The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 26, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Propriglf)r SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free D ¥ CALL,one week, by carrier..§0.15 one year, by San Francisco, California. Telephone.. . . S ..Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 ¢ ireet. Telephone % : ... Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES smery street, Jlay; open until til 9:30 o'clock. 9:30 o'clock. ion streets; open ock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. OFFICE: EASTERN Do some of your Thanksgiving shopping rity’s Now that Ashworth isacquitted the next thing is to know the reason why. g purchases to- to-morrow. ery report we get from the admin- ion is a tale of troubie aad a call for Make your Thanksg] d avoid the cru What is known to politics as the Cleve- land is known to business men as an incubu Even England will find that free trade is too dear for her by the time it gets thor- oughly Japanned. Wherever the refunding bill shows a there will be the place for California ressmen to strike. If Venezuela prepares to fight under the shield of the Monroe doctrine, England had better let her alone. Local Democracy bound to have har- mony even if it has te hold two primaries so that both side win ery market stall shows abundant reasons why we should give thanks as weil as the wherewithal to do it. a joker Kaiser William for all who do not laugh 1laugh at him. It may be true that Buckley’s men are in line, but they are just a little outside of In setting up is sure of st with him w’ This is called ‘‘the railway age,” but the biggest enterprises the nations have on hand are for the construction of canals. The t work for Congress to do is to pass bills for the protection of home in- dustries and let Cleveland veto them is he dar The latest fashionable fad is perfumed butter, but 1t goes without saying that all butter that smells is not considered to be perfumed. When Maguire decides to get local Dem- ocratic politics off his hands he had better remember to wash his hands of it very thoroughly. Nearly every business man in the United States will include the recent Republican victories among the things he gives thanks for this year. We are already near enough to winning the National Convention to make every Eastern city regard as as the strongest competitor in the race. If you wish to strike a good thing while izing home products try California prune sauce instead of the Eastern cran- berry with your turkey. The Sultan complains he has no money to reform on, and if he does not find lots of sympathy on that ground thereis no virtue in a fellow-feeling. Mr. Preston, director of the mint, says &r was really demonetized in this coun- try in 1853, but perhaps he is only prepar- ing to issue a comic almanac. There is a growing suspicion that the report of Cleveland’s Commissioners on the Nicaragua canal will be more agrecable to Cleveland than to the people. It isannounced that the Sheltering Arms has no turkeys for the Thanksgiving din- ner, so you now know where a little of your help will do a great deal of good. Harper's Weekly creaits San Francisco with the best swimming baths in the Union, and it might also have credited her with the people who take the most baths. Postmaster-General Wilson does not in- tena that the Secretary of the Treasury shall eclipse him in the administration; he hasa Cleveland deficit in his department also. It is becoming more and more apparent that the Wilson tariff means not only a deficit in the National revenues, but a deficit in the income of every American home. Count Herbert Bismarck is stumping Germany 1n favor of bimetallism, protec- tion and an eight-hour day for all Govern- ment employes. That sounds like Amer- ican politics. As aresult of the use of iron in con- structing buildings, the word ‘house- smith’’ is becoming common in the East to signify the ironworker who does that kind of work. Now that Japanese goods are flooding our bome markets even Democrats can see that free trade is a folly that amounts to a crime against American industry and American workingmen. By the time the people have given judg- ment by their votes in the next election, the Democrats will find that their efforts after harmony as well as their faction fizhts have been labor in vain. Among the news items of yesterday of which we may expect to hear more were the invention of a speaking trumpet through which the humar voice can make itself heard more than a mile and the renewal of negotiations between Corbett end Fitzsimmons, JAPAN IN OUR MARKETS. The extent to which Japanese goods competing with home products are now entering the American market puts the tariff issue in a new light and is likely to convince even the most stalwart Demo- crats that the time has come for them to reconsider the question of free trade. When it was merely a matter of competing with European labor and European wages men might believe the superiority of American skill, energy and machinery would enable our factories to hold the home market against the foreign rivals, but now that the Oriental races enter the field with an immense working population content to labor at $2a month, no intelli- zent man can fail to see the ruinous folly of leaving our industries exposea to such competition. The new aspect of affairs will be instruc- tive, in fact, to some protectionists, as well as to the free-traders. Not a few of those who faver a protective tariff have been of the opinion that the duties should be so graded as to just cover the difference be- tween the cost of production in this country and that in Europe. On this basis of competition the duties on many articles were comparatively light. These protec- tionists will now have to retiect that we need protection from the Orient as well from Furope. The duties, therefore, on many articles which Oriental countries have begun to produce will have to be raised to a point that will absolutely pro- hibit the importation of such articles into this country. In considering the questions of revenue and tariff reform at the coming session Congress can hardly fail to overlook the new phase put upon the subject by the increase of manufactures in Japan and the probability of a still larger increase in China in thé near future. The Pacific Coast representatives of the Republican party will certainly call the attention of their Eastern colleagues to the danger that threatens. The facts and statistics published in TrE CaLn will be as good a document as any Congressman will need to begin the campaign of education, and it cannot be commenced too early. Our manufacturerz, merchants, workingmen, and, in fact, the people generally, should unite in sending petitions urging Congress to immediate action te protect our in- dustries and the wages of our people. Itis no ordinary issue that confronts us now. Holding a position on the extreme west of the civilized world and immediately con- fronting the degraded hordes of the East California must fight to preserve her homes from the standards of the Orient. Withus it must be either Western wages or East- ern, and there no time to be lost in making the decision. BUILDING A HONME. If large property-owners in the interior of the State would follow the example of San Francisco the probiem of settling Cal- ifornia would be solved. Within the last few years large unsettled areas in the western and southern parts of the City have been subdivided and offered to set- tlers on easy terms, and the result has been a wonderful increase in the number of homes owned by persons of small means and a steady income. This has served as a leading inducement to streetcar companies to extend their lines in all direc- tions, and a still better result has been a demand for good street improvements. Every one who builds a home 1n these new districts adds to the value of the un- sold lots, and as they are gradually taken the value of the lots first bought isin- creased. It may seem to some that the prices asked for lots are high, but we may all be sure of two things: the price never will be lower and will steadily increase. Delay in making an effort to secure a lot means a higher price in the future and the absence of a profit which a present invest- ment would bring. In yesterday’s Carr the president of a company selling lots on the installment plan explained the benefits of the system, and as the plan which he carries out is similar to all others of this kind his state- ment has a general value which every per- son of small means should consider. “To exemplify my plan,” said he, “sup- pose a man should buy a home costing $3000, he would pay cash 20 per cent of $3000, which is $600, leaving $2400 on mortgage, on which he would pay an in- stallment of $30 every month, interest included in these installments. According to this it wonld require 109 months to pay out. Thirty dollars per month for 109 months amounts to $3270, to which add $600 which was paid at the commence- ment, and the total cost is $3870. By this plan one pays $870 for interest, but is not paying rent for the 109 months. One could not rent the same house for less than $32 50 per month, which in 109 months would amount to $2452, so the $3000 home would only cost $1417 50 more than would have been paid in rent, which is the net cost of the home.” Of course it will be understood that these figures are only relative. Some homes would cost a great deal less than $3000, but the debt and the monthly pay- ments would be correspondingly small. There is probably not another city in the United States where there is so wide a range in the choice of lots or where the terms of purchase are so easy. Any one who can pay rent can buya home, and, as the above example shows, it often costs less to buy than to rent. The only trouble is the initial payment, but as a little self-denial for 2 few months will pro- duce that amount and assure a permanent home, which at the same time may be regarded as an investment on which a profit undoubtedly may be made, it is eminently worth while to make the effort. A TIMELY END. As literature gained nothing by the life of the younger Dumas, so it will lose nothing by his death. In not a single product of his active pen did he ever ex- hibit more than the energy of a prolific hack and a shrewd commercial instinet which understood the art of coining money out of a perverted popular taste. Besides lacking the marvelous fecundity of im- agination, ingeuuity of construction and gorgeous imagery of his father, he had not the smallest conception of the ethics of his trade, As fond of mire and muck as is Zola, as eagerly as he has rooted in hos- pitals and lazareitos, he still has been moved by a conception of duty—he has offered sores to cure by exposing them to observation. There is a wide gulf between portrayai and pandering, but the younger Dumas showed himself a master architect in bridging it. Unable to degrade art by making of it a clinic, as Zola does, and lacking the instinet which moved Hugo and Daudet to paint wonderful pictures which had no purpose other than the pro- duction of art, he was conlined to that form of writing in which pandering to vicious tastes is badly concealed under the pre- tense of depicting life. To read him or see his plays is to eat hashish and drink aico- hol. His depiction of certain forms of life never had the excuse of a desire to cure; 1ts inevitable tendency was to aggravate the disease. A later and more insidious form of the evil of which he was master are those in- tensely modern novels which have a simi- lar tendency, veiled with a pretense to warn and instruet. It istaken for granted that the spint of art is absent from all such productions, and it follows that most of them which aim to imitate art, but which really degrade it, are pernicious. These evils will persist so long as popular education is at fault and the tone of popu- lar morality low. STRANGE INCONSISTENOY. The sharp interest with which the more intelligent elements of our population are studying the marvelous changes which are going on in the government of Euro- pean cities, and particularly English cities, must soon be productive of somewhat similar changes in American cities. The curious phase of the matter is that the whole drift of municipal reform in Europe is toward the introduction of the socialistic principle in municipal affairs. This is so diametrically opposed to the very soul and essence of monarchical domination that volitical economists and students of sociology are bewildered. John Morley has attempted an explana- tion of the extraordinary condition of affairs in Europe by saying: “You may safely entrust to local bodies powers which would be mischievous and dangerous in the hands of the central government.” When we observe, however, that the powers entrusted to the local governing bodies of Europe are being exercised solely to secure the greater happiness and prosperity of the people, and that aston- ishingly good results ensue from this exer- cise,-while the central governments are taking no such interest, we must conclude that if Mr. Morley is right the idea of maintaining a central government which ignores these duties is wrong. The differ- ence between the municipal and National conceptions of government in Europe are vital and astonishing. But that is of no immediate concern to us in this country. It is more profitable to note the tremendous strides in muniei- pal government that Europe is making. In their efforts to better the condition of their residents the cities are steadily assuming control of important sources of supply and means of convenience. The Hon. Rovbert P. Porter, writing on this subject in the North American Review, makes this surprising summar: “Beginning with the municipalization of gas and water, the idea has extended to tramways, markets, baths, libraries, pic- ture galleries, techmical schools, artisans’ dwellings, cricket fields, football grounds, tennis courts, gymnasia for girls as well as boys, reguiation of refreshment tariffs, free chairs in the park, free music, and last, though not least, it is proposed to in- vade the sacred rights of John Bung him- self and municipalize the ginshops and public-houses.” 1t is clear that all of these matters bear on the welfare of the residents, for they affect the health, education and pleasure of the people.. In assuming control of these matters the city displaces private enterprise, and that is the phase of the question that is puzzling the economists. For all that, there are some details of this municipal control that are undeniably wise, and it must be that the example set by Europe and productive of so excellent results will in time be adopted by the more advanced and honestly conducted American cities. PERSONAL. T. F. Sanborn of Washington, D. C., is in the Sig Tevy, a business man of Visalia, is at the Grand. Dr. J. T. Gardner of Petaluma is at the Cali- fornia. C. Brockman, a business man of Vallejo, is at the Russ. Professor O. V. Eaton of Stanford University is at the Palace. Dr. James I. Reed of New Jersey is among recent arrivals. P. L. Flanagan, a livestock-raiser of Reno, ar- rived here yesterday. James O'Brien, the wealthy mining man of Smartsville, is at the Russ. J. W. Browning. a merchant of Grand Island, Nebr., reached here last night. Ex-Superior Judge J. M. Walling of Nevada City is spending a tew days here. Hugh McCrum. 2 mining man of Prescott, Ariz., 1s registered at the Baldwin, Dr. W. H. Stiles of San Bernardino is at the Baldwin, accompanied by his wife. Allan Towle of Towle, one of the big lumber- men of the Truckee River, is at the Grand. F. L. Orcutt, an extensive wool grower and dealer of Sacramento, is at the Grand Hotel. Sheriff T. M. Brown of Eureka, Humboldt County, is among the recent arrivals from the north. Francis Doud, the wealthy farmer, land- owner and banker of Monterey, is registered at the Lick. J. B. Pioda, the Swiss Minister to Washing- ton, who has been on a visit to outside points, has returned to this City. T. D. Murphy of Harqua Hala, Ariz., who is interested there in gold properties and other enterprises, is at the Occidental. . D. L. 8hirk, a large cattle-owner of Shirk, Eastern Oregon, arrived here yesterday, bring- ing with him several carloads of livestock. James H. Wadsworth of Yreka, one of the richest men in that part of the State, being identified prominently in cattle-raising,is in the City. John J. Byrne, general passenger agent at Tos Angeles of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, is at the Palace, accompanied by his danghter. MBChester Rowell o1 Fresno, at one time one of the owners of the Republfcan there, and who has been prominently discussed as a candi- date for Congress, i8 in town. W. A. Covarrubias of Los Angeles, United States Marshal for the Southern District of California, who succeeded Mr. Gard as the ap- pointee of President Cleveland, is in town. E.J. Lowry, a business man of Fresno, is at the Grand. Some time since, while hunting, by the accidental discharge of his gun, his left arm was so injured below the elbow that an amputation was found necessary. Among the arrivals on the steamer San Blas yesterday was Colonel Delafield Du Bois of New York, who is accompanied by his wife, Miss Mary Du Bois and Charles Goddard Du Bois. They are at the Occidental and will shortly visit friends at San Mateo. George 8. Nixon, the banker, of Winnemucca, Nev., is at the Lick. Mr. Nixon is the owner of the Winnemucca Silver State, which he also edits, and is credited with being the founder of the National silver party. He has been many years in Nevadr. and 15 one of the most enthu- siastic of free silver advocates. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 25.—0. Ellsworth, ‘Westminster; L. Sachs and wife, Savoy; C. Ad- ler, Imperial; E. M. Eleich and wife, Morton; J. G. Mather, Broadway Central; R. Scott, Cos- mopolitan; W. P. Scott, Holland; L. Flick, ‘Windsor. HAPPY WEST-SIDE WOMEN, Newman ‘Tribune. THE CALL, in speaking of the advantages California would gain by securing the next Reputlican National Convention, says: “Our young women of California wounld have the pleasure of reviewing and meeting several thousand of the dashing young business men and politicians from the East, North and South. There is no telling how many hapj marriages might result.” If the whole of le— fornia were in the same condition as the West side is this season THE CALL had as well have left that clause out, for here nearly all the young ladies have been married, and those who are not are going to be, so the “dashing K:\;:fimslneu men and politicians” wouldn't AROUND THE CORRIDORS. A striking looking old man, with an exceed- ingly thick growth of long and flowing white hair, and with whiskers reaching about to his waist, arrived here yesterday on the steamer San Blas from Central America, end soon thereafter registered at the Russ. He was the living embodiment of Santa Claus, as represented at the average Christmas festivities, to most people who saw him, while toothers he was Rip Van Winkle, just after his long sleep in the Adirondacks, as portrayed by Joseph Jefferson. Others yet celled him the Count of Monte Cristo, and as the Count he continues to be known at the hotel. None of the nam.es seemed at all out of place for him, 50 wonderful was the makeup which nature geve him, but an incident occurred shortly after his arrival which impressed the curions throng of onlookers that he was a veritable Monte Cristo. The trunks and other effects of the old man had been placed tempo- rarily at the head of the stairs, some distance awey from the desk on the office floor. The so-called Count desired aiter a while to get some Mexican cigars from a small trunk on top of the pile. He unlocked it, bus forgot to lock it again. When the porter came along to remove the baggage toa permanent place the contents of the unlocked trunk fell to the floor. There was revealed a strange sight. Gold, silver and greenbacks rolled out and scattered ANTONIO NABOLINA, THE MAN WITH THE WON- DERFUL HAIR AND WHISKERS, KNOWN AS ¢“THE COUNT.” [Sketched by a “Call” artist.] about in profusion, the gold tens and twen- ties and the silver dollars chasing themsel ves over the marble floor. There was & scampering to gather up the money, for there was a great deal of it—how much nobody could tell—but, as it appeared, several thonsand dollars at least. The old gentleman laughed and shouted, en- joying the scramble for the money &s much as any one present. It was with difficulty at last gathered up and taken away. The old gentle- man proved to be Antonio Nabolina, the widely known pioneer of Visalia, who for the past sixteen months has been at his mine in Central America, and was just getting home. “I am a Mexican by birth, and came to Cali- fornia in 1848,” said he. *I took upa ranch near Visalia, and I and my two sons own three ranches there now, besides large herds of cat- tle and sheep. Our ranches are so valuable that Miller & Lux offered us $200,000 for them some time ago, but we would not sell. “This money you saw roll outof my trunk here is the result of the sale of gold from my mine, the Donna Maria, located 160 miles from Trinidad. Itis a good mine, for I have been offered $18,000 for it, and in the last three months I have cleaned up an average of $1000 a month from it. It is a placer mine, easy to work and well located. Ten Indian miners dig this all out for me. “I am 74 years old, and my hair and beard is as white as it will ever get, but I feel very young, and never felt stronger than I do now. This is & good world tolivein. Inever had any fault to find with it. Anywhere in the San Joaquin Valley if you will ask tor the Al- fonso Andrade rancho or for the owner, who | is myself, they will all tell you. Everybody knows me.” The old man, to entertain the throng of men and boys around him, deigned a time or two to tie his long whiskers in a knot, and once or twice he put them over his face. They covered his face so completely that it could not be seen. Mr. Nabolina will leave for home in a day or two. He says he will go back to his mine in about & month. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE THIRTY YEARS BEHIND THE TIMES. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: While our City rapidly dobs the robe of beauty and few vacant or neglected spots appear to mar the signs of progress, and every proprietor, even of a modest homestead, shows the laud- able ambition to add his mite to the general improvement by keeping his property up to the mark of his neighbor’s, there is, in the Western Addition, a proprietor, not of lots, but blocks, whose reverence for early days or relics of the past, or it may be unselfish regard for neighbors’ pockets, allows them a free dump for old tin cans and kettles, abandoned hats and footwear, dead cats and broken crockery— for such are the ornaments rendering attrac- tive the blocks between Sutter, Pierce,, Post and Fillmore streets. While the old-time planking rapidly disap- pears from sidewalks, giving place to neat and permanent artificial stone, even a decent planking has never appeared there, and though smaller owners when ordered to sto.e-side- walk their property are bound to obey, on two bles that are raised on this side of the bay— on Davis and Pacific streets; and rarely, if ever, you see a prominent housekeeper making purchases there. The rule seems here to be the correct thing to have the vegetable-boy, the butcher’s boy and the grocer’s boy to call at your house and take orders for whatever is wanted In their line of business, regardless of prices, and I have no doubt but that you are in the swim. Yours traly, THOMAS LOUGHRAN, Commission merchant, 217 Clay street. THE NATIONAL FINANCES. Philadelphia Times. The mischievous effect of having the Gov- ernment mixed up in banking and compelied notonly to furnish all the currency for do- mestic use, but to furnish all the gold that may be required for foreign payments, has had & striking illustration in the last few days. The financial world has been kept in | & state of uneasiness by the rise in the price of cotton. Normaily, this would be inspirit- ing to business, giving addea vaiue to one of our most important crops. But it checks the exportation of cotton, which was counted on to balance exchanges with Liverpool and London, and bankers were afraid that they would have to export gold, which, of course, they would draw from treasury. Thus what should be a commercial advantage becomes a cause of distrust, through met operation of our preposterous currency system. St. Paul Pioneer-Press. With more gold everywhere available as & basis of redemption for currency issues, it is quite likely to resultin larger issues of paper currency, If there is really any need of a large increase in the yolume of money the expanded gold basis will_afford a solid foundation for a stable currency structure. An abundant sup- ply of gold will eliminate one of the chief ele- ments of financial disturbanees. It will tend to give stability and security to the monetary systems and exchanges of the world. Omaha Bee, Instead of issuing bonds for the payment of deficiencies the administration has issued bonds to keep up the reserve, which it has re- peatedly depleted for the pazment of current expenses. In the opinion of Serator Sherman the fatal policy of unlawfully diverting the gold in the treasury to the payment of current deficiencies is the cause, and the sole cause, of the present financial disturbancg. New York Times. Unquestionably the best thing Congress could possibly do is to provide for the funding of surplus legal tenders in a low-rate bond, even if the refunding be confined to the notes 0f 1890. That would do more than anything else to restore a healthy and safe_condition of the currency and free the trade of the country from the extraneous and artificial sources of disturbance to which it is constantly exposed. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. An 1ncrease of revenue from some source apparently will be needed. November and De- cember are expected to show slight surpluses, but these may not offset the deficit of October and the one likely to occur in January. This question of providing additional Government receipts may come up to bother Congress. Both parties wonld like to dodge this issue, but they may be forced to face it. Chicago Inter Ocean. Something must be faulty in a currency sys. tem that permits a great banking-house to corner the money supply of the world, and to make itself the arbiter of the fate of nations. It seems to be a contradiction in terms when “stable currency” is applied to & gold basis | eoinage that can be shifted upon the impulse of one firm of money brokers. New York Mall and Express. At the present rate the first fiscal year under the operation of the Wilson-Gorman tariff mon- | strosity will end with a treasury deficit of well toward $100,000,000. That isone of the pre- cious legacies which Mr. Cleveland and his little band of associated bunglersare preparing | for their Republican successors. PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITIES. New York World. Vice-President Stevenson’s announcement | that he will not be a candidate for the Presi- dential nomination leaves no Democratic didate of National prominence in the entire West. Mr. Stevenson’s further declaration that Presiaent Cleveland “will be accorded a nomination if he wants it,” while obviously going beyond the speaker's knowjedge or authority, indicates & very prevalent feeling that in Mr. Cleveland rests the only hope of his party next year. New York Mail and Express. Senator Allison wants it understood that he is making no scramble for the Republican nomination for President. The assurance is unnecessary. Mr. Allison i a gentloman, as well as a statesman—a type of all that is digni- fied, upright and patriotic in American man- hovd. He is & Western giant, whose shadow may yet slant eastward from the setting sun of convention day. Chicago Times-Herald. Mr. Cleveland does not wanta third term. His party will not nominate him, and I do not believe he would acceptif it did. If the Demo- cratic party is to have any chance to win next year lgc chance will have to come !hrough ihe foreign policy of the administration. In that' event the logical candidate would be Richard Olney. New York Times. It is also announced that Senator M. 8. Quay will try for the Republican Presidential nomi- nation. A well-equipped literary bureau is at work in his interest. Pennsylvania is to be as- sidiously “worked” for a Quay delegation to the National convention. Don Cameron is for him, and, strange to say, so is Mr. Platt of our State. Springfield Union. Since Tnesday it has probably dawned upon the minds of William C. Whitney, William R. Morrison. Adlai E. Stevenson, John G. Carlisle and Willlam E. Russell that a Democratic nomination for the Presidency next year would seriously interfere with their private business and personal comfort. Mr. Cleveland may be corpelled to bid itin. o Providence Telegram. Mr. Cleveland has the blindest lot of friends of any man in public life. To talk about his leading the party to victory in a fight for the - - R —0 . ‘\'\\\\\\\I*T—-_' ¥ i £ ! Lt 2 d ~ e 2T e s = B A WESTERN ADDITION LANDSCAPE. B LR or more occasions.this wealthy proprietor has dared to ignore the mandate. The dilapidated fences and overflow of sand, 50 long “for sale, cheap,” are suggestive of a uarter of a century ago, or earlier, when cat- tle ranged the Western Addition, and have long been pronouuced a disgrace to the Ch{. Let us hope the owner will soon dispose of h sand and invest the money in a fence, for ap- pearance sake, and a sidewalk in mercy to pedestrians, E. 8. R., 1614 Scott street, City. A CLEAN NEWSPAPER. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—Sir: Iwish to say that we appreciate your efforts to place a clean newspaper iu our homes. THE CALL is the only,San Francisco daily paper that we allow in our Christian Endeavor reading- room tables. Yours, respectfully. REV. E. L. BURNETT. Mendocino, Cal., November 23, 1895. THE VEGETABLE-BOY. Zo the Editor of the San Francisco Cali—SIR: I notice the discussion going on between THE CALL and the Chronicle about a “free market.” Why, we have a free market for all the vegeta~ third term idee, to which the Democratic gmy has always been and is now thoroughly ostile, is_an absurdity. A man who can be :gre:telved by it is no politician and no Demo- New Bedford Standard. The Westerners are saying that “a good West- ern Democrat will have the chance to carry off the Presidential nomination next year.” He is welcome to it. We don’t believe ‘that Billy Russell wants it. Boston Glote. William Eustis Russell, thrice elected Demo- cratic Governor of the Republican State of Massachusetts and gquelslng qualities and a Srapha (1A 0n6 of '1he Bresdon el poceBIE em 3 Lieipln 1596‘y S B Cleveland Herald. Every Ohio Republican is for McKinley for President, and the Ohio delegation to the Re- publican National Convention next summer will be pledged to him in a way that will in- sure earnest and honest support. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ‘The question as to the next Democratic nom- ination for the Presidency is not one of choos- s the United Suates | ing between several anxious aspirants, butone of finding some reputable person who can be coaxed to accept it. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CLRARING-HOUSE—M. W. W., Oakland, Cal. A clearing-house is a place or institution where the settlement of mutual claims, especlally of banks, is effected by the payment of differ- ences, called balances. The system was estab- lished in London to facilitate business and it has been adopted in the United States, but the methods differ from those in London in this that the work is aone more quietly and with more dispatch. Each bank that belongs to the clearing-house sends there daily two eclerks, one of whom is called the delivery and the other the settling clerk. The duty of the former is to distribute the bills, checks, draits, ete., which it holds as creditor of other banks; that of the iatter to receive such ex- changes from the delivery clerks of other banks. Each settling clerk, as he enters, furnishes the manager of the clearing-house a credit ticket, showing the total amount of exchanges which his bank has brought. These are noted by a I:I'Odf clerk. Then the delivery clerk makes is rounds and after the differences have been made up, each debtor bank pays its difference to the clearing-house before a certain bour, soon after which each creditor bank receives irom the clearing-honse the balance due it. A LIBERAL EDUCATION—F. L. T., City. On the subject of liberal education Lowell, in “Among My Books,” says: “The study of them (the classics) is fitly called ‘a liberal educa- tion,’ because it emancipates the mind from every narrow provincialism, whether of egotism or tradition, and is the apprenticeship that every one must serve before becoming a free_brother “of the guild which passes the torch of life from age to age.” = Sir Wilham Hamilton, on the same subject, s Now the perfection of man as an end, and the perfection of man as a means or an instrument, are not only not the same, but they &re in ‘reality gen- erally Opposed. And as these perfections are op- oseil so the training requisite for their scqnisition s not identical and has been distinguished by different names. The one is styled liberal and the other professional education: the branches of knowledge cultivated for these purposes being cailed respectively, liberal and professional, or lib- eral and lucrative sciences. SEALING WAX—Marths, City. There isalan- guage of sealing wax among the fashionable people. White is used for communications re- lating to weddings, black for obituaries, violet for exvressions of sympathy, ehocolate for in- vitations to dinner, Ted for business, ruby for engaged lovers’ letters, green for letters irom lovers who live in_hopes, brown for refusal of offer of marriage, blue for constancy, yellow signifies jealousy, pale green signifies re- proach, and pink is used between young girls. Gray is the color used by friends in writing to one another. THE EarTH—C. F. McC., Oakland, Cal. The planet on which we live is an isolated sphere, like the other planets, unsupported by any visible connection. Like them, it moves round the sun under the influence of the attractive force of that enormous central sphere. This attraction increases and decreases directly ac- cording to the mass of the attracting body, but inversely, as the square of the distance. The earth’s period of revolution round the sun depends on its velocity at mean distance. SuccEss 1N LIFE—D. C. M., Pacific Grove, Mon- terey County, Cal. The best course for a young man to pursue to make & success of life is to select some trade or profession to which he may feel himself specially adapted, piteh right in with a determination to win, and be will succeed. If he hangson to the ragged edge in the expectation that success will come to him he may hang there till dooms- day and success will pass him by. STATUE OF FREEDOM—Inquirer, City. The statue of Freedom that surmounts the dome of the Capitol at Washington is 19 feet 6 inches high and weighs 14,985 pounds. The height of the dome above the base line of the east front is 287 feet 5 inches. The rotundais 95 feet 6 inches in diameter, and its height from the floor to the top of the canopy of the dome is 180 feet 3 inches, PRESIDENT AND GOVERNOR—K. K., City. It is proper form to address an official communica- tion to the President of the United States in the following words: -‘Honorable Grover Cleve- land, President of the United States, Sir” and the Governor of the State of California as tol- lows: “Honorable James H. Budd, Governor of California, Sir. THE LEXINGTON—H. C. L., City. The steamer Lexington was burned January 13,1840, while on her passage from New York to Stonington, Of 145 persons on board only four escaped with their lives. KENDALL'S DEATH—G. A. G., Oakdale, Stanis- laus County, Cal. The date of Kendall’sdeath was published in THE CALL, Tuesday, October 22, in Answers to Correspondents, For OLp MEN—P. F. H,, City. For informa- tion for a home for old men in the city of Los Angeles write to the secretary of the Associ- ated Charities, Los Angeles. TuE BostoN—W. E. L., Sacramento, Cal. The announcement has been made thatthe warshi Boston would go into commission on the 25th of November. ALIENs—R. M. W,, City. There is no law in this State that prohibits an alien from pur- chasing real estate. No Premiom—J. H. P., City. There is no pre- mium on a $5 piece of the year 1842. MgRs. FRANK LEsLie—K. M., City. Mrs, Frank Leslie-Wilde was divorced from ‘“Willie Wilde” on the 10th of June, 1893. OCCIDENTAL BRAIN - THROBBINGS. Democracy’s Ghastly Joke. Portland Oregonian. The Democratic platform of 1892 declared that the only industry fostered by Republican policy was the industry of the Sheriff. What a ghastiy joke this is when one thinks of the Eretcmauml activity of the Sheriff since the emocratic regime began! Yet Trees Bear Golden Fruit, Redlands Citrograph. And now it is an Alabama fruit-grower that cured blight by boring holes in his tree trunks and filling them with mercury and sulphur. When will' poople study vegetable pathology enough to know that mineral substances can- not circulate through the sap of trees? The Air Came From Germany, Anyhow. Seattle (Wash.) Times. The papers are talking about the right of this country to the air to which Britons sing “God Save the Queen’’and we sing “America.” Itis an idle discussion. Like most that is val- uable in either the ringing old song isa part of the heritage of both nations. Life Is Not a Dream. Vallejo News. You cannot dream yourself into a character. You must hammer and forge one for fourself. Unhappiness in San Jose. San Jose Mercury, We are pained to observe that the high theater hat is still with us. 'Twas Punctured With Revenue Tax. Haywards Mall. Cleveland’s third-term wheel is a pneumatic, Full of wins Nay. PRIZE BREAD-MAKERS. Philadelphia New Ideas. Atabread contest held in an Eastern city notlong ago & milling company offered prizes ranging from 85 to $100 for the best ioaves of bread. The receipt used by the winner of the prize of $100 was: Three pints of water, half pint of milk, one tablespoonful of lard, two tablespoonfuls of salt, one yeast cake and the necessary quantity of flour to make three loaves. The inzredients, which were first thor- oughly mixed and then kneaded ten minutes, were raised over night in a covered breadpan. In the morning the dough was kneaded ten minutes and mnde into three loaves. Three other loaves entered for the contest were awarded $75 prizes. One of these loaves seem: to have been prepared in & Somewhat unusual way. The inEredienls for the dough were two-thirds milk to one-third water, compressed yeast and a little salt and sugar,and were mixed with enough flour to make a stiff dough. This dough was mixed, kneaded and set to rise at night. When light 1t was chopped thoroughly with & chopping-knife, made into loaves, and set to rise a second time. When this was light it was baked forty minutes. TWO SPRINGS IN ONE YEAR. ‘Editor Duncan McPherson in Santa Cruz Sentinel. The Sentinel was the first to cali attention to the fact that the California year is blessed with two springtimes, one occurring immediately after the early rains and the other about four months later, when the deciduous trees begin to unfold their leaves. This year our first springtime began about three weeks ago, when the first rain fell. Since then the air and earth have been full of the gracious presence of the vernal season. The tender grass beautifies the wayside and tints the fields. The songs of the birds possess a peculiar mellowness. The balm of mew lhife permeates the atmosphere. A new splendor rides upon the sunbeams. The song of the plowman is heard as be follows the roiling furrow. The schoolboy’s whistle has a shriller note. The migratory birds are appearing irom the far north to bask in_Santa Cruz sunshine during the so-called winter season. A swester fra- grance is perceived in the s odors dis- tilled from evergreen groves. The rosy tints of dawn and sunset lead the fancy into fields of dreamy speculation. Ail nature, animate and inanimate, bathes in the smile of the spring- time queen. : These things may be somewhat tantalizing to those who are wearing mittens and ear- muffs among Eastern snowstorms. It will not lessen their discontent when we tell them that our first Santa Cruz spring this year is & little too warm to suit the fastidious tastes of our citizens. Those among us who have not got over the foolish habit of buying “fall and winter clothing” are either undergoing the mortifieation of haeving to leave their new dresses at home or are sweltering in clothes altogether too warm for the season. We have recently heard of some Eastern people who propose to *visit Santa Cruz in the spring,” meaning next April or May we sup- pose. 'If it is spring weather they are after they need wait no longer. Aswe have often remarked, 8 great mistake is made by visitors who postpone the pleasure of a sojourn in Santa Cruz until “aiter the rainy season.” It cannot be too often repeated for the benefit of such persons that there is no more favorable season for the enjoyment here of pleasures de- pending upon exquisite weather? than the period commencing with the first rains of Inte October or early November, and often ¢ u- ing without interruption until Christmus Of the entire truth of this statement, our blizzard-blown {riends beyond the Rockies would be perfectly convineed if they could breathe the balm and bask in the sunshine of the sweetspringtime now regnant in the hills, vales and groves of Santa Cruz. PICTURE cards. 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The fact that physicians prescribe it is sufficient to in- £ Martin & Co., 411 Mar- dicate its quality. ket street. ——————— Death of a Talented Teacher, Professor Frank E. Bradshaw of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., died October 26. During the school year 1892-93 Mr. Bradshaw was instructor in Latin in Hoitt's Oak Grove School, Burlingame, and a post-graduate stu- dent in Stanford University. Mr. Bradshaw resigned his position in Hoitt's school at the end of one year to accept a fellowship in Latin Yale. Last year he was elected 1o a position in the Latin department of Vanderbilt Univer- ity, where he took bis degree of A.M. some years ago. Mr. Bradshaw possessed a bright intellect, was an earnest, careful student, and had just begun to receive the reward of his unremitting and patient toil when he was stricken down in his_early manhood. The Hustler of Vanderbilt University says that in his work in_that institution “he proved him- self & master of his subject and a thorough and conscientious tescher, winning the recog- nition that his attainments merited. His place will be hard to fil.”” Dr. Hoitt says that Mr. Bradshaw and his talented wife, who was also a teacher, left his school to the regret of all who knew them. THOUSANDS of people have found in Hood's Sar- saparilla a positive cure for rheumatism. This medicine by its purifying action neutralizes the acidity of the blood and builds up the system. i S CHICAGO LIMITED. VIA SANTA FE ROUTE. A mew train throughout begins October 29, Pullman’s finest sleeping-cars, vestibule reclining- chair cars and dining-cars. Los Angeles to Ohi- cago, via Kansas City, without change. Annex cars on sharp connection for Denver and St. Louis. Twenty-seven hours quicker than the Qquickest competing train. The Santa Fo has been put in fine physical condition and is now the best transcontinental railway. e et No buitet should be without a bottle of Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters, the South American appetizer and invigorator. e EssENCE of Ginger don t cure coughs and build you up like PARKER'S GINGER TONIC. PARKER'S HATR BALSAM cleanses the scalp. e e HAS TAEEN THE LEAD. Auburn Repablican. While the Examiner and Chronicle are fight- ing about their respective circulations Tue CALL and Bulletin will get away with the plum by attending strictly to business. THE CALL has already taken the lead in this county and deservedly, too, because it has devoted more space than its contemporaries to the miners’ cause. NEW TO-DAY. 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