The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 3, 1895, Page 6

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EASTERN OFFICE: - FPacific States Advertising Bureau, Rhinelander Pullding, Rose and Duane streets, New York City. _.SEPTEMBER 8, 1895 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. It takes an earthquake to shake up Phil- adelphia, but it has been done. ‘While we wait for the Nicaragua canal we can profit by the Tehuantepec raillway. Sacramento was never more inviting than at present and the invitation isfor all. Home-seekers who are wise had better imitate the earthquake and shake the East. New openings to prosperity sre always appearing to men who have the enterprise to get into them. The talk of the vigorous foreign policy goes bravely on, but in the meantime ‘Waller stays in prison. It is truly a capital city where you can see the Native SBons and the fairof the State at the same time. As long as the struggle for gold contin- ues among the nations the remonetization of silver will be a live Now that Comm plained, Commi corded a hearing if he has anything to say. The bull-fight as a popular amusement shows & tendency, to expand; about the time it was suppressed in Colorado it broke out in France. Some people go to the Mechanics’ Fair many times and some never go there at all, and which are the wise and which are the foolish it is scarcely necessary to say. 1t is not exactly creditable to the United States that the best transportation facil- ities between the Atlantic and Pacific st should be due wholly to the enter- prise of Mexico. SO The report from Palo Alto that the freshman class “is large and good-look- ing” is pleasing as far as it goes, but not wholly satisfactory. Good looks don’t go far in a football rush. The proposition to put fourth-class post- masters on the civil service roll will no doubt be pleasing to the officials who are in, but Cleveland ought to wait until he hears from the fetlows who are out. By his energy in constructing the Tehuantepec railway President Diaz has benefited not Mexico alone but the whole continent, and takes rank among those who may be called Pan-American states- men. The enthusiasm for improvement which blossomed in the spring is showing the fruit of practical work in many partsof the State, but nowhere more completely than in the construction of the Valley Railroad. e Even those people who have the least faith in Eueene Debs will hope he was prophesying truly when he said: “The strike last summer was the climax of rail- way disturbances and this country will never see another one likeit.” According to the Baltimore Sun the issue in Maryland is whether there is to be a Democratic party in that State or only a Gorman party, leading a contempt- ible existence for the private emolument of Mr. Gorman and its members. As the Defender has been fitted with a hollow steel boom like that the Valkyrie brought over, each boat is now fairly worthy of the other’s steel; but the ques- tion remains whether the Valkyrie will show herself worthy of the Defender’s aluminum, e According to the latest reports of the new acetylene gas, a ton of the raw ma- terial makes 11,000 cubic feet at a cost of $20, and five cubic feet per hour gives as much light as 240 candles. If this esti- mate is correct it is evident the old- fashioned gas must go to the cook stove, if it does not have to go out altogether. Chief Charley, who insists on living at Healdsburg and refuses to go back to Round Valley reservation, because, as he says, ‘‘Too much work; too much hot; no fish; no circus; no wine; no fun,” may be a bad Indian, but he has lots of human nature in bim and shows & cultured ap- preciation of Healdsburg as a carnival town. This time i* is in Michigan that the Na- tional Guard has to be called out to pro- tect the mining industry. A little while ago it was Llinois and not long before that calls for a similar purpose were made on the guard in Virginia, Tennessee and Colorado. It seems in fact as if miningin this country were rapidly becoming a mat- ter of military maneuvers. The report that the people of Germany are delighted with the official ode written in celebration of the victory of Sedan em- phasizes one of the differences between that country and ours. Over here we have not sufficient poetic faculty to get a good ode to celebrate any occasion, and on the other hand we have too much appreciation of true poetry to be pleased with what we do get. —_— The New York Sun says: “Campbell of Ohio stands upon a platform as broad as the continent, as strong as the Nation’s faith in its might and destiny and as beau- tiful as a sunrise over the mountains.” Wedo not deny that Campbell may be standing somewhere on a platform of that size, but we call Mr. Dana’s attention to the fact that his candidate is too small to be visible on it from any point of the hori- zon. | missions. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1895. THE SIDE OF THE PEOPLE. The Railroad Commission will meet again this morning and take up the use- less task of investigating grain rates from the railroad point of view. The four or five able and astute agents and officials of the Southern Pacific Company will doubt- less be present with reams of statistics and yards of maps, all of which they will pro- ceed to introduce in evidence and thereby make up the largest part of the record irom which the commission will deduce its conclusion at the close of this investi- gation, Has the thought ever occurred to any member of the Railroad Commission, as he sits and listens to the endless array of arguments and figures presented by the railroad officials, that the side of the peo- ple is entirely unrepresented in this in- quiry? The railroad company has three of its most cunning wizards of finance before the commission acting as its experts upon railroad rates. The people have no expert there to search out the sophis- tries and analyze the schedules which the railroad experts present. The com- pany has also on hand its most skillful attorney of long and varied experience in the presentation of the most favorable phases of its cause before railroad com- The people have no attorney there to make head aganst the specious attorneys’ exposition of the railroad’s case. The Railroad Commission is there, it is true, but the prevailing opinion among its members is that it is sitting as a judicial body. If this be true, then it cannot rep- resent the side of the people, and it is evi- dent that it does not do so. From this condition of things what other result is to be expected than that which would follow in an or- dinary cause at law in which the witnesses for the people were absent, the Prosecuting Attorney did not appear, and the only evidence before the court was that presented by the witnesses and coun- sel for the defense? The verdict, of course, would be an acquittal, and this will doubt- less be the result in the case of The People vs. The Southern Pacific Company, now pending before the commission. MUOH USELESS TALK. As might have been expected it is intel- ligent wheelmen and not physicians and other theorists who are saying the most | | Calfornians largely came from the East- sensible of the things which are now going about concerning the pastime of bicycling. The recent death of a wheelman from meningitis of the form called ‘“railroad spine’’ started all this idle talk and turned loose the doctors with long discourses on curved spinas and jar {o the nerve ganglia. They are elaborating the dangers of the wheel to the obscuration of its benefits. The intelligent wheelman understands the subject better than any other person. He knows that so far as nervous jar is concerned it is not so great in wheeling as in walking, and he is not to be frightened with elaborate disquisitions on compac- tions of the inner edges of the cartilages separating the vertebre and the creation thereby of a rigid medium for the trans- mission of concussion to the cerebellum. He knows that the jar is no worse than that given by a buggy, and he is fully aware of the fact that the splendid athletes who startle the world with achievements of speed on the wheel bend low on the ma- chine and are perfect specimens of physi- cal manhood. It is all a matter of carrying the exercise to an extreme. That is the beginning and end of the whole question. Thevery fact of the keen enjoyment which cycling affords, the exhilaration, the feeling of freedom and health and strength which it imparts, is the strongest possible evidence of its value and the explanation of its excessive indulgence. Itisa familiar fact that even in spite of this overindulgence bicyclists as a rule are in much better health than they were before they adopted the wheel. Wisdom will come with experience, and experience with time. It is the good, not the harm, which wheeling produces that gives it its great charm. If the experience of the rider shows him that wheeling makes him dull and ill it will inevitably lose its charm for him, and thus will come an end of his overindulgence. The whole problem solves itself, and to a rational person that should be regarded as the end of it. If in a few cases the pursuit is fol- lowed in the face of manifest injury we may safely regard them as evidences of nature’s wisdom in devising a new scheme for ridding the earth of material for which it has no use. As excessive drinking and other injurious indulgences accomplish the same end, we should welcome the bicycle as the cleanest, most respectable and least extraneously injurious of all the agencies for the self-destruction of the few whom nature would have got rid of by some other means if the bicycle had not been invented. TEHUANTEPEC AND NIOARAGUA The opening of the Tehuantepec Rail- way to the traffic of the world, and the construction by the Mexican Government of spacious and convenient docking fa- cilities at each terminal, will forestall to some extent the greater transportation advantages to' be derived from the Nicar- agua canal. It should also serve as a stimulus to our Government to hasten work on the canal. It will never do for the United States to lag behind Mexico in the important task of providing speedy communication between the Atlantic and the Pacific. The good effected by the railway will only emphasize the need of the greater good to be effected by the canal, While the action of Congress on the canal this winter cannot beabsolutely pre- dicted, it is fairly certain it will be favor- able. All reports from Washington con- firm this belief. It seems to be well as- sured that the investigating committee provided for by the last Congress will re- vort in favor of the undertaking, ahd will estimate the cost at not to exceed $116,- 000,000. This is somewhat in excess of former estimates, but not sufficient to make a material difference or to delay action, and with such a report to strengthen their arguments, it would seem the promoters of the work have good rea- sons for expecting the support of both branches of Congress. The political situation at Washington during the coming winter will certainly be favorable to such legislation as that asked for by the advocates of the canal. With the administration in the hands of the Democrats, the Senate so nearly tied that the Populists hold the balance of power, and the House strongly Repub- lican, no party measures of any kind can be advanced with a hope of success. Non- partisan legislation, therefore, will of necessity mainly occupy the attention of Congress, and in such legislation the canal bill cannot be overlooked. ‘While we are looking forward to a canal, however, our commerce and industries will not fail to profit by the advantages and reap the benefits of the railway which the wise statesmanship of President Diaz has provided. The railway is not a great one in itself and can hardly be accounted much of an engineering feat in this age of the world; but none the less does it reflect and the nation that constrncted it. It promises to effect a great changein the course of trade between the Atlantic and the Pacific, and of that change California will be one of the largest beneficiaries. The road, under the control of the Govern- ment, is open on equal terms to all ship- pers and is therefore no inconsiderable ally to our merchants in their fight against monopoly. AN ABSURD POSITIORN. The San Jose Mercury reads the Chicago Tribune a stern lecture for assailing the California policy of encouraging the con- sumption of home manufactures in prefer- ence to those of other States and countries, and for declaring that this is a boycott of Eastern manufactures and invitation to the adoption of retaliatory measures in the East against the products of California. “It seems not to have occurred to these peovle,”” exclaims the ZIribune, “‘that if they succeed in putting an embargo on everything from the East they may un- wittinely overreach themselves by includ- ing in the embarzo Eastern capital and Eastern immigration, both of which are much desired by dwellers on the Pacific Slope.” “It is difficult,” says the Mercury, “‘to comprehend how the 7ribune could have so grossly misinterpreted the aims of the Man- ufacturers’ and Producers’ Association or the people of California. The only thing that they are attempting to do is to utilize their resources to the best advantage.” It adds that if we can buy an article made at home that is equally as good and equally as low-priced as one made abroad itis a clear business proposition that we should give it preference, and that the Tribune, if it is moved by wise business sense and a desire for the prosperity of Chicago, would advise such a policy for its own people. None of the elements of & boycott or an “embargo” figure in the case at all. There are millions of dollars that California must still spend for Eastern manufactures. ‘We suspect that the Tribune’s implied threat of reprisal discloses a general mis- concention of the true reasons why Cali- fornians desire so greatly to develop their State and secure Eastern capital and im- migration. The gregarious instinet in hu- man nature is fundamental and its mani- festations active. A phase of its expres- sion is a desire that others should have access to the pleasures which we enjoy. ern States, and they know absolutely from experience that it is better and pleasanter tolive in California; that life here is blessed with 1innumerable precious graces denied to the people of the East, and that a re- moval from the harsh conditions of life in the Eastern States to California would lend an added zest to existence. Those who have seen a handsome paint- ing or witnessed a superb play want their friends to have the same pleasure. This principle runs all through life, and is one of the redeeming traits of human nature. It is an easily demonstrable fact that with the exception of the railroad companies and some colony founders the Californians who work most assiduously to induce im- migration are those who could derive no financial benefit from the result. A large immigration would greatly enhance the value of land, and yet land-owners have never been conspicuous as advocates of im- migration. Taking a business view of the matter it is evident that only an exceedingly small fraction of the population could possibly derive any financial benefit from an in- crease of the population; but every one does know that a dense population within comfortable bounds increases and enlarges the benefits of civilization, and with refer- ence to California would lead to the devel- opment of natural resources which would greatly add to the sum of life's pleasures. To make the most of what we already have, to encourage the industries which we maintain, would make the State more attractive to immigrants and capitalists by giving them substantial proof of the ex- cellencies of the extraordinary advantages which the State possesses. Inany light the efforts of California to be loyal to herself are the best evidence of her desire to be loyal to the race and the country, and to that end everything that we may do to develop our resources and encourage our industries is wise, humane, and altogether commend- able. A (0OL DECLARATION. While the Government is to be com- mended for the promptness with which it put a stop to a filibustering expedition which was fitting out in New Jersey to aid the Cuban rebellion, there is evidently more work of a slightly different kind to be done. The dispatches speaks of Cubans in the Eastern citfes who declare openly that many other such expeditions are out- fitting, that others have got safely away, and that generous sums of money are being raised in the United States for the use of the rebels. The function of the press was properly discharged with the securing and publi- cation of this news. Itis now the duty of the Government to prosecute the search for the foundations upon which it rests and punish the movers, The officers of this country are generally addicted to the mag- nificent habit of ignoring discoveries of criminal practices by the press, apparently taking such newspaper interference as a eross impertinence and an intrusion upon official rights, privileges and prerogatives. Perhaps the administration at Washington will be moved by such considerations in this case, but if it should, and the remarks of these Cuban patriots should turn out not to be idle brag, then 8pain at last may find some reasonable excuse for demand- ing an accounting with us. The report that the people of the prov- inces in France are opposed to the pro- posed Exposition in 1900, on the ground that such great works draw workingmen away from the smaller towns and &isturb industry for years, augurs ill for the suc- cess of the enterprise. France will need to exert all her forces to surpass the Chicago Exposition, and if her people become divided on the subject she is fore- doomed to failure. 5 The report that Parliament will be called upon at an early date to provide for the construction of a railway from Lake Vic- toria to some point on the East African coast is of interest, to us as the under- taking of the work by the Brit- ish Government will save Mr. Hunt- ington from further expenditures in that direction, and there will be no longer any need of skinning California. The report that Don Dickinson is willing to accept the Democratic Presidential nomination next year, provided the tariff and silver question are eliminated and the issue is made solely on the record of the Democratic party, can hardly be accepted as true. Don Dickinson is not a very wise man, but neither is he tool enough to get off any sort of platform and ride through a campaign on a rail. Eastern people who think that San Francisco is too far off for a National con- credit upon the statesman who devised it | vention should just try it once, AROUND THE ‘COR RIDORS. John Markley, the secretary of the State Board of Examiners, has been up looking at his orchard in Sonoma County. There are & number of hopfields in that county, and speak- ingof this year's crop Mr. Markley said last evening at the Lick: “I understand that a large proportion of the hops in Sonoma will not be picked at all on account of the low price that prevails this season. You know that hops outside of California are oflen troubled with insects or disease. This year, it happens, there is a good crop all over and the prices are consequently much lower than usual, and will notin many cases pay for the cost of picking, which is considerable, The hop crop is generally good in this State, as there is little trouble from the hop louse or any diseases upon the prevalence of which in other hop districts the price of hops the world over depends to a large extent.” The railroads are already advertising excur- sion rates to Austin, Tex., for the coming fes- tivities. The star features billed are a conven- tion of the Christian Church, & State Fair and the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight. T.H. Goodman, the general passenger agent of the Southern Pacific, yesterday at lunch in the Lick House restaurant said of this: “I like the neat way which the Houston and Texas Central has of wording its circulars to avoid hurting the sensibilities of the church people and at the same time getting all the features of the great show on the bill. On their bills they say: ‘At- tractions—Christian Church Congress, Fitz- simmons-Corbett physical culture exhibition and Texas State Fair.” PERSONAL. Dr. C. A. Ruggles of Stockton isstaying at the Grang. W. H. Clark of Los Angeles registered yester- day at the Grand. Dr. L. B. Wileox of Champaign, IIL, regis- tered at the Grand yesterday. T. 8. Phelps of the navy was one of yester- day’s arrivals at the Palace. F. W. and 8. C. Williams, mining men of Sonors, are guests at the Lick. Superfor Judge A. P. Catlin of Sacramento ‘was one of yesterdsy’s arrivals at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Upham returned from their place in Napa County yesterday to the Palace. J. L. Robinette, one of the editors of the Cal- ifornia Odd Fellow, Sacramento, was in the City yesterday. Dr. Hans Wagner of Stralsund and Bernhard Maas of Vignna were among yesterday’s arri- vals at the Paluce. Raphael Strauss will leave next week for Paris, France, where he will take up his resi- dence permanently. General T. W. Sheehan of the Record-Union came down from Sacramento yesterday and registered at the Occidental. J.8. Wilson of Oregon and R. C. Wilson of Arizona, both cattle men and sons of ex-Sena- tor H. C. Wilson of Tehama, are at the Grand. Colonel William P. Harrington, & banker of Colusa and a member of Governor Budd’s statf, came down yesterday and put up at the Palace. John Markley, secretary of the State Board of Examiners, came down from his ranch at Guerneville yesterday and registered at the Lick. Superintendent Filtmore of the Southern Pa- cific returned yesterday from Los Angeles after a three days’ visit to the southern part of the State. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YOREK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 2.—Californians registered at hotels to-day: Sen Francisco— Miss E. Sullivan, G. E. Pancoast, Everett; W. Edwards, W. D. Knight, W. A. Davis, Hoff- mann; Mr. and Mrs. H. Pagot, G. Daly, Hol- land; A. R. Wells, Park-avenue; Mrs. N. Deane, Fifth-avenue. Sacramento—Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Van Vorhees, R. N. Van Vorhees, Hoffman. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. The Rev. C. F. Gates has been elected presi- dant of Euphrates College in Harpoot, Turkey. Mr. Gates is from Chicago, and has served for fifteen years as a missionary in Mardin, Mesop- otamia, under the American board. Euphrates is the only college in Armenis, and is under American control. John Norton, who is 93 years old, has lived all his life in his house near Compounce Lake, Conn., and, although he has been in sight of both the Northampton division of the Consol- idated and of the New England Reilroad, he never rode in a car of any kind until recently. The old man is hele and hearty, with all his faculties keen and alert, and has a good pros- pect of living to be 100. He seemed to enjoy his ride very much. The Marquis Paul de Montaghari, who has recently become an attache of the Italian em- bassy, speaks English perfectly. He is en- gaged in the settlement of claims between the Italian and Colombian governments, Mrs. M. Louise Thomas, whose son married an elder sister of Alice and Phabe Cary, has purchased Clovernook, the old homestead of the poets, and it will be preserved in the fam- ily as a memorial of the gifted pair. Mrs. Thomas will restore the place by furnishing it with her old mahogany furniture, her rare blue china, her Revolutionary relics and other valued antiques. The place, which is near Cincinnati, contains about twenty-six acres, and the house and barn are in good condition. The number of members of the new Parlia- ment who have the same Christian name and surname is unprecedented. There are three John Wilsons, two George Joachim Goschens, two William Abrahams and two Robert Wal- laces in the House of Commons. With the exception of the Goschens, who are father and son, the other men who are namesaies are not related. One Abraham is a Welsh, the other an Irish member. Both the Wallaces represent Bcotch constituencies, and are English barris- ters. Robert Wallace, the member for one ot the aivisions of Edinburgh, is a Scotchman by birth and training, who held at one time a chair in a 8cotch university, but Robert Wal- lace, Q. C., the newly elected member for Perth, is an Irishman by birth, antecedents and edu- cation. THE BRONCHO. A few words about this horse—the horse of the plains. Whether or no his forefathors looked on when Montezuma fell, they certainly hailed from Spain. And whether it was mis- sionaries or thieves who carried them north- ward from Mexico, until the 8ioux heard of the new animal, certain it also is that this pony ran wild for a century or two, either alone or with various red-skinned owners; and as he gathered the sundry experiences of war and peace, of being stolen, and of being abandoned in the snow at inconvenient distances from home, of being ridden by two women and a baby at once, and of being eaten by a bear, his ‘wide range of contretemps brought him & wit sharper than the street Arab’s,and an atti- tude toward life more blase than in the united capitals - of Europe. I have frequently caught him watching me with an eye of such sardonic depreciation that I felt it quite vain to attempt any hiding from him of my incompetence: and as for surprising him, a locomotive cannot do it, for I have tried this. He relishes putting a man in absurd positions, and will wait many days in patience to com- pass this uncharitable thing; and when he cannot bring a man to derision he contents himself with a steer or a buffalo, helping the man fo rope and throw these animals with an ingenulity surpassing any circus. to my thin x- ing. A number of delighted passengers on the Kansas Pacific Railway passed by a Mexican vaquero, who had been sent out from Kansas City to rope s buffalo as an advertisement for the stockyards. The train stopped to take & look at the sol- tary horseman fast to & bufialo in the midst of the plains. Jose, who had his bull safely roped, shouted to ask if they had water on the train. “We'll bring you some,” said they. “Oh, I come get,” said he: and jumping off he left his_accomplished pony in sole charge of the b lo. Whenever the huge beast strug- Feled for freedom the clever pony stiffened h gs and leaned back as in a tug of war, by jumps and dodges so anticipating each move of 1ihe enemy that escape was entirely hopeless. The boy got his drink, and his employer sent outa car for the buffalo, which was taken in triumph into Kansas City behind the passen- ger train. The Mexi narrated the exploit 10 his employer thus: ‘“‘Oh, Shirley, when the train start they all give three freats big cheers for me, and then they give three mucha h¥tal‘ cheers for the little gray hoss.”—From The Evolution of the Cow-Puncher,” by Owen Wister, in Harper’s Magazine for September, BIOCYCLE EXPRESS OF THE SAN JOSE “MERCURY.” This picture was reproduced by the San Jose Mercury artist from a photograph by G. A. Streeter of Gilroy of C. 8. Rikert, the young man who serves the Mercury to the people of Gilroy and intermediate points every morning, before breakfast, and it faithfully portrays the manner in which the bundles are placed in order to equally distribute the weight and be conveniently reached when needed for delivery.—San Jose Mercury. . ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ForT Ross—L. A. M., Golden Gate, Alameda County, Cal. In 1807 there entered the bay of San Francisco the ship Juno from Sitka. She had on board Count von Rosenoff, Embassador from R ussia to Japan. This official remained on shore for several weeks and became so charmed with California, and particularly with one of California’s then fairest daughters, Donna Concepcion Arguella, daughter of the commandante, that he made up his mind to locate in the new land, and then asked for the hand of the young lady. They were engaged and he set sail for Sitka again for the purpose of obtaining permission of his Government to locate in California and establish a colony there. He went to St. Petersburg and on his return via Siberia he was acci- dentally killed. When his intended bride heard of this she renounced the world and de- voted her life to the education of the children in the vicinity of her home and to the allevia tion of the distress of the needy. bShe died in Benicia in 1860. As a result of the Count’s visit to his native land and the report he made there landed in 1811 in Bodega Bay 100 Rus- sians and a like number of Indians from Sitka, who located on a spit of land thirty miles from the shore of the bay named, and their business was fishing and hunting fur-bearing animals. Subsequently, in 1820, they moved their set- tlement to the River Sebastian, forty miles north of Bodega, in what is now known as So- noma County, and called it Slawianska. There they built 8 fort which became known as Fort 8. THE VIRGINIUS—A. W. T., Everett, Snohomish County, Wash. On the 31st of October, 1873, the Virginius, an American steamer purporting to be regularly documented by the United States, while conveying arms to the insurgents in Cuba was captured near Jamaica by the Spanish gunboat Tornado and taken to San- tiago de Cube. Captain Fry, the master, fonr Cubans who were among the passengers and forty-eight others were executed by the author- ities. There were about 130 others who would have shared the same fate but for the timely arrival of the British sloop-of-war Niobe, under command of Lorraine, who issued & peremp- tory order to the Governor of Santiago de Cuba 1o stay any intended executions, This affair almost led to war between the United States and Spain, but such was averted by diplomatic intercourse after the United States had de- manded reparation for the insult to the Amer- ican flag and the surrender of the vessel and the survivors. It was established by proof that the steamer had false Eapers. Spain surren- dered the vessel and the prisoners and the vessel set sail for New York, but on her way there foundered. There were no American xtx;cnvof-wu in Santiago de Cuba harbor at the me. PREMIUM ON Comxs—J.R. D., City. An an- swer as to dimes of 1894 was given in the Answers to Correspondents column on Tues- da{ August 26. No premium is offered on half-dollars coined between 1880 and 1890. Dealers in coins offer proofs of such issues and uncirculated halves of those dates at prices varying from $1 to $1 25. ROYALTY ON PATENTS—W. B. F., City. There is no fixed amount paid as royalty toan in- ventor for an article’ that he has patented. It is & matter of agreement between the inventor and the party offering to pay the royalty, and the inventor usually secures all he can get. Royalties have run from 5 to 60 per cent. NITRO - GLYCERINE EXPLOSION — A. W. G., Healdsburg, Sonoma County, Cal. The explo- sion of nitro-glycerine in the rear of the office of Wells, Fargo & Co., when it was located at the northwest corner of California and Mont- gomery streets, occurred at 1 o'clock on the afternoon of April 16, 1866. “On! SIR” — Subscriber, City. *“Ohl Sir,” adapted for recitation by Alfred Ayers, is to be found in the Delsarte re¢itation book. SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY. It pleases a woman when we say Her cheek is like the red, red rose; And yet a man will turn away ‘When told the same about his nose. —Spare Moments. “You say the trout weighed ten pounds?”’ “Yes, sir; it was the biggest trout I ever saw?” “And it got away from you?” “Yes.” “Will you make an oath to that?” “I'll take no more oaths. I swore enough about it when he got away.”’—Tammany Times. ‘We donot know the place he’s gone; ‘We hope he’s free from harm; All that we know is—his son, John, 1s runnin’ of the farm.—Atlanta Constitution. She read: “Let 1ife be one grand sweet song,” And then, like a first-class dolt, She worrled the neighbors all day long By practicing old “Ben Bolt.” ~Loujsville Courler-Journal. “We will have to fight this time, sure,” the aid ventured to remark. . “And why this painful necessity?’’ haughtily demanded the Spanish general. “Because,” humbly replied the aid, as he bowed low, “the rebels have got between us and the telegraph-office.”—Indianapolis Journal. “What dat mule good foh 7" “He ain’t good foh much,” was the reluctant reply. “Kin he pull er kyaht?” “Not fur.” “What’s he good fur?” “Well, I guess he ain’t good fur much 'cep tradin’. I's jes’ keepin’ ’im foh ’er swappin’ mule.””—Washington Star. “Do you think, professor,” said the musically ambitious youth, “that I can ever do anything with my voice?” “Well,” was the cautious reply, “it may come in bandy to holler in case of fire.”—Washing- ton Star. “Do you think, ma, it would make me real sick if I were to stay ontdoors and get a sun- stroke?" “Why, I should think i% might. But you don’t want to, do you?”’ 3 “N—no, ma, not before Saturday; school begins next week."—New York Recorder, OPINIONS OF EASTERN EDITORS. A Majority Verdict. The recent trial and. conviction of Colonel Romero in the City of Mexico for killing Verastigui in a duel has more than a passing interest for us, because it illustrates a phase of the jury system to which we may be compelled to have recourse. A Mexican iury numbers nine and a majority decides. n the Romero case all nine were unanimous on all but two of nine questions, but these two were the essence of the crime charged. “Did Romero act in legitimate defense of his honor?” Two votes answered in the affirma- tive; seven in the ne?nuve. “Did Romero in- tend to spare the life of Verastigui?” Six votes in the negative decided that the killing was deliberate and intentional. The result is a serious and unexpected sentence, the first under the law against dueling. Under our system there would have been & disagreement and a new trial. And yet no doubt substan- tial justice was done by the two-thirds yote on the essential question.—New York Commer- cial Advertiser. = Mrs. Stanford’s Sacrifices. The name of Mrs. Leland Stanford will—or at least ought—go down in history beside that of good Queen Isabelle. Indeed, it will have greater luster, for the proud Queen of Aragon doubtless was well persuaded by the eloquence of Columbus that a new empire was awaiting her, and it is easy enough to risk even crown jewels when an empire where jewels are as pebbles in the brooks is in prospect, But Mrs, tanford, in making personal sacrifices to keep open thé Stanford University, has no empire for herself in view, and her. sacrifices are all the more noble because they are made to open the empire of knowledge to others.—Woman- hood, Springfield, Ohio. What Would Happen. It was wise forethought in the framers of the constitution which declared that no State should coin money. It is certainly a signifi- cant coincidence that this prohibition occurs in the same section of the first article with the prohibition against granting letters of marque and reprisal. Were it not for this constitu- tional restriction there is grave reason to ap- prehend that varions States of the Union would be cainlng different kinds of money and issuing letters of marque and reprisal against each other.—New York World. Democracy and Silver. On everything but the silver question we are already together. On that question we are coming to an understanding. Asthe rank and file of the party.learn exactly how the bimetallic coinage of 1792 and 1834-37 was reached by Jefferson and his successors they become satisfied to apply thesame prin- ciples to a restoration of silver coinage. The Jeffersonian ?ollcy will be the Southern and Western platiorm and it will win.—St. Louis Republic. The Brave Deserve the Fair. ‘What a degenerate age this would appear to the swaggering swashbucklers who followed the profession of arms in the midale ages, could they step from their gflve! and read that two privates in the First Battalion of Rhode Island cavalry had been dishonorably dis- charged for attempting to kiss a fair maid they met on the road while on their way from camp.—Worcester (Mass.) Telegram. ‘Watch the Elections. It1s amusing just now to hear Democratic leaders prating about the present strength of their party. What have they done to give the people renewed confidence in them? When and where have they shown signs of returning sense? Watch the “elections the coming fall. —New York Tribune. Cuba and Mexico. The Monroe doctrine would not apply against Mexican attempts to annex Cuba, but such attempts are not probable. They could not possibly succeed as long as Cuban powder held out,and it would be likely to hold out longer than that of Mexico.—New York World., Not Much. Davifl B. Hill thinks that all the Dg¢mocratic party has to do is “to sit back and let the Re- publican party make mistakes.” But the Re- ublican party will not make mistakes for the enefit of such an audience—~New Bedford Standard. The Topeka Editor. For fore and aft gall, gall with a vengeance, sous tous les raports, for gall immeasurable and without limit, by the bellyfull and whole }’i“i commend us to a Topeka editor .—Wichita agle. A STUDENT’S ESSAY. Very few people know that the abolition of slavery in England was largely, if not wholly, due to a prize essay. About the year 1785 the vice-chancellor of Cambridge selected as a subject of a prize Latin essay, “Is it right to make slaves of others against their will?” Tt is possible that he was led to choose this, at that time, unusual sub- ject for the reason thatin 1783 the Society of Friends laid upon the table of the House of Commons a petition on the evils of the slave trade. Atany rate the subject was a new and stimulating one to the young men who en- aged in ‘the contest. Among these was omas Clarkson. He had successfully com- peted for prizes before and felt that he must ‘win this prize 10 keep up his reputation. While he was collecting material for his essay, he begm to see the enormity of the slave traffic, from which Englishmen were de- riving revennues. Then was born the reformer in him, and the thought of a prize became a consideration that he forgot. His heart was ‘burdened with his message, and he achieved the hifheu success. But the academic prize was only a precursor to a greater one. On the way u)z from Cambridge to London he thought: “If the contents of this essay are true, it is time that some person lhmll’dsee zl;%u‘e_ calamities to their end. I must be the He translated his essay into E: and published it. The result was immediate. He as. was soon the center of a host of new f Hannah More, Wiliiam Wilberforce and other guidlng minds flocked around him and shared is interest in the new cause. And by the united efforts of many gocd men and women, with Clarkson at the head—Wilberforce intro- duced his famous motion in the House of Com- mons. In 1807 the vote was carried, and Eng- land was committed to freedom.—Youths' Companion, SAN FRANCISCO. [From the Hills.] 'Mid sedges tall this summer day I lie And hear the waves fall sofdly on the sand. S0 pure the air, it seems with outstretched hand One e’en might touch that vell we call the sky. From o'er the sea the wind with fretful sigh Betakes its way across the fertile land, ‘Whose flaunting poppies form a golden band, And dance before the sun’s voluptuous eye. Beyond the dunes 2 city, young but proud, Rears its bold front in sunshine or through clond— The fairest jewel on our country’s breast; A man-made city, whose strong voice shall sound In days o come life’s truths the world around, And wake earth’s leaders from their gold-drugged rest. HOWARD V. SUTHERLAND. IDEAS OF WESTERN EDITORS. California. The man who loudly proclaims hisindif. ference to newspaper criticism is generally the one who has nothing to lose by it in reputation or otherwise.—Sausalito News, Honest money is what we all want, to be sure, but we want more of 1t, and_silver will be honest money if we say so. Weare the Government.—Healdsburg Enterprise, Butte County, with its divided topog- raphy, its varied climates, its rich and fruitful valleys, its rolling foothills where everything in the State tan be produced, jts magnificent forests and inexhaustible mines will be unrepresented, nnknown and neglected at the Atlanta Exposition, There will not be evena map, or a de« scriptive circular to tell of our county.— Oroville Register. As a general proposition Presidential campaigns are injurious to business. Such is not likely to be the case with the Presis dential campaign of 1896, for beyond it lies the ructica? certainty of a great victory for Republican principles an candidates. —Los Angeles Times. We have the advantage of San Fran. cisco. When Bandit Brady’s case comes up for trial and all other resources fail we can fall back on the Diggers for a jury. If is, at least, certain that these ‘‘grasshop- per-eaters” of the hills have never read a newspaper or formed an opinion on the case.—Marysville Appeal. Oregon. A mixture of dignity, enterprise, inde- pendence, industry, push, love of duty and thoroughness is necessary to newspaper success, and any newspaper man that will combine these virtues will receive pay in roportion that he serves the public intel- igently and faithfully. Otherwise he will reap failure, and he deserves it.—Pendle- ton East Oregonian. The free coinage of silver in this country will lessen the grip of the usurer and smiles and happiness to come to the ?::esse and hearts of ?mpillions of adults and children.—Medford Mail. Because people are poor is no reason why they should not send their children to school. Indeed in such casesitis all the more important that the child should have the benefit of a common school education, Some parents hesitate to send their children to school because they cannot clothe them as neatly as their well-do-do neighbors do their children. Such vanity is worse than folly. Itis a crime against the future welfare of their children. If children are clothed sufficiently decent to appear in public upen the streets, there is no excuse on that score for their not ap- Eeuring in the schoolroom.—Independence nterprise. Washington. The safe manufacturers have consolis dated, and it is pretty certain future pur- chasers will not forget the combination.— Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Eastern Washington is the only country fit for human habitation. Here we ha lovely winters, cold enough to be heal ful, and charming summers, with j enough heat and dust to make a good a luxury.—Waitsburg Times. ;- The strong advance in the price of i is the most encouraging sign of the timess, The iron industry was the least hurt by~ the Democratic tariff, and for that reasoi it may not be as reliable as a trade barom< eter as it has been heretofore, but the ads vance in prices will tend to encourage trade in all lines,—Tacoma Ledger. The Japanese are reported as having used “Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching” as their national war song in their late unpleasantness with China. Na wonder they won. It would take a better country than China to down anything so dPglci(ti.edly American.—Winlock " (Wash.) 1101 Utah. The War Department is preparing to place Utah’s star upon the flag. The use of it there cannot be authorized until after July 4, 1896. When placed apon the blue field it will be one of the brightest stars in all that bright galaxy.—Salt Lake Herald, Among the shipments from this country to Chile a few days ago were twelve Amer- ican 10-wheel Mogul engines, four express locomotives and two engines for light work. If our Government had sensa enough to call a pan-American congress and agree upon a_common coinage for this continent, and aiso upon a renewal and extension of the reci;rucity treaties, in g little while we should have nearly all tha trade of Spanish America.—Salt Lake Tribune. Arizona. The Cuban insurgents have adopted oup form of government. Now let them adoph our style of making it stick.—Phcenix (Ariz.) Republican. Of unknown graves Arizona has her ful} share, possibly more, for her unknown dead lie scattered in hill and plain. Thirsg has bleached more bones on the deserg sands of this Territory than Indian war, fare. Thirst for gold was the handmaiden to the thirst for water. It beckoned men on to where danger rode the spectral horse, and scattered bones, or a lonely grave, marks the closing chapter of an advens turous life, and that is all there is.—Tuce son (Ariz.) Citizen. BAcoN Printing Company, 508 Clay streat. * ——————— “CARDS by the million.” Roberts, 220 Sutter.® ——————— The discovery is reported of silver or near Canal Dover, Ohio, by wellsdrillers af a depth of 145 feet. ———— KENTUCKY is famous for its Bourbon whiskieg and its brands are numerous. Among those that have stood the test of time and use is the celebrated J. F. Cutter. The best judges have declared it to be the most excellent in the market. E.Martin & Co., 411 Market stree! are the agents for this celebrated brand, fo; which th:Lohlve established a large trade, They are ents for the Ar of Kentucky Bo.u‘xbon. Sy bnnd Mamma—Tommy, Isent you to the grocery and told you to hurry back. Tommy—Yes, mamms, but you didn’t telt me to hurry over there.—Louisville Courier« Journal. ———— ‘When the blood is impure it is fertile soil for all Kkinds of disease germs and such troubles as scrof ula and salt rheum. Hood's Sarsaparilla removes the danger by purifying the blood. —————— NoTHING contributes more toward a sound die gestion than the use of Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters, the celebrated appetizer. —————— Biggs—I see Jiggs has been married. Bup- pose congratulations are in order? Miggs—Well, I don’t know his bride, so I can’t congratulate him, and I do know him, so 1 can’t congratulate her.—New York Herald. @ Powder Absolutely Pare