The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 10, 1895, Page 6

CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—#6 per year by mail; by carrier, 150 T we SUNDAY CALL—$1.50 per year. WEEKLY CALL—$1.50 per year. The Eastern office of thé SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Dally and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- sising Bureau, Rhimelander bullding, Rose and Puane streets, New York. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on a vacation? It #0, it Is no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier, or left at Business Office, 710 Market street, will receive prompt attention. FRIDAY...... MAY 10, 1895 —_—e oo Society goes to the dogs. —_—— Good streets induce prosperity. Everybody wants the big bow-wow. The silurian’s only aim is to shoot prog- Tess. If you love California you must love her dogs. Is enterprise a villain that the law should foil at every turn? It isevident that some dogs have a better show than some men. It takes a very wise man to be an optim- ist under all circumstances. When the people have their way we shall have the people’s road, e There is no use fretting over temporary checks in the path of progress. When the flowers fade at Santa Rosa they will blossom at Healdsburg. Every strike of workingmen for higher wages is a blow at the Wilson tariff. ‘When a shade was cast over silver every industry lost something of its sunshine. There can be no progress without ade- quate revenues for public improvements. We could forgive Grover for writing a book, if he would only cease writing let- ters. R Omaha is keeping up with the Eastern procession by indulging in a ruinous hail- storm. Now that Oakland has started a Sunday- closing agitation we may look out for hot weather. It is questionable if art of any kind should depend upon anything except its own merit. Dollar limit or no dollar limit, we must have money enough to pay the expenses of the City. California must have the San Joaquin road and the 8an Joaquin road must have the China Basin. The best opportunity is a chance to show what is in you,and to most men that comes very often. Though Santa Cruz calls her coming fete a water carnival there will be a good deal of the rosy in sight. The organization of progressive men to bring out a ‘“‘Greater Tulare” is another evidence of the coming of big things. Utah’s representative citizens having framed a constitution, the people can vote | themselves into the Union by adopting it. The Harbor Commissioners have put soup for the competing road in the China Basin, but they are liable to get in it them- selyes. The placard, *Made in California,” would be the best advertisement a mer- chant could put on the goods in his shop windows. While Democrats are getting ready to fight over the silver question, Republicans are preparing to settle it harmoniously on & business basis. If our currency had the two legs of bi- meiallism instead of only one, it would not have to borrow a crutch from Roths- childs to stand on. Until Chicago shall have learned how not to bea hotbed of labor disturbances she cannot offer her wonderful growth as a criterion of prosperity. Read the interviews published on an- other page and learn what leading citizens think of the controversy over the lease of China Basin to the 8an Joaquin road. The Harbor Commissioners should at least grant the China Basin to the San Joaquin road under terms that would pre- mit the sale of bonds necessary to construct the line. There is reason for believing that when the Supreme Court drops its next decision on the income tax it will smash the in- iquity into nothing but & grease spot on the Democratic record. Tf the Harbor Commissioners wish to see ships increase in the harbor they should give the San Joaquin road fair play and thus help in building up the City and ex- tending its commercial wealth. ‘We are reminded by recent telegraphic announcements that one of the useful pur- poses of the telegraph is to inform us that Messrs. Corbett and Jackson have mouths and have not forgotien their use. If the swell residents of the City want to find some new charms which the /City possesses, they could notdo better than take some of the trips over the new electric lines of the Mission and Potrero sections. The silunan who opposes public im- provements, through fear that somebody will get a ‘“piece’” out of them, confesses his silurianism in the most poignant fash- ion, for it is the presence of silurians that makes official rascality possible. Every step which Germany takes to re- press by force the growing spirit of revo- lution within her berders only tends tod lend the color of martyrdom to political disaffection, and when that is accom- plished revolution is made all the fiercer and more inevitable. We are pleased to note that the Chronicle yesterday published its coast telegrams on the front page and relegated news from remote localities to a subordinate position. This was true journalism. It showed an appreciation of popular interest in local events, gave to home affairs the rightful rank and benefited the State by emphasiz- ii:gfint.m fact that to Californjans California THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1895. THE TANGLED LEASE. There can be no question that the dis- agreement between the Harbor Commis- sioners and the directors of the San Joaquin road in regard to the proposed lease of the China Basin to the road for terminal facil- ities is altogether the most important ma ter that now concerns the affairs of Cali- fornia. It has clouded the bright prospect of prosperity that seemed so near realiza- tion, and threatens to seriously impede the construction of the competing road, which is so essential to the welfare of every interest of the State. In tnis condition of affairs the first duty of every man having authority in the mat- ter is to consider every aspect of the case fairly and impartially, and earnestly seek for some basis upon which a satisfactory agreement can be reached. The progress of the San Joaquin road must not be; stopped now. It has been undertaken so wisely, promoted so liberally, supported so generally, gone forward so fairly, has promised so much both to the City and to the State, has been so instrumental in awakening a new spirit of enterprise and co-operation among the people, and finally has had in it such possibilities of benefit to every trade and every industry that any- thing which threatens of either failure or postponement seems likea menace to every sanguine hope of better times and every prospect of better conditions. The road must not fail, its construction must not be postponed, nor should there be permitted any shadow of doubt that the western terminal will be in San Fran- cisco. ,The City needs tne road more than the San Joaquin needs it, for her trade is larger than that of the valley and her re- quirements are greater. This fact has been recognized by the capitalists of the City, and they bave contributed the greater por- tion of the money raised to construct the line. I. therefore, the road is shut off from San Francisco, the enterprise will be weakened in the vital point and its success endangered everywhere. The logic of the situation compels a terminal in San Fran- cisco, and if the Harbor Commissioners make that impossible they will practically forbid the road in any section of the State. The voices of the people, expressed through interviews with leading men, at- test the widespread desire for an early settlement of the controversy. Surely the Harbor Commissioners need not persist in treating the San Joaquin Company as if it were suspected of an intention to de- spoil the State. The directors of the com- pany are railroad builders, not railroad wreckers. They are working to benefit San Francisco and the State, not to rob them. The very organization of the road guarantees that it will be operated as a competing line, and in that guarantee, given for the protection and assurance of the interests of the smaller subscribers to the stock, there is an abundant guarantee, also, for the protection of every interest of the City and State. The CArL does no more than publish the general sentiment of the people when it again urges the Harbor Commissioners to reconsider their action. No legal quibble should be permitted to bar the achieve- ment of this great enterprise, which has | been so fairly started. The directors of the road ask only that the lease be given to them under terms that would permit them to float its bonds and go forward with the work of construction. When they are investing so much of their own money for the public good, surely the Harbor Commissioners ought to be willing to carry out the intentions of the Legislature and the desires of the people and meet them half way in a matter of such vital importance as this. THE BENCH SHOW. The bench show will probably find a lib- eral patronage from all classes of people and certainly deserves it. It is conceded that the array of dogs exhibited is very fine and that the management has ar- ranged the show and the terms of the com- | petition with an excellence of judgment that will go far to make it a success in every particular. The people who attend the exhibition will have, therefore, much to be pleased with, as well as a good op- portunity of informing themselves on the points that are considered essential to raise a dog to the highest aristocracy of his kind. Almost every man who has any kindness of nature or any sympathy of disposition at all has a fondness for dumb animals as well as for human beings. The brute crea- tures of earth have virtues that humanity finds worthy of its liking. From canary birds to elephants, every animate thing that | man can live in association with is found to have some charm of companionship that gives delight to his master. No other dumb creature, however, is so companion- able as a dog. No other has been so closely allied with man through all the history of human development from savagery up to the present enlightenment, and no other, with possibly the exception of the horse, has done more to ascist in his advance- ment. The time has gone by when the white race has any need of a dog to assist in de- fending the home or in obtaining food. Nevertheless the animal remains in our homes as valued as ever, and there is hardly any likelihood that he will ever be wholly banished. The man who does not have a liking for dogs and a sympathy with them is neither so good nor so wise as he thinks himself. It is to the credit of society that it likes dogs, and the larger the crowd that attends the bench show the better sign it will be of the real good- heartedness and healthy human nature of our people. IMPROVEMENT OLUBS. In yesterday's issue we noted the fact that the progressive residents of Tulare had organized themselves intoan improve- ment association for the purpose of en- hancing the attractiveness of that city. Now comes the news that the towns of the San Joaquin Valley, for a distance of thirty miles south of Selma, had organized themselves for the immediate purpose of taking steps to secure the Valley road. It was such an organization of the leading men of Stockton that made it possible for that city to make so generous an offer to the Valley road, and to secure the road for their city. ‘When Sacramento, a few years ago, be- came alarmed over the movement to trans- fer the Capitol to San Jose, her more en- terprising citizens organized an associa- tion for the purpose of improving the city, and a great deal of good wasaccomplished. We have not heard much about this asso- ciation recently, but we trust that it is still in existence and is aware of the power that it can wield. Oakland has two or three admirable associations, the latest being that of the merchants, which has been doing some excellent work in the way of offering inducements to the Valley road. 1t is one of the strongest and most earnest organizations of the kind in the State. In various other cities and towns are boards of trade, chambers of commerce and similar organizations. San Francisco bhas a number of these, but the one up to this time that has,done what the City most needs—apart from the work of the Half- million Club, which has a different func- 3 tion—is the Merchants’ Association, which is working steadily and intelligently to improve the appearance of the City. It is worthy of notice that as a rule the merchants of a city are the men who best understand the value of attractive exter- nals and who are best qualified to introduce them. The two lines of work which lie be- fore every city and town in this State are internal improvements and the advertise- ment of their attractions. In the larger cities and towns i¢ is eminently advisable that separate bodies have the direction of these two tasks, butin the smaller ones the best results can be accomplished by a single body. It isquite evident, however, that while the work of enhancing local attractions is strictly a home concern, advertising a community and taking the other steps necessary to induce settlement require a general State co-operation. The Half-million Club of 8an Francisco would be the proper central body through which all the clubs and associations of the inte- rior having the settlement of the State in view could most profitably operate, and to this ena each town and city in the State sBould have a representative in the San Francisco body. The recently created State Bureau of Highways will be the proper body with which local improvement associations might co-operate to the best advantage, as from this bureau may be learned the best methods of streets and roads. It is most encouraging to see these or- ganizations being formed throughout the State, for it will be through them that all the good things needed by California can be best accomplished. REACHING SOUTHWARD. Comparatively few of the residents of the City seem to be aware of the extent and rapidity with which the region south of Market street is being developed. Refer- ence is not made here to what is commonly known as “‘South of Market street,” that dull and unprogressive region lying be- tween Sixth street and the bay and includ- ing some of the most execrable streetsin the City, but that broader and newer dis- | trict, which includes the farther Mission and swings southwestwardly toward the Potrero. Here one finds conditions wholly dif- ferent from those of the dilapidated “South of Market street”” region. Instead of the unspeakable cobblestone pavements of the older section, one encounters in the new areas many miles of noiseless bitum- inous pavements and smooth macadam- ized streets. The houses are smart, bright | and clean, and numberless carefully tended flower-gardens add their testimony to the numerous other evidences of a superior population. There is prevalent through- out all the district a spirit of thrift and progress that is a stranger to the region dominated by Rincon Hill. The Market-street Railway Company has contributed generousiy to these handsome results. For a year or more it has been steadily pushing new electric lines in all directions and improving the service of the old lines under its control. The San Mateo electric road to the cemeteries, in spite of the drawbacks under which it has suffered as & pioneer line, has accom- plished much, particularly in making ac- cess to the cemeteries so cheap and con- venient. Even the Potrero proper has sud- denly taken on a new aspect since the wretched horsecar service on Kentucky street was changed to an electric line. By reason of excellent streetcar service, the extension of branch lines in so many directions and the laying of good pave- ments and sewers, this new section of the City is the one that now is more rapidly developing than any other. It isthe most valuable object-lesson that can be found to prove that good pavements and a weil- managed streetcar service will invariably stimulate development. It is as in- structive in its way as the old Rincon Hill region is in its, and in an exactly oppo- site direction. Some of the most attractive of the new streetcar trips which can be found in the City lie within this new region. The sys- tem of transfers to the various side lines is somewhat bewildering at first, but it is impossible to find a line that is not charm- ing for the variety of scenery and the expansive panoramas which it presents. The straight run to the end of the Mission line is beautiful, as also is that to the cemeteries; but from each of these are branch lines that offer attractions of their own. One of the pleasantest opportunities which all of them present is that of reach- ing the hills which overlook the City, from the San Bruno heights all the way around to Twin Peaks. AN INCOME-TAX SCANDAL. In the course of hisargument on Wednes- day before the Supreme Court against the income tax Mr. Choate, in denouncing the injustice of the law in exempting certain corporations from the tax while imposing its burdens upon others, gave a description of one of these exempt corporations in language so picturesque and with a con- clusion so startling that it well merits to be called to the attention of those who may have been too busy to read the argu- ment. Mr. Choate did not give the name of the corporation to which he referred, but he said it has accumulated property amount- ing to $204,000,000. He then exclaimed: “Do you know what this concern is that is given the vast advantage implied in this exemption? It goes under the reputabie name of a moneyed corporation. Itisa moneyed monster. It lives upon money. It swallows money; it digests money; it breeds money. Itlays golden eggs by the bucketful every day and then weaves golden coins about them to warm and vivify them. It has asmany arms as there are States in the Union and whicn it is constantly putting out in all directions for the purpose of raking in with. Nor are its operations confined to the bounds of this country alone. It extends to England and to the European countries and is always raking in money.” After this description of the monster cor- poration, Mr. Choate went on to say that having obtained so much money the com- pany reinvested it by forming trust com- panies, organizing banks, building and reorganizing railroads and floating Gov- ernment loans. Not only this, but it con- trolled Congress and directed legislation, as had been confessed by the Attorney- General. The point in these statements which will attract most attention is the assertion that the unnamed corporation according, to the confession of the Attorney-General him- self, bad controlled Congress and directed legislation. It appears then the income tax was as subject to the dictation ofa great trust as was the sugar schedule in the tariff. Truly the Congress of ‘‘reform” was the worst on record. While making the loudest professions of devotion to the ‘‘dear veople,” it was legislating always according to the wishes of the most cor- rupting forces in the country. Capital invested in legitimate enterprises, in fac- tories and in business that gaye employ- ment to workingmen and helped to build up the country was deprived of protection and burdened with an incometax; but the great grasping combinations of avaricious capital that aim at monopoly and are per- nicious to the nation were exempt from the income tax in some cases and granted pro- tection in others according as they desired, This legislation is enough to con- vince anybody that all the plutocrats re- quire in order to misgovern the country is to have'a Congress of fools and Grover Cleveland for President. A MATTER OF OLIMATE. The people of the Eastern States have been surprised to the verge of amazement by the announcement that the Mexican International Exposition is to begin in the spring and close in the fall instead of being held in the winter time. They have judged other climates by their own, and concluded that in a country so far south as Mexico, the summer must be hot beyond endur- ance to any except natives, and that the winter is the only season when the weather is at all temperate. The repeated expression of this surprise has set the Mexican authorities to the task of explaining that climate is not a mere question of latitude. Records of the ther- mometer over a series of years are quoted to show that on the tableland on which the City of Mexico stands the temperature changes but little during the year, aud that the weather of July and August is not 80 hot there as it is in most of the cities of the Eastern States. In fact the Two Re- publics exultingly declares ‘‘there is no place in the United States whose summer climate is as agreeable as that of the table- lands of Mexico.” There is, of course, an exaggeration in the boast that no locality in the United States has a climate equal to that of the Mexican capital. The Two Republics evi- dently overlooked the fact that California is a part of the United States. Despite this exaggeration, however, there is reason for betieving the lessons in climatology which the Mexicans are giving to the East- ern people may be beneficial to them. Right knowledge is always worth hearing, and particularly so when it puts an end to widespread errors. ‘We, ourselves, have considerable inter- est in the subject. Eastern papers persist in speaking of California as a ‘‘winter resort.” Most of those who come here for the winter return home in early spring to avoid what they fear will prove an excess- ive heat in the summer months. Judging all the world by their experience with the Eastern States, they find it difficult to listen seriously to a man who says the summers are cool and pleasant in a 'and where the orange grows and flowers bloom in winter. Having ourselves tried for a long time to teach our Eastern friends something of the mysteries of climate and having been met almost everywhere with incredulity, we are glad to have the Mexicans assist us in the work of education. We desire to bring the next Republican National Con- vention to this city for many reasons, but not the least of them is the opportunity it will give for making known the true nature of a California summer. We are weary of having our delightful State classed along with Florida and Bermuda as a mere win- ter resort, and if the Mexican International Exposition will help in giving the Eastern people true ideas about the eccentricities of elimate, we shall have good reason to promote it and do all in our power to help make it a big thing. PERSONAL. H. Silver. a capitalist of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. Dr. W. D, Rodgers of Watsonville is a guest at the Occidental. W. H. Turner, an attorney of Merced, is stay- ing at the Grand, €. C. Might, an attorney of Modesto, regis- tered yesterday at the Lick. H. P. Gillls, a leading attorney of Yreka, registered at the Palace yesterday. Francis A. Fee, an attorney of Madera, and Mrs. Fee are registered at the Lick. ‘William Beckman of Sacramento, an ex-Rail- road Commissioner, is at the Grand. R. M. Shackleford, a prominent citizen of Paso Robles, is staying at the Occidental. A, Carl Bank, superintendent of the Preston School of Industry at Ione, is at the Grand. A.B.Hammond and R. A, Eddy, prominent mining men of Montana, are at the Palace. Professor J.J. Donovan of Santa Clara Col- lege came up to town yesterday aud registered at the Lick. Bruce Burnside, ex-Chief Justice of Ceylon, arrived here yesterday by the Mariposa on his way howe to England and is stopping at the Occidental. Prince Franz Josef of Battenberg and Colonel Townshend of the Light Guards, who {s accom- panying the Prince on his tour around the world, are at the Occidental. Joseph M. Oat, Postmaster-General of the Hewailan Islands, and Mrs. Oat, have come up on the Mariposa for a short holiday and reg- istered yesterday at the Occidental. Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, the widow of the novelist, and her son and daughter, Lloyd Osborne and Mrs, Strong, who came up from Samon on the Mariposa, are stopping at the Occidental. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Effie—Please, Uncle Arthur, do come and play chess with me. Uncle Arthur—Oh, Effie! Don’t you remem- ber? It's Sunday. Effie—Well—we can let the bishop win.—Pall Mall Budget. Customer—Are those suspenders strong? Salesman—Strong? Well, I guess yes. Why, last week 8 man bought a pair of them and im- mediately went and hanged himself, using them instead of a rope.: w York Tribune. Blobbs—How is it you are never troubled with tramps? You don’t keep & dog, do you? Slobbs—No; but my wife bakes her own cake, and they have tumbled to it.—Philadelphia Record. “Uncle, how do you stand on the enforce- ment of the Monroe doctrine?” “Ain’t got much time to fool wid sich,” an- swered the old man. “De good ole straight Baptis’ doctrine am good enough tor me, an’ it’s been for nigh more'n thutty yeahs.”—Cin- cinnati Tribune, ‘Yeast—Bacon refers to his girl across the East River as his Brooklyn sngel. Crimsonbeak—You don’t mean to tell me that there's another trolley victim.—Yonkers Stateman. “Have you heard that the big sleeves are go- ing out, George, dear?” “Yes, my love, I have, but I don’t believe it.” “Why not, pray?”’ “Idon’t believe theycan get through the door.”—Harper’s Bazar. McSwatters—I wish I could get out of paying Dobson that $10 I owe him. McSwitters—Why don’t you go to him with a roll of bills in your hand and say, “Dobson, here’s that fifty I borrowed of you?” McSwatters—But I only borrowed ten! McSwitters—That's all right. The object is to kill Dobson by the shock and the $10 is yours.—Syracuse Post. The Cheerful Idiot.—*I notice,” said the scientific boarder, “that they have succeeded in making very fair bread from wood.” “I suppose,” chipped in the cheerful idiot, a8 he saw an opening, “that it would be more palatable if spread with a little log jam.”—In- dianapolis Journal. A young fellow having been asked by & re- cruiting sergeant whether he wished to eniist in & Scottish regiment replied: “Notlikely. I'd rather go to the lunatic asylum than enlist in 2 Highland regiment.” “Aweel,"” said the sergeant, “I've no doubt ;;'dd.fioel mair at hame there.”’—Household ‘ords. ‘Would-be progressive people sometimes forget ‘that the freight train makes more noise than the fast line.~Cleveland Plain Dealer. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “California?” said Senator Cullom in the Palace yesterday. “A very poetic name. Whence did it spring?” “From &n old Spanish work written in l!le fourteenth century. Ihave the translation in my library,” answered Colonel Isaac Trumbo, to whom the question was addressed. “What, colonel, written in the fourteenth century?” said the Senator inquiringly. ‘This country was not discovered until the fif- teenth.” “Prue, True,” answered thecolonel. “That's what makes it so interesting as & stor. “Well, tell us about it. Can you give us the actual facts?” Senator Cullom settled down and the colonel began: “I believe I can quote the whole story almost word for word. It always impressed me. These are the words: ‘Westward from the mainland beyond where the sun sets in the blue sea, there is & forest growing up from the rich earth of & clime made for all good and perfect things. It is there that birds of beauteous plumage and flowers of rarest hue grow wild and free, with- out the hand of man to rear them up or tear them down. The beasts of the field lie down together and live in perfect peace. When the great orb of day rises outof the east the air is filled with the sweet carol of birdsand sleep- ing Nature wakes to greet the dawn. There are no clouds in the sky, and only the dew of night, which is the mist of God’s tears, falls upon the earth and feeds the flowers. Over all, and grander than the ever changing scene, a fair-haired woman reigns, and every leaf that flutters in the breeze or falls in autumn to the mother earth is reared to life or laid to rest under her own watchful eyes. ’'Tis she who guides the petals of the tiger-lilies and turns them to the sun as heralds of its coming. “‘There is no land so filled with milk and honey, no forests hali so deep and cool, no improvement fever. Expose yourself to it whenever you get a chance.—San Diego Sun. Manufactories should be multiplied many times, and every mountain stream should turn an industrial wheel. — Ellensburg (Wash.) Capital. Dr. Cleveland is determined to try the gold cure, although he must know that it will al- most certainly kill the patient.—Carson City Tribune. That person is the best off who borrows the fewest ideas from his neighbor and the most from experience and study.—Wheatland Four Corners. If you are not satisfied with the county and cannot speak well of it get out and go some- where else, for while you remain in it you are 2 hindrance to its advancement.—Madera Mer- cury. It is not & boom in the price of town lots or farming property we want now, but an oppor- tunity to ship what we raise to market wllhm_lt paying all it will bring for frieght.—Visalia Times. Organized soclety Owes every man an oppor- tunity to get his bread it he is wiliing to get it by the sweat of his brow; but it does not owe any man aplace on the earth who will not earn his bread when the opportunity is fur- nished.—Colusa Sun. This State has the soil and climate to pro- duce all the sugar needed in the United States, but the addition of capital and business ener- gy are required as an addition to make a suc- cess of such enterprises. Claus Spreckles suc- cessfully broke the ground in Watsonville.— Watsonville Pajaronian. The point of greatest prosperity of this State will not be reached until our people own MR, ASHFORD 15 HOPEFUL, He Says the English May Have Something to Say at Honolulu. The British Minister Gave Kind In- timations and Sent Protests on to Kimberly. Clarence W. Ashford, exile from Ha- waii, yesterday received letters from his brother, V. V. Ashford, and other mem- bers of his family in Honolulu, which con- tained some information that was verv cheering to him, and which appeared to make him think kindly and hopefully of the British Government. “I have received a letter from my father,” said Mr. Ashford yesterda “which shows that the British Govern- ment is not indifferent to the rights and interests of its subects in Hawaii. On the day before the Mariposa sailed my brother, V. V. Ashford, who was recently released from jail as a political prisoner, cailed on the British Minister, Captain A. G. 8. Hawes, and had a lengthy interview with him. Immediately after my arrival in San Francisco I wrote a profest and de- mand for damages, sustained by my brother, myself and our families, for being confined in _jail and our business interests destroyed. In the protest I also embodied the fact that I had been banished from the country without cause, and that my brother was slowly dying from maltreat- ment in a wretched prison. “Minister Hawes informed my brother that my protest and demand had been laced in the hands of Lord Kimberly, Eecretary of Foreign Affairs, and that he would give it attention at the earliest pos- sible moment. He even intimated that my brother and I have a good ground for complaint. “The British Government has officially recognized all British subjectsin Hawaii, except A. M. Hewitt, who is a_naturalized Hawaiian citizen. The British subjects, who were imprisoned and forced to suffer other indignities at the hands of the Dole Government, and who can show that they took no active part in the uprising of last January, will without doubt be indemni- COLONEL ISAAC TRUMBO REV(EWS SPANISH HISTORY. |Sketched from life for the “Call” by Nankivell.] streams so crystal clear, no grasses green as | those within her fields. Blending into the | peaceful sea are white and glistening sands | spangled with pebbles of the rainbows’ hues. | No man has touched the shore, and no ship’s | prow has yet been yet turned toward this | wondrous clime, There are no storms of snow, no hurricanes, no winter blasts to mar the per- fect scene. “<Here lives the maiden who was born of ight,and who will only move upwerd and onward when the mighty van of westward moving masses take up the land and turn the streams and make the earth give forth its rich- est treasuree. She waits for Spain and her name is California.’” There was sn impressive silence when the colouel finished his resurrected story, and the Senator from Illinois stroked his chin in deep thought. «“Very pretty, colonel, very pretty. Is that the end?” “No. Balboa came out to this coast, planted his flag in the Pacific Ocean, looked along the | wooded shore, into the pertect blue sky and exclaimed to his followers: «¢This is, indeed, California’s land and Spain has found it.” J. C. McMullen, a rancher living near Nelson, Butte County, told a story last night at the Grand Hotel that well illustrates the trouble a litile too much “mountain dew” will some- times bring on & man. A few days ago, sald Mr. McMullen, XMrs. Owens, a well-known member of the Society of | Christian Endeavor, lectared at Nelson, taking as her subject, “The Power of Influence.” The church had been secured for the occasion, and every seat was filled when the lady began her talk. Mrs. Owens illustrated the subject with | numerous anecdotes, finally winding up with the following story, which should be a perpet- ual warning to the man who “occasionally” takes too much. “I knew a gentlemen once,” said the lec- turer, “who would insist on getting intoxicated | every time he went to town. Well, on the day before Easter this gentleman decided to pay a visit to the neighboring village, and as he was leaving home his wife called out to him: *¢ *Now, John, don't forget about that banner. Iwant it for the Sunday-school class to-mor- row. Remember, it must be 3 feet wide, 4 feet long and bear the inscription, *Unto Us a Son 1s Born.” * | ‘‘John, after taking one or two drinks, forgot | all about the banner, and occupied his time in seeing how drunk & man could get and still be a gentleman. In the meantime the good wife, remembering the fraflty of mankind in gen- eral and the peculiar appetite of her husband in particular, sent one of the younger boys into the village with the following note: ““Unto us a Son is born, three fect wide and four feet long.' ™ Even then John did not remember his wife’s parting injunction about the banner, but re- marked, as he hastily saddled his horse: “Now, 1 guess I will be worried to death by every museum-freak hunter in the country.” Such is the power of influence. Nevada City stands a tair chance of being undermined by those in search of gold. 8. K. Thornton has on exhibition at the Board of Trade rooms on Market street a fine piece of gold quartz taken out of the earth under Nevada City. Some time ago, in following a gold-bearing ledge in the Reward gold mine, a rich streak was encountered that led the miners under the town proper at the west end. In order to drain off the water a tunnel was run in from the creek, which has also been profitable to the miners, as they followed the ledge along the entire length of the tunnel. Appearances indicate that the ledge runs under the entire town. As some of the rock produced 18}4 ounces of gold to the ton there are prospects of other miners seeking for wealth under the streets and houses of Nevada City. Joseph M. Oat, Postmaster-General of the Hawalian Islands, was one of yesterday's ar- rivals by the steamer Mariposa. He has come up here with his wife for & holiday, and will return in two or three weeks. Speaking of the postal service in the islands, yesterday, hesaid: “You can understand that our work is very irregular. Our busiest times are just after the arrival of the steamers, but the amount of mail by them varies greatly. Sometimes we will have one steamer follow another in three or four days, and then not have another for from 17 to 23 days. The Mariposa, on its last trip down, brought us 16,000 letters and as many papers. Our work comes in spurts, as it were.” SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. A town prospers when it has faith in {{self.— Santa Cruz Record. You don't need to quarantine against local | enough hens and hogs to stop the importation of eggs and pork from Eastern States. If these two industries did not prosper here the case would be different; but nowhere in the United States can eggs and pork be more easily and cheaply produced.—Orange County Herald. Clear skies are ours of right, & year of har- | vests, and a twelvemonth of blossoming; and any one who can find any fanlt with a climate like that of California ought to be set down on the apex of the North Pole clothed in a sum- mer suit to consider the mercies which were his while he was here, until he realizes by con- trast the sum total of their immeasureable vastness.—Los Angeles Times. If the terminus of the Valley Railroad should remain here for only asingle year Stockton will gain §10 for every one the road has cost the people. Its coming has been Jlike rain to the drouth-parched earth; like the warmth of the sun to the flowers; like a tonic to the weakly; like “wine to him who is heavy laden,” and the people should be grateful to the source of all the good they have derived.—Stockton In- dependent. We notice that the'San Francisco press, fol- lowing the brilliant lead of the CaLr, have begun to scrape the moss off their backs and brighten up their battle armor. San Fran- cisco seems to be slowly but surely awakening to the fact that if she expects to maintain her supremacy as the metropolis of the Pacific she must be up and doing. Location and priority hold gooa es safeguards only among silurians and antediluvians.—Willows Journal. Biggs needs more new blood—business men who will work together to build up the town and offer inducements to home-seekers to start into business, induce the large land-holders to cut up ranches and sell them in small hold- ings, encourage diversified farming, foster new enterprises, to prove to the consumer that they can buy supplies here as cheap as else- where, to work for good roads that the people may have easy access to the town and to kill off the fossilized whiners by treating them with the contempt they deserve.—Biggs Argus. FEOFPLE TALKED ABOUT. The late Chancellor Briscoe, Vicar of Holy- head, England, left his entire fortune of £10,- 000 to the poor of that city. Queen Amelie of Portugal is stndying medi- cine, and goes into its intricacies with the zest and zeal of & professional man. Queen Victoria wants the portrait of her grandson, the German Emperor, and has com- missioned A. S. Lope to go to Berlin to paint it, James A. Garfield, a son of the late President fied through a formal demand by their Gov- ernment. < *When a British subject has a just claim there is no danger that it will be permitted to lapse into oblivion. If the Government of Hawaii should feel disposed to be stub- born in a refusal to do the fair thing it may receive a dose similar to that dealt out to Nicaraguans at Corinto. “My brother, V. V. Ashford, is much better and will arrive here by the Aus- tralia,” continued Mr. Ashford. ‘‘Since he was released from prison and was per- mitted to have the services of a competent hysician he has im;ln*oved wonderfully. E{e writes me that while in the jail he was denied proper diet, even to fresh milk, and was experimented on with strychnine and a lot of other drugs that nearly sapped away his life.” ARTHUR HIGGINS' FUNERAL. He Was Buried in Cypress Lawn Ceme- tery Yesterday Afternoon. The funeral of young Arthur Higgins, who lost his life Tuesday while endeavor- ing to find the body of Stella Hughes in the ocean at Bakers Beach, took place from the residence 2251 Mission street at 2 P. M. yesterday. The burial service was read by Reyv. Ed- ward B. Spalding, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church. Miss Beatrice Patridge and Mrs. Mills sang ‘‘Nearer, My God, to Thee,” “Rock of Ages” and “Some Sweet Day, By and By.” Assistant Rector Breck then accompanied the remains to Cypress Lawn Cemetery. A large number of friends attended the obsequies. . Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * —————— VERMONT maple sugar, 15¢ 1b, Townsend's.* Policeman—Hey! Why don’t you deliver that message, not stand there a readin’ of it?— R. T. Messenger—Time enough; their office don’t close till 6 o’clock.—Boston Gazette. —————— PALACE sea baths, 715 Filbert street, now open for summer swimming season. B e PUREST imported cognacs, Holland gin and cordials for family use. 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