The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 8, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DATLY CALL—$6 per year by mail; by carrier, 15¢ per week. SUNDAY CALL—$1.50 per year. WEEKLY CALL—21.50 per year. The Eastern office 0of the SAN 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 & vacation? If &0, 1t s no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will mi Orders given to the carrler, or left at <s Office, 710 Market street, will receive prompt attention. SATURDAY JUNE 8, 1895 The Whitney boom was only a fleeting ghow. B ey Next week Santa Cruz will have the floor. Money is the most successful flying ma- chine in the world. The best way to get on with the hot spell is to take a day off. Civilization is very largely a matter of street improvement. The man who hasa crick in his neck ought never to feel dry. Old saws, even though rusty, still cut more sharply than new. * Even a dollar in the bush is better than two in the hand of a silurian, A divided Democracy promises a Repub- n redemption e for Kentucky. surprising that the It Washtenaw got safely round the Horn with such a name. is somewhat Tt is only the good investment of the immediate nickel that assures the coming of the ultimate dollar. The man who waits to take things as they come is liable to be headed off by the fellow who meets them half way. Senator Brice may be right in saying “patronage is a curse,” but he seems will- ing to have it come home to roost. While the Fourth of July orator will be soaring on his Pegasus the children will be placidly riding donkeys in the park. Railway and steamship companies will never enjoy their highest ambition until they are made official censors of the press. As everything that we do is intended to advance our happiness, a man’s wisdom is measured by the means which ke employs. The old weather-beaten hulk of Democ- racy must either be put in a drydock for repairs or allowed to join McGinty in the soak. Nearly every Eastern newspaper that comes to hand in these days contains a paragraph announcing that the weather is hot stuff. The Japanese are not displaying con- spicuous wisdom by inviting the troubles which have overtaken the Chinese in the Unitea States. While there may be no goodness except that which is che: d for its own sake, we still draw a good deal of comfort from the other kind. It isconsiderate of Japan to keep at home 50,000 of the 100,000 Japanese who want to come to this country and take the places of white laborers. The line of battle on the money guestion in 1866 may be drawn on a very different ground from that occupied by the skir- mishers this y The only gesture aporopriate to Altgeld’s remarks on Cleveland at the Springfield convention would have been a vigorous stamp with both feet. Tt is within the limits of possibility that Chicago erected that Confederate monu- ment in order to draw the Southern trade away from New York. The devil may be the father of evil, but if fear of him were taken out of the lives of men there would be a good deal more wickedness than there is. Secretary Morton has gravely commend- ed the sculptor who made his bnst by say- ing: “He has made the head so my hat fits it as well as it does me.” If Santa Cruz can arrange to make a permanent affair of the lake which it has made for the water carnival it will be add- ing to its splendid attractions. A The new Secretary of State can at least give us the satisfaction of learning whether he can be a better friend of the corporations as Secretary than as Attorney-General. * If the New York Sun is correct in saying the Democratic party is most dangerous to its opponents when most silent, the Re- publican party will have an easy walkover in '96. —_— Fast life in France evidently does not find favor with the Government, for that body goes along so slowiy the Criminal lS_l;u:lus 011892 have only just been pub- ished. There are men of repute who assert that in less than sixty days the Conservative party will be in power in England and will use its influence to promote a return to bimetailism. Asa Bushnell, whom the Ohio Republi- cans have nominated for Governor, is a New Yorker, but he is not a bad New Yorier like the Mr. Brice whom the Ohio Democrats elected to the Senate, e The Chicago Times-Herald proudly claims that Chicago has been a “pioneer in reform methods, material, economie, social, moral and patriotic,” but strangely overlooks the pioneer work done by the city in the lard business. It is now asserted that Don Dickinson, s well as Whitney, had been offered the position of Secretary of State by Cleveland before the offer was made to Gresham, and it is probable both declined it lest the office :ibonld handicap their Presidential aspira- ons. The epidemic in the military hospital at Vitre, France, which was attributed to use of American canned meats, and of which we heard so much a few weeks ago, has been found on investigation to be due to defective drainage, but hundreds of Euro- pean journals which printed the story ebout our meats will pass the report on the drainage as an oceurrence too ordinary to deserve mention. AN EXTRAORDINARY WRECK. The charges made by the disinterested survivors of the Colima wreck may be grouped as follows: L The vessel carried aheavy deckload of green lumber, which not only rendered her topheavy but which, by offering in- creased resistance to the hurricane, added to the difficulty of keeping the ship’s head to the sea. 2. The fatal listing of the vessel after she fell away and lay rolling in the trough indicates that the freight had shifted, that therefore it had not been properly stowed, and that the listing was aided by the deck- load. 3. The discovery that the ship’s head could not be held to the sea was sufficient reason for taking all possible precautions for saving life. Instead of this, the passen- gers who tried to save themselves by secur- ing life-preservers were prevented by the officers and crew, who beat them back into the vessel. This seems to have been done even when the ship was in the very act of foundering, while she was shipping an overwhelming load of water, and was listed at a pitch which left no possible ground for hope. This is the most extra- ordinary circumstance in the whole case. 4. The steamer San Juan, which arrived on the scene the following day, does not seem to have exercised due diligence in hunting for survivors. Indeed, had it not been for the commendable spirit of a sea captain who was 2 passenger on the San Juan, and who himself manned the rescue boats and was refused the privilege of pur- suing the work, it is not likely so maay would have been picked up. Fuller investigation may modify the present aspect of the case. There are some unpleasant features, however, that nothing can change. . One of these was the arbi- trary and inadequate information given out in the first instance and its ap- parent zeal to suppress the news which the survivors could give. After pickingup the survivors Captain Pittsof the San Juan proceeded to Manzanillo, where his si lay out in the harbor for three hours. No one on the vessel was permitted to leave an account of the affair, and Captain Pitts took the extraordinary course of sending a telegram in cipher to the San Francisco office of the company. Even a statement in plain English could hardly have been expected to pass through the hands of Spanish operators without being crippled, while to send it in cipher was the most amazing of all absurdities. Of course it arrived here almost unintelligible. Inthat form the manager refused to give it to the public, and so hundreds of hearts torn with anxiety had to wait. Everybody would have been glad to see the dispatch however badly mangled it was. Another unpleasant feature was the deckload of lumber. This is a crime com- mitted constantly on our coastwise vessels. It is all the more reprehensible and dan- gerous from the fact that on these runs the ordinary sea is always abeam and rolling is inevitable. Loading lumber in the hold is much more troublesome and expensive than placing on the deck, and as adeck incumbrance it deprives the passen- gers of the space and freedom to which they are entitled. Such frightful disasters as this will sooner or later cause such amendments of the American maritime laws as will show more regard for life and property. America needs a man who will do asmuch for her sailors as did Samuel Plimsoll for those of Great Britain, Experience has shown that the matter of ocean trans- portation should be made the subject of careful and humane legislation. THE KENTUCKY CONTEST. According to the reports from the Ken- tucky Republican Convention, the dele- gates were called upon to vote oftener in nominating candidates than all delegates to previous Republican conventions in that State have voted in this generation. There was a contest for every office. More than one hundred candidates appeared for the various positions, and so ardent were the friends of each that the ballotings were frequently interrupted by confusion in the hall. There were no signs of discord or party divisions, however. The platform was adopted unanimously, and every nom- inee will receive the cordial support of his late opponents. There is no mistaking the significance of these facts. Hitherto Republican conven- tions in Kentucky have been only perfunc- tory gatherings. No one cared much about any nomination such a convention could give, for it was well known that it would be little more than an empty honor. Here and there some Republican might obtain a victory at the polls, but where this occurred it was generally recognized as beinga per- sonal rather than a party triumph. As a consequence no great ardor was shown in the Republican State conventions. The delegates met, adopted a platform, named for the various State offices such men of prominence as were willing to lead a for- lorn hope for the sake of keeping the party together, and then adjourned without any thought of making a vigorous campaign or any hope of electing the ticket if they did. All this has now been changed. Two years of uncontrolled Democratic ascend- ency in the Nation has not only disgusted independent voters but has hopelessly di- vided the Democratic party itself. In Kentucky there are two sharply defined and widely divided Democratic factions, one led by Senator Blackburn demanding the free coinage of silver, the other by Sec- retary Carlisle insisting upon the mainte- nance of the gold standard. Thus in that Btate, as in every other, the Democrats, urged on by extremists among their leaders, have gone to extremes, leaving the safe, conservative middle ground to the Republi- cans, This condition of affairs, taken in connection with the opposition to free trade and the popular discontent with the mismanagement of National affairs by the Democratic administration, has given the Republicans hopes of victory, and it must be conceded these hopes are not ill founded. 1f Kentucky should go Republican this year the effect upon National politics would be very great and far-reaching. It would be sure to lead to important conse- quences in 1896, and might possibly prove the forerunner of an entirely new arrange- ment of political parties. The Republican victories in the South last year were re- garded as abnormal and few people ex- pected them to have permanent results. A State victory, however, in Kentucky this year would be regarded more seriously. It woulé afford a proof that Democracy has gone to pieces in the very stronghold of its power and would lead the Republicans to make in 1896 a vigorous effort to shatter it altogether, leaving the political battles of the future to be fought ount by the con- servative elements of the country under the name of Republicans and the extrem- ists under the banner of Populism. PRESUMPTUOUS PITTSBURG. In the good old State of Pennsylvania there is a city not wholly unknown to fame called Pittsburg. The people who live there aspire to have the name and the fame increased by winning for it the title of Greater Pittsburg. For some time past persons who have been willing to lend y attentive ears to the noises heard through the coal smoke that obscures the locality have told us of voices clamoring there for outside recognition. Lately these voices have become sufficiently articulate and distinct to be understood, and now it is reported that Greater Pittsburg desires the next Republican National Convention and has raised $100,000 to obtain it. It will be seen that the aspirations of this enterprising coal pit are very ambi- tiousindeed. Greater Pittsburg hopes to plume herself for a flight high enough and far enough to enable her to disport in the ambient air as a rival of San Francisco. ‘What inducements she can offer to the convention are mot known, or at least have not been stated. Coal is indeed a useful thing in some ways, but heat will not be needed in June, and it is a very poor political convention that cannot fur- nish its own gas. We have not heard that the hotel accommodations of the place are equal to the needs of a great National gathering or that the climate is conducive to good, cool, statesmanlike work in the summer time. Neither have there been suggestions that it would be an education to the dele- gates to go there. In short it seems the convention is to be invited to the place solely for the purpose of adver- tising it amd getting the people of the country to recognize that there is some- thing of a city underneath the smoke, Far be it from us to speak flippantly of any enterprise or to hoodoo a people who are trying to boom their town, The Pitts- burg fellows, however, are just a little bit overdoing it. They are liable to strain themselves severely if no one gives them a word of caution. Old Philadelphia ought to speak a motherly warning to this lusty community, which in its efforts to be ‘‘Greater’’ threatens either to burst itself into nothingness or stretch Pennsylvania out of shape. We speak in all consider- ateness, for we desire neither of these things to happen. As for the next Repub- lican National Convention, it will come to San Francisco, where the climate is elysian, the hotel accommodations ample, the City large enough for the needs of such a gath- ering and where the trip would be an edu- cation to the delegates. Greater Pittsburg had better use her $100,000 to perfect a smoke-consumer. THE PACKING OF FRUIT. The Visalia Times publishes a warning sent to a Tulare fruit-grower by a leading merchant of London. ““The first and chief fault,” writes this merchant in discussing the packing of dried fruit in California, “‘is the persistent habit of marring good fruit with bad or indifferent fruit in the same box—a layer or two of fine quality and then more or less bad quality—which spoils the whole box and the whole busi- ness. The second disastrous fault is bad packing, by which the best fruit is seri- ously diminished in value.” In showing the impossibility of imposing on English dealers by the frandulent prac- tice of covering poor layers with good, he explains that when a lot of packages is received from ten to twenty out of every hundred are selected at random and are cut down through the middle and the actual quality of the fruit thus ascertained. From this the quality of the whole lot is determined. The writer adds: “If those growers only realized the folly of trying to play pranks in the way I have mentioned I think they would drop it as our English merchants drop the trade—on the old prin- ciple that ‘a burnt child dreads the fire.’” He also gives this cheering information: “1 think 1000 tons as well as 100 tons could be placed if only buyers could feel sure and certain of uniform, good and per- fect quality and careful packing.” ‘While it is clear that every grower who resorts to fraud in packing is injuring the California fruit trade in England, it is equally clear that the appearance of fruit when packed is a very important element of its sale. This doesnot apply so strongly to England as to the United States. In that country quality is held above appear- ance, while an opposite rule obtains with us; but even in England good fruit at- tractively packed is more salable than good fruit rudely packed. The first movement in artistic packing in California was taken at Riverside, where, besides a careful assorting of the oranges, they were wiped and then wrapped sep- arately in tissue. The idea came from Sicily, where lemons for export are wrapped in tissue for reasons other than appearances. From plain tissue the Riv- erside growers advanced to fancy striped pever of a better quality. Then came the dainty small parcels of raisins packed at Fresno, and then equally attractive boxes of glace fruits produced in various parts of the State. The field for further advance- ment on these lines is unlimited. The apple-growers of Washington State have been learning many valuable lessons of late. One is that a red apple is more salable than a yellow apple, even though it may not be so good, and that a red apple wrapped in white tissue that softens the color of the fruit to a delicate pink will sell wherever offered and where the same apples not wrapped would be ignored. In short, the appearance of the fruit, whether packed or not, is an important consideration with the purchaser. The Flame Tokay, though inferior to most of our other table grapes, sells more readily in the East because of its large size and beautiful color. For a similar reason it is more profitable to produce large than small fruit of a given kind. None of these considerations, however, should be permit- ted to affect the bonesty with which froit is packed. The consumer who makes a second purchase of a label which he has found to cover a layer of fine fruiton top and a poor quality below is a species of idiot whom we cannot expect to exist in abundant numbers. THE SUNDAY CALL. For the readers of the Sunday CaLu to- morrow we have prepared literary features of even more than usual interest. An article of historic value will be found in an account of Lincoln’s dealing with a pro- posed negro insurrection in the South during the war. The account is written by James R. Gilmore, who had a personal knowledge of the affair and talked it over with Rosecrans, Garfield and Lincoln. The story shows how close the South was to a most feariul horror and how the mer- ciful spirit of Lincoln saved the Southern people from a calamity greater than that of 8an Domingo by refusing to give even the slightest encouragement to an insur- rection which would have put an emd to the war by carrying ruin to every Southern home. A lighter and gayer theme will be found pleasantly treated in “The Art of the Circus Rider,” where a full account is given of the training and practice required to perfect a man or woman in that grace- ful and agile accomplishment. Equally interesting will be the description of the rich, wonderful and curious treasures of ‘Windsor Castle, that old historic home of British sovereigns, which cortains within its stately halls one of the noblest and most extensive collections in the world of all thatis beautiful and valuable in the domain of art. The series of ‘Idyls of the Field” will be continued by a delightful study of bird official duties. life as exhibited in the care of the young. The papers of this series afford something more than the entertainment for a leisure hour. Beneath the veil of a style of ex- quisite daintiness there is the substance of much information concerning the animated nature of our suburban fields, and now that the outing season is at hand they may be studied along with outdoor observations by nearly every reader and found to be matters of both pleasure and profit. It goes without saying that the Sunday CALL, in addition to the special articles mentioned, contains also a large and varied miscellany as well as all the news of the day, both at home and abroad, with an especial fullness of reports interesting to the Pacific Coast. The paper is for sale by all news-dealers in the city, but owing to the rush of Sunday readers it is notalways easy to obtain the Cary in that way. The best plan is to leave orders to-day and you will then be sure of all the news and good reading for your day of rest. bl el il PERSONAL. J. M. McPike of Napa is &t the Baldwin. £ Fred Cox, a capitalist of Sacramento, is iu own. B. C. Holly, a horseman of Vallejo, is at the Grand. Judge Louis Gottschalk of Los Angeles is at the Grand. H. H. Pitcher, a banker of Livermore, is at the Palace. J. L. Murphy of Riverside is a guest at the Occidental. Dr. A. F. Berryhill of the navy is at the Occidental. Senator J. C. Holloway of Sonoms is staying at the Russ, W. E. Gerber of Sacramento registered at the Grand yesterday. D. E.Knight, a capitalist of Marysville, is staying at the Lick. & Richard Gird, a capitalist and land-owner of Chino, is at the Qccidental. George E. Fuw, a wheat-dealer of Gonzales, is registered at the Occidental. A. C. Hillman, manager of the Biggs ranch at Davis, is visiting in this city. William Harney, Sheriff of Yuba County, reg- istered at the Russ yesterday. Colonel J. C. Doolittle came down from his mines in Placer County yesterday. A. L. Levinsky, an attorney of Stockton, was one of yesterday's arrivals at the Grand. C. W. Knowles, proprietor of the St. Charles Hotel of Portland, Or., is here on & visit. C. J. Sharon, nephew of the late Senator Bharon, arrived from the Comstock yesterday. Mrs. Charles M. Shortridge and Mrs. M. E. Singleton will spend Carnival week at Santa Cruz. Professor J, M. Schaeberle, one of the ob- servers at the Lick Observatory, arrived at the Lick yesterday. J. A. Barham, member of Congress from the First District, came down from his home in Santa Rosa yesterday. C. R. Mason, manager of the Byron Hot Springs, is seriously ill at the Palace, where he has been confined to his rooms for several days. Miss Bell, supervisor of drawing in the public schools, will leave for a trip to Alaska to- morrow. She will attend the convention of the National Educational Association &t Den- ver after her return. Rabbi M. 8. Levy will leave on the evening of the 17th for Europe on a visit to his mother, returning the latter part of August. During his absence the Rev. J. Rabinowitz, cantor of the congregation, will represent him in all FEOFPLE TALKED ABOUT. Anthony Trollope, in the course of thirty-five years, wrote sixty novels and made a total profit of $350,000 from the same. To-day his ‘works are almost unread. Dr. L. F. Smith, the venerable author of “America,” is in straitened circumstances, and feels very grateful for the $1600 recently raised by a Boston benefit. Cyrus Gale, a resident and native of North- boro, Mass., has presented to thet town & pub- lic library building. costing upword of $30,000. The formal dedication of this building will occur on June 12. Rev. Dr. J. Addison Henry, who is said to be the oldest Presbyterian minister in Philadel- phia, will celebrate on June 2 the thirty-fifth anniversary of his ordination to the ministry and of his pastorate of the Princeton Presby- terian Church. Readers of “Lorna Doone” will be glad to hear that Mr. Blackmore has written another story of the same time and place, using some of the characters of the romance. It is_called “Slain by the Doones; & Record of Exmoor,” and will be published in October. The statue of Abraham Lincoln, recently presented to Manchester, N. H., by the sculp- tor, John Rogers, has been set up in the city library. Lincoln is represented as studying a ‘war map showing the country between Rich- mond and Washington, In the right hand isa pair of calipers, and the big map falls care- lessly from the left hand to the floor. The recent sale at anction in Hamburg of the kingdom of Matupia is interesting. This royal domain, which lies in the South Seas, was knocked down to a Hamburg firm (it is & pos- session of the German Government) for only 12,000 marks, less than $3000. The pur- chasers intend to establish plantations on it and to pension off the King on a salary of 25 cents a day. In becoming the Princess Brancaccio-Mas- simo the fair danghter of a former New York beile allies herself to a family as ancient asany in Italy. The Massimi claim descent from the great Fahius Maximus of early Roman days, the originator of the “Fabian” policy of delay. There is an anecdote to the effect that Na- poleon once asked a Massimo in a rough and skeptical way if the story of his family origin were true. “I cannot prove it,” answered the Roman noble, “but it is & tradition that has run in our family for more than 2000 years.” SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. The small boy was playing cowboy, more to his own satisfaction than that of his nervous father. “I'm the Wild wolf of Bitter Creek,” he yelled. “And this is your night to howl,” said the exasperated parent, appearing with a strap. And Willie howled.—Cincinnati Tribune. Wife—John, you've been drinking. You show it. Husband—How? Wife—By trying hard not to.—Judge. Mrs. One—How is your husband to-day, Mrs. Tother? Mrs. Tother—Better, thank you. He s al- ways better when he is sick than at any other time.—Detroit Free Press. “A man died in a Turkish bath in New York yesterday,” said the Mere Newsgetter. ‘“Another sweat-shop outrage,” commented the Sociologist.—Buffalo Express. Harry—What makes Miss Fitzenfelder so ex- clusive ? Jerry—Oh, she's afraid of meeting somebody that knew her before she got her social posi- tion.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Mr, Droppin—Is Mr. Baite in to-day? Mr. Baite’s Partner—No, sir; he'sdownat the Ragleys. Mr. Droppin—Ah! Catching fish? Mr. Baite’s Partner—No, sir; fishing.—Boston Courler. A TUseful Precaution.—A.—Why do you al- Wways prefix the word ‘dictated” to your letters? 1 see you don’t keep a correspondent. B.—No;but I'm rather deficient in spelling.— Feterabend. ‘WHENEVER the Government wants the most trustworthy article and the best in quality it prefers the Royal, as this brand was found to be superior to all others in leavening power by the official chemical tests, made at the instance of the Govern- men‘.. in the Agricultural nt at ‘Washington. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. 8. M. Gardenhire, a member of the Kansas Legislature, playwriter and defender in court and press of playwriters’ rights, finds in the sights and scenes of San Francisco much to think ebout. He saw the City “under the suspices” of Generai Robert A. Friedrich, first vice-president of the Union League Club. Speaking of woman suffrage in Kansas, Mr. Gadenhire said: *“In citlesof the first, second and third class women have the right to_vote. In the large towns or cities the right is not freely exercised, but 1n the small towns which comprise the third class the ladies, as the say- ing goes, ‘vote to a man’’ Regarding the general effect of the extended franchise Mr. Gardenhire remarked that the cause of good local government was promoted by woman suffrage. “Iy Topeks, & city of 40,000, we have prohibition. Now, it doesn’t prohibit people from drinking liquor, because all who want it and can afford to buy it can get it any quantity desired from Kansas City, sixty miles distant, but since prohibition took effect the bummer element has disappeared from the streets. We do not claim in Topeka that we are the best governed municipality in the coun- try, but compared with New York, Chicagoand St. Louis we are white-robed angels.” W. C. Ralston, secretary of the Miners’ Asso- ciation, lately returned from a trip to the big drift gravel deposits in the upper divides of Placer County, where he went with & pariy to locate a lot of claims aud to obtain evidence to be used in the fight of the Miners’ Association to prevent the Southern Pacific people from grabbing up mineral lands under their grants. In the party were Bob Grayson, WillGraham, & mineral surveyor of Auburn, Jack McCall of Grey- Eagle Bar,and George Hoffman of Red Point, Placer County. McCall, who has lately sold his Grey Eagle Bar mines to San Francisco capitalists, has hunted or prospected over all the mountains of Placer, and is said to be the only man who can name all the forks of the American River in that county. One day the party came to & little stream toward the up- per end of “The Meadows'’ and Bobby Grayson asked Jack its name. “That's the South Fork of the Middle Fork of the Middle Fork of the American River. This divide, the Ralston divide, we are on is between the Middle Fork of the Middle Fork and the South Fork of the Middle Fork of the American River.” “Yes, I see,” said Bobby, “but as you are the only man in the party, Jack, who is versed in the genealogy of the American River I hope you will keep duly sober or we'll get lost.” There is more hydraulic mining on a large scale being done in Trinity than in any other counfy in the State. There is no trouble over the debris question. Fred Beaudry, who nas charge of the big mines on Oregon Gulch, owned by Baron La Grange and other French capitalists, and Edward Saladin, who has charge of the Hayes property at Junction City, which is owned by other French capitalists, are at the Palace. Mr, Saiadin sald yesterday that it was the intention of his company to enlarge their ditch leading from Canyon Creek from & capacity of 3000 to 6000 inches. “We are putting in a telephone line also and having mines lit up by electricity for working at night,” hesaid. “We own 1200 acres of land, most of Red Hill.” Mr. Beauary said: “We have fourtesn and a half miles of ditch bringing in water to the La Grange mine, and have spent about $500,000 on improvements. We have in con- templation other work to bring in a larger supply of water that will involve an expendi- ture of $200,000 or $300,000 more. At Miners- ville on my own property we are taking in 4500 inches of water,” Rev. Joseph Cook of Boston is in town on his second lecturing tour of the world. He will de- liver to-morrow evening at the First Congrega- tional Church hislecture on the “Seven Modern Wonders of the World.” Thirteen years ago Mr. Cook came to this City from the Orient on his first trip around the world as & lecturer. He is probably the best known of the religious lecturers in the United States, his work being largely in the direction of showing that science isin harmony with religion. He is staying at the Palace Hotel and will probably sail by the next steamer for Honolulu. He said yesterday that he expected to be gone two years, and would lecture in China, Japan, India and in Enrope before his return. ARTHUR McEWEN'S LETTER. Arthur McEwen undertook to poke a little fun at the rural ways of Mr. Shortridge of the CALL in the last issue of his Letter and in- cidentally make sport of the country editors, who he believes are being filled with false 1deas of themselves through the CALL'S method of treating them with fair and sincere consid- eration. The McEwen eye assumes to be far- reaching and attributes to Shortridge motives that are as remote from him as the former's prospects of & pass through the pearly gates. The CaLL'S directing hand recognizes in the interior press a force thatcan accomplish much good if its labors are aided by those of the eity papers. The CALL is extending the essential aid and others are now showing a disposition to follow in its wake. A big paper can be mighty small sometimes and no one should be able to better prove tne statement than Me- Ewen. It has been the smallness and self- esteem of San Francisco’s papers that have in- terfered very materially with the growth of the country. Thanks to the CALL’S innovations the conditions are changing.—Marysville Ap- peal. The CALL did one of the neatest things the other day that has been seen for many a moon. Arthur McEwen'’s last Letter was devoted to abuse of Shortridgd and his paper, taking the usual ground of the San Francisco “journalist,” that all the newspaper wisdom in the world is concentrated in his own egotistical alleged brain. The CALL reciprocates by copying the en- tire attack, giving it 8 prominent place, and simply putting the head “Kind Words” over it. Inthis, as ina hundred other ways, Short- ridge has shown his full ability to kold hisown with any newspaper man in San Francisco.— Bakersfield Californian. It is impossible to judge whether the CALL is markedly ingenuous or practicing a deep craft. It republished as & compliment an arti- cle referring to it from Arthur McEwen’s Let- ter, which was, to say the least, very patroniz- ing and very chaffy. It was hardly an unqualified compliment, snd it poked a good deal of fun at Editor Shortridge. Perhaps Editor Shortridge remembers the tactics of the elder Bennett, who reprinted every scrap of abuse and ridicule of himself, saying, “I don’t care a dom, it sells me paper!”—Alameda Ar- gus. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Vallejo’s population, according to an honest census, is 7000. Vallejo never was considered & boom town and does not want such a reputa- tion. Its progress is slow but steady.—Vallejo Chronicle. The visible supply of grain affects pricis largely and is the basis of all speculation. If the farmers would build graneries and keep it out of sight they would practically control the market.—Marysville Appeal. « The Democratic newspapers are taking credit to the party for having taught the people habits of economy. That is like teaching a man self-restraint by putting him in jail.— Seattle Post-Intelligencer. A dollar hoarded is & usecless dollar. A dollar spent may pay a dozen debts in aday and do the work of a hnndred dollars in a week. It is the money which circulates that oils the wheels of commerce.—Cottage Grove (Or.) Leader. Between now and November, '96, the people will learn more about National finances than they ever knew before, and an abiding faith in the patriotism and capacity to learn of our people impels us fo take an optimistic view of this situation.—San Benito Advance. Don’t whine ebout the laws of theland, It they are not just ones, amend them by electing honest legislators. Ii they are not enforced, prefer charges against the police officials and do not rest until the offending ones have been forced to resign.—Berkeley Dispatch. ‘When you desire to see a really wonderful miracle of journalism, just come down and watch us pile up seven or eight columns of lurid literature and startling information 'when there hasn’t been even & dogfight in the township for three weeks.—San Luis Obispo Breeze. There is great n\eed for co-operation am Pacific Coast manufacturers and Pacific C::'s consumers. The people as a whole should stand together and buy no article from abroad ‘when one equally as good can be purchased &t home. In this way, and this way only, can we hope to develop our resources to the fullest perfection and build up California.—Stockton Record. The people have suffered so severely from the collapse of values under the gold standard that the gold-bug prophecy of what wfll hap- pen ii silver is restored to free coinage does not scare them a little bit. A southern ex- change suggests that you cannot scare the drenched man by telling him he is likely to get wet.—Albuguerque (N. M.) Citizen. —_— LOW RATES ON WINE, New Orleans Grocers and the Local Shippers Gain a Victory Over the Railroad. The Southern Pacific Company has de- cided to reduce rates on California wines from 70 cents to 30 cents a hundred pounds on all shipments from “common’’ points in California to New Orleans. This cut is equivalent to 7 cents a gallon, and it brings the cost of transportation down to 3 cents a gallon, which leaves a fair margin for profit to producers and dealers. The new rate is to go into effect June 20. Quite recently the New Orleans Grocers’ Union and the wine-shippers of San Fran- cisco arranged to ship all California wine by steamer via Panama, and a new line of steamers was organized for the east side to act in conjunction with the independent steamship company engaged in freighting on this “coast between ~this port and Panama. 41According to the agreement rates were to be cut in half, and the time would be only a matter of a few weeks. So the Southern Pacific company at once took the | new opposition under consideration. It was seen that the Sunset route would lose considerably and a very low rate would be necessary to meet the requirements of the | situation. The radical cut was made and the wine men and New Orleans merchants thereby won a victory through competition and union. — JUDGES TO TAKE A REST, Approach of Vacation Time Is Apparent in the Superior Courts. Soon Comes the Season When the Attorney Hies to the Country. While justice is eternally vigilant, there are occasions when her ministers snatch a brief respite from their labors for a well- merited repose. Just now the Superior courts are entering upon vacation, and con- tinuances are generally referred to the date of the courts’ return from a pros- pective jaunt in the country or to some seaside resort. The Superior Judges met yesterday and elected Judge J. C. B. Hebbard of Depart- ment 4to act as presiding Judge in the absence of Judge Sanderson of Department 7, now presiding Judge. Judge Sanderson proposes to leave on his vacation to-day and to return on the 22d inst., when he will resume his duties as presiding Judge. Judge Hebbard will probably take his vacation after Judge Sanderson’s return, remaining away from June 26 to Au- gust 12. Judges Seawell and Daingerfield of de- partments 1 and 2, respectively, have al- ready departed in search of a hard-won rest. Judge Seawell has gone East, and will return to the bench on July 8, the same day that Judge Daingerfield is ex- pected to resume his seat. Judge Murphy of Degeartment 3 will take his uacation either in September, after the trial of the Durrant cases, or between the 17th inst. and July 1. He may divide his vacation between those periods, taking a brief retpite before and after the Durrant cases are called. Judge Hunt of Department 5 will take wing between now and the 15th inst., to re- main away until August 1. Judge Wallace of Department 6 will not leave the bench pmgnbly urtil the 20th’ h}s}";m remain away until the latter part of July. Judge Coffey of Department 9 nroposes to remain in usual session until about Au- gust 1, when Judge Hunt will take his pro- bate calendar on his return. Judge Black of Department 10 will leave some time between now and the 15th inst., to be absent until about August 1. Judge Troutt of Department 8 has just returned from a brief vacation and may take another week next month. Judge Bahrs of Department 12 has fixed upon June 14 for the date of his departure, and will take up cases again on July 27. Judge Belcher of Department 11 will not descend from the bench to seek rest until June 29, intending to return®about August 5. In preparation for the general exodus the Judges recently agreed that no con- tested cases should be taken up from next Monday until July 25. The regular jury panel in Judge Hunt's court, Department 5, was discharged yes- terday, and thereupon presented a letter thanking Judge Hunt for his considerate treatment. e jurors also made up a snug little purse, which they presen: to Courtroom Clerk Fred Vaughan and Bailiff David Magner in recognition of their uniform courtesy during the term of their impanelment. CHRISTIAN ~ CONVERTION, Meetings Held at the Howard Presbyterian Church Yesterday. SELF « ABNEGATION A DUTY, Sermons by Rev. A. B. Simpson and Rev. Stephen Merritt—Sessions To-Day. The Christian Alliance convention, un der direction of Rev. A. C.Simpson, as- sisted by Rev. Stephen Merritt from ) York, opened yesterday. The object i the union of Christians of any or all d nominations for evangelical work. Rep- resentatives of most of the denominations were seen at the meetings, which were held at the Howard Presbyterian Church yesterday afternoon and evening. Rev. A. B. Simpson said: “The purpose is to come in touch with God and to ta him away with us. We come not to s after a higher life but the highest life. We want to be Christ reflectors. Two little words have been ringing in my ears for years. They have come to me 1n times of trial. They are ‘but God.” All else is dull in comparison. You should lay hold upon this in your great stirring city, which is busier than New York and so much like Chicago. But it is such a material city. In this time of mighty men we are in dan- ger of forgetting God. This is an age of mighty men. Corporations are greater than principalities. How we need to lay hold@ upon the idea behind those words ‘but God.” ” Mr. Merritt s “The Bible is all right, It begins well and ends delightfully. ‘In the beginning was God,' so the book says, but I tried to read it ‘In the begin- ning was Stephen Merritt.” National and home life would have no failures if all re- membered ‘In the begizning was God. “God can do nothing for you if you ask in a spirit of seltishness. He wants self- abnegation. Spirit, soul and body should be devoted to God, As you léave this church to-day leaning on the arm of your beioved think solely ‘What may I do to advance your inlerests—only yours? Let us be live wires reaching from’the dynamo of the skies.” Speaking of 8an Francisco, which he called the twin metropolis to New York, he said that both are known as wicked cities. ““All the more reason that the standard of Christianity be raised. Let it be, known that in both these are people whose God is not self.” It was announced that there would be meetings at the same place at 10 A. ., 2:30 P. M. and 7:30 P. M. to-day and at 11 A, m. and 2:30 P, M. to-morrow. At the last meet- ing the Misses Minnie and Genevieve Ovi- att, members of the Howard Presbyterian Church, and who will depart soon as Chris- tian Alliance missionaries to China, will say farewell for a time to their friends. NEW TO-DAY. THE OWL DRUGC CO., fl 1128 MARKET STREET. =% CUT-RATE & DRUGGISTS! THE DAY WE_—EELEBHATE | NEXT MONDAY, JUNE 10th, THE OWL'S a0 Birhday Anniversary! ON THAT DAY (10 and 12 A. M. and 5 P. M. BE‘IWEE.\',...{ 7and 9 P. M. EVERY LADY PURCHASER WILL RECEIVE FREE ONE CAKE OF MADAME CHURCHILL’S Antiseptic Skin and Toilet Soap, REAL ESTATE ———————— THE FINANCE OOMMITTEE. Provision for Jackson Park in the Next Tax Levy. Before the Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors yesterday was sub- mitted a petition of property-owners ask- ing that provision be made in the tax levy for improving Jackson Park, the amount required being $10,000. The petition was signed by the Real Estate and Develop- ment Company, Pheebe A. Hearst, by her attorney, Ferdinand Reis, Samuel Davis and George E. Bates. The committee recommended fayorably. A%other petition was submitted asking for 320,000 for Lafayette Park, but the committee placed this on file as it had already recommended $10,000 for this park. Treasurer Widber submitted a communi- cation stating that after paying rincipal and interest on the bonds Tesued for the purpose of subscribing to the capital stock of the Central and Vgestem Pacific Rail- road Company he had $982 62 in the treas- ury and asked what should be done with it. Tbe committee directed thut it be dis- tributed into the general and school funds, Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay stroat. * ——————— PLAIN mixed cendies, 10¢ Ib. Townsend’s.* ——————— GEo. W. MoNTEITH, law oflices, Crocker bldg.* ——————— George Grossmith is writing a book of remin- iscences to be called ““Piano and I.” ——————— 'WINE-DRINKING people are healthy. M. & K. Wines,5¢ a glass. Mohns & Kaltenbach. 29 Mit* ——————— In discussing the claims of various foods to appease hunger at once atickly and sat- isfactorily, Sir Henry Th i first phce'to il ry Thompson “gives the PURE. rich blood 1s the basis of good health. and Hood's Sarsaparila purifies and. enriches the blood, This fact tells the whole story of the unparalleled success of Hood’s Sarsaparilla. B — THE most efficacious stimulant to excite the appetite are Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters. Be- Wware of counterfeits. —————— “BROWN’S BRONCHIAL TROCHES” relieve Trritations caused by Cold or use of the yoice, The genuine sold only in boxes. —————— WHEX the hair s thin and gray PARKER'S Harn BALSAM renews the growth and color. HINDERCOBNS, the best cure for corns, 15 cts. FOR SALE BY Thos. Magee & Son REAL ESTATE AGENTS And Publishers “Real Estate Circular” REMOVED TO 4 Montgomery Street, UN:O¥ TRUST BUILDISG, CORYER MARKET, NEW PROPERTY. Residence and corner; Pacific Helghts; nificent marine view never to be shut o Broadway and Fillmore sts. ; 63:9x137: or 54:4x157:6. Residence just finished; Presidio Heights; Jack- 500 st., near Central ave. and thecers: magnificent marine view not to be shut off; all modern con- venlences; finished in natural wood: inlaid floors $12,500. Eddy st., bet. Leavenworth and Hyde; new 8-story house: rents $110; 3 flats: 22 rooms; well arranged: light and sunny; $18,000. Reduced to $9000: new residence; fine marine view; SW. cor. Green and Buchapan sts.; very easy terms: like rent. MISCELLANEOUS PROPERTY, piSrannan st.—147:6 feet front, 250 feet deep te uxome, and 137:6 on Bluxoms, o roaa frelgh siieds; only 835,000, rae rkin - st.” investment: having two corners, stores and dwellings: renting for $497; lot nearly 8 50-vara in size; on one of the best portions of g ents $100: $12,500 ents $100; $12,500; store 3 st near 10th. e erce st.; 2 fine nearly new houses. and lot 87:6x105, bet. Golden Gate ave. and s R )08 et Gat Turs st.; will Cleap; $5500; Pine st., near Stockton; 34:6x 77:6, and 2-story house 1% rooms and modern con- veniences. Eroadway, near Octavia; 16x127:8; oaly sica V! lot 34:6x127:8; oaly Reduced to #4100 Grove and Lyon sts.; corner; 87:6x100; for business or residence. Cheap: 82000 only each; 3 lots: 27:6x137:6: north side Sacramento st., bet. Spruce sund Maple: cable-cars Clay_ st. build on; a’l'l()o Cheap; Waller st., north side, few feet from Mar- ket: lois 25x187:6; only $3500 each. m‘::lt'm: 114x80; NW. cor. Sanchez and Dan- Jones and Chestnut; 36x187:6;: fine view and 235 neighborhood; street work done; reducad 0 N. slde, bet. Central ave. and Walnut ut fine view: $3600. ; ‘only $3250 each: lots 25x166. Walter de, half & block from Marker: fists hese Fent :tudl]y.u % ey nion st 'N. side; magnificen: view: 074 187:6: only $2100; bet. Scott and Deviuadace; Baldwin Park. Pass: easy terms. (26x125), near Cherry; lot ready to