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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, “Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: CALL—$8 per year by mail; by carrier, 156 st N FRANCISCO CALL (Dally and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- g Buresu, Rhinelander building, Rose snd Duane streets, New York. MAY 7, 1895 Santa Cruz will carnival too. Prosperity in the air is the breath of op- mism. The Russian bear seems to have a very sore head. Japan set all the hornets of Christendom in commotion. Whenever enterprise gets a good footing, progress begins. Indifference to the public welfare is the first symptom of silurianism. It is permissible to reflect on the City, but you mustn’t cast any reflections on it. Santa Rosa is prepared to entertain everybody without taking anybody in. Cyclones, waterspouts and forest fires constitute the spring exhibits in the East. As a reward for zeal for the public wel- fare the China Basin is better than a silver pitcher. Constructing boulevards is one of the surest ways of extending the City and at- tracting population. It may yet require a war to decide ther Japan or Russia is to dictate the 'ms of peace with China. w \ At the present time politics in this coun- try isdivided between the Republican party and forty headless factions. The self-complacent metropolitan who believes the City is bigger than the State is also persuaded that he is bigzer than the City. In taking prisoners the Cuban insur- gents di. Jack of knowledge concern- ing the fundamental principles of insur- rectionary warfare. It is one of the paradoxes of the financial situation that while monometallism has its foot on the industries of the country it hasn’t a leg to stand on. a becomes the flagship uadron the “hoodoos’ haunt it may be driven to haunt some of the silurians hereabout. e return of spring in the fact that Delaware has be- ng on the peach crop and Kan- is beginning to complain of drought. The “Black Flag” fighters of Formosa, though disowned by the Chinese authority, have indirectly given China the comforting assurance that they will stit the weazand of every Jap who sets foot on Formosa soil. Fruit-growing in the East will cease to be a profitable industry as soon as freight rates from California are reasonably low and a perfect s of distribution throughout the entire East has been estab- lished. The Carr’s new press is hurrying with all possible speed across the continent, and is apparently anxious to get to work and double the present pressroom facilities so that no subscriber will get his paper late in the morning. SR SO According to the report of the City As- sessor nearly 8000 acres have been con- verted into building lots in St. Louis in the last ten years, and the city is now talking of taking another section of Mis- souri and giving Chicago the ha-ha. Professor Rudolph Falb of Vienna pre- dicts that the earth will collide with a comet November 13, 1899, but we need not be afraid, for before that time the Repub- licans will be in power and the United States will have a thorough system of pro- tection. Prince Poniatowski’s announcement that he will start a magazine in Paris for Amer- icans and print it in French makes us sus- pect either that he cannot write good English or that his expected American readers find French much easier to read than English. The decadence of fruit-growing in the East is largely explainable on the score of the superior quality of the fruit which Cal- ifornia sends to that market, and thus the props that have held up the old scare of overproduction in California are being knocked aside. The auction sale of the Woodward’s Gar- dens lots to-day reminds us of the past glories of this resort and of the fact that there is nothing in the form of a private show to take its place as an attraction for rural visitors; but Golden Gate Park, which is free, is a greater show than this old resort ever was. America has lost nothing by the appar- ent failure of her running horses to cope with the English thoroughbreds at New- market, in view of the fact that trotting is the specialty in horse speeding which America has developed to so wonderful a degree and that in this higher class of sport England is utterly deficient. The elaborate pains taken by the police to keep RBalfour, the adventurer of the Liberator Building Society enterprise, from being interviewed looks discouraging in view of certain old rumors that the song which he might sing would grate on the ears of certain members of Parliament who are at present respectable. Since the Supreme Court has decided that incomes derived from the rent of real estate cannot be taxed,an Eastern bank has determined to test the validity of tax- ing incomes from mortgages, and as the case seems to be a good one this will be another of the income-tax conundrums the Government will have to give up. Chauncey M. Depew’s prediction that the free coinage of silver in a ratio of 16 to 1 will cause the holders of American securi- ties abroad to return them to us and force us to take thein has no further value than to serve as a hint, first, that the ease with which we have been able to dispose of our securities in Europe has not proved an un- mixed blessing, and second, that it is sbout time the issuance of American se- curities based on a gold contract should be interdicted. AN INLAND EMPIRE. The imagination is dazzled in contem plation of the aspect which the San Joaquin Valley will present when its capabilities for supporting human life shall have been equately developed. It seems incredible that although it has grown wonderfully, its growth has been utterly disproportion- 1t is easy enough to blame the Southern Pacific for having established such a system of ireight charges as should discourage production and consequently an increased population = for meeting the interest on its bonds held in Europe, and competition with overland lines, may have compelled it to charge ate to its capacity. in this wonderful valley, but the necess: local traftic heavily in order that it migh! offer better overland rates, and if so, this has been as great a misfortune to the Southern Pacific as to California. But this is by no means the only cause that has operated against the settlement of the valley. The large profits made in fruit-growing at the beginning of the in- dustry fell off for many reasons, principal among them being a lack of united effort on the part of the growers, an oversupply market which had been of the limited found, and the coming on of hard times al over the world. seems now to De passing away; it ha: never been the most serious. discovering that the extent of the consum ing area is limited only by facilities fo: extended market by more intelligen means than were formerly employed and are beginning to see that a return o its is inevitable. have control. Evermything which have done to ease the burden res with the exertion. none too soon. way to become the greatest valley in Amer- which reside within them. They them- selves could have built a railroad or dug a canal that would have freed them from the exactions of the Southern Pacific. Most fortunately for them, they have not been left to dig their way unaided from underneath the burdens which oppress them. Public spirited capitalists of San Francisco, who have faith in the State, and are anxious to develop it, have opened their purses and stretched forth their hands to their struggling brothers in the valley, asking only that they will assist in the plan which will free them. The San Francisco and the San Joaquin Valley Railroad is the first opportunity that this noble valley has been offered t outsiders to help itself. It depends on its people now whether they will do a part of what they woula have had o do alone to secure the same end. We believe in the intelligence and enterprise of the valley residents, and we are confident now that the hope of the State is centered in them that they will generously assist San Fran- isco in making a grand inland empire of their valle; S0ME EUROPEAN IDEAS. ‘While we are talking of so extending and enforcing the Monroe doctrine as to ex- clude European interference in any part of America, some Europeans are discussing the advisability of excluding us from their continent. As a rule these discussions have gone no further than to suggest the formation of a trade league to shut out American products from the European market, but lately there has been observed a tendency to widen the question from economics to the whole field of politics. It seems that our methods of conducting diplematic affairs ate not altogether pleas- ing to the European jingoes. American sympathy with Cuba is not satisfactory to Spain, and the Waller affair in Madagascar is not pleasing to France. There are even some people who object to the interest which our Government exhibited in the condition of the Armenians, and what is more surprising, we have been accused of extending our intervention into the Medi- terranean itself. Upon the strength of these charges those who have hitherto con- tented themselves with trying to exclude bolder tone, and now declare that our inter- pretation of international law has become s0 aggressive it can no longer escape the attention and vigilance of Europe. ‘When we consider what a flat, flaccid and flabby thing Grover Cleveland’s foreign policy has been, it is amusing to learn that there are some people who consider it aggressive. American sympathy with Cuba has found no expression frcm the Govern- ment, and even the act of the Spanish officer who fired upon an American ship has not roused the administration to any very vigorous effort. We have done nothing for the Armenians, nothing for Madagascar nor even anything for Vene- zuela or Nicaragua. The charge of inter- vening in the Mediterranean is a genuine surprise, and it is hard to tell to what it can possibly refer unless some of our millionaires have been making too much of a racket on their yachtsin that classic sea. 1t is probable the whole of this outburst is only another proof that weakness pleases nobody and bunglers irritate everybody. With a strong, earnest, broad-minded, resolute man in the State Department, the United States would have arranged all rendering anything and without offending a single nation. We would have had firm carping critics. There was never any talk of excluding American products from Europe when Blaine was in the State De- partment arranging reciprocity treaties, nor was there any condemnation of our in- administration goes out of office, therefore, we may look for a renewal of a foreign part of the world. THE FRUIT INDUSTRY. If we may rely upon the estimates made by E.L.Goodsell in & recent interview published in the New York Tribune Cali- fornia will in a comparatively few years have a practical monopoly of the fruit production in the United States for com- mercial purposes; and the fruit-growing districts of the East will have to turn to something else for a staple crop. After pointing out that the export of fresh fruit from California has grown from The last named of these The growers are learning economy in production, are distribution, are uniting to handle labor, turn out fine products and reach a more the days when they made handsome prof- The most important of all the lessons which they have learned is that prosperity is a matter over which they themselves they ing upon them has brought relief commensurate In learning this they were merely mastering the oldest problem in the conduct of human affairs—that he who would prosper must help himself. This has been the most painful lesson for | California to learn, but the time had to come for learning it, and the present Was | gouth African fruits ripen in the winter The San Joaquin Valley is only begin- ning to see its advantages. Its residents long ago could have started it well on its ica if they had employed the resources our meat, grain and fruit, have taken a | these diplomatic perplexities without sur- and admiring friends where we now have terpretation of international law when he ‘was there to enforce 1t. When the present policy that will make us friends instead of enemies, and demonstrate by its force the folly of any attempt to prevent the legiti- mate exercise of American influence in any State for canning and drying, he went on to say that of something over 400,000 acres planted in fruit trees in the State only about one-half are in bearing, and conse- quently that within five years we may look for a total output of fruit of over800,000,000 bushels. Nor would this imply overpro- , | duction, for, according to Mr. Goodsell, the fruit industry of California iscon- ducted with such scientific knowledge and with such well-directed energy that it will be as easy five years from now to h_andle the enormous crop of that period as it was to handle that of last year. ‘While our fruit production has been ad- vancing with these giant strides, there has been little progress in the industry in any part of the East, and in some of the most famous fruit districts there has been a notable diminution. Disease has soaffected the peach trees of Delaware that last year only 10,000 nalf bushels were shipped from a region that a few years ago shipped 6,000,000 bushels. The disastrous blizzards of last winter not only destroyed the orange crop of Florida but severely cripp led the industry by killing the trees. Thus as we advance our American competitorsretreat, | and as we have said, it would seem to be a matter of only a comparatively few years 1| when the fruit industry will be localized on the Pacific Coast as cotton in the South, wheat in the Northwest and corn in the Mississippi Valley. It is worth nothing that Mr. Goodseil calls attention to the lack of lemon produc- | tion in this country. Weare the greatest lemon consumers in the world, and yet it is said the production of lemons in America t|is so limited at the present time, both as ) | regards quantity and seasons, that all of f| California’s and Florida’s products do not supply 10 per cent of the country’s needs. After the months of August and Sep- tember, when our domestic lemon crops mature, but for Sicily we should be with- out any lemons whatsoever, except for a | few that Spain sends us during the rest of the year. If we are ever to have a rival in fruit- growing it will be in South Africa, where extensive fruit plantations have been made and whence British capital is already arranging for large shipments to New York. From such competition, however, we have little to fear. In the first place t s r months when our fresh fruits are out of the market, and in the second place the country, having now had its experience vith free-trade tariff tinkering, will be wise enough hereafter to give every Ameri- can industry all the protection it needs to secure it against the blighting results of foreign competition. KINDS OF JOURNALISM. In another column we publish an edi- torial from the Fresno Republican, which gives & philosophical explanation of the CawLL’s success under its present manage- ment—namely, that it is a cosmopolitan nstead of a metropolitan journal; that it s published in the interest of all California, including San Francisco, and not for San Franciscoalone. The Republican is clearly | right in declaring that the CaLL is succeed- ing, for while boasting wounld be incom- patible with the spirit which animates this journal, and while we should be pleased to see every newspaper that is working for the good of California enjoy a similar success, it is a simple fact, so far as we know, that the long and swift strides which the CAryL is making in prosperity present a unigue spectacle in this part of the world. * Dropping our own concerns and speak- ing generally, we believe that manliness and all that goes with it—generosity, fair- ness, courage, hopefulness, unflagging | energy and positive convictions, with a | proper sense of moral responsibility to the | community—must constitute the base of any wholesome and permanent success. It | is true that success is often achieved with- | out the exercise of these qualities, for a | generous proportion of the people are heed- | less, caring only to be entertained, and are | disregardful of the true character of the | entertainer. But no matter what the ex- | tent of this heedlessness the controlling | epirit of the social organism—the thing which keeps this people stable and its | Government secure—is the manliness that | abides in the hearts of men, and all men’s admiration of that quality, whenever and wherever they find it. The material interests of California need for their development the co-operative ef- | fort of every individual, company, corpor- 'i ation and newspaper in the State. In carry- | ing out this work we bring good to our own people, and that is well; but lying beyond | the limits of our own State family is a great broad world peopled by beings much like us and to whom it should be our pleasure, as it is our duty, to offer the blessings and | comforts which we enjoy. By bringing nected at any point where their service was required. < ‘While the story comes from too far in the east of Europe to be accepted with un- hesitating credibility, there is enough of probability in it to make it interesting. Whether true or false there is 8 g suggestion in it for American manufac- turers of electrical appliances. Any man who can make a successful exhibit of that kind in California will have a bigadver- tisement for his machines and confer a benefit on the State. There are plenty of places in California where there are small farms, water power and everything negded for the experiment. The thing is certainly worth a test and if no manufacturer comes forward perhaps the experimental farm at Berkeley might make the trial. S SR T PERSONALS. Dr. Arnot of San Diego is at the Lick. James M. Gills of Sonoms is at the Lick. Dr. R. W. Kent of Sonoma is stopping at the Grand. C. D. Eastin, & merchant of Nevada City, 1s at the Lick. W. H. Shepherd, an attorney of Fresno, isat the Baldwin, 8. A. Alexander, a merchant of Fresno,is a guest at the Lic Senator Thomes Flint Jr. of San Juan is stop- ping at the Grand. J. A. Heyer, e hotel man of Nevada City, is a guest at the Lick. Dr. H.J. Ring of Ferndale, Humboldt County, is & guest at the Russ. Senator E. C. Seymour of S8an Bernardino is stopping at the Grand. Professor G. Wharton Janes of Echo Mountain is stopping at the Grand. G. L. Threlkel, a fruit-grower of Newcastle, is registered at the Grand. George Brandt, a capitalist of Pacific Grove, arrivea at the Lick yesterday. D. Lubin of the firm of Weinstock & Lubin of Sacramento is at the Grand. Professor Ed Muller of Nevada City is among yesterday’s arrivals at the Lick. W. B. Hatfield, a lumber man of Verdi, Ne- vads, is registered at the Russ. G. Gray of Tombstone,an owner in the Tough Nut mine, is registered at the Russ. Senator B. F. Langford of San Joaquin is among yesterday’s arrivais at the Palace. Colonel E. D. Boyle, & miningman from Ne- vada, registered at the Palace yesterdey. P. R. Davis, the County Surveyor of Sonoma County, registered at the Russ yesterday. James D. Hoge Jr. of the Seattle Post-Intelli- gencer arrived at the Occidental yesterday. people into California we are giving them the most wholesome bounty that it is in our power to bestow. But this view of it is only half sufficient. The subject has notalone a material aspect. It would be unfair and immoral to neglect the grave duty of so governing our con- duct as to place it in harmony, to the full extent of our small power, with the in- finite graces which nature has bestowed upon’our State, and thus make the picture complet®. If we should discoveramong us a tendency to pander to ignoble tastes, we should suppress it; if jealousies among agencies which should be united in spirit, we should crush them. In short, what- ever is mean is hurtful, and that which harms manhood retards prosperity. The spirit which animates the CavrLis that which is now springing into so virile activity in California, and it affords us im- measurable gratification to know that we area part of it and are in a position to urge it on. The small, narrow and insular spirit, the selfishness, the inactivity, the undignified jealousies, an indifference to the moral health of the State—these have been the agencies that have kept California down. Our people are shaking them off at last, and are standing forth with open faces turned to the world. And so long as men and women know the value of exer- cising those qualities which are new ad- vancing to the front among our people, the Cary will grow and prosper. WORTH A TRIAL. Itis said that a manufacturing firm in Budapest, which does a large business in electrical machines and appliances, re- cently, for advertising purposes, set up in the neighborhood of that city a plant by which they gave a remarkable exhibition of the various ways in which electricity can be utilized in carrying on agricultural work. The story goes that from a single station electricity was supplied to three farms, a dairy, a planing and a grist mill. \The planer was driven by this power alone. Grinding was done by water power most of the time, and the electric motor came into use only in emergencies. In the dairy a 10-horsepower. motor operated several pumps and some small apparatus. Each of the farms had a 12-horsepower motor, mounted on a truck and housed, and moved about from place to place, to drive pumps, threshing machines and other things. The 23,000,000 pounds in 1885 to 160,000,000 | power circuits were carried through the pounds in 1894, and that in the latter year | fields on pole lines in the conventional about 800,000,000 pounds were used in the | way, and the electric motors could be con- George L. Arnold of Los Angeles, member of the State Board of Equalization, is at the Lick. R. H. Beamer of Woodland, a member of the State Board of Equalization, registered at the Lick yesterday. JohnT. McCall, owner of the Grey Eagle Bar mines of Placer County, arrived in town yesterday and is stopping at the Grand. Postmaster McCoppin was on duty yesterday for the first time in several days. He has been suffering from an attack of 1a grippe, but has now fairly recovered. Washington Porter, the senformember of the big fruit-shipping firm of Porter Bros. of Chi- cago, arrived here on his annual trip to this State and is stopping at the Palace. Ex-United States Senator John Martin of Kansas arrived in this city yesterday to meet Colonel Wells Hendershott on ‘the business of the Central Arizona Railway and the Hudson Reservoirand Canal Company,in which both the gentlemen are interested. The Senator is stovping at the Grand. FPEOFLE TALKED ABOUT. Mrs. William Carleton wgs a Baptist mis- sionary tg India before she nfarried Mr. Carle- ton. Her first husband and her three children died in the Far East, and it was owing to her own poor health that Mrs. Carleton returned to this country. She is still greatly interested in missionar; k, and has organized a band of missionary workers in Brooklyn, where she lives, known as the “Farthest Lights.”” She has no children now. After his resignation Count Taaffe endea- vored to lead the life of a country gentleman and to make as good an article of cheese as he had formerly made of statesmanship, but these simple pleasures appear to have palled onhim. He has now written a novel, which issoon to be published, in which the secret political life of Austria under his governor- ship is depicted. The Queen of Korea thinks a great deal about her herlth. She lives in constant dread of some disease which will prove fatzl. A lady physi- cian is accommodated with a suite of rooms in the royal palace,and is obliged to visit the Queen every day. When her Majesty is in the least indisposed, she must always remain within earshot. TX}« doctor’s salary, however, is £3500. Minister Mendonca of Bfazil, who, it is re- ported, will be recalled from his legation in Washington to occupy & set on the Supreme bench of hiscountry, is one of the most cour- teous men in the diplomatic service at the cap- ital. He was formerly & journalist' in Rio Janeiro, though for twenty-one years he has served Brazil in the United States. Miss Grace Dodge, who is well known throughout the country for her great work among girls, is tall and strong of figure, and hasa sweet face, with mild, expressive eyes. In conversation she is all enthusiasm, and her cheeks glow as she talks of her work. Professor Max Muller, who used to be a strong oppoxzent of girl’s colleges, now con- cedes that such institutions are a great use in the world. He says they tend wonderfully to the improvement of the whole of woman’s character. Mary E. Wilkins, the story-writer, i3 a quiet little woman, who seldom intrudes her voice when with people whom she does not know well. She is the personification of many of her New England women. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Dedbroke—Let me give you my note for that money I owe you. Jumpupps—Oh, never mind. Dedbroke—! assure you I'd feel much more comfortable if you'd let me give you my note. Jumpupps—But I don’t want you to feel com- fortable. I wantyou to hurry and pay up.— Browning, King & Co.'s Monthly. “Bah!” hissed the Wagnerite. shiper of mere melody 1" “Iwould rather,” cooed the devotee of the Italian school, “‘be a devotee of melody thana devotee of malady.” It was plain that he bhad been reading “De- generation.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. Visitor — Look! Your busband has fallen downstairs, and I'm sure he has killed himself. Hostess (wife of celebrated baliplayer)—No, ““Base wor- John has just signed a contract to play with the New Yorks and he’s only hardening him- self for sliding to bases.—Puck. Nodd—Our nursegirl has just had a terrible fit of sickness. Todd—Yes? What was the matter? Nodd—By mistake she took some medicine she was going to give to the baby.—Tit Bits. ‘He—Darling, m; ary has been raised $500 & year, but you mustn’t tell your father. She—Why not? He—He might get the idea that I could sup- port you.—Brooklyn Life. Hobbs—We're going to have chilly, rainy ‘weather for at least two weeks longer. Bobberty—How do you know that? Hobbs—I've just got my new spring overcoat. —Chicago Record. ““Have you any friends in this city?” asked the paying teller at the bank. ‘‘No,” he replied. “I'm a baseball umpire.”— Washington Star. —e "I FIxD theé Royal Baking Powder su- perior to all the others inevery respect. It is entirely free from ‘all adulteration and unwholesome impurity, and in baking it ves off & ter volume of leavening gas any other powder. “WALTER 8. KAI?. M.D.” Chemist to the Chicago Board of Health. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Benator J. Sloat Fassett of New York, Repub- lican nominee for Governor of New York ageinst Roswell P. Flower three years 8go, is in San Francisco at the Palace Hotel. A CALL reporter visited the gentleman in his room yesterdey. “Glad to see you. Iam of the faith myself. 8it down. The CALL—yes, the CALL; a Republi- can paper. Quite right. Can I be of service to you?” Mr. Fassett drew his chair up beside thatof the reporter and opened up his heart as though he were looking for good stories himself. “You see, my dear sir, I am out of public life now—merely on the coast for my own personal business. I have ceased to be an umbrella— the property of everybody. Ha!ha!ha! Iam content to tend to my own business.” Mr. Fassett scemed to relish the idea that he 'was no longer before the people for something in the political line. “Doubtless you have some hobby which has made the serious mistake of representing only that City, and but a part of it at that. It has not been in touch with the rest of the State,and in a strangely blind way it has failed to note that the welfare of the interior and the metropolis are so bound up together that what injures the one injures the other,and that what advances the one advances the other. The his- tory of the San Francisco papers demonstrates the truth of this assertion, and we write with the remark of & prominent writer of that City still lingering in our memory. He said; “Oh, d—— the country; it doesn’t count.” There is the text; the metropolitan papers of every day are the sermon. Against this narrow and less than provineial spirit the CALL'S present policy is & protest. That iv will win is as certain as that more than three-fourths of the people of the State live outside of the City. It is winning; the im- provement in the appearance of the CALL, both daily and weekly; the constantly increasing demand for it, and the broad and enlightened spirit in its editorial columns are the proof of [ A e = = = = S S S = S i R | ! 3 SENATOR J. SLOAT FASSETT, WHO IS LOOKING FOR A HOBBY. | Sketched from life for the “Call” by Nankivell.] affords you plenty of amusement aside from polities?” “No; and, do you know, I wish sometimes I had. There really must be endless recreation | in falling victim to a fad or & hobby. A well- regulated man ought to have a stableful of hobbies to ride whenever his regular occupa- tion becomes monotonous. There is a certain amount of contentment in finding a fascination in some science, art or fad. Just think, one can go right into some apparently forgotten science, some field of antiquity, and forget everything else. It must be delightful. “My old friend Jack Thacher of the awarding committee of the World's Fair, was perfectly crazy over autographs and books published in the thirteenth century. And, doyou know, he | ‘was most industrious and herd-working when not riding his hobby.” ““Cannot you find something to divert your attention from business cares?” Mr. Fassett, the man who has been chairman of the National Republican Committee and almost u candidate for the Vice-Presidency, | drew his chair up a little nearer and let his heart beat as though he were back in Harvard telling stories to his room-mate. “Yes, there i8 some diversion—there is & great deal of it. Ilove to watch other people and study them under peculiar circumstances. 1 can always learn from those who come in con- tact with me. I canalways find some amuse- ment. I remember once, at & reception given by my wife. There is her picture on the mantel- piece and there are the children. God bless them. Well, Icame in iate and she asked me if there was any one in the room whom I de- sired to meet. ‘Yes,’ I said, ‘that beautiful brown-eyed girl over there by the conserva- tory.” 1 was presented, but somehow the young lady did not catch my mname. We talked for some time, and I finally inquired whether or not there was any one present whom she had not met. ‘Yes,’ she answered, ‘I would like to meet Mr. Fassett” Ithoughtat first that she ‘was making sport of me, but I told her that I had heard Mr. Fassett express a desire to meet her some moments before, and that he had called her & ‘beautiful brown-eved girl’ She was in ecstacy over this information, and, as I pretended to be a warm friend of Mr. Fassett, she insisted upon my hunting him up and com- pleting the introduction. We looked all over the house for Fassett, and she finally asked me if I was married. I answered in the affirma- tive and introduced the wife of my private secretary a8 my own. Unfortunately, my own wife overheard the introduction, and from that Ilearned—" “What?" “Not to do it again.” It was a good time to laugh, and the Benator joined in heartily. ‘‘You see, that was my recreation for that evening, but it never lasts ag long as & hobby. My eldest son if full of them, but I feel quite commonplace.” G. 8. Hinsdale, who came to California in February, 1849, was in the southern mines for & number of years in the early mining days. Yesterday at the Lick House he was talking of a lynching party they had down at Curtls Creek in Tuolumne in 1850. “We were not trusting murderers in those days to executive clemency. One day agambler murdered & man in cold blood, and preparations were immedi- ately made to hang him. A young sprig of the law made himself very officious in demanding that the gambler be given a trial. The boys were rather accommodating, and a court was improvised in 'a saloon; officers were chosen and the ‘trial proceeded with the attorney undertaking to conduct the defense. He was persuaded that it was not necessary to have the prisoner present, but otherwise was given full latitude and an opportunity to make areputation, and he made good use of it. The courtroom began to thin out after all the evi- dence was putin and the attorney had begun his speech for the defense. Before long there was nobody left to listen to him but the Judge, who complimented him on his able defense, told him that he might rest assured that the murderer had had a fair trial and adjourned court. In the meantime the crowd, which had left the courtroom, had hanged the prisoner.” THE SAN FRANCISCO PRESS. A representative of & San Francisco paper was in Fresno not long ago, and while here he discussed the present conduct of the Cawii, which paper he did notrepresent. He said: “The CALL, under 1ts new management, is & failure. Its editor has gone to the City from the country, where he had a decent local paper, and he is trying to introduce provincial ideas into metropolitan journalism. Of course the attempt is bound to be a failure.” The assertion was not disputed, for the reason that his hearer preferred to bask in the light of his metropolitan glory and dimly reflect the luster of his metropolitan intellect, rather than to enter into an argument with him. Nevertheless, to point a moral which we ‘would deduce in this article, the assertion snall here be disputed. The CALL under its present management is not a failure; on the contrary, it is forging right to the front among San '| Francisco papers, and this is the reason of the very petty dissalisfaction (or jealousy) with that paper which we have heard expressed, by representatives of rival newspapers, not alone in the case we cite. X And now to our moral:' The CALL 8 succeed- ing. Why? Precisely because it is introducing not provincial—as the gentleman was pleased to term them-—but cosmopolitan ideas to its readers. Heretofore the San Francisco press the fact. The San Francisco newspaper repre- sentative named the CALL'S surest qualification | for success, and termed it a defech—Fresno Republican. GONE TO EUROPE. Departure of the Arch Crowley for World. shop and Father he 0Old Archbishop Riordan and Rev. D} O. Crowley left for New York yesterday even- | ing en route to Europe. The Archbishop, | who goes to Rome, went down to the ferry in a streetcar at 4 o’clock and passed through the gate with no more display than if he were going to Alameda to attend a confirmation. His Grace will be absent for about three months. Father Crowley will accompany the 'Arcubisho% across the Atlantic and will | then go to Ireland. 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