The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 14, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1895. Daily and Sunday Daily and Sunday gunday CALL, one y WEEKLY CALL, l;FFICE : BUSINE 710 ket Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone. e veeeen..Main—1868 DITORIAL. ROOMS : 517 Clay Street. Telephone.... fain—1874 th and Mission streets; open until 9 o'clock, 2518 Mission st 116 Ninth street; OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE Rooms 31 and 1 Park Row, New York Cf DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. reet; open until 9 o'clock. antil 9 o'clock. SATURDAY.... MBER 14, THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. The noveliy counter is the rush line now. This is the day te leave orders for THE Suxpay CALL. Dick McDonald is innocent but some- body is certainly guilty. Around the bier of Thurman Democracy laments that it ever knew Cleveland. Money currents are taking the form of whirlpools around the Christmas shops. The prosperity of California is manifest in the luxuries demanded and dispiayed for the holiday trade. Now that the Rockefeller girls are mar- off the old ma will soon get into general circul ation. In making a strenuous fight against the admission of cheap Japanese goods Cali fornia stands forth as a defender of the home of every workingman in the Union. Althoueh there are many sticks in the Mineralogy, there is provided it is a sharp National Bureau of need for another on stick. That Frye of Maine should be a friend of railroads will avail them nothing, for what the people intend to give them is a roast. About all that the E: have done so f ragged edg song and ropean powers nltan on a m with a nd then amuse ! 1ce. Cleveland did not get much duck shoot- ing after all, so, of course, he had abun- dant time to meditate on the answer he is to make to Salisbury. A law against fake pooirooms would a Christmas gift to the C v enablg many people to save other Christmas gifts as well So long as Uncle Sam allows Apaches to murder settlers in Arizona he has hardly any right to give the Sultan a kick for what the Kurds are doing in Armenia. be for money If birds of a feather flock together society shovld show up pretty strongly with the old hens, the spring chickens, the darling , the geese and the game cocks at the debate in Congress on the The “state of the Union” very properly turned on the tariff and the lack of reveuues, as the first state to get the Union out of- just now is that of the deficit. first From the way Carl Schurz continues to denounce our civil service it would seem that since the people have relieved him from service he has taken the liberty to relieve himself of civility. Regent Reinstein’s suggestion that the students of Berkeley undertake some of the manual work of improving the Univer- sity grounds is a good one, and the young athletes should get at it with the vigor of a football game. The United States Bureau of Mineralogy has a good big title and a good big appro- priation, but it takes the half-starved min- ing prospector to get around and do the real work of finding out where the mineral wealth of this country Governor McKinley's tribute to the memory of “ex-Senator Thurman is a graceful illustration of the truth that Revpublican leaders are ever willing to henor & true Americanism, even when it 1s found in a political opponent. With the. speech of young Bartlett against Bayard and that of the venerable Galusba Grow on the tariff, Congress may be said to have expressed already the sen- timents both of the youth and the age of the country in condemning Clevelandism. The New York project of fitting out ships with exhibits of American goods and send- ing them around the globe may yet be de- veloped until we shall see a floating uni- versal exposition, in which all the nations will have a grand show, moving from sea- port to seaport. It is not stated what was the condition of the eggs thrown at Ahlwardt when he undertook to lecture at the Cooper Institute in New York, but it is certain that even if they were good when they were thrown, they were certainly spoiled when they struck a man of his nature. The’ success achieved by the Keramic Art Club encourages the undertaking of other works on similar lines, for with her wealth of fine material and the skiil of her artists California should be one of the fore- most producers of beautiful bric-a-bracand decorative art in the world. Cleveland is the only President who ever left washington for a hunting trip at the beginning of a new session of Congress, when so much pnblic business needs attention, but then he might justas well have left the country altogether for all the influence he will have on the way this Congress will do business. Galusha Grow made a good hit in Cen- gress on Thursday by calling attention to the fact that Buchanan’s administration closed with a deficit and an issue of bonds, just as Cleveland’s will do, thus showing that while some Democrats have been try- ing to evade responsibility for the Presi- dent, he has been really carrying out the traditional policy of Democratic adminis- trations. PUSH THE FIGHT. The publication in Tur CALL of scenes in the downtown poolrooms can hardly have failed to make evident to everybody the infamy of those places. Boys scarcely beyond the age of childhood are there en- ticed to gambie, and in many instances even young wemen are induced to enter upon the’same evil courses. - To nearly il of these youthful people poolroom gambling is almost equivalent to a ‘direct incentive to. dishonesty and crime. The poolrooms therefore are of- fenses of the gravest nature, and THE CavL has turned its searchiight upon them in order thai the publrc might see and know the evil that is being done day after day in this City of homes and churches and law, The evil being made known, the next step is to arouse the popular action neces- sary to suppress it. As the law stands the police seem to be powerless. The law must be made adequate to suppress the iniquity. We call upon the press of the City, the leaders of public opinion and the churches to aid in urging the immedi- ate passage of an anti-poolroom ordinance by the Supervisors. The miserable pretense of classing Ingle- side Park with the downtown gambling should not be permitted to delude a single intelligent man. Nor should it be aliowed to afford the Supervisors a chance to evade the responsibulity of either closing the pool- rooms or standing before the people as the avowed supporters of the corrupters of youth. The clergy of the City have repeatedly called upon the press for aid in works of charity and moral reform, and have never found that aid withheld by Tak CarL. In the same spirit we now call upop the pas- tors of the churches to assist in arousing the better element of the people to a fixed resolve to suppress this infamy which threatens to corrupt the honor and moral- ity of every young man who is exposed to its insidions temptations. There are other evils in thé City, of course, but this is the one now exposed to the full blaze of the searchlight of truth. Let the attack be made vigorously, while the villainy of it is clear to the gaze of all. A resolute public opinion cannot be ignored even by the Solid Eight. The church should unite with the press in this fight. If it does the suppression of the i my cannot be far off and our boys will nce more be able to walk the street with- out being exposed to the snares and pit- falls which now entice them in so many of the business quarters of the City. VIRTUOUS SUPERVISORS. The examination of certain Surpervisors by the Grand Jury on Thursaay was not without profit. One Supervisor who wants to stop pool-selliag at the racetracks con- fessed to having lost $30,000 on the races: he has been a heavy loser at the open poker games downtown, and he is anxious to suppress them. Light seems to be dawning. Other members of the Solid Eight professed an abhorrence of immoral tices, but declined to say whether they would support or oppose the anti- voolroom ordinance whose adoption has been urged by the Grand Jury. The danger of such unwillingnessis that it is capable of unpleasant analysis. For instance, it might be assumed by an un- friendly critic that it was the intention to vote against the ordinance, and that there was a natural hesitation in informing the Grand Jury-to that effect, seemng that the ordinance had emanated from that body. Or the refusal might be construed as a shrewd measure to gain time in the hope that the ursency to secure the passage of the ordinance would in time relax. Or it might be guessed that the threat to include the racetracks in the ordinance would finally bring the track managers to their senses and compel them to join forces with the downtown poolrooms in opposing the ordinance and perhaps contributing money, as the poolrooms are supposed to be doing. 1t is singular that ail the members of the Solid Eight who were examined by the Grand Jury declined to say what they pro- pose to do with the famous ordinance. It is equally singular that they all agreed in suggesting that every manner of vice should be extirpated, and that in their enumeration of evils they agreed perfectly on a list of vices. A suspicious person might suggest collusion or an attempt to cloud the main proposition with a number of others, and the idea might arise that this whole course is taken in the interest of the downtown poolrooms. It is a fact that while these gentlemen must have known of the evils which are now so grievously agitating them they never sug- gested their suppression until the Grand Jury began to move against the poolrooms. The entire situation is interesting, in that it lacks not a single element to con- firm the suspicions which prevail through- out the City. The Solid Eight, so far as public opinion’ 18 concerned, could not possibly make their standing before the community a whit worse if they confessed to the charges that are freely made. But the presence of penitentiaries in the State modifies the case. It is conceivable that there are those who care nothing for pub- lic opimion, but who have a hearty dread of serving a term in the State prison. A .SENSE OF HONOR. In organizing themselves into a power- ful body bound in honor by the most stringent and far-reaching provisions to suppress cheating at the examinations, the students of Stanford University have es- tablished a standard of integrity and pride that should prove gratifving to every in- telligent resident of the State. An excep- tionally wise provision of the plan adopted is that while the names of informants shall not be kept secret by the committee taking charge of complaints, the informant, if he proves and shows that he was actnated solely by honorable motives, shall be treated with special distinction as a reward for his courage and fidelity. The effects of such a course wiil be ben- eficent in many ways. With regard to the students themselves it will enforce ab- solute fairness among themselves, so that incompetent, trifling or dishonest students may not enjoy the rewards which the earn- est and faithful ones deserve. With re- gard to the university it will raise the standard of the institution, asitis a guar- anty against the graduation of students whose after course would bea reproach and damage to the reputation of the insti- tution. Besides all this it wiil incuicate among the students a sense of responsi- bility and pride that will bave a useful ef- fect on their lives. Not to check dishonesty is to encourage it and to render it easy is to make it prevalent and degrading. So far as we are informed this action by the Stanford students _is far in advance of similar movements in other great institu- tions of learning. It was many years ago that the plan of putting students on their honor was adopted by the authorities of the universities, but the fallacy of the idea 15 easily seen when we reflect that a stu- dent who is co dishonest ‘as to cheat will find no difficulty in lying. Out of this grew the movementat Princeton, in which the students undertook to regulate the matter among themselves, The weakness of the original pian was that it permitted a cherishing of the dangerous idea that an informer is a contemptible person, for it is in human nature to hate a spy. Stanford has at last grappled the prob- lem in itsfull breadth.. By imposing tpon students a sense that informing 1s honor- able, by removing all danger that spite may prove a moving cause, by requiring students to exhibit the manliness and courage to come out openly and by re- warding them for their fidelity in so doing, they make informing an obligation of honor as well as a measure of self-protec- tion. The authorities of the university are to be congratulated upon .the standard of excellence and right which- this move- ment guarantees. TWO0 RAILROAD BILLS. The railroad fight has begun early in Congress. Two bills, diametrically oppo- site in purpose, have been introduced in the Senate. That the Senate should hav been selected as the ground for the s mish looks peculiar, for it has been a sumed that while the House wili probab vass a funding measure, it will likely be killed in the Senate. As, however, Sena- tor Thurston had already announced his intention to introduce a bill compelling the railroads to pay their debts, he probably thus forced Mr. Huntington to meet the issue on the more dangerous ground. Hence Senator Frye of Maine has intro- duced a bill which is even more favorable to the railroads than was the Reiily bill. The Frye bill 1s a refunding measure, and provides for extending the debt 100 years, at an average rate of interest of 2 per cent, with details providing for the gradual extinction of the debt. The full text of Senator Thurston’s bill has not been received, but in the shape in which the condensation of it has been tele- graphed it appears to have some weak and incoherent features, Still it would not be fair under the circumstances to criticise the bill seriously at this time. As reported it seems to be a dangerously elastic and indefinite proposition. No provision appears for collecting the re- mainder of the debt above the amount which may. be bid for the Government’s interest; that is to say, the bill seems to contemplate making the Government's creditors a present of the difference be- tween their debt and the price at which the Government’s interest may be sold. Again, it is difticult to see how the Gov- ernment’s five directors for which it pro- vides exert anything more than a slight moral influence in the board of fifteen or more directors in the way of employing the railroads to the advantage of the country. The one proposition to be insisted isthat the debt of the roads to the Government is an honest one and should be honestly paid. The law for the collection of debts should be applied in this case exactly as it would against the property of ordinary citizens. Tne mortgage should be foreclosed if the debt is not paid on time, and if the pro- ceeds are not sufficient to liquidate the in- debtedness a deficiency judgment should be obtained against the debtors. Senators Thurston and Frye have evidently mis- taken the duties the people expect of them. They are trying to devise a way by which the debt can be evaded, wnereas they were sent to Washington to compel its payment. There is no use making a legal complexity of so simple a subject. Congress should demand the enforcement of law exactly as it is applied in business propositions be- tween man and man the world over. THE SUNDAY CALL The special articles in Tre Suxpay Carn of to-morrow will deal with matters of in- dustrial importance as well as with lighter matters of literature and romance. Among the more notable contributions will be “A World’s Fair for Wine,” by Paul Oeker; “Irrigation in Arizona,”” by Leonard Fow- ler, and “El Dorado,” by Joaquin Miller. All of these, besides being of particular value to those specially interested in them, will be found both entertaining and in- structive by the general mass of readers. The serious condition of affairs in Turkey and Armenia renders timely an article on the *Patriarch of ‘Armenia,”” by Brans- combe Ashley, and not less so is an ac- count by A. L. McDonald of the empire of the great valley of the Orinoco, of which Great Britain is now trying to obtain pos- session by wresting from Venezuela the control of the mouth of that river under the pretense of a dispute over boundary lines. “An Experience of a Night of Bur- glaries,”” by W. C. Morrow, will please all classes of readers, and the regular depart- ments of the paper, including “Society Events,”” *“Books and Bookmakers,” *“Childhood’s Realm,” ‘‘Fashion Notes,” etc.. will be found as usual full of matters of current interest on the wide variety of topics embraced under those heads. Tue Cain can be generally obtained wherever newspapers are soid, but as there is always a largely increased demand for the Sunday paper those who wish to make sure of getting it should leave orders to- day. PERSONAL. Judge W. N. Bicknell of Los Angeles is in the City. . E. town. Captain John Cross of Los Angeles is at the Palace. J. D. Enright, & toundryman of Santa Cruz, is here. M. A. Wood, a business man of Salt Lake, is in town. E. Sneed, a business man of Petaluma, isat the Grand. Newell Breman, a merchant of Salt Lake, is in the City. Thomas Carle, a merchant of Sacramento, is at the Lick. A. A. Van Vorhees, a wealthy resident of Stockton, is at the Grand. C. E. Burnham, a business man of Sacra- mento, arrived here yesterday. Professor Earl Barnes of the Stanford Uni- versity is spending a few days here. ‘W. D. Flannagan, president of the Coos Bay Coal Company, is at the St. Nicholas. A. E. McGlew, a business man of Kobe, Japan, arrived by yesterday’s trans-Pacific steamer. Robert T. Devlin, the attorney and State Prison Commissioner, of Sacramento, is in town. Hon. Richard I. Thomas, the member of the Legislature from Nevada City, is at the Grand. Juage J. G. McClinton_of Port Angeles, Wash., is spending & short vacation in this City. D. F. Harshey of Woodland, one of the direc- tors in the Grangers’ Bank of California, is at the Grand. g Attorney H. D. Long of Nevada City came down from the mountains last night and is at the Grand. J. C. Norman of Boston, one of the most ex- tensive manufacturers of shoes in the United States, is at the Baldwin. H.M. La Rue, the Railroad Commissioner and president of the Grangers’ Bank, arrived here last night from Sacramento, F. L. Delano, owner of the large quarries at Rocklin, is av the Lick. Mr. Delano built the Lick statue in front of the City Hall. On United States District Attorney Foote's motion District Attorney Barnes was admitted yesterday to practice in the Federal courts. John Kelso of this City, who has the contract for building the Corral Hollow Railroad, has during the last few days sent up many men to work on the road. C. D. Walsh, who lived in this City forty Nichol an attorney of Stockton, is in years ago and who afterward went to Arizona and became one:of the first residents of Tomb- stone, is at the Russ. Sheriff A. C. Busch of Sierra County arrived here yesterday, and is at the Russ. He isone of the pioneers who early went to Downieville to engage in gold mining. Bishop Hendricks of the Episcopal church, who arrived here on the Peking Thursday from the Occident, is a relative of the late Senator T. H. Hendricks of Indiana. Charles Kennedy, formerly general agent of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific xailroad at Portland and well known here, has been appointed general passenger agent of the road at Chicago. E. D. Boyle of Gold Hill, snperintendent of the noted Alta mine of the Comstock group, is at the Palace. He is a brother of Editor and Proprietor Boyle of the 0il City Derrick and Toledo Times. The Rev. Toji Takado of the Presbyterian Board of Missions, who came from Japan a few years ago and has now completed a theo- logical course, is at the Russ, en route to Japan, to act as a missionary there. Professor Frederico Villatoro, director of the Mercantile College at Guatemala City, is at the Occidental. He will visit and inspect the schools of San Francisco, and then spend two wecks in Mexico City examining the schools there. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 13.—Among recent arrivals are: Miss Finkelstein, Vendome; Mr. and Mrs. B. Morris, Marlborough; H. Wilson, Hoffman; C. Bertham, St. James; K. Maddox, Mrs. V. K. Madaox, Holland; Mr. and Mrs. P. Slosson, St. Denis; W. Lawler, Windsor. ANSWERS TO CORil;SPDNDENTS. COUNTING IN CASINO—E. J. 8., City. Hoyle lays down the rule in casino that “the points by each party are counted at the end of each deal and the party which has the greatest num- ber of points wins the game.” Some players agree at the beginning of the game that as soon as & player has made the necessary number of points he goes out, but where no such agree- ment prevails the rule given holds good. The count in casino as generally played in this City is “cards, spades, big casino, little casino, aces and sweep.” In the case cited in your communication, in the absence of any previous engagement, Al, in a game of twenty-one points, having but one point to make, and Ed eight to make, if on the next deal Al gets but one ace and Ed makes ten points, he wins ihe game, as cards count first and the mhprl.oim. give more than he needed. If Al had had cards he would have won. RAINFALL AND TEMPERATURE—T. R., Fern- dale, Humboldt County, Cal. The latest pub- lished reports ior a year show the rainfall in London, Englana to have been as follows eacii month: January,3.09; February,1.58; March, 1; April, 1.42 1.52; June, July, gust, 3.04 ; September, 1.26; October, 3; November, 1.84, and December, 2.18. The following is the highest and lowest average temperature during a period of fifty years: January, highest 38, lowest 36; February, highest 40, lowest 38: March, 'highest 41, lowest 40; April, highest 50, lowest 48; May, L lowest 50; June, highest 62, lowest v. highest 633, 1owes( 62; August, high {owest59; September, highest 59, low- est5d; October, highest 54, lowest 47; Novem- ber. highest 46, lowest 41; Decewber, highest 41, lowest 37. ADELINA PATTI—-W. F,, City. The last time Adelina Patti was in this City was in 1890. She came here with the great [tajan opera company which epened on the 10th of Feb- ruery of that year at the Grand Opera-house for & two week's engagement—twelve nights and two matinees. In thatengagement she ap- peared for the first time in *‘Semiramide’’ on Tuesday, February 11. Her last appearance was at the matinee, Saturday, February 22, in “La Traviata.” On the occasion of her previous visit she appeared at the Grand Opera-house Monday, January 24, Thursday the 27th, Tues- day, February 1, February 3, and Wednesday, Februar BENEFICIARY CERTIFICATE—A. A. 8., City. A, being a member of the beneficiary association you mention, had a right under the ¢ld rule to designate whoever he desired should receive the amount named in the certificate; under the new rule the member must name one or more relatives. He can at auy time change his nominee without consulting the one first named. If he had named one at first he may atany future time name two or more and no one can dictate to him in the matter. THE BRANCH MINT—M. P., City. The branch Minton Fifth street in this City is open to visitors every forenoon in the week except Sunday, and on the days when the Mint is closed for the annual séttlement, There is a conductor at the office to show visitors around. 1f the vicitor desires to give the conductor a fee he is at libarty to do so, the amount being graduated by the liberality of the visitoz. THREE RECORDS—A. D., City. No horse ever ran & mile in 1:01. The fastest running record, one mile, is hela by Salvator, 1:35), made at Monmouth Par] J., August 28, 1890. The best trotting record is held by Alix, one mile, 2:034, made at Galesburg, 111, September 19, 1894." The best pacing record belongs to Robert 014, one mile, made at Terra Haute, Ind., September 14, 1894, A CoxsuL’s DuTY—M. A. W, City. The Ameri- can Consul ata foreign city is the proper per- son to address when information is desired of an American citizen within his territorial iunm!lcnou. Consuls &s a rule always answer etters of inquiry, but it may be in your case that your letter never reached him. DAILY NEWSPAPERS—M. P., THE CALL is the oldest of the morning dailies in this City. It was established in December, 1856. The Chronicle was established in 1865 and the Examiner was changed from an_evening to & morning paper in the same year. M. H.de Young, present proprietor of the Chronicle, has always had & proprietery interest in the vaper. DECLARATION OF HOMESTEAD—J. MCK., Sebas- topol, Csl. In the State of California a person filing & declaration of homestead on & piece of properts does not need to be a citizen of the nited ‘States, but if he desires to take up a homestead on Government land he cannot do #0 unless he is a citizen or has declared his in- tention of becoming such. THE KNICKERBOCKERS—T. S. M., City. The Knickerbockers were among the first families o1 the State of New York, The founder of that family in this country was Herman Jansen Knickerbocker of Friesland, Holland, one of the earliest settlers of the Empire State. The family home is Schaghticoke, Rensselaer County. CALIFORNIA GOVERNORS—A. 8., Santa Clara, Cal. Frederick F. Low was the first Governor of California who was elected to serve fora term of four years. He was elected September 2,1863. Henry H. Haight was elected Gover- nor of California September 4, 1867, served one term and was not re-clected. Skt ’ STATE DATRY BUREAU—C. R. and S., Napa, Cal. The officers of the State Dairy Bureau are: Dr. Thomas P. Flint of San Eenito, George W. Burbank of Marin and Louis Tomasini of San Francisco, commissioners; William Vanderbilt of this City, secretary. The office is at 113 Davis street, this city. Four Back DaTEs—A. J,, Napa, Cal. The 224 of March, 1840, and the 11th of October, 1846, fell on Sunday; the 2d of August, 1872, on a Friday, and the 19th of August, on a Thursday. No Premium OFFErRep—J. O. D. City. No remium is offered for a $2 50 piece of 1869. he selling price of the quarter-eagles of that date is from $3 50 to §6 SENATOR SHERMAN'S BOOK. Wichita (Kans.) Eagle. There is a general feeling . that Senator shgrmnn's book is more ego-biographical than auto. New York World. John Sherman intimates that he has reached a point at which he would rather write than be President. New York Mail and Express. sSenator Sherman having told what he thinks sbout his contemporaries in political life is now learning what the country thinks of him. There is, perhaps, considerable surpriseon both sides. Anaconda Standard. Between the covers of John Sherman’s book we find not a line explaining how it happened that, without enghlging meanwhile in any professional work, he started his political forty ya_nlflo];oor and winds up worth more than a million. Cincinnat Enquirer. “In view of John Sherman’s hook, can Mc- Kinley afford to have Iim for a delegate-at- large from Ohio?” asks the Gallipolis Bulletin. Certainly, and glad to get him. Ehermau’s book has [aid low some gentlemen Who might be in McKinley's way. A PRETTY WAIST. ONE CaNNor HAVE Too Maxy WAISTS FOR House AND EVENING WEAR. The demand for extra waists is steadily grow- ing, 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 red, in a medium-sized plaid, was made after this pattern, and had & collar of green chiffon to match. Another of brown, velvet and green had a violet velvet collar with a bunth of violets on eitherside, and a tiny roll of violet velvet finished the bottom of the waist. Washable silks make up_ very prettily after this model and all the light- weighi evening goods are nsed to carry out this design; A pink and white striped silk had a trimming of white lace over thesleeve puffs, the front ends being cut away to form points that meet at the bottom of the waist. Pink satin ribbon finished tlie edge of the lace ruffle and formed bows on the shoulders. A roll of the same at the bottom and a collar of wider ribbon finished the neat costume, the skirt of which was cutso that the stripes formed points at each seam. TOUCHING THE SPOT. The St. Louis Chronicle has an advertise- ment in Printers’ Ink that is of more than or- dinary interest. Of course the reading matter tells all about the good qualities of the St. Government aid. The Times-Herald is not now discussing whether that -aid should ‘be granted or not, for theré are many things that enter into the question. But most assuredly no aid should be granted until there is & thorough understanding of all the possibilities of expense. However desirable it may be to have such a canal we cannot throw ourselves, as a Government, blindly and headlong into- that ditch, and before Congress votes a dollar 1o the entérprise the people should know how much that dollar will bring back. Philadelphia Record. If the French people wish to add another $100,000,000 to the $300,000,000 already in- vested by them in De Lesseps’ ditch in order to provide an interoceanic waterway for the world’s commerce, including that of the vogd| United States, the American people certainly | It is scarcely a | question for discussion, however, that 1wo | can have no reason to object. transisthmian ship channels are not needed. Indeed, there are grave reasons for doubting whether the prospective traffic would provide sufficient revenue for one canal. The comple- tion of the Panama enterprise would remove the last ground for the coustruction of a canal through Nicaragua. Providence Journal. . The proposal that may possibly be made that we go ahead with the Nicaragua canal job “and darn the expense” would stand a better chance of heing approved by the people if the financial condition of the Government were not so disquieting. Chicago Inter Ocean. England would much like to see delay in the Nicaragua canal work. She will spare no pains in the meantime to declare the concession for- feited. England is a great country, and none excels her in her selfish interest BRITISH _AGGRESSIDNS. Literary Digest. “Mr. Monroe is not in it,” says the Mexican Herald. “Venezuela must come to terms with Great Britain. There is no one to take her part,” says the Amsterdam Handelsblad. These quotations will serve to 1illustrate how little reliance is placed in the power of that seetion | of our press which advocates active interfer- ence on the part of the United States in the Venezuelan boundary question. The English press is equally complacent. The whole agita- tion in favor of & vigorous enforcement of the Monroe doctrine is looked upon as the value- s “blether” of Ameriean_ newspaper men. tead says: “Unless and until the United To see the spot touched, hold gradually bringing it nearer, * Louis paper, but the.main point of interest lies | & in the ocular fllusion vpresented in the accom- | panying picture, if the reader will follow the printed instructions: PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES. Chicago Ne: William McKinley Jr. must be sitting on his boom. New York World, Benjamin Harrison is handicapped in his candidaey by the recently discovered fact that he has never read “Trilby.” | which e this drawing straight in front of you, until the nose i close to the star at foot. ates Government will settle all claimsand controversies which may arise between Euro- pean powers and the independent governments streten from Mexico to Cape Horn—no other power can consent to abandon any of the sovereign rights which they at present possess of dealing with the independent S:ates of Cen- tral and Southern America as they deal with any other independent States in any other part of the world.” New York Herald. If anybody, therefore, is going to use foree 1t must be Veneznela, and as Great Britain hes neither to use force nor to enlarge her itorial poseessions on the coutinent, she | can hardly be said to come into collision with Cincinnati Enquirer. The Allison boom has made such rapid pro ress that the distinguished Senator might di pense with the services of James S. Clarkson as an advance agent. Still, it would be harrow- ing 1o see Clarkson go to work. Norristown (Pa.) Herald. Let the Democratic party display for once the courage of its convictions and nominate Grover | Cleveland for a third term. It has nobod. who has not already been repudiated own State whom it could name for the pos Council Bluf!s Globe. Public sentiment is against the third term. This opposition yields neither to admiration nor wisdom. Grant went down before it like grain before the reaper, and that, too, with such a prestige as no man at this time could possibly hope to acquire. N. Y. Mail and Express. 1t might promote the cause of harmony if Broker Benedict and Secretary Morton were to | get together and endesvor to reconcile their conflicting views on the third-term issue. These amiable personal friends of Mr. Cleveland are pulling in opposite directions, and unless they can be persuaded to desist something will pres- ently give way with a loud end slarming snap. Harper's Weekly. We believe, if the Republicans nominate for | President a trimmer, or & man either tainted | with the evil of bossism or possessed of un- sound currency views, and if the Democrats nominate a candidate of good character and abilitv, that many of those who voted the Re- ublican ticket at the last election will vote or the Democrat, while the vast army of this year’s stay-at-homes will go to the polle. THE BUSINESS OUTLOGK. Cincinnati Enquirer. The Bar Iron Manufaciurers’ Association met with 2the intentionof forming a National organization, but as there were only forty- eight firms represented. the big majority of which operate west of Pittsburg, nothing was accomplished in the way of organization nor was the price of bar iron advanced. New York Sun. Several large cargoes of iron ore for the East- ern blast furnaces have arrived from Algeria, since an adequate supply is not obtainable from Spain and Cuba. An iron man tells me that for the past ten or twelve years scarcely any Algerian ore has been imported. That shipments should now be renewed shows an activity in pig production that is decidedly sig- nificant. St. Louls Glohe-Democrat. ; Iron production continues at the highest level ever reached. Supply has now overtaken demand, ana the output is not likely to go much beyond the present line thisseason. A great record has been made, however. Nobody would have predicted six or seven months ago that anything like the recent production would be touched this year. New York Sun. N Three new discoveries, each of unusual prom- ise, were made in Alaska this summer. The best was Jack Dalton’s copper proposition. It is nip and tuck between the other two,oneof which is silver and the other coal. The silver is believed to be the ledge Silas Lusay found forty years ago ana lost. The coal is an In- dian’s discovery.. It was found by a Hoonah Indien, who cane to Juneau one morning with several lumps of what appeared to be an ext good %uality of anthracite coal. The speci- mens burned freely and with but little ash. An analysis is now making to determine the exact qual The Indian said there was & three-and-a- -foot vein in sight, surmount- ng which was eighteen inches ot slate;and then & foot and n half of coal, then twelve inches of slate, and then a small six-inch vein of coal. The location was within fifty miles of Juneau and easily accessible. TRANSCONTINENTAL = RAILROADS. Omaha Bee. If the Government-aided roads were brought under one management and required to earn fixed charges on only the value of the actual investment the consolidation ofits competitors would be & matter of self-preservation. These through trunk lines are bound to be things of the future, but how soon they will be realized must depend largely on the action of Congress with reference to the Pacific roads. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Cut-throat wars between rival lines, reducing transportation for a short time below what is fair and reasonable, seem beneficial while they continue, but in the end they harm rather than help legitimate business. Chicago has always been disposed to pay reasonable rates of trans- portation for its mercantile sales. and it has a right to insist, in turn, that the railroads run- nh;g west shall now come to the rescue. If need be, Congress should be asked to deal with Huntington, who, as a would-be wrecker of a railroad system which owes the United States Government millions of dollars, is in no posi- tion to set himself up as a common enemy. THE NICARAGUA CANAL. * Chicago Times-Herald. The fact is the whole scheme of the Nicaragua canal has been entered upon in the hope of the Monroe doctrine, as now stated. The President wants the whole matter submitted to arbitration. We are ali for arbitration and we believe it will presently be found that Eng- land will readily submit to arbitration her title to ail terrtory save only thatof which she has been long enough in possession to give her a prescriptive title. St. Panl Pioneer Press. The only ease now calling for e vigorous in- sistence by our Government on the Monroe doctrine is that of British aggression on Vene- zuelan territory. And in that case it is safe to say that the Bi laims 10 extensive regions far beyond their original boundaries rest upon grounds so flimsy that & firm support biy our Government of Venezuela in her resistance to this wanton spoliation of the territory of a sis- ter_republic would end in a pacific adjust- ment of these long-pending disputes by arbi- . tration. Philadelphia Ledger. Asif its prospective war wijh England were not enough, Venezuels is now threatened with & more than usually serious internal revolu- tion. That England will keep handsoff in the presence of such a tempting opportunity is & supposition scarcely consistent with her record in the past, but the vital question iu this coun- try is, How will such a contingency affect the Monroe doctrine? Chicago Inter Ocean. Alaska’s output of gold for 1895 is estimated to be £3,000,000. The total sum originally paid for Alaska was $7,200,000. No wonder John Bull wants a big slice of Alaska. He also wanted and expected once upon a time to Lave all of Oregon, and came nearer getting it than he will come to getting Alaska. COININGS FROM EDITORIAL MINTS. A “Jingo’’ From the South. TLos Angeles Times. Senator Morgan of Alabama is the giand old man of the South. He is easily the most prom- inent figure in Southern politics; and, better still, he is a thorough and loyal American. The mugwump editors must perforce look with horror upon him as a “Jingo,”” but that fact is also in Senator Morgan's favor. Though 71 years of age Mr. Morgan's mental faculties are unimpaired. He has served his State in the United States Senate over eighteen years, and is apparently good for many more years of active service. The Spirit Telegraph Coming. Portiand (Or.) Advance-Thought. When the material sensitive_to the spiritual aura shall have been discovered it will be just as easy to send and receive messages by tele- grapn from one's spirit friends as we now send them to and receive them from each other. The public spirit telegraph office is not so far from realization as those who have no faith in anything but the things they know might suppose. Very Different Before the Ceremony. Salinas Index. A Webfooter advertised for a wife in San Francisco and now he has had the girl he se- lected as a bride arrested for going through his pockets. It wouldn't have been' theft after marriage. ‘World-Wide Demand for Our Timber. w Whatcom (Wash.) Reveille, The solid merit of the Pacific Coast fir is shown by large shipments to South Africa, but more especially by cargoes to the center of the Baltic pine region. Should Try the Pure California Article. Albuquerque (N. Mex.) Citizen. Nearly all the murders and shooting affairs’ we have in_this courty grow out of native wine—a very mild and seductive beverage, but very “congestive.” TENDENCY OF AMERICAN ART. No one can say that American artists lack talent, but everybody must say that American art is as yet only a weak copy of French art, Most American artists have studied in Paris, and many of them still live there, where they are not only infiuenced by French methods and ideas, but where the scenes about them, from which they take their subjects, are as French as the palettes and mahi-sticks they buy there. Is their work then su; sed to be American just because their grandiathers went over in the Mayflower once upon a time, and because théy themselves lived in their'salad days in some New England village? - Let them have more patriotism. ask them to paint prosaic say that the picturesque America as well may be blind to it. Atlantic friends? ourown? And even We do not subjects; we only elenient exists in -in Europe, although they ‘Why forever ape our trans- Have we no nationality of if we had none woulx it ,lfyonwutasmrelidfi!rlinthc limbs, use an Allcock’s BEAR IN MIND—Not one . tions is as good as the genuine. i not be the duts of the men of genius to make one? Even if we had ne political unity, they could make the nation aunit by creating & common literature and a common art. ‘For a long time the.national literature of Germany Was the nation itself, the only symbol of its union—but it was a real, vital, German lite ture, and not an imitation of French litera models. The literature and art of every nation must have its roots deep down in the life and thoughts of its own people. If it is only a copy of some other nation’s life and thought, the world will soon leave the copy for the original. Our American literature does represent American life and thought. Bret Harte and Joaquin Miller sing of life along the Pacific coast, James Whitcomb Riley portrays the homely life of Hoosierdom, Hamlin Garland gives us sketches of the Mississippi Valley, George W. Cable makes pictures of the South, Charles Egbert Craddock paints the mountains of Tennessee, Mary E. Wilkins tells of New England villages, and dozens of others make us acquainted with the life of ordinary people from the Atlantic to the Pacitic. But the pen- picture has told the world more of America than has the brush picture. Why need one paint Alpine scenery when one has the Rockies, why the Lake of Como when one has Lake George, why the harbor of Co.stantinople when one has the magnificent harbor of New York, why the rush huts of Africa when one has the adobe nouses of New Mexico, why the stubble of a French harvest 1d when one has the billowy sea of a Dakota corn field, wiy Breton peasant girls when there are Maud Mullers a-plenty at home ?—Harriett C. Connor, in the Bohemian. BROKEN, Mixed Candies, 10c Ib. Townsend’s, * el Rorrts Printing Co., 220 Sutter st. dars, 1896. R A NICE present, California Glace Fruits, 50¢ Ib in Japanese baskets, Townsend’s. e Mp Ul POPCORN loose, on string, in balis and sugared at Townsend’s, 627 Market, Palace Hotel. * Calen- » S b GENUINE eyeglasses, 15¢ to40¢c. 8134 Fourth, barber. Sundays, 738 Market (Kast shoestore).* —————— SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. ———————— Barry’s ‘¢ Star.”” Livest of the weeklies. Railroad Methods; Religious Rows: Bank Scandals, etc. e S b Several books of the second and third centuries have leaden leaves. One such, in the. British Museum, has six leaden leaves, with hinges and a clasp. RINGING noises in the ears, sometimes & roar ing, buzzing, sound. are caused by catarrh. Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the great blood purifier, successfully cures catarrh by purifying the blood. s S CHICAGO LIMITED. VIA SANTA FE ROUTE. A new train throughout begins October 29. Pullman’s finest sleeping-cars, vestibule reclining chair cars and dining-cars. Los Angeles to Chi- cigo, vis Kansas City, without change. Annex cars on sharp connection for Denver and St Louis. Twenty-seven hours quicker than the quickest competing train. The Santa Fe hias been put in finé physical condition and Is uow the bess transcontinental railw: — No Christmas and New Year's table should be without a bottle of Dr. Siegert’s A ngoilur&t Bitters, the world renowned appetizer of exquisite flavor. Beware ol counterteits. - e Trp Most SIMPLE AND SAFE REMEDY for & Cough or Throat Trouble is ** Brown's Broncniat Troches.” They possess real merit - ADD 20 drops of Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters to every glass of impure water you drink. L ignig A Singular Form of Monomania. There 1s a class of people, rational enough in other respects, who are certainly monomaniacs in dosing themselves. They are constantly trying experiments upon their stomachs, their bowels, their livers snd thelr kidneys with trashy nos- (riims. When these organs are realiy out of order, if they would only use Hostetter's Stomach Bit- ters they would, if not hopelessly insane, perceive its superiority. L5 o The dress to be worn by the Empress of Russia at the coronation ceremonies next year has just been ordered in Paris. It is o be decorated with pearls and gold and will cost £40,000. N/EW TO-DAY. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE BY Thos. Mages & Sns, REAL ESTATE AGENTS And Publishers “Real Estate Circular.” 4 Montgomery Street, UNIO¥ TRUST BUILDING, CORYER MARKET. INVESTMENTS. City Hall lot; north side Market st.: 25x100 and brick improyements; bringing small rental; $55.- 000. Washington st., near Battery; double front; 40x 120 with substantial brick building; renting for it 30 feet front; good store and busine: new building; rents $160; two tenan 5 Clay st.; ide, between Polk st. and Van Nessave.: 50x137:6 and two-story house on part of the lot; balance vacant; can be improved to pay ¥ per cent net, Sutter st.; north slde, between Mason and Taylor sts X80 1o rear aliev and fine three-story dwelling; 15 rooms: in good order; rents $10U; under lease: $17,000. Corner Ninth, Brannan and Channel sts.; 163 on Ninth, 137:6 on Brannan and 167 on Channel; 275 deep; only $30,000; terms to suit buyer; low interest. Brannan st., 137:6 feet front, 250 feet deep to luxome, and 137:6 on Bluxome, near railroad ireight sheds; only $35,000. PAC FiC HEIGHTS RESIDENCES AND RESIDENCE LOTS, $7000 AND UP- WARD. Reduced to $27,500; very cheap; Pacific Heights residence and large lot; north side Washington st.; Dest portion; view supreme. Broadway; north side; elegant marine view; bet. Buchanan and Webster; 47:6x137:6 and resi dence; $23,500. Residence and corner; Pacific Heigh cent marine view, neverto be_shut o v and Fillmore; 68:8x187:6; or_34:4x137:6. Fine residence and large Jot_on Sacramento st., near Van Ness ave.; low price. NW. corner on Jackson, near Laguna; 34:dx 127:6, and fine residence; 13 rooms and all im- $20,000. egant corner: unsur. passed marine view; $25,000; or larger lot. House and lot; Franklin st., near Washington: 11,000. PACIfic ave., N, side, best situation : not far from TLaguna; 55 or 65 feet front; panoramic view which cannot be shut off. & luced ; : make offer; NW. corner Pacific ave. and Broderick; 35x127:8: a very sightly lot with view ot d one blogk fro Broadway, N. side, marine view’: bet. Filimore Pacific ave., N. side; any size, 25, 50 or 75 feet front: price reduced to a f00t: marine view. Broadway, N. side; 35 feet front and residence; fine, unobstructed view of bay; $11,000. HOUSES AND LOTS—ALL PRICES. Post st.. bet. Polk and Van Ness ave.: 27:6x }gg to rear sireet and very g0od 2-story residence; Make offer; Vallejo and Octavia corner, 25x 112: d very comfortable residence of 9 rooms and every convenience; fine view: $10,000, $5250—Fuiton st., N. side, bet. Gou; nd Octa- via, 4 blocks W. of new City Hall; 25x137:6 and 2:lory dwelling; street (n good order. $5250—Washington st., N. side, bet. Fillmore and Stelner: comfortable two-story bow-window house: 6 rooms, bath and modern conveniences. Liberty st.; house and lot 25x115, and_comfort- able 2-story: bet. Valencia and Guerrero: one of finest residence streets ot the Mission: $400U. $4200—Folsom st., bet. Twenty-first and Twenty- second; 32x122:6 and comfortable house in good B rooms: street accepted. Reduced to $8000: neat cottage; 7 rooms, bath and modern conveniences: lot 50x114: Hil st., bet. Church and Sanchez; fine view; 1 block from electric-cars. figw;fl)l;’fllh;nflll st. m‘l‘fiuflm New Mont- }flfll{{l siory house; 11 rooms. o back, side, chest, or Porous Plaster of the host of counterfeits and imita-