The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 11, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CA L, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1895 W SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Paily srd Sunday CALL, one week. by carrier.80.15 Taily and Sunday CALI, one year, by mall... 6.00 Taily and Sunday CArx, six months, by mail 8.00 3 ,bymall 1.50 ¥ and Sunday CALy. ope month, by mail * .65 Funday CALL, One year, by mall. 1.50 W EEELY CALL, OLe year, by mall. 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Stree! Telephone..ooueeennnn e EDITORIAL ROOMS 817 Clay Street. Main—1868 Telephon BRANCH OFFICES treet, corner C! Main—-1874 open nntil pen until 9:30 o'clock. 0 o'clock. 0 street; open nntil § o'cloc. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: €08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Facific States Advertising Bureau, Rhinelander New York City. OCTOBER 11, 1895 FOR ALL. v has its conventions. seems Buckley is suffi t to have a def ral Campos a castle in Spain is better than a c The Traffic Association not only means business but intends to dait. Now that Saltus is married again the world wife to reform his novels. 1t is pleasing to learnj that our fruit dis- play at Atlanta is already noted as the best at the show. Let us hope that the proposed theatrieal trust aims at the elevation of the stageand not the prices. The Valley roed and the Corral Hollow road are indeed competing roads, but not with one another. Mr. Huntington will find out that in the hendsof anindependent people the morop- oly itse. but a toy. members of the Episcopal conven- ish to call him *“‘Primate’” and some S tion w wishi to call him down. Bue s really got into politics bout a barrei he had better buntup a unghole to craw! out of. To the Governors of several States the mmons controversy is about sight. buildings San ¥ ative A anciseo will céase to be a can cit; It seems that either Engiand or Russia will have to settle the affairs of Armenia, and the Turks will be out of it. Perhaps Marlborough may yet learn to like us well enough to be wedded to the country as well as to its railroads. Los Angeles ws well in everything except an app; on of San Francisco, but that will come with wisdom. The te Grange has oertainly put itself on the right road, and all 1t needs for success now is full steam ahead. There is a chance that Cleveland’s ex: pected speech at Atlanta may turn out’ to be a fish story told with bated breath, Democracy expected the four years’ of Grover would put them in clover, but the only effect has been to send them to grass. Whenever the German socialists become too vehement in their demand for bread the Kaiser tries to put a bitin their mouths. It is not easy to see where the vigor of Olney’s foreign policy is, bat it is very clear that the empha: s on the foreign. Hawaii is getting rid of the cholera, Cuba etting rid of the Spaniards, we are break- down the monopoly, and all is going is ing Catchings may not get the vacancy on the Supreme bench, but Cleveland reallv owes him something for having written himthat letter. So far as frade is concerned Utah's business is strictly our business, and the raffic Association does well in looking after at. If it be true tbat Japan is reaching out for Hawaii it will be fortunate for her if she tumbles to herself before she tumbles in the soup. The appearance of another temblor on the Atlantic Coast will emphasize the fact that those who wish a steady life had bet- ter come west. The National Road parliament at At- lanta will do something to mend our ways, ever if it does no more than revive inter- est in the subject. Both nations will build new yachts to competefor the America cup next year, and already the Defender and the Valkyrie are back numbers. The rise in the price of silver certificates encourages the belief that the fellows of the New York Stock Exchange are going to be bully boys again. According to the philosopby of the majority in the Board of Supervisors the tax levy of the City ‘should always be higher than its buildings. If Chicago and Pittsburg will quit quar- reling about the next Republican Na. tional Convention they may come to play in our back yard and see the whole thing. ‘We are now told the construction. .of the new building for the Postoffice will cer- tainly begin next April, but the saddening recollection comes that the month begins with AlL Fools’ day. Communities that are directing their en- ergies to the establishment of high schools and the erection of suitable buildings for them bave no resson to envy the enter- prises of other places. e It is said the improved methods of ship- ment have made meat so cheap in Eng- land the demand for cheese has fallen off, and thus the advance of one industry is the depression of another. ncisco is not to have high, DEMOORATIC CROWING. The Eraminer of yesierday afforded a proof that along with the reyival of Re- publican prosperity we are to have also a revival of Democratic crowing. The old rooster it seems is still something of a bird. Indianapolis has elected a Demo- cratic Mayor, and over this fact the Ezam- iner rooster not only crows but ‘‘chortles in his joy,” and essays to convince the world that a Democratic daybreak is about to appear. It must be conceded that Democracy has something to crow over and sufficient cause for making use of the opportunity. The treasury officials succeeded in figuring out & surplus in the revenues for Beptem- ber, and now one city in the Union has shown a Democratic majority, To have a small surplus one month in twelve is not much, nor is it much to have carried a single city election, but these things are something. True, the surplus of Septem- ber counts but as a trifie in comparison with the huge increase of the National debt rolled up in the last three vears; true, the carrying of 'a town of the size of In- dianapolis is insignificant in comparison with the recent sweeping Republican vic- tories in the States and in the Nation. Still they are something, They would afford but small nourishment for a healthy bird, but for a sick rooster two crumbs will do. Nor is Democracy without good reasons for making the most it can of these two crumbs. It has been long since it found anything at all to crow over. The expect- ed four years of clover have been thus far two years and a half of famine, and the prospect ahead for the party is even drearier than the past. During these disastrous years Democracy has had at least Government patronage to live on, but after the next election that will van- ish. Before the Democrats there is noth- ing but wind and faction fights. Is it any wonder, therefore, that it accepts the two crumbs that have fallen to it not only with thankfulness but with exultant crowing? There is nothing in all this to alarm even the most timid. The existing im- provement in trade and industry, due to the restoration of public confidence by the great Republican victories which broke the power of the free-traders and putan end to any further weakening of the pro- tective system, will be increased before the fall closes in the strengthening of that well-placed confidence by the successes the Republican party is sure to gain in the State elections. The recent vote in Con- necticut shows the tidal wave of last year to be still at flood height. Nearly every town in the State went Republican, al- though many of them have been Demo- cratic in former elections. Against this showing the Indianapolis vote 1s as insig- nificant as the September surplus, and would not have been noted had not the Democratic organs made it the occasion for the first crow in three years. AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK. The functions of TEE CArL’s query edi- tor—and his functions are to be dis- tinguished from the uncanny wisdom which inspires him—seem not to be fully. understood 1n all quarters, a fact of which the following naive letter, evidently writ- ten by a pupil of the public schools, gives evidence: ““To the Editor of the San Francisco Call— Smm: Will you piease give me a few points before Sunday regarding this: I am on the negative side of a debate, which is, ‘Re- solved, That the United States Government should build and control the Nicaragua canal.’” There does not seem to be any- thing on the negative side. Will youn please give me a few points?’’ A correspondent of a wider experience would have reflected that as I'HE CarLis in favor of the proposition here stated it could not go into the business of present- ing arguments against its own position and the manifest best interest of the country. That awful personage, the query” editor, aware of this fact, is made to feel that such a request as this places upon him the unspeakable humiliation of confessing a limitation upon his powers. The trouble in this case seems to be that the pupil has not been made fully to un- derstand the purpose of school debates. This is to compel 1nvestigation and thought and to sharpen the intellectual combative faculty. In " this capacity the debater becomes an aavocate in- stead of a judge, and his argument is more a specizl plea than an adjudication. His position is very different from that of a newspaper editor arraying the facts connected with a grave subject and ex- pressing his opinion eoncerning them. The Government construction and con- trol of the Nicaragua canal is a serious question of public policy and bears a par- ticularly vital relation to the welfare of €alifornia, This does not mean to say that it is not also important to the country atlarge. The arguments which might be edvanced against it would be specious and fallacious, but that perhaps would make the discipline of arraying them none the less valuable to a pupil as mental drill. If there is room for doubt on any phase of this case it must be found in the action of the teacher who deems it wise to require pupils to debate undebatable questions concerning the public welfare instead of exacting essays and theses all on the right side and offering a prize for the best. It would be interesting to know to what ex- tent the practice which this communica- tion discloses is prevalent in the schools of San Francisco. A LOTTERY TRIUMPH. It must be gratifying to those of our contemporaries which derive a generous income from the advertising of swindling lotteries to know that the Board of Super- visors has refused to adopt the ordinance prohibiting the practice. Who knows but what the Supervisors took this action with the deliberate purpose of putting our con- temporaries on $heir honor instead of placing them in the role of criminals? The Legislature may not prove so gener- ous; that is, provided the newspapers will regard the action of the board as here suggested and govern their conduct ac- cordingly. Chief Crowley has said that if the newspapers would cease their promo- tion of these swindling schemes it would be much easier for the police to suppress the evil and check the harm which they accompligh. It is not to be expected that the patriotic citizens who prepared the ordinance and urged its adoption will relex their efforts. It is likely that they will not only take the matter to the Legislature, and thus casta reflection on the press of the State which indulges in the business of promoting this evil, but that they will make it an issue before the next municipal conventions. AN OUTLAWED INDUSTRY. A general wave of reform on the subject of -prize-fighting seems ‘likely to over- whelm the. short-haired promoters of the *“‘manly sport.” Texas having re- deemed itself by the enactment of & prohibitory law and having gone somewhat ridiculously far in expressions of righteous indignation by moving to prosecute the promoters for conspiring in Texas !zn do iniAvxk_;marsonnhing that is not esteemed in Texas, and the United States Government having intervened to prevent the Indians of the Choctaw Nation from turning a penny out of the mill, the short-haired gentry have turned their eyes on Arkansas. There is g funny little law in Arkansas making prize-fighting & misdemeanor pun- ishable by a fine of $1000, and the gentle- manly promioters of the “manly sport” propose to ‘“‘pull off’” the fight at Hot Springs, plead guilty and pay the fine. But Arkansas happens to have an Attor- ney-General who has both brains and char- acter. “Itisthe duty of all peace officers,” he properly declares, ‘‘to prevent any con- templated violation of the law when it comes to their attention. No arrange- ments can be made to pay the fine and proceed with the fight any more than a man could threaten to kill another and after the deed deliver himself up to hang.” This is sound law and common-sense. The Governor of Arkansas seems to agree with him. THE OIL SITUATION. For some reason which has not been fully expiained the Standard Oil Com- pany has not secured the output of the Los Angeles oil wells. and a contract has been entered into whereby the oil will be shipped by sea to San Francisco and nsea as manufacturing fuel. There is already & demand in this City for 1000 barrels a day, and the prospects are that it will soon be increased to 3000 barrels. The laying of a pipe line from Los Angeles to the coast has been deferred. It is disappointing to read that the Los Angeles Oil Exchange, which controls the output, is glad to have the Standard Oil Company in the field, although it must enter on the same footing as others. It might be unreasonable to expect the ex- change to look any further than the mat- ter of disposing of its product on the most advartageous terms, but as in other mat- ters the business sense of Los Angeles has been so wise and far-seeing it is difficult to understand why the ‘Btandard should be considered in the case at all except-as a menace to the’ industry and to the de- velopment of California. The situation as-it is generally believed to be is this: TUnder special arrangements with the Southern Pacific Company the Standard’s bestinterest lies in" suppress- ing any tendency to develop the oil indus- try of California. So long as this can be done the Southern Pacific will receive a large revenue from the transcontinental hauling of Standard oil and the Standard Oil Company ‘will continue to enjoy a monopoly of the ‘0il consumption of the State. Of course the double factor of an oil monopoly and the heavy cost of trans- continental shipment will always make oil an expensive commodity, and as fuel is scarce and costly in California there will continue to be a heavy burden on the cost of manufacturing and a lasting difficulty in competing with Eastern manufacturers. This burden can be removed only by keeping the Standard Oil Company from securing control of the California output. Its favorite method of working is to secure control of the wells and close them. Fail- ing in that its next best plan would be to secure the output and hold it as a monop- oly along with its Eastern product and at the same price. It would be just as bad for this company to secure the wells or control their output as it would be not wo have any wells or oil at all; and weall know what a blessing abundant fuel oil would bring the State. These considerations lead to the con- clusion that the Los Angeles Exchange will find its best interests to lie in the ex- clusion of the BStandard Oil Company altogether. It should reflect thatthe en- couragement of the oil industry would lead to such a stimulation of industries as California bas never experienced in the past. The chances are very strong that if the Exchange proceed wisely it conld make more by keeping out the Standard Oil Com- pany than by letting it in. —— PERSONAL. Dr. R. W. Kent of Sonoma is at the Grand. Preston R. Davis of Santa Rosa is at the Russ, Frank A. Cressey, & Modesto lawyer, 18 in the city. F.D. Ryan of Sacramento is quartered at the Grand. R. R. Prince, a Fresno attorney, is registered at the Grand. M. L. Cardan, Consul-General to Mexico, 1s at the Palace Hotel. A. W, Simpson, & merchant from Stockton, is at the Occidental. Ex-Senator G.S. Berry of Lindsay is staying &t the Lick Souse. T. L. Reed of Reedlev is down from the moun- tains, and is at the Grand. Charles Rule, a rencher and dairyman of Duncan Mills, is at the Grand. X. 8. Muller of the Hotel San Marcos, Santa Barbara, is housed at the Palace. W.R. A. Roumaine, an officer of the United States steamer Monterey, is at the Palace. George W. 8ill, & wealthy cattleman of the Pajaro Valley, was in the City yesterday. R. H. Beemer of the State Board of Equaliza- tion arrived at the Lick House last night. Commeander Rusinger of the United States steamer Monterey is & guest at the Palace. J. F. Moody, & banker of Truckee, has dropped into town for a few days, and is at the Lick. P. A. Buell, the Btockton lumberman, is at the Grand. He will spend = few days in town. Mrs. Van Cott, one of the leading temper- ance advocates of the Stste, is at the Occi- dental Hotel. Thomas Carroll, a Tacoms sttorney, and a Democratic candidate for Congress at the last election, has taken rooms at the Grand Hotel. —_— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 10.—Californiane at hotels to-day: San Francisco—Mrs. H. P. Oristy, Miss Cristy, C. Dryden, H. Davenport, Mrs, Black, Hoffman; H. W. Brant, Mrs. Bibby, St, Denis; C. N. Comstock, A. Rohart, Hotel Al- bert; E. J. Colemsn, Brunswick; H. Hegue- man, Savoy. Los Angeles—J. H. Bissell, F. W. King, Holland, CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 10.—M. Tobin and Miss Tobin, San Francisco, Arlington Hotel; Mrs. J. P. McCabe, Oakland, Riggs House; Os- car H. Braughter, Celifornia, Nationai Hotel, AN ECHO FROM ANGELS. Angels Echo. We believe that the intelligent readers of this section of country generally concede that THE DATLY CALL is now the leading paper pub- lished in San Frangisco, or, in fact, on the Pacific Coast, It is essentially the miner's newspaper, and should be liberally patronized by the hardy sons of toil. e e e A GRACEFUL AMERICAN TRIBUTE TO SPAIN'S DEAD ADMIRAL, ‘We learn by a correspondent in Havana that ‘the New Yorx Herald has achieved great popu- larity in that city by its very graceful tribute to the memory of the late Admiral Delgado Parejo, who lost his life by the sinking of the cruiser Barcaiztegui. 2 8aid correspondent, speaking of the faneral cortege, says: “Among many marine trophies carefully draped by two large flags—the Ameri- can and Spanish—wes to be seen s magnificent porcelain crown, adorned with immortelles, bearing in its center, in English and Spanish, the words, “The New York Herald.—Friendly Neations, Like United Families, Mourn Kach Other’s Sorrows. To the People of Cuba and ;h;:r:. Bolaiers of Spain,~The New York ARGUND THE CORRIDORS. Mr, Simeon Wenban,-the capitalist; passed into the Palace Hotel yestarday, stepped lightly across the asphaltum cortel and disap- peared into the billiard-room, puffing his cigar and looking for all the world like 2 contented millioneire. “There goes 8 man,” said & gentleman who caught s last glimpse of -the person who built the unoccupied quarters of the Bohemian —_— SIMEON WENBAN, WHO BELIEVES IN DIRECT = QUESTIONS. Club, “who dia one of the best thingsT ever saw done in a court of law. It was back in Nevads in early days, when he was inelined to do alittle more work than he does now and when mines were being sought for by every- body. He lived out in the esstern part of the State, and-being an educsted man, he was very frequently utilized by the miners in the settle- ment of disputes and the adjustment of knotty questions. On one occasion & stranger stole some mining implements from one of Wen- ban’s friends and the case was taken into the Justice court, the defendant demanding a jury trial. Wenban told the plaintiff that he would appear for him and see that the affair was settled in the most approved Western style. ‘'When court convened Wenban was on hand to appear for his client. ‘The defendant took the stand and made a statement touching upon the cage, and when he had finished the Judge , ‘Cross-examine.’ -made attorney looked steadily into the eye of the accused man and blurted out in & loud voice, ‘What di you ever do for a liv- ing besides steal ™ “ ‘Nothing,’ answered the defendant. “ ‘Gentlemen of the jury,’ resumed Mr. Wen- ban, ‘listen to the evidence of the accused. I rest the case on the testimony right here.’ “The Judge was {urfous, but the jury brought in a verdlet of guilty. It wasthe first and Iast case Wenban ever took, and he certainly cleaned it up with wonderful rapidity.” “I am traveling through Americs,” eaid Min -Young Chan, s gentleman from Korea, “for the purpose of educating myvsel! in the English language and American customs. About six months ago I landed at this port from my country, and since then have visited Chicago, New York, Washington, Philaaelphia and several other big cities in the United States. 1mustsay that I like the general ap- pearance of things here very much, and I return to Korea very much enlightened by my trip. “While in Washington I visited the Korean legation end then I investigated the Chino- Japanese war. Ilearned that although Korea was right in the thick of the wrangle she went right along about her business, saying little or nothing, and letting China and Japan fight it out as best they saw fit. i “No, it is not true that I have any royal con- nections at home. 1ammerely a citizen of the country, and am sufficiently well off to travel and learn something, which 1 consider is every man's duty todo who isable. When the City of Peking sails for China on her nexttripI will return, touching Japan for the purpose of sceing the results of the war, and I have no doubt Iwill ind that it has done some good.” Mr. Min Young Chan speaks very good Engliish and greatly resembies a Japanese in looks. He had many visitors at the Occidental yesterday, and took in the park, the Cliff House and other points of interest with a small party. LETTERS FROM THE PEOFLE. JOAQUIN MILLER. WILLIAM GREER HARRJEON TELLS OF THE KIwl AND THE WEKA. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call —SIR: There is a bird native to New Zealand called the kiwl. It isa very peculiar inmate of the forest, preferring always to bealone. Yet by a curious provision of nature it is not permit- ted to enjoy the exercise of it3 own desires. Wherever the kiwi makesits hermitage always in the neighborhood is heard the voice of the weka, singing the praises of its'hero, the kiwi. The weka—a kind of swamp fowl—is a very un- important bird, but its loyalty to its lord gives it something of a pathetic prominence and in- sures its existence. Like the kiwi Joaquin Miller hides from the gerish light of day—hides from the persistently inquisitive and lives in s world born of his own dreams. We—the wekas of tne world—do not Like the silence of our friend. His voice, heard years ago in the courtly halls of older lands, heard on our own swelling seas and mountain tops, singing the etérnsl truth in new numbers, singing the thoughts of God and the hopes of man, is heard only in these days 88 an echo of an old but dearly ioved song. He dwells upon the mountain tops and sings to things invisible. Can we not coax him back into our nether world? We want to hear him thundering or pleading, denouncing or praying; for God gave him whst he has withheld from most of us—that touch of the divine which we call genius; thatsomething indefinable but omuipotent to which we bend ihe knee and yield our love/ 4 The world has few poets—indeed, the un- thinking world seems to wish the number less; but all the world is not thoughtless, and all the thinkers rejoice wjth gratitude that Joaquin Miller still lives, though they regret his ebstraction as a personal loss to them- selves. s ‘Wake him to the old passion, stir him as by fire, and you will hear his voice again in liv- 1ng, burning words. ‘WILLIAM GREER HARRISON. A SAN FRANCISCO IDEA ABROAD. LT To the Editor of the San Francisco Call~DEAR SiR: A few days singe you -published an sc- ‘count, with illustrative eut, of & spiral railway now buiiding at Srighton; Eng., as something new. My design for the central building, for our recent Midwinter Faif, shows that the, Brighton building efther originated with me, orisan extraordindry instance of two minds arriving at the same conelusions from widely different premises, Yours, truly, ¥ ALEXANDER F. OAKEY, San Francisco, October 8,1898, - = A TRIBUTE TO CLAUS SPRECKELS, The San Francisco and San Joaguin Valley Railroad would haye been a dream had it not been for Claus Spreckels. Now it is an assured fact. His capital and energy gave it life and being. The building he is erecting for THE CALL is to be the finest in the City, if not in the United States. The building erected by his daughter on Market street is an ornamentto this City as it wonld be toany city: Theim- provements contemplated on the purchases lately made by him on Market street are said to be on a like scale of magnificence, while his private brownstone residence on the corner of Van Ness avenue and Clay street, now nearing completion, will be one of - the features of the City. It is modest in 1ts proportions but ele- gant in design. Imake noestimate of its cost, but [ do not think a million would be out ot the way. Imet Mr. Spreckels once on business. The late Senator Sargent gave me a fetter of intro- duction. I did not get what I wanted, but made the mistake of my life in refusing what was offered. Thet was in 1881, but he never seemed to forget my face or name when he met me in the street. I shall never forget one remark he made. We were conversing on poli- ties. I saidIthought politics had & tendency to unfit & man for any other occupation. “Mr. Mead,” he said, “a man who does not take an interest in politics is not a good citizen. It makes no difference to what party he belongs; he must dp his best to have thetparty repre- sented by honest, capable men. To do this he must, as I said before, take an interest in poli- tics.” Fourteen years have passed and I have not forgotten the worde. To conclude on this subject Mr. Spreckels deserves, as he receives, the praite of all good citizens for his lavish yet well-dfrected expenditure of money in a time of such great need. . Would that his example were followed by others..—Walter Mead in Ne- vada City Transcript. A TRIBUTE TO PRESIDENT DIAZ. No thorough student of Mexican history of the lass fifty years can doubt, says the Mexican Herald, that without General Diaz, this country would not occupy the place emong nations thet she does to-day, Mexico has produced other great men, but certainly none like Diaz, who seems so emi- nently fitted for every occasion in this coun- try's life, As a great soldier he has made his mark on Mexican history, but it is as a man combining all the qualities of a military genius with those of 8 consummate ruler that the name of Porfirio Diaz will be spoken of with esteem and respect, one hundred years hence. Posterity will judge the man rightly and he will be ranked among the other greatmen of this century, men who combined similar qual- ities. All the honors that a grateful cbuntry can shower on & worthy citizen Mexico has heaped on Disz. Not only does he occupy the highest position in the nation’s gitt—the chief magistracy of the land, but he bears upon his gallant breast the insignia of honor bestowed by a grateful country, for whose protection he hes 2o often shed his blood. Foreign Governments have been also quick to see the man’s inborn genius and greatness and General Disz probably wears more foreign orders of merit than any living American. The foreign residents of Mexico should be OUR LUMBERING INTERESTS. B.F. Cobp in Northwestern Lumberman. Many & man coming here from the East mis- calculates the chances of making & fortune. He sees the wonderful forests, the beautiful locationg for mill sites; he knows what white pine is selling for in the East, he knows what Jumber can be made for, he figures the frelght and counts the profit which in his calculations sometimes rolls up into the hundreds and thousands very fast. Figures cannot lie, he says, and in his calculating he is seconded _b)' the real-estate man, who is trying to sell him the timber land, and perhaps get & chance from him to plat a town and sell house lots from the same tract. : Of course figures do not lie, but if you don’t get all the figures in you don’t get the whole truth. Let me state a few facts to be added to what you have already gleaned. There is plenty of Jumber here to take the place of white pine; but the people Pust believe in white pine, and it is and will be for many years their first choice, without regard as to whether it is best or not. Great mistakes have been made in the manner of putting Pacific Coast lumber into the Eastern market in the fact that little cousideration bas been given the wishes of the Eastern_buyers in regard to how they wanted the stock worked. The people, with few exceptions, who have been gesting out lumber for the Eastern mar- ket, know little or pothing about the condi- tions of things East or the requirements of the Eastern geller'. ‘This has had the effest to ive adecided setback to the business. This s not the worst of it; the bed work is still go- ing on, and cheap dealers and_cheap millmen are sending out cheap price-lists and cheap salesmen, who have not the first idea of how &n order should be filled. This state of affairs has made the Eastern dealer tired and suspi- cious, and untess he has happened to get hold of & responsible millman or dealer from this section he is inclined to let Pacific Coast lum- ber drop until such time as he is not obliged to force a demand for it. THE NEW YORK SUNDAY LAW, New York Suu. It is beyond question that in the rural dis- tricts & proposition to allow the saloons and hotels to keep open on certain hours on Sun- day would be voted down by & large majority; end yet the same people who would vote and declaim sgainst any change in the present law treat it as e dead letter and stamp as a crank the man who attempts to enforce it. We have no doubt that in Mr, Warner Miller's own town of Herkimer beer and liquor are sold at the hotels and saloons on Sundays with practical freedom, and that Mr. Miller and the Republi- cens in Herkimer have never tried to stop it. New York Mail and Express. The recognition and observance of the Sab- bath cannot be relegated by the State as a question for determination to the local author- ities or to the citizens of communities. The State is essentially under such a high moral as well as ciyil obligation of guardianship over those questions and institutions affecting the moral and social conditions of the entire copie under its Jurisdiction as necessarily in- ibits it from delegating its constitutional funciions relative to such questions and insti- tutions to separate communities or localities. Philadelphia Inquirer. If the Republican party in the State of New York believes that it can carry the election in that State on the theory that Sabbatarian regu- lations must not only be maintained when {hey are on the statute books, but must be con- tinued on the statute booke,even though & GENERAL PORFIRIO DIAZ, PRESIDENT OF MEXICO. ever grateful to him. Undér his government | very large section of the people t:nru:m{t pro- they have found security and his rule has opened up to them avenues of successful trade that, a brief decade ago, they never would have dreamed of. The future of Mexico’s greatness is only now a question of time, and when she attains, as she must, a pinnacle of greatness among the nations of the earth, she must always remember that the very cornerstone of her might and proud pre-eminence she owes to General Porfirio Diaz. GEORGE FRED WILLIAMS. NOMINATED FOR GOVERNOR BY THE MASSACHU- SETTS DEMOCRACY. The Massachusetts Democrats at Worcester named George Frederick Williams to lead the campaign as the nominee for Governor. Wil- liams, who is characterized by his friinds asa fearless young reformer, bolted the Republican party at the time that Blaine was nominated. He has been a prominent member of the Legis- lature. When & few years ago Mayor Matthews of Boston was grappling with the great gas George Fred Williams, Nominated for Governor by the Democrats of Massachusetts. monopoly contmged by Addicks of Delaware, Williams went his essistance, The City Council, having the money of the corporation in its pockets, declined "to vote the money needed to te an investigation before the !‘cgfll . The members thon&ht they ‘would thus smother the inquiry. But Williams /yolunteered' his services and devoted two or three wee;n of his time to the work laid out by . The result was & reduction of the tae May, cost of :2: to the consumers and the squeezing of several millions of dollars’ worth of water out of the stock and bonds of the company. BURNING MONEY IN NEW YORK. Alameda Argus. The disctission anent Mr. Hearst's purchase of & new York newspaper all ends up with an opinion as 1o whether he will make it pay. As & matter of .fact, it doesn’t matter much whether it peys or not. The Hearsts have money to burn, end it might as well be incin. erated in e newspaper enterprise as in any other manner, In fact that is less harmful than many other ways there are of getting rid of wealth, test against such continuance, then will probably be found that it has greatly mistaken the sentiments of the people. New York Times. 4 The Sunday law may be maintained—it cane not be enforced. Commissioner Rooseveltis a man of moble courage and great fortitude, but even if'he could be insured against the impair- ments of age and the infirmities of weariness and disgust he conld not for any long period continue with his almost complete success the policy of enforeing actual Sunday closing. Boston Herald. Is the moral sentiment of New York in favor of a European Sunday? Has thz enforcement of the excise laws in New York City wrought any hardship to the community? Cannot a man buy his bottled beer Saturday might as well as his groceries? These are questions for the New Yorkers to decide for themselves. New Bedford Standard. ‘Whatever the newspapers may say or the conventions may resolve, it is still a fact that tnere is no such thing as “an American Sun- day.” Various sorts of Sundeys exist in vari- ous parts of this country, but no one of them has a title to the adjective ‘‘American.” New York Tribune, Bunday drinking is no worse than drinking any other day in the week, some argue, but again they refuse to consider each man's duty to his neighbor. No man hasaright to make ;20 mlzgmet and disorderly Sundey for other ple. ‘WESTERN EDITORS TALE OUT. Doing Right in an 0dd Way. Pasadena News. People who used to laugh at the Sslvation Army do =0 no longer., The queer uniforms and the discordant tambourine and drum are not scoffed at es in former days, for the fact is beginning to be appreciated that the army is doing good in a thousend ways. Sound the timbrel, unfurl the flag, sing songs and con- tinue to shout. It is only doing the right thing in a queer way. Some Comfort for Huntington. Seattle (Wash.) Times. The history of the Northern Pacific Railway is a sad commentary upon wastefuiness and dishonesty. This great road cost far more than it should have done and has been capitalized out of all proportion to its legitimate earnin, cnpacnix £ there is any railway in the world whose history is an ment for the Govern- ment ownershi; N vty ship of railweys it is the Northern Poor Devils Don’t Get the Benefit. Port Townsend (Wash.) Call. Authorities on sealing matiets say that the remarkable advance in prices in this over last year is all traceable 10 the great severity of the winter 1n the East last season. For the benefit of the poor devils who risk their lives in tak- ing the animals let us hope that this Sees the thermometer lreue‘:p. e A Well-Occupled Field. ‘Woodland Mail. Mr. Hearst of the Examiner has purchased the New York Journal, and it is announced that it will be ““anti-administration.” Some one should notify bim that Dana that field to perfection. BESLY e, Bun Oy The ‘*Middle-Part’* Stage. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. It r;ed z be Hm{vc. Miner when he was running a theater in New York, but now that hio 18 elécted to Congress 1t is &, Clay Miner. THE FALL ELECTIONS, ‘New York Press. Political conditions sre not uniquein New York City. They are only extreme. Theaction of the country Democrats in making common canse with Tammany” Hall has this to com- mend it—that it was natural and sincere. Tammany is the Democratic party of the me- tropolis, nd in bo declaring the convention abandoned trickery and pretense and admitted the truth. Inferentially it admitted the even more impressive fact that the qualities and characteristics which stand out so baldiy and hideously in Tammany Hall are not peculiar o Tammany, but are the distinguishing marks of the Democratie party whereverit is found. New York World. There has not been an election in twenty years at which the result would not have been reversed by a change of that nl_lmber ona 191_1 vote. The result of the World's inquiries among the German-Americans in the cities, as puhlil‘ned ‘on Friday, shows a deep and wide- spread revoli of Repullican voters on the P iee and blue-law issue. There can be no doubt that this defection is sufficient to give the Democrats the State if they poll their full vote for an off year. Philadelphia Record. While the Republicans meke their campaign in behalf of the McKinley tariff, with Gover- nor McKinley as their ehoice for Prres:‘dcm, the ve the sympathies of the manu- P atrers and workinginen of the State in their demand that the tariff under which the coun- try is prospering shall not be disturbed. The issue in Ohio is whether there shall be contin- ued agitation of the (ariff or whether there shall be industrisl peace. Cleveland Leader. With Mé¢Kinley and Foraker as his alternate gssistants on the stump, Genersl Bushnell is sure to put up a great campaign. Foraker was with him at all the big meetings he addressed 1ast week, and McKinley will be with him all this_week, . €till there are some Democrats foolish enough to believe that there sre fac- tional differences in the Republican party of Ohio. Towa State Register. The St, Louis Republic says that of course no Democrat can be elected in Iows, but the Democratie candidate is having a great desl of fun scaring Republicans. We would like to meet some one who has been scared by a man Who cen hardly say boo to & goose. The only achievement of Judge Babb so far is a ten- column speech. Boston Herald. Evidently the New Jersey Democrats are badly scared. They have not only put up a gubernatorial candidate of unnquestionable ability and integrity, but they have formally declared against racetrack gambling. Thatis 8 good deal of a flop. i St. Louis Globe-Democrat. George Fred Williams, the man whom the Democrats have nominated for Governor of Massachusetts, will be the most-surprised man in the State is he comes within 40,000 votes of carrying the election. Syracuse Standard. The outlook is that the campaign will be rather quiet. Both J)flrflfll are likely to save up their strengih and their coin for next yeas. ANSWERS TO CORRESFPON DENTS. Nor WorTH THE CaNDLE—S. O., City. The following story is given as the origin of the phrase, “The game is not worth the candle,” This alludes to game as fow], while the French who say “Le jeu ne vaut pas le chandelle,” re~ fer to game as play. Peter the Great, while in the vicinity of Moscow on one occasion, being hungry, asked his aid what there was in the ‘hamper. Thereply was that there was but one candle left, but the aid added that he thought he could exchange it for a fowl at the nearest farmbhouse. He did so, but the fowl proved to 4 be very tough, and while discussing it his Majesty remarked to his aid, “I do not think the game is worth the candle.” . VALUE oF L16HETS—Gas, City. The following from London Invention is the estimate for Lon- don of the sixteen candle-power light hours to be obtained for 1 penny by different illumi- nators: Gas, using Welsbach burners, 22.2; incandescent electrie lamp driven by gas en- ine, 10.6; duplex oil lamp, 8.6; good petro- eum ofl lamp, 8: gas with argand burner, 6.4; gas with fish-tail burner, 4.7. BrLacK THURSDAY—N. G. M., City. “Black Thursday" is the name given by the people of Victoris, Austraiia, to February 6, 1851, when & terrible bush fire. there, Taging . over & sreat area. The heat was felt far out at sea, and many birds fell dead on the decks of passing vessels. 3 SUGAR REFINERIES—J. B, W., Millwood, Fresno County, Cal. There are but two refineries in San Francisco in. which sugar is refined—one on the Potrero and the other at the corner of Battery and Union streets. The two belong to the Western Sugar-Refining Company. IRON GATE OF FRANCE—W. 8. B,, City. Belfort, the fortress city commanding the pass between the Vosges and the Jura, was, during the Franco-Prussian war, called the iron gate of France. BUDD'S ANCESTRY—A. O. 8, City. Both par- ents of Governor James H. Budd are Ameri cans. Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street.* —— ROBERTS, 220 Sutter—*‘Uards by the million,”™ e MAXE the children happy and bring home Townsend's candies, Palace Hotel. . e~ e THIS week for eyeglasses; 15c. 814 Fourth, nr. barber; Sundays,738 Mkt (Kast shoe store).® e *I see you havea glass eye, Pat.”” “Yes, yer ’anner; but it's a swindle, sir. Ican’s see nothing out of it.”"—London Tit-Bits. ————— Hoov's Sarsaparilla not only purifies the blood but also imparts new life and vigor (o every fano tion of the body. Now is the time to takelt to fortity the system against attacks of sickness. ——————— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrap™ Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth. ers for their children while Teething with perfecs success. It soothes the child, softeus the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Boswels and is the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whetheg arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world Be sure aad ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 350 o botula * SUTRO anomie VATICAN ALBER’I‘ SUTRO, the well-known banker and Oriental scholar (who has charge of Mayor Sutro’s library), will contribute the result of some of his recent researches in the Butro library to next Sunday’s is- sue of the Bax Fraxcisco Carr. He has translated from a rere Hebrew volume, published .in 1696, extracts which bear directly on disputes among theologians as to the birth of Christ and the martyrdom of the apostles Paul, Peter and John. His discovery and researches have so inter- ested the Vatican that strong efforts have been made to buy the treasured volume, but Mayor Adolph Sutro declined to dis- pose of any of tne baoks of the library. The paper includes a summary of the cor- respondence with the Vatican, Read these letters in the Sax Fraxcisco CALL next POSITIVE ano PERMANENT %.:' CURE. Terms Reasonable. Examination Free In Afternoon, DR. MILLER CANCER CURR, 929} Howard 8t., 8. ¥