The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 24, 1895, Page 6

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1895 ————'——_—'—'—__‘_M SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier.§0.15 and Sunday CALI, one year, x montbs, , three months, by mail 1.50 L, one month, i .50 vear, by mail by mail. Sunday CALL, OU WEEKLY CALL, BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street. Telephone... 7 <....MaIn—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone. ............ ....Main—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until SW. corner util 8 o'clock. 2518 Missi 116 Ninth street; OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Pacific States Adv Buresu, Rhinelander buflding, Rose ew York City. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to £0, it {8 no trouble f your sddress. Do not let i o t. Or Business Offic fon? It you for you will arrier, or left at eet, will receive o make a law that will suit all jon is already radiating from throbbing with the im- silurianism that is being tried for asance in office. greatest State in the Union requires » noblest men to direct it. touch of the Valley road has a mag- ct on every key that it presses. vas not until the Valley road secured that the Potrero began to d lose nothing if Dur- a change of venue to the other side of the world. big a deficit in Cleveland’s as there is in the Wilson rosperity will never come to this coun- 1 a full flood until it comes through the Nicaragua canal. It is nothing to the credit of California to say that it is wise in politics and un- skilled in development. Third street is taking the initiative as an exponent of the progressive spirit which animates the South Side. An interesting development of the Val- ley road influence on the San Joaquin is the awakening of the Sacramento. If Horr and Harvey wish to retain public interest in their debate they must put more ginger into their personalities. Every community in the State can give proof of its enterprizse by forminga branch of the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Asso- ciation. It is a grave choice between the two forms of silurianism, one of which is represented by cobblestones and the other by a monop- oly in bituminous rock. Those of us who are not ashamed of our language and its proper use will pronounce the name of a distinguished local person- age Dur-rant, not Du-rant. The principle of protection at home and a vigorous enforcement of the Monroe doctrine as a foreign policy constitute the true Americanism of these times. Next to the Valley road as a factor in redeeming and developing the State, the utilization of the water power abounding in the Sierra is the great factor of progress. Had the present advancement in the mining industry of California been made thirty years ago there wounld have been as great excitement as.that which followed the discovery of gold in 1848, No sooner do we discover the injurious effects of one form of silurianism than a substitute of some other form of equally injurious silurianism is offered by those having the power to introduce it. The success achieved by the Manufac- turers’ and Producers’ Association at San Jose in organizing a progressive movement is as much a credit to the progressive spirit of Santa Clara County as to the able efforts of the associatio Baby Marion will begin her public career by touching the button that will start the machinery of the Atlanta Exposition in September, though of course she will not know what she is doing any more than her daddy does about statecraft. The Corral Hollow railway project by assuring cheap fuel for Stockton hasalready attracted the attention of manufacturers to that city and as a consequence it is reaping the reward of enterprise even before the enterprise itself has been ac- complished. If Cleveland makes another loan and runs this country still further into debt, the question will arise seriously before the people whether he should not be im- peached as soon as Congress meets and an end put to the damage he is doing to the credit of the Nation and the welfare of the people. That most prolific, ingenious and enter- taining of journalists, Eugene T. Sawyer, has started a new weekly paper at San Jose called the Tomahawk. It is a very gharp-edged weapon, but its projector is wielding it with more wit than savagery, and evidently is not aiming it at thick skulls. Mr. Sawyer isa strange and rare genius, charming in all his aspects and infinitely versatile. S8an Jose should appre- ciate this new product of his brains. The Whitaker & Ray Company have be- come the publishers of the Western Journal of Education, under which title the Golden Era has been revived, with Harr Wagner as editor and manager. The new pub- lishers have the capital and the energy to make a firstclass educational journal out of the venture, and Mr. Wagner has the ability necessary to attend to the literary part of the paper. The excellence of the July issue gives promises of an immediate success. A GREAT OPPORTUNITY. Every one of the daily reports from the State free Labor Bureau is a revelation. Those who really have at heart the wel- fare of the laboring classes can find in these accounts both rebuke and instruc- tion on a generous scale. The entire point of view of the labor problem is undergoing a change, and employers and employes are now regarding each other with an under- standing to which they have hitherto been strangers, and which should result in a solution of some of the most serious social, industrial and political problems that now are so unsettled and disturbing. One of the lessons learned is that large employers are rapidly filing requisitions with the bureaufor men and women. They are doing this under the guarantee that the burean will do all in its power to recommend only worthy persons for em- ployment. The system is so radically dif- ferent from that of private intelligence offices that it offers at least a hope of a change for the Letter. Whatever may be the motive which leads employers to the State Bureau, they may be certain that they are discouraging Japanese contract immigration, protecting working men and women against the sharp practices of in- telligence offices, giving employment to those most in need of it, breaking down the dangerous discontent to which idle- ness and poverty give rise, and proceeding directly in line with the energies which are at work for the advancementof the State. A curious disparity has been discovered to exist in the demand for work by men and women. We must infer that when women skilled in domestic service are thoroughly independent and not only de- mand wages of $25 to $30 a month, but are unwilling to go into the country and accept positions eagerly awaiting them, and that at the same time thousands of men are anxious to secure employment anywhere and on almost any terms, we are confrontea with a very interesting proposition. Let us compare the two situations. A woman receiving $256 a month for domestic work gets also her board and lodging and generally her wash- ing, the value of all these things making her total income $50 or $60 a month. Be- sides this she has the safeguard and pro- tection of a home, which she has the privilege ‘of using for all their valuable purposes. It is different with the man. He is wanted for hard and laborious work, gen- eraily in the country, where he must labor, as a rule, from daybreak to dark. He must dig or delve under a constant sun, must eat what is offered, must sleep on a hard bunk and must be denied every one of those pleasant home graces and com- forts that lend zest to labor. And yet thousands of men are begging even for these poor privileges and are glad to re- ceive a dollar and a quarter a day. This is less than a woman cook or housegirl re- ceives, and with it comes none of the social benefits which she is enabled to enjoy. ‘We are thus brought to face an evil un- balance. It is explainable largely in the fact that, as a rule, girls and women re- gard shop work as more ‘“respectable’” than domestic service. Men seem to have either a dullness or a sturdy pride that makes such a compromise with dignity and self-respect impossible. They must be either forthright rogues or straightfor- ward plodders. Do not the able women of California see in this unnatural contrast an opportunity foreducating their sex in an individual pride and independence? Not one of us missing the lessons which the State Bureau is teaching can shirk the responsibility of the lapse. OUR WINE EXPORTS. The report of wine exports and imports of San Francisco for the first six months of the current year, published in yester- day’s CaLL, makes a wonderful showing. Its leading features are these: Comparing this period of 1895 with that of 1894, our shipments to New York were nearly doubled; to Central America, increased by 60 per cent; to Germany, increased 6 per cent; to Mexico, Tahiti and Hawaii they have decreased 5to 7 per cent. Our total outgoing shipments of wine were 8,500,000 gallons for 1895 against 6,600,000 gallons for 1894. Our outgoing brandy for 1895 was 9,500,000 gallons against 6,800,000 gallons for 1894, and our imports of brandy were 90,000 for 1895 against 460,000 for 18%4. A most astonishing disclosure is that whereas in 1894 we imported 5,800,000 gallons of wine, in 1895 the importations were 9,500,- 000. All these figures refer to the first six months respectively of 1894 and 1895, and are here put in round form for con- venience. A number of instructive things, some encouraging and others putting us on the defensive, appear from this condition of affairs. In the first place, it is unpardon- able that there should be a falling off in our wine shipments to Mexico. While that country hasa delightful climate, its summer rains prevent its cultivation of the fine, thin-skinned grapes which Cali- fornia produces, and from which the finest wines of commerce are made. Mexicoisa very large consumer of light wines, and it is evident that the country is drawing its supply from Europe instead of Californi This cannot be because of European supe- riority, for we have knowledge of the fact that Mexico would prefer our wines if 1t could obtain them. A very important study for California vignerons would be the tariff sheets of Mr. Huntington’s lines connecting Mexico and California, the dis- criminations practiced by Mexico in her customs charges, and the efforts which California might make for increasing the popularity of its wires in that country. Mexico ought to be regarded as one of the most important and promising markets that California has, not only for wine, but for many other productions, as both social and geographical reasons of a special character exist for cultivating the very closest relations with that nation. The fact Lhat Chicago to-day controls probably ten times as much of the Mexican trade.as California is a reproach which our people cannot afford to suffer. A similar argument, though not so strong, is applicable to our relations with the Hawaiian Isiands. The making of such wines as California producesis im- possible there by reason of the humid climate. In short, it cannot be too oiten drilled into the minds of California wine- makers that this is the only spot in all the world where the grapes from which come the fine wines of France, Italy, Germany and Spain can be grown. The largely in- creased sales of our wines for the first six months of the present year over those for the corresponding period of 1894 have re- sulted from the organization of our wine- makers and not from their efforts to ex- tend the consumption area of the product. This is shown conclusively in the fact that our shipments to New York this year have ‘been 1,800,000 gallons, whereas for the first six months of 1894 they were only 750,000 gallons. Until we supply the entire American, Mexican, Central American and Hawaiian markets with ordinary wines the resources within our grasp will not have been mastered. Beyond those countries lie Australia and the Orient, and the increase of our ezports to Germany shows that we can even invade the home of the grape without taking into account the enormous possibilities of the British market. THE CHICAGO DEBATE. TUp to this time the debate between Horr and Harvey has added nothing of import- ance to the general stock of knowledge and familiar arguments on the monetary controversy. Those who have followed the debate closely and are capable of judg- ing it impartially will agree that Horr has shown himself the more accomplished de- bater and Harvey has exhibited the more thorough knowledge of the history and the philosophy of the subject. Both sides, therefore, are likely to claim the victory in the contest, and each will be able to show some reason for its claim. Had Harvey been a practiced debater he would have hopelessly compromised his antagonist on the first day of the debate by insisting upon an explanation of what he meant by declaring himself a bimetallist and at the same time advocating the gold standard. This is the crucial point of the contest between the genuine bimetallists and those who are trying to dodge the issue. Horr should not have been permit- ted to get off Scot free after such an awkward dodge as that. The country has become so familiar with it that every one who enters into a controversy on the sub- ject ought by this time to know how to stop the dodge by a blow straight from the shoulder. The effective argument for a return to bimetallism is to be found in the existing financial situation and the reports of the current financial news. The Cleveland ad- ministration in order to maintain the gold reserve and make up the deficit in the rev- enue has increased the public debt by $152,315,400, and the interest to be paid on the increase will amount to $123,528,480. Having borrowed all this money the treas- ury reserve is still far from safe. A new loan is threatened, and a new export of gold is imminent. It isclear that the gold supply of the world is not sufficient for the business of the world. The gold stringency has become chronic. It is felt everywhere and it is felt at all times. Every industry suffers from it, and the expanding energy of the civilized world demands a broader financial basis on which to rest the struc- ture of its increasing industry. The battle for bimetallism may not be the chief issue in '96. Indeed it can hardly be the chief issue so long as the revenues of the country are insufficient, American industries unprotected and the Monroe doctrine unenforced. Nevertheless it will be an important factor in the campaign. The necessities of business and the welfare of the world demand the remonetization of silver. The benefits that will acerue from it will affect every industry and every trade, and in a particular degree they will affect the Pacific Coast by reviving silver mining and enriching the wide region of country of which California is the center and San Francisco the metropolis. THE PANAMA CANAL. One of the notable features of current news is the often repeated appearance of announcements that the Panama canal project is to be pushed to cempletion. The cause of these announcements is largely a matter of conjecture. It may be that work in good faith is carried on at Panama; it may be the promoters are simply trying to get more millions from the French people, and it may be that there is a cunning scheme to discredit the Nicaragua canal project by spreading re- ports that the Panama route is feasible and will soon be completed. ‘Whatever may be the origin of the re- puted activity at Panama it is certainly a matter of grave concern to the American people. If the canal is constructed there under French control we will be con- fronted by the alternative of building an interoceanic route of our own through Nicaragua, or under the terms of the Monroe doctrine compelling France to abandon every pretense of control or supervision at Panama. - The waterway through Central America, at whatever point located, must be wholly in the hands of Americans. The United States cannot permit even the most friendly of European nations to indulge the thought of finding on any portion of this continent a supremacy of control, whether bought with money or enforced by the sword. The hollow-hearted, non-patriotic policy of the Cleveland administration has seri- ously compromised the position which the United States occupies in relation to all other parts of America. Had there been any true Americanism in the administra- tion, Great Britain would never have been permitted to exact damages from Nica- ragua at the cannon’s mouth or to refuse to arbitrate her dispute with Venezuela. Cleveland’s pusillanimous course has to this extent allowed precedents prejudicial to our interests to be established. The problems that confront us therefore are more difficult than they would have been had a truer American been in office during the last two years and a more vigorous American policy been enforced. There was some months ago sent to Cen- tral America acommission appointed toin- vestigate the Nicaragua route. That com- mission should haye been instructed from ‘Washington to inquire also into the Panama route and see whatis going on there. If there is any probability of the completion of that route it is well that we should know it and take proper steps cou- cerningit. Under no circumstances should it be permitted to remain under European control. America for the Americans ap- plies to Panama as well as to Nicaragua. A TRUE RERO. When the great fire broke out in the Utica mine. the night shift of miners were returning to their work, and upward of sixty of them had already reached their place of occupation before the danger was known. As soon as the fire was discovered word was sent to them to .retire. When these were safely out of the mine, it wassuddenly remembered by the superintendent, Tom Lane, that he had forgotten twelve men who were still at work while the dangsr around them grew every moment more imminent and threatening. In this peril Mr. Lane did not hesitate. Taking a man with him he descended into the burning mine and penetrated to the shafts where the men were working. He brought help not a moment too soon. The lights of the imperiled men had gone out and they were creeping slowly through the darkness toward safety. When the rescuers reached them, however, they were too exhausted to have gone much further, and without the opportune help would have perished. Modern civilization is familiar with the dangers of those who go down into deep mines, and never a year passes without some fearful mining disaster to horrify the minds of the public. Nearly always, how- ever, some act of heroism like that of the superintendent of the Utica occurs to re- deem the dark picture of calamity by a flash that reveals humanity under one of its divinest forms. It is no ordinary courage that enables a man to descend into the deep pit of a burning mine to save a comrade’s Jife, and when such incidenis -~ take place a certain honor is due to the hero from all who are capable of appre- ciating what such valorand humanity are worth to the welfare of the race. SUNSHINE LAND. When Cupid goes hunting in California he tips his arrows with a sunbeam.—San Fran- ciseo CALL. When wee Cupid hunting goes In this land so fair, Cupid with white wings like snow And soft waving hair. He his tiny arrow tips ‘With a sunbeam bright, And from bended bow it flies Like a thread of light. Binding the fair matden’s heart With & chain of gold: Love from arrow sunbeam-tipped Never can grow cold. GRACE HIBBAED. San Francisco, July 23, 1895. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Nat Landsberger, the violinist, will in all probability go into retirement and become & philanthropist, doing good where be can, and in the event of his not being able to do that he will do nothing. He strolled into the office of the Palace Hotel yesterday afternoon, took a glass of ice-water and sat down by the tele- phone office. In a few moments & gentleman ‘with & kindly face came in and took a seat be- side him, “Mr, Landsberger,” he said, *“I want you to play for us at the next annual recitation of the Mission-street orphans. It will be held on the 25th. Can you count yourself in? We would appreciate it so much.” Landsberger clasped his hands, looked with a benign smile on the layman and said quistly, but with great feeling: «I will play. I consider it the duty of every virtuoso to lend the charm of his music to the sweet cause of charity.” With that Mr. Landsberger lifted his eyes toward the incandescent lights and the lay- NAT LANDSBERGER, PHILANTHROPIST. [Sketched from life for the “Call” by Nankivell.] man, thanking him, bowed himself into the hall and disappeared. In a few moments a drummer sauntered in and spied the philan- thropist. “Hello there, Nat. Been looking for youall day, Say, Nat, we want you to give usa few jig steps and a couple of slices of opera to-mo1- row night. The boys are going to have a little time. Are you in, Nat?” “*Betcher life. Well, say; now you're talk- ing. Do we banquet?” “Oh, sure. That's all we do do.” “I'm in.’ ‘The two separated, and a long-haired gentle- man, who had been waiting, grasped Lands- berger's hand with the warm, palpitating pressure native to the Californian. “Nat, my boy, Iam so glad I found you. The fact is, Nat, if you'll pardon me for taxing your kind- 80 often, we are going to have a little pink teaup at the villa on the 26th, and Mrs. — wanted me to ask you to come up and bring your violin. Give them anything, Nat. The ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’ sprinkled around at intervals, or the miserere from ‘Il Trovatore’ slung in properly, would touch things off about right. If they insist you can take & few bars out of Rubinstein’s melody in F. Just a tew of those things, Nat. You understand. Can we depend upon you?” “Oh, yes, yes, yes. I'll come,” exclaimed the philanthropist, as & smile flickered up around his mouth. over his ears and down his spine. Suddenly his face lapsed into a long, saintly expression and the gentleman with hair ‘was gone. Nat took another stroll over toward the ice-water and returned to his chair just in time to encounter a friend, who wanted him to play at a concert in Berkeley. “When do you want me?” inquired Nat. “On the 25th and the 26th.” Mr. Landsberger says ha will keep the first dates and play for charity. Are there many philanthropists like unto him in this whole ‘broad West? Well, no. ‘Will E. Fisher, the rea.-estate man, has some good ideas about how to lure the prosperous and industrious immigrant to these hospitable shores. “It 18 no use for us to affirm that we havesa ‘glorious climate,’ or to assert the importance of our resources,” he said yesterday. *It is not enough to tell the people of the East how happy and prosperous they may be in Cali- fornia. We must induce them to come. If we want to see our country filled with enterpris- ing citizens, we must exert a little energy to get them here. Los Angeles and other cities of the State have been built up, and the result has shown what energy could do when ap- plied in the proper direction. “During a recent business trip to the East, I was forcibly impressed with the great neea that exists for a more general advertisement of the resources of California. I found other States prominently advertising their induce- ments, but California was seldom heard of, and 1 could not help feeling that many immigrants whom we might have were lost to us for the want of a little of that ‘git up and git’ spirit which has always been eynonymous with Caii- fornia enterprise. “In a general way the world knows some- thing of the resources of California. It has read in books and magazines of our climate, our wonderful scenery and the fertility of our soil. What we need 18to let thefh know that we have cheap lands—that we can sell them farming lands for $30 to$50 per acre; but we must also show them what those lands will produce, and the prices which the products bring, and to do this effectively no better plan can be devised than the establishment and maintenance of permanent exhibits in the largecities of the East. And I feel confident that arrangements might be perfected with the different railroads in New York, Chicago, Bos- ton, Philadelphia and 8t. Louis, permitting us to maintain in the depots such an exhibit as the State Board of Trada in this City. Then, instead of a cursory glance from a few visitors, these exhibits would be seen by millions every year. The impression made would be perma- nent and the world would know of our glori- ous possessions. 5 “It woula be fatal to the State to indulge in eZiravagant boom tactics. We don’ need them. Let us tell the plain truth, It is hard to make the people of the East understand thata third of the State is uncultivated—that we have millions of acres to be had cheaper than similar lands in the East.” DR. ZAHN ON MAN'S ORIGIN. In a recent lecture before the Columbian Roman Catholic Summer School at Madison, W the Rev. Dr. J. A. Zahn, professor of physical sciences at Notre Dame University, Indiena, declared there was nothing in Roman Catholic dogma which precluded the view that man was descended from the ape or some other animal. The lecture has been the cause of much recent discussion among dignitaries of the church to which Professor Zahn belongs. The Chicago Times-Herald quotes the lecture REV. DR. J. A. ZAHN, NOTRE DAME, IND. in part as follows: Spontaneous generation ‘was never a stumbling block either to the fa- thers of scholastics, because the creative act ‘was always acknowledgea and because God was ever recognized as the author, at least through second agents, ot the divers forms of Itfe which were supposed. to originate from in- organized matter. Whether, then, the germ of life was specially created for each individual creature, or whether matter was endowed with the power of evolving what we call life by the the proper collocation of the atoms and mole- cules of which matter is constituted, was, from their point of view, immaterial so far as dogma was concerned. But sup- pose that some time or otherit should be proved that spontaneous generation notonly has taken place, but that it actually occurs, here and now? The fact that we have as yet no evidence that it ever has taken place, or that it does not occur now, does not prove that that it is impossible. We may not be prepared to afirm with Huxley and Fiske that it must have taken place atsome period in the past history, but may we admit the possibility of the occurence? Should, then, such a discovery be made, as is possible and conceivable; should some fortunate investigator some day detect in the great laboratory of nature the transition of inorganie into organic and animated matter, orshould he by some happy chance be able to transmute not-living into living matter, would there be in such a discovery aught that would contravene revealed truth, or militate against any of the received dogmas of the church? To this question we can at once and without hesitation return an emphatic nega- tive. ‘Was the body of the first man, the progenitor of our race, created directly and immediately by God, or was it ereated indireculy and through the operation of secondary causes? When the Bible tells us that “the Lord God formed man from the slime of the earth,” are we to inter- pret these words in a rigorously literal sense, and to believe that the Creator actually fash- foned Adam from the slime of the earth, as a potter would fashion aa object from clay, or as an artist would produce the model of a statue from wax or plaster? Or may we put a different interpretation on the text and regard man as indirectly created, as the last and highest term of a long series of evolutions which extend back to the first advent of life upon earth? In other words, is man, as to his body, the direct and special work of the Creator’s hands, or is he the descendent of some animal, some ape or some “missing link” of which naturalists have 8 yet discovered no trace? We have already learned that as a matter of fact no positive evidence has been adduced in support of the simian origin of man. Since the. publication of Darwin’s “Origin of Spe- cies’ naturalists have been exploring every portion of the globe for some trace of the miss- ing link between man and the highest known mammal, a link which they sald must exist somewhere if the hypothesis of the evolution of man be true. But, granting that the search for the link connecting man with the ape has 80 far been futile; admitting, with Virchow, that “the future discovery of this proanthropos is highly improbable,” may we not, neverthe- less, believe, as & matter of theory, that there has been such a link, and that corporally man is genetically descended from some unknown species of ape or monkey? Analogy and scien- tific consistency would seem to require us to admit that man’s bodily frame has been sub- ject to the same law of evolution, if evolution there has been, as has obtained for the inferior animals. There is nothing in biological sci- ence that would necessarily exempt man’s cor- poral structure from the action of thislaw. Is there, then, anything in dogma or sound metaphysics which would make it impossible for us to hold a view which has found such fa- vor with the great majority of contemporary evolutionists? Whatever may be the final verdict of science 1in respect of man’s body, it cannot be at vari- ance with Roman Catholic dogma. Granting that future researches shall demonstrate be- yond doubt that man is genetically related to the inferior animals, there will not be even, in such an improbable event, the slightest ground for imagining that the conclusions of science are hopelessly at variance with the declara- tions of the sacred text, or the authorized teachings of the Roman Catholic church. We should be obliged to revise the interpretation that has usually been given to the words of scripture which refer to the formation of Adam’s body and read these words in the #ense which evolution demands—a sense which, as we haveé seen, may be attributed to the words of the inspired record without either distorting the meaning of terms or in any way doing violence to the text, e OUT-OF-TOWN PERSONALS. New York, July 23.—Californians regis- tered at hotels to-day are: San Francisco—F. F. Starges, Marlborough; W. Emerson, Sturte- vant; U. Gantz, Hoffman; A. 8. Grant, Gilsey. Los Angeles—T. Ballington, Broadway Central; Mrs. H. Ludlow, Grand Union. Sacramento— ack, Astor. California—Mr. and Mrs. ‘Vreeland, Metropole; A.T. Turner, Gil- sey. *he following sailed to-day per steamer Spree for Southampton and Breémen: George W. Borrowe, Ssausalito, Cal. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey H. Dana, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hellman, San Francisco, and William Gerrey, Bodie, Cal. OFPINIONS OF EDITORS. It appears that Mr. Carnegie has not only in- creased the wagesof his men, but he has in- creased their hours ot labor also, and forbade them belonging to unjons. These last two fea- tures of the improved condition of business at the Carnegie works the Democratic papers, which have so much to say about the raise in ‘wages, are signally silent about.—Los An- geles Express. Hurrah for the progressive kicker. The man who kicks for a better condition of things without everlastingly bawling “things ain’t what they used to be.”” As far as the Daily Re- porter is concernea, there is a feeling of glad- ness “that things ain’t what they used to be” and thank providence they are getting better.— ‘Woodland Reporter. The defeat of the Southern Pacific in the Oakland wator-front case follows hard upon the loss of its suit with the Government for un- earned grants in this partof the State. It is an unwonted experionce for the railroad to lose important cases and the shock must be very severe.—Los Angeles Journal. The awakening of California to a realization of the vastness of its resources is only begin- ning. No wizard of old ever produced in delu- sions half the wonders that water and elec- tricity will produce in reality for California.— Stockton Independent. UNHEARD-OF MAGNANIMITY. The San Francisco CALL is ushering in the ‘millennium in the world of journalism. No one ever before heard of one newspaper glving to its rival in the same city fulland due credit for its work and ideas, as is being done by Editor Shortridge of THE CALL. Witness the following: “The terse, straightforward leader in which the Ezaminer put itself yesterday on the side of the Citizens’ Defense Association and the people in the fight. * * * Itisen- couraging to all who hope that the new era in California is to mean not only a revival of busi- ness and industry, but @ revival of civic patriotism and honesty in municipal adminls- tration. “The words of the Ezaminer were something more than ‘fleshy’ Englisa. There were blood, bone, muscle and nerve in every sen- tence. * * * We cordially welcome the aid of our great Democratic contemporary in the contest, because we wish it made clearly evi- dent, even to fools, that there is no party nor faction politics in the fight. As THE CALL for the Republican party repudiates the self-styled Republican members of the combine, so the Ezaminer repudiates the self-styled Demo- crats.” There is high business magnanimity and un- selfish public interest for you! THE CALL,in its broad-minded, liberal policy, thinks more of San Francisco and her social and business welfare than of petty business rivalry and jealousies, and gracefully acknowledges the presence and power of its neighbor, even going 50 far as to say, “Let’s join hands and work for our City.” It is the opposite of this kind of spirit, not alone among newspapers, but with all classes of business men, which hangs like a millstone about the neck of many a town and city, drag- ging them down and holding them back when they should be hitting the turnpike of progress and prosperity at a rattling rate. It is seen here in Spokane; it is seen everywhere. An idea of public interest, public benefit, needs fostering. Smith will not take a hand and co-operate because that blear-eyed, bald- headed Jones around the corner, who last week cut the price of sugar and got away from him one of Smith’s customers, is in favor of it. Brown, & broad-minded, liberal, public- spirited citizen, comes up for uffice. He is a Populist—beg pardon, Populists are not built that way—but he is & Republican or a Demo- crat, and his party being in the minority he is defeated by the opposition, who, having the numbers and being sure of success, picked up any kind of a scrub. Then it is that Brown,if he be deficient in moral force, loses his temper, likewise his faith in mankind, renounces all his high ideas and becomes a Populist, or what is almost as bad— & chronic kicker. It is avarice, greed, selfishness and narrow bigotry which, be it said with all deference to the christianizing work of the churches—some of it is found there, too—is, given free rein, spinning the people of this country along toward devildom at such a lively clip. Unselfishness shoula be drilled into the child’s mind from the time it takes its last tug at the mother’s breast; it should be more forci- bly taught and illustrated in the public schools; it should shine out as the moral in every lesson. ‘When we learn that other people have rights on this earth and that the world would go on just the same were we to get pushed off then we would be making progress. When we come to where we can look up and above the petty jealousies, prejudices and hates of everyday life, and Smith can lock arms with Jones, and, forgetting the sugar deal, thé two can walk up and vote for Brown because he is a good man, then will be the millennium.—Spokane (Wash.) Times. PERSONAL. G. C. Freeman, an attorney of Fresno, is at the Lick. L. Redemeyer, & Point Arena merchant, is at the Russ. D. F. McPhail, County Assessor of Hollister, is at the Russ. Normsn Rideout, & Marysville banker, isat the California Hotel. Dr. Dillon Bache of the United States navy is stopping at the Occidental, Samuel Mathews, one of the leading cattle men of Salinas, is at the Russ. Preston Davis, the County Surveyor of Sonoma County, is at the Russ. Chaplain W. E. Edmonason of the United States navy is at the Occidental. Henry Dater Jr.,a prominent leader in New York society, is at the Palace Hotel. L. A. Beardsley, rear admiral of the United States navy, is & guest at the Occidental. Lieutenant W. 8. Hughes of the Mare Island Navy-yard, is stopping at the Palace Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Goodman of Napa are at the Palace. Mr. Goodman is president of the Napsa Bank. Silas Carle, & well-known contractor from Sacramento, is at the Lick House. He will be in town several days. Arthur G. McNalty, manager of the Langtry farms, has come up from the rural districts and is at the Occidental. C. H. Perkins, the creamery man of Ferndale, 1s stopping at the Russ House. Mr. Perkins is accompanied by his wife. G. H. Warfield, cashier of the Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank of Healdsburg, is in the City, & guest at the California Hotel. J. A. Louttit, a Stockton attorney and also a heavy stockholder in the new electric railroad being constructed there, is at the Lick House. Captain Thomas Maclay, Major L. W. Gillard and Colonel D. B. Fairbanks, all of the Fifth Regiment, are guests at the Lick from Sonoma County. 'W. D. Tobey, accompanied by his daughter, arrived yesterday from the Yosemite Valley, where he has been spending the last week. Mr. Tobey will leave shortly for Carson, Nev., his home. J. H. Langlenona, chairman of the Colusa County Board of Supervisors, accompanied by Supervisors A. P. Spaulding and C. C. Treets, is in the City for the purpose of attending the convention held in this City to-day to deter- mine what amount of money and what ex- hibits yvarious counties will make at the At~ lanta Exposition in the name of California. THE BLOOMER MAID. When first he dons trousers, ‘There comes 1o a boy A thrill and & feeling Wi hads 18 Bi3 pockets, th hands pocl Complacent his smile, ‘He's aware of one fact— His clothes are “the style.” ‘When & woman dons bloomers How altered the case. ‘What complex emotions Are shown in her face! She's no falth in buttons, Her feet seem Immen And she longs for the lee Of & sheltering fenee, Possession but seldom Contentment ensures: A woman who only ‘The trousers secures Gets littie but worry For fear she may tear 'em, Unless with them goes A husband to wear’em. —Truth. ECHOOLBOOKS exchanged. King's, 15 Fourth* ———— He (poetically)—Ah! why do you shrink from me like a startled fawn trembling at the rustle of the aumtun leaves—why? She (nonpoetic)—'Cos I've just been vacci- nated.—Boston Globe. —_— Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay strest. * ————— NEW crop maple sugar. 15clb. Townsend’s.* —_~— “‘Ma,” sald a discouraged urchin, “I ain’t golng to school any more.” “Why, dear?” tenderly inquired his mother. “Cause’taint any use. Ican never learn to spell. The teacher keeps changing the words every day.”—Pittsburg Bulletin. THE aged find needed strength in Hood's Sarsa- parilla. It vitalizes the blood, invigorates the liver and keeps all the organs of the body in good condition and insures healthy action. R “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” ‘Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth. ers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softeus the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowela and s the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 28c a bottle NEW TO-DAY. (ITTZPARIN SEMI-ANNUAL Clearance dale BEFORE STOCK-TAKING. Curtan Dept IRISH POINT CURTAINS. Regular price 5, $5 50 and $6, to § 4:50 " Per Pair close out at.. close out at... e AT ‘er Palr IRISH POINT CURTAINS. ErSE S 0 89, §9 IRISH POINT CURTAINS. Regular price $8 50, $9 and $9 50, to BROKEN LINES OF Chenille and Tapestry Portieres. Regular price $3 75, 84 60, $6 and $7 50, $3:20. $42°. 85 Per Pair 0d Pairs of Curtains, IN IRISH POINT, BRUSSELS, MUSLIN, GUIPURE AND NOTTINGHAM, At Lass Than Half Price, FALL JACKETS JUST ARRIVED! SE HABLA ESPANOL. G. VERDIER & CO., SE. Cor. Geary and Grant Ave. VILLE DE PARIS. BRANCH HOUSE, LOS ANGELES. 0UR ENTIRE STOCK AT (UT RATE PRICES ! Ladies’ Shirt Waists at. Ladies’ Double Capes at Children’s Reefers at. 2 .25 Ladies’ Embroidered Capes at...... 1.90 Ladies’ Silk Blouses at. 2.75 Ladies’ Tailor-made Suits 7.75 And a number of other bargains that it will be worth your whilo to see before purchasing elsewhere. LOEWENTHAL’S (loak and Suit Honse, NO. 844 MARKET ST. NEAR STOCKTON. FURNITURE 4 ROOT1S $90 Parlor—Silk Brocatelle, 5-plece sult, plush trimmed. —7-piece Solid Oak Sult, French Bovel- B s, bed, burean, washstand, two chairs, Pocicer and tabié; Pilows, woven-wire and top g foom—6100t Extension Table, fo -Room— xtension Ta ue D 0k Chairs. o Kitehen—No. 7 Range, Patens Kitchen Table ‘and two chairs. EASY PAYMENTS. Houses furnished complete, city or country, any- where on the coast. Open evenings. M. FREEDMAN & CO., 224 to 230 and 306 Stockton and 237 Post Street. Free packing and delivery across the bay. NEW SCHOOL! GERMAN AND ENGLISH SCHOOL, 1986 WEBSTER ST., OAKLAND &Comcr of Omhnd&. OPENSAUG UST 1 WITH A FULL CORPS OF teachers. Preparation for Universities. Ger- T2 pening Exercissa held by DE. MOCLURE ercises Oakland at 10 A. M. » TO BE REMOVED. BUILDTNG ON LOT 75x70 FEET, SOUTH- wve“f %orner Third and Market sts. Sealed bids y G. H. UMBSEN & CO.,, 14 Montgomery Street.