The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 20, 1895, Page 6

HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proj ‘einr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: paily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier.§0.15 Teily and Sundsy CALI, one year, by mail... 6.00 T aily and Sunday six months, by mail 3.00 Dafly andEund: hree months, by matl 1.50 and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail .65 . 1.50 W EEKLY CALL, One year, by mal . 150 BUSINESS OFFICI 710 Market Street. Telephore. ceverbeeeessnns: MOID—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: b17 Clay Street. Telephone....... Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: £0 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until 9:50 o'clock. Hayes street : open until 9:30 o'clock. 717 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. §W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open wotil € o'clock. 4518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Pacific States Advertls u, Rhinelander w York City. Cleveland will be retired long before the greenbacks are. Atlanta is in her glory and California should be in it too. There are stil! some skeptics bold enough to declare the new woman is a myth. term movement fits the comic t had been made for them. The syndicate will give another help to the gold reserve, but we are not proud of it. The thi papers as The reply of the America cup committee to Dunraven was short, but it reached him. When the people are ready to fightevery specific wrong that appears, municipal re- form is near at ha: members in one night isone up the Olympic Club and prove effective. Firing sixty sioners for reducing rates, but the people would protest if they didn’t. Director Sonntag is right in holding if the Half-million Club means busi- ness it should act in a business way. E The Railroad Commi pare to go into court wi the record besides Southern Pacific evi- dence. They say Henry Watterson has quit pol- but it Jooks more as if Blackburn and had jerked Kentucky politicsaway m. People who delight in color effects will note with pleasure that the combination of blue and gray at the South has given the whole country a roseate hue. The Vailey road has arranged for per- fect drainage at Stockton, but it will not be the kind of drain to which the monop- oly has subjected the people. Ii the Rev. J. H. Allen iscorrect in hold- ing that the world will come to an end be- fore 1900 it is all the more reason why we should hurry up and purify our City gov- ernment. The Philadelphia Record declares it would bave been money in the pockets of the people®i Pennsylvania if the mem- bers of the last Legislature bad never been born. Same her If it be true that De Witt Talmage is to accept a pastorate in Washington Cit; those Kansas men who propose to move the National capital further west will geta large support from the country. ith the Boston Post that which is par excellence a summer 11 be the ideal summer convention ,” but when it claims that Boston is the place we must enter a smiling prot The resolve of the American Bimetallic TUnion to call a convention in 1896 to nomi- nate a candidate for the Presidency ought to be reconsidered. There is no instance on record of a third party winning a Presi. dential contest. Commenting on the proceedings of the Grand Army encampment at Louisville, the Iater Ocean says, “There was as much of the element of poetry Mr. Watter- son’s speech as 1n Mr. Riley’s poem.” Mr. Riley will now bow his thanks, while Wat- terson will wonder why Chicago don’t go abroad and advertise for a critie, Hen: M. Stanley’s announcement that he came to America to obtain information that would be usefulto him in Parliament contains a good hint for many Eastern Congressmen who never think it worth | while to travel over the West to acquire knowledge that would enable them to serve the country better as legislators at Wash- ington. Gl Among the novelties of the recent carni- val week in Minneapolis none attracted more attention, gave more delight or aused more talk than a streetcar covered with incandescent bulbs showing all the colors of the rainbow, and rapidly shifting from one combination to another. The idea1s a good one for carnival cities in California that have electric railways. The latest sensation in Chicago has been caused by a Judge named Payne, who, in charging the Grand Jury, said: *The man who is guilty snall be punished whether he is too poor to hire a lawyer or rich enough to buy the bar.” The Judge is be- lieved to have aimed his lick at the big meat-packers who are charged with tap- ping the water mains with secret pipes. . One of the side topics that engages dis- cussion 1n the East just now is a proposed constitutional amendment providing for a Presidential term of eight years, ineli- gibuiity of re-election, and the making of ex-Presidents United States Senators for life. The discussion is of course a sort of debating society politics which the big West is too busy to take part in just now. A new publication in this City which undertakes to carry on an old workin a new way is the Industrial Record, issued monthty by the United States Industrial Agency of the Department of California. Itis under the editorship of L. M. Holt, and the first issue, which has just appeared, outlines a policy of plans and purposes which, if well carried out and supported, will be helpful to both employers and em- ployes. FUEL FROM LOS ANGELES. It seems to be a pretty well determined fact that enterprising capitalists of this City are to organize a company for the pur- pose of running a pipe line from the oil wells of Los Angeles to San Pedro and bringing the oil thenceé'to San Francisco by sea, to be used here as fuel. Experts whom they have sent to examine the oil and the probable extent of the natural store have reported favorably on both propositions, and now one of the capitalists has gone to the scene for the purpose of making final arrangements with the owners of the wells. It will require time to determine what will be the cost of the new fuel, but it eer- tainly will be much lower than that of coal; and as the experts have reported that it is an excellent heat-making fuel, the difficulties under which we now labor on the score of costly fuel will be greatly modified. This has so direct a bearing on many matters now affecting the present and future prosperity of the State that it may be regarded as one of the most impor- tant happenings of recent years. The matter of the natural oil supply of California has received very inadequate at- tention in the past. Some promising wells were developed in the Santa Cruz Moun- tains, but the Standard Oil Company in- terferea and practically destroyed their value. In addition to this, the charges of discrimination practiced by the Southern Pacific in favor of the Standard Oil concern are believed to have been true. At the same time, the indications with regard to the Los Angeles oil are that it is far supe- rior to the more northern oils for use as fuel in a crude form, as it is remembered that the experiments made by the South- ern Pacific with petroleum as fuel for its engines and steamers were unsatisfactory. It will be a splendid thing for the State if the San Francisco company succeed in its expectations to bring the Los Angeles oil to this City. Los Angeles will receive the henefit of the sales and San Francisco that of cheaper fuel. While this is going on the Corral Hollow road is being vigor- ously pushed from Stockton to the new coal mines, and as we are assured that this coal can be laid down in San Francisco for a small fraction of the cost of other manufacturing coals, a great reduction of the present obstacles is promised from that source. With these encouraging happenings pro- jected for the near future there need be no worry about competition with Eastern manufacturers. Cheap fuel and competi- tion in transportation will work a greater revolution in the prosperity of California than can be imagined at present. i NEEDLESS WORRY. worrying over the reported attempts of the Southern Pacific to separate the Atlantic and Pacific road from the Santa Fe sys- tem, with the supposed purpose of pre- venting the San Francisco and San Joaquin Railroad from making overiand transpor- tation arrangements with the Santa Fe. The only value which such work on Mr. Huntington's part could have would be as | an acknowledgment of his fear that the [ San Joaquin road will in all probability prove a dangerous competitor. As that, however, is a fact already well known Mr. Huntington’s confirmation of it could have no practical value. There are no indications that the San !Joazluin Valley road projectors have an | overland line in contemplation, Their great parpose now is to build up the State by creating competition in transportation between the San Joaquin Valley and tide- water. That in itself is the grandest stroke of enterprise ever made by the people of the State, and it is sufficient for the present. What the future operationsof thecompany may be will probably depend on many ¢ cumstances, and as a considerable time must elapse before the road could be pushed below Tehachapi, even should there be any ention of doing so, many things may happen to smooth the way to the East, should that finally be decided on. The present duty of the people is o lend | a1l possible encouragement and assistance to the new road and further its evaident aims to meet an urgent necessity. The difficulties under which the utiern Pacific is now laboring are solely those of | its own creation in the pursuit of a policy of picking all the fruit when only a small part of it was ripe. It has loaded itself with burdens which it has’ been compelled to shift upon the people and industries of the State. Asa large part of these bur- dens would be cast off by the people in the building of a railroad through the San Joaquin, the power of the Southern Pacific to levy tribute would be greatly reduced, and it must seek elsewhere to recoup its | losses. THE DOWLING-MORTON INQUEST. THE CALLthis morning publishes a state- ment of facts concerning the Dowling- Morton inquest, which took place at Col- fax, in this State, several months ago | under the direction of Coroner Berry | Mitchell. 1n a telegram published in Tue CarL on June 27 an incorrect account of the inquest was given, the article reflect- ing unjustly on Mr. Mitchell, and by the publication of to-day’s article he is set right before the people of the State and is thereby accorded all the reparation that one gentleman can give to another. We are able to state that this ending of the controversy ensuing from the publica- tion of this article is satisfactory to Mr. Mitchell. Tue CALL does not begrudge this ex- planation to the gentleman who was in- jured, but gives him a full, generous measure in this regard. The editor of this paper will not knowingly or willingly mis- represent any person, and if a mistake has been made by any of the correspondents or reporters connected with this journal will cheerfully correct the same. This course islaid down by Tug CALL as the only course that may be consistently fol- lowed by a frank and honest newspaper. In public affairsasin private affairs the man who has been misrepresented is en- titled to haye the truth made known in order that his good name and his standing among his fellow-citizens may be restored to him. This measure of justice THE CALL stands ready invariably to bestow. NEBRASKA HEARD FROM. The Supreme Court of Nebraska has fol- Jowed Judge Ross’ course in California: it lhas decided that the irrigation laws of that State are unconstitutional. As a conse- quence the people of Nebraska are dis- mayed, and & large irrigation scheme which was in process of formation and which would have added millions to the property of the State will e abandoned. This will tend to strengthen the opinion of of the United States in all probability will uphold Judge Ross’ decision. The text of the Nebraska decision has not reached us, but it is a safe presump- tion that it was founded on the common law of England, as have been the decis- ions in this State adverse to the principle of irrigation. It is the old question of riparian preference. The streams of Eng- land and the Eastern States of America were never needed forirrigation, but solely for turning mill wheels; hence the rights those who think that the Supreme Court | of the riparian owner had to be strictly guarded, because corn had to be ground and lumber sawed. The common-law principle is rendered all the more archaic by reason of the fact that steam has largely superseded water- power in the running of machinery; or rather, since the introduction of steam angd other forms of power the preservation of the rivers to grinders of corn is no longer a necessity even in those countries which still employ water-power. Much less is it a necessity in the arid regions of the West, where water-power for running machinery is rare, and where when so used it is generally in the mountains, where irri- gation is not required. From every conceivable point of view, except that of the common-law precedent of England, sole consideration of the ripa- rian interest in America is illogical, ab- surd, ruinous and inapplicable. Yet every such decision as that from Judge Ross and the Supreme Court of Nebraska will hasten the making of laws to meet our ne- cessities. If this cannot be done it isas well that we begin to consider the advisa- bility of going out of the business of pre- tending to know how to conduct our own - affairs. THE LUMBER INDUSTRY. Those engaged in the redwood lumber industry have at last awakened to a reali- zation of the ruinous policy which they have been pursuing for some years past, and have organized themselves into a com- bination to protect their interests. Itis notorious that they have been losing money for years by underbidding among themselves. As a result of their combina- tion it is announced that they will advance prices about $2a thousand. No reasonable person will grudge them the benefit which this will bring them. In view of the com- petition which pine represents, there is no danger that prices will be put to a pro- hibitive figure. This movement calls attention to some important considerations which affect the redwood interests of the State. The coun- ties of Humboldt, Sonoma, Mendocino and Del Norte, with some assistance from Santa Cruz, contain the only redwood tinr- ber in the world. Vast areas of these splendid forests have already fallen before the ax, but still larger areas of virgin forest remain, to be attacked as railroad facilities are extended. Even in Santa Cruz County there remains a vast store of the timber, the owners holding it against destruction. Redwood is easily worked, is the most durable of all building woods, and under finish is almost as handsome as mahogany. A very remarkable peculiarity of it is that it does not burn readily. Its method of propagation is its most wonderful quality, and in it lies the sugges- tion for making it perpetual in the regions to which it is indigenous. No sooner is a tree destroyed than from the roots innu- merable shoots are sent up, and they begin among themselves a struggle for existence. It is common in redwood forests to find remarkable circles formed by these trees, which have grown up around the dead parent that originally occupied the center. It is evident that as many times the num- ber of shoots spring up as can find room for complete development the final recon- struction of the forest is greatly retarded by the struggle which must ensue. A little care in thinning out the young trees and guarding the woods against fire would make our forests of redwood perpetual. For that matter, as may be observed in the Santa Cruz Mountains, particularly at Forest Grove, .on the narrow-gauge rail- road. the forest has already reconstructed itself without any such care, so that trees now about 100 feet in height stand on ground which was stripped twenty years ago. This proves not only the wonderful growth and vigor of the tree, butalso the ability of a forest to reconstruct itself without any aid and in the face of dis- asters against which a forest of no other kind of tree could stand. The conclusion of all this is that although every standing redwood tree in California may be cut down and made into lumber the tree will never be exterminated and California will remain forever in possession of this price- less treasure. No other building timber is so tenacious of life and no other perpetu- ates itself with so great pertinacity. At the same time a redwood forest, for all that the wood itself is difficult to burn, covers the ground with a highly inflam- mable carpeting of twigs, conesand needles, and the green boughs themselves burn without great difficulty. Fire, then, is a greater menace to the redwood than is the ax. A fire will so scar an old tree asto make an opening through the white sap to the true red heart, and when that occurs the red part will decay, leaving only a shell of white wood and bark. Even thus crippled the tree will live on indefinitely, but its value as timber is gone. It is as much to the interest of.the own- ersof redwood forests asof the people at large to make the most stringent restric- tions against the introduction of fire into these forests. The subject is one demand- ing the attention of the Legislature. NO THIRD PARTY. ‘Without questioning the general wis- dom of the able men who have been in- trusted with the management of the cam- paign for the remonetization of silver, it is certain the proposal of the newly organ- ized American Bimetallic Union to calla National convention next vear to nom- inate candidates for President and Vice- President is not wise, and will resultin a great political blunder if carried out. Third parties have never been successful in a National election, and parties with but a single issue have rarely been suc- cessful under any circumstances. Politi- cal parties are organized to carry on the administration of the Government, and this necessarily involves some determina- tion concerning every issae at stake. These issues are numerous and complex. They include everything from matters of Governmental routine to new departures and untried experiments in legislation. A party to be successful in a National con- test must have behind it a history that gives confidence in its ability to conduct the Government, and that is something which in the very nature of it no newly formed party pledged only to a single is- sue can have. We have ever been strong advocates of the remonetization of silver. We believe that a return to bimetallism is perhaps the most important single issue now before the civilized world. Imvortant as it is, however, it is only one issue among many in this country, and is not sufficiently great to override all others in the mind of any man who takes a fairly comprehen- sive view of National conditions. The affairs of the Nation cannot be well man- aged by men who agree only on one sub- ject, but they could be thus administered in the main by men who, agreeing in everything else, differed from one another on that subject only. ‘Whatever extreme silver men may think ordesire the general mass of citizens are aware that the Nation must be governed either by Republicans or Democrats. If these two parties do not speak clearly in their National conventions on the silver question their candidates for Congress can be made to do so in every district; and long before the campaign is over it will be easy to learn how each candidate for Presi- dent would act in case Congress should pass a free silver bill. With this knowledge the people can vote intelligently on the silver question without the need of a third party, and by so voting there would be hope of success in electing a free silver majority in Congress. The proposed free silver party can have no other effect than that of dividing the silver forces and dissipating their strength on election day. The goldbugs could de- sire no better scheme for weakening their opponents than that which the Bimetallic Union itself proposes. If the silver lead- ers hope to win, as we trust they will, they must avoid any such political blunder as a third party. The Nation will be governed in the future either by Republicans or by Democrats, and those who vote for any other party will simply waste a vote that more wisely directed might have been potent in winning the very object they desire to obtain. PERSONAL. Major McCarty, a banker of Yolo, is at the Russ. Dr. R. K. Smith ot the navy is a guest at the Palace, W. H. Binty, a hotel man of Salt Lake, is at the Grand. Lieutenant W. 8. Hughes of the navy is at the Palace. Rear-Admiral Beardsley registered at the Oc- cidental vesterday. Thomas H. Thompson of Tulare registered at the Lick yesterday. A.Jones, a merchant of San Luis Obispo, is staying at the Russ. G. McM. Ross of Petalume registered at the Occidental yesterday. Verne L. Joslyn, editor of the Marysville Standard, is in the City. R. F. Hall, a prominent merchant of Watson- ville, 1sa guest at the Russ. W. Darneal of Los Gatoscame to town yester- day, ana put up at the Lick. J. Jeans, a large land-owner of Winters, reg- istered at the Russ yesterday. George B. Stuart, a merchant of Crows Land- ing, is registered at the Grand. F. T. Robbins, a merchant of Healdsburg, registered yesterday at the Russ. E. A. Kent, a mining manof Tuolumne County, is a guest at the California. Randolph Hersey, a big fruit-grower of Santa Clara, registered at the Palace yesterday. Nate R. Salsbury of Chicago,a prominent shipper of California fruit, is at the Palace. R. B. Howitt, & mining man from Mexico, was one of yesterday's arrivals at the Grand. William Barklage, & mining man of Lead- ville, Colo., registered at the Lick yesterday. Harry Knox, lieutensnt-commander in the navy, and his family, from Ohio, are at the Grand. B. Campbell, general freight agent of the Northern Pacific at Portland, registered yester- day at the Palace. i William Waterhouse, a prominent merchant of Honolulu, has returned to town, and is staying at the Occidental. Joscph A. Dear, treasurer and business man- ager of the Jersey City Evening Journal and of the Jersey City Printing Company, is with his wife at the Palace. Ex-Governor H. H. Markham came in yester- day from San Andreas, where he had been to attend the funeral of the late ex-Lieutenant- Governor Reddick, and isstaying at the Palace. Armand Decourtieux, who i{s prominent in the French colony here, was badly hurt in a runaway three weeks ago. He isnow at Astorg Springs, in Lake County, where he is rapidly recovering. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sep! —Californians at hotels to-day: San Francisco—Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Auzerais, Miss Allen, Coleman; A. L. Bryan, Mrs. A, L. Bryan, J. C. Paine, Broadway Central; J. Kelly, Stewart; C. Keuchler, Astor; H. McDermott, Grand Union; H. Ras- mussen, S, Peiser, . L. Waller, Marlborough; Miss Torzer, Whittier, Holland; A. P. Brayton, Grand, CALIFORNIANS WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 19.—Among to- Qay's arrivals were: San Francisco—William I. Smith, Hotel Vendome; P.Cahill and son, St. James; J. M. Bennett and wife, Metropoli- tan; R. P. Troy, National Hotel. IN WASHINGTON. BUILDING OF TALL STRUCTURES, A member of the Board of Supervisors is credited with having made the remark that the buildi crapers ought not to be permitted in San Francisco; that the presence of these towering buildings injured the value of adjoining property in the matter of rents, and that he hoped the Spreckels building, now under contract, with its fifteen stories and a dome, would be the last of its kind. In other words, because the adjoining building on Mar- ket street is only a one-story structure, Mr. Spreckels should be confined to the building of aone-story. This is the policy that hasani- mated silurians and retarded the growth and beauty of the City, but it will do so no longer. There is mo vower that can prevent & man from building & Tower of Babel on his grounds if he wants to, ana the future beauty and grandeur of San Franeisco will be in a display of rivalry in architectural art. When Mr. Hearsl makes up his mind to build he will re- cefve the plaudits of all good citizens by em- bellishing his twenty-story structure with a grand tower, as he has intimated that he will do. With all due deference to the business judgment of the gentleman who expressed this sentiment the value of the more modest struc- tures and the property they invest is not in- jured by the presence of majestic structures, but increased, just to the extent that property in & large city is more valuable than that in a smaller one.—San Francisco News Letter. HIGH BUILDINGS. The argument against tall buildings made by Chief Sullivan is absurd. The erection of such un edifice as that which will shortly arise on the corner of Third and Market streets may be & detriment to the disgraceful shanties which will flank it on either side, but even thatis doubtful. Indeed, it is more than probable that the shanties by their proximity will in- jure the tall building. Let any one honestly ask himself the question whether the Mills building has not benefited the rookeries in the neighborhood, and follow it up with the inquiry, how much better off would the owner of the Mills building be if Montgomery street was lined with stately structures instead of relics of 1849? And the absurdity of Sullivan’s argument will be at once manifest to him. Regarding the utterly pureile assump- tion that the concentration of people in & lim- ited space is undesirable, it is only necessary to say that the theory of modern business is rapid intercourse, and that is best accom- plished by promoting propinquity. With this object exchanges have been created, where business men keep in touch, and for precisely the same reason business men prefer to see large office buildings multiplied, that the wear and tear of life may be minimized by saving footsteps, etc.—San Francisco Chronicle. A NEWSPAPER MAN STRIKES OIL. O. P. Shaffer of the Youngstown (Ohio).Sun- day News recently leased some land at Impe- rial, Pa., and set men to work digging for oil. On Saturday, August 31, just as the men were Prenlrlng to stop work, oil burst through, and s now running through at the rate of over 100 barrels T day.—] Maker per day.—New York Newspaper PEOPLE TALEKED ABOUT. Hillsdale (Mich.) College conferred the de- gree of Doctor of Literature on Will Carleton, the poet. President Cleveland has accepted an invita- tion to visit the Atlanta Exposition or October 23 and inspect the fair. Dennis Reardon, Boston’s most famous archi- tect, and who designed the Boston Library, has been totally blind since his ninth year. Mrs. Sarah A. Smith of Philadelphia hasleft her entire estate, valued at $300,000, for the maintenance ot the children's playground at Fairmount Park, that city. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Charles J. Richman, the handsome actor who is to take the part of Jullan Beauclerc in “Diplomacy” on Monday at Stockwell’s, was Mrs. Langtry’s leading man in “Gossip” at Palmer’s Theater in New York last spring. When he was told last evening of the reported robbery of $200,000 worth of jewelry from her in London he said: ‘‘The amount is not to be wondered at. Mrs. Langtry wore in the first act of ‘Gossip’ fully $500,000 worth, and I do not know how much more she has. She had on the tiara with diamonds and immense CHARLES J. RICHMAN. pearls which Abingdon Baird gave her. This wassaid to be worth $200,000. Then there was the immense diamond necklace,with large rubies, and below that was fastened herim- mense ruby, said to be the largest in the world. Her corsage simply glittered with gorgeous jewelry. This was all genuine, too. She al- ways had two detectives at the door of her dressing-room every night. A peculiarity of hers is thather taste in jewelry does not run to ringsor bracelets at all. With all that she displayed there was the best of taste shown. In fact her dressing with the iatest spring styles had much to do with drawing out such fashionable audiences. In her appearance on the stage she is obvionsly refined. «Mrs, Langtry had a regular retinue of eight or nine people with her. There were her phy- sician, her chef, the detectives, & betting com- ‘missioner, baggage-man, maid and dresser.” A reporter of the New York Evening Sun calling on Mrs. Langtry remarked the beauty of the articles of vertu in her rooms. She spoke of the fact that most of them were gifts from friends. “I like to have something,” she said, “even if it is & little thing from any of my friends to remind me of them.” “What has Mr. Palmer given you?” she was asked. “Mr. Palmer? Let me see, what did Mr. Palmer give me? Oh, yes, he gave me Mr. Richman.” Mr. Richman was down for the part of Taffy in the original “Trilby” when he was “loaned,” as he says, by Palmer to Mrs. Langtry. Asked about the company that is to appear here he said: “I predict that Wilton Lackaye as Svengali will make one of the greatest hits that have ever been known on your coast. There has not been a hitin New York equal to it in a long time.” Gavin McNab was standing in the lobby of the Occidental last evening when Judge Law- lor came in with his hound Tasso, who has been his almost inseparable companion since the last dog show, when he took a first prize. “Do you know,” said McNab, “that dog will be the cause of Lawlor’s ruin, politically, be- fore iong. He knows his master’s moods, his likes and disiikes, better than any of his human friends. He has gone around with the Judge while he was doing politics so much that he knows nearly politician in town by name and sight. What is more remarkable he knows who are the Judge's friendsand who are not. For the former he always offers the ‘glad hand’ in the shape of & smile and a wag of his ex- pressive tail. But for the latter he has no greeting. Now, you know, the Judge is always affable to those he knows and Isuppose the dog must read his mind to learn what he has about the Judge's likes and dislikes. “But lately a lot of the boys have been turn- ing this to account in order to find out whether they are in Lawlor's good graces or not. Any onein doubt will go up to the dog ‘when the master is occupied, give him greeting and repeat his own name. The dog's response always settles the matter. And that is the reason why the Judge is wondering these days that so many who have been at least ostensibly friendly now greet him very coldly.” McNab was later joined by Lawlor and the dog, of which they began to talk. “Most intelligent pup,” said Lawlor. “A short time ago I left him with a friend fora few days while I went out of town. The dog got tired of his company or lonesome without me, and decided to go over to Belvedere, where he was raised. He went down to the ferry land- ing, but somehow he mistook the name Berke- ley over the depot for Belvedere. The names are somewhat alike, and the dog is young yet, you know. THOUGHTS OF WESTERN EDITORS. The rains of the present summer have put beyond the domain of doubt a great crop of standard crops in Arizona and a prodigious increase in the cattle industry. The rain has been general throughout the Territory and the fall elsewhere was commensurate with the requirements with the abundance of water. Good crops, increase of gold 1;;l'odnct, the situ- ation in Arizona presents a happy contrast to many other portions of this Republic. It is ungenerous to make comparisons for self-con- gratulation, but it is just that Arizona, so maligned and misrepresented, should stand before the world robed in the garments of truth. To-day we stand out as the one spot in the Union where the three years of financial storm has left no perceptible wreckage to mark its_footsteps. Arizona stands to-day finan- cml;xu one of the most substantial sections of this Nation.—Arizona Gazette. Our method of granting franchises to every- ‘body applying for them, for all sorts of pur- poses, is open to severe criticism. For trifling sums the most valuable rights are accoraed for terms of twenty to fifty years. A change should be made whereby the munici- pality or \‘D“nis shall get a_percentage of "the gross revenues derived by all such semi-public enterprises as lighting, heating and transpor- tation companies. As it is, these privilegesare granted for practically nothing, and in a very few years the franchises become valuable prop- erty.—Los Angeles Journal. That the constitution will be adopted by the people is a certainty; that Utah will be ad- mitted asa State is a certainty. Now it be- comes the] duty of every Republican, every friend of the laborer, every friend of protection to American industry, every friend of silver to vote the Republican ticket this fall, by means of which prosperity to all our industries will come, every man will have plenty to do, and the blessings obtained in good Republican times will nf:in be restored to Utah.—Provo (Utah) Enquirer. The Stockton Record mentions as matter of news that cents have been introduced into Los Angeles. The matter is an old one,and if Northern California has not done the same thing she is away behind the age. Coppers have been in common use both in Angeles and Pasadena for years.—Pasadena Star, Cities of South California are waking up to the vast importance of having representatives and lenud matter at the Atlanta exposition. Nearly every city will at least send descriptive pamphlets.” Judiciously distributed, they wou! g do a world of good.—Redlands Citro- graph. “How Greatness Is Achieved; or, From the Editorial Sanctum to the County Jail,” is the title of a contemplated story of life in Nevada whieh will probabl issued from the Tribune office in the latter part of November.— Carson (Nev.) Tribune. The San Francisco CALL, under the able muu,emant of C. M. Shortridge, has taken the lead of the City plpen.—-.umrllel’ Herald. Itis none too soon to make preparations for impressing Congress with the fact that the commerce and industries of the great Santa Clara Valley demand that the harbor at Alviso be improved. There is no doubt that the money can be obtained if the right nfluences are brought to bear.—San Jose Mercury. We believe that Nevada is one of the best States in the Union. She is destined to become even greater as & manufacturing, mining and agricultural community, to say nothing of its growtn educationally and religiously. Now is & most opportune time to locate within her borders.—Yerington (Nev.) Rustler. We want the Valley road, want it bad and are willing to pay for it. Our people have al ready secured pledges that will grade the road- bed through the county, and when it comes to seeking money Hanford will get there with both feet.—Hanford Democrat. Sheep-shearers are now receiving 4 centas fleece. They used to get 6 cents under a Re- publican administration. They therefore con- tribute $1 20 4 day to support an administra- tion: that believes in free wool. And this ona basis of only 60 fleeces a day.—Ukiah Republi- can-Press. Placer County now stands second in the pro- duction of gold in this State. It will be only a short period before we can be classed at the head of the list. Prospectors are scouring the hills for claims and several good ones have een located recently.—Auburn Republican. REPUBLISHING COMPLIMENTARY NOTICES. Several esteemed contemporaries are discuss- ing the practice of newspapers republishing complimentary notices concerning feats of en- terprise on their part, and have agreed that such practice is very bad taste and should be discontinued. Remarkably enough, however, an intimate acquaintance with the press of the State discloses that the papers which are re- sponsible for this remarkable seli-abnegation seldom, if ever, are in receipt of any compli- ments which could be copied even were they so disposed. This fact, therefore, gives the move- ment a sort of sour-grape flavor, which causes it to lose what little strength it might other- wise have had. There is a perfectly justifiable motive in the republication of the notices under discussion, and that motive is to let the readers of a paper know the estimation in which it is held abroad. It is a fact that the better a local paper is the more it arouses the envy of its immediate competitors and draws their attacks. Misrepresentation and falsifica- tion are showered upon it, until a portion of the unsuspecting public are led to believe that there is some truth in these attacks. Itis eminently proper, then, to counteract such cowardly attacks by refraining trom payment in kind, but by simply republishing such state- ments as tend to show the estimation in which the paper is held elsewhere by contemporaries which are not actuated by feelings of jealousy and spite.—Bakersfield Californian. DECLINE OF THE HAIR-APPARENT. Lady Colin Campbell’s Realm reports that Paderewski is growing bald.—World. T This is astounding news, O muse, Astounding and confounding news: "Twill women give the blues, And set them sadly quaking in their shoes. In act they il be appalled To learn that Paderewski’s growing bald, Growingbald! What! he, Paderewski, Master of meloly, He grows bald Of course his worshipers will be appalled; They cannot bear, They’ll all declare, To think of him divided from bis hair— That hair! i They'll be appalicd— They'll be appalled— Pray picture him as bald, Who in the past was called Sweet music's hair-apparent. The name it was agreed, Was very good, indeed; 1t fits, said one and all, As echo fits Its call, It fits as fits the paper on the wall, When last we heard him play, Before he went away (We state but facts), Billows of hair, hair in great cataracts, Thickets of hair, hair piled in tossing stacks, Hung o’er his eyes. (While' women gazed and hesved sdmiring sighs). As o'er a haycart hangs, Some market da Mountains of hay. Iv. We all shall be appalled, 1f ramor is correct (It’s lying, we suspect). And Paderewski’s head shall greet us bald, For oh, You know, 1t Is as though (And hence the blow) The sea should cease to flow; And plain before the eye Tts record should defy, ‘And timid nerves should try, By running dry; ¥or ob, You know, 1t is as though é)And hence the blow) ur own Depew, A dinner through, And hushed the tabie's hum, His time for speaking com, Should get up dumb; For ob, You know, It s as though (And hence the blow) Our William Nye We should espy, Not with a polished crown, But sporting tresses brown, Running in cunning curls his shoulders down! V. O Fate, you're most unfalr, O Fate, how could you dare, O Fate, how folks will stare ‘When next upon a concert grand he plays an air— Paderewsk! plays an air— ‘Without his hair! —New York Mail and Express. OFINIONS OF EASTERN EDITORS. From Manitoba. Manitoba is a field of production upon which an inattentive eye is sometimes kept. Mani- toba has between 6,000,000 and 7,000,000 acres of prime land available for wheat, of waich only 2,500,000 are yet sown. Yet this one-third of the total area produces in 1895 60,000,000 bushels of grain of all kinds. This amount is raised by 25,000 farmers, many of them immigrants from the Northwestern States of the Union. A very few years indeed will serve for occuryinx the rest of the prime lands, whose annual produce will then have been raised to upward of 150,000,000 bushels. The item is one of consequence in the total produce of the great Northwest taken, as the world’s fur;ets do take it, as a unit.—New York Even- ing Sun. The Anti-Platt Movement. To paraphase a declaration made famous by the Hon. Grover Cleveland and used by him in advocacy of his own election in 1892, “We see the anti-Platt Republican listening to a delu- sive story that fills his mind with visions of ad- vantage,” while Platt continues to elect dele- gates, to control the organization, to name the candidates and to shape the policy of the Re- publican party in New York.—New York Sun. Not a Million Tramps. In recent years we have often heard of the millions of tramps, the millions out of work, and the starving millions or pauperized mil- lions. Let the men who talk thus cut down the number by nine-tenths, and they will beso much nearer the truth. We never had any- where near a million tramps in this country.— New York Sun. The Third-Term Movement. When a gentleman as close to Mr. Cleveland as Senator Geor{e Gray is comes out in favor of a third term for his chief the last vestige of doubt is removed, if any existed before, that Mr. Cleveland’s friends are engineering, with his approval, a movement for a fourth nomina- gnuon and a third term.—New York Evening un. Objections to Yacht Races. There are three reasons why the Eagle does not admire yacht races: First, it i clusively confined to the rich; secon: possible to see it from Kansas; third, it is im- possible to understand it if you are actually Ppresent.—Wichita Eagle. Slaughtered Sheep. It does not appear that the Democratic party has made successful war upon anything ex- cept the American shee&noi those it has slaughtered about 8,000.f already, or more than a sixth.—New York Tribune. Strictly Western. A short campaign and a Western man elected ‘would help the country very much next year. By a Western man we do not mean a Western ml‘nhwuh Eastern ideas.—St. Louis Post-Dis- patch. A View of Topeka. Every other house in Topeka is a boarding- house and those between are drugstores. Of course the men who located the capital could not foresee this.—Wichita Eagle. X S —————————————————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. LIMBURGER CHEESE—E. M., City. What is known as Limburger cheese derives its name from the fact that it was first made in Lim- burg, Belgium. It is made of fresh milk and rennet heated tnfemer in a copper kettle until the milk coagulates, which occurs when a temperature of 80 degrees hes been attained. The curd is then stirred into small pieces until the heat increases to 92 degrees. After having been heated for the proper length of time it is run into molds. For three days after that salt is rubbed into the cheese and then the molds are put on shelvesand stored away. Tiwice & weeg an oily exudation is forced back into the cheese by rubbing. It takes four months for the cheese to ripen. PLANS AND SPECIFICATI 8.. City. Therels alaw on the books of this State that requires that when public buildings are about to be erected the Supervisors or other bodies that order the work done shall advertise for plans and specifications. If there are any of these bodies that neglect to comply with the provis- jons of that law any interested party can soon ascertain the reason by laying the matter be- fore the Grand Jury, of they can proceed against them for a neglect to perform a public duty. MINISTER AND CoNSUL—Several Subscribers, City. There is no United States Consul at Chile, but there is an Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, J. D. Porter, whose address is Santiago. To Guatemala there is Eben Alexander, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. He also represents the United States to Honduras, Hisaddressis Guatemala City. D. Lynch Pringle is Secre- tary of Legation and Consul-General. INTRODUCTION—W. L. K., City. The gentle- man should always be introduced to the lady, the lady’s #ame being used first. In shaking hands with an acquaintance on the street it is not necessary to_say “pardou my glove” any more than it would be to say ‘‘pardon my hat’ or “pardon my coat,” as gloves are as necessary 1o correct street attire as are the other articles named. RAIN AND SHINE—G. and N, City. The ques- tion, “Were there twelve consecutive days be- tween September 15, 1889, and May 1, 1890, when it did not rain, and the same between 1890 and 1891?” isanswered by stating that it did not rain from September 15 to October 7, 1889, and in 1890 it did not rain from the 15th of September to the 29th. WITHERING Roses—P. O'C., East Oakland, Cal. According to Nicholson’s “‘Dictionary of Gardening,” one of the leading works on gardening and floriculture, & fungus that attaches itself to rose bushes causes the flowers to wither before they blow. IN CHARGE OF THE SHERIFF—A. E,, City. Dur- ing the second trial of Laura D. Fair on the charge of murdering A. P. Crittenden the jury from the beginning of the trial to the close ‘was in charge of the Sheriff. BosTON T0 NEW YORK L., City. In going to New York from Boston by the Fall River line the vessels pass under Brooklyn Bridge before reaching Castle Garden. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. +Hello, Brown; are you going to the circus?”’ “Guess not this year.” “How’s that?” “My boy’s big enough to crawl under the tent now.” He, on the hotei piazza—These electric lights are very unreliable, She—That's so. A girl never knows what minute she is going to be kissed.—Life. “Isn’t your boy very tall for his age?"" “Isn’t he? You just ought to try to get him into a place on a half-fare ticket!” “Charles Henderson was smart.” “How 2" “Why, just before his Tich uncle died he called the young fellow to him and told him he had decided to leaye him nothing but his sutograph.” “Yes?" “And Charlie said, ‘all right,’ and then drew up a check for $100,000 and told the old man to put the autograph on it. It pleased the old man so much that he made it $200,000.”—Bos- ton Traveller. “Women,” sald he oracularly to her, “are rarely good listeners.” And the prospective mother-in-law in the hallway only applied her ear a little closer 1o the keyhole and smiled grimly.—Indianapolis Journal. MENU FOR SATURDAY, SEPT, 21. BREAKFAST, Fruit. Wheatlet, Milk Shirred Eggs. ‘Whole Wheat Muffins. Coftee. LUNCH. Hamburg Steaks. Tmnyonnuas of Beets. ‘en. Apple Salad. DINNER. Clear Soup. Broiled Steak. Potato Croquettes. Succotash. Macedoine of Vegetables, French Dressing. ‘Wafers with Toasted Cheese. Coftee, Fruit. —Household News. CREAM mixed candies, 25¢ 1b. Townsend’s. PICTURE cards. Roberts, 220 Sutter. o . Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street.* ——————— FINEST specs, 15¢ to 40c. 81}5 Fourth, near barber. Sundays, 738 Market (Kest shoestore).* - HuspaND’s Calcined Magnesia—Four first- premium medals awarded; more agreeable to the taste and smaller dose than other mag- nesia. For sale only in bottles with registered trade-mark label. < e — “Education shouldn’t stop when a womag gets married.” “No, indeed. I've learned a new language since George and I married.” “What language?”’ “Baby talk.” e e Hoop's Sarsaparilla bas permanently cured many thousands of cases of scrofula, rheumatism, nervousness and other troubles because it purifies and vitalizes the impoverished blood. e e «Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup" Fas been used over fifty years by millions of moth. .ers for their children while Teething with pertect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhaas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Ee sureand ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrap 352 4 bottle. To=day4 Furniture At Auction Commencing to-day at 10 o’clock—six carloads of assorted Bedroom, Library, Dining-room and Parlor Furniture and Carpets; cousignment from Grand Rapids, Mich. Must be sold—no reserve. Some- thing to suit everybody. TO-DAY IS THE LAST DAY, COME EARLY. 747 MARKET ST Opposite Grant Avenue. JOSEPH T. TERRY, Auctioneer. S O TP S WA ST Y KT »