The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 4, 1895, Page 18

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 1895. — CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor Proprifmz.; Postage Free k. by carrier.§0.15 SUBSCRIPTION RAT! Daily and Sunday CATL ew v and Sundsy CALI, one year, by mail... 6.00 and Sunds; Is, by mail 3.00 three months, by mafl 1.50 Daily and Sunda by mail ).gg £unday CALY, O S . Main—1868 sixteenth and M treet; open until 9 o'clock. nth street; open until § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: u, Rhinelander ew York Clty. MER MONTHS. ons vacation? It 20 trouble for us to forward THE CALL to ss. Do not let it miss you for you will Orders given 1o the carrier, or left at Office, 710 Murket street, will receive THE SUA Are you going to the con _AUGUST 4, 1895 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. —————————————————— Don't neglect to read our literary ar- fcles. The last carnival Belvedere has the glory lways the best, and Newecastle coal is turning pale before the stare of Los Angeles petroleum. New York is giving Sunday observance the most exhaustive discussion it ever had. The rugar-beet industry in .California is eweetening the lives of all who engage in it. The Bannocks may have painted them- gelves for war, but they have not lived up to the paint. There is neither aristocracy nor exclu- slon in the invitations which the sun will issue to-day. The monometallists are getting as shaky ss if they were standing not only on one metal but on one foot. 3 Tt will bea poor economy on the part of the counties to hoard a little money and lose the benefits of a State exhibit at At- lanta. It cannot be charged that the bloomer girl is fresh when we consider the impetus h she has given to the local salt-water £ bath industry. The Democratic party cannot claim to be the *‘party of the people’” unless it calls its derelict members in the Railroad Com- mission to account. The Sacramento Valley Press Associa- tion has outlined the wisest of all possible plans for a proper development of that great valley’s resources. ith a Civic Federation, a Half-million Club and a Manufacturers’ Association at home and with enterprise all round us what more do we want to assure progress? The appeal made by the Hali-million Club to the editors of the State to urge the organ on of affiliating societies is the wisest and timeliest of ail recognitions 8 a leading and irresistible force. Down in the Bowery district of New York a number of boys under 16 years of age have formed a street-cleaning league which is doing good work and makinga new name for the Bowery boy. No paper supporting the principles of a great political party is worthy of its name unless it holds up to public scorn those official members of its party who have be- trayed the trust which they were elected to fulfill, Itis asserted that the new Ministry in England will try to relegate the Irish ques- tion to the background by taking up Eng- lish labor questions and trying to improve the conditions of the farmers and the workingmen. Since the lottery-ticket sellers have been driven into hiding and the business re- duced 50 per cent, it needs only the sup- pression of pool-selling to give the better element of the people a fair degree of satis- faction in the progress of the reform move- ment. was running hell and had the Courier- Journal, Times and #est managers, editors aud reporters sent to me I would turn the other inmates loose lest they be contam- inated.” Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald prob- ably findsit hard to choose between the demands of needy girls who are willing to work in Chinese factories and the reflec- tion that every Chinese factory is essen- tially antagonistic to the interests of white operatives. Captain Evans, who commanded the Anmerican squadron at Kiel, is reported as g the most notable feature of the naval display was the wonderful discipline of the German navy. The ships are exer- cised six hours every day injthe year, and in the'most difficult maneuvers the crews work with the precision of machinery. The fact that a Santa Clara County or- chardist has saved $900 by the employment of smudge fires to check the ravages of predaceous insects is a confirmation of Tre Carv's repeated declaration that no evil either in preducing or marketing the fraits of California can appear but what sufficient intelligence to overcome it is forthcoming, The newspapers of New York, Chicago and Boston are fond of saying that the people of Philadelphia are slow, but the Times of that city effectively answers them by calling attention to the fact that the street railways of all three .of those cities are managed by Philadelphians, and that many other of their municipat enterprises are due to the energy of Philadelphia men. A society writer in Washington says the new Attorney-General, Judson Harmon, “is elegant, with an elegance surpassing all elegance. He is as clean and sweet and well groomed as a ioad of hay. Butthere is not about him that evidence of attention to detail which heralds the dandy. Jid- son Harmon is too elegant a gentleman to be a dandy.” From this description A BOUNTY TO THE ORIENT. It may be accounted as a benefit to America that the elaborate address on “The Critical Position of British Trade Witn Oriental Countries,” delivered by T. H. Whitehead, a member of the Legisla- tive Council of Hongkong, before thé Royal Colonial Institute, last February, has been published in pamphlet form and given a wide w@#tulation. Though ad- dressed to the British people, it contains valuable lessons for Americans in the proofs which it affords of the importance of the remonetization of silver and the maintenance of protection. In his address Mr. Whitehead discloses a thorough knowledge of the conditions of Oriental industry and trade and shows a careful study of the effect produced upon them by the demonetization of silver. He asserts that the establishment of the single gold standard in Europe and Ametica has acted as a bounty to promote Oriental manufactures. It has made the silver money of the East cheap and abundant, while in this country and in Europe gold has been dear and scarce. The industries of the white race have been cramped by stringent money markets, while those of the brown race have ex- panded under the stimulus of a larger supply of money than they have ever known before. The statistics quoted by Mr. Whitehead show that manufacturing industries rapidly increased in India until the clos- ing of the Indian mints to the coinage of silver put an abrupt stop to their develop- ment. What was lost in India, however, was yade up to the Orient by the expan- sion of manufactures in China and Japan. These it is true were interrupted by the war between the two nations, but enough had already been accomplished by both countries to show what is to be feared if money continues stringent in Europe and America while it remains abundant for the cheap workers of the East. It is not manufacturing only that suffers in the gold countries. Agriculture also feels the depression. Mr. Whitehead says: ‘‘Let us for a moment consider one article, Indian wheat and English wheat. It is sold in the same market, and practically at the same price, but the price which brings disaster to the British farmer gives prosperity to the Indian farmer, yet the Indian farmer has not adopted any im- provements in cultivation in the lust twenty years. Why, therefore, is it that he derives prosperity from the price which is ruinous to the British agriculturist? The whole question is summed up in the gle factor of exchange, or the inade- quate medium through which British trade is carried on.” Mr. Whitehead concludes that at no very distant date the productions of Ori- ental labor will have considerable influ- ence in the markets of England unless prohibitive duties are imposed by Parlia- ment. These words of warning may not bave much influence in England, where free trade and the single gold standard have been a species of National supersti- tion. The lessons conveyed by them, how- , will not be lost upon Americans. Iy to continue much longer ricts cur own currency a policy which re while expanding that of the Orient, nor are we likely to leave our industries ex- posed to Oriental competition. Protection and bimetallism are rapidly becoming the joint watchwords of the people, and under a Republican administration” both of them will be embodied in the laws of the land. INSANE CRIMINALS. An able article appears in a recent issue of the New York Medical Review which gives a new phase to the subject of insane criminals. It is entitled *‘Shall Insane Criminals Be Imprisoned or Put to Death ?"” and was written by Dr. B. Ransom, physician to the Clinton (N, Y.) prison. After discussing the ignoble attitude in which the medical profession is placed by the present absurd contradictions in ex- pert testimony growing out of the prac- tice of permitting both the prosecution and defense to call expert witnesses, the author lays dswn his two salient proposi- tions. The first concerns the legal definition of responsibility. “The courts,”” says the au-~ thor, *have repeatedly held that the ques- tion to decide as touching a man’s mental responsibility under the law is his ability to distinguish between right and wrong. That is, to be able to understand his moral and legal responsibility. While this ap- plies to certain forms of insanity, it is not all that is necessary in the way of a test, nor does it cover the whole ground.” The author then proceeds to show that 2 man may be insane and yet have a com- plete understanding and appreciation of the consequences of his act. For that matter there may be an appreciation of the responsibilities and consequences so acute as to serve .in themselves as a mo- tive for the commission of the act. That aside, we have yet to consider the ques- tion of ability to control an impulse, and therein, according to this able authority, lies the true test of accountability. Let it be argued that an uncontrollable impulse exercised with a full appreciation of conse- gences may be a dangerous standard for judging accountability, and the guthor proceeds to show that numerous physical indications afford an intelligent ground for determining the presence or absence of uncontrollable impulses. He takes the two famous cases of Pren- dergast, the "ingyircd" murderer of Mayor Harrison of Chicago, and Lizzie Halliaay, the triple murderess of Sullivan County, Y. Prendergast was executed because it was judicially decided, according to established methods, that he appregiated the consequences of his act and was, there- fore, accountable. A similar conclusion was reached in the case of Lizzie Halliday, but the Governor of New York, having doubts that the conclusion was accurate, ordered a special scientific investigation of her case, with the result that her life was spared. In both these cases, as in that of Guiteau, the court yielded to a popular clamor against the “insanity dodge’” and a demand for retributive blooa. Yet Dr. Ransom shows not only from Prender- gast’s history but from a study of his brain and the bones and configuration of his skull that, although he fully realized the consequences of his act, he could not resist the impulse to commit it. The second main proposition is that the execution of such an insane criminal can- not be justified on the ground that it will deter similar “cranks” from the commis- sion of similar deeds. On the contrary, an execution serves only to inflame the imagination of other cranks, suggest acts of which they may not have thought and surround the scaffold with the halo of martyrdom. Even where it does not do this it fails to deprive the irresponsible in- sane criminal of a love of life, a desire to extend his operations and the cunning to assume some form of insanity of which he is wholly innocent. This probably was the case of Lizzie Halliday. Though her nistory and skull showed that she was irresponsible, she yet desired to escape death, and to that end assumed a form of mania incompatible with her physical in- dications. It was the scientific, not the the question immediately arises: Is he a | superficial analysis, that saved her life. dude?; The subject is large and interesting, and | stood we may thank Dr. Ransom for his sugges- tions. At the same time, while we know that there is a farcical element in modern jndicial methods of defining and ascer- taining accountability, and while we can appreciate the force of uncontrollable im- pulse and of a general suspicion directed against the “‘insanity dodge,”” we cannot ignore the fact that in the treatment of the insane the efficacy of discipline and the fear of punishment are very importani things. Dr. Ransom’s suggestions have been sufficient, however, to set all wise persons to thinking and studying, and out of it all some light may come. OALLED TO ACCOUNT. One of the admirable qualities of the Ezaminer is its fearlessness in calling to account those Democratic office-holders who have proved unfaithful either to their implied or their pledged obligations. Its antagonism to Mr. Cleveland is explain- able on that ground, and this policy may be taken as a reason for its demanding of the Democratic majority in the California Railroad Commission an explanation of its failure to reduce the freight charges imposed by the Southern Pacific Company in this State. As the leading Democratic paver of California has deemed it proper to raise this issue, THE CALL, though a strong Republican paper, cannot be charged with political bias in following it up. Indeed, it is aifficult to think of political bias con- cerning a matter having sodireet a bearing on the welfare of the State, and impossible to imagine any newspaper willing to sac- rifice the interests of the State for the tem- porary advantage of any political party. Nothing is more notorious than the fact that the sentiment of the State in the last election was strongly Republican, and thatas a rule the only Democrats elected were those who made exceedingly strong and specific pledges to right prevalent and obvious wrongs. In other words, it seems clear that in order for a Democrat to be elected to a general office in California, he must give some pledge other than that conveyed by the history and reputation of his party. The Republican party seems to rely more upon the moral lesson and pressure of its history and reputation than upon the individual pledges of its candi- dates. Even this, however, is not always sufficient, as the betrayal practiced by the Reptblican members of the Solid Eight has shown; but this is offset in a measure by the efforts of T CALL to expose their duplicity and punish them for their be- trayal of the people, which means the be- trayal of their party as well. In its issue of yesterday THE CALL pub- lished the full text of the pledge taken by the Democratic members of the Railroad Commission. This pledge declarea that the charges on California local freights paid 80 per cent of the $48,000,000 annual gross receipts of the entire Pacific system of the Southern Pacific, which includes not only all the lines in California, but also those extending to El Paso, Ogden and Portland; that the® company should be compelled to reduce its freight charges at least 25 per cent; that this reduction is de- manded by the people, and would be made by the Democratic candidates for Com- missioner if elected; that the number of freight classifications would be reduced | hat during their term of office the Democrat 1didates if elected would “parsue their ofticial labor unbampered by other business or avecation,” and t they would “initiate other needed reforms in the freizht schedules and classifications without a formal complaint being filed.” Is it true that, as charged by a repre- sentative of Holbrook, Merrill & Stetson, | “the Raiiroad Commission amounts to nothing” and that “from its inception it has been a farce?”' In view of the fact that n a former commission a member who out against exorbitant charges became Governor on the strength of his record it would seem that even a selfish motive might be imagined by the Demo- cratic majority of the present board for doing the duty which they 2 their honor as men to pertorm. WOBBLERS IN BRITISE POLITICS. | The general helief that the extraordi: Conservative victory in Great Britain was due to a sweeping change ¢f public senti- ment in regard to the main issues between the two parties renders exceptionaily in- teresting to all students of politics an esti- mate of the determining factor of the pop- ular vote made by the Westminster Ga- zette on the eve ot the elections, which will be found instructive to all who wish a clear understanding of the sitnation, According to the Gazette a stndy of the past shows that the great mass of British voters never change their minds. In every general election there are always about two millions of voters on one side and nearly the same number on the other. All changes in the results are due to a small minority who swing now this way and now that, sometimes, undoubtedly, for good reasons, but occasionally from no other motive than a desire to give the other side a show. That much might be said of any country where representative government is car- ried on, but there were certain peculiar conditions in the political situation in England on the eve of the late elections, which rendered a very small proportion of the voters able to produce results so large that they would seem at first sight to be impossible, except a widespread change had taken place in the country. In the late Parliament there were forty Liberal seats and thirty-eight Unionist seats held by majorities of less than 200. The aggre- gate majority of the forty was in round numbers 4500 and of the thirty-eight 3500. In these closely contested districtsit needed but a small change one way or the other to give a great parliamentary victory to either party. Commenting on this condition of affairs the Gazette said: ““A mere trifle of less than 4000 wobblers would give the Liberals a gain of seventy- six votes on s division, and would return them to power with the sweeping majority of 1041 ‘The country’ would then have ‘pronounced emphatically’ for Home Rule—by the voice of 4000 persons. A very much larger number of persons might have wobbled in other places in the other direc- tion, but they would not count one iota. Or take 1t the other way round, and sup- pose that King Chance plumped heavily for the Tories, and while leaving them their thirty-eight risky seats, wiped out the forty similar seats from the Liberal score. In that case the Tories would meet the new Parliament with a majority of fifty- two. The votes of 5000 individuals would bave done it. Meanwhile 50,000 wobblers elsewhere might have declared for Home Rule, but King Salisbury, aided by a monarch yet more powerful, would laugh at them as of no account.” The result, as we know, hae not been widely different from what the Gazette esti- mated. The Salisbury “wobblers” were in the places where they could do the most good. They gained for the Conservatives 80 many seats that to the world it seems as if the mighty voice of the British people had spoken. Perhaps zafter all, however, the victorious majority may be only a few | thousand uncertain, undecided and unre- liable men. If this is true the “triumph of the peers” is likely to be short lived, | the excellence of the highways sufficiently and at any rate interestin the contest is liable to continue until a complete analysis bas been made of the whole vote, and the world is informed how far the wobblers really spoke the voice of the British people. ROMANOE OF HORTIOULTURE. The vine, the fig tree and the olive are associated with all the best tbat the romance of history offers. They are inti- mately connected with all and every of the grand old civilizations of which the hand of time has left a record. Whether it be that the fortuitous circumstances attend- ing the birth of the race happened to be cast in latitudes where these most alluring of human preferences in horticulture could flourish, or whether there is a sub- stantial connection between them and the development of the race, is a problem which California seems to have the oppor- tunity of solving. It is consoling to reflect that the major part of the fierceness and savagery of the world have sprung from countries to which the vine, the fig-tree and the olive were strangers, and that whatever have been the mutations of civilization, climate is still a vital factor in the production of the finest human traits, ‘Where the vine, the fig tree and the olive are grown there is no fierce struggle against harsh climatic conditions to sustain life and secure comfort. All that tends to develop a savage instinet is wanting and all that conduces to the growth of fine and peaceful traite is abundant. Thus the vine, the fig tree and the olive must be regarded in a subjective rather than an objective sense— they are merely accompaniments of in- finite graces to which the hearts of men naturally turn. Every one of these three leading products of California hasa history which chains the imagination to the glories of the past. They lead up to the whole philosophy of the splendid civilization which agesago flourished on the banksoif the Euphrates and threw a glamour over the whole region of Galilee. Even the pyramids and the sphinx could tell a story of these ancient blessings, and in veneration of ihem his- tory sheds tears on the ruinsof Carthage. Ancient Gaul and Pneenicia, the Iberian Peninsula , Bagdad and the tales of the Arabian Nights, Asia Minor and the story of the cross, the wonderful valteys of the Rhine and the Danube, sang ages ago the song that California is singing to-day; and here and in this day and generation we are reviving the dawn of ancient glory. This would all be cheap and commonplace were it possible anywhere else. Inmany of the regions where the vine, the fig tree and the olive flourished as the concomitants of the most brilliant civilization that the world has known there remain only some degenerate rdces which stand abjectly helpless before the fierce barbarians of the north, who are to-day what the Huns, the Goths and the Vandals were ages agone. It would be conceivable that the descend- ants of the present race of Californians would find a similar level did we not know that the industrial conditions which pro- duced the Old World degeneracy have been rendered impossible here by racial intermixture and the attrition of travel. nliforniar to-day, in all that its strange industries have to show of ancient luxury 1d romance, is a picture stepped forth | bodily and Jiving from the most fascinat- ing pages of ancient history. DOUBLE-TRACK ROADS. The address by Professor Rossat Camp Roache on “The Farmeras a Transporter,”” which embraced the problem of country roads, wili probably have the effect of; re- newing interest among the grangersin this most important feature of rural life and | rural ind v. The subject has been much discussed, but it .can uever be dis- cussed too much, There are but two or three counties in California that have good | roads, and perhaps only 1n Santa Clara is near perfection to be a just subject of local pride. S In his recent report to the Secretary of Agriculture on the best roads for farms and farmers General Roy Stahe, who made | an exhaustive inquiry into the subject, in- dicated a method of constructing good roads tha® will be much cheaper than by | anv other effect:ve system yet practiced, | The perfection of roads, according to Gen- | eral Stoue, is & fine, dry, smooth, earth track, easy toa horse’s feet and legs and | free from noise and jar. Such roads, how- | ever, become impassable in bad weather, | and the general advocates therefore a nar- | row well-paved track alongside the earth road just wide enough for one vehicle. It is claimed that there is a sufficient ex- perience to prove that the line of junction between the earthen track and the paved track can be kept even, and that the meet- ing and passing of loaded teams causes no difficulty. The plan not only provides for a cheaper construction of good highways, but also for a cheaper maintenance, inas- much as the use of the earth track in dry weather would be preferred, and, there- fore, would rave that much wear and tear on the paved track. The 1idea has been well received and has much to commend it. It certainly brings the cost of zood road construction within the reach of al- most every county, and will go far toward encouraging all promoters of such enter- prises to continue in the good work. PROTECTION IN ENGLAND. We have already referred to the manner in which the manufacturers of matches in the United Kingdom appeal to their customers to buy only English matches, by placinga little printed slip inside the cover of the box, asking the people to “patronize home industry, use English matches and employ British labor.” Large signs beering the same views can now be seen throughout the country districts of England. Thisis exactly what the American Proteétive rariff League urges—namely that the American people should patronize Ameri- can home industries, use American made goods, and employ American labor. The Eng- lish and American manufacturers thus have precisely the same ideas. Following the plan of the English match manufacturers, we find in another lice of goods the following announcement on the outside of & cover of a package of British goods IMPORTANT. Why Support the Manufacture of Other ; Countries When You Can Obtain As Good An Article MADE BY HOME INDUSTRY? This is the appeal made by a London and Nottingham cigarette manufacturing concern which finds that its offer to give a “tube to each cigarette, matches and photo in each package” 13 not sufficient to secure all the trade it desires. Possibly the English dudes prefer the American made cigarettes and do not find that they “can obtain as good an article made by home industry” in England. The belief in a policy of protection, however, is taking very generally throughout the United Kingdom.—From the American Economist, Friday, August 2, 1895, [ — e BITS OF BIOGRAPHY. Since the union only one Jrishman has filled the post of Chief Secretary of Ireland, and that Irll:hms;vu Afh:v c{mn Duke of Wellington, who, as Sir lesley, was Irish Secre! from 1807 until 1809. & 4 A Belglan inventor has devised an immense lamp, such as has probably never been seen be- fore. It is composed of 3000 pieces, six feet high and measures 110 feet in diameter. Itisted with lard oil, and the consumption is said to be very small - head about a nickel-in-the-slot machine and AROUND m CORRIDORS. “I tell you, young man,” remarked a seer to some native sons in the Palace Hotel yesterday afternoon, “there is nothing like experience. Practical experience. Noman is fitted to oc- cupy an important station in life if he has not rubbed up against the rough edges of the world artew times. Nothing like it. Experience is the thing. Isn’t that about correct, Mr. Bou- vier?” he concluded, turning to the manager of the Baldwin Theater. “Well,” answered Mr. Bouvier with a pleas- antnod, “I believein putting young men on the right track, but my -experience has been quite the opposite. “Some years ago, or at the time when the famous Taber Opera-house_was being built in him, arose from his seat and bore down upon the conductor. * ‘Say, mister,’ he sald in a loud tone, ‘I tell (- you that girl is only 9 years old.” ‘1 know, but’—the conductor began, but at the same moment the big fellow pulled cut & pistolas big as a howiizer and, pointing it PERSONAL. V. Courtols, & winemaker of Santa Rose, it at the Grand. i J. A. McMurtrie, the cantractor of Denver, is at the Palace. Aaton Smith, & railroad man of (LosjAngeles. straight at the conductor, cried, ‘T say shé's | is a¢ (he Grand. only 9 years old, ain’t she?” There was an ominous glitter In his eyes, and the conductor wilted. “Yes, I guess s0,’ he gasped, as he saw every one in the car was against him. “¢Iknew it,’ remarked the big man, taking his seat. 2 “Thinking that the conductor had only given in temporarily until he could get assist- ance, two of us met him outside and squared MR. ALFRED BOUVIER, WHO BELIEVES IN CONFIDENCE. |Sketched for the “Call™ by Nankivell.] Denver, I happened to drop into the town, and | to tell you the truth I knew 1o more about the | theatrical business than you do; but I failed in realizing my hopes in the mining business I had been interesting myseif in, so I went to | Taber and Bash, b of whom I had met in the mining conntry, and siated that I desired 10 be manager of the new opera-house. They inquired whethes or not I had ever had ex- perience, and I assured them that it was my specialty. Well, to shorten the story, I was engaged and opened the house with Emma Abbott. I raised the price of tickets to$2 and we coined money. All the conditions were t for & most unusual success and before I it1 was a full-fledged theatrical manager and had received an offer from New York. ~One evening Engene Fieid came to me and wanted an intarview on thestage. I was alit- tle unstrung for & time, because what I knew of the stsge and its people was pretty nearcons fined to what I had seen in Denver. However 1 went back to my younger days, when I lived in St. Lonis, and gave hun a budget of infor- mation about old Ben DeBar, the great Falstaff, and a little touch of Booth, with his new ‘Richard the II’ Aside from that, I chatted about Maggie Miichell, who played in ‘Fan- chon the Cricket,” and alzo went over the life of Waldener, the man who arranged or adapted the play for her. Of course Field had never heard of those things, and he consequentiy looked upon me asa mine of theatrical infor- mation. Every time he came around I dis- covered that I had forgotten to tell him some- thing of considerable importance, and he forth- with renewed his vigilance to get the whole story.” “Did you get all that information about the stage without experience?”’ “Well, to some extent. I had merely wit- nessed the plays, and as for taking charge of an institution I had never dreamed of it. Simply confidence, which is better than ex- perience. “Now, I'll relate an instance where a man can know too much about something and then get off wrong. Oncel got an idea into my almost went into retirement to think itall over and act with discretion. Ilooked for- ward to an enormous income and quick re- turns. When I had got the thing worked out in my head and thought I knew it alll pro- ceeded to put it on the market. I proceeded simply because I thought I knew it ail. Well, the result was I lost over $5000 on the deal and discovered that I knew nothing. It has always been so with me. When I go into any- thing that 1 think is familiar to me I lose, but when I go into some business or some scheme that is Greek I win.” “The typical bad man of the Southwest may be pretty tough in his way, but I saw one on my last trip who had a streak of chivalry in him which was admired by all on the train ‘where the inehvnt which brought it out oc- curred,” said *Jim” Somers, a well-known traveling man for a New York mercantile house, in the Palace Hotel yesterday. “There was & woman on the train leaving El Paso, accompanied by her daughteét, who appeared by her size to be about 16 years old. There was a childish look about her face, though, ‘which would proclaim her to be younger. “When the conductor came around for the tickets the woman presented him with two. One was only a half-rate ticket for the girl. “ ‘How old is she?" inquired the ticket man, pointing to the girl. “‘Only 9 years, and she is entitledto half fare the man at the office told me,’ was the ‘woman's reply. : “ ‘Did he see her? queried the conductor. “ T suppose so, sir.’ *¢ ‘Well, it don't make any difference whether he did or not,’ the conductor continued gruffly, ‘she’s over 9 and you must pay full fare for her.” “The woman said she only had enough ‘money to last her for & few days in Los Angeles, ‘where she expected to meet her husband. “‘I ecan't help that,’ the conductor con- tinued, ‘she must either pay full fare or she can't go on. She will have to get off at Dem- ing,’ and jpoke as if he meant it, too. “The woman'’s eyes filled with fears at the prospect, and every'one in the car began to ‘sympethize with her. A suggestion was made to take up a subscription for her, as she was evidently in earnest in her statement. “At this juncture, though, a big brawny fel- low, with all the appearance of a cowboy sbout accounts for the girl. Neither the big fellow nor the mother knew anything about it.” | ANSWERS 7T0 CORRESPONDENTS. MiLgkweep—F. R., City. The common milk- weed (cornuti), the swamp milkweed (incar- nata) and four-leaved milkweed (quadrifola) grow and ebound in the San Joaquin Valley and in the southern part of the State down to the Mexican border. It is a very handsome border pluut, thriving in peaty or lignt, rich soil. It can be increased by dividing the roots in spring. also by seeds. The doubtfully hardy or rarer species of milkweed should always be wn in a peat soil and have a little pfotéc- uring severe frost by mulching the roots. In order to obtain good bushy specimens it will be necessary to cut back the plants an- nually, after keeping them slightly dry and resting for a month or two in midwinter, When growti has sufiiciently advanced they should be shaken out and repotted. At this stage a close, moist etifiosphere will be needful to produce the usually very free growth. The points of the shoots must be nipped out in order to produce a bushy habit. When the pots have become filled with roots liquid manure may be applied, but it must be quite clear and not over strong. All indoor species #row best in good, fibry loam and leaf mold. The plants should be firmly potted. ITALIAN CITIZENSHIP—D. B., City. The Italian Government does not recognize relinquish- ment of citizenship of her subjects unless cer- tain formalities are complied with. An Italian who wishes to become a citizen of another country, if living in his native country, must make a declaration of such intention before the Mayor of the districts in which he lives; if living abroad he must make such declaration before the nearcst Consul for Italy. If he leaves his ntive country without having per- formed military auty and returns to that country before he is 40 years of age, he will be required to perform military duty, irrespective of the fact that he is acitizen of another country. At times there is an armistice, lasting encrally two_years, during which time the aw in regard to military service by those who Teturn from abroad isnot enforced. The latest armistice will expire on the 23d inst. THE DEFENDER—G. H. W., City. So far as can be learned the length of the Defender is 102 feet; beam ,23.2; draught, 19 feet; main boom, 102 feet; meinmast from deck to hounds, 72 feet; topmast, including the doubllnf, 60 feet; height from water-line to truck, 136 feet. Her sail area is about 400 feet more than thatof the Vigilant, which is given as 11,272. This, how- ever, will probably be increased. SPARE THE RoD—M. E., Alameda, Cal. “Spare the rod and spoil the child” was not the saying of Solomon. Ii is from “Hudibras,” part II, canto 1, forty-fifth verse. The langnage used by Solomon, to be found in Proyerbs xili:24, ‘was “He that spareth the rod hateth his son,” UNcLE Tow’s CamiN—Reader, City. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” by Harrlet Beecher Stowe, first appeared in serial form in the National Era, Washington, from June, 1851, to April, 1852, ana first appeared in book form in the latter year 1n Boston, Mass. THE A, G. RoPes—W. A. C., West Oakland, Cal. The ship A.G. Ropes, as shown in the picture published in THE CALL, was, &t the time referred to, under lower topsails, SAGE OF AURURN—S. H. N,, City. It was Wil- liam H. Seward, Secretary of State under Lin- coln, who was callea “The Sage of Auburn.” — GIVE ME THE DESERT. By JOAQULN MILLER, In the Los Angeles Land of Sunshine. And ob, the music of this world— That sweetest music, of mute lips; ‘White ships with canvas ever furled; Proud, sllent, stately, peopled ships That wait, wait winds (hat never come— TForever breathless, ever dumb! And oh, the pathos of the path By hermit hut on mountain chine! The drama ot that hermit hath Buch music as the mountatn-plne. But where the master, minstrel where To strike the hermit's harp of air? Give me the desert! I should trust Nor sea nor ship nor mountain chine. XNude nature, ashen, proue in dust; So like this bittered life of mine. Give me the desert, emptied quite Of all that maketh man's delight, The desert, dust, bone, stone for me, ° And there, companioned but by Him, Behold my faith shall grow a tree 80 bright all others shall grow dim; 8o tall no serpent eye can sight; S0 green no slander (ongue can blight. The Heights, Ogkiand, Juue 3, 1895, Judge George A. NourseJof Fresno is a guest at the Lick House. Louis Kahn, a merchant of Oakdale, is stop- ping at the Palace. Nelson Bennett, the well-known hotel-man ‘| of Tacoma, is at the Palace. W. H. Walff, a capitalist of Naps, came down on & visit yenerd;;: and is at the Lick House. W. E. Baines of Stella, Wash., one of the own- ersof the log raft which arrived here on Fri- day, is registered at the Lick House. . . . Priet, proprietor of Marchand’s restaurant, rel:ufl:é?i' from along visit to Paris with his wife yesterday, and is at the Lick House. F. M. Smith, the borax “king” of Nevada and this State, left with his family last night for the East. They expect to be gone some length of time. —_— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. New York, N. Y., Aug. 3.—The unusually cool ather has made summer resorts seem more :re less superfluous. It has had little effect upon the resorts themselves, however, and all have spparently been as well patronized as usual. D. O. Mills has been at the United States Hotel, Saratoga, during the week, and Ogden Mills was among the arrivals from Eu- rope Wednesday. A. Martin of Los Angeles has been at the Brighton at Manhattan Beach, and W. F. Adams and family are among the California arrivals at Long Branch. Bishop Goodsell of San Francisco has been at Ocean -} Grove, N. J.. during the week. W. M. Bum- burga of Matilja, Cal, has gone to Hunter, N. Y., for the summer. Mrs. R. Howe Davis of Redfields, Cal., is among W. M. Chase’s pupils in painting at Southampton, L.I. _Californians registered at hotels to-day: San Francisco—P. Anspacher, Mrs. L. Braverman, Merlborough; G. M. Pachman, Coleman; Mr. and Mrs. W. A, Wilson, St. Denis. San Diego—W. Murray, Cos- mopolitan. San Jose—Miss Hunkins, Norman- die. California—B. Fenton, Gilsey. CALIFORNIANS AT SALT LAKE. Salt Lake, Utah, Aug. 8.—Mrs. Catherine M. Martin of Oakland arrived from the East to-day, and will spend two days before con- tinuing to the coast. Mrs, H. U. King arrived from Oakland to-day on her way to Stamford. Both are at the Knutsford. J. R. Barker and J. Meyerstein, San Francisco, at the Knutsford; A. A. Rieser, San Francisco, at the Walker House; H. S. Eberle, Los Angeles, at the Cullen; Mrs. E. Barron and Mrs. E. W. McKunstry ar- rived to-night from San Francisco and are at the Koutsford; S. F. Loughborough, San Fran- cisco, at the Walker. OFPINIONS OF EDITORS. We need'a 200-cow creamery for our pro- osed 1000-hog packing establishment.—Salem Or.) Statesman. A history of the United States, written by an Indian, from an Indian’s point of view, would be very interesting and instructive just now.— Salem (Or.) Post. ; The new woman has not _progressed so far as to be affected by the abolition of Sunday shav- ing, but we know not what will be in the future.—Williams Farmer. This much 1s certain about the Bannock up- rising. When peace has been restored the white settlers in the Jackson Hole country will De careful how they kick an Indian.—Spokane (Wash.) Review. 1t sounds 1fice enough for the manufacturers t0 say, “Patronize home industries,” but they fail to set the example themselves. If they want the California trade let them advertise in the California newspapers and they will soon will increase to mam- Probably there is more ruffianism in every political campaign in England than there is in the United States in ten campaigns. Eng- land has had political parties and political canvasses for nearly two centuries, yet the masses of Englishmen know as little about the political amenities or decencies as Digger In- dians.—Astorian (Oregon). SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. “That makes thirteen times I've kissed you, darling,” he said as he put on hishat in the doorway at 11 P. 3. «Oh, George, thirteen is an unlucky num- ber,” she answered thoughtfully.—Detroit Free Press. First Cynic—This fancied distinction between a statesman and a politician is all nonsense. Second Cynic—ON, no, it isn’t; a statesman is & man who deceives everybody but himself when he lies, while 2 politician is & man who deceives nobody but himself.—New York Tri- bune. Judge—Prisoner at the bar, you are charged with breaking into the complainant’s store and carrying away & large amount of goods. What have you to say in your own defense? Burglar—I did it, your Honor, out of com- passion. He had a sign up that he was selling his goods at less thau cost, and by taking them I saved a big loss—see?—Hoston Transcript. E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street. * . e e RENTS collected. Ashton, 411 Montgomery.* , Crocker bldg.* e e GEO. W. MONTEITH, law offi ————————— Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay strast. * ————— CALIFORNIA Glace fruits, 50c 1b, Townsend’s.* ..... Aiier e FINE eyeglasses; 15¢ to 50c. 81l¢ Fourth, nr. barber; Sundays, 738 Market (Kast shoestore).* — - Duck Dresses, navy blue dot Duck Dresses, light stripes Pique Dresses, white with Heavy Duck Dresses, solid shades Kelly & Liebes' Cloak-House, 120 Kcarny st. * e ———— 014 Cashly (giving his son a check)—Now, be careful, my boy. Remember, a fool and his money soon parted. Spendall Cashly—Yes, sir; and thank you for having obliged me so promptly.—Tid-Bits. — - THOUSANDS of women find their strength une- qual to the demands of duty. By bullding up thelr system through purified blool, Hood's Sarsaparilia proves just the medicine needed. — e Nowell regulated household should be without & bottle of Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters, the celebrated appetizer. ST Ir aMicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp- son’s Eye W Drug; ell it at 25 conts. e A JOAQUIN MILLER POET OF THE SIERRAS, Has written 8 Poem of great depth of foeling, entitled, "FATHER DAMIEN OF HAWAII" THE SUNDAY CALL OF AvucusT 11 wiLL CONTAIN THIS LATEST PRODUCTION OF ' THE WEST- ,ERN"BARD WHO MAKES HIS HOME ON “ THE HEIGHTS ” OVERLOOKING OAKLAND, ALAMEDA AND BERKE- LEY, AND THE GOLDEN GATE. THE SUNDAY CALL EACH WEEK IS REPLETE WITH INTERESTING FEAT- URES.