The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 27, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2;7, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Tsily and Sunday CALI, one week, by carrier.$0.15 Tafly and Sunday CALI, one year, by mail... 6.00 y CALL, six months, by mall 8.00 ay CALL, three months, by mail 1.50 .65 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail funday CALL, one year, by mail. WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mail. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street. ... Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Main-1874 BRANCH OFFICES 570 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until 50 o'clock. 236 Haves street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 717 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open ©ntil § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: $08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Pacific States Advertising Burean, Rhinelander tuilding, Rose and Duane streets, New York City. True Rep does not ol To-morrow the Railroad Commission is expected to show up and make a show- down. As a successor to Jerry Rusk in the De- partment of ilture Secretary Morton mply a The regulation of railway rates should cover every schedule and protect the inter- ests of every shipoer. Southern California leads the State at the Atlanta Exposition, but the other sec- tions can catch up if they choose. I Cal the If Maryland and Kentucky are carried for the Republicans it will be a sure proof that the revivalis converting the sinners. would pay every fruit exchange in »rnia to maintain active canvassers in ast looking after the best markets. When the Republican convention in Pennsylvania is over the allied opposition to Quay will probably include more dead men than leaders. The Boston people will no doubt be pleased with our California Knights, but they should come out here and see some of our Califorma d; It is believed in New York that Cieve- land will appcint either James C. Carter or Frederic Coudert to the Supreme Court, provided Senator Hill will let him. Any one who wishes to know what is meant by “pernicious activity of Federal office-holders” has only to watch Olney, Morton or Hoke Smith a little while. The first job to be undertaken by the Republican Congress should be the ap- pointment of committees to straighten out the crooked work of the administration. The mugwumps of Massachusetts are recommending Olney to the Democrats as a Presidential candidate, but up to date there have been no enthusiastic indorse- men The free fight in Chicago over a game of baseball and the free fight in Kentucky over a stray kiss are the latest evidences that Sunday observances in the Eastare still rather woolly. Seven States elect Governors this fall: New Jersey, Ohio, Iowa, Massachusetts, Maryland, Kentucky and Mississippi, and there is reason to believe the Republicans will carry all except the last. Notwithstanding the revolution in Par- liament effected by the recent elections, the Conservative majority of the popular vote was only about 260,000. It was this small fraction of the voters who spoke the voice of England. A royal commission in England has re- ported in favor of the adoption of the French metric system of weights and measures and a fight will be made in Par- liament to have the system made compul- sory after two years. It is rather odd that the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce could raise $6000 for an exhibit at Atlanta when the State Board of Trade could not raise that amount from the whole State. Perhaps 1be railroad connection with the board is a hoodoo. Eastern papers should take notice that the trip of the California commanderies across the continent to the concliave at Boston illustrates the ease with which East- ern delegations could make a similar trip to attend the National Convention in San Francisco. The addresses delivered by President Jordan and Professor Stillman at the com- mencement of Stanford University last May have been issued in pamphlet form from the university press, and form a notable contribution to the literature of education and university work. 8t. Louis supplies her public schools with free textbooks, purchasing direct from the publishers, at a cost of 37 cents per pupil, while in Chicago, where the books are bought from local dealers, the cost is 70 cents; and now there isade- mand in the Jatter city for economy and reform. —_— In his Sunday sermon at Asbury Park Sam Jones said: *‘The devil knows he Las control of the country as long as the Re- publicans and Democrats are in power.” As these parties, however, are never in power at the same time, if Mr. Jones is Tight, the devil must know that his poss control depends on non-partisan move- ments. It is reported that the British crew of the Blake required more than half an hour to perform a maneuver at Kiel which the crew of the Columbia performed in less than three minutes. The difference in the time is so great as to cast doubton the fairness of the test, but it is nevertheless pleasing to know that our men startled the Britishers and astonished the Kaiser. While the Democratic members of the Railroad Commission are haggling over the single item of grain rates there is a golden opportunity for Commissioner Clark to save the State, advance the prestige of the Republican party and make an honor- able reputation for himself by devising such a comprehensive system of freight reductions as will do justiceto all shippers. r MR. CLARK'S RESPONSIBILITY. As a representative of the Republican party and as the custodian of a trust in which the honor of that party is involved, does Railroad Commissioner Clark appre- ciate the political responsibility which rests upon him? A point is made of this for the reason that it is impossible to imagine him ignorant of his responsibility to California, her people and her pros- perity. He knows as well as any other— | as well as Mr. Huntington himself—that | the burden imposed upon California by the exercise of the monopoly which the | Southern Pacific enjoys is hard, cruel, un- just, unreasonable and altogether inde- fensible upon any of the grounds of honor- able business. He knows as well as an- other that the people are desperately in need of relief, that this need existed before his election and that he was elected for the purpose of meeting it. He knows that every single loyal citizen of California who voted for him was inspired by the hope and belief that he would be true to the trust reposed in him. But does he understand that there is no real difference between a betrayal or neg- lect of a public trust and that of the party to which he owes allegiance and election? The Republican party aims and claims to be the party of the people, to have the in- telligence to comprehend and the con- science and ability to defend and uphold the rights and privileges of the people. It believes itself to be large and broad and generous enough to represent and protect the people in those higher and nobler as- pirations in which their ideals of self-gov- ernment are centered, and it places its trusted members in power for the firmer proof and wider promulgation of that idea. Does not Mr. Clark understand these things? He surely cannot have overlooked the fact that in the last election the people of California, whatever reasons may have moved them, generally turned to the Re- publican party for relief and support. He saw that in order to offset this evident wave of confidence the Democratic party pledged its candidates for the Railroad Commission to make a specific reduction of freight rates. He saw the popular eager- ness for relief expressed in the election of two Democratic members of the board un- der that pledge. He has seen, since a great outery was raised over their failure to keep their pledges, that one of them has come forward with a partial scheme of relief, which is confined to freight charges on wheat, while all the other commodities so grievously burdened are utterly ignored. Therefore it seems impossible for Mr. Clark to have a misconception of his posi- tion, his duty or his responsibility. We still hope that he has such a conception and that he will surprise his judges by showing his loyalty. We all know that by being the only Republican on the board, with two associates who belong to an op- posing party and who were specifically pledged to do their duty, he has been han- dicapped and could not hope for the suc- cess of any proposition from him that | would bring credit to his party. No oneis 50 unreasonable as not to take all these matters into account and meke due allow- ance for them. It would, therefore, be exceedingly grati- fying to see Mr. Clark appear before the commission to-morrow with a complete schedule of freight charges intended to cure all the ills that afflict the State. If he thinks that Mr. La Rue’s schedule for wheat makes too great or too small a re- duction, we hope that his own schedule will express his views. He has already observed from the published interviews with Commissioner Stanton that that gen- tleman may be willing to go much further into the subject than Mr. La Rue, and he has seen that Mr. La Rue himself, as far as he has gone, is willing to make some re- ductions. Mr. Clark might reflect that as a considerable proportion of the wheat product will have been transported under the ruinous old rates, Mr. La Rue’s sched- ule cannot bring the benefit desired, and that the grand opportunity for covering the whole field now lies before him. PENANCE IN WALL STREET. The brokers of Wall street have sudden- ly awakened toa realization of the possi- bility that there may be some kind of ethical relation existing between them and the public. This dawning of a curious moral conception has resulted, as such dawnings usually result, from a chastise- ment which the public is inflicting on the brokers. For the reason that private spec- ulators have been so heavily nipped re- cently by fraudulent deals in Reading, Atchison, Cordage and other shares, the public is letting Wall street severely alone and the business has gone to the dogs. Hence the brokers are now wondering if it is really true that honesty is the best policy. Of course they are doing a great deal of preliminary arguing with themselves against the proposition of being brought to view the moral side of the question. They take vast pains to show that they are merely agents, and that dealers and speculators must take care of themselves; that it is clearly understood that unlisted shares are not indorsed by the Stock Ex- change and are handled without any recommendation; that in the caseof listed shares the exchange has made a thor- ough examination before listing and has satisfied itself of the soundness of the issu- ing concern and the real value of its shares. The answer to this last defense is that although the exchange did make the investigation and did actually list after securing absolute proof that concerns were worthy of such indorsement, their scrutiny ended there. Thus, no matter how honest in appearance a corporation was at the time of the investigation, there was nothing to prevent its becoming dis- honest afterward and still enjoy the in- dorsement which the listing constituted. As a consequence the listing of shares affords no protection whatever. For that matter, the shares on which the public were recently bitten so severely were listed ones. The practice of listing, therefore, amounts to nothing except to place the ex- change in the light of indorsing worthless concerns and of inducing the origin of fraudulent schemes which can show the merit of apparent soundness at the time of making the application to be listed. In this way a public wrong is committed and honest enterprises are made to suffer for the peculations of fraudulent schemes. Wall street is now scratching its head and wondering if it can regain public confi- dence and restore the once thriving busi- ness of the Stock Exchange. Two ways of doing this have been sug- gested. One is to bind the listed corpora- tions under a contract to submit their busi- ness to the inspection of the exchange at stated times, and the other is for the own- ership by the exchange of one or more shares in every corporation which it lists, as this would give it the right as a share- holder to compel an investigation at any time. Both these propositions involve the idea that a cerporation shall remain on the list only so long as it is deserving of the Stock Ex- change’s indorsement; that the exchange shall be morally responsible for the sound- ness of every concern on its list, and that it shall be free at all times to drop from the list any concern of whose soundaness it may entertain a doubt. It is evident that if all responsibility is disclaimed.and that if all concerns are kept unlisted there will be an absence of that confidence which is necessary to the conduct of stock specula- tion. ‘Wall street realizes that something must be done. But_is there not a possi- bility that something besidesa lack of con- fidence may be contributing to the ruin of stock speculations, and that a wave isin motion which carries a moral ripple on the side furthest from the brokers? Isit not conceivable that human energies can be better employed than in this form of a desire to secure money without earning it? Stock speculation in New York has been steadily declining for years, and we must find some reason for the fact other than a lack of confidence in the concerns which throw out shares as baits to avarice. HOW TO SELL FRUIT. In its issue of yesterday TmE CALL sug- gested that American trade might be greatly extended in foreign countries by the employment of the conspicuous tal- ents for which American traveling sales- men have become famous in building up the domestic trade of this country. In that article we suggested that one of the greatest opportunities that traveling sales- men might enjoy is the handling in for- eign countries of the finer products of Cali- fornia. That suggestion has so greatly roused local interest within the few hours which have elapsed since its appearance, that it is deemed advisable to pursue the subject and regard it from another point of view. This is that the fruit unions themselves should take the initiative and employ traveling salesmen, at first to push the sale of our fruits in the Eastern States, instead of waiting for salesmen to come forward and cast their chances in an untried business. If the experiment should prove successful in the United States it can be extended to foreign countries, At first glance this may seem a hard nut for fruit-growers to crack, but if they will only take the trouble to visit leading manufacturers and merchants and learn for themselves the high esteem in which the services of traveling salesmen are held they will be amazed at the information they receive. It will probably be found that not a single large manufacturer or whole- sale merchant of San Francisco would think of trying to carry on 1 usiness without the help of commercial travelers,’’ and that the extent of outside business done may be measured by the number of traveling sales- men employed. The fruit-growers of Cali- fornia can never reap the rewards due the excellence of their products until they have mastered the laws and rules of trade. Unfortunately a fruit-grower is not in a position or business that brings him in contact with traveling salesmen, and hence he is not informed concerning the vital relation which these men bear to the success of large business enterprises. He has no proper conception of their wonder- ful energy, tact amd persistency. He imagines vaguely a happy-go-lucky, rol- licking body of men who sell goods to retail dealers, and knows little of the earnest, clear-headed business sense and the conscientiousness and intelligence that govern their conduct. If their tre- mendous influence on the success of American domestic trade were suddenly removed the country would suffer such a panic as it has never seen. 7 The average farmer is an exceedingly cautious man, but the fruit-grower of Cali- fornia is so far advanced a type over the ordinary farmers of the Eastern States that he cannot be classed with them. He has already mastered problems in the pro- ducing and marketing of his crops that seem incredible to his Eastern prototype. And yet the California fruit-grower will not claim to have overcome a moiety of the obstacles which confront him. He is constantly reaching out for wider fields and more exhaustive knowledge. The time has been in California when fruit unions regarded witn distrust any propo- sition to give salaried positions to their nec- essary servants. In some places it has been argued that a true and tried farmer, known by his neighbors to be an upright and in- telligent man, should be the one to handle the business of farmers. It is not likely that this serious error is entertained anywhere in California now, but if it is it should be abandoned at once. The only man competent to push trade is the one who understands that rare art, and whose understanding is based on a wide knowledge of supply and demand and of human nature, and who has the art of con- vincing. When the fruit-grower realizes that this is a wholly distinctive function and that it is entirely separate from a knowledge of the processes by which an article is produced, he will understand the traveling salesmen’s value. The opportu- nity which the fruit unions now have be- fore them is that of securing the services of these bright and hard-working men. Wise considerations might suggest that in view of the newness of the business, an assured income in the shape of a salary, in part payment at least, should be offered. OLEVELAND TACTICS IN IOWA. The resolution of the Nebraska Demo- cratic Convention approving the declara- tions made by Cleveland during his first term of office against the ‘‘pernicious ac- tivity”” of Federal office-holders in trying to control party conventions, and urging a renewal of that policy, was by no means adopted without sufficient cause. The Ne- braskans had seen what was done by office- holders in the Democratic convention of the neighboring State of Iowa, and had found there ample justification for an even more direct attack upon the methods of the administration. Evidence of how the goldbug-Cleveland wing of the party carried the State con- vention in Towa is now being made public by the real leaders of the party who found themselves so surprisingly beaten there. The Fort Madison Democrat explains it thus: “The scheme was this: 1t iswell known that ordinarily less than half of the dele- gates appointed in counties attend State conventions. This fact was this year taken advantage of in every county unin- structed by an order from some source; the Federal officials, or the bankers, at- tending to it to secure the proxies by hook or crook secretly, if they could not openly, and either giviag the proxies to single gold standard men or voting them ina lump themselves. This completely changed the character of the convention. At a very low estimate silver would have won in the convention three to one if the delegates ap- pointed by the counties uninstructed had keen present.” As an illustration of the extent to which the scheme was worked it issaid that from the county of Lee there were elected twenty-four delegates to the convention, instructed for free s lver. Twenty of these stayed at home and gave their proxies to the Postmaster of Keokuk, one of the lead- ing Federal office-holders of the county, who cast them for the gold standard. This is a sample of the way the thing was done. Of the 1072 delegates elected to the conven- tion less than 500 were present, and the proxies of the absent ones were in the pockets of the office-holding brigade. ‘Tactics of this kind can win in a conven- tion, but they do not always win with the people. The Democrats of Nebraska were right in condemning them, and there is reason to believe that many stalwart Dem- ocrats of Iowa will refuse to yield to them. .At any rate one of the staunchest of them is quoted as saying: “The late State Convention then, not having been honestly and fairly consti- tuted, but completely debauched by fraud, !,rlcknl’y and dishonor, Democrats are not in honor bound to support _its action, and many thousands of them will not.” ONLY A DUTY. The attitude of the Demoeratic members of the Railroad Commission toward the duties of their office and their pledges to the people opens to Commissioner Clark an opportunity to serve the State, add to the prestige of the Republican party and make an honorable reputation for himself. One of the Democratic Commissioners shows every evidence of an intention to serve the railroad rather than the people, the other aims at no more than a reduction of rates on grain, Commissioner Clark there- fore has only to perform the duties for which he is paid in order to force the hands of his Democratic colleagues and compel them either to follow him in serving the interests of the people or to stand confessed as the tools of monopoly and the breakers of solemn pledges. The plan of Commissioner La Rue to reduce grain rates is good as far as it goes, but it hardly goes far enough to be consid- ered a serious attempt to deal with the real problem of transportation. Grain- shippers are not the only sufferers from the exactions of the monopoly. Every in- dustry in the State is more or less affected by it and some of them are seriously erip- pled. Todeal justly with the people the interests of all must be gnarded. It was for this the Railroad Commission was established. It is for this the members of it are paid. It is this the people expect of them. It isthis which they have hitherto failed to do. And it is in the effort to per- form this that Commissioner Clark has the opportunity to serve the State, his party and himself. The grain schedule which Mr. La Rue has drawn up is a comparatively small thing. It represents little or no work. It could have been preparedin a half day’s easy work, and yet on the strength of it the Democratic Commissioner is making a considerable reputation for himself. Much greater will be the honor given to the Commissioner who will devote himself seriously to the task of revising every schedule of freight charges and regulating them in a way that will be just to all ship- pers. This is the work Commissioner Clark should do. It is the work the Re- publican party expects of him. PERSONAL. Louis Dean, a big cattleman of Reno, is at the Russ. J.J. Hebbron, a big cattleman of Salinas, is at the Grand. J. M. Lathrop, & merchant of Newman, isat the Grand. Virgil Conn, a merchant of Paisley, Or,,1sa guest at the Palace. A.J. Bruner, an sattorney of Sacramento, is staying at the Russ. W. D. Keyser, a leading merchant of Carson, Nev., is staying at the Russ. J.F. Devendorf, a real-estate man of San Jose, registered at the Grand yesterday. William Gillette, a playwright and actor, is back in town and staying at the Palace. Admiral L. A. Beardslee returned to town yesterday and is quartered at the Occidental. Bernard Distel of Robleda Vineyard, Moun- tain View, Santa Clara County, is in the city. R. M. Green, a merchant and mine-owner of Oroville, was one of yesterday's arrivals at the Grand. z Henry Hogan, a leading attorney of Napa County, is in town, attending to some legal matters. E. B. Thompson, editor of the Washington Press, Irvington, Alameda County, was in the City yesterday. W. P. McFaull, Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue at Ukiah, came down yesterday and registered at the Grand. Tom C. Lane, superintendent of the Utica mine, came down from Angels yesterday and is staying at the Palace. Colonei James McNasser,a promiuent citi- zen of the capital, came down from BSacra- mento yesterday and put up at the Russ. D. B. Lyman, superintendent of the Consoli- dated Virginia mines, came down from the Comstock yesterday and registered at the Pal- ace. The Oakland Echo says that Gavin Dhu High, brother of Bookkeeper Will 8. High of the Union National Bank, has retired as city editor of the Los Angeles Record and returned to the San Francisco Report. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK., NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 26.—Californians registered at hotels to-day: San Francisco— T. G. Lewis, C.8. Bradley, 8t. Cloud; 8. Caro, A. Hinnisch, Mr. and Mrs. J. Hovay, Imperial; R. Hopper, Holland; R. Dickson, Murray Hill; J. Gilmartin, Sturtevant; B. J. Smith, Hoff- man. Los Angeles—W. 8. Bryson, Broadway Central; I Ludlow, St. Cloud; J. 8. Templain, Astor. California—W. Corlieth, Mr. and Mrs, G. McDowell, M. Salisbury, Murray Hill. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 26.—The Cali- fornians in Washington are: R.L. Hoyt of San Francisco, at the Riggs House; S. Bamberger of Los Angeles, at the National Hotel, and Daniel T. Snowden of Oakland, A CHINESE CITY, Quingan lies at the end of a spur of the famed Grand canal, which is, next to the great wall, the noblest work of the Chinese. Pagodas are not common in China. You do not see one in every day of travel, so I remember that one is on the lone mountain that dominates the ap- proach to the city. The outside town, such as lies by every gate to every city, is a place where a painter could spend a year to better advan- tage than in most painters’ resorts in Southern Europe. Rows of white walls, heavily roofed with black tiles, face the water. The corners of all the roofs are turned up and some have double corners. A few roofs, no less pictur- esque, are of gray thatch, and a few walls are black or gray or blue, or even dark red. Fancy the gorgeousnessof the scene, with the ‘people crowding there in new blues and faded blues! Bamboo balconies push out to the water's edge, and carry idle women and men in pretty clothes looking at us, The open shops disclose workmen making shoes or cof- fins or cooking the wonderful bean curd— foundation of a hundred dishes. As the heart of the Xlncs is reached it becomes picturesque beyond description. High stone walls shut in the water, and on these rise houses of white staff with cumbrous jet roofs,and the most ornate, the most faneiiul windows, paned with glossy inside scales of oyster shells. Stone stepslead down to the water, and each bearsa ‘woman washing clothes or rinsing lacquered wooden pots. Sunflowers and &nmpnn vines in bloom peep over the walls of the houses, and beside the walls of the stream are innumer- able boats tied to carved dragol s, crabs, grotesque faces and pretty carvings of many sorts cut in the granite. At all the doorways are tall and often hand- some men in long silk coats and silken half- breeches bound tight around their ankles. At the windows are the round-faced, full-lipped women. On and on we float. And presently we discover the long low walls of Quinsan made ever famous by the valor of Gene Gordon. Under the interminable low walls of what we call Roman brick are plantations of sunflowers, and then more white and black houses. They face ancther jumble of boats of every fashion, from the -uleldyflcll! 0 and chop boats to the rows of slen express boats, waiting, like omnibuses, for passengers for Soo Chow and Shanghai. The dyers’ shops han; out long strips of blue cloth ; a bridge is dra; with colored stuffs hung there to dry; an enor- mous vermilion banner floats from a boat that, like hundreds beside it, is orange-toned b;nuth dl‘n sheen gcmnflr_: b;?,rmlh—m‘l )i‘ +Every- Scenes hina,’ ulian Ralp! in Harper’s Magazine for Augusty g AROUND THE CORRIDORS. An actor’s repertoire of stories and yarns is almost as inexhaustible as that of the commer- cial traveler. Yesterday aiternoon Maurice Barrymore, now playing at the Columbia Theater, entertained a few friends at his apart- ments in the Clifford, and in the course of the afternoon refated the tollowing incident, which occurred during the famous Currey trial in Texas SOINe years ago: “Well,” said Mr, Barrymore, “‘this little yarn 1s §imply an appendant to the Currey trial. Of course you all remember how Porter was killed and I wounded in the arm by that desperado Currey one eventful night in Galyeston, Tex. Currey met us, you know, in a restaurant and picked a quarrel. Porter and I did not wish any trouble with the man, but he was per- sistent in his efforts for a fight, and the result MAURICE BARRYMORE. was Porter was killed and I wasskot. Well, I traveled 6000 miles to be pres::.at the trial, d all the evidence was our way, pointing to a'eonviction. The District Attorney, however, was unpopular with the town, and the jury was undountedly fised. After being out about forty seconds they returned a verdict of not guilty on the ground of insanity. “That evening, after the trial, Iwasseated in my hotel discussing the case with a party of friends. They asked me my opinion and I frankly said I believed the Marshal had sum- moned a jury that was bound to acquit, and had not given us a fair showing. After they had gone the clerk of the hotel told me that one of my listeners was a personal friend of the Marshal, who was considered a bad man. One of his arms, he said, had been shot off in & shooting scrape, and he had been made Mar- shal simply because of his reputation as a fighting man. I told my friend nothing would come of it, as I was to leave the town at 2 the next morning and everything would be all right. “After a warning to be careful I went outside and took a seat with some loungers on the chairs in front of the hotel. We chatted fora few minutes when some one walked by and en- tered the hotel. I wus informed that he was Marshal Thompson. Listening I heard him ask the clerk if Mr. Barrymore was in. He, seeing the situation at once promptly said, ‘No, he left town this evening.’ A bellboy, however, spoke up and said I could be found outside. Thompson walked out and addressing the crowd asked if Barrymore was among their number. Stepping up close in order to be pre- pared I answered that I was the man he wished to see. ««Well, Mr. Barrymore,’ said he, placing his hand in his hip pocket and producing a re- volver, ‘I thought you might like to see the pistol Currey shot you with,’ and he handed it to me. Itookitand examined it closely, but kept my eye on him for fear he might attempt to use another. “Did he intend to shoot me and become frightened because I was prepared? Why no. He hadn’t heard anything and simply showed me the pistol in a spirit of friendliness. It was quite a shock, but I managed to invite him in- side and have a drink, and I stayed there with him till 2 o’clock the next morning. You can rest assured I did not let any one get a chance to speak to him that night, and when my train pulled out we parted the best of friends.” «San Francisco, geographically located as it is, may be compared to our great metropolis, New York,” said E. Avery McCarthy yesterday. “New York on the eastern coast of our conti- nent, San Francisco on the Western. San Francisco is located on & peninsula similar to New York on Manhattan Island. San Fran- cisco is different from most cities in the re- stricted area over which it can extend. New York is its only parallel, each having about the same available area, to wit: 25,780 acres. New York’s population is asssmbled fifty-nine to the acre, while Chicago and London, which have room to spread, have only eleven persons per acre, and Philadelphia with over 1,000,000 population has but twelve per acre. San Fran- cisco has now as many persons per available acre as has London; but &s it has not the area to spread over as the population increases, it must become more dense and the limited area supply the ever-increasing demand. “‘San Francisco’s suburbs, their increase and growth cannot Linder or retard the growth of the City itseli—different from the belief of the few that the suburbs take the population from the City, they only take the overflow; they actually increase the density of San Francisco’s population—the center—as the number of spokes in a wheel, when increased, are closer together at the hub or center. “San Francisco is on the Golden Gate, and, situate as it is, hemmed in by the grand old Pacific on the one side, the Golden Gate on the other, San Francisco Bay—the finest harbor in the world—on another and the neck of a pen- insula on the fourth and the only remaining side, it is decreed from eternity to be for all time the seat of a great and growing City.” +William Null, one of the men hanged by the lynchers in Yreka last night, was the last man I would ever have expected to commit a murder,” said a mining man at the Occidental last evening. ‘‘About two years ago I was in charge of the Black Bear mine near Sawyers Bar, over on the Salmon. One morning while I was in the office this man Null came in and asked for work. I told him thatIhad no need for any more men. He was very persistent, however, and had a good deal to say about his qualifications. He was an endless talker. He asked me if he could not stay at the boarding- house until there was a vacancy. Isaid that I did not care to have any one not in the mine’s employ about, and that if he would let me know where he would be I would send him word whenever I had a place for him. This did not seem to suit him. He went out in front of the office and sat on a wagon-tongue for a long time, He seemed to be putting in some hard work thinking. After a while he slapped his leg as if he had struck something good and came back to the office and asked if he could buy a little bacon, flour and other proyisions. On my telling him that he could he said, ‘All right. I'll get a supply and go and camp out in sight near here so as to be on hand when you have a job for me. I don’t ‘want to get as far away as Sawyers Bar. Some- body else might come along and cut me out. As soon as I get settled I'll les you know my address.’ “I thought that such persistence deserved re- ‘ward and told him to go up to the boarding- house and I would put him on the night shift. From what he had told me about his experi- ence as a miner I supposed that he would make & good enough hand. But I had tolet him go 4t the end of the third day.” John Beck, an old resident of 8alt Lake City and principal owner in the Beck-Bullion silver mine, was talking to a party of friends yesterday at the Palace on the political out- look in Utah. He thinks that the admission of Ttah to statehood will come in the nature of & great impetus to her industrial deyelopment. “It goes without saying,” continued Mr. Beck, “that Utah 1s for free silver, As far as I know nothing has been done as yet toward the organization of an independent silver party, but should independent action become neces- sary, as to me seems highly probable, it Will notrequire much time to break theold party lines and mass under the standard of & new party. The silver element comprises the very best men of the old parties, and we shall be able to put up a pretty strong fight when the time comes. Colonel Isaac Trumbo is almost sure to be one of Utah’s first Senators. His popularity, aside from political issues, would in my opinion give him the place. He is young. energetic and ambitious. Utah could have no abler representative at the Nation’s capital. For many years he has beea identified with the development of this Territory and his work in thé Republican party amply attests his ability. He has a clean record and combines with practical business tact & natural taste for polities and a thorough comprehension of the great problems of finance and government that will eventually give him a high place in the councils of the Nation.” OPINIONS OF EDITORS. All over the land there are wrecks of institu- tions and of men who were ruined by not get- ting straight in the newspapers. There are statesmen who did not set themselves straight with the reporters, and so were driven out of public life. There are university professors, lecturers, lawyers, physicians, inventors, rail- road men and business managers by the score who can trace their downfali to mistakes in dealing with the press. Ignorance of & neces- sary art led their erring steps to ruin. A few men know by instinct how to get into the newspavers, and they are always prosperous; they are never misrepresented or misunder- stood of lied about; but the art is one which the vast majority of men must acquire, as they acquire other things, by study. Hence the need for the new School for Getting Into the News- papers Straight.—Oakland Enquizer. A poor man who works for his living and to support a wife and famiiy is of more value to any town or city than a miserly rich man. He does something to produce wealth; the goods he buys for his family put all his earnings into circulation in the town where he lives, while the wealthy miser sends away for the new goods he may need ‘“to get them cheaper,” The “poor man” or the laboring class is the backbone of the Nation, and no town can be permanently prosperous that does Dot recog- nize this fact. They are the great producers and the great consumers. It is the duty of the public to give them good schools and to foster and support every new enterprise, every pro- gressive movement, that will give them em- ployment,—Willows Journal. There is a teamster in San Francisco whose name ought to be inscribed up near Abou Ben Adhem’s. He devotes his Saturday afternoons now to delivering surplus fruit, obtained free of cost from the commission-dealers on San Francisco’s water front, to the different hos- pitals and other eleemosynasy institutions of that City, and he credits himself with $10 worth of happiness on each load after doiug all the work for nothing. If there were more men in the world like J. Abrams it would be a better world than it is. Now fruit that used tobe thrown into the bay because there were not ‘buyers for it will go where it will do the most good to those who cannot buy fruit.—Fresno Daily Evening Expositor. It will require a very strong pull to bring either of the National Conventions to San Francisco. If it were accomplished atan out~ lay of $300,000 the incidental benefits might more than justify the expenditure. A National convention sitting in San Francisco would probably pave the way for more liberal legisla- tion for the Pacific Coast. No partofthe coun- try hashad so much difficulty in obtaining adequate approprlations as this rising empire of the Pacific.—Oakland Tribune. The minister who preaches against the ex- travagance of the rich is on the wrong track. Itisimpossible for the rich to be too extrava- gant. The money they spend to gratify their whims is of much greater benefit to the world than it would be if hoarded. The miserly rich are the omes who ought to be preached at.— Honey Valley Items. Whether the Defender or the Valkyrie ITI wins the international yacht race,the Pacific Coast will have the honor of supplying the masts that earry the successful boat onward to victory. These great masts are of Oregon pine, which is considered the best wood that grows for this purpose.—Los Angeles Times. It is only by the zrace of the Rothschilds and the Morgans that Uncle Sam is allowed to clink gold in his trousers pockets, They have a corner on that metal, and unless silver gets an inning they will own us all.—Georgetown (Coio.) Courier. This is & world of anomalies. In every com- munity there are a number of people cursing capital and hating capitalists, yet begging for capitalists with capital to come among them.— Santa Cruz Sentinel. Ban Francisco’s chances for securing the National Republican Convention appear to be growing more favorable as the time for mak- ing the selection draws near.—Napa Journal, A MOTHER'S TEARS. (A Mealey in Forms.) When the work of day is done, In the dusk, a vision clear, Rises onay sight of one Everloved and ever dear. She, my queenly mother, stands, Gazing at the empty space That had been my resting place When a child, and wrings her hands, Oft her dear voice, rich and deep, Sang my childish heart to sicep; Even now I hear her thus— ‘Woe is me—TI hear her weep! Watch the gath’ring moisture rise, Grow to tears within her eyes: Glistening stars in moonless ski ‘Which in falling—crystall; Thus are they borne hence to God, By an angel sweet and falx, Pointing at the lustrous gems Saying, “Lo! A Mother's Prayer!” ‘Thus I see thee, saintly one, Ever loved and ever dear, les— Daily when my work is done, ‘And my speech is but—a tear. By GUSTAVE A. DANZIGER. PICTURE cards. Roberts, 220 Sutter. . ————— THIS year’s glace figs,50¢ 1b. Townsend’s.* ——————— BacoN Printing Company, 508 Clay strest. * ————— GAs CONSUMERS' ASSOCIATION, 816 Post street. Established 1878.—Reduces gas bills from 20 10 40 per ce;n. hFummhe- new tips and burn- ers, Controls the pressure automatically, preventing the breakage of Flobes: Attshas s all gas complaints, and also all complaints connected with electric bells and gas-lighting apparatus. > ? THE J. F. CUTTER BOURBON is one of the best Kentucky brands of whisky. Itis popularwith the trade, and is the purest to be found in the market. 'The well-known firm, E. Martin & Co. 411 Merlket street, to which place they have re- %ehnel’ly. fi:oo:ig,n are "fl:e Plg%e Coast agents. gents for an brand of Kentucky Bourbon. Sp Aot ——————— Gawge—Cholly was badly irightened this morning. Willie—What happened? Gawge—Just as he turned the cornmer the shadow of one of those big flats fell on him, i e e Bl e Hoon's Sarsaparilla acts upon the blood. It en- riches, vitalizes and purifies, and thereby glves health, strength and vitality in place ot nervous- ness, weakness and misery. ———————— Dr. SIEGERI'S Angostura Bitters, the world renowned South American appetizer and invigo- rator, cures dyspepsia, diarrhea, fever and ague. Her father (suddenly)—Young man, do you play poker? Her young man (nervously)—Y-y—that is to 8ay, no, sir. Her father (regretfally)—I'm sorry. Some of us were going to have a little game to-night and we should have liked to have one more to take a hand.—Somerville Journal. ——————— “This paper won't do for our certificates of stock,” said the president of & new railway corporation to the secretary. “It's the usual paper for certificates, sir.” “Can’t help it. It won’t do. It's water- marked paper and eniirely too suggestive for our road.” | 1o be & poidtician. Neither is he a jingo, ANSWERS TO COERESPONDENT: The Efforts of the Query Sditor Appreciated by a Subsoriber. To the Editor of - The Call-SIR: Of the many inquiries sent out in search of along-missing relative, covering a period of several years, the query editor of THE CALL vas the first to fur- nish the desired information, and that within a fortnight aiter the inquiry was mailed. I give my thanks to the editor for his kindness and to all who contributed information. The name and Address"glven by him were investi- gated and proved to be ‘those of the person Sfought. This promptness is all the more re- markable when it is rememtered that the in- niry containzd thé information that sald relative had been the object ofsearch for many ears (over a quarter of & cen of her had traveled over 1% fruitless attempt at discovery. Respectiully, N. THOMPSON. Kern City, Cal., Aug. 17, 1895, PROBABLY GUESSWORK—L. M. R., City. The writer of an article commented upon in the Review of Reviews, in Which he gives what he declares are the religious bodies of the world— that is, the number of each religious creed— has evidently done a great deal of guesswork, articularly when he declares that there are {4,000, pagans in America. Religious statistics are the most difficult 10 obtain, ag was discovered by the census ofiicial in 1890, The aggregate returns of all denominations fall Short nearly 40,000,000 of the entire popu- lation. CopRA—Mrs. G., San Gregorio, San Mateo County, Cal. Copra, which is frequently men- tioned in the works of the late Robert Louis Stevenson, is the drllled kerl{]el of the cocoanut, he oil has not been expressed. In the cocoanut is the chief article ood.. " The fully grown kernel is cut into slices, dried iny the sun and sofd as copra, from which-much off the palm oil of commerce 1S extracted. DruEs oF 1894—S., City. Generally speaking dimes of 1894 are not scarce, but those of San Franeisco mintage during that year are. There were but twenty-four of these issued and of course such would command & premium. LiaprmiTYy—A. R. 8., Alameda, Cal. If anums ber of men form themselves into an organizas tion for business transaction, but do not ine corporate, they occupy the same relation as partners and are equally responsible for the payment of any debt contracted. 8AY NOTHING, 8AW WOOD. correspondent is anxious to ascertain the origin of the phrasa. “Say nothing, but saw wood.”” Can any of th numerous readers of the Answers to Corres- pondents give the desired information? RIGET oF WaAY—A. J. 8, City. Bicyclesara accorded the same rights on the public streets as are accorded to-other vehicles and nona others. They are required to keep to the right iust the same asothex Yehicles, THE EASTERN FPRESS, Reform in Oshkosh, Oshkosh has added to its distinction. It has highly resolved to enforce its excise laws, and highly is it carrying out that resolution, amid the epplause of nations. You cannot geta drink in Oshkosh between 12:30 and 5 A.M. on week days and on Sundays you go dry. The Police Commissioners of ~Oshkosh are active and voluble, the Mayor spends hours in regarding himself with satisfaction, and the reform element is singing hymus of triumph. In fact, the extremists are already proposing that even the churches. shall be shutup on Sundays. Oshkosh is full of reform and crowned with virtue, and the world beholds it ‘with new wonder.—New York Sun. Not True Beer. The great fault with much of the stuff that is consumed in this country is that it is not trué beer. It does not remain in the vats until it is ripe, as real beer should, and in order to stimu- late, or simulate, the completion of the process it is charged with chemicals and impurities of all sorts, and filled with stuff that will make it foam in’ order to cheat the customer. Beer is made in this connlr{ that ought to be indicted, and would be, too, i our health authorities did all the work they are paid for.—Brooklyn Eagle. Something Like Our City Hall. ‘When the new Capitol at Albany was begun it was estimated that it would cost §5,000,000 and would be completed in six years. It has cost several times $5,000,000 and its construc- tion has occupied several times six years, ana it is not finished yet. It is now said that ,000,000 more wi ut nobody ventures to guess how long it wil take.—New York Times. ‘Was a Boston Girl. A young lady at Peaks Island this week not only bewitched the men, but showed herself ta be s0 magnetic thatshe deflected the needle of the compass by sitting down beside the pilor- house. ston girl, of course.—Albany Knicks erbocker. Virginia’s Versatility. Miss Virginia Fair comes very near being our greatest living American. She hasabicycle record, & golf record, a vociferous bank ace coun d she is also an accomplished ventrilos quist.—Nashville American. PERSONS TALKED ABOUT. Attorney-General Judson Harmon is & pros foundly bright-eyed man of affably agreeabla manner, with a bald, high forehead and a gray cavalry mustache and is rising six and forty. Like his promoted predecessor, his forte is cors poration law. His appearance at his first Cabe inet meefing in a light business suit with a sack coat and old straw hat caused a sensition in official circles at Washington. He is am Ohioan of the deepest dye, end the father of three grown-up daughters. He is also a level- headed good fellow whocan tell a story welk and humorously. Indeed, he bids fair to sup~ ply the place as a raconteur left vacant by the withdrawal of Mr. Bissell from the President's official family. He is not and never pretended but he is withal sound on all Federal questions, an earnest advocate of tariff reform, and is unime peachable as to currency. He resigned hisseat on the Superior Court bench of his native Cins cinnati, where he had successfully sat fon nearly a decade, in order to become the law partner of ex-Governor Hoadly. Rubinstein by his will left money for & priza to be awarded every five years for the best pianoforte concerto, which must be performed for the first time in publie by the composer hime selt. The first competition will take place at Berlin on the 20th of this month, before & jury selected by the directors of the principal con= servatories of Europe. The second competis tion will be at Vienna in 1900, and the third a% Paris in 1905. General Pichegru’s capture of the Dutch fleed in the Helder in January, 1795, by sending against it a detachment of cavalry when it wag frozen in by the ice, one of the most pice turesque exploits in history, has been rudely < 9 complete the nrnctnroiA 5 ) shaken by M. Legrand, who has documents tap show that the fleet had received orders to sure render without resistance. Koch’s tuberculine, which has been casting the shade of late by Dr. Roux’s antitoxine,nov¥ turns up again as a remedy for insanity. Pro- fessor Wagner von Jauregg of Vienna has ex- perimented with it for four years, curing many patients and improving the mental and physis cal condition of ali on whom it was tried. Theodore Roosevelt is taking what time he finds free from his cares in Gotham to devote to literature. He is writing, among other things, a book of patriotic stories for young people, ana when that is finished, it is said, he ‘will rest his pen for the present. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. First Drummer—Why 40 you speak of that hotel as “The Fiddle?"” Second Drummer—Because it's a vile inn,~ Philadelphia Record. “Now, will you spend this dime for whisky?'* asked the kind old gentleman. 5 “I kin if you insist,” replied the grateful re- cipient; “Iguess I know a place where we can git two for a dime.”—Detroit Free Press. Yabsley—Did you carry out your threat of telling Bamuelson what you thought of him? “No; the telephone girl said she positively could not stand such language.”—Indianapolis Journal. Minnie—Captain Foster has never paid me any attention before, but he danced with me four times last night. Maud—Oh, well, it was a charity ball, you remember.—Texas Siftings. ROWYAHL , Baking Powder ’