The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 12, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1895 W CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. ¢ CALL,One w ALL, One ¥ CALL, SiX mon nd Sund Iy and Sunday BUSINESS OF 710 Market Stree ‘0, C Telepho ...Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517% Clay Street. . Main—1874 1one BRANCH OFFICES ery street, corner open until open until 9:30 o'clock. 1 street; open until 9:80 o'cloc r Sixteenth and Mission stre open ; open until 9 o'clock, open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 RN OF ASTE ICE nd 32, 34 Park Row, N¢ "OLTZ, Special Age TUF L NOVEMBE R 12, 1895 SPEAKS FOR ALl Canada hasa C crisis, and alas! we haven’'t. Both Iselin and Dunraven are bloods are out for one another. onal Con- ional Convention lots of favor. The defect of they lead to too mar tations. ational sports international irri- permissible to Salisbury to over- uela problem, but Cleveland It w look the Ven shting factions of | is to turn round It seems to be conceded that Spring water needs aeration. It must be befc o taken ly Der it is Whi to be bu atic Presidential boom v's barrel, and that up. ks to it that Ar 3 begin with the Armenians imself willing to| but what has he got that is As Spain re ize the Cubans | as belligerents, she probably sent her army over there merely to kill time. The strike at Homestend this time is made by Carnegic—he gives the town a free library and gets a vote of thanks. There is no pro Corbett and togive Dun t to the world in hav- Fitzsimmons shut up a chance to be heard ven It is pleasing ied with the Mayor she elected and iable to get hold of the onroe doctrine and hurt herself before e knows it. needs to be taught that San isco is near enough to the homes of people for them to feel at home when | get here. he they Now that a movement has been started to make San Francisco a free port, it| should never be aliowed to stop until it | nes reached the end it aims at. Cleveland conl!d ve himself a great deal of trouble and please the country | Better by substituting for his usual long m a short note of resignation. sa Rapid express trains are bringing Chi- New York so close together they will have to fizht it out to decide which shall be the suburb of the other. s00n f the big four get the Republi- can Presidential nomination next year there will be no lack of dark horses, for almost every week brings out a new one. British policy at the present {ime has not a friend in any part of the world, and sh must either stand in with the some other nation or sit dow; Dunraven’s letter as evidence, Lord le would stand a good chance to get damages from every newspaper that ished him the biggest ass in England. With conflicts growing out of their riyal interests in Turkey, South Africa and Chi the nations of Europe have too many quarrels on hand to find time for tigh 1f none the Briti. It appears that our navy is now too big for our drydocks, and Cleveland will prob- ably recommend cutting down the navy, but a Republican Congress can be relied upon to enlarge the docks As Cleveland declined to attend the opening of the Carnegie Library at Pitts burg on the ground of a pressure of bus ness at Washington it is a reasonable in- ference that the burden of his message will be heavy. Experiments made in heating streetcars in Chicago show that with present ap- pliances electric heating costs 96 cents a day for each car, while coal stoves cost 11 cents, so electricity takes a back As it is estimated that about $40,000,000 of American money will be wedded to Englishmen during the course of this month, it is evident engagements in high life ought to figure in the quotations of the money market hereafter. It is announced in London that in order to encourage the silk manufacture in England the Prince of Wales has prom- ised the president of the Silk Association to set the fashion of wearing silk waist- coats with evening dress. The textbooks selected for the new course of study of modern novels at Yale include “Marcella,” ‘A Modern Instance” and ‘“‘Esther Waters,” to be read in suc- cession as examples of realism. The com- bination is queer, but then Yale is liberal. | opin APPEALS IN CAPITAL CASES. A short timeago a distinguished Eastern jurist created something of a sensation by advocating the abolition of the right of ap- peal in criminal cases on the ground that appeliate courts so often reverse the de- cisions of lower courts in such cases as to gravely interfere with the execution of justice. The argument was made that juries are better fitted to pass upon such matters than the Judges of courts of ap- peal, and that the effect of appeals has been to permit the escape of criminals on technicalities of law to such an extent that it nas become difficult in this country to punish even the worst offenders. This statement followed so closely upon several lynching outrages in which the lynchers justitied themselves on the ground that the courts could not be relied on to do justice that the argument found favor in many quarters and not a few newspapers warmly supported the proposed change in the law. Investigation, however, is likely to show that the statement is not sup- ported by the facts. Certainly it finds no support in the records of the Supreme Court of California, whatever may be found elsewhere. ‘We published yesterday the record of all the capital cases that have been heard on appeal by our Supreme Court since Janu- ary 1,1800. In the six years (very nearly) that have elapsed since that time there have veen heard by the Supreme Court eighteen such appeals and the decision of the lower court has been reversed one case only. en in that instance the of- fender was convicted on a second trial and died in prison. The subject is of sufficient interest to be studied in detail. The full record of capi- tal cases heard since the date named is given by the clerk of the Supreme Court as follows: People vs. Euban 1890. Opinion written by } People vs. Bowden— Opinion written by Mck ¥ o flirmed on w 3 utt People vs. Freeman—A 1891. Opinion written by muted by the G r. Peopie vs. W —Reve: Opinion written by De en,J. Convicted sec- ond time and died In State prison. People vs. Murray—Afirmed March 31, 1892. Opinion written by Foote, C. Died in prison. People vs. Vincen'—Aflirmed July 235, 1882. Opinion written by land. J ecuted vs. McNulty—Aflirmed Februa nion writtan by McFarland, J. rnor. . Ah Lee Doon—Aflirmed January 12 sinion written by Beatty, C. J. Execut flirmed December 3, 18 routte, J. Reprieved tem- 1ed December 1 Beatty, C. J. Com- er ed May 20, 1891. Com- on_ writ Ly by vernor. . Vital n by Garoutte, J. Aflirmed June 23, 1894. E Opin- ped from Insane d Jenuary 17, 1895. Execated. Mrmed September 2, routte, J. Awaiting en by Temple, s. Chin I Op:uion wri; xecution. en by Collins—Afiirmed January 5, 1895. A by Haynes, C. . Fred ks—Aflirmed —Aflirmed February 7, 1895. ¥ Searles, C. ecuted. ple vs. Young—Affirmed Juiy 5, 1895. Opin- y Gar Executed. nly there is nothing in this record an agitation against appeals in 1f there are to justif; criminal cases in California. defects punishment of crime those defects are not to be found in the Sapreme Court. THE PRICE OF MILK. The dairymen of Marin County, having learned that the dealers in this City to whom they furnish milk have raised the ric zed for seli-protection and dec the price todealers. They have discovered that the dealers have raised the price from 18 cents to 20 cents a gallon, while still paving the original price of 10 cents to the dairymen. Th: is an interesting result of Milk Inspector Dockery’s discovery that adul- terated mitk was being largely sold in San Francisco. The position of the Marin County dairymen is peculiar. As a rule v sell to dealers, who supply the mar- ket. It must be assumed that a dealer who buys from a dairyman makes sure of getting pure milk. What manipulation the milk undergoes after it leaves the dairyman’s hands is another matter. At the same time the dairymen on this side of the bay generally do business directly with consumers, although numerous de; ers appear between some of them and con- sumers. The attitude of the Marin dairy- men means that they sell pure milk, that it is adulterated by the dealers, and that the dairvmen on this side of the bay who deal directly with consumers are thrown into competition with dishonest dealers and exposed to a temptation to follow their ed to raise | practices. As the dealers havead ed their pric about 11 per cent that may be taken as an average of the adulteration which the have been practicing. It clear, there fore, that as they have now to sell pure milk as they receive it from the dairymen they are making no more profit of their increased prices than they were mak- ing before. The determination of the Marin dairymen to raise prices to dealers will therefore have the effect of creating a stronger inducement than ever, if not an absolute necessity, on the part of dealers to continue their adulterating practices. It would seem to be wiser for the dairy- men to form a combination for taking the places of the dealers and supplying the consumers from one central establishment. This would tend to the creation of a monopoly, but Inspector Dockery’s work has already produced that tendency in more firmly consolidating the interests of milkmen in general. At the same time it is operating to produce friction between the dairymen and dealers. | The whole situation requires careful and intelligent treatment and a strict munici- ,i;l oversight. Both dealers and dairymen should be brought to understand that hon- esty is the best policy and that nothing witl be gained in the long run by defraud- ihg each other or the public in the quality r the price of milk. CONTAMINABLE WATER. s It is not likely that the agitation over the quality of water furnished to San Fran- cisco will cease until there has come a radical change in the character of the spurce from which the supply is drawn. Vhen the agitation was begun several months ago samples of the water were sub- itted to a skillful bacteriologist, who is the same one now engaged in analyzing the milk furnished to City consumers,and announced in effect that, while the ter carried a dense amount of organic atter and swarmed with bacteria, none these were pathogenic—in other words, ey were not productive of disease. The gineer of the company declares that Pro. ssor Hilgard has made a similar report. It did not need the assurance of a scien- t to inform us that the water was free om malevolent bacteria, for had these en present the City would have been icted with a pestilence. The question i i a i notat all one of the presence of such in the processes of our law for the | of the article to consumers,haveorgan- | | | These prove that water gathered under the germs determinable by scientists, for the health report will always be the best evi- dence on that vpoint. The real question, apart from the health effect of the water on grounds related to the comparatively few disease germs which are known to science, is the liability of the water to con- tamination by suci germs when they ap- pear in this vicinity, and this does not consider the pleasant or unpleasant char- acter of the supply. The engineer of the water company an- nounces that the offensive taste which now belongs to the water can be cured by aeration, and that to accomplish this he will place aerating apparatus in the outlet of one of the reserv This reads like a pleasant sort of humor. Aeration, it is true, will hasten oxidation and a breaking up of the organic substances which are in a process of decomposition, and which for that reason are offensive to taste and smell, but it will in nowise affect the main question—the exposure of the water to | bacterial contamination. The investigations of the Board of Health havye disclosed the fact that consumption is prevalent among cattle. Some of these cattle roam the watersheds of the City supply. There is even a dispute among able scientists asto the identity of the con- sumption germ. Any microscopic exam- ination for bacteria can have little value under any circumstances. Common- sense and ordinary experience are better. system in vogue here cannot be expected to be pure or wholesome, and is conspicu- ously exposed to iniectious germs. That San Francisco has not suffered a pestilence produced by its water may be regarded as one of those miracles which the climate | works; but those who repose faith in the constancy of miracles do not belong to this world. IS SPAIN DISCOURAGED? Affairs in Cuba seem to have taken a very significant turn. Genera! Martinos | Campos, leader of the Spanish forces act- ROUND VALLEY ECHOES. Danger in Opposing White. Ukiah Press. A Round Valley correspondent to the Press, over 8 nom de plume, “firmly protests” against the Round Valley resolutions recently published in the Dispatch. The parties who subscribed (o those Tesolutions signed their names in full 0 that the world could know who they were. The party who Protes's against them doesn’t seem to have the courage to do so. He evidently doesn’t want to be known.—Dispatch, From the testimony of reliable men, extend- ing over a period of fifteen OF twenty years, it has never been considered quite safe in Round Valley for & man to make himself known as an opponent of the cattle king. Many of those who have thoughtlessly done so are no longer residents of that part of the county. In that country it is considered far safer to sign one's name 10 & resolution favoring White than to sattech one’s signature to & paper protesting against _ his _ actions. ur correspondent cannot be blamed, therefore, if he declines to open his_house to admit the en- trance of an assassin. Yet he does as much as the Covelo correspondent of the Dispateh, who conceals his identity under the signature of ‘“A Bigner of the Resolutions,” and whose arti- | cle sounds exactly as though it might have been written by the one who wrote the resolu- tions themselyes. 5 An 01d Dog Tray. Ukiah Press. The Press in its last issue asserts that the Dis- patch has been retained to defend George E.White. This statement is on a par with many other villain- ous falsehoods manufactured by the editor of our contemporary in connection with the Round Valley troubles.—Dispatch. A man iscertainly judged by the company he keeps. As a matter of fact not a single material statement regarding Round Valley, as published in the Press, has been denied. On the contrary, even the signers of the Dis- patch resolutions do not deny the correctness of the position assumed by this journal. They may attack its policy, but mnot its facts. We’ have sought to secure all the facts concerning the Littlefield murder, and these facts, as published by the Press, were amply substantiated by the stenographicreportof the inquest as printed in TuE CALL. The facts once obtained it was easy {0 reason from effect , and a logical deduction from the established led irresistibly to the conclusion reached by this journal. Aside from this, ineffectual attempts were made by the editor of the Press to secure a re- port of the tragedy from among the very ing on the island to suppress the rebellion, s reported to have made recent declara- tions which are singulariy different from those which he made at the beginning of the campaizn. Then he declared that the | rebellion would be suppressed at once. | His failure to accomplish that, together with the growing strength of the rebellion, the thinning out of the Spanish troops by disease and the discouragement and phy: al suifering of the soldiers, led him to an- nounce later that with the coming of wi | Round Valley, with a | their version of the & parties who signed the resolutions. Stamps and paper were enclosea o three gentlemen in 1est that they give flair to the Press.” They refused on the ground that it would affect them prejudicially were they to even ani- madvert against White and his supporters in that section of the cor . 1f the editor of the Dispatch does not desiré to be classed as a defender of the cattle king he should not de- fend him., PERSONAL. J. M. McPike of Nava is at the Baldwin. Dr. D. Lesh of Los Angeles is at the Grand. ter the additional troops sent by Spain and his men on the eround would beina | better position to fight, and that the war | would certainly be ended before spring. | Now he says that unless the policy of re- lentlessness toward the rebels is changed by the home Government and amnesty | promised to all belligerents the war will | require 150,000 men and three years of time. More than that, he acknowledges the great likelihood of the United States recognizing the “belligerent rights’ of the | insurgents. On top of all these doubts and dangers come other significant pieces of news. One is that the rebels are invest- | ing both ends of the island; that business | in Havana is paralyzed; tbat the Spanish | leaders have decided to concentrate their | forces at Santiago de Cuba and practically | leave the rest of the island to theinsur- | gents, ana that the Spanish home Govern- ment has divided into two bitter factions | and developed a struggle which may seri- ously affect the chances of Spain in Cuba. All this is not o a virtual announce- | ment that Spain is unable to suppress the rebellion, but that it is time fcr the United | States to intercede. It looks, indeed, as | though such interference would be wel- | come to Spain, as in a sense it would spare that country the humiliation of defeat, although the island would be lost. In short, Spain appears to accept the loss of | Cuba as an inevitability, and is anxious to get out of the scrape with as little further loss of money and dignity as possible Recognition of the belligerents by the United States would have a tremendous | meaning for the insurgents. Some fine | points of international law are involved | and there is a wide margin for the raising | of the auestion as to whether such recog- nition under all the circumstances would | be in strict regard for the policy of the nations; but if by any means it could be | ascertained that Spain would not object to this species of interference all these doubs | would disappear. 1f Spain, in the‘maintenance of its dig- nity, should refram from giving expression | to such willingness, our vernment | might proceed in the not strictly defined margin of a nation’s right to exercise an independent judgmient. It has the right, for instance, to decide for itself without the consent of other nations that the war is productive of unnecess: and bar- barous slaughter of human life, and that the interests of our citizens in the island | are suffering unduly and unnecessarily, | This would not require a consideration of the moral principles involved in the as- serted richt of Spain to oppress the Cubans and refuse amnesty to the rebels. Indeed, on this latter point the utteranc of General Campos seem clearly to be in- tended to call the attention of the United | States to the attitude of the Spanish Gov- ernment on this point, as a suggestion of | our right to interpose on that ground. | Every one of the recent occurrences not | only strengthens the opportunity, but cre- ates the duty of the United Statesto inter- | fere on behalf of the insurgents without | in any way impairing its obligations to | Spain as a friendly power. POINTS FOR ADVERTISERS, The men who says he doesn’t believe in ad- vertising and refuses to use the newspapers for that purpose generally advertises in some way orother. Hotel registers, theater programmes | and such things are likely to have his ad in | them. Then he charges what he pays for space | in them to advertising instead of to charity or | to profit and loss, and goes on swearing that | advertising doesn't pay.—Brains, | The wide-awake, progressive and live busi- | ness man must admit that a three-inch | advertisement in & good trade paper hes | more value than barrels of so-called circu- lars. In fact hundreds of successful busi- ness men will conced that this is the only key to success. It is true a catalogue well written and printed is & necessity, and in many cases is as important a factor in trade as are the goods themselves, but the catalogue mnst be supplemented by advertising in trade papers, o that it may secure a profitable dis- tribution. Experience hes demonstrated that | the sending through the mail of anv printed matter unasked for, unless it be something unique and of unusual merit, has seldom brought in adequate returns. The waste-paper basket could teil its story in this connection, & story which should prove a formidable warn- ing to those who depend solely upon that means of building up & trade..—Music Trade Journal. Merchants should advertise for the good they can derive from it, not as philanthropists, not as donation to the newspaper.—Printers’ ink. Pl e A NEW CHRYSANTHEMUM. New York Vanity. “Titian Tress” i3 the name given to a new red-brown chrysanthemum, the property of Mrs. Van Rensselaer Cruger, and the name was given to it by her gardener, who evolved it from the chrysanthemums striped with yellow, white and red by cultivating only those plants that showed more red petals than any other. The yellow and white were thus eliminated, and the final result is a flower thet is almost terra cotta at the base and lightens at the tips with a touch of gold. | will Rev. George W. Phelps of Ukiah is at the Baldwin. Ex-Senator G. 8. Berry of Lindsay is a guest at the Lick. J. D. Biddle, a banker of Hanford, is staying at the Grand. John D. Bicknell, an attorney of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. R. S, Row, & mining man of Placerville, is a guest at the Grand. A. Putnam, an attorney of Humboldt, is ng at the Lick. . M. Clarke, a mining man of Jerome, Ariz., is a guest at the Baldwin. W. H. Perry, a lumbermen of Los Angeles, stered at the Lick yesterday. M. M. Gregg, a banker of Monterey, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Lick. W. 8. Wright, & mining man of Angels Camp, st | registered at the Baldwin yesterday. J. J. Boyce of Santa Barbara arrived in town yesterday and registerea at the Lick. A. W. Jones of Monterey, president of the Fresno and Monterey Railroad, is at the Lick. Mr.and Mrs. de Wolf Hopper of the “Wang" Company arrived from New York yesterday and registered at the Palace. J. F. Ullman, the well-known bookmaker, and his wife arrived from Chicago yesterday and registered at the Pelace. H. M. La Rue, president of the Railway Com- | mission, came down from Sacramento yester- day and registered at the Occidental. Major C. J. Berry of Visalia visited THE CALL office yesterday. He reports the people in his neighborhood to be very well satisfied with the season’s outlook. The fruit crop has been re- | munerative and prosperity has blessed the community to a very considerable degree. John B, Eldredge, the mining expert, has re- turned ffom Chicago, where he has been in consultation with wealthy capitalists who | have in view the purchasing of mining proper- ties in this State. This is Mr. Eldredge’s third visit to Chicago within the last sixty days on the same mission. He reports numerous in- quiries concerning California mining proper- tiesin the East and predicts that the mining interests here are on the eve of a substantial advance. PRESIDENTIAL SPECULATIONS. Pniladelphia Inquirer. It Is quite within the range of probability that Republican leaders like Quay, Platt, | Clarkson, Hobart, Fessenden and others who will have a distinctively personal following at the convention will in the end agree that Reed, McKinley, Allison or some one upon whom all may_combme shall be nominated. In other words, we do not believe that any “dark horse” can be trotted out for a winning race. If there is not a distinct agreement that there shall be no stampedes to an emergency candidate then there ought to be. We have had enough of accidents in the Presidential chair, It isdue to the out and out candidates that one of their number should he selected, and we believe that one of them will be. Chicago Inter Ocean, -Senator Brice gives Campbell no chance to ake & whack at the Senatorship. He says: “*Campbell 1s my choice for the next President of the United States, and the campaign in Ohio dctermine whether he will an im- portant factor in the coming Democratic Na- tional Convention,” St. Louls Gtobe-Democrat. Some Democratic journals say that because Platt and Quay are for Reed he has made a compact with them to let them run his ad- ministration if he gets the Presidency. The presumption is hardly reasonable. ‘‘Czar” Reed is likely to be himself the President if he 1s elected. Atlanta Constitution. When next year’s Republican convention AaJourns two or three of the big men who are now candidates will have to write books, ‘When & prominent ‘‘reformer” fails to get an office he promptly pulls the props from under | his party. Chieago Record, John Sherman says that Major McKinley will bethe next Republican Presidential candidate, | and Mr. McKinley wishes right now and here to point out that he has always had the greatest confidence in Mr. Sherman’s judgment. Cleveland Leader. The newspapers are indulging in much Presi- dential gossin these days, but the McKinley boom, which does not need newspaper nursing, is growing all the time Hartford Time: What is John Sherman really upto? Does he really intend to kill off Mc]flnlef as a Presi- dential candidate six months before the con- vention meets? Pittsburg Dispatch. Quay says Reea is a good man. That is not admitting the public to any secret. McKinley | and Allison are good men, too. Manchester Union. One admirable feature of the Tom Reed boom is that it has no John C. New atlachment. Chicago Tribune. Itisabsurd to talk of running Senator Allison for Vice-President. He is too big & man, CALIFORNIA EDITORS ON DURRANT. Eureka Times. The San Francisco papers still print full pages of Durrant matter, although the subject is becoming rather exhausted. THE CALL has discovered “that Durrant still says prayers and believes in God. That is certainly a queer proceeding on his part. Dunsniuir News. Durrant seems fo be & man who takes his Ppleasures and sorrows in great chunks. He had a heap of fun In getting awey with the two girls, and now his sorrows are liable to be great enough to choke him. If he ever lives a THE PRINCE OF WALES AS A YACETSMAN, [From his latest photograph.] life on another plane he will very likely be more moderate in his desires. Newman Tribune, It is a noticeable fact that THE CALL was the only deily paper in San Francisco that gave a fair and impartial report of the Durrant c FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. Concerning the Contents of the Mind. Livermore Herald. Your basket will carry just so many apples. If some of the apples are rotten they fill the basket just the same &nd take the room that g00d apples should occupy. So it is with your head. If you carry about in it hatred and malice and jealousy and_impure thoughts you fill your intellectual basket with rotten ap| and everywhere you a load of ill'smelling garbage. There is little honor or profit in vending rotten apples. A Railroad to Lick Observatory. San Jose Mercu One of these days some enterprising individ- | ual will build & railrcad to the summit of Mount Hamilton and m:'e a mint of money by it. Mount Lowe has a road, and one is be- ing constructed up Mount Tamalpais. Yet neither has greater scenic attractions than Mount Hamilton, and the latter possesses the only Lick Observatory. Three Great Issues Settled. Carson (Nev.) News. By debate yesterday in Miss Slingerland’s room of the Carson High School it was decided that the printing-press was more nseful than the steam engine, and knowledge than money in Miss Roberts’ department, and in Miss Mills’ room it was decided that the new women would be a success The *Drift” Is Very Significant. ¥ Downieville Messenger. While no great significance can be attached to an election in an off year, the salient fact still remains that the driit of public opinion throughout the country is in favor of main- taining the great principles of the Republican party. Americans Differ With the Embassador. Pasadena Star. Embassador Bayard delivers an address to the British people on the futility and mischiev- ousness of protection and the American peo- ple answer 1t by voting overwhelmingly for l?e party whose chief cornerstone is protec- tion. “ Democratic Party’’ a Hoodoo. Carson (Nev.) Appeal. Perhaps it would be advisable to change the name so as to relieve it from the odinm which three years of Clevelandism has attached to it. The Unwritten Law Against a Presi- dential Third Term. | Professor John Bach McMaster in the November | rum. No task is now quite so hopeless as that of re- | electing a President to a third term. Formu. of this, precedent is alone responsible. Hud our first President been willing to accept a third term—and _the people would gladly have given it—he would in all likelihood have been followed by & long line of Presidents esch serv- ing for twelve instead of eight years. But he was weery of office and gladly laid it down. His motive for this act is so oiten forgotten that it is well to quote from his “Farewell Ad- dress’: “The aeceptance and continuance hitherto in office, to which your suffrages have twice called me, have been a uniform sacrifice of in- clination to the opinion of duty and to a deference to what appeared fo be your wishes. * * * I rejoice that the state of your concerns, external as well as internal, no longer renders the pursuit of inclination in- compatible with the pursuitof duty or pro- | riety.” pNo scruples about a third term troubled him in the least. He went back to private life solely because he was tired of the Presidency and because the state of the country did not demand a further sacrifice oi his comiort. Yet thisact set an example which for many years was followed implicitly by his suc- cessors, though it was loug before the people saw anything wrong in the suggestion of a third term. r. Jefferson was the first to pownt this out. In stating his reasons for de- clining a third term he said: “That I should lay down my charge at a roper period is as much a duty as to have gorne it faithfully. If some termination to the services of the chief magistrate be not fixed by the constitution, or supplied by prac- tice, his office. nominally for years, will, in fact, become for life; and history shows how easily that degenerates into an inheritance. Believing that a representative government responsible at short periods of election is that which ?‘mduces the greatest sum of happiness to mankind, I feel'it a duty to do no act which shaill e!unflllle! impair that principle; and I should unwillingly be the first person who, disregarding the sound precedent set by an | illustrious predecessor, should furnish the first example of prolongation beyond the second term ot office.” That his virtues had any influence on his successors is exceedingly doubtful, but his bold assertion that two terms were all that it was safe to give any President had a deep and lasting influence on the people, and did far more than the example of Washington to establish the unwritten law which for more than sixty years none of his successors were hardy enough to defy. COME NOT AT NIGHT. 0 Death, come not for me at dead of night ! Call not my soul to take its lonely flight Through dark and storm unto the world un- known. But when the golden sun from out the sea Shall lift his face to light a path for me, O Death, come then. and claim me for thine own. CABRIE BLAKE MORGAN, in Lippincott’s Magazine. “MONEY TO BURN.” THAT'S HOW AN EASTERN WEEKLY REFERS TO US. San Francisco wants the Republican Na- tional Conveution, and the Union League Club of that city offers to subscribe $25,000— or more, if necessary—for the personal enter- tainment of National Coxmmitteemen. If the committeemen do not roll too awfully high out there, $25,000 ought to keep them moying for a few days. The newsnapers have sub- szribed as follows: Chronicle, $7500; CALL, $10,000; Examiner, $7500. Capitalists have offered to pay off the debt of the National Committee. If money ani vim can bring the conventiou that far, San Francisco will cer- tainly get it, for she has one of them “to burn ” and a fair quality of the other—Collier's Weekly, L3 vou go you lug around with | |LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE FIFTH IN THE UNITED STATES. To the itor of the San Francisco Call—ST I find the following in the ‘‘Notes and Que- Ties” column of the Pittsburg Despatch: “The | banner county of the United States, so far as | the value of its agricultural products is con- | cerned, is Lancaster County, this State. The farms of that famed county of Southeastern | Pennsylvania, according to a recent authentic | statement, yielded in one year farm produce to the amount of $8,000,000. St. Lawrence County, N. Y., comes next with a total of $6.000,000, though the comparison is hardly a fair one, inasmush as St. Lawrence s three times as large in area as Lancaste hird on the list siands Chester, also a Pennsylvania county, with a yield last year of £5,800,000 in agricultural products. Then comes Worcester County, Mass., with $5,500,000; Bucks County, ,400,000, and Colusa’ County, Cal., $5,300,000.” | The census of 1880 credits Colusa County with two per cent of the wheat of the United States; that is, that it would take the product of all the other States and Territories {0 bring the uther counties of California up to Colusa in the production of wheat. Colusa County occuples the center of the great Sacramento Valley, and its soil is unequaled in productive- ness, but it was settled by stockmen and for two or three decades enjoyed the distinction of being the richest county in the United States in proportion to population. From cat- tleit fell into wheat aund still holds a place in | National figures. Add to this the fact that Colusa’s oranges, on an_snalysis, took the pre- mium, and also took it on grape fruit, and that her raisins have brought the highest i prices, snd have 2 good showing for what nature has done for Colusa. But Colusa needs development—ueeds tne attention of capital- ist There is no place in the State better situ- ated for a sugar inctory, but the people do not seem to know how to reach out after one. Isit really advantageous to be so highly favored by nature? W S. GREEN. | San Francisco, November 11, 1595, EUGENE FIELD. ‘We lo¥ed the poet for his skill of words Reaching the hearts of children and of men; For tender thoughts that with the touch of pen Seemel sweet with flower scents and SODgs birds. of On' poet, dead. thy | With coronet of nd weeping then, | Would she might have thee back again Yet all ut last the herdsman sately herds. pallid brow Love girds 1's acre's” grassy aisles y els” bring him rest, s stir the bloom above his breast, nessage from the One who knoweth best, ing to such as tearful waft the whiles “To him peace is, peace and eternal smiles.” HENRY JaMEs in the Examiner. TN ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. HEKTOGRAPH—M. M., The following is given making a hektograph that, if allowed to re- main for two days after using, will not nezd washing, but will absorb all the ink and not interfere with the making of a new transfer: k an ounce of Cooper’s gelatine over night | in encugh cold water to cover it well, taking | care that all the zelatine is swelled. Prepare a salt-water bath by dissolving two ounces of common saitin a pint of water. Heat seven ght ounces of pure glycerine over the salt- water bath to & temperature of 200 degrees Fahrenheit. Then pour off from the gelatine all the water remaining unabsorbed and ada the gelatine fo the hot glycerine, continuing | the heating for an hour, carefully stirring the mixture occasionally, avoiding as much as possible the formation of bubbles. Finally add twenty drops of the oil of cloves to prevent decomposition. The composition is then ready 1o pour into the shallow tins in wnich it is to be used. After the tin 1s filled it must remain in a level position in & cool place for at least | five hours. anta Monica, Cal. s the method for | | THE CALIFORNIA THEATER—Inquirer, City. The old California Theater was built by C. R. Peters, and was cpened by McCullough and Bar- rett January 18, 1869. Lawrence Barrett de- livered the opening address, written by Frank Bret Harte. The play that night was “Money,” by Bulwer. John McCullough appeared as Al- ed Evelyn, Mirs M. E. Gordon as Clara Doug- Judsh &s Lady Franklin, W. H. Smith as Sir John Vesay, E. B. Holmes as r Benjamin Stout. W. F. Burroughs es Sir | Fred Blount, Mrs, Buckley as Georgiana and John T. Raymond as Graves. The drop cur- tain was a scene of the Golden Gate painted by | W. Denny. The New California was opened by Al Hoyman, May 13, 1889, with “Othello, dwin Booth appearing as Iago and Lawren Barrett as Otheilo. 5 i It Dors BLoov—R. K. D., City. The belief that the fig tree does not produce a flower is | _erroncous. The tree flowers, the color of the blossom varying with the variety. The tree | that produce the violet-colored fruit has a biue bloom. The flowers are unisexal and are pro- duced in great numbers iuside of a fleshy re- ceptacle that is closely united and almost closed at the top so that the flowers cannot be reedily seen. It is this fact that has given rise to the belief that the fig tree d duce flowers. . T R | FOLSOM-STREET LiNe—J. R. B., City. 1f the | Marke{-st_reet Railway Company has decided upon & time when work is to be resumed on the Folsom-street line it has not yet made that fact public, and at the oftice the ‘answer to the question as to how soon the line would be in operation was “‘can’t tell.” Itis believed, how- 4 month. THE HONEYMOON—W. K., City. It was an- ciently the custom of many of the nations of Northern Europe for newly married eople to drink metheglin or mead, & kind of wine made from honey, for thirty days after marriage. From that custom comes the term honeymo or honey month. ik PortRY—W. K., City. found in Young's V, line 64: There is in poesy a decent pride, Which well becomes her when she 5] Her youngest sister. Bests tomrose, BoNE MILn—D. McKay, Auburn, Placer County. There is a b ill s Tocated at the Potrere, - 1 s City. It —_— —_— A WELCOME VISITOR. Nevada City Transcript. THE CALL is becoming a welcome guye. Q st i many Nevada City homes under the clgenn an: able management of Charles M, Shortrid and its representatives wi & Teceived here. ves will alwayibe cordially e — e FOR “THE CALL" BUILDING, The lines are to be “Night Thoughts,” chapter | KER'S GINGER ToONIC. ever, that work will be commenced within | Carson (Nev.) News. The load of travertine for the new Cary build- e in Ci ing will ar n this evéning. There is five tons in this 1oad, and as soon as a car- | 18 3 1 secured 1t will bo shipped below. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROTS. Prompted by the feeling that it was his duty, the Bishop remonstrated with one of his clergy for attending a local hunt. «ivell, yoar Lordship,” replied the offender, «] really do not see there is any more harm | hunting than in going toa ball.” I presume,” snswered his Lordship, « fer to baving seenmyname down ay those who attended Lady Somerville's but 1 assure you throughout the evening I was never once in the same r the’l“l’::lx:f‘s; Lord, is exactly how [ « was never in the same field as the hou Then the Bishop sat down and reigned.—Exchange. « Baptiste! " « Monsieur?” «You are getting careless, my bog «Oh! Monsieur!” «You don’t brush my clothes now « assure you—"" «1 left a hali-franc piece in my pocket yesterday—and it is there y Parisien. “Henry a bleyels e “Doar me,” said Mr. Peck, mildly, one man enough for you to run over dianapolis Journal. The Coming Compliment.—Mrs. ¢ Don’t you think Miss Kittish looks exce well to-day? Cawker—Yes; she is charmingl; oy hat you re ng w ? gaid Mrs. Peck, “Iam goi There are lots of blooming flowers That the frost nips In the patch; But we've other kinds of bloomers That the frost can never catch. —Detroit Free Press, s SOFT baby cream, 15¢ pound. Townsend's.® . Bacox Printing Company,508 Clay street.* Brst printing, best prices. Roberts Ptg. Co.* e SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Pres Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * et e e Uy HUsBAND'S Calcined Magnesia—Four first- premium medais awarded; more agreeable to the taste and smaller dose than other magne- sia. For sale only In bottles with registered trademark label. . e THE Argonaut is one of the finest and most popular brands of Kentucky Bourbon, and has no equal for purity in the market. Itisoneof the favorite brands of the best judges. E. Martin & Co., 411 Market street, are the Pacific Coast agents for this excellent whisky. They are also agents for the celebrated J. F. Cutter brand of Kentucky Bourbon. These are both popular brand: * L S There was an old negro floating in a skiff on the headwaters of the Licking. He was fish- ing—fish mighty fine down that way. He had a boy in the boat with him who kevt looking into the water until he lost his balance and disappeared in the water. Quicker than I could tell you the old mun had hiscoat off and dived for the boy. He brought him up all right, then rowed for the bank. When they got out, dripping, of course, a white man who had seen the whole business complimented the old man on his heroic act. “He must be a son of yours,” said the white no, sah. No son o’ mine.” «Nephew, then?” “No; no, sah. No nephew.” “Cousin?” 0; no cousin, Then you deserve the more credit for saving his life.” “Well, I doan’t know ’bout that, boss. You see he had all the bait in his pocket.’—Fargo Forum. THERE is no remedy equai to Hood’s Sarsaparilla for scrofula, salt rheum and every form of blood disease. It is reasonubly sure to benefit all who give it fair trial. Be sure to get Hood's. ——————— CHICAGO LIMITED. VIA SANTA FE ROUTE. A new train throughout begins Octoben. Pullman’s finest sleeping-cars, vesiibule reclinfs chair cars and dining-cars. Los Angeles to € cago, via Kansas City, without change. Apr cars on sharp connection for Denver and & Louts. Twent en hours quicker than the quickest competing train. ‘The Santa Fe bas been put in fine phy sical con: transcontinenta! railw e CORONADO.—Atmosphere is perfectly dry, soft and mild, and is entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam- ship, inciuding fifteen days’ board at the Hotel del Coronado, $60: longer stay $2 50 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery s San Francisco. LY el s it BY adding 20 drops of Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters to every glass diseases from drinking pollu- ted water are avoided. B MANY aches and pains yield promptly to Pag- Try it. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM will save your hair, ———————— The Rev. Mr. Bedell, who used to preach Methodist doctrine in Calhoun County, thi State, was what is called a “jack of all trades While he was living at Newton it is related of him that & young runaway couple seeking to get married came to the ferry at that place and called for the ferryman, when Bedell responded to their call and put them across the river. While doing so the young man inquired for & blacksmith, as he wanted some repairs made on his buggy. Bedell replied: “Iam a blacksmith and will repair it. The young man next inquired for a hotel to stop at. Bedell replied: Come with me; I keep the hotel and will entertain you." The next inquiry was for the clerk of the Court of Ordinary in order to procure a mar- riage license. Bedell answered: tion and is now the best “Iam the clerk and can issue you a license.” He finally inquired for & minister to perform the marriage ceremony. The man of many oc- cupations wes agein equal to the emergency and informed the would-be bridegroom: “I am the minister and will perform the ceremony for you."—Atlanta Constitutio: GIVEN AWAY FREE. 3 5 (s, Worth of Crockery, Chinaware or GIESSWN'O FREE with each Sl TEAS, COFFEESAPICRS of COLILL A or C . BAKING POWDER. CUT OUT 'THIS ADVERTISEMENT, Bring it with you to any of our stores; it is the SAME AS MONEY to yeu until No- H vember 20. We wantyoun fo see the im- mense BARGAINS in our CROCKERY DEPARTMENT. Come and see us. Bring your friends. Great American Importing Tea Co's 140 Sixth st. 985 Market st. 333 Hayenst. 1419 Polk st. 531 Montg'y ave. § 2008 Fillmor 3006 Sixtoenth st. 2510 Mission st. 218 Third st. 104 Second st. 617 Kearny st. 146 Ninth st. 3259 Mission st. 1053 Washington 917 Broadwa 131 San Pablo B16E. 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