The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 12, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: psfly end Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier.$0.15 Teily and Sunday CALI, one vear, by mail.. 6.00 Paily and Sunday CALL, six montbs, by mail 3.00 Tally and Sunday Cagx, three months, by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one roonth, by mail .65 £unduy CALL, one year, by mail... 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mail. 1.50 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street. Telephone..... ..Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. ..Main—1874 Telephone BRANCH OFFICES £70 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until £:£0 o'clock. 220 Haves street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 717 Larkin sireet; open until 8:30 o'clock. BW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open uptil § o'clock. 2618 Mission street; open until 8 o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: ©08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Fscific States Advertising Bureau, Rhinelander tullding, Rose and Duane streets, New York City. THURSDAY.. THE To-day the Railroad Commissioners make a show-up. The yacht races are getting almost hot enough to make the ocean boil. Some Eastern papers have begun to spell it garet,” and spelling reform gets another puff. Times are certainly brightening when prospects of Republican victory can be seen even in Kentucky. Europe might afford to maneuver some of her soldiers in a way to make the Grand Turk behave bimself. The Republican party expects Commis- sioner Clark to do his duty and to remem- ber that his duty is to the State. Ingersoll's latest contribution to politi- cal discussion is the staternent that Lincoln was elected President in spite of his fitness. What is the matter with the East? The silly season is over, and yet they are still seriously discussing the third-term craze. It is asserted that Kansas farmers are feeding their hogs on grasshoppers, and, if so, the pork market is liable to take a jump. Campbell of Ohio may think himself a candidate for the Presidency, but the people have begun to speak of him as Brice’s hired man. Chicago is talking of making a bid for the National conventions next year, just as if the people had forgotten the kind of weather she dealt out to the last con- vention. K If it be true as reported that the prepar- ations for the international yacht race have cost upward of $1,000,000 it would seem that we might have got flying ships for less money. The gold men are talking of getting Car- lisle to go down and take part in the Ken- tucky campaign to prevent Blackburn and Hardin from stampeding the State and using the goldbug platform for a bonfire. If it be truethat there are nearly 50,000 school children in New York who cannot get admittance to the schools because the ‘buildings are overcrowded, it is about time for the metropolis to cease calling itself a representative American city. S A man arrested in New York for inter- fering with ash-barrels gave his name as Bonaventura Portogalloexzyutotoniosei, and the police magistrate, finding it im- possible to fix a sentence long enough to take m the name, fined him $1 and let him go. Tt is said the “vegetarians” in China, who massacred the missionaries, are a sort of anarchical society, which the Chinese Government has been for more than a century trying to suppress; and for the same time it has been trying to overthrow the Governmen Tt is claimed that David Bennett Hill is arranging to have the Democratic conven- tion 1n New York declare against a third term in language that will reflect on Cleveland, and thus give Hill an oppor- tunity to land another blow on his fat foe while he is still in the ring. About tbe lightest dark horse named for the Presidential race is Judge Caldwell of Arkansas, who a yearago rendered him- self quite conspicuous by his decision re- fusing to grant injunctions against rail- road employes who proposed to strike. He uses his decision for a platform, and wishes to stand on it with the Populists. A Kansas City packing-house claims to have invented a process by which it can put up sixty-five cubic inches of food in a package weighing only thirty-five ounces. The food is intended for the use of troops on forced marches, butif the experiment proves successful, it might be used in mauy other ways and prove useful in peace as well as war. Clement Scott, who is reputed to be the greatest dramatic critic in London. has made a sensation with his little pen by advising the actors and actresses of that city to attend the performance of an American company now playing there in order to learn to speak the English lan- guage correctly. Society people with an English accent might profit by the hint. Since the war the South has expended a great cdeal in improved methods of handling cotton, and the advance has been something wonderful. No machine to pick cotton has yet been successfully operated, but & new machine is announced that will take cotton from the wagon and in fifteen minutes it is ginned and compressed to look like a roll of carpeting. One hundred bales of ordinary cotton can be compressed to occupy space of one car. Eastern horsemen have been startled by a decision of Judge Bischoff of New York which virtually declares that under the new law of that State every kind of horse- racing is gambling. The Judge said: “The outcome of a horserace depends upon chance; a contract for the payment of ‘sweepstakes’ is void under the statute against gambling and every element of uncertainty and contingency of the event upon which the money is wagered or staked is present in such a case to bring the transaction within the letter and spirit of the word gambling.” If the decision is sustained all horseracing in New York will have to be done for fun only and without stakes or prizes of any kind. A WISE SELECTION. The determination of the Regents of the State University to accept Mr. Sutro’s prof- fer of asite for the Affiliated Colleges is gratifying to the entire community. The giftis a very handsome one, and Mr. Sutro’s public spirit is highly commendable. As one of the few millionaires who are ex- pending large sums of money in develop- ing his properties and contributing to the prosperity of the City, he is setting an ex- ample which others might follow with profit to themselves and the community. The restrictions placed on the transfer are of small concern to the public. They are merely that no buildings except for college purposes shall be erected on the site, and that the donor will erect and turn over the proposed library building within five years. A much more important mat- ter is the withdrawal of a frequent street- car service by the Market-street Railw: Company, which owns the electric line vassing the property. The motives for that move need not be discussed, and the difficulties which the fact presents yill right themselves in good time, The Mar- ket-street Railway Company, now that the site has been chosen, will probably find a sufficient inducement in the large traffic which the colleges and the surrounding settlement will bring to restore satisfactory service. The company never throws money or business away. Excepting, perhaps, a temporary stimu- lation of land values in that vicinity, it can hardly be expected that the effects of the presence of the colleges there will be per- manently felt for some time. That they will ultimately have a very prominent good effect is manifest. The natural final growth of the City must be down the peninsula. Most of the barren sand hilts south of the park have been subdivided into lots, giving abundant room for im- provements. Back of these lie very large tracts held by individual owners, Mr. Sutro and the Spring Valley Water Works being among the largest. The new racetrack at Ingleside lies in close juxtaposition to these large holdings, and the highly de- sirable nature of the region for residence purposes will likely cause a large settle- ment to spring up on the north side of the Ocean House road. Thus two important centers of settlement, Ingleside and the vicinity of the Affiliated Colleges, will spring up on the south side of the park and contribute materially to the City’s destiny of working down the peninsula. Ingleside is already assured rapid trans- portation facilities and the Affiliated Col- leges will undoubtedly enjoy the same ad- vantage. AN INTELLIGENT APPEAL, The letter published in yesterday’s Carn from J. A. Filcher, secretary of the Cali- fornia State Board of Trade and Califor- nia’s representative at the Atlanta Expo- sition, gives the most intelligent account vet received from Atlanta. After enlarg- ing on the greatness of the exposition and the advantageous placing of the California exhibit Mr. Filcher says: “I wish Tme CArr would take up the fight for more money for this exhibit, assuring the people, as it safely can, that they never had an opportunity to do more for the same money than can be done for the State at this Georgia exposition. We ought to have more literature than we have and the opportunity for opening an apartment for demonstrating the proper methods of cooking our dried fruits should not pe missed. If each county in the State would give its mite all this could be done and more and the benefits would return in time a hundred fold.” These suggestions are eminently wise and practical. Instruction in the prepara- tion of California fruits is of vital interest to California, and the opportunity pre- sented at Atlanta is exceptionally good. Under no other circumstances could the benefits arising from such instruction in the East be made more valuable. It is hoped, therefore, that Mr. Filcher's sug- gestion will receive the prompt attention of our people. Now is the time of all others for making ahard fight on the lines of immigration and instruction. We need a denser settle- ment for the purpose of better developing the resources of the State, and larger in- struction in the East concerning the su- periority of our fruits for the purpose of extending our market. The people of the East have never been so disturbed and un- settled as at present. Hard times have caused so general areadjustment of old conditions, and have struck so severe a blow to established methods of earninga livelihood, that the people are more than ready to be shown how and where they may better their condition. That Iife is better lived in California than anywhere else is a fact familiar to Californians, but unknown in the Eastern States. Never was California, comparing her condition with that of the East, in so good a position to offer inducements to settlers. A SPECIAL EDUCATION. The farmer who fails to place himself in alignment with a verv strong movement which is proceeding in the State will suffer the consequences of his negligence if he is in need of the benefits which the move- ment might secure to him. This is the education of the farming classes. It is taking two directions; one in a better un- derstanding of the cultivation of the soil and the other a comprehension of general business principles. The first of theseis at present most active; the second has been undertaken by THE CALL in the publi- cation of a series of able letters by Edward F. Adams, an intelligent and successful farmer. As was pointed out in a carefully studied article published in yesterday’s CaLrL, an incredible amount of money has been wasted in Qalifornia by running to ex- tremes in exploiting some important new discovery, without a proper understanding of the soil and market conditions which appertain to the matters concerned. In that same article the fine equipment and excellent work done by the College of Agri- culture of the University of California were pointed out, together with the discourag- ing assurance that the number of pupils who take the agricultural course is very small. This means to say that the one most important branch of learning in Call- fornia is being ignored by young men and women, and that they, with no under- standing of the wonderiul advantages which might be secured by mastering the peculiar conditions attaching to agricul- ture in California and lacking the wisdom to put themselves in training for a busi- ness which has the character of a monopoly, prefer to equip themselves for some busi- ness or profession that brings them in competition with followers of those occu- pations in every civilized community in the world. This evident lack of wisdom is doubtless explained on the ancient superstition that a farmer’s life 1s hard, dull and lacking in all the finer graces of living. This is largely true in the older States, where the products of farms are staples and must compete with similar products everywhere, .and where there is an absence of extra- ordnary conditions belonging to agricul- ture in California. A farmer's life here, if lived as it might be, is burdened with none of the hardships affecting it else- where. There are no harsh climatic con- ditions impairing his strength and making physical comfort impossible. The small size of the farm permits of a dense settle- ment, and this in turn gives rise to the en- joyment of social pleasures. And the soil products themselves are of a fine and ele- vating character. This does not consider the very import- ant matter of physical health resulting from outdoor employment in California, and yet this is extremely important, for contentment, energy and ambition are im- possible 1n the absence of health and strength. The movement toward an agricultural education is proceeding bravely neverthe- less, and those who fail to heed it will find themselyes lost in the coming develop- ment of California’s agricultural possibili- ties. The introduction of education for conducting the business on the finest and highest lines is the watchsword now, and in it abides the hope of the farmer and the prosperity of the State. ASSURING COMPETITION. The people of Merced, Fresno, Hanford and Tulare are to be congratulated for their enterprise and public spirit in arriv- ing, through the intelligent efforts of the joint committee appointed to represent them before the board of directors of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad, at a friendly understanding con- cerning the needs of the road for right of way and depot grounds in the various cities mentioned. The committee agreed to the wishes of the directors, and now the road is assured to those communities. This assurance, however, should not operate to stop subscriptions to the stock of the road throughout the San Joaquin. It seems a reasonable assumption that the more of this stock owned by the people of the valley the more the road will serve their interests in all substantial ways. It will not only be keeping the earnings of the road at home to the extent of the ownership of shares in that region, and thus will be constantly contributing to the wealth of the people, but ‘it will, in all reasonable probability, be a highly profit- able investment. Money is scarce in the valley, and doubtless the lack of it pre- vents many a farmer, land-owner and business man from making the invest- ment, but there are many ways of raising money, ard it is a reasonable assurance that the shares of the road will prove to be more stable and profitable property than any other 1n the valley. A SEVERE DECISION. In awarding the second race between the Defender and the Valkyrie III to the American boat for the reason that it had been fouled by the English yacht, the New York committee undoubtedly followed the strict rules governing such contests, and has rendered a just, though severe, decis- ion. No American believes that the Earl of Dunraven meant anything unfair in fouling his antagonist, and all will agree that this gentlemanly sportsman merely thought that he was acting within his rights when he refused to yield the right of way to the Defender. If the matter should be put to a vote of the country it would likely be found that the prevailing sentiment was for declaring this race not run. But this is not an ordinary sporting event. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of dollars have been wagered on the contest, and this fact re- quires that the rules be observed with the greatest circumspection. 1t is generally admitted that the De- fender is the better boat, but ail things are possible before the contest ends. To-day’s race may settle the matter in favor of the American yacht, but he would be a churl who would begrudge the plucky English- man a share in the more substantial glories of the struggle, LET THE FLAG FLY. The celebration next Saturday by the Veterans of the Mexican War calls for a popular demonstration of the patriotic spirit which abides in the breasts of all loyal Californians. No more appropriate expression of this sentiment could be given than a general display of the Na- tional colors on that day. Let all loyal citizens who own a flag throw it to the breeze next Saturday. These veterans are rapidly passing away, for it has been forty-eight years since there occurred the brave struggle that gave California to the Union and that cost so many loyal Americans their lives. The few of that eallant band who still remain with us have maintained through all these years the patriotic spirit which urged them to fight, and a generous display of he American flag on the anniversary of their victory should be a pleasure on the part of every loyal citizen. The Boston Journal, a good Republican newspaper, urges the country to give Sec- retary Olney a chance to get his yigorous foreign policy into operation before con- demning him, and says: “It should be remembered that Mr. Olney is a Massa- chusetts man, and that the Massachusetts atmosphere is likely to have its influence with him.”” In deference to the plea of our contemporary we are willing to wait, but at the same time there is a deep-seated fear that the Olney atmosphere may pro- duce a frost in the State Department. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. “It is useless for you to tell me that I am the only girl you ever loved. You make love like & man who had practice.” *How do you know that?” McSwatters — What's this about Snodkins? Yesterday he was convalescent, to-day they gay he is paralyzed. McTwitters—Why, the doctor carelessly left ‘his bill where Snodkins could see it.—Syracuse Post. “I've been insulted,” said Meandering Mike, “Inever was so downtrod an’ humiliated in my life.” “What's happened?” inquired Plodding Pete, anxiously. “I've been offered work.” “Cheer up. Wuss things hez happened” “Nope. Never. 'Twas a job in m soap fac- tory.”—Washington Star. A.—There is a most remarkable cave in Ken- tucky. B.—What is there remarkable about it? A.—If you call out, “Hello, Smith,” the echo says, “What 8mith is it?” no less than fourteen distinet times.—Texas. Siftings. Ethel—What did papa say, Algie, when you asked him for me?” Algie Bofte—Your paps, darling, is a very naughty man, and I would not repeat his lan- guage in your hearing for anything.—Cincin- nati Enquirer. A mouse ran by. She did not scream Or wildly raise her head. 4T do not mind such animals ‘With bloomers on,” she said. Let Him Try It. Well, nobody down this way is trying to evade the issue. We should like to see the matter tried. We should like to see Mr. Cleve- land & candidate for a third term. The result would settle the business for all time to come, &nd the business ought by all means to be set- tled.—Atlanta Constitution. Not Disappointed. At the last minute Mrs. Langtry feels com- and disappoint us again. 1s not disappointing us.— PERSONAL. A.J. Harrell, a banker of Visalia,is at the Palace. Dr. W. H. Miller of Hanford is a guest at the Baldwin. J. H. Topley, a merchant of Vallejo, is & guest at the Grand. F. C. Lusk, a prominent attorney of Chico, is at the Palace. \ Harris Lansing of the Philadelphia is staying at the Occidental. D. Brownstone, a merchant of Lemoore, isa guest at the Grand. John W. Tatterson of the Stockton Woolen- mills is at the Grand. E. J. Cahill, & civil engineer of San Martin, is staying at the Grand. Dr.R. A, Urquhart of Los Gatos was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Palace. . A. W. Riley, a merchsnt of Santa Rosa, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Lick. Stanton L. Carter, a well-known attorney of Fresno, registered at the Lick yesterday. C. H. Lux, a capitalist of San Jose, came to town yesterday and put up at the Grand. Superior Judge A. P. Catlin came down from Sacramento yesterday and putup at the Lick. M. M. Potter, proprietor of the Westminster Hotel of Los Angeles, registered at the Palace yesterday. Rothwell Hyde came down from his ranch at St. Helena yesterday and registered at the Occidental. L. T. Hatfield, a member of the Assembly and & well-known attorney of Sacramento, is a guest at the Lick. J.F. McDonald of Fresno 1s stopping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. He is superintendent of the celebrated Burton Vineyard estate in the county of Fresno, and has just completed the shipment of thirty-five carloads of grapes and Bartlett pairs to Eastern markets, CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 11.—Californians registered at hotels: San Francisco—Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Stubbs, Winasor; H. 8. Day, Hoffman; C. 8. Benedict, Mrs. and E. A. Judson, Union Square; J. C. Payne, New York Hotel; Mr. and Mrs. J. Towningsen, Broadway Central. Los Angeles—J. H. Call, 8t. Denis; G. A. Silipson, Broadway Central; G. D. Wiley, Holland; T. Z. Stone, Grand Union. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 11.—The follow- ing Californians are registered at the hotels: E. L. Reese, J. A. Spiller, J. A. Stoklee, San Francisco: T. Monahan, San Jose; D. R. Collins and wife, Los Angeles; W. L. Clark; Hoyt Sherman, Salt Lake. CALIFORNIANS AT SALT LAKE. SALT LAKE, UTAH, Sept. 11.—At the Temple- ton—W. B. Hunt, Julius Sultan, San Francisco. At the Knutsfora—M. J. Freiler, San Francisco. At the Walker—A. H. Greenbaum, H. Jacobson, H. Truchs, San Francisco, THE HOME AND THE WOMAN VOTER. To-day, in the houshold, the man is the voter. Suppose the wife becomes a voter. too. She will either reproduce her husband’s political views, and there will be in one house two Democratic voters, and in another two Republican voters, where there has been one. And this is no gain toward a decision of questions. It is onlya multiplying of ballots, producing no chauge of results. Or else the wife would take the op- posite side from her husband’s, and, instaatly, with all the heatand violence of party differ- ences and political disagreements, a bone of contention is introduced into the home; anew cause of dissension and alienation is added to the already strained relations in many fami- lies. Then there is the question of mistress and maid. Shall the cook leave her kitchen to cast & vote, which shall counterbalance the vote of the mistress, or shall the employer undertake to control the politics of the “kitchen cabinet ?”” And all this, not merely on the voting day, or in the deposit of the ballot, but the weeks before and aiter the election are to be spent in the heat of discussion or in the smart of defeat. The American home is not too sacred and secure to-day to make it safe to undermine it with the explosive materials of politics and partisanship. And meanwhile, as things are now, the inteiligent woman interested in some great measure of reform hes in her hand, not the ability to rival, offset or double her hus- band’s voté, but the power of her persuasion, her affection, her ingenuity to influenceit. It ‘would be ineredible ii it were not shown to be true that any large number of thinking and intelligent beings knowing, feeling, using this tremendons power should be willing to run the risk of losing it by substituting a thing far lower and feebler in its stead. And with the exfperlence of what she has gained for her sex, with the evidence of what voting men have brought about for her under the influence of non-voting women and through solicitude for their interests, the rashness of this proposed experiment defies description.—From “Why Women Do Not Want the Ballot,” by the Right Rev. William Croswell Doane, Bishop of Al- bany, in North American Review for September. IDENTITIES Ii‘ FICTION. Every one knows the terrible bickerings and heartburnings caused by the efforts of the in- judicious—not to mention those of the malig- nant—to fix the identity of leading characters in fiction with more or less real originals. The exasperations of Leigh Hunt when he dis- covered that he had sat to Dickens for Harold Ekimgole, and refused to be comforted by the possibly true explanation that the gentler and worthier side of the character was in por- traiture of himsel, is a case in point. Dickens and Thackeray both teem with instances, though neither of them to the extent of Dis- raeli, who probably cared less than either for the effect of his caustic sketches upon their subjects. Very different from these cases is that of Private McManus of 8an Francisco, who comes forward to claim identity with Mr. Rudyard Kipling’s celebrated Térence Mul- vaney. Mr. g{ipling, however, who ought to know, and is not even moved to acknowledg- ment by Mr. McManus’ piquant description of him as “a plucky, lnqugn ve little fellow in the civil service, who passed the bottle among us privates, and then got us to tell all the yarns of the barrack-room,” puts a searching Guestion to the claimant as to “how Dearsley came by the glllnquln?" and, in the highly respectable old Parliamentary ghrue, “We pause for a reply.”—London Graphic. THOUGHTS OF EASTERN EDITORS. ‘Wealth in Great Britain. No fewer than sixty-six persons in Great Britain are shown by the income tax reports just published in London to enjoy annual in- comes of over $300,000. There are nearly 2000 more whose incomes range all the way from that figure down to $50, a year, while those possessing from $25, to ,000 a year exceed 3 in number. Some 5000 peo- ple are taxed on $10,000 to $15,000 per an- nuam, and nearly 15,000 citizens make return of incomes ranging from $3000 to $10,000. When it is borne in mind that the tendency to rate one’s income for revenue pur t the lowest possible figure is almost universal, and that even the most upright and patriotic of citizens think it fair game to “do” the Tax Collector, it must be admitted that theshowing of the report is eminently satisfactory to Great Britain.—New York Tribune. Southern Pig Iron. The ability of Alabama ironmasters to make Ppig iron of grades suitable for the manufacture of steel means a great enlargement of the indus- trial possibilities of that State through a larger trade in raw material with Northern consum- ‘ers and in the establishment of steel works in the South. Hitherto the main obstacle to a ‘metrical development of the iron reso urces of the South has geen the practical impossi- Dbility of making steel from Southern material; but recent ppogress in the production of pig iron in Alabama demonstrates the practica- bility of creating a steel industry in that sec- tion of the country that shall be as important as the great pig iron interests which bave grown up in the South in tae past fifteen years. —Philadelphia Record. Chickamaugs Park. The dedication of Chickamauga Park this month will be one of the most notable affairs of the year, and the indications are that it will draw a very large attendance of visitors from all parts of the country. Not only is there a promise of a great attendance, but this attendance will include many of the most dis- tinguished citizens of the Republic. Twenty- two Governors of the States are expected, and many men of military fame have accepted in- vitations to take partin the dedication cere- monies. Chattanoogs is gnp‘flnl todo the hospitalities of the occasion in grand and altogether the Chick: ga Park cele- bration will be memorable.—Nashville Banner. New York Justice. They still have queer ideas of justice in New York. A cab-driver who charged a man $3 to take him to Central Park stopped his carriage at Washington square, refused to give back the chnn'fc out of a five-dollar bill, and was ar- rested. The Justice before whom he was taken fined him $3. The fine was paid outof the five-dollar bill and the remaining $2 was Te- turned to the man who had been swindled. The magistrate was $3 ahead, the passenger was $3 out, and the cab-driver got nothing, but ’“5"?3 was satisfied.—Cleveland News and Herald. Quay’s Victory. One thing he has discovered. The fight has uncovered from their embush his pretended friends. He knows now just where to place his hands upon traitors and ingrates, men he has made, men who owe everything to him. There is no sin so base as that of ingratitude. Stronger, nearer to the people than evefbefore, Senator Quey owes it to himself and to those who have supported him to clean out the political assassins wherever they may be found and to Dul’flr the political A!molrh&l‘& And he will do it!—Philadelphia Inquirer. Nature's Realism. Some think realism is depicted too strongly on the stage, and yet it is tame when compared with real life. This was vividly illustrated on Saturday when Willlam Alsop, the driver of a hearse, was instantly killed by lightning in & cemetery at Baltimore. The frightened horses dashed down a hill with a corpse inside, and Dbringing up against a tree, threw Alsop’s body from the driver’s box to the ground.—Philadel- phia Item. An Unincumbered Holiday. Of all the holidays in the year Labor day is freest from all restraintof duty and obligations for sentiment. There are no ceremonies to be witnessed, no functions beyond an unmeaning parade that is swiftly going out of fashion, to occupy one’s time and attention. Itis a holi- day pure and simple at a season of the year that is exceptionally favorable to out of door enjoyment.—New York Commercial Advertiser. Good Breezes. - The September breezes continue to blow items of good cheer from the industrial fields. The window-glass wage scale for the yearsigned at a conterence in Pittsburg on Saturday insures to 20,000 men an adyance of 73 per cent on last ear’s scale. Truly prosperity has set a light n the window to cheer tne path of toil and lend new splendor to the autumn outlook.— Philadelphia Record. Would Have Hedged. “Wine is a mocker.” That's right, Solomon, generally speaking. But then you had the misfortune to die before the Knights came on from the Golden State with their carload of California wine. You would hedge a little if you had been in Boston the past week.—Wat- son’s (Boston) Illuminator. A Part of the Price. Dishonor and peril abroad are part of the rice of Clevelandism. The country is paving gelv!ly for the mistake it made in 1892, but the same error will not be committed again.— New York Commercial Advertiser. ‘What Is Xt? The Newport Herald is disturbed now by some people it calls “news panderers.” They must be very bad, but just what & news pan- derer is we do not know.—Providence Tele- gram. The Truth About Baseball. Baseball, as a game, is decaying. We look for the cause of this and discover wrangling, de- ceitful and brutal players, and, here and there, a manager whose lenity fosters this unbearable element.—Boston Journal The Democratic Question. Has Mr. Cleveland really been brought to think more of the success of gold monometal- lism than of his own principles and reputa- tion?—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Reed Leads the Fight. The first delegate to the Republican Conven- tion is for ex-Speaker Reed. At present, there- fore, the Maine man leads in the fight.—Boston Journal. AN AMERICAN EVOLUTION. THE GRANDDAUGHTER PEDAIS. —Truth. IDEAS OF WESTERN EDITORS. It is pandering to & most depraved taste to reprint and dwell upon the nauseous details of the Durrant case as are brought out in the trial now going on in San Francisco. If the story had not been told and retold with all its hideous details there would be an excuse in printing the news, butsince all who read the papers have once waded through all the testi- 3§mly that is now bt}ing :’]_:onl'ht out, itis Eet:; nly unnecessary for the larger papers ve & verbatim report of the trial. 'Ffll CaLL as made many friends in this regard by giv- ing simply a synopsis of the case as it is laid open from dlg to day, and then it gives a fuller account for those who desire it, but carefully excludes all the nasty and ational parts of the testimony. Such a report is all that is needed, and while a certain class may enjo; salacious details and hair-raising sensational testimony, it i8 not within the province of a decent newspaper to pander to such depraved tastes, and no editor with the least sense of ‘I:h“r!i! decent will print such stuff.—Stockton ecord. The freight by rail on oil from Los Angeles to San Francisco is 51 cents per barrel. As tankcars hold 180 barrels of oil, and an engine can easily pull twenty cars in a train the freighton a trainof cars would amount to the snug sum of over $1700. And vet the rail- road people say that they cannot afford to carry ofl for less! Now that the Railroad Com- missioners are being beseiged to reduce the rates on grain would it not be & good idea to have a little relief in the matter of rateson oil. Evidently they are charging a little more than the traffic’ will bear.—Los Angeles Journal. Communities, even mere than individuals, need at times to be shaken out of their mental and commercial lethargy. A half-shake is use- less; the whole mass needs to be agitated; and the ‘“ti of it is that the result far over- reaches the original purpose, for communi- ties once awakened on one progressive issue seldom fall asleep again until they have mas- tered several others. Enthusiasm is the elec- tric fluid of progress; volted judiciously its foruq‘ not wasted, even though it seems at time! jproportionate to the immediate ends attaine anta Monica Outlook. The oil flow is known to extend along this coast from above San Francisco to Peru, and it will be surprising if we don’t fall into line soon with something of a gusher. Already Fullerton, in Orange County, has begun to de- velop its oil-bearing land, and a well just opened is flowlnsc eavy stream of 200 bar- | rels a day.—8an Diego S un. Instead of waiting for others to bring better times to us it seems very probable that we shall soon make good times for ourselves by ushing mining industries that have long Eeen dormant because unprofitable, but that are now made profitable by improved ma. chinery and new conditions.—San Re- publican, ‘We see complaints in some of our Eastern ex- changes about the epidemic of hay fever. Come out here where hay fever is as extinct as the dodo and as fabulous as the roc—where Decem- ber’s as pleasant as May, and somtimes a heap EI“.“ r. But come anyway.—Redlands itograph. The net income of the Northern Pacific for the year ending June 30, 1895, was over xg:ooooo The Inquiry naturally arises why a railroad $0 much better when it is :’n the hands of a receiver?—Los Angeles Ex- MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. Every day at noon, when the guard of the Tmperial Castle at Vienna is relieved. s mili- tary concert is given in the courtyard. This concert is listened to with great interest by & number of amateurs, the greater part of whom arrive at the heels of the soldiers. On account of their battered appearance they are famil- iarly known in Vienna as the “pilgrims.” One fine spring morning last year the military band arrived in the courtyard playing a new march, which filled the “pilgrims” with joy. The win- dow of the Emperor’s study opened for & mo- ment, and he was seen to appear and listen to the music, but the sovereign immediately re- tired without awaiting the end of the concert. Now, the Emperor Francis Joseph is a good musician. In the happy time of his youth, which was short, he passed for an accomplished pianist, and although the cares of soverelgnty have caused him to neglect the piano almost completely his trained ear immediately recog- nized that the new march was cleverly con- structed on the song, at that time popular in Vienna, of “Ta-ra-ra-boum-de-ay.” The fact displeased him extremely. That same evening Franeis Joseph invited the Minister of War to dinner and expressed his astonishment that the Austrian soldiers could not find more suit- able marches. He also recalied the fact that the Prussian army possesses an excellent col- lection of ancient marches, including the “‘Dessauer Marsch,” which Meyerbeer utilized 8o well in his “Etoile du Nord.” Francis Joseph’s words sank deep into the ears of the Minister of War. He at once charged the director of archives to search dili- gently and make a collection of the ancient marches of the Austrian army. The imperial library at Vienna contains a certain number of musical compositions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It was in these archives that the leader of the Imperial Opera-house, M. Fuchs, found the charming military song, “0 Lille, Town of Beauty,” which was revived with success at the Opera in 1888. The inves- tigation of the archives is still in progress, but during the last year the searchers have suc- ceeded in finding & number of ancient marches. The Minister of War has ordered the publication of a certain number of them, un- der the direction of Emile Kaiser, who has ar- ranged them for modern instruments, and the first volume has just appeared. Itcomprises about fifty pieces and goes back to the year 1674, the epoch at which the ‘“March of the Wallons,” which opens the collection, was com- posed. The ‘‘Pappenheim March,” a souvenir of the Thirty Years’ War, and a march com- posed by the historic Baron Trenck are also in the collection. The publication of these marches has great historical and musical value, but unfortunately the book containing them is not for sale. It will be reserved exclu- sively for the use of Austrian military bands. It is with no uncertain voice that New York opera-goers have demanded the return of Emma Calve to the Abbey and Grau troupe. Calve is not popular with her fellow-artists, she and Eames never speak as they pass by, there is no love lost between her and Melba, and Jean de Reszke finas it fatiguing to play the hero up to her exciting and exacting methods—he prefers the gentle, soothing Eames. Last season, when subscribers asked for Calve, the managementinsinuated that the fiery French woman was useless outside the roles of Carmen and Santuzza, and people ac- cepted the explanation, but this season the public has had time to think the explanation over and knows better. Calve made her first Italian success as Ophelia in Ambroise Thomas’ “Hamlet,” and the part has ever since been identified with her name. Her rendering of the title role in Massenet’s “La Nayarraise” is also said to be a revelation. Both these Gperas are in the Metropolitan cast for the coming season and the management has also an- nounced the engagement of Calve. The other artists engaged so far are: Mmes. Melba, Lola Beeth, Marcella Semtrich, Emma Calve; MM. Jean and Edouard de Reszke, Lubert, Rinaldi, Maurice Devries, Pol Plancon; Mlle. Maria Giuri, premiere danseuse; MM. Bevignani, Seppili and Anton Seidl, conductors. The account of a successful attempt to popu- larize Italian opera in South Africa is pub- lished in Il Mondo Artistico of Milan. “A troupe of thirty-four persons under the direc- tion of the Impresario Bonamici has just con- cluded a tour in Cape Colony and the two South African republics. They played at Kimberiey, Bloemfontein, Johannesberg, ete. There were thirteen operas in the list, two of them being ‘Faust’ and ‘Carmen,’ and over a hundred representations were given. Itis not stated whether the sauditors paid their way in gold dust, as was formerly done in Cal- ifornia, or whether the prima donna assoluta received gifts of rough diamonds, but the im- presario deciares that at all the townsthe box-oftice receipts were magnificent. The ac- count does not conclude with an invitation to take shares in a Kimberley opera exploration company (limited), but after the impresario’s glowing account we expect to hear of the for- mation of such a company.” An important sale of musical manuscripts belonging to the late A. G. Kurtz has just taken place at Liverpool, England. The fol- lowing few quotations will show how prices ran. An air and variations for piano and vio- lin by Mozart, consisting of seven pages very finely written, brought $168; & rondo in A minor for piano by Mozart, signed and dated March, 1787, brought $140, and a beautifuliy copied fugue for piano brought $80. Beetho- ven’s pieces ran a little higher; his original autograph copy of “Drel Gesange von Gothe,” dated 1810, brought $185. A quartet by Spohr sold for $40, five original manuscripts by Schubert brought $52 25, and the manu- scripts of two polonaises by Chopin were sold for 52 25. A good story with regard to the inaugura- tion of the Kiel canal has just leaked into the German papers. At Rendsbourg, the municipal town band had to salute all the men-of-war as they arrived with the national hymn of their respective countries, the conductor having made ample provision of this kind of musical literature. A Turkish ship arrived, however, and to his dismay the conductor couid find no | Ottoman hymn in his collection. He looked anxiously at the Turkish flag, which sported the crescent. Seized by a sudden inspiration, he ordered his men to play, in honor of this Turkish flag, the touching lay, “Fair Moon, to Thee I Sing.” The crowned composer, William II of uer- many, always has an excellent military band on board his yacht, the Hohenzollern, and every day, when the Emperor is on board, there is a grand concert while he dines. The name of Johann Straus invariably figures on these programmes and for the rest German composers are naturally better represented than others, though the names of Gounod, Rubinstein, Sullivan and Leoncavallo fre- gquently appear. Needless to add the famous “Hymn to ZEgir” is continually figuring in the music performed on board the imperial yacht, as well as_a military march composed by the Princess Battenberg, the Emperor William's aunt. The famous barytone Lasalle has completely abandoned hisartistic profession. Heintends to devote himself to the large ironworksof which heisthe proprietor at Chautemelle, near Beth- euil. Since his return from America he has de- clinedall offers of engagements saying that he was devoting himself to chemistry, zoology ana geology. “Science,” he writes, * has conquered art; music now occupies the second place in my life; as regards the theater memory is the only bond which unites me to it,” 1In spite of his eighty years Verdi is alwaysat work. Atpresent he. is entirely devoting his genius to sacred compositions, and has already composed several hymns to the Madonna, the words of which were written by the poet Boito. Recently he put the finishing touches to & grand mass, in celebration of the seventh cen- tenary of Saint Antony of Padua. Le Menestrel says apropos of the aged Cheva- lier de Kontski: “This dean of pianists, com- poser of the famous ‘Awakening of the Lion,’ cannot resign himseli to repose. The mar- velous old man has undertaken a concert tour in Japan. He has also composed, it appears, a grand triumphal march, in honor of the Jap- anese victories over China.” The mystery of voice placing never ends, Jean de Reszke and Sims Reeves first appeared as barytones, and Mario as a basso. Mme. Calve, who was a pupil of Mme. Laborde, and had charge of the Paris Conservatoire, was at first thought to be a contralto. The new opera comique “Tartufo,” by the Neapolitan composer Oronzio Scarano, will soon receive its initial performance at the theater of Charlottenbourg, near Berlin. Paderewski’s opera in four acts is finished at last end will soon be represented simultan- eously in London, Budapest and Dresden. The grand ducal theater of Weimar will soon give its first production on any stage of F.X. Scharwenka’s opera “Mataswintha.” ANSWERS TO COR;IESPONDENTS. HOMESTEAD ENTRIES—E. B., Gardenier, Doug- lass County, Or. The answer recently given in regard to more than one homestead entry was not that a settler could not make more than one entry. He can make several entries until he has taken up in the aggregate 160 acres, but the answer was that, according to Mr. Copp of Washington, the authority on land as the law allows but one homestead privi lege (notentry), a settler relinguishing or aban- doning his claim cannot thereaiter make a second entry; but where an entry is canceled for some reason other than abandonment, and not the willful act of the party, he is not thereby debarred from entering again if in other respects entitled. PRIVATE PROPERTY—Subscriber, City. If & person finds mineral, say gold, on a city lot, and the iot is private property, he cennot enter upon that lot to dig for the mineral without the consent of the owner, nor can he obtain the right to mine on that lot should the owner refuse to sell. In two decisions in this State, to be found in the fourteenti California reports it is held that no license from the United States, or the State of California, shall be ranted to_miners to enter upon the private fands of individuals for the purpose of extracts ing the mineral from the soil. SIGNATURE—A. M., City. The reason railroad companies require a passenger to sign his name in the presence of the conductor of the train on which heisridisg :S for the purpose of identifying thie individual as the owner of the ticke{ p%esented. Whether the courts of this State will hold that the contract printed on the back of the ticket and signed by the purchaser, and which gives the railroad com- pany the right to refuse asignature, is valid, will be determined in suits that have recently been instituted. This department cannot an« ticipate such decision: MINING—A. 8. P., Alvarado, Alameda County, The time suspending the act which requtres $100 worth of work to be performed every year on mineral claims has expired, and now that amount of work must be performed on each claim in the calendar year or within the year after location. In order to obtain a patent to mineral land a location must first be made and recorded, certain sums must annually be exe pended and $£500 worth of labor and improve- ments must be laid out on the claim. JInfor- mation in regard to the mode of procedure can be obtained at any Land Office. THE UNION ARMY—D, G., City. There were in the Union army during the Civil War 1,523,000 natives of the United States, 176,800 natives of Germany, 1,444,200 natives of Ireland, 53,- 500 British Americans, English 45,500, other foreign nationalities 48,400, foreigners whose nationality is not given 26,500. The number of desertions by nationality is not given in the published statistics of the war. THE SILVER QUESTION—H. L. B, City. Ane swers to Correspondents has not the space to give the points made by those Who advocate the coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. This matter was fully gone into in the Horr- Harvey debate, and can be found in the re- ports published from day to-day in THE CALL. CALIFORNIA Woops—T. P., City. In the ap- endix to the Journal of the Assembly of the state of California, published in 1881, there is an exhaustive report and description of all the forest trees of the State. TEACHERS' BUREAU—“Teacher,” Stockton, Cal, There is a schoolteachers’ bureau at 300 Post street, in this City. Itis in charge of Mary L, Cheney. His Trrie—R. H., City. F. 8. Chadbourne, Harbor Commissioner, obtained the military title by which he is called when he was ap- pointed an aid-de-camp on the Staft of Gov- ernor Markhem. His rank was lieutenante colonel, but s that is rather long he is called “colonel” for short. CYcLE—Bike, City. Cycle is pronounced as lg written si-kl, and bicycle as if written bie si-kl. PEOPLE TALEED ABOUT. Pope Leo owns a gingle pearl that is valued ‘ at $100,000. Secretary Carlisle, it is said, never attended academy or college. Baron Schroeder’s collection of orchids is valued at about $500,000. It is said that Emperor William is one of the best marksmen in Europe. A Norwalk (Conn.) woman, in a fit of hys. teria, swallowed her engagement ring the otherday. Sir Henry Bessemer, the “steel king,” abso- lutely refuses to give his autograph to any one. Thackeray would produce, under pressure, & novel in six or eight months. He did not like to work, and, as he often stated, only did so under compulsion. Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, the old- est of Queen Victoria’s great-grandchildren, is 16, and has just been confirmed. The Queen may be a great-great-grandmother yet. Keir Hardie was astonished because he was forbidden to smoke his briarwood pipe in Dele monico’s. Over in the country he comes from it is good form to smoke a pipe wherever it is permissible to smoke a cigar. The Duke of Cumberland, son of ex-Queen Marie of Hanover, was born without & nose. The one which now adorns his face is the re- sult of much ingenuity on the part of the sur- geons who attended him as an infant. Count Leo Tolstoi is engaged upon a new novel in which the general procedure and peculiarities of the Russian district courts of justice will be described and criticized. Tol- stoi is known to entertain very little respect for Russian judiciary methods. A few years 8go, when he was summoned tositupon a jury, he declined to be sworn and was fined 500 Tubles. A London newspaper has compiled statisties of the estates left by prominent English law- yers and finds that forty-four leading solicitors bequeathed to their heirs fortunes averaging £117,000 (about $585,000) each. Onehundred and one estates of judges and barristers showed an average of about $400,000 each. The for- tune of John Clayton, town clerk of Neweastle- on-Tyne, amounted to 3,500,000 and was the largest. CALIFORNTA Glace fruits, 50¢ 1b, Townsend's.* e PICTURE cards. Roberts, 220 Sutter. > ———— BacoN Printing Company, 508 Clay streat. * > ————— GENUINE eyeglasses, 15¢ to 40c. 8114 Fourth, barber. Sundays, 738 Market (Kast shoestore).” — Ir you drink whisky drink only the best. The J. F. Cutter Bourbon is a whisky that has stood the test for years,and is pro- nounced superior to most all brands. For family use and medicinal purposes it hasno equal, and in the clubs, hotels and saloons its popularity is -ever increasing. E. Mar- tin & Co., 411 Market street, are Pacific Coast agents. * Ocean Excursions. Steamship Pomona, to Santa Cruz and Mon- terey, leaves Saturdays, 4 P. M., due back Mon- dl.ri:’f. 5 A. M. Ticket office, 4 New Montgomery sl 5 ————— ‘Woonsocket Rubber Company. Unquestionable Woonsocket rubber boots and shoes have attained the best record for seryice and -t{!e. 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