The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 14, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. et SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL~$6 per year by mail; by carrier, 15¢ per week. SUNDAY CALL—$1.50 per year. WEEKLY CALL—#1.50 per ye The Eastern office of the FRANCISCO CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Bureau, Rhinelander building, Rose and Duane streets, New York. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on 8 vacation? If £0, it 18 1o trouble for us fo 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 recelve prompt attention. MAY 14, 1895 Once more for the streets. We must attend to our ways. The orchards are booming now. Every street downtown calls for improve- ment. The Eastern strike is hitting industry very hard. Whenever Cleveland has a lucid interval, he goes fishing. When acetylene comes in, gas will be the light that fai In San Francisco every prospect pleases and only the streets are vile, There is a *‘good time coming” for every one who coaxes it intelligently. Suspicion without wisdom is an orange tree whose only fruit is thorns. In the lull of National politics let us at- {end to municipal development. artists will not d to be honored. By have to go abrc There is cheating in all trades except those in which there are no fools. The man with most wheels in his head is least apt to have a balance-wheel. So far as streets and highways are con- cerned the bicycle is the wheel horse of re- form. The boom of Lodi’s progre sounding throughout the Valley. gun is re- San Joaguin 1f you wait on the world it will bring you nothing, but if ‘you go for it, it will treat | you well. 1t does not matter if there is a job inthe work of street improvement so long as it is a good job. sed to see the Eraminer join- and effectually in the fight ‘We are plea ing earnestl for good street: “Keep your cyclone cellars in order” isa standing paragraph in Nebraska and Kan- sas papers just now. The best community is that in which the largest proportion of the people work to- gether for the general good. If the people of the northern region of the Mississippi Valley have lost their fruit California will supply them with better. Frost in the Mississippi Valley and a hot spell in California is the kind of variety show the May weather is giving us. This is a very good week for those in au- thority to settle the controversy over the lease of the China Basin and settle it right. The prevalence of footpads hereabout suggests a renewal of the agitation con- cerning the efficacy of the whipping-post. Science continues to do more for us than politics and the inventor brings in a new order of things while the reformer is talk- ing. The Healdsburg fete opens Thursday, ond the roses and girls are all remaining ia the bud, to blossom forth the more gor- geously for the waiting. Ii the Mission does not quit advancing 80 rapidly the Western Addition will begin to wonder if its streets and streetcar ser- vice need special attention. 1t is growing more and more probable that the defeat of China may prove as com- plete a victory for Li Hung Chang and re- form as it was for the Mikado and Japan. Now that gambling in its worst forms is to be abolished at Monte Carlo, some American tourists will not have go strong an inducement to spend their money abroad. The welcome shown to the Valley road directors in the 8an Joaquin Valley shows that the enthusiasm of the whole valley is based on an understanding and not a pass- ing whim. If the footpad industry is not soon sup- pressed the crop of husbands who explain to their wives, on arriving home late and disheveled, how they lost their money will be alarmingly increased. It is an undisputed truth that whoever improves his private property improves the City, and it is none the less true that every improvement of the City isan im- provement for private property. The smallest disagreement among those who have the powerand opportunity to do something for the advancement of the State, is a step backward to the days when grumbling took the place of enterprise. Although Dr. Momerie had to be in- structed concerning the meaning of the phrase “a jay town” as it has been applied to Ban Francisco, he has said sufficient to make us believe that our longest toe is not behind. Again the civilized world is shocked be- caguse a very rich young man at Los | Angeles has fallen in love with a variety actress merely because she is pretty and lovable, and is determined to marry her simply because he believes that she will make a good wife. G. W. Smalley takes the badinage of the American press too seriously when he says that England would not accept Nicaragua | as a gift, and makes the somewhat obscure assertion that England has not read what the American press has been saying, and if it did it wouldn’t care. ‘What we have been pleased to term our hot spell, which was only a pleasant rise of the sun to make our fruit grow the faster and sweeter and our fowers to take in more brilliant hues, is subsiding just as the news comes that a frost has been blight- ing the hopes of millicns of our Eastern friends, e i to observe that there are limitations upon SENSELESS REPORTS. [ The repeated reports that come to us from the East of a movement to bring about the nomination of Grover Cleveland | for a third term, justify a belief that in that section of the Union the silly season has broken out this year with an unusual violence. It is difficult to understand why such stuff is thought worthy of telegraph- ing, for it is more futile than a report that Wilkes Booth is not dead, and more tire- some than the reiteration of the twice-told fish story. Politics is proverbially full of surprises, 4 but there are some things which cannot oceur in iteven amid its wildest aberra- tions. Within its domain no more than elsewhere in the world, does a burst bub- ble reunite, a millwheel turn with the water that is past, or a donkey lord it as a lion among animals when once his bray has been recognized and the stolen lion skin stripped from him. Clevelandism is a burst bubble. The stream of popular delusion and folly that ground his politi- cal mill for him has gone by, and will grind for him no more. The sound of his many brayings during the last two years has made his real nature ‘known, and, moreover, the leaders of his own party have stripped from him the lion skin of leadership and revealed to the public the humiliated donkey. The men who talk seriously of move- ments to renominate Cleveland must be afflicted with par The courts ought to appoint guardians to look dfter their politics, and see to it on election days that they do not throw their ballots to the dogs. There is no political party nor any faction of a party in this country that would nom- inate Cleveland for any office. If a con- vention should find it impossible to get another than him for the Presidency, it would unanimously demand the abolition of the office. In short, all reportsof a movement to renominate the deficit Presi- dent, the man of many muddles, are symptoms of a coming midsummer mad- ness that may result in gibbering idiocy if those who take the reports in earnest do not exercise the precaution to restore a sane condition to the brain by paying some attention to the realities of Ameri- can politics, and finding out what the people intend to do. T0 INOR:EAS_E_PBEUGTIVENESS. Following the CALL's announcement of great undertakings to bring down the waters of the San Joaquin River to extend the irrigated area of Fresno County, comes the news that the Stanislaus and San Joa- quin Water Company, composed largely of San Francisco capitalists, is hurrying to completion its canal, by which the waters of the Stanislaus River are to be turned upon the fertile plainsin the vicinity of Oakdale, in Stanislaus County. The ar- duous and expensive task of making flumes and tuunels to bring down the water from large reservoirs back in the mountains has not deterred the promotors of the enterprise, whose efforts will result | not only in handsome profits to them- selyes, but also in adding greatly to the value of the district to be irrigated. While in the regions quite near the foot- hills there is generally no necessity for irrigation, in the open plains removed from the hills it makes horticulture independ- ent of rains and thus eliminates practically the only element of uncertainty that at- tends this enterprise in the great basin of the State. The only trouble with irriga- tion is that the temptation to overdo it on eager desire to increase the crops is often strong. Asa result fruit produced | under these overdone conditions, while it | may be larger and more abundant than that on non-irrigated lands, often lacks the firmness which renders possible its over- land shipment in the best form, and is de- ficient in saccharine and flavor. But moderate artificial irrigation in dis- tricts where the best results may be se- cured by its employment is one of the wisest and most profitable agencies that California horticulturists can employ. There are two others, however, equally important—cultivation and fertilization. In the more highly developed horticultural sections cultivation is carried to higher finish than any other part of the United States. Thisis the result of intelligence that could make the best use of experience. It was learned not only that a deep and thorough stirring of the soil produced beneficial chemical changes from exposure to sunshine and air, but that in the absence of summer rains a finely pulverized surface acted as a mulch to prevent loss of moist- ure by evaporation. Renewal of the soil by fertilization is the next lesson that horticulturists must learn. A few years ago we had a talk with the Professor of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh. He was on his way round the world to study agricultural methods. He expressed amazement at the fecundity of the soil of California, and said that it enjoyed one extraordinary advantage, namely, that while its native fertility, asa rule, was not much higher than that of virgin soils in other parts of this country, the benefits which it received from sun- shine and air, under high cultivation, were wonderful, In this particular alone, he remarked, there seemed to lie a vast field for scientific investigation, and he added that the State should employ some able person to study that phase of the question alone. But in spite of this, it grieved him these resources, and that Californians are squandering the wealth of the soil like prodigals. In Scotland, where every foot of arable land has been cultivated for cen- turies, agriculture thrives solely on arti- ficial soils renewed with scientific exact- ness. The State University has given exceed- ingly intelligent instruction in these mat- ters, but it has received insufficient atten- tion from producers, Cultivation having been mastered as an art, and the value of careful irrigation having come to be under- stood, we must next learn the secret of keeping the soil vigorous. FROSTS AND FRUIT. Once. more the people of the Eastern States have been taught that fruit-growing in their climate is at best an uncertain business. This time the lesson has been given over the wide region of the northern Mississippi Valley, extending from Minne- sota southward to Iowa and eastward to Ohio. While we were undergoing the experience of one of the hottest waves on record in May, a severe frost occurred Jin that section, and it is believed that not only have the tenderer fruits been injured, but that even the hardy apple crop has suffered. Heavy frosts of this kind coming late in the season would not be so disastrous to Eastern fruit-growers if it were not that they have to compete with the production of fruit on this coast, where such frosts do not ocour. Without such competition the loss caused by the frost might be compen- sated by the enbanged market value of that which was saved. With a rapidly increasing supply of fruit from the Pacific Coast entering the Eastern market, how- ever, this compensation is likely to dimin- ish every year. Sooneror later, and sooner perhaps than is now foreseen, it will be impossible for a fruit-grower in the uncer- tain climate of the East to compete with one who has the advantages of the climate of this coast, and consequently in many kinds of fruit our growers will have a prac- tical monopoly of the American market. In view of this probability it would seem to be certain that the manufacturers of fruit preserves and confections will find it to their advantage to establish their fac- tories on this coast. ‘The manufacturer in California can be reasonably sure of getting his fruit every year in abundant quantity and excellent quality at his very door. In the Eastern States he has no such cer- tainty. Itnotinfrequently happens that some of the big fruit-packers in Eastern cities have to send half across the conti- nent to get the material to put up the amount necessary to make it profitable to run their machinery, and under such cir- cumstances they cannot be sure of receiv- ing it in such condition as to make a really good article when packed. This being so, it would seem the most notable development in our fruit industry during the next decade will be in the direc- tion of manufacturing the fruit into its most finished and finest form. The reasons for placing cotton factories near the cotton fields are not half so potent as those for placing fruit factories near the orchards. It is not so easy to ship fresh fruit as to ship cotton,and in the end the cost of the transportation of the raw material will count heavily against the Eastern manu- facturer of jams and jellies. If the late frost in the Mississippi Valley should prove to be as destructive as has been feared, a good many of the packers there may this year see the advantage of moving their plants to California and establishing themselves where the fruit never fails. WHERE PROSPERITY LIVES. About a dozen miles north of Stockton, on the Southern Pacific line down the San Joaquin Valley to Sacramento, is Lodi, whose external features were so adequately set forth in yesterday’s CaLr. As being typical of one of the most interesting phasesof natural advantages which various localities of its class in California present, it is worthy of a study on more general lines than those followed in the descriptive article. Situated on the level plains at the base of the Sierra foothills, on a rich sediment- ary soil broughtdown in past ages by the Mokelumne and Calaveras rivers, and being directly east of the opening in the Coast Range through which the trade winds of the Pacific find their way, there is clearly every fine condition of soil and climate; and being 0 near the hills, which, with the mountains back of them, are the storehouses of water that supply the valley, percolation gives sufficient moisture to the soil. This is shown particularly by the fact that this is the center of the water- melon supply of this part of the State, for this product is grown without irrigation. In recent years, largely through the intelligent enterprise of Senator Langford, the capabilities of the section have been | discovered to include a vastly wider range than was at first imagined. It was for- tunate for this splendid section that the price of wheat fell to a fignre that made it necessary for rarer and more profitable crops to be grown. Hence the colony idea, which already had proved so successiul at Fresno, was resorted to; large wheat fields were subdivided into small tracts, which were sold on easy terms and on condition that fruit would be cultivated. This was after it had been already discovered that any of the fruits that may be grown else- where in California (including lemons, which are among the very tenderest) conld be produced with equal excellence in the Lodi region. As & consequence there sprang up a co~: pactly settled area of pros- perous farms devoted to fruit-raising. The example which Lodi has set in this regard has been a lesson to the whole State. So long as figs, olives, apricots, peaches, oranges and lemons can be grown to so great perfection without irrigation as at Lodi, and so long as alfalfa with irrigation yields five crops a year, nothing more ab- surd than the giving over of vast fertile areas ® wheat could be well imagined. And now that the expense and other diffi- culties of marketing California fruits in the Eastern States are steadily being so re- duced as to make the enterprise profitable, nothing but a simple lack of intelligence and energy prevents all the sections simi- lar to Lodi from winning the wonderful success which has followed its efforts. Seeing how much its residents have ac- complished by the exercise of these higher qualities, we are not surprised to learn that they are reaching out for further de- velopment and more liberal profits. Al- though Lodi is on the Southern Pacitic and enjoys such transportation facilities as that road can furnish, it feels the heavy pressure of the high freight charges which rest upon the whole San Joaquin Valley. Hence it is preparing to build an electric road to tidewater on the San Joaquin River. Over this line, in combination with the river, it can lay down its products at Ban Francisco at a much lower charge than is now exacted, and the money thus saved will be added to its wealth. A few more such enterprising sections in the San Joaquin Valley as Lodi is would quickly solve the problem of California’s develop- ment. TAR - MAKING IN MENDOCINO. The experiments now being made to ex- tract tar from the firs and pitch pine of Mendocino County promise to open a new industry and to provide California with another source of revenue. If the experi- ments prove snccessful, other pine and fir districts in the State will profit by them, and eventually the industry may develop into one of no little magnitude and im- portance, yielding profits large enough to materially aid in the upbuilding of the communities where it is carried on. Should the sanguine expectations of the experimenters be realized and tar be ex- tracted from our firs and pineg in com- mercial quantitjes and at profitable rates, itis to be hoped the owners of such forests will be careful to conserve the industry as well asto push it forward. In no Ameri- can industry has there been a more reck- less wastefulness than in that of extracting tar. Vast regions of pine forests have been ruined in the Carolinas and Georgia by the eagerness of the owners to get the biggest possible yield at once without regard to the future. The consequence is that forests which might have been made a family for- tune, to be transmitted as a source of a sure income from father to son, have been exhausted in a comparatively few years and the land abandoned as barren and worthless. ‘While our own rich pineries have been thus destroyed, those in Europe, being properly cared for, increase in the output of tar and turpentine every year. They have learned in those countries how to preserve their forests as well as to use them. California therefore has an ex- ample to follow as well as one to avoid. If any man in this State has a forest which he can find it profitable to work for tar it will pay to use it with the economy of Eu- rope instead of the recklessness of the Eastern States. If properly cared for such a forest will yield not only a good revenue to this generation but prove a valued heri- tage for generations to come, In shor, if the new industry is rightly conducted it will be a benefit to the State so longas civilization endures, but if not it may lead to a more rapid destruction of our forests and prove in the end more pernicious than beneficial. PERSONAL. F. H.Lang, an attorney of Salinas,isat the Lick. A.F. Jones, an attorney of Oroville, is at the Palace. E. Jacobs, a banker of Visalia, is at the Occi- dental. Dr. and Mrs, J. F. Lewls of Los Angeles are at the Palace. E. E. Long, a merchant of Suisun, is stopping at the Baldwin. Dr. A. G. Osborne of Eldridge registered at the Grand yesterda; Dr. and Mrs. J. 8. Sargent of Santa Rosa are guests at the Lick. L. B, Crocker, ex-Mayor of Buffalo, N. Y., 1is stopping at the Palace. Thomas 8. Ford, & merchant of Nevada City, is stopping at the Lick. J. P.Sheridan, & large land-owner of Rose- burg, Or., is at the Lick, -8. Reinhart of the Hotel Arcadia, Santa Mon- ica, is & guest at the Grand. Dr. George H. Worrall of Santa Clara regis- tered at the Grand yesterday. H. Z. Osborn of the Los Angeles Express reg- istered at the Palace yesterday. C. H. Dwinelle, a fruit-grower of Fulton, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. Jesse D. Carr of Salinas returned yesterday from the East and registered at the Occidental. L. P. Sage, the proprietor of the Congress Springs at Saratoga, and Mrs. Sage, registered yesterday at the Lick. J. B. Kerr, vice-president and chief counsel of the New York, Ontario and Western Rail- way, and J, E. Childs, general manager of the same road, and Mrs. Childs, are at the Palace. Postmaster-General of Hawaii J. Mort Oat visited Postmaster McCoppin yesterday. He will make a thorough inspection of the work- ing of the San Francisco office to-day with a view of improving the mail service of the islands. John King of New York, an ex-president of the Erie Railway, and Mrs, King, arrived in this city yesterday and are at the Palace. For the past two years and until about two months ago Mr. King wasone of the receiversof the Erie road and resigned on account of failing health. He will probably go on to the Orient from here in a few weeks. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. To some of the Southern Californians who accompanied the Half-million Club excursion to Orange Vale, in S8acramento County, it was & surprise tolearn that citrus fruits do well so far north. They might have also noted the fact that owing to the earlier ripening of such {ruits in the northern counties there will never be any injurious competition between the orange-growers of Northern and Southern Cal- ifornia respectively. The oranges grown in this part of the State may all be marketed at good prices each season in November and De- cember, before those of the south are in fit con- dition for sale.—Placer Republican, “Your money or your life,” emphasized by & pistolin the hands of a masked man, is high- way robbery and a crime, the perpetrator ot which is punished by all nations. “Your money Or your countyy,” backed by powearful battleships, is & great victory, and one of the most frequent modes :of modern warfare &s practiced by European nations.—Ventura Free Press. Nature always seems {0 have compensating advantages. Here in this country where wood and coal for fuel are scarce there is being re- vealed & wealth of petroleum that is a cheap substitute for them. The prospects are good for such an extension of the ofl-producing dis- trict that every county in Southern California will have its quota of wells.—Pasadena Star. It has been simple enough in this county to know in what direction we should move if we desire that this city shall become a town of ten thousand people. We must endeavor to in- crease the population of the county to fifty thousand. And the fifty thousand must be producers.—San Luis Obispo Tribune. From every standoint of political foresight and judgment the formation of a new party ‘would be & mistake and could only injure the cause of sflver and delay the triumph of sound money and the honest dollar of our daddies.— Los Angeles Express, It’s easy enough to organize an improvement club. Getting the improvement club to do something after it is organized is where the hard work comes in.—Merced Sun. There are no silver monometallists. Every advocate of silver favors the use of gold to the fullest possible extent.—San Bernardino Times- Index. - The time has gone by when it was the fash- jon with Democratic papers to apologize for Clevelandism.—Placer Argus. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Archbishop Farrar made over $40,000 out of his three books, “The Life of Christ,” “The Life of St.Paul” and “Early Days of Christianity.” He was only a comparatively unknown curate when one of his sermons attracted the atten- tion of a publisher, who immediately commis- sioned him to visit Palestine in order to write & biography of Christ. This was how his gift of writing was first discovered. Centenarfans are somewhat a drug in the market just now, but the case of Mme. Ros- towka calls for particular notice. She is 112 years of age, sefved as a vivandiere at the bat- tle of Waterloo and as a hospital nurse with the Polish Legion in the Crimean war forty years Jater. She has lived at Aniche ever since the close of that conflict, and is still in the possession of all her faculties. H. P. Nichols, for more than forty-seven years station agent of the Western Railroad and the Boston and Albany Railroad in Wor- cester, has resigned his position, to take effect June 1. Mr. Nichols has been in the employ of the two roads nearly fifty-four years,and is probably the oldest railroad man in point of continuous service in the country. The Emperor William has requested Pro- fessor Linder of the University of Halle to write a popular history of the war of 1870. One hunared thousand copies will be printed and it is to be sold at & low price. The Emper- or himself has sketched the general plan of the work, which is to be completed by September 1. A well-’known figure which has just disap- peared from Oxford, England, was that or Mrs. Coxe, widow of H. O. Coxe, for ko many years Bodley librarian. She was 90 years of age and the mother of Mrs, John Wordsworth, the wife of the Bishop of Salisbury. She was an accom- plished scholar. Miss Winnie Davis, the handsome daughter of Jefferson Davis, is about to publish & novel called “The Veiled Doctor.” Miss Davis says she knows she s old-fashioned in her notions of love and life, but trusts there are many story readers still left who like old-fasioned notions. Qronhyatekha, a Canadian Indian, is enjoy- ing himself in London. He is & pure Mohawk and is president of the Grand Council of the Chiefs of Canada, which comprises the Mo- hawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cuyugas, Senecas and Tuscaroras. — JEROME B. 00X'S ESTATE. His Two Daughters Are Appointed to Administer It. Judge Slack yesterday granted a petition for the appoiniment of Mrs. Ada W. Mar- tin and Mrs. Genevieve Cox Bancroft as administrator of the estate of Jerome B. Cox, who died April 13, 1895, The deceased left a purported will, which bequeathed the estate to the two daugh- ters. Yesterday, however, it was shown by one of the witnesses to the will, Hoover, at he had s:gnod the will asa witness without seeing the testator sign. Mr. Mar- tin, having stated the mb.bf:lvulue of the estate, the bond of the administratrices was pfmd at $14,000. ————— THE health ‘authorities of a number of States have recently made exhaustive ex- aminations of the baking powders with the uniform result of finding the Royal supe- rior to all others, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Henry L. Bettman, the only pupil of Ysaye in America, told some interesting facts about the great violinist to some friends in the Baldwin Hotel yesterday morning. “Istudied under him in 1887 and 1888 in Brussels,” said Mr. Bettman, “and it was there that I learned how devoted a man could be to his chosen profession and also to the welfare of his pupils. Our hoursof study in the Royal Academy were from 4 to 6 three times a week, but he generally held to his post until nearly 8. This additional tuition was without extra charge and his entire time was at the disposal of thestudents under his care. We were in- vited to his home, and our success was his hap- piness. He isamgan of kindly heart snd instincts, devoted to his family and married to his violin. Like all men apart from the great mass of peo- ple he is at times eccentric. I have seen him light adozen cigarettesin five minutes and lay them all over the conservatory. This occurs in moments of great excitement, generally brought on by the excellent rendition of & viece of musie. Good work sends him intosa 1it of animated and vociferous satisfaction.” *‘What is it, Henry, that makes Ysaye such a sympathetic player?”’ “I will tell you the basisof his wonderful | { HENRY BETTMAN CHATS ON M [Sketched from life for the “Call” by Nankivell.] harmony and precision and the magnificence of his staceato, It simply lies in the fact that his right arm is in absolute unity with his left haud. When his hand or fingers make a move- ment it is balanced by a motion of the right arm. It is wonderful what execution it pos- | sesses. Most violinists whose finger execution | is reasonably good make the fatal error of lete ting the right arm fight the left hand. It is too bad. Most teachers overlook the imoport- ance of this control. “By the way, I want to tell you of a very im- pressive incident I witnessed in Leipsie. It was on the occasion of two of Abbe Liszt’s pu- | pils giving & concert in which his music was to | be played. The hall was crowded and the mu- | sic was ebout to begin when the main entrance | slowly opened and an aged and bent man sup- ported on either side by two ladies walked down the aisle. His step was unsteady, and | the mass of white locks which fell from his | magnificent head waved listlessly as he looked from side to side. The whispering and buzz of voices ceased, the ushers stopped in their | For sale only in bottles with registered trat.le- headlong rush, and the only sound heard was the flaring of the gas jets, which seemingly blazed up & welcome. Suddenly, as if by com- mon impuise, the whole audience rose from their seats and bowed in reverence as he passed. He reached his seat and slowly sank | into it supported by his companions, one of | whom was Wagner's wite. Those who had | stood up to pay him homage seated themselves as quietly as they had risen, and the silence | WOTe AWAY. “It was Abbe Liszt. In America the audience wouid have | stamped, thrown hats in the air and howled like boys, but there they showed him the re- spect and reverence due a greatman whose personality was much stronger and greater than the desire on the part of the spectators to | become boisterous. “That occasion was the last time he appeared | in Leipsic, and a short time afterward this master of music was laid to rest. His funeral could not have been more impressive than the incident when he came to hear his favorite pu- pils, who had grown up from boyhood under his musical direction.” “The CarL,” said Dr. W. W. Eastman of Sonora at the Lick House, last evening, “is do- ing more for California then any other journal. When I say California, I mean the California that is down on the map, the whole great glorious State, and not that particular penin- sula which nature has been kind enough toset apart as a metropolis, known and designated | &s San Francisco. I am not saying anything detrimental to San Francisco, remember. She’s | & howler and seems to be getting there with both feet since the Inception of the San Joaquin | Valley Railway enterprise. She is worthy the best efforts of a dozen half-million clubs and the praise of all good citizens, but it is a faet that San Francisco newspapers have paid too little attention to the country in the past. It was always a question of how this or that en- terprise would affect the metropolis. To such an extent was this carried that San Francisco seemed to be all of California. The greatin- terests of the interior upon which the City de- pends for its growth were almost totally ignored. The San Francisco papers were made up of San Francisco happenings—sensational and in many case trivial items decorated in a gaudy garb of sensationalism. “With the advent of Mr. Shortridge in metro- politan journalism a change came. California appreciates this change and is attesting ics ap- preciation in the usual way, The CALL has increased itscirculation over 50 per cent in my section during the past few months. But the qeestion is broader than this. Shortridge is driving the other papers to a recognition of in- terior enterprise and a more liberal policy in general. It meansthe dawn of an era of legit- imate journalism, the unification oi State inter- ests, the development of enterprises larger than a section and richer than a metropolis. The idea of condensing news is another good move that will be followed by satisfactory re- sults. Inthe rush of the age the average busi nessor professional man has not time for a pe- rusal of all that is published. He wants his news in the briefest possible space. Sensa- tional details may please a certain class, but the sound citizen who is helping to build up the State has neither the taste nor the time for this sort of thing. “So it has happened, that while some have been content with the old methods, munching meanwhile the wooden nutmegs of journalism, & country editor has come to San Franeisco with a policy broad enough and & mind large enough to lead the metropolitan press to better things.” George W. Van Guelpen, the secretary of the Cigar-makers’ Union, believes that there isa fine field here for investment in the eigar man- ufacturing business. “This is the best market to-day in the United States in which to sell good cigars. Our manufacturers, however, are hampered for want of capital. A great deal of advertising must be done to popularize any | SR, new brand, and advertising costs a great deal of money. There is, in my opinion, s good field here for capital to be invested in cigar mavufacturing. I believe that if a man of means was to start up a cigar factory in this city, and would put up two or three good brands and advertise extensively, he would get the trade of the town. California people are ready to patronize home industries if some- body will only give them a chance to do so.” SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Green Gates—Is your son doing well at col- lege? Halsey Putnam—Not as well asI expected; he is only playing center field. — Brooklyn Eagle. Judge—And you are accused of throwing & mug of beer at the plaintiff. Defendant—Anybody who knows me will tell you that that is inconceivable. — Fliegende Blatter. “Money talks,” said the confident man, “Yes,” replied the melancholy citizen. “But when it is conversing with a poor relation it usually talks in a whisper.” — Indianapolis Journal, “Who,” asked the pastor, “will undertake to -raise the money for the church?” The converted counterfeiter arose in his pew. “I'll raise it if somebody else will pass it,” he said. Obviously that was all he could do.—Detroit Tribune. First Boweronian—I dropped inter de Salva- tion Army last night an’ never heard so much prayin’ in me life *cept once. Second Boweronian—When was dat? First Boweronian—When the Paddy Divver pleasure club’s barge banged onto & rock off Coney Island.—Judge. First Thug (in terror)—Dat feller we knocked out 'l1 die and we’ll git der ’lectric chair! Second Thug (reassuringly)—Come off! We're too slick fer der police detectives. First Thug—What do I care fer dem? But look; dere goes a reporter.—Puck. First Humorist—That new man on the Blat- ter is writing some funny stuff, isn’t he? Second Humorist (gloomily)—Yes, but con- found him, he is spoiling the business. First Humorist—How s0? Second Humorist (still more gloomily)—He invented a new joke the otherday,—Somerville Journal. OHEAPER TRANSPORTATION. Prospects of a New Railroad Between Santa Rosa and Petaluma. James W. Keys, represernting a combina- tion of Alameda, Santa Rosa, and Peta- luma capitalists, who propose to build a narrow-gauge line between Santa Rosa and Petaluma, with water connections to San Francisco, will leave in a few days for the towns mentioned for the purpose of com- pleting contracts for the right of way. Mr. Keys declines at present to give the names of those who are interested in the enter- rise, but says that he will do so within a ew days. From a reliable source it is| learned that George McNear of Petaluma isa prime mover in the scheme. The proposition has met with great encourage- ment thus far, and if the liberal offers of several landholders may be taken as a criterion, no difficulty will be experienced | by the promoters on the right of way | | question. For example, Mr. Page of the | great Cotati ranch, which is situated on | | the route of the proposed line, has offered | free right of way through his territory, a distance of some eight or ten miles. Thi reduces the right of way mileage to abou seven miles. The company guarantees to have the | line ready for operation within six months | after the signing of contracts, to maintain | a daily freight and passenger service, and to reduce present rates on freight from 1714 to 25 per cent. Mr. Keys, who is in close touch with th })eople of the section interested, expresses ) b imlseli as confident that the road will be uilt. BAcoN Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * B e Pineapple and cherries, 50¢ 1b, Townsend’s.* —————— WINE-DRINKING people are healthy. M. & K. | wines, Sca glass. Mohns & Kaltenbach. 29 Mkt.* | e S Marg HopkiNs INSTITUTE OF ART.— | Spring Exhibition open daily. Admission | 25 cts.” Thursday even., admission 50 cts. * | ———— | HUSBAND'S CALCINED MAGNESIA.—Four first- premium medals awarded. More agreeable to | the taste and smaller dose than other magnesia. | { mark label. WRITING tablets, 5¢ to 25¢ each; papeteries, 10c¢ to 50c each; pencils, 10¢ to 30¢ per dozen: tissue paper, 5¢ to 30¢ per roll; playing-cards, | 10c¢ to 40c per pack. Visiting cards and invi- tations printed and engraved at the lowest prices. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market st. * | e Placed end to end in continuous line, the streets of London would extend from the Mansion House across the entire con- tinent of Europe and beyond the Ural | Mountains into Asia. The number of in- habitants exceeds the population of Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Rome put together, Tre wonderful cures of scrofula, salt rheum and other dreadul diseases of the blood prove the great curative, blood-purifying powers of Hood's Sarsapa- rilla. Its effect is often magical. i SIS e W recommend the use of Dr. Siegert's Angos- tuz Blsters to our frienids who suffer wiih dyspep- | sia. e For dvspepsia, colic and exhaustion, no remedy like PARKER'S GINGER TONTC. . PARKER'S HATR BATSAM I life to the hair, T e FOR ALLAYING HOARSENESS AND IRRITATION OF THE THROAT, use **Brown’s Bronchial Troches.” 25¢ abox. Avoid imitations. ——— One consequence of the battle of the Yalu is the proposal made in Europe of establishing a naval Red Cross Society, whose vessels, painted in some distinctive color, shall accompany hostile fleets, and pick up the crews of vessels sunk in actio OUR DRINKING WATER. It ¥s Filled With Impurities in Every Part of the Land. New York City on a recent day consumed 77,000,000 gellons of water. At leastone mil- lion gallons of impurities were contained in this quantity. Itis, therefore, not surprising that the question of purity of drinking water has invaded the business office. Rich men who are vexed by slight physical ailments,.or who are the victims of nervous troubles, are not slow'to discover that there is danger in the water cooler. Many of them have their water boiled and chilled by refrigeration before they will drink it. Others have in their private offices jars of mineral waters. Many bank and | railroad presidents are particular about hav- ing the water they drink free from poisonous germs. People who would avoid the dangers which arise from water impurities at all times should make a practice of taking a little pure whisky each day. Even should germs have in- vaded the system this will effectually destroy them. It will keep the blood free from taint and in healthy motion. Great care should be taken, however, to have only pure whisky, and it should be remem- s but one acknowledged pure sky, and that is Duffy’'s Pure Malt. It is not like other whiskies. It is-palat- able, strengthening, nourishing, and does just what is claimed for it. Do not permit any one to convinge you otherwise. ZIP BOOM AH! CAL-I-FOR-NI-A! California to the front ! Her college athletes are gath- 1 ering laurels in the East! Her women are famous for their beauty ; her artists, scien- tists and men of letters are forg- ing ahead. Her vineyards and orchards are supplying the country; soon, too, her manufactured products will be known all over the world. She has already a good start ! STANDARD SHIRTS The home product are in every respect equal to the best Eastern makes ;e and—quality for qual- ity—lower in price. White, Outing and | Percale. All dealers. NEUSTADTER BROS., Man’s DON'T BE SURPRISED WHEN YOU SEE THIS e ABSOLUTELY PURE FRENCH MIXED CANDY FRESH DAILY 35c¢ per lb. 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