The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 24, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Paily end Sunday CALL, one week, carrier.$0.15 Teily and Sundey CaLi, one year, by mail.. 6.00 Taily and CaLL. six months, by mail 3.00 n Dafly snd Sunday CALL, three months, by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL. one month, by mail .65 £unday CALL, one year, by mail. 1.50 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mail. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street. Telephone...ooeenee-e EDITORIAL ROOM: 517 Clay Street. Maln—-1868 Telephone BRANCH OFFICES: £70 Montgomery street, cornér Clay: open until £:20 o'clock. nth and Mission streets; open 2 street; open until 9 'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Pacific States Advertising Bureau, Rhinelander nd I E New York C The course of Marlborough’s love ran slick. is way to Da Brice is silent in the Ohio campaign, but say his money talks. The ladies of Denver have found that 1 exciting and has its little epi- P sodes. 1f the courts smile on the efforts of the people for relief the Solid Eight will quit laughing. If you offer Dr. Stebbins 2 permy for his thoughts you can have them, for he wishes to introduce pennie T sne before conserva- now is to head off the t e most pressi ti lver men third-party movem: As long as our forestry laws end in smoke many a noble and valuable wood- land will end the same way. So many bicycle factories are in opera- tion now some authorities declare there must be a trust or bust among them before long. Mowbray, the anarchist, is one of those British visitors to whom we could well af- ford to give a deadhead ticket back home again. We can beat the British at yacht-racing and athletics, but when it comes to the heiress stakes the championship is s with them. Now that the season of forest fires has returned the good resolutions made in regard to forest protection last year will be recalled and made over again. The shipment of 2200 tons of floux from Stockton to China inside of four days looks as if the Chinese have really made up their minds to live better hereafter. A half dozen prostrations and one death from heat during the day, with a freezing blast at night, is the kind of enterprise the Chicago weather had on Sunday. Maryland Democrats who talk of voting the Prohibition ticket this year asa pro- test against Gorman will probably do more violence to themselves than to him. They call Newport the queen of summer resorts on the Atlantic Coast, and even at this season of the year the thermometer is reported to register 90 in the shade. Now that the battery of pnenmatic dyna- mite guns is about confplete we should like to see somebody’s warship come up anfl try to play in our back yard when we say no. The San Jose Chinaman who offers $5000 to any reputable young American who will marry his daughter can hardly expect a guarantee that the reputation will survive the marriage. The reported row between General Lew Wallace and the Indiana Commissioners to the celebration at Chickamauga looks very much like fighting the battle o’er in in a literal way. When Uncle Sam talks about his pros- y this year other folks will have to nowledge the corn in a literal sense, for the crop is the largest on record and the prices are pretty good. The rigid enforcement of the Sunday Jaw in New York m: not have given the Democrats a fighting chance, but it has made them fighting mad and the cam- paign is going to be a hot one. As the first experiment with the Kansas condensed rations has led a soldier to com- mit suicide it would seem the rations have the merit of inspiring those who eat them with a willingn the Kentucky Democratic’ convention, of which we heard so much a short time ago, has been compbletely lost in the uproar of the Wat Hardin silver speeches. Now that the German Socialists have decided to cut down the pay of their rep- resentatives in the Reichstag it is very likely that many of those dignitaries will cease to be as social as they were, It won’t be long now before the Lake Merritt boulevard will be something that Oakland will be justly proud of and every visitor to the coast will go to see. As a scene for festival parades and pageants it will hardly have an equal in the world. Ever since a physician declared milk to be an unhealthful food we have been ex- pecting a similar announcement about eggs, and it has come at last n the re- port that experiments have shown man hens’ eggs to be infested with the deadis bacteria. The fire in the woods of the Banta Cruz Mountains has reached the extent'of a veritable calamity, and the damage done is incalenlable. BSurely no further lesson is needed to convince California that her care for her forests should go a little bit further than the maintenance of an orna- mental commission. As a number of energetic ladies propose to improve the public. square in Healds- burg and an energetic capitalist proposes to start a new factory, there will be a good opportunity for many a prominent silurian to feel a pleasant glow of satisfaction and expand himself in bragging about ‘‘our” enterprise. PRAOTIOALLY UNANIMOUS. The long list of interviews with promi- nent real estate dealers published in yester- day’s Carn shows that the men whose special study it is to watch the interests of City property and the general welfare of the community are unanimously op- posed to the proposed ordinance prohibit- ing the erection of buildings more than 100 feet in height. As the proposition so to limit the height comes too late to affect the plans for the erection of a fifteen-story building for THE CALL, this paper cannot be charged with a private interest in the ques- tion. For that matter, as THE Carv's build- ing would be the last of such structures and would be the highest and handsomest in the City, it might be expected that we would favor the ordinance for selfish rea- sons. We trust, however, that it is suffi- ciently well known by this time that Tue Cavr is incapable of cherishing a selfish interest where the good ot the City is con- cerned.. It would be publishing lottery ad- vertisements if it were. This whole question of high buildings has been so tnhoroughly discussed in Eastern cities, and so firmly settled, that it is merely threshing old straw to revive the arguments here. The one thing to be re- grettea is that the progressive people of the East, whom we are trying to bring to California, may take this proposition as an evidence of our silurianism. It must be | discouraging, particularly to the Half- v- | million Club and the other organizations which are working so hard to build up the State and City, to see even a mention of such a proposition. Now is the time above all others for showing what progressive- | ness we have, Some years ago the Supervisors adopted an ordmance prohibiting the erection of wooden Houses over sixty feet in height. Even that height is dangerous, but under that ordinance we are at liberty to erect these deathtrapsat willin the regions lying outside the fire limits. And they are being | constantly erected. As the fire limits are extremely restricted, some of the most de- sirable sections of the City are filling np with these dangerous structures. The life of a wooden house runs from twenty to forty years. Hence, whatever extension of the fire limits may be made in the next two or three decades, these dreadful struct- ures will stand as agbar to the proper de- velopment of the City. However safe a fireproof building may be, no one cares to erect one alongside or anywhere in the vicinity of one of these dangerous inflam- mable structures. It is not conceivable that the proposed ordinance will be passed. If it is it will complete the work begun by the ruinous tax levy, and it might be as well to sit down and wait fifty years longer for the advent of enlightenment. THE TARIFF ISSUE The repott that the Cleveland adminis- tration will under no circumstances issue another loan before the fall elections, and that every effort will be made by the Treasury Department:to arrange the fig- ures of the next monthly statement to conceal as far as possible the deficit in the revenue, is one that will find ready accept- ance. Very little in the way of further evi- dence is needed to confirm it, but abundant confirmation is found in the strenuous, though vain, efforts of the Democratic leaders and editors to get the tariff and revenue questions out of politics as much as possible wherever an election is to be held this fall. No skill in the manipulation of figures that the treasury has at its disposal, how- ever, will be able to hide from the people the failure of the tariff to afford a revenue. The statement recently 1ssued by the Bu- reatl of Statistics in reference to the trade of the year ending June 30, 1895, as com- pared with that of the year ending June 30, 1894, shows the workings of the Wilson tariff in too strong a contrast to that of the McKinley tariff for the difference to be overiooked, or for any possible persuasion of the people that a speedy reform of the tariff in the airection of higher and more protective duties is not necessary. According to the figures of the Bureau of Statistics, in the fiscat year 1895 we im- ported from Eurcope goods to the value of $383,686,842, while in the year 1894 the im- ports were valued at $295,077,865. This shows the increase of imports for the first year of the Wilson tariff of $88,608,977 over the last year of the McKinley tariff. We have sent abroad that much ingre money under a year of the new tariff than under the preceding year when protection was in force, and as a consequence Ameri- can factories and American workingmen have lost just that amount of money which would have been'saved at home to enrich the market for all other home products. If this increase in imports had been dne to reviving commerce and the coming of better times, it would have been &ccom- panied by an increase of exports and the balance might have been in our favor. The report of the Bureau of Statistics, however, shows a aifferent state of affairs. In the year ending June 30, 1895, our ex- ports were valued at $627,975,133, while in the preceding year they amounted to $700,- 822, being a decrease for the yearof § X Here there is another loss to the country, which affects every industry by diminishing the purchasing power of the people. A tariff which in one year leads to an increase of over $88,000,000 in imports and a decrease of over $72,000,000 in exports, which neither protects industry, makes a foreign market nor affords a revenue, is certainly a tariff that makes a live issue in politics. Tt affects imperiéusly the busi- ness of every citizen as well as the National treasury. The Republican party proposes to remedy this evil. That is one of the pledges it makes to the people, and in every State where there is an election this fall that pledge will be one of the most potent reasons why men will vote the Republican ticket. A STRONG OIRCULAR. Yang Yu, the Chinese Minister at Wash- ington, has issued another circular against the Chinese boycotters, this time inti- mating that if they do not desist they will be arrested and sent back to China. His Excellency does not say who is to do the arresting and deporting, but we assume that the Chinese themselves will relieve the American authoritiés of thatunpleas- ant duty, as they relieve them of the task of enforcing our laws against them. A great mistake made by American “officers is that they regard the Chinese as so alien as not properly amenable to all American “laws. Thus, Chinese opium dens flourish openly, polygamy is com- mon, the buying and selling of slaves is practiced with hardly an effort at conceal- ment, and a boycott, the most extensive ever organized on American soil, is per- mitted to flourish without the: slightest attempt to suppress it. In other words, the Chinese have more freedom in Amer- ica than is enjoyed by immigrants from any other. country in the world, and they set aside and openly violate our laws with an impunity that would not be tolerated in any American citizen. About the only check which our authorities place on their immorality and lawlessness is to prohibit lottery games. * The Chinese present the only illustration in the history of this country of powerful secret orgamizations formed for the pur- pose of administering foreign laws on our soil and for overreaching and preventing the operation of lpws which we have framed for the condact of all who come to make this their home. The situation 1s so extraordinary that it seems incredible. The excuse for permitting such a condi- tion of affairs 1s that the Chinese are so secretive and inscrutable that wrongdoing among them is better held in check by their organized companies than would be possible under the enforcement of Ameri- can laws. Even admitting this to be true it acknowledges a Jack of efficiency on the part of the authorities and proclaims the weakness of our laws. We do not believe that either of these assumptions is correct, and we do believe that it is not only disgraceful, but perni- cious, to permit such a condition of affairs to exist. If, however, it is all true, that is the best and final reason for the total ex- pulsion of the race from this country. We have no room for a people who scorn us and our laws and who are organized se- cretly to undermine the practices and prin- ciples which we have found necessary to the proper-conduct of our affairs. A SPLENDID BOULEVARD. After a struggle extending over a num- ber of years the people of Oakland have at last begun in earnest the construction of the boulevard circumscribing Lake Merritt. One-fourth of the work hasbeen done, and the indications are that it will proceed steadily to completion. The road is a finely macadamized affair, 200 feet wide, with drains, sewers and sidewalks. When properly completed it will be the most at- tractive driveway in tbis part of the State. But the construction of the road will by no means complete the work. The shores of the lake at present are practically bare of verdure. Until the boulevard is lined from end to end with handsome trees and flowering shrubs it will not be what it might. The famous shell road of Mobile passes out of the city and follows the shore of Mobile Bay. Itisa macadamized road, but instead of broken rock oyster shells were employed, and 411 repairs are still made with that material. As a conse- quence the roadway is perfectly clean, and that is a very strong recommendation. Mud is impossible on a shell road, and what little dust there may happen to be at times does not soil the whitest fabric. Mud is almost a necessary accompaniment of ordinary macadam. A shell road, being porous, dries instantly, but there is suf- ficient natural cement 1n the shells to pre- vent grinding into dust. It seems strange that shelishave never been employed here- about. The great glory of the Mobile shell road is its embowering magnolias. These were planted on either side. They are more than a hundred feet high and their branches are interlaced overhead. From these depend graceful festoons of Spanish moss, and when the trees are in blossom a delicious pervading fragrance completes the charm, There are several varieties of the mag- nolia, but those best known are evergreen, and that would be a drawback in this climate. The conditions of soil about Lake Merritt will determine to a certain extent what trees should be planted, but it is hoped that the mistake of lining the boule- vard with demse evergreen trees will be avoided. Cypress, pine and eucalyptus, for which many Californians seem to have a violent fondness, should be avoided as the plague. Undoubtedly the intelligent people of Oakland are familiar with all these facts, but they will likely have need to exercise their intelligence. This should be made the noblest driveway in California, but that cannot be accomplished by haphazard methods, Asa rule the governing bodies of cities are not expert in arboriculture, and the great difficulty is to convince them of the fact. AN UNTIMELY DEATH. The sudden death of James G. Kennedy last evening hias shocked the community; particularly that part of it interested in educational matters. After many years of the most efficient work he secured an approximate recognition of his eminent worth when he was appointed recently to the principalship of the San Francisco Normal School. He had already earned distinction as the organizer of the Cogs- well Polytechnic School, and as he was cut down in his prime it was more than likely that a brilliant career in the highest walks of education might have been his. There was nothing in the appearance and manner of this remarkable man sug- gestive of the typical schoolmaster. He was bluff, hearty, straightforward, dis- tinctively a man of the world in the sense of his close relations with the virile &::es His energy*was which move the people. untiring, his spirit rugged and masterful and his heart in warm sympathy with hu- manity at large. His power in the control and direction of boys and young men particularly was uncommonly great. Be- hind the merry twinkle of his eye and, his hearty good cheer with the thousands of Iads who passed under his discipiine was a firmness that enforced absolute obedi- ence of a kind which had something of awe and more of respect and affection. It is a hardship to lose teachers so mas- culine and strong, so kindly and just and so able to command, inspire and ‘instruct the young. In these uncomnion qualities he was a model for all men in his profes- sion. A DISASTROUS FIRE. The fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains has done its worst havoc in assailing the grove of big trees eight miles from Santa Cruz. The accounts indicate the destruction or ruinous crippling of these noble creations, as it is related that the flames soared above their summits, over 300 feet high. This was the most remarkable group of Sequoia sem pervirens in California, and if it is de- stroyed the State-has suffered a serious loss. These were not specimens of the true ‘‘big tree’” of California. Thnat is the Sequoia gigantea, and is found only in the high Sierra. But they were majestic trees withal, more wonderful than any othersin America besides the true ‘big trees,” and besides that they had a historical associa- tion of especial value. It was here that ¥remont made his headquarters in the early days of California’s struggles for in- dependence from Mexico. In the hollow butt of one of these mammoths a family lived in the days gone by, and the ancient windows cut through the shell of the liv- ing tree still exist to show how the light entered to greet the baby born within. It has been so recently that Tne Carn made a plea for the preservaiion by State interference of the redwoods that this ter- rible firc seems to corhe as an opportune threat to give force to our admonitions. There are many other redwood fogests and some isolated giants among them which could compare with those at Felton, but there is no other compact group of trees so tremendous, so easily accessible and so rich in historical interest. A great forest fire may rage over many thousands of square miles of the pine forest of the Northwestern Statés without doing irre- parable harm, but there is only one spot in the world where the wonderful redwood is found, and it should be cherished with all the jealous care that it deserves. The captain of the London athletic team attributes the breakdown of his men in the recent matches to the heat of the weather, and while those who know what the weather is in New York must admit that the excuse is not unreasonable, we can re- call with satisfaction that when the Berke- ley athletes went over to the East they won in spite of the weather. The fact that two wealthy Englishmen have already come forward as challengers for the Ametica cup shows that the intelli- gent men of ‘that country are not paying much attention to Dunraven’s charge that Englishmen cannot get fair play over here. PERSONAL. Dr. C. H. F. Lowndes of the navy is staying at the Baldwin, Lewis Ricard, & mining man of Angels, is at the Occidental, J. Haslacher, a grain man of Oakdale,is a guest at the Lick. C. L. Hussey of the navy registered yesterdsy at the Occidental. George W. King, a mining man of Fresno, is staying at the Russ, Andrew Markham, a railroad man of Santa Rosa, is at the Lick. G. Wiley Wells, a leading attorney of Los An- geles, is at the Baldwin. C. A. McCallum, a mining man of Butte, Montana, is at the Russ. T.J. Field, a railroad man of Monterey, and his wife are at the Palace. M. C. and T. Bosworth, merchants of Geyser- ville, are guests at the Grand. William M. Russell, a merchant of Ukiah, reg- istered at the Russ yesterday. D. Lubin of Sacramento hes returned from the East and is at the Grand. County, is & guest at the Russ. Judge S. F. Geil, a capi‘alist of Salinas, regis- tered at the Occidental yesterday. C. H. Phillips, a big land-owner of San Luis Obispo and Chino, is at the Palace. Dr.J. F. Christal of Santa Cruz came up yes- terday and registered at the Grand. Charles H. Cameron, & merchant of Pendle- ton, Oregon, and his wife, are at the Russ. A.U. Rugg, & merchant and mine-owner of Laporte, registered yesterday at the Palace. J. 8. Maude, a member of the Highway Com- mission, registered at the Baldwin yesterday. John M. Snyder of Spanish Ranch, Plumas County,and his wife, were among yesterday's arrivals at the Russ. Tom T. Lane, superintendent of the Utica mine, came in from Angels Camp yesterday and is staying at the Palace. Dr. A. E. Osborne, superintendent of the home for feeble-minded at Glen Ellen, regis- tered at the Grand yesterday. J. Pierponit Morgan will leave Wall street for a while at the end of the month to attend the general convention of the Protestant Episcopal church in Minneapolis. This convention, which is held triennially, is the governing body of the church. It is composed of a house of Bishopseand a house of deputies. It is in effect a church parliament with very ample authority. The lay delegates are generally persons of social distinction as well as active members of the ehurch. A large private resi- dence has been temporarily rented in Minne- avolis by Mr. Morgan, who will doubtless en- tertain Bishop Potter and other prominent members of the convention.—New York Vanity. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N.Y., Sept. 23.—Californians registered at the hotels to-day: San Fran- cisco—I. Strassburger, G. W. Harmon, Holland; F. C. Hobaling, R. M. Hobaling, Normandie; A Peach, Imperial; Mrs. M. Foute, Astor; W. Watson, Sinelair; G.W. Ruffington, West. minster; J. G. Maguire, Union Square; S. B. Carleton, Hoffman. Los Angeles—C. W. Baker, Mrs. W. Baker, Miss Exton, Broadway Central: R. A. Chadwick, Brunswick; J. B. Soulson, Cosmopolitan; L. F. Vetter, Imperial. Oalk land—Mrs. D. M. Doub, Hoffman; J. W. Harri St. Stephens. San Mateo—R. W. Spence, Conti- nental. California—Mrs. C. Kitts, Mrs. I. Mc- Kay, Murray Hill. THE EAGLE SAID TO BE DEAD. Editor W. D. Spratt of the Kaslo (B. C.) Pros- pector visited the United States and, after viewing the financial condition, went home and printed the following 1n his paper headed “The American Engle Is Dead”: * Independence 1s dead. England Rules The United States With A firmer grasp Than she did A centuiry A go. Monometallism Toes the busin ss, You Yankees Dare not Re netize silver Until England Says s0. Eritannia rules The United siutes And the rest Of the world. Where now 1s American freedom@ The Yankeces Are afraid To saj Their souls Are their Own ‘Without Engiand’s Consent. Squirm, ye Yankees, v Squirm. Squirm and bear it John Bull Has got you Where Ona Gold basls. Monometallism Does the business. — PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Henry M. Stanley’s method of parliamentary speaking is bluff, earncst and slightly déclama- tory. He has no sense of humor, but fortifies himself well with facts and statistics before he speaks. President Cleveland is not only an expert fisherman, but an authority on piscatorial 1it- erature. He has in his library every book of note written on the habits of game fish and the science of the sport. Herbert Spencer is described as a plain, old- fashioned Englishman, of medium stature, drooping shoulders, a large head (now bald), light complexion, soit gray eyes and curly gray side and throat whiskers. De Brazza’s bride, who is to accompany him to Africa, is almost an American. Her father, the late Marquis de Chambrun, was for years a resident of Washington as legal adviser of the French legation, and his daughter, who was brought up there, has hosts of friends at the American capital. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Wife—Henry, you look worrled; what is the trouble? Husband—I was stung to the quick by an adder this afternoon. Wife—Heavens! How did it happen? Husband—Why, I went to the bank this after- noon and the clerk, atter adding up the ledger, told ‘me my account was greatly overdrawn!— Boston Giobe. ‘Jack writes that the steamers were so crowded that some of New York’s swell set had to come over just as their grandfathers did.” ‘‘How does he mean—in sailing vessels?’’ “Noj; in the steerage. —Bmk.lyn Life. “A word is enough for the wise” I8 & proverb that tells us no lies; Which is why to & jury, they say, A lawyer must talk half s day.—Judge. 'fl-hm the winter’s cold I dread; Al 3 Bat w 1Is bothered with as autumn fiies. > \ —Detroit News. George Wicks, a mining man of Amador, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. From the National Irrigation Convention, held in Albuquerque, William E.Smythe, the chairman, arrived yesterday at the Palace Hotel. Hesaid: ““We are rather upset over the decision ‘of Judge Ross in regard to the Wright law, but if it is confirmed by the United States Supreme Court then some other means must be found to overcome it, and other means will be found. The water is the people’s and should be held by the people. True irrigationists are anti- monopolists. Even the monopoly of large holdings is detrimental to our colonization schemes, and it is for this reason that so little progress has been made by Northern California. However, it will be but a very short time before the north will be as suceessful, the facil- .ities being greater. “I have just noted that the Chaffey Brothers’ the train, one of them took a snap at me With his camera. - “q’'ve got you.’ he said. “ What do youmean?' I asked. ¢ mean that I have got a picture of 3he boss Har of the world.”” ARE FARMERS LOSING GROUND? Edward F. Adams, in his “Plain Talks to Farmers,” being published in the San Francisco CaLL, does not take an optimistic view of the future of agriculture. Having reviewed the modern conditions by which that industry finds itself surrounded, and haviog ob- served the tendencies and influences that have so greatly—and as he believes for the worse—altered its character during the | last quarter of a century, he is forced | to the conclusion that henceforth the success- COME JUDGE ROSS’ DECISION WILLIAM E. SMYTHE SAYS MEANS MUST BE FOUND TO OVER- AGAINST THE IRRIGATIONISTS, [Sketched for the “ Call” by Nankivell.] irrigation colonies in Australia have held a very suceessful citizens’ fair.. These colonies consistof all small buildiggs, run on the co- operative principle, and the fruits are pre- served, dried and canned in the colonies them- selves. They have had the Government at & boon to the originators, the property-holders and the country.” “Are not some portions of California over- irrigated?” “Well, in some places where the drainage is not good and the soil has been originally of fair quality it is said to have had an adyerse effect upon the fruit.” “Why irrigate an already fertile country?” “The Santa Clara Valley, an already product- Ve country. is to be irrigated, but the drainage is good, and it will be a vast improvement upon what it has beer. | “Take the arid lands in California, cut up into small holdings and colonize, and you will have the most successful country in the | world.” . i “What about getting the people here?” “Now there you have competitors in the Southern States, but the Anglo-Saxons will all come to California. You have a Half-million Club, and if it goes to work Los Angeles will be one only of the many successful colonies in the | State.” ¢ United States Senator John H. Mitchell of Oregon, who is in town for a few days on legal business, was talking last evening at the Cali- | fornia about times in Oregon. *“The erops all | over and of all kinds are the best we have had | in years, and things look very bright. You) know that Oregon is becoming a great fruit- | producing country. Dnring the last few years | a great deal has been done in that way in | the eastern part of the State. Prunes grow splendidly as well as many other fruits. ' There is a large territory in which fruit can be grown. The growth in population of Oregon is steady. The census lately taken of Portland showed, I am told, a population of aboat 80,000. This is a large increase over the Federal census of 1890, which showed lcss than 50,000.” The attaches of the Baldwin Hotel are not the only people about the big hostelry who are wondering where they are going to be “at™ when the new management take hold. The politicians who have pre-empted quarter soc- tions are not certain that the work done 1s going to be sufficient to enable them to hold possession. Popper's squatters in the lobby are relying on the fact that Maximilian having hired rooms upstairs for a long time they can hold on to that section of the house under a right-of- way title. The Lanigan forces have long laid claim to and hold possession of the big billiard-room. They are figuring up the games of billiards and pool played and drinks taken at the bar to make up the assessment required to hold their title. But then a new feature comesin. Beyond the bar in the old grillroom is to be Mose Gunst's cigar-stand. His side-partner, Charley Asher, and Katzenstein take the bar and biliiard-room, and they are all supposed to take aninterest in politics occasionally, and all titles may be upset, particularly as Asher is the “‘Company” in the firm of Stone, Stanton & Co., who have leased the big hotel. Then it is suggested that as the genial Wil- liam Bogan of the Louvre is to move his estab- lishment over to the basement of the Baldwin there will be an opportunity for several fac- tions to make locations there. = Whether Barclay Henley and the Oceidental Club people will want to come in outof the cold, now since they have decided that there is 2 hoodoo on the old Peck mansion, or be satis- fied with Langdon’s saloon on Stockton street, ie not certain. At any rate that is not far from the Baldwin and they will not be far from the political center if the hotel remains the stamp- ing ground of the politicians now there. Congressman Barham hias been over a large part of the State since his election trying to be- come familiar with its resources and needs, and says that he is going to devote his time to trying to get for California her share of the ap- propriations at the next session of Congress. “The great difficulty that will confront us,” he said yesterday at the Occidental, “is the fact that we are not troubled with & bursting treas- ury. In fact,there is an enormous deficit and Congress is going to be very parsimonious. Then, you know, there are only nine of us and they won’t amount to six bits there. What we should have to help us is & club of business men to go in and talk to the members. No lobbyists, We don't want any of them about, but good, energetic business men who know how to talk. “Take the question of opening the gravel mines with Government assistance to care for the debris. Do you know if the California gravel mines were near Chieago they would have a bill through and the mines opened in no time? Congress would have to pass a bill to get rid of them. ““Then they don't know thé resources of this State in Washington and set us down asa lot of liars when we tell them the bare truth. The holding of a National convention out here ‘would do no end of good in educating the right people about the resources and needs of this State. Asitis now they don’t know and will not—they cannot believe us. “Itold a story during the campaign to illus- traté that. I had been up at the Yellowstone,,| and on my way back met some young Eastern men on the train, coming to see California, I suggested that they go and see the big trees. They said that they would like to do so. As they were going to Santa Cruz I told them that they could drive out a few miles to some big trees there, not'our largest, but of good size. Then I told them of a church at Santa Rosa which had been built out of a single redwood X their backs and the result is that it hasproven | | ful farmers will be onlf those who are broadly | educated, and that if the product of the small farm will not justify the expense of this infor- mation—and it will not—there remains but the alternative of the combination of farmers to secure it at the common expense for the bene- fit of all or the gradual absorption of the small farms by the strongest and the extinction of the small farmer, who will sink into the condi- tion-of dependent. We are inclined to believe that Mr. Adams’ gloomy conclusions are not justified by the actual situation. There is mucn truth in his | statement that “we (the farmers) do not meet | and learn from each other as residents of cities | do; nor do we have such opportunities as they | to ‘meet with the most eminent of other | classes or to learn from books the experience of others.” But it is not so apparent as would have us believe that farmers have lost ground in the race of life by reason of | their isolation, nor that they will continue | tolose ground.” The American farmer, we be- lieve, has steadily advanced, Lis pace being | commensurate with the advancemeat in manu- | factural and commercial lines. He is better housed, better fed and better clothed than formerly. He works lessand produces more. He and his family are surrounded with every mate- rial comfort, His children receive public school, High school and college educations. The rail- road makes it possible for him to mingle frequentiy with the business and professional men of the cities and villages. In the Grange and kindred organizations he finds social com- munion and owonmgty to learn much that is of practical value, He has the daily papers, magazines and books. ' He is no longer iso late He has become somewhat of a cos- mopolite, and in the streets of the large city he | is as much at home as in his grain field or or- | ehara. This is not retrogression; it is a tremendous gain. But there is still much for him to learn and much for him to do. In our own State, for example, he must acquire better business hods. Asthe Stockton Mail recéntly said, ing the subject of wheat and the ne- Y of the farmer availing himself of op- which he has heretofore ignored, “ithe arrival on this coast every month of eggs and poultry in carload lots from the East sows that he is allowing the farmers wi of the Mississippi to compete successfully with him in one branch of his industry. The large receipts of meat products by railroad from Chi- cago, St. Louis and Kensas City prove that he is not holding his ground in another. Cali- fornia imports annually over & million dollars’ worth of Eastern hams and bacon. Itis e to assert that many of these hams will be found in the larders of our California farmers. These are among the small things where they show themsclves to be careless of their incomes.” San Jose Mereursy. OPINIONS OF EASTERN EDITORS, The Era of Good Feeling. The complete rehabilitation of the Demo- cratic party in the canvass ot 1892, the repeal of the old Federal election law in February, 1894, and the great gains in the South in the Congressional canvass in November of the latter year to which the repeal iargely contributed, indicate that ~sectionalism = has dropped out of politics. ~ Parties began to divide on the seetional line shortly after the Mexican war_of 1846-48, and ‘this division became marked and persistent_immediately after the pussage of the Kansae-Nebraska bill in 1854, ut it has probably disappeared forever.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Against the Single Standard. Despite the fact that the foreigners will not agree to make \silver money, and that a silver dollar cannot be re- deemed in a gold dollar, unprejudiced and far-seeing .men recognize that a mighty movement s surely shaping itself down 5eep in the hearts of the American people to strike against the single standard, regardless of the warnings and dolorous prognostications of the gold men.—Philadelphia Item. A New Industry for Women. A new business for women developed in Phil- adelphia is the canvassing of houses, chiefly of the medium poor classe§, with orders for %oodu on several of the large retail stores. he canvassers get & commission from bot) parties, which makes a pretty safe thing, al- though they are liable for any failure on the part of the purchasers to which may be done by inst: ford Standard. A New Electric Battery. There is talk in London of the invention of & marvelous electric battery in which zine is discarded for a material costin; only one-twentieth as much, and polari- zation made needles. The new motor is said to cost but 4 pence per horse- power per hour. Perhaps this light-weight storage battery may not fulfill expectations, but there s 1o telling what a day may bring forth in electricity.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Unlawful Bonds. The suggestion made by Senator Peffer gny for the gooas, allments.—New Bed- }n an. interview that the recent bond ssues were illegal is not . liki be called in question. Nobodyd’ ev:z thought these issnes of bonds were y law. Nobody has had the effrontety fo sue. Elovolind and Casuiac ackn L, seued, except e, and ~—Topeka State Journal, IR by Thtteis A Fraud and Failure. When what purports to be & tariff for reve- | nue lt)ll;lly turns out to be unable to provide even the reyenue which issupposed sole excuse for its existence, tgere n:gdb&‘xlxl: ?fi;n;'t;\:x‘a .:“:)(;\;l: :,tlgm;nmug such a tariff a es ud an L s failure of the age. Was It Sport? Whether drawing £5,000,000 of gold :l:? E;ctloml lrebu:ury by the Eng]?lh' 1:“::: ¥ because we beat their yacht like is & question we wlll,l.:bmltt. 'lgmt‘:.m s tions—preferabl 0 a- Pltubu‘; se lg; “.y the silver-using nations.— Al...l-%y i tree. AtSpokane Falls, when we got out of 'A'!WERS T?_ CORRESPONDENTS. MascoT—Subseriber, City. The word mascot is gambler’s slang for a luck piece, fetish or talisman, or & thing subposed to bring good luck to its possessor. Recently it has been applied to 2 person who is supposed t6 be a source of good luck or be a source of good for- tune. The word was introduced into literature by means of the comic opera “La Mascotte,” composed by Audran, but it was used long be- fore that by the sporting fraternity of France, who applied it to.objectsenimate or inanimate, which brought good fortune to the individual who possessed it. It is traced even further back to the patois of Provence and Gascony, France, where a mascot is something that brings fuck to the house. If 1s probable that the word is derived from masque, which in pro- vineial French is applied to a child born with* & caul, which the superstitious regard asan omen of good luck. o Tests For GoLp—L. K. R., City. The follow- ing are the tests for the presence of gold in so- Jution: Protosulphate of iron gives a brown precipitate, which acquires a metallic luster when rubbed; ‘protochloride of tin (preferably containing a little perchloride) glves a violet, purple or blackis grec)pxtme, insoluble in Muriatic acid; sulphuretted hydrogen and hydrosulphurate of ammonia gives & black precipitate, insoluble insimpleacids; ammonia Bives o reddish yellow precipitate (fulminating gold), with tolerably concentraied soluions, either at once or on boiling the liquid. SPECIAL AGENT—J. B. J., City. A person wish- ing to become a special. agent of the Treasury of the United States in what is known as the Secret Service Department must sen lication to the Secretary of the Treasy he will be sent a blank form which he outn his own writing. He then has t this to the office from _which it came, ax is favorably received he must wait his ch to secure a position. There is NO spec amination, and the positions do not cor: der the rules of civil service. MOISTURE AND TEMPERATURE—W.T. L., C! A cubic foot of air at the temperature of (Fahrenheit) can contain only .5 of & grain water vapor; at 32 degrees it can hold 2. grains; at 65 it can contain 6.8 grains, and at 98 it can hold 18.96 grains. These figures show that in summer the air can hold about nine times the quantity of dampness that air can when reduced to the temperature of freez- ing. ART LEAGUE—Mrs. I. B, City. The Students’ Art League in this City is located on Mont- gomery avenue, near Washington street. The charge to those who Wish to take instructions there is: Any single class, $6 & month; two classes, §8 50; akl classes, $#10. This incindes drawing and painting in life, head, still life and sketching. - The league is open évefy day exceptySundays. Miss Jennie Heynemann is the secretary. GINSENG—J. V., Oakland, Cal. The ginseng, which is so valuable in the Orient for its medicinal qualities, is not grown in California. Some years ago an attempt was made to culti- vate it in this State, but it did not prove successful. DOLLAR OF '84—¢ Worley,” City. Dealers charge from 50 cents to $1 25 premium on a dollar of the United States of the issue of 1884, minted at San Francisco, Philadelphia or New Orleans: MENU FOR TUESDAY, SEPT. BREAKFAST. Fruit. Wheatlet. Milk. Fried Tomatoes, Cream Sauce. uffins. Coffee. LUN Irish Stew. ‘offee. Peaches and Cream, DINNER. English Beet Soup. Fricandeau of Veal, Brown Sauce, Stewed Carrots. Rice. Tomato and Cucumber Salad. ‘Wafers. Cheese, Spanish Cream. Coffee. —Household News. 24, 1. Dumplings. BesT printing, best prices. Roberts Ptg. Co.® - Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street.* il b e Pineapple and cherries, 50¢ b, Townsend's.> L e 'HusBaND’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. 3 ————— IT IS UNDENIABLE that as a rule the men who achieve important results in the world are those warm-blooded men whose natures have been expanded by social pleasures. These men almost invariably are moderate drinkers, and they do not abuse their streggth by over- indulgence or by the use of deleterious liquors. It is for such as these that Argonaut whisky is made, and it is by these that Argonaut is used. Itisa gentleman’s drink, the conscien- tious product of distillers who know that in order to maintain & high reputation for & par- ticular article they cannot afford to turnout any but a pure, wholesome and beneficial whisky. The fact that physicians preseribe it is sufficient to indicate its quality. E. Martin & Co., 411 Market st. * ————— Tipple—I see that Maud and Ned have broken off their engagement. Sybil—How perfectly dreadful!l happen? Tipple—They got married.—New York World, How did it FALL medicine Is fully as important and as bene- ficlal as Spring medicine. Hood’s Sarsaparilla should be taken at this season to keep the blood pure and the bodily health vigorous. e DR. STEGERT'S Angostura Bitters, a pure vege- taole tonic, makes health and health makes bright, rosy cheeks and happiness. e e e e For dyspepsia, colic and exhanstion, no remedy like PARKER'S GINGER TONIC. HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns, 15 cts. ————— - Avorp baldness, gray hair, dandruft and thin 10cks by Gsing PARKER'S HATR BALSAM. PARKER'S GINGER TONIC the vest cough cure. ——.———— Marie—That actress says that she always puts her diamonds on when she takes a bath. Do you suppose she is afraid they will be stolen?” Hills—No; 1t's force of habit with her. She's so used to putting them in soak, you know.— GENTS PER CAN COLIMA BAKING POWDER AND— COLIMA PURE SPICES. N _INDUCEMENT TO TEST COLIMA'S SU- PERIORITY—Valuable Presents given FREE with each can, 100 verieties te choose from. We mention a few: 1 Glass Butter Dish, 1 Glass Sugar Bowl, 8 Preserve Dishes, 1’ Decorated Thin Ching Cup and Saucer, 1 decorated Salad vish, 1 Cup and Saucer (assorted decorations), 1 Thin China Ostmeal Bowl, 1 Cream Pitcher, Gold Decorated Cup, Saucer and Plate, Dec- orated set of 3 Water Goblets, Syrup Piteher, Vegetable Dish, 1 Glass Berry Disti, 1 Majolica Pitcher, 1 Covered Saucépan. Coftee Pot (2 qt.), Oatmeal Set of 3 pleces; set of §Tuble Tamblers, 1 Dish Kettle ( qts). Lots of others at our stores. 617 Kearny street, 146 Ninth street, . 965 Market atreet, 140 Sixth street, 1419 Polk street, 521 Mont, 333 Hl{e 218 Third street, 2008 Fillmore street, 3006 Sixteenth street, | 104 Second street, l 2510 Mi; San Franciseo STORES Oakland STORES Alameda ... A Big Saving for Housekeepers. Visit our stores. See the Big Dis Compare orloca and Qualiny 14 a1t wa age. TS Great American Importing Tea Co. RIGGS HOUSE, 'Wa-h:ln:ton, D. C. The Hotel Par Excellence’’ Of the National Capical. First class in all appolnts me:u. lc‘ 1 G. DI“’I:T. Tml.‘ merican plan, $3 per day an upward. 1,780 917 Broadway, 1 San Pablo avenue, 16 E. Twelfth street. Park street and Alameds aven {was Washington street, & <