The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 9, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1895 N CHARLES M. ORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. i "SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: 1L, orne week. arrier.20.15 T 7 & 0 Tty end Sunday CALI, One vear. all... 6.00 Faily and Sundsy CALL, siX mon mail 3.00 e hree mont mall 1.50 T ail .65 fur - 150 W . 150 BUSINESS OFFIC Telephone X ... Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. .. Main—1874 19:30 o'clock. untii 9:30 o'cloc d Mission streets; opem OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broad EASTERN OFFICE ng B Pecific St R Every holiday gives us another rest from the Durrant case. The sign of the times in Sacramento is ¢standing-room only.” The Letter-carriers’ Convention seems to have closed with a bang Rejoice with the youth of California, but don’t forget the pioneers. The question of the day, Will the Rail- road Commission stick to it? It appears from the reports that the PBritish would rather play cricket. Between California and ber Native Sons gnd Daunghters there is a mutual pride. The latest aspiration of New York girls bt aise money to erect a monument to Bloomer. Tur CaLL's miniature reproduction of the vacht race had the call on the town, and the town responded. The Native Sons are strong enough now to reorganize California and put its poli- tics on a better basi: This is a good day to swear off from for- 1 products that come into competition home industries. ome day we must have a Pacific Coast t go over and show the New Yorkers that they really can be beaten. The nnanswerable argument in favor of the new charter is that it cannot possibly be worse than the present one. Putting native sons on the police force will bring us one step nearer to the time when they will regulate the town. The army maneuvers of the European nations cost enongh to puta new golden iining on the war cloud every year. ‘When some people talk of the State Fair at Sacramento they mean the exposition and some mean the Native Daughters. ‘The Railroad Commissioners bave am- ple time to do some earnest thinking be- tween now and Thursday, and they should do it. There is to be another investigation of the massacre at Cheng Tu and by the time that is over there will probably be another massacre. If our sister States were wise all of them would celebrate the admission of Cali- fornia to the Union, for it was a golden gift to them. In making a still hunt for a Presidential candidate next year Democracy should not overlook the possibility of finding one in the whisky trust. According to the World there are so many empty bottles floating around the sea outside New York Bay they seriously interfere with racing yachts. The ride of a woman 500 miles on the brakebeam of a freightcar in search of a stolen child is one of the romances of the news of yesterday that eclipses fiction. There can be little doubt that the in- crease in the police force will give general gatisfaction, and it now devolves on the force to see that the satisfaction continues. The people are not opposed to a third term for Cleveland on general principles £0 much as on objections special to him- self. What confronts his ambition is not a theory, but a condition. After all the great expectations the British Labor Congress at Cardiff is said to have ended in a compromise that satisfies nobody, and will have no effect on the settlement of labor problems. Tt is asserted that Joseph Chamberlain intends to make a record for himself in Balisbury’s Cabinet by carrying out the most vigorous and far-reaching colonial policy ever undertaken by the British Gov- ernment. Mayor Sutro bas well expressed the general sentiment of the people in saying there is no use in holding a special election on any subject of municipal improvement until we bave a new charter that will in- sure & better and more reliable City gov- ernment. If {be Attorney-General is right in hold- ing that some of the discriminations in railroad rates are violations of the consti- tution the work of the Commissioners will be largely simplified. The enforcement of law is a straight patb, and no official ever gets lost who follows it. Gladstone may have been right in say- ing to General James, “If the American people adopt free trade the United States will become the greatest commercial Na- tion on earth,” but we are not willing to buy commerce at that price. We prefer to be the land of vprotected industry, good The promotion of Li Hung Chang from the office of Viceroy of Pechili to the greater office of Tmperial Chancellor is considered a proof that the Chinese Government in- tends to enter seriously upon the work of re-forming the empire on modern ideas, and Chang will at last have an opportunity to show the world he is really the great man General Grant thought him, ADMISSION DAY. The celebration at Sacramento to-day by the Native Sons of the Golden West is the part of native Californians for the fact that California was admitted to the Union as a State. This is an interesting thing and peculiar to California. may wonder why such an order should exist for the celebration of such an event, and why the membership of the order shounld be confined to natives of the soil. Manifestly few if any of these natives | could have been instrumentalities in the struggle which secured Statehood for Cali- fornia, and bence the organization cannot Tepresent to an appreciable extent the struggles of its founders to that end. Many of the best things in California are peculiar and without precedent. The ele- ments contributing to the struggle for Statehood were singular] cturesque and wholly unparalleled in the histories of the States. Nothing of the commonplace af- fec the story. In the main 1t is made up of three elements. The first was the war between the United States and Mexico in 1848, which termi- nated in victory for our arms and the cession of the California territory to the United States as part of Mexico’s penalty i for defeat. The second was sn exceeaingly interesting species of warfare that pro- ceeded upon tne soil of California between the United States and Mexican settlers during the pendency of the main struggle on the Rio Grande. The third and most potential of all was the discovery of gold by Americans, and the wonderfully ro- mantic chain of events ensuing therefrom. All of these circumstances transpiring in California produced a race “of men the hardiest, most daring and most pictur- esque the century has nourished. They were makers of history as strange and original as that which clings to the Crusaders or the Normans. They thrust themselves into untried and refractory conditions, periorce abandoned the experi- ences and traditions on which they had been reared and hewed out a strange and picturesque civiljzation to suit themselves, The Native Sons of the Golden West are the progeny of these men and the product of their civilization. These sons (many of them now of mid- dle age) were nourished during their earlier years on the inspiration which moved their sires. The fathers who re- main with us have an organizatign of their own, the California Pioneers. This order is purely reminiscent and must in time become extinct. The order of the Native Sons of the Golden West is a perpetuation of the principles which the pioneers founded. It may be thus reasonably supposed that the Native Sons have assumed a responsi- bility that contains elements in addition to a sentiment. If they did not represent the splendid manhood and citizenship which characterized their fathers, their orgamzation would avpear to lack its highest opportunity and purpose. As the chaos and presented it to civilization, so their sons, by the very fact of their organi- zation, have charged themselves with the responsibility of cherishing the gift of their fathers. California needs much at the hands of its able and patriotic citizens and there are none more competent than the young men enrolled in this order of native-born. It would be ill-advised and perhaps self-de- structive to consider politics in their scheme, but that is a trifling matter in comparison with the material needs of the State. That native son who best under- stands and works most strenuously to ad- vance the interests of California is the one most worthy to proclaim himself a native of the soil. UNEQUAL ASSESSMENTS. The Watsonville Pajaronian says: “The State Board of ¥qualization has placed the mileage assessment of the Pajaro Valley Railroad in Monterey County at 62 pet cent of that of the Southern Pacific Rail- road. The latter runs several heavy freight and passenger trains each way daily, its equipment is first-class in every depart- ment, its right of way is five times the size of that of the narrow-gange, its business is heavy all” the year and it passes through one of the most productive freight-traffic sections of the State. The narrow-gauge is a local line, without 2 chance for Eastern business and depends largely on the beet factory. Its main revennue isfrom the beet industry. If it shon!d be assessed $5700 per mile, the broad-gauge should be assessed four or five times that amount. The State board must have based its value on per- centage of gauge. The comparison of values placed on these two roads is the most telling illustration of the leniency shown the Southern Pacific Company.” This isvery interesting news. The de- duction drawn by our contemporary con- cerning the lenity with which the South- ern Pacific is treated scems unavoidable and just. It appears to be a case of harsh discrimination in favor of the Southern Pacitic and against a small rival. This little road was built largely by some of the leading spirits in the San Joaquin Valley road, and from the beginning has been a thorn in the flesh of the great cor- poration. The discrimination which the State Board of Equalization has practiced against the little road is clearly serving the interests of the Southern racific, wheiher or not the board may have had any intention to accomplish that end. This will eerve to put the State on its guard with reference to the treatment of the San Joaquin Valley road by future Boards of Equalization. As the backers of the Pajaro Valley Railroad and of the San Joaquin Valley road are in a measure the same, and as both roads are rivals of the Southern Pacific, it will be interesting to see to what exient the State assessors of railroads will go, if any, in using the power of the State to cripple opvosition to the Southern Pacific. The San Joaquin Valley road will be a very valuable property, and as its owners will be numerous and powerful it may develop into a check upon the tendency of certain State boards to cherish the interests of the Bouthern Pacific at the expense of the people. This would be equally as im- portant an achievement as the reduction of freights and fares in the San Joaquin Valley to a point which will insure a profit to industry, an increase of population and an enbancement of land values, USELESS THREATS, It has been evident for some time past that in the struggle to maintain the cinch upon the shippers of California, it is a part of the tactics of the monopoly to array one part of the people against the other by threatening its workmen with a reduction of wages if the exactions of-the monopoly are reduced. To men who are dependent upon the railroad company for work and wages the threat is by no means pleasant to face. It is indeed strange that millionaires who are rich enough to live in prodigal luxury, to pay the gambling debts of foreign Princes, to give large sums for the development of Central Africa and to pay dividends on large quantities of watered stock,should have the impudence to declare that if they cannot exact money from the shippers of an expression of pride and gratification on | The stranger | older men carved the State out of war and | California they will exact it from the workingmen, but however strange it may seem the threat is apparently unmistak- able. Not a few workingmen have been alarmed by it and some men claiming to be their representatives have made pro- tests to the Railroad Commissioners against any reduction whateverin existing rates and discriminations. The workingmen have, however, no good reason to be ailarmed by the threat. The shippers of the State do not ask nor desire that railroad rates shall be reduced below a point sufficient to yield good profits to the owners and pay good wages to the workingmen. Moreover, the reduction asked for will benefit the whole com- munity and not merely those directly en- gaged in shipping. The interests of all classes of people in this controversy are one and the same. As Commissioner Stanton well said: “Every necessity or commodity of life used by the artisan or laborer, the farmer or producer, manu- facturer or merchant at some time is re- quired to pay the cost of transportation, and this in some shape must be added to its cost and eventually paid by the con- sumer.” The interests of the people in the contest are one, and as there can be no division of those interests there should be no division among the people themselves. The rail- road company will have no occasion to re- duce wages, and though it may indirectly threaten to do so it will not attempt it. There is a limit even to the power of mo- nopoly. California has now stronger than the Southern Pacific Com- pany and its ability to crush is past. BEGIN THE WORK The proceedings of the Railroad Com- mission on Saturday give encouragement to the belief that in the long fight against the monopoly another victory will be won by the people. All the Commissioners ex- pressed a willingness to undertake the work of relieving the people from the cinch of the railroad to some extent at least, and while there was some disagree- ment as to the degree of relief to be given, there was none upon the general principle that the railroad has been exacting and unjust in its ciscriminations and that the commission should set about remedying the evil at once. The series of resolutions introduced by Commissioner Stanton form the salient feature of the situation and to say the least they are full of promise of future good. The written opinion containing a summary of the arguments upon which the resolutions are based, is not less en- couraging ncr less important than the res- olutions themselves, and outlines a policy in which Dr. Stanton will be sustained by the people and ought to be supported by his colleagues. In the opinion Commissioner Stanton says: ‘It must be realized by all that the work of preparing a revised tanff so as to put the same in operation is a task of con- siderable magnitude and my belief is that in order to have the same 1n operation by January 1, 1896, it will require almost daily sessions of this board until then.” Fol- lowing this up, one of the resolutions de- clares: ‘‘That this board proceed at once to adopt a revised schedule of rates in ac- cordance herewith in order that the same may be in force on or before January 1, 1896.”" Whatever differences there may be among the Commissioners on other points of the opinion or the resolutions, there ought to be none on the points we have quoted. To revise the freight tariff will require a great deal of work and there should be no delay in getting at it. Com- missioner La Rue has already proposed a reduction in grain rates and he can have no reasonable objection to going further and doing justice to other shippers. Com- missioner Clark also has declared himself *in favor of making a reasonable reduction on the lines wherein inequalities and dif- ferences exist.”” So far then there is an agreement on the need of getting to work atany rate, and the agreement should re- sult in immediate action. The people have no desire to cinch the railroads. They ask nothing but justice and certainly no member of the commission can have any excuse for rafusing that. A L.0SS TO CALIFORRNIA. Dr. A. C. Hirst delivered last evening his farewell sermon to his congreeation and presently goes Eastward to occupy one of the most potential pulpits of Chi- cago. The passing from our midst of this eminent preacher, talented orator and public-spirited citizen is a distinct loss, not alone to the City of San Francisco, where his presence and influence have been felt for the past several years, but to the entire State of California, which has far too few of his refined and refining qual- ities amoang her public men. It has been 'a marked characteristic of Dr. Hirst’s career and ministry in San Francisco that his energies and efforts as a preacher have been exercised with a clear conception of his place and duty es a citi- zen. Thisise lesson of wisdom which should be commended to the heart of every preacher in the land. If the precepts of wuth and duty which, under the name'of religion, find pulpit exposition within churches, are to be deemed something more than mere abstraction by the masses of men, they must be capable of applica- tion in reforming the private and public evils of practical daily life. In bhis effort to carry out this idea Dr. Hirst has beena notable success in our City. Always and everywhere a dignified, culturea gentleman, a learned and eloquent orator, abrave and strong advocate of practical reforms, he has moved among our people in a widening circle of respect and in- fluence. His pulpit has been made a place for the outpouring of a powerful cur- rent of thought directed to the better- ment of San Francisco’s social and political habits and the quickening of her moral sense. His personality bas given im- portance and his fervid eloquence has added force to every movement for the up- holding of right and the spread of culture to which he has found time to lend hisaid, 1t is indeed a loss to California to lose the impulse to right action whichmen hke Dr. Hirst inspire. LOTTERIES IN OAKLAND. The crusade against the lottery evil in 8an Francisco has extended to Oakland, for the Chief of Police of that city has in- structed the officers to enforce the laws against dealers in lotiery tickets there. ‘We have not observed lately whether or not the leading newspapers of Oakland are given to the habit of publishing the lists of lottery drawings and “winning numbers,” but we trust that they are moved by higher considerations than those which affect the conduet of the leading journals on this side of the bay. Itis not possible for the question of newspaper support of lotteries to have two sides. The whole story is that lottery advertisements are published because they are handsomely paid for, and that the moral effect of this support is ignored by the publishers. This effect is manifold. It not only refers to the encouraging of swindling and the robbing of the people, but it is taken as a measure of the point to become | which civilization has advanced in the community. We can imagine what would be the effect on the material welfare of Dallas, Texas, if its newspapers should boast of the immurity which prize-fight- ing enjoys there as an inrducement to capi- talists to invest their wealth in the devel- opment of that section. As newspapers very properly are taken abroad as an index of the morality, intelligence and security of the community in which they are pub- lished, it is not difficult to imdgine what the better and wealthier classes of the Eastern States think of San Francisco when they see the columns of its leading newspapers devoied to the promulgation of lottery swindles. The people of the Eastern States have outgrown that form of barbarism, and evidence of its existence elsewhere inclines them to stay at home. It is natural for strangers to assume that a newspzper which encourages frauds of this order, which are peculiar to border civilization and impossible in a whole- somely developed community, will lend itself to any other base and disreputable scheme. Sucha judgment of the leading San Francisec papers which publish lot- tery advertisements would be unjust, but there is still danger of its existence. It would seem, however, that pride, without the aid of knowledge that such publication is bad policy, ought to be sufficient to re- strain any publisher from so reprehensible a course, PERSONAL. E. H. Campbell of the navy, is at the Ocei- dental. Frank H. Smith, an attorney of Stockton, is at the Grand. A. Ekman, & merchant of Oroville, is a guest at the Grand. Charles 8. Beach of the St. James Hotel, San Jose, is at the Lick. D. N. Carithers, & prominent merchant of Banta Rosa, is at the Lick. James F. Peck, Sheriff of Merced and Mrs, Peck are staying at the Lick. P. A. Buell. a lumberman of Stockton, regis- tered at the Grand yesterday. R. M. Green, a merchant and mine-owner of Oroville, is staying at the Grand. H. 8. Dexter, a capitalist of Calistoga, and his family registered at the California yesterday. Louis Dean, a big cattleman of Reno, Ne- | veda, wes one of yesterday's arrivals at the | Russ. | Joseph N. Dolph of Portland, Oregon, a | nephew of ex-Senator Dolph, registered at the | California yesterday. | Sam Ruddell, Deputy Surveyor of the Port, and his family have taken up their qua rters at | the California for the winter. E. B. Edson of Gazelle, & member of the firm of Edson Bros., leading merchants and big cat- tle and land owners of Siskiyou County, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. CALIFORNIANS IN UTAH. SALT LAKE, Uran, Sept 8.—George Fair of San Francisco was at the Walker to-day. He went East this evening. PEOFLE TALKED ABOUT. Captain George W. Couch of the steamer Old Dominion, is among the cldest steamship cap- tains in the woild, not in point of years, but in length of service, having been in commission forty-nine years. J. Pierpont Morgan, the chief of the syndi- | cate which supplied the United States with | gold in exchange for bonds, began life as a | clerk with the old New York banking firm of | Duncan, Sherman & Co. 1 Chief Constructor Philip Hichborn of the | United States navy is one of the few officers of high rank who are not graduates of Annapolis, | He began his career as an apprentice in the | Charleston navy-yard. Herr Gura, the barytone, the original Wotan in “Der Ring des Nibelungen,” has been dis- charged from the Munich Hoftheater, as his voice is no longer fresh enough. He will con- fine himself to concerts. Cardinal Ledochowski, who bore the brunt of the Government prosecution during the period of the kulturkampf, is to celebrate his sacer- dotal jubilee in a few days. The celebration | will be general throughout Germany and Po- land. L. E. Chittenden, who is spending the sum- mer with his son, Horace H. Chittenden, at Shelburne Bay, Vt., is correcting the proof- sheets of a8 book to be entitled, “Selections From the Writings and Speeches of Abrabam Lincoln.” Grover Cleveland hes been in public life thirteen years, and one Maine boy named for | him, Grover C. Watson of Knox County, Me., is | big enough to run as a reform candidate—or, at avpy rate, as a candidate—for the reform school. General von Tannekin, the yonng German officer who played an important part in the re- cent war between China and Japan, fighting on the side of the former, is in Berlin and is the recipient of much artention. Great regret is felt in Germany at the death of Professor Rudolph von Roth, the famous Sanskrit scholar, who hed been a professor ot Tubingen University for ffty years. With Bothlingk, he published a Sanskrit dictionary. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. He (about to propose)—My dear Elsie, I do love you. She—You know, of course, I am poor. | He—Yes, Miss Elsie, and I hope you will per- mit me to be a brother to you,—Humoristische Blaetter. He—I had a dream about you last night, Miss Louisa. Iwasabout to give you a kiss, when suddenly we were separated by a river that gradually grew as big as the Thames. She—And there was no bridge and no boat?— Household Words. “I wish I had a place in your heart,” said the summer young man, “Yes 7 said the summer girl. ““Yes, indeed. It is o delightfully cold.—In- dianepolis Journas. Waiter—Will you have spinach to-day, sir ? Guest—Yes, but I don't want it 80 spunky as it was yesterday. Bring me some with no sand in it.—Boston Transcript. ‘“Cultured in Boston ?” said Perry Patettic. “Well, I guess yes! Last time I was there I got throwed out of & beer saloon for eatin’ me free lunch wit’ e knife Cincinnati Enquirer. Bhe—And, George, you swore you would never touch liquor with your lips, and here you are drunk. George—Didn't touch stuft wi’ m’ lipsh. Used shtraws ! —Syracuse Post. Mr. Noopop—My baby cries all night. I don't know what to do with it. Mr. Knowitt—I'll tell you what I did. As soon s our baby commenced to cry I used to turn on all the gas. That fooled him. He titought it was broad daylight and went to sleep.—Pearson’s We: kly. “When a man’s clothes are too loose,” says the Manavunk Philosopher, “there are two ways of remedying the evil. One isto take them back to the tailor. Another is to get a new boarding-house.”—Philadelphia Record. 0ld Bullion (playfully)—Suppose I should lose my money and die poor, what would my Iittle duckie darlng do then? Young Bride (thoughtfully)—Perhaps amedi- cal college would give me something for your corpse.—New York Weekly. “What is Charley doing for a living now?” *“Writing.” “I didn’t think he was literary.” “He isn’t. He writes home for remittances.” —Tid-Bits. Cleff—They tell me your daughter Juliais quite a singer. Hasshe a good voice? Is her method— Staff—Can’t say so much about her voice, but her method is superb. She never sings when Iam at home.—Boston Transcript. S0 old Mr. Brown is married at last?"” “Yes; a furriner, I ’eard. “‘A foreigner? No, an English lady.” “Oh, I ’eard as ’ow she wes & Tartar.”” Household Words. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Dunesn B. Harrison, well known asa theat- rical manager, was seen in the lobby of the Baldwin last night. He is making arrange- ments for the return of Miss Pau'ine Hall, who 1is soon to visit this country. Miss Hall has just completed one of the most extensive bicycle tours of Europe ever under- PAULINE HALL, teken by any woman. Miss Hall was accom- panied on her tour by her husband, George B. McLellan, Mr. and Mrs. Harrison and Mr. and Mrs. William Trevor. They sailed on the American line steamer New York in the early part of last May and arrived back in America on the 20th of August, their tour embracing | sixteen weeks. At Friederichsruhe, the home of Prince Bis- marck, Miss Hall had the honor of appearing before the Prince and his family and singing several selections from various operas, con- cluding the reception at the request of the Prince by singing “Die Wacht Am der Rhein.” The distance covered wes 2378 miles according 10 the average of the cyclometers. George Nagle sat in the office of the Palace Hotel yesterday evening reading a copy of the Review of Reviews. Suddenly he closed the agazine with a bang, and turning to the in- dividual who dozed on his right burst out: “Atmosphere! Book atmosphere! Ridiculous rot! Everything you pick up nowadays in the shape of & book review has something to say about the atmosphere of a certain popular book over which the public seems to have gone particularly wild. Did it ever occur to you that the man who wrote the book couldn’t help putting the atmosphere into it. Take for instance James Whitcomb Riley’s poetry. You hear some old fossil say that it takes him right back to the newmown hayfields and the odors of the orchard. Well, why in the devil shouldn’t it? Riley up to his nineteenth year used to get out at daybreak and milk twenty- six cows, pitch hay until the mow wes full, and he then took a little weeding exercise till lunch was ready. In the afternoon he packed spuds two miles to the cellar, and by night, after taking another whack at the cows with & milking stool and eating & vegetable dinner with the farmhands, went to bed in the top story of the old homestead and snored holes in the pillow-sham. That's about the size of it. “Sudderly he discovered that he conld write a particularly delightful brand of verse that | everybody liked and that the papers were will- ing to pay for,so he cut hisboots off atthe ankels, creased his pants and headed for the city, where he has been ever since. Of course his verse has the farm atmosphere around it. How can he helpit. He couldn’t do anything else il he tried. Atmosphere! Bosh!” This burst of indignation seemed to relieye the eritic for e few moments, but he stroked his whiskers a little and let drive again. “‘Now, there’s Marion Crawford, the writer with such a ‘delightful Italian air’ about his stories. Well, he went to Italy as soon as he was old enough and liyed on spaghetti and mecaroni until he couldn’t get along without it. He wallowed around in Ttalian society, drank strong claret, smoked Itallan tobacco, fell in love with the country and created oid Seracanesca.’” Italy is all he can think about, and that's where we get the Italian atmos- phere. “Kippling lived in the jungle for eighteen vears, Tolstoi never had anything on but peas- ant's overalls and plowmen's jumpers. He gets up when the eatly bird is roosting in the tree-top, kicking about the infernallow tem- perature of Russia, and by sun up he has har- rowed a three-acre field and laid the plot of two novels. That’s Tolstoi’s regular gait and he can’t help it. Of course his books show just a slight touch of the son ot the soil, and his statistical information shows that he knows the prevailing rate of wages in the land of the Czar. That’s the way It goes. Writers can't get away from the things they live among, and this rubbish about atmosphere is a little overdone.” EIGH-GRADE EBESSEMER. A MOUNTAIN OF IRON WITHIN THIS STATE. QUANTITY AND PURITY COMBINED, To the Editor of the Call—SIR: Although pros- pecting in this county 1s yet in its infancy,8an Bernsrdino is rapidly coming to the front in its discoveries and in the production of the precicus metals. Rich strikes of gold and silver have recently been recorded. Neglected or ghandoned mines again resound with the noises of industry. The pioneer prospectors, with pick, shovel and burro, are trespassing upon the confines of the desert and the strong, brown arm of the sturdy miner is transforming the prospect into & mine. Much has been done, vet there are many square miles in this county untouched by the foot of man that may some- time surprise the country with its now hidden wealth. There is one metal that is not hid- den—that stands out to view as does a mountain peak from the epex of the range beyond—and that is its iron. Situated a few miles south of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, 160 miles east of Los Angeles, is a mountan of iron—a Bessemer of exceeding purity, lying in seversl parallel veins, at least three of which are more than 100 feet each in width in solid ore, averaging close to70 per cent in metaliic iron. These veins, black and massive, almost defiant, visible from -many miles away, standing as a monument to the poverty of the owners and a_reproach to the want of enterprise and absence of capital for the development of an element which, in the form of & commodity, is imported into Califor- nia by the thousands of tons annually, bur- dened by hundreds oi thousands of dollars in transcontinental irelfhuge- ‘The owners are not sufficiently public spirited to give the {»ro erty away, yet recognizing the E-ucnir of heir purses would desl {airly with capital which would develop it, or would as a secon- dary proposition part with it for a fraction of its value. It is entirely within the range of probability that these veins, which to the northward ag- ear to_join (as do the veins at Carson Hili rom the north), are a vrolongation of the “mother vein” of El Dorado, Tuolumne, Cala- veras and Mariposa counties, as they are close in the general trend. But whether or not a part of the rich veins of precious metals in the counties further porth they are individually or collectively of sufficient magnitude to rank as “;no‘ther" vein or veins, and in purity of ore as virgins. W’hfle at San Diego it is now proposed 30 im- Pnn iron ore of lower grade from Lower Ca) ornia (a foreign country) for reduction, it is question which only time may determine when capital shall compel this mountain of Besse- mer ore to yield its wealth to enrich the State, give emplp‘yment to many of its citizens, build up & great industry for the manipulation of an element which more than any other enters into every avenue of life and énriches its pro- moters. It seems almost a crime to permit so greata Dody of ore to lie year aiter year unproductive, the only development being the annual assess- ment work, while so many thousands of tons of iron end steel are imported at a cost fiam“’ in excess of that required to convert this ore, even recognizing the greater cost of fuel hers as compared with points of production East. Were this property situated in the Eastern or Southern States, Cubs, or in South America, it would be snatched up only too quickly by that capital which sees merit in something dis- tant while overlooking investment at home. A famous German geologist has in substance said, show me a vein wearing an iron hatand I will show you & mine rich in the precious metals.” It may be that some day with proper development his prediction mey here be veri- fiecyby & gold property which will astonish the world, for there is much to indicate that, although there is iron here imbedded sufficient for generations yet unborn, its surface aurifer- ous character gives promise of agolden harvest notonly in working the baser metal, but in reclaiming the precious lusterless yellow so loth to remain in the United States treasury under the present administration. C. L. HUBBs. " DaGGETT, Cal., Sept. 5, 1895. IDEAS OF WESTERN EDITORS. California. ‘While Chicago is doing all the “kicking,” California is going right ahead in developing her own great resources and encouraging home roduction, which means employment of home rabor and the continued prosperity of her peo- ple.—Alameda Telegram. A market report like that at Helena, Mont., the other day, when California lemons were quoted at $6 50 to $7 per box, while the for- eign were quoted at $6, is worth more as a proof of superiority than all the fair medals one could hang on & string.—Riverside Press. Not content with making sidewalks out of molasses, the Utah Sugar Company reports that this materisl mekes good road pavement. §orely genius knows no bounds.—Bakersield o. Fresno without the Valley road would be a “lame duck” in the commereial swim for the next quarter of a century, at leest. People whose opinions are worth considering have & hearty contempt for a town that will permit an important railway to pass it by for lack of rea- sonable assigtance. At this juncture Fresno cannot afford to take any chances.—Fresno Re- publican. The Supreme Court of California has declded that although it is illegal to sell a lottery ticket, it is perfectly legal to buy one. That is, of course, & distinction without any difference, but it is presumably the law, and the sooner the law is made what it ought to be the better it will be for the State.—San Jose Mercury. The demand for eedar wood for making pen- cils has so diminished Europe's supply that now, it is said, a draft on California’s se- quoias is threatened. Imagine these noble trees being whittled into lead pencils.—Pass- dena News. We have heard some of the Nimrods of this locality boast of shooting wild goats at Cata- lina Island, representing it assa great fest of marksmanship, but we are able to give these exploits full value now when it is accepted asa fact that Jimmy Jones of the Brunswick Hotel ran down and captured one of these animals on the islands a few days ago and brought it home as an evidence of his prowess.—Orange News. Arizona. Arizona’s admission to the Union is among theJmelblllIies of the coming Congress. Cleve- land can’t afford to kick us out when Congress admits us.—Phenix Herald. Jadge E. Ellery Anderson, a corporation law- and yearning Democracy of Arizona runs to waste.—~Tucson Citizen. Oregon. worn by the young women who are booked to embrace matrimony at the Oregon Industrial Exposition. The bifurcated garment would neither make the ceremony more binding nor enhance its solemnity.—Portiand Telegram. ‘Washington. Thousands of the people, and especially of those whose education and position fit them best to shape the policy of the country, abstain from attending the primaries. How shall they be compelled to attend? The answer to this question will be the entering wedge of the greatest reform that our politics have ever wit- nessed.—Seattle Times. One by one the political records of the mem- bers of Mr. Cleveland’s cabinet rise up and whack them on the back. The fact has been brought out that Secretary Morton ran for Gov- ernor on the Greenback ticket in Nebraska nineteen years ago.—Spokane Spokesman-Re- view. EASTERN EDITORS. A Fishy Business. It iswell known that there is ensconced in the enormouz machinery of the Federal Govern- ment an irresponsible Commission of Fish and Fisheries, which succeeds in annually expend- ing many thousands of doliars of public money { to very little purpose.—Philadalphia Record. Eastern Potato Bugs. No man who has ever undertaken to pick a season’s bugs from & potato patch will doubt for a moment the account of the !mpplfe of & train on Long Island by them. He will even wonder how the train was saved from wreck.— St. Louis Dispatch. ¥or a Short Campaign. The short-campaign idea has fairly taken hold of the people of best judgment every- where throughout the country, aud the most influential papers huve come out in its favor. Whatever pressure, therefore, can be brought upon the politicians who more or less direct the affairs of party to hold late conventions will be brought.—Chicago Times. No Expression of Gratitude. A Wisconsin fruit-grower snipped eighty baskets of peaches to a Chicago commission man. He received in return a check for $4, and, after paying for his baskets and help in gathering the fruit, had just the price of & postage stamp remaining. Oddly enough, he didn’t use the postege Stamp t0 express bis greiitude to the Chicago commission man.— oston Globe. Captain Mahan’s Advice. The fact that the British navy estimateshave equaled the sum of $26,968,210 reveals the persistency with which Great Britain has fol- lowed the advice concerning the enlargement of her battle-ships and her eruisers. ithout her Powerful and Terrible the shipsof the British squadron would be very small com- ared with the American battle-ships of the Massachusetts and Oregon build. Neverthe- less, she 1s constructing naval fighters on the lines laid down by the distinguished American eritic, Captain Mahan. There is no reason why America should not, by following the advice of this foremost eritic of the naval power of the world, become the autocrat of the seas.—Phil- adelphia Record. Literature in Chicago. Returning St. Louisans who happened to come home via Chicago report great literary advancement in that city. A young St. Louis choolteacher had occasion recently to go to a Chicago. stationery-store, and she asked the bright young man who stepped up briskly to | wait upen her if he had any scrap-books. The b. y. m. looked puzzled & moment, scratched the 1id of his brain vessel, and then the light slowly dawned upon him, and, with a brisk “Yea'm,”” he went behind the eounter and took down a paper-bound yellow-back book and handed it to her, and when she opened it she discovered it was the life of John L. Sulli- wan.—St. Louis Star Sayings. Parks and Cities. The moral of the-experiences of the average city in securing parks and sdding touchesof adornment is egainst the evil of procrastina- tion. Cities should plan for future growth and not wait until it is all but impossible to accom- plish what should have bean done almost at the start. Milwaukee may consider herself fortunafe in having reserved a portion of her lake front, and sheis to be congratulated that with comparatively little money she will be able to construct a lake driveway that will be unexcelled by any like thoroughiare in the world.—Milwsukee Wisconsin. PLAIN TALES TO FARMERS, MR. ADAMS WORDS MET WITH WARM INDORSEMENT. THE CALL has begun a series of articles en- titled, “Plain Talks with Farm. FARMERS ers,” by Edward F. Adams, AND THE himself a farmer. The series HARD TiMgs. begins well. In the first article Mr. Adams makes these pithy remarks: Speaking as & farmer, T ask: Why is it that mercantile and professional classes 1ive more luxu- Tiously than we? Why do not their wives also Tise at five in the morning and tofl till bedtime? Why do they ride In palace cars and we in tourist cars? Now our usual answer to this is that the whole race Of them are mefarions orants thriving upon the biood and sweat of the patient, noble, honest son of toll. But the real reason that they thrive while we strive unprofitably is because they are not such fools a we are; they kuow their business and we do not. If they buy & ton of grain, they know what it cost them, and when they sell it, they know whether they hiave made a proAt. Never were truer words written. There is much complaint just now over “hard times” among the farmers of California. Much sym- pathy is expressed for them. Yet we hear no :Emputhy expressed for the “hard times” of the shop-keeper, the small tradesman, the small manufacturer. Why not? Have they not suffered durin’ the g-n few years just as the farmers have? “Oh, but they are business men,” would be the reply. That is exactly it. They are business mern, they do not u{lor sympathy, and they suffer in silence, while the farmers suffer noisily. The sooner the farmers put themseives on the same score asother men, run their business like other business men an expect the same treatment as other business men, the sooner will they attain the same measure of prosperity as other business men. As lé. himself a California farmer, says their business—the farmers do not.”—The Ar- gonsut. ' yer of New York, is said to have the call on the | | Bupreme Court vacancy. There was some hope | | of that coming to this Territory, but Wall street | has got thecinch on 0id Cleve and the great | Itis to be hoped that bloomers will not be | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Crrizexsmp—C. H. R., Larkspur, Marin County, Cal. If you have been a resident of the United States for seven years and now de- sire to become a citizen you will have to de- clare your intention, and two years after such declaration you can obtain your second pa- pers. In this State an alien must declare upon oath before & District or Circuit Court of mg United States, or & Superior Court, two years & Feaseorios 1oMis admistion that 1t it bona fide his intention to become a citizen of the United States and to rencunce forever aii allegiance to any foreign prince or state, and particularly to the one of which he may be at the time s citi- zen or subject. Subsequently if it shall 8- peer to the satsfaction of the court to which the alien has applied-that he has made s dec- laration to become & citizen two years before applying for final papers, and I sided cOD- tinuously within the United States for at least five years and within the State in which the court is held one year at lea: that dur- ing that tire ‘he has beheved as a man of good moral character, attached to the princi- ples of the constitution of the United States and well disposed to the good order and hap- iness of the same,” he will be admitted 10 cit- 1zenship. y. The constitu- s signed September 17, 1787, and it was at once transmitied to Congress, which in turn transmitted it to the States. It was ratified by the convention of Delaware December 7; Pennsyl ber 12; New Jersey, December 18; ; January 2, 1788; Counecticut, Jenuary 9; Massachusétts, Februsry 6: Maryland, April 28; South Carolina, May 23.and New Hamp- Shire, June 21, making nine States, the number required to make the instrument binding on all the States. Virginia ratified June 25,1785; New York, July 26; North Carolina, Novem 21, 1789, and Rhode Isiand, May 29, 1790. TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES—Daily Reader, Santa Clara, Cal. There are three irain echools for nurses in San Francisco, one &t Hospital for Children, another at 8t Hospital, and the lhvi.’d‘ul the Cit County Hospital. Application to either ca: mede by letter or in person to the sup tendent. Each school is governed by spec rnles, but generally the applicant must be tween 21 and 31 yearsof sge, must pres acertificate of good chareeter, must be in sou health. be able to reaa sloud well and besable 1o take notes of lectures. NEeLLIE BLY—W. B. C., y. Nellie Bly, the newspaper correspondent, left New York City on her trip sround the world on the 14th of November, 188 he mede thétour in 72 days 6 hours and 11 minutes. On her way back to the Empire City she landed iy San Francisco from the steamship Oceanica, Janusry 21, 1890. Miss Elizebeth Bisland, another news- paper correspondent, who started one dey sooner than Miss Bly, occupied 76 days in the journey. WARRANT OF ARREsT—J. C, City. The code of this State seys that if an offnse cherged be |'afelony the arrest, with or withont wearrant, may be made at any time of the day or night. If itis & misdemeanor the arrest cannot be made at night, unless under the dizection of the magistrate indorsed upon the warrant. Night- time as defined in the code is that period be- tween supset and sunrise. Warrants are not served in divorce cases. DIvoRcE CoMPLAINT—J. G., City. If a com- plaint for divorce has been filed in ceurt, and subsequently the parties agree to let bygones be bygones and resume the relations of hus- band and wife, and the plaintiff has the action dismissed, that is an end to that case. The other portion of your question is one that should be submitted to a competent attorner, as tbis department is for the purpose of giving facts and not legal advice. SCHOOL OF DESI Mrs. J. B, City. The tui- tion fees in the School of Design in the Hop- kins’ Institute of Artare $6 per month, or $24 from January 2 to May 15, or $48 for the full term in the antique, life class (nude model), portrait class (draped model) and modeling class. The fee in the painting class (still life and portrait) is £8. £30 and $60. The school year opens on the 15th of August and closes on the 15th of May. A 8MALL DoGs—E. G. M., City. Very small dogs are the result of inbreeding. The growth of puppies is cheeked by the use of whisky, ad- | ministered with food. The get of such ani- mals is not always certain as to size. Some- times in a litter of six there may be two that will never attain a larger growth than that of the parent, while the others will attain the full size ot the breed. In other ecases there has not been an undersized dog in the whole litter. PERNICIOUS AcTIVITY—K. L., City. The lan. guage used by Cleveland in his letter to the heads of depsrtments, written on the 14th of July, 1886, in which he wrote of pernicious activity, was as follows: “Office-holders are neither disenfranchised nor forbidden the ex- ercise of political privileges; but their priv- ilegesare not enlarged, nor is their duty to the party increased to pernicious activity by office-holding.” LARGEST STEAMERS: F. C., Bloomfield, Cal. The largest steamers afloat at this time are the Campania and the Lueania, sister ships. Each measures 620 feet over all. The American steamer St. Louis, recently launched, measures 504 feet over all. “DON'T SHE CHARLIE?' S City. “Wile lie’s Views of Things,” or “Don’t She Charlie?” by James Whitcomb Riley. appears in Werner's Magazine for 1894, page 295, and may be seen at the Free Public Library, this No ELecTRIC RoaD.—S. 0. C., City. There is no electric road in course of construction be- tween this City and Szn Jose. There was some talk at one time of the Joost line being ex- tended to the Garden City. ——————— ROBERCS, 220 Sutter—‘‘Cards by the million."* S on g te o PrALN, broken mxd cnds, 10e 1b. Townsend’s.® g e BacoN Printing Company, 503 Clay stross * e Ocean Excursions. Steamship Pomone, to Santa Cruz and Mon- terey, leaves Saturdeys, 4 P. ., due_back Mon- days, 5 A M. Ticket office, 4 New Montgomery street. > “Do you boil your drinking-water?” said one Pittsburger to another. +No,” was the reply. “We grind it and then fry it."—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. 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For example, we quote Bardwood Bedroom Sets °*%icce> $20 Parlor Sets, from.........$25 up OTHER GOCDS IN FROPORTION. Everything Marked in Plain Figures —POR—— White Imported Castile Soap, Large bars and Virgin brand at that. offered in our 40 and 140 page price-list. Send for latest copy. University of California—$10,000 to Loan. BLANK APPLICATIONS WILL BE SENT CASE OR INSTALLMENTS. Bay quickly. Only 1200 bars. Many ly SMITH’S CASH STORES, upon request No application for less than 2 0 IS CHEAP more genuine bargains regular, 414 Front Street, San Francisco. Adam: S ;i. R S :10&00 will be considered. Applications must ba in duplicate, to Regent Albert Miller, 533 California st.. S, ¥, J. H. C. BONTE, Secty, Berkeley, Cal., August 23, 1895, e