The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 30, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1895 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Prop RATES—Postage Free one week, by carrier.$0.15 by mail... 6.00 SUBSCRIPTIH paily and Sunday C. and Sunday Ca and Sunday CaLy, six nionths, by m: 3.00 and Sunday CALL, three months, by mall 1.60 CaLL, one month, by .65 €onday CALL, one year, by mail. 1.60 WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mail 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street. Telephone.. .. Main—1868 Telephone ..Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES : £20 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until $:50 o'clock. ves street : open until 9:80 o'clock. 2518 Miss 116 Ninib treet; open until 9 o'clock. open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: dvertising Bureau, Rhinelander ane streets, New York City. Pecific States There is now a demand in New York for an automatic gold reserve. Popular churches in the East have begun to furnish places for storing bicycles. We may consider the Atlanta Exposi- tion a success, for it is said the Midway is all right. E an victories in the State all will help on the revival Big Repu elections this everywhere. The time is coming when we can no longer picture death on a pale horse, but on a bicycle. In a few day over will have to return to Washington and wait for Congress with bated breath. The only issue in Maryland is Gorman, and even that will probably be choked off on election day. It is now asserted the Chine the bicycle ages ago and that i old as gunpowder. nvented about as The report that Senator Peffer intends to start a newspaper is calculated to make Give the proposed lottery or al and those who advertise the games will also have a trial. tr Of course prosperity can stand on the gold basis, but to get there with both feet she needs bimetallism. In the East the tide of sympathy with Puba is running very nearly high enough float the ship of State. The Syndicate’s contract with the Gov- fernment to muintain the gold reserve runs out to-morrow, and then what ? It is said the Eastern corn crop is so large there are not even hogsand cattle enough among the farmers to eat it. Though Willie K. and Lady Alva are divorced, Miss Consuelo seems to be able to reach the pockets of both with her little Duke. itzsimmons are to have Corbett and the honor in Texas of an extra session of the Legislature assembled to do them justice. It is said that Marlborough is already | \enjoying the benefits of the Vanderbiit { lalliance in the form of free passes on the railroads. “For the Lord's sake,”” said Dr. Park- hurst, “let us sink fads and side issues,” but isn’t Dr. Parkhurst himself a fad and 8 side issue? | | Weare just near enough to the scene of t |disturbance to be interested in the State § ‘elections this year without having to hear i ‘the brass bands. Mrs. Langtry is certainly no actressor she would never have postponed the ¢ |divorce advertising until she was ready to Iretire from the stage. Asan evidence of the good crops it is L inoted that the universities of the corn H|States have opened this fall with a larger number of students than ever. 1t is within the limits of possibility that jja syndicate has been formed among the British nobility to corner American jheiresses and squeeze the market. In asserting “there is no city so delight- fiful as Philadelphia in the month of HOctober,” the Record of that city over- Hlooked either San Francisco or veracity. As an outcome of all the carnivals, fes- vals and celebrations in Eastern cities during the past summer there has come & forth a demand for less burting and more ‘art. . Lots of people who now declare them- { selves to be in favor of a short campaign i‘,naxt year, will be so hot for the fight by fnext spring that they won’t wait for the {icampaign to begin. & e If California is to hold her prestige asa { fruit-growing State some of our rural ex- ‘ changes must furnish us with a story to match that of a New Haven man who «claims to have successfully graited an lapple twig on a grape vine and is now rais- ling good apples and good grapes on the [same vine. § AT Z That wonderful acetylene from which we {axpect cheap gas in the near future, may Tot prove such a blessing after all, fora {French chemist asserts he can by means of t furnish a drink bearing an exact re- semblance to grape brandy at a cost of two vents a quart. Science had better put \cetylene back where she found it. . The Iowa State Register speaks slight- .ngly of the arid districts of the great West and says: ‘“Iowa, of course, is not juterested in the irrigation question. ere we simply plant seed and nature oes the rest.” Exactly so. The Iowan lants the seed and the blizzard reaps it nd occasionally takes in the planter also. Speaking in reference to the attitude of _ondon on the subject of bimetallism Mr. 3ladstone recently said: “If it stands tirm, and is seen resolutely to exercise on his subject the authority to which it is ‘ntitled, no power which bimetallism at resent commands, or is likely to enlist, I be able to overcome it.”” This state- nent is doubtless encouraging to the gold nen, but before the contest is over the imetallists may be able to show that the nited States is bigger than London. BT S S A SEVERE REPORT. The interview with Marsden Manson, chairman of the State Board of Highway Commissioners, published in Sunday’s CarL, is exceedingly instructive and un- sparingly severe. He shows how money is wasted in the maintenance of roads by county authorities through ignorance of proper methods, and gives generous praise to those counties which have exhibited in- telligence and enterprise. He shows that some of the splendid prosperity of Santa Clara County is attributable to the superb condition of the roads, and charges hard times in other places to bad roads. A very peculiar thing which he discov- ered was that in the mountain and foothill region, where the people produce at home all that they possibly can for home con- sumption, there is far more prosperity than in the valleys, where it is easier to buy meat, vegetables, butter and the like. This is apart from the subject of good roads, but it is worth knowing and remem- bering. The finest mountain road was found in the smallest and poorest county. Alpine, where the population is only 550. The ex- cellence of this road is explained in the scrupulous integrity and careful watchful- ness of the Supervisors, who see personally that full value is received for every dollar expended ; but an equally important factor is the pride of the people themselves, who, when the road fund is exhausted, take picks and shovels and do the work free of charge. There are bound to be good roads and prosperity where such conditions as these exist. Evidence of the most extraordinary stu- pidity was found in certain counties of the great interior basin. In the long sandy stretches there abounding it is often the custom to make roads passable for wagons heavily loaded with grain by strewing them several inches deep with straw. This has to be repeated a number of times dur- 1ng the year, at a cost of $30 to $45 a mile. This is a criminal waste of money. The commissioners found in other places that excellent material for making good roads lay contiguous to bad roads, and yet it is neveremployed, although the cost of using it would be far below that of the primitive methods employed. Here i investig: “The people of the State spend between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000 early on their highways, yet it cannot be controverted that we ave deteriorating in roads. Itcannot be controverted that the same amount, intelligently, judiciously and honestly expended during a series of years, would give us the grandest system of roads in the world. Most of it is now blindly thrown away.” ONE CALIFORNIA TOWN, Monrovia is only a small settlement in the southern end of the State, but it has eculiar features that are worthy of ¢ study. CaLy, and now it is interesting te inquire into the reasons for its being so utterly unlike other California settlements. Why, for instance, should the South- ern Pacific and Santa Fe roads be erecting each a $10,000 station at this small place when it had stations there already, and when in many much larger towns in Cali- fornia the railroad companies maintain cheap and shabby stations? From 1200 acres of orange treesthe Duarte- Monrovia Citrus Association shipped last season 234 carloads of oranges, which yielded $100,000 to its 111 members; a private company shipped forty carloads more, bringing $20,000, and another private company paid $30,000 for fruit ana labor at its dryers. This makes $170,000 distributed among the people. The idea of organization is thus madé apparent at the start. A higher operation of its benefits is seen in the remarkable plan by which it has solved the water problem. Water is a scarce commodity in that section, and the people of Monrovia wanted an abundance of it, and the best to be had. Accordingly the municipality bought 1700 acres of water-bearing land away back in the mouutains. Then the people voted bonds to the amount of $40,000 with which to construct the supply system. A wonderrul feature of the election was that not a single negative vote was cast. The bonds were promptly bought by a Chicago firm at a premium of $500. Itis well to remember this, for most communities are glad to sell their bonds at par. But the Board of City Trustees was composed of high-class, pub- lic-spirited, bonest men, and that makes a difference. They then drove nine tunnels into the mountains, thus securing a supply of water sufhcient to serve a city of 20,000 in- habitants, and instead of running the fine, pure water from the heart of the moun- tains into reservoirs, where it would be more or less contaminated, they proceeded to serve it directly through pipes. Hence the water is not exposed until it is deliv- ered for use. Some fine engineering was required to lead these pipes to the city across canyons and other obstacles, but that was accomplished. The most interesting feature of the water supply is that the residents are served without charge. They may have all they want for domestic use and for irrigating their orchards. All the exvense that the water is to them is that represented by the interest and redemption fund of the bonds and the slight cost of maintaining the works, and all that is covered by taxation. It is not surprising that the surplus water developed by the tunnels has in- duced an electrical company to enter the field. A company with a capital of $100,000 has been formed for the purpose of utiliz- ing this surplus and supplying the settle- ment with light and power. This will bring a revenue to the municipality which will assist in paying off the bonded debt, und the people will enjoy the advantage which an electric plant will secure. If there were many such towns in Cali- fornia as Monrovia it would be immeasur- ably better for the State. It is the people of Monrovia, not any special natural ad- vantages which they enjoy, that have brought about these wonderful results. It is certain that the population of Monrovia will increase more rapidly than that of towns showing a less progressive spirit, that the property of the people will be greatly enhanced in value, and that the investment which their bonded debt repre- sents will prove the most profitable they could have made. THE FARMERS' MEETING. The State Grange of California, Patrons of Husbandry, meets to-morrow at Merced and continues in session during the week. Iis business will be to hear and act upon the reports of its officers, and of the various standing and special committees, covering such subjects as education, legislation, co-operation, experiment stations, finance, gen- eral condition of the order and kindred subjects of interest to farmers or to the order as such. One proposed amendment to the constitution of minor consequence comes up for action. The topic which is expected to excite most interest is the adoption of some prac- tical working plan for the better educa- tion of farmers, especially in the business aspects of ifarm lile. The some very cl These were described in | membership of the State Grange consists of the officers of the State Grange and the masters of all subordinate granges and their wives or husbands. In the ab- sence of the regular representatives granges are represented by alternates duly elected. While the foregoing constitute the vot- ing members of the Sate Grange all mem- bers of the order are entitled toattend and take part in the discussions. A lively in- terest is manifested in the coming session and a large attendance is anticipated. ROYALTY IN COMMAND. The speech made by the Duke of Cam- bridge at a private banquet given in his honor upon his retirement from the com- mand of her Majesty’s armies has created a sensation throughout Great Britain. He took the ground that there is no proper foundation for the recently developed no- tion thata member of the royal family was not suited for the command of the forees. The distinguished gentleman’s objection to this sentiment has come too late. The very fact that his long command of the army has induced innumerable and con- stantly increasing attacks upon him is conclusive proof that the insunctof the people is averse to royal leadership of the iron hand which might be turned against their liberties, His unpopularity was based less on the ground of his personal shortcomings than on that which supports natural human jealousy of individual liberty. The English people seem to be less aware than are intelligent observers in other nations that the proclaimed loyalty of Britons to the idea of royal sovereignty is the product more of habit than innate desire. The attacks upon Cambridge were really assaults upon the royal prerogative and power. The most instructive incon- sistency that Great Britain has ever devel- oped is the claim of its people that royalty should not command the armed forces of the empire. In theory the king is both the ruler and the father of the people. He is charged with the safety and welfare of his subjects, and as the army represents the idea of defense and safety in its con- cretest form alllogic demands that the king should command the army. Thisisnotonly logical but right, and it is not only the rule throughout Europe except in Eng- iand, but a principle of republican govern- ments is the placing of the President at the head of the armed defenses of the country. In declaring that royalty may not prop- erly command the army the people of England stultify that principle of their Government which permits royalty to serve even as a nominal factor in the con- duct of public affairs, It is really a con- fession of inconsistency in sustaining even the empty form of a throne, and in es- sence is a proclamation of inndte an- tagonism to a monarchical Government and a demand for the exercise of the inherent right of self-government. The abandonment of the principle of army leadership by the crown in obedi- ence to an overwhelming popular senti- ment is a further lowering of the pawer of the scepter in the vital concerns of Great Britain. It is a further retreat of the monarchical idea and a corresponding ad- vance of republicanism. Should England to-morrow become a republic and elect a President she would give him ten times the power at present invested in the crown. GENERAL EZETA'S PLANS. A fascinating story is brought to San Francisco by George O’Hara, an officer of the Guatemalan Central Railway, and ap- parently a responsible and intelligent man. He claims to be a close acquaintance of Ezeta, the deposed President of Salvador, and of Ezeta’s friends and to be familiar with the general's plans. Therefore, he asserts that Ezeta’s talk about leaving San Francisco for Salvador for the purpose of organizing another revolution was simply with a view to conceal his real intention, which is to take charge of the revolution- ary forces in Cuba. The reward for his success in that enterprise will be the lend- ing of an army to him for use in effecting a revolution in Salvador. It is not alone the plausibility of this story that makes it interesting. Ezeta is asserted to be really a very courageous and able general; certainly his leadership of the Cuban rebels could not make their situation worse than itis. His command of the Spanish language would be an ad- vantage over any other foreigner, and it cannot be assumed that he has any love for Spain sufficiently strong to make him stay his hand when the interests of that country are threatened. The only part of the story that seems unlikely is that which concerns the re- ward offered him. If the Cuban rebels suc- ceed they wiil need a President, and who better than Ezeta could be found? He has already had experience in that capacity, and it would be betier for him to become President of Cuba than of Salvador and the government of the people would prob- ably be easier. To be the leader of a cause involving the liberty of a people would be a greater glory than the wresting of a gov- ernment from a people of whom he could never be sure. A RARE OPPORTUNITY. The special article on Merced County which Tur CALr published Sunday dis- closes a condition of affairs not at all cred- itable to the capitalists who may be aware of the opportunities which exist in that county. Itis true that hundreds of other opportunities for the profitable investment of money are to be found in California, but the situation in Merced is particularly in- viting. ‘The great opportunity there existing is the utilization of the power represented by the Merced Kiverand its conversion into electricity for use in the mines. The min- ing region of Hornitos was famous in the early days, but it is a remarkable fact that, with few exceptions,the workings have been confined practically to the surface. The high price of fuel has made mine-owners timid about development, although the mines which have been pushed toa co- siderable depth have uncovered splendil stores of gold. Now, that gold-mining L+ taken recently so strong a turn upward it is eminently worth while to inquire into the prospects of Merced. Theriver, after leaving Yosemite Valley, pushes its way to the plains through a gorge with a heavy fall. At innumerable places along the canyon the whter might be dammed and electric plants instalied. The power thus generated would solve the problem of working thé gold mines on a vrofitable basis, and hence the demand for the power would be instant and large. In view of the great enterprises of this kind which have been established on the San Joaquin and S:ianislaus rivers, it seems strange that the inducements offered by the Merced River have been overlooked or neglected. Eastern capitalists could nov do better than investigate the sitnation. COMMENDABLE SPIRIT. The people of Montreal have set an ex- ample which San Franciscans might follow with excellent results. On the recent ap- pearance of Henry Irving in that city speculators bought up the choice seats, in- tending, of course, to sell them at a profit. But the people resented the transaction and refused to buy the seats, although the speculators offered them at half the cost. As a consequence there was a very slim house, and Irving was so disgusted that he refused to make aspeech. The people were not to blame for the small house, and Ixving had a good opportunity to put a check on a very mean and evil practice by being as gracious as possible to those who did attend. Possibly only the advent of the mil- lennium would invest our people with the spirit of independence which characterizes those of Montreal. Whenever a great star visits San Francisco we areapt to endanger the integrity of our necks by scrambling for seats on any terms. ‘The speculators, accordingly, reap a harvest. Montreal is sufficiently old to be sensible, patient and self-respecting. OUR EXCHANGES. According to the Mountain Fcho the tem- porary depression caused at Angels Camp by the Utica mine disaster has passed away aud the outlook for the camp is now bright and promising. The Fcho says: ‘‘The com- pany are at work again with a full force, with strong probabilities of more extensive operations and a larger payroll than ever before. Many propertles are being sold and bonded to outside capitalists, and among the number some are sure to be systematically and extensively developed. The hope that has long been cherished of an electric plant that shall supply chrap and abundant power for all our mines is about to be realized. Estimates and sur- veys have been made, and a company with ample capital and experience is complet- ing the preliminary details of the great enterprise. An era of progress and pros- perity seems assured.” It is pleasant to note that it is not in the mines only that the enterprise of the people is showing itself, but that consid- erable improvement is under way in the town. There is a demand for better kept streets and roads, and an evident intantion to make Angels attractive to visitors gen- erally as well as to miners. Some time ago we copied from the Fre- mont (Wash.) Pioneer the statement: ““The | almost weekly chronicling of the aeath of some Populist newspaper in the State is the best evidence of the decay of Populism in Washington.” Now comes the Vancouver (Wash.) Reg- ister and says: “It would be difficult to crowd more untruth in less space than the above paragraph occupies, and as THE Caruis an honorable, upright journal on all occasions it will surely correct the above glaring faisekood.” Of course, as we do not know the origi- nal statement to be a falsenood, we cannot do more than give the Register’s evidence on the other side. Itdeclares: “The n estaplished newspapers of that political faith bave in numbers more than kept pace with those which have suspended.’” This is as far as we can go in the contro- versy and the settlement of it we must leave to the State interested in it. Healdsburg, according to the Enterprise, is growing rapidly and steadily, for the good and sufiicient reason that it is backed up by “a valley where oranges grow side by side with peaches, plums and pears; olives hedge in fields of wheat, oats, rye and barley; potatoes and the ramie plant jostle each other; squashes hide in the shelter of canopies of hops; apples and figs, walnuts and prunes, quinces and the pomegranate ripen in the same orchard; corn grows among the wine-vines; cur- rants in the shadow of the mulberry; gooseberries hgrd by the persimmon; al- monds look on strawberries, and the black- berries climb over fences that bound bean- fields; roses and heliotrope, pansies and violets, geraniums and the most delicate of ferns thrive out of doors in every season.” With such resources the growth of the town ought to have a Chicago movement; but we learn from the Enterprise that the roads of the county are ‘‘abont the poorest in the West.”” It is hard to get the prod- ucts out and hard to get settlers in. In fact Healdsburg isa kind of Eden sepa- rated from its neighbors by a hard road to travel. Up to last year San Francisco was ahout as large a market for fruit as the growers around Porterville desired, but this year, according to the Enterprise, the outputis expected to reach fifty cars and the grow- ers are thinking of reaching out for mar- kets in the East. The Enterprise declares ‘‘Porterville is soon to be the most impor- tant p oint for citrus fruits in the State of California; it will not be long before 600 cars of oranges and lemons will be shipped from this vicinity.” As a consequence of these expected large shipments Porterville desires to be on the line of the competing road through the San Joaquin, and there can be little doubt the development of that section will in the near future necessitate an amount of freight transportation that will be of importance to railroad men. In a description of the great irrigating canal to be constructed from the Colorado and Gila rivers, and whose route 1s now being surveyed, the Arizona Sentinel of Yume says it will irrigate 175,000 acres in Arizona, 1,000,000 in Mexico and at Steven- sons Island alarge canal can also be taken out on the California side which will irri- gite an immense tract of land in the Golden State. 1f the scheme is carried out Yuma will thus be made the center of one of the largest irrigation districts in the world and great prosperity would be hers, In the meantime, however, Judge Ross’ decision put a cloud on the horizon. The Bodie Miner has changed hands three times within the last ten months, changing policies evervy time it changed owners. During this time it has been Re- publican, Democratic and independent. 1t is now owned by the Miner Publishing Company and edited by R. L. McCarty, and we trust wiil be sufficiently inde- pendent to save itself from future sale and the possibility of having to change its p«l)'litica once more and set up for Pop- ulism. ‘We had a good many fiestas and fes- tivals this year, but next year they will be everywhere in the State and brighten with anew joy nearly every week of the fruit and flower season. Among the towns likely to hold celebrations of this kind is Napa, and the Register advocates the establishment of an annual “Cherry Fes- tival” in that county in June. We of course will be invited to the frolic, for the Register in urging the subject says to its readers: ‘“Let us begin to move in the matter of a grand demonstration of some sort. Whatever is done along that line will have the co-operation of the Hali- million Club in 8an Francisco.” Projects for obtaining electric power are being put forward in every section of the State where water-power is available, and it seems fairly certain that in the near future a considerable number of them will be realized. One of the most promising is under consideration at Winters, and the Express in speaking of it says in Berryessa Valley there are three fine sites for reser- voirs, either one of which would afford over 3000 miner's inches of water at Win- ters the year round. The estimated cost | ters in bas relief upon the buttons. Exrpress declares it “would afford sufficient vower to produce all the ‘lightning’ we will ever need to run our proposed flonr- mills, cannery, pumping-plant, etc. In fact this plan if carried to a successiul issue would give Winters a boost that would surprise the moss-backed silurians worse than a stick of giant powder.” PERSONAL. R. D. Hatch, a railroad man of Novato, is at the Grand. 0. A. Hale, a merchant of San Jose, is at the California. G. G. Brooks, & merchant of Colusa, is & guest at the Grand. F. J. Mason, a fruit-shipper of Newcastle, s at the Grand. Dr. and Mrs. J. T. Gardner of Petaluma are ing at the Grand. W.W. Wilkerson, a cattleman of Reno, Nev., registered yesterday at the Russ. James O'Brien, a big hydraulic miner of Smartsville, is staying at the Russ. Arthur G. Preston McNulty, manager of Mrs. Langtry’s ranch, is at the Occidental. J. C. Coker, a member of the Board of Super- visors of Placer County, is at the Russ. Fred Beaudry, a big hydraulic miner of Trinity County, and Mrs. Beaudry are at the Palace. Ex-Congressman A. Caminetti came in from Jackson, Amador County, yesterday, and regis- tered at the Lick. 8.T. Black, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, came down from Sacramento yes- terday and is at the Lick. D. D. Aitkin, member of Congress from Flint, Mich., and supreme vicec-hief ranger of the Independent Order of Foresters, is at the Occi- dental. Russell A. Alger Jr. of Detroit, son of General Alger, has returned from the north, where he has been looking up some of his father’s lum- ber interests, and is staying at the Palace. st PEOFPLE TALKED ABOUT. Frank R. Stockton, the well-known novelist, is a thin, wiry-built, dark-complexioned man, of somewhat severe mien, with bright, eager eyes and a drooping mustache, and in manner isdry and taciturn. He can talk quite as well as he writes when in the mood; but as a rule is rather chary of conversation ana rarely melts, even when surrounded by his chosen intimates, says M. Crofton in Vanity. A Phila- delphian by birth and a Jerseyite by residence, he began life as an engraver, but soon turned journalist. It was while connected with Seribner’s that he published the Rudder Grange'’ stories, which first brought him into literary prominence. This was in 1879. Then he became stant editor ot St. Nicholas. In 1884 he published “The Lady or the Tiger.” It has been followed by an unbroken line of delightfully contrived tales, both short and long. They all take & quaint turn, and are full of whimsical characters, while in each some fresh enigma is dangled like a lure before the reader’s eyes. His last book is called “The Ad- ventures of Captain Horn,” and is unlike any- thing he has previously done. Its author is slightly on the wrong side of 60, and affects the hammock habit. He confesses that he often waits an hour to select the correct word when dictating his stories, and that he seldom dic- tates more than twice 500 words daily. He asks something like half a thousand dollars for the shortest of stories. And he gets what he asks. W. 0. Jacques, the colored artist who will make & collection of his paintings and those of his pupils for an art exhibit in the Negro build- ing of the Cotton States and International Ex- position at Atlanta, i8 the same colored man who executed the excellent crayon portrait of Governor Atkinson of Georgia, which now now adorns the mantel of the Governor’s ex- ecutive office. The Atlanta Constitution pro- nounces the work excellent and skiilfully done. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe observed her eighty-fourth birthday at her home in Hart- ford, Conn., June 14. She is in excellent physical health, and hes not apparently feiled during the past year. She wentout walking on her birthday and received some calls from intimate personal friends. A few nfembers of ber family dined with her in the afternoon. Helen Keller, the brilliant deaf,dumb and blind girl, is an expert operator on the type- writer. The keys of the machine have the let- Recently she received §250 for an article written fora magazine. OPINICNS OF EASTERN EDITORS. Cities of the South. The cities of the South are in a prosperous condition. Since 1880 New Orleans has in- creased its assessment from $91,000,000 to $£140,000,000, and its per capita of wealth from $407 to $541, while its commerce has grown from §413,363,537 to $455,659,431. The capital invested in manufactures has made a bound from $8,565,303 to $43,059,693. Mo- bile's foreign trade has nearly doubled in the last year. Its harbor has been deepened and its fruit trade is increasing rapidly. Galveston exported 500,000 more bales of cotton in 1895 than in 1894, and Memphis now claims to be the largest interior market for cotton in the world. Richmond, Savannah, Atlanta and numerous other Southern cities are wing steadily in population and business.—Philadel- phia Item. Getting Together. The logic of it may not be apparent. The processes of this evolution of & perfect union may be obscure. They may be even beyond the realm of reason. But whether by means of a miracleorasa natural and rational outcome of two genera- tions of misunderstanding, it is a_glorious fact that Americans from North and South now meet together, neither forgetting nor forgiv- ing, but on the sure and permanent footing of mu}l;lnl respect and mutual pride.—Boston Globe. The Government of Cities. § The notion that the people of the city are less capable of seli-government than those of the country is an absurd delusion. The notion that they cannot or will not direct their own affairs better than outsiders can or will do it for them is ridiculous. The problem of mu- nicipal government must be solved Ly the people of cities, and the more completely the task of self-government is e)nt upon them the sooner and the better will they work it out. All the( need from State legislation is the op- rtunity and the power, which has thus far een denied them and out of the denial of which has come much of the failure.—New York Times. Government by Spies. This seems to be an administration by spies. The old soldiers have long been hounded by spies and informers, and in Jowa the Federal courts have been turned into & spy system by the side of which the abuses practiced under prohibition in Des Moines pale into insignifi- cance. But the spy system goes well with the talk of a perpetual presidency and third terms. Itall comes of making & president believe, as Grover Cleveland has been made to believe, that he is bigger than his party. Believing this, why shouldn’t he establish. i al rule? Informers have well with personal government.- Register. A Jewel of a Girl. A family on the East Side have just procured the services of a hired girl, who appears to be & jewel, judged by the following conversation. Her name is Mary and she had just come that aiternoon. In the evening a half dozen of her friends dropped in to see how she liked the new place and she was entertaining them in style. The landlady, just before retiring, went out to the kitchen where the new girl sat with her company, and said, *. breakfast at 8 o'cl eve! right, mum,” said Mary, “IfIain’tup by that time don’t wait for me.”"—Columbus (Ohio) The Matter With Uncle Sam. The main drain upon the gold in the treas- ury has been caused by the deficit; the deficit has been caused by a falling off of customs revenue; the falling off of customs revenue was caused by re ng the McKinley law with the Brice-Gorman tariff. This injurious legislation was enacted by the Democratic rty, And that is what is the matter with B‘n Samuel.—Louisville Co To Stop the Drain. If the presentirage for marrying European noblemen goes on among American girls it will soon be n for the United States Government to offer titles to its young men to prevent the oonnlhn:d drain on the girl re- serve.~Chicago Record. g Mines. Lightin, of the reservoirs is about $75,000,and the| At the rate of progress now being madein the electric lighting of nndolground ‘workin, the coal, ore, gold, silver and copper mines of the worid will soon be as light as day. All the large gold mines of South Africa are now elec- trically lighted and the smaller ones soon will be. Steady progress is being made in Ameri- can coal mines in introducing light for mining I.':d electric power for haulage.—Philadelphia m. IDEAS OF WESTERN EDITORS. Cuba always has been a packhorse and bread- winner for idle, luxurious and extravagant Spain, like an industrious wife who supports & fenteel but worthiess husbend. The difference s that the woman drudge dies without com- plaint or protest, and the national drudge somsé times rebels.—Portland Oregonian. Alameda County division has been discussed bere for years, just as we discuss the probabili- ties of the earth at some time becoming deed, like the moon, but the matter is not consid- ered as a living issue, and nothing &t present gives evidence that |t will be for some time to come.—San Leandro Standard. It has become a very popular practice to de- nounce and discredit courts of the highest judicial character. People who are under obli- iations to respect the laws of the land might easily be engaged in better business.—Wood- land Democrat. When some of the people in New York, four- teen years ago, were jeering at T.C. Plattas “me too,” they didn’t think they would ever be coming around and asking favors of “the great I am” Platt.—Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Prejudice against articles of home produc- tion was never more marked than in the case of the cigars made from Gilroy tobacco. Ex- perts who test them without knowing their origin state that they are equal to any im- ported cigar. Experts who know where they are made condemn them. But the time will come when everybody will recognize their quality.—San Jose Mercury. The American people are more thorough pro- tectionists to-day than they ever were before. With them this doctrine is not a matter of theory. For proof of its wisdom they point to the unparalleled industrial development un- der thirty Iears of protection and for proof of the folly of the free trade policy they point to the unprecedented industrial disaster which attended the Democratic assault upon the last Republican tariff.—Phcenix (Ariz.) Republican. It is all nonsense to aver that the eminent gentlemen who are fhow ona tour of inspec- tion of the navigable rivers in California are overwhelmed with surprise at the extent of our inland waterways. Such an averment amounts to an impeachment of their intelli- ence. The idea that men who have lived ong enough in California to be elected to the Senate and House of Representatives are not acquainted with the geography of the State is too ridiculous to be entertained for a moment. —Stockton Mail. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CRITTENDEN'S DEATH—J. K., City. A.P. Crit- tenden was shot by Laura D. Fair on board of the steamer El Capitan on the after- noot of the 3d of November and he died on the 5th of the same month. The trial of Mrs. Fair, conducted for the people by Harry H. Byrne and the defense by Elisha Cook and Leander Quint, was commenced in the Fif- teenth District Court before Judge Samuel H. Dwinelle on the 13th of Apri], 1871, and on the 26th the )\I? brought in a verdict of mur- der in the first degree. The defendant was on the 3d_of June sentenced to be nanged on the 28th of July. Anappeal was taken and the defendant was granted a new trial. The second trial commenced on the 9th of September, 1872, and lasted until the 30th, when the jury returned & verdict of not guilty and_ the pris- oner was discharged. On the 4th of November, two years and a day after the killing, Mrs. Fair signéd a receipt for the weapon with which Crittenden had been killed, saying that she wished to keep it as a memento of the tragedy. The Judge who tried the case and the three attorneys who first appeared in the trial are alldead. The files of newspapers comumlm%w- counts of this trial can be found in the Free Public Library. JouN MORRISSEY—A. D., Lowell Hill, Nevada Countyy Cal. John Morrissey never was a United States Senator, but in 1866 he was elected a Congressman from New York, and serving his term as a Representative he served on the Committee on Revolutionary Pension- ers. Morrissey was born in Templemore, County Tipperary, Ireland, February 12, 1831, and when but 5 years of age was brought to the United States by his parents. He lived in Troy and Lannisberg. N. Y., worked in a paper- mill and then learned the trade of brus maker. Subsequently he was a deckhand on a Hudson River steamer, after which he became a runner for New York steamers. In 1852 he appeared in California as a professional gladi- ator or pugilist, and upon his return to New York took part in several encounters, won & chlmpionshir belt and obtained quite a name in sporting circles. He retired from the ring in 1858 and eight years later was elected to represent the Fortieth district of New York in the lower House of Congress. MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION—S., Haywards, Ala- meda County, Cal. Following are the names of the directors of the Merchants’ Association of this city: A.S. Baldwin of Baldwin & Ham- mond, 10 Montgomery street; J. W. Carmany, 25 Kearny; W.G. Dpane of Doane & Henshel- wood, 13% Kearny; F. W. Dohrmann of Nathan, Dohrmann & Co., 122 Sutter; William Doxey, 631 Market; J. Richard Freud, 12 Phelan building; A. G. J. Fusenot of City of Paris, Geary street and Grant_avenue; H. D. Keil of Goldberg, Bowen & Lebenbaum, 328 Pine; M. S. Kohlberg of Kohlberg, Strauss & Froh- man, 107 Post; Kenneth Melrose of W. K. Van- dersfice, 136 Sutter; R. F. Osborn of R. ¥. Os- porn & Co., 751 Market; J. Simonson of the California Gas Fixture Company, 125 Geary; Frank Swain _of Swain Brothers, 213 Sutter: Vanderlynn Stow of Thomas Day & Co., 220 Sutter; ; T. Terry of Terry Furniture Com- pany, 747 Market. BILLY MULLIGAN—A. J. G., City. Billy Mul- ligan, who while under the effects of delirium tremens shot Jack McNabb, one of hiz best friends, and then killed John Hart, & member of the Volunteer Fire Department, was shot and killed in the St. Francis Hotel, on the southwest corner of Clay and Dupont streets, where he had taken refuge and refused to sub- mit to arrest. This weas on the 7th of July, 1865, and he was shot by Officer Hopkins with a riflefrom a window of a house on the north side of Clay street, just as he was drawing & bead on the officer. A QUESTION OF ETiQUETTE—Timothes, City. If your sister is about to leave the City for a time and proposes to send out P. P. C. cards there is no reason why you should inclose your cards. It would not be proper to do so, and it would look as if you were zrf-ms to save envelopes and postage stamps. If, aiter your sister taken her departure, you should desire to re- ceive her friends and acquantances during her ‘hss;:ce it would be proper to send out your cards. MARISE ENGINEER—F. B, City. If a boy of 17 desires to become a marine engineer he must apply to the officers of & steamer or to the offi- cers of the company to which a steamer he may select belongs. 1f thereis a vacancy and he is appointed to fill it he will be placed in a posi- tHon to learn everything from using an oil can to working the engine. VALUE oF CoiNs—F, McK., Haywards, Ala- meda County. A 50-cent piece of 1853, with arrow heads at the date and with rays at the back of the eagle, issued out of the mints at Philadelphia and New Orleans, and a half of 1854 is each quoted at from 75 cents to $1 25, L1veErrooy T0 SYDNEY—W. C. M., City. The average time taken by a clipperin sailing fros Sivergsol to Sydney ib about 1@ dsye. o8 vessels go by the Cape of Good Hope route, NIGHT SCHOOL—M. O'L., City. Typewriting and bookkeeping are taught free of charge to the. ils of the Commercial Evening School on Bush street, near Stockton. CHARGED WITH MURDER—I. V., City. At this time there are ien persons in the County Jail who are charged wi\:ge murder, ten whi two Chinese. : Alves and KiNe OF ITALY—R. E. G,, Visalia, Cal. Um. berto, King of Italy, was baptized a Catholie, but he is not a member of any religious organ: Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * ——————— THE Roberts Printing Co.—picture cards, e gy n e T AMERICAN mixed candies, 10¢ Ib. Townsend’s.* ———————— A crowd always thanks with its g never with 1t eason.—W. K. Alger. )" —_— —————— SEE t0 it that your blood is purified and enri : ;:: I::n ff.fm' Sarsaparilla. Then ynuc::ldl nervousuess, sleeplessne loss of appetite. Try it. " 2o —————— * Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fity years by millio) ers for their children while Teething 'Ill::fm success. It 500thes the child, softens the gums, al- lays Colic, regulates and is the best remedy for 'h',,m arising from teething or other causes. in every partof the world, ::::..: uuhww-ww‘u.. NEW TO-DAY. 29 Colima Baking Powder. Colima Pure Spices. As inducement to test COLIMA’'S SU- PERIORITY, Valuable Presents given FREE with each can. 100 varieties to choose from. We mentiona few: 1 Glass Butter Dish, 1 Glass Sugar Bowl, 6 Preserve Dishes, 1 Decorated Thin China Cup and Saucer, 1 decorated Salad vish, 1 Cup and Saucer (assorted decorations), 1 Thin China Oatmeal Bowl, 1 Cream Pitcher, Gold Decorated Cup, Saucerand Plate, Dec- orated set of 3 Water Goblets, Syrup Pitcher, Vegetable Dish, 1 Glass Berry Dish, 1 Majolica Pitcher, 1 Covered Saucepan, 1 Coffee Pot (2 qt.), Oatmeal Set of 3 pieces, set of § Table Tumblers, 1 Dish Kettle (6 qts). Lots of others at our stores. Great Ameriqan Tmperting Tea Co. 617 Kearny street, 146 Ninth street, 965 Market street, 140 Sixth street, 1419 Polk street, Cts. Per Can. H 521 Montgomery avenue, San Franeiseo | 535 Hayes strect. 218 Third street, STORES 2008 Fillmore street, 3006 Sixteenth street, 104 Second street, 2510 Mission street, 52 Market street, 2259 Mission street. 1053 Washington street, 917 Broadway, Oakland 131 San Pablo avenue, 616 E. Twelfth street. SEanne Park street and Al d ark street and Alameda Mameda . .. {"5vene: Visit our Stores. See the Big Display. Compare Prices and Quality is all We Ask. OUR SALESMEN SAY — That never in their experience have they found it so easy to satisfy even the most fastidious customers as with our present stock of Lace Curtains. The conjunction of the lowest of prices with the rarest daintiness of design is the reason. v Pore fhats The way, W do 4607\‘{“'&1\\5 WO ouY WATERFALL EDGE wsluy and Foutt & Esprit laces No charge for hanging Curtains bought of us; we hang them artistically, too. Send for Catalogue—mailed free. Carpets . Rugs . Mattings CALIFORNIA FURNITURE COT1PANY (N. P. Cole & Co.) nz-123 Geary Street/: ine Tailoring Perfect Fit o® First-Class Goods, Trimmings and Workmanship, at : Moderate Prices, 6o 70 Jonmmm THE TAILOR, 201 - 203 MoNTeOMERY ST., connen BusH, 724 MAgKeT ST., 1110-1112 MArKer S1., SAN FRANCISCO. WILL & FINCK CO. HORSE CLIPPERS. Power Horse=Clipping Machi; Challenge Hand Clippers. Newmarket Hand Clipper. Brown & Sharpe Hand Clippers Clark’s Hand Clippers.. Grinding end Repairing of A1l Kinds 818-820 Market St., Phelan Block. * ~ HISTORY OF THE STATE GRANGE OF CALIFORNIA. BY EDWARD F. ADAMS. WILL APPEAR IN THE SAN FRAN~ c1Sco CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1895, This is the first time that a complete his- tory of the State Grange has been at- tempted in this State. It will be illus- trated by portraits of some of the leading officers of the organization. Single copies 5 cents, poslage paid. Address C. M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor THE CaLL, . San Francisco, Cal.