The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 25, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1895. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.15 "ALL, One year, by mail 00 'ALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 ALL, three months by mail 1.50 San Francisco, Ca Telephone.... EDITORIAL ROOMS 517 Clay Street. ..Main—1868 Telephone... Main—1874 wntil 9 0'clock. 2518 Mission 116 Ninth clock. ; open until 9 pen until 9 o'cloc OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE : Rooms 81 and 34 Park Row, New York City. ent. )VEMBER 25, 1895 NDAY. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e Everybody will come up smiling this week. Praying for rain may not do much good, but it is wiser than betting on it. The Associated Press gets all the fakes, but the United Press gets the scoops. Cleveland’s next message may be short, but it cannot be any shorter than his party. In one cespect Cleveland is happier than Campos, He knows where he is going to get off. Alabama Populisis are talking of a plat- form demanding free silver and free ballot or a free fight. As Boston wishes $6,000,000 for harbor improvements, she must want a good deal of sugar with her tea. New York City is boasting the posses- gion of seven young men who know how to lead a cotillon properl] Cleveland shows his stupidity by talki about retiring greenbacks when the green- back is too retiring already The point in the present sitnaticn that puzzles Daggett most is how anybody can think of Maguire a harmonizer. Don’t forget that you will add to the sat- jsfaction of your Thanksgiving feast if you provide something for the poor, There wouid be nothing serious in the third-term movement if it were not that Democracy is so prone to do a fool thing. Debs has reached the turning point in his career, and if he acts wisely he will have his day, but if he doesn’t it will be all night with him very soon. The League of American Wheelmen is said to number nearly 38,000 members, and beiore long they will be able to put up a pretty good race for President. It is said one defect has been noted in the horseless carriage: it will stick in tt mud, and if this is true the newaebic might as well be called a Grover for short. Now that both Senator Hill and Eugene Debs have set out to lecture on liberty, there is another good opportunity for a joint debate to pass the time until Con- gress meets, A New York restaurant-keeper tried to make his waiter-girls wear bloomers, but they struck, and now we have another proof that no Eastern city can try to rival San Francisco without coming to grief. Chicago, New York and Pittsburg have each a favorite candidate for the Presi- dency, but San Francisco is impartial, and in asking for the National Convention promises to all a fair field and no favor. William M. Evarts, who is now enjoying 8 hale and hearty life at 78 years of age, recently told an interviewer: “I attribute my good health to the fact that I get out of bed late and never take any physical exercise.” There may be some reason in Demo- cratic factions, for so long as one set fights another there is a chance for one to win, but if ever they combine to fight the Re- publican party it is a sure thing that both will get Jicked. Henry Clews has figured out to his satis- faction that the people of thiscountry have expended in the last four years over $200,- 000,000 for bicycles, so it will be seen the new movement is just about as costly as any other form of fast life. An engineer has been deputed by the German Government to come to this country to study electric railways, and if he is wise he can learn over here every- thing about them, from how to construct to how to steal the streets to put them on. The Treasury Department has decided that whisky sent by foreign manufacturers to be given away assamples at the Atlanta Exposition shall be admitted free of duty, end at last the Kentucky colonel knows where to go to find consolation for the elections. An analysis of the vote in Kentucky shows that the Republican candidate for Governor ran 8000 votes ahead of his ticket, and the Democratic candidate ran 7000 ahead of his ticket. Such scratching as thisshows was never known before in the whole history of the State, and it is hardly wonderful that it took the Bourbon hide off in nearly every county. Joseph B.McChullagh of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat has been prominently mentioned for the Missouri Senatorship, but he mocks at the thought and declares that though in his career he has fre- quently had to attack the editorsof his contemporaries he has never resorted to such tactics as naming one as a candidate for the Senate. There are some things, he maintains, of which one editor should never accuse another, and this is one of them. Gorman has at last explained his view of the Maryland election. He declares there was no Democratic revolt against himself or the administration, and says: “Maryland went Republican because it contains more Republicans than ever be- fore. The plain truth is that the senti- ment in Maryland in favor of protection has largely increased.”” There is a clear- ness of judgment in that statement which shows whatever else Gorman may have lost he did not lose his head. COLONEL OTIS’ OBJECTIONS. The reasons courteously given by Colonel H. G. Otis, editor of the Los Angeles Times, why he does not agree with THe CALLin its fight to secure the Republican National Convention for San Francisco, may be thus summarized: First, Colonel Otis, stanch Republican and patriotic Californian though he is, thinks that the party should advocate sound money and a parity of dollar values, and that the strong free- silver sentiment in this and contiguous States might serve as an injurious influ- ence on the convention; second, he does not believe in upholding the practice of putting up a great National convention to the highest bidder, and thinks that nobler considerations should govern the choice; third, the elaborate free entertainment of convention delegates turns the affair into a debauch, and tends to impose on dele- gates a sociel obligation which might af- fect injuriously the interests of their con- stituepcies; fourth, the Eastern press, and through it the Eastern people, would be placed at a great disadvantage by reason both of a lack of adequate telegraphic facilities and the difference in time. “These objections were stated by Colonel Otis much more fully than thisand were supported by able arguments. Coming, as they do, from a man of so much influence and of so conspicuons intelligence and patriotism, they demand serious consider- ation. As for the first objection, that referring to the policy of the party on the subject of silver coinage, it isa matter of individual opinion as to what would be best for the party and the country; a majority will de- termine that; this review is not the place for an argument on its merits. It is very difficult for us to believe, however, that the free-silver sentiment of the West and the arguments and interests upon which it is based are matters whose influence the Republican party should fear. By holding its convention here it can acquire a better understanding of the subject, and from that may arrive atan intellizent conclu- sion which shall determine its policy. We do not believe that there is any subject af- fecting the welfare of the country that the Republican party can afford to ignore or fear, and we do believe that a study of any such subject is necessary to its intelligent comprehension. We think that the Na- tional convention will be composed of raen who have the ability and character to form independent conclusions and act fearlessly upon them, and that they are above the operation of local influences which wonld move their conduct against their judgment and consciences. This will apply as well to Colonel Otis' objection on the score of any obligation which might be assumed to ensue from the hospitable entertainment of the dele- gates, The hospitality of Californians is famed the world over. It seemsto us to be a wholesome and rational form in which to make known the good things which they enjoy and the hope and desire that otbers should sbare their bounties. If Colonel Otis’ objection to hospitality is valid on the grounds which he has stated for that occasion, they are equally so0 in all ether matters accompanied with a display of hospitality and good will. If so0, then hospitality in general is an evil. If this should be deemed begging the ques- tion, it should be reflected that we need to educate the East concerning California and that hospitality to visitors is the best way in which that may be done. We perfectly agree with Colonel Otis that it is deplorable a great National con- vention should in a sense be put up at aunc- tion, and that in raising money to secure | this conveniion we are upholding a faulty practice. But, after all, what vital thing is concerned? Such contributions have never been regarded as a purchase of the principles and conscience of a great Na- tionai party. The good which a conven- tion does the community in which it is held is the elevation of the political tone, the suppression of a tendency toward po- litical provincialism, the weakening of the power of local corrupt politicians, the gen- eral thrill and stimulation which the en- tire community experiences, the education of the National party upon those loecal needs which have a bearing on broad Na- tional concerns and such minor things as the advertising of the resources of the community, the enhancement of property values through an expected increased de- mand for homes by immigrants and the considerable amount of money which a convention must leave behind it. These considerations give to efforts to secure such a convention a value and dignity that cannot be ignored. As for the comparative meagerness of telegraphic facilities and the slight incon- venience which might be experienced in the East by reason of that fact and the dii- ference in time, shall these weigh against the great acts of National importance that might result from an understanding of the resources of the West and the benefit which the whole country might derive from legislation based on that understand- ing? We know Colonel Otis to be one of the strongest men in the West, and therefore we hope that a larger view of this subject as we have here tried to present it will ap- peal to that wisdom which is so well known to constitute the founaation of his strength, REFORM ON THE MARCH. The amazing story of official corruption at Tacorna outlined in a long review pub- lished in Sunday’s CALL was needed to ex- plain the popular uprising which has re- cently occurred there and a determination to uproot the evil. Meanwhile Tacoma has been plunged millions of dollars into debt, the money in great part having been stolen by conscienceless rascals whom the people elected to office. That history of corruption far surpasses in magnitude and daring anything that has ever occurred in California, and yet our history has many a black page—fur- nished mostly by San Francisco. At the present time in this State we have the ex- posures of official looseness made by the Grand Jury of Solano County, the pend- ing scandals similarly unearthed at Los Angeles and the disgraceful condition of affairs now under investigation by the Grand' Jury of Ban Francisco. Kern County has recently had a great shaking up, but it was shown that the expert ap- pointed by the Grand Jury was in error and that the prosecuticns of public officers brought under his report were unwar- ranted. Still the intention of the Grand Jury was good, and that isthe main point. Sacramento has not yet come entirely from under the cloud which its Grand Jury cast upon it, and there are mutter- ings in other counties. In all of these cases the exposures have been made by intelligent and determined Grand Juries. Itis something new in the history of California for Grand Juries to exhibit these qualities in so high a form. Hitherto their work has been largely per- functory and formal. The consequence was that the Grand Jury as an instrument of justice and a power for insuring good government had become useless. Evidently this order of things is passing away. There is likely less corruption in the State now than there has ever been be- fore, and yet more of it is being discov- ered and punished than when it was at its worst. Of course this means that the peo- ple at last are roused and are 'determined to purify the Government ot the State in all its branches. The movement is gain- ing impetus daily, and now that it has full headway nothing can stop it. Contemporaneously with it is a move- ment to keep notoriously corrupt poli- ticians from retaining their hold on the people. This movement proceeds from a source identical with that which is inspir- ing the people through their Grand Juries to punish official corruption, and it will be pursued with equal determination and energy. In all the movements for the good of the State it is the duty of every good citizen to show Limself fearlessly. Even the timid may take heart upon re- flecting that the davs of corrupt politics are rapidly approaching their close in California and that the bosses are power- less to harm those whom they cannot con- trol. A QUEER ARGUMENT, The fight begun by John Muir and the Rierra Club to secure better protection for Yosemite Valley and the contiguous forest region of the high Sierra, and possibly to bring about a transfer of the valley from the State to the National Government, has stirred up a hornet’s nest. Mr. Muir’s contention is that the political manage- ment of the Yosemite has led to the de- struction of much that made this great re- sort beauntiful. Hecharges that the floor of the valley has been {urned into pastures and hayfields for the support of horses, and that as a consequence the place has be- come dirty and unpleasant in a measure and its natural charms greatly impaired. In combating these assertions and their deductions A.du Mere, writing in Sun- day’s CawLr, first ridicules the sentiment which prefers nature unspoiled and next insists that the floor of the valley should be reguiarly burned off to rid it of under- brush, and that this course should be pur- sued in the great forests outside the valley. “IWhen the mountain sides were covered with shepherds,” he says, “the dead wood, pine burrs and grass were burned each year and no particular damage was done to the standing tim- ber, regardless of many reports to the con- trary, both public and private. Continua- tion of this practice would turn the whole forest into a park, now that the herds of cattle and sheep are debarred. The ground would become clean and fresh; the trees stand like great columans, with branches arching overhead, making truly a great natural cathedral.” It is hoped that the farmers of California will pay particular attention to the posi- tion taken by this contributor, for it is so dangerous that if it exists to a consider- able extent it will act as a menace to the State. There can be no question that the “ground would become clean and fresh’ if the underbrush shouid be destroyed with fire. In that condition not only would it be impossible for the ground to husband the winter precipitation, and not only would destructive floods ensue, but there wouid be no water in the valleys in summer with which to carry on agricul- ture. The order of credulity ready to accept the staiement that burning off the under- brush works little or no damage to stand- ing timber must be singularly naive. The millions of splendid trees in this State which have been ruined by such fires bear pitiful testimony to the contrary. If such fires did no more than destroy young trees along with the brush (and they un- doubtedly must do that), we are furnished flicient argument against the NOT A SOLUTION. The agitation for the establishment of a free market in this City affects a matter of so great importance both to producers and consumers that it wonld be a great pity if error should creep into the discussion and so thus impair the merits of the question. We observe that the Chronicle, for in- stance, instead of advocating a free mar- ket, which would enable producers, with- out the payment of a license or the necessity to sell through commission merchants and dealers, to come directly before consumers at established open places, advocates an extension of the system already in vogue. It is this very system that brings all the hardships which a free market would abolish. It says that what the City needs is branch markets, or a number of small markets distributed throughout the City, instead of a concentration of markets downtown, where they are not convenient to consumers, and that as a result the people have to depend to a large extent on peddlers. In other words our contem- porary seems to propose that we multiply the instrumentaiities of the present evil. The ne now before the people is that the consumer is paying a very large price for country produce; that the producer is not getting the cost of production, and that if a free market were established the consumer would pay less and the producer receive more. To multiply the instrumentalities of the present evil would increase the evil itself and render its abolition more difficult. There is no place in San Francisco to which the producer may take his products and sell them to the consumer. The only thing he might doin that direction would be to become a peddler, but if he did that he would have to cease being a producer. To bring the producer and consumer to- gether would cure the existing evil and bring a benefit to both. COAST EXCHANGES. The Stockton Record makes the impor- ‘tant announcement that arrangements have been made for putting in operation in that city an extensive establishment for condensing milk. E. A. Davidson, a dairy- man of Bellota, and a number of substan- tial Stockton men are the prime movers in the enterprise. Advantageous freight ar- rangements have been made with the steamboat companies operating between Stockton and San Francisco, the intention of the company being to commence with the condensing of about 1000 gallons of milk daily and indrease the output as the demand requires. The product will be shipped fresh each day to San Francisco in large cans for distribution in smaller quantities. The trouble that San Fran- cisco is having on the score of adulterated milk was the wmoving cause for the estab- lishment of this factory. The article which is thus to be turned out will be pure milk from which a part of the natural excess of water has been removed. In this form it will be easy to transport and handle. The industry is certainly an important one and gives further evidence of the spirit of en- terprise which animates Stockton. The Tacoma Ledger takes high and sensible ground on the question as to whether it is expedient to expose and punish official corruption. Tacoma is now passing through the travail of scandal in official circles, and it has been urged that the city will suffer injury from a thorough exposure of the rascals. But our contem- porary thinks otherwise. “Full revela- tion,” it declares, “‘is necessary in order to cure the disease, It is the disease it- self, and not the curing of it, that injures the patient. The exposure of the Tweed villainies in New York twenty yearsago did not injure that city. It was the vil- lainies themselves that did it damage, from which it has not yet recovered, as its enormous debt testifies.,”” The Chicago exposures also are cited, and the Ledger contends: “The great increase of taxes in Chicago proved to investors that some- thing was rotten, just as our own high taxes have driven investors away from Tacoma. The exposure of the corruption and its cure reassured everybody, as it will reassure everybody in our own case if only the work is thorough. The ulcer can- not be removed without pain. Partial removal will not work a cure. The last vestige of it must be exposed and re- moved."” H. L. Herzinger, undismayed by the fact that Ukiah already has two able newspapers and that the rest of Mendocino County has four, has started the Herald at Ukiah. It is to be independent in poli- tics, and evidently the main fight of the new paper is to work nnceasingly and in- tetligently for the advancement of this garden spot of the State. The Chico Chronicle-Record gives the cheering news that natural gas has been discovered on Mud Creek, eight miles from Chico, by P. C. Richardson on his farm, and that enough of the gas is now going to waste to light the city of Chico.” For twenty-five years the presence of this gas bas been known, but it was not until an Eastern man who had formerly been in the oil business saw the place and tested the gas that its great value was ascer- tained. An abundance of oil also escapes to the surface. Every aiscovery of this kind only strengthens the conviction of Tue Carw that we have hardly begun to be aware of the incredible wealth lying un- developed in California The Capay Valley News has undergone a change of name and ownership. Here- after it is to be known as the California Populist, a weekly, and F. Caine is the editor. Thne Fresno Republican, commenting on the wisdom of THE CALL in 1ts appeal to fruit-growers to co-operate and supply Eastern merchants directly with their products, calls attention to a deplorable obstacle in the way of some growers. 1t says: *Probably Tur CALr is sound in its opinion that the farmers have the intelli- gence necessary to such co-operation, but were it published nearer the interior than it is it would realize that as far as many of the farmers of to-day are con- cerned there is something more than the question of intelligence involved. No amount of good sense will help s large proportion of the growers unless some other source of financial aid than the ad- vances made by dealers is provided. They might like to co-operate, but, on the con- trary, they must have cash. The best that such a man can doisto enter his dying protest against the system that has helped to impoverish him, refuse to have more to do with it and financially die at once in- stead of prolonging his suffering, only to attain the same end—this in the event that financial times do not immediately im- prove. But as to the growers who are not thus reduced to the last extremity the duty of co-operation is clear.”” Are not the in- telligence and public spirit of California’s leading men sufficient to assist the unfor- tunate onesout of their trouble? For it those who are not so hampered do co-op- erate it is clear that they will enjoy ad- vantages which will make it impossible for those struggling under the old condi- tions to remain in the b The Napa Register asserts that the diffi- culties attending the proposition to utilize the waste water-power of Clear Lake are in a way of easy solution. It says, on the authority of Colonel O. E. More of San Francisco, that the General Electric Com- pany of New York, which has millions of capital and owns many of the large elec- tric plants of this country, and which built the Folsom works, is ready to take hold of this enterprise whenever it can gain abso- Iute control of the water and secure a fall sufficient to develop 30,000 horse-power. 1t cap secure control from the Clear Lake Electric Power Company and get a head of 250 feet by carrying the water down the side of Cache Creek Canyon in a flume. As this does not appear to contemplate a lowering of the lake’s level, and as the electricity developed will be sufficient for the purposes of numerous townsand cities, the plan is admirable. Lynn Lyman has disposed of the San Jacinto Searchlight to Stivers & Boughton, who announce a reduction in the price of subscription and a paper printed entirely at home in the future. The Woodland Mail editorially calls at- tention to the offer made by Claus Spreck- els to the farmers thereabout to furnish them with seed for suzar beets and in- structions for planting and cultivating, in order to ascertain if beets will grow well there, and adds: “It is to be sincerely hoped that this generous offer will be taken advantage of. A meeting of the farmers should be held and some concerted action taken in the matter. Should our soil prove to be adapted to the raising of sugar beets (and there is no doubt but what it will) this new industry may become firmly established here, and those wheat-growers who are struggling for an existence may be enabled to stem the tide of adversity and finally land in the harbor of pros- perity. Once it is demonstrated that we can raise beets successfully, either Mr. Spreckels or local capital may be induced to erect a sugar refinery here.” Fresno County also is alert on the sub- ject of sugar-beet culture. The Fresno Expositor says that *‘the Chamber of Com- merce hus taken hold of the matter of as- certaining the adaptability of the soil and climate of Fresno County to the culture of the sugar beet, with a view of assisting Claus Spreckels in the investigations that he will make here before he determines on the location of any of the sugar refineries that he purposes building in the interior.” Adter calling attention to the unprofitable pursuit of wheat-growing, our contempor- ary says: “At present prices of sugar there is big money 1n it for the sugzar men, and they can pay enough for beets to re- turn profits of $100 an acre on land that is well adapted to beet-growing and properly cultivated. And then the introduction of sugar-making will go along way toward encouraging a diversity of agricultural operations in showing men the profit there is in raising dairy cattle and making but- ter and cheese. The refuse beet pulp from sugar factories makes cheap yet valuable food for cows,and when that industry gets started it brings along others, like poultry and hogs, and introduces inten- sive and diversified farming, which makes every people prosperous which follows it intelligently.” The Marysville Democrat, referring to Tre CALL'S expressed fear that the will- ingness of Southern Pacific magnates to assist with money the scheme for coloniz- ing the Bacramento might be intended to strengthen the hold of the Southern Pa- cific on the valley and render a competing rcad a difficult achievement, gives some important information, which TaE CALn \ Iz gladly acknowledges. It is that the prop- erty proposed to be colonized is the Glenn Ranch, which stretches for twenty miles along the Sacramento River, and that the river is a permanent bar to a monopoly of transportation. It adds that so long as the stream remains navigable there is not sufficient inducement for capital to invest ina competingroad in the valley west of the river. Several fine ranches, it truthfully says, enjoy both water and rail transporta- tion. “From this,” declares the Democrat, “‘our esteemed contemporary readily will observe that the theory of first insuring a lower rate of transportation prior to ob- taining the population is now a fact. The present freight rate between the proposed colony site and San Francisco is as low as produce is carried the same distance in any part of the United States, therefore it is not a question of cheap transportation, but & matter of small farms and popula- tion.” This dignified kind of diseurrion is very pleasing to Tue CarLL. But when our con- temporary asserts, as it does, that there 1s no profit in running the present road un- der existing conditions, and when it brings us to face the proposition of the Southern Pacific aiding the establishment of a colony on the Sacramento River, where the Southern Pacific Company's rail line would not receive the full benefits of a denser population, it seems evident, in view of the well-known history of that great corporation, that our contemporary has not yet furnished us with complete in- formation on the subject. The Woodlana Mail takes a hopeful view of the proposition by Eastern capitalists composing the California, Oregon and Idaho Railway Chmpany to build a railroad from Collinsville, at the junction of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, through the Sacramento Valley, thence tnrough Northeastern California, Southeastern Or- egon, Southern Idaho and Wyoming to Caspar, Wyoming, to a connection with the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad at that point. The company proposes also to run a branch line from Red Bluff to Eu- reka. The Sacramento Valley may yet enjoy the advantages of a competing road. PERSONAL. Sheriff T. M. Brown of Eureka is staying at the Russ. Dr. Thomas Boyson has returned from a trip to Europe. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Schald of Sacramento are at the Occident: Seth Marshall, a rancher of San Bernardino, is at the Occidental. J. D. Bancroft of Citrus, a prosperous mining man, is at the Grand. Charles Newman, a merchant of Willows, is staying at tne Grand. W. V. Newlin, & fruit-shipper of Los Angeles, is staying at the Palace. C. H. Philips of San Luis Obispo is among the guests at the Palace. Williara L. Gill, an attorney of San Jose, is registered at the Palace. Mrs. 8. N, Bradbury, a society leader of Los Angeles, is in town with her family. ‘W. B. Harrison, a lumber merchant of Stock- ton, registered at the Grand yesterday. Dave Hirshfeld, one of Bakersfield's leading merchants, registered at the Lick yesterday. Marcus Hanson and T. L. Michelson, exten- sive lumber dealers of Grayling, Mich., are at the California, W. A. Douglass, a member of the mercantile house of R. H. Dunn & Co. of Chicago, is stay- ing at the Occidental. Mrs. George M. Pullman, wife of the car- manufacturer, with Miss Emmons of Chicago, is staying at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Powning and Will A. Powning registered at the Palace yesterday, after a tour through Earope. THE EASTERN MUDDLE. New York Times. In the excitement that spreads over all Europe as to the erisis in Turkey the position taken by the United States Government excites approval at home and something like envy abroad. A couple of vessels of nogreatstrength are in the Mediterranean, ready to do whatever can be done to demonstrate the desire of our Government to protect its citizens in lawful pursuits in the Ottoman empire. A large fleet could hardly do more. Yeta really powerful European fleet is considered necessary and is gathering. But that is because, if the Euro- pean powers take any decisive step it must be the first of a long course. If the Sublime Porte is to be taken in hand and practically displaced another Government must be provided, and the whole vast, mixed European question is opened. In this the United States need have no direct interest wha Chicago Tnter Ocean. The Eastern muddle shows no signs of clari- fication. The advice of the German Emperor's chaplain to the recruits that they should guard not only the Rhine, but the Weser, indicates thorough understanding between the German and the British Governments. The Russian Embassador at Berlin discovered jts meanin; instantly and telegraphed it to his imperial master it St. Petersburg. Mr. Curzon's speech was not unpremeditated. British Under Secre- taries for Forelgn Affairs do not speak in public without previous consultation with = their chiefs. The sound of Europe is warlike. New York Herald. Probably no power need gtir to tumble him off his throne. The revolution is only waiting for leave to begin to do its own work on the Sujtan. A new Sultan if need be; anew Tur- key in any case—such is the alternative. Revolution is & rough means of social and political reform, but it is controllable andisa trivial thing compared to a European war, and the guarantee ghnhm a European war lies in the concord of the six powers and their unanimous resolve that Turkey is to be re- {ormed and the peace of Christendom to be kept. New York Tribune. Humanity has not yet all become gigmanity. There is extant a sentiment in fayor of truth and honesty and justice even at the risk of be- ing accused of jingoism. There is a certain revulsion against rapine and massacre, éven though it may set the Cuckoos a-cackling. There are some things which men—not homun- cules—regard as worse thau jingolsm; worse, even, thau open war, and the state of affairs which now exists throughout a large part of the Turkish Empire is one of them. More power, and speedy action to the powers! Boston Post. A majority of the Sultan’s subjects in Euro- pean Turkey are Christians. In some of the Asiatic provinces the men of this faith are also in the majority. The oppression, the massa- cres, the flendish cruelties practiced upon those Christians are practiced because they are Christians. The 500 killed with atrocities at Harpoot were Christians. The missionary stations burned were Christian missions. The internal war raging in Turkey is a religious war of barbarism against Christiauity, Philadelphia Ledger. There is some significance in the fact that while most of the mission bulldings at Har- poot, in Asiatic Turkey, were burned and 500 natives massacred, the lives of the twelve American missionaries were spared. This shows both that the Porte has some authority over the Turkish murderers and also that the efforts of Minister Terrill on behalf of the mis- sionaries have not been without effect. BUILDING WAGON Trinity Journal. The prospects of the Californis, Oregon and Idaho Railroad are looking better than for some time. This road, if constructed, will pass vl,‘h‘mugh Trlxnny County in the vicinity of Mad ver, At Eureka terminal facilities for th road have been Ennud the company, thg necessary bonus has been raised and’ Mr. Baldredge, the promnoter, asserts that a corps of surveyors will ahonl take '.hoallem. This is news, and we our desires will Filbstantiated. by aots, Togethor with o brethren of the Humboldt press we have built many miles of railroad, and we fully appre- ciate the difficulties to be encountered. %t- withstanding the paramount importance of the railroad Em]ectfist considerable space is given in the Humboldt press to the necessity of wagon-road communieation between the two counties. Whether the railroad be built or not the wagon road should be constructed, as by this means a large amount of land would be opened up for settlement and the ‘botn counties would be mutually num o ROADS. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Frank V. Pollock, the leading tenor of the Bostonians, who has made so many friends in this City, is not a veteran of the professional operatic stage, as his experience is limited to less than tnree months with the company. Not long out of college and only just 22 years old, his coming to this coast with the Bostonians was practically adouble novelty to him. “Oh, I had been on the stage before,” said the young singer, and there was a humorous twinkle in his eye. “Ibezan asa chorus girl in the ‘Chimes of Normandy,’ and as far as my stage appearance went Imade & hit. It was before my voice had changed to tenor, and of course with a soprano veice I had to sing with the other sopranos. So several hours before the periormance I rigged myself up in girl’s dress and stood round to allow the weak places 10 give way to my eighty-pound- pressure waist and be menaed before the critical ordeal. But when everything had been arranged and I was breathing carefully to hold myself intact the carriage drew up in front of the theater and Ihad to get out. I got out, but all my skirt did not follow prop- erly, for the high heel of my torture-slipper canght in the bottom railing of the skirt, and before I could realize where the ripping and tearing sound came from I stood like & Scotch Highlander. 01 course I realized that the play couldn’t succeed without my small voice, so I sacrificed much for dramatic effect and went on the stage as I was. The girls were not at all envious of me, either, though I undoubtedly attracted a good deal of attention, especially {from my school friends, who recognized me by my ‘feet-handles.’ “My first appearance in operetta after, my voice had passed that youthful period of sur- prising unreliability was in ‘The Naiad Queen.’ At the rear of the stage and extend- ing across its entire width were placed three sties, with an interval several feet wide about the middle. In that space stood a papier- mache statue of the goddess of something or other, holding aloit what appeared to be & bunch of bargain-counter necklaces and plate- glass gems. I stood behind a side scene, wait- ing until the chorus should finish the number that was to be followed by my entrance. Decked out in a cork helmet, a spangled suit of battered armor that may have shielded some other poor, frightened Queen’s guard in real life, I stepped out and, with majestic mien, getting under headway bore straight ahead like 8 great ironclad, unable to turn suddenly in a short space. In my first ponderous step down I cleared the three steps and tottering at the feet of the goddess I made a wild clutch at her waist in my efforts to maintain my equi- librium. With one arm partly round her waist and with the otber waving madly on high, I came to the floor with a crash and the goddess with me—papier-mache, armor, jewels and all in helpless confusion. “I wes applauded to the echo, and the next day 1n the college paper a friend of mine headed his review of the performance, *This is 1ot & rosst, it is a real cutlet.’ John Marquart and 3irs. Breitschuck-Mar- quart have just returned from their concert tour in New Zealand and Australia. Speaking of their adventures yesterday, Fritz Scheel’s former concert-master said: “Australia is suffering from two things— lack of enterprise and lack of capable, practical farmers. There are only four cities in the country—Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane. The other towns are overgrown vil- lages. “‘We undertook a concert tour through the interior, and were everywhere well received. The only difliculty wss that we could not make our programmes popular enough. Don’t you call that popular music?”’ And the con- cert-master pulled from his pocket & pro- gramme containing the names of Vincent Wal- lace, Tosti, Ernst, Gounod and Rossini. «They would come to hear works by men like that, but to my humiliation they expected as an encore to hear ‘Pop Goes the Weasel’ or “Yankee Doodle. “Yes, we played them ‘Pop Goes the Weasel’; others nad done it before us.” Mme. Neruda, in her souvenirs of her concert tour in Australia, speaks of having had to play something of the sort as an encore to “The Kruetzer Sonata,” Beethoven, you know. Mr. Marquart aid not come across any phe- nomenal voices in Australia. He says all the phenomenal ones are snatched up for the European and American fields. He also said: “There is not a symphony orchestra in the length and breadth of Australia. Syaney and Melbourne have amateur orchestras, but the one in Sydney recently got into debt to the ex- tent of £50 and had to disband on that ac- count. The New Zealand people show a greater fondness for classical music than we met with in Australia, but we did not make a tour of that country, as we arrived there in July, when the cold was intense.” The “new woman” was never once met by the Marquarts on their travels. ““The bicycling craze does not seem to have struck either country at all,” sald the concert-meister. “For one reason I think the general run of people are not rich emough to indulge in ‘bikes We scarcely saw one, and as for bloomers, they were conspicuous by their ab- sence. If the new woman is in Australia or New Zealand she is very quiet about her new power. The women seem to stay guietly at home, and very few of them enter into any kind of business.” It is the intention of the Marquarts to settle in San Francisco, and i all probability they will organize symphony concerts here this winter. C. C. Powning of Reno, ex-Surveyor-General of Nevada, and at one time editor and owner of the Reno Journal, is in the City. Mr. Pown- ing is president of the Nevada State Agricul- tural Association, has been a candidate for the governorship, and is conspicuous as a member of the National Silver party. He has been in the Sagebrush State many years. He is much impressed with the evidently great future of Reno. believing that eventually it will become oue of the largest and most im- portant cities of the interior. . e ——— PEOFLE TALKED ABOUT. The Duke of Marlborough denies that he wears red neckties. John Y. M¢Kane is & born boss. He is now boss of his gang in the stone quarry at Sing Sing. Miss Helen Gould has founded two scholar- ships in the New York University in memory of her father. The scholarships are open only to persons living on the Missouri-Pacific system. Charles M. McBride, president of the voard ofeducation in Bayonne, N.J,, recently ten- dered his resignation because the steam-heat- ing plant of a school was being cared for by a woman instead of a man. Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole, who has just completed his ninetieth year, was three times Home Secretary under Lord Derby, and has drawn a political pension of $28,000 a year for over twenty-cight years. His wife was the daughter of Spencer Perceval, who was shot while Prime Minister in 1812. Dr. Thorold, Bishop of Winchester, who died the other day, traveled much in this country. On one oceasion he said to & New York boy who was somewhat too talkative that children were not allowed to join in the conversation of their elders when he was & little boy. ‘Oh,” replied the youngster, “that must have been fifty or sixty years ago. Things have changed 4 bit since then, you bet.” Mrs. A. W. Fisher has been elected “Beeah,” or, mother of the Indians on the Fort Hall Res- ervation. She is the second woman in the United States to receive this recognition, the other being Mrs. Harriet M. Converse of New York, who was elected by the Six Nations in the Indian Territory to be mother of all the tribes. This position gives Mrs. Fisher the right to sit in all the councils of the chiefs. A GOOD SUGGESTION. Fresno Expositor. A few days ago William H. Mills of San Fran- cisco gave an interview to a CALL reporter, in which he suggested & project that, if carried out, would operate to the great advantage, not only of the people of San Fiancisco, but of the producers of the whole State. This is nothing more than the opening of a free market in that City where people may take their products to sell and where the City people may buy. Mr. Mills instanced potatoes and grapes and fruits and melons, and showed how, under such a system, men could market their pro- duce directly to the consumers and realize handsome profits where now they get barely a living, and that with infinite annoyance and trouble. He showed how the people of one section could ca-oPente in the sale of the pro- duce of their fields and gardens and have & given space in the free public market assigned ‘hVeV‘l.;lle a free market would at once beof great beneflt io that portion of the State that is tributary to San Francisco by water, it would be & distinct advantage to places like Fresno, in the coming time when railroad competition will ‘7!"“% down freights and diversified agricultural industry here will pro- duce butter, cheese, eggs and chickens and iruits that can, under such conditions, find Emflmb]e market instead,as now, of having to ring such things here from San Francisco. This project is one that ought to be carried out, for it is in the interest both of producer and consumer of facilitating the exchange of necessaries of life. This is a feature of life in the old world that would do well transplanted to America. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS- CAVEAT—W, C. L., City. A caveatis a descrip- tion of the invention to be patented, lodged in the Patent Office before the patent is applied for, and while the inventor is perfecting his de- sign. It remains in force for one year after filing, and may be extended, if desired, by paying a renewal fee. The object of a caveat is to give the inventor time to perfect and test his invention or discovery. It often occurs that un inventor will conceive the general ides of an important invention, but is not able 1o test it or to complete the details sufficiently 10 a) at once for a patent. If a caveatis fil 0 such a case the caveator will receive a notice if any application is made for a patent for a similar invention, and three months will be given him to complete his invention and apply for a patent. An interference will then be declared and the first inventor will receive a patent. In such a case the caveator has the advantage of having his invention first upon the books cf the Patent Office, and in the ab- sence of other proof this would decide the case in his fayor. Caveats can only be filed by citi- zens of the United States, or those who have re- sided in the United States one year and have declared their intention to become citizens. All caveats are kept entirely secret in the de- artment to which they belong. In spplying or & caveat the papers should be drawn with great care. Application should be made 10 a reliable patent agency. The expense of a cavest, including Government and agency fees and drawings, is $25. PAroLE—K. G., City. There is an act of this Legislature, pussed at the session of 1893, that allows prisoners to be released on parole from the penitentiaries of this State. Applica- tion must be made to the Board of Parole, and if the body is of the opinion that it would be for the best interests of the prisoner and of the community that the prisoner should be al- Jowed to be released it will allow him to % The application must contain the name of t prisoner, the crime of which he was convicted, term of sentence, time served end the reasons dor asking for his release on parole. HECTOGRAPH AND INK—E. G. Cal. The compositfon used in ‘was described in THE CALL of Tuesday, Novem- ber 12,in Answers to Correspondents. The following is the composition of the ink used for hectographs: 1 ounce of aniline, violet 6r blue, dissolved in 7 fluid ounces of hot water; and on cooling add 1 ounce of wine spirits with }{ ounce of lgyoerlne a few drops of ether and & drop of carbolie acid. Keep the ink in a well-stoppered bottle. TALL BUrLpINGS—Subscriber, Alameda, Cal. Any ordinance that the Board of Supervisors of this City ana County may pass in regard to the height of buildings to be erected in this City cannot effect the building that is being erected for THE CALL, as that building isin course of construction and retroactive laws cannot be vpassea. Whatever the Supervisors m{ do in that direction will apply only to buildings to be erected aiter the passage of the ordinance. MINERAL LaNDs—Subscriber, Alameds, Cal, A prospector may enter on any vacant Govern- ment land for the purpose of prospecting, but if he Jesires to locate land in which he dis- covirs good prospects he must make applica- tion at the land oflice of the district. A pros- ctor is not allowel to enter upon ervua ands without the consent of the owner. CALIFORNIA EDITORS—Mrs. F. A., City. Atthe office of either of the newspaper agencies in the Merchants’ Exchange building in this City you can examine a copy of & directory of all the newspapers published in this State and on the Pacific Coast, and this contains the names of editors. CHILD-DANCER—*“Dancer,”” City. Little Tues- day, the child-dancer who appeared at the Cali- fornia Theater some time ago, is probably the youngest child that ever danced on a stage in u‘m ity. She was at that time under 4 years of age. MiNiNg—T. A. McC., Gonzales, Monterey County, Cal. If you hold a deed to a piece of property no one has the right to enter upon that rroperty for the purpose of miuning for metals. or for any other purpose, without your consent. UNITED STATES COURTS—G. A. R., San Jose, Cal. The United States courts are not divided into departments as are the Superior_Courts of the State. Thomas P. Hawley is District Judge and Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. CHURCH PROPERTY—A. 8, City. Churches of all denominations in this City are taxed, the same as other property. ——————— BROKEN, mixed candies 10¢ 1b. Townsend's.* ————— “CARDS by the million.” Roberts, 220 Sutter. fomndesior s il usuimie Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street.* e SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * — o . 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Apply 4 New Montgomery st., San Fracisco. Dinner-in-bed table to help make Invalids happy on Thanks- giving. A good dinner and lov- ing friends will do the rest. Push the foot under the bed ; put the good things on top— right before the sick one ; lower or higher to suit. k or Birch. $8. ogany, $9. Japanese Crepon for draper- ies—crinkly. Any amount of patterns and colors ; thoroughly characteristic of the Japs. 30c a yard. CALIFORNIA FURNITURE COMPANY N. P. Cole & Co.) 117-123 Geary Street.