The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 5, 1895, Page 6

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Rhinelander BATURDAY THE CALL SPEAKS I?OR ALL. e This is the day. to leave orders for THE Suxpay CaLL. If Daggett does not keep cool in this crisis he will lose his head. Local Democracy has just about enough energy left to fight itself out of politics. There is & prospect that Europe may get its turkey cooked by spontaneous com- bustion. One faction of Democracy cries “rats,” but the other takes notice that the cat has come back. One objection to the short campaign dis- cussion in the East are that the arguments are too long. It seems that Corbett and Fitzsimmons may meet in Indian Territory and have a ghost dance. Buckley may take up the town again, but he cannot carry it any more; things bave changed. Public satisfaction with the work of the Railroad Commission should be given a public expression. OUBAN INDEPENDENGE. | The city of Chicago has given utterance to that sympathy which tbe American people feel and should extend to Cuba in her desperate struggle to throw off the yoke of an Old World monarchy. It may be that the full-voiced protest of the Windy. City is a trifle too vigorous fqr consistency with our treaty relations toward Spain, but leaving this aside, there can be no doubt that Chicago has given expression to the sentiment of the Nation, that Cuba should be free. The condition of the revolution in Cuba is such as to amply warrant the extension of such sympathy and the expression of such a sentiment. For several months the struggle has been going on between the insurgents and the Spanish troops. The tenacity and success of the insurrection, as well as its spread over the whole island, entitles it to the name of revolution and the insurgents to the more dignified but none less dangerous term of belligerents. The first step toward the official admission of insurgents to the rights of belligerents on | the part of neighboring nations is taken in the unofficial expression of National sympathy for their cause. Mexico and the Argentine Republic have already offered Cuba this encouragement, and it would not speak well for our countrymen to be far ‘behind their fellow-Americans in this respect. Whenever. it shall appear that the Cuban insurgents embody a general aspiration of the Cuban people for Na- tional independence under republican forms of government the people of the United States should be first in their offer of cheer. " It may be argued that between .the United States and Spain there are treaties which may be violated by an expression of sympathy for Cuba. It must be apparent, however, that this cannot be true. A treaty may bind the United States asa govern- ment against the extension-of official aid to the Cubans in revolt, and may even go so far as to' require the siift checking of fili- bustering expeditions attempted to be or- ganized upon our soil. Beyond this, how- ever, no treaty can ever go. The people’s heart cantot be chilled, nor their lips sealed by treaty regulations from the ex- pression of their aspirations for the more verfect liberty either of themselves or their fellow men. In the case of Cuba her struggling pat- riots deserve the ready hand and.cordial voice of sympathy and hope from' every other people of the New .World “which has aiready shaken Old World shackles from its limbs. First among these should be the people of the United States, For this there are two reasons, of which the first, and perhaps least important, is that the trade benefits of the United States arising out of Cuban dependence from Spain would be very great. The proof of this lies in the recent record of reciprocity The fight of reform Democracy against the ex-boss is an evident attempt to puta stale crow in the soup. The trolley-cars are not more necessary for public convenience than are proper fenders for public safety. Spain has at least learned enough to know that the rebellion in Cuba is some- thing more than a bull-fight. At the present time if there is anything Cleveland wishes that Gorman has, he can get it in return for a single smile. Perhaps Mr. Huntington will now admit that the toy works well and the people have a right to be pleased with it. Texas has done herself so much eredit by stopping prize-fight that even Dallas need niot regret the cash she loses. In the record of reviving prosperity up to date no one has made any big profits except Mr, Cleveland’s gold syndicate. The return of Huntington and Buckley to town at the same timeis, perhaps, nothing more t a casual ¢oincidence. Now that the Armenians are no longer | waiting for other folks to help them the Sultan 1s prepared to consider the situa. tion, The Market-street Reailway Company wishes another franchise on the old terms, of course. There is nothing in it for the peopie. It will riot take much observation'on the part of Mr. Huntington to see'that Califor- nis has changed a good'deal since he was here last, TUp to date the Brooklyn trolley-cars hold the record for a high death rate, but our cars are pushing them very close and gain- ing on them. The prospect of a gold mining boom at Vancouver is encouraging.: Whatever helps any part of the Pacific Coast in that way helps us. Whether considered in respect to home industries or foreign policies, this will be known in history as the un-American administration. There is every reason to believe that the biggest thing in ‘National politics for the next ten years will be public improvements on a great scale. To bring the next Republican convention to San Francisco is the best way-to bring the needs of the Pacific Coast to the atten- tion of statesmen. > S The country looks for news of the begin- ning of that vigorous foreign policy and it gets the information that Cleveland has had a good fishing trip. 4 The fact that Campbell of Ohio has con- sented to"enter upon a joint debate with such a man.as Coxey shows how eager the Democratsof that State are to‘capture the Populist vote. Tt can hardly be credited that the Pitts- burg Demotrats” are preparing a grand celebration of the prosperity produced by the Gorman tariff, but we must remember the silly season has been very hot in the The reappeatance of Buckley in the Democratic camp has had the good effect of clearing up the situstion, anq the people now know exactly what the return to power of the Democratic party in this City would mean. According to the estimate of Mint Di- rector Preston the gold output of the world this year will exceed $200,000,000, but even that sum will not balance the growing business of the world and fhe increased demand for money. As Senator Brim—};;edlcud that for . the next ten years “this country will see a business prosperity unequaled in its his- tory or in the history ofi the world,” .he with Cuba. The second, more sentimental and more important reason lies, ‘however, in our own National history. We were the first people on this side the Atlantic to receive alike sympathy in a similar struggle for freedom. . We have set ourselves up asan example to New World nations of the righteousness of resistance to Old World dominion'and of the advantages of inde- Pendence under republican rule. We have raised monuments and inscribed tablets in | honor of our heroes ¢f the Revolution, We have received from our sister repub of Europe a statue of “Liberty Enlighten- | ing the World,” and have lighted its torch upon our shores which look toward Cuba. | Her sons’ have caught" its gleaming and | have thought they redd its meaning and | have formed the resolution to be free. And shall we observe their boldness with mute reserve and coldness and refuse to voice a message of good cheer and sym- pathy? If we do it would be better to blot | out each letter and word which the friends | of freedom sent us in our struggling in- | fancy; to erase those lines of glory on which is writ the story of our fathers’ high resolve for liberty, and our Nation’s emblem lower from its place of pride and power and quench Bartholdi's beacon in the sea, THE RETURN OF BUCKLEY. Ordinarily THE CALL would refrain from the ;seeming impertinence of interfering by suggestions with the management of | Democratic politics in San Francisco, but it basa:duty higher than mere political considerations. Whether or not the:De- ( mocracy under any circumstances, judging by itslocal history, should develop that conception of right conduct which * would entitle 1t to a hand in the conduct of the City gevernment is not so important a matter as the -dominating influence which directs it. This power is Mr. Christopher Buckley, whose history and affiliations are perfectly familiar to every intelligent cit- izen. - Under his skillful leadership the Democ- racy has practically controlled the govern- ment of the City for many years; and from the public officers under his direction have come most of the scandals which have made the City a byword in the West. He cannot be: regarded as a Democrat in the proper sense, and no Democtat who is both & responsible man and a good citizen can acknowledge him as a leader. Every voter who assists him proclaims himself an en- emy of San Francisco and the member of a league organized for plunder. No such ,voter can be regarded as having the good of the City oreven of the Democratic party at heart. There is not a shadow of a prin- ciple in the kind of politics which Buckley represents. Every victory which ‘he wins |in the name of the Democracy is & sneer at the pretensions of the party to respecta- bility, integrity and patriotism. Mr. Buckley has boldly entered the poli- tical field and is striving to gather up the ‘loose ends which he dropped when he fled to Canada to escape the operation of our laws. His first dash for victory was a failure, but 4t-ie merely a matter of time when his extraordinary skill will win: and he will have his.formidable gang at the City’s' throat. His power is well known and cannot be gainsaid. So far as we are | able to judge, the respectable,dignified, patriotic elements of the local Democracy are not at-all dismayed by the threat of Buckley’s re-entrance into local *politics.” We have heard nothing as yet of an indig- nant Democratic repudiation of him and his methods. So far as we can see there seems to be only a suppressed sort of ad- miration of the man’s audacity and shrewd- |’ ness. And yet the local Demoeracy is directly responsible for him and therefore for the methods which he practices and the harm which he does to San Francisco. It is the duty. of that party to take the first step toward his suppregsion. That fdiling, the struggle of self-protection on the part of the respectable citizens outside.of that party will be all the harder, but for all that there is not a good “citizen who will hesi- evidently foresees the restaration of the | tate to assail the task. Itis incredible that Republican party to power., Commenting on the recent appearance of numerous fakes in the New York papers the Buffalo Commercial says ‘“it is one of the resuits of the infusion of Western en- terprise into journalism in that -city.”” The slur in this statement is uiterly un- 3 ----+| Ban Francisco would be content to fall back into the old evil ways after making 80 brave a start toward decency and prog- ress. DISHONERT STREET WORK. As both the Grand Jury and the Street justifiable. In the West, faking and enter- | Committee of the Board of Supervisors are prise are regarded as contradictory terms. | getting sharply after StreetSuperintendent | that the San Francisco CALL has a tele- | graphic news service different from and | Ashworth’s management of street work a wholesome overhauling’ of the methods which for so long bave disgraced the City seems imminent.” "Mr. Ashworth is unfor- tunate also in having lost the confidénce of the Merchants’ Association, through whose efforts he was checked in hjs desire to con- tinue the work of sweeping the streets. In this matter he showed the Street Commit- tee that he could do the sweeping at a cost of 65 cents a thousand square yards and insisted thatit could nat be done for less. Still the Street Committee has recom- | mended tbat the contract be let to a pri vate bidder for 493§ cents. This 1sa dif- ference of nearly..20 per cent and yet the contractor must expect to make a pro- | fit out of the work. The scandalous inadequacy of the con- tract paving of Guerrero street was of too recent occurrence to have been forgotten by this time, but now comes another equally as bad. It is the pavement of Twelfth street, which both the Grand Jury and the Street Committee of the Board of Supervisors have inspected and found to be utterly worthless. In the latter case | one of Superintendent Ashworth’s deputies was standing idly by and if he bad any in- telligence must have seen that the work was not being properly done. Mr. Ash- worth igresponsible for the acts of hisdep- uties. The trouble with the Superintendent seems to be that he desires to make his office as useful as possible in a political way, and that the-interests of the City are a secondary consideration. This is the old'way of conducting the public business of San Francisco. It is the necessary out- come and sole aim of boss politics of the kind which has disgraced the City for so many years. Madny citizens had hoped better things of Mr. Ashworth. He was known to be intelligent and courageous, and believed to be possessed of a high sense of official responsibility. His .recent c¢on- duct in many particulars has been » direct | challenge to the reform sentiment which prevails among the people, and his conduct | comes at a time when it will serve a most | useful end in strengthening that sentiment | and ultimately hastening the day when | methods of the kind pursued by Mr. Ash- worth will be swept out of existence. “THE SUNDAY CALL” TrE Suxpay CaLn which is to appear to- morrow will be a paper of ununsual interest. Joaquin Muller treats in a poetic manner the question of the “Color of California.” In his eyes the Golden State has a'dom- inant hue which ought to be respected and reverenced by all. ‘W. C. Morrow has an eéntertaining chap- ter nnder the heading *“What I Would Do for San Francisco Were I a Millionaire.”” Some of the great money-makers of the | State are offered hints which would be of | value to themselves and to the commlmity: if properly accepted and acted upon. John McNaught's “‘Random Notes” are unusually bright and entertaining. He | takes a philosophic view of the every-day affairs of life and. instructs while he | am . Keeler has another chapter in his history of “Bird Life in California.” In this department Mr. Keeler has few rivals, Itis probable that no one eise has o much study to this question as the writer of these articles. | Dan de Quilie, who was a_contemporary | of Mark Twain on the Comstock lode in | the early sixties, and who still maintains his home on the sloping side of old Mount | Davidson, in Virginia City, Nev., has written a tale of early life in California entitled “Little Tum Tum of Bartons Bar,” which is one of the best stories ever pro- duced by this veteran writer. Ernest 'C. Stock gives another installment of Colonal Strong’s reminiscences. Mary C. Johnson has an entertaining chapter for. boys and girls, Marcella tells of the -newest dictates of fashion, and an excellent department | for book-readers will be found in to-mor- row’s issue, Particular attention is drawn to the fact | better than that of any other journal pub- lished 1n San Francisco. This service is furnished by the United Press, which is | | CaLL office yesterday. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE A WAR)’XHG FROM FRESNO. A CORRESPONDENT SAYS RAISIN-PACKERS ARE NOT NEEDED. To the Editor of the San Francisco. “Call”—SIR: Hearing that the Free Labor Bureau has re- ceived an order to send 150 or 200 girls or women to Fresno to pack raisins, and knowing, as T do, that the very best and most experi- enced raisin-packer can make but 90 cents or $1 per day at most, out of which he or she has 1o pay for board and lodging, I send this note in the hopes of preventing these poor girls from the useless expenditure of their money in railroad fares. I am at present working at Taisin-packing myself, as I desire to_acquire a knowledge of the manner in which this branch of California industry is carried on. There are at present in the employ of the firm for which { work about twenty-five or thirty women and ten or fifteen men. A num- ber of the women have worked steadily for the last three weeks and few if any (make) -pack sixty boxes per day. The pay is 1’4 cents per box. It requires little calculation to ascertain that these'women and men are working for starvation wages—i, e., about 90 cents per day. There are at present many idle men and n fact, enough men alone to overrun packing-houses were the wages suflicient tolive on and dress like a white man should. This is not a letteér from one who is prejudiced in any way against any house or firm in this piace, but’ from one who has a mother, sister and large number of lady acquaintances in San Francisco, & native of ‘San Francisco, who haus & feeling of kinship toward the working girls and men of his native town. Should you put this letter in your paver 1 sincerely Rope it will be the means of prevent- ing at lcast some of the working girls, women and men from uselessly spending their little remeining hard-earned savings in railroad fare. By referring my name to Mr. Meyer, in con- nection with the Angel Isiand Postoflice, ho will perhaps remember me. THE CALL has always been the workingman’s friend. Will it now use its influence in behalf of the deserving working girle? Trusting you | will kindly give this matter the consideration it merits, I am, respectfull; E. WATSON. Fresno, Cal., Oct. 2, 1895. EXCELLENT REFORTS. ATION FOR “THE CALL'S"” ACCOUNTS OF THE EPISCOPAL CONVENTION. The following letter was received at THE The appreciation ex- pressed is an indication that THE CALL'S tele- graphic service; supplied by The United Press, is superior 1o that of any other paper in San Francisco. Here is the letter: THE PACIFIC UHURCHMAN, Rev. Hobart Chetwood, Editor, 731 California street. SAN FRANCISCO, October 4, 1895, C. Shortridge Esq., Editor Call-MY DEAR S1r: Allow me io thank you for the admirable report so_far in THE CALL of the proceedings COMMEN | of our General Convention at Minneapolis. This I do in & somewhat representatiye eaprcity, having already approached you in behaif of our Bishop, clerey And people, asking for a better showing than the San Francisco pepers gave us three years ago. They must be quite satisfled with the good beginning your paper has made in the matter, which doubtless indicates what we may expect to the end of the session. | (Signed) | HOBART ¢ PORTRAIT OF-BRET HARTE, (By E. C.:Burling in New York Chips.) PERSONAL, D. 0. Lewis of the navy is at the California. 1. Dannenbaum, & merchant of Vallejo, is at the Lick. Mullan of the navy is & guest at the R.C. at the R ent, & big landowner of Stockton, is E. M. Williams, A mining man of Gold Hill, et the Russ. distinctive from all' other news-gathering organizations of the country. Whether | you take any other paver-or not, you must | read THE CALL in order that yot may get all of the news of the world. 1 o i In all human propability Nevada will atsome | not far distant time again become the center of | amining excitement that will carry develop- | ment far beyond the point it has ever reached, and give a markat as well as an IDEAS OF WESTERN EDITORS. setual “value ‘to Nevada properties that are now but vpartially developed and | Iying idle for want of capital to pash | on the work. It would be a curious phase of | {ustice should Nevads, which has been so argely the sufferer from the effects of the | financial conspiracy set on foot in London, be- | come through odd changes of time and the strange juxtaposition of events beneficiary of the very same class-that through adverse silver legislation aimed such a heavy blow at her | prosperity and financial well-being.—Virginia | (Nev.) Enterprise. | :The next census of San Joaquin County will not mark a decrease in the rural population, and will mark a great.increase in thatof the | towns, and there will be more towns to count. San Joaquin County was a long time asleep, but seems now to be thoroughly awake, and to be gathering its energies for, great deeds. When to the three new railroads are added the Blue Lekes electric power and the waters from three irrigation systems, San Joaquin County should be & veriteble. Eden.—Stockton Inde. pendent. The teaclier who is intrusted with the duty of lifting the minds of the coming generation of menand women higher, should not enter upon that duty without the most exacting preperttion, The standard, cannot be set (0o igh. The first requisite is individuality; the next is an scquaintance with educational principles. and tne third isa combination of 1;nelllgence and Industry. — Fresno Repub- can. The poor old veterans who draw pensions onght to be satisfied now, for in addition to the woman notary next door to the clerk’s office, who will administer the oath upon their afii- davits free of charge, the necessary swearing may be done gratis in the Township court. | There are plenty of ways of evading an unjust | and obnoxious law, even while complying with the letter of it.—Los Angeles Times. Professor Barnard has gone and the Lick Ob- servatory will not_be all_that it was when he was there. The Regents of the Uniyersity of Celifornia have continuously pursued a policy of crippiing the greatest observatory in the world by indifferently permatting its ablest and most renowned astronomers to be driven away. —San Jose Mercury. San Francisco has never sneered at the North- west or disputed the ‘fact that there are great possibilities on Puget Sound. The awarding of the mrfeau»bnn contract to a Séattle concern will only confirm their opinion of the bright ‘future before this section.—Seattle Post-Intel- ligencer. Eastern Oregon business houses which have weathered the financfal storm are in better shape than ever before. . The reason is that the cash s‘{atem has been ‘introduced, and it has proved to be better than credit for’ both buyer &nd seller.—Pendleton East-Oregonian, It is the systematlc, persistent effort that pays in advertising as in everything else. In J. C. Déiano, & quarry-owner of Rocklin, is staying at the Lick. P. Sweet, a merchant of Petaluma, registered at'the Grand yesterday. T. J. Field, a capitalist of Monterey, registered 3. rd of Stockton registered at the L. W.BlL hy lumberman of Los Angele lace. 0.E. Jones, » lumberman of Truckee, and his | wife are gnests at the Russ. A. B. Glasscock, & hotel man from Yosemite, 1s & guest at the Occidental. Theodore Allen, a mining man of Angels Camp, is a guest at the Grand. William James, & rancher and cattleman of Cherokee Flat, s at theGrand. Parney D. Murphy came up from San Jose yesterday and registered at the Palace. Ex-Congressman James A. Louttit, a leading attorney of Stockton, is a guest at the Lick. Senator E. C. Hart came down from Sacra- mentoyesterday, and is registered at the Grand. F. H. Lefavor of the navy came down from Mare Isiand yesterday and registered at the Palace. General Russell A. Alger of Michigan arrived in this City vesterday and is stopping at the Palace, George Fergnson, an extensive landowner of Mendocino County, registered at the Russ yesterday. H. R. Winslow of Keswick, Eng., one of the purchasers of the Iron Mountain mine, in Shasta County, is at the Palace. Jesse D. Carr of Salinas and his son, John 8. Carr of the Walbridge-Carr Company of Yreka, which has several branchesin Sigkiyou County, are at the Occidental. - The Stuyvesant Fishes leit for California last week in their private car. They.have had the Thompson Spencer house at Ochre Point. Next year they expect to spend the summer abroad.—New York Vanity. At a meeting of the California Hotel Associa- tlon, held Wednesday evening, S. F. Thorn presided, and appointed the following commit- tee to arrange for receiving and entertaining the delegates to the National Hotel Associa- tion’s convention to be held next May: B. K. Soule of the Lick, General Warfield of the Cali- fornia, Charles Montgomery of the Brooklyn, Colonel John T. Sullivan of the Sea Beach at Santa Cruz, Manager Snell of the Vendome and Colonel Young of the Russ. Rir Charles Rivers Wiison was prominent among the railroad presidents who met nere last week to form a new association. Sir Charles won his knighthood by the services he rendered the British Government as financier. His executive ability and mastery of business affairs is such that the stockholders of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, who mostly ell reside in London, made him presidént of the company. His mustache and imperial are Wwhite, but his intellect is keen and his manner affable. The Grand Trunk having become practically an American railroad, Sir Charles felt quite at home among the magnates repre- senting the other great lines. —New York Vanity. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. taking medicine the regu}nmy of the dose is almost as_important as the drug itsell.—Santa Barbara Press. : . Lord Windsor, who presided at the recent librarians’ congress, is enormously rich. He owes his wealth to mines in Glamorganshire, 8hropshire ‘and’ Worcestershire and the deve! opment of Swansea and Cardiff. His income must amount to little under $500,000 per snnum, WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 4.—Sam L. Walker and H. H. McClaughey of San Francisco ar- rived to-day. PEOPLE ;Cmn ABOUT. Christine Nilsson, who lately left Paris to visit her old home in Sweden, after eight years of absence, was received upon her arrival in her native town with most joyfuland affec- neighbors. They showered her with fiowers, ‘arid she on hér part kisted all the little folk, and the guest of honor and every one else were ppy-over the home-coming, all of which she writes to Mrs. Waldon-Pell, whose salon in Paris is the most popular of the American colony, and who herself is a most intimate friend of Christine Nilsson. The aged Queen of Hanover has forgiven her daughter, Princess Prederies, for her marriage Wwith Baron.Pawle von. Rammingen, & love match actively favored by Queen Victoria. The Princess is now with her mother, who is suffering from cataract. At her age (over 80) it is feared that the consequent loss of sight may be permanent. Mrs. Gabrielle Greeley Clendenin, youngest daughter of the late Horace Greeley, is de- scribed #s & yonng matron of medium height, with dark-brown hair, hazel eyes, a pretty mouth, perfect teeth and excellent taste in dress. She is a clever talker, aid while she lives largely for others she is mot ostenta- tiously serious in her mode of life. _The Duke of Marlborough, before starting for New York, purchased in Regent street jewelry costing over $100,000. The announcement of his engagement to Miss Consuelo Vanderbllt sufficiently explains the expenditure. Cecil Rhodes, the South African magnate, is an omnivorous reader. A native chief de- scribed him as “a man who eats a_country for his breakfast and sits amid clouds of paper.” The Princess of Walesonce confessed that her favorite dish was ‘Yorkshire pudding,” her favorite art “millinery,” and her favorite oc- cupation “minding my own business.” Max O'Rell, Dr. Lyman Abbott, Eugene Field, Bob Burdette, James Whitcomb Riley and Remenyi are among the celebrities expected at the Atlanta Exposition. Prince George of England, by smoking from forty to fifty cigarettes a day, showsa dispo- sition to give his little son & chance for the British crown. \ SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. #Oh, dear!” sighed a little girl, “I've only got a thousand. of my million postage stamps. I guess I shall have to leave them to my ances- tors to finish.” “Stryker seems to be working pretty hard in his campaign. I never saw a man 100k so pale.” “Itis from loss of blood. Since he started to run for office his heart has been bleeding for the workingman every time he makes a speech.”—Indianapolis Journal. According to Gail Hamilton, when her cousin, S. Pickering Dodge, went to Germany, a native whom he asked ‘ for informafon, = said, “Sprechen sle Deutch?” *Yes,” answered Mr. Dodge, “that’s my name; but how did you know it?” A teacher of a Virginia district sehool re- cently asked one of her little colored pupils to %0 10 the blackuoard and write a sentence thereon containing the word “delight.’” George ‘Washington Jackson went pompously to the front of the room and wrote, in a large, scrawl- inghand, these words: “De wind blowed 8o hard dat it put out de light.”—Harper's Round Table. “Gentlemen, what is your verdict?” asked his Honor in a Western courtroom. “Wall,” responded the foreman of the jury, “’leven of us wants to hang the prisoner, but the twelfth man sticks to it he ein’t guilty, spite of all we can sey—o, bein’ as the twelfth man isa no- account feller, anyway, in order to make the verdlet unanimous we've concludéd to hang ‘em both.'—Munsey's Weekly. A gentleman once asked a lawyer what he would do provided he had loaned a man #5300 and the man left the country without sending any acknowledgment. *“Why, that's simple; just write him to send an acknowledgment of the $5000 you lent him, and he will doubtleas reply stating that it was only $500. That will suffice for u receipt, and you can proceed against him I necessary.’—Harper's Round Table. JOHN DAGGETT'S SOLILOQUY. And 50, conspiracy lays bere its brow, And he, the would-be Jion of the hour In single tax and other things, deems now ie time full Tipe Lo smite John Daggeit’s power. 4 110 measure swords with brosque Maguire shonid I tremble when Bill English spours? Not while this hand controls the White Houae wire And Grover's whims elect the ins and outs They've fourid a mare's nest in my oglice d And for their find will take their p What value, pray, my patronage unless The distribution tend to my design? And all the ends 1 aim at, I contess, Are mine and Grover's—although chiefly mine. What recks it i the job of washing towels For Daggett's Mint Lo Biggy's brother fell? "Twas polities! No need of more avowsls; WLls Biggy stuyed by Daggett all was well, Perhaps they think I'd give that laundry pack To some one who would rip me up the back ! They say my gold mines up in Siskiyou Are somehow That I am strict Gur party’s pl ow my ¢ ranks; and won despite protest! W 1 got in, and here Ili bide e time of change that threatens East aud West. hard, but yet U'll brave the State machine— pull® weuld make you turn with eavy green. Youwli fire John Daggett? Well, the secret’s out! A message 10 Van Linden straight Il wire! Linden’s my friend! Carlisle. without a doubt, In things like these will vield to Van's desiro, Fire Daggett? Let them wage thelr lictle battle; 1 snapmy fingers at the foe in scorn! "ra Grover's chojce! None can old Daggett rattle! While Grover runs the ranch 'l not be shorat Came forth, subordiniigs, stand firm for me ! Your jobs depend on Diggett's victory ! CLEVELAND'S DEBT. Its Heavy Increase for the Ten Weeks of the New Fiscal Year. WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—The increase in the National debt under President Cleveland’s administration, as shown by official _ records to-day, was $299,962,060. i 285,000,000 on Tuly 1, 1895 —New York Press. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. POPULAR NAMES OF STATES—J, L’ C., Mendo- | cino, Cal. There are some of the States that are not distinguished by a popular name. The following list includes all of those which are best known and whicn are applied to the sev- eral States named: Arkansas, Bear; California, Golden; Colorado, Centennial; Connecticut, Nutmeg, also Freestone; Delaware, Blue Hen, ‘tionate demonstrations by her former peasant | also Diemond;’ Florida, Peninsula; Georgla Em{flu of the South; Illinois, Suckerkflm Prairie; indiana, Hoosier; Jowa, Hawkeyer ansas, Jayhawker, also Garden of the West; entucky, Bluegrass, also Dark and Bloody round; Louisiana, Creole; Maine, Lumber, also Pine Tree: Massachusetis, Bay; also Old Colony; Michigan, Wolverine; Minnesota, Gopher, also North Star; Mississippi, Bayou; Nevada, Stlver; New Hampshire, Granite; New York, Empire, also Excelsior; North Carolina, 0ld North, also Turpentine; Ohio, Buckey Pennsylvania, Keystone; Rhode Island, Liitle Rhoda, also Rhody; Sonth Caroltne, Palmett Tennessee, Big Bénd; Texas, Lone Star; Ver: mont, Green Mountain; Virginia, 01d Virgi also Mother; West Virginia, Panhandle; V consin, Badger. THE Fierps—F. C., City. Kate Field and Eugene Field are not brother and sister. Kate Field was born in St. Louis, Mo., about 1840, | and is the daughter of Joseph M. Field, an English actor, dramatist and writer for the press. Atone time he wrote for the New Or- leans Tribune over the nom-de-plume of “Straws.” Miss Field received d seminary edu- cation in Boston, Mass., and then studied music in Europe. She spent several years traveling on the Continent, during which time ehe wrote letters to the New York Tribune and other Eestern journals. She returned to the | United States, located in New York City and | there, in 1874, appeared as Peg Woflingion at | Booth’s Theater. In 1880 she was president of | 2 woman's co-operative society, and started a co-operative store in the Empire City, but it | did not prove a successful ven she went to Washington, D. C tablished Kate Field’s Washington. She nev was married. Eugene Field was born in St. Louis, Mo., September 2, 1850, 0f New England ancestry. 'His father was Roswell M. Field, a prominent attorney and one of the counsel in the famous Dred Scott case. SoLpreps’ HoMe—P. B., St. Paul. Soldiers or sailors of the United States, whose pensions ex- b, are not eligible to the Vational Home at Santa | Monica, in_this State, unless the reasos peculiar, and are explained to the sat of the manager. A soldfer, who is receiv pension of $17, desiring {o enter the home, should write to the manager, giving & full history of his case and reagons for £pplying for admission. BHoxEsTEAD ENTRY —S. W., City. A single woman who makes an entry under the home- stead laws does niot forfeit her rights by mar. riage, provided the requirements as to resi- dence, settlement and cultivation are co plied with. Ifa man and woman marry, aft each has made an entry, one entry must o surrendered. A married woman cannot make ;shs(z’mexleui entry under the actof Mearch 2, ScaLP BouNTY—Admirer of THE CALL, San Luis Obispo, Cal. The coyote scalp bounty 8ct was repealed on the 24th of last Januery, anhln% being done at this time in the mat- ter of claims présented for scalps taken before the law was repesled,, Any one having claims should communicaté” with the Controller at Sacramento. —C. V..R., City. There are five asylums for the insane in the State of Caifornia. One, the oldest, at Stockton. The others are at Naps, Agnews, Santa Clara County, San Bernardino and Mendoeino. A HALF-DIME—R. Alameda. There special demand for half-dimes of 188 E Pluribus Upum under the wreath, quently there is no premium offered on such coins, ASYLUM FOR INSAl | THE SILVER QUESTION. One of the “demands” the free-coinage peo- ple always put iu their platiorms is that silver be accorded a treatment equal to that given gold. The fact is that silver money much more tenderly cared for than' the of the yellow metal. A silyer dollar i cepted by the Government at its face valu and made a legal tender for that sum, but goes by weight alone in Government trar actions, and the minted mark is of no cance whatever.—Nashville Banner. The “sound money” crowd claims to have made & poll of the next House of Representa- tives and to have ascertained that s large ma- jority of the members are againstsilver. The people will be content to wait and see what | the sentiment of the House is on the silver question, and if it proved to be as indicated by the “sound money"” people they will see to it | that the House which shall be elected. next | year is different.—Topeka State Journal. iekdi How absurd it is thet we should be continu. | ally reading that gold is going out, or that the reserve will be maintained, or that the bankers are doing this or that. But such things must | be so long as we cling to the single gold stand- ard and are incapable of managing our own financial affairs.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Thirty out of the 244 Republicans in the House which meets in December are 16 to 1 men,but as fifty-one Democrats outot the 104 in that body stand with these thirty the Republi- cans show up well by contrast.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A man who has been in Mexico draws & ter- rible picture of things in that country, and at- tributes the distress to silver money. He says that when he paid out United States bills the merchants would kiss the paper and exclaim: “‘Oh, that is money.” These bills were prob- ably silvercertificates.—Cincinnati Enquirer. The money-brokers of Europe rule the masses through their sovereigns. They are the power behind the throne, and they insist upon the right to rule the freemen of this grand Republic through the Belmonts, the Morgans, the Depews, the Clews and other gentiemen who do business at the sign of the three brass balls on Wall strect. The financial system of this country should be an American system and not a European slave-making sys- tem.—Fort Worth Gazette. 1f an increase of the volume of money is all that the country needs, then this can be more effectually secured by means of the Populistic Government warchouse scheme than by the free coinage of our entire silver product. More- over, the Government is under just as much obligation to fix an artificial and arbitrary price on agricultural products for the benefit of the farmers as it is to.place a theoretical valuation, twice lsod!l’elt as its actual value, upon the silver product in behalf of the silver miners.—New York Mail and Express. — MRS. SHAFTER IMPROVING. She Was Stricken With Paralysis, but Is Now Recovering. The wife of Colonel Shafter of Angel Island is improving. She was stricken with paralysis over a month ago and has been unable to move or speak ever since. Sn_e was attending a celebration of the thirty-third anniversary of her wedding. and was being conducted into the supper- room by one of the ofticers when she was taken suddenly ill. The servants carried her to the colonel’s quarters, but it was found that her right side was paralyzed. Up to yesterday she never spoke a word, and when the attendants found she was conscious they at once spread the news, and the joy in the garrison was great. Mrs. Shafter is now very much better, and | intention of o the post surgeon thinks that she will re- cover the use of her hmbs in time. ° A monster chain forty kilometers gwenty-five miles lcng} is being made for ermany at the Wattelar works, Jurnet, Belgium, the total weight being 680 tons, #0 that sixty-eight ten-ton wagons, or a whole train, will be required for its carriage, The leek is indigenous to Switzerland. whence it was introduced into England, TN AT Comity Committee Decision Favors Howard Presbyte- rian Church. DB. CRUZAN IS THE PLAINTIFF. Question of Priority of Claim by Congregationalists and Presbyterlans. The comity committee, composed of an equal representation from the Congrega- tional and Presbyterian churches of Cali- fornia, has decided that Howard Presbyte- rian Church has a claim prior to that of Park Congre; Church to erect a place of worsiip at the panhandle. For the purpose of amicably ‘adjusting difficulties between Congregational and Presbyterian churches desiring to gain a foothold in territory previously unoccu- pied by Protestant denominations; should both denominations wish to build up mis- sions where it is mamfest that only one may he supported, the divines who com- vose this committee are called upon to adjudicate. Heretofore its powers have been exercised chiefly if not solely in ref- erence to the establishment of missions in country places, but Rev. 2 tor of Park Congregational Church, asked its intervention behaif of his church, with the result stated. Park Congregationai Church was organ- ized in February, 1894, Prior to that time a Congregational mission had, in a sense, Church, which is wor- t the corner of Fell and These facts formed the n's claim that the How- e were interiopers— ured interlopers—but resented by its pas- and, showed that the ery had, in April, Page and Clayton basis for Mr. Cra ard Church _y Christian aud lo; Howard Church tor, Rev. F. B. F 8an Francisco pre 1893, purchased lots streets, - for se of holding that district as a f : followers of Cal- vin. Howard ¢ Mr. Farrend told y announced its to the panhandle four esoytery had con- thus relinquishing the comity co months ago, an cluded to sell it the field to Howard Chureh as its repre- sentative. In view of these st the committee rendered a unanimous di cision as to Howard Church having the stronger claim. It was an amicable settlement, and in all probability both churci proceed with their plans for g s before. [ es of Howard Church have lans of two of the competing architects from among th rk of all competitors and have asked for further de- tails of the spe ations, When these choice will be of the ected that work will : close of the month west corner of Oak are completed the ¢ cheaper, and it is commence before t on the site at the sout and Baker stre The n dation of Park with Olivet 1 Ch i i1l be- ing agitated. There is s sentiment on both sides of the quest his is not effected Park Church will erect a build- ing, although the site has not been Adgher- mined. The Zoolog 1 Society, London, have added rece among other numerous specimens 2 to their collec- One irilled lizard, one two iong-nosed croco- white-necked diles rd, two noisy sland “snakes, one De starling, three South akes and two angular- Rol dow ed candies 10c 1b.* “CARDS by the —— B on.” Roberts, 220 Sutter.® - FREX bar,Townsend’s” TREAT your friends to Tow e & Company, 508 et rn friends—Californ nd's candies. * lay street.* Bacox Printin; NIcE present for Ea Glace Fruits Fourth, the length of frequent subject of critic! I know there ere two classes of people who are very much opposed 1o long sentences; tele- graph operators and criminals, s & m, he replied, *“Yes, S e e Hoow's Sarssparilla hns power to give to the blood richness and purity, and upon the healthy ondition of the blood depends the health of the whoie ly Hood's. THE fashionable ladi ve tonic is Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters, the renowned South American tonic. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE BY Thos. Wagae & Sons, REAL ESTATE AGENTS And Publishers “Real Estate Circular.” 4 Montgomery Street, UN'OY TRUST BUILDIVG, CORYER MARKET. Kearny st.; rents $555: reduced rents: good brick building; large lot; two fronts: $110,000. Ninth. bet. Market and Mission: '50x100; rents abont $100, with old fram 0,000. . $32.750—Rents $250: NE. cor. on Pine st.; cov- - ered with nearly new bufldings. Polk-st. cornar; 30 feet front; good store and business corner: 'new building: Tents $160; two tenants: $28,600. Warehouse: 50 vara; 412:6 feet from snips and water front; Lombard st., near Sansome: levei lot and grade; 137:6x187:6;2818,500; has rear frout also. HOUSES AND LOTS—ALL PRICES. House and 1ot on Frankiin st., near Washington; 11,000. Octavia st., west slae, bet. Broadway and Vallejo 25x113:6 and 2-gtory, 8 rooms; in “'X good orders fine view of bay; street biiuminized; only $6000: easy terms. Washington and Steiner—NE. cor.. facing pub- lic sguare, 25x102, and very sunny 8 rooms, bath and modern conveniences; $9250. Sacramento st., bet. Broderick and Baker: 27:6x 127:8 and very fine 2-story. well finished in ural wood, finely papered and frescoed hous ern convenlences: only $7115; street in order: cable-cars pes: $£7000: 3 left: new houses: just finished; 9 rooms and sl modern conveniences: fine view of b only $500 cash and terms as rent if desired; B chAnan st., nearGreen, 3 snort blocks from Pacific ave. 1 block from Union-st. cars and 2 blocks . from new line on Fillmére s: Fine residence and lot: 50x137:6; north side Valleio st bet. Gough and Ociavia: fine view; unabstructed from 2 upper siories: o modern conveniences: house cost $8500; leased a¢ $75 » month; only $10,250. ; bl 250; Washington st., north side, bet. Fillmore ana Steiner; comiortable two-story bsy-window house: 6 rooms, bath and modern convenlences. WESTERN ADDITION LOTS. Pine and Buchanan sta., northwest corner: 55x 1;3: both streets sewered and Pine bit uminized; 10.000. #1EleY ., bet, Polk and Nan Nessave.; 60x197:8; fair Bouse: reduced to $12,500. Southwest corner Broadwsy and Stelner st.; 27:6x110, $4500, or 56x110, $7500; good view: iner st., W. side, bet. Pacific and 7:6x110; streetwork done: fine view. Pagific ave. and Walnut st., 1 block from Central ave,, facing the Presidio; corner; 30x100: 34001 or any size larger. Reduced to.$4100; Grove and Lyon. corne: 87:6x100: for business or residence. Devisadero st., near Washington; 25x110: res duced to $3750; ‘street paved: electric-cars pass; fine lot ard neighborhood. Fell st.. facing the park; 2 lots, 25x187:6; $2800 each; will be & fine residence street.