The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 3, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1895 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprictor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily CaLL, one week, by carrier..$0.15 Daily CALL, one year, by 6.00 Daily CALL, six months, by Daily and Sunday CALL, thres Daily and Sunday CALL, One mou Sunday CALL, one year, by mai WEEKLY CALL, one year, by BUSIN OFFICE : 710 Market Street, an Francise ifornia. and Sunda, and Sund and Sund Telephon in—-1868 EDITORIAL 517 Clay Stree Telephone.... I .. Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICE! omery street, corner ¢ open until tission street; open until @ o'clock. reet; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE Rooms 81 and k Row, DAVID ) York City. Agent TUESDAY.. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. ——— e e e Get your eyves on the horse show and see the biggest thing in town. It seems that the followers of a blind boss think the world can see nothing. age will be long Democracy can never get the floor in this City again until it ceases to be out of order. As long as the Populists hold the bal- ance of power the Senate will be a teter- board. The poolroom is one of the things that shouldn’t be permitted to run and yet be made to go. As a matter of business the horse show is a pretty strong convention to promote road improvemer According to tradition the Garden of Eden was located in Armenia, but it is the devil’s own country no Tom Reed need not fret if he cannot sat- isfy everybody. Even divine providence I never succeeded in doing that. The deficit and the gold exports are two horns of one dilemma and Cleveland has managed to get himself stuck on both. Just as soon as they get through with a political campaign in Boston they all begin to talk of some kiad of Andover heresy they keep on tap. The bicycle may not be a healthier means of recreation than the fishing-boat, | but Tom Reed certainly feels better than Grover Cieveland. In the concert of European powers at Constantinople it seems to be Kaiser Wil- liam who is wielding the baton and mak- the band play low. As Kaiser William objects to redressing Turkey at this time on the gronnd that it would be inopportune, he is probably look- ing forward to Christmas. The reports now coming from all de- partments of the administration are heavy enou wave had wet the powder. ing Tom Reed’s speech seems to have been as satisfactory to Democrats as to Repub- licans, but anything that isn’t a kick satis- fies Democracy in these days. Schlatter the ‘‘messiah” seems to be nowhere, while Crowley the bandit seems to be everywhere, and that is the way it is with virtue and vice in this world. It 1s now reported that Senator Hill rented a big honse in Washington because he has a habit of talking to himseif and doesn’t wish people to overhear him. As Arizona is to baye a National Guara reorganization something like our own, it seems that even in our troubles the world looks to usas a model and nota warning. As was expected Comptroller Eckels rec- ommends the retirement of greenbacks, but the greenback is a feature of Republi- can finance and it is the recommendation that will be retired. The gavel presented to Speaker Reed bearing the inscription *‘Protection and Bimetallism” would be a good one with which to call the National Republican Convention to order. navy is deficient in ships, men, guns and docks is not a bright picture for a marine view, but it is doubtless correct enough, as most other people see it in the same light. | It is reported that Margaret Mather is to get $100,000 for allowing her husband to obtain a divorce without a contest,” and considering the amount of stage advertis- ing she will lose by keeping quiet, the sum is by no means excessi Governor Altgeld declaresthe report that he refused to appear in procession with United States troops at Atlanta to be an unqualified faisehood, and certainly the country will be glad to know that, however foolish some Governors are, none has been such a fool as that. Official reports show that the excess of imports over exports for the first ten months of this year was about $125,000,000 greater than in the corresponding period last year, and this is another reason the people gave thanks that Democracy has about reached the end of its rope. A recent publicaticn b ment on the “Highways the State Depart- of Gommerce” ectimates that at the beginning of 1893 | there were 406,348 miles of railway in the world valued at $33,635,310,000. In appor- tisnment by continents America stands fitst, having at that time 218,871 miles, or 31,394 miles more than all the rest of the world combined. Many influential papers in the East are urging the N ational committees of both parties to errange for the Presidential con- ventions next year in such a manner that | they may be true deliberative assemblies and not disordered and excited mobs act- ing amid turbulent crowds, but while the arzuments for the reform are good the peo- ple are too fond of seeing such conven- tions for any party to undertake to shut them out. , but they sound as if the tidal | ] | tion? The good citizens in the Democracy, The report of Secretary Herbert that our | & gL mocracy THE COMING DANGER. The recent disclosures made by the Grand Jury seem to explain the enormous tax levy recently laid by the Board of Su- pervisors. In view of them the public may well cherish the most serious appre- nhensions with regard to the vast sum of money that is provided to be expended during the current year. In the absence of any recent revolution in the govern- ment of the City we are justitied in read- ing the future by the past. These are some of the matters of wide notoriety: We have a Street Superintend- ent known to have handled the business of his office in a grossly careless and incom- petent, if not a positively criminal, man- ner; he has escaped prosecution on a small legal technicality, but so deep is the popu- lar sense of outrage and so prevalent the Dbelief of a nastier depth of wrong than that yet discovered that the Grand Jury is dig- ging deeper into the operations of his de- partment. His manner of conducting his department represents the influence and effects of degraded boss politics in its most shameful form. Upon what ground can the people base a hope that the enor- mous amount of money provided in the tax levy for the Street Department will be honestly and intelligently expended ? Tt is known that the most open diseri nation is practiced by the City authorities among contractors, and that some of the contractors who enjoy special favors are conscienceless plunderers. The Grand Jury is going farther and seems to be sin- cere in its desire to unearth rascality in every branch of the City government where it exists. In this work it has issued an appeal toall good citizens to aid it in every way in their power by reporting every crooked fact and suspicious circum- stance. It isin the air that corruption ex ists to an alarming extent and reaches to bigh places. It will give THE CALL pleas: ure to publish and discuss any discoveries which the Grand Jury may make. These discoveries may have an impor- tant effect on the tremendous expendi- tures which the current tax levy contem- plates, and hence it becomes the special duty of every taxpayer to render the Grand Jury all possible assistance. Some of the public officers who will be intrusted with this money have been already discovered to be wholly incompetent, if not worse. ‘What should be done with them? Canthe City afford to see its money placed in their hands? There is a possibility that still more powerful knaves or incompetents will be uncovered. Can any duty be higher | than their punishment? For it isnotonly the present that we are to consider—the future is ominous. The tax levy must now stand, and this enormous amount of money must go into the treasury, but by checking rascality with exposure and pun- ishment it will be possible to get the best use out of the taxes AN EARNEST WAI{NING. TrEe Carrn does not think that its inter- ference in local Democratic politics will be regarded as an impertinence by those who desire honest government and appreciate Tae CaLvL’s efforts to secure it. For that matter it deems the attitude of the Framn- iner a sufficient warrant for assailing the Democratic methods which have bronght so much harm upon the City. Here is a great Democratic newspaper— the strongest in all the West—appealing to | the Democracy of San Francisco to purge itself of the infamous elements which are | working its destruction and making this great City a reproach to civilization. The Eraminer is uasparing in its disclosures | and relentless in its pursnit. No honest | and intelligent Democrat can deny that in } doing this it is exhibiting the highest | fealty to its party, nor doubt that it is the | only course which honorable Democrats | and good citizens can pursue. A very un- usual aspect of the Eraminer’s policy is its | absolute fearlessness in creating antagon- | isms of the most bitter and unscrupulous | kind within its own part; This is incon- trovertible evidence of its independence, based on prosperity. Instead of covering up the sores and hiding the scandals in its | party, it is holding them up day after day | to public scorn, and its attitude is an ap- peal to the manhood of every respectable | Democrat. And yet it is merely doing its anty. It is trying to rid its party of the disgraceful leadership of men who were indicted by a Grand Jury of honorable men for infamous | crimes against the people. It calls atten- | tion to the fact that these men’dared to re. turnonly after the statute of limitations had | made their prosecution impossible; that their flight was a virtnal confession of guilt, and that had they stood trial they | undoubtedly would be to-day wearing the stripes of a convict. It sees that these | same men are boldly assuming to recover the leadership of the party; that through | the extraordinary indifference of some | Democrats and the depravity of others success may aitend these efforts, and that if so there will be a continuance of the infamies of past years. ‘We should like to know to what extent the respectable Democrats of San Fran- cisco appreciate the efforts of their lead- ing newspaper in behalf of the City and | the party. Are the morality and the pat- | riotism of the party at large of so low and feeble an order as nut to appreciate and make tire most of this extraordinary situa- with so powerful an agency to support them, would find no diflicuity in driving out the rogues who are seeking to make tools of them for infamous purposes if they proceed with the vigor and intelli- gence which men must have in order to be worthy of the privileges of citizenship. Those who attended the last horse show in this City will find many gratifying in- novations made for their comfort and pleasure when they attend the opening at the Mechanics’ Pavilion to-day. More ! comfortable seats have been provided,_‘ draughts have been excluded, the turn- outs will be more varied and the pro- grammes filled wiih a greater number of That horse shows have become “‘society events”’ means largely that persons of means have come to give imntelligent atten- tion to the beauty and usefulness of horses. Good form is merely good taste, and those whose taste is fanlty lack good manners. That social force known as ‘“‘society’’ has its many transient fads, but they are mostly expressions of a desire to advance. If the object of attention happens not to have an enduring value it is soon aban- doned, but if it proves worthy it holds a constant interest. As horse shows are eminently worthy they receive permanent attention. Besides stimulating efforts to raise the standard of equine excellence, these exhi- bitions instruct the public at large concern- ing the valuable points of a horse and the best taste in the manner of usinghim. One may be ever so correct in dressor in the entertainment of friends, but it has come about of late that unless one knows, also, how to equip and handle a horse one is in | bad form, despite clothes and manners. There is a good use in all these things. _ The audience at a horse show is one of its most entertaining features, Even the cynical and crusiy old philosopher must be moved by the array of beautiful women, artistically gowned, radiant with health and sparkling with pleasure.” This horse show is going to be a great event in the history of the City and the State, and no good Californian can afford to with- hold his contribution to its success. HERBERT'S NAVAL ESTIMATES. Secretary Herbert estimates the com- plete expenses of our naval establishment for the succeeding fiscal year at §2 166. This sum includes $9,638,383 for a preposed increase in the naval force. He supports his estimates by strong argu- ments in favor of the increase which he suggests, and the only objection to be urged against them is that he does not ask enough, nor advocate an increase sufficient to give us a navy worthy of the greatness of the Nation. A correct estimate of the value of Her- bert’s scheme for improving our navy can be found by contrasting it with the plan of naval increase recently adopted and now being carried out by the British Govern- ment. Our Secretary asks for less than $10,000,000 for naval expansion between now and June 30,1897, while for this fiscal vear the British estimates voted by Par- liament for a similar purpose were over $93,000,000. Noris that all. The British scheme of naval expansion is to be contin- ued at the same rate for three years after 1896, and the total estimate for the con- struction of war vessels of one kind or an- other auring the whole period reaches the enormous sum of $500,000,000. A navy is, of course, not so necessary to us as to Great Britain, With her, it is ab- solutely essential to the preservation of her national existence in the case of a war with a first-class power. Her empire de- pends upon her control of the sea. Ours does not. The Union would be secure from invasion even if we had not a ship on the water. There is something more than National life, however, to be thought of. We must maintain our prestige in all parts of the world, we must be prepared to sus- tain by force the Monroe doctrine through- out this hemisphere, we must be able to guard our coasts from naval raids by -any power and be always in a position to up- hold. the rights of our citizens, the privi- leges of our commerce and the honor of our flag all round the globe. Whether considered in contrast with the British naval estimates or in relation to the actual needs of the country, the esti- mates of Secretary Herbert appear stinted and parsimonious. The sum asked for to defray the cost of the entire expansion proposed would not be too much if de- voted to naval improvements and increase on this coast alone. When Great Britain can undertake to expend $100,000,000 a year for five years to strengthen her naval equipment, surely this country can ven- ture uvon something greater than the petty tinkering proposed by the Demo- cratic Secretary. PERSONAL. J. B. Wright of Sacramento is in the City. Dr. J. Lester of Corval Ore., is atthe Russ. A.E. Lashen of Washington, D. C., is in town. : John F. Curtis of the Star of India mine is in town. R. H. Long, an attorney of Willows, is visit- ing here. A. C. Hihn, the millionaire of Santa Cruz, is in the City. Professor Le Lande of Montreal, Quebec, has arrived here. George E. Faw, the grain-dealer, of Salinas, is in the City. Colonel George B. Sperry of Stockton arriyed here last night. Superior Judge J. K. Law of Merced reached here yesterday. Dr. J. H. Swain of Denver is among the re- cent arrivals here. Major W. A. Galt of Secramento came down to the Bay City last night. A. F. Abbott, a wealthy pioneer fruit-grower of Marysville, is at the Lick. Telson Arki, & wealthy merchant of Japan, is quertered at the Occidental. Mayor W. H. Carlson of San Diego arrived here yesterday and is at the Grand. A. B. Glasscock, the well-known resident of Josemite Valley, arrived here yesterday. R. C. Irvine of Sacramento, one of the mem- bers of the Good Roads Commission, is at the Baldwin. Ovide Musin, the noted violin virtuoso, ar- rived here from the East yesterday. He is at the Grand. Hiram E. Mitchell, an attorney of Portland, son of United States Senator John H. Mitchell, is at the Baldwin. ott,a wealthy business man of s at the Palace, accompanied by his wife and daughter. Mrs. Milton Nobles, wife of the eminent actor, arrived here yesterday from Brooklyn, . Y., and is at the Occidental. . Knight, one of the wealthiest men of lle, who owns many buildings and is | engaged in many enterprises in that lively town, is at the Lick. Ex-Judge William Vanderhurst of Salinas arrived here yesterday. The Judge is en- gaged in merchandising and other enterprises in Monterey County. Mrs. L. A. Beardslee, wife of Admiral Beards- lee of the Philadelphia, arrived from Puget Sound yesterday, where the admiral now is, and is at the Occidental. Henry Stull, the animal painter of New York, who has been sketching Ormonde and other costly horses on the ranch of W.0'B. Macdonough, is at the California. George A. Wiley, superintendent of the Seth Cook ranch, near Danville, Contra Costa County, is visiting the City. He broughtdown & number of horses to be exhibited at the horse show. Lee Fairchild, who went the rounds with Estee in his gubernatorial campaign ana who afterward made speeches in Utah, is at the Lick. Mr. Fairchild recently won & bride at St. Helena and married her at sea. They went on to Victoria for their boneymoon and have only just returned. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 2.—Among recent arrivals are: C.O. Hooker, S. B. McNear, Hol- land; J. Wand, Hoffman; Mrs. Braturber, Miss MecArthur, Windsor; G. W. Soffington ana wife, Westminster; E. E. Halladay, St.Cloud; 8. M. Johnson, Netherland; C. L. Hulse, W. Brad- ford, Broaaway Central; E. F. Bean, Coleman; G. D. Brooks, Park-avenue; M. Salisbury and wife, Murray HIll; W. Seilschopp, Belvedere; H. Brown Jr., Imperial; Dr. D. H. Catherwood, Ashland; Mrs. Goeclaer, Belvedere; Miss E. Nogan, St. Denis. i J.G. Jordan and wife are at the St. James. The object of their trip here was to spent Thanksgiving day with Mr. Jordan's father, the senior member of the firm of Jordan, Marsh & Co. of Boston. Mrs. W.J. Younger is at the Hoffman waiting her husband, Dr. Younger, who is treating some patients in Chicago. Hotel Manager L. T. Gurresly and wife of Los Angeles are at the Normandie. JAPAN AND THE TARIFF. Yreka Journal. THE CALL is showing what the practical re- moval of the tarifi from some articles is doing for California. Japanese artisans, such as those who make furniture, work for 10 cents a d. Furniture comes in with & low duty. Furniture-dealers are stimulating the Japanese to make furniture, and are bringing it here to sell. It is as good, or better, than American- made furniture—for the Japanese are cunning craftsmen—and can be sold away under it. No American workmen can begin to compete with the Japanese. We need a law, not only to keep out goods made by foreign paupers, but the Ppeupers themselves. THOMAS [From his latest photograph. of the House of Representatives, so many B. REED. This portrait is published as an act of justice to the Speaker poor and misleading pictures of the gentleman having been recently printed by the San Francisco papers.] LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE STANFORD'S COLOR. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Ishould not intrude my opinion about uni- versity colors, as mentioned by C. H. Jackson, if Ihad not also read your editorial item on the ‘subject showing your interest in the matter. I merely wish to say that from the day Stan- ford University selected red 1 have expressed the iden that some other color should be joined with it, and I now repeat that crimson and gold would be very desirable, or, if €old is ob- jected to on account of the U. C., and silver. I do not approve of “‘red, white 1 I haye educated one son at each versity—the University of Culifornia and Stanford,” [ wish parents” would express their interest in all college matters. A MOTHER. Los Gatos, Cal., Dec. 1, 1895. RIGHTS OF A WIFE. Lodi Review-Budget. A decision which, if sustained by the Su- preme Court, will demoralize property ti in this State has been rendered by Judge of San Francisco in the case of Spreckels Spreckels, in which Claus -and Anna Spreckels are suing for the possession oi ceririn stock given by us Spreckels to his son, Rudolph Spreck: The court holds -that as Mrs. Spreckels failed to protest within the statu- tory time her right to protest falls anyway, regardless of statutes and amendments. The decision is upon & @emurrer submitted by Rudolph Spreckels, and by its terms the de- murrer is sustained. This establishes the precedent that community property may be transferred by one party. ns0n W READ IN FAMILIES. Watsonvilie Pajaronian, Nov. 8. The Chronicle and Examiner are giving much space to circulation returns. Both have made teliing hits. It is a profitless war to both. There is not & large daily circulating through news agents that does not send out lots of extra copies. circle and read by the heads of familiies is the publication of public influence and the one of value to advertisers. very little of the train reading of newspapers brings return to adver- tisers. Asto the point which of the City qailies has the largest circulation, it is probable that THE CALL goes into about as many housenolds as any of them NEW “CALL" SUBSCRIBERS. ntinel. The Examiner and Chronicle have printed scores of columns during the last two weeks in & personal wrangle as to which paper has the largest subscription list. Whole pages are de- voted to illustrations and articles casting re- tlections upon each other. The patience of the reading public has been exhausted long since, and THE FraNcisco CALLis gaining hun- dreds of new subseribers. GIVING IMPORTANT NEWS. San Jose Mercury. THE CALL and the Mercury were the only papers that published the highly important news yesterday morning of the Government’s intervention in the case of the Southern Pa- cific Company versus the Railroad Commission of Californ Yet that was the leading news item of the day. Neither THE CALLDOr the Mercury is given to sensationalism,but each gives the legitimate news, and that is what in- telligent reaaers want. . SPEAKING OF SPRECKELS. Woodiand Mail. Suppose that Spreckels does want to goto to the United States Senate; very few havea better right {o ask for consideration at the hands of the people of this State. The Spreckels'es are spending millions in develop- ing the resources of this State while other capi- talists take their money East to invest it FAVORITES AND DARK HORSES. Chicago Inter Ocean. If Tom Reed makes a center rush and gets through the Western line of candidates to this Western platform once it will be & mighty hard job for the Western men to rally and get the Presidential pigskin away from him, If McKinley, Harrison, Allison, Davis and other Western men are going to play Presidential football with Tom Reed next summer it would be a good plan tor them to strengthen the half back and guarter hack and show that Mr. Reed 1s not the only candidate to defena the Western platform oiybimelllli!mA New York Sun. Mr. Whitney has put forth & positive state- ment with regard to the Democratic nomina- tion for the Presidency. “I am nota candidate and have not been a candidate and must not be considered a candidate,” says Mr. Whitney. Yet if the Democratic National Convention should insist upon nominating him, there is nothing in this declension to prevent the honor being forced upon him; and a very handsome and popular candidate he would make, not- withstanding his present refasal. Columbus Press. Among the Democratic teams harnessed up for the Presidential race we observe the names of Cleveland and Harmon four Ohio Judson), Campbell and Adams (John Quincly), Pattison and Vilas, Whitney and Campbell, Schofield and Gordon_(General John B.), Carlisie and Dickinson, Matthews and Fowler (Roswell P.), and Fuller (Chief Justice) and Williams (George F. of Boston). Clinton (lows) Herald. There is no doubt whatever that Mr. Alison is preferred by each of the various candidates toany other beside himself. This is an ele- ment of strength not possessed by any other statesman mentioned fuene makes the Iows Senator’s nomination thé most rrob.ble political event of next year aside rom the election of epublican’ cai in November. o gunek Syl Lhpe Columbus Press. Among the various Republican Presidential uck_ell mentioned in the newspapers we notice McKinley and Miller of New York, Reed and Bradley of Kentucky, Allison and Iastings of Penusylvania, Harrison and Wanamaker (the m%:mxrimw, Foraker and Chandler of New shire, the latter being a firebran humble the British lion. b 2 : Philadelphia Bulletin. Whitney has been the one hope of the Demo- crats whio are anxious to rally their broken The paper that is taken into the home | or_the Presidency, and | & 1 lines and_make something like & respectable showing in the campaign of 1896. He 1s the only conspicuous leader of the party who has | not fallen & victim in the Demoacratic wreckage of the past three years, and his sagacity and skill as a politician and campaigner, as well as his many sources of strength as a_business man, place him head and shoulders above any other Democrat as an available candidate. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. John Sherman in 1890 wes afraid President Harrison would sign a free silver bill if he got a good hold of one. The Ohio Senator does some very plain talking in his book. Ii any considerable number of Republicans share the Senator’s misgivings Harrison will be at the tail of the list in the voting in next year’s con- veution. Buftalo Commerclal. The most careful observers of the political situation and those who'are not afraid to re- port things as they think they see them regard {arrison as the most promising of the Pres dential boomers, with Allison as an excellent second in the race. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. If the Democrats had any chance to win in 1896 Morrison’s name would not be as promi- nently coupled with the candidacy asit is now. Still, unless Morrison can carry his State dele- gation he cannot get the nomination, and there is no probability that he can do that. Chicago Inter Ocean. Some of the friends of the candidates for 1896 are now worried because ‘“‘the dark horses” don’t prance out on the track and show their gaits, CULLED FROM THE EDITORIAL FIELD. Advice That Applies All Around. Yeriogton (Nev.) Rustler. When we begin to study how best to improve and push forward the town and county and not sit back and wait for some one else to do it then we wiil be on the high road to success. We can do this by adopting progressive ideas, taking a lively interest in everything that ve tains to our material welfare; supplanting jealousies with unity of purpose and kindly. | feeling; working together; pulling in one line instead of sflrrin% up strife; improving our roads and farms; doing these things in a busi- ness way. ILis now high time to move along this line, Let's be atit. The “Word’’ Method in Our Schools. Stockton Independent. The Chinese language is taught by a “word” method that is only a little more involved than that pursued in some of the California schools. By the American method pupils are required to memorize the spelling of words without analyzing them. The student of Chinese has to memorize the characters representing 24,- 235 words and the task of the American chila who is subjected to the word method is only a little less burdensome. This word method, now abandonod in Stockton, is responsible for most of the bad spelling by pupils from 12 to 15 years old. The Nation's Costly Mistakes. Seattle (Wash.) Times. Chile wants to borrow $30,000,000 and Uncle John Bull stands ready to-count out the coin. If we had managed things right in this coun- try onr own people would lend these South American republics what money they need. Asitis they come to us for sympathy when they want to do wrong and toJohn Bull for money when they want to Go right. Then John gets their trade and we fet John sell us their products to pay us for our wheat d-cot- ton, beef and pork. Rough on the Referendum. Portland Oregoniah. How anybody can cite the recent referen- dum election in Switzerland as an argument for the adoption of that cumbersome vehicle of government in this country passes compre- hension. Everybody was called out to vote on the question, whether the nufacture of matches should be maae a Government monopoly. If we had the referendum, the fool Populists would have us out voting half the time on some such senseless proposition as that. Municipal Reform Generally Demanded. Los Angeles Times. How strange it would seem if a city’s finances were only for once found to be in a flourishing condition with money in plenty to spend for needed public improvements, it is very tire- some to be informed, constantly, that “the funds will not permit of the improvements being made.” Like the poor, the municipal deficiency is always with us. ‘Weaverville’s Dress of Snow. ‘Trinity Journal. Thanksgiving was cut out of Parian marble, The fences were ridged with pearl, the houses were mantleg with ermine, the streets were as white and pure as & maiden’s bre nd the %lree:‘s“r;he their snowy limbs unblushingly to Opposed to the People’s Interests. San Jose Mercury. The present administration has been alto- gether too prone to co-operate with the rafl- road corporations. Its interference in the Railroad Commission case is simply in line ‘with its usual policy. A PRETTY WAIST. One cannot have too many waists for house and evening wear. The demand for extra waists is steadily growing, and one of the latest fancies is for shirring. Bright plaids are very effective when made in this way and are very stylish. A mixture of green, gray and redin a medium-sized plaid was made after this pattern and had a collar of green chiffon to match. Another of brown, violet and greens had a violet velyet collar with a bunch ol vidlets on either side and a tiny roll of violet velvet PACishable Silks e er e silks e u or) M this model, and all the li:n(-wyu&h.l"uvyc\:xtl'):’ goods are used to carry out this design, ink and white striped silk had a tehmming of white lace over the sleove puffs, the front ends being cut away to form *nln ll\ul meot ut the bottom of the waist. Pink satin vibbon fin. ished the edge of th o rufle and 1ormod bows on the shoulders. A roll of the same st the bottom and & collar of wl&r r“abfin fin. M ished the neat costume, the skirt o1 which cut so that th Siiie e stripes formed points st LOWELL, Lowell's best poctic utlerance is gener felt to mark our highest uhlonmam'm v::z hitherto; but his poems are uneven, in tie artistic sense often unfinished, Bame of them, indeed, wore promaturely prinited, vein of thought had wrlud’ Haeli em.“ 'iafi'f e —————————————————————i— fellow has produced a far greater mass of fault- less verses, though they are all in lesslofty keys than “The Cathedral” and the ‘‘Me- morial Cde.” It is not incredible, then, that the call of patriotism has indeed deprived us of our rarest Foet's unuttered master-song. Certainly of Lowell the writer, far more than of any contemporary, it is constantly said, and said by those who knew him best, the man was far greater than all the memorials he hes left of himself. They do not adequately re- veal his genius, 1f there was indeed sucha sacrifice of his highest literary attainment, the more precious and memorablé for us all should be the costly lesson of his life.—William Cran- ston Lawton, in Lippincott’s Magazine. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THOMAS H. CAswELL—M. C., City. Thomas H. Caswell is the sovereign grand com- mander of the Supreme Council of the South- ern jurisdiction of the United States Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rites of Free Masonry. There is also in the United States a Northern jurisdiction. The Southern Council is called ihe mother council of the world because it 1s from this that all other councils received their charters. The Grand Orient of France is not Tecognized, because as an organization it does not recognize God. All the States have con- sistories, but only three—California, Kentueky and Louisiana—have grand consistories. L. Palmer is the sovereign grand commander of the Northern jurisdiction of the United States. BaLLoONS—S8,, Ci The puoyancy of a bal- loon depends on the weight of the gas with which it is inflated as compared with the weight of common air, bulk for bulk. Hydro- gen is the lightest of all known substances. A cubic foot of atmospheric air at a temperature of 34 degrees weighs 527.04 troy grains, while a cubic foot of hydrogen is about fifteen times lighter. If a balloon would contain 1000 pounds of atmospheric air at & temperature of 34 Fahrenheit, but was filled with coal gas, it would weigh, all told, covering, gas and ap- vendages, 600 pounds, and it would rise wit a force equal to the difference of the two num- bers, or 400 pounds. PLANTS IN L1vING-RooMs—K., Oakland, Cal. Plants of strong, pungent odors are not whole- some within doors,particularly in sitting-rooms and bedrooms. A few small plants of delicate odor may be kept in a dwelling-house without injury to health, and they may be even bene- ficial by absorbing the carbonic acid gas, and warning the oceupants by their drooping leaves whenever air is overheated. DARKEST BEFORE DAwN—S., Berkeley, Cal. The phrase “It is darkest just before dawn,” it is believed, was & deduction of the lines writ- ten by Longfellow, and which appear in *“The Baron of St. Castine.” But the nearer the dawn, the darker the night, ‘And by going wrong all things come right: Things have been mended that were worse, And the worse, the nearer they are to mend. BoARD MEASURE—Subscriber, Estrella, San Luis Obispo County, Cal. ‘“Answers to Corre- spondents” does not answer questions in arith- metic nor problems, and for thatreason can not answer the question in relation to the measurement of a board so as to cutitinto equal parts. BLUE-STONING WHEAT—Subscriber, Estrella, San Luis Obispo County, Cal. If there was no good reason for blue-stomng wheat, farmers would not continue the practice. It is done to protect the seed from destroyers of the same during germination. LAKE TAHOE— , City. Lake Tahoe, in the Sierras, 12 6250 feet above the sea level, is thirty-five miles long, fifteen miles wide, and its depth is said to be 1500 feet. Its outlet is the Truckee River. —K. W., City. The 15th of August, 1815, fell on Tuesday. The 12th of February, 1849, iell on Monday CATHAIR-SITH." From green to white, from white to green, I watch the waves that wash between The Rainbow-Pillars none hath seen. God takes a wind from out the sky: 1t spreads its cloud-white wings to fly; Its time has come to it to die. God takes a wind from out the pines: It spreads its green-gloom wings. and shines Gold-green against the Ralnbow S The Weaving of the Sea Is made Green, thus, with sacred pine-tree shade; White with cloud-feathers overlaid. Forever thus the green is spun, ‘s he whi'e across the surface run: This is the rune that I have won. ‘This Is the rune hath come to me L of the mystery of the sea: When dreamin; ‘The Kainbow-F F1oNA MACLEOD in Harper’s Magazine for December. *Pronounce (asr-sice. ‘The Gates of Dream: lit., the Gates of Faerie. NATIONAL FINANCES. New York Commercial. The Republican Congress stands ready to apply the only effective remedy by raising the tariff rates to & point which will check the ex- cessive flow of imports and supply the Goyern- ment with all the money it needs. Will Mr. Cleveland allow Congress to do i Or will he fulminate a message on the sham issue of cur- rency reform, obstinately ignore the only prac tical solution of the present problem, and go on increasing the National debt? More reve- nue or another bond issue—one of these is inevitable. Which is it to be? Philadelphia Record. The narrow partisan advocates of an irre- deemable legal-tender currency forever threat- ening the Nation’s monetary standard are hardly one whit less mischievous than the sil- verites themselves. If let alone they would both reach one and the same end in wide- spread financiel disaster-that would involve the honest savings of millions of people. The conclusion of every speech should be, with Cato: The Carthage of irredeemable green- backs which mensaces the republic must be destroyed. Chicago Inter Ocean. The goldbugs who were calculating on the aid of Senator Sherman to destroy the green- backs e waked up to theirmistake. In his New York speech Secretary Carlisle devoted all his powers to crushing the greenback. He seems to forget that the ;reunt congress was not ¢lected to do the bidding of his party. He evidently wants to sidetrack the silver ques- tion uniil after the 1896 election and meke the greenback the issue. St. Paul Pioneer Press. There is no telling what the greenback has cost this country in the last few years in the depression of securities which has resulted from the fears called by large withdrawals of gold from the treasury. We can, of course, stave off the dreaded crisis when we shall have 1o gold to pay our promissory notes when pre- sented by issuing move bonds wherewith to gxr:::se more gold. But how long is this to Chicago Inter Ocean, Our credit may be temporarily impaired and & very considerable increase in the public debt h.nei:led uhpon the Governtnent,but it is hardly ssible that March, 1 i Tike as bad ws March, 1561 Grover Clovernng may or may not be an improvement on James Buchanan, but the country is infinitely better repared to go through the trying ordeal of mocracy now than it was before the war. Cleveland Leader. That greenback ‘‘endless chain” which is ’yunking the gold out of the treasury would have ceesed to operate lon if the Demo- cratic administration had 'pmued sufolent financial ability to make the revenues of the Government meet the expenditures, —_— e JAPANESE IMPORTS. Yreka Journal. The question of Japanese labor versus ‘American labor is sgitating the people of San Francisco at present, and in many rospects this lubor is far more menaeing toour working men and women than the much-talked-of Chinese cheap labor. The Japanose come into competition with a large class of laborers Whom the Chinese would not, and as far as ovmpensation iy concorned the Chinaman Would scorn to mooept the wages that Japanese house-vervants demund in San Francisco. The Han Francineo Report, in e im- spoaking of portation of Japnnese unodruv- fnl mples of the bost broadciothy aud ailk are sent over from Yokohama, from which selections are made, Then the person desiring a sult is measured for 1 and the semples and measure- ments aro sent baok to Yokohama. On the return s l)lfl’; Comen uh elegant suit, the coat having the viohest «flk liniug, the cost of wl‘n‘u 15 W24 1 mmugeled and if auty is lu A, Huch & sult would cost at least $100 at o bost tallor atores in San Francisco. Busi- hess auita made up in fasbionable tweeds and a l‘lfltllfll“l Ara obtainable in the same way at 1 1 emuggled and $12 duty pald FREE FORT AND FREE MARKET. Hed Bt Now The Fan Francisco UALL says to make San Fiancisco & froe port In an tssue worth sticking 0?‘ l\lhi!n’ for and winning. THE CALL is Flght, foe port for Hsn Francisco and & t in.San Francisco for the producer :rreeebl::ztll:k:orth sticking to and fighting forand winning.. ____ s AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Solomon Hirsch, ex-Minister to Turkey, & resident of Portland and for many years g wealthy merchant there, is at the Occidental, Mr. Hirseh has not been in good health for 2 ths. so:vzf'f;onm ago he went to the Paso Robles Springs and remained about four weeks, but he did not recover entirely. Since then he has contracted a cold, which is keeping him ine doors much of the time. He thinks, however, that he will soon be in better shape. Mr. Hirsch was in Turkey over three years during the Harrison administration. He says there are a great many American merchants there, and that all over the empire American newspapers are read. “Itis really surprising,” he added, “what an interest there is in them and in the affairs of this country. Iwas there for over three years and had a very pleasant experience. I was succeeded by Hon. D. P, Thompson of Oregon, who served out the ree maining six months of the term,I havingres signed.” The ex-Minister expects to remain hera several weeks. e i PLUTOCRACY AND PATERNALISMI Professor Lester F. Ward in the Forum. There is no greater danger to civilization than the threatened absorption by a few indie viduals of all the natural resources of the earth, so that they can literally extort tribute from the rest of mankind. If half & dozen pere sons could get possession of all the breadstuffy of & country, it would justify a revolutions Fortunately, from the nature of this product, this is impossible, although long strides in lha.a direction have from time to time been taken, But it is otherwise with some other products, which, if less indispensable, are still among the modern necessaries of life. All the petro< leum of this country is owned by a single trus 1f men could not five without it there is n telling how high the price would be raiseds Nothing limits it but the question of how much the public would pay rather than do withouty That indispensable product, coal, nas welle nigh reached the same stage through the seve eral railroad combinations that now control ity That which costs 60 cents to mine, and as much more to transport, cannot be obtained by the consumer for less than §5 or $6. Does it speak well for the common-sense of & great people that they should continue to submit toy such things? There seems to be no remedy except in the power of the nation. THE BABY YELLED. She got into the car at the corner of Broade way and Fortieth street. She carried a babst onone arm. On either side within the car ran an unbroken line of newspapers, The line res mained unbroken. She held on to a strap. The baby yelled. The newspapers rustied in disquietude. The baby yelled. The newspapers trembled. The baby yelled three times in succession— sharp, ear-splitting, terrible. The newspapers were rattled. A voice said Ly e said: “Poor darling, does ’oa always twry when ’00 can’t get by a window to look out? Yes, ’00 does.” The baby yelled. All the seats were vacated simultaneous!y. Each seat was by & window. She took one. The newspapers settled down with a rustle of relief. The baby yelled. The newspapers shook with astonishment— indignation. The baby velled. “Thirty-fiith street,” sang out the conductor, All the newspapers' got off. ed. The baby yel. in New York Truth, Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay strest.” —————— “CARDS by the million.” Roberts, 220 Sutter.® S e e STRONG hoarhound candy, 15¢c. Townsend’s, e SPECIAL fnformation daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureeu (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * P For men whose natures have been expanded by social pleasures Argonant whisky 1s made, and it is by these that Argonaut is used. It is 8 gentleman’s drink,tne conseientions proancs of distillers. who know that in order to main- tain & high reputation for a particular article they cannot afford to turn out any but a pure, wholesome and beneficial whisky. Thg fact that physicians prescribe it is sufficient to ine dicate its quality, E. Martin & Co., 411 Mar. ket street. » SG i e The ex-Empress Frederick of Germany, in her early married life, embroidered & piece of tavestry on which all her children knelt when confirmed; the late Emperor’s cofiin rested upon it; the present German Emperor and the Pricesses Charlotte, Sophia and Victoria were married standing on it. 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