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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. ¢ CALL, six months, by mail 3.00 three months, by mail 1.50 v . one month, by iail 'AL1, one yesr, by meil. WEEELY CaLL, one year, by mail. S OFFICE : 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Selephone. ..Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Yelephone. £7CMontgomery stre §:50 o'clock. £5¢ Haves strect : open until 933 Lerkin street; open until BW . corner Sixteenth and Mi ¥ntil § o'clock. 4818 Mission street; open nntil 9 o'clock. 336 Ninib street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 82, 34 Park Row DAVID M. FOL fon streets; open ew York City. WEDNESDA' THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e All is Republican. e Prepare for Thanksgiving. The revival is everywhere. It is our Maryland this morning. Grover was wise—he went to bed early, The convention proposition is some- thing that everybody can subscribe to. Put your money in the convention fund, and the whole Nation will hear it talk, Perhaps it was the Junta that made up its mind to retire from practical politics. It will be a surprise party for Pittsburg, but she can come in and enjoy the frolic. Evenif there isenough of Democracy left for seed there is no ground for planting it. Mr. Manley may live in Maine, but he is a good enough Western man for this issue. Now in the School Department we have two heads—are they really better than one? Tammany managed to getin a heavy swat on the beautiful cause of purity and reform, New York might as well make a public holiday of the Marlborough wedding and be done with it. Democracy once more shows Buckley’s face upon its wrinkled front and acts as if it wanis to kick. R T Cleveland was wise in issuing his Thanksgiving proclamation before he heard from the elections. Another trial of Durrant could hardly make matters worse for him, but it would be a hard trial for the people. The new French Cabinet is evidently full of chestnuts; it promises a pro- gramme of economy and reform. The strike on the Great Northern is on, but it is getting to be mightv cold weather up there for the boys to walk out in. Cleveland has a splendid chance to illumine his message by asserting the Monroe doctrine in a few lucid words. It appears the decent elements of the City will have all the work of downing Buckley to do over again, but they yean do it. There may be some truth in the story that the Spaniards fear we will recognize Cuba, for they do not know Cleveland as well as we do, A trip across the continent will be a kind of higher education to the Easterners, but we must first educate them up to the point of taking it. It is useless to ask it, of course, but would it not be just as well in the interest of American girls to have the Vanderbilt and Marlborough affair hushed up? There are a good many Democrats who would like Cleveland to publish his mes- sage as a serial, and start out with the in- stallment on the third term at once. Van Alen is one memberof the Four Hundred who can be absent from the crush at the grand matrimonial salliance without anybody asking the reason why. Somehow the discussion over the ap- pointment to the vacancy on the Supreme Bench has got lost in the air, but the bench is still there with lots of eyes on it. Inall the racket about Venezuela it is worth noting that we have never heard whether British Guiana took Chamber- lain’s advice and bought those Maxim guns. Supervisor King may be right in saying he once went to school to the late Super- intendent Mouider, but it is evident he would have profited more if he had gone twice. & Now that the campaign in Cuba has become aggressive we shall hear of battles nearly every day, and if yon wish to keep posted on victories yon must get a tally-card and watch the score, There was a time when every com- munity with water-power was satisfied, but now every such community is trying to convert the power into electricity in order to keep up with the world. Now that it has been determined to pave the northern end of Van Ness avenue it is to be hoped the improvement will be carried forward as rapidly as is con- sistent with good work. When the avenue is thus completed we can then look forward to the beginning of a boulevard running westward from it to the Presidio and so round to the Cliff House that will be one of the finest driveways ifi the world. Commenting on the statement of the New York San that the Republican National Convention should be held either in that city or in this, and that Chicago is mot worth noticing as a claimant, the Inter Ocean says: “San Francisco will scarcely regard it as a com- pliment in being cast in company with New York. She has some claims which Republicans will consider, while New York has scarcelv been thought of by any- body.” The dispute is becoming alto- gether lovely. A few more of these smenities and the convention is ours, | ocracy is more hopelessly THE ELECTIONS. The State elections in the Bast have resulted in a series of Republi- can victories equal to the expec- tations of the most sanguine. Wher- ever the vote turned upon National issues, as in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, Towa and Nebraska, the majorities are sufficiently large to overwhelm the free- traders. The administration has not a ray of comfort anywhere, and National Dem- demoralized than ever. Even in those States where local issues were more vital to the campaign than National questions the resuits are equally reassuring. Tammany, has, indeed, succeeded in carrying New York City, but the State remains firmly Repub- lican and wiil continne the work of re- form in local politics. In Maryland the rule of the Democratic boss has been utterly shattered. Gorman has met his Waterloo and dragged down with him his candidate for Governor and his colleague, Senator Gibson, whose place will be filled hereafter by a Republican. It seems also that Kentucky has kept pace with Maryland and taken rank as a Republican State. These victories may have been achieved on local issues, but they are significant of the drift of things, and afford assurance that the Solic South has at last ceasea to exist in our pol- itics. It is not easy to estimate at this time the far-reaching consequeunces likely to result from the election. Democracy, already divided, will now be completely dembralized. It seems impossible that its discordant and defeated factions can get together and harmonize sufficiently to make an effective campaign in 1896. There is no platform upon which these factions can agree, nor any candidate upon which they can unite. The experiment with free trade has killed the party that supported it. There must al- ways be two parties in this country, but it will be long before there 1s another free-trade party. This is good enough for the day. tory has been everywhere on the side of protection and honest government. We can dismiss poli- tics with glad hearts and prepare for Thanksgiving. NOW FOR HARD WORK. The plan of campaign decided upon at the mass-meeting held in this City Mon- day to work for the holding of the Repub- lican National Convention here includes a general committee of fifteen, which shall have the general managemert of the fight; a committee of twenty, which may be in- creased to eighty, to solicit and collect funds, and a committee on promotion, which will work on the Republican National Committee. These committees are to be composed of able and public- spirited citizens who enjoy the confidence of the public, and their selection will not be based on any political idea; their mem- bers will come from all political parties. The plan is thus made entirely non- political. It is a people’s movement, or- ganized and carried out as a messure for the public good. The members of the committees are drawn from all parts of the State, so that it is not San Francisco’s fight alone. Every community will be charged with its share of work and re- sponsibility, and every citizen will be ex- pected to do his duty. The committees bandling the funds are to give a public accounting at the close of their work. There need be no uneasiness that money will be wasted or otherwise misappro- priated. The campaign now begun will prove a perfect test of the temper of the individuals and of the peopleat large. The extent to which ruinous siluriansexists in California will be ascertained to a nicety. The re- ports of the sub-committees to the general committees will constitute a valuable rec- ord of the individual worth of every Cali- fornian who is able to contribute his mite to the undertaking. The matter is wholly different from any that has ever been presented to the people before. In comparison with it the Mid- winter Fair, to which contributions were made on so generous a scale, and which was a very important undertaking, was insignificant, and yet that has been the one affair of importance next to this. That was merely to call the attention of the world to the resources and attractions of California; this is to instruct a great polit- ical party which constitutes a vital ele- ment in the direction of the country’s affairs, and which may be in a position to throw the whole weight of the Government into the task of developing the matchless resources of this region. The committee baving the work actually in hand will rest under the most serious obligation that has ever fallen upon public committees charged with efforts for the public good. They must represent in its highest form the spirit of progress which abides in the more progressive elements of the State. There need be no fear that they will underestimate their resvonsibility or prove lacking in its discharge. GRAND JURY RECOMMENDATIONA. The present Grand Jury is displa ying an uncommon amount of hard common-sense. The recommendations which its committee has made to the Board of Supervisors are in the main eminently wise and practical. Among them are the following: An or- dinance curing tbe defects of the present ordinance prohibiting pool-selling in the City; better accommodations for the police in the outlying stations; clearing the side- walks of goods placed on display; amend- ments of the regulations governing the Street Department so as to provide that the Street Superintendent, instead of be- ing empowered to accept work that has been done to his “satisfactlon,” shall be made to require that it be done according to specifications, and so as to permit the appointment of street-work inspectors se- lected by property-owners instead of by the Superintendent. It seems strange that the Supervisors bave not passed an adequate pool-selling ordinance before this, asit has been several weeks since the decision declaring the present ordinance inadequate was ren- dered. Inthe meantime poolrooms have sprung up in the City and are daily crowded, and openly carry on their operations. Their presence in the heart of the City should and could be suppressed. The proposed amendment requiring the Street Superintendent to accept no work which does not conform to the specifica- tions is another of those confessions that we are unable to elect public officers who will do their duty in the absence of exceed- ingly strict specific regulations to govern them. In other words, we depend more upon the efficacy of such regulations than on the integrity of the officer, Such regu- lations as that here proposed seem to be a confession that in the absence of power to elect honest officers we must invest them with all possible restrictions. It isa fatal overlooking of the fact that a dishonest officer can always find a way to evade the strictest regulations that may be devised to check his rascally instinct. The other recommendation, that in- spectors of public improvements made at the expense of private property-owners be appointed by the owners themselves, in- stead of the Street Superintendent, is the result of recent discoveries of shameless rascality and incompetency on the part of inspectors whom the Superintendent has had in the field. The suggested change has much the same character as the one above discussed, and goes to the same voint of official honesty. - Still it has much to recommend it. It would greatly reduce the patromage controlled by the Superin- tendent and the corrupt political ring which may elect and use him, and that would serve to make the office less at- tractive to rogues and more attractive to honest men. ENGLAND IS ENERGETIC. With that bold conception and prompt execution of design which bave made England mistress of the seas a British steamship line has been established which means more to the United States, and par- ticularly to California, than any other commercial enterprise of recent times. The English company has put on two steamships to ply between the Orient and New York by way of the Suez canal. They have siready sailed from Canton, taking Chinese and Japanese products, and have established the astonishingly low rate of $38 a ton of forty cubic feet. If this does not mean that the American merchant marine will be driven out of the Oriental trade we have no proper concep- tion of the situationg It would not have been surprising if the English company had established this hine between Canton and Liverpool, but to come boldly into the American trade solely is a stunning stroke of enterprise. The rates charged by the American steamship companies between the Orient and California, coupled with the overland rail charges hence to the Atlantic seaboard, are absolutely prohibitive when compared with this rate made by the new company. San Francisco has atready lost a tremen- dous part of the Oriental traflic by the es- tablishment and subsidizing of the steam- ship line operated in connection with the Canadian Pacific Railway. Even that line cannot now compete with the rates of the new English company, and as for the American companies their traffic will be confined to supplying the Pacific Coast of the United States. It will be impossible to land Oriental goods on this coast for transhipment overland to the Eastern States. 1t does not seem credible at a glance that the new company can operate its line at a profit, judging from the rates exacted from trans-Pacitic Iines. But Englishmen are shrewd and able, and their success on the high seas in the past is a warranty of their ability to maintain the new arrangement. 1f they can operate the line at this figure we are furnished by that fact with abund- ant evidence of the exorbitance of the charges which are now imposed by the American companies, The new company will likely revolution- ize traffic on the Pacific Ocean. If itac- complished no more, it will force down trans-Pacific rates to California, for if itcan be proved that steamships can profitably carry freight for $8 a ton from Canton to New York, there will be an irresistible invitation to establish rival trans-Pacific lines and force down the rates. A BRITISH VIEW OF BOWLER. Comptroller Bowler,whose presumptuous refusal to pay the sugar bounties appro- priated by Congress has made him so notorious in this country as a small-sized imitation of Cieveland, has won the satis- faction of knowing that the fame or at least the name of him has reached Eng- land and has occasioned comment there. The Sugar Cane, a journal published in Manchester, says: The Comptroller of the United States Treas- ury Department, after hearing the various deputies of the aggrieved sugar-planters, has decided that he was acting in accordance with the constitution in forbidding payment of the bounty authorized by the late Congress. Thus the unfortunate planters, who certainly had & clear moral right to the whole of the bounty, but had to be contented with only the half, cannot even obtain this without resorting to the slow process of contesting the matter in the Court of Claims. Truly these things are “‘cosas de Espana,” and behind this arbitrary action of the individual may lurk the unseen influence of the entire Government; but we may be allowed to remark that under our sup- posed “effete” monarchical system no official, or body of officials whatever, would be allowed thus to frustrate the carrying out the decision of the Neational Assembly, and we venture to assert that after all there is more real freedom and justice in such matters in this country than in the Great Republic, ‘We need not concede the final claim that there is more real freedom and justice in England than in this country in order to admit the essential justice of the main portions of this critiei: A written con- stitution is of great advantage to a nation, but, like everything else in this world, it is liable to abuse. Bowler has abused ours by taking advantage of his petty office and brief authority to assume a right to declare unconstitutional an act of Congress. Such abuses, however, cannot last long. The Supreme Court will overrule Bowler’s de- cision, and the return of the Republican party to power will dismiss Bowler himself, None the less has a great injustice been done to the sugar-growers of the country, and on the Democratic party rests the responsibility of having put into oftice a man who not only defrauds the creditors of the Government but subjects the Goy- ernment itself to the caustic criticism of foreigners. PERSONAL. Dr. W. E. Osborne and wiie of Eldridge, Cal., ere at the Grand Hotel. Edward M. Greenway will leave New York for San Francisco next Saturday. P. A. Buell, a prominent lumber-dealer of Stockton, is registered at the Grand. Among the arrivals at the Lick House yester- day was J. B. Peakes, the popular hotel man of Stockton. 0. V. Eaton, manager of the Stanford foot- ball team, isin town and registered at the Pal- ace Hotel. E.W. Runyon, the Red Bluff banker, was among the guestsregistered at the Palace Hotel yesterday. F. A. West of Stockton, one of the most prom- inent wine merchauts of that city, is at the Occidental. R. C. Walrath, the well-known mining man of Nevada City, arrived in this City yesterday and put up at the Lick House. Mr. Walrath was interested with the late W. W. Stow in min- ing in Nevada County. NEGOTIATIONS PENDING. The Marysville Appeal says that tnhe story from THE CALL to the effect that the Glenn ranch has been sold to the railroad is denied by F. G. Lusk, the attorney who has charge of the estate’s affairs. He says there is positively no truth in it. Negotiations have been pend- ding, but no agreement has been reached, ONE CONVICTION ENOUGH. Bacramento Bee. What is the use of trying Durrant for the murder of Minnie Williams? He can only hang once, no matter how many murders he has committed. Let the Blanche Lamont case have the floor on the gallows and pass the Minnie Williams case. A SUPERFLUOUS MURDER. Santa Barbara News. 1f it were merely his purpose to be hanged Durrant must see by this time that two mur- ders were superfiuous, LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE DURRANT'S LAWYERS. 70 the Editor of the San Francisco Call—Ste: Trom the statements 1n the newspapers it would seem that the attorneys for Durrant have expressed their individual belief in his inno- cence. Those gentlemen are all reputable and experienced attorneys, and, therefore, it is scarcely possible that in this respect they have been truthfully represented. An underlying and inexorable rule in respect to the relation Letween attorney and client is that the indi- Vvidual opinion, or even the knowledge, of the attorney, derived from his client, has nothing to do with the case in which he is retained. His capacity is merely representetive. As we live under the law, it is his duty to see that Lis client is triea according to the law, which “fe ience has demonstrated to be the oniy saiety, elike for the sccused and the com- munity. It is his perticular function, upon the trial, to prevent the introduction of testi- mony not relevant, material and competent, and to discuss the facts, received from the wit: nesses in the courtroom, unaffected by any statements or opinions from the outside world, including the press, fairly and clearly. When this duty is performed his work is done. Whether for tlie prosecution or for the defense, he must not even intimate his own belief of guilt or innocence, or avail himself of his posi- tion to give evidence of a single fact or circum- stance bearing on the question. These propo- sitions are fundamental and controlling, and, when thoroughly comprehended and, o use Judge Murphy's expression, *lived up’ to,” so far as the interests of the State are concerned, it is 8 matter of no consequence, whether or 10, through the confidential intercourse which the law allows ana_ jealously protects, he be- lieves or has been informed that his client is iunocent or guiity. w=1His client’ may have confessed to him, as in e celebrated Palmer case, 2nd yet, if hie has the brain and knowledge to keep himself within his privilege as already interpreted, no gbligution as u citizen or a man can be Vio- lated. Butif,as aisoit appeared in the Palmer case and in some other cases, he should forget himself and personally assert a factor a belief in innocence or guilt, whether true or false, and especially if false, then he has violated his professional obligations. I am quite sure that none of the attorneys for Durrant have failed to recoguize these dis- tinctions founded on integrity and on good sense, but it is important also that they should be comprehended and applied by intelligent and educated American citizens. When this is done we will have no such absurd suggestions, consistent only with despotism and anarchy, as those which fell from the lips of one of our clergymen on Sunday last. Innocent men have” frequently acknowledged guilt, and the necessities of civilized sociely require that no man should be acquitted or convicted except upon the facts and the law as formally devel- oped and applied in a eourt of justice, If the existing forms, as in the selection of 8 jury, are cumbrous and procrastinating the remedy is by legislation. 1f jurors, Judges or lawyers are " frequently incompetent or corrupt the remedy is in the adoption of a better system and of a higher standard. M. San Francisco, Nov. 5, 1895. THE “CALL” THANKED. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: I thank you for the very kind notice of the services at.Jona last Friday. The unveiling of the monument was & success and was ably re- ported in your paper to the entire satisfaction of a very large proportion of the people of this city and State, as the late Bishop Kip and his wife were much beloved by many people out- side of the Episcopal Church. Probably two- thirds, if not more, of the Episcopalians in this city take THE CALL. In a_recent issue of the impcr published jn the interest of St. Paul's ’arish (Episcopal) THE CALL was very highly praised, and the people of the parish were ad- vised to subscribe to it because of its extreme cleanliness and fitness for the home circle. Again thanking you for the notices you have given us, and hoping THE CALL will be ever “For All” I am yours, with good will, N EPISCOPALIAN, THE REASON WHY. Printers’ Ink. “What makes you buy that brand of soap?” 1 asked a woman shrewd; Some others have far lurger scope.” - ‘Their names [ here reviewed. “What makes me buy that certain brand?" 'he woman looked surprises And My face shecriticized, Then answered very simply, “Why? “Because it's advertised !"” “‘What makes yon always buy;that wine?” 1 asked a business friend; “It’s quite a favorite of mine, why select this brana?” He looked astonished, and my alm He had not recognized, 1he answered just the same— use it’s advertised !” where'er you go. buy, have the greatest show h folks rely Are those made Known thro’ printers’ ink, And it may be surmised one me the pepple think, 're advertised! ROUND VALLEY VENDETTA. Uklah Press. We reproduce below an article from the Humboldt Times, which contains the exclu- sive information that the Dispatch has been retained to defend George E. White from the infernal aspersons of & malignant and perjured press. While we were aware that our local contemporary was exceedingly indignant that the moral character of the cattle king had been assailed, it is somewhat astonishing to learn that the Dispatch has gone abroad in an endeavor to manuiacture a reputation which Mr. White has evidently found it impossible to establish at home. It is of course impossible to conceive that there was not & motive in the editorial published in our contemporary on the 18th ult. As mo facts published concern- ing the Round Valley tragedy were denied, the object of the artigle in question must have been to withdraw public attention from the motives which actuated the perpetration of the crime and to confuse the citizens of the county regarding the responsibility for the offense. That outsiders so regard it is evi- denced by the following editorial from the Times: The Mendocino Dispatch-Democrat is sending out marked copies of the issue of October 18. “The object of the issue seems o be Lo convey the im- pression that all of the newspaper stories of George E. White, Wylakl John and others were manafac- tured of whole cloth and that as a metter of fact Round Valley 15 a small-sized heaven instead of the veritable hell some persous paint it. It would De lustructive and at the same time amusing for the Democrat to explain wheretn they had been misrepresented as'to the facts of the cases. That Journal would hardly deny that numerous murders and other crimes have been committed in tha locality, and thet it is generally White and anti- White factions that heid the hostile meetings. The resolutions adopted by the people of Round Valley are very good, but residents of adjoining counties, while they may not believe the minor details of every Round Valiey tragedy, will continue to think that there Is need of the strict application of the laws of the State. The Times does not believe that that community is maligned, and at any rate will defer any favorable mention until some of the various Iynchings and murders are accounted for legally. That the publication of articles concerning the state of alfairs in Trinity and northern Mendocino will injure those sections in the eyes of the world is true. But is it not better that vublic attention be drawn to the condi- tlon of affairs at the present, to the end that a remedy may be promptly applied and the future prosperity of that section be thereby assured, than to continue the reign of feud and lawlessness indefinitely ? It mustend sooner or later, and the sooner the better for the entire county, which has already been put to sreat expense in the trial of petty cases, which aremerely the outcome of stock rivalry or pri- vate revenge. Temporizing with crime and corruption will produce its inevitable result. WELL WORN TRAILS. Rounsevelle Wildman in the Overland. Lying within the fog belt on the west side of the Coast Rauge, never further than twenty miles from the coast, the gigantic redwoods breast the gales of the Pacific as though in de- rision of their even more gigantic brethren, the Sequoia Gigantea, who choose the warm breezes and genial sunshine of the western Sierra foothills in the interior. Three hundred {eet in height and eight to seventeen feet in diameter, they present an imposing mark not only for the tourist but for the lumberman. Like the grizzly, the buffalo and the North American Indian, the “‘big trees” are rapidly and surely dying out before the march of efvi- lization, and it will not be many years before such & grove as the one a¢ Guerneville will be all that is left to snow the world of what the soil of California is capable. To-day the bulk of the remaining redwood forests is in_two counties, Mendocino and Humboldt, where the annual rainfall is in keeping with the size of the trees—between four and five feet. Since 1856 the commercial value of these trees has been steadily growing, and in spite of the pro- tests of the lovers of nature the demand has been met with a ready supply. A wood that Wil 10t rot, is hard to burn, easy to work up, of a rich mahogany color and not difficult (o procure, holds out too many inviting induce- ments to expect any mercy from~the human race. Redwoods have been found prostrate in perfectly good condition for lumber over and around which another redwood had grown that is between 500 and 600 years old, In clearing the ground after the lumber has been taken off the roots have to be cut and du?' out, for they will not burn on account of the amount of water they absorb. Fires, which are almost an_annual occurrence in the spruce and pine forests, stop on the borders of the redwood groves. 'The absorbent nature of the lumber and the absence of resin snd pitch make it of the highest value in building in case of fire. A redwood fire will dieoutin a gale of wind. Added to these virtues are the facts that it will not warp, is imperyious to the effects of fresh water ana sustains a high Jolish, 1Itislittle wonder then that only State aws or personal philanthropy can preserve these giants from total extinction, —_— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE GOULD MARRIAGE—Miss Gould ana Count Castellane were married in New York by Arclibishop Corrigan. Subsequently there was & civil marriage. This was done to comply with the laws of France regarding marriage by civil authorities. 'A marriage that is legal in the country in which it takes place is recog- nized as legal in France, consequently there Was 110 occasion for a remarriage in France. BETTER THAN 2:06—N. County, Cal. The following nemed have | trotted in 2:06 and better: Four-year-old | irectum, Nashville, Tenn., October 18, 1893, | :0514; four-year Fantasy, Terre Haute, Ind., | September 13, 1894, 2:06; five-year Alix, Gales burg, 111, September 19, 1894, 2:03%; five- year Alix, Terre Haute, Ina., Augnst 17, 1894, 2:0514, 2:061 and 2 :06; six-year Nancy Hanks, Terre Haute, Ind., Septémber 28, 1892, 2:04. THE QUAD RECORD—L. K. R., City. The record made by the bieycle quad was 1:35, made near Livermore last fall. The riders were Tony Delmas, Henry Smith, Allan Jonesand Clarence | Davis. ‘The momentum carried them mile beyond the tape. This record of 1 made by the quad while pacing W. J. Edwards | when he made his record for the fastest mile | ever ridden—1:35 1-5. The four named are members of the Garden City Cyclers’ Club. REINSURANCE—F. C. J., City. If a vessel is long overdue it is the custom of the owners to have it reinsured. It is allowable for any company that is engaged in the marine insur- ance line to take the risk. It depends upon what chances the managers of & company are willing to take that the vessel will arrive safely in port. The rates charged for reinsur- ance vary with the supposed risk to be as- sumed. , Jackson, Amador | HorsesHOES—W., Los Angeles. John Aubrey, tho English antiquary, says that most of the houses in the west end of London were pro- tected against witches and evil spirits in the seventeenth century by having horseshoes fastened to the house in various w: Those who still believe that horseshoes are protection against evil nail them to the house with the open end up. Lerters—M. K. A., City. An employer is not bound to deliver letters leit at his office for employes to such employes &s soon as they are received. Employers decline, as a rule, to deliver letters to employes except during the noon hour or after work has closed for the day, for the reason that handing a letter to an employe during working hours interferes with his work. LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR- 8., City. The Gov- ernor claims the power, under the law, to name the Lieutenant-Governor in the case of a vacaney, and he has done so. There are others who claim that the position, in the case of a vacancy, falls to the President of the State Senate. It isa matter that the Supreme Court of the State may have to determine. ARGUMENT OF A Case—X. X. X, City. Upon the trial of a case in this State, when the evi- dence is concluded, unless the case is sub- mitted to the jury on either side or both sides, without argument, the plaintiff must com- mence and may close the argument. In a criminal case, the attorney for the people must open and he may close. A HUsBAND’S RIGHT—Oak Bluff. The law of California says that the “husband has the management and control of the community property, with the absolute pover of disposal,” except that he cannot make a gift of such gropeny without the wife’s consent in writing. he same power is not vested in the wife in regard to community property. Waces—M. K. A, Ci The question of ‘wages, as mentioned in your communication, is one of contract between the employer and the employe, and is one that cannot be an- swered without & full knowledge of the facts. CONFIDENCE MISPLACED. “Now, doctor, tell me without fear what you think is the matter with my husband?” “Well, I'm rather puzzled—does your hus- band drink?” “Drink! * Why, no, docter. I'm sure he doesn’t drink, because he's always so thirsty in the morning.’ HUNTINGTON'S GRIDIRON. Hueneme Herald. Collis P. Huntington, president of the South- ern Pacific Railroad, has stirred up a hornet’s nest of contradictions and assertions over his recent answers fo the editor of the San Fran- cisco CALL in regard to the Government's com- ing action toward the Central Pacific Railroad. Huntington says the road owes & little over $50,000,000. This assertion is emphatically denied and the statement made that $78,000,- 000 would be nearer the mark. Congressman Maguire has some pointed remarks to make in regard to the Southern Pacific absorbing all the earnings of the Central, the records of which have been destroyed. Verily, Collis P. Hunt- ington has fallen on a red-hot gridiron. THE DURRANT JURY. Napa Register. San Francisco has at last had & jury that commanded the confidence of the people when it was impaneled, thatretains the respect of the people now that it is discharged. The twelve men who passed upon the case of Durrant are indeed patriots. They could have dodged the draft, they could have shifted the great respon- sibility. But instead they have given their honorable and intelligent and discriminatin, services that demanded courage and self- sacrifice. ‘All honor to these men, as well as to Judge Murphy, who presided with such firm- ness and fairness, and to District Attorney Barnes, who was critical but courteous, gener- erous and at the same time just. TWO MEN FOR GOVERNOR. Fresno Expositor. It's going to be a close race between Billy Barnes and Milk Iuspector Dockery for the governorship in 1898. Barnes’ management of the Durrant prosecution is matched in public appreciation by Dockery’s inspection of Fhie milk that the bables of Sen Frantisco have to drink. | and ANOTHER FIZZLE FOR FARMERS. The most serious complaint of the potato- grower this year is the low price of the product, particularly in the Northwest. The report from the department’sagent for Wisconsin and Minnesota represents that in the latter State the tubers *do not pay for the digging.” He states that the yield is enormous, ‘‘on an acreage three times as great as in previous years,” that ‘‘hundreds of acres will not be dug” and that “much of the ecreage will go to feed stock.” Here is another startling announcement on the official authority of the Secretary of Agri- culture in his September crop report. Can Mr. Morton reconcile the above with the Demo- cratic promises made to farmers in 1892, that the value of all farm crops would be enheneed if the protectionists were turned out of ofice and the {free-traders installed in their places? Potatoes “do not pay for digging” says the irce-trade Secreiary’s report. “Hundreds of acres will not be dug” even when so much labor is i ‘*Much feedin potatoes to stock as well as dollar wheat, an corn to be burned, too. Is there no hope for the farmer? Let us see if the markets of the world won’t save him. Here are our exports of potatoes for the last five years: EXPORTS OF POTATOES. Bushels. 341,1 557 845,72 803,111 72,857 Note how our exports of potatoes gradually increased during the MecKinley tariff period and how we captured half a’ miilion more bushels of the potato markets of the world in 1893 than we rrid in 1891. Note again that, directly the free-traders got their fingers on the farmers’ potato crops, our exporta fell off we shipped abroad 270,000 bushels less in 1895 than in 1893, Perhaps, though, there will be & chance for the farmers to capture the markets of the world during the present fiscal vear. Mr. Free-trade Secretary Morton enlightens us upon this point. I1is September report tells us that “800,000 hundred-weight of potatoes were shipped 10 England during the first six months of this year” from Germany. He also tells us that ‘‘Krance shipped about the same quantity.” It would seem that France and Germany have got ahead of us, especially “as England has nearly an average crop of very high quality, the market there is glutted and prices are as low as$10 a ton.” This is | equivalent to 25 cents a bushel delivered in | England. It is not surprising that farmers, “particularly in the Northwest,” when they think of the freight rate from thé Northwest to London and the cost of bugs, commission and insurance, are complaining of low prices. A potato market at 25 cents a_bushel in Lon- don, less these expenses and the cost of seed, fertilizer and labor, does not leave much mar. gln of profit for the American tarmer after he as capiured the markets of the world. No paying market in England, France or Ger- mauy, and Secretary Morton says “it is un- likely that we shall be able {o dispose of any of our surplus in Europe.” We thought the mar- kets of the world were waitiug for our surplus products. Can it be that the market of India, China and Japan alone are open to us? Must we grow tubers to supplant the rice crops of the Orient. We cannof but admire Mr. Free-trade Sccre- tary Morton’s candor in describing these free- trade conditions. varying as greatly, as they do, from free-trade promises of 1802, Secre- ta Morton says that ‘‘these conditions are worth nothing.” They are, Mr. Secretary. The farmers will note them—will note that *‘these conditions” are not theories.—From the Amer- ican Economist, Fridey, November 1, 1895. NEWS AT FIRST HAND, Redlands Citograph. The San Francisco CaLL is working up a big circulation all over Southern California, and it isno wonder. That enterprising paper has itsown reporter in Los Angeles who ‘‘does” this section and does not rehash the papers for alleged news. THE CALLhas gone to the very head of the procession under its present management, and we are very glad that there is one morning paper in San Francisco that is honestly and earnestly striving to rise above provincialism and give the people a ciean ne\vspy)er. HARRISON VS. BIERCE. Colusa Herald. Ambrose Bierce of the Examiner, the most cruel and merciless writer on the coast, is catching what he deserves on all sides. In a recent issue of THE CALL William Greer Harri- son devotes a column or more to a scientific “lamb-basting” of Bierce. The work is done to the queen’s taste SUFPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Housekeeper—Here, you! just you leave, or T'll set the dog— Tramp—Please, mum— “*Get out, I say.” “Yes, mum, I'll go if you want me to. I only dropped in tojtell you of a new, sure eure for freckles end red hair, mum. Good day, mum.”’—New York Weekly. In the art gellery—Lad af 10—I say. Hoax—You worked your way right through college, didn’t you? Joax—Right. Hoax—What did you work at? Joax—The other students Philadelphia Record. Bess—Did you hear what old Sinnikus said about you? Cas No, and I don't know as I care to hear it. Bass—Possibly not, but then think what a pleasure it would be to me to tell it!—Boston Transcript. principally. NEW TO-DAY. 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Allcock’s BEAR IN MIND—Not one of the host of counterfeits and imita« s in the back, side, chest, or Porous Plaster FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. The American Boy. Los Angeles Times. s There is something in the atmosphere of this free Western world that makes men aspire; there are possibilities that never enter into the lives of the average Englishman, that kindle here courage and determination, and thst lead men to fix their eyes upon the higher places of trust among the peopie, from which no lowli- ness of birth or poverty can debar them if they have that within them which makes men. The American boy is always more or less in- fluenced by this, and if his father was a wood- chopper or the very humblest day laborer, it is 10 reason why his ambition should not be fired and his determination to fill some far higher place be fixed and changeless. 1,Our Convention Will Cure All That. Pheenix (Ariz.) Herald. Western people, particularly those on the Pacific Slope, think nothing of going East even to the Atlantic, but ninety-nine out of @ hun- dred of Eastern people approached on the mat- ter of paying this cogst & visit think they “will hardly ever go that far.’” Thiy love and are prond of their own hills and dells, and our Pa- cific beauties of climate and soil are to them & long, long way off. Too far to go. Should Siand on Their Merits. San Jose Mereury. When a newspaper is compelled to resort to the device of offering baby carriages, fishing tackle, jackknives and bull pups to induce peaple fo subscribe for it, there is something radically wrong with its contents. Newspapers A:Flower on Dempsey’s Grave. Portland Oregonian. Poor Jack Dempsey didn't pretend toan thing he was not. Pugilism was his trade 1o honestly strove to excel in it, and never struck a foul blow in his life. The man was better than his trade. 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