The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 1, 1895, Page 20

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBEK 1, 595 20 e e Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: carrier..$0.15 S OFFICE: Ket Street, 0, California. Telephone. ....oeemesreneene ain—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Stri Telephone... ..Main—1874 BRANCH OFFIC sery street, corner Clay; open until street; open sixteenth and ek, 8 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Brondway. EASTERN OFFICE 1 . ¥ SUNDAY THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. This week the horse show. re getting frolicsome, lo-day we have a rest and to-morrow Congress begin The holiday The shop windows at night begin to look like glimpses of fairyland. Whether it rains or shines on these days her is sure to play into somebody’s the we; The chances are the Pavilion will look like a society exposition with a horse show attachment. Smart gowns will be the rage at the horse show, and the bloomer girl will have to seek redress as best she can. There are ma before Congress, out of of them Xepublican ma- ty will bring a true Americanism. t get the National Conven- ve the satisfaction vod fight for it. tion we of know s are comi e will be none us nor our Con- 1en in fighting the refunding bill. e present outlook it is doubtful ulists next year will poll as s in the country at large as the found in e of he has already k another fe ¢ that promises to be a record-breaker as rt. n Franc ieside P: a pleasure r In planning your holiday purchases re- member that California goods are the most ‘nians can send to nd yet she e ieve she is running a pects tl fin e world to b ecle expositio the coming ses- be short and others ject from the Palace is cne of the things men will try to push along d silurians to h aside. ome little speculation concern- e next Democratic nominee for the but the Populist candidate is not even worth guessing at. 4 The Cleveland administration intervenes in the contest between the Raiircad Com- mission and the railroad monopoly, but it doesn't take the side of the people. You wull find in Tue CarL to-day an- other proof that California needs no assist- anc m outsiders in getting up the best class of special articles for Sunday news- papers. The Philadelphia Board of Education has appropriated ,000 for enforcing compulso: ducation, but it would prob- ably be cheaper to hire the truants to go to school. Jastern ciiies have begun to adopt municipal flags, and if we follow the ex- ample we should play stars of crimson and blue and yellow on a gridiron field, with a turkey dispread on the side. It is said to cost the English $35,000 a day more to keep their fleet in the Bos- phorus than to keep it at home, but then Constantinople is a persimmon worth reaching for even if 1t does come high. As the Inter Ocean is running a guessing contest st which it announces to be made up of “scientific experiment, electri- cal mystery and love” it would seem that Chicago is getting her literature as badly sophisticated as her canned turkey. St. Paul wishes to organize a National Skating Association, being evidently una- ware that as’some of the sweetest of the sisterhood of States cangot join in on such an icy proposition it must remain out in the cold as a sectional movement. Hoke Smith recommends the appoint- ment of a committee to arrange the settle- ment of the claim of the Government against the Pacific roads, but the people expect Congressmen to attend to the matter directly and vote as they promised. America is supposed to be a land of peace and Europe a land of war, but of all the naval officers representing the nations in Turkish waters our own Admiral Selfridge is the only one who has seen much fight- g or had any experience as a commander in actual warfare. The arrangements made for the Tennes- see Centennial Exposition to be held in Nashville next year include a reproduc- tion of the Acropolis at Athens with the Parthenon and a gigantic statue of Pallas Athene. A touch of travesty is added by the report that there is also to be a statue of a black cat sixty feet high. Brooklyn is boasting with a just pride over the possession of the best model ten- ements for working people in America. The range 'of buildings occupy an entire square and enclose an open court laid out as a recreation ground. The dwellings vent for from $5 to $12 2 month and pay a et profit of 6 per cent after deducting re- pairs, taxes and insurance. This is one of the astern ideas we would like to see tome West, for all the world, | G00D OITY GOVERNMENT. The Oakland Enguirer, discussing a re- cent editorial in THE CALL on the superior government of European cities when com- pared with that of American cities, gets close to the main issue when it says, with reference to municipal assumption of cer- tain public conveniences: ‘‘Let the thing be tried in this country and what is the re- sult? Generally it is that every new muni- cipal undertaking will be found to add to the chances of political corruption.” That is lamentably true. Our contemporary says that instead of enumerating the industries which Euro- pean municipal governments conduct we should try to find answers to these ques- tions: “How are these municipal indus- tries in Europe kept out of politics? How isit that the Government can run them really in the interest of the city and not of the persons employed or seeking to be em- ployed? How is it that in a European city the average voter will vote for efficient ad- ministration, when as soon as he lands in an American city he begins voting to give bimselfa job? Why is the whole atmos- | phere surrounding municipal industries different in this country from what it is | abroad and far less congenial to the suc- cess of those industries?"” This condition cannot be on the score of a lower order of morality and intelligence in Amer- | ica. It is largely a matter of neg-4 lect of civic duties by the people. Why this indifference should exist is the ma; vel. It enables sharpers and plunderers to organize, and organization is strength. The corrupt American political boss is an institution unknown in Europe and a di- rect product of indifference on the part of | the better elements in America. All sorts of factitious remedies are con- stantly being tried. We have well organ- | ized political parties with high principles, but sometimes, instead of employing these | agencies for the highest good, the better | elements display their lack of wisdom by organizing independent movements, which | are generally directed by unworthy mo- tives and usually result directly or indi- rectly in the placing of unscrupulous per- | sons in office. It is through regular political parties that good citizens can best exert an influence which will secure a wise municipal government. explained | | NAME THE CANDIDATES., | { The professed object of the Civic Federa- tion in its movement to organize an inde- pendent party being to secure an honest and competent City government, its posi- tion compels it to bring forth honest and capable candidates for office and to set| their personal worth above considerations | of party affiliation. The loftiness of this position challenges an analysis of its merits. | It is not possible to imagine an inde- pendent ticket that is not composed of | | men belonging to old and established po- litical parties. As their personal worth | is not hampered by their adhesion to | the principles of those parties it would not | be enhanced by their aesertion—the con- trary would be the presumption. From | the ‘way in which political matters are shaping themselves in this City it is evi- { dent that the E shaking off whats affected its course in the past and is deter- mined to nominate only the best candi- | dates. In any event, it 1s too early now to y that this party cannot be depended on to nominate the right kind of men. If the Civic Federation knows of any Republicans of the kind whom the City should elect and who would be willing to run its clear duty is to suggest their names and ascertain if the Republican party would be wiliing to nominate them. It has no right to assume that the party | would not nominate them and bence that | an independent organization is necessary. 1f the Civic Federation desires earnestly to | show that it has only the good of the City | at heart and wants to avoid the suspicion | that it is not wholly disinterested it will | come out fearlessly and name the men whom it desires to see elected and give the | Republican party an opportunity to nom- i inate them and throw its whole power into ‘ | publican party at least is ver bad influences have the fight to elect them. Independent political organizations as- sume a very trying position. They adopt | a high tone that requires extraordinary virtue to maintain and that invites a sharp | and suspicious scrutiny of their actions. ‘The body of intelligent and patriotic Re- | ] pablicans in this City are not prepared to | ignore a challenge aimed at their worth or at the principles which are dear to them. They believe themselves to be as worthy | and capable as any body of independent citizens. They are willing and anxious to | do their duty, and if a knowledge of that duty should Lappen to escape their own cognizance and be suggested by any patri- otic and intelligent citizens they will be found eager to act upon the advice. Itis in order for the Civic Federation to inform | them what it desires done. INFLUENCE OF THE HORSE. One cannot contemplate the lively in-| terest in horses which the Horse Show and | the creation of the Ingleside racetrack in- | dicate without being impelled to seek the | reasons. There is a popular notion (the | error of which is familiar to students of | natural history) that the horse isa creature { of superior intelligence. As a matter of | fact he has less common sense than his | humble cousin, the ass; ranks far below | the dog, and is not superior to the cow. Nor can he compare on the score of docility with any of the other domesticated ani- mals. On the contrary he may develop a dangerous viciousness, and as he becomes frightened at that which would not dis- | turb the serenity of a cow, and which the superior wisdom of a dog would con- temptuously ignore, the power which the nature of his employment gives him for doing harm is often exercised with dis- astrous results. As for affection, it is practically absent from his constitution, notwithstanding the popular idea to the contrary. But so long as he is aeemed both highly inteiligent and possessed of strong affec- tion, he enjoys on those accounts all the advantage which would ensue trom an actual possession of those qualities. That | is a great deal to start with. The more substantial elements that recommend him are his great and varied usefulness, his prodigious strength and endurance and his wonderful fleetness; these added to his spirit, grace, beauty and dash, properly make him king of domestic animalsand a special object of care and admiration. None of this is misplaced orill judged, and nothing can ever take the place of this superb creature. The centaur was a fabulous creature, with the barrel, legsand tail of a horse and the body, arms and head of a man. It was an idea conceived to represent in com- bined form the wisdom of a man and the power and swiftness of a horse.. Asthe horse was unknown in Mexico at the time of the Spanish invasion, Cortez and his coborts, mounted on horses and arrayed in glittering armor, were thought to be ex- traordinary creaturesof the centaur type— gods, in fact. Before this apparition the splendid civilization and fine humanity of the Aztecs trembled and fell. Although the conception of the centaur, being that of a man’s intellectual strength given perfect potency by the addition of a horse’s physical superiority, suggests that the riding of ‘a horse represenis his most picturesque and impressive usefulness, and although horseracing in Europe is still confined to riding, America has gone far beyond that primitive conception in the development of the horse’s usefulness. Even yet in Eugland the *cob” is a | cherished institution for drawing the family vehicle, and it is only within recent years that good blood has come to be re- garded as a valuable factor in the produc- | | tion of hunting horses. It is to America that the world owes most that is best in the development of the horse in all the higher forms of his adaptation to the needs and demands of modern civilization. Kentucky first and then California took up the subject, and to-day California leads the world. DEGEMBER DAWNS December dawns to-day and to expect- ant hearts the holidays begin. It is true nearly s month must pass before the Christmas festival will be with us, but all the days from this time on will be days of plans and preparations, and in the pleas- ure these afford many a generous heart will find almost as much of joy as the great day itself will bring. Keeping time with the expectancy of the world, many of the shops of the City have already tegun to show forth the glory of the rapidly approaching holiday. Busy of mind or dull of eye must be the man who in these days can pass the glow and glit- | ter of the windows in the big stores with- out stopping at least for a moment to gladden himself with the bright visions of innumerable dainty, delicate, desirable things of luxury, elegance and beauty. Rare indeed is the flowery field, the gal- lery of art, or even the starry midnight, more attractive to the eye, more pleasing to mind or more enticing to the heart than these same windows of brilliancy, that disclose so many strange, fair, ex- quisite things that we do not want. A thousand bewildering enticements lay in the marveis wrought for Christmas fan- cies and imported for our delight from far lands, but the Californian buying gifts for Eastern friends pass all these exotics by and seek something native to the State. | Such gmifts from Californians will be most appropriate and most weicome. Many an article which we deem too common fora Christmas souvenir will in the East have upon it the glamour of the Far West and be more thought of than anything their own shops afford. There will be, there- fore, a wisdom, as well as a patriotism, in selecting California products for Eastern friends. Accept this to-day as a precept and to-morrow practice it. RANDOM NOTES. BY JOHN M'NAUGHT. Last Sunday the Chicago Times-Herald entertained its readers with a discussion on “How to Cook a Thanksgiving Turke; the discussion taking the form of a sy posium to which the six highest salaried chefs in the city contributed. These dig- nitaries of the art agreed that the feathers | v e key { should be removed from the turkey before | ¢ - Montgomer the roasting began and that the bird should be surrounded in the pan by a cir- cle of onions. Beyond these points, how ever, the only approach to an agreement was that five of the chefs favored a small ‘“‘tom turkey” cooked for an hourin a hot oven, while one with an inspiration of genius declared fora large turkey left to the evolution of five hours of a slow fire. It is worth noting, moreover, since we live in days when questions of sex arise in every issue, that most of the chefs noted the ex- istence of a marked difference between the flavors of the male and the female bird, and while some preferred the male, some declared for the hen. Finally there were those who asserted the Eastern turkey to be better than the Western turkey, but this was decidedly carrying the debate too far and all statements of the kind should have been stricken from the symposium. ‘We cannot permit the introduction of sec- tional piejudices in an issue so near to the National heart as the turkey which glad- dens the popular stomach This symposium is wortn noting, because the differences of opinion revealed in it are not likeiy to cause anything more than a pleasant warmth in the memory. Tt will not lead to more talk. Those who favor the flavor of the hen bird will not de- nounce as fools those who like better the savor of the “‘tom turkey,” and while the man who chooses a small bird rather than a big one may by those who delight in having enough of a good thing be regarded as an easily contented idiot, yet no one will say so. If then we can discuss so im- vortant a subject as a turkey without laps- ing from dignity of manner or moderation of language, why can we not discuss things less near to our inner lives with the same decorum? May it not be due to the fact that as the turkey is something we have thoroughly digested we are able therefore to debate it from a true fullness, whereas on other subjects we are often without assurance of our own comprehension, and are compeiled to fill up with bluster the empty gaps in the line of our arguments? A contrast to the pleasant symposium for the discussion of turkey is the contro- between the romancers and the ts, newly excited by the death of the younger Dumas. The romancers déclare the author of Camille to have been wholly a reprobate in the realm of art, a chronicler of the half world and the shady side of life; one unfit to- rank among the immortals or even among mortals who take right views of things; while the author of Monte Cristo they praise as one of the joyous spirits whose works are the gladness and delight of the world, a true immortal destined to be remembered forever by all whose mortal weariness has been cheered by the thrill and the glow of his rousing romances. To all of which the realists answer that if Camille was of the half world, she was at least that much in the world, was human flesh and blood, sympathetic with love and passion even as we are, ‘while the heroes of the elder Dumas were never in the world at all. The prisoner sewn up in a sack, weighted with cannon balls and thrown into the sea, who ripped the sack open, swam sev- eral leagues and climbed a lone rock amid the waste of waters to wave a dagger at the stars and declaim, “The world is mine,” 13 beyond human sympathy, say tne realists. This is a real world, they maintain, and Monte Cristo 1s not in it with Camille. While this worriment between ro- mancers and realists goes on over the com- parative artistic merits of the elder and the younger Dumas, it is worth remembering that the father and son themselves got along very well together after the son had attained & suificient success to be able to lend his father money, and a sufficient discretion not to do it. It is narrated that when “Camille” achieved its trinmph on the Parisian stage, the elder Dumas wrote to the younger a letter of warm congratu- i lations and signed it “The Author of ‘Monte Cristo.’” To this the son replied that no congratulations could be more pleasing to him than those of the author ofa work for which, as he said, “I have the highest admiration, because I have heard my father praise it so often.” With this exampie of a mutual admiration between the great romancer and the great realist to encourage them, it is to be regretted the little romancers and the little realists cannot attain at least to a mutual toier- ance, and allow a willing world to be pleased with both. A good lesson in toleration was given by Dana in his address on journalism last summer. ‘‘There are two classes of news- papers,” he said, ‘‘one for intelligent men Aind one for fools; but,” he added quickly, ‘‘we must not condemn those who publish the latter class, for there are a great many fools in the world and they have as good a right as we to have a newspaper to repre- sent them.” On this broad platform real- ists and romancers might agree. There must be two kinds of literature—one for the intelligent ana one for the other sort. It would he useless to prosecute a debate as to which style of story fits the fool, for when it came to that point both realists and romancers would remember the exist- ence of another set of men forming a class headless and uncultured indeed, but vast, vowerful and capable of speaking with a world-filling voice, who in answer to the question would cut the discussion short by curtly saying, “*Both.” If criticism were not so utterly futile T would like to see the whole host of critics turn with all their rapiers and their blud- geons to the task of reforming the stage. The inanity of the theater at present is, of all current vanities, the one that causes the Rreatest vexation of spirit. It is not that the actors are to blame. We have on the stage many men and women of talent, am- bition and industry, who try mightily to please us, but whose best efforts avail little by reason of the fact that the plays they are set to render furnish them nothing to give forth. We ask for a dramaand we get a medley. The masks of tragedy and comedy are laid aside for the fool's cap and bells, and while clever men and fair women caper nimbly in them the public aerives nothing from the show of mock | gayety save the laughter that derides and does not make merry. As for the dra- matic critic, his fateis a hard one. At best he can say on ordinary occasionsonly that a song is well sung or a dance well kicked and give thanks to fortune when some as- piring lady playing a man’s part affords him an opportunity to do a little high-art legitimate criticism on the way her trou- sers fit. PERSONAL. Eugene D. Ryan, U. 8. N,, is at the Baldwin.j James Kenneth of England is at the Palace. R. G. Barton of Fresno reached here yester- Y. Wooyeno, a wealthy merchant of Tokio, is in town. James G. Ertip, an attorney of Fresno, is in the Cit Ex-Senator B. D. Murphy of San Jose is at the Palace. S. M. Rice, an attorney of Ukiah, is registered at the Grand. H.J. Basling of Alaska was among yester- arrivals. . F. Montgomery, proprietor of the Antioch Dr. Jessie Woodside of Kansas City Mo., | 1s at the Occideatal. John M. Cunningham of Santa Barbara ar- | rived Lere yesterday. E. Dinkelspiel, a business man of Suisun, was in the City yesterday. Ex-Judge 8. M. Buck, the pioneer of Hum- boldt Bay, is at the Lick. The Rev. and Mrs. F. G. Van Ryn of Santa Rosa are at the Caltfornia. 11. Stelling, one of the leading wheat-dealers of Davisville, is at the Russ. H. A. McCraney, proprietor of the Lakeport Avalanche, is at the Grand. G. W. Morgan, a lumber manufacturer of Duncans Mills, is at the Grand. L. F. Puter, a prominent young attorney of Eureks, Humboldt County, is at the Grand. W. Forsyth of Fresno, one of the best known raisin-growers of Calltornia, is at the Occi- dental. George Van Gorden, the widely known fast- horse grower of Pleasanton, is spending Sun- day here. W. L. Sullivan, manager of tte famous Hag- gin horse ranch, Sacramento County, is regis- tered at the Russ. Colonel A. W. Jones, president of the Fresno and Monterey Railroad, arrived here jast night and is at the Lick. W. H. Heilliard, an artist of New York, who several years ago spent some time in the Yo- semite, is at the Palace. Rev. Willlam P. Dye, formerly of THE CALL staff, and now Cathollc curate in the diocese of Sen Luis Obispo, is visiting his kinsfolk in this City. George H. Preston, a prominent attorney of Seattle, is & guest of his friend, Dr. Luke Rob- inson of this City, at his home on Fillmore street. E. B. Willis, editor of the Sacramento Record- Union, arrived here yesterday to attend the meeting of the executive committee of the California Press Association. Captain Jack Crawford, the pogt-scout, will deliver a frec lectureat 3 o'clock thisafternoon at the Youug Men's Christian Association rooms. Both ladiesand gentlemen are invited. A. C. Stevens returned yesterday from a five months’ trip through Canada, Nova Scotia snd the Eastern States. He was accomvpanied by his wife. Their summer months were spent at Due Isle, Maine. James Waldere Kirk of New York, known among commercial travelers, of which he is, as the “King of the Dudes,” is in the City. Mr. Kirk carries an extraordinary large assortment of clothing, and is credited with chenging his garments five times a day. J.J. Valentine, president of Wells, Fargo & Co., started yesterday afternoon on_a southern trip looking after the interests of the company. Mr. Valentine will inspect the affairs of the company at various points as far south as San Diezo, and will also visit New Orieans before his return. He will probably be gone about two weeks. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N, Y. 30.—Among recent arrivals are: A, McLeod, Grand Union; J. H. Chamberiain, Imperiel; A. D. Martin, F. W. McNear, Mrs. G. W. McNear, Holland; S. Adler, Coleman; G. Campbell, Union Square; H. Sat- liff, 8t. Cloud; Miss Patton, Mrs. E. P. Wilde, Normandie. FOR A FREE MARKET. Petaluma Petalumian. The San Francisco CALL is making a fight for & free market in that City where producers can without expense offer their products for $ale. Free markets exist in many Eastern cities, but the Bay City commission men have kept them out thus far. Tur CALL'S efforts should be en- couraged, for free markets would mean much to the small producers of family truck within A radiusjof & hundred miles of San Francisco. The effect would be to divide the profits of the City commission and middle men between the producers and consumers, who would then be brought face to face. The consumer would get his necessaries a trifle less and the producer wbuld receive a littic more than heretofore, e TYPESETTING BY HAND, ‘Woodland Reporter. The course of the San ¥rancisco CALL is wor- thy of commendation in its determination to do its typesetting by hand for at least a year and a half.’ This will be & good thing for 1ypos, and will be appreciated by the laboring classes. THE CALL is rapidly coming to the front, and if {t continues in its present course it must soon become the most popular of the great dailies. It has moderation, truthfulness and cleanliness to commend it, and is pro- &ressive without being over sensational, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Colonel Henry G. Shaw of the Stockton Mail came down to visit the metropolis yesterday. The colonel is a thoroughly up-to-date man in his profession, though Iis experience in news- paper work goes back to the days before the War. “I've got my foot on the twentieth century,” he remerked gleefully, while chatting in the Occidental. “THE CALL has been doing a great work in trying to get the Republican National Conver- tion to come next year to San Francisco,” he remarked. “It is only a question of time!when some of the great National parties will hold their conyentions by the Pacific Ocean. The idea is one that will touch the imagination of the American people. For a great party to meet 3000 miles away from the seat of Govern- ment to nominate a President would bring Colonel H. G. Shaw, Who Introduced the Creedmore Method of Rifle-Shooting in America. [Sketched from tife for “The Call’ by Nankivell.] vividly before the minds of millions of voters the thought that they are citizens of the great- est Republic on earth. I don’t think the aver- age New Yorker or San Franciscar: realizes this fact. He will do so, however, the day & candi- date for President is nominated in San Fran- cisco.” Colonel Shaw enjoys the unique distinetion of having been the only citizen who by cour- tesy was for three days in command of the Pre- sidio garrison. It was in 1875, when the Fourth United States Artillery was stationed here. The colonel at that time was city editor of THE CALy, but he was also the recognized leader of the movement to educate the National Guard and the United States army in military marks- manship. He was one of the orgenizers of the National Rifle Associetion; the famous range at Creedmore was named by him, and he orrig- he came to California in 1872 he organized a State Rifle Association. From General Schofield, who was in com- mand of the Division of the Pacific, he ob- tained leave to give an exhibition of the work- ings of the Creedmore system at the Presidio. The regular officers, to whom the subject was & novelty, were very glad to extend him every facility. Jsmlisted men were detailed as work- ing parties and trenches were dug, telegraph lines erected and tents pitched on the range. For a week before the meeting both oflicers and soldiers of the regular army could be seen out at the Presidio reporting to the newspaper man for assignments to duty. It wasall a mat- ter of sumple courtesy, but at the time it was considered quite a departure irom military traditions and custorms. The exhibition was a great success. Firing was carried on from the 200 to the 500 yard ranges, and Governor Pacheco, attended by his staff, was present at the opening day. Many of our crack rifle-shooters fired their maiden shots at that meeting. Colonel Shaw was the first man to ever get all the journalists of San Francisco to sit down as brothers at one table. When Whitelaw Reid of the New York Tribune came to California to marry D. O. Mills' daughter, Shaw proposed that the newspaper men should give hima public breakfast. The idea was favored and Shaw was made chairman of the committee of arrangements. About 300 representatives of the press attended the affair at the Baldwin Hotel. The editor of the Bulletin presided, with Whitelaw Reid on his left and Charles de Young on his right. Up to that time there had always been much bickering among the pro- prietors and local mewspaper men, but after the Reid breakfast the newspaper men came to know each other better and maintained cordial relations. This was long before the date of the organization of the San Francisco Press Club. One of the striking figures about the Palace during the last day or two is the Count E. 0'Brien, a native of Spain, but who has spent & good deal of his life in Paris. The Count is lim built, athletic young man, with a dark mustache and dark eyes and hair. He wears a mouse-colored Derby with the tip of a brown feather sticking out of the band, Count E. 0’Brien of Spain. but in no other way would his garb attract any attention. The Count speaks English with a somewhat broken accent, yet is easily under. stood. He had the zood fortuna to hava a grand. father, a native of Mexico, who has made & large fortune in the Mexican cepital and also in Peris out of the banking business. The Count likes hunting and adventure, and on this account he has traveled far and wide and leveled his gun at the biggest game in the different sections of the world. Some of his greatest fun was in Africa, where he brought down koodoos, tigers, zebras and other game, regardless of consequences. He has with him & stout-built valet, who wears brown mutton-chop whiskers, and hesa look of wonder on his face by reason of his in- experience of American ways. The Count says he is having a very pleasant e and may conclude to stay here quite awhile. The price of butter has risen lately so that the better quality in the houses costs from 75 cents to$1 aroll. Aroll is about two ounces short of two pounds. The price is making a serious condition of affairs, for it was very un- expected. A dairyman said yesteraay: ““The reason has been because of the scarcity of rain. The grass has been so dry that it wouldn’t make buiter. The rise was not the result of any effort to boom the market. The simple facts are that in many places almost no butter was to be nad. The present bountiful rains, however, will bring out the green grass in abundance, and no doubt we shall have all the butter we want and much lower prices.” LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE THE CAMINETTI ACT. TIREY L. Forp EXPLAINS SOMETHING ABOUT 118 OPERATION. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: In your issue of the 18th inst. I notice an error touchipg the law governing hydraulicmining. On page 10 of the issue referred to, under the head of “Mines and Mining,” reference is made to the Congressional act commonly known as the Caminetti act, the statement appearing that prior to the passage of that act “‘No hy- draulic mines in the drainage basin of the San Joaquin and Sacramento riverscould be legally worked.” This is & mistake. There never was a time when the hydraulic mines of this State could not be legally worked. Our Supreme Court has held in express terms that “the business of hydraulic mining is not, in_itself, unlewful or necessarily injurious to others.” It is only when the business is so conducted as to cause injury to public or private rights that the law interposes objection. Even the celebrated Sawyer decision in the North Bloomfield case recognized this princi- {)le. and the injunction issued in that case was eft subject to modification or dissolution, ac- cording as facilities were provided for restrain- ing the debris resulting from the miniug operations of the defendant. The same court afterward approved the works constructed by the North Bloomfield Company, and permitted it to resume its mining operations by the hy- draulic process. This occurred prior to the passage of the Caminetti act. There were many small mines in_the higher altitudes, where the mining seasons were snort, and where the debris was easily and suceessfully impounded, that were lawfully operated without molestation from any source. The great bulk of the hydraulic mines, how- ever, came under the ban of the Anti-Debris Association, which secured the issuance of many injunctions by the courts at Marysville and Sacramento. These injunctions were not issucd on the ground that’ the business of hy- draulic mining was unlawful or criminal in its character, but on the sole ground_ that the particular mines enjoined were being so operated as to cause material injury to other interests. The Caminetti act,however, provides for erim- inal proceedings in addition to the elvil reme- dies already allowed by law, and this feature of that act caused the owners of the small mines above referred to to shut their mines down until they could bring themselves within the provisions of the Caminetti act, which the most of them have already done. There was an attempt made in the Legislalure of 1887 to invest hydraulic mining with a criminal char- acter, but the attempt failed and was not re- newed prior to the passage of the Gaminetti ct. THE CALL has acted with such absolute fair- ness and impartiality in all matters relating to our great mining industry that I feel con- strained to call attention to the above error that has inadvertently crept into its columns, and which error, I have noticed, is quite com- mon, even among those who are otherwise well informed upon mining matters in genmeral. Yours very truly, TIREY L. FORD. San Francisco, November 30, 1895. SILVERITES AND POPULISTS. A PROPOSED UNION ON CANDIDATES, I¥ NoT ON PLATFORMS. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: In my last letter intimation was given that another report would be made on the Populist vote in the recent State election, but as the net result is the same as suggested in that letter, it would be a me¢re matter of detail to report the figures. I need only remark that the large Populist gains have stimulated the party to greater activity and inspired greater courage than at any former period. A plan of union on candidatss between the Populists and Silverites, regardless of any dif- ference in platforms, suggested by Ignatius Donnelly of Minnesota, has received the ap- proval of the leading Populists and Silverites of the country, and all indicetions now point to its adoption.” Tt is a very simple procedure. The two National conventions of Populists and single-issue silver men are to be held at the same time and place, and proceed to formulate such platiorms as they desire, each convention acting separately and independently, and then a ?oint committee of conference on candidates will be appointed to select and agree upon the candidates for President and Vice-President, who are thereupon to be nominated by both conventions, separately and independently, at the same time. By this plan each party will have its own platform, maintain its own organ- ization and fight its own battles in its own way, but all the votes will be cast for the joint can- didates. This plan has received the hearty editorial indorsement of the Silver Knight, the National party advocate of the siiver men, edited by Senator William M. Stewart, and published in Washington, D. C., and no Populist of Na- tional reputation has rejected it. It also seems quite possible that the National Prohikition Convention may form a third party in agreeing to this plan of union, the convention to be held at the same time and place as the other two conventions. So far it has developed no opposition in the Prohibition ranks, but has found advocates among the most influential in that party. As discussion ot platform has proceeded the fact has become manifest that there is not the divergence of views between Populists and silver men which was generally supposed; on the contrary the near approach in platfcrms 10 identity of purpose and aim naturally led to the proposed union of candidates instead of latforms. This affords ground for a degree of armony which promises abiding results. Com[mrnhvely few of the advocates of the silver issuc have given serious attention to the Populist demands or issues on transportation and land as set out in the Omaha platform, and hence they are not prepared to accept these Populist measures as the best solution of these problems, but they are not violently opposed to them as Populist measures, and are simply unwilling to place them in the plat- form of the silver party. It would seem that the friends and advocates of free coinage of silver are to have generous provision made to accommodate them on the day of final decision at the ballot-box. The two old parties are trying to accommodate them and thus keep thew in line, while the Populists propose to meet them haif way and joih forces The practical result may be much the same so far es the relative voting strength of the two old parties is put to the test, tor it is probably true that desertions trom these old organizations will about equal each other in the country as a whole, and it will be simply a uestion of numbers between the adherents of the old parties and the new Union party. In- deed it is extremely doubtful if the Union party will poll all the silver vote, for many who' advocate {ree coinage still hold that the two old parties will yetdo s:lver justice and will vote as in years past still cherishing that belief, unless the advocates of National glllks and the gold standard should gain control of either of the old arlie;, In that event there will be a mew alignmehit of forces which will rapidly develop a great change in the political condltions of the "country. 1 anticipate that result. THe Democracy is now clearly domi- nated by the gold men and National bankers, While it seems highiy probable that the Repub- lican party will a opt the policy of waiting for the concurrent action of the great commer- cial nations for the restoration of free-silver coinage. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON, 11 Essex street, San Francisco. November 30, 1895. i WESTERN EDITORIAL PITH. ¢«Everything on Earth.” Porterville Enterprise. We were standing on the platform of a grain warehouse Wednesday afternoon, and in cast- ing our eyes around noticed opposite us they were loading several carloads of steers and hogs, to our right oranges were being loaded, behind us grain was coming into the ware- house, and to our left, at the lumber yards, home lumber was being sold. Al these home Erodncls, and heiugflhndnd,}%d :’z:fie!::i"lmir‘zldn(‘xi: it .Pomgen'llle has every: ‘Why should she try, farm produce, etc. lh%ng on é’mn green earth. not go ahead? Tariff Pills Will Cure the Jap Complaint Hanford Democrat. The Japanese have been so successful in the manufacture of shoes which they sold in Aus- tralia, that they have closed every shoeshop in that country. It will not be many months be- fore they will lower the wages of Iabor in Cali- fornia to a sum that a white man cannot live on. Our Government, in the protection of American citizens, should pass and enforce & law forbidding the introduction of pauper labor, whether from Japan or elsewhere. For a San Diego Military Post. Los Angeles Times. San Diegans are pleased at the aetion of the Trans-Mississippi Congress in Omaha recom- mending Congress to establish a_ten-company military post at Silver Gate and to fortify that importaut harbor. The delegates might also have recommended that the Silver Gaters get together and offer the Government the land desired for & military post. The failure of the people to do this in the past has been one of the stumbliug-blocks in the establishment of this much-hoped-for station. How a Match Was Hatched. Dixon Tribune. A Solano County girl wrote her name and address on an egg which was sent to market with a large shipment, Asa result of the cor- respondence which was started by this means she married a San Francisco grocer within three months, This incidentis not !urKl’hlng when it is considered that matrimony has be- 3ome a sort of shell game in these degenerate ays. Protection Is the Proven Remedy. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The farmers of this county may think that the new tariff law benefits them, but all the imports of live animals increased_ 20 ;:a?cee‘nht? st eggs 110 per cent; flax, 140 per cent; feathers, 220 per cent; hay, 100 per cent; hemp, 140 per cent; hides, 140 per cent; Seeds, over 200 per cent, and wool over 400 per cent. The exports have fallen off from 10 10 50 per cent. The Oregon Drouth Broken. Portland Oregonfan. Oregonians are themselves again. Thelong- overdue rain is falling copiously, big with the usual promise of health and abundance. There are those, of course, who are disap- pointed that the rain did not hold off until after Thanksgiving, but reasonable people gen- erally welcome it as scasonable and necessary, and therefore desirable. HALL CAINE'S STORIES DRAWN FROM THE BIBLE. McClure’s Magazine for December. “T think,” Hall Caine says, “I know my Bible as few literary men know it. There is no book in the world like it, and the finest novels ever written fall short in interest of any one of the stories it tells. Whatever strong situations I have in my books are not of my creation, but are taken from the Biple. ‘The Deemster’ is the story of the prodigal son. ‘The Bondman’ is the story of Esau and Jacob, though in my version sympathy attaches to. Esau. ‘The Scapegoat’ is the'story of Eliand his sons, but with Samuel asa little girl. ‘The Manxman’ is the story of David and Uriah. My new book also comes out of the Bible, from a perfectly startling source.” CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c 1b. Townsend’s.* ——————— E. H. 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Our §2.50 Kettle at S81.75, and our $3.00 Kettle at $2.1O—aznd Wednesday night ends it. ‘Lhe Kettles and Lamps are heavily polished bra: or copper, and the stands are han forged black wrought-iron. And they are useful for other things besides tea; just light that quick-heating, asbestos, alcohol lamp, and in a few minutes you | have hot water—a great comfort these | cold nights. We have just received the finest lot of | Tea-Kettles and Art Metal Goods that | ever came to town—and every piece sold direct to you at W HOLKSALK PRICE. THAT BIG CHINA STORE— A Quarter of a Block Below Shreve's. W ANGENHEIM, STERNHEIMN & CO., 528 and 530 Market St., 27 and 29 Sutter St., BELOW MONTGOMERY. ISSSSSTCSoSSSSYY If you want a sure relief for ~ains in the back, side, chest, or limbs, use an Allcock’s tions is as good as the genuine. Porous Plaster BEAR IN MIND—Not one of the host of couaterfeits and imitae ‘-