The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 13, 1895, Page 6

6 TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1895. ; THE SAN FEANUISCU CALL, CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. ‘and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier.$0.15 and Sunday CALL, one vear, by mall... 6.00 and s "ALL, six months, by mail 3. and Sunds hree months, by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, ail W.EEKLY CALL, one year, by m: BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market S reet. Main—1868 Telephone.. EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephoe......... 5 BRANCH OFFICES 520 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until 0 o'clock. Hayes street: open un! Larkin street: open u §W. corner Sixteenth and 3 ontil 9 o'clock. ..Maln—1874 116 Ninth street; open un! OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Brozd! EASTERN OFFICE: Pacific States Advertising Bureau, Rhinelander tullding, Rose and Duane streets, New York City. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on & vacation? If £0, it is no trouble for us 1o 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 Marker street, will receive prompt attention. TUESDAY AUGUST 18,1895 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. PR — Art and commerce, it seems, do not mix well, even in Bohemi: PDemocracy bas a good many more corpses than leaders in the field. Let us hope that no florid writer will call the Mechanics’ Fair a carnival of industry. California will miss Frank M. Pixley, and it will be long before we see another like him. The vacancy on the Supreme bench is to many people the biggest thing in the United States. When you see the exhibits of home prod- ucts at the Mechanics’ Fair make up your mind to patronize them. When it loses its power over public opinion the monopoly will soon lose its grip on the public purse. If the churches of San Francisco make t and united effort the Christian on will soon be out of debt. Our contemporaries who are denouncing Jerome's ideas of Democracy have proba- bly forgotten that he is a funny man. Mr. Corbett continues to represent Cali- fornia muscle, but his recent manners have evidently been acquired in the East. The Grangers’ School of Instruction diea at Camp Roache only to be born again at San Jose with more oratory and bigger au- diences. The mountainous opposition to Quay in Pennsylvania is rapialy subsiding to a hole in the ground, and it won’t be Quay that falls into it. A Railroad Commissioner who says “the idea of the public is to cinch the railroads” is a little bit too prejudiced to make a good juryman in the case. Itisagood thing to have reduced the lottery swindles in this City by 50 percent, but in the fight against monopoly we must clean up the whole hog. Local Democracy is getting into shape for the coming split-up in the National party, and every faction in the Nation will have its champions here. Fruit shipments to London may result in a loss now and then, but in the end there will be profit enough in the trade to make up for the damage. In going to Japan for pleasure and rest it is to be hoped that Irving M. Scott will find some contracts there for profit and work when he comes home. T T It has now been suggested that William: E. Russell of Massachusetts might be a good enough Western man if he would accept the Demecratic nomination. The future historian will wonder why, with an intelligent people and honest offi- cials, the State of California could never make the Southern Pacific Railroad pay its taxes. If there are any reasons why special fa- vors should be granted to the Market-street Railway Company they have never been made public, so they must have been pocketed. In asserting that he intended to pull the nose of Fitzsimmons as a playful joke Gentleman Jim has set up as an American humorist on a plan that is liable to result in a sprained humerus before he goes far. —_— Carl Browne has sent a shudder through the East by issuing a manifesto in which he refers to himself as poet, painter and puncturer of pompous pride, of political puppets and pusillanimous poltroons of purse-proud plutocracy. The_industrial exposition this year will furnish a good starting point from which to measure the growth of home manufac- tures under the impulse of the new re- vival, of industry, and every year shonld show something in the way of increase and improvement, It is gratifying to learn that Governor Budd is better, and that the doctors have little doubt of his speedy recovery. Itis certainly the general hope that our first native son Governor will be able to fulfill his duties and leave the office at the close of his term with his natiye vigor unbroken and unimpaired. The complaint that California fruit is not packed well enouch for the London market emphasizes the need for improy- ing that part of the industry. In the girls who work in the orchards and canneries we have the most intelligent and best edu- cated labor in the world, and with a little teaching we ounght to be able to send out the most carefully and artistically packed fruit that reaches any market. There is no reason why the Emperor ‘William's celebration of the German war fetes should be regarded as offensive to France, any more than the celebration of the fall of the Bastile in France should be offensive to the Emperor. The one com- memorates the establishment of German unity and'the other the accomplishment of French liberty. Both nations have a right to rejoice, snd neither has a right to kick. FIRISH THE LOTTERY. The assurance given by Police Chief Crowley that practically all the male ped- dlers of lottery tickets have been driven out of the business and a crusade is next to be made on the women peddlers is most encouraging. There is no surprise in the information given by him that the num- ber of these women has increased since the men were suppressed, but it is agreeable to learn that the lottery evil, nevertheless, has greatly abated. After the women peddlers have been suppressed, what will be done with the leading newspapers of the City which pub- lish the lottery advertisements every month? Appeals have been made to their sense of dignity and right by Chief Crow- ley, by leading clergymen, by the better element of the weekly press and by THE Carn. Thus far these pleadings have not been heeded. The criminal courts cannot reach the case, as an inadvertence in the anti-lottery law has been construed to mean that it is not unlawfut to publish advertisements after the drawing. Possi- bly a fuller test would raise the principle that the operations of a lottery company do not close with thedrawing, thata draw- ing is merely one of a series of actsand that the business and therefore the offense are continuous. In the absence of any such test it is clear that the next Legisla- ture should enact a law that does not per- mit of a margin within which evil may be done in the absence of express words to prohibit it. 1t is unnecessary for Tee CaLL to say that in thus assailing its contemporaries it has no desire to obscure their worth and efficiency displayed so generously in other ways. Nothing is more disagreeable than the duty of attacking a thing that has so much good and in comparison so little evil. And we say ncw that THE CaLL is proud of California and of San Francisco. It cannot complacently observe the people injured by an agency so powerful, so pro- ductive of both individual and community harm, and so indicative of that loose mor- ality which some of the people of other States charge to our City. With . press generally so watchful of the public inter- ests, so quick to expose official rascality and so eager to promote the material de- velopment of our community, it can be regarded only as an exceedingly great pity that this disgraceful and damaging pro- motion of lotteries should remain to stain the record. MR. PIXLEY'S DEATE. There are very few of Frank M. Pixley’s old enemies living to take comfortin his death, but there are many thousandsof ad- mirers of his strange genius and person- ality to lament. For all the higher pur- poses he has been dead these many months, but the article of death itself is none the less poignant for that. Theearlier manifestations of his strength came at a time when it had to be matched with that of the most brilliant, daring and picturesque men to whom this part of Xe country has ever given prominence. The gold excitement and the turbulent politics ending only with the adoption of the consti- tution of 1879 brought to the front in Cali- fornia & remarkable group of men. They were the emergency crop of a bewilaering confusion of interests and principles, in which the concerns of California during her struggles to bring order out of in- dustrial and social chaos were rent and torn by the distractions which beset the Nation. Men with courage, brains and conflicting notions of patriotism sprang forward in a blind struggle among them- selves, and those with the strength to sur- vive the conflict passed into history. Mr. Pixley was conspicuous among these. First a miner, then a lawyer, then a politician and orator, he finally found the highest and most fitting exercise of his genius as the unhampered editor of his own newspaper, the Argonaut. That this unique publication at once became prosperous and famous and then per- manent was sufficient evidence of his freedom from crankiness, the breadth of his understanding, his shrewd knowl- edge of men and affairs, and his re- markable ability in expressing his opinions. Though he was rancorous and bitter, though the iron of Calvinism in his blood gave the color of religious intolerance to his conceptions of patriotic duty, though under the flag of patriotism he rallied his energies in favor of the rich and in scorn of the poor, and though he laughed at the hoary tradition of “‘con- sistency’’ and declared that the man in- capable of changing his convictions on sufficient evidence was a fool, he still charmed while he angered and com- manded attention while he abused. There were reasons for it. He had the lawyer’s training to make his reasoning log- ical, that unsurpassed courage which men admire even in those they hate,and a brilliancy and elegance of style thatfew moderns can approach. In stately argu- ment, in sarcasm, irony and ridicule, and in a playful persiflage that had sharp claws beneath the velvet, he was equally fin- ished, powerful and effective. He could tantalize to exasperation and laugh sneer- ingly at the frenzy which he roused. It would be idle here to discuss the vari-1 ous motives that may have governed his conduct during the stormy times into which he thrust hisaggressive personality. That he was far more picturesque than in- fluential was doubtlessa choice of his own. Added to the brilliancy of his intellect was a charming personality which none who felt its pressure could resist. He was gen- ial, had a fluent tongue and a ready wit, and was a master of conversation and ora- tory. The grave coversall the rest. One of the most remarkable of the picturesque men produced by the turmoil of past days lies dead among us, and with him passes another of those able forces out of which was born much that makes California as rich in history as it is abundant in kind- ness to humanity. A JUST COMPLAINT. In his charmingly written contribution to last Sunday’s Carn Charles Warren Stoddard makes this complaint of San Francisco: “Your City lacks color; I was half paralyzed when I discovered the fact, for I had quite forgotten it. You are always a damp or a dusty gray, with occa- sional touckes of dull brown. There isnot one bit of color in all your peninsula out- side of your splendid park.” The charge is eminently right, and had the gifted poet elaborated it he might have made some interesting disclosures of the prevalent lack of taste hereabout. He evidently means primarily that our houses are painted in that dull gray which is as monotonous and dreary as the in- terminable miles of bay-windows. The excellent wisdom and taste which governed the designing of the Chronicle building was the cruelest of rebukes to the bay-win- dowed and gray ugliness of its vis-a-vis, the Palace Hotel. Then came the Califor- nia Hotel and then the Crocker and Mills buildings, all in new and pleasing colors and attractive designs. It is in the residence districts, especially the more pretentious ones, that dreariness and ugliness flourish most aggressively. Nob Hill is a picture of profound and in- consolable misery, relieved only by the somber red dignity of the Flood house. the clean whiteness of the wooden shanty known as the “Colton mansion” and now owned by C. P. Huntington, and the fault- lessly beautiful architecture of the Hop- kins house, obscured as much as possible under a paint coat of leaden gray. A few, a very few, tasteful houses may be found in the Western Addition, principal among them being Henry Crocker's exquisite red tiled roof house at the corner of Washing- ton and Laguna streets, the Whittier red sandstone house at the corner of Jackson and Laguna streets and the splendid sand- stone house which Claus Spreckels is erect- ing on the one thoroughfare, Van Ness avenue, that should have none but houses as handsome, tasteful, elezant and rich in color as this. What the final color of the well-designed Whittell house, at the corner of California and Jones streets, is to be it has not been given to earthly beings to know; it has already in succession exhausted all the neutral tints of the spectrum. The superstition explaining the prevail- ing colors of San Francisco had its birth in the gray sands which forty years ago en- joyed a glad freedom on the wings of the wind. Itisnothingtothe point that these sands were buried under pavements and houses years ago and their aspirations stilled forever. The superstition was born, and it howls as an individual ban- shee under the eaves of all the houses in town. It was the issue of & mean and senseless economy—if the gray sand should alight on a gray house it would be in- visible. But bad taste in the use of house paint is not the only fault. Equally as grave a reproach is the neglect of color effects which the cultivation of flowers might produce. Almost the entire space of the wide grounds which surround so many of the finer places is given over to grass when a rampant show of flowers might be made every day in the year. Even the Chinese bave a more refined taste than that. A stroll through Chinatown will discover on every hand flower boxes and pots crowd- ing windows and verandas, and even illu- minating the skyline of the houses. GOLD AND THE TARIFFE. From all reports Mr. Cleveland is hav- ing as bad a time with the syndicate that was to have prevented gold exports as he had with the Congress that was to have vassed a revenue tariff bill. The syndicate agreed to maintain the treasury reserve up to October 1, and will probably do so. Meantime, however, the gold exports con- tinue, and when October comes the admin- istration will Have to issue another foan in oraer to carry on the Government and pre- serve the credit of the Nation. The syndi- cate instead of saving the administration will have.given it only a temporary relief, and we may expect another Cleveland letter on the subject of ‘‘perfidy and dis- honor.” If Cleveland had any regard for the pub- lic welfare orany pride of National patriot- ism he would not have permitted a syndi- cate of money-lenders to assume to itself the credit of protecting the treasury of the Nation. He would have convened an extra session of Congress and called upon the representatives of the people to provide the money needed for the Government. There are many reasons why he should bave aone so. There is need of a better revenue as well as of a stronger reserve of gold. The tariff as well as the condition of the treasury needs looking after, and in fact if a wiser tariff were adopted the difficulties of the treasury would in all probability soon pass away. The official report of exports and im- ports for the fiscal year just closed shows that whereas in 1893 our exports exceeded imports by $244.000,000, the excess was only about $75,000,000 for the past year. Our exports have fallen off about $84,000,000 and our imports increased about the same amount. Moreover, the net exports of gold rose from $4,528,942 in 1893 to $30,984,- 449 for the year just closed. The increase in the export of gold is the natural result of the increase of imports of goods. The deticit in the gold reserve is largely the re- sult of the deficit tariff, and together they make up the salient features of what has been justly and wittily called the ‘‘last fiasco year.” Mr. Cleyeland has met the accumulating difficulties of his situation by resorting to Wall street and running the country into debt to get money to tide his adminis- tration along from month to month. He has not even had the decency to raise the money by a popular loan disposed of on fair terms in an open market, but secretly borrowed money from a syndicate of bank- ers by selling to them United States bonds for 104}4 which were sold immediately afterward for 12014. And yet there are people high in rank in the Democratic party who talk of running this man for a third term. THE LONDON EXPERIMENT. The first shipment of fresh fruit from California to London, made a few weeks ago, produced so surprisingly handsome returns that a second shipment was speedily prepared and dispatched. The news just received from this second ex- periment is both encouraging and dis- heartening. There was the same eager- ness io buy the fruit as before, but the haste and carelessness of selecting, pack- ing and shipping to New York caused the ruin of a large part of the consignmentand leaves the grower without a profit. And yet, if he will regard the matter wisely, he has received an exceedingly good profit. This is twofold—first, he is now absolutely convinced that there is an eager demand in London for California fresh fruits, and second, that he cannot hope to supply this demand without tak- 1ng reasonable precautions in the method. This method is merely a meutter of detail, which had already been mastered and was then neglected in the haste to secure more of the benefits that had been discovered. No more mistakes of this kind will- be made in the future. The failure of this second enterprise seems to indicate that individual packers and growers cannot be depended on to understand the great value of maintaining the general reputation of our fruits in the London market, that the English people are far more discriminating and far less easily impused upon than Americans, and that when once they dis- cover a good thing they are as eager to secure it as they are quick to drop a bad thing or detect a fraud. These facts suggest some general super- vising agency, charged with the responsi- bility of seeing that proper fruits properly packed and shipped shall be sent out here- after, and that if necessary they be accom- panied all the way to London to see that him. they have proper treatment on the way, with possibly an overhauling at New York and a stoppage there of all fruits not deemed to be in perfect condition for the trans-Atlantic trip. The sharp desire of Londoners to buy this fruit is the most encouraging thing that has ever arisen to affect the fruit industry of California. We have bad to fight fora market in the Eastern States, solely be- cause Americans are not as sure in discern- ing the superiority of our fruits as are the English. This is in face of the fact that London is closer than New York to all those Old World areas that produce the fruits whichCaliforniaraises and that hence { in London we come into competition with a finer class of fruits than we find in New York. And yet apparently London finds our fruits superior to those which Europe and Asia Minor can produce, and is anxious to procure them even though it must get them older from the tree, pay enormous transportation charges, and a price, leav- ing these matters aside, greater than that which the European product commands. London is so vasta city and is so closely compacted in among thousands of other cities and towns that the slightest foothold there should be clung to with the utmost tenacity. Every advance made with our fruit in Great Britain not only brings its own benefits, but will have a strong in- fluence on the prices which we secure at Chicago and New York. There is abund- ant reason for feeling encouraged over the London discovery, and the highest duty of our growers now is to make the most of it. PERSONAL. Yates Stirling Jr. of the navy is at the Occi- dental. Dr. Z. T. Magill cf San Luis Obispo is staying at the Grand. J. F. Coope, aleading wineman of Santa Cruz, is at the California. Dr. Elmer E. Stone and family of Marysville are at the California. Colonel &nd Mrs. George F. Hooper of Sonoma are at the Occidental. A. N. Butts, a big mining man of Salt Lake, registered at the Occidental yesterday. J.J. Egan, & big dry-goods merchant of Hono- lulu, and Mrs. Egan are at the Occidental. W. E. Hadley, proprietor of the Horton House in San Diego, is a guest at the Grand. F. L. Coombs, ex-Minister to Japan and a prominent attorney of Napa, is at the Grand. C. V. Sale, a leading tea merchant of Yoko- hame, and Mrs. Sale are guests at the Occi- dental. Charles Ericksen, a contractor on the coast line of the Southern Pacific Railroad, is at the Grand. C. W. Waldron, editor of the Santa Cruz Sentinel, and Mrs. Waldron are at the Occi- dental. Superior Judge J. Wade McDonald of San Diego was ene of yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. ; Henry Heyman has returned from a summer vacation of six weeks in Sonoma and Lake Counties. P. A. Buell, a leading lumber-dealer and con- tractor of Stockton, registered at the Grand yesterday. Frank J. Branden, secretary of the State Senate, came up from San Jose yesterday, and is at the Grand. 8.8. Gannett of the United States Geological Survey, from Washington, registered at the Occidental yesterday. D.B. Lyman, superintendent of the Consoli- dated Virginia mines, arrived from the Com- stock yesterday, and is staying at the Palace. ‘Walter R. Dinmore, the soap menufacturer, is about to leave with his family for Los Angeles, where he is starting another soap factory. William C. Carl, organist of the First Presby- terian Church of New York, arrived here yes- terday for & month’s visit to this State, and is staying at the Occidental. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., August 12.—Among the arrivals to-day were: San Francisco—A. B. Bowers, Murrey Hill; C. 8. Bradley and F.G. Lewis, St. Cloud; Miss J. Lucile, Bartholdi; Mrs. Noble, Belvedere; F. J. Rogan, Grand Union; G. Gumpertz, Hoffman; Mrs. C. A. Kee- sing, Imperial; J. C. Stubbs, Miss M. S. Stubbs, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Wilson and the Misses Wil- son, Windsor. Los Angeles—T. M. Coulter, Westminster; M. Graham, Grend Union. REPORTING THE DURRANT CASE. The Durrant case is now before the public in all its horrible details, THE CALL in this City shows wisdom in its decision to eliminate all objectionable features from its report of the trial.—Pacific Coast Endeavorer. —_— PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Bismarck is getting better. His doctor has sent kim another cask of beer, In the opinion of Andrew Lang, Horace Howard Furness of Philadelphis, the Shakes- perian scholar, is the greatest American. During the thirty years Ainsworth R. Spof- ford Lias been Librarian of Congress the num- ber of books in his charge has increased from 70,000 t0 700,000. Mrs. Wentworth, a Philadelphia widow, sur- prised her friends by decorating her bicycle with crepe when she went cycling a few days after the death of her husband. Speaker Crisp’s father and mother were actors, and his older brothers as well. One of the Speaker’s earliest recollections is seeing his father play Armand Duval to his mother's Camille, D. W. Stevens, the American Secretary of the Japanese Legation at Washington, is a base- ball crank, and has,persuaded the Japanese Minister to accompany him to several ball games. Gilbert Parker recently encountered a Cana- dian Bishop whom he had known in his boy- hood. The Bishop pompously inquired: ‘‘Ah, Gilbert. And are you still writing your—ah— little books?” Mr. Parker answered promptly: “Yes, Bishop. And are you still preaching your—ah—little sermons?” A well-known wit used to say that every girl should he given five or six names from which her future huspand could make his choice. Perhaps that principle prevailed at the chris- tening of an Englishwoman whose will has just Dbeen admitted to probate. Her name wasEdna. Muriel Ethel Gladys Caroline Maud Beatrice Laura Tetherington Marks, HUMOR OF RECENT DATE. “Mary,” said the sick man to his wife, when the doctor pronounced it & case of smallpox, *4f any of my creditors call, tell them that I am at last in a condition to give them something.” —London Tit-Bits. May~—I am going to marry Mr. Quickblood. 0ld Bachelor Cousin—Good heavens! May—Why do you say that? He's well off. 01d Bachelor Cousin—Yes, he’s well off as he is; but he doesn’t know it.—Philadelphia Record. Fashionabie Doctor—My dear young lady, you are drinking unfiltered water, which swarms with animal organisms. You should have it boiled—that will kill them. His Patient—Well, doctor, I think I'd sooner be an aquarium than a cemetery.—Household Words. The telegraph editor of the Globe is so used to writing telegrams thatend up with “Trouble is expected,” that he recently made this addi- tion to & marriage notice which passed through his hands, and the mistake wasn’t notice until the form was locked up.—Atchison Globe. ““Ha, ha! hs, ha!” laughed the great detec- tive, “I have them now!” o For five days he had been on the trail and had neither eaten nor slept. He had done nothing but drink. Under the circumstances his joyous assertion that he had 'em bore the similitude of verity.— Detroit Tribune. “You seem excited, dear. What has hap- pened?” «“Poor Jack Murray! I have just rejected “Oh, don’t mind a little thing like that. Why, I reject him every six months.—Louis- ville Courier-Journal. “Tommie, your spelling is bad,” sald Mr. Hicks to his boy. i “That’s all right, paps,” said Tommie. “When I grow up I'm going to dictate all my letters, like you do. It’s the typewriter that'll have to know spelling, not me,”—Harper's “C,:., Round Table. - Bobbie (in a sober mood)—Oh, mamma, I wnh‘I.nnIy had all the money I've spent for sweets. Mamma (proudly)—My boy would put it in his savings bank, wouldn’t he? Bobble (deliberately)—No, mamma; I'd buy | more sweete~Boston Home Journal, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. William C. Carl, the organist of the First Presbyterian Church at Fifth ayenue and Tyelith street, New York, arrived here yester- day. This church is noted in New York as having one of the best choirs in & city of notable choirs. The organ was built by Roose- velt and is one of tne finest in America. “As soon as you leave the middle of the country coming West,” said Mr. Carl yester- day, “there is little for an organist to do ex- cept play at church services, but in the East the best organists are constantly employed at orgen concerts. Organ music is very popular in the East, and organ recitals have become very frequent. In fact, you may almost call them a fad and the desire for them is growing. But out here there seems to be little desire for organ music.” When asked about his own and other church music 1n New York Mr. Carl said: “We have & professional quartet, a chorus of seventy- five and a boy chorus of twenty-five voices. On Saturday we have three rehearsals, one for the boys, another for the chorus and a third for the quartet, and at each rehearsal the musie of the two succeeding Sundays is rehearsed. An assistant plays the organ while I go into differ- ent parts of the house to hear the effects. We use only the best end extremely classical mu. sic, for our chureh is only about $3500 a year, and this is about an average of the best churches, although the West Presbyterian Church, of which the Goulds are members, pays $1500 a year each to its organist and four members of the choir. Itispossible to obtain in New York exceptionally good music in the churches for very little, as so many vocalists come there to study and the market is over- crowded.” Mr. Carl was a pupil of Alexander Guilmant, the great Parisian organist, and he plays the French modern school of organ music. Last year he was the solo organist of the Worcester musical festival, which is the great musical feature in the East. OPINIONS OF EDITORS. The Southern California boomer is given to talking much of his faith in the city where he lives, but it is faith born of ahazy, indefinite idea that some day capitalists will select his town for & dumping ground for their surplus millions, and make every one, including him- self, wealthy for all time. His faith, however, does not induce him to make 8 move for him- self. These men are simply parasites. They are numerous all over Southern California, and 8an Diego, unfortunately, has her full share of them.—San Diego Union. Let the matrons of America treat the girl who cooks 8s the girl who earns her living otherwire and the *‘domestic help” problem will be speedily and satisfactorily solved, but not until then. The menial position of the do- mestic servant in the social status is a survival of blood-worshiping royelty of the old world, and it will require some generations of social evolution to wash out the dirty stain, but whether in counting-house or kitchen a lady isa lady for &’ that. We have had smokeless powder. Now we have noiseless powder. 1f some one will only invent harmless powder and make it fashion- able war will become & very agreeable pastime. But the way improvements have been going lately the indications are that the first time two great nations try conclusions at arms the vanquished will only be & very little worse off than the victor.—Seattle (Wash.) Times. The spirit of progress has begun to crop out among the people of Traver and vicinity. The establishment of & creamery here is meeting with universal approval. Hang on to it, “brethering”; we are truly “the frog in the churn,” and if we just keep on kicking we may get butter enough to float us.—Traver Advo- cate. It appears that the costof collecting the un- constitutional income tax was $88,789. That is the price the country must pay for one ex- ample of Democratic folly.—Astorian, Oregon. Of course every county will cheerfully stand a raise in its assessment to help out the South- ern Pacific Company.—San Jose Mercury. EASTERN EDITORS. How to Note Iowa Editors. A great many mistakes are made by editors through giving wrong eredits to the articles re- printed from other papers. The mistakes usually occur through the articles being clipped, when looking over the exchanges and relying upon the memory for the credit when the time ar- rives to paste the articles preparatory to placing them in the copybox. The Register has adopted & new plan of noting the name of the editor on the side of the article, when the editor has & known personality. For instance, instead of writing Montezuma Republican we write ‘“Jarnagin,” on the side of the copy; “Winfield” is written for the Oskaloosa Herald, “Murph” for the Vinton Eagle, “Coin” for the Fort Dodge He:senger‘, ‘Hunger” for the Car- roll Herald, “Shenbaw” for the Corning Union, “Mulet” for the Marshalitown Republican, “Subsquirt” for the Chariton Democrat, and so on down through the |uni list of friendly edi- tors of favorite papers who will now for the first time know how they are so_ generally rightly credited in The Register.—Iowa State Register. Third Term Talk. If no man may have three terms in the chair of the chief magistrate of the republic there can be no higher distinetion for a President than to be thought of in such a relation. A good many highly distinguished statesmsn have felt they had reaped glory enough when they heard themselves even mentioned for one term, flattering their aspiring souls that they could eatch, with prophetic ears, the boast of generations unborn that once their great pro- enitor was proposed for President of the nited States. Moreover, when Roscoe Conk- ling was advocating General Grant’s cause at Chicago he declared that the principal op sition to & third term came from men WR were anxious to geta first term.—Boston Globe. Statues in Large Parks. It is not easy, says Mr. Olmsted, to make peo- ple understand why statues and other works of art should not be set up in our great parks. And yet it ought not to be dificult. Surely it should be self-evident to all men and women of taste that a great park, like Central or Pros- pect, should be essentially rural; that statues and ‘monuments, generaliy speaking, are es- sentially formal and artificial; and that to mix the two'is incongruous. Every one would rec- ognize the absurdity of htwini oil paintings upon the trunks of trees. Why is it any better {z‘:x;ee' up statues among them?—New York Tri- Alien Labor. The imported diamond-cutters who were bronght over to this country some time ago, and who were subsequently deported under the provisions of the alien contract labor law, have turned up on this side of the water again and they are found to have obtained employ- ment here at their trade. How they managed to get in after having once been shut out the imm:*nmm suthorities do not undertake to expiain, but it is not difficult to guess the methods they employed to escape detection. The alien contract labor law, as it now stands on the statute books, contains a good many ab- surd features, and those which are defensible appear to be practizally impossible of eniorce- ment.—Boston Herald, Prohibition in Des Moines. The Register spent many years in trying to enforce the prohibitory law. Iteven went so far as to uphold the most unconscionable scoundrels who ever searched homes or plun- dered treasuries, because it hoped that some- how good might come from the evils inflicted, but it was all'in vain, Carloads of liquors were hauled into Des Moines every day and the county grew poorer every day. We can close the drugstore saloons now because there is & legal channel for the stuff. Trying to shut off the whole traffic is like trying to stop Niagara with a dam. The water must flow some- where.—Iowa State Register. Come on, Mr. Morrison. The Inquirer has seen no signs starting from the sky which pointed toward the suthor of the horizontal tariff bill, but it believes that it voices ;ho e;mvmlon of a majority of Republi- cans when it says that it would have Morrison ’n‘. any other ctnd’ml'd:t.e,wg: t — iphia In- Stanford University. The straits to which Stanford University is reduced by the suit of the United States Gov- ernment for funds to pay its running expenses hss %rrodu‘lnh: out menmn:h ch;‘r:ollr of Mrs. strong 3 no sooner mudmmuz&huhnl it has risen to emerge] n . e SENHTOR JONES ABRIVES Refuses to Discuss the Sil- ver Question at Pres- ent. HE IS WORN OUT WITH TRAVEL Says the Issue Is Too Important to Talk About Without Giving It Careful Thought. Senator John P. Jones, the central figure in the great silver controversy now going on all over the United States and Europe, arrived in the City yesterday morning and repaired at once to the Palace Hotel,where he went to his rooms with his stenographer and proceeded to complete some personal business before he entered into the prepa- ration of his silver statistics. During the day many intimate friends visited him. His appearance on the coast at this date, when his old-time associate, John W. Mackey, is also here, is said to be significant, and something will per- haps be done in regard to the Mariposa land deal which the Senator has on in con- junction with Mr. Mackey. It bas been expected that they would make some move toward dividing the tract into small farms and colonizing it with farmers and small manufacturers. In this event there will be an excellent opportunity for a great many people to take up first-class land on easy terms and get to work almost imme- diately. 3 : _ The Senator, in an interview with a CaLyn reporter, said of his contemplated silver movements: “I am not prepared to make any state- ment whatever that touches upon the sil- ver question. I fully realize that at this time the people of the United States, and particularly those of the Pacific Coast, ex- pect something from me regarding the coming issue, and therefore I cannot con- verse hurriedly on the subject, nor can 1 give you any information as to the situa- tion. ~Such an interview would require time and thought, and I assure you I have had no time to collect myself on that point for several days. Iam tired out and have re- fused to talk to any one on the silver question. 47 “A great many personal affairs have about worn me out, and I must take time to collect myself. If I wandered away into monetary talk now I would in all prob- ability make some mistakes, and I cannot afford to do that. There never was a time when the white metal required care and diplomacy more than now, and I must rest myself before I undertake to discuss it. When I am prepared 1 will willingly talk at length on that or any other gues- tion, but at the present time I must not burden myself with such an important issue as the silver question. It is too vital to be treated lightly, but in a few days [ will be ready to do all I can to state the case as clearly as possible.” The Senator was aeaf to requests for his opinion from a dozen different sources, and said he much preferred o forget the matter until he had recuperated from his travels. One of the most important events in the Senator’s social world is the marriage of his nephew Roy to Miss Hobart, which is soon to take place in this City. The groom is one of the Senator's favorites, and he has cast everything aside to be present on the occasion of the youth’'s marriage to a very estimable young lady, whose ances- tors were closely alliea with the silver champion’s early days on the Comstock, when silver was 16 to 1 and coinage was free. Mrs. john P. Jones greeted the Senator on his arrival, having come up from Santa Monica, where they have a magnificent country home beside the sea. \ COISTTUTIOIL HGH, Judge Conlan Lays Down the Law as to Open-Air Meetings. The Case Against President Burns of the Cigar-Makers’ Unlon Dismissed. T. F. Burns, president of the Cigar- makers’ Union and of the Union Label League, appeared in Judge Conlan’s court yesterday morning to answer the charge of obstructing the street. It was evident from the large attendance in court that the case had excited consid- erable interest in the community. President Burns was arrested by Police- man T. L. Ryan at Third and Market streets on Saturday night while addressing an open-air meeting. The only evidence offered was that of the arresting ofhcer, who testified to a crowd having gathered on the sidewalk and street to listen to President Burns’ address. Prosecuting Attorney Mogan claimed that a case had been made out and asked for a conviction. “I disagree with you,” said the Judge. “The defendant was simply advocatin, the purchase of home-made goods an calling attentien to the new blue label adopted by the league. He was not making a speech that might incite to riot, but on the contrary was advocating a cause that is commendable. Free speech is the constitutional right of every Ameri- can citizen, and the defendant, in my oyinion. did not come within the purview of the law although a crowd gathered to hear him. ““He had as much right to address an open-air meeting on these subjects as the Salvation Army and other organizations who address open-air meetings every Sunday and sometimes on other days along the water front and in other parts of the City, The case is dismissed.” COLONEL HUNTER GOES EAST. The Retiring Officer Leaves a Patriotic Record in San Francisco. By order of the War Department Lieu- tenant-Colonel Edward Hunter, deputy judge advocate United States army, on duty at General Forsyth’s headquarters in this City, has been ordered to report to the Department of Dakota, General Brooke commanding, at St. Paul, Minn. His suc- cessor here will be Major Stephen W. Groesbeck, judge advocate, relieved from duty at headquarters in Chicago. Colone!l Hunter has been on duty on the coast almost without interruption since 1868, and he leaves S8an Francisco with reat regret, in which his brother officers oin. During his official residence in this ity Colonel Hunter has exhibited a lofty triotism. He became greatly interested n the subject of inspiring in the pupils of our public schools a love of country, and itwas partly through his efforts that ob- ject lessons in patriotism are now being taaght them. At different times he has m: spirited addresses in those institu- tions with a view to arousing in the scholars a reverence for the glorious deeds done in revolutionary times that were stamped by the seal of patriotic blood. Last year he presented the stars and stripes to the Protestant Orphans’ lam, in order that its glories might daily be un- folded to their view, 50 as to daily inculcate’ among the inmates a love for the land Whose institutions are their only parents. For years he has been an active member of volution, and is now its president. This ro‘blaty. in connection with similar ones in other States in the Union, has among its ; members many of National reputation and reat ability, who have achieved High dis- inction in social, political and financial ircles. $ °"§c the last celebration of onr natal da lonel Hunter cheerfully resigned himself f:thl task of helping to make the parade an imposing one. As chief-of staff to the grand marshal, he patiently gave his time and experience toward organizin the various gfvisions,-p labor that was by no means easy, but in the success of which Colonel Hunter's patriotic spirit felt well u;?;jgi%roesmk. who relieves ©im, has his way in rank through a faithful :Eg'v‘ice to hyis country, which began in 1861, and among his associates he 1s held in high esteem as a popular officer and ac- comp%ished gentleman. SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY ROAD S Contract for Grading the Second Section Awarded. to Grant Bros. The executive committee of the board of directors of the San Francisco n'nd San Joaquin Valley Railroad op_e!xi:d bids yes- terday for material for all pilingand trestle work on the new road between the eastern line of the city of Stockton and ::e Sft:r_x:s. ive ere were a number of bids, ewbes fhe Poard will do will not be do- termined untii this afternoon, when the regular meeting is held. The proposals are for 20,000 lineal feet of piling and 375,000 feet of lumber, besides the iron ecessary. 4 7 3 The cgnh‘act when let will require that the work shall be commenced within fii:een days and completed within ninety days. The contract for gmding from Stockton to the Stanislaus River has been awarded to Grant Brothers, and the papers will be signed within the next two days. THE WIELAND LITIGATION. A Suit in Relation to the Accounts Be- tween Two Estates. The suit of Anna M. Zeltner, as executor of John H. Wieland’s will, against g‘hss!es S. Wieland, executor of the Sophie Wie- land will, was taken up in Judge Hunt’s court yesterday morning. It is a suit to recover $13,947 42, clzimed to be due under settlement of the brewery sale to asyn- dicate. A jury was impaneled, and then by agreement of the counsel the suit was dis- missed to give the plaintiff an opportunity to file an amended complaint. The plain- tiff pays all the costs of the suit. 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