The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 23, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1895 ANcisey CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, r and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunda: .1 v and Sunda; Daily and § Daily and Sunday Car sunday CAx WEEKLY CALL, One y¢ BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone ....Main—1868 il 150 65 e months by m month, by B EDITORIAL R 5 ay St Main—1874 Telephone............. “ BRANCH OF 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 8:30 o'clock, 339 Hayes strect; open until 9:30 o'clock. o'clock. eets; ; open until ¢ teenth and Mission open until 8 o'clock. 2518 Mission stre 116 Ninth stre OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTER& OFFICE : Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ t; open un ; open until 9 o’clock. Leave orders for Tur Suxpay Carwto- day. New York is not so much asking for the Democratic convention as grabbing for it. John Sherman may yet be known to fame as the most candid friend on record. When Democrats are fighting and Re- sjpublicans are feasting the country isall sright. 1t is not the resolutions of Eastern cities, but the resolution of Cuba that troubles Spain ItEurope would let Turkey alone she would soon settle all her problems by spon- taneous combustion. Perhaps the gold exports are simply the shipment of the dowry of Marlborough’s little American Duchess. It certainly seems we must have a new charter to enable us to deal properly with the problems of the new era. | | Debs will come ont of jail with a bigger | dollowing than Cleveland will have when | he comesout of the Presidency. The trial that Ashworth is undergoing will incline other people having street work to try a little harder to do right. If Cleveland expects his message to at- tract attention more than one day he will have to publish it as a continued story. Plenty of money for park improvements is good, but better still is the prospect of plenty of improvements for the money. The Democrats have harmony on one point at any rate; there is no fight among them over the next Presidential nomina- tion. 1f Maguire tries to purify Democracy by taxing the faction leaders with their ini quities; it won't be a single tax by any means. o Boston has set us an example to imi- | tate. She has instructed the Massachu- setts delegation to ask for $6,000,000 to im- prove her harbor. Some Democrats are in favor of renomi- natving Cieveland next year because, they say, he is the only man in the party they are willing to imdlolate. One benefit we have already gained by the fight for the convention. 1t hasshown that the State is with us and that all sec- tions are working together. If Chicago really beheved her citizens were such good examples for the rest of the country she wouldn’t be so angry with the footpads for holding them up. Judging from the reports of galesand earthquakes in that section the Eastern people will have good cause for Thanks- giving, if they are alive when the day comes. Itisastriking illustration of the strangely tangled skein of life that Buckley should bave returned with the chrysanthemums and show signs of being with usat Thanks- giving. The Eastern press has about settled down to cali the horseless vehicle “automo- sbile,”” but when it comes into use the iree «and easy public will give it a shorter name than that. It is now asserted by Eastern experts that potassinmorthodinitrocresolate is de- structive to plant parasites, and certainly it 18 easy to believe any insect that gets it “in his mouth will die of lockjaw. While we have not accomplished all that was planned, the record of enterprise un- dertuaken and work achieved in California this year will make an excellent showing when the record is compiled at the close. A political expert points out that the ‘Whig party once elected to the Presidency a man who came from Buffalo, and after that the Whig party died. Democracy will take notice that history repeats itself. The Columbus Press suggests a certain Judge Hunt of Ohio as a Democratic can- didate for the Presidency, and as the party will have hunt on its hands any way it might as well take that one and be done with it. It is becoming more evident every day that Cleveland and his supporters will do all they can to make the retirement of greenbacks the leading issue of the cam- paign next year, and to that end will try to render it the Jeading topic of discussion in Congress this winter. The New York Sun points out that in the first quarter of the century weannexed Louisiana, in the second quarter Califor- nia, in the third quarter Alaska, and it now demands the annexation of Canada to make the last quarter equal the others in enterprise. We certainly ought to keep up the lick. ‘Warner Miller told the people of Boston that in seeking a foreign market for our goods we need not bother’ about Yurope or Africa, as we have in Bouth America and the Orient mar- kets which will take ail we have to give, if by wise statesmanship we culti- vate the trade. These words are as inter- esting to 8an Francisco as to Boston, for whether our trade goes to the South or the Kast it must pass through the Golden Gate. 5 | | | (fau | OAKLAND'S WINTER FAIR. Not long ago a banquet made up of Cali- fornia products was given to a chosen few in this City for the purpose of showing the invited guests what excellent things to eat and drink are produced in the State. Oak- land is now preparing to demonstrate to us a far more effective ‘way of making an exhibition for a similar purpose. Itis ar- ranging to hold a fair from the 16th to the 21st of December, at which nothing but the products and manufactures of Alameda | County are to be displayed. To the sur- prise and gratification of the managers the farmers and manufacturers of the county have been so prompt and numerous in de- manding space for their exhibits that the original plans have been enlarged, an ad- ditional structure will have to be added to the large building selected, and the affair is going to be conducted on & splendid ale. lameda, by reason of its nearness to n Francisco and its convenience of ac- s from all the densely settied bay on, bas exceptional advantages for making such a fair successful, but that should be no reason why every other conaty in the State should not follow its example. Nothing better could be devised for inculcating a spirit of pride in home products and for turning money spent for Eastern articles into the pockets of our own people. The district fairs were organ- ized partly for that purpose, but they have proved to be little more than horseracing exhibitions and are comparatively value- less as agencies for advancing local inter- ests. County fairs devoted solely to the exhibition of county manufactures ahd farm products would accomplish more good than a dozen district fairs. Oakland should, as no doubt it will, malke the most of its present opportunity. The affair should be advertised without stint in San Francisco, where there are always thousands of strangers from all parts of the world and where is a great resident population spending its money for articles of Fastern production which are neither better nor cheaper than tho. produced at home. In Alameda Coun farming is carried to the highest point of scientific perfection at present practiced in alifornia, and hence farmers from all parts of the State will have an opportunity to learn what may be accomplished by a pursuit of the finest methods. A valuable point gained by such exhibi- tions is the emulation which they rouse among farmers. However advanced may be the industry of farming in California it may be still deemed merely in 1ts infanc; A comparison of methods is the best way for leading to still higher efforts and still better results. PARK IMPROVEMENTS. It is interesting to note not only that the ce ple of the City never object to a gener- | ous allowance in the tax levy for the im- | provement of Golden Gate Park, but that the administration of the park affairs has never been tainted with scandal. This is more than can be said of any other branch of the City government. The honesty, in- teilizence and public spirit of the various bee..ds which have had control of the park are sufficient, without considering the popular affection for this noble resort, to | account for the prevailing willingness to furnish the Commissioners with money in liberal amount. The tax-levy decision by the Supreme Court has placed the Park Commissioners in command of an income of $25,000 a month for improving the park. Thisisa splendid sum and its judicious investment greatly add to the attractiveness of the park in a single year. The plans of the Commissioners have been noted in the news columns of Tue CALL. It is timely to make a suggestion. This is based on an important work which Leland Stanford began and nearly com- pleted in his lifetime at his country resi- dence, Palo Alto. There he made a sys- tematic collection of all the flora of Cali- fornia that would thrive in that locality, giving particular attention to unique and picturesque flowers, shrubs and trees. Something like a beginning of this has been made at Golaen Gate Park, but the idea has never received the ample atten- tion which Senator Stanford gave it West of Btrawberry Hill there is a stretch of about a mile and a half, which the Commissioners have planted mostly to pines and cypresses. We do not believe that this practice represents the highest wisdom which experience in California arboriculture has developed. However that may be, in this splendid stretch there 1s ample room for the cultivation of all the unique indigenous piants which give so distinctive a character to the fiora of the State. [t is wonderful how elastic and adaptive these plants are. While the sequoia gigantea—the big tree of Cali- fornia—has a native habitat not lower than 6000 feet above the level of the sea, we have seen a young specimen of it growing at San Mateo with greater vigor and rapidity than can be observed in the native locality of the tree. There is hardly any end to the picturesque effects which the Park Commissioners might secure by pay- ing attention to the cultivation in the park of hundreds of strange and beantiful trees which abound in the State. TIME TO ACT. Asthe time approaches for Congress to as- semble, popular interest in the work likely to come before it at this session increases. Every section of the Union has some mat- ter of special concern to itself which it will press upon the attention of the Senate and the House, and for which it expects every member of its own delegation to work steadfastly and zealously. California certainly has such an interest. It greatly concerns the welfare of the State to defeat all propositions for refunding the debts of the railroads, and the California delega- tion is expected to be vigilant in accom- plishing that result. The members of the California delega- tion, no doubt, have much to occupy them at this time, and will have during the early days of the session. They should not allow their attention, however, to be distracted by any subject whatever from the issue of the funding bill. They snould not wait for the bill to come before the House or the Senate before they speak. They should make known at once to all the members of either House with whom they come in contact that California is opposed to any form of refunding proposi- tion, and that they, as representatives of the State, will fight all propositions of the kind and accept no compromise. Every member of the California delega- tion was elected on a pledge to oppose the funding of the railroad debt. Not one of them could have been elected without making that pledge. The people will not be satisfied if the pledge is kept in a merely perfunctory way. Our Senators and Rep- resentatives are expected, not only to vote against funding, but to fight against it. They are expected to insist that these wealthy corporations shall be made to pay their debts to the Government as poor men would be made to pay them. Itisin order, therefore, for every member of Con- gress from this State to begin the fight against the railroad lobbyists as soon as be arrives in Washington. The lobbyists | {dom, hur will not wait. Neither should the repre- sentatives of the people wait. The contest cannot be postponed, and now is the time to make Eastern Congressmen under- stand that California is unalterably opposed to the whole funding proposition, and relies upon Congress to do justice and save her from a continuation of the mo- nopoly which has lonf checked her growth and interfered with the prosperity of her people. “THE SUNDAY CALL. Tue SuNpAY Carn of to-morraw will have many features of special interest and attraction. Prominent among them will be “At Our Gate,” a song of the ocean, by Joaquin Miller. The poem is full of strong meaning and will be a pleasure to all who delight in the expression of ideals of beauty in the forms of poetry. Jobn E. Richards begins a series of papers on ‘“The Orators of California” with an account of the life and eloquence of Colonel E. D. Baker, which will be ac- companied by a hitherto unpublished por- trait of the orator from a daguerrotype taken when he was about 35 years of age. Colonel Baker’s life was a romance and his eloquence was an instruction in patriot- ism, so that this carefully prepared study of his career and his work will be an in- structive lesson to all Californians as well as a matter of interest for leisure reading. William Greer Harrison contributes a spicy article entitled *‘A Critic Criticized; Ambrose Bierce Dissected.” It is worth reading. W. C. Morrow contributes, nnder the title of “‘A Veracious Account of the Man with a Flying Stomach,” s fantastic story involving a curious problem of human possibil Florence Blanchard eontinues her interesting papers detailing the ex- periences of a ‘‘Californian Art Student in Paris,” Edward M. Greenway furnishes an entertaining discussion of “Society and the Horse Show,” a review of what is “New in Gotham” is furnished by Leslie Whitacre, and *“New York Stage Gossip” isnarrated by A. Oakey Hall. The regular departments of THE SuN- DAY CALL, including Random Notes, Book Reviews, Fashions, Children’s Realm, The Drama, etc., are as usual well filled with matters of current interest and general in- formation on the subjects pertaining to them. Tue CaLr can be had usually wherever newspapers are sold, but as there is an extra demand for the Sunday paver, the best way to make sure of getting it is to leave orders to-day THE ATTITUDE OF DEBS. That Eugene Debs will at once develop a power which will bear upon the welfare of the country there is no room at present to doubt. If he show a lack of patience, wis- anity and patriotisin he will v disappear. His record thus far is n, so far as his acts are con- cerned, though from his last utterances it may be inferred that important changes have come over Lim. The presumption, from a general knowledge of human na- ture, is that his character has been already disclosed by his acts, and that whatever may be his present frame of mind his na- ture remains unchanged. The salient act by which we may read his conception of duty and responsibility was his violent opposition to the constituted avthority of the Nation and his leading of hisfollowers into that attitude. This man- ner of redressing wrongs unquestionably strikes at the security of the whole people, including those whom Mr. Debs would be- friend. It discloses a narrow conception of a labor leader’s duty and opportunity and a faulty appreciation of the stud- bornness with which the body of the peo- ple are prepared to defend a govern- ment which they have created. By his acts Mr. Debs seems, to have im- agined that the GGovernment is supported solely by grasping corporations and their tools in office. In that light he appears to have overlooked the fact that to whatever extent this may or may not be true (that not being the vital element of the ques- tion), the people at large believe that 1f such an evil exists there is a better, more intelligent and more permaunent remedy than violence and destruction. Unless Mr. Debs adopts that broad and patriotic view of the situation he will soon become either a nonentity or a menace. But there is evidence that his confine- ment in prison has given him an oppor- tunity to learn. If the acts which sent him to prison were made possible by ignor- ance and not by an inborn revolutionary or unarchistic spirit, 1t is conceivabie that his studi=s in jail have enlarged his view. He declares that he is going to give more attention to poverty #nd crime and to the education of the ignorant. That seems to mean that he bas grasped the whole spirit of his opportunity and that he may be- come a great power in the solution of the problems which confront the patriotic and intelligent men of the countr; He fur- ther announces that he will make a lectur- ing tour. Whether he will use this as a means for private gain or for the educa- tion of the ignorant and the uplifting of the lowly will determine all that need be known as a basis for estimating his char- acter and influence. TYPE SET BY HAND. San Francisco Typographical Union has made arrangements with Mr. Shortridge to dispense with the use of type-setting machines on THE CALL for a year and a hall. This mesns employment for about 100 printers who would be thrown out if the machines were introduced. When the Examiner put in machines it stated that it wonld not decrease the -number of em- vloyes, but it did. Fully 8 hundred printers were thrown out. A like number were dis- placed by tne machines on the Chronicle and the effect was the same on all the evening papers, and as a result the newspaper printers were all compelled to quit the business, leave the town or crowd into Tur CALL office. Mr. Shortridge’s treatment of the priutersis appre- ciated by organized labor generally, and it is safe to predict that the few dollars extra it costs to set the paper by hand will be more than made good by the increased popularity of the paper.—Oakland Mail. The foregoing, taken from the Oakland Mail, presents some points of Mnterest to the general public, as well as the persons engaged in type- setting by hand. We did not know that the type-setting machines had obtained such a footing in San Francisco, nor that they already have crowded so many persons out ot employ- ment. It certainly is commendable to the management of THE CALL to discard the m chines for the time specitied and to employ a large numver of compositors again. When these persons are thrown outof employment they seek other means ol earning wages by ‘which to exist, and naturally they prefer the business they are familiar with.” This, to a certain extent, accounts for the large number of emall journals und publications through- out the country. And these, to & certain extent, cause failure and loss of time as well as capital invested. The business is divided up amonga greater number and the prices are cut down so that & plant that has cost a large sum of mohey caunot earn a reasonable compensation to warrant continu- ing. Of course this is not the case as a rule, butthere are instances of the kind in several piaces in this State. The Democrat has paid its compositors stated price per diem during its present ma; agement, and has not reduced the wages dur- ing more than five years past. When our neighbor put a_type-fetting machine in the oftice we believed itwould resuit in more harm than benefit, and we think time already has demonstrated the fact. A third journal is now being published by compositors who were thrown out of employment, the result being detrimental to the ?nhruu of the two other newspapers, while the public do not receive lde(},u’nu benefit in return.—Marysville Even- ing Democrat. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Dr. C. W. Aby, formerly general manager o1 Lily Langtry’s farms, had the misfortune re- cently to injure his leg while running for a cable-car. Since that time he has done noth- ing but get himself comfortably situated in an easy-chair and—tell yarns. Yesterday he worked his way into the Oeci- dental Hotel, and after greeting his friends and telling them all over again how it was that he got hurt sat down and looked very much fatigued for & few moments. Presently he gave his attention to the gentleman next to him and said: “What's the biggest rattlesnake you ever san “Oh, about eight feet long,” answerea the gentleman in an ofthand way. “'Tgin’t in it with the one I saw.” “How long was the one you saw?” “Eleven feet nine inches.” “Where did you see it?” «Claiborne Connty, Mississippi.” “Who had him?” “‘One of my dogs had him first. I was driving | famous Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines, widely known everywhere, and of which General Nat Harris of this City now has the general super- intendency. John Hays Hammond, it will be remembered, preceded General Harris in the position. D. O.Mills is largely interested in these mines. Mr. Wardner built a great con- centrator there. It wasa success, and demon- strated the great value of the low-grade min- eral there. Mr. Wardner has since owned innumerable mines in Montana, Washington and British Columbia. Some of these he sold, while others are nearly idle because of lack of sufficient fa- cilities for transportation. Not a great while ago he returned from a trip to Africa, where he examined into the gold mines there. He intends remaining in the City for several days. Inhis time he hasmade a number of fortunes. FISH AND GAME. Alameda Telegram. The stana taken by the San Francisco CALL in exposing the gross violations of the fish and DR. C. W. ABY KEEPS UP THE SNAKE TRADITIONS. |Sketched from life for “Phe Call’ by Nankivell.) along one of those roads so common in M sippi and he I came up as quickly as pos of my ammals standing on the snake, whose hend was hid in s the roadside. The snake backward, and as his head ca turned lodse the entire contents of « derringer revolver Joaded with shot. He then started toward a little side road on th rside. 1 loaded up end imet him there. That-time I finished him kept the dogs off until he died. After that they jumped ¢ ripped ral places. it was growing dusk,and 1 got on my horse and went to the next town, ! bound. That was about the biggest rattle- snake I ever saw.” The doctor lifted hislame rabbit-hole by rigg into view [ e tured & friend. “Forty-tive.” “What was lis diameter 2’ Nine and 8 half inches — and that re- minds me of something that will surprise you and at the same time give a better understand- ing of his enormoussize. When I killed the reptile [left him lying across the road, and that night some farmers were returning irom a grange meeting in these old-fashioned single-spring carringes. OF course they had to pass over the remains of the snake, and seven outof the nine rigs broke their springs from the jolt.”” “Didn't it oceur fo any one to get out and re- move the obstruction?” 0, sir. They were too much snake—rattled. The exodus from the meighborhood of Mr. Aby was immediate, and it will be some time before he will gather an aundience together for another such li—yarn. like the James F. Wardner, the widely known West- ern miner, who Las dipped into many enter- prises other than digging for gold and silver, has among his purchases a gold property at for some time. Mr. Wardner, who is at the Lick House, hias lately been able to add mate- rially to the output of auriferons metal from 1t by a chlorinization process, which is being being discussed by many mining men. At his rooms in the Lick Mr. Wardner has an array of bottles containing the tailings and pulp in various degrees of treatmentby the process. Ile is confident Le has a fortune in it. “Itissure,” he saig to Mining Engineer Tibbets and others who surrounded him yes- terday. “Iam convinced that in all the min- ing States of the West and in Mexico and British Columbia enormous quantities of gold are being daily wasted which might just as well be saved.” Mr, Wardner expects soon to begin chlor- inizing the tailings of & number of mines in Calaveras, Tuolumne and other counties. He JAMES F. WARDNER, THE NOTABLE WESTERN MINER AND ALL-AROUND RUSTLER. [Sketched by a “Call” artist.] began mining first in the Clark district, in Arizona. This was over.a score of years ago. Later he was a stockbroker on Pine street. Then he went to.Utah, where he discovered the Jackass-Handley mine, in the Big Cotton- wood district. He also owned other mines there. Later he hunted diamonds in Colorado. On -the outbreak of the excitement in the Black Hills he went there. He mined for a time, and then turned his attention to merchandising, at one time having 500 oxen under contract to haul goods. He owned a halt interestin the Golden Sunset mine at Harneys Peak, which paid large dividends and was eventually sold. He reached the Ceeur d’Alenes in the spring of 1883, and his first venture was to contracta dog train of twenty-nine dogs, operating that means of transportation over the trails, and when the roads improved he operated a forty- mule train and engaged in merchandising. In Coeur d’Alene he became an owner in the his back and | By this time | Kennedy, Nev., that has attracted attention | ieh I was | | | | | | s | game laws of this State has received the in" rd the hounds yelping like mad. | dorsement of all the true sportsmen here- ble and saw one | abouts, many of whom are fuily conversant back of a big | with the facts, having seen undoubted evidence in their journeys afield ana their tramps out | through the tule basins. PERSONAL. Arthur Briggs of Fresno is here. Superior Judge T. C. Law of Merced is in the city. William A. Bowden of San Jose was here yes- terday. George T. Dunlap of Gilroy was in this City vesterd J. A. Vail, mining man of Flagstaff, Ariz., is at the Russ. Ex-Supreme Judge O. H. Hoge of Santa Rosa is in the City. - H. E. Barber, a leading dealer;in real estate at Steckton, is in the city. €. E. Geer, & business man of El Paso, is among recent arrivals here. H.W. Coe Jr., a manufacturer of Bangor, Me., arrived here yesterday. A. M. Bulls, & mining man of Angels Camp, | is among yesteraay's arrivals. W. J. Dwyer, n leading business man of Spokane, is at the Occidental. Professor Wiliism H. Hudson of Stanford University is at the California. G. F. Gell, the pioneer banker and. extensive Iand-owner of Salinas, is in town. Dr. B. T. Lacy of Sydney, Australia, was & passenger here by the Monowai yesterday. A.J. Shirk of Kansas City, who is interested with & brother in a large cattle ranch, is at the Russ. J. H. Telfree of Los Angeles, who recently | bought the Nadeau Hotel in that city, is at the Baldwin.- Dr. G. M. Wells of the United States navy is at the Occidental, accompanied by his wife and two children. John Hill, & banker of Reno, Nev., arrived here yesterday, accompanied by his son. They are at the Russ. Patrick Flanagar, formany years engaged in | merchandizing and lumbering at Coos Bay, ar- rived here yesterday, accompanied by several friends. N Ex-Governor James H. Kinkead of Nevada, who has been at one of the resorts for some days, returned to the City yesterday. Hugh Dixon, & young millionaire of Sydney, arrived here yesterday on the Monowai, accom- panied by his wife. They areat the Occidental. Senator J. C. Holloway of Sonoma and Men- docino counties, is in town. The Senator is one of the pioneers of Cloverdale, where he is engaged in business and interested in farming. John G. Agar, the son-in-law of the late W. O’B. Macdonough, and executor of the rich Macdonough estate, arrived here yesterday from nis home in New York. Mr. Agar is one of the owners in the New York Times. He will | remain some time. Herman Silver of Los Angeles, who was some years ago Director of the Mint at Denver, and who has since become interested in street rail- ways and many other enterprises at Los An- geles, is at the Palace. T. H. Selvage, ex-District Attorney of Hum- boldt County,and who is a prominent attorney of Eureka, is stopping at the Baldwin. Mr. Selvage is grand councilor of the Order of | Chosen Friends of the California jurisdiction. Joseph D. Lynch of Los Angeies, formerly proprietor of the Herald of that eity, and one of the best known newspaper men in Califor- nia, is in the City. Mr. Lynch was a few years ago the Democratic nominee for Congress and came near being elected, even in a district polling large Republican majorities. Among the arrivalsat the Occiaental yester day was ColonelJ. B. Montgomery of Portland, who is one of the largest land and mill owners in Oregon. Colonel Montgomery is also promi- nent in Republican politics in bhis State. He was for a number of years an ardent Blaine advocate, and in the many conflicts for party supremacy the colonel has done all he'could for the success of his party. For years he has ranked among the wealthiest men of the north. Hugo Toland, son of the late Dr. Toland and of Mrs. Toland, the latter of whom died over & week ago, reached here yesterday and is at the Occidental. Mr. Toland,as will be remem- bered, was for some time with the Grismer- Davies company here. Later he went to the East and for a year or two past has been acting in some of the leading companies of the larger cities. Matters in connection with the death of his mother have caused him to retnrn at this time. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C.,Nov. 22.—William L. Gerstle, Miss Gerstle, Miss B, Gerstle and J. B. Lewis, San Francisco, arrived at the Arlington Hotel to-aay. Horace H. Miller of Oakland 1s also at the Arlington. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 22.—Among to- day’s arrivals were: M. A. Pyke, Astor; E. Y. Graham, Astor. LETTERS FEQM THE PEOPLE | To the Editor of the San Franeisco Call—SIR: Miss Ray Frank is evidently familiar with that ancient saw of somebody’s—1've forgotten whose—perhaps she will tell me-—to the effect that “every woman who writes has one eye on her book and the other on a man, with the ex- ception of la Comtesse B—, who has only one eyel” ' How strangely history repeats itself. Not in Miss Frank’s case asin thatof the honorable exception above quoted, but as with the slan- dered ruck of us; and the gallant focus of her unoccupied optic has chivalrously hastened to declare himself, vide “Prattie” in the Exam- iner of November 18. 1t must be a proud moment for Miss Frank to have now,in the role, too, of & “platiorm athlete,” the' commendation of that very old man—Mr. Ambrose Bierce. Alllcan say,asa new woman, is that she richly deserves it! Mrs. Maggie Van Couw agrees with Miss Frank in considering home the place for women, and I myself ufiree with both of them. I certainly think that they would both be bet- ter at home. By the way, upon what grounds do they themselves claim’ exemption from this large law that they lay down? 2 The Jewish woman has always been notori- | ously end admirably fond of her home, to the exclusion of all outside interests, and she has therefore been an almost unknown factor in all other movements of large human concern. Perhaps, judged in this connection, this “daughter of light and fire” is to be regarded with admiration, but ’tis but a tallow dip, my masters, compared with that brilliant incan. descent, Miss Shaw, through whose effor and those of other women like her, the com- Earnl.ive freedom that Miss Frank has attained as been made possible. (That ‘*bitter wind whieh 18 not s0 unkind as man’s—or Woman's— | ingratitude” may blow here a little!) And | where has this high-hearted and sweet-souled | young woman been of late? She aypenrs 0 he iaboring under the delusion that she has dis- covered this new woman who wants to vote— assures us that “the movement is much more important than most people imagine” and “*that it should not go unheeded.” e “Unheeded.” Cnristopher Columbus! That’s 00 funny! Where have you been, Miss Frank? | Mr. Bierce assures us ihat he is your friex and yet you complain of the New Woman re maining unheeded. - How much heedfulness are you hankering after, Miss Frank—a norsewhip or an assisting toe? ' But perhaps Miss Frank is ola enough not to read the daily papers. Delightful un- sophistication! But, assuredly, such ignorance of the discussion of the most widely discussed subject of the day is simply astounding, and indeed unpardonable, on the part of one Who has actually ventured to lecture on that very subject, A'study of daily history—an intelligent study —would have made our two-eyed lecturess familiar with another fact about whieh sheis also in the dark. She admits—so kind of her under the circumstances—that we women are, morally and mentally, the equals _of man, but physically not so. This is what Professor At- tila (the trainer of Sandow), 8 man who knows his subject, has tosay about the possibilities of women in that connéction: | ““You may be surprised to know it. but the female organization will, on account of the construction of the hips, endure greater strain on the niuscles over the body than the masculine organization.” Then you think woman is not the weaker sex” &3 she not ount of ner being u« woman?” “Do I train women by the same system as men? Yes, a8 far as sex is concerned, but 1o two indi- viduals ever require the same treatment.” Another thing The trained mother” is apparently Miss Frank’s ideel woman. Ta be | consistent, therefore, Miss Frank must be sup- posed to 'be working toward that ideal. I should like to know if she considers the plat- form the best training school for mothers, and, if not, why she is to be found there? May I | remind Miss Frank that Wyoming, where woman suffragists most do congregate, is the | only State in the Uniou where, during the past few years, the percentage of marriages has in- creased and that of divorces decreased ? That | certainly looks like the making of mothers of some kind, whether “trained” or not I do not | know. i Well, well! One can forgive much to this | mentelly unripe young woman for having in- | duced Nr. Bierce into commending her lecture | through the report of it. which he has evi- | dently not read, it containing the statement that *women are mentally and morally the equals of men.” You're a swect iss | Ray! A SALVATION LASSIE STATiON. SN Fraxcrsco, Nov. 20, To the Editor of the San Franciseo Call—Sir: In view of the present terrible agitation in our City 1 would like to eall the atteution of Mrs, French to an incident which occurred last evening. Myself and a friend were waiting on the corner of Fifth and Merket streets for one of the tedchers of the evening-school. When | school was dismissed threelittle girls, none yet 12 years of age, neatly clad, crossed the street | from school &nd stood waiting on the cormer. They stood so long talking to each other tha i called the attention of my friend and remarked “these children should be going home and not standing on (his terrible corner.” Sonte lads of 15 and more accosted them, and when the lads had passed my iriend went up to them and said, “Little girls,are you waiting for any one?” “Noy they auswered. - “Welle why 40 you stand here o long? you should bé homé by | now.” The youngest looked up and began to | make some’ independent reply. when my | triend said, “I am one of the ladigs now look- | ing after little girls, you had bette} go imme- diately home,” and’ without & moment’s hesi- tation they quickly walked across Fiith street. | On this corner there surely should stand & Salvation lassic” or some one or two ladies interested in this work &t 9 o'clock of an evening. 1t is bad enough work during the night. Yours truly that such children must ; let them be protected at OBSERVER. 3 1 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. EDWARD GILBERT—G. H. E., Socorro, Socorro County, N. Mex. An old Californiau who has watched the growth of the City of San Fran- cisco, says that there is no truth in the state- ment that appeared in an Eastern magazine recently to the effect-that the remasins of the Iate Edward Gilbert, one of the editors of the Alta-California. who was killed in a duel with Denver on the 3d of August 1852, were not re- moved from Yerba Buena Cemetery, and that they now rest under the foundation of the City Hail. When the foundation for the building was prepared it was dug eight feet below the surface, and in the preparation a few un- marked and unidentified graves were uneov- ered. In every instance the remains were re- moved to another cemeter FoREIGN Navies—J. A. H., Menlo Park, Cal. The following table gives the strength of the navies of ‘the several countries named. It shows the number of vesselsof all descriptions, the number of guns and the number of men on the active list: Norway. SMOKELESS POWDER—J. A. H., Menlo Park, Cal. Tne firét who claimed to have discovered smokeless powder was F. Gaus, & German, He grodu(-ed an explosive material free from the ygroscopic racter %o common to other ammonium mixtures. There is no record of the use of his discovery, but a few years later another German named M. Heldeman, a powder-maker, produced an ammonium nitrate p:,\xgeer that emitted comparatively little s 3 WALTER DAMRrOSCH—J. M. MeC,, City. It isun- certsin whether Walter Damrosch will come to San Francisco this season. One party who was interested in having him come says that there is no hope of securing his presence, while an- other also interested claims that from corre- spondence recently received it is probable that he will come. STEEL AND ALUMINUM—J. A. H., Menlo Park, Cal. The question, “Which will stand the rifle test best, steel or aluminum?” is too gen- eral to admit of an answer. The question should include character of weapon, bullet, whether steel or lead, thickness of the metal fired at and amount of powder used. ¥ HAD THE RIGHT—T. D. Y., City. Between the years 1870-73 a husband had tne right to dispose of community ;:oporly by gift with- out the consent of the wife. His own separate property he could then as he can now, dispose of just as he likes. Locoxorives—C. B., Monticello, Napa County, | wishes to go nor the publication can be a_dv,‘ rtised in this de- partment. } ¥ puTED TERRITORY-G. W. H., Sebastopol, Cnl}.‘s From the knowledge about the territory over which Venezuela and the British authori- ties are disputing it is impossible to say if there is mueh gold in it. s —————— VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS. Lines of Competition Extended. Los Angeles Times. An Oakland physician has been filling news- paper columus with himself of late over his improvised incubator for & three-pound baby hat prematurely saw the ltght and troubles of th‘i‘s D it may be & big item up north, but a Santa Monica baby, now two weeks old, is contentedly stretching his little self and daily gaining strength and size from a prema- ture start at only a pound and a half, and the doctor who accouched it hasn’t invented an oven or any other style of incubator for it. How a War With England Would End. Portland Oregonian. It is perfectly true, as General Miles and Admiral Walker say, that we are wholly unpre- pared for war with any European power, but it is mo less true that no European power to war with us, least of all the Canada. We shou:d gpil _t: bbing at the outset, end i romla o "us good. In the end we’ should possess the North Americen continent, and ot improbably the empire of the seas. power that owns A Transportation Argument. Stockton Independent. : The Chicago fller should become a powerful a1d to San Francisco in its efforts to have the Republican National Convention held there. That train will land the delegates in_ San Francisco three days aiter the{l euter it in Chicago. When the-first Republican conven- tion was hel in Chicago it required more than that time for the far Eastern delegates to reach that city. And Grover’s Policy Invites Such Theft. Tacoma Ledger. England’s convenient method of adjusting boundaries so as to include everything of known value within its own possessions fs again exemplified in its pretensions in regard to the Alaska question. The valueof the Tread- well mine makes its Ministers confident that they own Douglas Island If Not, the Fathers Will Wear Out. Berketey Herald. «Jt {s necessary to gét mothers interested in the training of the young,” said a speaker at & San Francisco women’s meeting. This is un- doubtedly true, and the matter should be agi- tated. 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Hood's Rarsapariila, the great blood purifier, successtully cures catarrh by purifying the blood. — CHICAGO LIMITED. E ROUTE. A mnew train throughout begins October Pullman’s finest sleepi vestibule reclining- chair cars and dining. Los Angeles to Chi- without change. Annex cars on sharp connection for Denver and St Louls. Twenty-séven hours quicker than the Qquickest competing train. ‘The Santa Fe has been put in fine phivsical condition snd is now the best transcontinental railway. £ ——————— A1, danger of drinking impure water is avolded by adding 20 drops of Dr. Sieger's Augostura Bit- ters. REAL ESTATE SALE BY cago, via Kansas City FOR Thos. Magee & Sons, REAL ESTATE AGENTS "And Publishers “Real Estate Circular.” 4 Montgomery Street, ‘0¥ TRUST BUILDISG, CORVER MARKET. NEW PROPERTY. Corner 50-vara, downtown, on O’Farrell st.: low price. Geary st., north side, near Larkin, 27:6x120; buildings on frout and réar streets; $13,000. Post st., bet. Polk and Van N 6x12010 rear street, and very good 2-story_residence; §10,000. 68:9x137:6, north side North Point st., bet. Stecklon and Posvell; one block from the seawall; 250. e, bet. Fillmore and Steiner, story, 7 roomsand modern con- 15x Golden Gate ave., bet. Polk_and Van Ness, 120 and residence which cost §9000: §1 Two cornor 50-varas on Jones st.; view unsurpassed. Ninth st., bet. Market and Mission; 50x100; 3 ‘ame buildings. Steuari-st. 10t; low price; bet. Market and Mis- sion: 137:6 feet in depth. INVESTMENT:. Larkin st., cor. Geary; ETOWing property: 2 cor- : with dwellings and 3 stores: renua £490: 240 feet front. v n s, nr. Battery: double front: 40x120, with substantial brick building renting for $240; $35,000. NW. cor, California st., beyond Laguna: 53x80, very cheap: | and three 2story and planked-basement houses in finest order; $1800 just spent on them; rents $120; price $17.500; always rented. Clay side, bet. Polk and Van Ness: 50x Ty house on part of the lot. balance mproved to pay S pes Butter st., N. side, bet. Mason and x80 to rear alley and fine 3-story rooms: in good order; rents $100; $17.000. Sacramento st, rents $100: $10.00 Kearny and Dupont: reuted to Chiness firm who bave been there nearly 20 years: lot 25x187:6 and good 3atory and basement orick, Within 150 feet of Market: downtown: 20x65 and frame bullding oaly: $32,000: 8 fine inves: #20,000 ou it and can remain at 63y per cent. WESTERY ADDITION HOUSES AND LOTS AND LOIS. Washington and Steiner, NE. corner, facing pub- lie square: 25x102 and very sunny Z-storv, § roomes. bath and modern conveniences: $900U. $T000: 3 lefi: new houses: just finished: 9 rooms and ali modern conveniences: fine view of bay; only 8500 cash and Iem;l.;nnlblfl desired ; i 8 short locks from 1 block from Union-st. cars and 2 blocks from new line on Fillmore $3500-— Edd. Buch 0 very of bay; sireet bituminized; : easy erms. $6000 -Very fine house and lot; Allister; ur. eash. only 25x100: M- Baker; very easy terms; only $1300 Sacramento st., bet. Broderick and Baker: 27 127:8 and very fine 3-story, well-finished n:”n:: ural wood, finely papered and frescoed; 8 rooms and modern conventences: only $7178; street in order: cable-curs pass. Ashbury st, Br. Waller: in the best block: fine new flats, which cost 84500, aud lot 27:4x108: strect in order: $8800; 81500 cash, batance at 614 per cent. & Ix100: $3125: nr. na. 25x112:8, 34500 elth;L..“beL Grove Cal. Any book-dealer will secure for you & work on locomotives or a journal devoted to such, but neither the book-dealer, the book I and Fulton: street bituminized. :s%;'mz'm nr. \:’d shington; 28x110; reduced 1o ; street paved; electric’ cars pass; and neighborhood. L If you want a sure relief for limbs, use an Allcock’s BEAR IN MIND—Not one of the host of counterfeits and imita- tions is as good as the genuine. ~ains in the back, side, chest, or Porous Plaster