The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 23, 1895, Page 6

FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Prupri}‘mr. —Postage Free: 0.15 6.00 SUBSCRIPTION RAT Paily and Sunday CAL BUSIN! 710 Market S San Francisco, Cs Telephene..... ROOMS : treet. .. Main—~1874 BRANCH OFFiCI street, corner ; open until 9 nth and Mission ; open ntil § 0'clock. 18 Mission streef 116 Niuth street; OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE : 34 Park Row, N open until 8 0'c pen until 9 o'clock. Support the Committee of Fifty The funding-bill fight won’t wait. The weather is variable, but every varia- tion is good for somebody s California two chair- gifts. Just think how lonesome Ba feel since Grover became a Jingo. The man with mone s manage to keep b rard must to burn doesn’t al heart warm. stock market was only action will be good. The panic in tk that the ing the holi- be wiser for Cleveland to let one and_devise a plan for re- cit. ven to the chil- hten your heart as Remember that g dren of the poor wi well as your purse. If you cannot pass in the crowd of the Christmas shops you can get into line and be pushed through. as thrown at Ahlwardt od one, for it seems to Theegg t been a g him out ¢ Not even for the sake of the peace of Christmas can the people of the Pacific Coast afford to neglect the funding bil! fight. Up to date Governor Matthews is the only Democrat who has a Presidential bee ing loud enough to attract attention ten feet away. It it be true that George Francis Train proposes to lecture again we shall have to postpone the opening of the new era to a distant date. Whenever the issne comes before the people it will be found that greenbacks have too many friends ever to be forced into retirement. New Orleans will ask this Congress for a $2,000,000 Post Office building, but at the same time she admits the sugar bounty d suit her better. Tom Reed will have a hard time keeving order in the House this winter, for the ad- wou ministration evidently intends to do ali it can to make Congress restive. St. Louis has generally voted with the free-traders, but the hotel men can be re- lied upon to put up a high tariif when the Republican convention meets. Cleveland urges Congress to do some- thing to reassure the people, and the peo- ple would like to see him make the assur- ance doubly sure by resigning. The latest fad is a system of reading character from the shape of the teetii, and it has this advantage that no one can size you up if you keep your mouth shut. It is getting to be an open question whether Cleyeland intends to run for a third term or thinks he can stay where he is, bulldoze the people and make them run. Society eirls who would like to imitate the first lady in the land will please take notice that Mrs. Cleveland with her own hand has made thirty pieces of clothing for the poor of Washington. Iiis reported in the East that $500,000 have been already raised to obtain the Presidential nomination for McKinley but as the report comes from Democratic sources there are probably abont 500,000 mistakes in it. Socas It is asserted that Cleverand’s scheme for retiring greenbacks will be opposed by many Democrats as well as by nearly zll the Republicans and all the Populists, and is therefore as dead already as any duck ever put in a pan. 7 It is a curious evidence of the disorgan- 1zed condition of the Democratic party that many of the leading papers that ad- vocate its doctrines are now looking to Senator Sherman to head off Cleveland’s scheme to retire greenbacks. Now that the vote of the New York elec- tion has been completely analyzed, it is found that over 10,000 voters, or about four per cent of the total city vote, made mis- takes in their ballots, and were practically disfranchised by the complexity of the new law. Barrett's success in getting before Con- gress his resolutions for the impeachment of Bayard has pleased his friends in New England so muci they are talking of him as a candidate for the Presidency when the present stock of candidates haye re- tired. The Republican State League of Ohio proposes to celebrate the coming anniver- sary of Lincoln’s birthday by a banquet at which it hopes to have present all the can- didates for the Republican Presidential nomination. The main table will prob- ably be about a mile and a half long. The San Francisco Chronicle issued its Christmas number yesterday morning. It isalarge and attractive number, contain- ing a wealth of carefully prepared matter appropriate to the season, including many stories and poems. A particularly in- structive contribution is one giving his- tories of the famous paintings depicting 4he Savioz, | mands. SUPPORT THE COMMITTEE. The appointment of Powers of Vermont to the chairmanship of the Pacific Rail- road Committee of the House may be re- garded as assuring a report in favor of a funding bitl. Tt is therefore a notice to the people of the Pacific Coast that they must be vigilant and prompt in devising means to defeat it. There is no time to be lost. We must act at once if we expect our action to bave any effect whatever in determuning the course Congress will take in dealing with the subject. It should be borne in mind the contest is by no means as hopeless as some de- spondent people think. Mr. Powers sup- ported the Reilly bill in but none the less it was defeated, another of a like nature should be revorted to this Congress there is no reason to doubt it would meet the same fate. The only danger is that some cunningly de- ised compromise may be brought for: ward under the cover of which the monop- oly would gain all that it wishes and nothing be compromised save the interests of the people. To defeat sucha scheme BEastern Congressmen must he made to understand the vital importance of the matter to the great West and convinced that the only rightful or expedient course to pursue is to maintain the law and en- force the claim of the Government against the monopoly as it would be against a private citizen. The crisiscalls for ihe resolute expres- sion of Western sentiment ageinst any form of funding the debt, and fortunately San Francisco bas already prepared to speak resolutely. A committee of fifty citizens, appointed by the Mayor in re- sponse to resolutions adopted at a crowded mass-meeting, 1s already in existence and zed for action. Through that com- mittee San Francisco can not only speak but act. Itiscomposed of men well quali- fied for the task before it and thoroughly earnest in the work they have undertaken. The duty of all citizens therefore is to give that committee a strong, united and de- termingd support. Liberal contributions should be made to- furnish it with the money necessary to carry on the contest, and in every other way it should be aided, encouraged and given strength to battle with the lobby of the monopoly. The issue is too important to be neg- 1, even for the pleasures of the holi- Huntington and his allies are busy ington and they will not rest for The California deleg: n in Congress may be expected to .do every- thing in its power to defeat all funding schemes that may be advanced by the , but the delegation ought to have the active help of influential men from all parts of the West in making the i San Francisco, as the metropolis of t region dominated by the monop- oly and that has suf- fered most from its exactions and frauds, will be naturally expected to take thelead ih the contest. She must send men to Washington to represent the resolution of her people and make known their just de- That is the action the great West expects of her and hasa right to expect. The crisis is at hand and to falter will be to fail. Stand by the committee of fifty. Stana with 1t. Stand up for it. Let the whoie force of an earnest and aroused peo- ple sustain it and a power will be exerted at Washington strong enough to baflle the monopoly, maintain the law and protect the people. ASHEWORTH'S TROUBLES. Street Superintendent Ashworth, hav- ing escaped punishment on one presenta- tion made by the Grand Jury, will now have to face a second. In the first case it was clearly shown that he had permitted private contractors to rob taxpayers in the most shameful manner. Mr. Ashworth’s moral guilt on the charge was nndeniable. He escaped punishment on the small legal technicality that he had no official respon- sibility in the premises. Now the Grand Jury will present him for trial on a charge of neglect of duty in permitting the City to be robbed in the same manner. We shall now see if some other small techni- cality can be discovered to protect him. He is already morally condemned and di graced. For that he likely cares nothing, as he is a product of boss politics, and we have seen how lacking in shame are crea- tures of the bosses in other branches of the City government. Possibly it will be only the heavy band of the law that can make them all feel the gravity of their position. At the time when the Civic Federation began to move against him he expressed his indignation and contempt at length. He may not have known then that the charges could be proved against him. It is significant now that he is not abusing the newspapers, the Grand Jury and other agencies working to suppress rascality and incompetency in omece, and it may be that he is not alone in realizing that the people are very much in earnest, and that ridicule and abuse hurled at the respectable ele- ments of the community do not enjoy that secure backing which the unlimited power of corrupt political management has so long assured to 1ts tools. By his conduct at the start Mr. Ashworth alienated the sympathy that might have been extended to him on the score of his kindliness of disposition and his official incompetency in the absence of a belief that he was corrupt. He standsalone now and must take the consequences. And these will be severe, whatever may be the determination of the courts. He must stand as an exponent of at least one of the features of boss politics and must suffer the obloquy which that realization im- poses. He will likely have abundant company before the end is reached, unless influences which may not yet have been brought en- tirely under decent control prove sufficient to impanel another Grand Jury not so earnest as the present. This woulid not have been mentioned were there not a feeling of uneasiness on that score abroad. A WISE DECISION. If it is true that the Civic Federation has determined not to eifect a non-varti- san organization for municipal purposes it is deserving of congratulations for its common-sense. This 1s the first time for many years that men of character, integ- rity and responsibility have appeated as leaders in regular party organizationsin the City, and therefore itis the one oppor- tunity which intelligent and public- spirited citizens have been offered for using the powerful machinery of an established and well-organized party for uprooting the evils which boss rule have brought upon the City. It was only the indiffer- ence of respectable citizens that made the prevalence of bossism possible. The Civic Federation has taken its stand in good time, for the impression was growing that it was being made to serve the political ends of persons whose princi- pal desire was to secure office. It is more than worthy, it is highly admirable, in re- sponsible citizens to seek responsible of- fices, where alone they may be efficient to check the evils of bossism. The complaint againt the Civic Federation was not on that account, but because it should have known that if it had candidates of the highest worth to offer the; Republican Barty was zeady to accept them, and bes | the last Congress, | nd if | | | | | | | | | | | i cause a splitting-up of the decent eiements by an independent movement would be the very thing to perpetuate the dominion of the bosses. The Republican party is bound to retain its organization and put its ticket in the field, no matter how many other tickets there may be or how many excellent citi- zens other organizations may nominate. 1tis bound to do this because itisa part of the great National party which assumes to give the whole country a decent govern- ment, and because it must lend its influence to the general advancement of the party’s aims. Itis compelled to make its own fight, cven if in doing so it defeat worthy men nominated by other bodies. [tisin an exceptional position now to invite the co-operation of all good citizens. The stronger this co-operation the easier will be the task of securing good govern- ment for the City. The Grand Jury, with all the disclosures of disgraceful official practices which it has made, was not needed to inform the public of the terrible prevalence of _incapacity and corruption that characterizes the conduct of some members of the manicipal machinery. The reported reason for the latest de- cision by the Civic Federation is that it sees in the changes which are taking place in the management of local Republican politics a determination to accomplish the reforms for which the federation intended to work, and that it would be wiser to as- sist this movement than attempt to de- stroy it with an independent organization. This is aview which every good citizen might adopt with advantage to the City. AN IMPORTANT TEST. It bas fallen to the lot of Alameda County to be chosen as the battle ground for a contest involving the validity of the constitutional amendment adopted at the last State election requiring that voters shall be able to read the constitution in the English language. An illiterate citi- zen of some eminence presented himself for registration and the County Clerk re- fused to place his name on the roil of voters because he could not pass the test. The District Attorney has given an opin- ion supporting the clerk, and the indig- nant citizen, who had already acquired the habit of voting, is going to bring a suit which will test the amendment. The popular motive which inspired this educational qualification was aimed to raise the standard of popular intelligence. Voters who are required to have a rudi- mentary English education will be very apt to acquire it if its acquisition is made a necessary prerequisite of the right to vote. Only the most primitive education is needed to enable a voter to read the con- stitution, and the State maintains abund- ant free facilities for imparting it. He who can read the constitution can read anything else printed in English. The ability to read induces a desire to ex- ercise it. No one can claim to be a thor- oughly competent citizen who is unable to read, for by reason of that inability he can have no adequate conception of our principles of government, and therefore cannot exercise the franchise intelligently. If he is required to be able to read he will learn the art, and having learned it he will be led by his own inclinations to pur- sue such reading as will tend to make him intelligent and give a meaning to his vote. Hence this educational qualification, by reauiring all men to secure some educa- | tion, will raise the intellectual and there- fore the moral tone of the State. It will impress upon parents the necessity of edu- cating their children and promoting the efficiency of the public schools. The legal phases of the case are another matter. In every State where attempts have been made to restrict the franchise by imposing qualifications of one kind or another, violent opposition has been en- countered. But qualifications have been imposed and are successfully maintained, | the Supreme Court of the United States generally holding that the States have the right to impose their own restrictions on the franchise. This policy has been car- ried so far as to produce a bewi ldering variety of conditions upon which the States admit aliens to citizenship. COAST EXCHANGES. The Wheatland Four Corners records an encouraging evidence of the spirit of en- terprise which animates the people there, This is the organization of the Bear River Beet Culture and General Improvemert Association by about 100 leading citizens of Wheatland and its vicinit; 'he by- laws adopted by the association should serve as a model for similar organizations throughout the State. Our contemporary publishes them in full, but only their more salient features can be summarized here. They provide thav besides the cul- ture of sugar beets the association may undertake such general improvements as from time to time may be deemed advisa- ble; that it shall have nine directors, elected annually, they to be bona-fide members; that no indekbtedness shall be incurred; that a general superintendent shall have the direction of the association’s affairs. The other provisions are those or- dinarily made for the government of such associations’ affairs. The entire purport of the organization is to assure the co- operation of leading citizens in the impor- tant work of developing the native re- sources of the community, and it is this fact that lends so high a value to the Wheatlaud movement. The movement in the Salinas Valley, already noted in these columns, to estab- lish an extensive irrigation plant with a view to the introduction of high-class farming to take the place of the unprofit- able industry of wheat-raising, is attract- ing a great deal of attention. The Monte- rey Cypress publishes some 1nteresting fig- ures relative to the enterprise. “Ifit is a. fact,”” says the paper, *“‘that a thrifty man can make a good living on twenty acres of irrigated land, then it is possible for 70,000 families, say 200,000 people, to prosper in the Salinas Valley, from Soledad northgo the bay alone. Their land, about 150, acres, with improvements, should be worth at least $10,000,000. What a dream of the future to compare with the true condition in the same section as it nowis. Even under the existing circumstances, we have had an illustration of the effect of cutting up large tracts of land, 1n comparing the town of Gonzales with Chualar and Sole- dad. When the Gonzales Brothers di- vided a portion of their large grant and sold it out to thrifty people, their town was no better than the other two men- tioned.” Our contemporary then makes an earnest appeal for hearty co-operation in the great undertaking. Irrigation for the purpose of introducing profitable farming to take the place of wheat-fields is moving with long strides in various parts of the State. The Lodi Sentinel adds its quota to the general news on this subject, thus: *“The scheme to irrigate the lands north of the Mokelumne is a good one and should be carried out. There are hundreds of acres of the best land in the county lying along the north bank of that river, ana as it is becoming t00 valuable for wheat-raising the owners must look to something else. Water for use in irrigating will solve the problem.” Lincoln furnishes the latest evidence of advancement in municipal methods. The | Auburn Republican thus anncunces it: ‘“‘Siturianism 1s dead in Lincoln. On Saturday last the people by an almost unanimous vote decided to bond the little city for $20,000 for the purpose of estab- lishing a water system. coln was sadly in need oi adequate water supply for fire and other purposes, and now she will get it. The result of the election was celebrated Sunday night by the firing of anvils, and the people are rejoicing over the dawn of a new era of prosperity.” Mono County has turned its face to the rising sun. The Bridzeport Chronicle-Union announces that the people of Antelope Valley will petition the Board of Super- visors to resume control of the Antelope road, which is a county road leased to one Larson on condition that he will keep it in repair in consideration of tolls which he is empowered to collect. It is time that all such arrangements for surrender- ing the freedom of the highways were abolished. Free roads, kept in good order, are an exceedingly valuable means for the promotion of prosverity. Our con- temporary wisely urges that the authori- ties buy certain important private toll roads in the county and make them free to the public. In justification of this course it cites these important facts: ‘‘The credit of Mono County is first class. In a few years it has paid a bonced indebtedness of about $45,000 with interest, excepting the small sum of $6000, which is not yet due. et the county issue $15,000 worth of bonds at 41 per cent to run fifteen or twenty years and buy up the roads, put them in good order and make them free. The bonds will be paid, not by the present taxpayers of the county, necessarily, but by those who are to secure property in the county in future years. The new mines, mills and other enterprises that will be inaugurated in this county will pay them, and our taxes will be no higher than they are at this time. Toll roads are a detri- ment to every county possessing them— El Dorado County was kept in the back- ground until her people voted to buy the toll roads, and now it is one of the most flourishing counties in the State and is steadily increasing in population and wealth,” The Napa Register is vigorously stirring up the people of that fertile valley. It calls their attention to the fact that everywhere the pulse of enterprise and progress is beating vigorously. It declares that in- stead of sitting down under a load of despondency created by temporary adverse conditions, such as the low price of this product or the ravages of that pest, they have opportunities immediately at hand for establishing enterprises which will un- doubtedly yield a profit. It points outone section offering special inaucements for a co-operative creamery; another where the cultivation of flax mizht be undertaken; then it comes to the sugar-beet industry and says: “Itis not overdone and is not likely to be. What are our conditions of soil and climate? Most favorable, and, commercially speaking, no section of Cali- fornia is better situated. Let farmers in sufficient numbers to represent 10,000 acres agree on the proposition this year to plant enough seed thoroughly to satisfy them- selves that they can grow sugar beets of the best quality, and 1 another season interest the Spreckelses, or some other capitalists, in the establishment of a fac- tory here.” OQurcontemporary wisely says that the basis of success in all these under- takings is.the inteliigent co-operation of the people. The Kern County Echo congratulates its readers on the establishment of a cream- ery near the Old River schoolhouse, twelve miles southwest of Bakersfield. It is a co-operative ingtitution, each stofkholder patron receiving his pro rata per pound of butter fat contained in the milk which he delivers to the creamery. Patrons who are not stockholders receive a price slightly lower than that paid to stock- holders. Stockholders who are not pat- rons will not be liable for operating ex- penses and will receive only sufficient divi- dends to pay interest on capital invested. This is the ordinary plan of establishing creameries throughout the State. The ore in Kern County has a refrigerator, which the hot weather of summer makes necessary and which obviates loss from that source. The profits from this kind of co-operation are much larger than those aceruing from ordinary methods, the sys- tem of marketing surer and the product much more valuable and popular. The creamery idea represents intelligent co- operation in one of its best forms. El Barbareno is the name of a bigh-class weekly paper that has been started at Santa Barbara by Leverett H. Mesick and Frank M. Selover. Itis to bedistinctively Californian in its literary features and of- fers the comforting assurance that it will be clean from beginning to end. PERSONAL. J. A. Marshall of San Diego is in town. Dr. M. Schuabel of Newcastleis in town. Dr. E. E. Endicott of Ione is at the Grand. Warden Auld of Folsom prison is in the City. Ailen Kinkead, a mining man of Virginia City, is here. M. Gilliam, a business men of Seattle, arrived here yesterday. Ira de Turk, the wine-grower of Santa Rosa, is at the Grand. George W. Kirkham of the United States army is atthe Califernia. D. D. Oliphant, & merchant of Portland, is among recent arrivals. G. W. Fenwick, a well-known mining man of Montana, is at the Palace. Dr. N. W. Williams of Traver was among yesterday’s arrivals here. Robert D. Noble of ‘the United States army, San Diego, is at the California. Louis Ziegler, one of the pioneer business | men of Spokane, is in the City. Charles S. Deisern, superintendent of the noted Post gold rhine, arrived here yesterday. T. E. Bishop, one of the big grain farmers and extensive fruit-growers of Tulare, is at the Lick. John F. Moody, the wealthy ice-packer and lumber-dealer of Truckee, arrived here yester- day and is at the Lick. C. M. Weber, one of the richest residents of the San Joaquin Valley, son of the founder of Stockton, is at the Lick. Senator R. Lander of Tulare County, who has been here for several days on a business trip, left for home lust nignt. ~ James E. Mills, who for some years has been engaged in mining mear Quincy, Plumas County, is at the Occidental. Among the arrivals from Juneau, Alaska, yesterday was R. F. Lewis, who has been en- gaged in business and mining there. Heis at the Grand. W. R. Snape, who has been operating in Crip- ple Creek mines for some time, is in the City. He considers the new Colorado district one of the greatest on the globe. Thomas Couch, manager of the millsof the Anaconda copper mines st Butte, and of the extensive smelting and reduction works of the same company at Great Falls, is at the Palace. Mr. Couch, in company with J. A. Coram end others, some time since purchased a valuable group of ‘mines at Coulterville, which tney are now developing. . CALIFGRNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. €., Dec. 22.—Californians in Washington: H. E. Bell of Washington, W. Avery of Los Angeles. Representative Loud has gone to Massachusetts to spend the Christ- as holidays with relatives, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “Poor Billy Florence,” said Louis A. Morgen- stern to some theatrical people at the Baldwin Hotel, yesterday. “Every time I hear his name it reminds me of & very funny experience I saw him have in Virginia City, Nev. Let me see, it must have been in the sev—. Oh, the date does not matter. It's the story I'm getting at. “Florence, you understand, used to go to Racine College in his boyhood, and naturally formed a great many acquaintances that were constantly looming up all over the country when he took the road. He found one in Vir- ginia, & man by the name of Patton—Ed Pat- ton—and the two men were like boys in their exuberance of feeling over finding each other. After the first hilarity of coming together had worn off, Billy requested his friend to do him the favor of appearing that night as foreman of the jury in a play called ‘Trial by Jury.’ ‘All Louis Morgenstern Remembers Billy Florence. [Sketched from life by a * Call” artist.] you have to do Ed, is to come in at the end of the second act and take your seat with the rest of the jurymen in the box. I, as the Judge, will ask you what the verdict is, and you are to rise up with a solemn face and simply say that you find the defendant guilty ascharged. Then you file outand the curtain goes down. That's all, Are you with me ?’ “‘You bet I am, Bill. I’ll learn the whole play, if you want me to.” “That night, near the end of the second act, Patton came on the stage with his twelve jury- men, and all were comfortably seated, when Florence rose up with much dignity and asked for the verdict. ‘Your Honor,’ answered Pat- tonsolemnly, ‘we find the defendant not guilty.” Florence ducked his head behind the desk and whispered hurriedly: ‘Guilty, Ed! Guilty!” Patton got up again and repeated: ‘Your Honor, we find the defendantmot guilty.’ Down went Florence. ‘Blank, blank it,” he whis- pered, ‘I tell you to say guilt “This time Patton got on his feet, and after looking squarely at the Judge, who was red as a beet, thundered: ‘If you think you can try this case better than twelve of the leading eiti- zens of Virginia City, Mr. Florence, [ would suggest that you get up here and begin opera- tions. Iwish tostate again that we find the de- fendant not guilty, and —-' ‘¢ ‘Court’s adjourned!’ roared Florence, and the show broke up for the night.” A GIRL BILLIARD EXPERT. Lacuta Shelenberger is a little flaxen-haired girl of 7 years, whose father is engaged in the manufacture of billiard and pool tables, says the Chicago Record. They live at 910 Forty- seventh street, Hyde Park. Lacuta isso small that she can scarcely look over a biliiard table, yetshe can play a game of billiards with mar- velous dexterity. She can actually make a “run” of a larger number than she is able to count. It is not an uncommon thing for her She Handles the Cue Like a Professional. 10 g0 to & billiard hall and play pool with a per- fect stranger, making every ball on the table in one game. The little girl has been playing gool and billlards now for about a year. She loes not care for skates or a bicycle, Her amusement lies solely in handling the cue. She uses & 15-ounce cue. Itis rumored that Santa Claus is going !O(F“e her for Christmas 8 beautiful hand-carved rosewood cue, which is inlaid with white holly, ebony and mahog- any, and her name is to be engraved in a pearl plate on the handle. Lacute has heard of Arthur Krueger, the boy pool-player, and she says she would like to make 8 match with him. Mr. Akam, president of the Akam manufac- turing company of this city, who has seen the child play, says: “She is remarkable. I think she can beat anything in the way of a woman billiard-pisyer.” I believe she 1s abio Lo beat almost any of our local 1 champions. Of course, she hasn’t the faculty of calculating po- sitions like a person of mature age or an expe- nenced_Flnycr, but she appears to have a nat- ural ability to make points.” THE VENEZUELA MATTER. Cleveland Leader. * The President asserts the rights of the Gov- ernment on the American Continent in terms which every loyal American must approve. DenverZPost. Cleveland’s message has asserted the Monroe doctrine in the most clear and emphatic man- ner, and has called forth the universal sup- port of this Nation. St. Paul Ploneer Press. President Cleveland has for once in his for- eign policy put himself in harmony with the National traditions end the National senti- ment of the American people. Cincinnati Enquirer. President Cleveland may rest well assured of the hearty approval by the American people of the stand he has taken. He can depend on them to follow him to the fighting point, and then through the fight on this important {ssue. Towa State Register. The few discordant voices in the Monroe chorus are, we are sorry to say, in Mr. Cleve- 1and’s own party. The New York World,which is & populaz and ‘pow?'ml exponent of the Democratic party in Néw York City, calls the firesidem‘n message & blunder and a humilia- on. New York Advertiser. For the first time in a generation tke United States is face to face with a crisis of the gravest character—a war with a powerful nation over a question of principle. The principle is as vital to the National honor as any in the cou- stitution that is only awaiting transfer to the written instrumen Fort Worth Gazette. . Precedents for the attitude of the President are to be found in the history of every admin- istration of the British Foreign Office. It is the most tenacious doctrine of British diplo- macy that no nation shall be permitted to ac- quire territory in any quarter of the globe without consulting thé British Government. Chicago Times-Herald. It has been the taunt of the British press and the belief of the anti-Ambrican public abroad that in the assertion of the Monroe doctrine at this time the President was “playing politics. It will shortly be apparent abroad that in sup- port of the right of Americans to rule America there are no parties in the United States. _—— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS PRINCE ALBERT—S., City. Francis A_lbert, Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, died in Windsor Castle December 14, 186 BaseBaLL—Player, Cit. The first baseball club organized in the United States was the I\'ulcker%mcker of New York, which sprang into existence in 1845. MLk p—A. D., City. The report of Milk Inspector Dockery on the milk men- tioned in your communication is that it was found to be without adulteration. No PeEmroM—W. W., City. No premium is offered fora $5 gold piece of 1837. Dealers who have them for sale charge from $7 50 to $8 50 for a coin of the denomination and date. If you have any one who wishes to purchase your coin you know what the ruling rate is. FRACTIONAL Bruis—J. H. R., City. A gentle- man who was a resident of the city of New York in 1856 and 1857 states that if any bill off the amount of $1 50, $175 or other fractions were in circulation in New York they may have been issued by some private bank, but that he has no recollection of such. APPRENTICES ON SHIPBOARD—F. McL, City. The Shenandosh was the first American vessel that took on apprentices in this port. If other American vessels will follow in the same line one who wishes to become anapprentice will have to watcn the different vessels in port, and when there is an opportunity file an ap- plication with the maste. GILDING ON GLAss—Inquirer, City. Glass porcelain, earthenwere or any similer smooth surface may be ornamented with gold by the following process: Blend powdered gold with gumwater, and & little borax and apply the mixture in the design chosen by means of & camel’s hair pencil. The article is then heated in an over, by which means the gum is burned, and the borax vitrifying cements the gold to the surface. Itis polished with a burnisher. AMERICAN AND BRITISH NAvVIES—G. E. T., City. The new navy of the United States has 18 monitors, 6 battle-ships, 1 coast defender, 1 ram and 2 cruisers in the armored class; in the unarmored class there are 23_ecruisers, 7 gunboats, 6 torpedo-boats and 1 dynawmite cruiser. Besides this there are four vessels used as transports, dispatch-ship and store- The navy of Great Britain is composed of 83 armored vessels, 142 unarmored, 2 armored gunboats, 4 dispatch vessels, 28 transports, and soforth, and 229 torpedo-boats. WE'LL JEST SLEEP ON THE FLOOR. Our folks is jest the bestest folks you ever seen or knowed; Makes themselves as sociable as rabbits in the road, When we tell em that the house is fulled up to the door, An’ ain't’ no room for 'em, they sa sleep on the floor!" “We'll jest Had a fair at Laurenceville, with circus tents an’ all, An’ here they come from Williamstown an’ Huckleberry Hallj An’ ma, sbe told ‘em warn't no place at home fer any more; But, pshiaw! they fest staid roun’, an’said: “We'll all sleep on the floor Ain’t seen no folks as sociable as they is: Eat an’ rou that the milk ain't sour, an’ vinegar is cet! says if they went to heaven au’ jest squeezed in the door An’ couldn’t get no seats, they’d say: “We'll jest set on the floor!” Fra K L. STANTON, CURRENT HUMOR. When Congressman meets Congressman then comes the clash.of chin.—New York Mercury. Traveler—May I take thisseat? Maiden (from Boston, icily)—Where do you wish to take it, sir?—Puck. ; Briggs—You know Gablets, don’t you? Braggs—Oh, I have a listening acquaintance with him.—Indianapolis Journal. “Tommy, do you love your teacher?” «I would if she wasn’t my teacher,” said Tommy. “Sne’s awful nice.”—Indianapolis Journal. Yeast—Do you give your dog any exercise ? Crimsonbeak—Oh, yes; he goes for a tramp neurly every day.—Yonkers Statesman. She had an Idea in her head, which grew ana grew as she dwelt upon it, Till at last it appeard outside—behold! an elegant Christmas bonnet. —Detroit Tribune, Mrs. de Fadd—The latest fashion is to have the piano built into the wall. . Mr. de Fadd (wearily)—Well, that’s sensible. Let’s wall up ours.—New York Weekly. “No, Mr. Jones, I cannot be your wife, but I will be a sister to you.” “Well, that's all right; that’s what I wanted to ask, but I didn’t want to be too abrupt about it.”—The Courtier. “Poor injured.” “What mekes yon think so ?”’ “Thet close-fisted old fellow Jorkins says the wound looked to him to be about the size of a nickel.”—Chicago News. Brown must have been terribly While poring over a recipe-book the other day, my attention was attracted by a recipe which ended something like this: “Then sit on the front of the stove and stir constantly.’ Imagine sitting on & stove without stirring constantiy.—Harper's Round Table. R A POPULAR SKIRT. The skirt shown here is a modification of the Marie Antoinette skirt, which is so much worn at present at Paris. The front gore, over which the side gores are laid to form a pleat in sem- blance to a skirt laid over, is usually made of & contrasting fabric. A figured white crepe de Chine, with the 1 rout of white plain satin and trimmed with close set rows of yellow lace, is worn with a fichu of the same, the rest of the waist being of the figured goods. A skirt of gray crepon, with the frontofa handsome brocade with gray ground and bright flounces and hems, is exquisite. Brown mohair, with white mohair for the front breadth and trimming for the waist, is extremely stylish. i course, the skirt may be maue of one fabric. The lapping sides may be fasiened down with three large outtons on each side, set to reach half-way down. The introduction of two fabrics is a step in tire direction ofa serious change in skirts which have been ;evere]y plain and without trimming for so long. GERTRUDE ATHERTON IN LONDON. Neiws comes privatelyfrom London, writes “The Gossiper” in the New York Advertiser, that Gertrude Atherton, the American nove |Cocoa i sinning fame and fortunein the big e metropolie, Mrs. Atherton’s latesty hovel is oneotf the fast-selling booksin the English merket. She is an industrious woman. She has written during the past year two Dovels, nine short stories and unnumbered magazine articles. One story of 60,000 words she wrote in five weeks. Shé had intended to spend a year upon it buta cry from Macedonia in the shape of a demand from the publighers came, and she turned out the novel in a littie over a month, ~Generally Mrs. Athey(fim goes over her proofs “about twenty times,” fo rc- peat her own statement. ‘Ard she always has the dictionary and Richard Grant White's “Words: Their Use and Abuse,” at her elbow. This time, however, the revision was more hurried, and Mrs. Atherton has had a good deal of fun at her own eXpense over some things that crept into her novel. —_— PERsONAL attention. Roberts Printing Co.* — e PURE mixed candies, 10¢ 1b. Townsend’s. * - TowNsEND'S famous broken candy 10c pound.* - s candies. Palace Hotel building.* e PLENTY of help; no waiting at Townsend's. * A NICE present for Christmas—Our own Celis. forniaglacefruits; 50ca pound. Townsend’s. * -————— CHOICE cream mixed candies in telescope andy Japanese baskets; 25¢ pound. Townsend’s. ¥ - — Hoitt’s School for Boys. Burlingame. Term begingJanuary 7. » . — Sovp for storage. Books of all kinds. Mus# close them out. Open evenfngs. 747 Market street. CANDIES and toys given away by Santa Clauy at the Branch Old I X L, corner of Sixth angd Mission streets, south ot Market. Neckwear ag popular prices. . —d SPECIAL Information daily to menufacturers, business houses and public men by the Presy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. — e -————— POPCORN, 3 quarts, 10 cents; sugared corn, 20 cents pound; three yards strings of corn, 10 cents; and corn balls at Townsend’s. - ¥ S S e ANOTHER large shipment of leather goods just received. Ladies’ pocket-books, plain and silver mounted; letter and card cases, bill. books, valises, writing tablets and picture frames. All the newest things right up to date. Sanborn, Vail & C * RS R gt There is a lighthouse to every fourteen miles of coast in England, to every thirty- four miles in Ireland, and to every nines teen miles in Scotland ical health, build up yous system, tone your stomach and dizestive organs, increase your appetite, enrich your blood and pres ‘vent sickness by taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla. asliawgrge sl o CHICAGO LIMITED. VIA SANTA FE ROUTE. A new train throughout begins October 29, Pullman's finest sleeping-cars, vestibule reclinings chair cars and dining-cars. Los Angeles to Chi- TAKE care of your ph: cago, via Kansas City, without change. Annex cars on sharp comnection for Denver and S. Louis. Twenty-seven hours quicker than the quickest competing train. The Santa Fe has been put in fine physical condition and is now the bess transcontinental railway. it bd L TR “ Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup' Has been used over fifty years by millions of mot) ers for their children while Teething with pert: success. 1t soothes the child, softens the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowaly and i3 the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every partof the world. Eesureand ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrip. 253 4 bottle. —————— CORONADO.—Atmosphere is pertecily dry, sofy and mild, and is entirely free from the mists coms mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steams ship, including fifteen days’ board at the Hotel del Coronado, $60: longer stay $2 50 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery st., San Francisco: iy S e et o By the improved railway schedule Lon- don and Constantinople are now placed but three days apart. A weekly train leaving London Tuesday at 10 a. . arrives at the threshold of the Sublime Porte at 9 A. M. Fridaj ————— e NEW TO-DAY. TEAS EXTRA QUALITY With each pound is given a LOVELY DISH Newest Shapes Prettiest Decorations ALSO GIVEN WITH COLIMA PURE SPICES, COLIMA BAKING POWDER. Great American mporting Tea Co. New store 1344 Market st., Bet. 7th and Sth 140 Sixth st, 965 Market st. 333 Hayes st. 1419 Polk st. 521 Montg'y ave, 2008 Fillmore st, 3006 Sixteenth st, 2510 Mission st. 218 Third st. 104 Second sf 617 Kearny st. 146 Ninth 3259 Mission st. {1053 Washington (ity Stores. 917 Broadway. 131 San Pabloav, 616 E. Twelfth st Oakland, Alameda o faimods ave, Headquarters—52 Market St., 5. ¥. A We Operate 100 Stores and Agencies oi e SAVE MONEY e en en GAIN HEALTI WITH 30 cups—25 cents “SO PURE—SO GOOD” Ghirardelli’s HAS NO ‘SUBSTITUTES*