The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 7, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: and € ALY, one weck, by carrier.$0.15 snd Sunday CALI, one yeal 6.00 six months, by mall 3.00 Tally and Sunday , three months, by mail 1.50 T d Sunday CALL. one month, by mail .65 | £unday CaLL, one year, by mall.. R & WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mail. et 150 BUSINI OFFICE: 710 Market Street. #elephone. Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Selephone... .. Main-1874 BRANCH OFFICES £70 Montgomery sireet, corper Clay; open until 0 oclock. ¢ Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 717 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o’clock. BW. co 1xteenth and Mission streets; open on street: open until 9 o'clock. h street; open untll § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 208 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Pacific States Advertising Bureau, Rhinelander tuilding, Pose and Duane streets, New York City. SATURDAY.. The bicycle face looks to the front and keeps moving. To-day we shall learn whether the De- fender lives up to her name. is one way of raising money, buta check is better. It seems to be conceded that before we can improve the City we must improve the Supervisors. The South Side Improvement Club is | bound to get there, for it has a bicycle | | pocket of his trousers a razor with which movement on it Putting honesty in the City Government | of getting rid of silurian- After the vacht race wi heating for the re de a piatform | v stand on which on th a few men left to stand ska, it is evident m the pantry. As there are up for Cleveland ir there must be sor we shall Railroad Commiss cient of a laborer to be worthy of the | There is a pro! is suffi hi There ought to be some way of combining | e two mystery es of Holmes and | ther on the basis that Holmes ker or that Holmes is Fraker. People who do not care to join the mento on Admission day y town of G s will- a Santa Clara Valley It was wise in the Democrats of Utah to nominate their candidates for the United Senate by the Legislature is as it would be entirely useless There is a danger that the practice of ping ozone and oxygen into the lungs P of aracehorse toimprove his wind may be 2 hint to the spell-binders in the politi- cal races next yea?. The report that the erection of sky- scrapers has turned Wall street into a regular canyon is not surprising, nor would it be surprising to learn that a torreut of water flows through it. The British Parliament hasalready voted the money bills asked for by the Govern- ent and gone home for the shooting sea- son. How long would it have taken Con- gress to do the same work? Hypnotism has been frequently pleaded of late as a defense in murder cases, but now comes s Mississippi youtn and asks | for a divorce on the ground that he was hypnotized into matrimony. If the Democratic factions keep on the w. they are going, one wing will be in the Republican party and the other in the Populist party before the close of the next Presidential campaign. The latest idea in the way of a carnival is reported from Longmont, Colc., where it is roposed to give a green corn festival with roasting ears for every visitor and lots of bonfires in the streets to roast them in. 1f Comptroller Bowler is right in saying, “The Comptroller is an executive officer whose duties require the exercise of judicial functions in the highest degree,’” he shoula have taken care to exercise them judi- ciously. T RRE S 1f the Santa Rosa girls who rode over to Sebastopol to go to church in bloomers had been really up to date in their ideas they would have performed the feat at home and given their own town the benefit of the advertising. The much-discussed interview reported to have taken place between Lord Salis- bury and the Turkish Embassador at Lon- don turns out {o be a fake, and the war cloud that resembled a whale yesterday now looks like a weasel. out | ist and faith in The running of the machinery of the State Fair by motive power generated over twenty miles away is itself one of the best exhibits to be seen there, and, moreover, it is one that will yet be exhibited on a gpand scale all over the State. As another report has come of the mas- sacre of men, women and children in a Cuban village by Spanish soldiers, the question arises whether these outrages do not call for outside interference as well as those which occurred in Armenia. So strictly is the Sunday law being en- forced in New York that among the cases now before the courts is one of an iceman arrested for selling five cents’ worth of ice to a little girl in a tenement and a sta- tioner for selling several sheets of writing- paper to a policeman, who, after soliciting the sale as an accommodation, made the arrest. With such cases as these in the courts, it is not to be wondered at that the New Yorkers are clamoring for home rule and home liberty. DESPISING PRERS OPINION. Secretary Lansing of the Southern Pa- cific Company remarked Thursday to the Railroad Commission: “I despise the opinion of the press.’” That is to say (assuming that Mr. Lansing knew the meaning of the word which he employed), he looks down upon the opinion of the press with contempt and scorn. In order to despise a thing the despiser must be so far above it that to bim it seems utterly contemptible and not to oe taken into account in the general scheme of the social organization. Thus an elephant, if he should so condescend, might despise a worm, if he happened to learn that such things as worms existed. Doubtless, among his personal friends Mr. Lansing is regarded as an amiable and intelligent gentleman, and likely they will feel rebuked by him for not having dis- covered, until he brought the matter to their attention, that he bears the same relation to the opinion of the press that the elephant bears to the worm. They have received notice to regard him hereafter with a bountiful accession of awe. Surely none would grudge him that distinction. Itis an education to reflect that above and beyond the thousands of earnest in- telligences which mirror and in a large| measure mold the civilization of the age, there exists in this far-away California, along with its Yosemite, its Mount Shasta, its big trees and its monstrous squashes, a splendid Force, in the brilliant effulzence of whose shining all the things which men have hitherto accounted wonderful wear the pallor of a glowworm in the noonday sun. Standing upor the towering emi- nence of the secretaryship of the Southern Pacific Company, the Glance finds far be- low a squirming mass of indistinguishable despicables, all flat and colorless, and among them the opinion of the press. Thus does Father Time carry in the hip- to the weazands of our conceit. We could not aim to uphold the power and dignity of the press where the press should be despised. For whatever mean or unjust thing it does it deserves the scorn of better and nobler forces. If any fraction of it, at any time, should enter intoa conspiracy for the betrayal of any public confidence which it assumes, or which by the nature of things it invites, it is a prowling coyote instead of a faithful shepherd dog, and should be driven for the safety of the flock. It} be :at now and then an| ual endowed with less conscience | reason of inherent | 1 he should not be by a temporary a'damaging hand s in the journal- or lapse of to one of the be that here and the stress of what ions, as to defend oppres- greed. It may be, to take more ground, that here and there in California there is a journslist who, moved N e, defends the interests wh ng represents, and thus arrays himself against the wel- fare and progress of the people who repose confidence in his intelligence as a journal- | implied assumption of | a public tru Mr. Lansing might well despise all these, and possibly it was they to whom he referred. If so, the great majority of clean, independent, able and conscientious news- papers in the State will heartily applaud his dictum. For the press of California is overwhelmingly opposed to journalism of those kirds. 1blishers are now turn- to the development of gy their ‘energ splendid commonwealth, and in that have the courage to stand forth in a broad light and express their opinion concerning all the agencies which burden the people and hamper their prosperity. ASSAULTING MILLIONAIRES, A second attempt with dynamite upon the Rothschild of the Paris bank has been made, apparently for no other reason than that Rothschild is a millionaire. The sec- ond assailant has announced himself an aparchist. It is to be observed in all at- tacks of this kind that the persons usually assailed are useful members of soziety and that their assailants are fanatics of one kind or another. Unfortunately for all social and political organizations which advocate such radical reforms as are aimed at the foundations of the social structure, they attract to their ranks and evolve into engines of destruc- tion all within their influence who have a fanatical temperament. The situation is parallel to that of martyrdom for a faith, and 18 based upon the familiar psychologi- cal principle of suggestion. It presents one of the most difficult of all forms of lawlessness to handle, and, curiously enough, operates as the most efficient of checks to the promulgation of revolution- ary doctrines. It is the discredit which rabid extremists throw upon such doc- trines, rather than the worth or unworth of the doctrines themselves, that prevent the spreading of revolutionary ideas. Had not a policeman been killed by a bomb in the Haymarket riot at Chicago anarchy might now have been a force in America. It could not be claimed in France, where the)interests of the poor are guarded with so great jealousy, that a millionaire, even though he bea Rotbschild, is an institu- tion encouraged by the favoritism of the Government at the expense of the poor. In the case of Rothschild it seems to have been solely a matter of his being conspicu- ous by reason of his being rich. A similar danger never menaces one who has become equaliy famous in a learned profession or the arts. Itis limited to men prominent in politics and finance. By some vague ratiocination of the fanatic mind those two classes are responsible for all the ills of which sufferings accruing from poverty are the expression. In tracing back the mental operations of the fanatic to their inspiring cause we find that heis very generally the logical con- clusion of destructiveiy revolutionary ideas. The fanatic who stabs a Carnot or aims a bomb at a Rothschild is giving a Among the special features are: Isiands and the Islanders,” by Joaquin Miller; “California’s First Gold,” by J. M. Guinn, secretary of the Southern California regular departments of “Fashion Childhood’s Realm,” else. the Nevada men overlook the Oregon idea of canning the meat as well as using the concrete extreme application to the ab- stract doctrines which he has imbibed. It is true tbat theoretical anarchy, like theoretical communism and” socialism, is regarded by some of the ablest thinkers as an ideal scheme for the social con- duct of mankind. But their very essence is the overturning of conditions which the ages have fastened upon us, and therefore they are destructively reyolu- tionary. Just as surely as the magnet attracts the needle will they draw discon- tented fanaticism to their support; and this, impatient at the prospect of a dreary length of time which under the scheme of the abler promoters must elapse in the process of educating the race to an accept- ance of their views, rushes blindly forth to hasten the end, and by employing dyna- mite and the pistol brings the execration of the who'e world upon the scheme, of which they are the distorted product. Conservatism is a wonderful force, and the millionaire representsit in its ultimate form. To murder him wantonly because he is rich rouses all the spirit out of which conservatism was created, [tisan assault, first of all, upon the security of property, which means the guardianship and stabil- ity of law, and that in turn stands for the shield which humanity has raised for its own protection. SOLID ENOOURAGEMENT. This is handsome news that the Union League Club of San Francisco has pub- lished. Its committee appointed to take steps toward securing the next Republican National Convention for this City has re- ported that in response to letters which it had sent to all the members of the Re- publican National Committee it had re- ceived replies from all, and that nineteen of the fifty-six who compose the com- mittee had pledged themselves to vote in favor of San Francisco, that some of the remainder did not feel at liberty to pledge themselves and that still others feared that the expense of coming so iar would be too great. This seems to simplify matters greatly. While it might be deemed a breach of good taste for California to offer to pay the traveling expenses of delegates who may not be able to afford the cost, it can be still kept in mind that this would be legitimate. Far . weightier considerations, however, could be urged upon the delegates. We have recently bad an illustration of Federal incompetency in dealing with the mineral lands of California. Judge Best, Assistant Commissioner of the General Land Office, in confession of the Government’s inability to handle this one matter intelligently, has suggested that it might be best for Congress As to turn over these 1ands to the State. the mining industry in California has re- awakened with a vigor which undoubtedly will eclipse the dazzling operations of early days, and as mining is one of the things of vital concern to the whole country, an understanding ot the mineral-land ques- tion, which could be acquired only by a visit to California, seems to be a duty of the Republican party. This is only one of many great things. The localization and specialization of pur- suits and industries are the lines upon which development and prosperity are now proceeding in the United States. California has a greater number of valu- able resources affecting the welfare of the country than any o6ther State. These are special and peculiar, and no adequate knowledge of them can be secured other- wige than by personal investigation. The peculiarities attaching to California ap- pertain not only to the soil, but to extra- ordinary conditions of commerce. We have seen the Canadian Government in- terpose itself between Austral and the United States and take away a valuable trafiic which this country once enjoyed, and the recently constructed and pro- jected trans-isthmus lines of communica- tion between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans give the Pacific Coast of the United States, with reference to the Orient, the Australian colonies and the Hawaiian Isiands, a place in the destiny of the country which it has never occupied before. It is difficult to derive consolation from the fact that whereas Chicago paid over $200,000 to secure the last convention, $75,000 or $100,000 is deemed sufficient for San Francisco to offer. We all know what bas made Chicago the great city that it is, and we know also that San Fran- cisco has not become so great simply be- cause the splendid public spirit that cre- ated the greatness of Chicago has been wanting here. This is an opportunity for San Francisco to redeem itself. Cannot the Native Sons of the Golden West, who are preparing for the celebration of Ad- mission day on so fine a scale, find a hint for earnest, intelligent and patriotic action in the present emergency ? {XRE SUNDAY CALL." Entertaining, instructive and profitable will be Tne Suxpay CaALL to-morrow. **The “Historical Society; *‘Bird Life in Cali- fornia,” by Charles A. Keeler; “Old Chute,” a true story of a Digger Indian’s fidelity to trust, by F. A. Sunol- Angus; ““Colonel Strong's Memoirs of Early Days,” by E. C. Stock; “Kinetic Stability,” by Robert Stevenson; ‘Charting the Heavens,” by Rose O'Halloran, and “The Mystical Gold Lake,” by Robert L. Fulton. In addition to these special features the Bk “Dramatic News,” “Books and Bookmakers,” etc., will be filled, as usual, with matters of current in- terest and usually be had wherever newspapers are sold, but to make sure of getting it, it will information. THE CALL can be best to leave orders to-day. OUR EXOHANGES. The Eureka (Nev.) Sentinel has found a report going the rounds that some men in that State are killing wild horses for the hides and tallow. It is said the hides bring $3 50, and the tallow, when tried out into oil, is worth §1 50 a pound. Com- menting on the report, the Sentinel says that if correct the business will prove very beneficial to stockmen and net a good in- come to any man who goes into it, as many ranges in the State contain thou- sands of wild horses not fit for anything It will be seen from the report that hide and tallow. This oversight. how- ever, will not continue long after the in- dustry opens, and we may expect to see at fature banquets ‘“Neyada hors d'ceuvres” in silver cans. The Wilbur Register, which being pub- lished in the State of Washington cannot tell a lie nor make an editorial serve a third term, says: ‘‘The Register has been ‘hooking’ an occasional editorial from the San Francisco CALL, but it will now have to get them from some other source, as a Spokane daily has adopted our scheme.” There is no reason why the Register should make the change. THE CarL speaks for all, and our editorials are sufficient to sup- ply the whole Pacific Coast demand. The wider the circulation given them the better we are pleased, and we would be glad to have every man in Washington not only reach for the editorials but take the paper. Commenting upon the efforts of the po- lice to suppress the Chinese lotteries, which for some time past have been taking in several thousand dollars a month in that city, the Oakland Tribune says: * ‘Big Jim,’ the Chinese lottery king, has been over from San Francisco to open negoti- ations with the new Chiet of Police, and it is reportedthat the latter can have $2000 cash in band if he will stop the raids of the lottery-houses.” Fortunately, as the Tribune adds, Chief Lloyd is not for sale, He seems to be prosecuting the contest against the lotteries with commendable vigor, and, if there were some way of sup- pressing lottery advertising in widely cir- culated newspapers, he would have a good chance of complete success, It has pleased the Fresno Erpositor to say: *‘It is instructive to see how THE CavL coaxes Raiiroad Commissioner Clark to do what it wants done in one column and bullyrags Commissioner-La Rue in another column for not doing a great deal move than he hasasked in the resolution that is under consideration to-day. The insincerity of such sort of advocacy ofa cause is apparent.” To every reader of THE CALL the insincerity, or at least the falseness, of that charge is apparent. Had we chosen to make an insincere contest for reduced rates or mere party capital out of the situation we could easily have done so by attacking the Democratic Commission- ers for violating their carpaign pledges, while excusing Clark, who represents the minority on the board and who had made no pledges. We have, however, done noth- ing of the kind. On the contrary, we have addressed ourselves more to Clark than to his Demacratic colleagues, as every reader of THE CALL well knows. In charging us with insincerity, therefore, the Expositor has simply exposed itself. According to the Vancouver (Wash.) Columbian, Vancouver has a new project for a railroad to Yakima which it is be- lieved will be more beneficial and more feasible than the one hitherto discussed. The new plan is to build a road through to the Yakima country, tapping the North- ern Pacific, then eventually on to a junction with the Great Northern and Canadian Pacific. The projectors of the enterprise believe that a good-sized subsidy in lands can be secured to start the road and assure its being put through in quick order. Eastern capitalists have been interested in the project, and it is believed they regard it favorably. Thus we have another un- dertaking that draws the attention of men of means and enterprise to this coast and another reason for considering that the next decade will work almost a revolntion in the way of development from Puget Sound to San Diego. The true public spirit and genuine earn- estness with which the country pressasa whole has thrown itself into the task of arousing public sentiment in favor of home industries is exemplified by the Jackson Republican in commending the work of the Manufacturers’ Association and say- ing: “The welfare of San Francisco and other large cities means the prosperity of the whole State. The press ought to lend a helping hand in furthering the good work inaugurated by this association, in- stead of indulging m petty haggling be- cause those at the head of the movement do not figure as the big advertisers in the State. ' If the move is for the benefit of the State, the duty of the press is to assist, re- gardless of who is at the head of it.” Those are true words, rightly spoken and spoken at the right time. The manufac- turers must advertise if they hope to suc- ceed, and the wise among them will begin at once; but whether they do or not, the press, as the Republican says, must con- tinue to do its duty by advocating what- ever benefits the State. The Woodland Mail, in refutation of the argument so often used by the employers of Japs and Chinese that white men get drunk and are unreliable, gives the experi- ence of two fruit-growers in that section. One of them this season employs twenty white laborers, and not a man of them has lost an hour for drunkenness nor given the employer a particle of trouble. The other man went out one day and engaged twelve Japs to work for him. The next day four showed up for work. The rest were drunk. Comment is unnecessary. Facts like that can do their own talking. Commenting upon the statement of Txe Cary that in the extravagance ot the last Legislature there is a needful though ex- pensive lesson to the people of California, the Stockton Mail says: “That is quite true, but the lesson will be forgotten next yvear, when a new Legislature is to be elected. 8an Francisco will return heelers and boodlers; other districts will return men with their special axes to grind; the various commissions and institutions will have their lobbies in Sacramento. Each, regardless of the others except for what help they can get from them in putting throngh their local jobs, will proceed to make appropriations to suit themselves, and each member will go home to his con- stituents and lay the blame on the others.” If the people are in danger of forgetting the lesson the press should be diligent in reminding them of it. We believe it is possible to bring about a good, efficient, economical government in California if the press will bravely denounce wasteful- ness and official corruption wherever it occurs without regard to party politics. That is the line THE CaLL is now fighting on, and we trast the Mail will lay aside its fears and join with us. An application recently made to the Board of Supervisors of Sacramento County for the sale of a franchise to op- erate a street railway across the new bridge over the Sacramento River and to connect with existing railway systems leads the Sacramento Bee to say: “The importance of this new venture is difficult to describe in words. For many years the territory adjoining us on the west has been difficult of access by ordinary modes of travel, and was practically inaccessible by street rail- ways. Now, however, with the construc- tion of the new bridge, with a separate way for the steam railroad tracks, the people of this and Yolo County will be given oppor- tunities of which they will not be slow to avail themselves.” It appears from this that the new era is promised the glory of a greater Sacramento, and perhaps before long the river will be but a shining line dividing two peoples with but a single thought, two Councils that beat as one. PEOFLE TALKED ABOUT. Emile Zola’s record as & schoolboy has been examined. He took first prizes for good con- duct, Latin and religious studies and did well in history and geography. The Czer of Russin has sent a present of 30,000 rifles and 15,000,000 cartridges to Prince Nicholas I of Montenegro. Thecrowned heads of Europe know one another’s needs. Moliere, the French dramatist, tried hard to imitate the manners of the French nobility, hut found the task onme of great difficulty. After areception he once attended he vowed never go to another until he got a new back, so tired did he become with bowing and scraping. The Emperor Fo-hi, the firstof his lize, is the Chinese model of politeness. He is said to have been so civil healways spoke, even of himself, with profound respect, and when the Chinese habit of seli-deprecation is remem- bered this degree of civility Will be better appreciated. The Duke of Atholl, of British nobility, may claim to have the greatest number of titles. Besldes his dnkedom he holds two marquisates, five earldoms, three viscountcies, eight baro- nies and is also a Knight of the Thistle— twenty aistinet tities in all. He is, moreover, co-heir of five other baronies. A widow named Ann Rose, who is hale and hearty and in full possession of her faculties, living at Melton, Sittingbourne, England, attained he: hundredth year recently. She has eight children living and her descendants are fifty-five grandchildren, 171 great-grand. children and twenty-nine great-great-grand. children. Two of the warmest chums in Washington are Postmaster-General Wilson and Comptroller Eckels. They breakfast together at the Arling- ton, dine together in the evening, and invari- ably drive together until bedtime. They are known to the cabmen and hostlers about town as the “lightweight statesmen,” their com- bined avoirdupois being & little over 200 pounds. ~voasn - ssuancy rwiorew SPECIMENS OF A NEW STYLE OF DRAWING. [Reproduced from the London Sketch, with imitations by a * Call” artist.] AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Judge C. F. Ainsworth, one of the most prominent jurists of Arizona, and a Republi- can who stands among those at the head of the list of vpolitical preferment when s change in the administration occurs, is spend- ing a few days in this City. He is naturally much interested in the present movement on foot among the Democrats of the Territory to bring about the removal of the Democratic Governor, Louis Hughes. “The Democrats,” saia Judge Ainsworth yes- terday, “think he is too good a Republican to hold the office of Governor under a Democratic administration. It is generally and well known that Jesse Grant, whom Governor Hughes appointed as Commissioner of Immi- gration at Nogales, is a Republican and that does not suit the Democrats of the Territory. Itisalso well known that Governor Hughes and his closest friends and supporters ma- terially aided in the election of Congressman (or Delegate, as the representatives in Con- gress from the Territories are called) Murphy during the last campaign. All thac was well known to the Democrats, and President Cleve- land, {n pursuance of a representative peti- tion, appointed a committee to investigate Governor Hughes' Democracy. “The Governor, it seems, preferred charges against Mead, the present Marshal of the Ter- ritory, who had been a leader in the move- ment against himself, and when I came from Pheenix I understood it was a case of ‘nip and wuck’ whether the President removed the Gov- ernor or the Marshal, The only charge against the Governor is that he was a better Republi- can than Democrat and gave the leading offices to the Republicans.” IDEAS OF WESTERN EDITORS. When Cleveland was first nominated he ex- pressed declded convictions against a second term. When nominated the second time he openly proclaimed his objections to any Presi- dent holding a third term, Could he again se- cure the nomination, Msdnmv.exu against a fourth term would be loud, voluble and em- phatic.—San Jose Mercury. The 8an Francisco CALL, which is devoting considerable space to Los Angeles, does not hesitate to praise this city for the very things San Francisco lacks. It isn’t afraid to speak the trutn, and we hope such truths will act as spurs to urge that City on to supreme efforts 1‘{""?&' of a great metropolis.—-Los Angeles ocord. The San Francisco CaLL, which is devoting considerable space to Los Angeles, does not hesitate 10 praise this city for the very thin San Francisco lacks. It isn’t afraid fo speal the truth, and we hoipe such truths will act as spurs to urge that City on to supreme efforts of & great metropolis.—Los Angeles Record. " Fresno County has a stoneyard where all petty criminals are compelled to do service breaking rock, whieh is then hauled out u the public highways. It is a slow method of improving the r¢ but it has a tendency to hold crime in check.,—Fresno Interior. In proportion to her population California is lamentably hehind in & manufacturing way, and the feeling throughout the State is that a united effort must be made to remedy this, and at the same time to increase our popula- tion.—San DiegoSun. The San Francisco CALL is making a relent- less war on all lotteries. THE CALL is doi good work for our sister cominonwealth, a: 1s fast coming to the front as the leading jour- nal of the Pacific Coast.—Reno Gazette. Brains are just as necessary as brawn on the farm. Ten hours of well-planned work is worth more than sixteen hours without plans. Sit in the shade and plan so that you can make every step count.—Inyo Index. SUPPOS! TO BE HUMOROUS. Mistress (engaging new servant)—And I wish you clearly to understand, if you come to me, that I allow no waste in this house. New Servant—I ean assure you, madem, it's quite natural. No one can accuse me of tight lacing.—St. James Budget. He—Sweetheart, you’re a brick. Bweet Sixteen—No, dear, only clay: Thaven't been pressed yet.—Philadelphia Times. “I—I like you, Mr, Lake,"” the maiden blush- ingly admitted, “but I hate to leave paps and mamma.” “Goodness gracious, girl,’ exclaimed Mr. Lake of Chicago in his breezy way, ‘“haven’t they had the pleasure of your company for more than twenty years? And now when I ask you to be my wife for maybe a year or two you go and kick.”—Philadelphia Times. Mrs. Trott—Oh, I only went to town on a shopping tour, Mrs. Streete—Did you? Tell me about it; did you have a real good time? Mrs. Trott-“Not atall. Ifound whatIwanted in the very first store I went into. Mrs. Streete—How provoking.—Tit-Bits, These sad {njustices of fate— How often are they found! ‘The man who rocks the boat is not The person who gets drowned. Servant (to caller)—Mrs. Goldbif is not at home. Will you leave your card? Mrs. Newrich (haughtily)—Well, I guess not; they cost too much to be wasted.—~New York Journal. “My congregation don’'t believe in free silver.” sighed the country parson, as he sad)y noted the large number of copper penniesin the collection-basket.—Truth. He—They say there's no end to Mrs. de Smythe’s jewelry. 2 e—she has two two rings She—I guess that's and a bracelet.—New York Tel: PERSONAL. J. W. Cassidy of Petaluma is at the Commer- clal. Ex-Judge F. E. Spencer of San Jose is at the Lick. Colonel J. E. Doolittle of Alta is a guest at the Palace. Dr. W. M. 8. Beede of Stockton is staying at the Baldwin. Henry Lux, a capitalist of San Jose, 18 staying at the Grand. J. T. Devendof, & real esiate man of San Jose, is at the Grand. Alfred Gonzales, a merchant of Gonzales, is staying at the Lick. Dr. W. T. Lucas of Santa Maria registered at the Grand yesterday. F. J. Brandon of San Jose, secrctary of the State Senate, is at the Grand. A. W. Simpson, a leading lumberman o Stockton, is at the Occidental. 1 Dr. C. E. Stone of Marysville came down yes- terday and is at the California. Ex Senator Clay W. Taylor, a leading attor- ney of Redding, is at the Palace. Dr. 8. 8, Howitt of Sonora, Mexico, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. A. Tomasini, & prominent dairyman of Santa Barbara, is a guest at the Commercial. F. L. Delano, a leading quarryman of Rocklin, Placer County, registered at the Lick yesterday. J. Debenedetti, & prominent merchant of Halfmoon Bay, is stopping at the Commer- cial. Van Winkle Anderson arrived from Van- couver barracksyesterday and registered at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Shortridge and two children have gone to Hotel Vendome, San Jose, for & few days. W. Stairley, Collector of Internal Revenue of the Northern California distriet, came down from Sacramento yesterday and put up at the Grand. H. H. Bancroft, for & long time a resident of San Francisco, will for the present reside at Cambridge, Mass., where he has taken a house for his family for a term of years while his sons areat Harvard. Mr. Bancroft is now in Paris, where he is engaged with artists on a new {llustrated work to be published during the coming wintez, —— CALIFORNIANS IN UTAH. SALT LAKE, UTAH, Sept. 6.—At the Walker— F. M. Wright. Los Angeles; Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Peck, San Francisco. At the Templeton—E. C. Daly, San Francisco. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 6.—Californiana registered at the hotels to-day: San Francisco— B. Kellog, Bartholdi; G. W. Frauks, W. E. Miles, Gilsey; W. F. Smith, Hoffman. San Diego—E. C. Hickman, Hoffman. Los Angeles— D. B. Collins, Normandie. Oakland—Mrs. V, Anthony, Park Avenue. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CHILNUALMA FALLS—F. L., City. The Chil- nualma Falls, nesr the Yosemite Valley, are located about four miles north of Wawona, Mariposa County. There are two talls; the up- per has a fall of 300 feet, while the other, which is at the foot of asuccession of rapids, hasa fa'l of about fifty feet. The scemery in the immediate vicinity is said to be as pic- turesque as any in any of the great val- ley. The falls flow into ream that enters the north side of the Merced River, near the south fork. There is a trail that leads to the falls, which was laid out by James H. Law- rence and A. H. Washburn in 1887. It is claimed that they are the first white men who ever went to the falls. These curiosities of na. ture are a little off the line of travel for those who ? to see Yosemite, still there are a num- ber who view them annually. 3 ARTIFICIAL INCUBATION—H. W., City. The latest form of artificial incubation contains a water bath with a gas-heating attachment which is automaticslly regulated to prevent the temperature from rising higher than 48 degrees Fahrenheit. The eggsare hatched ina large drawer which is sheltered from contact with the products of gas combustion, and pro- vided with adequate air and moisture. Dry heat would not produce the desired results. The main feature of incubators is a water tank heated by lamp or gas, with a tray or drawer for the e;fl, and a small tray for dampening the air. e most fatal defect in an incubator is that of permitting an i - P"““".pe g njurious rise of tem: BASEBALL THROWING.—C., Cottonwood, Shasta County, Cal. The longest throw with s base- ball is credited to L. Twitchell of Macon, Gl.i ball who, on the 20th of July, 1893, th 135 yards 2 inches. It ill been -:a-t‘:delhn Ed Crane, in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 12th of October, '1884, threw the ball'135 yards 1 foot and }4 inch, but this has beenudlhsgu’ted. e NEW YORK AND CHICAGO—C. H. 8., City. Ac- g){;fla‘x‘m th‘:,lnnte:t n'n;’mcl census in 0713'31 . ation Wiitle that of Chicage is 1 567 aa7" Lro0L 8% THE SILVER DEBATE—G. H. 8., Sacramento, Cal. Up to date no decision has been rendered in the Horr-H. sil Rl arvey debate on the silver CrBA—C. F., City. The chief objection of the anti-annexationists to mnm:g Cuba part of the United States territory is that the countr: does not need the m-nd,r’ : EOYAR m‘m : EASTERN EDITORS. Foreigners in the Navy. In the. naval appropriation adt of last year authority was given for a foreign enlisted man in the navy by proving & certain length of ser- vice in the navy to take out naturalization pa- pers. Answers to inquiries made by the Navy Department to ascertain what percentage of men had taken advantage of the Jaw have just reached the Navy Department. Itis roughly estimated that the percentage of foreigners in the service stands just about where it 1ast year—30 per cent. A number of the foreign enlisted men have exrressed an intention of taking advantage of the naturalization hws{ however, and it is expected that by m‘e close o the next fiscal year the perceniage 0: foreign- ers in the service will be greatly reduced.— Army and Navy Register. A Philadelphia Kick. During the last decade the public spirit of its citizens, exhibited in private enterprise, has made such rapid and important progress as to largely revolutionize Philadelphia; dur- ing the same period public spirit, as exhibited by the municipal government, made little orno_progress. The old-time indifference to and disregard of public convenience, comfort and civic development have kept their anti- uated place in the legishfive and executive epartanents, and Philadelphia, with a popula- tion of more than a million, with manufactur- ers exceeding those of any other city in the Gountry, with intelligent, sagacious and en- herprhfng Ccitizens, always alert and energetic, retains its moss-grown customs and petty pro- vincialism —Philadelphia Ledger. The Woe of Kentucky. A mixture of trust spirits with Kentucky bourbon is banishing the unadulterated liquor from behind the bars and into old brown jugs and cobwebbed cellars. Under the precious plea that «“peoria goods” are the drink of the people the stocks of genuine bourbon are being gradually retired from circulation. What is not being hoarded in the clubhouses and vaults of money-changers and the hereditary plutocracy is belnz‘forced abroad. Mentlon was made in the Courier- Journel the other day of a shipment direct to the South African gold-fields. At the same time our own people were being drenched with chemica! compounds from Ohio and Indiana.— Louisville Courier-Journal. A Cruel Snub. News comes from Washington that the New York Board of Aldermen has been snubbed— cruelly, contemptuously, one isalmost tempted to say effectually. The Aldermen are going on a trip down the bay in a few days, and they de- Cide(flh&l it wouid be a fine thing for the sol- diers on Governors Island to fire a salute as the city fathers sailed by. So one of them wrote 0 the Secretary of War asking him to attend to the matter. Hedid, and at once. He replied that he couldn’t, wouldn't and shouldn’t even think of complying with the truly modest and characteristic request.—New York Times. Quay for President. The enthusiasm generated by Senator Quay’s complete and masterly victory takes various forms, the most pronounced of which is to nominate him for the presidency. Thissug- gestion, which has appeared at various points within the past twenty-four hours, is plainly spontaneous. Its chief significance is that it is the highest compliment evoked by the retro- spection of the kil with which the Senator has carried his cause to vlcmrr and the uner- ring political sagacity with which he allied his fight with that for good Government.—Pitts- burg Dispatch. Cuba as an Ally. In helping Cuba to secure her independence we should not be bound in any way to make her part of our territory. The war she is now waging against such tremendous odds proves that she is competent to govern herself. Free Cuba, if we help her to win her freedom,wounld naturally be our ally, and, in view of her strategic position as ““the key to the Gulf of Mexico,” her friendship would be of paramount importance to us in the protection of the canal it is our settled purpose to cut along the Nica- raguan line.—New York Recorder. Cleveland’s Style. The mousing critic finds in Cleveland’s liter- ary style a great number of deficiencies, but it is really pretty good—better than thst of any Democratic Presideut since Madison—though it can hardly be called equal to that of Sey- mour or Marcy, or of some other shining lights of his party in the season of its ascendancy long ago.—New York Tribune. Rushing the Growler. Reform or no reform, temperance or no tem- rance, it is clear enough that Theodore oosevelt is rushing the growler of the New York Sun to the point of desperation.—St. Louis Republic. ‘What St. Louis Can Do. ‘When the Chicago drainage canal is finished envious 8t. Louis can sit on the banks of the Father of Waters and see the Chicago sewage f{;‘“ by on its way to the gulf.—Iowa State glster. NEW crop glace figs, 50c 1b. Townsend’s. BEST printing, best prices. BABY cream, 15¢1b. Roberts Ptg. Co.* Townsend’s. . L ———— BacoN Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * ———— PLAIN, broken mxd cnds, 10c Ib. Townsend’s.* — A NICE present. California glace fruits, 50¢ 1b. in Japanese baskets. Townsend’s. Ocean Excursions. Steamship Pomona, to Santa Cruz and Mon- terey, leaves Saturdays, 4 P. M., due back Mon- days, 5 A. M. Ticket office, 4 New Momgome_ry street. ———— John Fiske, the scholar and historian who ‘read Latin while yet in pinafores and Greek before he had left off knickerbockers, has an infantile rival in Richmond Benn of Wichita, Kans., who is not yet 5 years old. Richmond reads elementary French and Latin with ease, and has a familiarity with mathematics thas would do credit to a boy of 14. Hoon's Sarsaparilla has power to giveto the blood richness and purity, and upon the healthy condition of the blood depends the health of the whole system. Take Hood's and only Hood's. ————————— NoTHING contributes more towarda sound di- gestion than the use of Dr. Slegert’s Angostura Bitters, the celebrated appetizer. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE BY Thos. Magee & Soms REAL ESTATE AGENTS And Publishers “Real Estate Circular.” 4 Montgomery Street, UN:0Y TRUST BUILDIYG, CORNER MARKET. NEW PROPERTY. 0 feet of Market, downtown; 29x85 Ay i L Oiding: only $32,000: a fine invest- Ment: $20,000 on it can remain at 614 per cent. Broadwsy, north side residence and large lot 47:5, *187:6: near Buchanan; view unsurpassed; only ’?i:gofiu!drnne and large lot on Sacramento st., Ness; low price. e e st, house and lot, near Washington; 811000 <100, $1600 each; Sacramento st., near Weraut: lots on grade; street sewered; cable-cars DAY rer Sacramento and Walnut; $7:6x100; B 25x137:0, $1450; Walnut st., near Ssors- mento, one block west of Central avenue, INVESTMENTS. Fine Investment on Geary st.; 50 feet front and building; three and a half blocks from Market st., 51,600, B ilter.atreet investment, north side, near Taylor: 2276 feet front, and very fine dwelling; would rent for $100; redi ced t0 $16,000. Steuart st.. bet. Market and Mission; 85:10%4x Rents $181 50; cor. Fulton and Octavia sts.; 50x75 and substantial nearly new improvements; $-story building. Rents xmfl; $12,600; store property; Howard st., near 10th. 1Pmt,¢oll° Helghts corner and inside lots; $1500 to S cox. Broadway and Blatner ot.. 2302110, &leflrfl:u:unm $7500; good view; streetsin NE. cor. Vallelo and Stelner sts.: fine marl view: B‘I'lxls'ld $425¢ en‘;" -1‘::' = $3000—Stel st.. . slae, bet. Pacific R S T T 15776 deep &t $100 a root. . o e L Broadway, near Fillmore; 25x127:8; $3125: or : good view. N. side: 34:4x187:6; $7000; I g o S . slde -y imore Steiner; 25x137:6; 76; or any size; view of reen at.—3 lota left: 27:6x137:6; 500 each; bet. Fillmoze aud Stenez, .-" b4 >