The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 12, 1895, Page 6

HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free Dally and Sundsy CALL, one week, by carrier.$0.15 ¢ and Sunday CALT, one year, by mail... 6.00 v and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail 3.00 v and Sunday CALL, three months, by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL. one month, by mail €unday CALL, One year, by mail WEEKLY CALL, One year, by mai BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street. Telephone.... - EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. BRANCH OFFICES : 570 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until o'clock. 559 Haves street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 717 Larkin street; open until 9:80 o'clock. &W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. Maln—1868 Telephone. ...Main—1874 OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Pacific States Advertising Buresu, Rhinclander tuilding, Rose and Duane streets, New York City. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country ona vacatlon ? Tf g0, it {8 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to youraddress. Do not let it miss you for you will Miss it. Orders given to the carrier, or left at Business Office, 710 Market street, will receive prompt atiention. 12,1895 ————————————————————— We shall see at the fair what home in- dustry can do. The Mechanics’ Institute opens the big thing this week. Any other town that wishes to get in @ carnival this sémmer must hurry up. Twelve States elect Governors this year and the betting is that eleven of them will be Republicans. Before we get the Durrant jury we may have to conmscript the whole able-bodied male population. The proposed reorganization of the Traffic Association comes none too early. It seems to be needed. On the Board of Railroad Commissioners and the Board of Equalizers the big monop- oly has standing room for both feet. Solong as public indignation against mal- feasance in office keeps boiling the Solid Eight will never be safe from the soup. It seems that the wicked Mr. Holmes was merely trying to prove that Wil Collins was not a romance writer, but a realist. The growth of public sentiment in favor of bimetallism in England is slow, -but action in this country would hurry it up a good deal. The discovery of good prospects of oil in Contra Costa County is another evidence that all the resources of the State are not yet known. The Corbett and Fitzsimmons fight in Philadelphia was slightly premature, but as a yariation from the talking match it was needed. In coming here for a rest Mr. Mackay has struck a place where the prospects show business opportunities as well as lovely scenery. The caliber of the Railroad Commission- ers is shown in the fact that they prefer to fight over patronage rather than agree about business. As there is positively no other candidate in sight, Democracy may have to take the thira-term movement in order to get a move on at all, The life of a Federal office-holder is not a happy one. The gift of the office turns his head, and before he gets it straight again he loses it. il 8t. Louis is bragging on a preacher who has said from the pulpit that the bloomers of to-day are not as bad as the hoopskirts of twenty years ago. At the recent tailors’ strike in New York the strange spectacle was seen of employ- ers going before a committee of strikers and passing an examination in order to get a certificate entitling them to employ men and go on with their work. It is stated that the Crow Indians of Montana had an income of over $82,000 from their crops last year and this year they have sufficient hay and grain to sup- ply the military posts of Eastern Mon- tana, and also potatoes and vegetables for sale, According to a statement of General Greeley at the recent Geographical Con- gress the Arctic regions have furnished the world with products worth $1,200,000,000, and further explorations are as desirable from a business as from a scientific point of view. As no street railway franchises have been granted in this City since 1889 without the requirement of the payment of 2 per cent of their gross receipts into the City treas- ury, why should the Market-street Rail- way Company get a franchise without such & provision? The Dolphin, in which the Secretary of the Navy takes his summer outing, cost the Governmens last year $99,000, and that incorrigible growler, Dana of the Sun, is trying to find somebody to tell him why the United States should maintain a $100,000 boat for an $3000 Secretary. The people of New York are making merry over the fact that on January 13 Mayor Strong said, “I have been twelve days Mayor of New York and I never en- joyed twelve days more in my life,” and on July 29 he said, “When I was foolish enough to accept the Mayoralty nomina- tion I had no idea of what in involved.” Spain’s threat to hold the United States responsible for the sympathy displayed by its press for the Cuban insurgents raises a question of international policy of the most interesting kind. Asthe press in such a matter is entirely beyond the control of our Government the prospects of news- paper provocation to war with foreign powers are as dazzling as they are ludi- . crous., The editor of the Democrat of Marion I11., must have had a high old time on his last visit to Chicago, for in an editorial on the city he says: ““The doubly distilled, essence of perdition is so overpowering that a visitor is soon passive and his higher sense is bluntéd to his terrible surround- ings. He loses his natural attributes. ‘Whisky fails to intoxicate and water pro- duces spasms in his abdomen.” A USELESS EXPERIMENT. of the State Board of Equalization at- tempting to “equalize” the taxes among the counties for the purpose of securing a uniform taxation rate for State purposes. The idea ugon which this procedure was established was tnat each County Assessor would fairly exercise his power as among the property-owners of his county, that he would give no one an advantage over an- other, that he would observe the constitu- tional requirements, and that the only irregularity which could possibly result might be a variance of judgment among the different Assessors in the exercise of their individual discretion in applying the constitutional requirements to the exercise of their duties. Hence, it being taken, with a beautiful guilelessness, for granted that each County Assessor would be bet- ter than the race from which he sprang, the duties imposed on the State Board of Equalization were delightfully simple. It is strange now to reflect that the three main causes which preduced the constitu- tion of 1879—monopolies in general, the Southern Pacific and injuriously large land holdings in particular—are those which appear still to be the most effective in determining the welfare of the State. Let it be hinted from any county that the Southern Pacific is to be assessed for more than a fifth or a tenth of the value of its property there, and the State Board of Equalization is ready to produce certain of its members who will swear that while they have a deadly anxiety to perform their duty to the people, they will never consent to see the railroad “cinched.”’ It would be wearisome to traverse all the devious paths by which the provisions of the constitution are evaded by those sworn to enforce them. What thing more absurd and ludicrous could be imagined than the common knowledge that the constitutional requirement to assess all property at its ‘‘actual cash value” is deliberately ignored by every Assessor in the State, with the full knowledge,* consent and implied connivance of every citizen who claims the right to vote and of every officer who is sworn to support the constitution and the laws? We need look no further than this miserable confession on the part of our people and those pledged to enforce jus- tice under thedaw in order to find an ex- planation of “solid eights,” defaniting public officers, corrupt political bosses, degrading and notorious combinations be- tween officers and public plunderers, and all the other evils which issue from a con- spiracy between public indifference and every possible form of oflicial knavery. Advocates of the single-tax doctrine find more consolation in the theory of our con- stitution than in its practice. Congress- man Maguire seems to have overlooked one of his most promising opportunities in not insisting on a rigid adherence to that provision of the constitution which re- | quires that unimproved land should be | assessed at the same price, less improve- ments, as improved contiguous lands, rather than in advocating a somewhat similar idea under an unpopular form. Most of the evils of taxation in California would be abolished by even a remote ap- proximation to constitutional require- ments and the cultivation among Asses- sors of such a conscience as would permit the operation of these provisions. WORK FOR THE UNEMPLOYED, Ii the Salisbury Ministry keeps its promise tothe English people and seriously attempts to solve the problem of providing work for the unemployed, the course of the experiment will be watched with almost as much interest in this, country as in England itself, for an experiment of the kind in a country like England will take the question out of the domain of abstract socialism and make it an issue of practical politics. Of course such attempts have been made before. France has tried National work- shops, but the trial resulted in failure. Germany does something in the way of finding work for her idle people, but it is done more as a police protection against tramps than as an effort to improve the chances of the poor to get work at all times. Australia also has been the scene of considerable efforts in this direction, but the attempts there have been made under conditions too different from ours for the lessons to be of much value to us. In £ngland the first atternpt will be made in a country with a complex social organ- ism and a political system which leaves almost everything to the initiative of pri- vate enterprise, and the conditions, there- fore, are sufficiently similar to our own to make. the industrial experiments of her Government serve us either as a guide or a warning. It seems to be conceded by nearly all students of the tendencies of social devel- opment that the struggle for existence has become such that only those who can euter upon some system of combination or co- operation can hope to maintaia them- selves in the face of the fearful competition engendered by our present industrial con- ditions, and thence arises the question, ‘What shall be done with those who for any reason are unable to co-operate with others? Shall we leave the unemployed to perish, or shall we help them by the power of the Government, which, after all, is no more than the co-operative power of the whole people? That is the question which Eng- land has to answer now, and which this country may have to answer before long. It will not be so easy to answer as may seem atfirst sight. The attempt of any Govern- ment £0 set the prisoners in the jails to work neariy always results in bringing about a protest from some labor union against the competition of prison labor, What would be the result, then, if the Government should undertake to set all the unem- ployed to work? They would have to be put into competition with somebody, and from that person a vigorous protest would be only natural. When, in a country so sparsely settled as California and in a City so wealthy snd prosperous as San Francisco, industrious white women have to work in Chinese can- neries to earn the means of subsistence, and even there gain only the wages that Chinese will not accept, there is cer- tainly needed some change in our civiliza- tion. The pressure in England is even worse than with us. The lords, to save themselves from the demand for the aboli- tion of their privileges, have apparently concluded to take the lead in the move- ment for industrial reform, and whatever may be the opinions held of the leader- ship, no student of social conditions can hesitate to wish them success in their work. SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Basing his argument uoon the generally accepted truth that the comforts and material welfare of a community can best be estimated by the consumption of iron in its work and business, Edward Atkinson has contributed to the Engincering Maga- zine a discussion on “The Signs of the Times,” which though marred here and there by the author’s fondness for riding his hobby of the gold standard, 1s yet a notable forecast of the prosperity that awaits the United States. In 1856 the United Statesconsumed 117 pounds of iron per capita, while the consumption in Great Britain was equal to 144 pounds. Year by Every year we have the dreary old farce | that country used 175 pounds per capita, year we have gained upon the British, however, until in 1889 when the people of more than 300 pounds were needed to sup- ply the American demand. If the same ratio of increase continues through this decade, we shall by the year 1900 require 400 pounds of iron per capita to meet our wants, and accepting the fact as a standard of measurement of social progress we shall then be far in advance of Great Britain and without a rival in the world. Two demands for iron in large quan- tities exist in our present conditions. One of these is found in the need of more rail- roads and the other in the need cf more ships. Mr. Atkinson estimates that the requirements of business will call for the construction of 117,000 miles of niln_md between 1890 and 1900. The construction of such roads during the thirteen years from 1880 to 1893 averaged 6400 miles a year, which was considerably in excess of the estimate for this decade. It seems, therefore, none too sanguine to expect that beginning with 1896 we will add railway mileage to our present service at the rate of 6000 miles a year for many years to come, and that within the next twenty years we shall construct at least 100,000 miles of new railroads. The construction of ships will not call for any such quantities of iron as are needed for railways, but the consumption in that industry is nevertheless sure to be very great. We have reached the turning- point in the shipping industry. Hitherto American capital has been so largely en- gaged in home industries that very little was available for ocean commerce. More- over England having cheaper iron than ourselves was able to build ships cheaper. These conditions are about to terminate. The United States has become rich enough to apply a large part of her commercial capital to ship-building, and her iron and steel industry developed under the protec- tive system is fully able to successfully compete with England. We may, there- fore, expect to see a large number of American ships on the seas in the coming decade, and this, of course, will materially | increase our consumption of iron. A further fact of note is that the future supply of iron for the world must come mainly from this country. In 1890 the world consumed about 25,000,000 tons of iron, and the estimate is that 40,000,000 | tons will be required for 1900. Our iron industries, therefore, bave a bright outlook before them, and in accordance with the | rule that prosperity in the iron trade means prosperity in every industry it may be said that the signs of the times are in the highest degree gratifying to the country. PHASES OF SEWERAGE. The agitation for municipal improve- ments, leading to a provision in the tax levy for bettering the condition of sewerage facilitiesin this City, seemsto have been un- affected by the most recent scientific con- | clusions on this subject. A textwith which | to introduce the matter is found in the the recent experience of Evansville, Ind. This isa town of 50,000 inbabitants, situ- | ated on the Ohio River. A few months | ago the river was swollen toan unusual ex- | tent by the floods, with the result that the sewage, which drained into the river, was | backed up into the city and a virulent out- break of typhoid fever ensued. It abated | only when the flood subsided. Meanwhile | hundreds of deaths had occurred. A somewhat similar condition of affairs exists with regard to the entire lower part | of San Francisco lying between Howard | street on the north and Sixth street on the | west. That is to say, upon *he arrival of | the high tides of spring the waters of the | bay vack the sewage of that region fora | distance of nearly two miles, with such re- sults as may be imagined. Of course there are great differences between this condition and that of Evansville. The salt in the water of the bay has some influence for good, but this cannot extend very far from the bay shore. Again, the food here is diurnal, thus giving the sewers a chance to discharge once a day. This was impos- sible at Evansville, and hence the region south of Market streetin San Francisco has nosuch virulent outbreaks of typhoid fever, diphtheria and similar epidemic diseases, due to defective drainage. At the same time a certain peril exists. One of its manifestations is malaria. It wasalways | a maxim with the physicians employed by the Southern Pacific Company that when one of the 600 cierks at Fourth and Town- send streets was taken ill he should be given quinine in addition to whatver remedies were called for by the speeific ail- | ment. It was taken for granted, from long experience, that the men all had malaria in their systems, and that it had to be overcome while the specific ailment other than malaria poisoning was being treated. And the explanation of it all was that the tides held the sewage in abey- ance and enabled it to breed disease. What was true of the Southern Pacific clerks was true of all the residents com- ing under the influence of these conditions. This brings up the whole question of the proper disposal of sewage. San Fran- cisco, except with regard to the low region under discussion, is particularly fortunate in its topography, which insures perfect drainage. More than that its drainage is into salt water, which is a most excellent antiseotic. Cities like Evansville, draining into rivers, merely pour into the streams upon which they face a deadly flow of disease germs, which the fresh water causes to breed, and which it passes on in an in- creased malignant form to the hundreds of thousands of settlements lying below. In the case of towns so situated it isclear that the sewage should not bo turnea into the river and that it is the proper function of the National Government to prohibit such a practice, for it is one of interstate bearing and importance. But while the condition of affairs in San Francisco is im- measurably better than thatof any city fronting on a river, it is still evident that the emptying of our sewage into the bay is 1n violation of hygienic principles. How- ever beautiful and picturesque our water front is, the disgusting odors of fermenting sewage which haunt it deprive it of all its charm. This would not be so bad were it not for the knowledge that in the districts affected by tides the health of the people is uncertain and that the expense of medical | Celdwalader of Red Bluff. - Frank Johnson lef treatment falls most heavily on those least able to afford it. It would be too much to say that San Francisco has advanced sufficiently to re- alize that the emptying of sewage into water-courses and bays is dangerous under any circumstances, and that the only proper disposition of sewage is by fire or its incorporation with fresh earth. Still, these are matters upon which the wise ones among us should think, for heis a poor citizen indeed who is not anxious to adopt every means for making San Fran- cisco carry out the reputation of the State for lbeing the natural sanitarium of the world. AN ILLINOIS CONTEST. Iilinois is again the storm center of thé silver controversy, but this time the con- test is of more political importance than the much-advertised debate between Horr and Harvey. Theie is a vacancy in the Eighteenth Congressional District of the State and it is conceded that the election will be determined more by the silyer issue than by any other political question. The district is ordinarily Democratic, but in the revolt against the deficit tariff and the Cleveland administration lest year it was carried by the Republicans. This year the tariff still cuts some figure in the district, but from all reports tne prevailing discus- sion is concerning the money question, and it would seem that thereisa chancetogeta popular vote on it in the district in ad- vance of the National elections next year. The only thing that stands in the way of a clear-cut vote on the issue is the fact that the Democratic party seems determined to go both ways on the subject, even if it has to split itself in the operation. The free- silver men are said to be a majority of the party in the district, but Senator Palmer, who controls the Federal patronage and is therefore something of a boss of affairs, has recently declared that a free-silver man cannot be supported by the supporters of the administration. If, therefore, a free- silver man is nominated a gold-standard man will probably be put up to beat him, and this of course will have the effect of confusing the campaign. It is possible that this division among the Democrats renders the contest in the district all the more valuable as a basis for estimating the probable course of political events next year. If the gold men set the example of bolting the party ticket in a Congressional campaign this year, we may expect a similar division in many districts during the Presidential election. The out- look at any rate is propitious to the coun- try. If Democracy holds together in the district we wili geta voteof the Illinois people on the silver question and learn something of how that State stands on the issue. If, on the other hand, Democracy splits then we get a Republican walkover, and that is always a gain to the Nation. PERSONAL. Dr. Angus D. Cameron of Hanford is in town. Dr. F. W. Martin of Watsonville is at the Russ. J. Grover, & merchant of Coluss, is at the Grand. D. E. Knight, a capitalist of Marysville, is at the Lick. §. A. Alexander, a merchant of Fresno, isat the Lick. Ira A. Fouche, a merchant of Willows, is at the Russ. 8. A. Hamlin, & cattleman of Reno, isstaying at the Russ. B. F. Bishop, a large land-owner of Fresno, is at the Lick. S. Solon Hall, an attorney of Sacramento, is at the Grand. D. S. Rosenbaum, a merchant of Stockton, is at the Palace. T. C. Law, Superior Judge of Merced, is a guest at the Lick. G. 8. Sprague, a merchant of Portland,isa guest at the Russ, W. F. Knox. a banker of Sacramento, isa guest at the Grand. H.J. Ostrander, a large land-owner of Mer- ced, is & guest at the Russ. Captain Masohle of the German army reg- istered at the Prlace yesterdey. A. Heilborn, & leading merchant of Sacra- | mento, is a guest at the Grand. Mare Lasar, a merchant of S8an Luis Obispo, | and Mrs. Lasar, are at the Grand. R. Phelan of the Gold Ridge mine in Nevada registered at the Russ yesterday. J. W. Adams of the Los Gatos Hotel, Los Gatos, registered yesterday at the Russ. Colonel John T. Harrington, & banker of Co- Tusa and a member of the Governor's staff, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Palace. Genersl Warfield and his staff were guests of Capiain Auzeta and the officers of the Mexican man-of-war Zaragosa vesterday at luncheon on board. General Warfield was pleased with the ship-shape appearance of the trim boat and admirable diseipline on board, John W. Mackay and C. R. Hosmer and E. J. Matthews, who accompanied him dn his trip through the north, drove out to the pari and Cliff House yesierday. In the evening they were ente: ned at dinner ai the Occidental by Mrs, F. J. Higginson and Miss Haldane, of New York, who went up to Alaska on the same steamer with them. OUT-OF-TOWN PERSONALS. Chico, Cal., Aug. 11.—Mrs. Park Henshaw is visiting friends in San Francisco. Peter Moy of Livermore is in town. R.H. Vance of San Francisco s visiting in Chico. Charles L. Don- hue, the Willows attorney, is in town. Harry Jones and wife of Chico are the guests of for San Francisco this morning to resume his study in the dental department of the State University. George Robiuson returned to the State University this morning. J. W. Barker is in_ San Francis Miss Lena French of Red Bluff is visiting Miss Emma Judge of this city. W. 8. Eliot went to Oakland this morning. “Charles White of Red- ding is in town, L. A. Tyler of Yreka is in Chico on a visit, 'Mrs. Joseph Burroushs is vis- iting friends in Marin County. Harry Graham returned to Berkeley this morning. W. Gris- ‘wold left for San Francisco this morning. Mrs. J. E. Manning went to the City this morning. Miss Emma Crew has retnrned from the <outh. ern part of the State. Mrs. R. F. Pe returned from San Francisco. D ler of Ban Francitco is in town. Miss Grace Pulge left for Sacramento this morning. Mrs. Bessie Furlong of Gilroy is visiting her brother, Joseph D. Spoul, and her mother and sister. El Paso de Robles, Aug. 10.—Among those registered at Paso Robles are: Mr. and Mrs, Christopher A. Buckley and child, Mrs. §. H, Herrison, Mrs, Moses Hopkins, Mrs. Robert Mackenzie, Mrs. Williams, Miss May Williams, Mrs. Towers, Mies Towers, E. 8. Padoek, J. W, Armstrong, M. Myre, Migs Myre, C. W. Gregory, J.4lunter, Leon Blum, Mrs. Blum, Miss Blum, Mrs. T. Haftie, C. A. Hunt, Mr. and Mrs. George Hilliard, W. E. Dunning, Mr. and Mrs. H. Summerfield, McD. R. Venable, R. E. Jack, Mrs. Jack, R. W. Davis, R. Trwin, Harry Cox, Easton Mills, Sig. Greenebaum, L. 8. Greenebaum, W. 8. King, I H. Holt, k. A. Stowell, Mrs. M. Sunderiand, Mrs. Robert Flint, Mrs. A. L. Endards, Mrs. George Flint, Mrs. Francis, Miss May Francis, James H. Hobson, Mrs. Hobson, Miss Hobson, Mrs. Harriss, Wm. S. Huntley, s dluntley, James Wilson, B. Rice, A. Heart, y. —e——— SAN FRANCISCANS IN SALT LAKE. Salt Leke, Utah, Aug. 11.—Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Eister, of San Diego, are at the Knuts- ford, having just come from the East; George Catlett, of San Francisco, is at the Knutsford; E. E. Johnson, of 8an Irancisco, Templeton; Charles Eglert, of San at the Knutsford. SAID IN REPARTEE. “What's the matter?” asked the policeman; “haven’t you any place to go?” ‘“‘Any place ter go!” replied Meandering Mike, with contempt. “I've got the whole United States before me. I'Ve got so many places ter go dat it’s worryin’ me dizzy makin’ up me mind which way ter start.’—Washing- ton Star. “Mrs. Brown never sits up to wait for her husband.” “No P “No. When she expects him to be out late she retires early, sets the alarm-clock at 3 o'clock and gets up refreshed and reproach- ful.”—Life. “I notice,” said Farmer Corntassel's wife, “that Spain turned in a lot of batteries to fight the Cubans.” ““Well,” was the reflective reply, **’lectricity seems ter be the thing nowadays. But it does kinder Jook like takin’ an underhand advant- age ter turn the trolley loose on ’em.”’—Wash- ington Star, Husband—We must be more economical in the use of coal. Wife (a Vassar graduate)—There are untold billions of tons of coal just beneath the earth’s surface, and— Husband—And one or two big corporations Just above.—New York Weekly. I believe I swallowed some feathers in my chicken soup,” said Hiland to Halket, as the tWwo sat at dinner in a restaurant. “‘What makes you feel that?’ asked Halket. +1 fee) a little down in my mouth,” was the renlv.—Pittsbure Chronicle-Telegranh. /AROUND THE CORRIDORS: Charles Fair, the only male heir of the late James G. Fair, sat in the billiard-room of the Palace Motel last evening talking to some pioneer friends of his father. ‘Do you know, Charley, thata book of remin- iscences of your father would sell like hot-cakes? You ought to put the data in the hands of some publisher and let him issue & volume- What do you think about it?” The son smiled, and looked up at the talker, as he replied: “Why don’t you do it?" “Me do it,” exclaimed the man with publish- ing 1deas. “I didn’t know him.” “Neither did I,” answered Charles. ‘“Nobody knew him. I don’tthinka man ever lived who enjoyed his confidence. Ican assure you that he was the same strange man tome that he was to others, and his iron rule to keep his own counsel was never broken. ‘‘Whenever he did fall into a confidential and chatty mood it was to jest about something or to theorize. I recall & story he once told Alired E. Davis, his old pertner. The story I have in mind was woven into a serious conver- sation and he never cracked a smile over it. the most popular of American novelists, isstill | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. living at Georgetown, D. C. During his vacetion ex-Speaker Reed has spent most of his time reading mnovels. He is reported to have read twenty during the past month. T. H. Tucker, the eonductor who ran the first train between Boston and Worcester, Mass., on July 4, 1835, is still living at his home, Mel- rose, Mass. A lineal descendant of the famous Scottish chieftain Rob Roy MacGregor lives in Wash- ington. His house contains many relies of the great warrior whose name he wears. Rev. Moses D. Hoge of Richmond, Va., has been pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in that city for fifty years. His congregation includes grandchildren of former members of nis flock. ey A claimant for the honor of being the youngest granamother in Amerjca is Mrs. John W. Pierce of Boston, whose age fs 28. She was married at the age of 14 years and her daug- ter became a wife when only 12 years old. Garrick’s reading related almost entirely to A S1UDY LF CHARLES L, FAIR RECALLIN » HIS FATHER’S JOKES. | (Sketched from life for the ** Call” by Nankivell.] Before proceeding, however, I must tell you | his profession. 1le once said: “The human that in the Comstock mines a ladder goes | down the side of each shaft and every twelfth rung is iron, 50 as to give the whole additional strength. Well, father said to him: | «Davis, do you know I was almost killed | once in the Crown Point mine?’ | “‘How was that, Jim?’ | ““This way. Iwas looking down the sheit to see if everything was all right,and lost my | balance. Being unable to recover myself, I | toppled over and fell—yes, Davis, fell. I must | bave gone about a hundred feet when it sud- denly struck me that if I didn’t begin doing something pretty quick I would go clear through to hades, so I reached out and grabbed & rang of the ladder. It broke, and I grabbed the next. That broke, too. but I| reached for the third, which also gave way. | and the next, and the next, and so on, but it | broke my fall, and in about five minutes I reacned the bottom, a little jarred up, but per- fectly sound.” “Davis looked at him out of the corners of his eyes a few seconds and said: ““What did you do, Jim, when you came to | the twelfth rung? Did you grasp at that, too? | “Why, I missed it. Do you think I wanted to smash everything that was in the mine?’ " When Charles finished his story he was laughing more heartily than any one else in the crowd, and could not be prevalled upon to | recall anything more that had come from the iips of his famous financial father, J. H.Jewett, at the head of Bavier & Co.’s silk- | house of Yokobams, has returned from New York, where he has been investigating the silk market, and will leave for Japan on the next steamer. “I am surprised to find,” he said yesterday, “that the market in America is in such good condition. Tt is 25 per cent better than it has ever been before, and it isall owing to better times. The manufactured silk goods made in this country are superior to those made in any part of the world. You bave the raw silk shipped to you free of duty, and the freight from Yokohama to New York is but 4 cents a pound. I cannot understand why there is not a silk manufactory on the Pacific Coast. Here you are right up alongside of the best produe- ing country there is, yet you send East for all your silk goods. America buys half of the 5000 bales that we export from Japan annually,and itis this country that keeps Japan on the move. You buy her teas in enormous quanti- ties and the rest goes to Europe. “Did you know, now that we are discussing the silk business, that the manufactured silk sent to America from Japan is no longer pur- chased in America? The business has gone to pieces. Why? Because you can make a better article in this country and the Japanese can- not compete with you, I know those state- ments are startling, but nevertheless they are true, and before long you wiil see that Amer- ica has the finest silk manufactories in the world, and T hope California will take advan- tage of the opportunity and get into the busi- ness herself. An institution started here would make the men who put mouey into it rich ina few years.” Colonel George Washington Granniss, who was the confidential chiof clerk of the old-time celebrated law firm of Halleck, Peachy & Bill- ings, has just received from Washington a patriotic decoration which he is entitled to wear on all occasions. In this instance the man did hot seek the bufton, but the button sought the man. The Society of the War of 1812, with headquarters in Washington, D. C., ascertained that Alvin Grannissserved in the United States navy during the dark days of the second struggle with the mother country, and by diligent inquiry the society found that ason of the veteran survived. Further inves- tigation brought to light the aaditional fact that the surviving son lived in San Francisco and had the honor of being also the eldest sur- viving son, and therefore the one to whom the honor of decoration belonged. In due form papers to sign, buttons to wear on all occasions and a beautiful badge for ceremonial events came consigned to Colonel Granniss. In the Natioual Guard of California Colonel Granniss gained considerable distinction. He was an ective and outspoken Union man in 1861, and enjoyed the confidence of General Halleck from that time until the hour that the general passed away. In the colonel’s safe in Montgomery block are many letters, docu- ments, receipts and memoranda that tell stories of life in California when gold was plentiful, game abundant and interest 2 per cent a month. FPEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth. who Was once- face is my favorite book and the street is my school.” Rev. George T. Smith, pastor of the Christian church at Steubenville,” Ohlo; resigued his chirge because the elders objected to his hiring itute for §5 a week less than his salary he went for a vacation. This makes five vacant pulpits in Steubenvilte. Hall Caine, the brilliant novelist, s a Manx- man, in the prime of life, tall, but not robust with pallid face, hazel eyes, dark chestnut hair and beard, and has a delicate, nervous organi- zation which is readily upset. He is without affectation or mannerisms and receives his friends and visitors with simplicity and genuine cordiality. FROM EASTERN EDITORS. English Land-Grabbing. England seems to be planning to gain new footholds in Eastern and Southeastern Atlan- tie waters, and it is perhaps true that one secret of this activity 18 a desire to control as much territory as possible adjacent to new trade routes likely to be established by the interoceanic canal. This may have something to do with what seems to be the altogether unwarranted seizure of the Brazilian island of Trinidad. No deep theorizing is needed to explain it, however, for England is so eonfirmed in the land-grab- Dbing habit that it is not likeiy to stop to think whether new territory will be advantageous or disadvantageous.—Neéw York Worla. A Birdseye View of Chicago. Chicago! Synonyme of hell. reeking with the slime of immorality. The seething mass of humanity which crowds her thoroughfares has nothing about it which is inviting, and even the air one breathes is hu- mid with the permeating poison. Menlive to grind their fellow-men, and in that fitful fever all God-given attributes are annihilated. The mystery called living is ehanged to simply ex- isting, and this existence is a libel on human- ity and mockery toward God. The biear-eyed free-lunch fiend jostles the artificial blonde, ench watching for achance to prey upon the other. All but self is forgotten—even they forget their Maker and by him are forgotten.— Marion (111.) Democrat. Lots of Good Men. “New York,”" we are told, “will unite on Gov- ernor Morton for 1896.” He is & good strong man. Doubtless Maine will uniteon Tom Reed, ©Ohio on Governor McKinley, Iows on Senator Allison, and they are all good men. In the meantime Michigan can name a good man in Alger. Tllinois can name Cullom, and if an: one of them should be nominated and elects the country would have a wise ruler, an avowed protectionist, and an American in’ the full sense of the word.—Chieago Inter Ocean. Murder as a Science. ‘With the resources of scientific discovery at command, murder may become not only “a fine art,” but a science. It is easy to imagine a fin-de-siecle monster, a scientific Frankenstein, endowed with the power of modern knowledge and unrestrafned by conscience playing secrat havoe among chosen victims. We eannot tell how many of the mysterious disappearances constantly occurring or how many “netural deaths” are due to monsters of the Holmes type.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Tory Bimetallism. It appears from the London dispatches that bimetallism has played a larger part than is generaily supposed in the Parliamentary elec- tions. In many districts the Tory candidates who have been clected were directly pledged to favor international aetion in behalf of hi- metallism, and the secreiary of the Bimetallic League declares that most of the Tory mem- bers-elect are so pledged.—New York World. French Universities Open. Heretofore the French universities h: closed to American. students, while. the Ger man institutions have been open to them. An effort is now making to secure to the graduates of American colleges the right to enter any French institution on the basts of their Ameri- can diplomas or a Pl‘opel’ certificate of work already done. While this arrangement bhas not been entirely completed in all its details, cation ang ation.—Boston Herald. e e Prospects of Cuban Revolutionists. Far from showing any signs of collapse, the uprising of the Cubans for independence is acquiring with every week more formidable proportions, and the day is fast approaching when it may become the duty of forei wers to mcognile the NVOI\I“ONI{I as hefil‘ég?enu. 1f Mr. Cleveland sh A row, he would have- :lgdn‘e.: e T did Madrid | according a Government before like re it New vo s“i;n totheSouthern Confederacy.— much longer than Her streets are | Forest Hill, 's “Land of ription of part of observer SuNeIsE AND SUNseT—H. D, Placer County, Cal. In Du Chaillu the Midnight Sun” there is a desc vyantage grounds in the nor'mem Sweden and Norway from which an obs® pd can see the sun set in the west, and, by ':Hsn ing round, can see it rise in the east. 7 Rose O'Halloran gives the lollowmr ex'l" fl:‘e q tion of the phenomenon: As the ilfuminated half of the earth includes, on June Lot sugle of B0 dom. Ml BINCCS M atituds 00iC :i‘;g.e ::‘fi 5§£p|'e'2e‘mm diurnal rotation en- i he sun tirely in the sunlight on that date, U e to s estern sky to Tap o "m:f"::swhnrlwn irectly verge of the int nor{h. round exxotwnrd, rising gradun}\y s(:na‘l“ altitude of 23l¢ deg. when direct] ydln o In about north latitude 66!£ deg., accor e“gbe_ geometrical laws, the sun should dufnp)? o Rh fow the horizon & little to the '”‘:mtm?u e point of the horizon, and in & few e ine again a little to the east. An observer Io0X R northward need only change the direciiof 7 his eyes to view sunset and subse \lxer;’“n“_ rise. The effect of refraction causes t 4 S oRin ful Arctic observation to be possible even Jit a lower latitude than 664 deg., m') % mountain will have & similar advantage. = Bl AMERICAN FrAGs—A. 8., City. There is m law of this State prohibiting the diifl:‘yozf foreign flags in an American demons‘ T “; but persons who have the managemen e American demonstrstion ean say, in etxo A ing an invitation toany foreign body 10 HES part in the demonstration, mnt“ no“ B e American flags shall be borne in 1ine & 00ty is to be a procession. The only law in reg tional Guard, and_which is based on the con stitution of the State, article VIIT, pn-g:g‘; 2 s jons provided All military organizations PICE LG ng re- hen under Arms, :;é':;’, carry no device, or nation except this constitution or any celving State support sh gither for ceremony or duty nner or flag of any e that of the United States or of the State of Ca! fornia.” S0UTH AFRICA—C. R., City. The most dire::!: route from this City to the gold mines of So'}xh Africa is via New York and Liverpool. ie rate of fare depends upon fhe manner i which & party desires to travel. The time in transit would be about thirty days. The co“l'?- try in which the mines are worked is under the control of the British Government. The Query Column is unable to obtain any statistics show- ing the number of Americans in the n'llni'ng district. The articie you refer to was written by a correspondent who has a good reputation, and it is reasonable to suppose that the infor- | mation contained therein is correct. The com- (llnerice of the l'nitedl)SlAleal w{'thl Brl{:‘(s{ln;;grl:.: uring the year 1894 was: Value 'y $464,087; value of exports, $3,972,982. The climate is not considered unhesalthy. JourRNALISNM — Cassagnac, Confidence, Tuol- umne County, Cal. Several years ago an at- tempt was made to establish a school of jv:)ub- nalism in one of the large colleges in the East, butitdid not prove asuccess. The artof becom- | ing & journalist is not one that can be acquired through textbooks, for journaliém is continu- | ally advancing and textbooks would have to be | changed once every three months. The true | school of journalism is in the office of a metro- | politan newspaper, where one capable of put- | ting ideas into good language, and being able | to keep up with the times and gather all the s of the day, will in time become a jour- | nalist. Journalism is a profession in which the one who follows it is continuaily learning something neyw. | NorTH AND SoUTH—N | ;: City. There is & | popular belief that sleeping on & bedstead hav- ing the head to the north hasan effecton the health of the sleeper. Those who believe in this are of the opinion that when they sleep in that position a current of eleglncll?' passes through the body that is beneficial. Ii you are disturbed in your rest when moving irom place to place you should not lay it_to the fact lhnl)"ull are not slceping north and south, but to effects of travel and to those produced by sleeping, or trying to sleep, in a strange room. Want of rest under such conditions is bound to produce nervousness and possibly headache. Lost PAPEES—M. C., City. If, in 1887, you obteined your first papers in the process of be- coming e citizen trom court in Springfield, Mo., and have lost the same, in order to obtain your final papers you will have to write to the County Clerk of Greene County, Mo., in_which Springfield is situated, and apply for a certified | copy of the original papers, stating at the | time the date and the court in_which you made your declaration. There Will probably be a fee for this, but what it is the Query Coi- umn cannot tell. Yon can have the paper sent to you by express C. 0. D, | MEsQUITE GrAss—W. E. H., Mendocino, Cal. Mesquite grass is a favorite in many sections | of the country because it is a rich wild pastur- | age. 1t is said to be extremely valuable be- | cause its seeds profusely cover every portion | of tne country where it grows. It remains | during the warmest months of summer and | until the rains of the next season in a dried | form. preserving the nutritive qualities ! throughout. The greatest growth of the grass | is regulated by the rainfall, but even when dry it forms yery nourishing food for stock. PorvraTioN—P. H. L., City. The census of 1890 gave the population of Caltfornia as 1,208,130. An estimate furnished by the Gov- ernor of the State in January, 1894, gave the popuiation as 1850000, Sfnce then thers ave been a nnmber of estimates, but no of- | ficial figures. The latest official figures of the population of the City of San Francisco ars those of the census—298,997. The munieipal | census of the city of New York, the latest, as- | serts the population to have been 1,801,739 as against 1,710,715 shown by the Federal census. One of the rules of the Query Column is that no problems or puazles are answered, and for that reason your question about the mun, the tree and the squirrel, and for the further rea. | son that the communieation is unsigned, is not answered. Correspondents who desire answers must Fm name and_address if they wish any attention paid to their questions BroADWAY—J. P. M., City. Tt is proper to say “No. 100 Broadway,” but improper to say | “No. 100 Broadway street.” Broadway, which | wag originally Broad way, but which is now written as one word, means broad thorough- fare; therefore, the use of street in conneetion with it is as improper as to use the word street in connection with an avenue, a5 for instance, “Van Ness avenue street.”’ THE Roberts Printing Co.—pteture cards, * ——————— Eacox Printing Company, 508 Clay strest. * ——————— ToWNSEND's broken and mixed candies 10¢ 1b.* e Ocean Excursions. Bteamship Pomona, to Santa Cruz and Mon- terey, leaves Saturdays, 4 P. M., due back Mon- dtnys,‘ 5 A. M. Ticket office, 4 New Montgome;‘y Etreet. - — - In the time of Theodorus it was claimed that in Egypt there was seen a pigmy so small that he resembled a partridge. He also sang divinely. SEX to it that your blood is purified and enriched by the use of Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Then you will not be troubled with nervousness, sleeplessness and loss of appetite. Try it. e e e “ Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup’ Has been nsed 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 Bowets and is the best remedy for Diarrheess, whether arising from teething or oher causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Ee sure ana ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrip. 250 o botle. * “"FROM THE LOWEST LEVEL" A STORY OF MINING LIFE IN CALIFORNIA. By THE Rev. J. H. WyTHE JR. THE CALL has securedthe rig _TuE | ! ght to pub- lish this charming story in lszinl.iorm,plnd the first part appeared Saturda; v, Aug. 11. Readers of THE CaLL declare t e story to be one of unusual interest. The next in: stallment will be printed next Saturday, Aug. 17. It 1s customary to publish such contributions in the Sunxny ition of Tue CALL, 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 TuE CavLr has agreed to print this story in the Saturday issues only. THECALL devotes a great deal of attention toexcellent articles on Western Themes by Western men and Western women, >