The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 1, 1895, Page 6

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Gold goes, and Democratic hopes go with it. ‘Wherever there are good roads settlers will come. “More power to you' is the electrical greeting to the new era. Monrovia is little, but she has shown the State how to solve the water problem. We are not bragging on this weather, but it is better than they have in the East. The blizzard season has come and every point east of the Rockies is a storm center. If Cuba continues to do well we may be able to give her recognition as a Christmas gift No man sees the end of the fishing season approach with sadder thoughts than Grover. If Olney expects to ride into the Presi- dency on his foreign policy he had better spur it up a little. Home rule will never command respect in New York so long as it means Tam- many domination. So far as the international records show John Bulfl: has not been in the sporting field at all this year. If Peffer starts another newspaper Kan- sas should return Ingalls to the Senate and let things be as they used to be. Mr. Huntington may be sinceére in think- ing the competing railroad is a toy, but he will find be cannot play with it. We must roast the monopoly in this State, even if:we have to make a gridiron of competingiroads to do it with. ‘Whether wé are to have early conven- tions or late conventions next year San Francisco is the place to hold them. The denunciation of the third-term move- ment coniinues, but we do not see any Democratic leader rising to head it off. Europe has her war cloud and the East bas politics, but on the Pacific Coast the only thing to keep people busy is business. It must be a very dangerous time for the islands of the world since even the Oak- land people are accused of trying to steal one. It is a striking illustration of the kind of weather they have in the East that Peary is already willing to go back to the Polar regions.” General Miles was not: educated for the command of the army, but as he knew how to fight for it well enough to win it he deserves it. x 3 Russia is willing to divide the Chinese loan with Germany, but it seems the Ger- mans are in doubt whether they are to be let in or taken in. 3 Having lost the command of the army, British royalty is now very little more than a social ornament, and it is not very | ornamental, either. The New Heven man who claims to raise apples on grape vines probably in- tends to legitimize the business of making champagne from cider. PRELEET T A W The two most salient features of the present situation are the Republican revival of industry in the country and the Demo- cratic deficit irt the treasury. A project for converting svater power into electrical- force carried out in any |- part of the State radiates energy to simi- lar projects everywhere else. 3 In the maintenance of good roads, as in the maintenance of anything else, a little wisely directed care is of more value than much money unwisely spent. Royalty loses command of the British army at the same time that West Point loses command of ours, and still there are no signs of approaching ruin. In stopping a Wild West performance, while her people are running crazy over a faith cure, Denver seems determined to make a strictly holy show of herself. It is said by some local Democrats that Buckley has been ‘“‘whipped outof sight.” but it is well to remember that the man out of sight is very often the fellow who gets there first. . ——— The fact that the appraised valuation of Chicago this year is $16,000,000 less than it was twenty-five years ago may be taken a§ a sure proof that the tax system of the State has a sag in it somewhere. ey The session of the Btate Grange which begins at Merced to-day will be one of the important meetings of the year, and there is every reason to expect results from it that will prove beneficial to the State at large. ——— In declaring he is not a candidate for the Presidency, but would accept the nomina- tion if it were offered him, Mr. Ha has put himself in the thickest of the fray, for that particular part of the field is thronged with distinguished leaders. When the former Duke of Marlborough sold the family plate a large part of it was bought by one of the Vanderbilts, and New York society. is now wondering whether the present Duke, having won the Consuelo stakes, will carry the plate back with him, ? POLITICS AND BUSINESS. If we may calculate the events tocome next year from the course of those now occurring it is certain the main issue be- fore the people in the Presidential cam- paign will be that of restoring the Repub- lican tariff system. It cannot well be otherwise. We must set our house in order before we undertake new experi- ments. Until the Government has been provided with a revenue equal to expenses and our industries with a suflicient pro- tection to enable them to live other issues must wait. It is true there are many signs of revival in thre country, and no Republican will iry to.underrate them or in any way attempt 1o weaken their encouraging mfluence upon trade and commerce. None the less mast the people seriously face the actual condition of affairs and not be deluded by sanguine hopes of good things to come of themselves. The export of gold continues, a deficit in the revenue is noted every month, the imports of the country are in- creasing while the exports are decreasing. Such industries as were left some protec- tion. by the Wilson tariff have indeed started up again, but all from which pro- tection was removed remain stagnant; and while in comparison with the disas- trous depression of the past three years there is undoubted!y much improvement at present, yet we are still far from the conditions that prevailed under the Re- publican protective tariff and Republican administrations. In the face of these factsit would be a folly to expect any permanent improve- ment in the National welfare so long as the present governmental conditions exist. So long as our industries are unprotected we shall have unemployed workingmen and idle capital. So longas our imports exceed our exports the drain of gold will continue, and farmers will get but low prices for their products. So.longas the revenues fall below the expenses of the Government we shall have to borrow money, issue new bonds and increase the public debt. Nor can it be doubted that so long as these things go on there cannot be in private business any of that assur- ance of profit which is needed to promote new enterprises and bring about acom- plete prosperity for all. The relation between individual welfare and National politics is too close for any observing man to be mistaken as to the effect of the one upon the other. When the people recail that the average monthly receipts from customs duties during the operation of the Republican tariff were $17,066,774, and the average under the Democratic tariff is only $13,167,583, they can see at once what the Government has lost by the bill of “perfidy and dishonor”; and when they contrast the low prices of the Democratic panic years with those of the years of Republican prospetity, they can see what they as individuals have lost. The Nation and the people alike have suffered, and the suffering in both cases is plainly due to the one cause of bad politics at Washington. It should require no elaborate argument under these circumstances to convince every citizen that the first thing to be done is to remedy the blunder of 1892. The free-traders must be turned out of office and protection established as the per- manent policy of this country. When that is done the true revival will begin and industry will again be as busy in all por- tions of the Union and in all departments of labor as it was before Cleveland was elected. The Republican victories of last vear did much to encourage the people, but another victory next vear is needed in order to give the party full power to redress the wrongs that have been done, to clear the statute- books of the Nation of the botchwork of Demogracy, and to réitore the tariff sys- tem which long experience has shown to be essential to the prosperity of the Gov- ernment and the business of the people. THE DURRANT OASE. The Durrant case resumes this morning, with public interest keenly aroused by reason of the fact that during the week the side of the defense will be set forth and possibly completed. The evidence for the prosecution had been pretty thoroughly made known by the Coroner’s inquest and the preliminary hearing, but the evidence for the defense will be mainly new matter, and naturally the public curiosity will be greater than heretofore. THE CALL will report the case for the de- fense as fully as it did that fof the prose- cution. Every part and particle of evi- dence will be given accurately and impartially. There -will be 1o attempt, however, in the future any more than in the past to make sensations out of the case. We shall not, as some other papers do, publish on oneday a story which would have to be corrected on the next for the mere-sake of making a pretense at enter- prise. To fi\\blish the truth, the whole truth and notking but the truth will be our aim. The great tragedy is sufficiently fearful itself without having any factitious aids irom sensational writing, and Tee CaLn will continue to treat the case in the man- ner that a decent regard for truth and the awful solemnity of the issue require. ALERTNESS REQUIRED. Two rumors are current which have a very important relation to each other and to the welfare of California. One is that the steady decline in the volume of oil from the wells of Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio indicates their exhaustion in a few years, and the other is that the Stand- ard Oil Company is moving to secure con- trol of the oil wells recently developed at Los Angeles just as steps were being taken by 8an Francisco capitalists to bring the oil to this City for use as a manufacturing fuel. The rumors fit well together and have an air of strong probability. Scientists have never determined the exact nature of the sources of petroleum, but it stands to reason that a very exhaustive drain is in- compatible with any conception of nnlim- ited resources. In the case of springs and wells of water the case is clear enough, for we know that they are fed by rains, which must continue to fall from year to year. Subterranean water, unlike coal, oil and metals, is not, as they are, a product of forces working through countless centu- ries to manufacture and store the article. Experience has shown that products which have required ages for their making are not renewable by transient means. The analogy, when applied to petroleumn and natural gas, leads to the conclusion that their stores must be limited, and that na- ture cannot manufacture them as rapidly as we can consume them. Leaving analogy and turning to history, we are confronfed with the recollection that the Standard 0il Company interfered some years ago to check the progress of California by securing control of the out- put of petroleum in this State. The cost of transporting crude and refined oil from the Middle States to California was s0 great that a special cause existed for examining into the possibilitics of a natural oil supply in California. Efforts in this direction wege made with great success. If an old belief is true, the Standard Oil Company and the Southern THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER. 1, .1895:. Pacifi® Company entered into & combin: tion for the suppression of the oil industry in California. It was then declared that the railroad company was making too much money by hauling Standard oil across the continent to think of permitting a rival industry to develop in’ this State. Documentary evidence of such a compact has been published. Apart from that, we are all familiar with the fact that the dol- lar in sight is always the movirg consider- ation with the railroad. These matters are mentioned merely as a warning to the earnest and intellizent men who are working for the good of Cali- fornia. The virgin wells of Los Angeles, if we may measure their production by the history of the Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio wells, will be good for years to come, and if saved to the State will play a very important part in our progress. The threatened failure of the wells in the Middle States gives our wells a tremendous prospective value and places California in a position tocontrol the petroleum product of the country. PROTECTION NEEDED. Intelligent persons cannot cherish the smallest doubt that there should be a very rigid official supervision of certain foods largely consumed and peculiarly suscepti- ble to contamination. The chief of these ismilk. Such a necessity was recognized by a fraction of the last Legislature in the iniroduction of a bill providing for milk inspectors. The subject has been reawakened by the activity of the present City Board of Health. Itis something novel in the his- tory of S8an Francisco to see public ser- vants in that capacity so alert as these in- cumbents. They are now insisting thata bacteriologist is greatly neeced, and have engaged Dr. John C. Spencer for the posi- tion. The Mayor, who by virtue of his office isa member of the board, has op- posed the appointment on the sole ground that no provision exists for the payment of such an expert’s salary. The majority of the board claim that under the law they have the power and can act independently of the Supervisors, and that the Auditor is bound to approve the bills which they present. It is here that the one unfortunate phase of the subject presents itself. Dr. Spencer is regarded as an eminent specialist in bacteriology, and as he is said to be will- ing to accept the position and take his chances with the salary further argument on that peint seems to be shut off. Butit is unfortunate that there should be any likelihood of confusion or a clash. It dis- closes one of the many weaknesses of the present scheme of municipal government and indicates another need for its reorgan- ization. Milk is extremely susceptible to disease. This may have been imparted by the cow in the shape of consumption and other dangerous germs, and it may be received by the slightest exposure to contaminated air. If it escape all these perils it still has to run the risks to which some dealers’ cu- pidity may subject it. It is discouraging, for instance, to learn from Dr. Morse that until the authorities of New Orleans placed a competent expert in charge of the super- vision of the milk supply the people of that city had been paying $300,000 a year for Missiasippi River water when they thought they were paying for milk. As New Orleans is a smaller city than San Francisco we have cause to wonder what is the condition of affairs with us. But water is the least objectionable of the for- eign elements in miik. The most critical time in human life is infancy, as it is then that the system is most susceptible to disease and the artifi- cial food supply most apt to contain disease germs. It is unquestionable that in cities where there is a competent and honest supervision of the milk supply the mor- tality of infants is comparatively low. But it is one thing 1o suffer the need of such an officer and quite another to receive his best services when appointed. It is pleas- ant to be able to say that as a rule physi- cians in public office have generally dis- closed a vastly higher sense of official conscience than the average political office-seeker. It is to be hoped that Dr. Spencer will maintain the reputation of his profession. Itis difficult to see how a bacteriologist for San Francisco could properly discharge his duties without giving them all his time, but the presump- tion is that Dr. Spencer understands that requirement and realizes that it will be as much his duty to go abroad among the servers of food and inspect their product as to analyze the samples that may be vol- untarily submitted to him. A GREAT MAN DEAD. Pasteur’s death would have been more of a catastrophe had he been the sole cus- todisn and master of his wonderful dis- coveries. Asitis he hasleft the world in full possession of all the knowledge and skill of which he was possessed. Hisdeath is a calamity only in the sense that it puts astop to the working of the amazing in- tellect and indefatigable persistence which produced his discoveries. Even that calamity is ameliorated by the fact that he has opened and illuminated the way for the continued investigations of his suc- cesses. The conspicuous trait of this master gcientist was the precision of his methods and the infallible usefulness of their re- sults, Inthisregard he shines with a pe- culiar luster beside Brown-Sequard, who announced that he had discovered the elixir of life, and Koch, who was so pos- itive that he had found a cure for con- sumption. Pasteur never made ati an- nouncement till he was positive of 1ts cor- rectness. 3 The recognition which France gave him must have been fully a8 gratifying to him as his knowledge that he had done great good for the human race. This discloses a trait of the French people which, as mani- fested through their Government, is both exemplary and inspiring. In both art and science they offer the encouragement of distinguished honors. Pasteur, by reason of his remarkable discoveries, was placed at the head of a great institution estab- lished in his honor and endowed with his name, which will thus live as long as the prevailing conditions of civilization per- sist on the earth. As yet the United States, the other great republic of the world, has not risen to this height. —_— ROADS IN EUROPE. The laudable efiorts now being made in some parts of the Unitea States to improve our poor highways have turned attention to.the general excellence of those of Europe. Atsuch times it is oceasionally remarked, “But we cannot hope for many décades toattain this same state of perfection, l?r these Old World roads were begun generations ago.” This is a mistake. In some Continental countries men ucsrcflgxn‘ en the decline of life can recall the time w. they were surrounded with roads no better then those that abound in all parts of the Union. It may encourage the American laborers in this good cause to know this fact.— Theodore Stanton, in October Lippincott’s. — e —— FOR THE CONVENTION. An effort is being made by several prominent Republican politicians in San Francisco to have the National Convention of the party held in that City. C.M. Shortridge, who has gone East, will make a strong effort to interest influ- :I‘mll Republicans in the matter.~San Jose ews. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. One of the Presidio officers told a good story at the California yesterday about an incident which happened at Monterey during the en- campment of the regulars thers & couple of months ago. On one particularly delightful evening, some time between retreat and tat- 100, two of Colonel Young's troopers happened into the old town and proceeded -to see it. Among other things, they saw the numerous taverns and the exhilarating appurtenances thereof until long after taps had sounded. They were hardly in a condition to completely realize the error or the crookedness of their ways, 80 they wandered to the beach instead of returning to the encampment. After n proper communion Wwith the sea waves, the drowsy troopers stretched them- selves on the sands, and one soon followed the other to sleep. They were rather close to the water and their position was dangerous, to sav Mothing of the unhealthfuiness of it. However, all might have been well had not one of the cavalrymen tired of his damp couch and, half oblivious of his surroundings, proceéded to piteh his camp elsewhere. He looked for the comrade whom he remembered having accom- panied to the beach, but it was dark and he saw no one. Naturally, he satisfied himself with the conelusion that his fellow-trooper had been carried out to sea, and without more ado he hastened to the encampment with the sagd story. His melaneholy tale threw & gloom over things, and the passing of the unfortunate trooper was duly regretted. About reveille time there straggled into the encampment & sad looking specimen of soldier who was none other than the trooper whose untimely drowning was at thet moment the talk of the camp. Between his grief and the aftermath of his hilarity, he told a dismal story about the mght before. He had been to town, he gaid, with another trooper and they had wandered to the beach and slept on the sand. When he awoke his companion was missing and, as the tide had risen during the interval, there could only be cne explanation of his disappearance. The surf had washed him into its mighty depths. Harrowing as the second story certainly was, it came as a glad relief to the officers and the men at the Monterey camp. The bibulous troopers began to realize things when they found themselves face to face in the guard- house on that memorable morning. W. H. Taylor of Glendale, Oregon, carries with him a pocketful of great gold nuggets that are worth a great deal of money. He is the owner of the Victory mize which lies thirty miles above the Califoruia border and won re- nown by ovening up the first stratum of blue gravel in Oregon. “I hed reached hardpan at my mine,” he said yesterday in the rotunda of the Palace Hotel, “and the entire neighiborhood began to make sport of me when I continued going down. They said I had reached bedrock. I thought the true bedrock wes furtber down. 1t was, too, After going through ten feet of hardpan, I struck the blue gravel, the famous ‘blue lode’ of California, and I found it &s rich asit isfarther south, The gravel varies from sixty 10 ninety feet in depth. 0 “Another peculiar thing about my mine is that it is the only placer worked successfully by water supplied by high pressure pumps. I have spent $63,000 in one pumping plant since February. This enables me to mine in sum- mer. The water 1S pumped into a reservoir 387 feet above the mine and we have that pressure. Iintend to putin five more pump- ing plants,and this trip was made to effect the purchase of about 7000 feet of eighteen- inch hydraulic pipes. In winter nature sup- plies enough water to keep four 4-inch “giants” at work. Each new pump will mean one more “giant,” and each “giant” means $100 a day net profits, for the gravel is very rich.” “Sleeping is all a matter of habit,” said Sylvain Weill last night. “Now, when I am well I always wake up at 7 o’clock, no matter what might have been the hour of my retiring. Sometimes I go to sleep again, but if Ido I usually pay for it with a headache. Another queer thing is thatI have so grown into the habit of reading in bed thatI now have to read, it only for a few minutes, before I can go to sleep, even if it is 4 o'clock when I get to bed.” Mr. Weill and his wife start for New York this evening, where they intend spending a vacation of three months. . PERSONAL. Senator James Langford of Lodi is Lick. Judge John D. Bicknell of Los Angeles is in the City. T J. Mills Davies, a Los Angeles journalist, is in the City. H. W. Child, a mining man of Montana, is at the Palace. Senator J. M. Gleaves of Redding is regis- tered at the Grand. A. A. Taylor, editor of the Santa Cruz Surf, is among the guests at the Grand. Charles T. Coglan, secretary of the State Board of Equalization, is at the Lick. % B. 8. Burt, a wealthy Chicagoan, interested in California mines, is at the Grand. Charles Keppler, ex-secretary of the Ameri- cen Railway Union of Carlin, Nev., is in the City. EA F. Smith, secretary of the State Agricul- tural Society, came down from Sacramento yésterday morning. at the G. MeM. Ross, a mining man of Copperopolis, |- who hag also large mining interests in Shasta County, is at the Occidental. P. B. MeCourt of Stockton was in the City yesterday. He reports the new centef of rail- road activity to be in amost flourishing con- dition. A. 1. Lyons, a prominent San Joaquin Valley agriculturist, who has been visiting relatives in this City for a few d ays past, returns to his ranch to-day. Sol Rinaldo, a member of the firm of Rinaldo Bros. & Co., the prominent wholesale cigar- dealers, returned yesterday after a successtul business trip through Oregon and Washington. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 80.—Arrivals to- day were as follows: C. P, Blake, wife and daughter, San Prancisco; Louis F, Vetter, Los Angeles. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. The 0id Man—Where are all my white shirts and collars and ties? The New Woman—Why, John, this is the girls’ afternoon to make calls!—Syracuse Post. Blabzer—Out in the country, where you live, don’t you find it eggravating to hurry to catch the trains? Mazner—Oh, no; it's hurrying to miss them that we find aggrivating.—Roxbury Gazette. Mr. Snippy—Your little boy strongly reminds me of you. Mr. Beediman—Indeed! but—er—he's only my stepson— Hr. Bnippy—Oh! I don’t mean the face, but the overcoat, yon know. It's the same pattern as tne ulster you still owe for.—Ally Bloper, ‘“Here,” said the Irislj bartender, “is some ‘whisky that can’t be bate.” “‘Sorry,” responded Fisher, “I wanted it for bait.”—Indianapolis Journal. “Too late.” e Her eyes were sad and ever sadder grew. “Too late,” she sighed. He was going to say good night, had she not reminded him that it was too late. There was not time. It was now 11:55 o'clock and the milkman always called promptly atd4.—Detroit Tribune. s ] FOR ALL IMPROVEMENTS. THE CALL actonishes everyhody with its readiness to line with the best improvements. Its new life was not a spasm. It has been with the people in their fight against lotteries and municipal corruption in the City; now its energies are devoted to forwarding the cause of food government in seeuring T works andelectric-Light plants. That is an aim born 6 umu;xu i8 progressive, and a § a&m elatifinh lwillhuh?vs that T:‘n g‘.’%‘.‘ p(f!l on receive the indorsement of le.— Halimoon Bay Advocate. e THE INTERIOR PRESS. THE CALL appreciates and works in harmony with the interior press; the Examiner makes funofit. That is the difference between the two journals. It goes without saying that THE CALL knows its business,—Beaicia Now Era. A 'SPIRAL RAILWAY. .- AN ODD AMUSEMENT IDEA ERECPED AT BRIGHTON. The Pyramidical railway shown in the cuf'is being built at Brighton. It is announced with patriotic pride that it is not a “Yankee notion,” but a genulpe British invention. -The St. James Budget says-it is a cone-shaped, circular iron structure, or of wood, as the case may be, according te the scale on which it iserected, and from the top downward at an essy gradient is arranged a winding track round which the passenger in search for excitement may be carried to the bottom as quickly asmay be. Perhaps we may describe exactly what inp- pens. The passenger takes bis seat in a car on the ground-level. The car is then hoisted to the top of the structure by means of a lift and is run out on to & small turntable, from whence | tem for training childish minds to receive readily and intelliggntly the future mental ainclr{lne of the scl i. and the teachers should receive ri ition and assured sala- ries from the publie school funds, as being a part of the great system of universal educa- tk‘n which is the pride ot America.—Los An- geles Times, It Claus Spreckels has madé up his mind to build three sugat refluertes in the San Joaquin Valley, as.stated in the San Francisco press, Fresno should put ina bid fot one of them. There 4s plenty of land in this vicinity that is undoubtedly ‘Wwell edaptéd to the successful production of the luflr beet, and it is not rnflnbla that an equally profitable use can be ound for it. The coming of the Valley road means much more than the loweriig of freight Tates, important #s that is to this valley. It alse heralds the advent of new industries, of the descent is started. By the time the car reaches the bottom of the gradient it may be imagined that the velocity it has attained is considerable, wherein lies the excitement of thé trip. Arrived here the car runson to an upward gradient and passing through & short tunnel—a detail intended to counteract any symptom of giddiness which may occur to per- sons of weak nerves—comes to a natural sm;{- page at the point from which it started. It is intended to wuse the structure as a place of entertainment for many more people than will be able to avail themselves of the cars. For instance, the whole of the track will be utilized us & promenade, & foot- ‘way being placed alongside the lines. And at the top of the cone will be a covered pavilion, surrounded by balconies, in which may be found—County Councils permitting—a band of | music and refreshment bars, while the whole of the inside space beneath the pavilion and within the circular track can be covered in and | used as a concert hall ora theater. Finally the power which is used to raise the lifts can be requisitioned to establish a system of elec- tric lighting, so that at night the pyramid may be aglow with a host of emall incandescent lamps. o S T OPINICNS OF EASTERN EDITORS. Romance in America., We are apt sometimes, dazzled as we are by the glamor of this practical and money-mak- ing age, to think that all romance belongs to the old world, with the centuries of gradual progression, of which it can boast. This is not 80. Were we only to look for it we would find in our own land as much to stir the heart and wake the emotions in some lonely fleld. or mountain lake, or grassy valley, as lies under- neath the dome of stately minster, or in the Enlnm of kings, or the pietured halls of night and earl. There is hardly a State which does not have some place that has its romance of love and war, its association with events that hel%ed to make up our history as a people; und thoughttul men often sigh to think by how few such spots are remembered and how !he{ are fast crumbling into forget- fulness.—Philadelphis Inquirer. Cholera No Longer a:Terror, The advance of medical science and perfec- tion of the laws of hygiene in the United States find no more impressive illustration than in the equanimity with which we, as a people, view the fatal advance of cholera in various parts of the world to-day. It is buta few years since the resons now published in the daily press would have found an echo in public terror and official hustling throughout the country. To-day they create no ruffie upon the surface of our life and no uneasiness the art of the authonties.—New York Mail and £ xpress. Corn as Fuel. For producing steam, says a Wichita (Kans.) correspondent, corn is not at all desirable as a fuel. It burns outiron rapidly, as it produces intense heat. Even in stoyes few of them in which corn is used as fuel last more than a season. Firemen who have used corn say that it rcguims constant feeding to keep “P that steady heat required for the making of steam.—Springfield Republican. The Logical Candidate. The men who call Cieveland ‘‘the logical candldate of his party” mean that the party is surely booked for an awful thrashing in 1896, and that Grover is the man who has the best right to bear the brunt of it, because itis his record, and the country’s su el’lnil in conse- quence, that have made the thrashing inevit- able.—St. Louis Star Sayings. America Ahead. Nothing shows more clearly the promptness and vigor of business enterprise in this country than the fact that at the beginningof this year the whole of Europe had but 434 miles of electric railroad, while in the United States 10,363 miles were in operation. We are also far in advance in applying electricity to steam raitronds.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Flattering the Japs. We call the Japanese the Americans of the East, Londoners speak of themn as the English of the East, Berliners designate them as the Prussians of the East, Parisians refer to them s the French of the East. What other new nation has ever been the object of such com- Pliments as this?—New York Evening Sun. The Booming South. Considering the Grand Army encampment, the Chickamauga dedication, the Chattanooga celebration, the Atlanta Exposition and the Dallas prizefight, the South must be reminded of the {nyasion of the “sixties” and glad it is | living.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Olney’s Chancs. Fecretary Olney is now being watched by Americans everywhere to see how promptly he will act in the Waller case, already 0o unduly delayed. It is nis opportunity to show that he isa greater man than his party associates.— Boston Journal. e ———— IDEAS OF WESTERN EDITORS. The iarmers are organizing for self-protec- tion. This is a step in the right direction, as in unity thete is Dot only strength, but t are results.—Phaenix (Ariz.) Gezette. Senator Morton claims to have made a great saving by shutting off the distribution of seeds. Now, if. he should shut off the dissemination of financial bosh his vindication as a public an would. be conspicuous.—Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle. - Never patronize a traveling quack doctor. He may know enough of medicine to do you some good, but the chances are ten to one, he will not; but he will take your money just the same, and swhen he leaves the town the money will go with him, lelvm his victims usuall; much wiser, and also der, lg‘r the experi- ence. Patronize your ho Pl yllc% and keep your money at Homs ceanside Blade. “On to Balt Lake City!” Thisshould be the ‘watchword of the people of Southern Califor- nia as.a whole. It is the one road that will do more for Southern California than any other line. The short line from Southern California to Salt Lake City means cheap coal, coke and iron, great ral de o | for tourisis to come here and ‘? short line for o“ oranges and lemons to the Ci 3 L«i“ all p Diego Worl The plan for inciuaing kindergartens in the public school system as an extension of the primary grades is an excellent one, and should be more widely adopted. The kindergarten is almost universally recognized 88 the best sys. t | are not allowed any fees. new life, energy and thrift, and of better times. —Fresno Republican. By the wise providence of the overruling powers the brutes who gain distinetion in the prize fing are endowed with violent appetites, whose unrestrained indulgence soon destroys their vigor and hurls them down from that bademinence. Sullivan took many years to melt down his strength with drink, but Corbett Dhes madea quicker course of it. ' Dissipation has £0 sapped his powers, it s said, as to make it difficdit, 1f not impossivle, to train him for the coming match.—Portlgnd Oregonian. ANSWERS TO CORRESFONDENTS. ANIMAL TO VEGETABLE—M. de F. P., Ala- meda, Cal. The following is the story of the vassage of the body of Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, into an apple tree: For the purpose of erectinic a sultable monument to the memory of Roger Willlams his private bury- ing ground was searched for the graves of himself and his wife. It was found that everything Fad passed into oblivion. The shapes of the coffins could only be traced by a black line. of carbon- aceous matter. ‘The rusted hinges and nails and a round wooden knot alone remained in ome grave, while & single lock of braited hair was found in the other. Near the graves stood au spple tree, This had sent down two roos into the very pres- ence of the cofined dead, the larger roat pushing its way o the precise spot éccupied by the skull of Roger Willlams, had madé a turn as if passing around it, and followed the direction of the back- bone to ‘the hips. There it divided into two branches, sending one along each leg to the heel, when both turned upward to the toes. One of these roots formed a slight crook at the knee, which made the whole bear a striking resemblance £0 the human form. ‘These roots are now deposited in the museum of Brown University. There were the graves, but their occunn%s had vanished. The bones even had disappeard. There stood the thief—the gullty apple Lree. of robbery. The spoliation organic matter—the flosh, Williams had passed mto 4 ¢ Dbores—of Roger [Pl ttee. " Peters, San Cipp, in the American UNITED STATES LAND-A. S., Joaguin Couty, Cal. Settler’s Guide, says: Every person entitled, linder the provisions of the homes:ead laws, to en gr a homesiead, who has heretotore complied with, or who shall hereatter comply with the conditions of said laws, ggd who shali have made his final preof thereunto for a quantity of land less thair 160 scres, and receive o iver's final receipt thereior, suall be en- as a 'personal right I subdivisions of the public lands of the Unitad States subjoct 10 home- stead entry, so much addkional land as added to the quantity previously saentered by him shall not exceed 160 acres: Providad, That in no case shall patent issue for the land cevéred by such additional entry until the person haking such additional entry shall have actually hnd in conformity with the homestead Iaws reside¢ uponand cnitivated the lands soadditionally entered, and otherwise fuily complied with such laws. ‘There are two kinds of additional entries pro- vided for by the law, ont is an additional entry of land which shall be cvntighous to the land embraced in the originalentry; and the other is additional entry of latd which need not pe contiguous to the land embraced in the orig- inal entry, ¢ The land office in thl% Cit; has been no change in timber claims. From LAMB To SHEER-S. H., City. The fol- lowing rule of the perioés of dentition is given as the proper one to determine the age of & sheep: At 1 month, eight temporary iront teeth and three temporary molars in each jaw; -at 3 months a permanent molar is added to these three; at 9 months the second perma- nent molar appears; at 14 months two perma- nent incisors are noticed; at 18 months the third permanent molar appears; at 21 months there are four permanent-—éncisors; at 27 months thé temporary molars are changed and the pérmanent gnes appea. t 30 months there are six permsnent incisors; at from 36 10 42 months there areeight permanent in- cisors. It has been decided in England thata lamb becomes a sheep when the first pair of permanent incisors have appeared. When the mouth is full-toothed the sheep is considered as full grown, and ween the teeth begin to show signs of wear then the sheep is aged. 1 8ald laws to erter signable, by ley says that there 1e law in regard to THE LATIMER OASE—L. T., Oakland, Cal. What is known as the Latimer case in Boston was the first of a series of fugitive slave trials which took place in the city of Boston. George Latimer was seized as a fugitive slave without & warrant. A writ of habeas corpus was de- nied and the prisoner kept in the City Jail nding the production of evidence against im. Great indignation was aroused in Bos- ton, and Latimer was finally released on pay- ment of $400 to his jailer. The arrest was fol- lowed by an act in 1848 forbidding_officers to aid in the cngv,ura of fugitive slaves 1n the State of Massachusetts or to permit the use of State jails for the purpose of detaining such fugitives. NATURALIZATION—Citizen, AngelIsland, San Francisco, Cal. Any alien of the age of 21 years énd upward who has been 1n the army of the United States and has been honorably discharged therefrom may become a citizen on his petition without lng previous declaration of intention, provided that he has resided in the United States at least one year previous to his application and is of good monf character, ABOVE THE CLOUDS—M. P., Alameda, Cal. The battle above the clouds thatwas fought during the war-of the Hebellion was the battle of Lookout Mountain, November 24, 1863, when “Fighting” Joe Hooker, with 10,000 men hid- den by the fog, climbed the slopes of the mountain, surprised the Confederate left, took 2000 prisoners and camped for the night,while the enemy left the ground. AGE OF ELEPHANTS—M. P, Alameds, Cal. In East India it is the general belief that ele- rlnnu attein the age of 300 years. There are nstances of elephants kept in captivity 130 years, but it is not known what age the ani- mals had reached when captured. POSTMASTERS—E. M. A., City. The regulations of the Postoffice Department forbid Postmas- ters i{“n‘ to any person information concern- ing the mail matter of another, or to disclose the name of a box-holder at a postoffice. Jurors” Ner Parp—Mrs. H. O., City. -The Jurors who are now trying Durrant for murder do not receive any pay. Jurors in criminal cases in the City and County of San Francisco AP1ARIES—L., Prunedale, Monterey County, Cal. There is no law in this State thet pro- hibits shu maintaining of apiaries near fruit orchards. Several attempts to have such a law passed have failed. IT Was MourEre—M. K. B., City. It was Moliere who used the expression, “‘It is more difficult to rule a wife than a kingdom.” 1 { © A e T ~ T . 'WEST POINT GRADUATES. A Conmroupzzfl-\qr ‘I‘lup ALL SAYS THEY ARE, Nor U . To the Editor of The San Francisco Call—SIR The artick in THE CALL of the 27th of Septem: ber headed }Miles and the Army”” was an in/ justice, T think, to the graduates of West Point. These graduatés, like those of Harvard and Yale, are perhaps clannish, but not to the ex- tent ot doing any injustice to other officers. There are many officers like General Miles who owe their positions to their war reeords. 1f West Pointers had ever attempted to erowd to the wall such men as Scott, Taylor, Wool and Worgh-they would have foundita very large contract. Fhe army has had very few officers more popular’ than General Percifer F. flsix;nm, who Wwas appointed a colonel from civil e, It has been mo unusnal practice for a black sheep in a flock as white as Mary’s little lamb to be foisted upon the army or navy through family influence. But an appointment does not bieach the wool, and they are trested in the army as they would be treated in any other profession, unless they reform. Sometimes the manner in which these and other unobjegtion- able young men are appointed is not ealcplated to insure them a very cordial reception| The elass of 1872 was graduated on the 22d of June, but they ranked as cadets until ghe 18t of July. On the 28th of August an ordpr was issued from the War Department oppdinting several young gentlemen frow civil Life lieu- tenants in the army, to date from Jun¢ 28th, thus putting them above the entire class. The West Point graduates have rather a hard time through life. They are appointed from all classes t0 the academy, and only about one in three completes the ’four years' course. They are taught to-hold their heads up and to carry themselves well—drilled at it, in fact, for four years; and formerly to aid in_ bringing about this result they wore heavy sole-leather dress hats, made heavier by brass chains and scales; and having acquired a carriage satis- factory to their fnstructors, they are forever after abused for it by the press and the public. There is perhaps no institution in the country where a sense of justice is more highly calti- vated. The President’s son.and theson of his coachman may enter the same day. From that day they are equals. They wear the same dress, they eat at the same table, they do the same duty, they are subjected to the same re- strictions’ and they are allowed the same in- dulgences. Under these circumstances it would be strange if these young gentiemen sho; guilty of injustice to their brother officers, merely because they had been appoiuted from civil life. XOSIWALD Berkeley, Cal. PASTELS NOT RECOGNIZED. 18C0, Sept. 26, 1895. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SiR: In THE CaLL of SBeptember 20 is published the list of awards to artists who had exhibits in the art gallery at the Mechanics’ Institute. As an admirer of art and well-wisher of all who are making of art a life work I take the liberty of calling attention to discrepancies, so seeming to me, in the manner in which the works of our artists have been exhibited, and the only inference is that in placing and hang- ing the persons or committees in charge showed ignorance or intention. In the last exhibit at the Hopkins Art Insti- tute this was apparent, and was duplicated at the Mechanics’ Fair. In the classification the directory (or, if referred to a committee, the commitfee) failed to properly class 01l eolors ought certeinly to be considered aistinet from water colors and water colors as certainly distinct from pastel; and yet in the classification pastel work was classed as water colors. If the classification was made by a committee of artigts. then the inference would be that there were reasons why pastel work should be called ‘‘water colors,” showing a disposition to crowd out this form of work here on the Pacific Coast as an_innovation and not kive it legitimate recognition. It may be true’ that little is known of pastel work here, although as duly recognized in our Eastern cities as are the works of our great masters in the Louvre in Paris. In the awards as published will be found, under the head of water colors, “No. 101, ‘A Native Daughter’; artist, Lillian Coudlin.” An award is made under that classification when it is patent to every artist who saw the picmlre that it was not a water color but a pure astel. . In the classification Nos. 145 and 146 will be found under the same heading of water.colors, “Portrait (in pasiel),” and the “in itel” being 1E P‘%nmgm, and shero aso ine anly € 3 Lavionet W. I e tended to treat pestel work &4 mnovation Yere in San Francisco there must be reasons why, and when known will not be regarded as creditable to the authors or abet‘ors. In all of our prominent Eastern cities pastel work is as duly recognized and appreciated as that of any other character of art work. From local causes, the recognition may be tardy here in the “wild West,” but is suré to follow. Permit me to quote the old adage, “Fair play isa jewel,” as the rule by which all contests llll;l w‘;xrlu of our artists shell be classified and udged. ! And while referring to this su}gect, may I be permitted to suggest to THE CALL that an especial column be set apart as “The Art Col- umn,” and that the artists in S8an Francisco and the Pacific Coast be invited to see that the “art column” is well flled— at least in every Sunday issue. In man; of our ‘Eeastern ~cities the leading papers have art columns, and no part of such papers have greater atiraction than the art cclumn. What we want is co-operation and fraternal fgeling and not jealousy and dis- cord among our artists. We have as good talent here in California as in any of our sister States and are not airaid or ashamed to compare notes. INSTITUTE. GEMS OF WISDOM. Life has 10 blessing like & prudent friend.— Euripides. Who gives a trifie meanly {s meaner than the trifle.—Lavater. Present fears are less than horrible imagine ings.—Shakespeare, Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.—Shakespeare. There can be 1o high nobility without a deep morelity.~Channing. Every man is a volume if you know how te read him.—Channing. Frugality is founded on the principle thas all riches have limits.—Burke. ‘When the state is most corrupt then the laws are most multiplied.—Tacitus. Fear nothing so much us sin, and your morsl heroism is complete.—C. Simmons. —_— ROBERTS, card headquarters, 220 Sutter, * ——————— Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * ————— BaBY cream, 15 cénts a pound. 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The fdct that physicians prescribe it is sufficient to hdioal lity. & Co., 411 Macktst . - AutH- B Mariin There’s no pakicular advantage in modeling one's life upof the weak pointsof a great man.—New Yorl Recorder. ‘When the blod) is frupure it is fertile soil for all . kinds of disease jerms and such troubles as scrof- ula and salt rhegn. Hood's Sarsaparilla removes the dauger by pgifyiug the biood. e ladies corrective tonic is Dr, Seigert’s Angos§ra Bitters, the renowned South American tonic. , Indigestion and Pain are hor- 's GINGER ToxN1c will dbate. PARKER'S Hah Barsaw aids the hair growth. “Yes,” said business man to the clergy- man, “I've lost | good deal of time in my life,” “By fritteringit away, I suppose?” “No; by beily punctual to my appoint- ments.”’—Bostof Courier. e