The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 15, 1895, Page 18

FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1895. 18 . THE SA M CHARLES M. SHORTRINGE, & et SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postagh Free: by er.$0.15 pafly and Sunday CALL, ore weel s and Sunday CALIL, one year, by niail.. 6.00 mail 3.00 2d Sunday CALL, three months, bt mail 1.50 1d Sunday CALL, one wonth, b, mail .65 1.50 1.50 ....... Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone. ...veenesenes veeeevene Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: £70 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until £:50 o'clock. 559 F elephone street : open until 9:80 o'clock. treet; open until 9:30 o'clock. xteenth and Mission sireets; open 717 SW. cc ontll €0 c] £518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: ©U8 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE c States Advertising B , Phinelander w York City. ———————————————————————— 1f Dunraven returns all will be forgiven. The big sleeves of last fall are the tights of this. AR RERG The beginning of competition is the end- ing of monopoly. d not go off well, but The yacht ra the cap stays all There are more people willing to saw wood than to say nothing. The interna acht race put a heavy strain on the era of good feel 5 Prepare for your shopping to-morrow by .studying our advertisements to-day. Time flies as usual, but not any faster 10w than dirt on the Valley road. A flower show without premiums will at least deserve a itself asa novelty. About this time the summer tan gives way to lily bloom in complexion powders. In the social campaign as in politics the money the one that worries most. The next call on public spirit is to help the State exhibit at the Atlanta Exposi- tion. The skirt divided against itself can not only stand but shows signs of makinga winning race. If we are going to lead the procession of carnival cities next spring it is time to be getting ready. The rapid improvement of private prop- erty strongly emphasizes the need of public improvements. Now that the Mechanics’ Fair has closed, lots of people will discover that they really wished to see it. When you hear of a county that has no new enterprise in sight you may know itis not in California. The events of the past week have been good enough at any rate to encourage us to hope for better. The foreign goods in the fall openings are beautiful, but don’t forget to make San Francisco & home marke: A combination of the bloomer suit with the balloon sleeve would make a reversible garment fitted for any extremity. Cleveland has evidently enough third- term vanity in him to assume the attitude of pointing with pride to himself. Perhaps a Pacific Coast syndicate could build a yacht that would make lifeinterest- ing again for the New York fellows. It does not require a frost to Kkill the bloom of the average summer flirtation, but most of them are liable to get one. The Railroad Commissioners have be- come & promising body, and what is more surprising they promise to go to work. The demand for a new charter increases, but it is not growing any faster than the demand for a new Board of Supervisors. ‘We are now to have a chance to see if our climate agrees with Kier Hardie, and if it does we may safely call it all things to all men. Let us rejoice that Fitzsimmons had bimself naturalized and took the interna- tional hoodoo off his prolonged unpleas- antness with Mr. Corbett. As Mrs. Lease has announced her inten- tion to publish a book, the politicians of Kansas will hardly think it necessary to lay in the usual supply of fuel for the winter. Unless supported by evidence that will sustain it in the courts, the proposed re- duction of freight rates will be no more than a bluff which the monopoly will very easily cave down the bank. 1f the people of Southern California make the only good show for the State at Atlanta, then every visitor who sees it will think that it is only in the southern coun- ties a man can find a show. The robbery of suburban orchards by bicyclers has become such a nuisance in New England that some suburban folks declare fruit stealing to be as bad as burg- lary and they wish it treated accordingly. In order to make sure of the proper con- duct of the coming election the members of the election boards of New York City have been required to pass a sortof civil service examination on the duties required of them, and the idea is one of those that ought to come west and grow up with the country. In his recent speech at Philadelphia, Becretary Wilson gave a striking illustra- tion of the rapid development of this country by pointing out that the entire revenue of the postal system in the first year of Jefferson’s service would not pay the salaries of one-half the letter-carriers of Philadelphia to-day. Every loyal, liberal and patriotic citizen will support the declaration of the Grand Army at Louisville: “No niggardly cut- ting down_of pensions under the guise of reissues, 00 partial and grudging allow- ances that cut here and pare there with the full measure of due the country cwes to its surviving heroes. Nothing short of full measure dealt ‘with an honest hand and liberal heart will ever meet With the ap- probation oi the American people.” THE MEXICAN VETERANS. In a country where peace has reigned during the greater partof the Nation's life, anniversaries commemorating feats of arms are always regarded with more than passing interest by the people. This is particularly true when the event touches upon the very life of a community. Yesterday’s celebration of the forty-eighth anniversary of the en- trance into the City of Mexico of the United States army was observed through- out this State with a degree of enthusiasm and appreciation that is beyond the under- standing of /persons who reside in coun- tries where international strife is the rule and not the exception. The triumph of the Americans on the 14th day of September nearly half a cen- tury ago gave California to the Nation, and in that regard the result of the contest is certainly of pre-eminent importance to all residents of the Pacific Coast. [tisno meager meed of praise that is accorded to the veterans of the Mexican War. They are hela in the highest 2steem by all the people, and when their day of cele- bration comes round each year the event is appropriately observed, not only by the veterans themselves but also by those wiio have come after them and have profited by their herotc endeavors. It is noted, with sadness, that at each re- curring banquet the number of grizzled comrades answering to the rollcall is diminished, and we are reminded that the time is not far off when the last survivors of that historic struggle shall have been called to their final rewards. That these venerable patriots shall not pass from the stage of action without due recognition of their, noble efforts is made evident by the zeal manifested by their fellow-citizens to do them honor. At night's banquet at the California Hotel Senator Georre C Perkins voiced the heartfelt opinions of the’community when he declared that a debt of homage is still due to the gallant veterans of the Mexican War. He felt that standing here in California he is upon sacred ground, and that whatever others may do for the development and improvement of this vast empire of the Golden State, these veterans were the original ‘of the Half-million Club, so to speak, who gave this majestic State its first impetus in the course of prosperity and civilization. The other speakers uttered sentiments of like import, expressing the sincere wish of the people that these sturdy survivors of that memorable war may dwell long in peace and prosperity among us. NEWSPAPER RESPONSIBILITY. Newspaperdom, an able New York publi- cation devoted to newspaper concerns, has published a leader severely assailing the practice of some newspapers which aim to secure a large circulation through means other than merit. It says: “It is a wonder that an inkling of the insufficiency of any scheme to increase circulation other than the steady day-by- day or week-by-week making a newspaper good enough to attract readers does not oftener enter the acute brainsof newspaper managers. During the past four or five years there have been myriads of schemes concocted to induce people to buy news- papers. Many newspapers have risen to more or less dizzy heights of prosperity, and have gradually sunk again to the level of their merits as newspapers.” It then proceeds to weaken this sensible statement by declaring that ‘‘successfully to boom circulation the needs and tastes of prospective buyers must be carefully studied, and then the paper must be a good paper, according to the judgment of the people who are expected to read it, rather than according to the taste of the man who makes it. The fundamental error of a large proportion of editors who do not attain the degree of success they desire is that they endeavor to induce the people to read that sort of a news- paper. Now a nfan wears the sort of clothes that suit his own taste. He also reads that newspaper that comes nearest to giving him the sort of reading he wants. It is news that people want in newspapers. A full recognition of that fact must con- stitute the foundation stone of any and all schemes to boom circulation.” All this is eminently true so far/as it goes, but itis a very imperfect statement of the whole case. The writer may not bave intended to create the impression that the moral obligation under which the editor rests is not a factor to be considered, and ‘that success is the only thing that should concern him; but there is danger that such an inference will be drawn. Upon the estimate given by Newspaperdom any paper might be successful and at the same time exert pernicious influence. We krow that there are many such papers in this country. They are merely panderers, in a less or greater measure, to unwhole- some appetites and depraved tastes, and their influence for harm is made all the greater by the excellence of the features which Newspaperdom correctly asserts are essential to the building up of alarge cir- culation. That a publisher may surrender what- ever ideas of right or wrong he may have in order to secure a large business is the most dangerous of doctrines to instill. It ignores the fact that individual power in leadership may be overlooked. It means the sacrifice of all the good which the ex- ercise of such a power might accomplish. And it should be constantly borne in mind that any publisher who is successful at the sacrifice of the good for which he might use his position acknowledges his indi- vidual lack of power as an elevating in- structor of humanity, and instead of being a leader is merely a servitor-—-a panderer to human weaknesses instead of an earnest worker for the elevation of the race. The publisher whose individual force is suf- ficient can secure as great prosperity as the one who is merely a panderer, and his rewards are infinitely greater and more lasting. A DELIGHTFUL SEASON. The first rain of the season havingfallen, it is not likely we shall bave another for weeks. Meanwhile the rain, which was uncommonly heavy for this time of the year, has for that reason lent a most charming aspect to the City. San Fran- cisco is therefore entering upon its pleasantest time of all the year. The summer winds are relaxing, fogs are prac- tically a thing of the past till next sum- mer, the air has been cleared, the streets bave been washed clean and the sewers flushed, and the trees, particularly in the park, having been rid of dust, are shining again in their brilliant coat of green. This is the most delightful season of the year in San Francisco, and this particular season is far more delightful than the average. The Mechanics’ Fair is over, and hence there is no extraordinary show in- stituted by human hands for the enter- tainment of visitors, but the natural spec- tacle is immeasurably superior to any that men can devise. It is true that the theatrical season is in the beginning of its regular winter opening, but it has been so uncommonly good all summer that the change 1s not startling. Tt is the broader charms of the City that present a special allurement just now. Work in the interior of the State is, rapidly coming to an end for the season. Most of the crops have been already har- vested and disposed of, and the remainder will be closed up before the glorious days of autumn in San Francisco have passed. Thas is the best of all times of the year for residents of the ini.rior to visit the City. The local resident® have returned from their summer out g, for nothing could induce them to f0i’:zo the delights which await them at hom¥ in the autumn. The promenades are .gain crowded with pedestrians, prescting, especially on matinee days—Sati‘day and Wednesday— a spectacle worth fhany miles of travel to see. Itison these®lays particularly that the healthy beautf of the women whom this invigorating dimate has nourished can be seen in all it{ glory. Golden Gate Park is the rendezvous for all the diverse and micturesque varieties ot human nature ahounding here. The dazzling bloomer girl sharesthe admira- tion which the coétly equipages of the rich attract, and on the days when the free public concerts are held there is such an outpouring of humanity as only a city of Europe could show. Gorgeous autumn blossoms have succeeded the daintier children of the summer months, and already the State Floral Society is prepar- Ing for its annual show. But better than all these attractions is the delightful climate of September and October, possessing no element of harsh- ness, but dry, clear, balmy, healing and restful. It is the best tonic that could be prescribed for any resident of interior California. G00D RESULTS MAY COME. It seems evident that the Southern Pa- cific Company has entered upon a deter- mined campaign to break down the fight of the California Miners’ Assoeiation in its endeavors to protect the mineral lands of the State against railroad occupation as agricultural lands. Bince the association refused to accept the proposition of the company for an adjustment of the matter, the company is said to have gone into the mining regions with a determination to control the selection of delegates who will assemble for the annual convention of miners next month, its hope being that its influence in that convention will put a stop to the campaign which the miners have organized for the protection of min- eral lands. One argument asserted to be in usé by the railroad company is that the Miners’ Association was organized solely for the purpose of rehabilitating hydraulic min- ing, This is an exceedingly ingenious argument. Its evident intendea effect is to array the farmers against the Miners’ Association. Hence it appears that by widening the breach between the miners and the farmers the railroad company hopes to secure valuable mineral lands by patents as agricultural lands, using the antagonism of the farmers against hydrau- lic mining to that end. In order to strengthen this position the company, it is asserted, is promising to sell these dis- puted lands at $1 25 an acre as soon as the patent is issued. This is the sharpest ruse of all. ‘We may rest assured that'the miners arenow thoroughly roused and that they will carry on the fight with more determi- nation than ever. They have a wily and tireless adversary. More than that, their fight is purely patriotic, involving no per- sonal interests on their part, while their enemy has millions at stake. Therefore, the forces operating against them are very strong and they need to call upon every possible resource at their command. The loyal and patriotic sentiment of the whole State, including that cherished by the farmers, should be arrayed on their side. The miners well understand the ad- vantage of the legal grounds on which they are basing their fight. They know that they have six years after the issuance of the patents in which to struggle for their annulment and that in the interim the company cannot give good title to the lands in dispute. It is deplorable for the State that such a struggle should have ever arisen, but now that it is begun it is clearly the duty of every patriotic Califor- nian to array himself on the side of the miners. And those miners themselves who may succumb to the influences which the raiiroad company knows so well how to exercise may rest assured that the eyes of the whole State will be on their every action and that a million tongues will be ready to express an opinion. A PERMANENT SPUR. The argument employed in defense of the spur track to the park is that it is needed to haul the street sweepings from the City to the park, where they are useful as a fertilizer. Mr. McLaren, the Super- intendent, asserts that there are 1000 acres of sand in the park and that constant fertilization will be required. The con- clusion is that the spur track will be as necessary ten or a hundred years from to- day as now, and that the people of the City are thus brought to face with the proposi- tion thatif the influence of the park authori- ties is to govern in the premises the spur track will become a permanent institution. There seems to be no way of avoiding this logic. The presence of the spur track works dam- age to the public in a number of ways. The spur franchise was secured for a specific purpose, namely, to facilitate the work of installing the Midwinter Fair, and the railroad company secured the franchise under those terms and solemnly bound itself to abide by its conditions. It un- doubtedly secured a large revenue from the Midwinter Fair. Inrefusing to remove the spur it has violated its agreement with the City, and accordingly is maintaining a privilege without making any payment for it. Its protection in this procedure is the support of the Park Commission, an official body entrusted with a certain authority, but grossly exceeding it 1n backing the determination of the railroad company to maintain the wrong. The track destroys the ocean boulevard, in which the City took great pride. The company sneeringly remarks that it will refuse to construct cars for trans- porting the street sweepings by cable or electric road, and that if the City wants to employ that method it must construct its own carsand pay whatever the street com- panies may be pleased to charge for haul- ing them. This is clearly a threat in- tended to effect the permanency of the spur track, and shows that the railroad company, which owns the street lines as well as the spur track, is anxiously desir- ous of perpetuating the spur nuisance by meking it evident thatit offers the best means of transporting the sweepings to the park. In view of all these considera- tions it is exceedingly amusing to read that Mr. Huntington would have taken up the spur long ago if the Park Commissioners had not beggea him so hard to let it re- main, All parties to the maintenance of the vresent condition of affairs may as well understand that the intelligence of the public is in no danger of being led astray, and that if any evidence of such a danger vresents itself it will be promptly disposed of. The whole situation is as uncompli- mentary to the intelligence of the people 'l: the spur track is damaging to their in- rests. RANDOM NOTES. BY JouN MCNAUGHT. Last Sunday we 1ooked forward to the international yacht race as a coming glory, but to-day we look upon it as an ended fiasco. The anticipations of a National triumph have closed in something like a National disgust. Certainly there are few people who feel any satjsfaction in such a result or any pride in sucha victory. That which has come, however, can hardly be called surprising. As a rule, international contests of any kind are unfortunate. In- stead of engendering a mutual friendliness in the fellowship of good sport, they gen- erate between the general masses of the people mutual irritations and animosities. The rivalry of sport itself seems about as much as human nature can bear grace| fully, and when national rivalries are added to it nature breaks loose and cuts her usual caper. About the only interna- tional contest in which there is any real satisfaction is a war, and even in such cases the satisfaction is apt to be very onesided. The most interesting single figure in the contest was the Earl of Dunraven, and it is around his actions, his motives and his character that public criticism, excited by the fiasco, will flash most often and most severely. That much of the condemnation which has been, or will be, pronounced upon him may be justifiable goes without saying, for no man is perfect, and judges are sometimes right; but I cannot agree with those who blame him for show- ing a surly trace of anger in his defeat, in- stead of teking it easily and bearing it “like a gentleman,” as the saying is. The idea that a gentleman takes defeat more easily and with less temper than the com- mon run of folks is one of the humbugs of the society we live in. The man who bears defeat easily is of a nature indifferent, un- ambitious and unaggressive, and probably was not resolute for victory when he en- tered the contest. The strong, dominant man, resolute to win, does not bear defeat with patience. The worse his luck the more he swears, and he is never so pugna- cious as when he has just been kicked out the back door. The oldest, greatest and by all odds the best heroic poem in the world celebrates the wrath of a man who could not and would not bear defeat in unmurmuring sweetness. Achilles, sulking and growl- ing in his tent, has never been regarded as an unheroic figure, nor has it ever been urged to his disadvantage thata milder- mannered man would not have acted so. This old Greek is the type of the fighting men of all ages and all lands. No man of that stamp ever lost what he made up his mind to win, without losing also his tem- per and showing a surly disposition to defy everything in the universe from fickle fortune to fixed fate. Nor as a rule is it long before they begin to fight again. Whether we find them in high life or low life, the men whom defeat angers beyond the point of patience may always be counted on to try another battle. Dun- raven has made up his mind to win the America cup. Thrice has he crossed the ocean for it, and thrice haye his Valkyries borne him away from the field, defeated and raging. This time he seems to be angry all the way through, and we need no better proof that he will come back again, It would certainly be pleasanter for the rest of us if the hero would oniy live up to the rules of sport and never kick when he loses, and perbaps it would be better for him also. Ina world where the paths of glory lead but to the grave, and where the noblest hero can hardly hope for a more animated bust after death than the most ordinary citizen can enjoy every payday of his life, it is difficult to see why any one should strain all his life in overcom:- ing difficulties merely to have a monu- ment built on top of him. ‘Neither laughing nor weeping will alter thy case,” as Carlyle said, and while kicking and swearing might be helpful as a relief to the feelings, about the best consolation for any one who has been defeated in any- thing from a yacht race to a courtship is to be found in the old song— We came to the world naked and bare; We go through it with sorrow and care; We go out of it—we don’t know where. But if we're thoroughbreds here ‘We'll be thoroughbreds there. One of the marked features of the year has been the unusually early opening of the fall season. It is not merely that the heavy rains have come earlier than usual, but that society, generally more regular than the weather, has been more prompt than before to turn from summer fashions to fall styles. The great dry-goods houses are radiant with new garments, and the shop-windows glow as if the new era was to be ushered in with an aurora borealis of social brilliance. To walk the streetsin these days with sufficient leisure to note the display of new goods for woman’s ap- parel is almost like walking through the enchanted realms of sunset land. There are colors loud enough to blow like trum- pets; but they are sufficiently in accord with one auother to make harmonies fit for festal music. The observer who gives even a casual study to the forms in which these marvels of millinery are wrought up will not long wonder why the season has been opened so early. It will be apparent at a glance that with sleeves so big it was necessary to open up at once in order to find room in the year to make way for them. With the beginning of the fall there comes from the East a strange and un- wonted lament. The fall season there has always been the oceasion for the display of one of nature’s richest and most beautiful aspects. The swift turning of the green leaves to hues of red and gold under the touch of frost has made every wood and forest of that section of the country the de- light of all lovers of color and the despair of artists. This year it seems they will have none of that glory. The drought of the summer has been such the leaves have turned brown and are falling from the trees for lack of moisture. There will be no solendor of autumn woods this year. There will be nothing but a dry dusty summer transformed swiftly into the dreariness of winter, and from dead leaves to bare branches will be but a single step. If the East is to have this season an au- tumn of no beauty, California is promised one of tore than ordinary loveliness. No one who found time, or took time, to note the freshness of earth and air and sky after the recent rain could have failed to feel a sense of new vigor coming with the change of the season. Rarely has San Francisco had a fairer view of her sur- rounding sea and hills than on the cloud- less, sunny morning that followed the day of clouds and rain. Autumn bas not come to us to strip the trees bare and scatter their brown leaves over the frosted ground. It comes to clothe the fields with fresh verdure, to revive the bloom of flowers, to ripen nuts and grapes,to bring back an- other season of strawberries, to robe the mountains with purple clouds, to add more ozone to the air, and to revivify and brighten everything that has life enough to breathe and absorb the ttimulus of that power which nature exerts in chang- ing from the old season to the new. The proposal that the State Floral So- ciety hold the October flower show this | year without offering premiums has at any rate the merit of novelty. It will be an innovation of sufficient originality to en- title the show to the epithet ‘“unique,’” but whether it will be anything else of value remains to be seen. The chances are it will have the effect of transforming the show into a mere social function, at which the flowers will play a part hardly more important thag is usually ascribed to them at such functions where they forn a large portion of the ‘decorations. . Premiums offered at exhibitions do something more than engender rivalry among the ex- hibitors. As they are presumed to be awarded by experts having a full knowl- edge of the true standards to be attained and of the comparative excellence of the exhibits made, the bestowal of the pre- mium serves as an education to the public by giving every visitor the chance to learn from this judgment of recognized authori- ties what is best of its kind at the show. Such object lessons are of value in forming public taste. Judgment and criticism are needed in all things where a higher educa- tion is desired, and in no matters are they more important than in those where cor- rect judgment depends upof? scientific knowledge or cultured taste. A few days ago Colonel Robert Ingersoll went over to Elmwood, 1., to deliver an address at the reunionof his old regiment. There was, of course, an immense crowd, and fome reports say 10,000 people gath- ered to hear the greatorator. Ingersoll has grown mellow and loving with the years, and his speech, which in many re- spects was a masterpiece of eloquence, maintained by impassioned argument the creed that man is but the creature of con- ditions, “If you wish to stop erime,” he exclaimed, “you must treat with it prop- erly. The condition of society must not be such as to produce criminals, Iam in favor when you put a man in penitentiary of making him work and paying him what his work is worth, so that when he leaves his prison he will have from $200 to $300 as a breastwork between him and tempta- tion and a foundation upon which to build a nobler life,”” After the speech there was, of course, congratulations and much handshaking. When the colonel was free from the crowd he discovered his pocket- book had been stolen and he was short about $250. An unexpected loss of this kind under such circumstances would irri- tate even the most genial philosophers. Ingersoll was flustered. An old comrade, however, consoled him. “Never mind, Bob,”" he said. ‘‘Just remember this fellow has got his breastwork against temptation and a foundation jor a nobler life without goirg through penitentiary.” SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Magistrate—Prisoner, what do you do for a living? Bunko Man (from Boston)—Your Honor will pardon e if I seem to take undue liberties; but your Honor's grammar 18 much at fault. “What” can never be a synonym for “whom.” ~—Philadelphia Record. “It 18 very kind of the boys to come around and serenade me,” sald the candidate for Con- gress, “but I would like to know what venom- ous scoundrel put them up to playing ‘There’s No Place Like Home.’ "—IndianapolisiJournal. He—Do you think, love, that it would hurt the curtains if I should smoke? She—How good and thoughtful you are. Yes; I think it would soil them. He—Then take them down.—Peck’sSun. “Where was Magna Charta signed?” asked a teacher in a South of London board school. “Please, sir, at the bottom.”—Tit-Bits. Cobbie—What do you suppose the worried, anxious look on the faces of the bicycle riders means? Stone—Most of them haven’t paid for their wheels yet.—New York Herald. HAD AN INKLING OF IT. She—TIt every atom of the human body fs re- newed every seven years I cannot be the same woman that yoa married. He—T've heen suspecting that for some time.— San Fravelsco Wi CALIFORNIANS AHEAD. A PENNSYLVANIA GRANGERS’ PICNIC COMPARED ‘WITH OUR CAMP ROACHE MEETING. Editor Call: The Grangers of Pennsylvaniaare accustomed to gather yearly at William’s Grove in that State for what is called an “Inter- state Farmers’ Picnic.” The picnic lasts one week and is annually attended by many thou- sands of prople. We give the programme of the one just held that those who arg familiar with this year's programme ®t the Grange Summer School at Camp Roaehe, fully reported in THE CALL, may see how far the Grangers of California are in ad- vanez of their Eastern brethren in matters re]nllng to their own educational advance- ment. The exercises at the Pennsylvania meeting included the following subjects in the order glven: Illustrated lecture on Japa: “Export ounty on Agricultural Staples’”; “National Legislation on Savings Banks”; ‘Interests of the Pennsylyania Farmer in Legistation”; “The Farmer” ; concertand illustrated lecture ; “The Keeley Remedy"; “‘Disease of Alcohol- ism"”; ‘“Womeh Suffrage’ State Grange ; « School and the Grange” and “Farming and Butter-making in Denmark,” the whole con- cluding with a Grand Army day, occupied ;vit!l: addresses presumably on patriotic sub- ects. Such a programme bears the marks of a design. to bring together those 1nterested in the lnrfi- est possible number of subjects, thereby swell- ing the crowd and making the most possible business for the railroads, from which stand- %lnnhe meetingsare said to be very successful. ‘e presume also the lectures are usually in- teresting and instructive, and the occasion en- i:;yuble, ‘which is all it pretends to be. It is, owever, evident that such a programme has 1o end, #1m or possible result except the emo- tions induced by a large gathering and a fleet- ing intellectual pleasure or weariness ac ing to the character of the addresses, the picnic be much more properly farmers’ picnic than a Grand Army picnic or W. C. T.U. picnie. ‘We do not criticize the exercises of a 5:21&- ing avowedly for recreation, and yet including much that must be morally and intellectually stimulating, but if this meeting, as we believe is the case, represents the Eastern idea of the fi:owinz feature of the e advancement of farmers, we comi them to the serious study of the methods at Camp Roache, where a small number of farmers gathered in a quiet retreat to pursue for two ‘weeks definite courses of study, not under thy direction of popular orators or advocates of any cause, but of learned, cool-headed and non- partisan university [esSOTS, yrtohundly expert in the sciences they taught. The pienic is good in its place, but the California ideal is far nobler and more useful. E W. A, San Francisco, Sept. 14, 1895. SUCCESS AND FAILURE. No careful conning of recorded history ; No shrewd saggestion and no subtle guess, Can ere unseal the meaning and the mysteéry Of those twin fates called “Fatlure” snd cess.” i [Foraver rises the perplexing problem, To him whose pathway these two fates sttend, ‘Which s the one and which the other of thems. ‘Which fs his eneniy and which his friend ? ‘The wise soul will not wage its hopes eternal On either fortune, but with wiil sublime Move starward steadfastly to some tate sapernal, Beyond the mists and mysieries of time. i & B By AROUND THE CORRIDORS. tunity to examine and tell The Press Club Skull. tory of an old human skull of very singu- lar appearance. Yesterday President Coe of the Press Club called at the Palace to ask him up to the club to look at the skull which has been presented by C. A. Wetmore, but the professor had left for the East. “It was,” says Mr. Wetmore, “found in the mountains of Peru more than twenty years ago and belongs to one of the ancient races there, probably the Incas. Itis supposed to be the skull of an un- usually intellectual man.” Ii is particularly remarkable in having a double forehead. About or above where the hair line was the second forehead or dome be- gins. The junction is not unlike the crease in a double chin. In addition down the front of the skull is an extra pronounced suture. Mr. Wetmore says that skulls of this sortare unknown in our day, and have not been known of for 400 years. President Coe sug- gested that the owner of it had a plain ordi- nary head until elected governor, president of an Inca press club, or something of that sort. IDEAS OF WESTERN EDITORS. California. This country has imported more hay, rice, tobacco and wool under the Wilson tariff than during a similar period under a Republican tariff, the money loss in these few articlesalone being over $13,500,000 to our farmers.—San Jose Mercury. Nowhere on the face ot the globe is therea country that can produce fruits of all kindsin more abundant quantities or superior quality than right here in Analy Township. Y We can point the finger of pride at anything produced within our borders.—Sebastopol Times. Large districts have recently been added to Chicago, St. Paul and other cities, and New York is actively agitating for a Greater New York that will make it the biggest city in the world. Why should Los Angeles stand back? Why should the outlying districts stand back? Their interests are identical with those of Los Angeles, and a greater Los Angeles will mean greater progress, prosperity and weeslth for them as well as the present city.—Los Angeles Express. California should be well represented at the good-roads convention to be-held in Atlanta during the exposition. It promises to afford a vast amount of information on the improve- ment of highways, with practical hints as to methods of economy, ete., in road building. There is no State in the Union where knowl- edge on this subject is more needed than in California. The good-roads movement should be strong enough here to see that this great opportunity is not neglected.—San Diego Union. In a country where you can raise twoor three crops of grain and vegetables in & season by careful attention, where you can work your land nearly every month in the year and are 10t obliged to use your savings to meet the ex- penses of three or four winter months, when you are forced to be idle, and where you can raise not only southern products, but most of those grown in the North as well—in such a country as this farming will 1nsure prosperity S0 wny YOUlig Siate it properly carried on.— Orange News. Oregon. Wheat is still worth $1 a bushel in the Wil- lamette Valley—if judiciously fed to hogs and hens.—Salem Statesman. Just what will be the extent of the ravages of hippophagy in North America is 8s yet uncer- tain, but it is said to be on the increase in our large cities. In certain localities in Europe it is all the rage, indeed, it is considered guite fashionable in some places, but let us hope it will not reach us in & malignant form, By the vn)'i. what is hippophagy, anyway ?—Prineville Review. Canada’s census corroborates the statement recently *going the rounds” that large num- bers of Canadians are coming to the United States. The population of the Dominion in- creased 500, between 1881 and 1891. In the same period Canada received 800,000 im- migrants from Europe end lost 900,000 by emigration to the United States.—FPoitlana Oregonian. Arizona. More freight is being received in Phenix at present than at the same season in any past year, denoting & most heslthy condition of i;ade and a large volume of business.—Pheenix erald. Arizona is in the swim this year. Plenty of rain, good range, excellent crops and daily new gold mines beginning to produce, will soon fill the vacuum in many depleted purses, made so during the past stringent times.—Phenix Gazette, An effort should be made to get Tucson out of the rut,out of the trough of the sea of in- difference in which she is floundering. This can be done only through the concerted action of her business men. It is about time thesy got & Defender move onto themselves or they will luff to the windward side of prosperity.— Tucson Citizen. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. General Nelson A. Miles was once a clerk ina crockery store in Boston. He had his first militery instructions from a Frenchman. Queen Victoria is a great tea drinker, and is so particular about her favorite beverage that when away from home she always makes it herself. Embassador Bayard’s family have been hold- 1ing office continually under the United States Government for 100 years, James Bayard, the Embassador’s grandfather, having been elected & delegate to the Fed Congress in 1796. It is reported that Algernon Sartoris, the only son of General Grant's daughter, Mrs. Nellie Grant-Sartoris, is engaged to a wealthy young lady of New York City. Her name has not yet ‘been made public. Young Sartoris is not yet 20 years of age. Chopin, the pianist and composer, was a very gentle man, and scrupulously considerate of the wishes of others. During his long iliness his character seemed to change completely, as is often the case with chronic invalids. He be- cord- | came selfish, petulant and hard to please. King Humbert of Italy brushes his hair on end and has a boisterous cavalry mustache of monstrous proportions. He is a confirmed vegetarian, and lives almost entirely on bread, potatoes and oranges. He used to smoke an endless chain of green cigars all day, but his bronchial tubes became so permanently de- ranged that he had to give up smoking alto- gether, and has taken to playing checkers and chewing ddmphor-quill toothpicks. His wife, Queen Marguerite, is not fair, but she is fat and forty and dabbles anonymously in litera- ture. Hersuccess asan author, however, has not been unmitigated, a novel which she re- <ently sentto more than one of the Italian E::n::’\'u having been ‘“returned with MENU FOR. :OI'DAT, SEPT. 16. BREAKFAST. Fruit. Oatmeal, Cream. Broffed Bacon. o Cape P B.‘fl Ia Hr.vnem ut a la Hach 9t 42 Haelies in Chafing Dish. i NER. P o L L LS 's Ple, Baked Tg;nnxon.u Peas. Letture and Onion Salad. Cold Cu Cheese. Coftee. ~—Household News. Dr. G. Schalbe, the eminent Strassburgan- thropologist, has just missed :nh oml::;r- lefo, is at the Russ. the 5- PERSONAL. Edward McGettigan,a politician from Val- R. L. Thowas, an Assemblyman from Nevada County, is at the Russ. E. J. Cody, the 8t. Louls vinegar man, is housed at the Palace. F. J. Brandon, the San Jose politician, is booked at the Grand. W. S. Pond, & Seattle insurance man, {5 stay- ing at the California Hotel. Abe Cohn, a Carson City clothing merchant, is in the City from Nevada. A. V. Wadhams of the United States steamer Mohican is at the California Hotel. Colonel C. C. Duncan, an Indian agent from Washington, is 8 guest &t the Occidental, Danjel O’Neill, chief clerk of the Redondo Hotel at Redondo Beach, is at the Lick House, Colonel Young, proprietor of the Russ House, has returned from the East. He was accompa- nied by Mrs. Young. 5 Captain Sheehy of the National Guard will Jeave for Chicago to attend the Irish-American convention in that city. A. E. Hawley of the Arlington Hotel, S8an Bernardino, is in the Ciiy for a few days. He is a guest at the Occidental. Rear-Admiral Beardsley of ghe United States Navy, accompanied by his aid, Lieutenant Charles E. Fox, is registered at the Occidental. R. H, Dwyer, trainmaster of the Louisville division of the Illinois Central Railway, is at the California Hotel. Mr. Dwyer’s home isat McComb, Miss. John Harpst, one of the lumber merchants of Arcata, is at the Grand Hotel. accompanied by his newly made bride. The couple are on their wedding trip. Willlam Remley and wife are registered at the Russ. Mr. Remley 1s & wood contractor from Carson City, Nev., and is in the City on his Loneymoon. G. E. Tarbell, one oi New York’s leading in- surance men, is & guest at the Palace Hotel. He Is out on the coast looking into the dis- turbance in the compact. : Le Baron R. Olivi and wife are registered from San Jose at the Russ. The Baron has large coffee interests in Central Ameriea, but spends a great deal of his time in California. Brunt Good, the owner of the Lyceum Thea- ater, New York, is at the Palace Hotel. He is accompanied by Miss Kate Good, Harry H. Good, Miss Colwell, H. Oltman and Miss Oak- ley. The party is traveling for pleasure. Associate Justice Stephen J. Field departs for Washington to-night, via the Union Pacific, in a special car. He will be accompanied by Mrs, Field, Mrs. Condit Smith and her two daugh- ters. Mr. Fleld leaves the coast greatly im- proved in health, and quite ready for the work before him at the United States capital. Colonel George P. Norris, & member of the bar of Philadelphia, Pa., and Washington, D. C., was yesterday admitted to practice in the Supreme Court ot the Territory, on motion of Judge C. W. Bennett. Colonel Norris, after several months’ inspection, has decided to lo- eate in the City of Zion, but it is not his inten- tion to engage much in the practice of his pro- fession at the present time, as he is engaged in mining and other operations. It is said that Colonel Norris is representing Eastern and California capitalists in this section.—Salt Lake Tribune. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 14.—Arrivals at the hotels: San Francisco—E. E. Buchletol, W. J. Lutton, Murray Hill; P. Cahill, Park avenue; L. W. 8. Downes, Cosmopolitan; Mr. and Mrs. G. Fair, Coleman; L.D.Owens, Hoffman; Mr. and Mrs. K. Dickerson, Bartholdi; F. G. Lewis, §t. Cloud. Oakland—G. T. Hawley, L. E. Money, Sturtevant. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 14.—Arrivals at hotels to-dey were: Mrs. V.F. Anthony, Mrs. Anthony, Oakland, St. James; J. D. Bruce, San Francisco, Arlington Hotel; C. Wise and wife, Oakland, National House; C. B. F. Lincoln and wife, H. Mihing and wife, San Francisco, Raleigh Hotel; Hector G. Reinold, Charles E. Vail, J. J. Thomas, A. Rogers, Salt Lake City. E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street. o’ RENTS collected. Ashton, 411 Montgomery.* GEo. W. MONTEITH, la w offices, Crocker bldg. BacoX Printing Company, 508 Clay strast.* CrEAM mixed candies, 25¢ 1b. Townsend’s. —————————— AFTER TRYING THEM ALL call on the Indian doctors. Herbs will cure. % —————— FALL OPENING.—French pattern bonnets and hats Wednesday and Tharsday, September 18 and 19, at L. E. Connor’s, 36 Geary street. * —_————— In the West.—First Citizen (in the near fu- ture)—Who is that they’re goin’ to string up? Second Citizen—That’s the man that stole Tornado Pete’s bicycle.—Puck. T —— FaLL medicine is fully as important and as bene- ficial as Spring medicine. Hood's Sarsaparilla should be taken at this season to keep the blood pure and the bodily health vigorous. . DR. SIEGERT'S Angostura Bitters, the most efficacious stimulant to excite the appetite, keeps the digestive organs in order. — Ir affiicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp- son’s Eye Water. Druggists sell it at 25 cents. 7 DRAPERY DEPARTMENT. Just Received, New Lines of Drapery In All the Latest Fall Novelties. JAPANESE CREPON. Gold printed, in red, blue, green, white and yellow At 15¢ yard FIGURED TOURAINE SILK. Elegant designs, Only 25¢ yard CRETONNE, In a great variety of patterns and colorings, At 1230, 15¢, 20¢ and 25¢ yard TAPESTRIES. T 50 inches widé, =5 456 a yard HANDSOME DESIGRS. Exj%?and 750 a yard LARGE ASSORTMENT OF SILK TAPESTRIES. NEW FIGURED DENIMS. ‘Beautiful designs, __30c and 40¢ a yard NEW CUSHION TOPS. s 15¢ a pair TAPESTRY SQUARES. 150, 20¢ and 25¢ each SILK SQUARES. _ & 'bceach PLUSH SQUARES. __ 75¢ and $1 each NEW SCRIMS. NEW NETTINGS. NEW SWISSES. Parcels delivered free fn this and neighboring ecities and towns. Country orders solicited. Sam- ples on application. KOHLBERGC, STRAUSS & FROHMAN, 107 AND 109 POST STREE e A N D 12204 1222~ 1224 MARKET- 8T«