The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 13, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FR. 1SCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1895 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free nd Sunday CALY, one week, by carrier.§0.15 :nd Sunday CALI, one year, by mail... 6.00 nd Sunday CALL, six-months, by mail 3.00 Pally and Sunday CALL, three months, by mail 1.50 65 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail £unday CALL, one year, . 150 WEEKLY CALL, O€ year, . 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street. Telephone... % .Main—1868 517 Clay Street. JMain—1874 Zelephone.......... BRANCH OFFICES : £70 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay: open until 20 o'clock. 329 Haves street: open unti 717 Larkin street; open until £W. corner Sixteenth and Mission strects; open until 8 g'clock. 618 Mission etreet; open until o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 608 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Pacific States Advertising Bureau, Rhinelander York Cit, THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Defender! ¢ Fair before it closes. All hail! Everything isn’t plain sailing, even in a yacht race. It is now said the tax levy is not only too high but shaky. The rain hurt some folks, but it was a blessing for most. Many things are still bad, but they are all growing bett: Dunraven doesn’t deserve his title, for he hasn’t done yet. 0 has the next fiesta and nues. San Bernar the gayety con! It begins to loo! if free Cuba would be the fin de siecle State. This 18 surely a speedy vear; even the rain broke the weather record. = The Valkyrie may not win a heat, but she can play for even on protests. The Grand Army found lots of arms in Louisville, but they are loving cnes. Perhaps we shall never setile any inter- naticnal issuz with England withouts war. The gold reserve is once more below the limit and another bond issue looms above the horizon. The Southern Pacific will continue to fight the people until competing roads take the fight out of it. The United States should be the first na- tion to recognize free Cuba, and the recog- nition should be made ea: Now that the fall trade is fairly under way don't forget to make San Francisco a home market for home goods. s The Traffic Association has laid out a good line of work, and the work will be good if it is well pushed along. Show your State patriotism by helping the Board of Trade make the fight for Cali- fornia at the Atlanta Exposition. ‘We may count Utah solid for protection, reciprocity, bimetallism and everything else the Republican party stands for. The electrical display at Sacramento was brilliant, but wherever there is a strong mountain stream it ean be duplicated. There is something very amusing in the third-term idea, for it is saidyto have made Cleveland smile, and it certainly makes every one else grin. s — This is an off year for politics, but there are enough State elections on hand to show that the tidal wave of Republicanism last year has not subsided any. T The prostrations of Grand Army men by the heat at Louisville are additional arguments why summer conventions should be held in California. Seesle The Prohibitionists of New York have nominated for Governor a man named Smith, and they expect to elect him if they can bring out the family vote. Atie e O Likcian It would not be a bad idea to place in the California exhibit at Atlanta a big placard showing the range of the thermometer in San Francisco every day during the fair. 1f the administration shows any signs of helping Gorman in his fight we may count on it that the third-term idea has enough life in it to make a move in practical poli- tics. The long expected and much discussed constitutional convention in South Caro- lina has come together at last, and now we shall see whether it will be a mountain or & mole hill. Now that the site has been selected, it would be pleasant to see the building for the Affiliated Colleges and that for the Butro Library make a race to see which will finish first. The Corbett-Fitzsimmons match was be- gun with the combatants on the stage ebout a thousand miles apart, and will probably be fought to a finish under the same conditions. If the Railroad Commissioners expect to | malke a fight to win and not merely a bluff they must not only reduce rates but must take precautions to make the reductions secure in the courts. 1t it be true thatsome of Gorman’s polit- ical managers have been caught putting the names of dead men on the register, he can hardly intend to make the campaign strictly on live issues. Reports from the East show that the thermometer ranged from 98 to 106 in the shade over the northern part of the Mis- sissippi Valley on Wednesday, and still the people hesitate to come West and es- cape the frying-pan, Eastern people should not overlook the fact that every great conventjon held in an Eastern city this summer has been marred | by the excessive heat. S8an Francisco is the only safe place for big conventions at any period of the year. ¢ That the railroad will go into court to fight any reduction of rates isto be ex- pected as a matter of course, and the Com- missioners should be very careful to have on the records abundant evidence to sus- tain every reduction they make. GOLD NMINING OF THE FUTURE. California is destined to become one of the richest and most populous regions of this globe. This destiny is ordained by nature and is eventually inevitable, how- soever hampered and delayed by the lethargy or indifference of its present in- habitants. Its varied, healthful and delightful climate and its fertile soil, pro- ducing everything necessary for the com- fort and delight of man, are the first great factors assuring this future. Next inim- portance are its inexhaustibie resources of the precious metals and the useful min- erals, affording a permanent and profitable field for the investment of accumulating capital and the employment of increasing vopulation. Then comes its incompara- ble location in the center of a continent at the gates of the sea, inviting and compel- ling the commerce of the whole Eastern world. The precious metals and useful minerals are usually found in regions unfit for culti- vation, and the wealth produced from these sources is directly a clear gain to the community at large, and indirectly of great advantage to the various industries it fos- ters and supports. The farmer, the mann- facturer, the mechanic, the merchant, all share in the benefits flowing from the mines, Of all the metalsand minerals found in California—and the list includes nearly everything of commercial value— gold has been and always will be the most important. Long after the natural fertility of the soil has been exhausted by constant cropping and artificial means have to be used to insure its profitable cnltivation, the gold mines of California will be pouring a constant and bounteous stream of wealth into the channels of trade and commerce. The dwindling prodaction of gold in California since the superficial deposits were exhausted, and especially since the stoppage of hydraulicing on what may be termed the semi-superficial deposits of the old river channels, has created a wide- spread impression that California in its gold production has entered upon a per- manent decline. Thisimpression has had much to do with diverting capital and en- terprise to distant -regions, especially to Africa and Australia, where the condi- tiens in the new gold fields constantly being discovered are much the same as in California in early days, with the impor- tant difference that the alluvial gold found is very limited in quantity and ex- tent, and the work done and the capital invested is mostly in quartz. The significance of this difference in the pioneer workings of the respective coun- tries isslost sight of by those who argue that South Africa and Australia are des- tined to supplant California as permanent gold fields, The California pioneers paid but little attention to quariz, and later, when developments were prosecuted quite extensively throughout the State, the workings generally were abandoned at about the water level, except in veins of extraordinary richness. As experience has since taught, in permanent veins the water level is about the right place to begin ex- tracting ore. The early miners not only lacked experience, but were handicapped by the excessive cost of labor, supplies and machinery and the scant knowledge pos- sessed of methods for successfully reducing refractory ores. The miners of South Africa and Austra- lia have ali the experience, the improve- ments and the economies of the past to profit by; but all these advantages do not put those countries on a par with Califor- niaeven in early days. They donot counter- balance the excessive cost of communica- tion and transportation over vast desert areas; the scanty supply and often the total lack of water for mining and even domestic purposes; the scarcity of wood and timber for fuel and construction. These drawbacks exist in a greater or less degree in all the new gold fields of South Africa and Australia. None of them exist in California. But most important of all is the fact that in all these new gold fields the superficial deposits are shallow and of limited extent. Does this not imply that the quartz veins are not so large, so numer- ous or so rich as in California? If theyare or have been, the evidence would certainly exist in the placers. The fact that South Africa and Australia are forging ahead of California in total gold output is easily understood when it is known that one hundred dollars is being spent in prospecting and development work in those countries for every dollar expended in California. This seems anex- travagant statement, but the files of the London Financial News, one of the greatest authorities on mining in the world, show that in London alone new mining com- panies are being incorporated and capital- ized at the rate of twenty million dollars a month, A careful perusal of the expert reports which form the basis for the launch- ing of these new companies shows that the majority of the mines are located in distant, diffionlt and often dangerous regions of the interior of Africa and Aus- tralia; that the veins are small, irregular, often totally undeveloped, and their value assumed from some shallow prospecting on contiguous property; that every com- modity and ‘convenience of life is sold at extravagant prices; that water has often to be distilled for drinking purposes; that wood has lately been *redunced’ to $15 per cord; and so on through the catalogue of prohibitive hindrances. Yet these com- panies are following each other fast and furiously, with hartlly a day’s intermission between their glowing prospectuses, some of them capitalized at two or three mil- lions, with a “working capital” of half a million, every dollar of which will be put into the ground in quartz veins or hunting for quartz veins, and back of all these com- panies stands a strong and liberal Govern- ment, lending substantial aid and en- couragement to every prozressive encroach- ment on the remotest frontier. California has never had any such pros- pecting as this, and certainly don’t want it; but suppose one-tenth of the same amount were devoted to legitimate deep mining on our well-known big lodes, with every expense quartered, with every con- ! venience doubled, with the evidence of | the ages in our alluvial devosits insuring the final result, does any intelligent miner or geologist doubt the issne between the “new” gold fields and the “o0ld”? Asa matter of fact, in quartz mining California is the newest as well as the greatest gold field of them all, The awakening to her possibilities in this regard is very recent, if it has even yet begun. When the idea that stock gambling is mining has been finally outlawed, and the industry is prosecuted with the same talent, energy and economy that characterize other pur- suits, gold mining in California will take its place and keep it in the front rank of all the world, and as second in importan ce only to agriculture in the great wealth- producing resources of the Golden State. — DEMOCRACY ANWD THE TARIFF. The Ezaminer declares itself of the opinion that McKinley and Foraker have helped the cause of Democracy in Ohio by making the Gorman-Wilson tarHf an issue in the contest and asking the people to support the Republican party in the diffi- cult task of mending it or the easier one of ending it. This expressior: on the pars of the lead- ing Democratic organ of the Pacific Coast explains many things that have been mys- terious 1n our politics. If denouncing the Democratic tariff helps Democracy we can understand why so many Democrats in the Senate and House denounced it; why Cleveland, calling it the outcome of *‘per- fidy and dishonor,” refused to sign it, and why the Ezaminer has not intrequently taken occasion to rip up the back either the tariff itself or the leaders who were and are responsible for it. All of these things, from Clevefand’s letter to Catchings down to Wilson's fiery protest against the Senate bill, were done, we are to suppose, solely to help the Democratic party in Ohio. ‘We are not sufliciently familiar with the Democratic situation to know whether this kind of thing is really helpful or not. To a sick man bitter medicines are good, and it is occasionally considered advisable to help a dying donkey by a lick on the head that reiieves him of his misery. Whether it be helpfal or not, however, condemnation of the deficit tariff is a medicine that Democracy must take, and popular repudiation of it is a blow that Democracy must stand. The tariff is offensive in every way. It unjustly dis- criminates against some industries in the interest of others, and it yields neither adequate protection to workingmen nor a sufficient revenue to the Nation. It was the popular indignation against this iniquitous tariff that influenced the great tidal wave of Republican success last vear, and it is the same force that will carry Republicans into power next year. Those who are deluding themselves that Democracy will be aided by the fight against the tariff of “perfidy,and dis- honor” will find a rude awakening on election day. The Republican party is pledged to the maintenance of a tariff that will afford protection to all American in- dustries that need it and a revenue sufficient for all the 'requirements of the Nation. That tariff it will enact as soon as it returns to ‘power. McKinley and Foraker are telling the people of Ohio nothing more than familiar truths when they make these pledges. When the deficit gold- borrowing administration goes out of office the tariff that has caused the deficit and the increase of debt will go with it. A SIMPLE RUSE. The robhery of a railroad {rain was averted in Colorado the other night under peculiar and instructive circumstances. The robbers committed the blunder of leaving the express-car attached to the mazin train when they cut the train in two and took the forward part ahead a short distance. The pluck and presence of mind displayed by the mail clerk, whose car the robbers had in hand, prevented the looting of that car, and while he was advising them to return and attack the express-car they observed that the lights in the train were being extinguished. This was suffi- cient to alarm them, and they took to the brush. The main point in the transaction is the effect produced by the putting out of the lights. We can imagine what might nat- urally result from this simple act under any circumstances. Assume, first, that the train had not been cut in two, and that the robbers intended to rob the passengers as well as the mail and express cars. That has been a frequent occurrence of late in the far West. A sudden extinguishment of all the lights in the train would neces- sarily place the robbers at a great disad- vantage, as they would be outside and ex- posed, while all the persons inside would be in complete darkness and free to act on the ‘defensive. Even if the passengers should not come to the assistance of the trainmen these latter, considering the great advantage of their position, would have an excellent chance to drive the robbers away. Or assume that the express and mail cars should be cut off and taken ahead. The purpose of such a move is solely to reduce the number of train-defenders, as it leaves the conductor and brakemen behind, and it is not generally resorted to if the attack- ing party numbers more than three. The putting out of the lights in such a case would not be so effertive, for dynamite is generally at hand with which to force an opening, and the number of men in the car is known. This means to say that the robbers are aware of their advantage on the score of numbers. 1t would seem that to meet such a contingency the plan of making up a train should contemplate the placing of the valuable cars in such a posi- tion as to insure the presence of passen- ger-cars before and behind them, however the train mav be cut, and then bring to bear the terrifying plan of extinguishing the lights in the entire train. It would be merely a matter of mechan- ical ingenwity to devise a plan for extin- guishing the lights with one simple move- ment by any member of the train’s crew— preferably the engineer or fireman, as the engine is necessarily the first part of the train captured. The use of a portable gas appliance would make such an arrange- ment a matter of great simplicity. It would be a pity if the Colorado incident should not be accepted as a hint by rail- road companies. COMMENDABLE ENTERPRISE, The company which 1s building an elec- tric road from Oakland to the Livermore Valley is having an easy time in securing a right of way. The owners of the rich farms in the valley are coming forward with generous offers, and thus the problem of the road is greatly simplified. The pro- jectors of the electric road from San Jose to Alviso have in these facts an object les- son for the property-owners along that route, and the property-owners have a worthy example set them by the Liver- more Valley. For short independent lines, and as freight and passenger feeders of main rail- way lines, the electric road has distinct advantages over a steam road. These are a much lower cost for construction and op- eration, the more frequent running of cars and the ease with which stops can be made at any point for the accommodation of way traffic. Entailing a smaller cost for construction they can be made more numerous, ard hence the task of opening up new regions is made easier. An impor- tant feature of them is the fact that prap- erty-owners along the route can afford to construet them and enjoy their benefits. A peculiar effect of an electric road is its distribution of the enhancement which it brings {o the values of wayside property. This is because it can stop anywhere and therefore does not tend to concentrate set- tlements and raise property values there without bringing a similar benefit to other properties along the route. Hence the electric road is particularly valuable to California, which by the nature of its agricultural pursuits must be a State of small farms. The whole course of such a road in an agricultural community will tend to develop into a continuous series of orchards and vineyards, and each house, for traffic purposes, will be a depot. For these reasons it is clearly to the in- terest of land-owners to encourage all such enterprises by granting the right of way. It would be better still if they would con- struct and operate their own community lines. The rapid development of water- power in the foothill regions gives those highly desirable sections a special advan- tage in this regard over lands in the center of the broader valleys, and should be made to compensate fully for the advantage of thedlaner in generally having a steam road. THE ANAHEIM DISEASE. The mysterious disease which has ap- peared in certain vineyards of the State, and vaguely called the ‘‘Anaheim disease’” because it was first observed in the vine- yards of Anaheim, is rousing a great deal of discussion and exciting somealarm. In advance of any thorough scientific ex. amination it is useless to discuss it, further than to suggest that in all iikelibood it will be found to be a well-known disease and amenable to intelligent treatment for its eradication. The orchardists and vine- yardists of California have been so many times alarmed over the appearance of some new disease or pest, and in every instance these evils have so promptly yielded to treatment, that there is no reason for alarm in the present instance. For the reason that they are so fine the grapes permitted by a peculiar climate to be grown in California fall under the opera- tion of the familiar law that very highly bred plants and animals are more liable to disease than the hardy kinds, which lie nearer to their primitive source and natural conditions. In the case of grapes, for instance, we are familiar with the fact that the native vines of California are immune against phylioxera, the deadliest enendy of fine grapes, and that the budding of the fine and tender grapes into the native stock is an infallible preventive of this pest. ‘We may be perfectly sure that whatever tendency a delicate imported plant of any kind may develop for disease or insectiv- orous attack is evidence solely of an inhe- rent weakness and not of any local cli- matic condition. On the contrary, all the analogies point to the conclusion that these inherent weaknesses must and do operate with less force here than in other parts of the world, and it is a reasonable conclusion that in time these tendencies will disappear entirely. The extreme hardihood of indigenous animal and vege- table life in California, and the very re- markably beneficial effects which a resi- dence here has on ailing human beings, give indubitable proof that the peculiar qualities of the climate do have the invig- orating effect which reason leads us to ex- pect. The elements contributing to this condi- tion may not yet be fully understood, be- cause they are so new and unexpected that they present an entirely novel field for ex- ploration and study. Recurring to the grape it does not appear difficult to find the reasons why the vines here are so much more luxuriant in growth and pro- lific in fruit than in the European coun- tries from which we have imported them, and from this simple fact we are justified in drawing the most hopeful canclusions. As yet Californians themselves do not un- derstand their State, but as the eagerness and determination to learn have never been so great as at present we shall expect the incoming decade to be the richest in discovery that we have ever experienced. The adoption by the Dairymen’s Conven- tion of a resolution pledging the associa- tion to take steps to enforce the law made by the last Legislature regulating the weight of butter rolls will be in the highest degree gratifying to the general public, nor will the steps be opposed by any except butter-makers who wish to defraud pur- chasers by giving lightweight rolis for full prices. The proceedings of the Dairymen’s Con- vention not only afford ample evidence that dairying is one of the most rapidly advancing industries of the State, but jus- tify the saying of L. Tomasini'that Cali- fornia is destined by nature to be the lead- ing d airy State in the Union Whatever opinions may be hela concern- ing the enforcement of the Sunday laws in New York, 1t is certainly an absurd law which makes a Sunday shave unlawful in Brooklyn, but lawful in New York, and a Sunday drink unlawful in New York, but lawful in Brooklyn. The country can stand Democratic dis- cord so long as it is soothed by Republican harmony. PERSONAL. Albert G. Hames of the navy is at the Ocei- dental. Judge W. H. Clarke of Los Angeles is at the Grand. Dr. H. L. Pace of Tulare registered yesterday at the Palace. Rev. and Mrs. J. G. Van Ryn of Santa Ana sre at the Baldwin. 1 T. L. Reed, a landown®r of Reedley, is stay- ing at the Grand. Williain L. Gill, an attoraey of San Jose, is a guest at the Palace. W. R. Carithers, a merchant of Santa Rosa, is staying at the Lick. ° George E. Faw, a merchant of Gonzales, reg- istered yesterday at the Occidental. J. R. Hebbron, & cattle man of Salinas, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand, Mayor Robert Effey of S8anta Cruz came up yesterday and registered at the Baldwin. Captain H. L. Howison, commandant of the Mare Island Navy-yard, is a guest at the Palace. . 0. Johnson, a railroad man of San Luis Obispo, came in yesterdsy and put up at the Occidental. Arthur G. Preston MeNulty, mansger of the Langtry ranch, eame down yesterday and is stopping at the Occidental. H. W. Severance, formerly Consul from the Hawaiian Islands to this port, came in on yesterday’s steamer from the islands. Julien D. Hayne, publisher of the Hawalian, was one of vesterday’s arrivals by the Austra- lia, and is a guest at the Oceidental. C. M. Cooke, & leading business man of the islands, and his family arrived by the Aus- tralia yesterday and are staying at the Ocei- dental. Miss May Mott-Smith, daughter of the late Minister to the United Btates, came in from the islands yesterday and is staying at the Occidental. Attorney James F. Smith will leave for Wash- ington, D. C,, in a few days for the purpose of laying before President Cleveland a petition for clemency in the case of Hans Hansen, un- der sentence of death for participating in the bark Hesper murder case. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 12.—Californians at hotels to-day: San Francisco—J. Heller, C. F. Kempler, Imperial; T. J. Kelly, Metropole; W. P. Lynch, Grand Union; Mr. and Mrs. H, Milton, Devonshire; C. P, Overton, Astor; H. W. Yeamans, Cosmopolitan; Mrs. C. Green, Holland; W. C. McCloskey, Morton; L. Peck, Gerlach. - Oakland—S. T. Alexander, Miss B. Alexander. G. W. Cook, St. Denis; F. M, Smith, Hoffman; N. B. Livermore, St James. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 12.—Among to- day’s arrivals were: Harry J. Lask, Miss Lask, Mrs. M. A. Thayer, Willards Hotel; C. E. Stokes, Ebbitt House; M. Gardiner and wile, St. James; all of San Franeisco. CALIFORNIANS AT SALT LAKE. SALT LAKE, UTan, Sept. 12.—At the Knuts- ford—A. K. P. Harmon Jr., S8au Francisco; Rae E.Maynard, Los Angeles. At the Walker—D. J. Jackson, San Francisco, ol AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “I’ve just got back from Carson,” said Colonel K. B. Brown, as he sat taking his ease in the rotunda of the Palace Hotel, yesterday after- noon. “How are times in Nevada?” asked General Mathewson, who had strolled in, hoping to find some of the old boys. “They are not as good as they used to be when I was Chief Engineer of the Virginia Fire De- partment,” said the colonel, “but the sage- brush people are just as proud of their State as ever.” “How s0?” “Well, to illustrate: I was standing in front of the Arlington Hotei.the other day, when along comes Judge Healey. You all know the judge, I guess. “Iconsider Thaddeus Warsaw Healey a repre- sentative citizen of Carson, just the same, whether you happen to know him or mnot,” added the colonel with some asperity, address- ing himself to a tenderfoot on the outside of nis audience, who ventured to remark that he had never had the honor of Judge Healey’s ac- quaintance. After his little flare of temper had subsided, Colonel Brown continued: sI was saying, Judge Healey came along, daintily balancing his cane as usual, and remarked that it was a fine day, which $e thought was something a San Franciscan could scarcely appreciste, since he so seldom saw one when he was at home. ‘But the weather isn’t what I brag on the most,” said the Judge. ‘I go my alsey on our people—even the Indians. Just look at that buck and his Mohaley coming out of Baker's store,’ pointing at a native Piute and his squaw, as they emerged carrying a huge water- melon between them. ‘I happened to hear Jim dickering for that melon. He could have got one for a qnarter, a half or six bits, but he 100k the best in the lot and paid $1, and he’ll share it with his squaw and pappooses. The last time I wasin the California Market I saw a big banker order a 10-cent melon sent out to his house, at the same time that he directed that a juicy cantaloupe be puton the ice at a restaurant for himself. That's what I mean by eaying that I like our people best. I'd rather be & Piute in Nevada than a millioniare in California.’” “He's welcome to his choice,” said the ten- derfoot, who has no appreciation of patriotism and Piutes. SONG OF THE EARLY RAIN. On, there's nothing in all Nature that the poet loves to bless, Like the showers that swing the seasons—sweet springtime’s fond caress; But the rain of early autumn that steals from ot the sky Is & blessing that the farmers would like better by and by. With a tinkle and a patter and a misty sheet of wet, The early rain’s upon us like an avalanche of debt. It's swashing through the gutters and soaking down the walk; 1t’s cut September sunshine like blossoms from the stalk. There are raisins out a-soaking, and prunes are in the flood, ‘While luscious grapes are splitting 1n vineyards deep with mud; ‘Whole fields of grain are lowly, and the chickens fold their tails At the thought of what may happen if the farmers’ hest crop fafis. Oh, there’s nothing in all Nature that the poet loves to bless, Like the showers that swing the seasons—sweet springtime’s fond caress; But the rain of early autumn—why did you come 80 s00n? For the farmer thinks your patter is & most dis- cordant tune. SEDGWICK AIKEN. THOUGHTS OF EASTERN EDITORS. New York in the Conventions. For the first time in more than thirty years the Republicans of New York State, with a Re- publican Governor and Republican Mayors in all the large cities, New York, Brooklyn, Buf- falo, Syracuse and Albany,are in a position practically to dictate the choice of their Ne- tional Convention, in which, heretofore, the voice of New York Republtcans has been al- most stified. The Democrats of New York, for the first time in more than thirty years, find themselves, at the approach of a National Con- vention of their patty, threatened with the Joss of their influence and prestige, which has dominated and controlled every Democratic Convention fiom 1864 down to date.—! York Sun. Beginning Early. Everything is beginning earlier than usual this year. Instead of waiting for the middleof September to arrive, everything begap to open up when the month opened. Dressmakers, milliners, shopkeepers, designers, wholesale dealers—all workers whose activities have their “seasons” testify to this being the case. The cause for the early start is not altogether clear. Sporting folk probably ascribe it to the yachtrace; bicyclists to the increasing popu- Iarity of the “wheel, and *‘new women” to the ssible é)roxlmny of bloomers.—New York vening Sun. Schools and Morals. Dr. William Harris, the United States Com- missioner of Education, is authority for the statement that an investigation made in 1870 in seventeen States showed eight times as many criminals from the illiterate classes as from an equal number of the population who could read and write. The inquiry covered 110,000 prisoners. Dr, Harris held that obedi- ence to school rules prepares children for a law-abiding manhood, and that manual train- ing is the best part of & curriculum for the pre- vention of crime.—Philadelphia Ledger. The Railway and the Wheei. That there is a disposition on the partof railway men to regard the bicycle as a com- petitor in the carrier business there is no doubt. Indeed many of the railway men de- clare that it has made appreciable inroads into their summer receipts. The competition is most noticeable of course in the suburban traflic, where hundreds of wheelmen ride in and out to therr suburban homes on their ‘wheels,—Chicago Times-Herald. Cuban Independence. Now that the constitution of the Cuban re- public has been submitted, the capital chosen #and a President elected, what is to hinder the United States in according recognition to the insurgents? From present appearances Mexico will have the honor of first welcoming Cuba to the sisterhood of republics, That will be the first step toward the establishment of a greater republic containing all the West Indies.—New York Commercial Advertiser. Uncle Sam Needs Drydacks. The fact that the new battle-ship Indiana will have to be taken to Halifax in order to find a drydock of sufficient size indicates a shameful degree of maladministration i. the Nayy Department. The necessity of docks iarge enough to hold our new battle-ships has long been evident, and no vdlid excuse can be offered for failure to providesuch a structure.— Cemmercial Advertiser. ‘Where It Works Well. According to the London Economist the Gorman-Wilson tariff is benefiting the English ‘woolen manufacturers beyond their most san- guine exrecuflon& It is a relief to hear of some point where this perfidy-and-dishonor legislation has scored & success. It has been an unmitigated fraud and failure in America.— Boston Journal, A New York Job. New York is good for something, as all the West admits. Its job as a8 member of the sister- hood of States is to keep the British from get- ting the America cup. With occasional help from Massachusetts she is holding down the job. The other Sates will attend to National Dolitics for a few years. Our compliments to New York.—St. Louis Republic. Hasty but Commendable. Secretary Lamant is probably a little prema- ture flin ordering the forty-fifth star on the National flag. Utah has not. yflb:em admitted as a State, and may not get in before the next & Demeo- cratic offical’in p! Fourth of July. Hoever, the zeal of 5 Rapuiblicar SILL 1 10 b6 comSRaEeoF ofa uzuhd’lopo- mocrat. A Good Suggestion. 1t is now announced that Murderer Holmes will be tried at Philadelphia and Indianapolis, and then sent to Toronto. It would save tis and expense and enhance the chances of co: viction to let the Canucks have him first.— Topeka State Journal. One of the last acts of the Earl of Rosebery as First Lord of the Treasury was a graceful ac- knowledgment, sent through the Bishop of Dover, of the invaluable services to histary rendered by the late Dr.Sheppard of Canter- bury. The acknowledgment was in the form ot & grant af $1000 out of the royal bounty to Dr, Sheppard’s widow. IDEAS OF WESTERN EDITORS. California. The strenuous efforts put forth in this great yacht race are only typical of the effort which is put forth py England and America in a thou- sand other competitions for place, power oT commercial or industrial advantage, and it is by virtue of thiscompetition that America and E{: land are leading the world. Rivalry may Fitter arid unpityingly strentious, but it tes at the foundation of progress, and if these yacht races shall have the effect of keeping alive the National spirit, mnkln% ABritons love Britain better and Americans love America more, the money spentin their construction will not by any means have been wasted.— Tulare Register. The public &chools might with advantage introduce manual training, and drop some of the higher branches of literature. We are turning out too many young men who have & smattering of science and literature. The so- called “liberal proifessions” are all over- crowded, while there is plenty of room in the growing West for men who are thorough mas- ters of mechanical trades.—Los Angeles Times. Stockton has thirteen public and three re- ligious school buildings, three private schools and two kindergartens. It has also twenty-one church buildings and twenty-seven religious organizations, of which six hold meetings in public halls. ‘Fora city of 20,000 people this seems to be ample provision for the training of voung and old in the way they should go.— glocklon Independent. It is idle for California ranchers to quarrel with existing conditions under which they can make no money. The conditions cannot be changed by revinings or revilings. Thewiso rancher will proceed to conform to conditions as the; exist. The change may be expensive, but wifl cost less than waiting for change of condition.—Stockton Independent. Whosoever has now stored away a few score dollars and does not invest in a small tract of good land misses an opponunitly that once gone can never be regained. The best her- itage a worker can leave his son to-day is the fee simple in & small managable tract of 2 dx:‘c:tivc land in California.—San Jacinto Keg- T. \ A competing road would be worth a dozen Railroad Commissions in reducing freights and fares. The cost of running the commission for ten years would build 8 good many miles of railroad. Let the Railroad Commissioners be abolished and build competing railroads.— Auburn Republican. e D The only man to whom the California of 1895 is still the California of 1855 is Bret Harte, who sits in nis home in London and writes stories about us which are as much out of touch witn Rresent conditions here as they would be if they applied to New England.— Oakland Enquirer. Those who are wont to sneer at the immense amount of work done gratuitously by the press and at the results accomplished thereby are asked to consider what the electric carnival was, and what it would have been without the aid of the press.—Sacramento Bee. Do you want any better evidence of the healthful surroundings of Alameda than the official mgort that in August there were only nine deaths in a population of 15,000?—Ala~ meda Telegram. Arizona. The bimetallists stana between this country and the flatism which would surely be invoked as a popular revenge upon extreme monomet- allism. It is well for those who call themselves conservatives to think of that.—Phenix Ga- zette. Oregon. Farming lands are cheaper in Umatilla County at this time than they have been be- | forein ten years. However, they are just as fertile as they ever were, and just as remuner- ative to labor in consequence. * Now is the time for labor to get control of these lands and act- ual settlers to become the owners of them. The hard times have simply weeded out the specu- lator and land grabber and given an increased opportunity to labor to possess itself of land. The hard times have also decreased the value of mortgages upon land and decreased future interest payments, giving to labor increased advantages over former conditions.—Pendle- ton East Oregonian. Our Republican policy, under a Republican administration, can put & stop to increase of the public debt and take the National treasury out of the hands of the syndicate receivers.— Portland Oregoniai Utah. ‘Western Colorado has & grand festival each year called peach day. Why cannot Utah set apart some particular day in honor of some of its greatest products ? Not by way of following in the footsteps of our neighbor, but by right of priority in senlinfihe West and beginning the production of th fruits and cereals. What's_the matter with apple day for Utah ?— Ogden Standard. We wonder if the dudes in New York City rolled up their pantaloons because of the damp from the wet blanket which the De- fender had cast over their englomania hopes ?—Salt Lake Tribune. The San Francisco CaALL has inangurated a commendable feature in journalism, in that it refuses to print all the worn-out details of the Durrant marder affair, giving just such a com- plete synopsis as covers the case and such as the person of ordinary affairs can follow. This will be & disappoiniment to no one ex- cept those who have nothing better to do than sit around and drink in all the possible gossip concerning any scandal or erime.—Mount Pleasant Pyramid. Washington. ‘Whata lot of fixing it takes to geta yacht ready. Now we begin to realize why & ship is called “she.”—Seattle Times. President Cleveland will press the button and the machinery at the Atlanta Exposition will do the rest. Next year the American peo- ple will press the buiton and Mr. Cleveland will do the rest act.—Seattle Post Intelligencer. To the man who has been pinching and econ- omizing to the extent of denying himself and family all of the comforts and many of the necessaries of life for the past two years, hop- ing on for better prices for his grain, the situa- tion is sickening. Times may improve and business revive, but it all means nothing to him unless the price of wheat advances. And there are a good many such men in this coun- try, and not all of them farmers, either.—Gar- field Enterprise. The geological suryey cannot direct the miner just where to stick his pick. It ean, however, and does accurately definé the mineral areas and map out the barren districts, and in this way has been of incalculable service to the mining industry of the country. It is one of the most important and beneficial departments of the public service, and is, therefore, entitled to the liberal consideration of Congress, and especially should it have this consideration ’an: Western members.—Spokane Spokesman- eview. The United States, and especially the West- ern States, needs popuiation, therefore the immigration of a good class of Europeans should be promoted and encouraged rather than be restricted. California furnishes a splendid example of what can be accomplished with a good clats of immigrants; its mines, its orchards, its vineyards, its grain and dairy farms, which constitute ‘the principal re- sources of this State, are for more than one- half owned, controlled and worked by foreigners who landed here a few ye ago without means, but who have now con- verted a very hrfi; tract of our virgin soil into a vyeritable Eden, have built fine - dences, have raised nice families, thus addi materially to the wealth, prosperity and lncla’ strength of this beautiful spot of the Union,— San Francisco L'Elvezia, SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. “What ails your wheel, Johnny?* “Oh, I bored a hole in the tires so't I could blow 'em up easier, but the air leaks right out again.” 1If all the people could have hossing jobs that want ’em, there’d be no one leit to do the work. What a man wants and what he thinks he wants wouldn't recognize each other if they ‘were to meet on the street, Jazzam—Where are you living now? Chizzam—TI ain't living; I'm bearding.—Rox- bury Gazette. The landlord presents his bill to the traveler. The latter 1ooks at the sum total, and prepares to pay without demur. Mine host, stupefied at this unwonted ];I::‘l‘npli‘“flfi on the part of a guest, stammers “Beg your' pardon, sir, will you let me have another look at that bill? Imust have omitted something.”—Le Voltaire. - A—Is dyeing the hair as dangerous as doctors wonld make it appear? e inly, you may take my word for it. Only last spring an uncle of mine dyed his hair, and 'ia three weeks he was married toa Widow withl four children,~Fliegende Blatter. - ANSWERS TO comu:sronnr‘si THE WOODBINE TWINETH—C., City. A cO! spondent who signs himself R. B. N., sends the following explanation of the first time Jamts Fisk Jr. of New York used the expression “gone where the woodbine twineth,” and i% appears that he uttered it beiore the occasion he used it in court in reference to & witness, 83 already told in this department:” il the terrific panic_culminating in the Blacl Fadny of September 94, 1869, - congressional committee was appointed 1o investigate the causes thatled to the vast wrecking of fortunes on tbat inauspicious and never-to-be-forgogten day. James Fisk Jr., then a noted financier of Wall street, New York, was cited to appear before that body as a witness, and in relating the occurrences of that and the preceding and following eventful days, he Was asked what had become of the yast amount of funds and securities which had been pooled by the conspirators to force gold up to itsinflated and fictitious value of $1 60; his reply was, “Gone where the woodbine twineth.” This seeming evasive and ambiguous, he was requested to ex- plain his meaning, and be answered that when driving as &, peddier through the New Ingland States he had noticed that nearly all of the farmers’ Houses had spouts leading from the eaves to the ground to conduct the rain water, and that around these spouts tnere was grown and twined the wood- bine vine; that rather than offend the polite tastes of the members of the committee and have an- swered that the funds and securities “had gone up the spout,” he preferred to use the more elegant and classic expression, “gone where the woodbing twineth,” and thus not shock the finer feelings of the gentlemen of the committee, SAN FraNcIsco—Pointers Wanted, City. Case tro and Twenty-first streets, generally speake ing, is the geographical center of the City and County of San Francisco. The area of Sen Francisco is 42 1-5 square miles, New York 421¢ square miles. Golden Gate avenue and Leavenworth street is given as the center of population, The most general growthof the City from the center of population in the past ten years hasbeen in the direction of the west and northwest. Jurors—X. X. X., Santa Clara, Cal. The law of this State recognizes only twelve jurors im either a civil or criminal case. Fourteen jurors, so that there may be two extras in case of an émergency, §s nota part of the judicial system of this State. In civil cases three Tourths of the jury may return & verdiet for or against, but in criminal trials the verdict must be that of the twelve. CALIFORNIA Linac—S., City. The description yougiveis a very meager one,but the tree you have reference to is no doubt the Chion- anthus azureus, or Calitornia lilac, which is & cross between & shrub and a tree and produces bunches of purple fragrant flowers and has small very dark green leaves. It grows wild throughout the State. SALINE SpRINGS—Stranger, City. Professof Anderson, who some time ago made an analy= sis of the waters of all the mineral springs in this State, mentions quite a number that are alkalo-saline, but those he designates as heavy saline are Byrons, Highland Neptune and Highland Diana. No Svei Law—J. B. Me., Taylor Mine, El Dorado County, Cal. There is no State in the Union that has & law which proscribes a man from holding a State office because he belongs to any parucular religion. You ANp I-J. A. B., Oakland. “You and I and “you and me” are both correct phrases. Tt is proper to say “you and I wandered by the Tiver side,” and it is also proper to say “when Smith's will is opened it will be scen that he has remembered you and me."” THE STATE FAIR—W. B. K., City, fair at Sacramento is not kept open on Sune days. The price of admission to the pavilion is 50 cents. A The State AMERICAN—F. W. Alameda, Cal. It was Daniel Webster who, during a speech derivered July 17, 1850, said: I was born an American, I live an American, Ishall die an American.” CoLorADO—G. H. S., Sacramento, Cal. The State of Colorado has not passed an act pro- hibiting capital punishment as & penalty for murder. SRR No ArcE—H. L, City. There was no arch across Market street in this City on the 26th of September, 1881, when the funeral of the murdered President Garfield took place. HALF DIME—W. 8. G., City. Dealers in old coins offer half dimes of 1851 at 20 and 45 cents, according to condition. ArcHrTEcT—W. S. G, City. One does not need to be either a carpenter or a builder in order to become an archite FrESNo—E., City. Alexander Goldstein is the president of the Board of Trade of Fresno. D ABOUT. PEOPLE TAL Signor Crispi, when in Rome, has an escort of twenty-nine police officials, for which Italy pays 60,000 francs a year. Whenever he leaves the city the costof guarding bim is increased three or four fold, Herbert Spencer is described as a plain, old- fashioned Englishman of medium stature, drooping shoulders, & large head (now bald), light complexion, soft gray eyes and curly side and throat whiskers. After more than sixteen years of litigation the contest over the will of Bishop Ames (Methodist Episcopal) has been settled. By the decision of the court all the children will have an equal share of what is left of the estate after the legal costs are paid. Henri Marteau. the violinist, has just finished a tour of Norway, 8weden, Denmark and Fin- land. It was a great success. In November he commences his obligatory term of service in the French army. It will last ten months. For the season of 1896-97 he is considering two propositions—one for Russia and one for the United States. BAcoN Prin g Company, 503 Clay st=2 - TowNSEND'S famous broken candy, 10c & 1h.* —————— 2 HusBaAND's Calcined Magnesia—Four firste premium medals awarded; mdre agreeable to the taste and _smaller dose than other mag- nesia. For sale only in bottles with registered trade-mark label. - Woonsocket. Rubber Company. Unquestionable Woonsocket rubber boots and shoes have attained the best record for service and style. Stock complete. Discounts nd terms uniform; orders receive due atten- tion. Woonsocket Rubber Company, F, Ephraim, agent, San Franeisco. * — - Banan The steamer Australia arrived from Honoluln without bananas, butJ. Ivancovich & Co, 209~ 213 Washington street, have just received two cars of fancy Bluefields bananas and will- be pieased to receive orders for same. . —————— Ohio claims to have the tallest man in the National Guard in the United States. Heis Lieutenant House of the Fourteenth Ohio Na- tional Guard, and is stationed at Lancaster. In his stocking feet Lieutenant House is 6 feet 8 inches. His weight is 230 pounds., WHEN the blood is in a depleted condition caole ing breezes will not restore vitality and vigor. Only Hood’s Sarsaparilla will do this. It purifies the Dblood and restores health to the whole system. e s Gy “ Mrs, Winslow’s Soothing Syrup" Has heen used over fifty years by millions of mothe ers for their children while Teethidg with parfect success, It soothes the child, softets the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrheeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. 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