The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 21, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—$6 per year by mail; by carrier, 15¢ T weel L1—$1.50 per year. WEER ALL—#1.50 per year. The Eastern affice of the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Bureau, Rhinelander building, Rose and Duape streets, New York. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on a vacation ? Tt £0, it Is no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to raddress. Do not let it miss you for you will s it. Orders given to the carrier, or left at s Office, 710 Market street, will receive prompt attention. SUND. We improve w Note our enlarged news service. The sneer is the gnat that stings the elephant. Where there is energy there is always progress or a fight. ‘With a new press we keep up with our increasing circulation. It should never be forgotten that it is the speed of the trolley that kills. Slow matches sometimes lead to the loudest matrimonial explosions, For cities as for individuals there is only one way to get rid of debts. 1t is hard for a reformer to keep straight ahead in a world that goes round. We are able not only to embrace all the news, but to give it a double press. Some people are unable to see the differ- e between conservatism and stagnation. Home consumption has no reference to the encouragement of a one-lung industry. In the journalism of San Francisco the news service of the CALL is unique, distinc- tive and unrivaled. Every here and there you find a man who would get off his base any day in crder to get in the swim. Tt will of course be a Jong way to the end of the proposed boulevard to San Jose, but {aiser William appeared at Ham- a gold helmet with a silver t, e must be a bimetailist. Having a fuller telegraphic report and an iditional press to print it, the CaLy will bette: vice to its patrons than The United Press covers the country with its news-gathering energies, and the results are focused in the columns of the Carr. Most reformers think that they are lead- ing a whole orchestra when they are merely g on a single string of their own The only persons who die before their time are those who still live, but have be- come useless through selfishness or dissi- pation. The South Side Improvement Club is determined to remove the stigma of stag- nation that attaches to ‘“‘south of Market street.”’ William Brady, the murderer of Sheriff Bogard, is not sufficient of a leader in train robbery to entitle him to the rank of brigandier. Those who go out into the country to enjoy the laughter of the sunshine feel tempted to indulge in a smile This is the time of the year when some of the men who go to the country for an outing turn up their trousers and turn down their tailors. He who imagines that all the nataral wealth of California has been discovered is most certainly the one who will never dis- cover anything more. Henry Watterson seems to have con- vinced Kentucky Democrats to stay where they were on the silver question and take the chances of the slaughter-house. The mountain streams, though notorious babblers, never betray the fisherman who comes in with a big string and solemnly swears that he hasn’t seen a boy all day. The action of the residents south of Mar- ket street to improve that section of the City comes just in time to prevent its obliteration by the superior enterprise of the Mission. In addition to making a temporary dis- play of home products at the Atlanta Exposition we should make a continuous display of home patronage in the shops of San Francisco. The Lompoc Journal has abandoned the patent outside and will be made up here- after wholly by-local industry, thereby deserviny more than ever the patronage and support of the community. Is Congress so impregnable to sense and right that it has to be memorialized by the people of California to apply to the in- vading Japanese the restriction laws with which it has checked the enterprise of the Chinaman? e e The convention of Republican League clubs at Cleveiand bas fixed upon Mil- waukee as the next place of meeting, and, while the distance between the two cities is not great, we are pleased to note the tendency is westward. The Reno Gazetleis a strong free-silver paper and has been lately talking so much about General Warner, the famous bimet- allist, that in recounting the heroic de- fense of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775, by Generals Prescott and Warren, it inad- vertently spells the old hero's name “Warner” twice. The Bakersfield Democrat has passed into the hands of a new editor, E. A. Mc- Gee, who in his salutatory says the paper will continue to be a Democratic journal “unless extraordinary circumstances and conditions arise and develop in the party which will make it a party of the plutocracy, and not of the peovle, as for instance, the adoption of Grover Cleveland’s financial ideas, and their in- corporation into Democratic platforms.” This is a neat way of blazing a path for an escape from the woods in 96, FOR BETTER SERVICE. It is with no little satisfaction the Carn announces this morning two additional steps taken in the direction of rendering a better service to its increasing number of patrons. These steps, which consist inthe acquirement of a new press and a broader and better telegraphic report, were de- signed by the new management at the time of the purchase of the Carn and would have been taken under any circum- stances, but as it happens the increase in the number of subscribers and the enlarge- ment of advertising patronage have made them to some extent a necessity. They may be regarded therefore as a response to the public demand asmuch as an evidence of the determination of the CaLr to keep always in the front rank of Pacific Coast journalism. When the CALL came into the hands of the new management it possessed in one of Hoe & Co.’s giant quadruplex presses the best and speediest machine of the kind on the Pacific Coast. That single machine en- abled the CALL to print in an hour 48,000 eight-page papers, 24,000 sixteen-page papers or 12,000 thirt, hage papers This speed, however, was not s ient to meet the demand that has arisen for the paper, and a new press became neces: The one which has been added hasa power and speed equal to the other, and is of the latest and most improved design. The two taken together give the CArL the best equipped pressroom west of the Roc and put it on an equal footing with th press equipments of the greatest news- papers in the Union. ‘While the acquisition of this additional giant quadruplex press enables us more readily and speedily to supply the demand for the Cavr, the public will find abundant reason for increasing that demand in th improved and enlarged tele service which we beg this service we are indebted to an agree- ment entered into with The United Pres: the most extensive and powerful news- gathering organization in the Union. The sponsors of the organization are the great New York dailies, the Herald, the Sun, the Tribune, the Tim nd in alliance them are the 1 journals of England and the South. The telegrap! dispatches of those. far ing papers will be shared with the CALI every one at all familiar with Americs journalism knows that fact assures us the best and fullest news reports of the day. The alliance with The United the more notable because it w telegraphic service unique and d this coast. No other paper west of the | Rockies has any such general report of telegraphic news as that which we will receive in this way, and for that reason all who wish to be thoroughly posted on the | events of the day will ha to read the | CaLL in San Francisco just as tk have to read the Herald, the Tribune or the Sun in New Y Having thus fitted itself to ¢ Sl Times, the ive a bebter news service to its readers, the Carr will be as diligent as ever in try end, increa nd strengthen the it can render to the moral, political advancement of 1 and the coast. Pacific Coast interests and Pacific Coast r will continue to eng the m and its energies, ments and better te c reports 1t invites its contemporaries anew to further eiforts of generous ri v in promoting the welfare of the greater West. W equip- A MARIPOSA EXAMPLE. In noting the completion of its fortieth in- year the Mariposa Gaz makes an teresting statement concerning the cha in the industry and life of that locality, which it has recorded during its long carcer. These changes 3 ctically to a complets revolut nd form in themselves an interesting epitome of the | development of the State at large. The Gazette was jounded in the days when Mariposa flourished and attracted immigrants because gold was plentiful hin her borders and her mi B, thronged with hundreds of men, all ¢ seeking the precious met This period of adventurous prosperity passed y, gold became scarce, the mines were for- cen, the population diminished to one- third its former number, and those who remained had to confront a gloomy out- look and a bard struggle to obtain the means of subsistence and improvement. Through those dark days the Gazette held its ground, preaching always the cheerful gospel of brighter things to come and maintaining that in the fertile soil of the county beneath a climate so genial, there was room for an industry more perma- nently profitable than goldmining. It has lived to see the fulfillment of its prophe- cies and to be able to say on its fortieth birthday that its faith *“hasbeen proven by the events of the past ; busiress of every kind has improved, our lands are being settled upon, farms are founded and iruitful orchards cover ma hillsides, and on every hand isseen an air of thrift and joyousness not known a few years ago.” 1f there are not many of the pioneer pa- pers of the State that have survived like the Gazette; it is because not many of them deserved to doso. Itiswith newspapers as with individuals: only those possessing the courage, the self-confidence and the hopefulness sufficient to meet and over- come the long strain of hard times cver succeed in, winning a sure place in the world and finally establishing themselves "where prosperity can find them when it returns again. Too many people who come to California start into business in some locality where a boom attracts them, and quit it as soon as the boom subsides. That class of people can never have any success except the accidental kind that occasionally comes to speculators. Any industrious man, how- ever, who establishes a legitimate business in uny county of California and sticks to it, taking the bad years with the good, is bound to succeed. Every community in California has a bright prospect before it, and those who bave the confidence to trust to it and the industry to work for it will sooner or later have the opportunity to rejoice like the Mariposa Gazette and say, “I told you so.” ASBESTOS IN AMADOR. Discoveries of wunexpected sources of wealth in California are so frequent that the wonder is what next will be found. The Sutter Creek (Amador County) Times has made an announcement hardly less important than that of the discovery of gold. Ttisthat a large body of asbestos has been discovered on Quartz Mountain. This is rot so important as the additional announcement that it is of the amianthus variety, the rarest and finest of all the kinda of this peculiar mineral. It isfound only in a few parts of Europe, and by rea- son of its great scarcity and cost is used only in the manufacture of the finest as- bestos and most expensive fabrics. The great value of amianthus was approxi- mately expressed to the editor of the Times by a mining capitalist in the follow- ing words: “Give me a good mine of pure amianthine asbestos and I will let you have all the silver that was ever mined out of the famed Potosi in South America, or yon can have all the diamonds in the famed Golconda in the Mogul's empire if 1 can only find a good mine of asbestos.” ‘We are not familiar with the geological character of the place in which this dis- covery has been made, but the name of Quartz Mountain suggests a formation altogether congenial to this kind of asbes- tos. It seems almost incredible that so wonderful a discovery has been made, and in view of the fact that the character of this asbestos has not yet been scientifically determined nor the bulk of the deposit ascertained it may be too carly to base extravagant hopes on the discovery. If any considerable body of a mineral worth almost its weight in gold has been found in Amador it will create one of the greatest sensations of recent yea NEGLEOTED INDUSTRIES. The energies which are being directed to the use of articles of home production have made a good beginning, and that is neces- sary toall great achievements. Our own people produce an astonishingly wide range of articles to which our consumers give no preference over similararticles pro- duced in other parts of the world, and this in the face of the fact that the home-made articles are generally better and cheaper than those produced in distant States and countries. But it is equally true that our manufac- turers are neglecting certain lines of fancy £0ods in which the largest profits are made. This is stated clearly by the San Jose IHerald as follow: “When the dried apricots and other fruits of Santa Clara Valley can be sent to England and made into choice jellies with attractive labels, shipped back to the United States and even to California and sold at fancy prices, there should be no tion about the profitable investment | of capital in manufacturing such things at home. And this has been done for years d will doubtless be done again this No wonder that times are said to be bard when such opportunities of making money and employing labor are persistently ignored. Any country would soon be poor if it shipped all its raw materials to foreign countries to be manufactured and then bought them back again. And yet that is just what we are doing in Santa Clara Valley all the time. Somebody will come here some day and show us what we policy. They will take our splendid fruits and convert them into essences, jellies and such like that will command the wonder and admiration of the whole world, and bring such profits as our present fruit-erowers and fruit-driers re never even dreamed of. Surely there ought to be somebody in this valley even now with energy and intelligence enongh to show that old settlers can do as much as newcomers.” The Carn has frequently drawn atten- tion to the fact that Crosse & Blackwell buy California dried apricots, ship them 6000 miles to London, manufacture them into marmalade and ship them back 6000 miles to California to be consumed. sible to imagine anything more deplor- ? 1 this industry were one Tequiring a capital of prohibitory size, or if there were some secret or occult process in the manufacture of the article, there would be me excuse forour delinquency; but there is nothing of the kind. One manifest reason why the manufac- tures of California are not preferred by our people i ¢ are staple, and thus are i able from the manu- ts of the country. This the remedy for the in- difference in choice is to be found in the education of the people on the lines pur- ed by the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association. But this will never relieve our manufacturers of competition with out- siders, and while this is a wholesome state it will al cecp the profits of nufacturers within the bounds hich competition creates. The great profits are to be sought in the production and manufacture of articles, mainly luxuries, from which the element of ordinary competition is eliminated by the monoy of a peculiar climate. Thus, while we bave a monopoly in America in the growing of apricots we might establish a practical monopoly of their manufacture into confects. Itisin the infelligent and persistent pursuit of this idea, applicable in more ways than we can at present con- ceive, that the large profits of production and manufacture are to be secured. He who has the originality to open new lines of development upon this idea is the most useful citizen, as well as the one who will secure the most generous returns from his enterpris: A BOLD DON QUIXOTE. The germ-theory to account for many diseases has come lately into so general acceptance that the astonishing attack upon it, which is made by Dr. nder Wildar in the June issue of the Mctaphysi- cal Magazine, comes as a shock. It is almost universally believed that air, water pa and food -are the media in which exist | minute malevolent creatures which, under certain circumstances, attack human beings and produce specific diseases. Now comes Dr. Wilder and sweeps the whole question out of the field without the small- est reservation. Vaccination is an evil, the sterilization of milk and water fodlish and antisepsis in surgery the idlest of tomfooleries, he says. He informs us that cleanliness and sani- tary disinfection are enforced inthe ab- sence of any knowledge that filth induces discases, and in the presence of knowledge that they do not; that antitoxine, the new remedy for diphtheria, is“a fiithy and loathsome virus prozured from diseased horses,” and that it is a dangerous and scmetimes fatal poison; that the introdnc- tion into the human body of any product of disease or any disease-producing sub- stance is a gross and flagrant immorality ; that no analysis can determine the whole- someness of drinking water, and that “there is no reliable evidence of serious sickness as the result of using common drinking water.” He declares that bacteri- ology is merely a fabric based on bold as- sumption, and adds: “The notion that the atmosphere is forever swarming with germs of bacteria and other microbian products, ready to rush into wounds, into the lungs of every breathing thing, into our water and kneading-trough, like the frogs of Egypt,and to enter the pores through the stoppers of glass bottles, is purely a guess, without a solitary fact to sustain it.”” He declares that the microbes are harm- less creatures and explains their presence in disease by declaring: “The actual fact appears to be that the malady and disor- ganization are first and the micro-organism afterward.” dently deeming it necessary that he ain the genesis and function of various micro-organisms observed to accompany certain diseases, he boldly assumes this fiercely assailed attitude: “We are dis- posed to believe tha. they are developed spoutaneously out of the morbid material. * * % The universe is everywhere a re- ceptacle of life and in it there is nothing really dead. The same inherent principle that produces the erystal in its ragular mathematical form may develop organiza- Is it | tion in matter. The concept of the hom- uncle was not altogether a vagary.” Not only, according to him, are all kinds of micro-organisms harmless, but they contribute to the nourishing of our bodies. He closes with the declaration: ‘“The germ-theory is an assumption of causes, of the existence of which we have no evi- dence, to account for effects which they by no means explain.” It is thus that Dr. Wilder has sent forth his challenge. Just what position as a challenger of accepted science he is en- titled to occupy vy virtue of any gr?ut achievement on his part we are not in- formed. It occursto us, however, that he has carried analogy (which phase of his argument we have not had space to set forth) entirely too far. Analogies are as tricky as antitheses. When he declares that the presence of bacteria in disease is analogous to the assaults of wormsand bugs on dead trees and of maggots on car- casses he ignores the analogy between the appearance of injurious parasites on the skin and the presence of bacteria in the blood, muscles and visceral organs, and likewise the analogy presented in the fact that animals of prey, including human beings, subsist by slaying and eating other animals. It is true, however, that the science of one generation is overturned by the gen- eration which follows. In that light we must rezard Dr. Wilder eitherasa mounte- bank or a Moses and leave the determina- tion to those able persons who have a con- soling way of assuring us thatin some matters it is entirely unnecessary for us to do any thinking on our own account. THE REPUBLIGAN PARTY. s evident to every close observer of American politics that the campaign which precedes the next Presidential election will be a battle royal between the two great parties, and between the principles and leaders of each. It is equally plain that the people of the whole country re- alize the magnitude and importance of the issue and are watching with strong inter- est the respective combatants as they move their forces into position and begin t0 map out their plans of campaign. The reasons why the coming con- test will be notable for its op- posing array of great principles and strong men are to be found in the history of the Nation during the past three years. By the misfortune of a disturbed commercial system resulting from sectional and illogical revenue law: by the resultant evils of stagnation | in business, of lethargy in produc- tion and of sluggishness in internal trade; by the still greater calamity of an uncertain and insufficient financial sys- tem; by the utter negativity of the party in power in affording aid or encourage- ment to such internal improvements as the irrigation and opening to settle- ment of arid Western lands, and to such large designs for augmenting the Nation’s power and influence abroad as the Nicaragua canal and the Hawaiian cable; finally by the disgrace of a timid and blundering foreign poiicy, the whole country has been aroused to the necessity of finding remedies for these accumulated evils and of intrusting its destinies to more experienced and better accredited statesmen than of late have had them in charge. Hence it is that the people and the parties are looking forward to a Na- tional contest in the arena of politics be- tween great principles and strong men. In view of this condition it is interes to observe the difference in methods with which the two great parties approach the issues of the campaign and in this very difference to read the history and char- acter of each. It may be considered a certainty that one "of the leading issues of the contest will be the financial question. The Democratic party, through its official expertin finance, Mr. Carlisle, has entered upon what is termed “a campaign of education,” with special reference to the subject of the Nation’s financial polic; It is ob- servable that he has committed that portion of the Democratic party which in- dorses Mr. Cleveland’s administration to the gold standard, against bimetallism, and hence against silver. This is one of the extremes of the financial problem, and the Democratic party takes it because it is essentially a party of extremes. It became so during its long banishment from power and during its brief return it has not had sufficient sur- cease of worry from the importunities of its own hungry retainers to acquire the habit of conservatism. Upon the other great issues of the campaign the Democratic party may be confidently ex- pected to be the party of extremes. If these extremes of policy were on the side of public enterprise and progress the vparty taking them might be excused if not commended. The Dem- ocratic party, however, has never been the party of National enterprise and progress, for the reason that the adoption of such a policy requires liberal con- struction of the powers conferred upon Congress by the Federal constitution, of which liberal construction the Democratic party has been a' persis- tent enemy. It follows, first, that in the approaching campaign the Dem- ocratic party will be the party of ex- | tremes, and second, that upon every issue involving an enlarged exercisé of Federal functions the Democratic party will oc- cupy the extreme which is opposed to pub- lic progress at home and abroad. It requires no special prescience to fore- cast a few of the great'issues of the coming campaign. The financial question; the policy of controlling the Nicaragua canal and of expediting its construction; the laying or a cable to the Ha- walian Islands with National aid; the adoption of a comprehensive plan for the irrigation end settlement of arid lands; the adjustment of the tariff upon such a fair and equitable basis as to remove the issue from our politics and set itat rest for years—these are some of the great issues of the next election of which the public interest and necessity require a solution. The attitude of the Republican party toward these great issues is being anx- iously awaited by the people of the country at large. It is historically and essentially the party of progress, the party of liberal views of Federal power and duty where the prosper- ity of any portion of the Republic re- quires the exercise of National energy. It has from its very creation been the party of bimetallism, of honest money, and of enough of it for the requirements of trade; it has been and is the party of protection in its broad and liberal sense; it is and has always been the party which fostered ideas and projects for in- ternal improvement. It has also con- stantly adhered to the policy of increasing the power and influence of the Nation abroad. What the Republican party has b_eeu in the past it is to-day and will con- tinue to be. It follows that upon the enumerated issues of the coming cam- paign it will take a stand which shall be entirely consistent with its past policy as the party of honesty in finance, of pro- tection in tariff regulation, of progress and Pprosperity in every internal industry and section, and of broad ideas of National in- fluence abroad. ‘With these purposes in view the Repub- lican party is moving slowly but stead- fastly up to the field of action in the next National campaign. Its leaders are not engaged in pledging it in advance to extreme views upon great issues. They are rather employed in reviewing the whole situation, particularly with respect to the questions of finance and of the revenue. The present meeting of Repub- Jican clubs in Ohio isone of the party’s methods of making this review, When the leading statesmen from every section have arrived at matured conclusions the people need have no fear of their announce- ment in clear and unmistakable terms. Whatever position is finally assumed will be found to be consistent with the past declarations of the party. Of this at least the people of the whole country may rest assured. It is a matter of justi- fied pride in Republicans that their party has never yet written a National platform which was not consistent with its past attitude upon any public question which outlived an administration. It will not do so now. In due season the Republican party will put itself on record as to levery great National issue of the approaching campaign. When it does so the American people will be given renewed evidence that it has lost none of its power and vigor and ability to solve the political problems of the time. PERSONAL-. Dr. G. H. Jackson of Woodland isatthe Grand. L. M. Laselle, a merchant of Martinez, is at the Grand. L. J. Maddox, an attorney of Modesto, is a guest at the Grand, E. K. Smart, a lumberman of Dutch Flat, is a guest at the Grand. J. M. Gleaves, a lumberman of Redding, is staying at the Grand. an attorney of Tulare, ng at the Grand. 1. E. Doty, a railroad contractor of San Diego, is staying at the Grand. L. Merchon, a mining man of British Colum- bia, is staying at the Lick. W. H. McKenzie, & banker of Fresno, regis- tered yesterday at the Lick. i H. Stelling, a rancher ot Davis, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Russ. Colonel James A. Hardin, & prominent cattle- man of Santa Bosa, is at the Russ. Norman Rideout, a banker of Marysville, reg- istered yesterday at the California. C. M. Waters of Denver, a United States Pos- tal [nspector, registered yesterday at the Russ. Rev, Dr.J. L. Burrows of Ashtabula, Ohio, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Occi- dental. Charles H. Lux of San Jose, one of the heirs of the Lux estate, and Mrs. Lux are at the Grand. D. Halloran, passenger director for the South- ern Pacific Company at New Orleans, is a guest at the Russ. J.J. Byrne, general passenger agent of the Santa Fe at Los Angeles, 1egistered yesterday at the Palace. W. 8. Leake, Postmaster of Sacramento, and Mrs. Leake came down yesterday and regis- tered at the Palace. Captain D. B. Jackeon of Seattle, a steamboat { man on the sound, was one of yesterday's ar- rivals at the Lick. Charles B. Tidball of Los Angeles, the man- ager of the Santa Cruz Venetian: Water Car- nival, and Mrs. Tidball are guests at the Grand. Mrs. John E. Agar, daughter of the late Com- modore Macdonough, arrived from New York vesterday with her husband. They are at the California. Colonel A. W. Jones, president of the pro- jected Fresno and Monterey railroad, returned from a six months’ visit to the East yesterday and registered at the Lick. Charles Danforth Cobb, a capitalist of Bos- ton, who spends much of his time in traveling for pleasure and hes crossed the continent over ascore of times, Is at the Lick. Colonel Thomes G. Lawler, commander-in- chief of the Grand Army of the Republic; Cas- slus Clay Jones, his adjutant-general, and George A. Sealy, his chief aid, all of Rockford, Tllinois, arrived on the overland yesterday and went to the Occidental, where headquarters were placed at their disposal during their stay by Major Hooper. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. A Paris police court the other day was filled to overflowing by the admlrers who crowded there to hear Sarah Bernhardt take an oath. An action for recovery of a debt alleged to be due was brought against her by & horse-dealer, who had petitioned that she might be put upon oath. The Judge asked her whether she could swear that she had paid the bill. The great tragedienne, raising her’ hand, according to French custom, replied, “I swear it.” Ad- mirers say that she was never more natural. Judgment was accordingly given in her favor, Guerrita, the bull-fighter, established a record for a day’s work recently. He began at 7 o'clock at San Fernando, near Cadiz, killing three bulls and putting the banderillas in the other three. He then took a train to Xeres, and did the same thing there between 11 and 3 o'clock, and wound up the day by reaching Seville in time for another fightat5:30. In this last fight the bulls were unusually fierce, killing nineteen horses before they were dis- patched. Alphonse Daudet was not exactly compli- mentary in his reference to English women, of whom he met many in his recent trip to per- fidious Albion. “Not only is the English woman not handsome in features,” he says, “‘but there is nothing seductive in her physical form, and, moreover, she is an utter stranger to elegance and good taste. “‘Groot Schuur,” Premier Cecil Rhodes’ es- tate near Cape Town, South Africa, islaid out on an ambitious scale. Among its features are apreserve for big game, containing lions and antelopes, several miles of fine avenues, a glen carpeted with violets and hydrangeas and a museum of Cape Dutch curios and Matabele relics. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Magistrate—The officer says you were drunk last night and fell down in the street. Canyou explain that little matter? Prisoncr (with dignity)—The cause of my fall, your Honor, was not attributable to liquor, but to circumstances over which I had no control. Magistrate (in surprise)—What circumstances do you allude to? Prizoner (sadly)—My legs, your Honor.—Tit- Bits. “Say,” said the deputy, “I put No. 711 on the treadmill eight hours ago as a punishment and L1 be hanged ifhe ain’t goin’ on jist aschipper &nd happy as can be.” “Why, of course,” said the prison warden, in tones of disgust. “Didn’t you know that the feller was sent here for bicycle stealing? That sort of thingis right in hisline.”—Indianapolis Journal. The Coming Struggle.—“‘One or the other of us,” muttered the young man who awaited his beloved in the front parlor, “is going to be turned down to-night!” Ana he glanced ferociously at the flickering gaslight.—Puck. At a Meeting of Creditors.—Official Receiver— ‘What have you come here for? Professional Beggar—To put in my claim. Herr Meyerstein used to give me twopence every week.—Eulenspiegel. Prospective Tenant—I like the top noor pest. Why doesn’t the fire-escape go lower than the third floor? Agent—It isn’t needed. The first three floors arc empty.—Harper's Bazar. Miss Oldgirl—You must promise not to kiss me while I am unconscious. Dentist—I shall do nothing of the kind. Miss Oldgirl (with a happy sigh)—Turn on the gas,—Leslie’s Weekly. “I see that new magazine has failed.” “Yes; published a real poem by mistake,"— Atlanta Constitution, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Lieutenant-General Schofield, who isengaged in keeping his military eve on Uncle Sam’s standing army, has some very firm and well- riveted ideas about the liberty of his speech and the necessity of speaking when his opinions are called for. A @emure young man approached himin | the Palace Hotel yesterday, and after coughing | rather daintily a few times said: “Ah, general, do you not think there should be a military-service law compelling every young man to serve a certain number of years as a soldier in this country?” The man who hed seen service crossed his | hands over his stomach and replied: *“When | Congress asks me that guestion I will answer | it. Iam notat liberty to discuss these things | with citizens.” | “But, my dear general, what do you think of | it personally?"” | “Umph!” grunted the general, swelling up and unswelling again, “that’s the same ques- tion. | I The young man coughed severely this time | by proving that Sacramento IS \orthy of 1\ Record-Union. What this State needs is not mon P laad put on the market in small t, some organized system of inducing 1. tion, whereby about one-tenth of the ready prepared fof settlers may be dis It is an overplus of vacant small farms underplus of small farmers that > \ suffering from just at present—Baoker ., Californian. 1t is the fellow who gets something .- ing that makes “hard times.” Hard manufactured by no other than t who has no competition whatever | So, brother, in proportion (o tI dollars you receive for which you no corresponding and produ may rest assured to that exte sisted in making hard times. Oregonian. Private Secretary Thurber indigns the charge made by an Easte President Cleveland goes fishi LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SCHOFIELD WAITING FOR CONGRESS TO ASK QUESTIONS. |Sketched from life for the “Call”™ by Nankivell.] <" and changed his tactics, which consisted of | silence. | “Do you think our cosst defenses are ade- | quate?” asked a CALL representative who was | unable to get & word in edgeways before. “You have no defenses at present, but prob- | ably will in time. The battery now being con- | structed on this coast is one of the three finest in the world. The other two are in New | York.! “We have not witnessed any very unusual speed on the pert of Congress in glving us any- thing so far.” ““Well, ot that I do not know,” answered Mr. Schofield, taking in and emitting another long breath, “but in the matter of defense you will not be neglected.” *Ts the standing army of this country in good shape?” cellent, particularly in the Southwestern | States, where the Indians prevail. I found | everything up to the standard.” “Is there likely to be any further trouble with the renegade tribe “I think not. They seem tohave come to ths conclusion that it is foolish to fight with this Government.” «“De they appear to be thinning out?” “No. Getting thicker; yes, thicker.” Just then a private secretary began to fold up some documents and there was & general air of bustle and hurry. A messenger rushed down the hallway and somebody remarked that the train for Monterey waited for no man. This woke the general out of his explanatory mood, and excusing himself very gracefully he let out another long breath and went to prepare him- self for a trip to the city of cypress, where the salmon pite at flyhooks and the seabass bite at red rags. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. The time is now when residents of the San Joaquin Valley get up early in the morning to behold the unfolding of the gray dawn of the coming day of prosperity. — Stockton Record. Calamity and populism are disappearing at | exactly the same ratio. When the first shall | have entirely disappeared it will require a mi- croscope to find the other.—Spokane (Wash.) Times. Towans who came out of the cyclone alive— who saved seed wheat during the drought and from the flood—now find the seventeen-year locust devouring everything it can get its mo- lars on.—Salem (Or.) Statesman. Opportunities for the profitable investment of capital lie all around us, and only & little energy and the general co-operation of the peo- ple aro needed to improve them and bring per- manent prosperity in all kinds of business.— San Jose Herald. There are lots of people in this world who are unable to distinguish between politics and business, unable to lay aside politics for busi- ness,and unable to rise above personal con. siderations for the general public benefit.— Pheenix (Ariz.) Herald. Pulling together never hurt any community, but dissensions, jealousies and personal spite have injured more than one. Hence, if pulling together hlidone somegood then let us pull more together and accomplish much mor good.—San Diego World, i Health is the platform on w ness must be built. i ket ! Good appetite, good diges. tion and good sleep aro the ements oy Lo Eo and industry confers them. As use polishos metals so labor the faculties, until the body performs its unimpeded functions with elustie cheerfulness and hearty enjoyment.— Journal. % ! )menl: Lumpoc people are talking hopef and cheerfully and following !heh"‘ wo?f‘lnu‘bhy. the investment of their money. And the in- vestment of capital in industrial enterprises is the true testof aman’s faith in his country orhis section. He who does that proves be- yond all question that he believes in the com- ing prosperity.—San Jose Herald, It's & malicious 1i Everywhere the ¢ e toassert thatthe great majority of the laboring classes, or any. ma. Jority at all, are & whisky-drinkin 5 - g and unre- Liable class. There is a surplus of reliable white help to pick and pack all the fruit in Califor. nia, but they do not belong to the class wh o can be kicked and cuffed about at a tyrant's Pleasure.—Hanford Democrat. Sacramento has fairer chances now, brighter Pprospects and more in sight than any other town or city in the center and north. But to fully realize upon these we must manifest energy, breadth of view and moral and finan- cial courage, put aside small matters and grapple with large ones,and win confidence Tt is immaterial to the people whether he does or not. They would not suffer if he were to go fishing ever: the week. Instead of Buzzards h (he would go on an indefinite fish excursion to the north pole. 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