The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 1, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FEANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. ALL, Ove WerK. by CArTier. are year, by mall,.. six months, by mall 3.00 mail 1.80 mail 65 . 1.50 250 San Francisco, California. Selephone... EDITORIAL ROOM! 517 Clay Street. Telephone............ BRANCH OFFICES: #¢ Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until €:5¢ o'clock. £5¢ Haves street : open until 9:30 o'clock. 737 Larkin street; open until 9:80 o'clock. SW _ corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open w1l € o'clock 3818 ission street: open nntil 8 o'clock. 346 Ninth street; open untll 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: €08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York Cit DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e s e e e o e o . It is not surprising that Venezuela can- not furnish a boundary to British gall. The gold output this year promises to break the record, but the goldbugs are not glad of it. 5 If Barney Barnato gets a little more free advertising, there will be a fortune for him in a side show. If Maryland and Kentucky fulfill their promises, we shall have a grand Republi- can jubilee in a few da Sherman should either have held his book back untit after the campaign or issued an expurgated edition, The registration frauds in Maryland show that Gorman still merits the Cleve- * land brand of perfidy and dishonor. Why shouldn’t Corbett and Fitzsimmons talk into phonographs a while for the benefit of posterity and give this generation a rest? SEe Betting in New York is said to be 10to 8 on Tammany, but then betting is an old form of Tammany bluff, and fusion isn’t frightened. It took only one New York policeman to catch Marlborough on a bicycle, but it is said fifty of them will be detailed to watch his wedding. Colt, Van Alen, Astor, Drayton, Vander- bilt—are we to have all the Four Hundred displaying their family skeletons in a con- tinuous procession ? About the only thing creditable to Olney that has been published in a long time is the report that there are differences be- tween bim and Cleveland. Weather experts who trust to signs not known to the Meteorological Bureau de- clare the coming winter will arrive early, be severe and last a long time. The present attitude of the champion pugilists is slowly convineing this country that the defeat of Sullivan was a cruel and unnecessary blow to humanity. Lady Somerset advises the Prohibition- ists to take the title of “Home Protection- ists,” but that sounds a good deal like stealing a Republican pet name. Everything depends on the point of view. Fusion in New York is regarded as political virtue, while in Kansas it is being de- nounced as a double-dealing dicker. New York papers are kept busy explain- ing to their readers how to scratch the blanket ballot under the new law, but they always conclude their directions by advising the yoter to stick to the straight ticket. As a matter of passing curiosity, we would like to know whether the prolonged repetition of the item that Harrison has made $175,000 since he left the Presidency is intended as an evidence that he does not wish a re-election or only as & notice that he has a barrel. An interesting description, by Virgil G. Bogue, of the first survey of the Northern Pacific Railway route through Stampede Pass of the Cascade range, has just been published by tne American Geographical Bociety, and gives a very instructive ac- count of that picturesque region and the difficulties of the work. Many stories are told of the severe drought in the Mississippi Valley. That river as well as the Ohio is so low naviga- tion is difficult and 1n many places im- possible. A West Virginia railroad can run but one train a day on account of lack of water for locomotives, and in Adams County, Ohio, the people are said to be forced to use cider exclusively for drinking purposes. The New York Chamber of Commerce has recently published a letter from the Hon. John Barrett, United States Minister to Siam, urging American merchants and manufacturers to pay more attention to the oriental market. He claims that from Japan to Java there is a magnificent field for the introduction of American goods, and that big profits will reward those who first enter it. According to the New York Sun a num- ber of leading Republicans bave deter- mined that no matter what member of the party is elected President, he snall not haveabsolute control of his administration as Presidents have had in the past, but shall be surrounded by a Cabinet composed of men eminent in the party, competent for their places, having absolute control of their departments and being responsible for them. Millennium hasnot come yet, but there is a sign of it in the report that Representa. tive McGann of Chicago, who for four years has represented in Congress the Second Illinois District and bolds a cer- tificate of election to the present Coneress, bas decided that he was not honestiy elected, and has already gone to Wash- ington to resign in order that his ovponent may be sworn in without a contest as soon as Congress assembles. In one product at ieast Califorma leads the rest of the world. California olive oil sells readily at a higher price than the )il produced in any other country. First- class grocers will not seil the highest qual- ity of the California olive o1l for less than $1 25 per quart bottle; another brand sells for $1 a bottle. The highest price charged for any imported oil in this market is 75 cents a bottle containing an amount equal to that held by the California bottles. Main—1868 | ...Mamn—1874 | AN AUGMENTED DIGNITY. The most zealous partisan in the Repub- lican ranks of California must admit that the bringing of the Republican National Convention to San Francisco would ad- vance the dignity of the party in tiis State. It would have thdt effect in any State in { which it should be held, and that undoubt- edly is one of the salient reasons of a strug- gle among the States whenever the time comes around for the making of a selection. The isolation of Californis—its remoteness from the National concerns of the party and its removal from the elevating influ- ences which a closer contact with the broader interests of the couniry would { assure—would be naturally expected to produce an undue magnifying of local i political interests and the creation of injurious personal ambitions, which fail | to reflect and nourish the sense of dig- nity and National responsibility which the principles of the party should inspire. By the natureof things California shonld be a Republican State, because the princi- | ple of free trade is repugnant to its inter- | ests and hampering to its adyancement. It is not meant by this to snggest that the Republicansof California should be wifling to adopt any course for the good of their State which might be injurious to the Nation, but merely that the Republican | idea of protection finds here the strongest | kind of food for its nourishment, and that | hence it behooves the party in California to develop all the dignity and strength { possible. In spite of many adverse circumstances the State has generally proved itself Re- publican. This is particularly the case in | the interior, where a higher sense of polit- |ical dignity in all parties has prevailed than in San Francisco. In this City the | Democrats generally hold the ascendency, and we know the reputation which that ascendency has given the City We know, too, that with a proper appreciation of the responsibility which Republicans should cherish this condition of affairs need not have existed. The ennobling effect of a National con- vention of either party held in S8an Fran- cisco would be highly valuale in raising the general political tone of the commu- nity in all parties. The moral effect of | such & convention 1s tremendous. And | what city in the country needs such an | elevating influence more than San Fran- cisco? Good citizens of all political Iaiths, inspired by the dignity of a close touch with the great affairs of the Nation, would be moved to take a greater interest in politics, which they would turn their attention would be the shady elements which have dominated local politics in the past. We trust that no good citizen will overlook this important view of the case and that all will be urged to secure the desired re- sult by helping to bring the National Re- publican Convention to San Francisco. MR. VINING'S OBJECTIONS. ‘We shall await with great interest the | written statement which Manager Vining of the Market-street Railway Company has promised to submit to the Merchants’ Association in explanation of his reasons against the issnance of transfers to the Kearny-street electric line. He has fore- shadowed one of his reasons in the declara- tion that if transfers are issued from the Market, the Clay and Sacramento and either the Mission or the Howard street lines to Kearny street they will enable passengers to travel indefinitely in a cir- cuit on one fare. Thislooks a good deal like seizing upon an excuse not to issue any transfers to Kearny street atall from Market, which is the main consideration. In other words, because the merchants have asked too much they shall have nothing. Well, let us admit that the objection which Mr. Vining has urged would prove true—what then? What proportion of the public would employ this advantage of in- definite travel? Manifestly the number would be too small to be taken into ac- count, and manifestly, also, the company enjoys a public benetit of great value, and in simple equity shonld be willing to make s0 small a sacrifice as that. Fuarthermore, the curtailment of this pessible indefinite travel on one fare would not increase the company’s revenues, as such travelers would not pay additional fares if required; they would simply not travel. The only hardship to the company would be the hauling of a limited amount of dead travel. But is it impossible to devise snch a transfer ticket as would not permit of such indefinite travel? We cannot be made to believe it at present. It would be simple, when a conductor is asked for or offersa transfer check, to require the passenger to designate his destination. The conductor could then puneh the check accordingly, and it could be carried through to the destination, instead of being taken up as at present, and punched from one line to another along the route; or a transfer check with coupons could be used. FEither plan would effectively limit the distance traveled. g Both of these systems are in universal use on steam railroads having branches and connections, and we cannot under- stand why they should not be available on streetcar traffic. The coupon plan espe- cially would be much quicker and simpler for the conductors, who under the present, system have to consume # great deal of time in punching. This plan would be much more reliable also, as it is easy to make a mistake in punching a time limit. More than all this, the veople along Kearny street bitterly opposed the intro- duction of an electric line, and they yielded only when the Market-street Com- pany gave its promise that riransfers would be given from Market street. This promise has not been kept. —_— ONe3 THING OVERLOOKED. The Bemis incident has closed and will soon be forgotten, but we shall not so soon Torget a very remarkable omission. While there bas been a most vigorous denuncia- tion of the practice of millionaires in es- tablishing great universities as “benevolent institutions” and yet refusing to permit the employment of professors therein who would warn the young of the dangers to the country which the methods of great trusts create, nothing has been said con- cerning the duties of the public in the premises. If itis wrong for millionaires of the Rock- efeller type to endow a university where a liberal education may not be imparted, what is to be thought of those who send their children to such institutions? In spite of the railings against the policy of the Chicago University it is an interest- ing fact that jts success was insiant and that its popularity has not suffered from the disclosures in the Bemis case. It is true that the indifference of the public does not excuse the wrongdoing of trusts of the Standard Oil character, but it is equally true that it is unjust and self-deluding to charge all the blame to those with whom we should share it. The continuance of wrong in the absence of its toleration would be impossible, and the toleration of wrong 1s connivance in it. There is not a continuing wrong. in this country that would not be righted if the moral tone of the people were sufliciently high and not and one of the first evilsto | | severe cold. ~ one but for whose existence the peop:e are partly responsible. So long as students flock to the Chicago University we shall bave Rockefellers and Standard Oil trusts, and they may expect to thrive without any fear of molestation. OHANDLER'S WAR TALK. Senator Chandler’s prediction of 2 com- ing war with Englana, accompanied by a declaration that while the conflict might be long delayed it ought to be soon begun, is remarkable only because it comes from a Senator who i3 subposed to speak with a full consciousness of his official responsi- bility. From a private citizen it would have occasioned little or no remark mas- much as it expressed no more than the thoughts and sentiments common to a great many Americans, There can be no doubt the people of this country have begun to watch with sus- picion and angry irritation the ageressions of Great Britain in this hemisphere. Our own grievances over offenses committed against our seal fisheries and the Alaskan boundary have by no means been the principal causes of the irritation. The en- croachment on the territory of Venezuela, the bullying methods pursued at Corinto, and the attempt to take possession of the Brazilian island of Trinidad, have been more aggravating than any action aimed directly at ourselves. These aggressions have shown an apparent contempt for our influence in Centrai and South America, a disregard for the Monroe doctrine, and a disposition to act in vioiation of our inter- ests and in spite of our remonstrances. It is possible, however, that the irrita- tion so rapidly growing into a feeling of avowed hostility to Great Britain may be caused largely by the popular conscious- ness of the futility and indifference of the Cleveland administration. 1f the people knew that the Government at Washington was in the hands of strong, resolute, patriotic men, animated by American impulses and sympathies, sharing the sen- timents of the people and watchful to guard every present interest and every historic policy of the country, there would be less irritation against the British Gov- ernment because there would be more confidence in our own. The Cleveland administration, therefore, is really creat- ing a war feeling in the country by its evident unwitlingness to stand by and sus- tain American rights. [t promises to be another illustration of weakness leading to a& war that strength and courage might have avoided. Whatever be the sources of the popular feeling, it is certain the American people are fully prepared now to support an ag- gressive policy in defense of all American terests and the enforcement of the Mon- roe doctrine in its widest application. This feeling is certainly shared to a greater or less extent by Congress. There may not be many Senators willing to speak so frankly as Senator Chandler, but thero are not a few who think as he does and would vote with him if the question should arise. Ii the British Minister warns his Govern- ment of this feeling the crisis may be passed without trouble, but if Salisbury goes on his way and acts upon the belief that Clevelandism is Americanism, the war that Chandler predicts may be nearer than we think. PERSONAL. E. W.Jones, a merchant of Colusa, is at the Grand. W. 8. Leake, Postmaster of Sacramento, is at the Palace. Dr. J. E. Callender of Los Gatos is & guest at the Grand. T. L. Delano, & big quarryman of Rocklin, is at the Lick. W. B. Bayley of the navy registered at the Pelace yesterday. A. B. Glascock, a hotel man from Yosemite, is at the Occidental. W. F. Knox, a banker of Sacramento, put up &t the Grand yesterday. James W. Minturn, a big landowner of Min- turn, is a guest at the Palace. Isidor Alexander, a newspaper man of Sacra- mento, is & guest at the Lick, A. Neilson, & foundryman of Sacramento, registered at the Grand yesterday. William R. Wing of New Bedford, Mass., an owner of whaling ships on this coast, is at the California. M. 8. Sayre, Dictrict Attorney of Lake County, and his bride, arrived here yesterday on their wedding trip and are staying at the Cali- fornia. Fish Commissioner H. F. Emeric came down from San Pablo yesterday for the meeting of the commission and registered at the Occi- dental, Lewis G. Stevenson, son of Adlai E. Steven- son, Vice-President of the United States, ar- rived in the City yesterday on. his way to Japan. He s staying at the Baldwin. George K. Fitch, formerly proprietor of the | Bulletin, has for the past three weeks been confined to his house, 703 Bush street, with a His illness compelled him to re- main in bed most of the time. Mr. Fitch has greatly improved during the last few days and he Is now able to move about the house. e e CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON.: WASHINGTON, D, C., Oct. 31.—Among to- day’s arrivals are: J. R. Leavitt, Los Angeles: 8. B. Northrop, San Francisco; John T. Reynolds, Oakland. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE A WOMAN'S PLEA. SHE THINKS OTHER WOMEN OUGHT T0 STAND BY MRS. DURRANT. To the Editor of The San Francisco Call—Sir: Even among barbarians, I think, be her son in- nocent or guilty,a mother’s agony would be held sacred. The question is now not, Are we re- fined? but Are we civilized? This in view of the position the City has held toward Mrs. Durrant. Paint it out for yourself —one of that mother’s days, seated there in the court- room. Lay your head on such a pillow as her head must occupy each night. Let any mother put herself in her place just for a moment and feel the sick auguish that comes to her at the very thought. ~ - Barbarians add to the victim’s torture. Ciy- ilization should do a1l possible to ameliorate it. What have we done to soften the agony of one of those days in court? We have crfuclzed her bonnets and the make of her dressand some of our papers have, day after day, cari- catured her in her woe. We have tried to make her feel that she has been singled out, and, though in the midst of 300,000;people, must stand alone. What was at stake? Nothing but her boy's life, we knew, o we invented all kinds of vile stories about him and published them in the morning papers and again in the evening papers. To be sure we took them all back next day, but she got the stabs and blows just the same and we had made ourselves secure as regards her nignt’s rest. hen she [!emelo from her long-protracted agony we taunted her with losing the tone she had in the early part of the case. We did seem to be civilized, and that not very long ago, but from a city that produced a “Woman's Congress,” with all iis brain and soul, how have we sunk to such a_hardened state that through all these months of this mother’s brutal persecution not & woman’s so- ciety and not a siugle church has expressed an objection? Mges. M. THRASHER, HELPED WOODLAND, Woodland Mail. The San Francisco CaiL of Monday repro- duced the most of the editorial that recently appeared in the Mail, which reviewed the Erogreu and advancement made in Woodland uring the past ten years. THE CALL by copy- ing our erticle gave Woodland & fine, free ad. :.}uii‘.our people should show their appreciation REVERBERATING. San Jose Mercury. THE CALL’S convention boom is reverberating throughout the East, THE RING HUMBUG. HORSE SENSE I8 WHAT Sax DAviS THINKS THE NEwsPAPERS NEED. The experience of the last few months with a couple of windy prize-fighters kncwn as Cor- bett and Fitzsimmons ought to teach the press of the United States a little common, horse sense regarding the way their columns haye been systematically worked by the people who make thewr living out of pugilism. Of late vears the ring has become an immense money- meking concern, and thyough the slick opera- tions of crafty managers the papers have been made to do the work gratuitousty of getting vast crowds together to witness these events, by which the managers and prineipals are able torealize large fortunes. It seems hardly fair that men engaged in honest, square commer- cial pursuits should be obliged to pay good round rates to the newspapers for advertising their businesses when men who are outside the pale of the law and engaged in violating the statutes of the State in which they operate should be constantly kept before the public and given hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of free advertising per month, If prize-fighting is to become a National pastime, as there seems much likelihood of its doing, the newspapers and the public should insist upon the pastime being brought under such regulations and restrictions as govern other public sports. Horseracing, football, bicycle tournaments and baseball maiches are obliged to conform to certain rules establishea for their guidance, but your prize-fighter is a freeand-easy go-as-you-please fellow, whose only object in life appears to be to make as much mouey as possible by studiously avoid- ing to practice the calling which he claims to follow. Corbett has lived ana waxed fat finan- cially asa professional pugilist, yet he has not struck & blow in the ring for many years, and whenever an opportunity has presented itself for & fight bis manager has managed to dexter- ously avoid or postpone the eveut. In the old Qays of the prize ring the pugilist who main- tained his hold upon the public was obliged to gel into the arena every few months and lick somebody, or he was considered & back num- ber, but in these days the pugilists who do the least tighting seem to siand at the top of the profession. The main reason of this is that as soon as & prize-fighter wins a battle of any im- portance he is picked up by some manager and placed on the stage. The legitimate actor who by years of careful study and hard training is able to appear satis- factorily in dramatic representations is obliged to pay for this advertising. but the pro- fessional pugilist, who uses the stage for the double purpose of making money out of & gul- lible public and avoiding actual encounters in the ring, is given two or three columns & day whenever he appears in a new town. The idea possessed by newspaper proprietars that every- body is hankering aiter this kind of news, and a professional rivalry in getting it, may ac- count for a good deal of the sporting slush which washes through the columns of the press from New York to San Francisco, If the newspapers by common agreement were to treat pugilism like any other business enter- prise and charge all managers of prizefighters- the regular advertising rates the entire irater- nity of pugs would soon quit the business, and it would die out altogether. The following rules and regulations suggest themselves as ap- propriate: 1. A champion of any class must fight every three months or give up his belt. 2. Pugilists going on the stage should be considered as having retired from the ring for- ever, and theatrical managers employing them should be charged double rates for advertising. 3. No mention whatever of any prize-fight to come off should be made in any newspaper except on three occasions, (a) when the forfeit is posted, (b) when the stake money is all up, (¢) when the fight occurs. All other mention of any kind in connection with the affair should be charged for at regular advertising rates, payable in aavance. If these few simple rules were enforced by the newspapers, the crowd ot rough brutes and humbugs who are now making money out of the pugilistic craze would drop into absolute obscurity. In nine casesout of ten, pugilists who make matches to come off at some indefi- nite future time never put up a dollar, and haven't the slightest intention, when they make the matel, of engaging in a fight, if they can possibly avoid it. Corbett and Fitzsim- mons have humbugged the newspapers into glving them nearly a million dollars’ worth of free advertising up to date, and having secured what they wanted, are now praying that the suthorities will be on hand in time to prevent them from getting into the ring. The authori- ties appear to be in the push to help advertise the alleged fights and the game goes merrily on according to their desires. SAM Davis. O FOR AN HOUR OF BLAINE! O for an hour of Blaine! Blaine In the chair of state— And abroad the flag would be more than & rag, And our mandates stern as Fate! The Briton would never dare To gyve the wrists of the free In the western world, where our flag unfuried Bade tyrants stop at the sea! 0 for an hour of Blaine! Biaine at the great ship's helm, That the buccancer of the deep might fear A voice thet could overwheim— The voice of a peerless power, Of a sovereign people’s m As it speaks through the lips of a champion grand Of Liberty and Right. O for an hour of Blaine! And the spirit of great Monroe, Like a gnard would stand of the freeman’s Jand, Afirighting the foreign foe! The lion would venture not On lands ‘neath the eagle’s eye, Nor Venezuela be bound and robbed, Nor vain be the Cuban’s cry. FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. An Oregon Editor’s View of It. Salem (Or.) Capital Journal. It appears, to a far Western man up a tree, that England has lost her opportunity for con- trol in Asiaand is solicitous for union with our Government along several lices. England is on her last legs as the ell-poweriul nation of the world. She holds witn tenacity to the single gold standard as a sole mears of con- quest. And the silver nations are beating her everywhere, Now They’ll Know What’s What. Tulare Reglste Bloomers are not pretty. They are not near pretty. They may be sensible. but when the sensible clashes with the beautiful it ise sad experience for the merely sensible. But the bloomer with the short skirt is pretty. It covers up the ebomiunable misfitness of the bloomer and makes a woman look much less like & frog, and is at once the most sensible und neatest walking, riding or eycling habit & WOIAN CAD Wesr. ‘Woes of the Newspaper Man. Bodie Miner. 1f an editor would bend to the nod and beck of all the people who think they should be listened to in'.regard to running & newspn&mr whatkind of & paper would he issue? One man will eriticize your editorial, another finds fault with your locals, either because you have 100 few or 100 many, or because soime one's name Wwas not mentioned. This is a very strange world, made up of an odé people. “¢Oh, For an Hour of Blaine!”” Stockton Independent. Itis not the Monroe doetrine that is troub- ling the parties to the Venezuelan dispute. It is the doubt as to whether that doctrine is a reality or & phantom. The United States should either give it a real existence orlay it quietly in the grave, As a ghost it only serves to {righten the timid and excite the ridicule of the strong. The Naked Truth. Santa Barbara Press. The self-made man, who boasts that he started in life withou: a centin his pocket, is exceptional only from the fact that mosi men start in life without even a pocket. Another ¢« Possibility '’ Dead. Portland (Or.) Telegram. Scratch Senator Palmer from your list of Presidential possibilities. e, t00, has written HOPE IT WILL SUCCEED. Whatcom (Wash.) Reveille. It is to be hoped that 8an Francisco's effort to secure the holding of the next National Republican Convention in thet City will suc- ceed. It would be of general benefit to the Pacific Coast, and it wouid do the way-down East delegates good to come o far west. Prob- ably many of them know but little about this section, aud many Eastern persons have been wont to regard the West about as accurately as Boston does the Indian question, A HIGHLAND DANCE AT BALMORAL, Aiter a day’s successful deer shooting one of the sights of the season at Balmoral or Aber- geldie Castle, but chiefly at the latter,isa deer dance, wherein the deerdo not dance, but lie impassive and dead enough, head and tail, in numbers of two, three or more, at the chief entrance. After the royal dinner—and the darker the night the better—long heavy torches, called “sownacks,” made of splints of dry bog fir bound together with green birchen withes, are lighted and held aloft by a number of stalwart kilted Highlanders, a piper or two, splendidly radiant in tartan and silver, strike up & march, and the royal sportsmen, accom- panied by all the princesses, ladies and gentle- men of their suite, come into the lurid circle to view the trophles of the day. After inspec- tion and remarks a torch is handed to each of the princes, invariably dressed in full Highland costume, four or more of whom take their places at the heed of a long line of jagers, keepers, foresters and gillies, each with a flaming torch, to dance a reel. The piper manipulates a strathspe: and reel from his drones and chanter, and all foot the light fantastic Highland fling, with whoops and yells and wild hurrahs. To the quick pulsations of moneymusk and hulachan, tartan kilts and plaids, brawny limbs an jeweled belts and dirks, fleet and whirl in wild yet measured confusion beneath the lines of scintillating tame. But the powers of muscle and lung scon flag on the dull gravelly surface that serves for dancing-floor. A bonfire is made of the “sownack” stumps, amid a chorus of cheers that resound far through the dark welkin. Jingling glasses are charged with the “‘strong wiae” of the country, and emptied to tousts, by the dancers; then royalty seeks its bed-chamber, the great clock overhead chimes forth some hour near miduight, and the grand spectacular display is over—ior & night. All the royal family sre fond of dancing, and among the “events'’ of their sojourn in the Highlands, balls, to which tenantry and ser- vants are all invited, have held a prominent place. Asmight be expected, life is gayer at Abergeldie than at Balmoral, At these bails 8ll soclal distinctions are disregarded. The one fiat is “dance,” which the Highlanders are notslow to do. Their dancing is characterized by much vigorous leaping, kicking, swinging, reeling, thumb-cracking and interjectional “woochs,’” Another occasion of merrymaking that comes with birthdaylike regulariy is the great Scot- tish festal night of Halloween, celebrated on the 31st of October of each year. The mystic rites of that evening, so graphically portrayed by Burns, are somewhat in abeyance at Bal- moral, but instead the Highland custom of robbing witch-spells of their terrors throu; the cieansing agency of fire may here be nessed in all its pristine elory. Blazing * nacks,” carried. round the castle literall! hundreds after sunset, constitute the purir; media, and form, especially at & distance, n nxghlx that must be seen to be fully appreci- ated. All these amusements are varied by the at- tendance of fi lass concert and dramatie companies. There is nomonotony. The tone of éverything said and done, grave 8s well fs gay, is aecidedly healthy. Life goes “merry as & marriage bell,” whose chimes bring to rec- ollection” the fact that Balmoral has ever afforded idyllic iacilities for courtship. Be- sides the Imperial Prince of Germany, here the Grand Duke of Hesse and the Marquis of Lorne wooed and won their brides. In each case there was fer more wooing and fewer “reasons of state” than sentimental outsiders are in the habit of believing. Royalty in ns%ree, unassuming and joyous intercoutse with the Highland character of proverbial independence meets with no coarse- ness of feeling or action, no fawning formali- ties, no dissimulation and no distrust. The social gap between the monarch and the peas- antis here bridged with a facility as graceful as cordirl, that might well be imitated by the noble and commoner elsewhere.—From *‘Queen Victoria’s Highland Home,” by J. R. Hunter, in Harper's Magazine for October. SOME PRESIDENTIAL SPECULATIONS Philadelphia Record. Ex-President Harrison 1may siready be counted out of the field. Ex-Speaker Reed, with his programme of reciprocity with the cheap silver nations and tariff discrimination against the gold standard nations, is becoming an unavailable candidate as the free siiver epiGemic declines, and as the danger of protec- tlonist agitation grows more apparent. At the same time the shrewd head shakings in regard to Governor McKinley and his high tariff are more frequent, while Senator Allison is forging to the front as'the safest candidate on the Re- publican slate. Senator Allison’s moderate and conservative position on the tariff in the great change of industrial conditions and his sound record on the money question give him a decided advantage over is competitors, Pittsburg Chronicle. William C. Whitney is & candidate for the Presidency. Of course if Mr. Whitney is going to devote his whole time to politics he will try to obtain the highest rewerd in the political field. Mr. Whitney will not be a candidate for any small office. He thinks the Presidency is about his size. It is said, furthermore, that Mr. Whitney feels that Mr. Cleveland has not treated him fairly since he made Mr. Cleveland President in that the latter listens to the ad- vice of other men. Therefore Mr. Whitney has sm;;ped making another man President and will see what he can do for himself in that line of manuiacture. Cllcago Inter Ocean. There are some seven months yet before the convention. Perhaps events will shape them- selves by that time, but quite likely the nomi- nation will be as uncertain when the delegates meet as it is to-day, but even so, the conven- tion will not be at the mercy of accident. The aetual settlement upon a candidate may be de- ferred until the last day of the convention. All that is uncertain, but obviously the seeds of harmonious action have been planted, and very likely it will be obvious, in advance of Lhrusling in the sitkle, what the hurvest is to €. Philadelphia Record. About the worst waste of space in the news- papers nowadays is ocessioned by the Presi- dendial third t discussion. There is prob- ably notaman in the United States who has ever been President, or who stnnds any chance of ever being elected President, who would ae- cept a third-terin candidacy. That matter was settled for good at the beginning, and a clinch was put uvon the original settlement when General Grant was defeated for renomination. Philadelptis Times. If Campbell shall be chosen in Ohio, as is now certainly within the range of possibility, although somewhat remote, there will be no dispute in the Democratic ranks as to their leader in 1896. The man who could recover Obio to the Democrats after the sweeping dis- sters of the last two years, especially one so well equipged in statesinanship and character as is Campbell, could not have his leadership disputed in the great battle of next year. Cincinnati Enquirer. Mr. Cleveland is & candidate for a third torm, and will continue to be unless he finds that it is useless to persevere. We do not seo any reason why we should mince words in this matter. Tiie fact is one which the Democracy of this country will have to contempiate. If they want Mr. Clevelund ugain they can get im. Lancaster (Pa.) Examiver, It is said that ex-President Harrison has made $175,000 in fees since resuming his law ractice. Pretty good, but then 50,000 & year s also fine for a steady thing, especially with the various side advantages which aré inci- dent to a life in the White ay cent conferences of the Republican National Committeemen in New York it is given out that McKinley stock has gone down, Reed stock has advanced, Allison stock “is unafiected and Harrison stock found no takers. *Mary, fetch my overcoat out of the hali and bring me an _easy-chair into the garden. I've just spotted my mother-in-law coming up {o the house, and when she rings you can tell her T'mout. I don't mind spending my evening with Mars, but 1 ber my wife's” ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CORONATION OF KALAKAUA—P. M., City. David Kalakaua, King of the Hawaiian Islands, was elected in 1874, but was not crowned until February 12, 1883. He was the first King crowned and the coronation was & carrying out of the ideas of Kamehameha 111, who, msp\r_(‘d by Chuistian education, desired that his oflice of sovereignty should be confirmed by a cere- mony of coronation in accordance with the en- lightened forms and accompanied with the Christian symbols that have been associated with royalty in European couniries. A crown was procured, but before the time for the cere- mony of placing it on his head arrived he died. His successors, Kamehameha IV, Kamehameha V and Lunalilo, each wanted to adopt the idea of Kamehameha II1, but each died before i rangements could be made to perform the ce; emony. Then Kalakauaaecided to be crowned, and in 1880 the coronation act was passed by an almost unanimous vote. The King's travel around the world interfered with the original plan for the ceremonial. In 1882 the Assembly provided additional funds to defray the ex- enses of the ceremony, and on the day named Kalakaua and his Queen were crowned. The first Hawaiian chief who was inducted into office with a ceremonial was Kamehameha II. He was surrounded by all his people and the dowager Queen, Kaahmeanu, iransferred the kingdom over to him. Previous to that the chief who succeeded to sovereign authority was invested with a feather cloak, or royal mantle. HoMESTEAD—C. W., City. A homestead is subject to execution and forced sale in satisfac- tion of judgment obtained: Before the declaration of homestead filed for record, and which constitutes 4 lien on the prem- ises. On debrs secured by mechanics, contractor, sub- contractor, artisan, architect, builder, laborer of every class, and material men or venders’ liens on the premises. On debts secured by mortgage on the premise: executed and acknowledged by husband and wife or by an unmarried claimant. on debts secured by mortgage and recorded be- fore the declaration of homestead. MARRIAGE—A. W., City. Under the law in this State at present contract marriages are 0o longer recognized, but if for twelve years be- fore the repeal of the law that permitted con- tract marriages & man had lived with & woman as his wife, she had borne him children and the birth of each child bad been recorded in the name of the father, and the father had ac- knowledged their mother as his wife, though there was no marriage ceremony, the ¢hildren would come in for their share of ihe father’s rop(‘lisy if he should die and ignore them in is will. THE QUEENS OWN—B.. Haywards. Three reg- iments of the English armny compose Queen Victoria’s bodyguard. These are the Grena- diers, the Coldstream Guard and the Scots. The latter wear the Highland costume. The costume of the others differs from that of the infantry chiefly in the facings and the head- gear, the latter being the well-known bear skin with white and red plumes, the first named for the Grenadiers and the Jast for the Coldstream. The uniform of these two regi ments is blue pantaloons, scarlet coat with white and biue facings and bearskin hat. MoNTEREY RaiLrosp—T. R., City. What was known as the Monterey railroad was chartered February 26, 1874, and it was & narrow-guage concern r\:nnin‘g from_Castroville to Salinas. It was opened in 1875. On the 22d of Oc tober, 1879, it was sold under foreclosure and on the 24th of January, 1880, it passed into the control of the Southern Pacific, when it was changed to the standard width and ex- tended to Monterey, which became the termi- nus instead of Salinhs. THE BERKELEY EXPLoSION—N. J. M., City. The explosion of the powder works at Berkeley when the shock was S0 severe that 1t smashed agentflenl of glass in this City, was on the 9th of July, 1893. There were three explo. sions—one ‘at 9:21 in the morning, the second 219:294 and the third at 9:113 o'clock. Five persons were killed. FOREIGN VESSELS—F. C. J., City. Foreign ves sels are not permitted to do business between American ports. In the cases you name it may be that the vessels were forced to put into an American port for repairs and that then each sailed for another American port. A BILLION—A. O. 8., City. According toEng- lish numeration & billion is a million of mil- lions_or 1,000.000,000,000, but according to the United States and French method of num- eration a billion is one thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000. SUNDAY Law—S., City. There is no law in this State requiring saloons to close on the Sabbath. The law commonly called “The Sun- day Law,” relating to the transaction of busi- nexs on Sundays, was repealed February 8, DOUGLASS—M. B., City. Douglass street in this City was not named for Captain Douglass, the retired police captain. Captain Douglass is o native of New York City CARRYING THE MAIL — Subscriber, Oekland. No_individual or corporation is permitted to carry letters or mail matter in opposition to the United State: VERSES ON THE RUN. BRADY'S FARCE. The lanky Fitzsimmons he swore, through his tile, From Ilot Springs none could exclude him; He tried on a sneak, but his nose got & tw: For the Governor still pursned him. ADVICE TO WILLIE. O Willie Nye, zo: zet thee hence! Thou wilt, unless thy wits grow dense, Cease imitating Ward and Twain, ‘Whose balts ne'er dropped for mirth in vain, And guit the platiorm, Wille, de: Thy “leciures” force the pitying tear. Just print the “thinks which thou hast thunk”; Thy “‘speech” betrays thee “off thy chunk.” Of thee how more than true 'ifs said, “The silent mouth, the wiser bead.” ROUND VALLEY CRIMES, Awful Story of Blood. Shasta Courfer. The San Francisco CALL has published a his- tory of Round Valley and its crimes. It is an awful story of blood, violence, perjury and in- justice, and that such could have taken place in this State seems incredible. For the good name of California the fullest investigation should follow and justice terribly scourge the guilty. Tosum up THE CALL'S charges the valley has Leen fraudulently and forcibly held from public settlement and goboled up until mainly under control of one man—White, the cattie king—and in accomplishing this THE CaLL states that murder was & very common instra- ment. It charges that White had around him aband of assassins and {,)erjurers, and with their aid accomplished all ends and eoncealed all erimes. They shot men from ambush and tried to swear & good woman’s name away. The recital of the matter is more thrilling than the production of the pen of fiction, and among the crimes laid to tnis gang is the killing of Littiefield;" also the shooting of George Errick- son in Trinity—a bloody murder that cries for redress to-day, and will ery, unless appeased, as long as any living Seems Incredible, Guadaloupe Standard. It does not seem possible that such a state of affairs could exist in this glorious State of Cali- fornia as that existing in Round Valley, in Mendocino County, and exposed in last Mon- day’s CALL. George E. White, “King ot Round Valley,” tically controls the wheels of justice and his hired minions commit arson, perjury and murder and go unmolested. It i% 10 be lm{-ed that Governor Budd's reward for the parties implicated in the hanging of Jack Littiefield will Tesult in running the cutthroats to earth and the establishment of law and ordte‘r in this beautiful and otherwise favored section, an will ever remember. A Good Job. Bakersfleld Californian. THE OALL has started in on a good job by ex- posing the long chapter of crime which has ained the history of Round Valley, in Men- ocino County. But 1t stops short at justone importans. point. It does not point out the legal hend which has been behind all this erime and chicanery and directed each siep that has been taken. That there is & master mind, well versea in all the devions ways of circumventing the law, upon which White has all these years depended for advice, is appar- ent. Why not come out squarely and tell the whole story? Mysteriously Murdered. Los Angeles Journal. The San Francisco CALL writes up a terrible record of crime at Round Valley in a long article. Nearly the entire valley is owned by & “Cattle King” named White, and it is alleged that would-be settlers in the val- ley heve been mysieriously murdered and that V‘lfle owns the courts and juries of Mendocino County. Inan editorial that journal calls for a sweeping investigation. HAND TYPESETTING. Mariposa (Cal.) Gazette, The tyvesetting machines are raising havoc with the printers of San Francisco. The big dailies in that city are all using machines with the exception of THE MORNING CALL, which is still set by the old system. SHORT CAMPAIGNS. St. Paul Ploneer. A short campaign would be a godsend, not only to the business men of the country and to the really influential and active pohllgll managers, to the men who represent the brains of political parties, but above all to the news- papers. In their daily work they constitute the chiet educative power wlxlfll ll;n’()lds L:m ion which expresses itself in votes D PR Bt Tong campaigns load_them With contributed trash in the shape of what is called eampaign literature, which is of small value in influencing public sentiment. Obe- dient to the exigencies of political committees, they feel obliged to open their columns to no end of swashin the shape of speeches and Qocuments. Short campaigns would relieve them of this costly and in the main useless burden. Washington Post. The movement in favor of & short Presiden- tal campaign is becoming formidable. Party organs, statesmen and politicians in large numbers are pushing it along, nn;l the inde- endent newspapers ate a unitin its support. })L is not dlflivl‘xl! to understand why the man- agers of local cRmpaigns prefer a long canvasss for the longer the struggle the greater the amount of cash for them to handle. Experience has shown that there is & probability of per- sonal profit in the manipulation of campaign funds. There is no rigid system of accounting in such affairs, and it is & fact that men of questionable eharacter push themselves into places that afford opportunities for gain when- ever a hot campaign is on. New York Tribune. Everybody except the horde of camp-follow- ers, mercenary publishers, strikers and “spell- binders,” who are for themselves, not the party, would welcome the end of the long campaigns that have preceded our National elections. These wenrisome canvasses relic of the days when mails were tran on horseback—when the railroad wa: periment and the telegraph a dream of entists. They are out of place at presen have been for a long time. Notin twenty-five years has there been a Presi campaign that could not have been advan- tageousiy begun three months later than il conventions were held. Providence Telegram. One reason why both political parties are grewing more and more in favor of short Pre: dential campaigns is that there is less dar in a short campaign than in a long oneth the 11 say something Indiscree The history of politics is a pa strewn with the letons of cand datures that began well, but came to ign jous ends because the candidates w T ble of avoiding blunders with tongue or pen. Why is it that a Presidential candid finds it so difficult, to use & Wes to open his mouth without putting his foot in it? Chieago Times-Herald, The country has not only shown decided preference for shorter Presidential campaigns but & distinet desire to inquire into the reason for profligate campaign expenditures. Why should & National crmpaign committee he te of thousands of doliars in debt and be com- pelled to put up a future National convention atauction as the only means of finding the money to pay the debis of the previous cam- paign? Indianapolis News. It seems to us that all suggestions that work together for a common-sense ordering of affairs re-enforee the proposition of reduction in the length of National campaigns. It is a topio that the press of try ought to take up, and that boards of trade everywhere ought 1o consider. Consideration, we believe, will lead to general approval of tiie action of the Cleve- land Board of Trade. ITowa State Register, Campaign speeches will never go out of style, but they will be fewer in the future than they have been in the past. The hustings wets once all important. They are not so now. A very creditable campaign could ‘be made now- adays without speeches, exeept a few by the announced leaders, the same to be given wide publication in the newspup THE MINING BOOM STAYS. Jackson (Amador County) Dispaich. The San Francisco CALLof last Wednesday had an elaborate illustrated article, giving an account of the recent rich strike in the Jack- son Gate mine, which has been opened up un- der the management of D.Guttman. This, Lowever, 1s only one of the numerons mines along the mother lode that are yielding en- couraging prospects. There is no denying the fact that the mining counties are o the eve of baving a veritable boom. In fact, there 13 every reason to believe that the mining boom has come to BROKEN, mixed can nsend's.® - S > THE Roberts Printing Co.—picture cards. —— BACON Printing Company,508 Clay street.* o ek s SPECTAL information datly to manufacturers, business houses and publie men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Monigomery. * — - Audubon was born in Louisiana, on May 4 1780. His father, a Frenchman, settled in Louisians, but afterward purchased a farm near the present village of Narcissa, on Per- kiomen Creek, not far from Philadelphia. This farm young Audubon inherited about 1798, and here he was thereafter whenever he was “at hom ained pretty stendily here for twelve y ing for & company which was operating a lead mine near there. Meehan’s Monthly tells us that the old house is still standing, as is the neighboring house from which Audubon had his wife, It is said to heve been a strong love match. In 1810 he started off on his great hunt for birds, remoy- ing his wife and children to Henderson, Ohi In 1826 he went to London, where his great work on Ameriean birds was published. THE blood purified, enriched and vitalized by Hood’s Sarsaparilla carries hiealth to every organ of the system. Hood's Sarsaperilla has sccom- plished wonders for people who were “all run down.” “Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrap" Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth. ers for their children while Teething with perfecs success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowely and is the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whethee arising from teething o other causes. For sala by Druggists in every part of the world. Fesurean ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrip. 46e 4 bottle. e ¢‘Dressed in a Little Brief Authority.”® Dunsmuir News, Should the four-year term of county officials be kuocked out those in oflice will not feel as important as they do now. owe their origin to the pular belief that the ndians were the first smokers. Some learned men, who should know, claim this is a mistake; but it is NoT a mistake— according to men who po know—that of its kind the new Estr:ella Cigar is by far the finest. New crop Havana-—new sizes—bright, light colors, 2for 25¢.~10¢.~3 for 25¢. ESBERG, BACHMAN & 0. S.F. ‘WHOLESALE AGENTS