The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 2, 1895, Page 20

THE SAN, FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE (23 ~s 1895 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DATLY CALL—$6 per year by mail; by carrier, 15c £ week. PSUNDAY CALL—#1.50 per year. WEEKLY CALL—$1.50 per year. The Eastern office of the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Buresu, Rhinelander building, Rose and Duane streets, New York. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are y0u going to the country on & vacation? If 50, 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 ca or left at Business Office, 710 Market street, will receive yrompt attention. Nothing exceeds like excess. Vanity is the egotism of folly. Uncharity is a form of sui Envy has ratties and a forked tongue. To live leisurely without getting lazy is a fine art. de. A cynic is one who mistakes caviling for wisdom. The cherishing of grief is the dissipation of the weak. The smile of the fruit-grower is expand- ing eyery da Neither a house nor a career can be built | without a plan. A good wind is not wasted even if it doesn’t turn a mill. It is much e tion than to enac r to pass a good resolu- t. Very few people care for advice they don’t have to pay for. Texas bicycle g having bloomers made with pistol pockets. Usually the man who has no eyes in his Leart has four in his head. There is no noble pride that is based on conditions instead of deeds. The coming woman will begin her reign by taking the world by storm. To know what to do will profit you little unless you know how to do it. The man with the broadest forehead is least apt to have the big head. The public spirit of the citizen is the motive power of the community. Man claims his successes for himself, but attributes his failures to bad luck. Belittling the good that is in othersis the special privilege of meanness. Whoever saves his money has the true solution of the financial problem, e e S The owl never hoots when the chickens begin to stir abroad in the morning. It is an unfortunate fact that the severest critics are those most open to criticism. Fruit will bring a good price to you if you carry the fruit to where the price is. Friendship ends when it makes a touch on the pocket instead of the sympathies. —_— About the only human quality that wears well for every-day use is good na- ture. A man never regrets having a good name unless he signs it in the wrong place. We may deplore a pretty girl's lack of sense, but somehow we are glad that she is pretty. Flattery is such serviceable currency most people will accept it even when coun- terfeit. That is a strong character which resists | the temptation to cowardice which a pen creates. Some men will go to the summer resorts | to hunt a particular girl and some will go | for the rest. Perhaps it is the streetcar that has given the American such an alert air and lively movement. As a general rule Providence follows the man, and when he leaves his work Provi- dence leaves it al, Many people will sit upall night to spend { money who would kick about an hour's overwork at earning "1'h¢4u selfishn, is praiseworthy whose aim in self-b g does not include the pulling down of others. Eastern people are congratulating them- selves that the late frosts hit the spring poets as well as the fruit. Young graduates will learn before the year is over that the world dnesn’t revolve in the university curriculum. The young woman who does not try to make herseli as attractive as possible is likely lacking in the mating instinct. Bicycle men in Illinois are demanding that stealing bicycles shall be made a felony of the same grade as horse stealing. Some people remain poor by always try- ing to get the top persimmon with a pole instead of picking the fruit within reach of their hands. Itis a happy provision of nature thata good many people laugh in those places in the drama of life where more wisdom would call for tears It is an interesting fact thatin the classic languages the industrious and provident creatures below the rank of men are given the feminine gender. If any one should be found in these | fore, could not be attacked by machines | starting from Europe. Our only danger | would lie in the possibility that European | horsecars for $10 each, had them hauled {out into the sand dunes for $5 more, and | could just as easily have bought the lot on | us & number of lessons and caused us to | occupants, and that as the sand upon WARSHIPS AND AIRSHIPS. The interview with Hiram Maxim which we publish this morning will be found of more than ordinary interestto all who have an intelligent curiosity concerning the probabilities of future wars. The eminent inventor sees no great or promising future for the present style of warship. No matter how heavy may be the armor put upon a vessel, it never can be made heavy enough to resist the projectiles of modern guns that may be fired againstit. A warship is always a compromise. What it gains in weight of armor, it loses in speed, and if the armor is carried beyond a certain point the structure would cease to be of service as a ship and become merely a sort of slowly moving fort. In fact, Mr. Maxim declares the beliet that warships have already reached the limit of armor weight, and expresses the opinion that in future the aim of navy builders will be to increase the power of attack rather than of defense, and will provide war vessels with greater rapidity of fire instead of thicker armor. More significant still of the future of the warship, however, is his estimate of the results that will foilow the construction of flying machines. These machines | would render navies useless for the defense of nations and would expose cities to an easy bombardment from the clouds. Of the possibility of constructing such machines he has no doubt. “They are sure to come in time,”” he said, “‘because it is possible to make #hem, and what it is possible to make is sure to come, espe- cially if there is a great demand for it.” That demand will come with the next great war, and the nation which first suc- ceeds in perfecting such a scheme will be practically master of the situation. In his forecast of the future it is com- forting to learn that America has com- paratively lit! to fear.” The flying machine will rdly be able to operate | more than a thousand miles from the base | of supplies. The United States, there- | colonies in this hemisphere might launch airships against us. Consequently if such machines should become a reality in war the Monroe doctrine would have to soar on the wings of an eagle to head off the flying-ship, for it would be necessary for the United States to take possession of the whole continent and all the neighboring islands as a protection against the pos- sibility of aerial bombardment. Mr. Maxim attributes the past failures to construct a successful flying machine to the fact that the work has been left hitherto to charlatans, amateurs or men without sufficient means to carry it on. He has himself expended upward of $80,000 and all his spare time for four or five years in such experiments and knows the difficulties to be confronted. His expectation of man’s eventual success not only in this but in other directions of endeavor is founded upon the fact that the domain of invention is no longer left to illiterate or unscientific workmen. At the present time men of science are working at all these difficult problems, and, as Maxim points out, most of the later patents of real merit have been granted to inventions which emanated from highly trained and scientific engi- neers. Such men are bound to succeed | sooner or later. The aerial warship may be developed much earlier than is antici- vated, and then there will probably dawn upon the world an era of prolonged peace among civilized nations founded strictly upon mutual respect for each other’s powers, HOMES FOR THE POOR. He was an ingenious cable-car conductor who not long ago bought two abandoned there himself set them up and made a very comfortable home for his little family. It required a certain courage to do this, for such a procedure is sure to raise a laugh at the expense of the man who can rise so far above such mean hindrances; and at the same time his enjoyment of his own pecu- liar home is great in proportion to his abil- ity to ignore the sneers of his friends. The lot upon which he established the cars was one which he had bought. ‘Whether or not he had paid for it entirely is a matter that does not concernus. He time by making a small payment down, or could bave leased it. This enterprising young man has taught reflect on certain conditions which are peculiarly favorable to the poor of San Francisco. We are reminded, for in- stance, that even an abandoned streetcar, airy as we may deem it to be, has no fierce heat or biting cold to turn aside from its which it rests is clean, porous and absorp- tive, a little care in the handling of domes- tic refuse will make sewers altogether unnecessary, for there is nothing more cleansing and purifying than such sand as covers the vast unsettled stretches of the western side of the peninsula. All that our friend has serionsly to con- sider, therefore, is water for domestic use. Not much money would be required for a utilize to the fullest extent the delights and benefits which a free life on the sand dunes would insure. { A BITTER PROTEST. Elsewhere in this issue of the CaLr ap- pears & pathetic communication from an ex-convict. Besides thanking the CarLfor the good which it unconsciously did him, it tells the old, old story of the distrust which an ex-convict inspires, the crippling | effect of his long imprisonment on his capabilities and opportunities to resume the struggle for existence, and hence the double burden that he must bear in com- petition with men upon whom this great affliction has not fallen. To the penologist | these are all old and sore problems, but it will not be amiss here to consider some as- | pects of the matter that have not received due attention. Upon the opening up of a new and prom- ising territory there is always a flocking thither of well-meaning men who wish to escape hurtful habits and associations, of otner men who have committed crimes the punishment of which they desire to escape, and of other men still who bear the stamp of afelon. In the two last-named instances the newcomers invariably take new names. The history of the development of Aus- tralia, New Zealand, California and Cape Colony would be seriously impaired were the work of development done by men of these two classes to be left out of account. The hint, therefore, is that ex-convicts who really have a manful spirit and a wholesome ambition can have an approx- imately fair and even start with the world by changing their names and recommen- cing the battle of life in a new country. It is not impossible that this can be done in an old community, but a new offers better opportunities. ‘Ihis refers to the conduct of the ex-con- vict himself. That phase of the problem which concerns the bearing of the com- munity toward these unfortunates requires a different point of view. Equally as piti- ful as insanity or chronic disease isthe ex-convict who has gone into prison a young man and emerged old, gray and broken; and even though he may be in- corrigible, his case is none the less, but even the more, pitiful for that, for the affliction under which he suffers is as de- plorable as though he were insane or a consumptive. It is not his case we are now considering, for society must protect itself against him, as against a lunatic, by whatever means. In order to be on | the safe side society chooses to regard as vicious every man who has been convicted | of a crime, without regard to the character of the offense, the nature of the provoca- tion or the disposition of the criminal. It is herein that society commits a crime not less serious than that for which the convict has been punisbed, and aids in the perpetuation of a career which penal in- stitutions are intended to correct. ‘Whether an ex-convict whose normal instincts are right deems it good to conceal his history and to that extent deceive those among whom he desires to lead an upright life is a matter which we shall not discuss further than to say that its deter- mination is for the individual conscience, and that the forwarding of self-interest without doing harm to others is a duty as well as a right. Certainly, when such an ex-convict observes the cruel unwisdom and ignorant selfishness which inspire the bearing of society toward him, the tempta- tion, not to say the necessity, perhaps, either to practice such deceit or enter upon a determined course of crime, is more than many very worthy men would be able to resist. That which’ society needs to do is to organize intelligent machinery for securing all possible knowledge upon which it may base a wise and humane treatment of such ex-convicts as are willing to have their history known in order to secure the bene- fits of such treatment as may be devised in their special interest. In laying such a course the convict deemed worthy or prom- ising, in order that he may be on even terms with the world, must be treated with a special consideration and an unfailing charity. WHEN WALES WAS HERE. Ever since the coming of spring there have been little fluttering rumors in the East that the Prince of Wales wounld visit America this summer. These rumors have never been traced to any source of good authority, nor is there any agreement as to the motive of the rumored visit. New York holds to the belief that the Prince will come to attend the international yacht race, but in New England there is a widely accepted theory that he will come over for the purpose of seeing the new publiclibrary in Boston. ‘Whatever be the authority for the rumor, and whatever be the motive of the supposed visit, there has been no little discussion caused by it. Asaresult of this, one of our Eastern exchanges has published, as an item of current interest, an elaborate account of what the Prince did and how he was re- ceived when he made his famous visit to this country in 1860. 1t appears that after making the tour of Canada in full glory as Prince of Wales, he came to the United States under the humbler title of Baron .| windmill, for there is an unlimited supply of wind and a great abundance of water. earnest and ingenious man might devise. He is a happy man indeed whose poverty parts who asserts that the evidences of good times ahead are merely talk, he may be set down as a silurian. Sometimes the rules which society em- ploys for its self-protection bear with cruel severity on certain of its members who need the most protection. . and obscurest wheel in the complicated As the and south of the park. Renfrew. The Americans of that genera- tion resented the change of title asa slur If he is not able to afford this (and sellers | on the country and there was some eagle- of windmills are very generous in their | scream criticism on it, but when the young terms) he may be able at small expense to | man appeared, all was forgotten in the gen- make arrangements for the delivery of | eraldelight at having an opportunity to en- water in one of the dozen ways that an | joy a sure enough ‘“‘royal time” without getting on an imperial spree. The Prince visited Chicago and shot enables him to seek a wider and freer life | prairie chickens on prairies where the, city than those whom conventionalities govern | now stands. At Philadelphia he occupied can possibly enjoy. It is unfortunate that | 8 box at the Academy of Music, which to so little enterprise in this direction is ex- | this day bears the name of the Prince of hibited by the poor, and surprising that | Wales’ box, and the seats on the south side the earnest benevolent societies which|of the auditorium are 90 per cent more seek to promote the comfort and health of | fashionable than those on the north, be- the poor do not expand their energies in | cause they command a better view of the the direction of establishing families in | box. At New York a grand ball was given cots nestling among the sands. We live | in his honor, for which 2500 tickets were here as people do who have not the pecu- | sold at $10each, and weare told that during liar blessings which are thrust upon us. | the ball “many women fell on their knees Even the well-to-do among us who know | and begged him for a dance.” Finally be- about the wholesome delights to be secured | fore he left New York, a lunatic took ashot from camping in the woods entirely over- | at him. look the fact that within the limits of our | If the Prince comes to America this sum- own City they may find the pleasantest | mer he may still shoot prairie chickens rural conditions added to all the con- | over the incorporated prairies of Chicago. veniences which the near presence of a | He may revisit Philadelphia, and, by tak- great city affords. There are mountains | ing & seat on the opposite side of the Acad- and canyons without number, where shade | emy of Music, redress the fashionable and seclusion are at hand; but better than | balance of that respectable place of amuse- they are the open stretches of clean sand | ment. He may go to New York and once that cover hundreds of square miles north | more have a grand ball and have a lunatic shoot at him, but never more will he have As for the very poor among us, they are | American women fall on their knees before districts where the streets are ill kept content to live in the crowded and squalid | him and beg him for a dance. There are many reasons why this inci- and all possible physical discomforts en- | dent of his former visit would not be re- countered, Individual enterprise is the | peated. The Prince is not young any rarest of human qualities, and hence it is | more, he is too fat for dancing, and more- A rusty or deranged cog in the smallest | that obsolete traditions based on experience | over America is more accustomed to roy- alien to the superior conditions which | 2lty than it was in those green and salad machine which the people of a commu- | abound among us govern our domestic | days before the war. The main reason, nity compose will make more or less|conduct. Itisnot to be expected that the | however, is that the New York woman has trouble througnout the entire mechanism, | belpless poor or even the moderately pros- | changed her habits. Those who can recall perous will be able to discover and employ | What happened in the feminine eagerness greatest Pacific coast power in | the delights of a hali-outdoor life in the | to clasp Paderewski’s hand on his first the world, the United States has a much | city, but & humanitarian regard for the | Visit to our greatest metropolis will re- greater interest in the settlement of the | health of children and the matchless bene- | member that no woman fell on her knees. oriental question than any of the European | fits of a large and free life under the whole- | On the contrary there w3s a football rush some windsand the health-giving sunshine | for the stage and the gifted musician was ought to impel our educated classes to | whirled about like a cork on a torrent. nations that are making such a fuss about it, Such would, in all likelihood, be the result of Wales’ appearance in a New York ball- room in this generation. He would be danced about amid a whirlagust of fin de siecle girls and would go home to England with one of his legs much longer than it really ought to be. OUR EXCHANGES. In a condensed and interesting’ descrip- tion of the Escondido country, recently issued as a supplement by the Escondido Times, the claim is made that the district has the cheapest water supply for irriga- tion purposes in the State, and that if the average well-informed citizen of San Diego were asked what he considered the most prosperous and progressive locality tribu- tary to that city he would reply that Escondido Valley and city are in the lead at present. Whether these claims can be justified in literal exactness may be ques- tioned. There sre otherirrigation districts in California where water is cheap and abundant and other sections around San Diego where ihe people are prosperous and progressive. Whatever may be thought of the superlative claim, how- ever, it is certain that Escondido has many advantagesto rejoice in and has done much in the way of development to be proud of. Even a casual glance at the illustrations in the supplement of the Times reveals that much, and a careful reading of the text confirms it. Such publications as this should be widely circulated in the Eastern States. They help to educate the people of the Eastin a true knowledge of Cali- fornia conditions and, therefore, cannot | fail to be influential in turning the tide of emigration this way and bringing to our State that increase of intelligent and in- dustrious settlers that alone are needed to make even its so-called deserts blossom like a rose. Some of the progressive ranchers of Santa Barbara County who believe in a diversified rural industry have been mak- ing experiments in the cultivation of sugar beets, and according to the Guadaloupe Reporter the results have been sufficiently good to justify the establishment of a sugar factory there. In Santa Maria Val- ley the beets were not only prolific, but were very rich in saccharine matter and promise big profits to the growers. The Reporter asserts that if enough land is guaranteed for the exclusive cultivation of sugar beets a manufactory would be built and put into operation at Guadaloupe in- side of a year. It is, therefore, urging the ranchers to sign a beet planting pledge conditional on the beginning of the fac- tory, and is prosecuting the enterprise with such vigor and cogency of argument that success seems certain, and we may almost count it as another new industry in sight. The Palo Alto Times records with justi- | fiable satisfaction the organization of a “Progressive League” in that town, to pro- mote plans for efficient local government, | to improve and beautify highways and | public grounds and to advance public | health, safety and happiness. Associa- tions of this kind have been formed in many rural towns in the East and in nota few towns in California. Some have done much good, some have -done indifferently well and some have done nothing. The league in Palo Alto hasan excellent field for work. The town has exceptional ad- vantages. Itistoo young to have any old | habitual evils to deal with, and therefore | will not have to fight against any stagnant | conservatism that prefers the old way. | The population is almost exclusively made up of families of intelligence and culture. | 1t is near enough to San Francisco to catch the metropolitan spirit and near enough to Stanford University to be infused with classic culture. Palo Alto ought certainly, therefore, to become one of the show places of the Pacific Coast, and the organization of the Progressive League manifests a de- termination on the part of the people to | make it so. An able contribution to the digcussion of | the effect of hydraulic mining on our rivers | and valleys, which appeared last week in the El Dorado Republican, givesa clearand comprehensive view of the silt problem as it appears to the miners. According to this view the silt carried down from the mountains by nature’s own forces is vastly greater in quantity than the debris of the mines. In fact, all the fertile soil of the valley was carried down from the deep cut canyons of the mountains long before mining began. Whatever disturbs the soil of the mountain slopes leaves more or less material for the waters to carry down, and | the law might as well stop farmers and all other settlers and workers on the slopes as to stop miners. The right solution of the problem, accord- ing to the Republican, is to divert the debris and silt from the hills into the tule- beds and other low lands of the valley, and by thus raising their level make them safe, habitable and fit for cultivation. To ade- quately fill the low lands will, of course, require extensive operations uader the direction of the Government, and the State and the Nation will have to co-operate in the work; but, as the Republican well says, “the tule-beds alone when filled with sedi- ment will repay the people for the work expended, and the Coxey armies of the country are more profitably employed in such work than when we support them in | idleness and crime.” PEOFLE TALEED ABOUT. Bishop Potter, who loves to ride horseback, is out almost daily in New York and takes rides against time, though he is seldom in the saddle more than an hour. C. M. Bailey, 8 Maine manufacturer, said to be the wealthiest man in the State, has for years employed a band of evangelists to work in the small towns of the State. Twenty-five years ago James J. Hill, presi- dent of the Great Northern Railroad, was & freight clerk on the steamboat docks of St. Paul, Minn,, at & salary of $40 a month. Ex-President Harrison has a double in one of his personal friends, General A. H. Beech of Wheeling, W. Va. His figure and features, even to his eyes and the color of his hair, make him almost the counterpart oi Mr. Harrison. The two Ashantee envoys in London, Prince John and Alfred Ossoo Amsak, are described as intelligent and courteous, perfectly st home in their European garments and amid the luxurious surroundings oi & London hotel. Rev. Haydon Rayburn of Kokomo, Ind., has married 1246 couples during his ministry. “T think Ican justly claim,” he says, “‘a smaller percentage of divorces than any other clergy- man in America.” Mr. Rayburn married his first couple in 1849, Betore age began to bleach his locks Justice John M. Harlan was a very tall, red-headed men of the Thomas Jefferson type. He was the son of a great lawyer, and when he took his seat on the bench he gave up & practice worth much more than his judicial salary. Congressman Coggswell ‘of Massachusetts, who died recently in Washington, had a re- ‘markable career in the army during the Civil War. Before his twenty-second year he had risen through the grades of captain, lieutenant- eolonel and colonel to that of brigadier- general. The Marquis of Lorne is going to write the libretto of an opera. He has already quite an extensive literary reputation, and his new venture is more to show how versatile a writer he can be, apparently, than an indication of ,.:'geunm to write purely for the stage in 3 S AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Since the yachting season has opened Com- modore Gutte has let out a few reefs in his happiness, and while he is not attending to necessary business in the City he is on board the Chispa hauling taut the mainsheets and doffing his cap to an incoming wind cr putting the helm hard down on the edge of a choppy sea. He strolied into the California Hotel yester- day morning end with a seaman’s swing crossed over to the window-seats. “How are you, commodore?” said a landlub- ber. “Isuppose you are particularly delighted With the opening of the yachting season?”’ “What!” exclaimed the commodore. “The season never closes with me. Whether it be {air or foul it is always good enough to set sail in the Chispa and away.” With this the in- veterate yachtsman dropped into an easy atti- tude and apparently invited further conversa- tion on the subject. “Where did you get the fever for sailing?” inquirea the first speaker, taking the cue. “I came around the Horn in 1849 in a—" “In 1849 did you say?” interrupted the interested one. ‘Can it be possible that you are a forty-niner. Really, commeodore, you don’t look it.” ‘‘Perhaps not,” answered Mr. Gutte, stroking his imperial; “butI have always been a very temperate man, very regular in my habits, always went to bed early, never smoked cig- arettes and—" “Go on with your story.” “Well, as I was saying, I came around the Horn in1849,and landed where the Merchants’ THE YACHTING SEASON NEVER CLOSES WITH COMMODORE GUTTE. [Sketched from life for the “Call” by Nankivell.] Exchange is now. There was nothing but a field of sandhills in sight, which were more numerous than the houses. Of course,1had a desire to go to work and get on my feet,soI proceeded in the matter at once. I had no time for yachting until 1870, and it was not until this period that I made any attempt to, but when I did I concluded that baseball, lawn- tennis, afternoon teas, football, cricket and horseraces were not in it for a minute, soI threw myself at the sport, and to-day I am—" The man at the helm besitated a moment and blushed a deep, rosy red. “The commodore of theSan Francisco Yacht Club,” finished the inquisitive one. “That’s it,” replied Gutte, with a modesty peculiar to himself, “but of course you know that it is neither here nor there. 1 just prefer itto any other amusement, and it is the only pleasure there is for me.” “Did you ever meet with an accident while pursuing your chosen recreation?” This question seemed to fluster the commo- dore, who replied, after a well-regulated look of surprise, that no decent yachtsman ever had any trouble on the water, that is, not “so long as he handled the rudder himself.” “The policy of the present administration in Mexico,” said Clement Burton last evening at the Palace, “is to squeeze the ultimate dollar from foreign investments of all classes and kinds.” Mr. Burton hes recently returned from the land of the Aztec, where he went several months since in the interest of an English mining compeny. While his impressions of the country were favorableas a rule, he has only censure for the system of taxation levied against foreign capital, which, he claims,isa potent factor in retarding the development of & country rich in natural resources. “‘Here is a country,” continued Mr. Burton, “that for fertility of sofl, favorable climatic conditions and agricultural and mineral possi- bilities has no equal on this planet. It needs only one thing, development, but it is not too much to say that this can never be to any ap- preciable degree while the most important factor in all development is prohibited in its natural operation by a system of crushing taxation. A wise and enlightened public policy would certainly dictate measures looking to the investment of outside capital. The more the better, foritisknown if anything atallis done in the matter of development, it will be done by foreigners. Mexico has no money, as is well known, and the straits to which she has been put to raise necessary running expenses during the last two years would suggest al- most anything but wise statesmanship. Take it in the matter of mineralsalone. Govern- mental restrictions have always imposed severe restraints on the mining industry in Mexico, where the operation was conducted by foreign- ers. Now comes the extraction tax of 214 per centon silver and 8)4 per cent on gold. There are no exemptions, even the special mining concessions or zones granted by the Govern- ment being subject to the new burden. All this comes in addition to the mirting charges, which are already outrageously high. It is about the same with every industry. There always seems to be some sort of a jokerin every concession granted. This last measure— the extraction tax—will yield the Govérnment about $2,275.050 annually. But will capital go there for investment? Thatisthe question.” On his journey from Denver to Los Angeles R. H. Whiteley, lawyer, Mystic Shriner and State Senator of Colorado, loitered for a day in San Francisco. He wented to see if the largest hotel of Denver would fit in the Palace court, as he had been told. Speaking of woman suf- frage in Colorado, Senator Whiteley said the ladies turned out in force at the last election to down Governor Waite, and sue- ceeded, but whether they would in the future take so deep an interest in 4 political campaign he very much doubted. He said his wife was of the opinion that the better class of women would not, as a rule, turn out and vote. If a great moral principle or some re- form measure greatly needed was involved, the ladies would no doubt respond and cast & mejority of their votes to promote the cause of good government. ‘“When it comes to the sci- euce of getting out voters,” continued Sen- ator Whiteley, ‘‘the women of Colorado surpass the men. In the last campaign they managed to reach every woman by personal appeal, but the men could not reach every man.’ “Denver," said Benator Whiteley, “‘is recover- ing from the effects of the severe depression caused by the repeal of the silver-purchasing clause. The people of Colorado are almost unanimous in favoring free coinage of silver, and resolutions expressing that sentiment were adopted by the Legisiature.” — The Empress of Austria is subject to frequent fits of insanity. KIND WORDS. ArthurMcEwen, in his Letter, has the follow- ing kind mention ot the CALL: The San Francisco CALL is an experiment in journalism that ought to, and no doubt does, interest newspaper men the country over. . Nothing like it was ever seen in a city of this size. Editorially it has about all the faults—including apparent want of sense aud knowledge—that a daily paper can have. In matter and style it does not often get above the plane of the rural editor who acknowledges with gratitude the visit of a delinquent subscriber to pay up, or of astill more munificent patron who leaves & Christ~ mes turkey on the editorial table. I spoke re- cently of Mr. Shortridge, the proprietor, as an ebullient rustic, but it is not to be inferred that rusticity does not pay in the metropolitan field. Itdoes. By sprinkling himself and his paper with hay, Mr. Shortridge is making an ex- traordinary suceess. The wonder, the laughter, the scorn of his esteemed City contemporaries do net affect him in the least. He pursues his policy of running his paper as 1 life were a corn- husking, Ban Francisco & barn, and himself the life of the party. He is determined to be bappy, that a1l California shall join him in the Virginia reel, and that the joyous whackings of his cowhides on the floor shall be heard above all other sounds and ull the time. Itis ridiculous, of course, but the country contem- porary likes it, for one can scarcely pick up a newspaper from the interior that hasn’t some- thing handsome to say of Mr. Shortridge and his paper. It is to be feared that Mr. Shortridge is a very artful rustic, for he has quite deceived the profession, and more especially his two rivals, Mr. de Young of the Chron- icle and Mr. Hearst of the Exam- iner. His advent here scared them at first, for they were apprehensive of the | competition that might be offered by a man who was ¥ble to command a capital as large as thelr own. But the new CaLL seemed so absurd, and Mr. Shortridge so innocently rural, that both these millionaires have thought it safe to go off to Europe for & vaca- tion—being treated on their departure to puffs in the CALL equally generous and magnificent. Such ecivility has doubtless increased their astonishment and contempt. They are as | surprised as was Willlam Sharon in 1874 when he found John W. Mackay not only | electioneering to send him to the Senate | but opening his purse to the same end. *If,” | sald Mr. Mackay in confidence to a puzzled | friend, “I can get Sharon out of Virginia City | I'll own the Comstock.” And presently he did. It is to be noted by the observer that while Mr. Shortridge is editorially clasping everybody to his bosom and bestowing his benediction upon every inhabitant of Cali- fornia, he is giving the mews in the CALL. He cares nothing, this honest countryman, for the artificial glitter of literary polish, but when you have read the CALL you find yemT- self informed of what the world has been doing the previous day, and that his local reporters have scored scoops. One day you read, too, that Mr. Shortridge has addressed the Young Men’s Christian Association on the theme of “How to Succeed,” the next we learn that he has been the chief orator at the butch- ers’ picnic. He does not sacrifice the CaLL's space to reports of his oratory as Mr. de Young does the space of the Chronicle to his own. The simple rustic is not booming Mr. Shortridge for either political or so- cial advancement; what he is after is | subscribers to the CALL. And he is getting them—something like 15,000 new ones within three months, I am informed. Most of these necessarily have been won from the Chronicle and the Examiner. Meantime the ingenious, hearty son of the soil is making himself im- mensely popular by his ceaseless mingling with the common herd, while his reassured and smiling rivals are taking their ease in elegance abroad. Persons of taste have a disrelish for the CALL, but then they also have a disrelish for the Ex- aminer and Chronicle. The reason is that all three of the papers are playing to the ground- lings; for it isonly by getting the subsecrip- tions of the groundlings that a newspaper here can obtain the large -circulation which brings advertisements and profits. Each of the papers acts its popular part differently from the others, but the aim is the same. There is no sacrifice that any of them will not make to win readers and busi- ness. Their own test of merit is success; and, tried by that test, Mr. Shortridge is proving himself to be mueh the cleverest of the three. He has broken through all the traditions, apparently because he knows no better, but he is playing to crowded houses his role of Uncle Josh Whitcomb amid im- mense applause. It is & moral play more- over, for Farmer Shortridge frowns on lot- tery advertisements, and keeps all the col- umns of his paper clean. No artist can help but admire the whole performeance. If it is not high and dignified art, it 1s art that achieves its purpose; and it is much more harmless art than that of Mr. Shortridge’s competitors. If the CALL cares nothing for the usages of jour- nalistic soclety, it is nevertheless fit to enter the home, and that is saying & good deal for & newspaper which is booming itself. They yawn over it at the clubs, to be sure, and men who like to dis- cover traces of inteliect in theéir newspaper’'s editorials are moved to anger by it, but the clubs house a very small fraction of the popula- tion, and the discriminating are the few. Though Mr. Shortridge astounds, he obviously is, as he would say in one of his marvelous paragraphs, ‘getting there wiih both feet.” Itis not likely, however, that the circulation of the CALL in Boston, by the efforts of the Half- million Club, would draw many immigrants hither. PERSONAL. Dr. J. Manson of Towles is at the Russ, W. N. Smith of the navy is at the Occidental. V. Courtois, & vineyardist of Santa Rosa, is & guest at the Grand. J. H. Tuck, & mining man from Ross Kimber- ley, is at the Grand. A. Dalton, editor of the News of Martinez, is staying at the Grand. John 8. Witcherof thearmy and Mrs. Witcher are guests at the Occidental. Sol Lagar, a prominent mining man of Ma- ders, registered yesterday at the Lick. Allen B. Lemmon, editor of the Santa Rosa Republican, is a guest at the Occidental. Francis Fitch, a leading attorney of Medford, Or., and Mrs. Fitch, are staying at the Lick. C. F. Schneick, Deputy Sheriff of Sacramento, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. J. D. Ryan, District Attorney of Sacramento, came down yesterday and put up at the Lick. James A. Hardin, a big cattle man of Santa Rosa, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Russ. Martin Cuddibay, 8 mining man of Happy Camp, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Russ. Adjutant-General A. W. Barrett arrived in town yesterday and registered at the Cali- fornia. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Peyton came up from Santa Cruz yesterday and are guests at the Palace. E. Baladin, & prominent mining man of June- tion City, Trinity County, is staying at the Palace. Raleigh Barcar, a prominent attoruey of Vacaville, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Lick. Editor G. M. Francis of the Napa Register came to town yesterday, and is a guest at the Occidental. Sheriff J. L. Matthews of Monterey County came up from Salinas yesterday and is staying at the Grand. Colonel Isaac Trumbo will leave for Salt Lake City to-morrow evening, and expects to be gone thirty days. Mr. and Mrs. Sands W. Forman and their daughter returned from Japan on the Belgic and registered yesterday at the Occidentai. C. M. Coghlan, secretary of the State Board of Equalization, and Mrs. Coghlan, came down from Sacramento yesterday and registered et the Lick. —_— SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. A Pittsburger was talking to a General Assembly Commissioner from Chicago about his friends in that city. “Do you know Mr. Frank K. Drestbeei?” asked the Pittsburger. “Very well, indeed,” replied the Chicago clergyman. “I have married him several times."—Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. The young lady who made 700 words out of “‘controversy” sutumn bas run away from home. Her mother wanted her to make three loaves of bread outof flour. And wanted her to make it without any more controversy. —New York World. Carrie—Papa has to get up awfully early, so as to get to the office and see if his clerks are there attending to business, Evelyn—But my papa doesn’t have to. He's one of the clerks.—Truth. . “Only think,” exclaimed Fenderson, “of the many uses to which paper is now put!” “I know,” replied Bass. “Iwas at the theas ter the other nigbt, and I was told it was all paper. And it was a fine, substantial-looking structure, too.”—Boston Transeript. “What sort of girl is she—brunette?” “No; she’s a chemieal blonde.”—Judge. “Before passing upon you the extreme pens alty of the law,” said the Judge to the misera~ ble wreteh who stood in the dack, “I wish to see if you have a spark of teeling left in your hardened breast. Do you remember your mother?” «“I ghould say I aid, your Honor,” replied the prisoner, & shade of annoyance creeping over his face. “I once slept in a nightshirt that she made me.”—Truth. Speaking of the damage to the growing wheat crop, it took the old Continentals to make the Hessian fly.—Columbus Journal. “I'd like to go to the races,” said Willie Washington, “but I don’t know anything about them. I'm afraid I'd seem unsophistis cated.” hat needn’t bother you.” “JIs there any particular stfle of costums that's appropriate 7 “Yes, you just wear a worried look and trousers that nave fringe on the bottom, and everybody will think that you're an old fre- quenter of the place.”—Washington Star. ‘We are confiaent that the coming man wilk bave too much sense to bleach his hair.— Washington Post. ‘‘Senators’ terms are fixed by law, are they not?” ‘‘Oh, no. Legislatures are free to get whate ever there is in it.”—Detroit Tribune. A Pathetic Letter. The Editor of the Call: T suppose you do no§ often hear that something you have published has been helpfulto 8 man in the way of make ing his burden lighter. A few days ago tha CALL had & short paragraph about Oscar Wilde, You say that if his two years of imprisonment do not crush him they will at least give the recording angel a chance to make & large entry on the credit side of his account. Seldom, indeed, does a man with the terrible experience of & prison hear or read & sympas thetic word. For a crime against property, which the smallest business precaution would have made impossible, I was sentenced, not in this State, to imprisonment for life, and was actually kept for twenty vears. 1was putin prison & vigorous young man of 26, I came out gray-haired, broken, ol¢ before my time, new generation had grown up. X family were dead, and I foun: world an utter stranger. The few words I read in the CALL were the first I have seen which seem even to hint at tho possibility of consideration being found any- where for the class I belong to. With the means of obtaining a living in reach, sympathy and consideration might perhaps be passed over. A man who for twenty years has been behind prison bars is not too used to either. [ have tried to find employment, but utterly in vain. Ihave a university education. Ispesk French as fluently as English and can translate from several languages. Employment in this jray appears out of the question, and not hiav- ing a dollar, it is just as hopeless to think of carrying on any business. My position and that of others like me isInot far from ter rible. Very few care to trusta man with such a brand upon him, and poor indeed is he who is poor and has lost his reputation. Idonot know Sflyou will appreciate my thanks. Atall events I offer them to you for & word, even indirect, of cheer and encouragement. '1 am, AN EX-PRISONER. m San Francisco, June 1. e, GROCERS’ PICNTIC, San Rafael, June 5. E. H. BLACK, painter, 114 Eddy street. GEO. W. MONTEITH, law offices, Crocker bldg.* RENTS collected. Ashton, 411 Montgomery.* CALIFORNIA Glace fruits, 50¢ 1b. Townsend's.* Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay strest. - WINE-DRINKING people are healthy. M. & K. wines, 5¢ & glass. 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