The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 11, 1895, Page 18

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally. and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier.§0.15 y unday CALI, one year, by mail... 6.00 CALL, six months, by mail 3.00 ALz, three months, by mail 1.50 ¥ CALL. one month, by mail .50 L1, one yesr, by mail.. 1.50 ¥ CALL, one year, by mai . 150 S S OFFICE: 10 Market Street. Telephone. .. Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone. ...Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 0 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 239 Have 717 Larkin street; open unti SW. corner Sixteenth and Missi until § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. street: open until 9:30 o'clock. ) o'clock. n streets; open OAKLAND OFFICE: 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICI Pacific States Advertising Burean, Rhinelander tuilding, Rose and Duane streets, New York City. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are yon going to the country ona_vacation? Tt g0, it is Do trouble for us to forward THE CALL to Do not let it miss you for you will ers given o the carrier, or left at , 710 Market street, will receive T 11, 1895 Now for the fairs, Every district has a show. We must have a winning exhibit at At- lanta. The fair season will open wide enough this week to give everybody a show. Much of the literature in TrE CALL this morning deserves to be called classic. The forest fires in the Puget Sound coun- try are a warning to California to look out. Perhaps had it not been for the Solid Eight the Civic Federation’s energy would have lain dormant. It is impossible for any one to be sad who fills his system with the ‘merry sun- shine of California. The missionary in Chinza seems to need a six-shooter as well as a Bible and a gun- boat as well as a chapel. The most successful rose-growers here- about are the girls, and their prowess is merely a matter of chee The Camp Roache experiment has justi- fied itself and it will meet next summer as an established institution. If the Grand Jury will press the button of an indictment against the Solid Eight, the people will do the rest. There are as many ways of being happy in California as there are seductive allure- ments in the glance of the sun. The proposed census every five years would be crowding the limit. At the present time it requires five years to take the census. L ey The only reformer nowadays who can dare to face the modern sneer is he with the commanding brains and character to overwhelm it. Study the literary features of THE CALL this morning and see what Western writers can do to make a Western paper for all the world to read. In his serious illness Governor Budd has the sympathy of the whole State and even the ofiice-seekers will probably consent to give him a rest. Police Commissioner Grant of New York is probably appalled by the Tammany ghost which his opposition to Roosevelt’s reform movement has raised. The Miners' Association seems to be keeping an alert eye on the Southern Pa- cific weaknesses which some of its mem- bers are in danger of betraying. Cleveland will not be allowed to fish in peace until he has named the man to fill the vacancy on the Supreme beach, but he may possibly catch a few suckersin doingit. It has been several days since Hawaiian “filibusters” were breathing sulphur and brimstone hereabout, and this makes us fear that enterprising journalism is losing its grip. Bland of Missouri likes silver, but he says heé ‘Would not take the Democratic Presidential nomination next year even if it were offered him on a silver platform and a silver platter. The captain of the steamer Mexico has made a wholesome departure from a dis- graceful practice by refusing to perform the marriage ceremony for two eloping minors from Los Angeles. It would seem that the south side, of all varts of the City, should have the least reason for supporting the Southern Pacific in its determination to hold possession of its spur-track franchise to the park. Joseph H. Choate has been making the people of Illinois unhappy by telling them that while England with 30,000,000 of people maintains only thirty-two Judges Illinois makes her people support 178. : The alterations which are being made in - ‘the S8afe Deposit brilding will serve asa hint to the owners of all the old, and almost " abandoned but really well-built houses between Montgomery street and the bay. Henry Watterson's statement that who- ever says Cleveland is one of the greatest statesmen of this country *‘is either a fool or a craven tool” shows that the distin- guished Kentuckian has had a lucid in- terval. The signs of reform are probably causing the Solid Eight to indulge in an amused speculdtion as to whether their fature emulators will be influenced more by a fear of the penitentiary than by loyalty to the sack. % e : Yesterday’s issue of James H. Barry’s Star contained the following: “Every worker for the single tax in this City should subscribe for Tue Cawir, the only - daily that gives the movement prominence ih its columns.? In publishing informa- - tion, regarding the single tax movement . Tag CaLL is following the course that it : haglaid out in regard to all public mat- _ters. Where earnest, thoughtful citizens are joined together for the discussion of topics relating to the affairs of life the sub- jects are given respectful treatment in the news coluims of the paper. A LITERARY FEATURE. This issue of THE CAvLL gives a fair idea of its policy on the score of its literary features. Itis a radical departure from the methods of daily journalism in San Fran- cisco, in that it gives preference to the writers of California over those living in the Eastern States and England. Thisis not only carrying out TrE CALL's general plan of giving more attention to the de- velopment of California than has been the custom hitherto in this City, but lying behind that are important reasons to justify it. Itis evident that the plan of using original contributions from leading California writers is much more expensive than that of buying cheap “syndicate” matter, over which the editor has practi- cally no control, but the advantages offset- ting the increased expense are numerous, In the first place, California is immeasur- ably the richest field for literary explora- tion in all the New World, Louisiana not excepted. History and romance of the most fascinating kinds and in marvelous variety abound from the very first settle- ment of the region by the Franciscan monks. The beautiful idyls of the mis- sions, the austere lives and strange adven- tures of the Franciscan pioneers, the thrilling stories of buccaneer days in the time of Sir Francis Drake, the struggles of the Russians in securing a foothold on the northern coast, the discovery of gold and the strange and incredible events which succeeded it, the stirring days of the vigilantes and of stock speculations in San Francisco, the dazzling fortunes which were made and lost in an hour, the ruin and suicides and all manner of other wonderful tragedies which have stamed the pages of the State’s history with crime and blood, the fierce wars waged against Mexico and the Indians, the birth of the constitution and the organization of law and order out of a whirling and bewilder- ing chaos, the terrible fires and savage up- risings of the poor against the rich, the delirium of political entanglements and alliances, the duels and lynchings, the daring highway robberies that shadowed with terror all the famous highways lead- ing to the goldfields, the outlandish and altogether unique criminal mysteries which crowd every one of the forty-seven years since the American occupation, the development of the vine, fig tree and olive, the evolution of a civilization which finds no parallel in history, the springing forth and present existence of a race of men and women born of impressive conditions never encountered before, peeuliarities of climate and topography wholly unmatched for beauty, splendor and overwhelming mag- nificence—these constitute but a part of the material upon which the Californian may train his pen, and which it is possible for none other than a Californian to under- stand and utilize. Not only have we this dazzling material, almost untouched through lack of en- couragement, but experience long ago es- tablished the fact that as a rule the Cali- fornia writer discovers a peculiar and pic- turesque virility, a boldness of conception and independence of individuality, a unique and daring ambition, a splendid disdain for the hampering conventions and traditions, and an expansiveness wholly in keeping with his environment and lacking with writers produced under commonplace conditions. Most of these whom local opportunities for expression made famous have been lured away: but still it must be that others will appear, and we know that still others of briliiant power yet remain with us. Itis an understanding of all these mat- ters that leads THE CaLy to prefer Cali- fornia writers to the hackneyed ‘‘syndi- cate” contributors, who generally are working solely on a fame acquired in lines of production immeasurably superior to those which they are now presenting. THE Cain will be helpful as well as original, and in the pursuit of its policy will pro- duce a paper with literary features utterly distinctive and incomparably attractive, strong and racy of the soil. It will de- velop not only the wonderful things that have produced so strange and beautiful a country but the literary genius competent to portray them. SANITARY DISTRICTS. The legislative act providing for the creation of sanitary districts at the will of the district voters is having a decidedly cold reception in various parts of the State. Asa rule the elections which have been called for the purpose of establishing such districts have resulted in an overwhelming negative vote. There is possibly more common sense in these negations than might at first appear. In view of many considerations it would be unfair to compare the obstructionists with those ignorant hordes of Europe and Asia who regard cleanliness, vaccination and sanitation as institutions of the Evil One. Evidently obstruction in California is based on a knowledge of the fact that the climate here is the most efficient of all sanitary agencies, and that in a large measure it takes the place of necessary sanitation in other parts of the world. This is another instance of the fact which under no circumstances we should over- ook, that the traditions and experiences of other places have proved inapplicable to California and injurious to its progress. ‘Wise sanitation is good, but unnecessary sanitation is bad, because it is expensive and useless. The peculiarities of Cali- fornia which reduce the necessity for sani- {ation to 2 minimum are these: First, the constant ocean winds of the coast, which effect instant aeration and dissemination of deleterious efluvia; second, the great atmospheric dryness of the summersin the interior, working against putrefaction and all bacterial fecundity and inducing desic- cation, which is the counterpart of sterili- zation and the enemy of injurious germs. The remarkable freedom from zymotic and endemic'diseases which California en- joys ought to be a sufficient lesson to those sanitary reformers who seek to harness us to the humid conditions of the Eastern States. California, in spite of the fact that it has free commerce with the track of the pilgrims to Mecca, has had but one cholera epidemic. That was over forty years ago. Its victims were the Mexicans and the Chinese who lived in filth in the Sacra- mento Valley. The coast proved immune, Smallpox is the only virulent disease that San Francssco has ever had reason to dread, but it has never been so fatalas diphtheria, and the danger of both passed almost entirely upon thé introduction of @ very inadequate sewer system. Diphtheria still breaks out in a sporadic form not only in S8an Francisco (though it has been a long time since we had an epi- demic), but in other cities of the State as well. Invariably it is traceable to defec- tive sewerage. Smallpox and cholera may be left out of consideration altogether. The conclusion is that in very thickly set- tled communities there should be good sewers, and that in thinly settled commu- nities they are unnecessary. One evil remains, and one only. That is malaria. It does not exist on the coast, because the constant ocean winds prevent. It is found only in communities where the ordinary facilities for breeding malarial germs—an abundance of stagnant fresh water carrying decaying vegetation and unaccompanied by constant winds—present all the conditions for its presence. This evil has been found particularly in swampy and artificially irrigated districts, and in the foothill and mountain regions where natural drainage was lacking. This is the easiest of all evils to overcome. Drainage is the solution of the whole problem. No malarial germ can withstand the normal dryness of a California summer. If there are any places in California where the organization of sanitary districts would prove beneficial it is those where malaria exists. As for the strictly local and artifi- cial causes which produce diphtheria, they can be easily overcome by free exposure to the sun of the matter breeding it or a fre- quent admixture of it with freshly turned earth. The climate will do the rest. CUAMP ROACHE. The Camp Roache experiment has been made. The school of instruction has com- pleted its work and adjourned. The pro- fessors, students and casual listeners have left the groves in the mountains, where they have been encamped for two weeks, and the time has come to look back over the work of the session and see what has been accomplished for the good of those present and the general welfare of the State. The highest worth of the school must, of course, be tested by the amount of infor- mation which the grangers derived from it, and this depends, of course, not upon the teachers only, but upon the grangers themtelves. The course of lectures has certainly covered fields of wide and varied importance, and the instruction has been given by men well fitted to make it of value to those to whom it is to be a matter of practical application. That lectures of such a scientific nature should be so well attended gives assurance of the high intel- ligence of the campers and justifies the belief that they will prove themselves capable of applying it to advantage as well as listening to it with understanding. Those who have studied the camp at close range are sanguine of good results. Enough has been accomplished to make it certain that the sessions will be resumed next year and instruction given on broader lines. We may now account the school, therefore, as one of the established educa- cational forces of the State. The only danger that confronts it is that it may fall from its high purpose, and for the sake of drawing crowds substitute popular lectures by noted persons in the place of the scien- tific teaching by trained professors of our universities. If the tendency toward popularity is avoided and the future sessions of the school are devoted, like the one just past, to the serious study of serious subjects, the importance and the value of the enterprise will grow until it takes rank among the foremost summer schools of the country and achieves a reputation as wide as the Nation. The promoters have fixed the standard high and are sanguine of main- taining it. They have fortunately an in- telligent constituency to appeal to. The agriculturists of California, as a rule, are broadly educated men, with a sufficient knowledge to know that they do not know evervthing. They understand the value of science in the practical affairs of life and they are aware that it is continually increasing. They know, therefore, that they must study to keep abreast of the times, and in that knowledge they may be counted on to give a cordial support to those who seek to advance the Grangers’ School of Instruction to the highest stan- dards of scientific study of agriculture and economics. A BUTTER BACILLUS. According to a correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch, Professor H. C. Conn of Pennsylvania, who has been making ex- periments for the last two years in the cultivation of bacteria for improving the flavor of butter, has already obtained re- sults which promise to introduce impor- tant changes in the dairy business, and prove of considerable benefit to butter- users. The particular bacillus which Professor Conn has discovered has been named by bhim “Bacillus No.14.”” It is said to be capable of doing surprising things in the way of ripening cream for butter-making. The butter when first produced by the in- oculating process developed a delicate and delicious flavor, but it deteriorated after two weeks. A full inoculation with the bacillus from the laboratory, however, re- stored the flavor and demonstrated the usefulness of the discovery. The informa- tion is added that Professor Conn intends to introduce the inoculation process into all the large creameries in the United States within the next year, and then even the humblest citizen can have the delicate bacillus butter instead of oleomargarine. ‘Whether the new discovery will be of real value to the world remains to be seen. The experience with what have been called “sophisticated foods' 'has not been encour- aging. Science has taught us to make honey out of glucose, olive oil out of cot- ton seed, fruit jellies out of mineral acids and wine out of nearly everything under the sun, but these achievements have been more flattering to our intellects than pleas- ing to our palates. Professor Conn is, of course, entitled to credit for his work and | fame for his discovery, but, all the same, a hesitating world of butter-eaters would be very glad if he would put his butter bacil- lus back where he found it. REFORM IN ENGLAND. Although until Parliament meets the new Conservative Ministry in Kngland is not likely to make any official announce- ment of the work it intends to undertake enough has been said since the elections by members of the Cabinet to make it fairly certain that Parliament will be called upon to deal with what Chamberlain has called “‘constructive social reform.” The phrase is a vague one, but it implies some attempt to find a remedy for those economic evils of the age which are felt even in this country and in England have become well nigh intolerable. Mr. Cham- berlain says: “The new Government will not be unmindful of popular aspirations nor backward in its efforts to promote the social amelioration of the condition of our people at home.” Lord Salisbury has ex- pressed a full approval of this statement. 8ir John Gorst has declared that im- mediate attention will be given to ques- tions of labor and capital and providing work for the unemployed. Balfour, who is to be leader of the Commons, has out- lined a more elaborate policy, embracing the better housing of the working classes, the subdivision of big estates, the protec- tion of farm tenants in their improve- ments, compensation to injured working- men and lightening the burdens of taxa- tion on agriculture. It is curious that thc Conservative party of so conservative a country as England should thus declare for a policy which in America would be regarded as radical socialism. The conditions of Engiand, however, are widely different from those of the United States, and many evils which can here be safely left for individual enter- prise to remedy must there be dealt with by the Government. The announcement of this policy of constructive reform enables us to understand Lord Salisbury’s victory in the elections. The Liberals pro- posed to give Ireland home rule and to reform the Lords. The Conservatives pro- posed to give homes to Englishmen and to reform industrial conditions. The voters decided that the latter programme prom- ised most for them and voted accordingly. OUT OF THE SKY. When English tourists visit San Fran- cisco they lose no time in ascending to the summits of the picturesque hills which abound in the City and in marveling that the residents seem to care so little for the splendid panoramas which theslight effort reveals. In feasting upon the beauties and varieties of the wonderful scene they see two noble mountains in the immediate vi- cinity of the City and make eager inquiries to learn something of the still grander views which surely can be seen from the summits of these handsome peaks, and they are amazed to learn tuat nobody has cared to ascertain. One of these mountains is Diablo, whose dark slopes dominate with a gloomy majesty the Coast Range to the east, and the other is Tamalpais, north of the City, standing guard over the ocean and frowning away northward to the steel- gray dome of volcanic St. Helena. Happily there are some among us who have the Englishman’s love of adventure and of the beautiful in nature, and when we are older and have developed a taste above wooden shanties and miserable streets we may discover a culture which shall enable us to appreciate the splendid charms with which nature has blessed our environment. The ascent of Tamalpais is really made quite often in these later years, for Yankee skill in devising easy ways of enjoyment has proved equal to the construction of a winding road to the summit, traversible by teams. This is true of Mount Diablo also, and therefore no reason except that of an uncultivated taste can be imagined for the general neglect of our people to exploit the scenic wonders of these mountains. The true lover of nature knows, however, that too much ease cannot be indulged without the sacrifice of some good things, and hence that the best way to make the ascent of either mountain is afoot on a summer moonlit night, with a short sleep on the summit in a sheltered nook on the ground if there be time, but by all means keeping awake for a view of the glorious summer sunrise. The whole day may be spent in a study of the wonderful view, of the chang- ing lights that bathe the landscape ina succession of crimsons, scarlets, purples, blues and grays, ending with a glorious sunset and a cool night descent to the valley. All the splendors and beauties of the region about San Francisco are to be seen from these two eminences, but both are required to comprebend them all. Each has its revelations which the other does not make, and the differences in the point of view of objects common to both serve as a new delight. One-half of the horizon from Tamalpais is given over to the great ocean, but all the cities and towns lining the shore of the bay come under review, and also the nu- merous beautiful and highly developed little valleys of the Marin coast moun- tains. San Francisco, in spite of its nu- merous high hills, looks singularly flat from this great elevation and bears the mystical aspect of a mirage. By far the grander view is had from the summit of Diablo. The ocean is clearly visible, but it is further away, ana lies like a gleaming silver sea on the western hori- zon. San Francisco is merely a patch of minate rectangles, and 1ts vast bay stretches out into long and narrow lagoon of the deepest blue. Toward the east the scene is noble beyond the comprehension of those who have never beheld it. The broad plains of the Sacramento and San Joaquin, threaded as far as the vision can pierce by their winding rivers, and dotted here and there with towns, are backed by the splendid serrated mass 6f mountains which form the eastern boundary of the State, the eternally snow-crowned Sierra, whose shining tops glimmer with an aggressive brilliancy in the western sun- shine. As the sun sinks the white becomes yellow, then orange, then the deepest and most wonderful crimson, fading into a strange and unearthly purple, which seems to bold them suspended in the sky. Then comes the weird blue whiteness of tie moonlight and the silence and mystery of night. OPINIONS OF EDITORS. While it is not supposed that a Federal Judge will condescend to reply to newspaper criti- cism, 8 good many men who have great respect for Judge Ross would like to know how he reconciles his decision in the Hager case with his more recent decision in the Fallbrook case. The former arose under the reclamation act, the latter under the Wright irrigation act. Both involved taking property to pay for im- provements made without the owner’s consent. Under the reclamation act Judge Ross held that the land-owner should pay; under the Wright act he held that the owner need not pay. It is probable that Judgé Ross will be able to,point out some substantial distinction between the two cases. There is the more rea- son that he should,as other lawyers admit their inability to discover any dlfference ex- cept that the decisions were rendered under different acts. The two acts, however, have an identical purpose. In the one case there was land that was worthless without water. In the other there was land that was worthless because of too much water. In districts favored®| under each law there was land not so materi- ally benefited as other land in the same dis- trict. In both cases, land-owners who did not think they were getting as much benefit from the public improvement as others in the same district refused to pay assessments and took their cases into court. Judge Ross decides that one must pay and that the other need not pay. Of course Juage Ross has reasons for the differ- ent decisions, but at present they are known only to himself. The public want to be ad- mitted into his confidence.—Bulletin. The Oakland Times of July 30 contained the following editorfal: THE CALL of last Sunday has a valuable contribution from Frances Fuller Victor in relation to the, missionary, Dr. Marcus Whitman, who, together with his family, was massacred by Cayuse Indians near the present town of Walla Walla. Mrs. Victor, who lives in Portland, is the best his- torical writer now living in this country,and did nearly all the best work on Bancroft's California publications. She is a quiet, mod- est, elderly woman, who does not care to claim all of her own, but her work will live after her and her name will have eminence on the literary baldric of Oregon. The example of the newspepers in Sacra- mento Valley is a good one. They have decided that there is no politics in good roads, fair taxes and & navigable river. More and more ‘we should apply this rule, and nothing but benefit can come from our unity.—Halfmoon Bsy Advocate. William Fredericks,who was recently hanged, will be pained to learn that the appeal in his case has been dismissed. But the courts are to be congratulated upon having established a meritorious precedent by hanging Fredericks first and considering his appeal later on.—San Jése Mercury. Riverside Press: John D. Spreckels tells the 8an Diego raflroad committee that what San Diego wants is not more railroads but more water. And John seems to have struck the nail ‘on the head with & loud resounding zh;aklunc ought to echo from Tia Juana to a Jolla. Yreka Journal: The natural resources of this country are not yet half known. A company just formed in California will manufacture a new fuel composed of & mixture of peat and asphaltum, both of which abound in inex- :an‘n‘flbu quantities in different parts of the AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “Ihave been in the profession ovér thirty | years,” said L. R. Stockwell yesterday at the Baldwin. 7 “Are the actors better and more studious now than they were twenty or thirty years ago?” was asked. “No; they don’t have to be. Sincethe forma- tion of the combinations which play a very few pieces, and often only one for a year or more, the actor does not have either the opportunity or incentive for study as in the old stock com- panies, where am actor would have to study up & new part nearly every week. All the great actors and actresses of to-day are those who . L. R. STOCKWELL. [Sketched from life for the “Call” by Nankivell.] have had that experience. Take Irving, Ellen Terry, Jefferson, Crane, Robson, Ada Rehan, John Drew, Warde, James, Barrymore. Some of these are getting along in years now. Booth and Barrett are gone, and they were made by the stock-company experfence. Yes, the old way of making actors and actresses was what developed the great lights of the stage. “But so many more are specialists now. Yet the public, on the whole, get bettershows. All the parts of a piece puton fora long run can be better filled. Those taking part have abundant opportunity to thoroughly study up and make the most of their roles. Inthe old stock companies, whose pieces were being con- stantly changed, many of the parts were taken by actors who had little time for preparation or were unfitted for them. Now, as I said, all the actors are perfect in their parts,and the play as & whole is better put on and does not depend on the stars.” PERSONAL. Judge J. W.'Turner of Eureka, Cal., is at the Russ. A. B. Jackson, a Salinas banker, is at the Crand. A A. H. Mattzger, & Riverside fruit-grower, is at the Palace. Miss anna Belle Carr of Marysville is a guest at the Lick. Dr. R. E. Rice of Woodstock, Ontario, is a guest at the Russ. J. W. Henderson, & banker of Eureks, is housed at the Lick. F. D. Nicoll, 2 prominent Stockton attorney, is housed at the Lick. Charles Lindsay, District Attorney of Santa Cruz, is at the Grand. J. Wilson Brown, a business man of Los Angeles, is at the Russ. Judge L. M. Buck of Eureka {is visiting the City and is at the Lick. G. W. Boggs, a large land-owner of Tracy, is registered at the Russ House. H. P.Stabler of Yuba City dropped in for & few days and is quartered at the Lick. Reyv. J. N. Colby, a minister of Coyington, Ky., is visiting the City, a guest at the Grand. Andrew Markham, a Santa Rosa capitalist, is spending a few days in town at the Lick House. David Keith, a Park City mining man, is in from Utah, and is quartered at the Lick House. The Misses Josephine and Francis Cole of San Jose are visiting Miss Vesta Shortridge in this City. Captain J. B. Overton, superintendent of the Gold Hill Water Works at Virginia City, 1s quartered at the Russ. 0. P. Posey of Telluride, Colorado, is a guest at the Palace Hotel. He is one of the leading mining men of that State. Spencer C. Buckbee, of the firm of Shainwald, Buckbee & Co., leaves to-morrow for a two ‘weeks’ vacation in Shasta County. Charles M. Coglan, secretary of the State Board of Equalization, is down from Sacra- mento. He is accompanied by his wife. They are at the Lick. —_— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. New York, N. Y., Aug. 10.—Miss Virginia Fair continues to be easily the most prominent person that the California colony can boast of in the East. The Eastern press chronicles her movements and her diversions with as much care as though she were a royal princess. Her ex- ploits on the bicycle and atgolf have been gone into indetail. Letely she has taken to driving. Inthe morning she generaily appears alone on the Newport roadways in & little basket phae- ton. Her sister, Mrs. Herman Oelrichs, gener- y accompanies her in the afternoon. Both attract no end of attention. In a slightly different way “Lucky” Baldwin is also coming in for a great deal of Eastern notice just now. He {s having a very successful season with his string at Saratoga, and the long black overcoat that he always affects, regardless of variations in the temperature, threatens to become as ll:o%able here, in a way, as Greeley’s memorable at. The marriage in London of C.P. Hunting- ton’s adopted son, Arthur Hilton Huntington, to Mrs. Helen Gates, receives some slight atten- tion. While here young Huntington spent much of his time at the Huntington villa in Westchester, and was chiefly known in ama- teur athletic circles. Miss Jennie Catherwood of Westchester leaves soon to join her mother, Mrs, Clara Catherwood, at Madrone villa, Napa' County. Rev. W. H. Moreland of San’ Fran- cisco has been at the Ocean House, Newport, dnflng the week. Californians at the New York hotels include: San Francisco—J. Brend- sin, A. F. Binz, W, Jung, J. Quaid, Belvedere; W. A, Bord, Grand Union; C.T. Thomas, Broad- way Central: R. H. Hyllnd, C. H. Wnllm, Morton House; A. Livingston, Coleman. Los Angeles—W. D, Opdkye, Stewart. CALIFORNIANS IN SALT LAKE. Salt Lake, Utah, Aug. 10.—Mr. and Mrs. George T. Clark and Miss Wade arrived from San Francisco this morning and istered at the Knutsford. Rev.and Mrs. C. M. Fisher of W. F. Hitch- Los Angaln are at the Walker. cock of San Francisco is at the Cullen. PROMINENT PERSONAGES. The real name of John Hare, the actor, is John Fairs, John O'Sullivan of Auckland, New Zealand, is credited with the ripe old age of 149 years. Marguerita Arlina Hamm declares that women employed as servants should wear bloomers. A daughter of the poet Longfellow lives in Washington, Her name is Marion Longfellow 0’Donohue. Those who ought to know say that the Crown Princess of Roumsnis is the band. somest sprig of royalty in Europe. MONOLOGUES. BY JOHN M'NAUGHT. When Emerson divided mankind into two classes—those who do something and those who find fault because it was not done in some other way—he overlooked a decent minority of people who are neither actors nor fault-finders, but who being too indolent for the one are t00 good-natured or too wise for the other. The mem- bers of this minority regard the world as a theater in which life is a drama enacted for their entertainment, and not having any great admiration for the play they do not exact too much from the actors. Indeed they demand nothing more than that people shall act, giv- ing full praise of course to any glittering hero who radiantly walks the tight rope of suceess- ful accomplishment, but not neglecting to indulge also a smile of good pleasure when some clown not venturing upon a difficult task contents himself with the easy job of roll- ing off & log. Such people may of course be accused of indifference to the woe or the weal of the world. Certainly they are not seform- ers, neither are they defenders of the existing order of things. All they ask of the restof mankind is that something shall pe done to keep the drama moving. When the play goes briskly on the serenity of their enjoyment is disturbed only by the noise of that gangof fault-finders who are fcrever trying to spoil sport by insisting that some other sport wonld be better, or at any rate that the sport in hand would be more amusing if played by different performers or treated in a different style. There are & considerable number of people who can be satisfied under any circumstances, but not many who can give reasons for being satisfied. For the first there is required only a readiness to accept the world as it comes, but for the second one must bea philospher and have a nimble intellect. A good example of this high faculty of reasoning is found in the recent argument of a New York scribe to prove that it is cooler in the city in the summer time than in the country. He says the light, faint, delicate breezes of summer when turned loose in the great, wide spaces of the country soon become so scattered that they are lost in the fields and nobody gets th: benefit of them. The same little zephyrs when they come to town are concentrated in the streets and grow to be brisk breezes even in the uptown dis- tricts, so that by the time they reach those dis- tricts where the skyscraper buildings are, and enter what the philosopher calls the down- town canyons, they blow as bracing winds that purify the atmosphere, invigorate the system and give happiness to man. That no dweller in New York has ever felt the rush of these summer breezes cuts no figure in the case. The essential point Is that the reasoning is good, and if any one finds fault the burden is on him to show better reasons on the other side. With this proof that a man can find comfort in New York at midsummer by a rational process of raising the wind, is it not clear that in San Francisco we ought to be able to find not merely comfort, but bliss, without going to the trouble to be rational. There are circumstances of course under which even ratiocination fails to give comfort and joy. Consider the case of John James In- galls. That eminent statesman out of a job bought & farm on the Missouri River some fif- teen years ago, but for the last seven years had not visited the propesty. A short time ago having a desire for ready money, and having found a buyer willing to take the land at a good price, he set forth to show it to him; ex- patiating along the way upon the fertility of the soil, the beauty of the site, the healthful- ness of the climate and the thousand charms of farming on the banks of the broad Missouri, ‘When he reached the place; however, the farm was not there. It had been washed into the river five years ago, and all that time Ingalls has been paying taxes on it. Here is a case at which even reason staggers, for itis hard to understand why & good farm should be washed away from Kansas to make another swamp in Louisiana. Doubtless amid the infinite possi- bilities of the universe there may be some mys- terious harmony between a statesman washed away in a tidal wave, and a farm washed away in a freshet, but if so the harmony is too deep for words; and moreover Ingalls having paid taxes in Kansas that he can never hope to recover has now to face the possibility that when it is learned that his land is in Louisiana he may be called upon to pay taxes down there. The enjoyment of life for persons of good taste 1s marred not so much by any ill condi- tions in things themselves as by the ceaseless chatter of the critics around them. These fault-finders have become so common in life and are of such small natures that it is perhaps permissible to call them vermin. They annoy. In the free and easy circus of the world, where it is good and gay to eat peanuts, they are forever telling us that such is not good form at the opera. It might be presumed’ from their talk that they are always in full dress, prepared for Patti nights, with ducal receptions there- after. Were this so there might be some pleas- ure in the contemplation of them, for when a man’s talk is silly there is often some recom- pense in noting the excellence of his tailor. The critic, however, is nearly always asshabby 1n his clothes as in his conscience. Incapable of seeing beauty, they are equally incapable of looking pretty. Abominable at all times, they are particularly so at this period, since they have acquired a habit of uttering their criti- cismsin & style of contorted English which they are pleased to call epigrammatic. Thus we bear the double annoyance of having all the little defects of the things we delight in pointed outina style that distorts and muddies our graceful and lucid language. Moreover, as evil communications corrupt good manners, we_unconsciously take a tumble to the habit end epigrams abound. They pepper usin the parlors, they are mustered in the press, they sauce us everywhere, and one must look for good English amid the orthographical jingles of the dialect stories. Sometimes the critics of good men’s actions resort to action themselves as well as to epi- grams. Here is arecent case in point. A rev- erend gentleman who had been making a vigorous crusade against the “‘jointists,” asthe keepers of illicit saloons in Kansas are called, and who had succeeded in arousing a great deal of public indignation against them, re- turned home one day to find that his horse had been stolen. On the stable-door was a note saying: “If you wantmen of my business to get out of Kansas so bad, surely you will not regret the loss of your horse. You have lost a horse and a jointist, but you have gained a victory for God and morality, and you ought to be satisfied.” This may be taken as the sum of all villainies in eriticism. Nothing could be more outrageous to the feelings of a good man. Nevertheless, it should be carefully studied as an evidence that the maker of epigrams would not hesitate to steal a horse in order to saddle one on his victim. It is said by the eritics in their own defense that they object to minor poets, popular songs, lesser artists and all the homely common things of life, because they wish to raise us through & divine discontent with such pleas- ures, to reach out after the higher art and achieve a true culture founded on the immor- tal classics. It 1s & specious argument and sounds like a politician talking morality. Itis not always, however, from the greatest books that we derive the greatest profit; not always the greatest bards whose songs are most in har- ‘mony with our moods and best fitted to 1ift us to pure joys and serene thoughts. Sometimes itis better to lie in the valley and look up to the mountain than to climb the mountain and look down at the valley. Not long ago I went 1o the park for the express purpose of climbing Strawberry Hill and gazing from that height on sall the glory of park and City, hills and valleys, the far-stretching ocean and the in- finite sky. On my way to the hill along the level road Isaw a vista opening through the park to a wide expanse of sand, beyond which rose the hills on the other side of the bay. This scene at ordinary times may be of little note, but at that hour of that day it was as gorgeous as a dream of fairyland. The nearer sands were white iike silver, but as they re- ceded they assumed a yellow hue, and in the distance were as masses of dull gold; while be- hind them the hills swathed in mists were as walls of azure, draped in transparent fabrics woven of sunlight and cloud; the whele form- ing such a combination of color as would have been even to & Titian at once an admiration and a despair. From the summit of the hill I saw & picturesque view of earth, but no such miracle beauty as was caught in that vista from the path below. There is a pleasure in contemplating a eritic when we ses him hoisted on the horns of snother critic. A highly gratifying instance is \ athand. Inthe city of New York there1san organization known as the National Sculpture Society, the members of which full many a time and oft have made life unhappy for the average citizen by toploity criticisms on the statuary of which the voting strength of the population is so habitually proud. Notonce or twice only, but on grievously many occasions, the members of the society have told the world that New York is more ignorant of art than the goat is ignorant of botany; and all because of the way the statuary is fashioned, or else be- cause of the way the Park Commissioners have placed it, it being the argument ot the society that if the people knew anything about art they would hang:the Commissioners. Now the Comimissioners have decided to remove many of the statues from their present positions, and in order that the best effects may be obtained they have asked the National Sculpture Society to select the most appropriate site for each. The society in an hour of pride consented to doso. The plans suggested were published, and lo, the critic of yesterday is on the horn of the critic of to-day. How the fight will end there is no saying, but at the last reports all the papers of the city were urging the Park Commissioners to leave the statues where they were. While the voices of approving critics are nearly always pleasant there are times when they overdo the thing and thus enable modest folks to say with truth tnat tbey hate flattery. An example of this overdoing & good thing occurs in a description of Santa Clara County in the last number of Harper’s Weekly. The writer, with the best intentions to do us proud and thrill the East with ideas of our Elysian life, says of that thrifty valley: “There are few fences in this county and the visitor may wander at will from orchard to orchard, or through the sweet scented vineyards, and eat as he chooses of their choicest yield.” This conception of California’s “freedom of the orchard” to casual visitors has been taken by many tourists, and in the southern part of the State where tourists abound has been the cause of much trouble. In fact the visitor filled with wide ideas of the profuse hospitality of the Golden State wanders through the orchards at his own sweet will and not infrequently breaks the limbs of fine trees, thus compelling the owner to break the illusions of the visitor and sometimes even to break his head. It isa pity that such things should happen in Elysium, but then it should be remembered that after all Elysium was intended for the Elysians. The rightful object of all serious eriticism is to tell the world of that which is good. The professional ecritic should account it his duty to studiously seek out all the best things that bave been said and done in the world, and diligently make them known to others. If you would follow this path read the poem of Joaquin Miller, “Father Damien of Hawaii,” published in THE CALL this morning, and when you have brightened your mind with the in- spiration of the music and the meaning tell your neighbor of it, and be glad that California has such a poet and that humanity has had such a man as Damien—nay, that it has one worthy to succeed him, for at this moment there is on his way to Hawaii, to take up the seli-sacrificing work of the sainted priest, a member of the Salvation Army. In the glow of deeds like these, and in the music of the lofty verse that commemorates them, very small and very thin and empty will all satire and cynicism appear this morning to “the great, wide, honest, the wise, big world.” UP-TO-DATE JOKES. «0h, doctor, how do you do? You look kill ing this evening.”” “Thenk you, but I'm not; I'm off duty, you know.”—Brooklyn Life. Tripper—That love affair of Tom’s has ended in emoke, eh? Flipper—I guess so. He was burning her letters last night.—Comic Weekly. Prisoner—I want to get out of here bad. Jailer—That is the way you came in. What we want is for you to go out of here good.—Norris- town Herald. «Jt {sn’t what ye do,” remarked Clarence Fitz Hautbeau, “that always counts in determining & man’s prosperity.” “No,” replied Reginald de Bumme, “it’s who ye do more’n_ what ye do dat signifies.”—Exehange. Minnie—Then you do really think Jack cares for me? Maggie—I'm sure of it. His eyes fol- lowed your every movement last night. Min- nie (alarmed)—Gracious! Do you really think he saw all I ate at supper?—Tit-Bits. “Why, sir,”” exclaimed an enthusiastic mem- ber of a regimental band, “we can play the most intricate airs atsight.”” “I should like to hear you play the airs the drum major puts on,” remarked an unbelieving listener.—Lon- don Answers. “It seems to me,” said the marager, “that you do that part of receiving money from the chief villain in a most awkward manner.” “Mebbe I do,” admitted the actor; “it has beea 50 long since I had any chance to rehearse with the real stuff.”—Cincinnati Trbune. “So there will be nothing to conceal after we are married, dearest, I may as well tell you that I smoke cigarettes, play poker, drink, and am rarely home before 1 o'ciock._ in the morning.” “I am glad to hear you say so. Iwas afraid we wouldn't be perfect companions.”—Life. Manager—We must put a greal deal of real- ism in this wood scene. Can you get some one to growl 5o 8s to resemble a bear? 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CLEANSR the vitiated blood whenever you find its impurities bursting through your skin in the form of pimples, eruptions and sores. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the best blood purifier. ——————— DR. SIEGERT'S Angostura Bitters is known all over the world as the great regulator of the di- gestive organs. Pl S L Ir afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp- son’s Eye Water. Druggists sell it at 25 cents. * n “FROM THE LOWEST LEVEL." A STORY OF MINING LIFE IN CALIFORNIA. By THE Rev. J. H. WYTHE JR. Tae CALL has secured the right to pub- lish this charming story in serial form, and the first part appeared Saturday, Aug. 11, Readers of Tae CALL declare the. story to be oneof unusual interest. The next in- stallment wiil be printed next Saturday, Aug. 17. It is custorary to publish such contributions in the Sunday edition of Tar CaLy, but the author has conscientious scruples against having any of his produc- tions published in the Sunday edition of any paper and in deference to his convic- tions _Txfl CaLy has agreed to print this story in the Saturday issues only. HE CALL devotes a great deal of attention to excellent articles on Western Themesby ‘Western men and Western women,