the for- warding of some cherished religious idea bear any relation to whatever masterful ability he may possess in the management of a great university. We have to do now solely with a shoemaker who temporarily quits his last and turns to the making of pianos. Dr. Jordan has written—and even copy- righted—a small pamphlet entitled “The Story <of the Innumerable Company,” which is intended to be an allegory illus- trating the struggles of human beings to find the road to heaven. The opening sen- tences read thus: *‘There was once a great mountain which rose from the shore of the sea, and on its flanks it bore a mighty forest. Beyond the crest of the mountain were ridges and vatleys, peaks and chasms, springs and torrents, Further on lay a sandy desert, which stretched its monoto- nous breadth to the shore of a wide, swift river. What lay beyond the river no one knew, because its shores were always hid in azure mist. Yearby year there came up. from the shore of the sea an innumerable company, Each one must cross the moun- tain and the forest, faring onward toward the desert and the river. And this was one condition of the journey—that whoso- ever came to the river must breast its waters alone.” Although in this pamphlet there is no reference to William Cullen Bryant’s “Thanatopsis,” let us quote a few lines from that great poem: So live, that when thy summons comes to joln The {nnumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber In the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon. but sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one that wraps the drapery of his conch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. The “innumerable caravan’ seems to be a much bappier idea than the Innumerable Company; but the suggestion of similarity laid aside, to say nothing of a comparison of the litéfary forms of these two authors, let us pass to a consideration of Dr. Jor- dan’s method of constructing an allegory. In leaving the didactical form of express- ing moral ideas and adopting fiction in its stead, the author assumes the most exact- ing of literary tasks. As form is of the essence of his work, he must bow to its impefious necessities and must tell a story. Jesus with his parables, Esop with his fables and Bunyan with his inimitable allegory of “Pilgrim’s Progress” have fur- nished us with the highest and most ex- quisite forms of telling the gravest truths in the form of fiction. The student will observe in all these masterpieces of literary art, and in many others to which his memory will revert, that all the require- ments of story-telling are rigidly adhered to. They all begin with a statement of certain things which require explanation; they proceed in a straightforward way, are developed simply and logically and end conclusively and satisfactorily. * Pil- grim’s Progress” is one of the few per- fectly constructed novels in literature; but Christian’s progress, though frequently in- terrupted by thrilling adventures, was always onward, and the reader could feel that his triumph would come in the end. That is the true and highest form of romance and therefore the best form of allegory. But Dr. Jordan has crushed this noble model and thrown its fragments to the winds. His “Innumerable Com- pany” is a multiplication of Bunyan’s Christian. It perishes and is renewed innumerable times, has no cohesion and the vaguest purpose, and finally the reader wearies of it and leaves it to flounder hope lessly to its final composure in neighborly love, in which condition it vanishes miser- ably in the azure mist beyond the river without a single effort at a dramatic close. Dr. Jordan need not have copyrighted the pamphlet. A STAGE REMINISCENCE. The other evening when I was before the footlights and the orchestra had struck up the prelude to “Love’s 01d, Sweet Song,” 1 sud- denly realized that the words had gone com- pletely out of my memory. Each note brought the fatal moment of beginning nearer and I wrestled with my mind trying to force it to give back the familiar words that I had sung & bundred times. With trembling anxiety I MISS TILLTE MORRISEY. counted the remaining measures—there were three more bars, two—only one, but just as the prelude ended the poem of “Love's Old, Sweet Song” flashed back into my momory as instan- tancously as it had been blotted out of it. Isuppose most singers have found out, at some time or other, what strange tricks mem- ory plays them. The only similar experience I ever had was in Chicago, “Old Madrid” had just been published and I was to sing it for the first time in the halls there. ‘The song was quite unknown to the public, and the management expected to make a hits with it, but when the time eame to begin, I found, just as I did the other night, that my mind was a blank as far as the words were concerned, and the worst of it was that no mental conxing would bring them back. When the prelude ended there was nothing to do but plunge into a medley that I in- vented as I wentalong. Oh! those words were awfull Sometimes there was a rhyme and sometimes the lines ended in & jagged sort of way, for all I could force myself to do was to follow the music and think of the sentiment of the story—it was no time for making elaborate verses. Well, when my own version of “In 0Old Madrid” was over, I expected a cold and frosty silence. but, strange to say, there was raptuous applause. It may have been the extra expression that was the result of mental agony, but certainly Imade the success of my life that night. 2 TILLIE MORRISEY. PERSONALS. Dr. A. G. Deardorff of Fresno is at the Bald- win. F. V. Flint, a fruitman of Sacramento, is at the Grand. D. 8. Rosenbaum, a merchant of Stockton, is at the Palace. C. R. Tilson, ing at the Lick. Rev.D. H. Jones of Eureka arrived at the Russ yesterday. 1. Goldsmith, a merchant of Hollister, is a guest at the Grand. M. Goldsmith, a merchant of Stockton, is a guest at the Grand. L. T. Hatfleld, an attorney of Sacramento, is stopping at the Lick. 8. 8. Curtis has returned from & trip to the South and is back at the Grand. J. Grover, a merchant of Colusa, was among yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. State Controller E. P. Colgan came dd3wn from Sacramento yesterday and is Bt the Lick. L. D. Huntley, a banker of Auburn, came to town yesterday and registered at the Lick. H. C. Stanton, the Sheriff of Glenn County, came down from Willows yesterday and is stop- ping at the Russ. Senator Cullom of Ilinois and his family came in yesterday from the South and are stop- ping at the Palace. C. M. Coglan, the secretary of the State Board of Equalization, cAme down from Sacramento yesterday and registered at the Lick. n attorney of Modesto, fs stay- PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Boston people report that Dr. Parkhurst has the politician’s gift of remembering faces seen but once and names known long 8go. W. R. 8mith, superintendent of the Botanic Gardens in Washington, has held the place for forty-three years and knows all about gardens. A.J. Blackwell, the ‘rich and erratic Indian who owns tne cities of Blackwell and David in the Indian Territory, announces that he will build a §300,000 temple at David City, 0. T, for the perpetuation of Indian religions. Marjetta Holly, who is known as “Josiah Allen's Wife,” resides in the ancestral house where five generations of Hollys have Jived. The house is in Jefferson County, N. Y., close to Lake Ontario. Itis here that ““Josiah Allen’s Wife” does all the writing that has made her so famous. Mme. Carnot has decorated an oratory in her house with inscribed ribbons taken from the wreaths sent to Paris on the occasion of her husband’s funeral. In the same room are pre- served all similar trophies of an artistic nature, the most remarkable of which is a splendid crown, the giit of Admiral Aveland on behalt of the Russian fleet. Lieutenant Louis M. Stoddar, who was an officer on board the Monitor at the time of her historic fight with the Merrimac, is & well- preserved man of ahout 55 years. Only three of the officers of that gallant craft are living— her commander, Admiral Worden, L. M. Stod- dar and Samuel Howard, and as the three live in Washington they get together now and then and indulge in reminiscences. e SUPPOSED Mmmonous. Mrs. Van Swelle—I didn’t see you at the opera last night. Mrs. Muchcash—No, it was too bad! I couldn’t go. My jeweler did not send me any jewelry to throw at the singers.—Chicago Record. “Why don’t you work? Don't like it, I sup- “Like {t? Why, boss, work with me is a passion, & vice. That is just the trouble. The moment Icommence to do & little I cannot leave it alone, and it grows upon me like drink, opium or lawn tennis. That is why I have to make an effort and leave it entirely alone.”— Life. The Diva—The crowd’s ealling you before the curtain. Why don’t you go on? The Tenor (peeping through the curtain)—I haven’t got my padded sut on, and there are three women in the audience with gold wreaths ll'l: one man with & jewel case.—Chicago Rec- ord. e——————— A When her Majesty the Empress of Ja) drives no one is permitted to look at her from the windows, or chinks in the doors, or any other &nfl of the house, but must sit down by the side of the street through which she passes. Every man and woman orchild must doff hat or cap as she goes by, with the exception of hsies in Euro- pean dress, who are permitted to remain covered. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Benator 8. M. Cullom of Illinois is at the Palace Hotel. He is one of that old school of politicians who entered the ring when the Whigs were just leaving the scene and the statesmen of this day were asserting themselves. His record as a choice of the peo- ple is eigt years in the Illinois Legislature, six years her Governor, six years her Congress- man and twelve years in the United States Senate. And yet the Senator is in full posses- sion of the right to be called hale and hearty. Yesterday afternoon he was accosted in the office of the hotel by a gentleman whom he had not seen for some time. “Well, well, well, how do you do? Let me shake your hand. I believe we met last in the East. Indeed the worid is small. I meet old friends all over this Coast and it is the first time I ever visited this part of the United States.” At this juncture a CALL reporter was intro- duced to the Senator and invited to takesa seat. “Iam used to the newspaper man. He is Enn of my programme—incomplete without im." “Are you here, Mr. Cullom, merely for a pleasure trip?” inquired the old friend after & brief review of past incidents had taken place. “No, indeed. To be sure it is & pleasure, but the real cause of my visit was to examine the ports of Santa Monica, San Diego and San Pedro, one of which points on this Coast is to be settled on for the completion of a deep-water harbor. Ihave visited them all and feel now that [ amin & position to discuss the natural advantages of any one of the three when I get back to Washington.” “Were you commissioned to come here for that purpose by Congress?”’ inquired the CAaL man. “No; butIam a member of the Committee on Commerce, and when a question involying 0 many important points comes before me I really consider it my duty to investigate it in person.” *‘Then you believe that the executive heads of all departments of the Government should pay more attention to what is going on on the Pacific Coast?” “Most _certainly I do—from the President down. I did not realize the magnitude of many questions now before the people of the United States, and touching on the West, until Icame here. Itis, sir, a wonderful country. I am delighted with my visit. I have learned many things that it is my duty to know. In 0 far as it is possible the President, the mem- bers of his Cabinet and the Senators and Repre- sentatives should travel. Thus the desire of the people of all parts of the country can be learned and legislation and improvements will be greatly facilitated. “By the way, I saw Mr. Sibley here a few days 220, and General Warner. 1 believe they are stirring up the silver cause a little.” “8o I understand,” remarked the Senator’s friend, “but why do they not make the crusade against a single standard in the East, where the people are not so well posted on the silver question as we of the Coast?"” “Well, I find that the masses all over the United States are more in favor of the white metal now than ever beiore. You would be surprised to see the way the movement has taken hold. It will be an issue of some import- ance in the next campaign.” “You are evidently a silver man, Senator,” ventured the reporter. “I am, sir!”’ replied the statesman, emphatic- ally. “I believe in the double standard; I be- lieve silver should be used as money on a par with gold. There are, however, some things which must be adjusted first. European pow- l SENATOR 8, M. CULLOM OF ILLINOIS. [Sketched from life for the “Call” by Nankivell.] ers must be brought to an understanding of the importance of remonetization, and I think everything points to the accomplishment of. such a result. There is no doubt, however, about the future of silver. It will be remone- tized. I have no doubt aboutit.” “Do you recall any period of your life when the depression in business channels was so great as it is now?” “No; nor havel ever read of such hard times. I have passed through the most important epoch of latter-day history and remember writ- ing a rather lengthy and very burdensome eulogy on Henry Clay at the time of his death. Iremember quite well when Fillmore ran for the Presidency as the choice of the Whig and American parties. Ibelieve he carried Mary- land. Sincethose periods we have had upsand downs, but none approaching the distress of the present. It will—" “Won't you take a cigar, Senator?” said the {riend, extracting one from the recesses of & copious inner pocket. *“No, I thank you. I quit smoking five years ago this summer in the middle of Germany. I have never been able to enjoy acigar since. Before that I took considerable pleasure out of amild form of the vice.” “How's that?" "Well, if you really want to know, it was be- cause the cigars sold there are probably the worst in the world. I tried every brand in the Empire, but it was useless and I had to give it up altogether. In fact, the ordeal furned me against cigars and 1 have never been able to smoke one with any relish since.” “Senator, do you know that when you were talking a moment ago you reminded me very much of Abe Lincoln?” “Indeed? That is what I hear often. My enemies say that I try very hard to resemble the dead President, but I really do not think it 18 altogether my fault that I look a little lfke him; ueither am I to blame for being myself.” “Oh) Itrust you will pardon me for inter- rupting you, as you were about to tell us what would make times better and when the improvement would begin.” «In 1896,” replied the Senator, with a twin-4 kle in his eye, “when we will elect a Repubii- can President.” D. M. Pyle, Deputy Sheriff of Bakersfield, Kern County, is in the City for a few days. He brought down Max Ebert, who was sen- tenced to three years in San Quentin for horse- stealing. After delivering his prisoner he spent a few hours in looking over the City in- stitntions. In talking about Kern County matters he said: “Business is picking up, and our merchants and farmers are in a hopeful mood. They are all confident that the com- peting road will be built and that things in the valley will boom. The crops are good—much better than last year—and in consequence good times are expected. The Valley road will De the making of Kern County, and the sooner it is pushed through the better we will be pleased.” — e PRAISES THE NEW «CALL” Kind Words of Commenda- tion From the California Press. An Up-to-Date Journal Which Has the Courage to Rebuke Fakes. A HEALTHFUL INFLUENCE. Correspondence San Jose Mercury. What a good, healthy, happy influence the CALL has been exerting through this week of accumulating horrors! We owe it gratitude, for there are many of us who do not like to sup on horrors nor break our fast on blood-curdling paragraphs drawn with more power than fidelity to facts. If it must be that such epochs of crime must come the public should not be educated to appreciation of such a state of affairs. I doubt not the very recital of the ghastly de- tails that have made the brave sick and the hopeful despair will have the effect to in- crease the crop of criminals. The books gerused by the suspected student will now e in demand and do their share in de- stroying the moral fiber of other youths. Other communities will reap the harvest of seed sown in this way. How delightful to turn from crime to the recital of the en- joyments of men and women reveling in Hlowers, breathing sweet odors, thrilling to rich music. To read of the exuberance of joy as manifested in the gorgeous page- ants displayed in our sister cities, makes us gay. Through sympathy we taste this feast and forget awhile the dreadful evils that skulk in_the dark places everywhere. Only in California is such a display pos- sible in the fickle month of April. Onlya clean, progressive paper could set its face so resolutely toward the good, thus help- ing us to a purer life, to higher impulses. I frankly acknowledge my debt and know therp are thousands ready to join hands with me and shout, “Long live the CALL.” e THE “CALL’ IS FAIR. Stockton Independent. Any newspaper can be fair when it has no interests to subserve or prejudices to ratify by being unfair. To be fair under isappointment that would make the aver- age publisher resentful argues greatness of mins and heart as well as wisdom and jus- tice. Everybody knows thatthe San Fran- cisco CALL was disappointed at Stockton being chosen as the starting point of the Valley railroad, but it did not allow its disappointment to make it unfair. Before the gecision it had men in this city ‘“‘writ- ing up” the town and vicinity, and during last week senta lady, who had nearly a whole page in Saturday’s issue devoted to this city; its harbors, its business, its resi- dences, its surroundingsand its resources, to which the lady did ample justice. In yesterday’s issue of that gape;ls an edi- torial article reviewing the city’s attrac- tions in a manly fashion, that shows the CaLL to be high above mere matters of perference or nrejudice. Stockton people appreciate all the good things that have been said about the city recently, and what has been said by the CALL has been the more keenly appreciated because of the rivalry between the advocates of the Stock- ton and the Santa Clara routes. E VRS DESERVING OF CREDIT. Culifornta Spirit of the Times. Mr. C. M. Shortridge is deserving of un- bounded credit for the able manner in which he has made a thorough-going newspaper out of the CArL. Whether we agree with him or not on some of the top- ics he presents for discussion does not en- ter into the matter at all—and we do not— but, notwithstanding this avowal, we do not believe he will retire from a control that he has made essentially his own. The CarL needed warm, enthusiastic, fearless vitality to build it up and make it what it is now being made, viz., a first-class newspaper; and Shortridge was just the man to doit. He made a grand success of the San Jose Mercury, which in every de- tail gave him a high reputation as a capa- ble and intelligent journalist, and bhe has brought the same attributes to bear to the fullest extent in his present position. The Carnisa journal that may be taken into the family circle with saiety, and one in which a vast fund of information isim- arted on innumerable subjects. Its man- ifest destiny is an established success. RGeS SR DESCRIBE THE STATE. Wiltows Journal. The newspapers of the city like those of the country are the molders of itsdestiny. ‘When exerted in the interest of the whole people their influence for good is beyond computation, but when confined to sordid or selfish lines their power is only to destroy. The 'San Francisco CArx. has announced that it will publish descriptive articles of all portions of the State. This is sorne- thing new for a San Francisco Paper. We can be worse than continual sapping by the lottery fever. S AT DOING GOOD WORK. Healdshurg Enterprise. The Examiner and CALL seem to have entered into a friendly rivalry as to which shall outdo the other in the cause of rogress, without jealousy or excessive oasting. In this they have set an ex- ample to the press that is worthy of praise and imitation, It may be a mere coinci- 51ch0, but it isa fact that the awakening in San Francisco began simultaneously with the change of ownership in the CALL. It looks as if the Examiner had waited for 4 running mate in the great race upon which they have entered. These two {’ers are doing all they can to rouse the atent energy of the people and rekindle the fires of industry, L APPRECIATE THE CHANGE. Traver Advocate, The San Francisco CarL — the “new CarL’—is receiving more com limentary notices at present than any other journal in the State. The people know ‘a good tlum_: when they see it, and when Charles M. Shortridge " assumed control of the Ca1L, it came out boldly and fearlessl and announced the policy under which it would thereafter be conducted, and then suited the action to the word, the people appreciated the change, and gave it a hearty welcome. If there were more in the newspaper fraternity of California ine spired with the noble impulses of the pro- rietor of the CALL it would bea grand pri et e thing for California. S REVOLUTIONIZED JOURNALISM, Carson City Appeal. The CALL has indeed revoluttonized daily journalism in San Francisco. In nearly every issue during the past week it has found occasion to say a good and kind word for its contemporaries, something heretofore so unusual among the great dailies of that city that even the “Monarch” could hardly recover from its surprise. The other day, in speaking of its contemporaries the CAry said: “It is the plan of the CALL to give all its con- temporaries the praise ana credit which justice and generosity are always willing to accord to worthy deeds.” SAN MATEO IS GRATEFUL. Redwood Oity Times-Gazette. The people of San Mateo County are ine debted to the CAvLL for the way that paper has been writing up the county and for the enthusiastic support it has given the boulevard proposition. Editor Shortridge is a great admirer of the Santa Clara Valley and has faith in its future as a place for suburban homes. The CArLL will pay considerable attention to this section of ‘the State in the future. o ONE OF THE BEST, Stockton Mafl. The CALL is now one of the best papers in the United States, and under the man- agement of Charles M. Shortridge, the new pro%rietor, it promises to become by far the best paper west of the Rocky Moun- tains, L A LIBERAL POLICY. Woodland Democrat. The San Francisco CALL is to be com- mended for the time and space it is devot- ing to the interior counties of the State. Mr. Shortridge is making his paper very popular by pursuing such a liberal policy. S g AGAINST THE SILURIANS. Voics of Labor. Place a silurian up against a wall, sta- tion C. M. Shortridge twenty paces away, give him a plentiful supply of cobble- stones, and then we'll have some fun. Hit ’em again, Charley they have no friends. Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay strest. * oS A CREAM mixed candies, 25¢ 1b, Townsend’s.* g = PALACE sea baths, 715 Filbert street, now open for summer swimming season. - [ D — TRY our ‘“Atlas Bourbon” and you will want none other. Mohns & Kaltenbach, 29 Market.® —————— The nursery tricycle has appeared 1n London. It contains two seats, one for the mistress and one for the maid and her charge, and has two pairs of pedals. —————— Hoop's Sarsaparilla purifies the blood. It gives strength, appetite and refreshing sleep. It cures every form of disease which bas its origin in the blood. Take Hood’s Sarsaparilla now. e “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup’” Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth- ers for their children while Testhing with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, ale 1ays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and Is the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether 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. 25¢ & bottle. e e Hanging Baskets. Hanging baskets are always desirable for a handsome summer window-garden, and it is of special importance to have them deep enough to hold plenty of soil, so that the roots will not lay against the sides of the porous pot and become scorched in the hot suns (says an exchange). The sum- mer blooming oxalis is always satisfactory for this F“rpo“’ as the. rich mass of foliage will soon droog down and cover the sides of the baskets, and the graceful spikes and clusters of bloom will continue to develop all summer long. The various tradescantias, with their handsome variations, should also find a_place in these hanging baskets. It is easily rooted from slips, and a small plant purchased now will produce many thrifty plants be- fore warm weather, if the branches are broken atall the jointsand rooted in dishes of sand; and when planted in the baskets they will soon form long ropes of hand- some g]ossv foliage. TEAS, hope to see the columns of the Carn teeming with articles descriptive of every portion of our great State and that it_may exert its influence to arouse San Fran- cisco from its forty years siesta. When this is done the State’ will enjoy renewed and unequalled prosperity and San Fran- cisco for the first time in "her history will merit the confidence and patronage of the people. e . SHOULD INSPIRE ALL. Eureka Times. The confidence the Cary feels for the future fimtness of this county should in- spire all to stand in and show that enter- prising journal that its efforts 1n our behalf are not misplaced. The advantage of hay- ing such a worthy champion will be real- ized when we show a disposition to help ourselves, for until then others will not come to our rescue. We must show by our work on the proposed Arcata extension that we have the energy and progressive- ness to work in harmony and ncg:va Te- sults. Unity of action, backed by a deter- mination to help ourselyes, wi aid future movements, where outside as- sistance is desired, by directing attention to the fact that we are alive to the neces- sity of developing our vast and varied re- sources. e THE LOTTERY CRUSADE. Tulare Register. The Wells, Fargo & Co. Express will no lottery tickets hereafter, which re- will give the lottery industry the severest y blow it has yet received. ‘Where lottery business was refused admis- sion to the mails there was an immediate resort to e?ress lines and the business was not seriously interrupted, but when letters, hn.}hckeu and advertising matter cannot be distributed the trade will be crippled. This is no injury to California. Thousands of dollars have been drained out of this State yearly with practically no return. Perhaps we can discover some other method of wasting our money but nothing COFFEES, SPIGES. BEST QUALITY. LOWEST PRICFS. TEAS - - 20,25, 80, 85, 40 and 50 cents per peund COFFEES 15, 20, 25, 30, 35.and 40 cents per pound A Guaranteed Saving of 25 Cents on Each Dollar Purchase You Make at Gireat American Importing Tea Co.’s STORES. No dler. Neo solicitors’ profit Pay. Goods aelivered frée. o A BEAUTIFUL PRESENT GIVEN FREE TO EACH PURCHASER. 52 Market Street 140 Sixth Street 1419 Polk Street 521 Montgomery Ave. 2008 Fillmore Street 617 Kearny Street 965 Market Street 104 Second Street 146 Ninth Street 2510 Mission Street 3259 Mission Street 917 Broadway 131 San Pablo Avenue 616 E. Twelfth Street } Oakland Park Street and Ah-} Alameda meda Avenue