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

< THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1893. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. ~ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DATLY CALL—$G per year by mail; by carrier, 15¢ CALL ( tising Burea Duane streets, THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on a vacation ? If €0, it 15 10 trouble for ns to forward THE CALL to ss. Do not let it miss yon for yon will miss it. Orders given to the carrier, or left at ness Office, 710 Market street, will receive Jrompt attention Cowardice is prudence in a panic. The face is the phonograph of the heart. The hand that guides the bicycle rules the road. While we have fiestas the East has con- ventions. Lottery ticket sellers are the scalpers of the people. Let us rejoice in the fact that he is the Only Olney. He is indeed an odd man who never tries to get even. is a good enough Presidential te this year. canc ifornia work should always go to Wherever there are home products there should be a home market. The denizens of Chinatown think that Bergeant Cook was too raw. The further tbe Monroe doctrine is stretched the stronger it is. Memphis hotels at any rate see a profit in the monetary discussion. The Grand Jury declaimed too much but said the right thing sometimes. It is not fair to tax marriage with a license and let bachelors go free. Don’t lose the chance of seeing the closing d of the water carnival. Conscience is one of those burglars that works best in solitude and darkness. In the fatigues of a fiesta prepare for war, is the motto of the Naval Reserve. i1 be the next big make the most of it. The Fourth of July w: thing, and we mu: The report of a Grand Jury is nearly glways the discharge of a blank cartridge. There is a way to suppress lotteries, and it is the duty of officials to find itand walk init. The children at the park will not be satisfied with a feast of oratory on the Fourth. It requires an officer of superior merit to resist the temptation to bullyrag the Chinese. With such an ocean queen as Santa Cruz has, every man would be willing to play the serf. Some of the people who are fretting about bimetallism are hardly able to buy a pound of iron. What is wanted isa Grand Jury with a system strong enough to live up to its recommendations. The annexation. party of Hawaii ought not to despair o long as Cuba presents an inviting opportunity. The best use to which the Democrats can put Cleveland in the next campaign is s a horrible example. It is a poor code of laws that catches the tin-horn gambler and allows the brass- band lottery to escape. Live journalism makes a sickly venture when it joins itself to such a dead give away as a lottery game. Life is a series of storms beginning with the squall which immediately follows our entrance into the world. Memphis has now heard both sides, and is willing to entertain another convention that will split the difference. The genuine republicanism of Indepen- dence day will be pleasant change from the mimic royalty of the fiestas. Bringing a flood of gold to pay for pleas- ures by the silver sea is the way Santa Cruz settles the money problem. Grass Valley seems to have seen in the Grand Parlor of Native Daughters a multi- tude of oprortunities to embrace. Olney’s vigorous anti-European foreign policy has begun by sitting down on American sympathy for free Cuba. A few more conventions this year and Eastern cities will be glad to give us the National conventions next year to get rid of them. The combination of Republicans, Dem- ocrats and Populists in a silver convention falls a long way short of meaning a com- bination at the polls, Mr. Schwerin’s life has never been in one-hundredth part the danger from an angry populace that he threw over the lives of the Colima passengers, The Grand Jury, like the old woman who lived in a shoe, has apparently acted on general principles in whipping its children and putting them to bed. The naval battalion is enjoying with sat- isfaction the queer combination of a free excursion, regular discipline, hard drill and a seaside holiday at the same time, Deckloads of lumber save a ship’s officers the trouble of battening down the hatches when it comes to the task of shutting in the steerage passengers to drown in a wreck. Those papers which are constantly pub- lishing lottery advertisements must feel sore over the Grand Jury’s recommenda- tion that such publication be made a felony. Debs explains that the reason he did not surrender himself on the day required was because he was sick, ana it must be con- ceded that the decision of the court on his case was calculated to prodvee that effect. THE LOTTERY EVIL. No portion of the report of the Grand Jury more fully deserves the attention of all who are earnestly interested in the maintenance of law and the welfare of the community than that which relates to lotteries. The report aptly characterizes the publication of notices of lotteries in the newspapers as a ‘“crying shame.” It isindeed one of the worst offenses of which American journalism is guilty, for the publication of such notices lends to these unlawful and pernicious schemes the aid of the very power which should be most strenuously exerted to suppress them. The evil of lotteries is far worse than that of the gambling-dens which, hidden away in back rooms or in the slums of the City, afford few enticements to the general mass of the people. The lottery does not hide itself. On the contrary, it is insolent, defiant, aggressive. It is powerful enough to. bend even great newspapers to its service, and to hire a host of men to peddle its tickets in every section ot the Union. As the newspaper advertisements go every- where, so do the pedalers. Some of them make a house to house canvass and solicit buyers of their worthless tickets on the very threshold of the home. An evil so ubiquitous and so persistent as this has a hundred victims where the gambling-den has one. It is itself an inducement to gambling, and not infrequently leads its votaries to o about hunting for a place in which they may indulge the criminal mania of trying to get something for noth- ing, and to enrich themselves without work. It is known that the United States Gov- ernment prohibits the carrying of lottery matter through the mails. It is known that Wells, Fargo & Co. are co-operating with the Postoffice Department in the efforts to suppress the traffic. How is it, then, that the tickets, the circulars and the list of drawings of the lottery companies arrive here so promptly and so regularly ? This is a question which the police and other officials having authority in such matters should seek tofind out. Inanother column we publish interviews on this sub- ject with the Chief of Police, the District Attorney and the chairman of the late Grand Jury, which should be read in this connection. They bear testimony both to the extent of the evil and to the difficulty of suppressing it, and are sufficient in themselves to show the importance of an awakened public conscience to deal with the widespread iniquity. The Grand Jury says: “If the banks and collection exchanges would join with the Government in this matter the results would be good.” It also recommends that “the Legislature make the sale of lot- tery tickets and advertising and aiding the lottery business a felony, instead of a misdemeanor, and the verdict of the ma- jority of a trial jury sufficient for con- viction.” Both the suggestion and the recommendation are good, but the true point and pith of the report on the subject is embodied in the sentence: ‘‘Meanwhile the faithful administration of the law, the frequency of prosecution and the severity of punishment by imprisonment, as well ac fines, in every case of conviction under the present statutes, would have a healthier effect in restricting the spread, if not en- tirely suppressing this great evil.” It is the faithful execution of the law and the conviction of offenders under the present statutes, that the better element of the people demand and the CALL urges al this time. We are aware of the diffi- culties of the task, but with a vigilant po- lice, an earnest District Attorney, a reso- lute public opinion and general determina- tion on the partof the people, it can be accomplished, As for those of our con- temporaries that continue to serve the gigantic evil for a small hire, we can do no more than recall to them these words of the report: “This jury desires to express to the peo- ple of the City the commendable course of such of the dailies as have now refused to advertise the drfwings of the various lot- tery companies. It is to be hoped that other proprietors will, in justice to them- selves and to the public, follow this good example, which will go well in the line of progress this State is now making.” THE GRAND JURY SYSTEM. The final report of the Grand Jury just filed is a monument alike of the industry of the men who composed that body and to the inutility of the Grand Jury system itself. It resembles very much ihose party platforms which “point with pride” or ‘“view with alarm,” but which furnish no definite principles of right or remedies of wrong, and begin and end with wordy declarations “full of sound and fury, signi- fying nothing.” This is not the fault of the men who are selected by lot from the body of responsible citizens to compose the Grand Jury. Itis the fault of the system, which confines their energies to certain narrow and anti- quated methods of inquiry and action; causes their meetings to be subject to the suspicion and reproach of unfairness which attend all secret and star chamber proceedings, and when finally their report is filed makes them a modern example of the mountain which labored and brought forth a mouse. Of these several suggestions of ineffi- ciency in the Grand Jury system the re- port just presented supnlies a fitting ex- ample. The Grand Jury has been in session for the past half year. It has cost the City and County of San Francisco several thousand dollars in the fees of its members and the expenses of its ses- sions. It has held meetings which have been secret and has there conducted in- quiries and heard evidence of the char- acter or purpose of which the public were supposed to know nothing. It has had under review whatever matter its mem- bers might see fit to investigate. It has made a report in which there is nota single conceded fact which is not old to the public mind, and not a disputed charge upon which new light is shed. It poirts with pride to the acts of certain courts and officials and views with alarm the alleged misdeeds of others, but after all is said the praised and the censured are neither higher nor lower in the estimation of the public than they were before. In aword, what is good in the report is not new, and what is new therein is not universally conceded to be good. The interviews with several of the officials who did not find favor with the Grapd Jury go far to show that a secret and ex-parte investigation is not the best way of arriving at cither a correct or an unbiased conclusion of the facts of the case under review. One of the worst features of the Grand Jury system would seem to be the inability of the body to carry into effect those of its suggestions which are admitted to be good. Its power appears to be exhausted in recommendations addressed to nobody in particular, and in some cases at least im- possible of vractical adoption. There was a time when the sole power of indictment was vested in the Grand Jury, and its utility for this purpose was apparent. But the growth of modern legal methods has evolved the better plan of proceeding by information, with an open examination of the charge, and the old method of in- dictment has been relegated to the rear. The whole Grand Jury system might well have gone with it. The common-sense of the American citizen objects to secrecy in public proceedings; to one-sided hearings upon issues involving the property rights, the private characters or the public acts of men; to official reports based upon incomplete evidence or upon the prejudiced testimony of witnesses whose dishonesty of motive or falsity of speech has not been exposed to the cruci- ble of & cross-examination. If the society of the present requires a censor it can be supplied with one in a much less expen- sive and useful form than that of a Grand Jury, shorn as it has been of its ancient utility by the growth of modern ideas of justice and liberty and law. THE WORST OF ALL. The steerage messboy of the Colima has added the culminating touch of horror to the story of the wreck. It had been already shown that the ship’s officers prevented the steerage passengers from securing life- preservers, and beat them back when they clamored for escape to the deck. The messhoy finishes this chapter by declaring that at the last, while the ship was still afloat, the deckload of lumber slid over and closed the companionway and forced the steerage passengers to *‘drown like rats in a barrel.” Considerable time must have elapsed after this closing before the ship went down, for the messboy, being famil- iar with the ship, had time to climb up a dumb-waiter and escape through the cabin to the deck. As he was the only one who could have escaped from the steerage after the closing of the companion by the lumber, he is the only one who can give testimony on that point; and as he was an employe of the company, it is not to be expected that he would resort to untruth in so dam- aging a statement. It had been supposed that the story of the deckload of lumber had been suffi- ciently terrible. That it made the ship topheavy and assured so deep rolling as to shift the cargo are matters upon which there is no prevalent doubt. That it then, when cut loose by the third mate, should have closed the companion of the steerage, was just what might have been expected. Had the lumber been thrown overboard early in the storm the probabilities are that the vessel would have been saved. Another amazing piece of information, coming from two witnesses, is that the large bow portholes, over four feet by two in size, used for loading, were not only wide open, but were so blocked by cattle pens that it would have been impossible to close them in a storm. As these openings faced the storm they necessarily shipped water constantly to their full capacity. It is altogether reasonable to believe that they were left open in order to supply the livestock with air; but that the pensshould have been placed so as to make it impossi- ble to close them would seem incredible did we not know that many other ordi- narily incredible things were done on the Colima. Although the ship wore the storm all night there seems to have been no effort at any time to close these danger- ous openings. Stories of the toploading of the Pacific Mail Company’s vessels with lumber are multiplying since this disaster. It would be unreasonable to expect any vessel so laden to pass safely through a heavy storm. The Inspectors of Hulls and Boilers have widened the scope of their investigation since there arose the popular outery against their apparent desire to shield the Pacific Mail. They are now hearing the testimony of others besides the employes of the com- vany, but they have not yet assumed an attitude to win the entire confidence of the public. One point which they assiduously bring out from all the witnesses is that the increased fierceness of the hurricane im- mediately following the sinking of the vessel would have made it impossible for any ship of the Colima’s class to keep efloat. This happens to be utterly foreign to legitimate purposes of the inquiry. In the first place, the testimony of men struggling for their lives in the water can- not be highly valuable when it comes to comparing the strength of the storm while they were on the vessel with that which followed her foundering; and in the sec- ond place, nothing could be more absurd than to excuse the wreck by imagining worse dangers that came after it. The CaLL has no desire to be unduly harsh with the management of the Pacific Mail, but it holds life to be a more sacred consideration than the profits of the com- pany, and utters but a common human sentiment in demanding that the rights of life be respected. THE NAVAL RESERVE. The sailing of the naval battalion on the white cruiser Olympia for ten days’ prac- tice at Santa Cruz is a matter of no little significance. Tt brings to the public mind arealization of the sirength of the Republic on sea as well as on land. Similar bat- talions have been formed on the coasts of both oceans, on the lakes and on the gulf; and, though but recently organized, they constitute a force which in the aggregate forms a strong defense for the country in case of war. The battalion which has just sailed is composed of 110 men. Young, alert, vigor- ous, ardent in the service they have under- taken, they presented a fine appearance as they lined up on the wharf preparatory to embarking, and gave evidence of having profited much by the drill they have already had. The practice cruise will of course be of great benefit to them in many ways, and will go far to render thom more effective if called upon to do service in actual war. On board the cruiser they will be directly under the discipline of the regular navy, and while the ten daysof the practice may be a pleasure to them it will be no holiday trip by any means. Among the advantages to be derived from a cruise of this kind will be an in- creased public interest in the organization itself. Thiswill of course assistin strength- ening the membership by awakening the ardor of young men in the service. It is to San Francisco of course that the Pacific Coast must look for the main strength of her naval reserve, and fortunately the bat- talion already organized is strong enough and excellent enough to give assurance that those who look to us with such expec- tations will not be disappointed. PRESS PRIVILEGES. If for no other reason than that it is the most efficient of all safeguards against official knavery, and possibly, also, against private wrongdoing, the press of the coun- try should be cherished and protected. This does not mean to say that it lacks in shortcomings of its own; but so rarely do these take the form of deliberate vice that they may be condoned when weighed against the great benefits which it bestows. Nevertheless the granting to it of special privileges by law might tend to lessen the good which it accomplishes. The press should feel so strong, so essential, so bighly esteemed by all good citizens for the bene- ficent power which it wields, as to deem itself above the necessity for increasing, by law, the power for good which its own ability enables it now to exercise. Hence there seems to be insufficient reason for the determination of the International League of Press Clubs, now in session at Philadel- phia, to seek legislation from all the States enabling the press to keep inviolate confi- dential information imparted to it in the ordinary course of its business. The action has evidently sprung from two considerations—one that the useful- ness of the press could be enlarged by guarding informants against exposure, and the other that the privilege would not be abused either by the press or by inform- ants. The first of these considerations is most praiseworthy; it is in the second that the weakness lies, Without considering the possibility that the newspaper itself might be above the temptation to manu- facture information, the real danger exists in the protection which the contemplated legislation affords to unscrupulous or ma- licious informants, who would use the press for their own ends. o It is true that one of the constantem- barrassments under which the press labors is the fear of exposure on the part of in- formants. While well-informed persons have no fear that the newspaper would violate a confidence, under the present laws the newspaper can be forced to dis- close its source of information. Thisisa drawback, but its abolition might create evils that would more than offset the good. Indiyidual accountability is one of the foundations of our Government and every effort to weaken it should be most care- fully considered. A broad spirit of gen- erosity has clearly induced this action by the league, for it desires to shield its in- formants against personal accountability without in the least lessening its own re- sponsibility, but it is seriously questiona- ble if the best results can be expected from any course which might encourage sneaks. PERSONAL. A.J. Harrell, a Visalia banker, is registered at the Palace. Lieutenant C. D. Rees of the United States navy is in town. Frank N. Page, a merchant of Eureka, isat the Russ House. J. Murna and bride of Guatemala are guests of the Occidental. W. W. Gillett, a wealthy fruit-buyer of Paler- mo, is at the Occidental. I¥General E. Kirkpatrick, of the United States army, is a guest at the Palace. D. L. Parks, Superintendent of Railroads in Guatemala, is at the Occidental. F. M. Bostwick, United States navy, is enjoy- ing the hospitality of the Palace. Jeremiah Robinson, a building superintend- ent and contractor of Stockton, is at the Russ. Alfred Dampier, the well-known Australian playwright and actor, is in town from Chicago. General Warfield and staff will leave for Santa Cruz this afternoon to attend the carnival. R. W. Miller, an attorney of Crescent City, is staying at the Russ. His wife and six children are with him. E. R. Hutchius of Chicago, who is interested in a transcontinental freight line of refrigera- tor-cars, is registered at the Palace. Colonel J. A. Hardin of Santa Rosaisat the Russ. He is largely interested in cattle and other livestock in Northern California. Alfred 8 Miller and Oliver K. Reed, bankers, of Philadelphia, are registered at the Cali- fornia. They will spend a few days at the Banta Cruz carnival. Arthur Krolik, & merchant of Guatemala City, is at the Occidental. Mr. Krolik is an American citizen, & native of St. Paul, ana con- templates a trip through Europe. George Harris, vice-president and general manager of the Chicago, Burlington and Quiney railway system, arrived here from the East yesterday and put up at the Palace. He came in his special car by way of Portland. Colonel P. M. B. Young of Atlanta, Ga., isat the Palace. Colonel Young is United States Minister to Guatemals, whence he has just re- turned on his annual two months’ leave of ab- sence. His health suffers in the Central American city and his trip to the States 1s as much in hopes of regaining his health as in search of pleasure. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Senator Morrill of Vermont, who is 85 yeard of age, has announced that he will aceept & re- election at the end of his present term. Queen Christina of Spain has received a be- quest of several million francs, with the rever- sion to her children, from a rich merchant, Don Alexandre Soler of Madrid. Lady Margaret Scott, who has won the ladies’ golf championship in England for the second time, is the secoud daugnter of the Earl of Eldon and great-granddaughter of the great Lord Chancellor. At the recent annual meeting of the New England Women’s Club Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, who was the principal speaker, said: “Once it ‘was the eccentric woman who belonged to a club; now it is the eccentric woman who does not belong to a club.” Just before the Empress Eugenie left Paris for England she accepted 8s a gift an interest- ing relic of her son. It was a small full-length portrait in clay by the late Prince Imperial of 3 forest ranger at St. Cloud. The sculptor, arpeaux, touched it up while the Prince was at work on it. The love letters and other correspondence of Mme. Recamier, which were recently sold in Paris, brought small prices. The thirty-three letters from Lucien Bonaparte, for example, realized only $118, while thirteen from Queen Hortense sold for $18, and the 172 letters from Benjamin Constant, all of them highly inter- esting, were knocked down for $110. Two letters from George Sand sold best, realizing $98. Hartford people are wondering what disposi- tion will be made ot the famous Hawley col- lection of violins, the owner, Mrs. R. D. Haw- ley, having died a few days ago. They include some of the finest Cremona instruments, some genuine Amati violins, several of Stradivarius’ make two centuries ago, and the well-known “King Joseph” violin, used by a pupil of Stradivarius. Mrs. Hawley had been urged to Jeave the collection to the Connecticut His- torical Soclety. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. “Mr. Uplate,” said the landlady severely, “it is now after 10 o’clock. I really cannot keep the breakfast table waiting for you so long every morning."” “Madam,” replied the lazy boarder with dig- nity, “if you think I am going to endanger my health by arising before the day is far enough advanced so I can tell whether I'will need to put on my winter flannels or my gauze under- wear, you are entirely inistaken.”—Buffalo Express. Laura Seaton of Washington and Cora Brad- ley of Boston, housemates at the seaside: “I have never read Emerson,” said Laura, “but I intend to some day.” “Dear me!” said Cora, “you’'d better hurry up, or you'll soon outgrow him, though, to be sure,” she added, wishing to be impartial, “he has some nice thoughts.’—New York Sun. Temperance lecturer—Friends, how can we stop the sale of liquor? Inebriate (in the rear of the hall)—Give it away.—Tid-Bits. Icecream soda may not be good for folks, but the motives of the young man who tries to prove it to his female acquaintances are apt to be misconstrued.—New York Recorder. “I’s terrible,” said Plodding Pete, “de wey folks wastes time. It hurts me feelin’s ter see it goin’ on.” “G'wan,” replied Meandering Mike, “ye ain’t goin’ back on yer perfession an’ wantin’ work, are ye?" “Nope. Wot I hasreference to isde way folks loses precious hours workin,’ w'en dey might ez well be puttin’ in good chunks o’ time doin’ nothin'.—Washington Star. “My dear Baron, what are you doing? Smok- ing two cigars at one and the same time?” “Well, you see, my dear fellow, in this beastly hole you can’t get any sixpenny cigars, asIamin the habit of smoking, so I have to make shift with a couple of threepenny ones.” —Deutsche Worte. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “Business is 100king upin Del Norte County,” said Attorney R. W.Miller of Crescent City at the Russ House last night. *The lumber men are getting better prices for their product and a new mill, which was built last season, will open up within a week, giving employment to from 150 to 200 men. We have the finest red- wood forests {n the State, but until now the excessive competition and low prices have had 8 depressing effect. “In mining up our way there is just now great activity. Two valuable quicksilver claims have recently been located on Diamond Creek, in the mountains, about twenty miles from Crescent City. I cannot say how velua- ble the prospects are from personal knowledge, but the assays indicate thata very rich lead has been discovered, and there is considersble excitement in consequence. *'Gold placers, too, are being opened up on Smiths River. The bars there cover a great deal of ground, which was thought to be of t00 low grade to pay for working under the old processes. I put in a small hydraulic plant recently, however, and though I had only a small head of water I took out thirty-sixounces of gold in fifty-one days. The debris law does not affect us there, you know, and I think I have demonstrated that the low-grade gravels there will pay handsomely for working.” Mr. Miller has with him at the Russ his wife and six children. He is en route to Santa Rosa, where he will engage in the practice of law. He was formerly a partner of Hon. Lafayette Emmett, the first Chief Justice of Minnesota, bnt was forced to come to Califor- nia several years ago on account of poor health. “It is the little things that make or mar a man’s life, and not the great events,” said Har- bor Commissioner Colnon at the California last evening. “For instance, it was & plate of clam chowder which changed thewhole course of my existence and indirectly made me Har- bor Commissioner.” “How was that?’ “Well, it’s an interesting story, and I will tell it if you care to listen. “Several years ago—I forget the date, but it is longer than I care to think about—I came to this City to take & ship for South Americe. I had acquired a good knowledge of Spanish, and thought to make a living in Chile or Peru by teaching English to the inhabitants. “The ship was to sail early in the morning, and the night before I had nothing particular to do. Ihad always been fond of clamsand thought to indulgein a dish of chowder. Idid 50, and it made me so sick that I nearly died. Next morning I was too weak to go aboard the vessel, and the ship sailed without me. When I recovered my ticket and my clothes were gone, and I gave up the project and went back to Stockton.” Charles Warren Stoddard, whose verses are familiar to many readers in California, will visit this State during his summer vacation. He holds the place of professor of English literature in the Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C., and has not been farther west than Chicago for ten years. If time allows he will pay a visit to some of the celebrated missions in California before he re- turns to the university. Mr. Stoddard lived in San Francisco for many years, and surely knew the joys and sorrows of & bohemian’s life quite as well as any of his contempcrary poets. Years and the responsibility coming with years have dispelled some of thé youthful illusions of the poet, and he is now quite as well satisfied to tell the college boys what he knows of literature as to manuiscture it for 5 a column. ““We have the most prosperous mining camp in the State up in Biskiyou,” said Martin Cud- dihy, the well-known hotel man of Happy Camp, at the Russ House yesterday. “There is only one morigage on record from our town- ship, and that of itself should be a guarantee of prosperity. Then there have been several im- portant mining discoveries recently, which have given us a return of the pristine life of ’'49. One company is now comstructing a ditch eleven miles long to bring water to the placers. ‘When completed it will havea capacity of 4000 miners’ inches, and the water will be used for working the low-grade gravel bars on the Klamath River.” “Stockton is forging ahead as usual,” said “Jerry” Robinson, the well-known contractor ané building superintendent who has con- structed half that eity. “The new builaing of the Athletic Club is now complete, and they are only waiting for the furniture to arrive be- fore moving in. They are planning for a grand | regatta and water carnival for the Fourth. “Two new railroads are coming to Stockton. One is the Corral Hollow line. I know there is 2 hitch in the programme just now, but it will come just the same. The other road is between Lodi and Stockton. It is to be of standard ganuge, o that its cars can be switched right onto the main line, and it will be run by steam-dummy power. Grading the rosdbed hes already begun.” SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Ttis those who are ready to back up their confidence with their money who are bringing on another era of good times and rapid growth. All the talk and all the newspaper booming in the world will amount to nothing of itself. There is but one kind of “club” or other or- ganization that will have a part in the restora- tion of prosperity among all classes and bring about permanent good times bere, and that is the association of capital for the encourage- ment of manufacturing, patronizing home in- dustry, the erection of good buildings and the betterment of the city asa place of residence. —Arizona Republican. Long prayers and loud professions do not count, but the man who loves his fellow-men and fellow-women; who ministers to the aflicted and wears a pleasant smile for all, in- clnding his wife and children; who never swears or kicks the dog when he ought to kick himself; who speaks well of people when their backs are turned, and under all circumstances keeps an even mind—that man doesn’t have to die to go to heaven.—Cloverdale Reveille. Eighteen months ago the country papers ad- vertised the Midwinter Fair and sent multi- tudes of people with their pockets full of money to San Francisco. Now the metropoli- tan papers are returning the compliment by freely advertising flestas and water carnivals and sending city folks with their capital to the country. It's the correct principle. One good turn deserves another.—Napa Register. No man can study the facts and figures, the statistics furnished even by the administration, without seeing as clearly as the noonday sun that there is a manipulation of the money mar- ket with Goyernment aid now going on, and that behind the cry for “an honest dollar” is, among the leaders of the movement, the desire for a dishonest profit from the debtor classes and the people.—Los Angeles Express. More mines mean greater prosperity. Oro- ville is the center of a mineral belt that has never been half explored. Itis to the benefit, therefore, of usall that warm encouragement be extended to the many mining men who visit the town every week. Their object is to invest in a legitimate industry, upon the suc- cess of which much of Oroville's future neces- sarily depends.—Oroville Mercury. An increase in the tariff will not disarrange business, because American manuiacturers would gain and not lose by the change. That is why Republicans expect Congress to in- crease the revenues of the Government by raising the tariff on all articles that enter into direct competition with American products.— Nevada Tribune. Weages in many industries have been ad- vanced somewhat of late, but they have not been advanced to anything like the basisof 1892, before ‘‘the change” was voted; nor will they be, unless the policy of protection shall again be put in force as fully as before “the change.”—Portland Oregonian. Itis a rather happy thought that there will be no “octopus” in the valley after the com- peting road is built. There will then be two competing roads instead of one monopoly.— Fresno Republican. The goldbugs now ery “The silver craze must be stamped out.”” It will never be stamped out, gentlemen, until the United States mints stamp it out.—Salt Lake Herald. Washington may be put down as a full- fledged sree-silver State, as the platforms of all the parties at the last election favored iree coinage.—Centralia (Wash.) News. Cuba has not given up yet and is making a brave fight for liberty. If she wins we have pure cigars for 5 cents and the cabbage market will drop.—Pasadena News. CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR, Forty-Second Exhibition of the State Agricultural Society. THIRTEEN DAYS IN SEPTEMBER. Liberal Cash and Medal Awards Offered In All of the Elght Departments. The forty-second annual fair of the Cali- fornia State Agricultural Society will be held at Sacramento, September 2 to _the 14th inclusive, and every prospect points to one of the most successful exhibitions ever held under the auspices of this popu- lar organization. The railroads will make substantial re- ductions in passenger rates, and will also transport over their respective lines free of charge. Over $20,000 has been set apart for premiums alone, and liberal special awards will be made for all worthy articles ex- hibited. In addition to the regular premiums as set down in the schedule, the society offers this year as a special induce- ment a beautiful gold medal to the most meritorious exhibition in each department, and for the most attractive and artistically designed pavilion display the; reward is 2 special medal of gold. 5 The ladies’ tournament, an attractive feature in all exhibitions of the past, will be especiaily entertaining this year. Cal fornia has some of the best horsewomen in the world, and the keen competition for tournament honors is always an event of general interest at the fair. ~ % As in previous years there will be eight departments, designated as follows: First department — Livestock; second de- partment—M inery, implements, ete. ; thira department — Textile fabrics (mill and do- mestic products) and 'vaenile desunmem; fourth department—Mechanical products and California inyentions, etc.; fifth department— Horticultural products and county exhibits; sixth department—Viticulture, etc.; seventh department—Agricultural prodiicts; eighth de- partment—Fine arts, etc. The parades of livestock on exhibition will be held at 10 o’clock A. M. on the fol- lowing days: Saturday, September 7; Tuesday, September 10; Thursday, Sep- tember 12; Saturday, September 14. Exhibitors in this department are lim- ited to twenty-five head of any one breed, and for the best exhibit three gold medals are offered, besides the regular cash awards, two for horses and one for liv: stock other than horses. To entitle stock to exhibition in this departmeut, except | that owned in the States of Oregon, Ne- | vada and Washington, it must have been | in this State prior to June 1. { In the record department, exhibits that | have heretofore received premiums will not | be elegible to competition. This department will be included in the pavilion exhibit and will consist of agri- cultural and other machines, engines, tools and househola implements, ve- hicles, etc. The third department will include textile fabrics and the materials with | which they are made—clothing, needle, steel and wax work, etc. In this depart- ment the liberal arts will find representa- tion—printing, lithographing, etc. The fourth department will be devoted to mechanical products—manufactures of leather, paper and rubber, worked metals, stoves and castings, musical instruments, furniture, woodenware, electrical ap- pliances, philosophical, sporting, surgical, dental, drawing, surveying, leveling in- struments and apparatus, together with chemicals, stoneware, bricks, tiles, crock- ery, glass, minerals, fossils, birds, fishes, marble and granite work, incubators, etc. The fifth department will comprise hor- ticultural pro(Fucts and the sixth will be devoted to viticulture. The seventh de- partment will represent the productions of the State, and in the eighth there will be an exhibit of the fine arts, for excellence in_which special inducements are offered this year. The prizes are especially liberal for work in oil, statuary, fresco, mosaic and carying. Photography has not been over- looked, and $50 will be distributed by the committee to all exhibitors in this'class. ‘Work in water colors, crayon, charcoal or sustel. etchings, India ink, pen and pencil rawings are all encouraged by the offer of liberal award: FEAST OF ST. ANTHONY. Seventh Centenary of His Birth Cele- brated by the Franciscan Fathers. Several events of more than orainary re- ligious interest were solemnly celebrated at St. Boniface Church, on Golden Gate avenue, yesterday. Beven hundred years ago St. Anthony, to whom special venera- tion is paid by members of the Franciscan order, was born, and the seventh centenary of his birth was one event. The feast of Corpus Christi,which occurs on the Thurs- day following Trinity Sunday in the Cath- olic calendar, was another. For two months past those of the congre- gation so inclined have been performing the novena of nine Tuesdays, that is cer- tain religious exercises on each of the nine Tuesdays preceding his feast, culminating with special services on the feast day itself. As St. Anthony is no less revered by the Franciscans than their founder, hundreds thronged the church morning and evening. Three masses were celebrated in the morning, commencing at 9 o’clock with a solemn high mass. Father Maximilian, F., was the celebrant; Father Ed. mund, O. 8. F., deacon; Father Titus, 0. 8. F., sub-deacon, and Father Athanasius, 0. 8. F., master of ceremonies. The altars were beautifully decorated and special music was rendered by the choir. To the right of the main altar a shrine bearing a statue of St. Anthony was erected. St. Joseph lilies, roses, lighted candles and fairy lamps with different colored globes made a very pretty picture, The main altar and the side altars were also resplendent with lights and flowers, The sermon was preached by Father Maximilian in German, He treated of the life of St. Anthony, dwelling upon the favors obtained by his intercession, both of a spiritual and temporal nature. He also treated of the observance of the feast of Corpus Christi and the happy result of the coincidence of two such notable feasts on the same day. _ At the conclusion of the mass a proces- sion was formed. First came the Sodality of the Holy Childhood, composed of the ioung girls of the church, each carrying a asket of flowers, which they strewed in the §mm of the procession.” Next came the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin, com- };osed of young ladies, and immediatel ollowing them, dressed in white and wit lighted candles in their hands and yeils and wreaths upon their heads, were the children who made their first communion last Sunday. In the evening solemn vespers were sung and the altars were again ablaze with light. Anotber novena was commenced, which will conciude on Friday of next week. Itsciose will also be marked by special exercises. _At St. Antbony’s Church, on Twenty- sixth and Army streets, which is also in charge of the Franciscan fathers, simiiar ceremonies were observed. Being the feast day of the patron saint of the church elaborate preparation was made for its celebration by Father Leo, O. 8. F., the vastor. Solemn high mass, a procession | i i in $2000 bonds on the charge of granc About twomonths 8go she stale a pa mond earrings, valued at $350, Hurlbert, a room-mate, and 5. Thete is a charge of obtaining nise pretenses still pending - again Judge Campbell’s court. She is the man .who hired a rig frozm the St. La Stebles on June 3 and sold it to the Stebles-for $65, representing that it oWR property PACIFIC MAIL FINED, ceny. i dia- Laurs The Company Violated the Law tive to Listing Tmmigrant Passengers. Immigration Commissioner W. L. ley disciplined the Pacific Mail Steams Company to the tune of $40 yester not properly observing the requirem the immigration laws. The steamer Colon arrived in the n ing from Central American port among the passengers were an Italiar his wife and baby, two Japanese ar Jamaica negro, all immigrants. The boarded the vessel at several Central Amer ican ports, but the steamship neglected to list them as required by | For every violation or neglect the Comn missioner is required to impose a $10 for each person, which fine is cc by the Collector of the Port before th migrants are permitted to land steamship people protested ags the fine, but Strac i and it was many hours before tk sengers were allowed to go ashore. Mr. Stradley decided to allow the Italian and his wife to pass as one, stating that under the law they are one. came here from Guate on the farms. ! ——— HOME INDUSTRIES, A Mass-Meeting to Promote Their In- terests to Be Held, The committee appointed by the board of directors of the Manufa rers’ and Producers’ Association to arrange for a | mass-meeting to be held in this City under the auspices of the association has decided | to hold the meeting on July 12 next at Metropolitan Hall. The meeting will be held fo: of more thoroughly enlisting t! the cause of patronizing home in and it is expected that there will b attendance not only of manufa producers, but of distributors of ¢ manufactured goods as well. Ever since the convention held by the manufacturers a short time ago there has | been prevalent a growing sentiment in favor of giving home produets a fair show, which is to culminate in the mass-meeting now definitely announced. Following are | the officers of the association under whose auspices the meeting will be held: H. T. Scott, president; Louis Saron!, vice- W. F. Bowers, vice-president; Andrea Sbarboro, treas- ott, M. J. Keller, E. C. n, John Hammond, G. , J. P. Currier, Julian . McGlynn, R. Moore, Louis proule, A. Sharboro. i BacoN Printing Company, 508 Clay strast. * i e ey he purpose VERMONT maple sugar, 15¢ Ib, Townsend's.* e Skt FLOOR paints, enamels and wood stains in small cans for family use at Sanborn & Vail’s, ® - GEo. W. MONTEITH, law oilices, Crocker bldg.* v Rl TRy PALACE sen baths, 715 Filbert street, now open for summer swimming season. * T — TOILET soap, perfumery, brushes and combs in tissue-paper department. Sanborn, Vail & Co. - D T S — TRY our ‘‘Atlas Bourbon” and you will want none other. Mohns & Kaltenbach, 29 Market.* —— MERCHANTS and bookkeepers suppled with Xll(\:nk books at bottom prices. Sanborn, Vail : Co. K e THE eighth Merchants’ Pienic, to be held Sat- urday, June 15, 1895, at Glenwood, Santa Cruz Mountains, will be the moss emjoyable ever eld. Tickets for the round trip $1 each, to be had of the wholesale merchants. * —————— The grain, the smallest measure of weight in use, derives its name from being originally the weight of an ordinary grain of wheat, well dried. A — PREPARE (he system to realize the most good {rom your annual vacation. The blood must be pure and all the organs healthy, and then nature will do the rest. Take Hood’s Sarsaparilla novw. s “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup' Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth- ers for their children while Teething with pert. success. It soothes the chlld, softens the gun lays Paln, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and Is the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure d ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 25¢ a bottle. e B b The report of the Challenger deep-sea ex- pedition has taken more than ten years to prepare. 1t fills fifty quartos, contain 500 pages, 3000 plates and countless engr: ings. e NEW TO-DAY. Do you understand our Sh oes? and do you understand how we can sell such all- around first-class Shoes at prices unknown in ordinary retail dealings? DON'T you understand that we, as wholesale manufacturers, can, if we choose, sell at RETAIL JUST AS WE DO AT WHOLESALE, withoutlosing money? If this big, elegant retail department pays expenses we are satisfied. The large quantities of Shoes sold here helps us in another way— 30 to 40c on the $l—that's the saving. ROSENTHAL, FEDER and vespers were the features of the ser- vices. — - Katie Flood Is Held. Katie Flood was yesterday held to answer before the Superior Court by Judge Joachimsen & CO., 581-583 MARKET ST NEAR SECOND. Open till 8. Saturdays till 10 P. M,