The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 29, 1895, Page 18

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATE! v and Sunday CALL, one wi nd Sunday CALL, one year, by Daily and Sunday C and Sunday CALL, three months, by mall 1.50 —Postage Fri k. by carrier.$0.15 . 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL. one month, by maill .65 £unday CALL, one year, by mail.. . 1.50 WEEKELY CALL, one year, by mail.. 150 BUSINESS OFFICE : 10 Market Street. Selephone... S Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephore.......... A Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: £20 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until o'clock. strect : open until 9:30 o'clock. 30 o'clock. eet; open until 9 o'clock. ih street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: t ¢ Bureau, Rhinelander New York City. le smile too muc Some men tt when they go it t There are preparations for a coming car- nival in every town but ours. This winter Mr. Cleveland will find Con- gress on his neck instead of his hands. If you never put yourself in a frying-pan you will never have to jump in the fire. Of the summer crop of flirtationsa few are preserved, but most are in cold storage. Don’t make your life a lottery when you can make it a re thing by a little dis- cretion. There are some people so perverse you can make them hot by telling them to keep cool. It is hard to tell whether the European war cloud is a guessing contest or a mys- tery story. If Trilby’s feet were as perfect as they she would foot her own bills and give a free show. The Ethelwyn and the Spruce IV may be half-raters for yachts, but they are first raters for sport. When a woman makes up her mind not to weigh the consequences, you may bet she weighs a ton. or the com- eze always vi- Pacific Ocean § plexion and a Western talizes the blo: The weather is just about changeable en ough to exercise your skill as a prophet, but don’t bet on Perhaps the churches will entertain us this winter by revival oysters to the stew. Remember Tue Ca the only mern- ing paper in the City in which you get the TUnited Pres It is time to make the East understand that San Francisco is big enoughtobea National convention city. Many men claim the rightto have an opinion of their own, and then go and steal one from somebody else. Even if Uncle Sam does not intend to recognize Cuba he might look toward her and see how she is getting on. The man who cannot open his mouth without putting foot in it, doesn’t always talk with understanding. To keep up with our Eastern rivals, we must have a National convention here next year and then take a City census. If we invite Eastern people to our festi- wvals next year we shall have to ask them to come in the spring and stay all sum- mer. San Francisco will never hold her right- ful position in the world until her front overlooks the Pacific and the bay is a back- yard. When European gold comes to this country it returns with interest, but when our gold zoes there it seems to get stuck in the mud. The proposed ordinance forbidding the yublication of lottery advertisements seems to fit the situation it was made for and ought to be tried on. In addition to larger sleeves the ladies will wear also larger hats this winter, and that is what we get for our fool legislation egainst the theater hat. There seems to be good prospects for an- other race between the Defender and Val- kyrie, as Dunraven has changed his mood from the sulks to fighting mad. Petitions favoring municipal ownership of water and street lighting works have been signed by so many people that the corporations may yet have to resign. It is very unfair to impose the whole brunt of the single-tax fight on Delaware, ‘when sheis next to the smallest State in the Union, and has always been willing to treat to peaches. The charity fad last year consisted in running newspapers for a day. This year it has been running a line of streetcars with women conductors. Next year it may run in the ground. The fact that the big baseball teams are toming this way should remind Eastern people that the place where baseball can be played during the winter is the best place to spend the winter. Now that a Boston court has declared & glove contest ending in a knockout is mnot a prize-fight under the statutes of Massachusetts, it will hardly be necessary for Corbett and Fitzsimmons to go all the way to Dallas to elevate the stage. The suggestion of Governor Stone of Mississippi as a candidate for Vice-Presi- dent on the Democratic ticket next year is to some extent an outcome of the logic of tbe situation, for Mississippi is about the only State sure to go Democratic this'year. socials with two | FRESNO'S INVESTMENT. By responding so promptly and hand- somely to the call for subscriptions to Valley road shares the people of Fresno have shown themselves to be still pos- sessed of the strong spirit of enterprise which converted the barren plains of that region into one of the finest gardens of the country. Thirty thousand dollars had been asked for. They subscribed a thou- sand more than that, and there are yet many others to hear from. It is true that some who are known to be able to invest 1n shares are holding out, but the example of gheir more progressive neighbors may vet inspire them to activity. An unlooked- for help came from the well-to-do Chinese merchants of the city. With the shrewd- ness characteristic of the race they saw that the investment would prove a profitable one, and they promptly sub- scribed when the opportunity was offered. No argument was required with them. They understand the matter and that was the end of it. Meanwhile Mr. Huntington is express- ing some pity for the projectors of the Valley road. He is reported as declaring that he is sorry for them. “I have no de- sire to hamper them,” he is asserted to have said, “nor if given an opportunity would Ieven try to ruin the enterprise. But I cannot see how it will be made to pay. Mr. Claus Spreckels and some of his associates have plenty of money, and as they appear willing to risk some of it1n building a road where there are now more roads than business, they will at least ob- tain some valuable experience.” Itis kind of Mr. Huntington to decide not to destroy the Valley road, though how he might possibly accomplish that end, or even damage it to the slightest extent, isa conception that the ordinary human mind cannot form. His assertion that the present transportation facilities exceed the volume of business is a painfully correct statement of the situation, and the Valley road has been started for the purpose of remedying it. Mr. Huntington knows as well as an- other why the San Joaquin has not de- veloped as it should. He knows *hat his railroad has absorbed all the profits of the farmers and merchants in the valley. He is aware that the Valley road, unhampered by a high original cost, fictitious fixed charges and the necessity for charging to productive sections of the road the heavy losses incurred 1n operating the line through unproductive and expensive re- gions, can be built and operated at a cost | vastly below that of the Southern Pacific, | and that as its prime purpose is to develop | the section which it traverses it will put | freight charges to the lowest possible point compatible with the rules governing ordi- nary business investments, and so encour- age development and create traffic. He knows, too, thut the Valley road will secure | all the traffic within reach which now goes | to the Southern Pacific, and that this will | be sufficient at the very start, without waiting for the development of the valley, to warrant low freight charges and guar- antee a reasonable profit on the invest- ment. Mr. Huntingtor’s view of the function | of railroads, as thus expressed, is exactly | that which has always governed the con- | duct of the Southern Pacific, and it has | been the policy which explains the retarda- | tion of State progress. However success- ful a railroad manager he may be, had his remarkable genius only been broad enough to grasp the principle for which the Valley road stands, he would be enjoying the re- spect and admiration of the people to-day, and California and the Southern Pacific would both have received benefits to which they are now total strangers. A LITERARY SCHEME. A contributor to this issue of THE CALL outlines & plan under which the produc- tion and marketing of literature may be reduced to business principles. His sug- gestion is that the method of the news- | paper is the rational one for literature— that is, authors might hire themselves to a | manager, who will pay them a salary, | direct their production and make what | profit he can out of the business. This profit will be the difference between what he pays and what he receives. The fasci- nating part of the plan is that it assuresan income to the author and relieves him of the burden of marketing his own wares. But here a difficulty presents itself. | Wouid an author consent to place himself in such restraint? Are not vanity and freedom conspicuous elements of Jiterarv success, and would not these be hampered under the plan suggested? We can readily imagine this to be the case with great geniuses; but apparently Tue CALL’S con- tributor is not taking them into account, for the reason that when they are estab- lished their need for a fixed income passes away. He is referring evidently to clever writers, and perhaps even to geniuses who | lack the marketing faculty. When one comes to think of it there appears to be something strange in the fact that authorship is so haphazard a pro- fession and stands so distinctly apart from the operation of principles which govern nearly all other affairs, Even the musician and the painter, who belong in the same category of “producers,” have better estab- lished systems, for a musician without an income is an anomaly and a large part of a painter’s businessis the filling of orders. It is true that the painter’s orders are mostly by transient patrons, but many painters are teachers also, and if they ars not they can be. The author has none of these oppor- tunities. His fight, therefore, is vastly harder—so much harder that undoubtedly many of the writers who might have become great have abandoned the profes- sion simply because they lacked the mer- cantile faculty which would enable them to sell their productions. Many such cases have come under the observation of every editor. Our contributor’s suggestion is alluring, in spite of the defects which may appear in it. The work required of the editors of newspapers and magazines in the reading of manuscripts 1s enormous, and as it must be hasty it has an element of uncer- tainty. A system such as that suggested could be so ably managed as to abolish this evil to a great extent. Orders for specific lines of work could be filled much more acceptably than under the present loose and unorganized plan, and many other good things might be accomplished. A prominent incentive to the young writer would be the certainty notonly of a living, but of an opportunity to establish him- self independently after he had achieved a fame under a manager’s direction. % The leading difficulty would be to find a person competent to manage such a busi- ness. Being anew undertaking it would suffer under difficulties on that account. ‘Why 'should not some great university undertake the task? Why, to be more specific, snould not the Stanford Univer- sity exploit the sugeestion, limiting the writers to young Californians, or those who have lived in California a certain number of years,and instead of paying salaries establish a cullege of literature on an industrial basis, market the products in 2 business way and make the concern strictly co-operative? The drill which young writers could secure under the able leadership of competent instructors would tend to elevate both the standard of skill in writing and the taste of the reading public. THE DELAWARE FIGHT. Congressman Maguire's telegram from Wilmington, Del., to Twe Carn giving news of the progress of the single-tax fight in Delaware is confirmation of prior in- formation that the prospects of a single- tax victory in that State are very good. If this should prove true the idea will have a tremendons bound, for under the general theory of opposition to the single tax Delaware would be one of the last States to adopt the method. This is because agriculture there is carried to a higher degree of development than in most States and as a consequence land is very valuable. On the assumption that farmers would be the last to adopt a sys- tem of taxation which apparently would throw a considerable burden upon them, such adoption by the farmers of Delaware would have a great effect on the fate of the idea in other parts of the country. In saying that it is a general assumption that farmers would be opposed to the dingle tax, we mean merely that it is an assumption. As a matter of fact, some of the most intelligent of the wealthy farmers have announced themselves in favor of this form of taxation. The subject is too large to be discussed here, but the fact that land-owners themselves, in considerable numbers, are advocating a system of taxa- tion aimed solely at land shows that there is a great deal in the philosophy of the matter that is not apparent on the surtace and that requires study and wisdom to comprehend. A very significant feature of the case is that there has been no at- tempt whatever to raise the cry or create the impression that the single tax is a measura proposed by non-owners of land to shift upon the shoulders of land-owners the whole burden of taxation. it is equally interesting to observe that the leaders of the movement are not classified as cranks, but, on the contrary, are men of superior intelligence, as a rule, These circumstances invest the subject with a breadth and dignity that command attention. The single-tax idea is the most revolutionary scheme affecting the inter- nal affairs of the country that has ever been proposed, and for that reason alone it must be handled with the utmost care. If it succeeds in Delaware it will at once become an important issue throughout the whole country. Even should it fail there we are still confronted with the fact that it has been growing slowly, bnt steadily, for a number of years throughout the civilized world and that it has been actually in operation for some years in New Zealand, with what are claimed to be excellent results. SURPRISING FIGURES. The California Congressional delegation and the accompanying engineers who have been inspecting the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers with a view to secure a Congressional appropriation for these waterways have made some surprising dis- coveries. The most important is the amount of traffic which the rivers are al- ready carrying, crippled though they are. Thus, the S8an Joaquin River above An- tioch has already transported during the year ending June 1of the present year a quantity of freight sufficient to load 278 ships of 2000 tons burden each. It was composed as follows: Millstuffs, 90,000 tons; hay, 4800 tons; wheat, 78,000 tons; coal, 44,700 tons; lumber. 36.000,000 feet; wool, wine and similars, 1500 tons; prod- uce, including fruit and vegetables, 22,224 tons; livestock, 37,642 head ; miscellaneous freight up, 45,672 tons; brick, 16,000 tons; passengers, 123,293, Another discovery of great importance is that the material secured from dredging and straightening can be used advan- tageously in building needed levees along the streams, and that this double service isdoneat a cost of only 2 cents a cubic yard. The softness of the soil and the efficiency of the patent dredgers employed account for this. Hence, dredging, straight- ening and levee building—all greatly needed improvements—can be done at one operation and at an amazingly small cost. It would not be difficult to estimate the expense required to deepen the San Joa- quin eight feet, which would permit of propellers instead of the cumbersome stern-wheelers now in service for towing. Petaluma and Napa creeks will be simi- larly inspected after the vicinity of Val- lejo has received attention. These are very important little streams. for not only do they penetrate two of the richest val- leys in the State, but they would offer, if properly attended to, a permanent ob- stacle to a railroad monopoly of trans- vortation. AN EARNEST GOVERNOR. Governor Cu'berson of Texas has sur- prised the sporting fraternity by calling a special session of the Legislature for the purpose of passing a law making prize- fighting a felony, in order to prevent the “meeting’’ of Corbett and Fitzsimmons. The most interesting feature of the case is a belief that the Populists and other politi- cal enemies of the Governor will unite to make the law operative only after this par- ticular meeting bas occurred. If thisisa libel sprung upon the Populists for politi- cal effect it behooves them to repudiate it without delay, or hereafter keep silence when questioned as to the morality and in- telligence of their aims. It has been asserted that a certain dis- tinguished woman is using her influence to insure the fight, on the ground that the people of Texas want it to occur. She is none other than the Governor’s wife. She may be right in her assumption, for all we know, although it is still hard to accept the fact that Texas has not yet emerged from a condition of semi-barbarism. We should rather regard it as a part of the United States and as representative of the decency and intelligence which our people claim to possess. The reports concerning the Populists and this influential woman may be un- true, but if they are true, the Populists need never afterward hold up their heads and assume to command the respect of the country, and the woman who has allied herself with the prize-fighting. fraternity might be made a profitable subject for missionary work on the part of the clean, earnest, intelligent women of the country. The failure of the Peary expedition has revived a discussion of the proposal to attempt to reach the pole by balloon; but Explorer Greely declares the project to be absurd. Perhaps the only way to succeed would be to establish a big supply depot as far north as possible and then push out from that with other depots at close inter- vals until the pole is reached. Although it seems difficult to bring about reform or improvements in muni- cipal work, yet never before did San Fran- cisco have so many associatiouns of citizens for the advancement of the public welfare nor were the people at large ever so mnch in earnest in supporting such associations, and these facts in themselves constitute reforms and improvements of no small significance and importance, RANDOM NOTES. BY JouN MCNAUGHT. ‘Whenever there is one charity there is occasion for another. We never seea man do a good act without feeling called upon to forgive much in his way of doing it, and we never do a good act ourselves without having to pardon our neighbors for not appreciating it. Even a charity entertainment of a public nature, in which both ourselves and our neighbors take part, always involves something which it requires charity to overlook. I trustitis not necessary for me to say that I make these statements without reference to any- thing local. They are truths of universal application, and are not mere matters of as you like ii. Far away from our elysium on the other side of the continent there is a city called Brooklyn, the good sinners whereof are sorely disturbed because in supporting one charity they have been called upon to practice another. At a recent charity en- tertainment one of their social leaders, a man of millions, good family and some probity, posed in a tableau as John Knox, and shortly thereafter, in the same costume, appeared on the stage again as the leader of a minuet. The people of Brooklyn re- gard this performance as a strain on their sense of propriety, and live in dread of what Boston may say about it. They feel, therefore, that they have been unjustly treated by an entertainment which in ad- dition to taking money from them for charity has compelled them to exercisea further charity in pardoning what they saw. If this Brooklyn racket, which has made noise enough to be.heard on this side of the continent, were no more than a row over a matter of propriety we might dismiss it as unworthy of further consideration on a day when we have leisure to walk abroad and recreate our- selves without regard to propriety—as it is understood in Brooklyn. Howevyer, it in- volves a deeper problem, one not unworthy a meditation in the park or a discussion in the parlor, inasmuch as it touches the fundamental philosophy of life. It is con- ceded that to pose as John Knox and then lead a minuet is unreasonable in itself and that to ask pay for seeing it is unjust; but even on this concession it by no means follows that after such a performance the spectator should raise his foot to protest or lift up his voice to kick. The truth is this world is not based upon reason and justice, but upon love and charity, and he who goes too far in seeking the first is liable to get off his base and lose the other, No man, however ingenicus he may be, can give a reason for anything that exists, either in the natural or artificial order of things, nor can he prove even to his own satisfaction that there is justice anywhere. On the other hand love and charity are visible in everything, from the feast we spread for a friend to the hymnbooks we send to the heathen. When a man of many resources steals §40,000,000 in order to be a philanthropist, reason and justice demand that he should be treated as any other thief, but charity reminds us that under similar circumstances we might have appropriated $39,000,000 ourselves, ana we pardon the extra million on the ground that we could not expect other people to be as honest as we are. By an equal charity we are led to pardon the tramp and share with him any portion of our substance that we may have so closely guarded that he could not help himself to it. Thus we hold thbe tramp and the mil- lionaire in an equal benevolence and main- tain society on that basis. ‘We never look anywhere without seeing proofs of the existence of love and charity, and we never listen to any one without hearing stories of the absence of reason and justice. Away over in London, for example, a poet has lifted up his voice complaining of the injustice and unreason- ableness of law. Why, he asks, should critics be allowed a larger freedom in deal- ing with poetsthan with other people. Ifa critic should write an article declaring that a certain wine-maker sent forth to the world only thin, dreggy, sour and artificial stuff, no journal would publish it; and if it were published, the wine man could get in the courts a large sum in damages. On the other hand any critic may say a poet’s verses are thin, weak and stolen; and not only will he find plenty of publishers, but the poet has no recourse. It is not essen- tial, continues the poet, that people should read poetry, nor is thin poetry any great wrong to man, therefore there is no need of a rigid criticism; but it is essential that wine should be good, and there ought to be the fullest freedom in criticizing it. The law as it stands is an abomination. It would be a new earth, and possibly a new heaven, if we could go about eriticiz- ing merchants as freely as we criticize poets; if we could say in print of a tailor that his coats do not fit just as freely as we can say of a writer that his stories do not suit; but it is doubtful if we would profit by the change. There is nothing to be gained in condemning the goods of a mer- chant, but there is an opportunity to win a huge reputation asa wit, a satirist and master of language by finding fault with the works of small poets. In the caseof a wine merchant the probiem is particularly clear. We cannot live without wine, at least we cannot live wisely or well, there- fore we love the wine-maker, and with him everything goes; but for the poet we have only charity, and he must behave himself. The clamor for reason and justice goes on incessantly in the world as a continnal proof that there is no reason in it nor any sense of justice. The very peopie who clamor for these things do not wish them. No man would like to be judged by that rule or have either his dinner or his dessert meted out to him by that measure. No rational creature will consent to give on demand a reason for his actions, nor will he undertake to explain to another rational creature what he was born for, what heis doing here and why he does not 2o hang himself. We talk indecd a great deal about reason and justice, but after all we are true creatures of the world, and our desires, like our universe, are founded on love and charity—love first, and charity as a substitute when we happen to love not wisely, but too well. ‘Whatsoever Boston may say of the Brooklyn incident we can speak of it with a true charity. Brooklyn is in the far benighted East. Her people have never traveled with the star of empire. They have never seen the broad Pacific nor basked in a genial climate. It is probable her social leader in question had heard of John Knox as a great actor in the Reform- ation and had jumped to the conclusion that his act was to reform the stage, and hence inferred that the gifted Knox had improved the ballet with the rest of the performance. Underall the circumstances Brooklyn is to be congratulated that her distinguished citizen did not pose as John Knox in kilts and then reappear to lead a skirt dance. So far as dress reform for woman is con- cerned, the bicycle is the whirligig of time that has brought about its revenges. Woman has achieved the divided skirt and has trousers in reach. She is in a position, therefore, to indulge a charity for man without parting with a particle of her own self-love, and we may expect something of her benignant sympathy in the report that the tailors of London have decided that hereafter the dress coat of a man shall no longer be of inky black but of a warm plum color, lined with change- able silk. It isin the matter of the change- able silk that the call for feminine eharity comes. We are told these linings vary from blue and green changeable to crim- son and gold changeable, and that the ex- cellence of the dress will depend on the harmony of the lining with the shade of plum color in the suit. Imagine the aver- age man wrestling with a color problem of that kind and then arrayed according to his taste going into & ballroom and asking forreason and justice. Society would be a mockery. The advocates of a system of eye-train- ing in our public schools have now be- come sufficiently warmed up on the sub- ject to maintain that by a proper course of exercise it would be possible to commit a landscape to memory as we commit a poem and to recall a vision as we recall a tune. In a literal sense this opens bright prospects for the coming generation. By the careful cultivation of the sense of sight men wiil undoubtedly be able to see many things now hidden from us. Possibly the coming men may even be able to see the point of his neighbor's argument, which would be a great blessing. Moreover, there would be a gain in being able to commit landscapes to memory and to re- call them at will, for under certain con- ditions of sky and atmosphere the earth is revealed in aspects of beauty which, if they could only be stored up, would be joys forever to all who beheld them. It seems certain we have not yet experienced all the delights the eye is capable of afford- ing and that in the new education there is a chance for men to see in the world some- thing more than a continual demand for charity. PERSONAL. Adjutant-General A. W. Barrett is at the California. N. M. Orr, a real-estate man of Stockton, is & guest at the Lick. J. F. Crank, a street-railroad man of Los An- geles, is staying at the Palace. R. A.Graham, a railroad contractor of Mar- shall, Or., registered at the Palace yesterday. C. W. Fielding end H. I. Wenham of the Iron Mountain mine, in Shasta County, are at the Palace. P. Kerwin, minihg superintendent, arrived” from the Comstock yesterday and put up at the Palace. George Bonny, a member of the firm of Shreve & Co., arrived from the East yesterday and is staying at the Palace, ‘William Beckman, an ex-Railroad Commis sioner, came down from Sacramento yesterday and registered at the Gi LOVE'S SEASONS. Full-fledged summer lies upon L. - land. 1 kiss your lips, your halr—and then your hand Slips into mine; 10, we two understand That love is sweet. The roseleaf falls, the color fades and dies; ‘The sunlight fades, the summer, birdlike, files; There comes & shade 2CToss your wistful eyes— Is love 80 sweet? The flowers are dead, the land is blind with rain; ‘The bud of beauty bears the fruit of pain— Can any note revive the broken strain, Is love 50 sweet? The world is cold and death is everywhere; I turn to you and in my heart’s despair Find ptiuce and rest. We know, through foul or air, That love is sweet. —Pall Mall Gazette. LINCOLN'S HESITANCY TO MARRY, APPREHENSIVE THAT THE PATHWAY WAS NOT ONE OF FLOWERS AND SUNLIGHT. Letters from Lincoln to his closest friend, Joshua Fry Speed, subsequent to the latter’s marriage, betray an anxious and impatient de- sire to learn if marriage is a pathway of flowers and eunlight, and not of darkness and n the two had morbidly feared it tobe. John Gilmer Speed_presents these hitherto unpub- lished letters bearing upon Lincoln’s Hesitancy to Marry” in the October Ladies’ Home Jour- nal. Inone Lincoln says: It cannot be told how it mow thrills me wih joy to hear you say you are “far happler than you ever expected to be.”” That much I know is enough. I know you too well to suppose your expectations were 1ot, at least sometimes, extravagant, and if the reality exceeds them all, I say enough, dear Lord. I am not golng beyond the truth when I tell you that the short space it took me to read your last leiter gave me more pleasure than the sum total of all I have enjoyed since the fatal 1st of January, 1841. Since then, it seems to me, I should have been entirely happy but for the pever-absent idea that there is one (referring to Miss Mary Tod) who is still unbappy, whom I have contributed to make so. That still kills my soul. { cannot but reproach mysel? for even wishing to ve happy while she is otherwise. She accompanied a large party in the railroad cars to Jacksonville last Monday, and on her return spoke 5o that I heard of it—ot having enjoyed the trip exceedingly. God be praised for that. One thing I can tell you which I know you will be glad to hear, and that is that I have seen Mary and scrutinized her feelings as well as I could, and am fully convinced she is far happier now than she has ‘been for the last fitteen months past. Eight months after Speed was married Mr, Lincoln wrote him: But I want to ask you a close question: *“Are you now In feeling as well as judgment glad that you are married as you are?” " From anybody but me this would be an impudent_ question not to be tole- rated; but [ know you will pardon it in me. Please answer it quickly, as I am impatient to know. Mr. Lincoln’s object in asking this **close ques- tion’ is manifest. Mr. Speed gave the answer uickly and satisfactorily, and on the 4th of November, 1842, one month exactly after the question had been submitted, Mr. Lincoln was married. : MENU FOR MONDAY, SEPT. 30. BREAKFAST. Fruit. Quaker Oats, Mill Mrolled Thin Ham. Rolls. 3 k. Omelet, Coftee. LUNCH. Goose Stew with Olives and Crouton. Sliced Tomatoes. Coffee. Fruit. DINNER. Mock Bisque Soup. Brolled Steak. Baked Potatoes. eas. Lettuce Salad. Coffee. Cheese. Grapes. —Household News. ‘Waters. —_— THOUGHTS OF WESTERN EDITORS. The men who go fishing on Sunday expect to come home loaded.—Reno (Nev.) Gazette. Strange as it may seem, prosperity is to the gmiu of the red flag a red flag.—Salt Lake San Francisco is growing in importance. THE CALL is putting up the handsomest news- paper building in the country and the rank of the British Consul has been increased.—Ala- meda Telegram. If we could exact an export duty on Ameri- can heiresses who marry foreign noblemen it might possibly stop this ‘drain on our gold.— Seattle Post-Inteliigencer. The bottom cause of the enormous shipments of gold to foreign countries is the fact that we have a tariff framed expressly to encourage :I‘:’; i.impon of foreign goods.—Portland Ore- 0. ‘We may cry reform until we die, but unless we begin the “work” there will be no reform. In this case “faith without works is dead.” Let us henceforth demonstrate our faith by our works.—San Francisco Living Issues. Santa Rosa proposes to have a grand floral carnival another year,and is already taking the preliminary steps to make it a success. California will soon be known as the State of carnivals and fiestas, and the fact will have no little enchantment about it for the denizens of the other States of the Union. As an advertise- ment it is Ina?oulble to estimate the value of these floral displays.—Los Angeles Times. e THE BEST NEWSPAPER. THE CALL is undoubtedly the best daily mewspaper published in San Francisco, and those of our readers who take any daily paper lhnulg't\ll'm CaLL—Yesterday's San Fran- ¢isco Star. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. «The articles condemning the use of the bi- cyrle, published recently, are, in my ovinion, & farce,” said J. Downey Harvey yesterdsy at the Palace Hotel. “I maintain that there is not a more healthy, companionable or en- joyable recreation than bicyeling.” “How do you account for the cases cited in those articles where persons have been in- jured through bicycle riding?” asked a CaLL reporter. “Well,” sald Mr. Harvey, “if there are such cases, they are, I am sure, very few. I can cite cases where they have been extraordinarily beneficial to persons of weak constitution. How many people know how to walk? If they were more perfect in this, there would be less disease than thereis. It is the same with the bicyele—there are riders and those who do not know how to ride. “Did you ever know of anything more com- panionable than the bicycle? I ride about fifty miles a day—I am no boy—and it does not fatigue me, but it is extremely healthful, Take J. DOWNEY HARVEY STATES THAT THE ANTI- BICYCLE OUTCRY 1S A FARCE. fencing, baseball, and many other nd you require a competitor or assis- .| tant; take swimming and you require the water; but get astride your wheel and you are content. Now it has been said that the bicycle is in- jurious to women. Dr. Thorne of San Fran- cisco will give you particulars of a patient of his, suffering from trouble which necessitated his sending her East to a great specialistasa last resource; the doctor stated that there was nothing left but an operation which might cost the woman her life. She happened to be stay- ing with a friend who persuaded her to ride, very much against her will, and she rides con- tinually now, and it has effected acomplete cure with her. Dr.Thorne isa great believer in the bicycle now.” “And these articles have prejudiced a great many against the bicycle?” suggested the re- porter. «It has considerably; but then you know there are always a great number of people take toa particular hobby because some one else does it, and they are ever on the watch fora scare to drive them from it. “The bicyele will live and be a boon to riders.” Senator White is back in town from his trip up the river with the members of the Califor- nia delegation to prepare for the coming wres- tle in Congress over river and harbor appro- priations. The Senator in speaking of the chances of this State in getting good appropri- ations said last evening at the Palace: “The river and harbor appropriations are not apt to belarge in the aggregate for two reasons. First, there will not be too much money to spare for the purpose; and second, as thisis on the eve of a Presidential election the House particularly will probably want to make a record for economy. However, California may fare as well as usual.” ““What are your plans as to what you will ask for, Senator?” was asked. “We have no definite plans and shall not until we have seen the reports of the engineers. We shall be guided by them to a great extent, because, you know, Congress will not make any appropriations contrary to their recommen- dations. “We had hoped to get through with the work of investigation this week, but it will take longer than we expected. We shall devote Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to it proba- bly, and expect to go to Napa, Petaluma, Alviso, and to inspect the rocks in the harbor that are considered a source of danger, and also look at the new gun at the entrance.” Asked about other legislation, the Senator said: “Ifully agree with Senator Mitchell of Oregon, who said the other day that there will probably be no financial legislation of impor- ['tance at the coming session. There will, of course, be no tariff legislation.” J. J. White, the Oakland Postmaster, makes the same complaint that his predecessors have made for many years, that the people of that city do not display their patriotism by pur- chasing their stamps on the right side of the bay. Speaking of this yesterday at the Lick he said: “According to the business done by the Oak- land Postoffice th® receipts should be about $150,000, while it is really only about $90,000. This greatly hampers the efficiency of the de- partment over there. The cost of running the office is one of the hignest in its classin the United States. Were this notso we could put on the extra carriers now much needed and give a better service all round. The great trouble, of course, is that people who live there and do business in this City are in the habit of buying their stamps here.” HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—S1R: In the matter at present in agitation before the Board ot Supervisors and in the daily press, in relation to fixing by City ordinance the lim- itation for height of brick buildings hereafter to be erected in San Francisco, permit me to present the following suggestions: Instead of a jumped at, lump conclusion of 130 feet for buildings on Market and other similar width streets, and 100 feet on all other streets, let the ultimatum of heights of struc- tures be based upon a percentage of width of the respective streets, which if placed at1.75 per cent would give for Market-street improve- ments a height of 187:6 feet, approximately 20 feet less than the Chronicle building and more. than 100 feet less than the new CALL buflding at Market and Third streets. On streets 82:6 feet wide, 144:4}4 feet; on streets 68:9 feet, 120:8% feet,and on those 60 feet wide, 105 feet, and so on. This would provide perfect equality in the matter of sunlight and shadows, s0 much prated about by those who from motives of jealousy dislike to see grander structures than their own onfjtheir neighbors’ lots and others with restricted ideas not yet enlarged to the full possibilities of the future nor a proper comprehension of the progressive spirit of the present age, or who, possessing no realty of their own, are envious of those to whom the goddess of fortune has been specially kind, But, in any case, the percentage proposition 1s 8 practical and equitable method of equalizing the height of structures, if it must be done by City ordinance, instead of leaving it to the good judgment of owners. JAMES E. WOLFE, Architeet. 8an Francisco, Sept. 28, 1895. PEOFPLE TALKED ABOUT. Prince Nicholas of Montenegro is gray and portly and three and fifty, yet h‘nm;m. withal, and looks every inch a prince and soldier. He is very tall and broad-shouldered, Witk a frank, fearless face, large eyes, most, stately demeanor and model manners, which fascinate all who approach nim. He is a poet as well as a soldier and has composed some ballads which sre popular wherever the Servian language is spoken. He is also an accomplished linguist, and speaks French, German, Itallan, Russian and Turkish with perfect fluency. His ordinary costume eon- gists of a s¥y-blue jacket, scarlet sash and spurred boots, with & white mantle, furred Kaftan and jeweled swoxd. Thus attired he gives audience two or three times & week to all who have anything to ask of him, and he administers justice offhand. Litigants appear before him and state their cases witnout the assistance of lawyers. On & recent occasion o suitor against whom he had given judgment tried to stab him, but a blow from the Prince’s fist knocked him out of court literally. He 18 altogether one of the most gifted men who ever ruled a people, and, if his dominions were larger, might even leave a name in history. N e e -Empress Carlotta of Mexico resides in I;fi;::unmpry house near Lacken, a suburb of Brussels, where her brother, the King of Belgium, visits her three times a week. Sheis now said to have lost all traces of her former insanity. Her chief recreations are reading and musie. Sheis perfectly able to direct all the internal economy of her establishment, takes long walks in the beautiful park in which her residence is situated, and both lunches and dines in the company of the principal mem- bers of her suite. —————— E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street. e RENTS collected. Ashton, 411 Montgomery.* e —————— BacoX Printing Company, 508 Clay street.* NICE present for Eastern iflends—califarn,ln Glace Fruits, 50¢ 1b., Jap. baskets. 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