The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 21, 1895, Page 18

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 21, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. , by mail 1.50 by mail Tolephone. . cveesencncesssenee s ...Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Ciay Street. revreveeeesneens- Maln—1874 y; open until THE SUMMER MONTHS. v ona vacation? It ward THE CALL to you for you wiil , or left &t will receive hunting in California h a sunbeam. st monopoly that means be sure to yield a profit. retired from politics zen his majority with rumor that Olney is at last rt the buzzsaw of his vigorous in monovpoly when nt and resolute in en- cost something to. give the Solid lesson in law, but it would cost With smiling sunshine and laughing brooks the fishermen are having a merry time in the mountains. cemns to think that one te at Chicago is is made up of oratory with equal parts of 1d throw off the make as many revolu- outh America. Lave a chance to rtue in Solid Eight. the Cleveland as spoiled a journalistic en- e form of a guessing contest. The success attending the sale of Cali- prompt nar ein t fornia f in London somewhat dwarfs the mag le of Chicago and New York. In celét the beginning of work on road, Stockton had enthu- to make up for a lack of the compe sm enou California are those uously cultivate the sun- r health and the fogs for their compl leader in England will e of laying the founda- nd building it from The next Lib: tio the ground up. d \pany The law Pacific Cc hard thi boodle pu partment of the Southern 11 now have to do somz2 i z a defense for its Fake journalism lost a big chance in ting to run the Horr and Harvey de- mystery story With a big prize for olution of i the be: t will always be noticed that those who excuse th urianism on this grouna or y action to remove the which hinder their en- In view of the many benefits and pleas- ures to which the park concerts give ris there should be no stinting of generosity in establishing the finest music concourse in the world. The rich may enjoy their villas in the mounteins, butall their money cannot buy them more of the most precious thing in California than the poor man can get with- out cost, and that is sunshine. The Half-million Club might do good work by suppressing the itinerant writer who publishes absurd articles about Cali- fornia in payment of his free transporta- tion over the Southern Pacific road. people of Oakland an opportunity to show to what extent they were sincere in their professed desire to relieve themselves of the burdens which the “octopus’ imposes. Mayor Sutro’s action in borrowing a quarter of a million dollars from the Hi- bernia Bank, and the bank’s readiness in lending it to bim for improvements, ought to be a hint to those who have little con- fidence in the future prosperity of the City. The Board of Equalization of Fresno County, having found some of the land- owners of the county who want four or five times the assessed valuation of their land for a right of way for the Valley road, have hauled them up to show cause why their assessment should not be increased to the figures whichjtheir greed suggested. A STUPENDOUS SOHEME. The plan of campaign adopted by the pro- motion committee of the Half-million Club is the most comprehensive and ambitious scheme within the lines ever devised for the advancement of the State. Its leading provisions are that co-operating bodies be established all over the State and that the sympathy and support of county and city governing boards be enlisted; that a per- manent Bastern headquarters be estab- lished at Chicago with an exhibit of Cali- fornia products and a lecturer to instruct concerning the resources and attractions of the State; that traveling lecturers with illustrated stereopticon lectures be sent through the Eastern States; that a market for California products in the East be created by missionary work among dealers; that a “carnival season’ be permanently established in California, the time to be so parceled out among the various cities as to maintain a continuous series of festi- vals, and that Eastern interest in them be promoted by enlisting the clubs, by organ- izing excursions and by various other methods; that a systematic organization of excursion clubs be undertaken, whose ob- ject shall be to practice mountain-climb- ing in California in bodies and make visits to the numerous natural wonders in which the State abounds; that the superior ex- cellencies of our summer climate be made known, and that all persons induced te visit the State shall have special personal atrention from representatives of the Half- million Club, shall be guarantced low rates at hotels and shall be made com- fortable in all ways. This is & very large scheme and a great deal of money will be required to put it in operation. - It will be observed that the plan does not seem to contemplate the bringing of settlers to the State, though it may be surmised that settlement will fol- low the education which under this plan itors will acquire. The plan in its nt form is practically identical with work which the overland railroads centering in California have been pursuing for so many years at so heavy expense and h so meager results except in Southern California, and certainly these companies houid contribute generously to the ex- penses of an undertaking which will briag o great work can be done in a day and hence the Half-million Club displays its wisdom in confining its Eastern under- taking to the spreading of information concerning the picturesque attractions of California. The elaborate development of its plans to this end shows its earnestness and understanding. The deeper and broader work of showing California to be a place for a home in which the ordinary severities of life are reduced to 8 minimum in all the complex and various ways which human desire can suggest will easily fol- low that of intelligently showing strangers what California i THE PROPOSED CONCOURSE. The plans suggested missioners for the music concourse at Golden Gate Park make a splendid and alluring picture. Nothing like them in magnitude and elegance of design can be found elsewhere in the New World, and a very remarkable feature of them is the evi- dent meagerness of the expense compared with the spectacular results to be secured. The wind which sweeps through the park has been the great difficulty which the Commissioners have encountered. The pl which they have suggested by no means convince us that this drawback will be overcome. Wind is not only damaging in many ways to the effectiveness of musie, impairing the general effect by its irregu- larity and unequally affecting the tone and quality of the various instruments, but in- duces a physical discomfort that the finest music cannot make one forget. One may enjoy a horserace, a game of baseball, or 8 other exciting sport, in disagreeable weather, but music requires perfect phys- comfort. No one has forgotten the extreme dis- comfort which often attended the concerts given at this spot during the Midwinter Fair, nor how quickly a piercing wind would empty the seats. And those were famous bands. vlans suggested by the Park Com- rs contemplate a peristyle backed trees as a windbreak. This will not the purpose. The architect of the aviary in the park Las given anidea in the lans of the structure by which it will be »ossible to secure comfort at the concourse hat is,a high western wall of glass, reaching overhead and along the sides for a certain distance. As some of the seats are 10 be over 700 feet from the band it is less to contemplate any arrangement which neither excludes the wind nor pro- vides for reflecting the sound. Such a construction as the aviary suggests would serve both these purposes. Mr. Sweeney, who gave to the park the handsome structure crowning Strawberry Hill, hit this idea in a most artistic form. The amphitheatral arrangement is the grand central idea, protection againstthe wind being a mere detail, to be worked out hereafter. For not alone may concerts be given there, but movable seats and a floor unobstiucted by trees will offer a splendid opportunity for many whole- some sports, including bicycle-riding, ex- hibitions of horsemanship, ball games of every kind and all the innumerable athletic sports. The total absence of ex- tremes of heat and cold will make these possible and pleasant at all times of the year, particularly with the partial shelter which we have suggested. In short, the inducements to utilize these many advan- tages for reproducing the Olympiads on the plain of Elis are irresistible, and out of their adoption would grow a fame which would draw hither athletes and spectators from every corner of the world. THE GOOD WORK: The people of San Francisco in taking their rest to-day can look back over the past week and find satisfactory work done, not only for iMiprovement in material prosperity, but “for the betterment of the morals of the City and for the much- desired accompiishment of good govern- ment. The watch upon the lottery swindles has been kept up with vigilance, and that ne- farious trade has been largely restricted. The open selling of pools in violation of law bhas been exposed, and the first step taken, therefore, in the suppression of that form of gambling. The attention of the authorities has been called to the evil gangs that frequent the corridors of the City Hall, and that nuisance cannot long continue. Finally the public protest against the action of a majority of the Su- pervisors in attempting to nullify the law for granting a railroad franchise to the Market-street company without competi- tion has taken the form of an action at law to remove the guiity men from office. These things show a healthful condition of public sentiment. Respect for law is increasing and the intelligent element of the people has determined to have it en- forced. By continuing the course that has now been taken we shall reach an era of honest municipal administration before long. The laws of the State and City are good enough. Under them lottery swin- -dles, pool gamblers, City Hall sbarks end dishonest officials can all be punished. Enough has been done during the past week to show that the morai forces of the people are in earnest at last, and every good citizen can find in that fact good rea- son for gratification to-da; WOMEN IN OALIFORNIA. While the leading women of the State are moving vigorously in o many ways to promote the spiritual ana intellectual growth of their sex they should not leave out of the account the peculiar benefits which might be secured by an educated attention on the part of women to the un- common advantages of their natural environment. This means to say that to whatever extent our women may support the great educational movement that is affecting the sex throughout all Christen- dom, there are here in California natural conditions obtaining nowhere else. These cannot be ignored; and to the extent of tkeir employment the women of California will show their originality as ploneers in a movement which can find neither prece- dent nor competition. It is agreed that the responsibility of guarding at least the physical welfare of the race rests upon women with a peculiar weight, and that the measure of any civil- ization is their understanding of the fact and their intelligence in developing it. In this State nature extends so remark- able an invitation to the exercise of woman’s wisdom that it amounts to a chballenge to her conscience. The oypor- tunities for employing natural advantages in the production of a special and splendid race impose an immeasurably heavier re- sponsibility upon the women of California than upon those of any other country in the world. This has reference to material things. The very conditions which we observe to make so many wild and wayward girls and boys are those which might be employed to develop the most wholesome activities. A climate which makes no draft on physi- cal resources, and which instead of crip- pling vitality invigorates it, is pernicious if its advantages are neglected and highly beneficial if they are improved. The abundant and highly actinic sunshine and stmosphere heavily charged with stimulating ozone create energies which become dangerous if left unirained. There is no better thing under the sun than work, and where so much energy is to be disposed of there will be mischief if work is not provided. And this work must be of a kind which takes women and children into the sunshine and air as much as possible. We have in mind a woman who some years ago came to California to die of consumption, and who by working daily in her flower garden was completely cured and is now one of the leading floricul- turists and seed-growers of the State. As a rule the work of the fields is light and is always healthful, and she is a wise mother, whatever her statiqn of life, who gives her children an opportunity to work and earn money during the fruit-drying season. It will be found that these who live most out of doors, whether they be young or old, are invariably the healthiest. The great future work of the women of California is to develop employments which take women and children out of doors, and this may be done to an extent here impossible elsewhere. ANTE-BELLUM AMERICANS. The men of this generation, who are familiar with the triumphs of American youth in all sorts of athletic sports, will be surprised to learn from the recently pub- lished third volume of Rhodes’ History of the United States that in the decade before the war the Americans were regarded as a physically degenerate people, presenting a pitiful contrast to the freshness and vigor of their European kinsmen. The belief in this degeneracy did not exist in European minds only. It was shared by many observant and patriotic Americans. Mr. Rhodes quotes many au- thorities on the subject. Holmes wrote: “I am satisfied that such a set of black- coated, stiff-jointed, soft-muscled, paste- complexioned youth as we can boast in our Atlantic cities never before sprang from loins of Anglo-Saxon lifieage.” George William Curtis spoke of the typical American as “lantern-jawed, lean, sickly and serious of aspect.” Emerson referred to “‘the invalid babits of this country,” and when in England he wrote home: “When I see my muscular neighbors day by day, I say, Had I been born in England with but one chip of English oak in my willowy constitution!” The women of the time were reported to be as bad as the men, and as a people we were regarded as about the weakest, most nervous and least vigor- ous of the Caucasian race. The opinion prevailed at the time that the invalid condition of the people was due to a defect in the climate, but the re- cent development of American manhood shows that our climate, so far from being adverse to human vigor, is really advan- tageous to it. The men and women of the ante-war period were invalids simply be- cause their habits were bad. The fcod was ill-cooked, the people ate too fast and they took no exercise. The best families pre- pared their food with a frying-pan, and even so wise a man as Emerson always had pie at breakfast. No healthy exercise was taken at any time. When the men had finished work they loafed, chewed tobacco and told stories for amusement. ‘“We have few good boatmen,” wrote Holmes in 1858, *no good horsemen that I hear of, and as for any great athletic feat performed by a gentleman in these latitudes, society would drop a man who should run round the Common in five minutes.” Athletics, in fact, were not a feature, even of college life, and among society people they were regarded as undignified and coarse. The American of that generation, as Mr. Rhodes points out, was not, however, so weak as he appeared. The success with which he bore the hardships of the war proved that he had the stamina of a mighty manhood within him. Something, however, was needed to bring it out, and that something was derived from English society and French cooks. Since athletic sports have become fashionable and French dinners have taken the place of Puritan meals, we have become a different people. At the present time such de- scriptions of Americans as were written by Emerson, Holmes and Curtis would hardly be applicable even to the class whom we call “‘dudes.” BRITISH POLITIOS. From the resnlts of the British elections it would seem the Tories have good reason for the exultant boast that they are “‘in for six years.” The majority will be large enough to enable the Ministry to act with- out conciliating factions, and if the leaders show any tact and force they ought easily to maintain themselves for that number of years. In fact, if long-established custo] and public opinion aid not forbid the ‘)’;- ries might hold this Parliament together for the full term of seven years before they gave their opponents a chance to appeal to the country. Political prestige, however, is dependent upon something more than majorities. It requires a very strong and popular Pre- mier to Lold office for six years in Great Britain, no matter how strong a majority he may have had to start with. Salisbury is not likely to prove a leader of that kind. He is not a man who wins the sympathies of his followers, nor indeed does he appeal to them. Asan orator he has been noted mainly for his logic and his sareasm, and as a statesman his devotion has been to the maintenance of the empire and the prestige of his aristocratic order. He is not in harmony with the world-wide | movement so manifest among the British people for the advancement of the working classes, and being out of sympathy with the dominant ideas of the time can hardly be expected to hold any long continued leadership in the office of Prime Minister. A marked defect in his character as a leader of a people who are becoming so es- sentially democratic as the English is his tendency to rely on the aristocracy more than on the masses. Indeed, it is charged against him that ke relies on his own family more than on the aristocracy at large. His newly formed Ministry is full of his kinfolks, The London Chronicle says: “The four most important posts in the Government—its supreme direction, the control of foreign affairs, the leader- ship of the House of Commens and the working chiefship of Irish affairs—are held by members of his family, while an under- secretaryship is beld'by his sen-in-law. A mere audacious piece cf nepotism was never perpetrated.” It remains to be seen whether such a man can hold his majority together for six years.- Great Britain is but a small country, and Parliament is very close to the constituencies. Public opinion makes itself felt in the Commens much more prompuly and forcibly than in any other legislative body among the great nations of the world, and as Salisbury will have to reckon with that opinion at every session of Parliament the chances are that his Ministry will break down long before the close of the six years that his followers so exultantly count on. < PERSONAL. D. J. Flannigan, the Eureks millman, is at the Grand. J. G. McCarthy, State Printer of Nevada, is at the Palace. J. C. Schulte, & merchant of Loufsville, Ky., is at the Palace. T. D. Nicol, an attorney from Btockton, is housed at the Palace. J. M. Marsh, Nevada City’s lumber merchant, 1s at the Palace Hotel. D. T. Warner, a financial man of Chicago, is in town at the Palace Hotel. W. T. George, a Bacramento attorney, is in the City, at the Grand Hotel. Mrs, R. A. Graham, wife of the Portland rail- road contractor, is a guest at the Palace. Frank J. Bteinmete, a druggist, is down from Carson, Nev., laying in a stock o drugs. R.J. Bentley, a fruit-packer of Sacramento, has dropped in to feel the market pulse, and is at the Palace. Colonel Nathaniel Dow, the cattle king of Moscow, 8. Dak., is at the Palace Hotei. He reports the price of beef to be improving. R. M. Greene, a mining man from Oroville, is at the Grand Hotel. He reports a little bright~ ening up in mining matters in the country. Hancock Banning, the owner of Santa Cata- lina Island and proprietor of the Hotel Me- tropolis, is taking his vacation in the City. He is at the Palace. Thomas Bailey Aldrich hasa waxed mustache end a fastidious manner and looks younger than his years, which are nearly nine and fifty, says Vanity. He dressesseverely and is alto- gether an uncommon-looking high-shouldered man. He bas a quite pretty wit and is a past- master in the art of hospitality. It is now one vear short of forty since he wrote *‘Baby Bell.” He was then a clerk in a New York business house, for the death of his father had eompelled him to leave college. Its success was such that he promptly jilted commergs for literature, Nowadays he writes only when in the mood, which is seldom, but his work more than atones in quality for what it lacks in quantity, Both Yale and Harvard have lately conferred degrees upon him, but he has never quite re- covered the shock he sustained on learnimg that Charles Egbert Craddock was a woman. OPINIONS OF EDITORS. ‘When California begins to produce a large part of the 1700 tons of sugar imported yeariy into the country we shall attain another era of prosperity, less glittering and profuse, perhaps, than that of the mining days, but more gen- eral and enduring. Don’t begin te believe that this State has seen its best days. Its most successful cycle has not yet been entered upon. There is only one California, always unique in productions and homelike attractions.—Ander- son News. We learn from THE CALL of the purchase by the Spreckelses of extensive real estate holdings on Market street, San Francisco. This,it would seem, is an indication of an abiding faith in the future of that City by men who are ins position to see further than the general run. They are getting in now on the ground floor. There arz many capitalists in San Francisco who will follow suit as soon as this fact be- comes a littie more apparent.—Alameda Argus, Those who represent Stockton as on the top crest of a boom wave must have overlooked the fact that the new railroad companies have announced that they want o give the bulk of the work in and around Stockton to the resi- dents thereof and the repeated assertions of the local papers that the supply of labor here is ample for all the work that will be done within the limits of the county.—Stockton In- dependent. Onejof the most interesting things in present politics is the emphasis which Democratic newspapers all place upon the word “only” in speaking of the tarift deficit of $44,000,000 or s0. Itlooksas if all the able Democratic or- gans had really expected the treasury to be bankrupt under the supervision of their party, and were surprised because it wasn't.—Arizona Republican. Duluth is to have a curfew bell to notify the people what time to go to sleep. The people of some cities do not require any notifications of this kind, but it would require something louder than a curfew bell to awaken them.— Tacoma Union. The San Francisco Normal School will have an efficient principal in the person of James G. Kennedy, formerly of this city. He is one of the brainiest and most energetic educators in California.—San Jose Mercury. — THE PUBLIC DEBT-ITS FALL AND RISE. During the twenty-seven years of Republican administration, which afforded protection to American labor and industries—from 1866 to 1892—the interest-bearing debt of the Unitea States was decreased by $1,747,301,878, the account standing as follows at the two periods: bei Debt. -$2,332,381,208 585,029,330 Decrease under protection.......$1,747,301,878 During the recent two years of a free-trade administration the interest-bearing debt of the United States increased from $585,037,000 in 1893 up to $716,202,060 on July 30, 1895. The increase during these two years was $131,164,730, the account standing as follows: TInterest- Year. l)!n“llnel:"e l:lr!bt. 1895 . $716,202,050 1898 585,087,350 Increase under free trade... $181,164,730 During the twenty-seven years of protection the average annual decrease in the interest- bearing debt of the country was $64,714,384. During the last twe years of free-trade admin- istration the average annual increase in the interest-bearing debt of the United States was $65,582,365. Here stands the record: INTEREST-BEARING DERT. Protection period, twenty-seven years, average annual decrease. Free-trade period, t annual The present sdministration certainly find nothing to boast of {n this record, cgn AROUND THE CORRIDORS. George W. Baker, the attorney, has just re- turned from Nevada, where he has been look- ing up the silver interests of the Sagebrush State. “I went over to Carson for a few days and had a talk with Sam Davis, who has had more schemes in his lifetime than any other man living. You know how he breaks out with some wild proposition about ouce & month. Really, did you ever know Sam to make a dollar that somebody else didn’t get it away from him?” “Never saw Sam in my life when he wasn’t negotiating with some attorney to get the law on some one who had jobbed him,” replied the gentleman addressed. “Well, now, hold on,” resumed the lawyer, ‘Just wait & minute. Sam has made s ten stroke. I'll explain his latest scheme, and it looks like a good one. He outlined the whole plan to me in the Appeal office the other dsy, and, from what I can see in it, it is one of the biggest schemes I ever heard of. “‘He has got Teller, Stewart, Jones, Clark and other wealthyleaders in the silver party to put up $100,000 for the purpose of showing the GEORGE W. BAKER. As he might look if sketched by A ubrey Beards. ley.] Eastern people how silver mining is earried on in the West and how hard it is to extract one dollar’s worth of silver from the earth. The plan is to operate in New York, Philadelphia and Chicego. Ineach of the mentioned cities shaft will be sunk several hundred feet deep, and in the drifts, winzes and chambers will be placed 10,000 tons of the best silver-producing ore that can be obtained on the Comstock. Each mine will contein that amount, and a full shift of miners with lunch-buckets and miners’ attire will work eight-hour shiits just 88 it has been done on the Comstock for the last twenty years. A hoisting works will be set up over each shait and & milling plant will be in constant operation, showing the process of stsmp milling and also the plan of amal- gamation by the quicksilver process. Every detail necessary to reduce crude silver to a complete dollar will be introduced. “Each mine will be located as mear the center of each city as possible, and its work. ings and results will e used to strengthen the campaign for free coinage. With each mining plant there will be a corps of lecturers and the hoisting works will be used asa hall for the purpose of delivering the various arguments that will be set forth. Literature touching upon the industry that has been of so much ymportance to the people of the West will be. distributed, and its effect will be to advance the cause in such a manner as was never ad- vanced before. Not a single detail necessary to give the Easteruers a complete understand- ing of how silver is extracted from the earth will be overlooked, and Sam tells me that he is assured of sufficient backing from men of means to make it an absolute success.” At this juncture Governor Budd appeared. “What's that you say about operating mines in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago?” Mr. Baker repcated his stgtements to the Governor, whereupon this lhtter gentleman opened wide his eyes and exclaimed: “That will be the greatest piece 6f campaign adver- tising ever thought of in this country. It will beat the old log-cabin affair all to pieces. Just think of the possibitities it will present. Aside from the important part 1t plays in the cam- paign its effect in the matter of bringing peo- ple to this coast will be unlimited. Let East- ern capital see what immense industries are represented by the silver problem and as soon as free coinage legislation is secured you will see one of the greatest revivals ever held on the Pacific seaboard. Money will be easier and times will improve. I cannot see any reason why such an enterprise should not be pushed to completion. Think of the good it will do the men who are supplying the capital. It will do them more good than one would at first glance suppose. They represent the silver mining industry,and its prosperity is their gain, probably more from an individual stand- point than any other class of people who ars in sympathy with the movement. “If S8am Davis is the man who got up that scheme he deserves to get rich out of it.” “I heard a good story the other day,” said genial Bob Whitney, the ex-police sergeant of Chieago, in the Lick ‘House corridor yesterday. “I was knocking ’round with a couple of your police officials when we got to talking aboutbravery. It seems that at the time of the investigation of the Emmanuel Church trag- edy, and when the crowds were hanging around the Morgue, it was thought best to place & police officer in charge. “The Morgue folks had become worried with the continual demands upon them, and at 12 o’clock on the night in question told the officer that if he would make himself comfortable in one of the armchairs in the main office they would lie down and get a few winks of sleep. ‘It you should see any persons pass through the room,’ said one of the deputies, ‘don’t pay any attention to them.” ‘What did you say? said the officer. ‘Only that if you should see anybody go through the room you needn’t bother them.” “ “Why, what do you mean? ejaculated the watcher; ‘I don’t understand yo nd his hel- met began to wobblejindicating an upward movement of the hair beneath. “¢ simply say that if any persons or forms pass by you, just let them alone; they will nos bother you at all.” “ Sy, said our hero, 4f it's just the same to you I believe I wilt go downstairs and watch the crowd in the alley. It's better to be there if any trouble should arise from their erowd- ing.’ ‘q.\nd with that he hied himself downstairs, with his hat waving from the top of a fright- distenaed hairy halo, and remained out in the wind-swept street until morning.” “Chicago has the only brave men,” laughed Bob, as he took a little gum in his at the re. freshment stand shortly afterward. PLEASANTRIES OF THE HOUR. “Many happy returns of the day!” says the bashful Jones to fair bride on the occasion of her third marriasge.—London Punch. “Miss Kedick is taking the first course in the Female College of Journalism. It will last three months.” “What is the scope of the first course?” “Learning to sharpen a lead pencil.”—Puck. Doctor—Madam, I much regret to eay that your husband has appendicitis. ‘Wife—Now I know where all my raisins have gone.—New York Truth. ‘Wife—It's the little things that worry. Husband—Especially when thers are six of them.—Detroit Free Press. Outsider—I hear Jones is a mighty useful man in your club. Clubman—Yes; he often helps make up & quornm.—Hardware, AGAIN THE CAT. CHAPTER FROM THE CAREER OF A PRINTING-OFFICE MASCOT. On & warm. aftermoon in Jume, while the compositors of THE CALL were throwing in their cases, a black cat, with eyes of old gold and a manner Lespeaking the utmost seli-con- fiaence, walked demurely into the room. “That's & mascot,” said slug 45, and & mo- ment afterward she was sound asleep in his leader-box. That night 45 was first out and got the fattest take, which every primter knows is a good thing. That settled it. She was courted by regulars and petted by subs. She seemed to be everywhere, but never in the way. Choice morsels from neighboring restaurants seemed to come irom & cemmittee of the whole, and her sleek coat showed that her lines were cast in plessant places. z During the eacly morning rush, when the last forms were being hurried to the elevator, she was often observed calmly surveying the scene of turmoil, enjoying her coign of van- tage on a corner of the imposing-stone. The rush of many feet, the shouts of the Dbattery-boys, the caustic edicts of the foreman to “pull those slugs!” and the anguish of the night editor at the prospect of & late slide never rufiied her equanimity. “She’s a cool one, she is,” sald the battery- boy; “thinksshe’s in a graveyard.” “Well, look at that now!"” said Jim Conley. “Why, when I was a pilot on the Ohio in 47— But one night her eatship seemed uneasy, and was evidently “off her feed.” After it was “all in” the ringman swore roundly at Sam, the chef of the Universum, for having palmed off on him an overdone steak intended for the cat. “If that eat dies I'll bust up this hash-house, sure. I told you she likes 'em rare, see?"’ The next morning the piman opened his drawer under the deadstone to get his apron. He was startled, then serious, but finally smiled and softly closed the drawer—there were two of ’em. ‘When the foreman came down he opened the drawer and looked in & minute. His counte- nance brightened perceptibly as he wrote “g:30—extras en,” on the slate. “There'll be eighteen pages in the morn- ing,” said 8lug 20. “What on?”’ asked 19. “Women's Congress, man; why they’re rais- in’ merry thunder up there.” Susan B. and Anna Shaw were net in it when it got noised around concerning the mysterious contents of the drawer under the deadstone. The mother and progeny were kept sliding back and forth all the afternoon. “Yes? Well, I've seen ’em. She's a new woman what's got gome style about her. There’s no flies on her bloomers, neither.” A crisis had indeed amrived, and it was de- cided to give the sooty family to slug 41, who has & house and “patch of grass” on the south side of the park. With the mother in one overcoat pocket and the “black diamonds” in the other the journey was safely made with stops at Triplett’s and Siebe’s for refreshments. One of the kittens soon found favor in the eyes of a neighbor’s little gir], and as the printer sat on his porch watching the diminjshed family rolling on the grass, the eoalman drove up and stopped to talk. “You ought to have them,” said the printer, “they'd match your complexion.” «well, I wish I had, “‘said the kindling monopolist. “My wife’s maltese cat was run over this morning by some milk wagon and now we've got six motherless kittens two days old on our hands and my wife’s raising old Ned.” “But there are others,” said the printer. “Now, I'll bet you & keg of Bock (cost you §3) that this cat’ll look after those orphans in good shape.” “Well, Jim; if she would—say—" “That's all right, old man; I'll go down with you and take her and her little ones along.” On earriving at the coalyard in the next block no time was lost in useless formalities. The sagacious cat mother, like Napoleon at Wagram, “grasped the possibilities of the situ- ation,” and with a few querulous noises assem- bled the scattered and bereaved kittens at the maternal font, adding them to her own family circla. The coalman’s wife took up the corner of her apron and went quietly up the back stuirs. Asthe eld cat settled down on the straw she looked up at the two men and scemed to say: “You can go now.” As they turned away the coal baron re- marked cheerily, “Shortridge is making a great paper out of THE CALL.” “Yes,” gald Jim, “She’s pretty solid now, but THE CALL speaks for all. That’s our office cat you've got in there. You are entertaining an angel unawares, and have become inadvert- ently the custodian of & great trust, as it were; “gure ¥’ solemnly replied the coal-dealer, as he drew the curtain over the touching domes- tie scene. 8. THE NATIONAL CONVENTION, The New York Tribune suggests 8an Francisco tor the place of the National Convention. The Tribune is without doubt the leading Republi- can organ of the Nation, end it may have a great big pull. Let us add our chirp to the Tribune’s roar. Give San Francisco the Repub- lican National Convention.—Woodland Repor- ter. An effort is being made to hold one or both of the conventions of the two great parties in Ban Francisco. The extreme gold men wish to hold the Republican convention in some city on the Atlantic Coast, and the West is now pitted against the East in the struggle for theselection of the place of holding the convention. The Pacific Coast would afford opportunities to those who attend a convention in our metropo- lis for studying the great questions which con- front our people.—Solano Republican. Every citizen of this great State should aid the Republican council of California in its efforts to secure the holding of the National Republican Convention at San Francisco next year. The good thset would accrue to the whole Pacific Coast were the convention held in San Francisco would be 50 great that politi- cal afiiliations would be forgotten and the peo- ple of the Pacific States sheuld all unite in well-airected efforts to secure it. If the Repub® liean convention cannot be had the Democratic conyention will be just as welcome and will do just as much good. Our feelings are hog- gish in this matter, for we would like to see both conventions held in the metropolis of the Pacific. With the possible exception of New York or Chicago, San Francisco can offer ac- commodatiens second to none in the country, and a climate—at the time when the conven- tions will he held—simply perfect. Let the lee.ders and the rank and file of the two great parties unite on this question, taking no rest until the object in view has been accom- plished.—National City Record. ey ADVICE TO MANUFACTURERS. We would advise the manufacturers and pro- ducers to do alittle advertising in the State papers—make known their wares so that the public may knew what is produced and manu- factured here. The Eastern manufacturers do not ask for free advertising, but use the Pacific Coast papers freely. The factis that not one person in thousand knows what 1s really man- ufactured in the State be cause the manufac- turers do not use the papers.—Santa Cruz Surf. The newspaper proprietors of California are solicited to become active members of the Man- ufacturers’ and ProQucers’ Association, they to be absolved from yearly dues. That is right. Every one of them will contribute largely to the suceess of the as:ociation by advocacy of its purpose. It should be the duty of the as- sociation to advocate the more general adver- tising of the products of the State. Printers’ 1nk is a great factor of success,.—Gilroy Gazette. It is going to be useless to expect any great enthusiasm in working up patronage for coast industries by the interior press when by o do- ing the publishers of newspapersare threat- ened with the loss of Eastern advertising with- out prospect of getting advertisements from coast manufacturers in return.—Fresno Ex- positor. i The Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Associa- tion should find some line of work for the convicts in the California prisons which would least interfere with home industries. There is no reason why hundreds of convicts should be a burden to taxpayers while the latter are buy- ing the products of Eastern prisons.—San Jose News. SRS The Times-Index believes thoroughly in the idea of patronizing California manufactures, but what are they?—San Bernardino Times- MRS, TERRY'S ESTATE. MORGAN HILL MAKES A SUCCINCT STATEMENT OF 1TS CONDITION. Having returned to the State after an ab- sence of several.months, I have for the first time seen some of the articles published in the 8an Francisco press last spring in regard to Mrs. Terry’s estate, and as I consider that the impression conveyed by said articles did an in- justice to me, I wish tosay: That Mrs. Terry in her misfortunes has not been deserted or left to public charity by those onwhom she has rightful claim. Wher her illness overtook her I was in Europe, and Mrs. Terry had been an inmate of the Stockton Asy- lum fully two months before I knew of the fact. Iatonce wrote to the Superintendent at Stockton that it was my wish that he should spare no expense to make her life comfortable until I returned. I also wrote to my frien Thomas H, Williams, to advance any mone: needed for her care and to Hale & Co. to noti- fy the matron at the asylum that she had an open account with them for the purpose of supplying Mrs. Terry with whatever wearing apparel she needed. When I returned to the State a few months later I visited Mrs. Terry, and seeing her con- dition and taking the advice of the physician then in charge I decided it best to let her re- main in that institution for the time being. Mrs. Terry is still there, and with little hope that she will ever leave it alive. I know nothing about the management of her estate, only that she has received from said estate the sum of $50 sent by Mr. Ashe, and $200 sent by the lessee of her house at Fresno, these being the sum total she has received from her estate since she was sent to Stockton in March, 1892, the balance going to pay cost of administration and some oz her debts. When I was in California last November I wrote to the authorities at Stockton for her ac- count, and on its receipt sent them a check to settle the bill. I also made arrangements with Mr. Williams to take care of her, and wrote a note to Judge Levy asking him to appoint Mr. Williams her guardian, as Mr. Ashe was absent from the State most of his time. These are the facts in the case, and those feel- ing any interest in Mrs. Terry are assured that she will not be allowed to want for anything as long as I have the means to take care of her. MORGAN HILL. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Mrs. Humphry Ward received $5000 for the English rights of “The Story of Bessie Costrell.” The Critic figures it out thet altogether she will receive $15,000 for the story, or about 60 cents & word. And it is not & great story either. A farmer who recently homesteaded on the Cheyenne River, near Smithville, 8. D., has just applied to the United States Land Office at Rapid City for permission to make entry on another forty acres or land, because, he says, the recent heavy rains have washed forty acres ot his original entry into the river. ‘The Queen of Korea lives in constant dread of some disease which will prove fatal. A female physician is accommodated with a suite of rooms in the royal palace and is obliged to visit the Queen every day. When her Maj- esty is in the least indisposed she must always remain within earshot. The doctor’s salary is £3500. E. H. BLACE, painter, 120 Eddy street. * Cmmnmmnwmend’s.' RENTS colmontgomery..' BAcON any street. * P GEO. W. MONTEITH, law offices, Crocker bldg.* e The women folks in a church have their first great doubt of their pastor’s sincerity when he marries a woman belonging to some other church.—Atchison Globe. THE best blood purifier is Hood's Sarsaparilla This is not an idle statement but a fact, proved by an unequaled record of wonderful cures. 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