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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALI, SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1895 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postuge Free: ¢ and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier.$0.15 lay CaL1, one year, by matl... 6.00 Taily and Sunday CALL, six montbs, by mail 3.00 Tialiy and Snnday CALL, three months, by mail 1.50 Tiaily and § BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street. Telephone..i.eere e EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. .Main—1868 Telephone... Main—1874 £50 Mont{gomery sireet, correr Clay; open until ock. 9 Haves sfrect: open until 9:30 o'clock. 717 Larkin street; open nntil 9:30 o'clock. 8W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9 o'clock 18 Mission street; open unil 9 o'clock. 16 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: £08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: tes Advertising Bureau, Rhinelander d Duene streets, New York City. Aré you g0 £¢., it 15 Do trou yeuraddress. mies it. O Eusiness Office, Frommpt attention. Do not let s given to 710 Ma To-morrow we welcome the silver men. Li main The fair season has come, bt the carni- vals with us. lways speak lotder than words, but they mean more. by.the path of competition that we can get to:the end of monopoly. If Eastern people hai nothing else to do fhiey might keep busy watching California grow. The silver convention along with. the exposition’ will make the coming week lively. Monopoly ¢ares little about public in- dignation; but the enforcement of the law makes it irm. We may believe that Cuban independ- ence is coming, but it is a little too far off yet to be récognized. Electric probabilities have .now become g0 great that we hardly have time to con- As Mr. Fitzsimmons has decided to be- come an American citizen the great inter- national fisticuff is off Thera is’a chance for San Francisco to distinguish herself in the carnival :line by giving a California fete. It is a dull California town that has not made, or dves not intend to make, some kind of a show this year. Whatever- may bée the offenses of the Southern Pacific of Kentucky the people of :California are in favor of railroads. Study Tu¥ Cavv this morning and see what Western writers can do to make a Sunday newspaper for critical readers. The task before the bimetallic league is not so much a it against the goldbugs of education for the people The new building of Tae CALL will be the monumental structure of the new era and stand as an evidence of the enterprise of the day. The Repnblican party, which was pow- erful enough to save the Nation, ought to make its representatives in office behave themselves. Mass-meetings may generate a powerful public sentiment, but unless it be rightly directed it will pass.as an 1dle wind and never turn 3 wheel of civic maclinery. The old belief that cow’s milk is an ideal human food hias been assailed by a new theory- that the milk is fit only for calves and that no Fiman stomach can digest s said.thdt since the introductiot: of n miners into the coal regions of Vir- ginia, it has-cost that State about $180,000 a yn mobs and prevent riots. The latest thing in'the way of newspaper in the East is the appesarance of a Page” in -the acuse Post in ie conventional “Woman’s Pag ture is hailed as an evidence of vlace of and the fe the new era.. Tt is said that when Great Britain has completed the reconstruction of her navy, according to_ the plans -adopted, the total cost. will exceed $500,000,000; and still we live in an era of peace and England is not a warlike natjon. g The Fresno raisin-growers who have sent to the City- for'white help instead of em- ploving Chinese have certainly acted for the best interests of the State and there is reason to- believe that they will find it to their own interest also. The effort of the Democratic leaders to throw all the-blame of the misgovernment of the last two-years on Cleveland is in- genious but futile. A political party- is always responsible for the acts of its official representatives. Short as has been the time since the treaty with Japan compelled China to ad- mit the importation of foreign -machinery, it is announced that under the treaty a British firm has already begun the erection of a cotton factory at Shanghai. According fo a writer in Blackwood, woman in Burmah has thoroughly eman- cipated hersélf; every career is open to hér, and, as.a. consequence, the men have abandoned 4ll. business occupations and eimply sit around-and letthe women work. It is claimed in Chicago that.the con- struction of high buildings has.rendered it necessary to abandon ihe present system of fighting fires with steam engines, and to substitute sonie electric system that witl do the work better. - It is asserted, more- oyer, that the.change may be expected in- side of a year: - 3 o Tl ot _Ore of the difficulties that confronts the Balisbury Cabinet is the selection of a com- mander-in-chief of the army. The fight is hot between the friends of Lord Wolseley and those of General Roberts, with the chances that Salisbury. may split the differ- ence by theappointmentof hisroyal null- ity, the Duke of Connaught. ely a matter of sticking to the | -| tinguish the debt. THE REPUBLIOCAN PARTY. The Republican party of California has the Listory of a third of a century to look back upon with mingled pride and regret and a far greater future to look forward to with hope and high resolve. It was born as the party of the people of California, who loved liberty ana union, and who believed that beneath the broad folds of the Federal constitution lay the best assurances of public tranquil- lity and of opportunity 1n the pursuit of happiness for themselves and for their posterity. There are men still living who love to gather their grandchilaren about their knees to tell, with glowing hearts and glistening eyes, of their proud portion in the formation of the Republican party of the State of California. During the first twenty years of its his- tory the Republican party of California justified the hope of its founders and the faith of its members as the party of con- sistency to principles and honesty in voli- ties. It prouuced leaders and nominated candidates who were a credit to it and to the State. It elected legislators to enact, Judges to construe and offi- cials to enforce laws for the benefit of the entire people, and without sub- servience to powers or interests whose purposes were selfish, whose methods were discreditable and whose theory of politics was reliance upon the purchasable quality in men. During that first score of years the history of the Republican party was a record of stainless honor, of great accom- plishment and of almost uniform success. During the past twenty years of its his- tory the Republican party of California has been under the shadow of a malign presence and influence in its organization and affairs. Against the will of its masses and despite the protests of its best brains and bravest hearts, it has been dominated by the members and the creatures of a great corporation which has deemed the ownership of a political party essential to the success of its business projects and self- ish aims. When the creators of the Cen- tral Pacific Railroad Company first saw the possibility of enormous wealth loom above the horizon of their enterprise and resolved to grasp it they adopted one fatal error in procedure. Y This was the error of imagining that their success depended upon the manipulation of politics and the control of public officials and that in securing and maintaining this political dominance the end justified the means. Out of persistence in this error has come a curse to the politics of the Pa- cific Coast, and particularly has arisen the cloud which has darkened the history of the Republican party of California during the last twenty years. The time has come for the declaration of independence by the Republican party of this State from the influence and domi- nance of the Southern Pacific Company over its counsels, policies and affairs. The dark shadow and slimy band of this selfish interest must be removed from this great party if it is to longer ex- pect and deserve popular confidence and support. When treachery and bribery and shameless official malfeasance run riot through public places; when Republican conventions are at- tended by their delegates through the grace of railroad passes; when Re- publican legislators ride to and from the capital and junket up and down the State on railroad tickets furnished free while regularly drawing their allotted mileage from the public till; when Republican Railroad Commissioners openly obey and serve the corporations which they were elected to control and regulate; when Republican members of the State Board of Equalization notori- ously refuse and neglect to assess railroad properties at values at all proportionate to those upon which private citizens are taxed; when members of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco brazenly violate a beneficent statute in order to give valuable public privileges to a greedy corporation; when Republican officials from the Governor of the State down to the constable of its most remote country cross-roads must crook the pregnant hinges of their knees to this arrozaut and self-seeking organism in order to get and hold their offices—it is high time for a bill of rights and a declara- tion of independence on behalf of the Re- publican party of the State of California. Tue Carn undertakes to-day to make this declaration and provoses to bend all its energies to give it entire effect. It raises high the standard of its firm resolve to achieve independence for the Repub- lican party of California from the power of the Southern Pacific Com- vany as a political agency. It calls aloud to the Republicans of California to co-operate with it in bringing this result to pass. Itinvites every citizen who be- lieves in party honesty, in official in- tegrity, in equal justice between corpora- tions and men, in freedom of politi- cal action, in equality of texation, in the absolute cessation of corporate inter- ference with political affairs—in a word, it urges every Republican who thinks that it is time to’ make the declara- tion of the highest railroad official, tlat “The railroad is out of politics,” a living and eternal truth to unite with it, and such a verity the phrase will straight- way be. Of a disenthralled and regenera- ted Republican party made up of such men, THE CaLL assumes henceforth to be the organ, and through a. nobler future to remain and be its constant guide, philoso- pher and friend. OAKLAND'S DILEMMA. Our charming neighbor across the bay finds itself in danger of being punished for neglect of ordinary business principles in the ~onduct of its municipal finances. Bonds to the amount of $140,000 fall due in February, and as no sinking fund has been provided for their redemption a heavy tax will have to be imposed should a majority of the voters in the special eiection soon to be held decide that the bonds shall not be refunded. In order to defeat the re- funding proposition an organized and earnest fight is being made, the capitalists, of course, arraying themselves on the side of refunding. The heayy special tax re- quired for the redemption would provea hardship in more ways than one. The whole situation is very instructive and is deserving of study by other cities. It is likely that when the bonds were orig- inally proposed they were opposed by cap- italists and large property-owners and favored by the working classes. Now the situation is completely reversed ; the work- ing classes, having received the benefit of the issue, want the property-owners to ex- Under ordinary ecir- cumstances ‘there could be no question that they should be made to do so, but property values have shrunk, revenues have decreased and times are hard. gFrom the point of view of self-interest the work- .| ing classes could gain no advantage from defeating_ the refunding measure, and hence thelr opposition has the appearance of antagonism to property. The imposition of the tax to extinguish the debt would not only bear heaviiy on the property-owners, but would cperate to the checking of improvement and a reduc- tion of expenditures of which the working classes would receive the benefit. If the {in valuable improvements. working classes cannot understand this proposition and are willing to cripple their own prospects in order to punish the capitalists for something not explained, it shows that a deplorable feeling is abroad between capital and labor. If so, and it finds many opportunities for exercise, the prosperity of California is threatened. Undoubtedly the property-owners are at fault for permitting the finances of Oak- land to be managed with so little regard for business principles. The city hasplaced itself in the position of a borrower who makes no provision for paying his debt when it falls due, but depends on some fortunate circumstance to secure an exten- sion. Such a policy induces thriftlessness and extravagance and is incompatible with success in private affairs. All this means to say that the very citizens most heavily charged with the responsibility of seeing that the business of the city was conducted on sound principles have neg- lected to do so, and are in a fair way to be punished for their indifference. A NOBLE THOROUGHFARE. The two great ornaments of Market street which are under way—THE CALL'S fifteen-story marble building and the ferry structure—are tremendous strides toward the conversion of this noble highway into one of the most splendid thoroughfares in the world. The ferry building will be either in marble or sandstone, will be 600 feet long and will be surmounted by a tower of imposing height. Tue CarL’s building will be striking for its vastly su- perior height above any other building in the City, for the striking beauty of its tower effect and for the dazzling whiteness of its marble. Upon the exercise of wisdom, taste and enterprise in the building up of Market street will depend much that concerns the City at large, and its aspect and manage- ment will be the key to whatever of refine- ment and prosperity the City can possess. It will be the center upon which all that makes the City desirable will be concen- trated to the extent that whatever is good in other parts of the City must be better on Market street. Hence every shabby structure thereon will be just as sure anin- dication of its owner's lack of value as a citizen as will THE CALL’s marble building be of the superior enterprise and worth of Claus Spreckels. At present Market street is not inviting. Insteaa of having sunken tramways and a smooth pavement, two cable lines and two horsecar lines crowd its surface, and the most wretched of block pavements completes the discomforts and dangers which the surface cars begin. Besides these drawbacks it is lined extensively with the most wretched wooden shanties that a total lack of pride and energy could permit. But these are steadily making way for houses built by men who are of value to the community. The Parrqtt building isa palace, and Claus Spreckels, besides having just finished one handsome stone structure, 1s preparing to build four or five others of even greater beauty and size. There is an abundance of rich men in the City and there are many millions of dollars that might be profitably employed Every such house as that which Tre CALL is to have, instead of merely increasing the number of buildings and offices to rent, adds to the attractiveness and prosperity of the City, induces the coming of population and wealth, encourages business and urges the City onward in all the ways that make it pleasant, beautiful, inviting and prosper- ous. Inferior buildings and poor streets will be taken as the measure both of our intelligence and prosperity, and will stand asa barrier to our progress. Every man of means who moves forward is a public benefactor, and every one who iags behind sits like an incubus upon the town. A REMARKABLE SPEECH. In these days of selfishness, avarice and an endless struggle for wealth it is refresh- ing to read the manly declaration made by Mark Twain in an interview at Van- couver. He elaborates his tormer declara- tion that he has undertaken his lecturing tour round the world for the sole purpose of raising money with which to pay the debts arising from the failure of his pub- lishing-honse; that at his time of life he would not have undertaken so arduous a work for his own financial benefit. Here is a wonderful passage in his interview: “The law recognizes no mortgage on a man’s brain, and a merchant who has given up all he bas may take advantage of the rules of insolvency and start free again for himseli; but I am not a business man, and honor is a harder master than the law. It cannot compromise for less than a hun- dred cents on the dollar, and its debts never outlaw.” The force of this is better appreciated when we reflect that he is 60 yearsold, and that he thinks it will be necessary for him to lecture four years before he can ex- tinguish the debt. These are precious years for a man at his time of life, and he cannot hope after the completion of his task to earn sufficient for his perfect ease and comfort in his very last years, when rest and comfort will be so much needed. More valuable than those considerations which affect his personal interests is the stern rebuke which he administers to men who have no sense of honor except that which the law compels them to entertain. The very existence of insolvency lawsisa confession of weakness that casts nearly the deepest of all the shadows resting on civilization. They are even a harsher re- buke than the penal laws, for crime is gen- erally a symptom of disease peculiar to the individual rather than the expression of a community fault, while insolvency laws have a broader origin. It is true that these laws work great benefit. While they place no burden upon conscience they do not in the least relax that which a right moral sense imposes, and thus it is that they encourage rascality by favoring the tricky man. Still, they are a necessity. Laws are not intended to govern the morality of men, but only their conduct. The three princi- pal things which affect conduct are the laws, a desire to have the respect and con- fidence of a community and the dictates of the individual conscience. Laws neither relieve society of its obligations to the in- dividual nor theindividual from the moral pressure which society can exercise. And it is altogether unfair to complain of in- solvency laws when we observe thatasa rule they are adopted by the community as a standard by which to judge the hon- esty of an Insolvent. The carelessness of some mothers in the education of their daughters is shown by the fact that a Chicago woman recently sent her daughter to the Iowa Reform School under the impression that it was a State seminary for girls. The girl has since been ‘‘pardoned’’ and set free, but the ignorance of the mother can hardly be pardoned. The latest Philadelphia ambition is to make the University of Pennsylvania the greatest institution of learning in the United States, and to carry out the plan the millionaires of the city are now en- gaged in the task of raising an endowment of $5,000,000. RANDOM NOTES. By Jouy McNAUGHT. The success of the carnivals held in dif- ferent partsof the State, the brilliancy of our own festival at Belvedere, and the fact that the Half-million Club favors tbe project, are sufficient reasons why the social leaders of San Francisco should give at least a holiday consideration to the idea of mak- ing this City thecene of some of the most gorgeous and gayest artistic revels known to the Western world. The popularity of the carnivals elsewhere proves that the people are ready to furnish fit actors and spectators for the fetes, the glory of the Venetian night at Belvedere attests the wealth and the taste equal to the best ac- complishment, while the force inherent in such an organization as the Half-million Club assures the energy necessary to carry out any plan that may be devised. What more do we need then than the will to make our City a theater where the comedy of life can be presented at times in its most joyous form, amid its fairest surroundings and under its brightest aspects? The subject is referred to the sqcial leaders of the City because they have had sufficient training and experience in the management of festal affairs on a large scale to lift the proposed fete to the height of a true festival. The carnival which we hold should be no mere gaudy show de- vised to draw crowds and bring money to town. It should be designed ou that high plane where life becomes a fine art and where art commands money because it does not surrender to it. We should make a joyous season social in every asvect, not regardless of cost, of course, but certainly regardless of pecuniary profit. ‘Whether we have a carnival or not, it may be possible for San Francisco next year to present a spectacle that will en- gage the attention of the whole Nation and largely increase our fame. If, as now seems probable, we succeed in obtaining the Republican National Convention we would enrapture every delegate and fill every visitor with admiration by locating the convention in the magnificent amphi- theater of the Sutro baths. It would be by far the most beautiful, the grandest and the most inspiring hall in which a Presi- dential convention ever assembled, and the scene presented by such a gathering in such a place would be at once brilliant to the eye and filled with suggestions both patriotic and poetic. With the exception of its remoteness from the center of the City, which in some important respects would be an advantage, the fitness of the Sutro baths for a Presi- dential convention is beyond question. A flooring over the swimming-pool would afford ample room for seating all the dele- gates and alternates, while in the spacious amphitheater which rises with tier above tier of seats around it, there would be space for many thousands of spectators. These conveniences for the accommodation of great crowds, however, are but a smali part of the fitness of the place for'such an assembly. Those features which render it most fit are the stately dignity of the building itself, the romantic beauty of the surroundings and the fact that the Pacific Ocean is not only visible from its windows and audible in its corridors, but is, in fact, an essential part of it, flowing up into it and furnishing the water for its baths. ‘What an inspiration for the orators of the convention would be found in the nomination on the very shores of the Pacific of a President who is to reside on the coast of the Atlantic. The scene would bring home to the imagmnationof every spectator all the grandeur embodied in the phrase, “The ocean-girt Republic.”” An orator and an audience equally impressed by a sentiment so capable of awakening the enthusiasm of an exalted patriotism could hardly fail to produce an eloquence that would be forever memorable in our history. The greatness of the occasion, the splendor of the scene, the magnificence of the surroundings, the geographical re- lation of the site of the convention to that of the capital of the Nation, the conscious- ness of the approaching end of the century with all that the closing age implies, be- ing borne in the minds of spectators whose eyes overlook the far-reaching Pacific, and in whose ears the mysterious music of that mighty sea pulsated always, would surely furnish to the ablest orators and statesmen of the Union the inspiration that would rouse them to the expression of the noblest thoughts in the noblest language. In the “Legend of the Cypress Trees,” J. E. Richards furnishes to THE CaLL this morning a poem that will be a delight to all who are susceptible to the fine infiu- ences of poesy, but its highest charm and ruest meaning will be for those only who have stood beneath those mysterious old cypress trees on the promontory’at Mon- terey and who, while admiring the grace of their rugged forms and hoary age, have been sufficiently moved by them to wonder whence they came, and in the absence of any sufficient knowledge on the subjec to seek the solution in the vague realms of legends and guesses and dreams. In all great immemorial trees there is al- ways more or less suggestion of a mystery and a hint of a wonderful historical past. These in the grove at Cypress Point, of which Mr. Richards writes, however, are more than suggestions or hints. They are dominant and dominating influences. No man or woman knowing anything of the trees can escape the influence. In all the wide confines of the United States there are no cypress trees of this variety save these only, that stand on the furthermost ledge of the Monterey peninsula. They are alone, and seem conscious of it, hold- ing aloof as if of a higher caste than the other trees of the forest. No Brahmin among Pariahs is more lordly than they among the common pines among them. They crowd out to the very edgesof the rocks as 1f eager to escape from the land where the common trees grow. There are many legends concerning these trees, and no man knows the truth of them. Itisnarrated that when the rest- less foot of American adventure first came to Monterey, there were living some neo- phytes at Carmel Mission who said that when they were young they had heard old people say that their parents had told them that long before their timea vessel of strange people had landed at the point, and, after dwelling there for a time, had passed away, either dying or journeying to other lands, and that after they were gone the cypress trees grew upon the place where they now stand. Whence came these strange people that brought these unfamiliar trees to Monterey? Tradition gives no answer, but science, carefully studying leaf and twig and bark, finds that the trees, having mno alliance with any in America, are of the same variety as grow in Asia and from the earli- est ages have been regarded with peculiar veneration by the Buddhists. There is, therefore, a presumptive evidence that the trees came from Asia. Archwology confirms the conclusions of botany. The Buddhists were in their day the most active of propagandists. Their mission- ary zeal accepted no limitations by moun- tain or ocean, and there are found not a few traces along the Pacific Coast and in Mexico of the missions they once founded here and of the religion they taught. Having a great reverence for the cypress tree in their native land it is not wonder- ful that they should have brought some of the seed with them, nor is it over strange that all others planted here should have perished in forest fires, or by the disasters of time and chance and left only this one grove surviving at Cypress Point. It is to this legend—or shall we call it history 2—to which Mr. Richards’ poem re- fers. This is the sweet tradition treasured to this day which they keep in their somber glory as they guard a sacred shrine. It is one of the traditions that adds a human interest to the manifold charms of Mon- terey Peninsula and invests so mach of its beauty with the enhancing charm of mys- tery. In all ages of the world whereof man has any knowledge, and among all people that have attained to any clear conception of the spiritual significance made manifest through material forms, the cypress tree has always been an emblem of mourning and has been held fitter to bend above the graves of the dead than to adorn the pleasure-gardens of the living. Always it has had for man a meaning full of sadness. When the old Greek singer wrote his mem- orable verse, ““The rose lives but a day and the cypress a thousand years,” he meant to imply the swift decay of joy and the endless duration of grlef. The world so understood him then and understands him now, for the symbols of men have not changed though all else has changed. It is not easy to comprehend, however, why s0 stately a tree should have for the heart ard the brain so mournful a significance. It stands so tall, so fair and so strong, and meets the sunshine and the storm with such an equal front of calm defiance, fear- ing neither to be withered by the one nor blasted by the other, that men ought to find in it something quite different from sorrow. Ilike to believe that when Adam planted the cypress tree by the grave of Eve, he saw in its evergreen branches and its time-enduring trunk, not an emblem of death, but of immortality. The Buddhists may also in their esoteric circles have taught something of the same thing, see- inglife in what to the outer world was death itself. Atany rate if the poet was right in saying that the trees at Cypress Point seem to be waiting for something it can hardly be supposed that it is for death of those who planted them, for they were dead long since. They can be waiting for nothing now save the resurrection and the life. PERSONAL. A. C. Swaine of Merced is staying at the Russ. W.F. Dickson of Eureka is a guest at the Ru Henry Lindley, a Los Angeles politician, is at the Palace. J D. Wadworth of Santa Rosa registered at the Russ yesterday. W. H. Hatton, one of Modesto’s lawyers, is housed at the Lick. Hon. Lawrence Archer of San Jose wasin i ty yesterday. eorge W. Pierce is up from Eurcka, a guest at the Grand. 0. J. Smith, an ore buyer from Arizons, is a guest at the Palace. R. Miller and family of Tiffin, Ohio, are recent arrivals at the Russ. F. M. Fitzgerald, a Stockton dry-goods mln,’x is a guest at the California. J.T. Smith, & Placerville mining man, is housed at the Grand Hotel. Miss L. J. Werrick, a missionary from Tokio, Japaun, is & guest at the Oceidental. Mrs. J. A. Foster, a missionary from Kham- gaan, India, is at the Occidental Hotel. Lieutenant W. S. Hughes of the United States navy is a new arrival at the Grand. Bernard Murphy, the Santa Clara capitalist, isat the Palace Hotel, spending a few days. F. D. Nicoll, a lawyer, who visits San Fran- cisco frequently from Stockton, is at the Lick. James McNeil, a Santa Cruz capitalist, is up from the coast, and is stopping at the Palace Hotel. T. Espanosia and Vicinti Espanosia y Cuervas of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, are guests at tho Russ. R. A. Long, one of Willows’ barristers, is down from the farming country, atthe Grand Hotel. J. M. Mannan, secretary of the Stockton In- sane Asylum, is visiting the City, and is at the Grand Hotel. Dr.H.J. Ziegemeier of the United States navy arrived from China yesterday, and is & guest at the California. M. Duke Darnell of the United States navy is at the California, having arrived in the City yesterday from Japan on the Belgic. Judge J. €. Grubb, one of the judiciary of Delaware, is at the Palace Hotel. Heisona visit to this coast to get & slice of California weather. Miss Lu Wheat, who has been handling the woman’s correspondence of the Kansas Sun in Japan, arrived in San Francisco last night on the Belgic, and is a guest at the Occidental. Theodore Vogelgesang, who is at present en- joying a three manths’ leave of absence from the cruiser Mohicanu, now Jying in Puget Sound, is in the City on a wisit to his brother Alexander. This young man, who ranks as ensign, has been on the water for five years, and is a Pacific Coast graduate from Anna- polis. He has cruised around the Hawaiian Islands, Bering Sea, South Seas, South Amer- ica, China and Japan, and is full of admiration for Uncle Sam’s new navy and the immediate prospects of a better one even than proud Eng- land ever dared hoist the Queen’s flag over. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 17.—The really typical Eastern summer weather has delayed its coming somewhat this season, but it is ap- parently here at last. The Californian is nat- urally least of all adapted to enduring this peculiar variation of the Eastern climate and the summer resorts and watering places are full of them: Henry Burden McDowell has es- tablished himself and his family at Orange, N. J. John Vance Cheney, who was formerly at the head of the San Francisco public library, and now holds a similar position in Chicago, has gone to Vermont for the summer. Mr. W. 0. Powell and Mr. F. Sturgis of San Francisco have been at Long Branch during the week. D. M. Burns of San Francisco is at Saratoga. Mr. G. Gumpertz also of Frisco is now at Man- hattan Beach. Mr.and Mrs. J. W. McClure of San Francisco are among the sojourners at the Ocean House, Newport, while Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Graham, two more well-known San Fran- ciscans, are at the Rodick at Bar Harbor. The list of Californians registered at the New York hotels to-day includes: From San Francisco— R.W. Campbell, Hoffman; 8. Dannenbaum and M. 8. Cohen, Imperial; J. Grange, 8t. Cloud; C, C. Hansen, St. Stephens; F. Heimken, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Tibbetts, Bartholdi; A. C. St. Denis; W. H. Hall, Murray Hill; A. D. Lavy, t}orln.inemnl Mrs. E. A. Dosch, Broadway Cen- ral. CALIFORNIANS IN UTAH, SALT LAKE, UTAH, Aug. 17.—Among the recent arrivals from California are: At the Knutsford—John H. Millsener, T. J. Kelly, San Francisco; at the Walker, C. Lazelle, San Fran- cisco; at the Cullen, Wager Bradford, San Francisco; at the Templeton—J. H. Beecher, R. D. Eemiss, San Francisco. The Misses Mc- Donald leave for their home in San Francisco to-morrow. —— e — SUFPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Mrs. Slam—T understand that your husband has gone into real estate of late. Mrs. Hamm—VYes; six feet of it—in Green- wood. He’s dead. Bank Cashier—Sorry, sir, but you will have to be identified. Casey—Thot’s all right, young mon; just wait till you come to the side dure of my saloon of & Sunday. Mrs. Treetop—I believe I'll let you get me & bottle of this medicine. Uncle Treetop (looking over the testimonials) —Not much! One of these criters says after she took a bottle she felt like a New Woman. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Associate United States Justice Stephen J. Field, one of the oldest and best-informed jurists in America, when asked by a young man yesterday whether or not & successiul jurist should give up his legal practice and go into an gll-round political life, replied: “I think every young mean should go to the Legislature whenever it is possible, so that he may become familiar with the manner of mak- ing laws, but I do not think it is always a good idea to give up & good legal practice to become apolitician. Politicians are plentiful enough | asitis, but the law is not overcrowded with first-class men. I believe that every citizen should at some time do jury duty. It familiar- izes him with the processof conducting cases | mean that the name of this State be changed to *“iWashington: This is an unpardonable o fense against good taste. If the peoplé of e East have become so intensely interested in’ - this Statewas to insist upon a new name forit, why let it be Skkokumehuck, orSwauk, or even * Squak, because these names, excruciating ag they are, have a natural and perhaps poe,fi_'ev origin. But deliver us from “Washingtona.”— Spoksne (Wash.) Spokesman-Review. We ought not lightly to contemplate the. abolition of the jury system, but should rather. endeavor to gee that it is reformed and made more in keeping with modern social cond} tions than it is. Jdry reform, not the abolition of juries, is what is peeded, and the student 6f history does not need to be told that such Te’. ASSOCIATE JUSTICE FIELD TELLS OF HIS JUDICIAL EXPEEJIE_- ENCE IN MARYSVILLE IN 1850. |Sketched from life for the “Call” by Nankivell.] 1 and he acquainis himself with the value and weight of evidence; to show him that hearsay testimony cannot be received; that the jury passes on facts and the Judge on evidence. It is instructive, and I believe it is a man’s duty to serve the people as a juryman. There is, however,” said the Judge, stroking his | beard and looking thoughtfully across his room in the Palace, “‘a vast difference between the process of conducting the courts to-day and the system in vogue when I enjoyed the distinction of being elected Alcalde in Marys- ville in 1850. “I had come overland from the East and landed at the town site before it was occupied by houses. The settlers there threw up a rudef building and I had the pleasure of sleeping on the one remaining board left after the house was completed. It was said at the time thatI had my board and lodging free. “Finally we decided to form a town and had a meeting for the purpose of formulating a plan of government and the election of offi- cials. Itoccurred to me that the only salaried position within the gift of the people was that of Chief Magistrate or Alcalde, so I suggested that I be selected for the place. Suddenly there sprung up &n opponent and it was said of me that I had not been in the camp long enough and that Iwas a carpet-bagger. As a matter of fact I had been there six days and my oppo- nent hed been there nine days. At the elec- tion I beat him a few votes, nevertheless, and was properly installed, with the assistance of myself, as I drew up the certificate of my elec- tion with all the formality at my command. “I had entire charge of the justice of the settiement, adjusted all disputes, decided all questions of ¢laim and legality, and soon found myself at the judicial head of & prosperous commonwealth. I must not forgegto tell you, however, how we named the town. Ata meet- ing called for that purpose I made a speech, and said, among other things, that we were surrounded by gold. This wasa cue for some inventive fellow, and he suggested that we call the town Circundar Oro, which means sur- rounded by gold. This almpst carried, but another settler got up and said that there was o woman in the camp, whose name was Mary, and ne thought it would be hest to give her some recognition for a first appearance, and it was decided with a hurrah to call the town Marysville. That’s how it happened, and it so remains to-day. “I am reminded of a funny incident that happened there. I was walking along the main street one day, and a fellow rushed up to me with the information that a certain indi- vidual near by nad stolen his horse, and he wished me to decide the case on the spot. I swore them both, put each under cross-exam- ination about the brandson the animal, and went through a rigid investigation, after which I decided that the fellow in possession of the animal had stolen it. I ordered him to turn it over to the rightful owner, and then the thief wanted to know if he conld have his bridle. I told him to take it, and he then said that he desired to purchase the horse. A bill of sale was drawn up on the spot, and a sale was made right there. They both wanted to know what my fee was. I said one ounce apiece. They paid it, and were so delighted with that method of dispensing law that both went off and had & drink, in which I was in- vited o join. KIND WORDS FOR “THE CALL.” The San Francisco CALL, under the manage- ment of Charles M. Shortridge, is fast taking the lead as & champion of the people’s rights. It is pursuing & course that, if followed out, will soon make it the leading paper on the coast. It is fearless in exposing rottenness that exists in the Police Deparument of that City, and is showing up the vice that is al- lowed to be carried on openly by the guardians of the peace. It is also msaking strenuous ef- forts to compel the State Board of Equaliza- tion to investigate the rascality of the South- ern Pacific Company in regard to the valuation of its property, and to make that company pay its just taxes.—Millville Tidings. The San Francisco CALL will publish only the legal developments of the Durrant case, taking care to eliminate all that sensationalism to which the other big dailies give so much space. Now all those people who are continually cry- ing ageinst the sensationalism of the modern newspaper have un opportunity to show how strong they are and how sincere they are in their kick.—Woodland Mail. The San Francisco CALL is to have a new building of its own, built expressly for the accommodation of a great modern newspaper office. The location is at the southeast corner of Phira and Market streets. THE CALL is one of the best and most prosperous newspapers not only of the coast, but of the United States,— Tacoma (Wash.) Union. The San Francisco CALL has become the leading paper of that City, and has made itself #0 by the hitherto untried policy of fair- ness, cleanliness and honesty. It may fall from grace next year, but, so. far, THE CALL leads them all.—Lemoore Radical. ~ California has also a Board of Railroad Com- missioners drawing pay from the people and doing nothing for it. The San Francisco CALL is after them with a “‘sharp stick”—an editorial pencil vigorously shoved.— Pendleton East Oregonian. OPINIONS OF EDITORS. The motor foad connecting Riverside and San Bernardino has been absorbed by the Southern Pacific. As an absorber of the life blood of coast enterprises and coast progress the “octo- pus” has been well named.—Visalia Times. Some of our young men baye become very proficient in the use of the wheel, but up to the hour of going to press nonc of them have been seen hoeing the weeds out of the back- yard on a “silent steed.””—Kern County Echo. A Campbell orchardist wko owns only four acres of land has refused $1000 for his fruit crop this season, on the trees. One season his crop was sold for $1100. Yet the average East- ern visitor would declare that$1000 an acre for that little bit of orchard would be an exor- bitant price. Asa matter of fact, it would be dirt cheap.—San Jose Mercury. It has been gravely suggested by an Illinois | forms have been made from time to time, as occasion demanded, during the last 800 years atleast. Nogodd reason exists for thinking further reforms impossible.—Seattle (Wash.} Times. It would not be surprising ‘if the Vice-Presi-’ dential candidate on the Republican ticket for 1896 was chosen from the South. The ideais - favored by many party leaders. In the Con- gressional elections last year the Republicans. carried more districts in the South than the Democrats did in the North, and this is taken ag an indication that geographical lines in polities have disappeared at last. It might be. well to celebrate this change in conditions by selecting a Southern man for second place on the Republican National ticket.—San Diego Union. NOTES ABOUT STOCKS. Stocks create a ferment wild; Stocks have many men heguiled. Stocks excite both rich and poor, Stocks the cautious ones ailure. Stocks cause many a sleepless night, Stocks send many men home tight. Stocks disease the troubled brai Stocks oft cause a “irip to Spain.” Stocks make men to yell till hoarse, Stocks bring joy and more remorse, Stocks spread sorrow far and wide, Stocks bring men to suicide. s force men to leave high station, encourage litigation. s bring riches o the few, g Stocks for many troubles brew. Stocks cause men to fret and funde, Stocks send many *up the flume.” Stocks affect the working classes, Stocks attract the bonnie lasses. As we, in life, they smile and frown, Sometimes up and sometimes down. P. M. PEOPLE TALKED AEOUT. Max Nordau, in reply to the allegation that his name is Simon Sudfield, rises to remark that at the age of 15, at his father’s behest, he assumed the name of Nordau, and had that name officially and légally conferred upon him. by decree of Karl von Zeyk, then Royal Hun. garian Minister of ‘the Interior, under No, 13,138, and the date of April1l, 1873. A writer of the eritical kind once assured* Tennyson ti:at he could always tell what lines wrote themselves from pure inspiration, and what others had been labored. In response to. Tennyson’s inhvitation he quoted a famous verse as an instance of poetic spontaneity. “Ah, yes,” drawied the poet, “I smoked a dozen pipés over that line.” Dr. Ernst Dryander is called the Phillips Brooks of Berlin. His work greatly resembles that of the famous Ameri¢an Episcopalian pre- late, and, strangely enough, his persons) ap- pearance is also very similar. E. A.Schultze, a young millionaire of Orange, N. J., smokes cigarettes which cost him $75 a thousand. They are short and fat and em- bossed with his monogram. The Countess of Dudley 1s the only Countess in England who can elaim the distinction of having been a bona-fide shopgirl before she assumed the title. Miss Llewelyn Davies, the leader of the womon suffragists of Great Britain, is & re- markably handsome woma; Morasses Buttercups, 25¢ a 1b. Townsend’s.s - X i S E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street. » ——————————— RENTS collected. Ashton, 411 Montgomery.* GEO. W. MONTEITH, law offices, Crocker bldg.* De. AGNEW, rectal diseases. 1170 Marketst, * el G Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay straes. * . Van Twerp—I hear your daughter has: reached a high place in the theatrical profes- sion ? Von Swipe—Yes; she’s singing on a roof gar- den.—Brooklyn E: .- Hoon's Sarsaparilia has a record of remarkable cures never equalea by any other preparation. In the severest cases of scrofula it has been successful after much other treatment failed. AL persons afflicted with dyspepsia will find immediate relief and sure cure by using Dr..- Slegert’s Angostura Bitters. —————————— e Ir aMicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp- . son’s Eye Water. Druggists sell 1t at 25 cerits. . “There are only two importantepochs in a woman’s life,” said the observing bachelor. “Name them,” replied Miss Giddey. “Before she is married and afte: Free Press. '—Detroit UR NUMBER 541 MARKET ST. The Name Is COLUMBIAN WOOLEN MILLS, Wholesale Tailors and Clothing ¥anu- - facturers, - Bewars of the firms trying to doe;l you by an infringément on our name,