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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1%95. e measemsr e emasmesamy CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. JBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Iy and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier. .§0.15 s CarLx, one year, by mail..... 6.00 unday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 y and Sun mail.. .65 ay CALL, oue 3 . 1.50 KLY CALL, One y ¥ mail . 150 OFFICE : 710 Market Street, San Franc rnia. Telephone.. ....Main—1868 ROOMS : .. Main—1874 reet; open until § o'clock. ; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadwa, EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M ! DAY CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Do your best to make the Christmas irade a boom for home products. Salisbury seems determined to give Cieveland a chance to redeem himself. ay novelty looks familiar, but ged a little, The holi the prices seem to have The an seems able to take ultima- tums as a steady diet and thrive on them. e are prospects that the comingdec- 11 be a boulevard-opening era for isco. ago is said to be “lying low” for onvention, but if she doesn’t look out 11 step on her. et have to be born again From the w up it is war cloud or a very big bluff. Peffer's postal savings ban s a good one even if it did come from his whiskers. B n has a movement to elevate the stage, but as it is reported to be on foot, it is perbaps nothing more than another ki Huntington has issued his manifesto in the funding bill fight and new we will soon w who are to be his backers in the ring. Cleveland said nothing about the need of more revenues, but perhaps he thought that was one of the things that go without saying. Now that Dr. O'Donnell has found coal n his Sonoma property he may feel able to warm up the town again on the next election. The battle against the funding bill is in Washington, but a strong shot fired from a mass-meeting this City can be made to reach it. Howard’s boom for the Presidency has started far enough west at any rate to zood chance to grow up with the Record says Democ- but in all recent elec- it seems to have needed most tious wha was votes. Democracy must quit washing over its old linen and get a new livery throughout | 1f it ever expects to have a chance to serve San Francisco again. The choice before Great Britain is the simple one of submitting her Venezuela claims to arbitration or getting out of this hemisphere altogether. Those who have come to the City to see the horse show should bear in mind that we have also an art exhibit open for them at the Hopkins gall As the Hon. J. Sloat Fassett is not only with us here but is with us in the conven- tion fight he merits a double welcome, and he won't have to Lunt for it to find it. The New York horse show was crowded every night, but the livestock show draws no crowds at all. The absence of Marl- borough is a greatloss to the metropolis. Petitions from the people praving the recognition of Cuba have been filed with the Senate and it should not be long be- fore the Senate itseli speaks on the subject. s s There never was a better time to break the railroad monopoly than right now, and, moreover, if it is not broken now it will be very difficult ever to break it at all. The mining boom in Colorado may be | only a side show to the South African craze at present, but it is rushing forward with a movement that will soon take it to the head of the procession. An evidence of the striking uniformity of size among the Jupanese is found in the fact that recent measurements taken | of an infantry regiment showed no varia- tions exceeding two inches in height or twenty pounds in weight. 5 As it is certain the next Republizan Con- vention will have along and hard task in making the nomination for the Presidency it should certainly be beid in a city where | the summer climate is not so hot as to be exhausting and depressing. It is reported that for alecture on free silver by ex-Congressman Bland at Savan- nah the other day only one ticket was sold, and the engagement had to be canceled. There is evidently too much free speech current on that subject for any one to pay for it. Electric-car lines are not proving so suc- cessful in the East as with us, for it is noted that every severe snowstorm or bliz- zard stops them. It is even probable that on the suburban trolley lines it will be necessary to run steam cars during the | winter, to render the service reliable on bad days. 3 There is in Massachusetts a little town named Gill, which is about to lose its postal facilities because no one can be found in the place willing to act as post- master, and surely there must be some- thing of decadence in a State where the ,people not oniy abandon their farms but leave public offices tenantless. wish to see the end of the | 1e Venezuela affair looms | vident we have before us either a | bill for the establishment of | A PERILOUS SOHEME. In order to punish the decent element of the City for its determination to suppress the poolroom infamy the Solid Eight of the Board of Supervisors, it is reported, have decided to include betting at the racetracks in the prohibitory ordinance. Their justification is that if it is immoral to bet on horseraces downtown it is equally so to bet on them at the racetracks. All intelligent persons are aware of the vital differences between the two propositions and it does not require a seer to infer that this sweeping prohibition is calculated either to secure the influence of the in- | terests centering in horseracing against the ordinance or to make them ‘‘put up,” as the downtown poolrooms are supposed to be doing. The majority in the Board of Supervisors have not yet assured the public that such an ordinance will receive the approval of the Mayor. Without his approval the ordinance cannot be put in force. Every presumption is that the Mayor would veto it. As the majority have not sufficient strength to pass it over his veto it cannot be expected to become a law. In passing it and presenting 1t to the Mayor for his approval a certain delay will have been gained. In the meantime the threat ol such an ordinance may be sup- | posed to have the effect either of enlisting the racecourse interests against the ordi- nance or of convincing them that they as well as the poolrootns are making a profit which might easily be divided. In assailing one of the most important industries in California—that of horse- breeding—the Solid Eight are inviting an energetic inquiry, which may lessen the labors of the Grand Jury. That august body seems determined to find whatever evidence may exist that will create vacan- cies in the Board of Supervisors and add to the duties of the Warden at San Quen- tin. Such an ordinance as the one pro- posed would likely facilitate that pleasant purpose. SALISBURY'S FOLLY. The British Embassador at Washington is reported to have said that the claim of his Government on the territory disputed with Venezuela cannot be submitted to ar- { bitration. It is further reported that Lord Salisbury’s note now on the way across the ocean maintains the same ground. If this should prove to be true there is a very | serious conflict before the two nations. ! 1t is not likely to result in war, but it is | likely to result in complications that will make war very imminent at times, and re- | quire careful diplomacy on both sides to | avoid an outbreak. It is difficult to understand what motive can have induced Lord-Salisbury to take the stand he has in a matter of this kind. | He is not ignorant of foreign affairs and knows the dangers threatening British in- | terests at this moment in Turkey and in Cobina. Hecan hardly be unconscious of the supreme folly of involving his country | in an angry controversy with the United States at a time when England, confront- ing without an ally many hostile powers, needs the friendship of every nation she can by any possibility induce to be friendly to her. He must be aware, also, that in | case the controversy led to war the British | empire on this hemisphere would end and that she would lose not merely the land in dispute but the whole of her pos- sessions here. Only one explanation of the apparent folly of the British Premier presents it- self. Salisbury from his youth up has { been notoriously disputatious and arro- gant. He loves the strife of words as some fierce fighters love that of swords. He has made the foreign reiations of Great Britain the study of his life, but whenever he has been Minister of Foreign Affairs he has delighted to show off his talents asa con- troversialist by getting into some hot dis- i pute with another nation and then emerg- ing to dazzle his feliow-countrymen by bringing home ‘‘peace with honor.” Salisbury has played that risky game many times without ever getiing his country involved in war. There is such a thing, however, as playing dangerous games once too often. The American peovle are in no humor for fooling over the Venezuela matter, and neither Cleve- | land nor Olney is much of a diplomatist. The astute British peer may yet find him- self in a position where he will have to make a square backdown or fight. Cer- tainly, Cleveland will not dare to recede from the position he has taken in his message, and Congress will be prompt to sustain him, even at the cost of war. That is the situation, and it will be well for England if she keeps watch on her arrogant Premier and sees that he does | not push his display of brilliancy too far. OLEVELAND'S POSITION. From the manner in which the Presi- dent’s financial recommendations have been received it is evident they will have ittle or no support in Congress and be absolutely without effect in aetermining | the course of legislation. His policy has not even the indorsement of his own party, and were it not for the fact that he has the power of veto on anything Con- gress may do ke woula hardly count as a factor in directing what is to be done to | relieve the difficulties of the treasury. It is not strange that this should be so. The recommendations are utterly inap- propriate to existing conditions. In fact, | they completely ienore one of the most | serious of our difficulties, that of a defi- cient revenue, and take notice of the gold | exports only to use them as a basis for urging so inexpedient and so unpopular a | measure as the retirement of greenbacks. | It is hard to believe that even a man of Cleveland’s peculiar character could have expected an indorsement of such a policy. from the present Congress, and it wouid seem therefore that his message was a vir- | tual abdication of even a pretense of lead- ership—a notice to the country that he in- tends as far as possible to wash his hands of all the muddle caused by the last Con- gress and leave it to the Republican ma- jority of this one to devise, initiate and carry out whatever legislation may be necessary to restore the National pros- perity. In acertain sense this is not unfortu- nate. Itis well to have the futility of the ad- | ministration understood at once. The Re- publican leaders in the House can be relied upon to provide a revenue measure which, while affording protection to industries i now exposed to foreign competition, will yet yield to the treasury an income equal to the necessary expenses of the Govern- ment. When that has been done it wili be easier to deal with the complications of the j currency. In fact, many of those compli- | cations will cease to exist as soon as the revenue deficit ceases, and those which re- main can then be more cleariy compre- hended and appraised than they are now, and therefore be more correctly treated. Since Cleveland has so completely laid aside even a pretense at guiding Congress | in the work of providing a remedy for the deficit and adequate revenue for the coun- try it is to be hoped he will have the good sense and the decency to keep his hands off altogether and not interpose a veto on what the Republicans will do. There1s a chance yet for him to redeem much of the 1 fame oty his administration. Both houses of Congress will support him heartily in the stand he has taken on the Venezuela boundary dispute with England, and if he maintains an equal firmness on other ques- tions of the kind and cordially co-operates with Congress on home matters he will find that, while the recommendations of his message are ignored, the remainder of his term of office will be a happy contrast to the trouble and disasters that prevailed when he had a Democratic Congress on his hands. e A STRANGE OVERSIGHT. 1t is now discovered that when the fran- chise was given for an electric road out the Ocean House road to Ingleside the com- pany receiving the franchise was not re- quired to leave that highway in condition forteams. Instead of that it has been per- mitted to monopolize the road to the ex clusion of teams. This practically closes one of the main and at present best high- ways for teams to the new racetrack. In other words, the interests of the railway company were evidently regarded more than those of the public. Of course the practical closing of this thoroughfare to teams means a great increase of traffic on the electric road. In order to cure this extraordinary lapse in 4 measure the Park Commissioners have uadertaken the laudable task of construct- ing a fine driveway down the beach from the Cliff House to the ocean end of the Ocean House road. This will require teams to go three or four miles out of their way to reach the racetrack. If the Park Com- missioners had the necessary jurisdiction they could do a further good service by putting the northern end of the Almshouse road in good condition, so as to make a connection between that road and the park drives. As, however, a private association has been formed for that purpose it is boped that this convenience will soon be provided by that means. Meanwhile is it not possible to make the Ocean House road a good thoroughfare? The Market-street Railway Company paid the merest trifle for this valuable franchise, and if possible it ought to be required to put the road in proper order. If its influ- ence is too great for that it would be better for the City to do the work than leave it undone. The amount received by the City for the franchise would put only a few rods of the road in order. A GOOD PAPER'S PLATFORM. The first number of the San Diego Trib- une has been received. It is a fine-looking evening paver, issued by the sterling journalists T. D. Beasley and F. E. A, Kimball. The Tribune starts out right, for in its initial editomal it says: “The Tribune will be clean, bright and progres- sive, and for that reason will be the news- paper for the home. Believing in the fundamental principles of the Republican party, the 7ribune will advocate those principles, exercising the right of a free press to criticise a failure to live up to their spirit and intent, as interpreted by us.” A platform like that, adopted and carried out, will be sure to bring success to the editors of the Tribune. PERSONAL: Mayor Robert Effey of Santa Cruz is here. Dr. R. E. Pierce of San Jose is here on a brief trip. Hon. E. M. Allison of Ogden, Utah, is in the City. Senator E. C. Hart of Sacramento is at the Baldwin. Dr. Bessie E. Perry of San Diego is registered at the Grand, H. H. Meyer, a merchant of Healdsburg, has arrived here. E. E. Bush, a real estate dealer of Hanford, is at the Lick. John M. Roberts of Potter Valley arrived here yesterday. D. J. Parmelee, a leading fruit-grower of Va- caville, is at the Grand. L. M. Dinkelspiel, a merchant of Bakersfield, is among recent arrivals. J. R. Roberts, of the firm of James W. Rea & Co. of San Jose, iz in the City. A. C. Hopkinson, manager of the extensive pottery at Stockton, is in town. A. W. McPherson, a business man of Ray- mond, is quartered at the Russ. E. H. Winship, & business man of Napa, came down yesterday for a short stay. F. H. Laag, the prominent grain-grower of Salinas, is here on a business trip. I. F. Delano, owner of the extensive stone quarries at Rocklin, is at the L C. C. McIver, the extensive wine-grower of Mission San Jose, is at the California. Deniel J. McGaurney, the cattleman, of Smartsville, is among recent arrivals. G. Duncan Cummings, editor and owner of the Dunsmuir News, is visiting the City. Ex-Congressman J. H. Louttit of Stockton is at the Lick, accompanied b¥ Mrs. Louttit, C. L. James, a general merchandise dealer of Napa, is among recent arrivals at the Grand. Edwin F. Smith of Sacramento, secretary of the State Fair Association, arrived last night. G. B. Baer, a general good# dealer of Clover- dale, was among those to arrive here yesterday. T. C.Johnson, the hotel proprietor and ranch- owner, of Pleasanton, registered at the Grand last night. Thomes Russell, who owns a large amount of valuable land near the town of Milpiias, is in the City. E. M. Ranks, editor of the Vancouver Inde- pendent, who has been here for some days, left for home yesterday. - Editor V.8. McClatchy of the Sacramento Evening Bee came down to the Bay City on last evening’s train. H. Hirschfeld, a retired merchant of Bakers- field who has amassed a comjortable fortune, is paying this City a visit. Paul Masson of San Jose, proprietor of the popular Paul Masson Champegne Company, is in this City and is stopping at the Grand. John J. Byrne, general passenger agent at Los Angeles of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. is at the Palace accompanied by his family. Silas Carl of Sacramento, one of the leading contractors and builders in the State, who has buildings under way in tnis City, arrived yes- terday and is at the Lick. Mrs. Henry Lux, who is so heavily interested in the yet existing firm of Miller & Lux, and who is worth up in the millions, came up from San Jose last night. Sheisat the Palace. George T. Gribney of San Jose, a master of the Grand Consistory of California, was in the City yesterday for the purpose of attending the re- ception to Hon. Thomas H. Caswell at the Masonic Temple, W. H. Hurlburt, general passenger agent at Portland of the Oregon Railway and Naviga- tion Company, the organization now fighting the Southern Pacific in the passenger business, is at the Baldwin. He came down on matters pertaining to his rate campaign. D. C. Lane of Darwin, Inyo County, on the edge of Death Valley, and one of the sturdy ploneers of that distant region, is in the City, Mr. Lane owns a silver mine near Darwin, which he is working steadily, and which is said to be one of the few silver properties in the West that is paying steady dividends at the existing low price received for the white metal. ‘Where ‘* Our Mary ’’ Was Born. Sacramento Bee. A Louisville (Ky.) newspaper recently made the proud boast that Mary Anderson was born in that city. While Sacramento is not “‘point- ing with pride” to the fact, she simply pauses & moment to record the fact that the lormer Actress is a native of this city. Newspapers That Mistake Their Office. Alameda Telegram. There are newspapers which are run upon the idea that to succeed «it is necessary to make some one “squeal.’” These mistake the :gi.c:d of the newspaper for thatof the black- AROUND THE CORRIDORS. The killing and scalping of the venerable Bishop Merrill of the Mormon church and his beautiful daughter at Ash Springs, Ariz., as told by a graphic dispatch to THE CALL yester- day, has caused much talk among the many Arizona people now here. Bishop Merrill was about 70 years old, with long, flowing white heir. His daughter was the belle of the Southwest, and what aads to the tragedy is that her wedding day was almost at hand. Two pioneers of Arizona discussed the un- timely taking off of the father and daughter yesterday at the Grand. Both knew them well. One was E. A. Cutter, a cattle-grower and mer- chant of Fort Grantand Boxita, and the other was ex-Probate Judge J. T. Fitzgerald of Solo- monville. It was at Solomonville that the Merrills lived. “I knew them well,” sai@ Mr. Cutter, who is an old Arizona pioneer, “and they were known to almost every man, woman and child in the Territory. The Bishop was Treasurer of Gra- same chapter used a phraseology in regard to the earth which was his model and authoity in this eschatological passage. The Hebrews believed the material earth to be indissoluble. Philo, one of their great writers, represents Moses as saying in_Genesis the world was indestructible. So all along through the Old Testament Scriptures we have | tablishe !ore.\'er"; ‘“‘established that it can- | not be moved”; its foundations so laid “that it should not be moved forever”; and though one generation passeth away and ‘another genera- | tion cometh “the earth abideth forever.” I then asked, what “earth” was it, then, that Was "di,uolved" in David's time; that was ‘burned”” at the presence of the Lord in Nahum’s time; that was *‘removed out of her | place’ at the destruction of Babylos i e; that “turned upside down” in Isa; was “without form and void” in Jeremiah's time, and that, in the day of the Lord, as seen by Joel, was burned by the fire which went before the locusts and auaked at their pres- ence, while the sun and the moon were dark and the stars withdrew their shining? Cer tainly, the same ‘“‘earth’’ that was burned up, with all the works in it, a few years from Peter’s time—a figurative “‘earth,” which, with its commotions and convulsions and calami- ties, by hyperbolic comparison, typified the E. A, CUTTER, THE ARIZONA CATTLEM AN AND MERCHANT, ON THE LATEST APACHE TRAGEDY. [From a sketch by Nankivell.] ham County during the last term and made his home at Solomonville, the county seat. He was well thought of by everybody, and his daughter, who was but 18 or 20 years of age. was & very beautiful and most amiable girl. She was s0on to have been married. “It is a matter of doubt, from all I can under- stand of the situation, just what band of Apaches killed them. For a year past it has been thought that the Apache Kid had been killed. “‘From all I can learn I think the murderers were probably the Indien Massa and his band of ten or twelve Apaches that have long been off the reservation and roaming about in the Sierra Madre Mountains. They have been coming north once in & while and killing and murdering right and left. “Ash Springs is between Solomonville and Sheldon, and is a very bad place in the mroun- tains. There are many rocky defiles and ugly canyons there, and & good many people have at different times met their death in that lo- cality. “The Apaches have murdered and robbed with- out compunction whoever they came across. Bishop Merrill was known all over the Terri- tory. Atone time he had several wiyes and families, but in the latter days I think he only bad one household. He must have reached the age of three score and ten at least. He was a very large fine-looking man, and his hair was as white as wool. ““The killing and scalping of the Bishop and his daughter will cause & good deal of excite- ment at Solomonville. Elsewhere in the Ter- ritory it will also attract much attention.” LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE “CULLOGMAH OR COLOMA. Mr. Editor: In last Sunday's issue of THE CaLL I notice a couple or so of inaccuracies in Joaquin Miiler's delightful article, which, with your permission, I wish to correct. Being a Coloma man trom early April, 1849, to Decem- ber, 1865, and a close intimate of Marshall from the former date to nearly the time of his death, I say that James Wilson Marshall, the gold-finder, was not properly an “Oregonian,” being a native of Hunterdon County, N. J., crossing the plains to Fort Hall, and shortly afterward making his way to Sutters Fort by the Sacramento Valley route. Sutter gave him emplo*ment as & wood-worker, his trade being a regular millwright. Again, he never had a family. That state- ment must refer to Peter Wimmer, foreman of the laborers on the old mill, who had, to my own knowledge, a daughter and several sons. Murshall told me often that he had but one relative living, a sister in New Jersey. As to Marshall's “craziness,” there was & laudable method in his madness, for in the early " he had owned and planted a fine vineyard upon the ground where now repose his remains. As a reporter for the Weekly News of Placerville, I was paid to report the El Dorado County Fair held in Coloma. 11's fine array of foreign and domestic s was unsurpassed by any other exhibitor, and I haye the entire printed report some- where in my possession, showing his industry and worthiness, notwithstanding a cruel at- tack upon the character of the poor old dead f&oneer and gold-finder a conple of years ago, n & communication to the Evening Post of this City, which I would have answered at_the time but for my apathy at “rushing into print.” I fear that the pension given him by a former generous Legislaiure was unfortu- nately the means of his overdrinking, for I always considered him almost 8 ‘‘teetotaler” previous to that time. If our poet would descend for a space from Mount Parnasse and the “Heights,” and see me in my ‘“den,” T might be able to instruct or amuse him for a while about Coloma, which set the world crazy, all except Marshail. J. PRANCIS BEKEART, 1000}4 Dolores street. P.B.—I am & pioneer and Veteran of the Mex- ican war, and a continuous subscriber to THE %8‘2‘)5 since December 1, 1865, to this date, THE DESTRUCTION OF THE EARTH. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—St: Will you allow me a little space to correcta slight error into which your reporter fallsin her allusion to my paper read at the Methodist preachers’ meeting yesterday? My quotations from the Old Testament were not for the pur- pose of proving that the word ‘“‘earth” meant the inhabitants of the world. It wasmy con- tention that when Peter, in his Second Epistle, 1ii: 10, says, “The earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up,” he does not mean that the material globe shall be con- sumed, though this may be a scientific possi- bility; but that he was usine the Hebraic idiom and phraseology in describing the com- ing of the day of the Lord, and 50 was depict- ing the aestruction of a typical or figurative earth. Ialluded to the apostle’s reference to the flood and his expression, “whereby the world that then was %eln‘ overflowed with water perished,” and expressed the opinion that this “world” that perished was the “‘un- godly antediluvian: and from this your re- porter may have got the imp lon ex- ed to show that the Marsi graj tribulations, downfalls and destruction of n@tions, cities, communities and dispensations. This is an important matter, because people are becoming excited by the vaticinations of “end of the cenmr‘y" prophets, who are pre- dicting all sorts of horrors in regard to this world of ours. This has been going on ever since Christ left the earth, because men have not read aright the predictions of our Lord and his apostles. The second coming of Christ, that is his “paronsia,” has taken place, and we are now in the new dispensation, “the world to come,” &s it is called in the New Testament. Christ is | on the throne as king and judge and life-giver, and our great business as Christians is 1o ex- tend his kingdom and bring this world into ubmission to his mild sway and establish the reat brotherhood of man by showing kindness 0 one another, by bringing capital and labor into accord and by so sdvancing social and moral democracy that political democracy may be exalted and purified and become the world- wide blessing that it should be. W. §. URMY. San Francisco, Dec. 3. STOLE TOM MOORE'S VERSES. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: 1 recently saw in THE CALL one of the most un- blushing literary steals that it has ever been my fortune to observe. It is headed *‘They Tell Me Thou'rt the Favored Guest.” It is copied from the Los Angeles Lyceum, and its author is given as one Cirabete Rosmeh. That poem was written by the great Irish poet, Tom Moore. It was written and set to music by Moore early in the forties, and was first published in this country by Millett’s Music House, 329 Broadway, New York City, about 1845. It is part of a translation of some Latin verses supposed to have been addressed by Hippolyta Torella to her husband during his absence at the gay court of Leo X. 1 hate a literary pirate, and deem it my duty to expose all such whenever I have the ability to do so. WALTER MEAD. WESTERN EDITORIAL CULLINGS. No Place Like California. Los Angeles Times. The seductive charms of our climate soon capture the newcomer, and he is notlong in becoming as enthusiastic in his love for the State as the older residents. The Californian thoroughly believes that there is no land like his own, none so desirable, noue that offers so much in the way of comfort, or so great in- ducements to labor, or promises to it such an abundant return. Harvests are not often fail- ures with us, and there are here no battlings with the extremes of heat and cold. There is no spot on the globe where the sum of human comifort is so easily found as here, nor where exist such possibilities for future development. The Religious Editor Was Absent. Bakersfield Californian. The readers of Saturday’s Californian had no difficulty in determining the fact that the re- ligious editor was very much absent. Biblical students were somewhat surprized to learn that the Rev. Mr. French %_mpoud to preach on “Elijah the Fishbite.”” The reverend gen- tleman ascribed the error to the “‘devil”—that useful individual found in all well-regulated offices. The funeral of that erring personage took place this morning at a very early hour, Business Interests Will Be Fostered. San Diego Union. There is a patriotic ring to Congressman Reed’s speech accepting the nomination for the speakership that will please the country. His reference to the necessity of legislation that will foster rather than disturb mercantile interests is a hopeful augury. Should his sug. felflon be followed, sessions of Congress will ose the terrors they have had of late years for the business men of the country. Preferable to Wooden Overcoats. Marysville Appeal. 1f the era of chivalry is gone the game of football is at least bringing back the age of armor. In their last contest the Yale men wore leather helmets, with ear protectors, rubber nose-masks, pads on the arms, shin-guards and something 'resembling a -saddle on the left shoulder. This is at least better than the wooden overcoats some of the boys have found necessary. California Has No Beet Surplus Yet. Tulare Reglster. The outlook for the sugar-beet industry is better. A Nebraska farmer has turned his sur- plus of beets into whisky, and is said to have made good whisky. If sugar beets will make Whisky, and Calilornia. oan ralse plenty of :)xhz‘n'i beelukwlzy ihouldh .”}.’"J""" b"’uhf' y ol entucky, whicl uys ve ttle Btuft of any kind from California 3 And Accidents Do Happen. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Mr. Reed is original, if nothing else, and not much taken by precedents. Perhaps the reason is that of the thirty-one occupants of the Speaker’s chair since the days of Muhlenberg, but one reachea the Presidency. That was James K. Polk, and he was an accident. The Trouble With Populism. Pheenix (Ariz.) Republican. There is one grave trouble with the Pop! lists—they shoot with & shotgun instead of & ressed. But I proceed Bholy prophets' ?n whom Peter alludes in this rifle. There are many excellent features in | such expressions as these: “The earth is es-, the Populist platform. But, not content with forcing a single excellent idea that might place him in power, the true Populist placesa hun- dred “riders” npon it and attempts at one fell swoop to rid the country of every ill to which humanity is heir. In ali this 1s° much trash, many ‘‘fads” and “isms,” much denunciation and no_ provision for the remedy of existin: and undoubted evils. Rather in the lines ol the Republican party let us place good men in office and take up the correction of iniquities one by one. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. HANGING GARDENS—A. W., Los Angeles, C: Within a palace in Babylon called the “Ad- miration of Mankind,” finished by Nebuchad- nezzar and commenced by Nabopolassar, were the “hanging gardens” so celebrated by Ro- man and Greek writers of ancient times. These gardens consisted of terraces resting on arches supported by other arches and strengthened by 8 wall twenty feet in thickness. The ascent to these arches, which were higher than the walls of the city, was by stairs ten feet wide; the moisture of the mold of which these gardens were composed being prevented from injuring the arcnes by a sheeting of lead and cement. The earth was so deep on these terraces that larg#and beautiful trees were able to take root init. The gardens were irrigated by the wa- ters of the Euphrates raised from terrace to terrace until the summit was reached, some 300 feet above the base. The means of supply- ing the water was ingeniously concealed with- in the erches. These gardens, which formed a square and covered nearly four acres, were completed by Nebuchadnezzar for the gratifi- cativn of Amytis, his Median queen, who, not liking the plains of Babylon, wanted some- thing in im1tation of her native hills and for- ests. A ToN oF CoaL—tousekeeper, City. There is a difference between a ton of hard and a ton of soft coal. Coal from different mines, whether hard or soft, differs in weight, and consequently in cubic measure, according to Then, there is a difference according Measurements have been made of Wilkesbarre anthracite, a fine quality of hard coal, with the following results: Cubic feet "Cubic feet, intonof intonof 2240 1bs. 2000 fbs. Size ot Coal For soft coal it is simply impossible to deter- mine any exact rule, even for bituminous coal of the same district. Some soft coal measures 44.8 cubic feet per fou of 2240 pounds, while others measure 47.8,47 and 42 to 43 cubic eet. Fatry RiINes — “ James,” City. What are known as “fairy rings” in some of the States, and particularly on the prairies of Da- kota, are due to the growth of fungus. This was discovered by one Dr. Withering, who de- voted much time and attention to the subject. These rings result irom the centrifugal de- velopment of a certain kind of fungi. The spot where the plant has already grown becomes anfitted for its continued nourishment, and its spawn extends outward to new soil, the fungus unfitting the soil to which it extends for the immediate growth of grass, but afterward en- riching it by its own decay. Fairy rings of large size sometimes occupy the same situation for years. The circle 1s usually not quite per- fect, as the growth of the fungus may be ar- rested by accident at one or more points in the ring. Chronicle-Union. The following telegram was published in THE CaLL of the 25th: THIRTY TONS OF TRAVERTINE SHIPPED FROM CARSON, NEv. . 24.—Thirty tons of travertine from Inyo County quarry, which arrived here yesterday, was shipped to San Francisco to-day for the new CALL build- ing. This rock has been carefully selected from the finest of the calcium production of the quarry, and its handsome crystaMine ap- pearance when polished will add to the orna- mentation of THE CALL'S new home. The above-mentioned travertine was from Bridgeport, Mono County, which has the only known travertine quarry outside of Europe. There is no travertine in Inyo County, and the above dispatch was probably sent by some one interested in the Inyo Marble Works, which is mostly owned in Carson. We wish to remind our friends of THE CALL that this travertine is from Mono County. Let every “tub stand on its own bottom.” Mone County took the gold medal at the World’s Fair at Chicago as having the best marble in the world, and Mono also has the best travertine in the world, and THE CALL building will be the finest in San Francisco. THE EASTERN MUDDLE. New York Evening Sun. There can be no such thing as a constitution for Turkey until Turkey ceases to be Islamite. The Caliphate and supreme pewer are insep- arable in thought and in substance. It must be borne in mind that the constitution busi- ness has been once tried. Aiter Christendom had put down Mehemet Ali & constitution was solemnly proclaimed by its protege at & public function of great solemnity and magnificence, Nothing more was heard of the constitution; nothing more could be heard of it in the na- ture of the case. Itis not impossible that Eu- rope would be willing now to repeat the farce; the hypocrisy of the powers in dealing with the Eastern question is literally bottomiess; it goes all the way down. But in view of the record it does seem improbable that they should muster what we must plainly eall the cheek for such another self-exposure. Boston Herald. There is no disagreement among any of our people concerning the position that our Gov- ‘ernment should take respecting American citi- zens in Asia Minor, butit may be pointed out thatit is vastlv easier to utter well-rounded sentences resfecung the sending of white squadrons fo Constantinople and having the guns of American warships echo along the shores of ihe straits of the Dardanelles than it is to take the proper measures to secure the safety of those lives which may now be im- periled. Philadelphia Inquirer. Itisevident that Russia does not consider that if there should be a dismemberment of Turkey at this junciure and a diyision of the spoils she would get all she desires without fighting for it with England and, perhaps, too, with Anstria. If there should be such a quarrel France would undoubtedly take the part of Russia, Germany could be relied upon to rally to the support of Austria and of Great Britain and Italy wouid unsheath her sword on the side of the Triple Alliance. Chicago Inter Ocean. In the present crisis it is the duty of the the President. but Democratic ent should ent if the party had gtom‘!“?ty mugwump view of it, dTll:::il ll!h:e m%nns that the Presid stand by his party. Chicago Inter Ocean. : An Eastern goldbug organ says: “The wild and woolly West has sbandoned the silver .’ Our esteemed coutemporary had bet- ?;:l:‘nitoand see the stanch old Republican i for bi- arty build a platiorm, solid, as usual, Dttaitiom, in 1896. 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United States to demand and enforce Turkish protection for its missionaries who are resident in Armenia, and by consequence for those Ar- menians who attend upon their services. So long as our adminisiration fails in this it fails ofitsduty. Were =il Christian powers to de- mand and to enforce like claims upon Turkey the tJln-meuh.n question would be solved in- stantly. THE COMING ISSUES. Philadelphia Inquirer. The little silver States of the Rockies have lost their grip. Their only hope for forcing eilver was to make it appear that their votes were absolutely necessary to control the Presi- dential election. They can £ just where they will now. They are powerless as factors one way or the other. ey can flock by them- selves or join either party, it will make no difference whatever which. Honest money and a protective tarift for revenue and inter- nal improvements, coupled with an American policy as regards foreign questions, will win the day for the Republican party. Silver can be counted out. Itisno longer worthy of dis- cussion. It is & back number. Concord (N. H.) Monitor. A platform satisfactory to the Western Re- publicans will be adopted. On the moaey question the convention will declare against the single gold standard, will advocate bi- metallism, and wiil demand the coinage of both gold and silver as standard money, as soon as such eohnfie can possibly go forward in connection with the maintenance of the parity of the two metals throughout the com- Taereial world, On this platform Mr. Reed is most likely to be nominated. Cleveland Leader. The greenbacks may be retired if they cause trouble under the management of a Republi- can President and a Congress Republican in both branches. Until then, since they never did any appsrent harm worth mentioning, be- tween the resumption of specie payments and the beginning of the Cleveland era in the National Government, they are likely to be left undisturbed in the place they have long filled as part of the Nation’s money system, Fort Worth Gazette. The Boston Herald attributes the recent mis- fortunes of Democracy to & want of discipline, and thinks the result would have been differ- 965 Market st. 333 Hayes st. 1419 Polk st. 521 Montg'y 2008 Fillmore 3006 Sixteent] 2510 Mission 218 Third st. 104 Second 617 Kearny st. 146 Ninth st. 3259 Mission st. 053 Washington 917 Broadway. f (ity Stores, Oakland. nflmedfl N Headquarters—~52 Market St., S, Fo & We Operate 100 Stores and Agencies Write for Price List. 131San Pabloav. 16 E. Twelfth s$ Furniture for Christmas ? Ridiculous ! Why ? Youngman, would you mind if somebody (nice) gave you a shaving-stand or a secretary-bookcase ? 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