The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 21, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1895 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. anday CALL, one month, by mail r, by mail BUSINESS OFFICE: 10 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Selephore........ - o Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Welephone... .Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: Fr0Montgomery sireet, corner Clay: open until £:5C 0'clock. £5¢ Hayes street : open until 8:30 o'clock. 727 Larkin s open until 9:30 o'clock. EW . corner S h Mission streets; open Ttil § o'clock £618 M ission street; open nntil 9 o'clock. 326 Ninth street; open nntll 9 o'clock. SAKLAND OFFICE: 8 Broadway. v, New York City. FOLTZ, Special Agent. Kecms 31 and DAVID M MONDAY.. CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. [ ————————S A Live through this week and you may see the end of the Durrant trial. We may as well call our town the me- tropolis of midwinter baseball. Bicycle records are keeping pace with the thermometer and getting lower every week. Eastern baseball enthusiasts are invited to come out of the cold and get on to our little games. inst the milk fakirs In- the cream of public In his fight a spector Dockery ha opinion with him. right, but there is a run on that may cause The banks are on the Bank Commis: it to be suspended. Either Buckley or the Junta should quit politics and organize a baseball nine, for the town wants a rest. 's vigorous foreign policy seems to have been designed solely for home talk and campaign purposes. The baseball son opened well, for there were lots of spectators at the game— and we beat L neeles. Gorman declares he is making the fight of his life, but at this distance it looks more like his death stru, The fight against Tammany in New York is composed o e elements of success, but they do not seem to mix well. In making your purchases this week re- member that when you help the home market you help vour own market. tour through Alsace and ve had something dra- Pity the fate of a poor old public func- tionary who has to write Presidential mes- sages just as the duck-shooting begins. g Democratic party is big 1 intellizent men ht in it to come out. The rent in t! en who have been 1f all the stories of South African mines are true the gold standard may soon be below the silver one in the bullion market. le bit ahead of usin he football season, but as sure as Thanks. e East is a li he opening of r time is comin often in these d must the Sul- h were the President of the Unitad States and had a chance to go fishing. How he h Mavoralty timber offered Sacramento will have es to blame if they geta With so mu them the pec none but then poor stick. ropean powers could agree 2z in rezard to the protection of course Turkey readily con- As the upon not of Armeni sented to it. As Senator Sherman has published his memoirs he must have an 1dea of retiring from politics as soon as his present term of office is over. The round-up of the Round Valley lynch- ers may teach the lawless element among the cowboys that the law also knows how to handle a rope. Mr. Huntington evidently has a monop- oly of the standpoint from which he views the railroad question, for no one else can see it in that light. Japan is evidently of the belief that the Fastern question will never be settled un- til she has whipped everything that bor- ders on the Pacific. Tt is worth noting that assoon as Eng Jand gave Sir Henry Irving his title he came to this country on a starring tour to get money to support it. Ever since it was announced that David Bennett Hill is to take part in the Ohio campaign the Democrats have had hopes of success in New York. In his criticism of local art Solly Walter was correct in saying “a hand-painted picture isas good as a lithograph,” but the rule has its exceptions. Tt is pleasing to have the throne of Napoleon III, but where is the museum big enough to hold all the men who think they have the right to sit on it? Now that the theater train has been taken off, the San Josean can be recog- nized in town by the way he whistles “We ‘Won't Go Home Till Morning.” This week we may expect to hear from Cleveland at the Atlanta Exposition and learn what he was thinking about all sum- mer when the fish wouldn’t bite. It will be a paying business for the whole City, and particularly for honest milk dealers, if milk adulteration is made too unprofitable for anybody to try it. As the fight between Corbett and Fitz- simmons would bring a large amount of money to Hot Springs, a belief is growing there that boxing is no worse than foot- bell. The unhappy wanderings of Corbett and Fitzsimmons in search of a ring are as nothing to the wanderings of Charles A. Dana and Henry Watterson in search of a Democratic party. THE VENEZUELA PROBLEM. Fven when the reports of British aggres- sion in Venezuela have been largely dis- counted enough remains to justify a feeling of irritation in this country and to prompt a keen desire on the part of people to know what the Cleveland administra- tion has done or intends to do in the matter. The fact that the British Colonial ad- ministration is now in the hands of Joseph Chamberlain is an assurance that some- thing is going to be done wherever pos- sible to extend the power and the domain of Britain’s Colonial possessions. Cham- berlain is not an idler nor a dawdler. He is one of the most progressive and aggres- sive of modern statesmen. He took the Colonial office under Lord Salisbury with the intention of making his influente felt in the Government. He will make his office, if he can, the dominant one in the Cabinet, and to do so it will be necessary for him to develop a Colonial policy of such force and vigor that it will not only attract the attention of Parliament but win the enthusiastic support of the British people. Bold as Chamberlain undoubtedly 1s he is too sagacious a man to run aganst any resolute determination on the part of this country. The only danger in the Venezu- ela affair, therefore, is that he may mis- take the indifference of the Cleveland ad- ministration for the real sextiment of the people of the United States and go further in advancing British aggressions on Ven- ezuelan territory than we can permit. Under these circumstances the delay of Cleveland and Olney in giving a clear warning to the British Minister at Wash- ington that the United States will not per- mit any European power to acquire addi- tional territory in any part of America may prove a costly blunder to both countries. There is nothing in the problem difficult of solution or requiring deep diplomatic study.to understand. The most literaland simple construction of the Monroe doctrine fits the case exactly. Olney has only to follow the precedent set by Monroe's Sec- retary of State, John Quincy Adams. ‘Whatever land England held in this hem- isphere at the time the Monroe doctrine was promulgated she may still hold un- fretted by us, but not another square mile of American land shall she or any other European power annex. Britain’s dispute with Venezuela must be submitted to arbi- tration. Cleveland and Olney owe it w the people of both countries to make the attitude of American people on the subject fully and distinctly known. 1f there is any vigor in the administration policy at all it should be shown now, and shown in the form of an ultimatum. MR.” MILLER'S VIEWS. The greatest land monopolist 1n Califor- nia, Henry Miller, who has done less in proportion to his holdings and opportuni- ties than any other man in the State to- ward developing its resources, denounces the Wright irrigation. law as a thieving measure, and declares that wherever it has been put in operation the people are bank- rupt. He confesses to the expenditure of large sums of money—used in a “perfectly legitimate way’’—to defeat the operation of the law and influence legislation at Sac- ramento. Such use of money and such opposition to the Wright law were to have been expected from a man who has done comparatively so little for his State. The ground of his opposition to the Wright law is that while all the property of an irrigation district is taxed to make the law operative only part of the property can receive the benefits of irrigation. This is both an unfair and strictly silurian state- ment of the case. He is willing that those who desire irrigation should be permitted to construct their own works, but does not believe in forcing it upon those who do not want it. He enumerates several suppos- able instances in which 1t can do injury, but they are not worthy of notice; his ev dent animus destroys the force of his argu- ment. if the splendid empires of uncultivated land which this inconceivably rich man has fenced against occupation and devel- opment were brought under the operati of beneficent laws they woula be divided into small and prolific farms furnishing homes and sustenance to many thousands of useful citizens. The Wright law 1s one that would tend to have that effect. The Wright law is obnoxious to Mr. Miller. As his enormous fortune has been acquired by securing vast bodies of land when they were cheap and holding them against de- velopment, he would be the last man in the State to love the Wright law. His fortune has been largely helped along by the enterprise of contiguous owners, who, by developing their own lands, made Mr. Miller’s valuable. Never by precept or example has he as- sisted in discovering and developing the strange and fine resources of the State. His methods have been those along the lowest levels of rural industry. His thou- sands of miles of barbed-wire fences area more formidable barrier to the progress of California than the Sierra Nevadas them- selyes. It will be time enough for Mr. Mil ler to address the people of this State on the subject of luws which they enact for their own good when he ceases to use his money at Sacramento, refrains from inter- fering with the operation of our laws and displays some of that public spirit without which he is more an enemy than a friend of the people. A SERIOUS SUBJECT. A discussion is now going on in Eng- land concerning the advisability of send- ing consumptives to the Riviera, and out of it there has come some information that it will pay California health resorts to con- sider with more than ordinary seriousness. It is conceded in the discussion that the climate of the Riviera is excellent, and that when it first came into notice as a health resort consumption was almost un- known there. But consumptives have come and gone by the thousands in later years, and now it is said the dieaded bacillus of the disease has established itself in that beautiful land and contami- nates the air and the soil. The natives, particularly the washerwomen, have been attacked, and, so far from being a health resort any longer, some authorities main- tain itis really a dangerous place for per- sons with weak lungs to visit. This 1s the substance of the discussion as it comes to usin our London exchanges. It is certainly a matter of serious import to us, for nearly the whole of our State is a health resort. If the statements con- cerning the Riviera are trueit behooves the local Boards of Health to be extra careful and watchful in localities where consump- tives most resort. THE TAMALPAIS ROAD. It is gratifying to learn that the pro- jectors of the road to the summit of Mount Tamalpais have abandoned their original proposition to employ the cog system, and that a route has been discov- ered over which an electric road may be constructed with an 8 per cent grade, The whole scheme is admirably planred. The road is to begin at the bay, between Sau- salito and Mill Valley, and traverse the thickly settled region of Mill Valley before beginning the ascent of the mountain, which will be attacked on its northeastern flank. A line of steamers will be put on between the bay terminus and the City, thus making the new road independent of existing lines, but at the same time accessi- ble by means of them. Fortunately abun- dant water bas been discovered near the summit. A hotel and observatory on the summit will complete the scheme. Itis safe to predict an immediate and rapidly increasing profit for the undertak- ing. The views will be the finest of all that are easy to secure hereabout, and can- not be surpassed by any other in California with the exception of those from the sum- mit of Mount Diablo. We hope that the awakened svirit of progress in Oakland will be made to con- template such a scheme for Diablo as that which has been practically decided on for Tamalpais. It is not at all to the credit of Alameda and Contra Costa counties that they have never constructed a wagon-road over the Contra Costa range from Oakland to the base of Mount Diablo on Walnut Creek. Such a road woula open the way for an electric line connecting the two points, and would make 1its extension to the summit of the noble mountain practi- cable. OOAST EXOHANGES. The Calaveras Prospect rejoices over the advent of an era of railroad buildingin California. After showing that one great railroad has dominated the State and ex- tended its feeders only where trafhc is as- sured, it contrasts this policy with the more progressive one of the middle West- ern trunk lines, and adds: “It seems as though California were at last awakening to the fact that all things may come to those who wait. They really come much sooner to those who meet them half way. The new line of road through San Joaquin Valley has already given an im- petus to that section never felt before. All along the line of the new road fowns will spring up, and various industries will fol- low as a matter of course. The ygreat land tracts will be broken up into small farms, because small farms will be the more pro- fitable, when all are in easy reach of trans- portation. Our State is twenty-five years behind the times, owing almost wholly to this lack of transportation and the conse- quent concentration of industries, Farm- ing has ceased to be profitable, because the one great crop, wheat, costs more to mar- ket than it will bring. The railroads will change all this, and where one crop is now profitably cultivated the teeming soil will produce a hundred. “The new road now in process of con- struction will bring others. Already there is talk of another great overland route, to enter our State from the northeast. When this comes, as come it will in the near future, it will also send out its branches and revolutionize the northern portion of the State, as the southern portion is now being revolutionized by the iron horse. One of the most encouraging signs of the times is the fact that the great treasure vaults of San Francisco are being opened and the accumulated millions are finding their way into the channels of legitimate investment. The gold that has come from our mountains is being used to develop the State. With good roads reaching to every part of our vast empire will come the ! intelligent population that is so much needed to start the wheels of progress. We believe the era is now upon us, and that the mext twenty years will see a greater growth in California than has the past forty of its history.” The San Diego World calls attention to the interesting fact that it would require only 225 miles of railroad building to give Southern California connection with Salt Lake. This information will be encour- aging to those who think that the whole distance, 750 miles, would have to be covered. The Worid shows that the dis- tance from Vanderbilt, the terminus of the Nevada Southern Railroad, to Milford, the terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad in | Southern Utah, is only 225 miles, of which nearly one-half, 100 miles, is already graded from Milford southwesterly to | Clover Valley, and that the remaining 125 | miles from Clover Valley to Vanderbilt is all easily graded and can be built quite rapidly. The World accordingly urges the people of Southern California to bend their efforts toward the closing of the gap. According to the Fresno Republican the Supervisors of that county have essayed the task of building a scientifically con- ; structed wagon road. It will be only four | miles long, but that is but a beginning. This is the way in which the road is to be made: “Teams with road-plows will be set to work and the present road will be broken up. The high places will be dragged down and the low places filled. The road-bed will be made smooth and dry above wet weather pools. It will have the proper slope both ways from the center, so that no water will stand on the surface. There will be a thorough mixing of soil. Where there is too much sand clay will be hauled in and mixed with the sand to the proper degree. Where the soil is clay and liable to become muddy in the winter sand will be | hauled in and mixed with the clay. By | this means'a road will be made which | will be neither sandy in summer mnor | muddy in winter. A 20,000-pound roller | will be kept at work while the road isin process of construction. After the road is leveled and given the proper slope toward the sides the roller will pack it to a hard- nessalmost like rock. A scraper will be used to fill in any small depressions which may develop under the enormous pressure of the roller. When the work is done the road will be as near perfect as it can be made with the material at hand. The grading will be finished this fall. From time to time during the winter, as the rains get in their work, the scraper and the roller will go over it again and again. When summer comes the road avill be treated as Kearny avenue formerly was tr?ated. A ditch along the side of the road will supply water and the sprinkler will pump it up and shower it on the road, thus keeping it damp ell summer.” The expense, which will be small, is to be borne by the wayside vineyardists. The Ventura Democrat has issued a su- perb edition of forty-eight pages, printed on handsome book paper, profusely illus- trated with half-tone pictures, and neatly sewed and trimmed. The issue is an artis- tic production from beginning to end. It must have cost a small fortune, and the people of Ventura County are to be congratulated on having so intelligent, enterprising and public-spirited a journal. 1t gives a complete description and review of all the many industries and resources of the county, and if judiciously distrib- uted will produce the most beneficial re- sults. \ Dunn & Lemmon, publishers of the Car- son Tribune, have dissolved partnership. Mr. Dunn has gone to S8anta Cruz,and Mr. Lemmon remains in charge of the Tribune. He announces that the paper will soon ap- pear in a handsome new dress. The Trib- une has been always famous for the fear- lessness with which it speaks out, and while this admirable policy is to be con- tinued, Mr. Lemmon announces: “The vublic may rest assured that no one unde- serving of praise will ever receive it in the columns of this paper. Praise bestowed indiscriminately upon everything from the mere idea of policy has no weight, and the intelligent person does not care to receive commendation at the hands of one who protests against nothing.”” The Arizona Republican, published at Pheenix, gives a glowing account of the wonderful resources of the Sait River Val- ley. 1t speaks of the famous ruins of the re- markable irrigating system which assured the prosperity of a prehistoric race and holds them up as an enticement to modern engineering skill. As an evidence of the wonderful feeundity of the soil it declares that five acres can be made to supporta tamily in comfort. The Independent Calistogian heartily seconds THE CArv's suggestion that the conspicuous abilities of commercial trav- elers might be employed with profit in pushing the sales of California fruits, and adds: *“While it is true that the con- sumption of the United States is only meagerly supplied with California fruits and deserves the close attention indicated the fact that SBan Francisco is one of the really great seaports of the world suggests the idea that greater scope should be given the efforts of the fruit growers—a scope that is practicable only by organized effort, and that is to have trusted agents in all the leading consuming points. Only 1n this way can they keep in close touch with their trade and avoid the exorbitant profits of middlemen. Profitable experi- ence can only be gamed by experiment. Try the ‘bright and hard-working men’ whom TuE CaLL refers to and then wait for the results which experience in other lines of trade has proved, after long con- tinued effort, to be successful.” E. F. O'Neal has retired from the con- trol of the San Luis Obispo Breeze. he facetiously explains that he was moved to this course partly through consideration of the fact that he has a daughter approach- mg the marriageable age and that it is necessary for him to begin the accumula- tion of a dowry “‘that will enable her to ensnare a titled husband from the horde of foreign bummers who are invading the land, and are rapidly robbing us of our surplus silver and accomplished feminine beauties.” e cheerily says of his suec- cessor: “Under the new management, so I am informed, Mr. Baumgardner will wield the editorial pencil. It is true that he moves in an orbit of a peculiar and eccen- tric character, but time will rapidly soften down what now appears strange in his mental make-up, and at the same time add to the beauty of his physical outlines.”” The Santa Cruz Daily Sentinel celebrates its entrance upon 1ts twenty-fourth vol- ume by arranging to receive telegraphic news up to midnight. This is a wise stroke of enterprise which the inteliigent people of Santa Cruz will appreciate. The Willows Journal, after giving an able account of the natural wealth and splendid attractions of Glenn County, and showing that wheat-farming will be super- seded by scientific fruit-growing, gives this interesting news: ‘“Necessity1s a stern commander, acknowledging no law but compliance. Having placed the seal of condemnation on the old order of things a new one must succeed. Our unrivaled soil has attracted the attention of enterprising men with plenty of capital. Around this magnet there is now crystallizing a well- planned enterprise covering many thou- sands of acres of our very best soil which will be subdivided into suitable tracts for homes. Irrigation will be no longer a dream, but a reality, and a development and succeeding prosperity beyond any- thing hitherto known in the State, is an assured fact. Glenn County will receive the greatest benefit from this aggregation of money and brains. When? Well, gentle reader, the scheme has passed the period of speculation, Look out for re- sults any time.” The Portland Oregonian, in announcing that the census by the County Assessor gives Portland a population of 81,342 and Multnomah County a population of 92,950, shows that thisis a gain of nearly 10,000 for Portland since the Federal census of 1890. This is a remarkable gain, and although our contemporary gives no ex- planation of the fact, it might be profit- able to San Francisco to ascertain it. The Plumas Independent has had its fourth birthday, strong and hopeful. In speaking of the time when the paper was started it says: “While the conditions which seemed most favorable to this county at that time have not yet reached fruition, and while its fondest hopes have not vet been fully realized, it enters on its fourth volume with the faith that the day is not far distant when a changed con- dition of affairs incidental to modern methods will bring to our mountain fast- nesses the busy hum of industry and wake the echoes with the clangor of thronging crowds.” PERSONAL, J. D. Boedefeld of Colusa is at the Grand. Frank Mattison of Santa Cruzis in the City. John Pugh of Los Angeles is at the Baldwin. Matthew Gage of Riverside is at the Occi- dental. J. Pentecost of Middletown fis registered at the Russ. J.J. Burke, a raciog man from New York, is a guest at the Palace. John P. Jones, the Southern Pacific’s agent at Portland, is in town. William de Cantellan, Deputy Sheriffof Hum- boldt County, is in town. H. Sherwood of Fresno is in the City. He is registered at the Baldwin. I Ivancovich, a merchant from Hanford, is among the arrivals at the Russ. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Macdonough and their chiid left for the East yesterday evening. Colonel S. Romanoff, Carl Konigsberger, his son, Edgar Konigsberger, and D. Poxotelow are registered at the Palace from St. Peters- burg. & CARL ON WESTERN ORGANS. William C. Car), the New York organist who was out here lately, has this to say to a repre- sentative of the New York Musical Courier concerning his Western trip: “How did I find the appreciation of organ music? Very keen and discriminating, but west of the Rockies the taste of the public is seldom put to the test. If only a continued regular series of organ recitals could be given, the people there, I think from my experience, would come to demand organ recitals. At present the curiosity excited by the advent of a newcomer develops so quickly into an in- tensely live musical interest that it seems a great pity that good organ recitals ate not the rule there instcad of the very marked excep- tion., “With one exception every organ met with was in a church. The exception was in a p{i\'sle house in Denver where & musicale was given.” “How do you account for dearth of organ re- citals in the West? Is it because cabable organ- ists are rare?” “Not at all,” replied Mr. Carl. “Some of the best organists in the country I found settled there. There are a great many scholarly Eng- lish organists distributed west of the Rocky Mountains, but except in rare cases they seem to have dm‘)ped into the habit of playing nothing beyond the church service. Organ re- citals are notin vogue,and if an occasional one be given by & resident organist it excites little or no interest. " g ‘‘How do you find the organs?” “In most cases originallyfine instruments, ut in by the best buiiders, but in some cases, Plam sorry to say, in a deplorably bad con- digion. Except in’ three or four churches, which had thelr organs kept in steady repair, the remainder had not been touched from the day they were set up in the building. The average state of neglect was something dread- ful. Whose fault, you ask. Well, that of the church, if any one can be blamed severely under present conditions. The chuich will not pay for repairs, and the builders naturally cannot afford to look after their organs for nothing. But, you see, placed at such distances from tuning and repairing centers as most of the organs I allude to are, it makes it very difficult for the church to assume the expense. The fact also cannot be ignored that in some cases the church does mot realize the neces- sity. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. A policeman called at a glove store and said to a lady clerk: ‘J want a pair of kid gloves, miss.” “What is your number, sir?” “Four hundred and twenty-nine, miss,” was the re- ply.—Our Dumb Animals. Teacher—Willie, what are the different kinds of time in use? Willie—Four kinds—sun time, standard time, fiy time, and the monkey and parrot time.— Cincinnati Enquirer. Willie (who was traveling alone for the first time, to the conductor)—What is the meaning of “W”and “R" on the sign posts along the road? Conductor—Ring and whistle. Willie (after a pause)—I can see how ‘“W” stands for wring, but I'm blessed if I can see see how “R” can stand for whistie.—Harper's Round Table. Jack—Kell, did you propose last night? Tom—Must have done it. Iknow Imeantto doiit, and I know we're engaged; so whatever Isaid must have been all right.—Puck, “I was sorry, Willie,” said his Sunday-school teacher, “to see you keep your seatwhen the superintendent asked those who wanted to go to heaven to rise. Don’t you want to go to heaven?” “Yes'm.” “Then why didn’t you rise?” “Cos he didn’t have no right to tell me to rise, ma’am,” answered Willie. “He ain’t no Angel Gabriel.”—Pittsburg Bulletin. CAMEL CORPS AT WADI HALFEH, UPPER EGYPT. This represents a detachment of the corps starting on a twelve days’ Halfeh to Kornsko. sooner than the time fixed for their arrival. Nile Expedition. march through the Nubian Desert from Wad The men and camels were in such good condition and training that they reached Kornsko The Camel Corps, it will be remembered, was first two days started at the time of the [From a photograph taken by Arthur @. Ferard at Port Said for the London Illustrated News.] AROUND THE CORRIDORS. George C. Perkins, the Chicago manager for the United Press, left Saturday evening. Before leaving he said to a CALL reporter, who inter- viewed him in the grillroom of the Palace Hotel: 4 “I have been studying the press of this State since I have been here, & matter of six weeks. Ifind that the new CALL is making a hitall round, and the public has noticed the change and improvement in the paper. 1t is very evi- dent THE CALL made no mistake in getting the MR. PERKINS, [Sketched from life.) superior news service of the United Press, The editors with whom I have spoken here express themselves as highly pleased with the United Press service. “We have now about 420 papers on the string all over the country, and are making fresh accessions daily. The Associated Press has only 350. The principal New York papers, the Herald, Sun, Times, Tribune, Recorder and Journal, are United Press papers. We have on our list nearly all the papers east of the Alle- ghenies, and nearly all in the South. “The war seems to have settled down to a question of endurance, in which the more modern and superior methods of the United Press are likely to prevail. The antiquated and expensive methods of the Associated Press hendicap them to suchan extent that they are continually on the financial rocks. “We have had several notable beats lately owing to the superiority of our system. The unreliability of the Associated Press service was amply evidenced at the time of the recent international yacht race in New York, and its bad break in reporting that an attempt had been made to assassinate President Cleve- land.” “There 1s a good story on the Examiner,” said J. Ross Jackson, the ex-newspaper man, to some friends in the Palace yesterday, “and although I'm out of the business I can’t over- look its merit on that account. It appears that a druggist named Putnam was killed in Wil- lows recently by a man named Sehorn. The telegraphed report came to THE CALL and also to the Chronicle. The next morning, when Managing Editor Hamilton of the Examiner was looking over the record of the day, he dis- coverca that his paper had been ‘scooped’ on that particular item. He thereupon sent for Mr. Corey, the coast editor of the paper. Mr. Corey,’ he said, with a dignified look face, ‘have we a correspondent in Wil- Yes.” “‘Did he send in a report of that murder ? “‘Fire him.’ ‘“‘How? By mail?’ “No. By telegraph. We can’t dispose of & man like that too quickly. A correspondent who doesn’t know that & murder has been committed in his town isn’t fit for the position. Bounce him.’ “Mr. Corey went to his record-book of corre- spondents and presently returned to the man- aging editor. “‘Mr. Hamilton, there are certain circum- stances in this man’s favor that—’ “‘There are no circumstances that would justify such an exhibition of incompetency. Bounce him, I say !’ ‘*‘But, Mr. Hamilton, this case has no paral- lel. Thatman had a good excuse for overlook- ing the importance of the story.’ ‘“‘Well, what was his excuse? inquired the editor, becoming nervous, ““*Well,” answered Corey, scratching his chin a moment, ‘he was the man who got killed.” ‘‘Mr. Hamilton lapsed into silence and went on reading some proofs of the story of Mr, Hearst's latest investment in newspapers.” ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CaLLiNG OUT THE MiuTia—A. W. C., Vet- erans’ Home, Yountville, Napa County, Cal. The President of the United States has the power of calling out the militia and oraering it for duty out of the State in whieh it is organ- ized. The statutes provide that “whenever the United States are invaded or are in imminent danger of invasion from any foreign nation or Indian tribe, or of rebellion against the au- thority of the Government of the United States, it shall be lawful for the President to call forth such number of the militia of the State or States most convenient to the place of danger or scene of action he may deem necessary to repel such invasion or suppress such rebellion, and to issue his on;‘ers for that purpose to such officers of the militia as he may think proper.” Another section says that ‘“whenever by rea- son of unlawful obstructions, combinations or assemblages of persons or rebellion against the authorities of the United States it shall be- come impracticable in the judgment of the President to enforce by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings the laws of the United States within any State or Territory it shall be lawful for the President to call forth the mli- tia of any or all the States and to employ such parts of the land and naval forces of the United States as he may deem_necessary to en- force the faithful execution of the laws of the United States or to suppress such rebejlion in whatever State or Territory thereof the laws of the United States may be forcibly opposed or the execution thereof forcibly obstructed.” AFTER MANY YEARS—If Anna Smith should fication, and it was provided that it should be conclusive when signed 1 the States, as th cation. On July 9, I half of New Hamp: Rhoae Island and P’ necticut, New York, and South Ca Cerolina July New Jersey November 6. Delaware si 3 1 K other two on M On” March 1, 1781, the delegates from and signed, and on the following day Cou bled under new power. By this instrument the States were governed before the adopti the constitution. nce plantation: Pennsylvania, Vir UNCLE AND NIECE—R. G., City. A marriage between uncle and niece that isallowed ina country outside of this State is regzarded valid in th . The Civil Cox . marriage contracted without this 8 Would be valid by the laws of th Which the same is consummated, is v this State.” B. Contra Costa DRAINAG! Concord, County, Cal. Tt department has not the spac law in regard 10 drainage of la: and to the changing of watercourses, cc quently cannot iurnish the desired informa tion. By-LAws—E. B., City. Beneficiary sos are bound by the constitutions and b: that regulate them and the courts will require them to carry out the provisions of the same, providing the members carry out on their part all'of their obligations. MaGuIRe's WRITINGS—K. K., Vallejo, Cal. The following is a list of books and pamphlets writ ten by Congressman J. G. Maguire: “Ireland and the Pop yirect Taxation of Land Va ues,” speec&\ on silver and speech on Chinese exclusion. THE A MORTGAGE—W. 8. B., Oakland, Cal. Under the constitution the mortgage given on prop- erty to secure the payment of & debt is as- sessed or taxed to the owner of the property, and such tax may be paid by either party. . D., City. The et Railroad is owned by a num- ber of shareholders, but it is not under the control or management of the Market-street Railway sy: LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. PLEA FOR SKIMMED MILE. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: In reading TiE CALL of recent date I notice that it is against the law made of late to sell skimmed milk. That part of the law seems to me to be an injustice to the pnblic. There is a large portion of the people in ihis City that get along with skimmed milk, and experience teaches that there isno harm resulting from its use. The Health Officers claim, I believe, that it is unwholesome, but that is not true. It is certainly less nutritive than milk with the cream, but it can be proven by many doctors that they recommend it for different _complaints. For instance, s person with & weak stomach is often not able to digest unskimmedmilk; give him skimmed milk, and he can drink large quan- tities of it and he will not starve on it either. Doctors are able to substantiate tnat skimmed milk exclusively will cure some forms of dropsy and other complaints. Poor people are obliged to subsist on_an _inferior quality of products: Flour, of whieh there are five different grades. And such potatoes! What nourishment is there in an inferior potatc According to our medical gentlemen hardiy any. They are almost all water, but we subs on’ them all the same and are glad to hav them. If the consumer of skimmed milk wa allowed & voice in the question he would say, You may rather rob me of Sprir than of my skimmed milk, b has such a filthy taste that it is sometimes un- fit to drink. Yours very truly, C. BROWN. Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * B e BABY crean, 15 cents a pound. Townsend’s.® ——— TYPOGRAPHICAL elocution. Making the types speak! The Roberts Printing Co., 220 Sutter. * Sl SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers business houses and public men by the P’ Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgome Ll srhmals CALTFORNIA WINES in cases and barre Christmas delivery free to any part of ( or Switzerland. A. Repsold & Co., 517 Cali- fornia st. Order early. —_—————— Experiments are still being tried in i{nf:- t b h land in preserving fresh fruit in borax. bas been found perfectly sudcessful w cherries and is now being tried with v etables. Hoov's Sarsaparilla not only purifies the blood but also imparts new life aud vigor to every func- tion of the body. Now is the time to take it to fortify the system against attacks of sickness. —————— “Mrs. W inslow’s Soothing Syrup"” Flas been used over fifty years by milllons of moth- ers for thelr children while Teething with perfecs success. It s0othes the child, softens the gums, al- Iays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrheas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sals by Druggists in every part of the world. Ee sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup 250 & bottle. e .. Hallam consumed thirteen years in collecting the materials for his *‘Literature of Europe.” Silver Days TO-DAY and TO-MORROW will be SPECIAL SILVERWARE days at the now famous auction. See the beautiful display of the bright metal wrought by artists’ hands into a thousand varied shapes and forms, plain and elaborate, for use and ornament. ‘When you see what you want have it sent to the auctioneer. The price [ marry a man, live with him as his wife for thirty yenss, 4 at the end of that time enother woman should appear and claim to be the lewfal wife of the man Miss Smith mar- ried, it would depend upon circumstances if she would have the right to claim any of the property acquired by the man she claims as her husband after his mar- riage with Miss Smith. It would have to be ascertained 1if the husband knew for seven gelrs prior to his marriage to Miss Smith that is first wife, if she was such, was alive ana knew of her whereabouts, if he during the thirty years had contributed to her su port, or Her Mus- Whether the first wife had deserted band and had not let him know where she was during seven years prior to his second mar- riage. MURDER TRIALS—L., City. Itisthe dutyofa jury that tries an individual for murder and finds a verdict of guilty to declare if the pris- oner shall suffer death or be imprisoned for life. If the jury decides that the prisoner ‘s‘hnli suffer the death venalty the verdiot is, ‘we find the defendant guilty as charged,” butif it decides that imprisonment shall be the punishment then the verdict is, “we find the defendant guilty as charged and fix the {:enm Y at imprisonment tor life.” Under the aw & defendant cannot be tried for murder or for any other criminel offense with less than twelve jurors. PAID WRITERS—A. F. E., Alameds, Cal. If You have the ability to write for & newspaper do not waste your time reading articles con- taining “'sensible advice to any one wishing to become a paid writer fora newspaper,” but Write one or more articies.and submit them to & first-class journal, and if they possess any merit it will not be long before that merit wiil be recognized. If your style and language show that youhave an apitude for professional journalism, room will be found for you. ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION—L. K. R., City. On the same day on' which the Continental Congress appointed a committes to frame a declaration of independence it appointed an- other to prepare articles of confederation, The committee soon reported a scheme, but it was not tillNovember 15, 1777, that Congress adopt- ed the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual 1. Union. It was submitted to the Siates for Tal- | may be less than half what you ex- pected. Hammersmith & Field AUCTION DAILY AT2P. M. FURNITURE! CARPETS! AND ALL KINDS OF HOUSEHOLD GOODS! AT PRICES TO SUIT THE TINES. FOR EXAMPLE HARD®0)D BEDKOOi SEIS. . . . $20.00 PARLOR SETS, E'oBantrea- - - $20.00 SOFA BEDS from...coee-e.. $L.00 RARGES from. ....oouceee .210»00 M OUTFIT from........$80.00 H‘l?gays You to Give Us a Call Before Purchasing Elsewhere. CASH OR INSTALLMENTS. KRAGEN FURNITURE C0. [ 1043 MARKET STREET, Between Sixth and Seventh. 297 OPEN EVENINGS,