The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 22, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1895 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RAT raily and Sunday CALL, one werk. by carrier 5 ear, by m. nt. v 1 8.00 3 aily and Su ALL, six months, by mail 8 and Sunday Cavr, three months, by mail 1.50 onth, by mail OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Selephone.... e Main—1888 EDITOR!;L ROOM: Clay Street. ...Maln—1874 BRAI\C;‘IA(VVEFICES: mery street, corner Clay: open until pen until 9:30 o'clock. 9:30 o'cloc 18 M s £618 Mis open until § o'clock 316 Ninth pen until 8 o'clock. o¢ AKS FOR ALL ng campaign San place to start it rolling. man predictsa Republican of 60,000 in Ohio, and he is a good in it, it is wonderful anage to fall ont. how many of to see the fight but 1 she would never dare to look s in the eye afterw, For the present the Sultan is the politest sovereign in all Europe, and gentle as a Turk will soon be a »ses to compromise with iministrative reform, )r. Parkhurst 1s preaching for scratched New Y and the Tammany looks at his claws anc s in d of M rtune,’”’ Vanderbilt, 1t Marlborough anything. failed to reach the north pole plorers are verging round to the belief that the grapesare better at the south pole. ngland at the present time Venezu- nonymous with trouble. If she upon one she w! tinto the other. There may be nothing new under the but it noted in New York that mmany is trying to catch the bicycle We might have to stretch the Monroe doctrine to reach Cuba, but it can drop on the Venezuela problem in its most con- densed form. We are promised, if Edison lives five s longer, a means of producing incan- descent light at hali its present cost, so here’s luck to him. to talk of devel- ege into a metropoli- will be out of sight standpoint. New York is beginnin, oping Columbia ¢ tan university that from the ordinary there are some people talking of Julius Sterling Morton, Secretary of Agri- culture, as Democratic nominee for Presi- dent. To this complexion have we come at How the campaign is going in Kentucky may be estimated from the fact the Demo- crats have cecided to drop National issues and confine their canvass hereafter to home topics. ate election where the Demo- atic rooster is safe this year is Missis- i, and even there the colored voter 1d take him off the roost if he had a 1g showing. The only § England has a right to asmuch terri- tory bordering on Venezuela as she owned when the Monroe doctrine was first pro- mulgated, but she should not be allowed to add a foot to it. If all these dukes and things that our Leiresses marry are to be considered among our foreign relations 1t is high time to exercise a better diplomacy in picking them out or stopping the game. Kol et g Senator Gorman’s recent statement, “I am a practical prohibitionist in my own person, but I am a Democrat for my coun- try’s sake,” would have been a good phrase if it had not strained the limit of the cam- paign lie too much. The latest new thing in diseases is cailed “railroad kidney,” and is said to be caused by excessive railroad riding. It is probable, however, that only passengers get it in that form, as officials of the road seem to develop railroad gall. Mr. Henschel, the noted leader of sym- phony concerts in London, served for some years in Boston, and is quoted as having said recently that he learned more in his American career than in his native Germany, and Boston now feels that John L. Sullivan is not her only pride. The New Jersey wild man, of whom so much was heard during the summer, turns out to be nothing but a crazy tramp. He walked into Trenton the other day under the impression he had been elected to the Legislature, and immediately he was captured and the mystery solved. One of the interesting features of Massa- chusetts politics this year is the subm: to the people of the question: *Is it advis- able to concede to women the right to vote in municipal elections?”’” Women as well as men will have the right to vote on the | question, and the result is expected to show whether women really wish the ballot or not. Mme. Modjeska is among the people who agree with Greer Harrison that New York has no appreciation of classic drama, and says she will never play Shakespeare there again. The Philadelphia Times, comment- ingon the fact that Mme. Modjeska re- calls that when she played with Edwin Booth, who was then at the height of his fame, they drew large houses throughout the country, but failed in New York, goes on to say of the big city: “It isnecessary to make a noise, to lay on the red paint thick, to attract attention. A singer is rated by the salary she commands, an actress by the brilliancy of her diamonds or the flagrancy of her morals, an actor by Lis impudence. Tke mere artist had better go somewhcre else.” | improving our rivers and harbors, irrigat- ion | VICTORY IN SIGHT. According to reports from New ‘Lfork the prospects that the next Republican Convention will be held in San Francisco are something more than fair. They are distinctly encouraging to our most san- guine hopes. We appear to have almost as many friends in the extreme East ason | the Pacific Coast. There is opposition to us of course, and Chicago and Pittsburg are strong rivals, but we scem to be lead- | ing in the contest and have a fair chance | of remaining there to the end. The assembling of the National Conven- tion in this City would mean to us some- thing more than party polities. It would banish forever from the Eastern mind the idea that California is out of the world and that it is a long and exhausting jour- ney to get here. We should hear no more that the Pacific Coast is too remote for easy visiting in search of breezy summers or winter sunshine. It would empbati- cally advertise the fact that railway im- provements have conquered time and i distance; it would make known the ex- cellence pf the means of traversing the wonderful scenery of the transcontinental journey and encourage thousands of peo- ple to make the trip who now think about it as beyond the limit of their time and mean: The visit to this coast of so many men emi- nent in politics and statecraft, and holding high positions in the Nation, would also be | of material advantage to us in all our | efforts to obtain Government assistance in ing the arid lands, devising means for the reopening of hydraulic mining, and the undertaking of other great works necessary for the full use of all the resources of this section of the Union. Men who attended the convention would have more interest in Western welfare than ever before, and moreover would have better iaeas of how to promote it. In this way, therefore, as | well as in others, the convention would | have something more than a political effect and be beneficial to the community | at large. For these reasons it is not too much to expect that in the task of working for the convention, and in that of providing for it, if it is to be held here, all citizens of the City and State will work together in order that the measure of success accomplished | may be the greatest possible. As affairs | stand at present San Francisco seems an easy leader in the race. Her cause is championed by some of the strongest men in the Eastern wing of the Republican | She has many supporters in the Mississippi Valley. The Great West. is practically solid for her. Now then for a long pull, a strong pull and a pull alto- gether at home and the convention is ours. HOME-BUILDING AGAIN. The hearty response made by the lead- | ing real estate agents and dealers of the City to THE CALL's agitation of the subject | of home-making is both gratifying and en- couraging. The interviews with them which were published in Monday's 1ssue were exceedingly interesting and instruct- ive, and should be read by every man and woman in the City who is earning a salary. Itis clearly shown that, taking into ac-| count the enhancement in real values, | which is always the experience of grow- | ing cities, it is in the end cheaper to buy a home on the installment plan than to pay rent. It is those who have the wisdom to un- derstand the peculiar conditions of San Francisco who are straining every nerve to | acquire a home of their own. When we observe the number of millionaires in San Francisco who secured their fortunes solely by buying land, and realize that the fac- tors which contributsd to the enhancement of their property values are still in ex- istence and must continue indefinitely hereafter, there is every encouragement to | make a supreme effort to own a lot. For San Francisco must become one of the | greatest cities in the world. No con- | ceivable exhibition of human stupidity, indolence or neglect can prevent i The main causes which must produce it are its relation to ocean commerce taken in con- nection with its relation to the richest agricultural area and the richest mines in the country, its position as the entrepot of a vast region whose products are high valuable in themselyes and free from com- | petition with the products of any other | section of the country by reason of climatic peculiarities, and its similar relation to a region inconceivably rich in healing agen- cies for human ills. No other spot in alf | the world combines so many or so valuable advantages, and nothing under the sun can prevent their operation to the produc- i tion of a splendid city at the Golden Gate. | In these days of elaborately developed | associations for furthering the prosperity | and happiness of their members the value | of the idea of home-building should be ! promulgated to its fullest extent, especially Lere in San Francisco, where the rewards | of such endeavor are clearly so inviting. | Workingmen’s organizations particularly might make simpler of solution many of the problems with which they are dealing by encouraging their members in this | laudable idea. The simple fact of owning his home makes any man so much better a | citizen that it seems a wonder that those who devote their energies to the study and | cure of wrongs do not pay more attention to this, one of the most effective of all remedies. WONDERFUL MINES. The systematic manner in which TrE | Cary is making an expert inspection of | California mines and its published de- seriptions of their character and working haye developed many extraordinary facts | and have informed the world of the! astonishing activity and profits connected with the industry. A speciren of the articles in this line appeared in Monday's issue, concerning the Mokelumne region, | and it serves to demonstrate the fact that mining is really in its infancy, and that dazzling possibilities reside in the future. An illustration of a very instructive condition of affairs was presented in Mon- day’s article in a description of one of the numerous mines on the Mokelumne River. Recent tunneling has discovered the re. markable fact that the vein is 100 feet wide, that it is on the mother lode, and that although it is low-grade ore it will yield a good profit. The lowest tunnel is | only 520 feet from the surface of the bluft; at the bottom of a winze sunk forty-five feet below this level the average yield was $5a ton, but a streak nine feet wide ran $65 to the ton. A shait sunk 100 feet below the tunnel level passed through iow-grade paying ore all the way, and at the bottom struck a streak of ore running $25 to the ton. That isto say, the deeper the work the richer the ore. This is the history of gold { mining on the mother lode of California, and the universal application of the prin- ciple is just beginning to be fully realized. The famous Utica mine, which yields a profit of $200,000 a month, was discovered to have its richest ore deep in the ground. The Kennedy mine, which was abandoned after it had been worked with moderate success 600 feet down, was closed cown, then reopened, pushed 300 feet lower and discovered ore running $15 to the ton. THE CALL recently published an article | and both are living and doing well. on this subject contributed by a competent investigator who had studied the pecu- liarities of the mother lode and traced it far further south than it had been known to run. It has certain uniform peculiari- ties, which have been learned and which are almost invariably constant. It isalong this Jode, and by deep mining, that some of the wonderful discoveries are vet to be made. It is not unlikely that this knowl- edge of its peculiarities will lead to ex- plorations made independently of surface conditions, and that some rich deposits will be discovered by that means. A TERRIBLE RECORD. Tre CALL's graphic history of the dark and bloody tragedies of Round Valley read like a series of condensed chapters from the records of medieval times. The ghastly stories which the Holy Graeme has handed down to the ages are fully equaled by Round Valley in cunning of conception and ferocity of execution. It is incredible that in this day of enlighten- ment, in the full light of a sun which senas its richest blessings to mankind, one of the fairest spots of California should be darkened with crimes the fiercest and most cowardly that human depraviity and atavism can conceive. The isolation of the little valley explains its history. It presented peculiar oppor- tunities for daring and conscienceless men to seize the land, accumulate great wealth, frighten, buily, rob, terrorize and murder honest intruders and secure abso- lute sway over the local courts. This frightful record has been growing for many years, and it has required the mur- der of a signally courageous man, named Jack Littlefield, to lift the veil which con- cealed the hideous sore from the gaze of the outside world. On top of this mysterious affair came the reward offered by the Governor for the apprehension of the malefactors. This has started many busy ferrets at work, and we may feel assured that the task will not be abandoned until the last of the cutthroats has been run to earth. en their dan- | gling upon the gallows will be punishment for but a thousandth part of the crimes which have been committed, for the record includes judicial corruption, connivance and participation by officers of the law in most of the fearful work that has been done—the killing of Indians for the posses- | sion of their squaws, the murdering of Indian parents and the selling of their chil- dren into slavery, and an interminable list of perjuries, arsons and thefts. Likely few of these crimes will ever be reached. Californians owe it to themselves, their State and the age in which they live to pursue this damnable series of iniquities to the end. The Governments of the State and the United States owe it to the country to follow the inquiry to its furthest limit. | TuE CaLL may be depended on to do its share of the work, taking its own chances with all the dangers, and content with its sole reward of a consciousness of well- doing in assisting to rid this noble State of an incredible evil. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. H. L. Herzinger, & well-known newspaper publisher, was at the Russ House yesterday. “I am going to start another paper,” said Mr. Herzinger. “That will be about the seventh, if I remember right. This time I will make Ukiah my headquarters and will call the new paper the Ukiah Herald. It will be the third Herald rted by me in this State. I planted the veda City Herald and the Alturas Herald I am bound to make & success at Uklah, for I'll give the people a good paper and he(p 10 boom the country.” PERSONAL. L. Sol Alexander of Watsonville is in the City. J. Walter Brandt of Nebraska is at the Cali- | fornia. Mrs. J. B. Wright of Sacramento is at the Palace. H. 0. Haas, merchant, of Stockton is at the Baldwin. W.G.and F. H. Ellis of Philadelphia are at the Palace. Norman Rideout, the banker of Marysville, is in the City. H. C. Ross of the Mount Hamilton stage line is at the Palace. A. W. Riley, a prominent merchant of Santa Rosa, is in the City. W. E. Harper and family of Chicago are at the California Hotel. Alfred L. Peake and E. D.Goodrich of New York are at the Palace. W. D. Tobey, the well-known lumberman of Carson, ., is at the Lick. K. H. Wade, superintendent of the California Railroad of Los Angeles, is in the City. Mr. and Mrs. Wakefield Baker of the firm of Baker & Hamilton are at the California. Lieutenants Henry H. Hough and Franeis T. Simmes, United States navy, are at the Palace. H.S. Crocker and family have returned from Del Monte and are at the California Hotel for the winter. Albert H. Slape of Chester, Pa., son of the present proprietor of the John Roach ship- yard, is at the Occidental. —_— EKATZENJAMMER BREAKFASTS. Some gentlemen who were at Kiel during the festivities have introduced In New York what is known as Kaiser Wilhelm’s katzen- jammer breakfast. Interpreted, this means the breakfast that the Emperor is supposed to eat afier & night out. These gentlemen said that at Kiel the Kaiser always had for break- fast what was known as Russian eggs, a dish which consists of two cold boiled eggs, cut in half, with one sardelle on each half, the whole spread with mayonnaise, and this topped with caviar end capers. Sometimes a thin slice of onion would surmount the capers, and on ?;her ‘mornings the capers were rubbed with arlic. g Tne Kaiser's rule appeared to be this: After an ordinary night, that is to say, one in which he had not taken more than two or three bot- tles, the breakfast first outlined would bhe served. If the night had been fairly wet—say he had consumed twice the number of bottles mentioned—the onions would be added; and after a very wet night, one in which the num- ber of bottles was forgotten, the ggllic would take the place of the onions. With the first breakfast the Emperor drank bitter beer; with others, mineral water. THE FASTEST VESSEL. New York Sun. A few weeks ago we published some informa- tion about the “fastest boat in the world,” a torpedo-boat, the Sokol, builtin England by | Yarrow. We have now the figures of a faster one still, the Forban, built 1n France by Nor- mand. The Forban competes with the disad- vantage of being only 144 feet long to the o- kol's 190. The Forban’s other dimensions are: Breedth 14 feet 6 inches, depth 10 feet. The Sokol's performance of & three hours’ run at a mean speed of 29.762 knots has been beaten by the Forban with one hour'srun at the mean speed 0f 31.029. The Forban is a mighty com- pliment to her French builders. A ship of her speed would cross the Atlantic in threo days and three-quarters. e —— THERE IS A DIFFERENCE. Marysville Appeal. De Young of the Chronicle says that there is not much prospect of the Republican National Convention coming to San Francisco. Short- ridge of THE CALL s in the East trying to turn the tide in favor of the coast metropolis. This little incident shows how great men move. e e T The Queen Regent of Spain has a life full of care and responsibility, and yet she is always bright and gay and asfond of iunocent sports as her children. Her summer palace is at San Bebastian, close to the water'’s edge, and there she enjoys the freedom of the quiet domestic life which she lives. She is an expert swimmer end an accomplished musicien, ENGLAND’S BUYING AND SELLING. We have already discussed the free-trade theory thatif we do not Luy we cannot sell. We have shown by our own import and export statistics that, since the Gorman tariff went into effect with its first approach to free trade, we have been buying very liberally from for- eign countries, but, on the other hand, we have been selling less than usual in the markets of the world. As the results of our actual experience have proven differ- ent to free-trade thcories and promises, we thought it best to examine the results of England’s buying and selling. There we have an absolute free-trade country, while here the free-traders might claim that their theories have not assumed practical shape because the Gorman tariff is partially protective. Withdut going into all the details of British foreign trade, we take their exports of woolen goods and their imports of some food products, these being possibly their two most important lines of trade. Here are the figures for the eight months ending August 31 of the present ear: Y orism mxponts oF WooLEN GoODS. Eight months to August 31. Incre; Quantities. XBBA.“E“! 1895, 189, H-.“ oolen and worsted yarns, “}hg 64,900 1,164,600 1,099,700 0 yd 095,600 9,200,760 8.105,100 Wors yds ,475,500 48,425,100 88,949,600 Carpets, yds. 108,100 447,400 339,300 Values. Woolen and worsted yarns, £7159 £114,289 £107,130 Wooien tissues. 220699 790 826,091 Worsted tissues 704,498 3, ,550,403 Carpet 17,011 80,865 63,554 Totals 940,867 £4,476,844 £3,527.477 VALUE OF ENGLISH IMPORTS FROM UNITED STATES. Eight months to August 81, Decrease, 1894, 1895, Articles. B A 1895, Catue...... £4,.888,612 £3,167,828 £1,715,784 ‘Wheat and 9,558.080 9,004,163 553,817 3,510,019 3,229 287,917 228,125 47,510 i 236,670 207,263 ,158,561 £3,048,091 Since our mnew tariff on wool and woolen g00ds went into effect England has increased her sales of woolen goods in the United States to the extent of 17,500,000 more than she so0ld us of similar goods during the correspond- ing months of 1894. It is thus evident that England is increasing her sales with our first approach toward free trade, but how is it with her buying? 1In the half dozen food products thatare given above we find that England has bought from us during the first efght months of the present year to the extent of £15,000,000 less than she bought from us last year. With larger sales of woolen goods by 17,500,000 and smaller pur- chases of half a dozen food products by $15,- 000,000, it is evident that England is doing pret v well since the Gorman tariff went into effect. But, unfortunately, the theory of American free-traders that “if we do not buy we cannot sell” still remains to be proven , for England is buying much less from us and selunF usmuch more. We are buying more and selling less; they are selling more but buying less. Our statisties show that although we are doing the buying we are not doing the selling that we uséd to under protection. Their statistics show that they are doing the selling, although they are not doing as much buying as when we had protection. We should like some free-trade editor to ex- plain the why and the wherefore of this condi- tion of affairs, which contrasts so strangely with the free-trade theories and promises ofg!he past.—From the New York American Econo- 1nist, Friday, October 18, 1895. VERSELETS ON THE RUN. BVENGALI'S OPPORTUNITIES. What a pienic "twould be for Svengali Could he hypnotize Buckley and learn The secret of making a fortune Without doing a visible turn. Could I exercise sway like Svengall T'd roll in the riches of trade, Adfter learning how chicken tamale ‘Without ever a chicken is made. THE COMING CHAMPION. The “knocker-out” of the fistic ring From the ebony race will be, With a skull as thick as an elephant’s hide, Anda neck like Grover C. IN CHOLLY'S BUTTONHOLE. Thus spake the great chrysanthemum, +Artlovers deem me kind To hide with beauty rare as this The features just behind.” SILLY PRINCE ANANIAS. “Cupld, meddlesome boy, g00d-by " (A fable from Prince Ananias.) From Cupld's company, trouble and all, Kaflirs never could buy ns. WAITRESS IN BLOOMERS. The bloomer-girl served me the cream snd the mush, And vainly her features I scanned for a blush. But I wished that the caterer's bloomer-girl scheme Had served to improve both the mush and the cream. UNIVERSITY EVENTS. New York Sun. It is none of our present purpose to discuss President Eliot's opinions or the attitude of the Harvard faculty toward athletics. We con- tent ourselves with noticing the fact that from & business point of view the repression of ath- letics seems to pay. The main resources of Harvard College for general purposes are the sums it derives from tunition fees. The more students the better for the college. The natu- ral inference from the imcreased number of students at Harvard and the decreased number at Yale is that & certain numberof parents and guardians distrust what seems to them to be an_excessive attention to intercollegiate ath- leties and prefer that their sons should go to & college where, for the moment atleast, ath- letics is not too actively pursued. New York Tribune. Last year the Yale-Harvard game at Spring- field was a disgraceful exhibition of the worst possibilities of football. Some of the disgust- ing features of that game were in a sense acci- dental; that is to say, there was a longer list of injuries, with a greater parade of litters and surgical appliances, than an equal amount of brutality would ordinarily involve. The ex- citement was intense, and out of it grew many bitter accusations and some last nf reseni- ments. The talk went on all winter, in public and private, until nearly everybody was sick unto death of the whole business, and most of the partisans who had been red hot at the out- set ceased to care whether the Yale captain WS & MATtyT or a monster. Cleveland News and Herald. The worst case of brutality on the football “‘gridiron” which has been reported this fall stains the record of the team of that big and famous Methodist institution, Northwestern University, the pride of Evanston, Chicago’s most fastidious suburb. A man named Thorne, belonging to the Northwestern eleven, ran out of his place in the line and deliberately struck a player of the Beloit College team, against which his own was contending, with such force as to break his nose and knock him senseless. A riot was prevented with much difficulty. New York Advertiser. Columbia College yesterday entered upon its one hundred and forty-second year, with a full attendance and fired by a noble ambition. Two years hence, when, if all goes well, it will take possession of its mew property at One Hundred and Tenth street, itmay have reached dimensions that every good New Yorker hopes for, and outgrow itscollege limitations wg'é- come what it ought to be, the great university of the country. Philadelphia Ledger. Not only Yale and Harvard, but all the other !eading universities and colleges are at present involved in contentions, hurtful to sport and wearying to the public, and how long it will continue no one can tell. But one ray ot hope arises from the present state of affairs—they , are so bad that the dictates of common sense | will soon demand a readjustment on a basis of equity and harmony all around. Philadelphia Inquirer. Purely in the interest of peace and good fel- lowship the Inquirer offers a cup, valued at %‘;WM' to be contested for annually between rinceton and the University of Pennsylvania, the college winning the ¢ e ig up three times in suc- Boston Herald. The yawning chasm betwixt Yale and Har. vard remains open for the present. Mean- while let it be filed up with mutual respect, and good wishes. Estrangement 18 only for a ime. Buffalo Commercial. Now that it is substantially settled that Yale and Harvard will not_play football this year, why can’t the AR dto ee’).l:lwd people settle down an TWO VIEWS OF THE GRAND OLD MAN. [Reproduced from an engraving in Echoes.] AGNOSTICISM A POOR DEVICE. A LETTER WRITTEN BY THE RIGHT HoON. W. E. GLADSTONE. New York Sum. Dear Sir: I have not a sufficient acquaint- ance with the general field of philosophy to pronounce an opinion on which you would safely rely as to the value of your work in re- gard to its historical statements of the very in- teresting case. But I am reading it with warm sympathy and much approval. Iam pleased alike with the signs of care which it shows and with the spirit of broad sympathy it exhibits with other defenders of the same great cause who write from a different position. 11ind your argument against Mr. Spencer, 50 far as I have mastered it, very striking. But I ought to add that I regard agnosticism as one of the worst of all devices in respect to religion, and one of the poorest and shallowest schemes ever broached in regard to philosophy. I think with you and with the distinguished persons whom you name that it is exactly time for the Christian bodies, unhappily separated in communion, to make common cause, so far as they honorably can, on the great and all- absorbing question of belief, that lofty and pro- found human interest which so far transcends every other. r s » - 1 hope and trust that so far as Oxford is con- cerned, its reports which have reached you are exaggerated. There is & strong spirit of re- ligion there. To all your exertions in the great cause I wish the blessing of the Almighty, and with all best wishes I remain, dear sir, your very faith- ful, W. E. GLADSTONE. To REY. G. J. Lucas. Hawarden Castle, Chester, Aug. 4, 1895. - * x FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. The Siwash Up to Date. Scattle (Wash.) Chronicle, The end of the century is coming fast. Yes- terday & stalwart Siwash [Indian] was seen wheeling & baby in a baby-carriage up Yesler avenue. Probably his klootchman [woman] was somewhere trying on her bloomers or else taking lessons on the bicycle. When we re- flect that not so long ago it was hyas cultus [exceedingly bad; i. e., Tiot 5ood‘form'| for & Stwash to have anything to do with the care of children and that the klootchmen portaged them around strapped to their backs, we get some idea of how things are going. Neck and Neck for the Prize. Oakland Enquirer, Alameda’s Wilmerding School Committee has begun to hold meetings and not get quorums, which tends to put Oakland in countenance. We had thought that this city was the only one in whieh the opportunity to secure an en- dowed educational establiShment of the mag- nitude of the Wilmerding School would nat evoke a moderate degree of public spirit. Different in the Venezuela Case. ‘Whatcom (Wash.) Reveille. Mr. Olney’s courage is approaching the tre- mendous. He is said to have actually insisted that Spain shall accord to us our treaty rights in Cuba. Richard i{s himself all right when- ever he knows he is talking to some power which dares not call a bluff. Nay, Every American Is a King! Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle. As an American heiress has captured a duke and another & prince there seems to be small chance for the heiress whose ambition it may be to outdo all her predecessors. The only op- portunity lies in capturing a king, and Kings | are scarce. Despite the Four-Year Limit. Seattle (Wash.) Post-Intelligencer. President Harrison is said to be making $60,- 000 & year at his law practice, but he probably had rather be maxing $10,000 less at some other business, In Defense of Portland’s Census. Portland (Or.) Telegram. It may not be necessary to explain that the census which gave Portlgnd 81,344 inhabi- tants last June did not embrace a poll of the cemeteries. So Would Tom Reed. Pendleton East Oregonian. ‘We would like to see Tom Reed candidate on the Republican ticket for President and Henry Watterson on the Democratic ticket in 1896. Just One for a Starter. San Jose Mercury. Chicago is after both Presidential conven- tions, but San Francisco, with true Western modesty, will be content with one. VIEWS ABOUT CUBA. Boston Globe. Attorney-General Harmon may know law, but he fails to understand the feelings of the American peopie when he “advises” against the holding of public meetings in sympathy with the Cuban insurgents. Treaty stipula- tions with Spain will no more stand in the way of holding such rallies than treaty stipu- lations with Turkey will deter our liberty- loving people from gathering to express their sympathy with down-trodden Armenia. The overwhelming majority of Americans hope and long for Cuba’s independence, Indianapolis News. Whatever one may think of the merits of the case, there can be no doubt that so long as we e at peace with Spain no citizen of the United ates has any business to take sides in the fight further than to express his opinion. All this has nothing to_do with tNe question of recognizing the belligerent rights of the in- surgents. Whenever they have demonstrated their right to such recognition it can be given without in any way antagonizing Spain. Cleveland World. The almost unanimous expression of sym- pathy for Cuba in this country will in time force the administration to concede belligerent rights to the Cuban insurgents. When that is done it will not be unlawful fo furnish them with the arms and ammunition which they need so much. It is to be hoped that the ad. ministration will not be so slow about recog- ;flzmg them that aid of this sort will come too ate. New York Sun. We have done our full duty toward Spain in providing a patrol for our coasts, which practi- cally aids and supplements her cordon around the island. Now let Congress consider whether it may not have another duty to perform in according & belligerent status to the insurgent forces that have maintained themselves against the ever-increasing armies of Spain. Chicago Times-Herald. Spain is rapidly furnishing reason to be called the China of the West. All her pledges of reform and justice in Cuba, repeatedly made, are still unfuliilled. Efficacious means forsub. jecting the China of the West to wholesome discipline will not be wanting if her obstinacy compels their application. Providence Telegram. Ii the Cubans are defeated in their desperate struggle for liberty they will have been de- jeated because the United States, bound b; treaty obligations to a European power whici did everything it could to help the Southern rebellion, has been so scrupulous in observing these obligations that defeat was unavoidable. Chicago Evening Press. There is ample precedent for our acknowledg- ing the belligerency of the rebels. The North and the South were barely engaged in the deadly, struggle before Spain was cheek and jowl with the Confederacy. Boston Herald. Governor McKinley has nothing whatever to say on the subject of Cubs. To misquote Ham- let, what's Cuba to him, or he to Cuba, that he should weep for her? Chicago Dispatch. Cuba is entitled to the sympathy of the peo- ple of this country—not s mere passive sym- pathy, but active, helpful sympathy. e s NOTED PERSONS. It is said the largest literary incomes at pres- ent are earned by 8. R. Crockett, Stanley Wey- man and Conan Doyle. Grant Allen’s “The Woman Who Did” is proving the book of the season in London, it having passed into its tenth large edition. Jules Verne can still work steadily for five or six hours & aay, although he is in his seventy- ninth year. He has five stories ready for the printer, and is engaged upon another for 1897, An admirer of Edgar Allan Poe suggests as a means of increasing the contributions to the fund for the poet’s monument in Baltimore, that roses be grown on his grave and be sold at fancy prices. The poet Swinburne 1558 years old and in the prime of physical condition. He is an un- impressive figure. He is scarcely five feet in height, his face is ghastly pale, and his head, which is large in proportion to his body, is covered with a thick shock of uncombed hair. Mme. Carnot has requested that the 300,000 franes recently raised as a memorial to her husband be given to the French Institute, to be held in trust, and the interest to be devoted to allowances to deserving widows with large families. Many will bless the name of Carnot as they thus receive these benefactions. Z o ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. QUAIL OUT OF SON—J. H., Alameda, CaL The law of this State says that every person who shall buy, sell, expose for sale, or give away, or hn' in his possession in this State any quail during the thne it shall be unlawful to kill such birds, shall be guilty of a misde- meanor. Another section of the law says that it shall be unlawful for any person to have in his possession any quail | een the 15th day of February and the 15th day of October iq be in possession provided that in possession for 1, by permit den of the 0 be caught. quail for the x the period ropagation shall first be ol ProHiting, from the gu county wherein such birds are Under the law you canuot rajse purpose of selling the same duri that it is unlawful to kill such birg Opwwy—J. D., City. There aw of this country prohibiting the man; iy Druggists who use this drug for medicinal urposes obtain it from the wholesale dealers rugs. Opium 18 octained from the nnripe fruit of the white poppy. The tured with a peculiarly shaped pr juice ullowel; to exude into req collected and ellowed to dry in which it is made into balis, ) basins that are placed in a drying.r they are allowed to remain up pound has become sufficientiy dry e com- 10 warrant packing and transportation. MisTER AND ESQUIRI ~L5rnvfi’l'.n‘ Vallejo, So- 1ano County, Cal. In the United Siatcs there 18 10 fixed rule as to the use of “Mr.” ¢ when writing an_address on e The use of either is correct and u ployed according to the ideas of the This being a democratiz count the majority of the people in favor of the utmost simplicity the use of plain “Mr.” is pre 0 “Esq.”" Thus “Mr. John Smith” is keeping with the ideas of people who of titles than “John Smith Esq.” COUNT IN CRIBBAG Yountville, Napa County, Cal. The answer to the following question is that B is correct: A holds 3 tens, 1 jack and 1 queen, counts it as 16 by making a double run of 8 with 2 tens, ja and queen and then substituting the other ten make a double run of 8. B says no, that the true count is ten, jack, peated three times, making 9 plus 6 for th e tens, making 15. Which 18 correct? n o THE SUNBURNERS—L. B., City. The sunburn- ers in the Bartlett-street church throw their light on the auditorium of the church, which is on the upper floor. The reason that Ki g did not see the light from them at the time Durrant says he was repairing them is that at the time he was practicing on the piano he was on the floor below and out of sight of the auditorium. BENEDICT ARNOLD—J. C. A., City. Benedict Arnold was a descendant of Wi m Arnold, yho came to the plantation of Providence from Leamington, Warwickshire, England,in 1636. William wes born in Leamington, and Benedict, born in Norwich, Conn., was tne fourth of that name. - COMMUNITY PROPERTY—A. O. 8, City, In this State the husband has the right to dispose of real property that is community property with- out the wife’s signature being affixed to the deed. NED KENDALL—G. County, Cal. G., Oakdale, Stanislaus Ned Kendall was not a famous cornet-player, but was & famous bugler. He died in Boston, Mass., October 26, 1861. THE EVENING ScHoos—Education, City. Neither the French nor the German language is taught in the evening schools of this City. Bacox Printing ay street. * PLAIN mixed candies, 10¢ 1b. Townsend's.* e “CARDS by the million.” Roberts, 220 Sutter.* ——— SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery, * THE Argonaut is one of the finest and most popular brands of Kentucky Bourbon, and has 1o equal for purity in the market, Itis oncof the favorite brands of the best judges. E. Martin & Co., 411 Market street, are the Paci Coast agents for this excellent whisky. They are also agents for the celebrated J. F. Cutter brand of Kentacky Bourbon. These are both popular brands. - - Hazel—I heve one of the nicest dentists you ever saw. Nutte—In what way? Hazel—Why, he pulled out the wrong tooth the other day and wouldn’t charge me a cent for it.—New York Herald. THE blood purified, enriched and vitalized by Hood's Sarsaparilla carries health to every organ of the gystem. Hood’s Sarsaparilla has accom- plished wonders for people who were “all run down.” —— e WOoMEN avoid suffering by using PARKER'S , the best cure for corns. 15 cts. ———————— MoTHERS give Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters to their children to stop colic and looseness of the bowels. —————— After the discharge of large revolvers, which filled the passengers with terror and the air with noise and the smell of powder the traine robbers proceeded to forcibly empty the pocke ets of their victims. The porter looked on. “How crude!” was his sole comment.—Cin- cinnati Enquirer. e ——————————— 2 5 Cts. Per Can. (olima Baking Powder, Colima Pure Spices. As inducement to test COLIMA'S SU- PERIORITY, Valuable Presents given FREE with each can. 100 varieties to choose from. We mentiona few: 1 Glass Butter Dish, 1 Glass Sugar Bowl, 8 Preserve Dishes, 1 Decorated Thin China Cup and Saucer, 1 decorated Salad vish, 1 Cup and Saucer (assorted decorations), 1 Thin China Oatmeal Bowl. 1 Cream Pitcher, Gold Decorated Cup, Saucer and Plate, Dec- orated set of 3 Water Goblets, Syrup Pltcher, Vegetable Dish, 1 Glass Berry Dish, 1 Maiclica Pitcher, 1 Covered Saucepan, 1 Coffee Pot (2 qt.), Oatmeal Set of 3 pleces, set of 3 Table Tumblers, 1 Dish Kettle (8 ats). Lots of others at our stores. Great American Importing Tea Co. 617 Kearny st. 146 Ninth st. 965 Market ste 140 Sixth st. 1419 Polk st. 521 Montgomery ave. 3 Hayes st 218 Third 2008 Fillmore st. 3006 Sixteenth st. 1 (ity Stores. (3259 Mission st. (1053 Washington st. J 917 Broadway. )L 131 San Pablo ave. (akland. 616 E. Twellth st. (Park st. and Alameds Alameda e 100 Stores and Agencies in operation. A Big Saving for Housekeepers. Sometimes patronizing home industry pays only indirectly—through the stimulus it gives to local prosperity in which THE BRONCO BUSTER. [From a photograph of a bronze by Frederick Remington, reproduced by Harper's Weekly.] everybody shares. But in one case, at least, you save money DIRECTLY; you get good shirts for Jess money—better shirts at the price— STANDARD SHIRTS White and Percale. All grades. Neustadter Bros., Mfrs,, 8. F.