The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 20, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Fre Daily and Sunday CALL,one week, b v carrier. . $0.15 Daily and Sunday CAL mall !JAOO Daily and Sunday CAL : 3.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Deily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail.. .65 Sunday CALL, one year, & 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, one ye 1.50 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. | Telephone it Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Stre Telephone. .. BRANCH OFFICES : 630 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until oclock. 9 Hayes street; open until 8:30 o'clock. 7 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until § o'clock. 2518 Misslor 116 Ninth stre OAKLAND OFFICE : | 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE : Rooms 81 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special : open until 9 o’clock. i1 9 o'clock. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. PSSR ———————— “1 cannot tell a lie,”” said John S8herman; ] wrote my book with a hatchet.” We cannot preserve our forests any more than our industries without protection. The Turkey problem in Europe is tough, | but here’s hoping it will be different with us. —_— | It cannot be denied at any rate that | Bayard makes a speech to the Queen’s taste. Now that the Arabs have revolted against the Turks, Europe has another horse on the | Sultan. s | The trouble with the third-term move- ment i8 that it has burned all the bridges ahead of itself. It is not a fair show the directors of the | Sixth Agricultural District are giving the | public this time. { "Fhe free-traders, the cuckoos and the sugar-trust men are dead, but Democra has a few jingoes left. Don’t forget that every dollar saved from lottery swindles will add to the pleasures | - of the holiday season. In the matter of street sweeping it ap- | pears a broom in the hand is worth twui machines on the road. | Mr. Rainey has faith that he can har- monize Democracy by licking both fac- tions, and perhaps that is the only way to doit. ' | It is natural that Cleveland should be | opposed to greenbacks, for the greenback | has always fulfilled its duty and satisfied | the people. | Cleveland, Lamont and Whitney are said to be planning to take the Democratic | National Convention to New York, and the tiger grins. | | Five carloads of eolonists arriving in one batch to seek homes in California shows that a good-sized procession is coming our way this winter. | It is evident that Holmes values human life at very little since he offered only $20 for perjured testimony to save himself from the gallows. In the light of the forest firesnow raging, everybody can see the need of & more effect- ive forestry commission, but how long will they remember it? In beginning a crusade against trusts, New York for once atany rate puts herself in the van of what is to become a National movement in the end. A good assurance that we shall have clean streets before long is to be found in the faet that the Merchants’ Association is keeping eternally at i 1t is no.v asserted that Gail Hamilton’s “Life of Blaine”” will put Harrison in a mood of mind that will save him from ever again being called cold. It seems the Los Angeles Grand Jury cannot stick its nose into any department of the county government without finding something in bad odor. Gorman ie saying nothing, but whether he is sawing wood or sharpening a hatchet we shall not know until the first time the administration exposes its neck, ‘We have roused two lionsin the National Convention fight, and now we shall have the satisfaction of putting New York as well as Chicago into our game bag. A general desire to advance the weliare of California is the oil that enables the machinery of enterprise in every part of the State to work without triction. It would not be right to hold Campos too strictly to his promise to settle the Cuban revolt in a month, for in war it is nearly always & surprise party that happens. Pittsburg may not be enterprising, but she has a nerve, for she not only asks for the Republican Convention, but claims the right to name the candidate for the Presi- dency. It is to be hoped that when Huntington goes East he will not take back with him his idea that the competing road isa toy. He should leaye that with us ina giit frame as a souvenir. In making the statement, “There isas much sentiment in Mr. Cleveland as there is poetry in a goose,” the Washington Times casts a very unreasonable aspersion on the goose, and raises the suspicion that the Times has turkeys to sell. As Cleveland is liable to overlook it in his message, it is worth while to remind the country once more that under his ad- ministration the National debt has been increased by $160,000,000, while under Har- rison it was decreased by $260,000,000, If Olney thinks there isany vigor ina foreign policy that accepts the release of Waller without any indemnity for the wrong done him and the flag he repre- sented, then it will be time for Congress to take him in hand and show him what wigoris. After the Marlborough wedding the floral decorations were sent to the hospi- tals or cistributed among the sickrooms of the tenement districts, and it ises- timated tbat over 140,000 flowers were in that way delivered while still fresh around the bedsides of invafids. | wise attack capital. OUR POLICY, AGAIN, The recent statement in the Argonaut, that “Tne CaLL is engaged in a crusade against the water supply of San Fran- cisco,” while wholly incorrect, is of benefit to us, inasmuch as it warns us of the pos- sibility of a similar misconception on the part of the people, and reminds us that such misconceptions can be averted only by clear and explicit declarations concern- ing the policy of TrE CaLL in such mat- ters. Y Under its present management THE CaLn has never entered upon a crusade against any vested right or invested capi- tal, whether of an individual or of a corporation. California needs more capi- tal invested in public enterprises. A thousand undeveloped resources await the energizing touch which well-directed cap- ital and enterprise can give them, and which, when given, will make them profit- able to the State and to the people. Rec- ognizing this THE CaLL favors all vested rights and all invested capital now in the State, and would be glad to see them sus- tained by popular sympathy and support, as well as by law, in oraer that other indi- viduals and corporations might be encour- aged to continue the great work of State development. While supporting, favoring and encour- {aging the enterprises of capital in the| { hands of individuals or corporations we | do not, however, overlook the fact that capitalists and corporations sometimes act adversely to the public welfare and, & deed, to their own truest interests. \When these offenses oceur to an extent that is jurious to the people we point them o and, if they are persisted in, we de- nounce them and call upon the ofticers of the law to redress the evils by apply ing the proper remedy. When we make this defense of the pu his we - We have bee careful to point out that we are seek ¥ every means in our power to advance the welfare of San Fran X and whenever a work we comme! port it prejudi nounce that to overcome i Acting have appeared whoa to it D irse can ¢ to those r 100 prejudiced When one cor- a competing w ported When ion of tion of law it was injuri- an affront to We have made and crusades orations of San That after all is fake jonrnalism posing eople and shaking d while nolding out Tre Carn holds itself form. It stands California, corpo- i anoth ¥ free for rate as well ss individual, but is careful to see to it that no one of these seeks to g hers and the people, in viola- tion of ice, public expediency and the law. THE GARBAGE QUESTION. The Board of Supervisors has taken a long step forward in adopting an ordi- nance calling for bids for the construction | of a crematory for burning the City’s gar- bage. The sanitary disposition of garbage is very important. Burning is a perfect solution of the sanitary phase of garbage disposal, but at the same time garbage has a very high value us a fertilizing material. In arecent issue Tre Cary showed how Manchester, England, istreating its sewage by a scientific process that renders the matter available as a fertilizer while re- moving its noisome and noxious proper- ties. It is now in order to show what Manchester is doing with 1ts garbage. The data have been furnished by William F. Grinnell, United States Consul at that city. In 1886 the corporation bonght the *‘Car- rington moss estate,’” a 600-acre tract of wild moss and bogland, 209 acres of enlti- vated moss land, 9 acres of roads, ete., making a total of 1100 acres, at a cost of $184,927, to which was added $155,728, for a light railway, roads, drainage, rolling stock, livestock, building and other pur- poses. Nearly the whole of the moss land was drained and then fertilized with gar- bage and street sweepings. The city culti- vates about 400 acres and lets the remainder to various tenants, including nurserymen and market gardeners. During the twelve months ending July, 1894, the city realized $146 an acre from the crops which it produced. The recently ap- praised value of the property is far in ex- cess of the original cost with the subse- quent expenditures added. The average amount of refuse taken from the city and used to fertilize the farm is 55,000 tons. It is wonderful to read with what scien- tific accuracy and intelligence the material affairs of Old World cities are conducted. But then, such a thing as boss politics is unknown there. The only way in which the refuse of San Francisco is economically employed is at Golden Gate Park, where the street sweepings are used as a fertilizer. However great the benefit which thus ac- crues, the harm done in securing it more than offsets its value, for this utilization of the sweepings is enjoyed at the sacrifice to a railway monopoly of an injurious right of way for a track to the park. Manches- ter built its own railway for this purpose. This is not to suggest that the Supervis- ors might do well to change their present plan for the disposition of garbage, but it is always useful to know what vastly bet- ter governed cities are doing. THE BOULEVARD ASSOCIATION. An organization of recent birth in this City is the San Francisco Boulevard and Driving Association, which is just now be- ginning to make its energy and influence felt. An important plan upon which it has decided to concentrate its present efforts is to transfer Seventh avenue into a handsomely paved driveway from the Presidio to the park, and on the south side of the park to put the Almshouse and ocean beach roaas into proper condition and then extend the ocean drive down the beach to the San Mateo line. This, with Van Ness avenue, Lombard street, McQow- ell avenue, the park, the Almshouse road, Golden Gate avenue and the various other roads which the new systems would tap, would open a splendid network of drive- ways which, with the Corbett road, would cover a great number of the fine and pic- turesque highways of the peninsula. It would enable bugyies and carriages to reach the Ingleside racetrack over any of the following roads: The Sar Jose and Ocean House roads, the Corbett road, the Almshouse road and the ocean boulevard. All of these, particularly the Corbett, Almshouse and ocean boulevard roads, are exceedingly picturesque. The association has appointed a com- mittee to solicit subscriptions for carrying out this great scheme. The fatal defects in the system of roads as it exists now are the bad condition of the ocean terminus of the ocean road, and equally bad condition of that part of the Almshouse road which opens upon ‘the park, and the absence of complete grading and pavementof Seventh avenue. These essential links in the chain are at present broken, and the vurpon.ol the association is to mend them. Consid- erable money will be required and it should be produced in generous amounts. Very properly it shouid be done by sub- scription, as' the principal beneficiaries will be contignous property-owners, owners of carriages and owners of bicycles., The bicycle clubs have an opportunity to do some effective work in furtherance of the enterprise. The ofily thing lacking to make the plan absolutely complete is the leaving out of the eastern terminus of the Corbett road. At present a part of the outlet into the es- tablished streets of the City is over private iand, and as & consequence the City does not keep that part in order. The wretched condition of this short stretch practically destroys one of the most wonderful drives in the world. Doubtless the association will attack this problem in good time, but it is oue that might well come within the provinee of the City anthorit PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED, The matters which vitally affect the 1n- terests of California and that will come before the next Congress are these: The Nicaragua canal, the adjustment of tne Government debt of thie Pacific roads, the adequate protection of mineral lande und the making of intelligent and applioabls ation laws. All of these, excopt por- haps the matter of mineral lands, have o National importance hardly second to that which concerns California. Alrendy the Democratic Congressmen of Californin are aeclaring what they intend to do on some of these matters when Congress assen bles, We have not been informed that these in- tentions even - purport to express the pre- vailing wishes of the people. All these things greatly incrense the im- | portance of bringing the Hepublican Na- | tional Convention to San Francisco. There | isalready talk that Mr, Huntington aims | to be present when the next Congress as- | sembles in order that he may have a hand in the making up of certain committees. There may be no truth it these rumors, but it can be easily understood that in the | absence of a perfect National understand- ing of the matters in which Mr. Hunting- | ton is interested his persuasive powers might be potent for harm to this part of the country. There can hardly be a doubt that he will oppose the Nicaragua canal and a fore- closure of the Government's mortgage on the Central Puacitic. In the absence of very energetic work on the part of our | people ana in the presence of Mr. Hunt- ington’s history it can burdly be expected that his intluence will be employed in Washington unselfishly ard for the best interests of the State. T9 whatever ex- tent his intluence may -iperate with the Congress, and however ::remediable the action of that Congress :iiy be with refer- ence to the railroad deb:! and the broader and more vital idea o! overland freight charges, other important matters will re- main open for study «nd mastery by the National Republican party. The strong populat movement for the advancement of California and the press- ing outside influence and interests which are reacting upon the State are producing an exceedingly involved condition of ai- fairs, and creating more and more a neces- sity to specialize the work of advancement and defense. Small issues will arise which will tend to distract attention from the greater ones which conirot us. Energies so much needed in broad affairs are in dan- ger of being expended 1n directions where they will not do the most good. These are considerations to be kept constantly in mind, and the greatest of them all is the need of instructing the Nation concerning the National importance of the things which are so directly vital to California. { PERSONAL. Edward M. Greenway has returned from his visit to the Eastern cities. Emile Girard of Paris, who is interested in gold mining in this State, is in the City. F. C. Butterworth of Washington, D. C., 8 son of Congressman Butterworth, arrived here yes- terday. W. H. Patterson, a wealthy cotton-grower of Reno, Nev., was among yesterdsy’s arrivals. He is at the Lick. E. P. Rogers, general passenger agent at Port- land of the California and Oregon branch of the Southern Pacific system, is at the Palace. Ex-Governor James H. Kinkead of Nevada and elso Aleska, has arrived here from his home at Virginia City, where he is superin- tendent of leading mining properties. He will stay several days. Leigh Hunt of Seattle, formerly proprietor of the Post-Intelligencer, is in the City, having just arrived in company with Mrs. Hunt from New York. Mr. ITuntis on his way to China and will sail on the Coptic to-morrow. Mrs. John Jay Knox of New York, wife of &- Comptrolier Knox of President Garfield’s ad- ministration, is in this City, accompanied by her daughter. The ladies have received many friends during their shortstay at the Palace. They will leave in a day or two to visit friends in Portland. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 19.—Among recent arrivalsare: J.Bloom, St. Cloud; Mrs. A. M Broachfield, St. Stephen’s; Miss Hager, Mi Lawler, L. Sctiwaygon and wife, Mrs. W. S. Levis, Holland; Dr. B. R. Wood, Grand; E. Reiss, Imperial; C. L Knight, Hoffman. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 19.—Mr. and Mrs. F.S. Stratton, San Francisco, Arlington; Cal- vin W. Brown and wife, Pasadens, Arlington; L. 0. Gioyer and wife, San Francisco, Howard House; Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Pemberton, Los Angeles, Ebbitt House. SWIFTLY GROWING. Whatcom (Wash.) Blade. The San Francisco CALLis swiftly growing into recognition as one of the most trustworthy and reliable papers in the West. Charles M. Short- ridge, the editor and proprietor, does not seem to be partial to the prevailing Frisco habit— sensational journslism and uncredited bor- rows. THE CAKE, NOT THE BONE. Alameda Telegram. The Examiner and Chronicle are preparing 1o chew each other over the question of cireu- lation. While they are kept busy attendin; each to the other TaE CALL may walk in an take the bone. ONE OF THE BEST. Deeth (Nev.) Tidings. The San Francisco CALL, under the propri- etorship of Charles M. Shortridge. has not only become a great newspaper, but one of the very best published anywhere along the coast. Except Where Competing Roads Are Building. Sen Jose Mercury. ‘When money can be saved by hauling freight between Gilroy and Hollister by means of mule teams, there is certainly something wrong with railroad rates. But thatis an old story. There always has been something wrong with them in il portions of the State and there is nio hi::éudiuw prospect of the wrong being righted. Mississippi Wasn’t So Lonesome Then Centzalia (Wash.) News. It may be some consolation to Democrats to remember that there was a time when even Mississippi went Republican, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “You ask me what class of people are the most disturbed in a storm at sea?”’ said Cap- tain Morse, formerly of the Alameda. The titanio man of the ocean pinched his eyes to- gether as is his custom when a staggerer is put to him and thought a moment. mblers!” he answered finally. “When the sea is rolling high and the storm is on, howling and roaring iike thunder around the upper deck and the lee scuppers Are halt the time in the water, then you'll see the gambler get right aown and declare him- self with more real fecling and sincerity than auy other man in the disturbance. When the weather is reasonably good, upon retiring the gambler—I mean the genuine article—will hunt his nest without any decided reference to that invisible power that is over land and sea, and is soon lost in slumber—provided he == - ‘THE FIRST DOZ! OUT OF THEIR BERTHS WILL BE GAM SATD CAPTAIN MORSE, [Sketched from life for “The Cull” by Nankivell,] is & winner. He sleeps as calmily as a child just so long as the gentle rolling of the ship is to his liking. But let & hard d come up, on one of those nights when the sky is sweptina trice by derk and ominous clouds and the tem- pest breaks from windless heavens, tossing the waves up over the bow eund dashing tons of water on the trembling de vou just let one of those occasions present itself and the first dozen men out of their berths will be the gamblers. Upon my word they simply break their necks trying to square themselves with the Almighty."” “What occasions such rapid negotiations with the Creator?” inquired » gentleman who seemed to want immediate information on that point. “We-e-e-ell,” drawled the captain, ‘‘between yon and me, I have always thought it was be- cause the odds are against th the thundes begins to roar # lable ocean takes a notior around to suit itself the gumbler sees that he is about to have a bard desl. He thinks his last shuffie has come and he never knows what part of the deck he prefe its position in the sle neck, He never knows whether he is going to turn & jack or his stomach and there is a likeli- hood of his being raised out of the game. Some- times he is high, sometimes low, and he often finds himself in the hold. Altogether he has gotabad crowa to handle and he generally winds up by taking water which is anteed up by the long green sea.” 1 the uncontrol- to knock & J. Gron of Boston, who has been com- the Boston Advertiser and Batch- elder’s srndicate to go to Hawai, China, Japan, India and other countries and write & series of letters, is in the City. He will make a complete tour of the world. He has recently spent some time at the Atlanta Exposition. “What struck wme as most surprising there were the exhibits seen in the negro depart- ment of the exposition. Everything illustrat- 10g the advancement of the colored men since they were brought as slaves from the wilds of Africa is to be seen in the buildings. It wasa marvelous showing. Yet the skill and finish of the barbaric weapous also exhibited there from the heart of Africa impressed me as, if anything, more strange. That a barbaric peo- ple could show such inventions convinced me that the negro, even in his wild state, has ex- traordinary ability.” Mr. Gron will remain here at least a week be- fore continuing his trip around the world. Bishop McKim, who for many years has pre- sided over the destinies of the Episcopal church in the land of the chrysanthemum, is atthe Occidental. The Bishop has been in dif- ferent parts of the East for several months past. He is accompanied by the Rev.J. M. Francis, an Episcopal missionary of Japam. “We have been much benefited by the change from the climate of Tokio to that of this country,” said Rev. Mr. Francis, “and besides this have greatly en- joyed the visit. We retura with renewed cour- age to prosecute our religious work. Itisa great field. Our missions are prospering, and altogether Japan is ad ing in & way to cause much gratification. R. A. Eddy of Eddy, Hammond & Co., Mon- tana, who not long since bought the railroad which extends from Yaquina Bay to Salem, Or., isin the City. This firm also owns steam- ers on the Willamette River. One of the Iatest projects of the firm is a railroad from Portland t0 Astoria. For many years the members of the firm have been extensively engaged in lumber- ing, merchandising and other enterprises in the Northwest. SUCCESS WITHOUT OFFENSE. A CONTEMPORARY DRAWS ATTENTION T0 THE CALL'S ADVANCEMENT. San Lais Obispo Tribune. c We are under obligations to Mr. Charles M. Shortridge of THE CALL, for his courtesy in per- mitting us to use the cuts which originally ap- peared in that paper of several members of the order of Eiks, who visited this City the other day, It gives us the opportunity to call the atten- tion of our readers to the excellence of the pictures and the material advance which has been made in this department of newspaper work, especially by Tur CaLy’s artists. Until quite recently & newspaper cut proverbially presented good grounds for a suit for libel which was only fairly to be avoided by omt- ting any statement that any particular indi- vidual was intended to be represented. No label, no recognition, no libel. But things have changed. THE Cant's illustrations are always artistic and eminently satisfactory. But THE CaLL in all its departments has vastly improved under its new management. It was always a good newspaper, but it was dull, and that was fatal. Mr. Shortridge has touched it with hisown fireand itis very much alive. Further it stands as a demonstration thateven a metropolitan daily may achieve the widest popularity and an immense circula- tion without being an offense to decent house- holds, without devoting columns to details of foul crime, without invading thé sanctity of the home or outraging the sensibilities of helpless citizens. The couniry press rather claim Mr. Shortridge as their representative and are glad of his success, glad to see THE CALL grow and prosper, glad to call attention to the massive structure that will be its magnificent monu- ’| davits from these two sneaks. You see when | _ Mis heart looses | ve and comes up in his | ment and to tell of its glories; glad to assist and applaud.—San Luis Obispo Tribune. ANOTHER cmcm’flpn WAR. IN OKLAHOMA AFFIDAVITS, BETS AND PICTURES *Cut No IcE. Philadelphia Daily Item. “Running & newspaper out in Oklahoma ain’t the wild and woolly sortof a thing people might think it is,” he said, and he pulled up another chair to rest his feet on. “I've bzen running the Weekly Noose since the day after ‘the strip’ was opened,” he con- tinued. “Living off public printing, doing nicely, and running a real estate‘and insur- ance business on tbe side. “But speaking of circulation,” he went on, ‘“‘reminds me of an epoch in the history of the Noose. As I have intimated, the public print- ing is the thing—I might say it is the life of journalism in meny Oklahoma communities, This public printing consists chiefly of the notices of publication of settlers in making proof in support of claims. They are given out by the Register of the Land Office. Well, they changed Registers on me when things were going along smoothly, and a little, narrow- chested down-Easterner got the job. One of the first things he did was to switch the printing around. There were two other papers which used to divide the business of our section with me, but when this little pink- nosed foreigner got into the office he gave the whole thing to one paper. It was not long till the Noose began to feel the effects of this de- spoliation. 'Well, the Noose and our esteemed contemporary, who was also left out in the cold, trained editorial broadsides on that Reg- ister till I almost lost confidence in the power of the press. Finally he gave evidence he was hit by printing & reply in the contemporary which was getting all the patronage. Before doing it h2 hired a couple of sneaks to go and work on the Noose and the other lonesome contemporary. it was a politi- cal trick he had brought out from the East. He said in his reply the reason why he did not give any advertising to the Noose and our other contemporary was be- cause the circulation of those two would not justify him in doing it. Then followed affi- One of them swore the circulation of our contemporary was seventy-five copies. The wall-eyed sneak who had worked for me, setting type and running the press for three weeks, made an affidavit that the circulation of the Noose was sixty- seven copies by actual count, free list and ex- changes included. “Wasit the truth?” asked one of his anditors. “Well, supposing it was,” he said, pulling hisfeet off the extra chair, and there was a gleam in his eye that caused his auditors to straighten up and draw their chairs closer. “That ain’t the point,” he went on. ‘“While 1 was oiling my gun the Coroner came in grin- ning, and I knew I was too late. < “Well, I haven’t had any trouble with Regis- ters since, and, as I said, the Noose is doing nicely with public printing. But I felt ent up over that affair for & good while. You see, our esteemed contemporary didn’t have as good & | case against that Register as I did by eight copies.” FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. Peffer and Paderewski. Los Angeles Times. From the alleged fact that the longest hairs on Paderewski’s head measured eight inches, | the Wichita (Kas.) Eagle draws the deliberate ! conclusion that “Peffer might have been a | great musician if his chin had,been where his { Scelp is.”’ The statement is & non-sequitur. 1f | Peffer’s chin had been where his scalp is he would probably have been so busy talking through his hat that he would have haa no time to cultivate music. Football Dangers Exaggerated. Stanford Palo Alto. That the dangers of football aré exaggerated | is well shown by the fact that while our foot- | ball squad of sixty men more or less has played | for two months and but two ribs have been broken, three faculty ribs have been broken in the past week. This seems conclusive proof that at least as far as ribs are concerned the wild career of the football man is safer than the quiet life of a professor. Democracy Blind to Its Defects. San Jose Marcury. In spite of the free-trade National debt, the free-trade deficit, and the free-trade gold re- | serve that has to be bolstered up every few {months with borrowed money, the Cleveland |'orgaus frantically insist that ‘free trade is the salvation of the country. To the owl there is nothing quite so cheering as the gloom of mid- | night. An Editor's Modest Self-Reproach. Seattle Times. Why, oh why, does the flood of love for man- | kind and womankind, which dwells eternal in | the editorial breast of some papers, never man- | £ge to bubble up to the surface in_time to pre- vent catastrophes? And when will our rich American girls learn that they are in duty vound to consult the newspapers before marry- ing? Our civilization seems to be cracking {n vital point. Abandoning Profitless Crops. Seattle Post-Tntelligencer. The people on the edge of the Adirondack Mountains in New York have a gold excite- ment. Many of the farmers thereare abandon- ing their hop Jarms and going off with pick and shovel in search of gold. With hops at the present figure they will probgbly make money, even if they don’t strike anything. = Hot Edibles for Moths. Bakersfield Californian. About nire papers out of ten in talking about any political excitement use the expression, “the political pot is boiling.” For heaven's sake, why eannot some exgresnlon be hit upon whick is not quite so moldy and moth-eaten? It would seem as though a little originality ifferent. might evolve something THE PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION, Mexican Herald. A polite and astute young colored man, not a plain, black chap, but & dainty Moorish cafe au lait boy, entered the office of the Fifth-avenue Hotel last week and said, in a calm and measured tone, “Will the next President of the United States pass into the ladies’ parlor?” | Seventeen statesmen arose from seventeen | chairs and moved inslow and dignifiea proces- sion in the direction indicated, and, behold? Benjamin Harrison of Indiana led all the rest! And so he’ll do in November, next year. Boston Herald. The fact that the last three Republican Presi- dentsof the United States were all born in Ohio may also militate against Governor Mc- Kinley’s chances of getting the nomination, though the Ohio Republicans haye enjoyed not much more of & monopoly of the favors of their party than the New York Democrats have in their organization. And New York isnot yet discouraged from asking for a continuance of these favors. Cincinnat! Enquirer. Senator Allison of Iowa is in a very restful attitude toward the Republican nomination for the Presiaency. He had less to do with the obnoxious tariff and financial legislation of the Republican party than either of the three more prominent Republican candidates. He long since passed the dark-horse stage, but is skiliful in keaplnfi not too prominent, but just prominent enough. Albany Journal. Governor Morton’s way of handling the affairs of the State is unquestionably increas- ing his popularity daily. There seems to be 10 doubt that he will go before the next Re- ublican National Convention as the most ormidable of all the many candidates already named. He is certain to have the solid delega- tion from New York behind him. Indianapolis Journal. The friends of Senator Allison will not base his claims upon locality, but upon his peculiar fitness for the office of President. He is one of the few men who can by his fitness ignore ex- traneous circumstances. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The worst thing about Reed’s candidacy for the Presidency is that it obliges him to forego 80 many opportunities of making caustic re- u:;rk- about men whom he cannot afford to offend. Chicago Record. 1t may yet be necessary to bring Mr. Allison before a judge and jury and present evidence before he can be icted . Bt con’ Ot carrying a con Chicago Herald. It is time to prepare the neck of General Alger's little boom for the criel but incvitable sk, ¢ oeoption of that ‘Washington Post. With New England, Tom Platt and to start with, Tom Reed ©of 214 delegates. Mat Qua; would have a nest u: THE ART OUTLOOK INSAN FRANCISCO Local Color From the Studios InThis Community. There is great pleasure to the art lover in the fall exhibit now being held at the Hopkins Art Institute, also in the art work on view in the various studiosof the City—much that is more than excellent. California has furnished so many beautiful andgrand subjects for the brush that the artist who has wisely sought for native scenes has not failed in the finding nor in securing the appreciation of the public. Landscape painting belongs to modern art. With Claude and Poussin, we are told, it was in favor more asa setting or back- ground for some Arcadian scene orasper- spective where Ionic or Corinthian temple was thrown in relief against light and shadow, thus making its beauty relative or subjective. In these later days both poet and painter take their lessons from nature, and to discover some secret spot where the earth has disclosed her loveliness possesses for them a supreme charm ; indeed, its very isolation gives such a scene all the fresh- to the artist. William Keith has the true envisagement of this—that discernment which “lays nature bare in her divine in- tegrity.”’ This is to discover another note in .che harmony of the universe, which practically must be translated as a sense of proportien when brought to the canvas. Lord Kames, in his “Elements of Criti- cism,” limits beauty to the sense of sight. He should have gone further and acknowl- edged that vision conveys the truth and beauty to the sonl which feels. In Mr. Keith’s picture, “Fog Over the Berkeley Hills,” he comes nearer to the haunts of man, and awakeus that human interest which the familiar always brings home to the heart. The beauty of this painting is unexcelled, the tender light of the perspective, the fog breaking away, leaving over all a dewy freshness, as per- fect as the atmosphere of a Corot. There was a painting at the spring exhibit of this year which 1 noted at the time, and which it is to be noped is_included in the present exhibit; the picture is called “Evening on the Italian Coast,” by Jor- gensen. This pamting has the silence, the stillness which is desolation, for silence and stillness are many-meaning mysteries. The silence and stillness of the might. The silence and_stillness of the forest. The stillness and silence of the sea. In the night and in the forest are unseen presences. On the sea are voiceless secrets, This canvas -holds the speechlessness. of its desolation. We are tanght there is a general kind of beauty callefi Eurarithmy, “the beauty which is relative to the contemplating mind.” We intuitively feel there must be harmony without superfices, for acci- dental notes, while heipful in music, are dangerous ventures in painting; they dis- turb an isolated scene, obtruding from the external commonplace upon the sacred- ness and secrecy of some abiding place of nature, making a discord, a dissonance of effect. Gleghorn says: *“The human mind can easily take in but a limited num- ber of parts, of members, of features, of hues, of sounds.” The theme must not be crowded out of its singleness of purpose or meaning. One must not be bewildered by the complex, only admirable in heroic or epic subjects. Technique is the surgery of the arts, the incision of the beautiful, laying bare the pulse and vein and artery of its structure. The artist discovers the possible, and brings forth a renaissance of the material clothed in a spiritual pres- ence. To the artist analysis of form and outline, this finding and fixing the rules of parallelism and opposition, the chia- roscuro, the tones and valeus is the neces- sity of his work, ‘With those who only study technique by way of apprehending results, to these it is only the raison d’etre of the thing. Itis to the artist, but in a higher degree. What botany is to_the botanist, where tender flowers, petal and calyx and anther are uncovered to the eye of science, To the general public of beauty-lovers it is the story the‘rainur paints in the true colors of life and living. Itisthe appeal to the heart of emotion, the sympathy aroused ‘which each interprets in his own language to his soul, he feels according to his sensi- bility to sentiment. This public is not critical—it is instinctive, as was in evi- dence at the World’s Fair, when the crowd passing by great masterpieces gath- ered about the pathetic scene, ““Breaking Home Ties” (by Thomas Hovenden). It was the directness of the homing shaft; they stood about it spellbound.” There was only one voice, only one heart-beat, 80 concentrated, so intense was their sense of it—the young, with au agitation, an apprehension tgey felt, bur could not fully understand; the old, with the echo of recall like the reverberation of a far-off knell borne back into their lives from something forever vanished, some dear face forever gone from the home hearth. 1t is the same in literature—it is what enters the soul when one reads Ian Mc- Laren, or Crockett’s stories, or in our own land it is the tear in the eye called up by | the homely but exquisite pathos of Nel- son Pae or some tender child-?oem be- | queathed from the stilled hand oi Eugene Field. Itisthe undertone in most lives, this strain of sadness and sorrow. Our artists have not only engathered the very | core of beauty from California, but they have laid other lands tribute to their art. They have brought as symphonies and figures and sonatas in color from foreign shores some rhythmic canto of love in its lights and shades, or some drama or rtmged of distant peoples told to us in the colatu nd tunes of an universal language. Victor Hugo says, “Supreme art is the reign of equals.” The artist in any of the arts leaves the earth for other worlds of his own creating. A word now about the luminists and impressionists. Van Dyke says: “That movement in art which passes under the misleading name of impressionism has established new views and new methods of handling lights and shadows. True enough its exponents, men like Claude Monet and Renoir, are just now painting snatches and sketches of nature rather than pictures; they are cutting off a piece of what is before them rather than composing, but even 0 they have proved that the picture may exist and be a picture without the wedg- ing and centering of light and without the oppesition of strong lights to darks, * * * ®he luminarists may be credited with a new and important “technical discovery, one that is destined in all probability to influence the entire future of art.’” Van Dyke goes on to say that “when painting came out of the Middle Ages the technique of art had to be learned over in,” Form, and then, he says, light and shade were aev.eloped. e says also that “‘the luminarists have mise({ piteh, but in so doing they have sacrificed the relations somewhat.” Some of the impressionist’s pictures at the World’s Fair borderad so on the unreal in the way of colorinE and diffusion of light (very little shade) that ‘they might, I think, rank fairly with the symbolism of the new school of literature. A true artist will give his truth in his own way however it appears to others. One can detect the sincerity at once without the power of critical analysis xoxk di;torlfl“l offends the eye, ason, by au instantaneous revuision, shock that has shattered all rules. No ;:: Wwho cates for art would desire that an artist l(:‘f aside from the path that seems illumined for him to confer with tastes not intnnnully‘ his own. Liszt said in writing of music: “An artist can have abstract ideas, but he cannot serve opinion without making his voeation impossible, for art, like the solution ot all opinions lies in the feeling of humanity.” Thl possible application of what Lisat has said about music to the painters’ art”shows, as we know, over and over again the inti- macy of all art—the interrelation of the rules for effect. This is being worked out.by the laws of vibration concerning color and sound. 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