The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 28, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Pally £nd Sunday CATL, one week, by carrier.80.15 ind Sundsy CALIL, one year, by mail.. 6.00 v and Sunday CALL, six months, by mall 3.00 1.d Sundsy CALL, three months, by mail 1.60 v and Sunday CALY. one month, by mal .65 ay CALL, One year, by mail 1.50 Fu WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mal 1.50 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street. Telephon M2in~—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS 517 Clay Street. Telephone .Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: £30 Montgomery street. corner Clay; open until §:20 o'clock. 320 Haves street : open until 8:30 o'clock. 7 rkin street: open until £W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open ntil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'elocke 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Brondway. EASTERN OFFICE: dvertising Burean, Rhinelander Duane streets, New York Ci AUGUST 28, 1895 FOR ALL. The Railroad Commission has the floor to-day. reduced freight rates or Will we broken pledges? Commissioner Clark’s opportunity will meet him at the board. The people have a right to expect much and should not be disappointed. California has some rights that a Ken- tucky corporation is bound to respect. Give the industries of theState a chance to expand and the railroads will lose noth- ing. The cinch of monopoly on the industries of the State must be broken or the law will be broken. A new day has dawned in California and the Railroad Commission must awake and get to work. s Ty is evident that in the fight against the ilroad cinch we must literally carry the into Africa. sroom for Bo- course, but that e proposed mew jink ia will come high of Thi the Country Club’s outing and lots of pretty girls on the side. has been going against ¢ her industry as well as of that of the wheat-growers. Go to the Mechanics’ Fair in the day time to study the exhibits, and then go in ihe ev The question before the Railroad Com- n is whether the people of Califor- e to be made 1o pay the cost of de- With another park added to her attrac- tions Santa Cruz will be in doubt whether | 4 herseli the City by the Sea, or the dled Boroagh of the Bay. to cal Park-G The Equalizers are playing to crowded houses right along, but agood many of the spectators believe they are playing Robert the Devil with the Robert left out. It is comforting to learn from Boston that Zerubbabel is behaving himself. Per- haps Massachusetts will be good enough to let him play with her great seal. It is worth noting that Olney is the one man in the Democratic party who has been named for the Presidential nomina- tion and has not made haste to decline. The Republican State Convention in Pennsylvania is the storm center of East- ern politics to-day, and everybody over there is watching to see if Quay can ride the whirlwind and direct the storm. As Wat Hardin is reported to be calling upon God and mun in Kentucky to stand | | gratified. THE RAILROAD COMMISSION. The meeting of the Board of Railroad Commissioners to-day will engage a large share of public attention and the proceed- ings will be watched with more than ordinary interest. A new spirit animates the people. Itis manifest in the revival of industry, in the increased attention to manufacturing enterprises, in the construe- tion of the competing railroad, in the de- mand for purer politics, and in all the great movements represented by the Manufac- turers’ Association, the Half-miliion Ciub, the Civic Federation and allied organiza- tions working on similar lines. It is to be scen now whether the Railroad Commis- sioners have been affected by this new spirit and are in harmony with the new movement of the people, or whether they are insensible to the demands of the oc- casion and intent only on drawing their pay without rendering service for it. In the demands of the people upon the commission there is nothing that suggests injustice to the railrosds. There is no unthinking agitation against the railroads as such. On the contrary, the peopie | favor railroads and are actually building one of their own. There is a desire to see other roads constructed and a general hope that this desire will be speedily With such a desire keenly felt no portion of the people ask of the Com- missicners to make any further reduction in railroad rates than is compatible with exact justice. The demand is not for a | cinch on the railroads but for the break- ing of that cinch which the monopoly has so long had upon all the industries of the State. There is another point to which the Commissioners will do well to attend. The people of California have begun to doubt very gravely whether the commission is worth the cost of keeping. Some work for the State is expected of men who receive large salaries from the State. For nearly ight months the present board has been in office, and until a few weeks ago it has not made even a pretense at doing any- thing. Certainly it is not worth while to maintain a commission that does nothing. California is not so rich that she can afford to spend money for purely ornamental officials, and public sentiment in favor of abolishing useless commissions is grow- ing every day. Finally, the Commissioners must bear in mind that there is needed a comprehen- sive policy of regulatlon covering every schedule of freights and benefiting ship- pers of all classes. A reduction in grain rates only, that will come too late in the year to benefit grain-growers, will neither meet the requirements of the situation nor satisfy the just demands of the people. It will not be difficult for the Commissioners to find specific wrongs that should be remedied, and it is only by dealing with these wrongs as a whole that the Commis- sioners can keep their pledges to the people, fulfill the duties of their office and serve the interests of the commonwealith. FOREIGN TRADE AGAIN, Apropos of THE CALL'S recent remarks concerning the superior energy displayed by European countries in pushing their foreign trade into regions neglected by the United States, the Indiarubber World asks: “What shall it profit the United States, though the whole world should assent to the Monroe doctrine, if in the end other nations monopolize the markets of the South American republics? Since politi- cal control has its raison d’etre in the pro- motion or protection of commercial inter- ests, so long as any European nation has the unmolested lead in selling goods to Latin America it can be content to leave the political situation in the hands of hers.” Of course, the Indiarubber World over- looks other important bearings of the Monroe doctrine, but its hint is none the less valuable for that. The establishment of close trade relations between countries generally leads to a mutually beneficial reciprocity, and this is a long step toward political co-operation for their common interest should the occasion arise. The World regards it as a reproach to the United States that we permit the steam navigation of the great Amazon River to be monopolized by an English corporation, while we can build superior steamboats and are free to compete with England in this trafic. The business has grown so large of late years that the English com- pany is preparing to increase the number of its vessels.\ American steamboats were on the river abead of the English, and to-day our boats are successfully plying the Magdalena River. Why should we abandon the Amazon and its splendid trade to England ? Again, an English company has just by the Democratic party, he has probably | been organized and has let the contract to reached the conclusion that whisky and the devil are not equal to the emergency of the revival. It is rather odd that Corbettand Fitz- simmons should have to go so far to find a place to hold their boxing match when scarcely a week passes without a prize- fight somewhere in the suburbs of New York or Bostor Los Angeles having handsomely pro- vided for an exhibit at Atlanta, is now making preparations for a grand festival next spring, and in the meantime San Francisco continues to piay the role of a passive spectator. That our golden climate really has money in it is made evident by the report of the ‘Weather Bureau saying: ‘‘Grapes are be- ing gathered, hops are being picked, fruit is being dried, and the weather is most favorable for all these purposes.” P The statement of an old miner that with- Jay a cable up the Amazon from Para to Manaos. This will vastly increase British trade and the extension of British in- fluence in this great valley. The World presents the following state- ment of trade with Brazil for 1892, and de- clares that it was not an exceptional year? The United States bought from Brazil merchandise valued at $118,633 604 And so0ld to that coun c merchandise valued atonly......... Great Britain bought Brazilian prod- 14,240,009 ucts only to the value of... ... 17.559,708 But exported her own products to Brazil amounting to... 9,551,830 THE VALUE OF WORK, When Julian Ralph, in his famous in- terview with Theodore Roosevelt, asked that now famous personage, “If you could speak commandingly to the young men of our city what would you say to them?” Mr. Roosevelt gave this answer: “I would order them to work. I would try to de- velop and work out an ideal of mine—the in two vears San Bernardino will become | theory of the duty of the leisure class to one of the greatest gold producing coun- | the community. I have tried to do it by tiesin the U ited States was not based | example, and it is what I have preached; wholly on enterprises in the air. There | first and foremost” to be American, heart seems to be a good bedrock foundation |and =oul, and to go in with any person, for it. It1s asserted that/in New York every heedless of anything but that person’s qualifications. For myself I'd work as quick beside Pat Dugan as with the Jast man and woman who rides a bicycle chews | descendant of a patroon; it literally makes gum, that Mayor Strong, Commissioner | no difference to me so long as the work is Roosevelt and the entire police force chew good and the man is in earnest. One it, and that the people generally are get-| other thing, T'd like to teach the young ting to be aTace of jawsmiths and mouth | man of wealth that he who has not got contertionists. wealth owes his first duty to his family, The big conventions of Christian En- | Duthe who has means owes his first duty deavorers and Knights Templar in Boston | 10 the state. Itis ignoble to try to heap this year should be followed by a great National Convention in San Francisco next year, so that all the world may know that hospitality in this country extends from the eastern to the western sea. money on money. I would preach the doctrine of work to all, and to the men of wealth the doctrine of unremunerative work.” Had Mr. Roosevelt never done anything else this speech would have been suffi- As something of an offset to the danger cient to make him a remarkable man. It of phylloxera it is pleasing to learn that | comes from a member of the ‘“leisure the so-called “California vine disease” |class” itself; and, not only that, but from which was so troublesome some time ago | one of the few American families who by is now declared to be a purely local phe- | 11ght of blood, wealth ard an honorable nomenon, ephemeral in character; that | family history can lay all possible claims there are only a few isolated cases of it, [ to Whatever one may suppose to be the and these are xot contagious. rights and privileges of an ‘“‘American aristocracy.” This isgenerally taken toin- ‘T'he reports of the County Auditors of | cludeidleness, which is akin to leisure. As Ohio, which have just been footed up, the necessity to work in order to live carries show that the number of sheep in the | with it the idea of poverty, and, as the State in 1894 exceeded those of 1895 by | prevailing conception of aristocracy in 549,779, only to the effects of the Wilson tariff, The decrease can be assigned | America is the possession of wealth, it fol- lows that labor is regarded as a badge of which has acted on the wool industry of | poverty and idleness of aristocracy. This the country like a devastating pestilence. | is not the idea ostensibly held by those of a blue-blood origin, but, as a majority of these are poor and must work, they make a virtue of necessity by working and hold- ing the standard of the otkers in con- tempt. Roosevelt is both a blue-blood and & millionaire, and hence is an aris- tocrat from both points of view; yet he is one of the hardest-working men in the country. No one of sense will doubt the wisdom of his philosophy or the value of his example. It is a pity, however, that he did not include women in his injunction. Reflection will show that as women are the support of social customs, the rapid young men blessed with rich parents would have little reason to regard idleness and its attendant eviis as a mark of aris- tocracy did not fashionable women en- courage them in their folly. Were not the women of rich families themselves given over t¢ idleness, frivolous pursunits and unprofitable pleasures, and did they but exert their powerful influence both by precept and example to encourage thrift, energy and sobriety among the foolish young men who flock about them, idleness and its inevitably attendant dissipations would cease digging graves for young manhood. It would be pleasing to know what Mr. Roosevelt thinks of that. A QUEER POSITION. Mexico, if we may judge from the utter- ances of a Mexican newspaper friendly to that Government, has suddenly appeared as a possible factor in a settlement of the Cuban difficulties. It is the Nacional that speaks, and it takes an extraordinary posi- tion. “Itis easily understood,” says that paper, “why the Cubans desire separation from Spain, even at the cost of falling wnder the domination of the Americans, for the present situation humiliates them and deprives them of their rights, while at the same time it imposes all classes of duties. But it is not conceivable that they should prefer to exchange the full political liberty they would enjoy as Mexicans for the inevitable political ostracism they would suffer if allied to the United States. There is no obstacle in the character of the population of Cuba to annexation to Mex- ico. It would be an easy country to govern.” This is nonsense of varied and abouud- ing picturesqueness. The United States has shown no desire whatever to secure domination over Cuba, and it is wholly gratuitous and unjustifiable to say that the Cabans would enjoy greater political liberty under Mexican domination than under that of this country. When it comes to acomparison of records in the treatment of dominated races, this country will cheerfully enter the lists with Mexico. ‘While it is true that peonage in Mexico no longer exists, and that the constitution guarantees the electoral franchise to all its native-born men, the abolition of slavery in Mexico was accompanied with condi- tions very different from those out of which eraancipation issued in thiscountry. Mexico brought to the lowest depths of degradation the proud descendants of the Montezumas, and even though they now have the nominal privilege of dftizenship, we know that they do not te-day oceupy so high and independent a position as the negroes of the United States. Whatever may have been the causes, and however they may bhave operated against the humane dictates of the Mexican heart, we know that the fact exists. All this aside, together with whatever choice the Cubans themselves may have vetween the United States and Mexico in case their rebellion succeeds and they should not choose to remain independent, it would be the irony of fate if Cuba should pass under the dominion of our southern neighbor. The contingency is really too remote to invite speculation, and yet the picture has an interest. Such a thing would complete the humiliation of Spain, and we should not be surprised if even the intimation of it would tend to break down a growing animosity which Spain is cherishing for the United States. The possibilities which might grow out of the Nacional’s patriotic utterances would give to history the most whimsical turn that it is possible to imagine. We shall be interested to observe the course of Mexico now that one of its lead- ing newspapers has apparently disclosed the policy of the Government. Will our neighbor proceed forthwith to justify its ability to govern a distant territory by demonstrating the stability of its domestic States? Will it not be harder to control the fighting spirit of the Cubans than the internal disaffections that lead to rebellion at home? Will the native blacks of Cuba use the torch which illumines the history of the Aztecs to cast a light upon their own destiny under Mexican domination? These are questions which President Diaz, one of the ablest and most humane of rulers, will probably be asked by civiliza- tion again and again before Cuba becomes a Btate of the Mexican republic. One of the peculiar things noticed in connection with the forthcoming yacht race is that the English champion Valkyrie is built upon American lines, and the American Defender is modeled somewhat after former English champions. The re- sult of the contest will be looked for with interest. If the Yaukee wins he will justly claim that it is due to his superior seaman- ship. If, on the other hand, the Britisher comes out ahead a claim will be set up that his success was due to the fact that an American model had been followed in pro- ducing the Valkyrie. The Republican party will never condone the offense of an official who betrays his trust. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Bright children at school are in great danger sometimes of passing over the border line of mathematies into the forbidden domain of common-sense. It isrecorded that the teacher in & New Encland school once said to her class in mental arithmetic: “Now, boys, I have a few questions in frac- tions to ask. Suppose I have a plece of beef- steak and eut it into two pieces what would those pieces be called 2" “Halyes!” shouted the class. “Right. And if I cut each half into two pieces 77 “Quarters!” “That is correct. And if the guarters were each cut in half ?” *‘Eighths!” “Yes. And if those were chopped in two " “Sixteenths!” “Very good. And when the sixteenths were cut in half. what would they be ?” The answers had been growing fewer and fewer, but one boy meditated a moment, and answered: “Thirty-secon “Very good,” said the teacher. *“And now we will ¢hop those thirty-seconds in half. Oan au_ly boy tell what we have now 2 here was silence in the class, but presently a little boy at the foot put up hia hand. "l?'u you know, Johnny ? even, you may tell ash!” answered Johnny, confidently—and truly.—Youth’s Cmm»uien.l.y ¥ Mistress (greatly scandalized)—Is it possible, Huldah, you are making bread without having washed your hands? New Kitchen Girl—Lor’, what's the differ- ;nec, mum? It's brown bread.—Chicago Tri- une. Patient—How can I reduce my weight? Doctor—You should have something to do, something to keep your mind busy—to worry you, even. 3 Patient—By the way, you ml{ht send_your last monlh'l{)fll in.—l!hi{mlph 3 Reeqrd." mi PR yanE, ‘WHEEL AND TOWER. Following the fashion set by Chicago and 8an Francisco in building massive wheels and towers, London has introduced similar struc- tures into the metropolitan recreation grounds that are made attractive by novelties from all countries. The inventor and designer of this new affair is Lieutenant James Weir Graydon, late of the United States navy. He has com- bined the wheel and tower ideas, much to the delight of the Britishers. the latest invention the pamphlet of explana- tion says of Lientenant Graydon that in com- bining all the features of the “Graydon wheels and towers” in this new invention he now adds to the immensity of their structure a wonder- ful feature, a veritable castle in the air, so that one can dine, lunch, dance, promenade, skate, flirt, dream, or otherwise enjoy oneself in or near the clouds. The passenger enters the car- riages on the wheel at their lower loading sta- tions (and in which he can find en voyage all In a description of | remain for five days sweating, when they are Teady to be graded and packed in boxes of five, ten, twenty and fifty pounds for the East- ern market. Vines six years old yield one and a hali tons of raisins per acre, giving & net income of $200 er acre. While the supply of raisins is as un- ailing as the growing demand, there isan esthetic as well as an economic side. A few women have not only found raisin vineyards a source of comfortable revenue, but their cul- tivation a most elegant and heaithful pastime. The approach to some of their homes, with the vineyard in the resr of the dwelling-house, is through avenues of palm and magnolif trees, and if they lie, as many do, against the foothills of the Sierras, a ride through the columnar glories of the giant redwoods is a fitting introduction to the beauty and utility whichis sure to be beyond.—NELLIE BLESSING EYSTER, in Harper's Weekly. BICYCLING. The popularity of the bicycle has attained such proportions and become such a factor in S f“.niz«i! 1] of the creature comforts that are obtainable in the best hotels on the iand), and while the great wheel circles him on and up the wonder- ful panorama unfolds itself. Seated on the outside verandas enjoying his smoke, or in the interior of these aerial carriages, viewing the surrounaings, he is quietly lifted and slowly circled into the heavens. Arriving at the highest point of the periphery of the great wheel it stops, and he finds himself opposite the upper landing stations, and if he is an nerial castle passenger he alights on the spa- cious 1anding platforms, and thence he ascends the stairway to the castle in the air—500 feet in the heavens. Or, if he is a *round- trip” passenger, he remains in the carriage and is slowly and gently circled to mother earth again. Cireling the grand ballroom, and well above, are the reireshment galleries, opening on to the second outside verandas, canopied and inclosed by steel and glass from the weather. Above is situated a second floor, with i1s parlors, drawing-rooms, reception- rooms, communicating with similar outside canopied verandas, and with promenade in- side galleries. Looking down in the center is seen the grand ballroom. Still above this one arrives at the “observation floor,”” to which the general publie will be admitted in small num- bers. And on the top of the castle in the air ere fitted apartments as a weather bureau, from which scientifie observations will be made from this great height and the problems of the atmosphere studied and recorded. REASONS FOR RAISINS. Fresno County of California is pre-eminently the raisin center of the United States, its ex- ports alone during the past year having amounted t0 65,000,000 pounds. Thislocality, comprising an ares. of 8000 square miles, lies in the hesrt of the justly celebrated San Joa- quin Valley. Two-thirds of the county is level vineyard and orchard land; the remainder spurs of the snowclad Sierra Nevada and their iuxuriant and fertile foothills. Fifteen years ago this vast tract of land was a barren plain, fit only at its best for sheep pasturage and grain farming on a small scale. To-dsy the desert literally “blossoms as the rose,” and its “milk and honey” of solid comfort and wealth are its raisin vineyards. But these in turn are the product of the irrigation supplied by the two magnificent rivers, Kingsand 8an Joaquin, which flow westward from the melting snows of the Bierras. This supply is eeaseless, the water being conducted by about 2000 miles of canals and 5000 miles of lateral ditches to thousands of small farms and vineyards in Fresno Valley. The county is supposed to have the most extensive irrigation system in the world—certainly in the State—and the system is as essential to its vital existence as is the ‘warm blood rmhinfi through the veins to the health of the animal. The cost of supplying a vineyard with water is but 62 cents per acre per annum, and the labor of s{:plylngl!, if the land has been pr&p erly leveled to receive it, is slight. No Venetian canal, with its graceful gondolas sail- ing between the marbled walls of old palaces, is half as beautiful to the Fresno raisin-vine- yardist s the ribbon-like and limpid *‘ditch,” upon whose %nlet. surface are mirrored earth and sky and the tangled leafy loveliness which lies between. The main canals are from ten to forty feet in width, while their veins that thread the vineyards are never more than from three to nine feet wide. For the average vine- {mlm ‘“‘twenty acres is enough,” because the and_gives two heavy crops of raisin-grapes yearly, and the net returns will be ten times that of 160 acres in the East, Forty acres, {-‘!K;e!ore, carefully tilled, produces & home of Ty. A raisin vineyard is in full bearing in three ;enn, but the grape has not reached its per- ection until the vine from which it springs is six or seven years old. The Muscat and Thompson less are the best variety of raisin_grape cultivated, the latter having only been introduced within the last few years, but gl:imzlnhmdel m‘l‘:fl%““‘s‘:‘ gn‘ne ;a‘?o large s upon popularity. Standing before one of these vlnesou n which inverted cones of countless perfect spheres are hanging—each cluster weighing severai pounds—a vision of the Hebrew sples, with their magnificent grapes of Eshcol, borne ‘‘on a staff’ between the two,” rises before us, and involuntarily we at‘:llsgx,:: “Is not this also the Promised Few sights are more disappointing to the Eastern tourist and stranger then a ride through a raisin vineyard in March or early April, Nothing msneh the eye but acres of level land covered with brown soil, from whose arable surface thousands of small horned stumps protrude, about four or five inches high and standing ten feet apart. The {;runing of the vines f- done between the middle of No- ‘vember and the 1st of . n r the wooing sunbeams of May coax pen the folded buds the cultivator begins its work. Boon the laterals throw out their long arms, upon which already appears the embryo grape cluster, and until the leaves of the vine meet and shut out the possibility of getting low between them the cultivation continues. n this constant vigilance lies the secret of suc- cess. Blowly the forest of vinesexpands. As far as the eye can reach is a dead level of liv- ing green, {nterspersed with silvery aisles of Tunning water. . About the 1st of September the long sunny days, the dewless nights and the percolated soll have perfected their maryelous work, and the first crop is ready to be gathered. By this time the laterals have run riot and the vine- ;:n;dln can scarcely see over the top of his 28, The process r.po-gnuurl for raisins re- o elicate hmm‘i‘gg and cleanli- ness. Hundreds of mnllow“woodon tr d as carefully 1aid upon the base of the trays to avoid bruis- ingthem. There they ten days and nights. One-half of the grape is this time cured, but instead of mm:fi them with the hand an empty tray is placs over the lower one is inverted, and t;xo n curing ‘been com- The trays and contents are then stacked about twenty trays high, where they the recreation and social functions of both city and country as to make any question of its permanent position a mere mattar of want of knowledge and sympathy with its troe charac- ter. Only a year ago I recall a somewhat over- wrought discussion of wheel versus horse with & well-known club man, who had as yet looked upon his conversion to the use of the bicycle as something incredible and beneath his dignity as a horseman and a member of the bar. Ifelt after my hignly colored eulogium asthough I had been cheerfully making a general exhibi- tion of myself and an enthusiasm that no mere user of & horse could appreciate, and that to him savored of an unmasculine warmth. 1 had only lately been over that most besuti- ful of roads that run between Port Jervis and the Delaware Water Gap, one of the best and favorite runs for the touring wheelmen. I counted the freedom of the wheel, the exhil- aration of movement, the want of care as to my mount’s grooming and stabling, and the sustained speed for the fong miles against the care of a horse. Then, to0o, the wheel goes with vou in the baggage-car 1o the start and eomes back the same way from the finish. There is one aspect of fashion awheel that is as convincing in its way as fashion in the ri—that is, in respect to the clothes worn. While there are those always ready to ridicule any departure frqm the commonplace and con- ventional in ordinary costume, as regards a sensible bicycle-dress there seems to have de- veloped a very broad and liberal spirit of toleration. No womean who has ever suffered the discom- fortand escaped the real dangers of the ordina: walking skirt used for riding ever has muc objection to ‘‘rational” tendencies. The long skirt gets under the feet in mounting, catches in the chain, and in dismounting always lieble to become entangled just enough to pitch the gentle wearer and her wheel un- gracefully to the street. Twoof the swellest costumes I've seen about New York are of reddish-brown cloth. The full, almost im- perceptible bloomers are supplementeda by a natty jacket falling just below the hips, while the legs from the knee are encased in stockings to maich, nearly covered with high-laced kid boots. The headgear 1s a brown derby. Iam more inclined to anticipate a growth of the record-breaking tendency since the very creditable showing made by Mrs. Henry Clews in the ten-mile run at Newport. That is only the entering wedge. I presume we shall hear before long of a further reduction in the ten- mile time made by Miss Fair, Miss Vanderbilt, Mrs. Oelrichs and others. That the wheel will be more than ever in evidence at Newport is already an assured fact and road runs even as far as’ Boston are probabilities of the near future. The fact is, as I said in beginning these rambling notes, the bicycle is too %ne an exercise, too entirely a sensible and health- glv‘h;? sport, to be other than a most gratifying addition to the pleasures of society. Itisrarely that you find an objector to its intelligent use among physicians, and when you do put it down as worthy of investigation'that he either doesn’t ride or hasn’t the courage to learn.— J. B.C. in Vanity. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. OLEOMARGARINE—W.K. U., Redlands,San Ber- nardino County, Cal. Oleomargarine or butter- ine is an imitation of butter made from animal fat. Itisanimal grease in disguise and the re- sult of a Frenchman’s idea that the butter dif- fused through the milk of the cow is due to the absorption of the animal’s fat. In preparing butterine the manufacturers mince beef suet, sheeps’ stomachs cut into small pieees, carbon- ate of potash and water. This mixture is sub- jected to @ heat of 113 degrees Fahrenheit, 80 that the action of the gepun in the sheeps’ stomachs will separate the fat from the other tissues. By hydraulic pressure this/fatis di- vided into stearin and margarin. To ten pounds of margarin put in a churn isadded a quart of milk, three pints of water and a little arnotto. After churning there is produced an article that has the semblance of butter. The inventor of the process was Mege Mouriez. TH= FREE LisrAry—Subscribers, City. The trustees of the S8an Francisco Public Library are Colin M. Boyd, Hoiace Davis, Ralph C. Harrison, John 8. Hittell, P. N. Lilienthal, A. L. Mann, Joseph O’Connor, George T. Shaw, John H. Wise, and the Mayor, ex-officio. There is one vacancy in the board at this time caused by the death of C. C. Terrill. The trustees were first named by the Governor; now, when a vacaney occurs, it is filled by the other mem- bers of the board. The secretary is E. J. Casey. The librarian i8 George T. Clark, whose salary 1is $200 per month. Lucky Stoxes—&,, City. It is commonly be- lieved that each month in the year has a lucky precious stone. The list is as follow: January, garnet, constancy; February, ams thyst, sincerity; March, bloodstone, wnrlfie; April, diamond, innocence; May, emerald, success in love; June, agate, health and long life; July, cornelian, content; August, ear- donyx, conjugal felicity; September, chryso- lite, antidote to madness; October, opal, hope; November, to) fidelity; December, tur- quolse, prosperity. OFFICIAL VisiTs—A Native Daughter, City. As the editor of this department is not the keeper of the minds ot the public officials, it is impossible to tell why such officials nom&&he heads of publi¢ institutions of intended official visits, except it is for the ‘gnrpou of giving those in charge of such institutions an WYW. tunity to put everything in the best possible order in order to ;.{n a favorable report. GRUBBING LAND—A. H., Sonoma, Cal. Several persons who have been engaged in the work say that it is impossible to give an estimate of the price of grubbing land without viewing it. In some parts cf Sonoma County there are men :ol:’a :‘fll mbfllm {,or'the 'hnfiho&:z-thn is, stumps and scrub oak, ! com nto eharcosl. i = FLocs—8. and K., City. The Consul for Ger- meny in this City says that he does not know of any law pi iting the carrying of a for- eign ng in & procession through the streets of Berlin, but that it is not customary to do so. AMERICAN THEATER—H, M., City. The Ameri- the morning of the 16th of Februacy, 1868 AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Grove L. Johnson, member of Congress from the Sacramento district, isin the City. Heen- joyed his midsummer vacation as usual by the sea at Santa Crus, and is now taking observa: tions in the metropolis. Mr. Johnson Will leave the State for Washington in November. For two reasons the Congrassman believes that President Clevelana will not be a candidate for a third term. The first reason is based on the President’s denial that he is & candidate, and the second is that Cleveland is rich and ready to retire and rest from the cares of offi- cial position. Mr. Johnson is not so confident 8s many others are that the Republicans can win the next Presidential election “hands down,” yet he believes that Cleveland could be easily defeated. ' He takes into account the advantages which the Democrats would have should they nominate & man who stands fairly well on the silver question. Before the voting begins the nominee of the party would have the electoral vote of eight States of the Solid South. He regards the proposition as almost absurd that the Republicans can break the “Solid South” in a campaign for President. He does not expect that the big Republican majority in the next House of Representatives will accomplish much. He says there will be twenty statesmen in Congress ready to receive the mentle of Holman and meke a record for economy. Dr. J. M. Fox, miner, philosopher and tourist trom Red Lodge, Mont., is enjoying the society of old-time Californians in San Francisco. The doctor speaks well of Montana, predieting the speedy development of the great resources of the State. Coal-mining is a great industry where he lives, and good locomotive fuel is supplied to the Northern Pacific for $2 a ton. In conversation with the Montana tourist the National game was incidentally mentioned, which reminded the doctor that Colonel F— of Montans went to St. Paul not long ago and joined in a session of draw. The colonel's narrative as related by himself is briefly this: “I wasin; the pot was & good one; & St. Paul man called me; I said three sixes; the St. Paul man took the money, called three kings and shoved his hand in the deck. I wanted to see the kings, but was told ‘this is a gentleman’s game.' After that I never lost & pot.” Ex-Attorney-General A. L. Hart of Sacra- mento was at the Grand Hotel yesterday, tell- ing a throng of listeners that the greatest dis- play of electric illumination ever made on the Pacific Coast would be seen at the Capital City next week, The immense generating power at Folsom will develop the light, and the great search reflector on the dome of the Capitol building will send the rays over and beyond Woodland. Sacramento will be beautifully dressed, and her streets superbly arched to please the guests during the State Fairand delight the vast multitude sure to assemble on Admission day, September 9. Neither Gov- ernor Budd nor Lieutensnt-Governor Millard can be present on tne great occasion, but, ac- cording to the Iatest accounts, the Hon. Thomas Flint of San Benito was in prime condition for afortnight and an extra night or two in Sac- ramento. Samuel G. Hilborn, member of Congress from the Oskland district, was in town yesterday. He is confident that President Cleveland is not only a candidate fora third term, but is working actively to secure the nomination of the Demoeratic Convention. He says it was an open secret in Washington & year ago that the President was figuring on another sojourn of four years in the White Hcuse. The intelli- gence telegraphed from the East yesterday that the President was actually & canaidate for re-election therefore did not surprise the Congressman. PERSONAL. Claus Spreckels was in Prague, Bohemia, last week. G. Winslow, U. 8. N., is registered at the Oc- cidental. Supervisor A. B. Spreckels has returned from Skaggs Springs. Judge J. W. Turner of Eureka is registered at the Russ House. E. Jacobs, a banker of Visalia, is & guest at the Occidental. Silas Carle, contractor, of Sacramento, is at the Lick House. Mayor Frank McLaughlin of Santa Cruzis a guest at the Palace. W.L. Washington and wife of New York are at the California Hotel. George Newman, merchant, of Sacramento is registered at the Grand. Hayden Jones, & well-known resident of Chi- cago, is in San Franeisco. E. B. Yerrington of Virginia, Nev., is regis- tered at the Palace Hotel. T. E. Clarke, lawyer, of Visalia registered at the Grand Hotel yesterday. ‘W.R. Clark, Railroad Commissioner, is reg- istered at the Baldwin Hotel. E. C. Horst, 8 merchant of Sacramento, is a. guest at the California Hotel. Professor C. H. Dwinelle of Fulton, Cal., was at the Grand Hotel yesterday. Lieutenant-Commander H. Knox, U.8, N,, is registered at the California Hotel. Major H. Foster of the Royal Engineers, Eng- 1and, is a guest at the California Hotel. A. Chichizolo, the well-known merchant of Jackson, i3 stopping at the Commerciel, E. Solari, a prominent merchant of Murphys, Calaveras County, is at the Commercial. Colonel Hardin, & prominent cattleman of Nevada, is a guest at the California Hotel. Joseph Morse, & prominent business man of Grants Pass, Or., is stopping at the Grand. D. M. Robertson, a lawyer and tourist of Toronto, Canada, is visiting San Francisco. A. Moncure, manager of the Hearst ranch at Palermo, is registered at the Occidental Hotel. Levi Rackliffe, Treasurer of the State of Cali- fornia, is in the City, a guest at the Grand Hotel. ‘William H. Cleary, & miner and capitalist at Sheepranch, Cal, is stopping at the Lick House. J. H. Neill, a millionaire coffee-planter of Guatemala, is in the City, stopping at the Cali- fornia Hotel. J. F. Mahonoy, a mining man from Circle City, Alaske, and the first to return of those who rushed to the Yukon country last spring, is & guest at the Commercial. William Lange Jr. and Emil Lange, sons of F. W. M. Lange of this City, who have been spending the summer in Europe, have left Austria for Berlin, and will go thence to Ham- burg and later to Genoa. After visiting the 1ast named city they will sail for New York on their return home. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 27.—The follow- ing Californians registered at hotels to-day San Francisco—Charles Calman, Hoffman; Mr. and Mrs. R. Bramson, T. Salinger, Miss L. Royce, Sturtevant; Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Kean, 8t. James; W. B. Peck, Imperial; H. M. Van man, Bartholdi; L. M. Weleh, Murray Hill, Bromson, Warwick; S. Howard, Brunswick; Miss F. Meyers, Grand Union. Stockton—H. 8. Farrington, Grand Union. CALIFORNIANS IN UTAH. SALT LAKE, Urax, Aug. 27.—At the Temple- ton—Mrs. M. Heffer, San Francisco; Mrs. Catherine Blake and Miss Minnie Blake, Benicia. THE EASTERN PRESS, Collapse of the Coliseum. The truest thing that can be sald about the total collapse of the Coliseum is that it is well that it happened when it did. The horrors that would have attended the crash of such a weight of iron and stone when 16,000 were seated beneath its roof, as would have been the case during the projected season of Barnum’s Circus are beyond the scope of imagination. The catastrophe probably would have been more fruitful of serfous and fatal casualties then & great battle. And what mourning ‘would have covered the Nation had the great buumna collapsed during the session of a Netion: convention wien distinguished representatives of every State and Territory were assembled,—Chicago Inter Ocean. Hawaifan Annexation. Let Dole and his fellow conspirators and usurpers ‘“demand” recognition. Such a course on their part could only accentuate the public opinion now setting ageinst them more strongly every day. As things are g now it is not probable that the next ouse, al- though largely Republican, will pass any piil gmmin for the annexation of the Dole oute t, with their evidences of bonded indebted ness, their sugar plantations. their Kanakag and their annual pensions o deposed sove ereigns.—St. Louis Republic. Eastern Umpires. There {8 much blazing talk in the sporting world about the inefficiency of umpires. The National League has in its service, 2s nearly ag we can make out, & corps of blind, colde blooded, fickle-minded degenerates, who do no know the difference between an in-shoot an conic sections or between a stolen base and a stolen watch. It is hard to understand how men who have to make so many decisions can fail to hit upon the right one alvmost always.— Boston Journal. Religion in the Cities. The census volume on the churches, recently published, shows at least one thing which we do not doubt will be a surprise to many; it is that the proportion of church members oe communicants to the wholé population i larger in the cities than among the riral popue lations. The common impression trends tha other way.—Philadelphia Ledger. ‘What Populism Is Said to Ee. Populism is not a creed. It is not a principle, It is the gospel of dissent and discontent. It does not require its adherents to affirm anys thing in particular. It is satisfied with themig they are dissatisfied with everyboayand everv+ thing else. It is this gospel.—Fort Worlh Gazette. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY. A VISITOR IN SAN FRANCISCO SPEAKS HIS APPRE. CIATION. To the Editor of The Cal!—SiR: Will you pere mit a new-comer to and an ardent admirer of your fascinating City and a believer in the ability and influence of THE CALL to say a few appreciative words about the Free Public Li- brx“\f{we. of course, seen greater libraries i other cities of the world, but can remembs‘% none where the managers make so good use of their treasures as in yours. 3 The Librarian I think must be an admirable executive, for every department seems to be uietly and yet most effectively conducted, (he ladies who have charge of the delivery desks and the reading and reference rooms have thefr work well in hand and are unie formly courteous, and show a_sincere disposis tion to help readers to find what they inquirs for instead of hindering tkem, as is the fashion in some other institutions of the same kind. The accessions lately msde indicate ability and care in selection. The monthly bulletins ere wonderfully sugs gestive and helpful. The new card catalogu is a marvel of skill and convenience; in short, the executive head of the institution is sus ceeding in his efforts to give the public the largest facilities for access to the stores of learning under his care. g The library is a eredit to San Francisco, t& the State and to the Nation; and the best of ig all is that the humblest of your citizens is as welcome and receives the eamg consideration as if he were a millionaire. It does one good to see that the money of lhe;eople has, in this case at least, been' expended for the benefit of the people. There are two drawbacks, however, to tha delight & bookish man_experiences in all this, First, the rooms are rather dark; but this is an objection which can easily be overlooked. Second, in getting from the siCewalk in Mc- Allister street to the delivery-room oro must climb seventy-seven stone and iron steps; and if he wishes fo go the periodieal-room, which, by the way, is perhaps as attractive as any parg of the place, he must mount o twenty-five additional steps, making 102 in all. I notice & great scarcity of elderly people among the frequenters of the library, and I am sure that many ladies find it quite impos sible 1o be ‘‘climbing up the iron stairs” which lead to the ‘“book-lovers’ paradise.”” If wq could get the twelve men who compose tha Board _of Supervisors to ascend in a body juss once I believe they would decids to vot unnnlmm\sl{ for an appropriatiou ‘or an eld vator,and I assure them that many a tired climber of the Hill of Knowledge would *‘rise up and call them blessed.” E.J. H. 1001 Pine street, City. e, OFPINIONS OF EDITORS.! San Francisco commission fruit men have again been at the work of dumping hundreds of crates of good fruit into the bay because they would neithersell it at a price low enouoh to make it go, nor giveit away to the very poor who could not pay any price at all. 8¢ it was wantonly wasted. Such practices are little short of criminal, and we snould think that severe condemnation by the San Francisco newspapers ought to diminish the practice not entirely stop it. We look to THE CALL & lead, of course.—Redlands Citrograph. San Jose will never be able to stand erect, full-statured, until it frees itself from the cords that restrict it to its present municipal limits, Fully one-third of the city is outside of the municipal lines. There is no desire to inor- dinately extend the limits, but they certainly should be made to include the entire city.— San Jose Mercury. The goldbug syndicate of New York con. tinues to burden the mails with their “sound currency” literature in the endeavor to con. vince the people that the single gold standard and bankruptey are really blessings in dis- guise.~Vancouver (Wash.) Register. The California Railroad Commission costs that State $£20,000 a year, while ours costs us only $20,000 every two years. One is as use- less as the other, so we have something to be thankful for—comparatively speaking.—Salem (Or.) Statesman. THE Roberts Printing Co.—picture cards. ————— Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay strast. * ————— GAS CONSUMERS’ ASSOCIATION, 316 Post street. Established 1878.—Reduces gas bills from 20 0 40 per cent. Furnishes new tips and burn- ers. Controls the pressure automatically, thus preventing the breakage of globes. Atténas to all gas complaints, and also all complaints connected with electric bells and gas-lighting apparatus. = ————— The Summer Girl—Oh! I love to hear you read your poems. It makes me realize how brave you are. Poet—Brave? Girl—Yes, brave; you said you took them yourself to the publishers.—New York Ledger. Hoop's Sarsaparilla has a record of remarkable cures never equalea by any other preparation. In the severest cases of scrofula it has been successtul ater much other treatment failed. - «Mrs. W inslow’s Soothing Syrup" Has been used over fifty vears by millions of moth. ers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child. softens the gum: Isys Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowely and is the best remedy for Diarrheas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every pariof the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrap. 23¢ a bottle. ————————— Park Commissioner—You are not making that new bicycle path wide enough. N Surveyor—Pshaw! It's wide enough for térmy bicycles to ride abreast. Park Commissioner—It's wide ‘enough for the bicycles, but it isn’t wide enough for the ‘bloomers. FRAUDS EXPOSED! Beware of the firms decsiving you by using aname similar to ours. THE CORRECT NUMBER 1S S<41 MARKET ST. Big Store Running Through to Stevenson Street. COLUNBIAN WOOLEN MILLS, Wholesale Tailors and Clothing Hmf facturers. 1