The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 18, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1895. d Sunday Cari, Tetly and Sund T sily end Sund funday Carz WEEKLY CAl b, by mail .65 1.50 San Fr Telepbone ...Maln—1874 FFICE. corner ¥: open untll 9:30 o'clock. et: open until 8:30 o'clock. eenth and Mission sireets; open 111 9 o'clock, 119 o'clock 316 Ninth sireet; ope OAKLAND :(3FF[CE: ©U8 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: . is pop ping it to his old vorld, but Buckley from polities. as nervous over tenly quit smok- 1 City politice 3uckley has no will content themselves he Democrats Indianapolis 1f th 1896 they may nta with all the mpaign is still going ett Hill seems to have ow Corbett to land can a s promises to make an later on, and so do Democrats. The straw which shows the way the Re- wi ea existed a into an i it looks now as if of one. time without get- onal complication hie would never get ack and the bicycle face juacious g about The bicyc nths California is I center of the uni- vite the E going to be the base verse, and we cordia watch our mmnpi men who cannot see the the continent to t at least come out and see Chi conld do Spain a her to get out and thus save her the humiliation 1g taken by a little island. needs it e required in the 1 and e Senators a blican m iors of the Dem- 2 the thresh- g machine that we shall learn which is wheat and which is the chaff. Kaiser Williain has distinguished him- self by committing an act of good jud He has orae his court chaplain t his sermons to twenty minutes. The partition of Africa has been accom- bed, the partition of Asia is being nred out, and it is time for Uncle Sam to keep a sharp lookout over all America. Acecerding to the Chicago Times-Herald the political b in the country towns of 1llinois are better machine managers than the city bosses and can give them points. - Since Victoria has been on the throne the debt of Great Britain has been de- creased by over $1,000,000,000, but some- thing more than $3,500,000,000 more re- mains to be paid. Both Chicago and Pittsburzare fluttered by the fear of a civic investigation, but San Francisco is g the whole Repub- lican National Convention should come out and investigate. It is noted as one of the curiosities of the recent hot speilsin England that a South African chief now on a visit to London was prostrated by it, and came near having a sunstroke. Assome New Yorkers have organized an “American Society for the Improve- ment of Speech,”” there is a living hope that some of the Four Hundred will get rid of the British accent. The report that the drought in Ken- tucky has seriously interfered with the work of the d eries is the first intima- tion given to the world that the Ken- tuckians take water ia theirs. Congressman Howard of Alabama de- clares he will devote all his energies dur- ing the coming session of Congress to bring about the impeachment of Cleve- land, and that is the way the cuckoos are coming back to the roost. e Tue Cary publishes each week a con- densation of many interesting sermons delivered in different parts of the United States. These extracts are intended to inaicate the drift of intellectual ministers ~{ the gospel and will be read with interest % the public generally, a big exposi- | THE MINERS IN EARNEST. : The absolute unanimity with which the convention of the California Miners’ Asso- ciation conducted its business was one of its most remarkable and significant feat-’ ures. The hints dropped by some of the Jeading delegates in interviews to the effect that if the influence of the railroad com- panies was present it did not dare express itself, have a far-reaching meaning, which is fully developea by the openly annonuced determination of the miners to put acheck upon the evil methods which the raiqund comvanies have employed to secure min- eral lands under the pretense that they are cultural. John M. Wright, one of the delegates and an uble mover to protect the rights of the peopie in this regard, made a speech. | in the course of which he declared that the miners of California are the only inde- pendent people in this State; that every other industry is under the control of the transportation interests, and that the Miners’ Association atone has the power to grapple with the situation. This is a fierce arraignment of the farm- ers, merchants and producers of the State. Mr. Wright’s high worth as a citizen and lawyer precludes the assumption of his in- ity in this assertion. Whether he . honestly in error is another mat- It is rue that miners are independ- true also that they ara fearless, de- ned and energetic. In assuming the to be the only guardians of the nterest in the matter of railroad land aggression he is imposing a responsi- bility on them the gravest that ever de- volved upon any body of citizens, and in their efforts to discharge it they will have the sympathy and support of thousands whom Mr. Wright seems to have omitted irom his calculations. The other great interests of the State must accept the position in which Mr. Wright hes placed them unless they come out openly and tearlessly in sppport of the fight which the miners are making. The leading merchants of San Francisco have | alr done this. We shall next await with interest the action of the farmers asa whole, regretting that their earnest oppo- sition to the miners on the hydraulic ques- tion may operate as an interference with their natural desire to lessen the burdens which the railroads impose on them. Through the attorney for their Anti-Debris Association, Mr. Devlin, they announce that they will oppose any suggestion look- ing toward a solution of the problem of impounding debris. The miners, on the other hand, declare that they will not sup- port any plan whi may operate as a menace to the valley lands. There is seri- ous danger that this attitude of the farm- ers on the hydraulic question will strengthen the cause of the railrcadson the mineral lands question, and that the whole matter will have a strong bearing on the overshadowing question of trans- portation rates, as well as on the vastly important subject of improving the water- wa in which the farmers have a vital interest. On this last point Mr. Devlin no room for doubt that the farmers, insisting on the improvement of the nivers, will forever oppose any amalgama- tion of it with hydraulic mining. The situation is thus seen to be very se- rious. With the miners and merchantson one side of great questions and the farmers on theother, we cannot hope for the best results to the State. Surely the civiliza- tion of California has progressed suffi- ciently far to make it possible for the in- telligence of the State to work bharmoni- ously for the common good. Such harmony isthe one great thing next to be accom- plished. MORTGAGED FARMERS. There is a class of calamity howlers in this and other countries who believe that the world is going to the dogs, because in all new countries a large number, probably a majority, of the farms are mortgaged. These people forget that the mortgage has been used since the dawn of civilization, and the world has never gone to the dogs yet. And it is not going there now. There s no other possible way under our present civilization whereby young and energetic men of small means can get the oppor- tunity to build themselves up by applying capital to land, except the security of the mortgage. At the same time it is @oubtless essen- tial that the amount, the interest rate and the application of the money be such as to promise a profit on the investment and to pay off the debt, and it is also unquestion- ably true that wild and wholly foolish estimates of the income-producing power of land have nduced many mortgage loans in this and other countries which bankers ought not to have made and farmers ought not to have accepted. Es- pecially is it true that in countries which, like some portions of California, have endured the merciless affliction of boom methods money has been invested and lost, and years of labor sper:t and also lost. This cannot now be helped. Nature is an inexorable punisher of error, and the penalty must be paid. Some farmers will lose their homes; ent; termi miner public nd some bankers will lose their loans; some tradesmen will fail from inability to col- lect. But the world will not go to the dogs, and twenty years from now these troubles will seem only like the remem- brance of a bad dream. We take the financial sitnation to be simply this: Modern science has so in- creased the capacity to produczall commod- ities that the channels of exchange are choked. There is a surplus of all things. This is not poverty but wealth, and out of this must necessarily come in due time great prosperity and a higher plane of civil- ization. In the meantime there is the great distress inevitably accompanying rapid in- dustrial changes. Those workers who have been displaced by machinery and its results have now no way except by indul- gence whereby they can get any share of the world’s surplus. These conditions can change only as the impetus of this era of industrial invention exhausts itself. Industrial conditions take on some appearance of permanence, man- kind adjusts itself to the situation and population begins to press harder upon the means of subsistence. This will be a slow but absolutely sure process. Those whom changed conditions have thrown out of employment will in the end find work in new enterprises. Farmers whose prod- ucts are no longer remunerative will find other products which do pay. The true income value of land will be understood, and farm mortgages will again be regarded and used as aids, not to speculation, but to enterprise. Itis the interest as well asthe duty of society to make this inevitable readjust- ment ‘as painless as possible. It seems that this eifort is being made on the whole with good results. The conservative investors who kept their heads during the boom report interest col- lections as far better this year than last. Those who were less careful in loaning are recognizing the situation, meeting their mortgagors more than half way and dis- turbing no one who is making an effort for bimself. In many cases they are giving the aid of their financial experience to the bet- ter handling of the property with most | excellent results. The more of this sort of co-operation there can be between debtor and creditor the better for both. The return of prosperity is absolutely certain. That it will come slowly is equally certain. What we need in the interim is frankness, patiefice, hopefulness, courage and co-operation on all sides. LOAN ASSOCIATIONS. The annual meeting of the California League of Mutual Building and Loan Associations, just held in this City, calls attention to some matters of interest in connection with this plan of home- building. It is surprising to hear from Frank Otis, president of the league, that San Francisco ranks next to Philadelphia, which is the first of all thelarge cities having its population housed in dwellings owned by its occupants. Thisis all the more astonishing inview of the fact that San Francisco is only ninth in size in the United States and that we have been accustomed to hear a great deal about a “‘floating population.” People who have homes do not drift; they are as well anchored to industry and prosperity as to vatriotism. Thisis a condition general throughout the State, and that building and loan asso- ciations have had much to do with it can- not be doubted when we reflect that in California there are 150 such institutions, with an actual invested capital of over $21,000,000, with & record of over $15,000,000 disbursed for matured or withdrawn shares and with 40,000 members and 20,000 homes. Eight or nine years ago this plan of borrowing had a tremendous boom, and while many mistakes were made at the beginning and by reason of hard times the stock was not generally matured as early as was expected, the idea still remains excellent and its operation usually successful. The creation of a State Commission to- regulate their con- duct was a wise provision and has already operated to eliminate all concerns that were not properly organized or conducted. Bankers long ago realized the fact that while this form of borrowing apvarently interferes with their business of lending it is particularly useful in reaching a large number of persons who have mnot the ability through thrift or foresight to repay loans in the bulk required under bank methods, and that when a man by any means has secured his own home by pursuing a systematic course of small savings and has begun to feel its benefits and responsibilities he is very likely to start a bank account, and that in any event he is a better citizen and contributes more substantially than formerly to the welfare and stability of the community. Any man who owns his home deserves a respect which even opulent renters cannot expect to command. AN ORIGINAL IDEA. W. R. Ellis, editor of theLivermore Herald, is preparing to put in operation an original and somewhat startling idea. By reason of the fact that the Treadwells and other capitalists are constructing electric lines which will bring Corral Hollow coal mto use, and because a company has been formed for employing the refuse coal at the mine for the generation of electricity to be sold for power and lights, the charm- ing town of Livermore will come promi- nently into notice. But this cannot be made to bring sufficient results unless the people display the requisite intelligence and energy. For the purpose of educating them and the other residents of the county Mr. Ellis has started & movement to com- bine the efforts of all newspapers published in Alameda County. Mr. Ellis declares: ‘‘The first concern of the newspapers should be to promote the education of the people now here. Great numbers of our present population are practically living in ignorance and un- thinking indolence. They lack the very information which we are anxious to con- vey to the frost-bitten denizens of the effete East. The local paper’s fi and constant mission is to keep its readers ad- vised of every new truth relative to the possibilities' of soil and climate that the best experience of the most progressive farmers may verify. So, to begin with, theidea of publishing any matter what- ever that is especially addressed to stran- gers should be abolished. Let the columns of all Alameda County newspapers be filled with information for the good of the people now here, and it will be of value to those whom we want to bring here.”” * This is hitting the prevalent evil of the State squarely—our own people are igno- rant of tite blessings which nature has lavished on them. Itis absurd to expect settlers when our lack of intelligence and industry isa warning to them to remain away. If Californians did their duty by their opportunities there would be no rea- son to complain of a lack of immigrants. Mr. Ellis has made one of the most valu- able suggestions ever offered to the in- terior press. The newspapers as a rule havedone their duty nobly in the way of urging the advantages of living in Califor- nia, but clearly they can accomplish still better results by educating and inspiring their own people. No county could make a mistake by adopting the plan outlined for the Alameda County papers. The Omaha Bee complains that immi- gration agents are successfully working that State in the interest of the Southern and Western States, and while we do not wish to give the Bee further cause of com- plaint California should put in some work in that field, for the harvest seems to be ripe, and as Nebraska raises good people we would profit by bringing some of them out here. 2o Bt S The customs receipts under the Mc: ley tariff for the year ending August 31, 1893, amounted to more than $194,000,000, or $33,000,000 more than the receipts from the Wilson tariff for the year ending Au- gust 31, 1895. This fact is one of the rea- sons why we need tariff revision and need it soon. The contest for the next Republican con- vention is said to be practically narrowed down to Chicago, Pittsburg and San Fran- cisco, and if the two Eastern cities will agree to hold down each other we will agree to hold up the convention. WILL HELP MINING. Georgetown (Cal.) Gazette. A.J. Brooks and 8. M. McCloud, the travel- ing agents and correspondents of the San Francisco CALL, have been in these parts, says the Calaveras Prospect, for the past two weeks looking after the interests of that journal, meking a personal inspection of all the mines and writing them up with a view to promoting the mining industry. They will take in the whole State, following along the line of the mother lode, with the same object in view. Notwithstanding the fact that mining is the first and greatest industry of the State and the superstructure upon which all others were built, THE CALL is the first of the great dailies to champion its cause and lend & helping hand. In that paper, however, the miner has found an able exponent and one that is entitled to the hearty support and encouragement of the entire mining commun- ity in the good work it is doing. Remorse at Past Negligence. Contra Costa News. Don’t let us forget the celebration of the next Fourth of July, SALMON P. CHASE AND THE CALI- FORNIA SENATORS. In his recently published reminiscences of “‘Washington in Lincoln’s Time,” Noah Brooks, whilom Washington correspondent during the warof the Sacramento Union, gives an inter- esting insight into certain strained relations between Salmon P, Chase, at that time Secre- tary of the Tressury,and President Lincoln. According to Mr. Brooks, Secretary Chase was inordinately jeaious of any apparent inyasion of the appointing power of his office. He in- sisted that the head of an executive depart- ment should have exclusive control of all appointments and removals in his branch of the service. Theresult ot this theory, if put in practicg, would of course be todeprive the Presi- dent of all power, even in the matter of the most trifiing appointments. Nevertheless, the Secretary of the Treasury was implacable in his determination to control all appoint- ments in his depertment, and carried every point by the sheer force of ill temper and threats of resignation if crossed. Mr. Brooks gives a curious illustration of this little weak- ness of the Secretary, who afterward, by Mr. Lincoln’s nomination, became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Some time early in 1863 there had been a_thorough overhauling of the chief Federal offices in San Francisco, con- ducted by a special agent of the Treasury De- }Jnrlmeu! — Thomas “Bowen, & confidential riend of Secretary Chase. On'his report it was determined in the councils of the depart- ment to make & “clean sweep,” which decision was made known to the three California Con- gressmen, A. A. Sargent (afterward United and subsequently Minister to rmany), . F. Low afterward Minister to China) and T. G. Phelps. These gentlemen, being informed by the Secretary that he in- tended making many changes, were invited one evening to his private oflice in the Treas- ury hnild1n7, Where they were given a brief summary of Brown’s report, and Secretary Chase blandly informed them that he had re- solved to remove all the leading officials and 1o supply their places with new men. He then read a 1ist of the appointments as he had made them out, and weited to see what the Con- gressmen would say. But as he had alreacy announced that his decision was irrevocable, there was nothing for them to say, and presently they departed, deeply astonished. A few days alter they paid their respects to the President and departea. Mr. Phelps at once took steamer for Penama, while‘Messrs. Sargent and Low lingered for a day or two in New York. While they were there Mr. Brooks Jas one night urgenily summoned by Mr. Lincolu to come immediately to the White House. Upon his arriying there the President told him that he had just learned of the step which Becretary Chase had taken without consulting either him or the California Con- gressmen and that the Congressmen had ieft Washington very angry and discomfited. With some asperity of manner Mr. Lincoln de- sired to know if this was true. Brooks in- formed him that it was and recited the facts as they hed been told him by Messrs. Sargent, Low and Phelps. The President then angrily asked why Brooks had not told him this be- fore, to which he replied that it was not his affair; thatsolong as the Congressmen had seen fit to conceal their feelings of disappoint- ment from the President when they bade |'him gooa-by, it certainly was not his (Brooks’) business to “tell tales out of school.” The President expressed his astonishement that he had been kept in the dark about so | grave a matter as the emptying and filling of the most important Federal offices on the Pa- cinc Coast. He then anxiously asked if there Was any way by which the California Congress- men could be reached and brought back to Washington; and learning thet Sargent and Low were in New York he requested Brooks to telegraph them to return and consult with President Lincoln. The dispatch was sent. The two Congressmen retusned and the slaie so cerefully prepared by Secretary Chase was eventuslly broken. Subsequently ‘Mr. Lin: coin informed Brooks that Mr. Chase was ‘‘exceedingly hurt” by the President’s in- terference with his plans.~ A curious outcome of all this business was that Secretary Chase, inving been disappointed in his scheme for filling the office of Collector of the Port of San Francisco, insisted that one of the two Con- gressmen who had returned to Washington should be appointed in piace of the person whom he (Chase) had_previously selected for the post. The President suggested that all three of the Congressmen should get together in San Francisco, agree upon the list of ap- pointments, and send it to him for ratification and approval. This, however, seemed imprac- ticable, and when Messrs. Sargent and Low finali ailed fer San Francisco, Mr. Low car- ried with him his commission s Collector of the Port. PERSONAL. . A. Cook of Watsonville is at the Russ. A. Hale of San Jose is at the California. . L. Levinsky of Stockton is at the Grand. H. Flickenger of San Jose is at the Palace. 5. W. Churchill, a banker from Napa, is in town. H. H. Stanton of Bakersfield is at the Bald- win. J. B. Chinn of Porterville is staying at the Grand. H. A. McCraney of Sacramento is at the Grand. A. W. Starr of Vallejo is a gnest at the Occi- dental. Mr. and Mrs. William Moore of Ukiah are at the Ru A.E. Plummer of Lathrop is staying at the Baldwin. F. C.Lusk, an attorney from Chico, has ar- rived at the Palece. Colonel J. M. Moorhead of Santa Clara is registered at the California. W. J. Scrutton, a mining man from La Porte is visiting friends in the City. Professor David Starr Jordan of Stanford University is at the Occidental. Allen B. Lemon of Santa Rosa is among yes- terday’s arrivals at the Occidental. John C.Jewett, a manufacturer of Buffalo, N. Y, is a guest at the Occidental. W. J. Smythe, 8 merchant and land-owner of Empire City, Nev., is registered at the Russ. A. R. Galloway, an extensive fruit-raiser of Healdsburg, will be at the Russ for a few days J. 8. Hoey. the large land-owner of Saiinas, is stopping at the Russ. Mrs. Hoey accompanies him. v John I Minear of Jerseydale, Mariposa County, superintendent of the Hite Gold Min- ing Company, isin the City on business and will remain about ten days. Charles S. Perry, attorney at law, has just returned from the meeting of the Grand Court of Independent Order of Foresters held at Riverside, where he was re-elected high coun- selor. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. To the Editor of San Francisco Call—SIR: Being a subscriber to THE CALL I take the liberty of asking you a fair question. While the sidewnlk ordinance is lei@g enforced so strictly, even as far out as the cencteries, how is it that some people, and more especially the fruit-vender at the corner of Kearny and Bush strects, are exempt? I have no desire to see any one made to suffer loss, but I think fair play is a jewel, and since & fruit-stand, as far out as Broderick street, near Bush, must be re- moved, I think the one at the Daily Post build- ing could be treated in like manner. FAIR PLAY. San Francisco, October 16, 1895. —_—— Hap oo MIGHT HAVE BEEN CAMPBELL. Bosion Green Bag. ‘““And gentlemen of the jury, as I stand at this bar to-day in behalf of a prisoner whose health is such that at any moment he may be called before a greater Judge than the Judge of this court, 1" The Judge on the bench rapped sharply on the desk, and the lawyer stopped suddenly and looked at him questioningly. “The gentleman,” said the court, with dig- nity, “will please confine himself to the case before the jury, and not permit himself to in- dulge in invidious comparisons.” “WITHOUT PREJUDICE.” Leemore Radical. The San Francisco CALL is the best, cleanest and fairest daily on the coast, and hence the most popular. It is a newspaper that tries to give the mews without prejudice, suppression ordistortion, and is a record-breaker. “YOUR OWN BUSINESS.” San Luis Obispo Breeze. A level-headed CaLn editor aptly remarks that “helping to save the City from misgovern- ment comes under the head of attending to your own business.” — s s R Errs With Astonishing Frequency. Tulare Register. That the present administration of our Gov- ernmentis a very human affair is evidenced by the fact that it finds it a great deal easier to borrow meney then to make money. SOME OPINIONS OF SACKVILLE. Pittsburg Dispatch. Politics will be politics on both sides of the ocean until the millennium comes. Neverthe- less, when a man gets caught bstween the upper and nether millstones of the political miflehe cannot be expected after assembling the fragments that remain to him to take a philosophical view of the situation. If this explosion relieves Lord Sackville of the feel- ings bottled up these seven years the American Nation cannot but hope that his lordship feels better now. Denver Post. The opinion is expressed that Embassador Bayard may ask the State Department to make complaint against Lord Sackville-West on ac- count of the imputations which that individ- ual cast upon him in his remarkable publi- cation just issued. Mr. Bayard will probably do nothing of the kind. He can stand upon his established character, his reputation of a quarter of a century. He may well treat with the cutting contempt of silence the utterances of a sickly reminiscence. Philadelnbia Ledger. Lord Sackville is plainly a disappointed man, nursing old grievances. His meddling in American polities very properly resulted in his being given his passport by President Cleveland in 1888. His present pamphlet is the act of a private person no longer in public life and is scarcely worth attention either from this Government or Mr. Bayard. The noble Lord has plainly written himself down ina word of three letters and he might very weil be let go at that. Philadelphia Record. The press is free in England as in the United States, and the British Government cannot restrain Lord Sackville from expressing his sentiments, whether orally or in writing. He is emxreg at liberty to defend his course while acting British "Minister in this country. Whether he does this successfully or unsuc- cessfully, in good taste or bad taste, is & matter which concerns him, and for which the British Government is in nowise responsible. S§. Louis Post-Dispatch. But none of this offers justification for the writing of a political letter by a diplomat in the crisis of a National campaign. It does not give the British Government the shadow of an excuse to reinstate the diplomat. It does not extenuate Lord Sackville-West's folly, but simply shows that he suffered unusual hard- ship because his folly was ill-timed; in short, he was an exceptionally unfortunate biun. derer. Philadelphia Times. Lord Sackville’s extraordinary pamphlet giving his own version of the famous “Murchi- son letter” episode will no doubt create a diplomatic sensation, but to most people out- side of diplomacy it 'will serve only asan in- dication of the sagacity which led Lord Salis. bury to retire him after Mr. Cleveland had sent him his passport. New York Times. In fact, we do not remember a case before this of Lord Sackville’s in which any ody has written & book, even a book for private circu- lation, entitled ““How I Was Bunkoed.” That may not be the exact title of Lord Sackville's pamphlet, but it isa title which exactly de- scribes its subject-matter. Philadelphia Inquirer. Lord Sackville doesn’t make Sackville-West appear & bit more knowing than he was as a diplomatic innocent. How big a blow the Murchison incident was to Sackville-West's self-esteem the pnm{lhle! of Lord Sackville Plainly shows,and that is the only object WwEich'it accomplishes. Buffalo Comme: Lord Sackyille gives credit for the publica- tion of the forged letter that took a rise out of him to one “Quay, a Senator and chief of Re- publican wirepullers.” We have heard of him. P use Standard. Lord Sackville, whom Secretary Bayard sent home just before the election ot '88, complains that Bayard meets him with a ‘‘smiling face.” Almost any American would. Indianapolis News. Lord Sackville publishes to the world that he was offered $2000 a week to go into a mu- seum. The price might now be increased and be called a bargain. FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. Guard the Door of the Mind. Portland (Or.) Advance-Thought. Why keep the doors of the mental mansion wide open and let every vagrant thought in and give it nourishment and sustenance? It one allowed everybody to come in and order his household to their liking he would soon own neither house nor nome; so when he is careless as to what thoughts find lodgment in his mind it soon gets beyond his control. French Wines From California. Ogden (Utah) Standard. A compiled report of the amount of wine pro- duced py the various countries of both conti- nents shows the United States to be fifteenth on the list. There must be something wrong about this report. It may be that the French wines fmported from California have been credited to France instead of to this country. We call fora new report. Bleat of the Oregon Lamb. Salem (Or.) Statesman, One thing this country must do. It must have more revenues. The only possible way to secure these is by levying such duties as will not only yield the desired sum, but will also protect our producers and manufacturers. This is the way the matter will be settled. Thelflu! article on the new schedule should be Wwool. What Oregon Is Losing. Salem (Or.) Statesman. Oregon loses $1,000,000 & year by the free trade on wool. She loses another million by ot supplying California with her imported poultry products. Another is lost by not rais- ing more hogs. We lose a like amount by not making all the butter for the markets of the Northwest. Clutching at a Straw. Los Angeles Express. The Democrats have elected the Mayor of Indianapolis and they are consequently talk- ing of carrying the Presidential election next year. Indianapolisisa pretty good town, but its City Hail is a long way from the White House. Advice to Grumblers. Pheenix (Ariz.) Gazette. We can say to the grumbling element, try and keep quiet, and see what progressive men will accomplish. Nothing was ever created in vain, and we suppose the faultfinder cuts about the same figure in the world’s progress as does & mosquito, Meditation and Demoralization. Healdsburg Enterprise. After all we are but creatures of circumstance, put here for a short time to play our little part and retire. Let us try to make the world better by smoothing over its hard places and not by dls‘sennom and jealousies cause our neighbor pain. Berkeley Won'’t Tackle the Band. Stanford Paio Alto. There seems to be & misconception among the members of the band in regard to the use of the gymnasium for practice. It issaid that the band will not be reorganized this year be- cause the gymnasium cannot be obtained. 01d Calaveras Booms. Angels Voice. The man with money who investsin Angels dirt now and erects tenements thereon will strike asure-thing rich lead. The number of beople seeking in vain for houses is-something unprecedented. To Slag or Not to Slug. Seattle (Wash.) Post-Intelligencer. Hamlet, when he was soliloquizing as to Whether it was to be or not to be, was not in half as much of & quendary as our modery prize-fighters. No Change Under Grover. Ventura Free Press. It is said that the foreign policy of the Demo- cratic administration is to be changed. Of course the change will be for the better. It could not be for tfie worse. . A Cyclone Lifted Elijah. Kingman (Ariz.) Miner. Mojave County is the land where new life 15 breathed into the weakly invalid and where no one leaves this mundane sphere except as did Elijah of old. The Optimistic Calculator. San Jose Mercury. The Siberian Railway is being constructed with rapidity, and its completion will insure a new market for California fruits. Why We Should Have More Ships. Portland Qregonian. We are less liable to war with a powerful navy than without it x) ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. STATE PRINTING OFFICE— A. S, City. In answer to the question, “What is the reason that the employes of the State Printing Office at Sacramento are not paid for legal holidays the same as all other State employes?” State Printer A. J. Johnson says: First—Certain employes in the State Printing Office are employed by the month at an agreed monthly salary. "All such employes are paid each month the amount agreed, {rrespective of holidays, the same as employes in other State deparime: who are similarly employed. Second—Other employes in the State Printing Office are employed at so much per day or hour for each day or hour actually employed, overime in excess of eight hours per day being paid for extra. As 10 employes in this latter class they are not paid for legal holidays because they do not work on such days and because their contract of employment is for so much per day or hour for each day or hour employed and because as to some of such employes the State Printer is by section 531 of the Political Code (law of 1895, page 233) prohibited from paying “a higher rate of wag than is pald by those employ:ng printers in Sacra mento for like work.” In Sacramento those employing printers, press- men, etc, only pay for the time such men ara actually employed at 50 much per day or hour or at 50 much per 1000 ems. TRAINING-SHTP JAMESTOWN—Water Front, City. By virtue of an act of the Legislature of 1875-76 the Board of Supervisors, through the Governor of the State, applied to the Secretary of the Navy, who, under the provisions of an act of Congress passed in 1874, for the purpose of en- cquraging public marine 'schools, furnished and equipped the United States sloop-of-war Jamestown asa training-ship for the City and County of S8an Francisco, under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Henry Glass, U.8. N. The ship was formally transferred to the City and County and accepted April 3, 1876. The vessel remained in commission as a_training- ship until the 28th of February, 1879, when she was returned to the Government, it not having Eroved the success it was expected. During the time she was in commission, abofit three years, the cost was $96,065 06. The amount received for maintenance of boys was $977 75, and the sale of stores and balance refunded $549 70, leaving the net cost $94-, 537 61. The apvropriation_received from the State was $21,676 85, and the amount ex: pended by the City and County was $72,860 76. A DraMA—Copyright, City. To secure copy- right for a drama the dramatist must send a printed title of the drama to the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C. This must be done on or before the day of publication. The printed title required may be a copy of the title page of the drama, if it have a title page. If not the title must be printed expressly for copyright entry, with nsme of claimant of copyright. The style of type is immaterial, and the print of & typewriter may be used on paper the size of commercial note. The legal iee for recording such copyright is 50 cents and 50 cents additional for & copy of the record. No later than_the day of publication two com- plete copies of the best edition of the drama, if printed (if not, then two typewritten copies of the drama will do), must Ee delivered or de- posited in the mail within the United States, addressed to the Librarian of Congress to per- fect the copyright. Gop TEMPERS THE WIND—S. W., Alameds Cal. The quotation, “God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb,” is neither from the Bible nor from Shakespeare, but from Sterne’s “Sen- timental Journey.” It is said that this idea Wwas stolen by Sterne from George Herbert, who wrote, “To & close shorn_sheep God gives wind by mensure,” in Jacu'a Prudemtum, and Herbert is said to have translated this from Heuri Etienne. Virgil, in Georgics, book 111, line 336, says, ““Feed the lambs at the setti of the sun, when cool Vesper tempers the air.’ HARBOR COMMISSIONERS—O. S., City. The Board of Harbor Commissioners have control of all the State property bordering on the water front in this City and County, including the water front half of all the streets. 1f the Commissioners should rent part of that prop- erty to an individual for the purpose of main- taining a saloon thercon the License Collector of this City and County would collect a license from that individual, provided he had ob- tained a permit from the Police Commission- ers. A RIGHT TO VoOTE—Placerville, E1 Dorado County, Cal. The son of foreign parents never naturalized, 1f born in the United States, would, when he attains his majority, have the right to cast a ballot in the place in which he lives, should he desire to do so, being a citizen of the United States by birth. There is an ex- ception, however, in the case of & son of a for- eigner in the diplomatic service. Such a son is recognized as a citizen of the country the ;lther Tepresents, though born in the United tates. RUNCIBLE SPOON—Mrs. L., City. The word in the “Owl ard the Pussy Cat” is “runcible” and not “suncible,” and the line reads: “They dined on mince and slices of quince, which | they ate with a runcible spoon.” The word is not_in any of the dictionaries, ancient or modern; as the words are from Lear’s “Non- sense Songs,” it is probable that the word is a nonsensical one, used for want of a better one, to fill out the line. UNITARIANS—R. G., City. Unitarians are eligible to membership in the Young Men’s Christian Association as associate but not as active members, Associate members enjoy all the privileges of the association except that of volini and having a directory voice. To be eligible for active membership'in the associa- tion the applicant must be & member of an Evangelical church. EDWARD COLEMAN—W. S., Napa, Cal. A let- ter addressed to the care of the New York Clip- per will reach Edward Coleman. the actor- poet, who at one time was connected with one of the Frohman companies. GIBRALTAR OF AMERICA—K. H., City. The name Gibraltar of America has been applied to the city of Quebec, claimed to be, by reason of its natural and other defense, the most stron g 1y fortified city in America. CORBETT AND BRADY—A. 8., City. While Jim Corbett was a shining light in “After Dark’ Brady was with him. e PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Mr. Jameson, the sailing master of the Prince of Wales' yacht, isan Irishman, and, perhaps, the best living judge of & yacht’s build and Tig. The Duke of Sutherland’s two sons, the Mar- quis of Stafford, who is 7, and Lord Alistar Gower, who is 5, attend the village public school at Golspie with the children of his ten- ants and workmen. Dr. Adam Clarke, even when a boy, had a memory 80 phenomenal that after hearing a sermon lasting an hour he could go home and repeat the whole verbatim, imitating the man- ner, voice and gestures of the preacher. Mark Twain has been quite a prolific in- ventor. His first patent, taken out in 1871, was a strap for suspending trousers. He has been assignee of quite a number of patents, several of recent date. His patent scrapbook has been quite a success. General Mahone, it was said, is a man utterly without fear. During the Rebellion, on the battlefield, the distinguished Virginian was reputed to be the calmest of men. General Lee thought a great deal of him, and, according to report, had arranged for Mahone to succeed him as head of the Confederate army should he be killed. M. G. Goron, the famous French detective, is about to retire from the police. He is perhaps the most wonderful and accomplished man in his profession. It was M.Goron who was in- trusted with all the arrangements for insuring the safety of the Czarewitch Nicholas during his visit to Paris some three years ago. The Russian Prince, accompanied by the detective, made a tour of the lowest quarters of Paris in disguise and visited some dens of the worst re- pute. Krupp, the German gunmaker, has a delight- ful home, at which it is his pleasure to enter- tain many visitors, including his American friends and acquaintances. He has instituted asort of honorary order for those who espe- cially please him. He gives to those who win his favor a little silver pin in the torm of a lu- cifer match. Some of these pins have come to America. Others are scattered over Germany, and doubtless some are to be found in various corners of Europe, for the enormous business of the gunmaker has brought him into contact with a great variety of men from all parts of the civilized world. Something to Dan’s Credit. Astorin (Or.) Astorian. Let there be no unseemly hilarity when any- body mentions Dan Lemont as & possible Presi- dential candidate next year. Dan Lamontisa smarter man than the Democrats of this gen- eration have been in the habit of nominating for President. Thorns and Coin, San Jose Mercury. There is no rose without & thorn, end there can be no carnival without coin, BIKE AND ELOOMERS, General Miles draws an interesting picture of the army of the future foraging the enemy’s country and moving rapidly toattack and re- ireat on bicycles. He does not mention the bloomer girl, but it's pretty safe to say that she’ll be there.—New York Mercury. Bloomers in Bome respects are all right. ‘With long skirts and pointed.shoesa woman lays herself liable to the concealed weapon ordinance.—Wichita Eagle. Emperor William has taken to the bicycle. Now, if he is really & god from high Olympus, let him scorch out & world's record.—Terre Haute Tribune. Like an arrow he sped down the crowded street. B-2-zip! All was darkness. 7 “And now, my young friend.”” cheerfully re- marked Setan, “I shall be delighted to show you what scorching really is.”—Cincinnati En- quirer. et It looks now as if eventuslly the song would have to be, “We'll Never Take the Sprocket From the Door,” for there won't be any horse- shoes left.—Los Angeles Times. Miss Willard’s belief that bicycles have a ten- dency to decrease the drink habit is well founded. By the time the average young man pays for repairs on-his wheel he hasn’t much left to blow in at saloons.—Kansas City Jour- nal. SOMETHING TO LAUGH AT. An incident of the journey: Dante—Tell me, 0 Virgil, what is the idea of beginning an epic poem in the middle? For between you and me Ihave some notion of writing an epic poem myself. ; Virgil—You begin an epic poem in the mid- dle,0 Dante, because that is the best chance you have of getting your reader &s fares that.— Puck. 5 5 She (sweetly)—Let me see, how long—eight years, isn’t it, darling, since we were married? He (proudly condescending)—Yes, dear. She (still sweeter)—And do you know, dar- ling, that I love you more and more, if possible, every year? He (suspicious)—Ch-huh! Um-m Yes! Where is the cloak opening at?—Cleveland Plaindealer. Lobbs — A woman’s edition of Dictionary has just been published. Bobbs—What changes are there? Lobbs—Oné. The last word is left out.—New York Werld. Webster's Carson’s Remarkable Patience. Carson Appeal. The Appeal has turned its forty-eighth vol- ume. We realize that the Appeal hasa good meny faults on ell fourof its pages, but i@ jamming about the earth we have met prpers nearly as bad and & few a geod deal worse. 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