The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 30, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1595. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES~Postage Free: Paily snd Sunday CALL, one week, Daily and Sundsy CALL, Pally and Sunday CALz, three months by mail 1.50 | .65 Dally and Sunday CLL, oue month, by mail Eunday CaLL, one year, by mail.. WEBKLY CALL, one yesr, by mail BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Mariet Street, San Francisco, California ‘Telepbone... .Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Cluy Street. BRANCH OFFICES: 630 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open untll 9:80 o'clock. $39 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 717 Larkin street; open until o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open | entll § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. | 216 Ninth street; open nntil 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : §08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York Oity. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. Maln~1874 Telephone | o { MONDAY. = THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e ————————————————— Do your business briskly, and get ready to celebrate. As Dunraven departs we ought to kick, but we won't. The House did its work promptly, and deserves a holiday. 1f you wish CaLLs for the new year now is the time to subscribe. The bond habit sticks to Grover like a cockleburr {o a donkey’s tail. We must close the old year and begin the new fighting the funding bill. Congress has been working like a buzz- saw, and Cleveland had better not monkey with it. We can never bave anything better than temporary expedients so long as we have Grover. Every one of the year's movements for reform tnat was worth anything is still moving. The Senate will welcome the bond bill, for it affords opportunity for a thousand speeches. The war flurry has settled down to the conviction that the Monroe doctrineisa sure thing. { Close the old year’s business with a rush, and meet that of the new with a move on you. This year we have been t ng of road improvements, and next year we should push them along. Dunraven was considerate at for he came after Christmas and before New Yea: any rate, | got away Chicago talks of a Cotton St tion within her own border: ting the South to come in. Don't forget to do your share in assisting tpe Committee of Fifty to fight the battle for California against the fundingbill. | Out of the emergency the Republican majority in the House emerges all right, but the administration is still in a hole. Salisbury may not be the biggest man on earth, but he has it in his power now to raise one of the biggest wars on record. In trying to grab the earth Johp Bull| has managed just now to run up against every nation on it, from the United States to China. 1 | The Spanish flag will still be flying in Cuba at the close of this year, but early | in the next one the Spaniards themselves may be flying. 1t looks as if Cleveland and Carlisle wish to keep the deficit running in order to have an excuse for urging the retirement of greenbacks St. Louis wishes the Democratic Con- vention also, and realiy since she has cap- tured the big circus the side-show might as well go with it. | Even after the Venezuelan question js settled there will still be need of keeping | watch on England, for the Alaskan houn- | dary is out in the cold vet. The British press may regard the Vene- yuelan message as “*diplomatic hyperbole,” but Salisbury is wise enough to know an, | ultimatum when he sees it. Chicago wishes to start the New Year with a street-car reform, fixing the price of a ride at three cents for those who stand and five cents for those who are seated The Bank of England is said to have in its vauits $90,000,000 of gold more than it had two years ago, and yet Cleveland can’t manage to keep our supply anywhere near even. 1f .Cleveland cannot be impeached, it might be a good plan to pay him for the time he empjoyed in writing the Venezue- lan message and then dock the rest of his salary. If it be true, as reported, that the Vene- zudelan army consists mainly of colonels, we shall have to take charge of tie cam- paign, for ours will be largely made up of br:gadier-genenls;_' @ Thousands of dollars are expended every year in the East to import holly and mis- tletoe from Europe, and by a little energy California could probably capture the trade and get the mon Uncle Sam can boast of being the big- gest publisher on earth, for according to the report of the Public Printer his estab- lishment issued during the past year 1,787,- 473 bound volumes and 1,182,955 pam- phlets. —_— There may be always some Republican Congressmen who will vote with the oppo- sition on party questions, but they will never be strong enough to disturb the majority. This is to be a business Con- gress, and not a repetition of the wild-coli performances of the last Congress. In continuing its custom of issuing an- nually, at the close of the year, a review of the conditions of California, the Chronicle published yesterday an elaborate compendium of information concerning every important industry and interest and every county in the State. It wasa notable number in every respect, and in the recora given of progress made - this year good reason is afforded for expecting prosperity ip that which is to come, | Wang Kim Ak is a citizen. PARTY DISCIPLINE. The fact that forty-seven Republicans in the House votea against the bond bill isa political event sure to attract public at- tention. It seems to presage the defeat of the bill in the Senate, and is seemingly ominous of future dissensions on party issues in the House itself, The latter con- sideration is by far the more important. The country can get aiong without the { bond bill, for after all it is but an expedi- ent to meet a temporary emergency, but the results would be serious indeed if there should be such a retaxation of discipline in the party ranks as to prevent the Re- publican majority from acting vigorously and harmoniously for the remainder of the | session. Mr. Dalzell, who closed the debate on the Republican side, saw the dangers that might result from -the defection and warmly urged that the bill be supported as a party measure. “I appeal,” he im- pressively said, “to my fellow Republicans to think long and earnest!y before they join the Democratic forces on the other side of | theaisle. The division is not for this time mere While the serionsness of the defection cannot be overiooked, there are good rea- sons for believing it is not so ominous as it appears at first sight, or as My, Dalzell seems to have regarded it. The bill was not a good one. It could be defended even by its friends only on the ground of an emergency measure. It was opposed therefore by many Republicans who would not otherwise bave voted with the Democrats and Populists against a party measure. A similar case is not likely to arise during the session, and consequently there may not be again any sign of divis- ion in the party ranks or any evidences of a weakening in that superb majority by which the Republicans now control the House. Party discipline was never more impera- tive upon Republican Congressmen than at this juncture. The Democratic party, flushed with a victory that gave it con- trol of all branches of the Government, has in two years been overwhelmed in de- feat largely becaunse its leaders could not act together upon the greater issues that confronted them. In tbat example every Republican in Congruss bas & warning which he will do well fo heed. Inde- pendent action sounds well to declaim about, but a nation cannot be governed by a crowd of independent representatives each going his own way. Even a city can- not be thus governed.with any success and every attempt of the kind, whether calied a non-partisan administration or an inde- pendent administration, has always beena failure when tried in any part of this country. There is ample room in Congressional work for the exercise of independent judg- ment without endangering party dis- cipline. Comparatively few measures are strictly party issues, Questions like those of the funding bill and the Nicaragua Canal involve no party principle and on them no allegiance to any party is re- quired. When, however, the Republican party devises a measure to carry out a Re- publican policy against the opposition of all Democrats, then every Republican should support it. In such issues there should be no thought of Western Repub- licans or Fastern Republicans. There should be none but National Republicans united to carry forward the legislation needed for the Nation. A WISE DECISION. Judge Morrow of the United States Dis- trict Court had comparatively easy sailing in deciding the cese of Gee Hop. This Chinese had been naturalized by the courts of New Jersey. When, after a visit to Ch ina, he attempted to land at San Fran- cisco as a naturalized American citiz and therefore exempt from the operation of the exclusion act, the privilege was de- nied him by the Federal authorities at San Francisco. He resorted to habeas corpus, with the result that Judge Morrow has decided his naturalization unauthorized and illegal. This means to say that the States of the Union may not make Ameri- can citizens of Chinese and Japanese. The matter had already been decided that way by the local Federal courts, and hence the case was not a difficult one for Judge Morrow. He has pending in his | court another case which is much more | difficult and equally important. It is whether Wang Kim Ak, born in this country of Chinese parents, isan Ameri- can citizen. it has peen assumed that because the same Judge has decided that a Chinese born in this country and convicted here of a felony could not be deported under the law authorizing the deportation of Chi- nese felons, he will likely decide that The two cases do not appear to involve the same prin- ciple. 1tisone thing to extend the pro- | tection of our Government to a person born on the soil, and quite another to arm him with the elective franchise. If this difference did not exist Indians would be entitled to the suffrage. The only ques- tion of doubt in the premises is one of ex- press legal exclusion and inciusion as to those who may enjoy the privilege. The law points involved are intricate and ob- scure. 1t is this fact that- gives the courts room for the exercise ofa wide discretion. It would seem to be a natural conclusion that if the members of a race are excluded from citizenship by express laws which are unguestionably intended to declare their unfitness for citizenship under one set of circumstances, it is meant to be de- clared that they are not desirable as citi- zens under any circumstances. To be more specific, the Federal decisions which apnounce that natives of China may not be naturalized would be stultified by a decision that Chinese vatives of the United States may be permitted to vote. The laws governing the decisions regarding naturalization of this race were founded in an understanding that the race was in- curably alien and whoily unadapted to citizenship. Then arises a simple question of fact. Ave the Chinese born in this eountry any the less Chinese and any the more Ameri- cans than their parents? Most asstiredly they are not, and a court can take cog- nizance of the fact. ONE GRANGE AT WORK. As farmers would receive the greatest benefit from good roads it is clearly to their interest to secure them. The end cannot be accomplished without co-opera- tion. In the Patrons of Husbandry is found the best opportunity for effecting it. The Tulare Grange has arrived at thiscon- clusion. At a meeting held recently in Visalia it took earnest ground, determin- ing to begin its efforts at the proper place, the Board of Supervisors, which is charged by law with the duty of making good roads and which generally pays nothing like intelligent attention to the obliga- tion. Two particularly interesting features of the meeting were the report of the com- mittee appointed to draft resolutions and the other the resolutions themselves. The report pointed out the great trouble over road-making. It said: “ All farming communities desire good roads, but when- ever this subject is broached they are pre- vented from moving by the estimates of cost. These are generaily secured from a local civil engineer, whose practical edu- cation' in country-road building is no better than the farmer's; but he gives figures based on technical knowledge de- rived from textbooks or from some experi- ence in railroad building, and these are so very large that the farmers are frightened and prefer bad rozds to taxation that will deprive them of their farms.” 1t goes on to say that greenhorns invari- ably prate of stone, ignorantof the fact that far beiter material exists in abun- dance and can be employed at a compara- tively trifling cost. Among them are nat- ural cement and hardpan. The resolutions were deservedly severe. They declare that “when public offices are used to serve ends other than the public benefit, or are entrusted to persons who are not apt te give to the public the best obtainable service,” our Governmeit fails. It charges that the public funds aredi- verted from public needs to private pur- poses, and then directly demands that the Board of Supervisors of the county make and maintain good public roads. Thus the two hindrances to the construc- tion of good roads are squarely hit. One is ignorance concerning road-making and the other is inefficiency and rascality on the part of public officers. This tells the whole story of bad roads in California. Such = condition of affairs would never exist if the people would exercise ordinary intelligence and a reasonable regard for their duties as citizens. Bad roads mean bad politics. The Patrons of Husbandry can easily avail themseives of the informa- tion which the State Bureau of High- ways is prepared to give, and can just as easily elect worthy citizens to administer the affairs of the counties. Intelligent co- operation will win the whole fight. C0AST EXCHANGES. The Napa Journal announces the dis- covery on A. A. Watson’s ranch at Napa Junction of a deposit of stone from which an excellent guality of building cement can likely be manufactured. If this dis- covery fulfills the hopes which it hasraised the State will gain enormously and another important source of wealth will be added to the long list which California already enjoys. Our contemporary says: ‘“‘Nearly all of the cement used here is imported from England, the price depending upon the amount in the San Francisco market and the will of the importers. With ce- ment at a reasonable figure, sidewalk building and other like improvements, public and private, requiring the use of cement, will be stimulated. The deposit of cement, 1f such it is, is apparently ex- haustless. An interesting phenomenon occurs in connection with the cement de- posit. Itisa vein of quartz, of how great extent is not known, which pierces the cement and could be worked cheaply at the same time. The outcroppings of the quartz are rich .in sulphurets and carry a little free gold. The sulphurets them- selves are blackish as though carrying galena. No extensive explorations or tests of the rock have been made as yet. Pro- fessor Surface of the college, who takes a lively interest in such things, has con- sented to make some tests In view of the large profits which have been secured by sugar-beet growers in various parts of the State, it would seem that the offer made by Claus Spreckels to furnish seed to all who wish to make ex- periments to determine the adaptability of | their section to the industry ought to be eagerly accepted, especially asa favorable result would more than likely secure one of the sugar refineries which he proposes to erect throughout the State. Itis clear that he could not be expected to make so heavy an investment on an uncertainty, and that he must depend on the intelli- gence and diligence of farmers to make the necessary experiments. The cost to them would be trifling and the benefits in the event of success would be very great. The Lodi Sentinel, in discussing these matters, reads the people of £ Joaquin County this severe lecture: strange as it may seem, little interest is shown by thefarm- ers of San Joaquin County in the efforts of Spreckels to get sngar-beet growing started here. The offer of free seed to all who wish to experiment with the beets has been accepted by many in the valley, but less than 10 per centof the requests for seed came from residents of this county. There is little likelihood of a best-sugar factory in this neighborhood if the farmers do not care to raise the beets or even dis- cover if their culture would be successiul here. The seed offer is still oven, IL J. Corcoran of Stockton supplying {ree all applicants.” The valite of the gold-mining industry to a community is that no financial de- pression can affect it, and that if profitable at all it is so underall circumstances. The following remarks made by the Virginia City Enterprise with reference to Nevada are true also of California: ‘‘Nevada need not be troubled at the depression which prevails in the eastern and central parts of the Union. Itis in line with what we all along said. Business in the East will continue depressed, but in Nevada we shall have local prosperity for local reasons. Nevada is a gold-producer. The East is depressed because of a lack of gold. vada is prosperous because of an abun- dance of that metal in our mines. The situation in the East, and especially the contrast between that secticn and this, must sooner or later open the eyesof a thoughtless public to the true causes of the trouble under which this country labors. But whether it does or does not, Nevada will go forward upon its career of pros- perity. Itwill develop its mines, open new farms and provide homes for additional povulation. Nothing can crush thisState. It is this assurance which should fill the heart of every Nevada man with hope and confidence.” The Christmas edition of the Fresno Ezxpositor is a handsomely printed and il- lustratéd affair of twenty-eight pages, with an artistically designed cover printed in colors and a strong array of special articles devoted 1o the resources, industries and attractions of Fresno County. According to the following excerpt from the Hayward Review, one of the most de- lightful towns of Alameda County is mak- ing an enviable record of progress, and thereby offering the strongest inducements for an increase of its size and prosperity: “‘San Leandro hastaken another step show- ing that it is live and progressive. By an almost unanimous vote it has decided to issue bonds to the amount of $10,000 for the purpose of putting in an electric light plant to light the town. Tiereisa grow- ing tendency toward municipal ownership of light and water supplies, experience havine shown that the plan has resulted in cheaper and more satisfactory service to consumers than under private owner- ship. San Leandro is to be congratulated on the outcome of its election, and it is safe to say its people will never have occasion to lock back with regret on their action in voting for bonds.” The holiday souvenir edition of the Ventura Democrat gives eloquent evidence of the taste, energy and public spirit of Ne-| that community. The attractions of Ven- v and the reasons for the happi- s residents are ably presented in this isstie of our exchange. The Galt Gazette, referring to the Lodi Terminal Railway, shows the advantages which would accrue to tne town of Galt if the road touched the town. In this, asin all similar cases, those places which most benefit by the acquisition of a new road are those which work havdest to secuse The Oakland Times improved the oppor- tunity offered by the recent exvosition held in that city to publish a special edi- tion of exceptional merit with reference to that event. The Oakland Echoes, one of the brightest literary and critical publications in the country, is now issued in a very attractive new form. Many California newspapers are showing great interest in THE Carr's expose of the straits into which political corruptionists have plunged Tacoma, and some of them are asking if the public affairs of their own towns and cities are properly conGucted. The- San Diego Tribune, for instance, de- clares that it is endeavoring to avert for San Diego the calamity which has fallen on Tacoma. It asserts that “among the numerous fraudulent raids on the city treasury was a gigantic water-swindiing scheme, by which a property valued by competent engineers at $200,000 was pur- chased by abond issue of $1,750,000, with an additional §1,750,000 for improvements.” It i3 commendable in any newspaper to lay on the lash when public rights are being beirayed by officers elected to per- form a trust. Concealment is always worse than exposure, as it is only by pub- licity that the evil is cured. The Santa Ana Blade has published a superb holiday number, choosing the magazine form as being the one best suited to the production of an artistic effect. The Chico Enterprise has been leased by Watson Chalmers to C. E. Small, one bf the brightest of Western editors. The Mount Pleasant (Utah) Pyramid, published by Williams & Boyden, two bright men from Plumas County, Cali- fornia, has entered upon its sixth year with every indication of prosperity and stability. The Stockton Independent, discussing the selection of stone for the new ferry build- ing at San Francisco, defends California stone and shows that while some sand- stones may have failed to stand the test of long exposure to our coast climate there are other stones whose permanence has been found unfailing. ‘California gran- ite,” it rightly says, *‘will certainly stand for all time, or at least as long as the ferry depot to be erected will be used. The mat- ter of cost seems to have turned the atten- tion of the authorities from the possibility of using granite in the ferry structure, but it would be worth the time and cost to in- vestigate the matter before a decision is reached. Amador County graniteis a new building material that should be examined by the Harbor Commissioners. Beautiful amples of the stone are to be seen in the Stockton free library building and it is safe 0 say that no better or handsomer building material has been placed in any building in this State. The columnsoraa- menting the front of the Hazelton library were quarried near Ione, in Amador County, and were sent in huge blocks to mills in Nevada, where machinery is lo- cated, and came here in a finished state. That tne stone is everlasting no one will doubt; the beauty of it is not excelled any- where. The only question then is asto the cost of getiing our the stone in shape to use in the building. It cannot be said that this State does not contain first-class building-stone since the Carrara quarries in Amador have been opened.” The enormous industry which the build- ing of a railroad produces is shown by the Stockton Independent. In discussing the Valley road it says that although since July 1 a vast amount of material has been handled in the yards, it is only a begin- ning of what is to follow. It adds: “While the yards have been in use there have been discharged at the wharf forty-six barges of weod material on which there were 223,728 ties, 157,000 lineal feet of piles and 2,355,139 feet of lumber and timbers. Counting the ties and piles as board measure there were 7,059,296 feet of ties and 1,685,620 feet of piles, making a total of 11,100,055 feet, lumber measure, landed at the yards. Out of this there Las been taken something over 78,000 ties and piling bridge timbers by the train load, and it continues to come and to go in like manner, though at pres- ent cnly the piling and bridge timbers are being sent forward. Besides the wood ma- terial landed at the wharf the company has there received some hundreds of tons of rails, about 400,000 tiepiates, angle bars and fishpiates by the thousands, bolts and spikes by the hundreds of kegs, and hun- dreds of pleces of bridgeiron. Though the amount of lumber received thus far has been enough to stock five or six common- sized lumber-yards, not more than one- third of the first order of ties has arrived, and the orders for piles and bridge timber which have been given out and not deliv- ered are larger than those which have been already landed.” The McMinnville (Or.) Transeript is happy to announce that although it isonly a little over six months of age it has de- veloped the strength of a giant from a poo- ular recognition of the fact that it isa virile agency of progress. The .Saturday Beacon, published at Po- mona, announces the beginning of its sixth volume. It justly points to its growth and popularify as evidence of ‘its worth. PERSONAL. Dr. W. 8. Taylor of Livermore is at the Palace. R. C. Croxton of the army is at the Cali- fornia, 8. R. Jewell, an attorney of Santa Rosa, is at the Grand. General John A. Kidder of Grass Valley isat the Palace. Charles Cunningham of Ukiah is & guest at the Grand. : C. W.Tryon, & mining man of Angels Camp, is at the Grand. F. E. Winsinger, a big rancher of Fresno, is at the Occidental. William H. Devlin, an attorney of Sacra- mento, is at the Lick. H. W. Crabb, & leading vineyardist of Oak- dale, is stuving at the Grand. Professor J. C. Branner of Stanford Univer- sity is a guest at the California. T. E. Langley, a fruit-shipper of Fresno, reg- istered at the Grand yesterday. George E.Faw, a grain merchant of Gon- zales, is a guest at the Occidental. C. A. H. Warfield, Sheriff of Merced, came in yesterday and registered at the Lick. William Johnston, & big rancher of Court- land, registered at the Grand yesterday. Buperior Juage R. McGarvey came down from Ukiah yesterday, and put up at the Grand. Jesse D. Carr, land-owner andipolitician of Salinas, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Occidental. : Lieutenant-Governor William T. Jeter came up from Santa Cruz yesterday and registered at the California. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. John Muir, after whom the famous Alaskan glacier takes its name, came down from Mar- tinez yesterday to visit his friend, William Keith. These two men sat together in the painter’s studio end told bear stories to each other for quite a while. Finally the conversa- tion lagged, owing probably to the fact that Keith had outyarned Muir. “John,” suddenly resamed William as though to get things under way again, “how did the Muir Glacier get its name? That is, who christened it the Muir Glacier?” The explorer took his hat off, ran_his fingers through the curly bair that covers his fore- head, and began: “In1879 1 was taking my regular summer exploration trip in Alasks, and one day found myself on the east side of Glacier Bay. Ihad to guide me the old map made by Vancouver, Unitarian Church of the Unity, Boston, has been called to the Church of the Messiah, New York, as associate to the pastor, Rev. Robert Collyer, the salary to be $8000. Ex-Empress Eugenie has recently deposited her will with a prominent London attorney, in which, true to her pledge, she has left a legacy toeach of the 5834 male persons of France born on the birthday of her son, Prince Louis. Frederick W. Wurster, Mayor-elect of Brook- 1yn, has sent in his application to become a member of the League of American Wheelmen. The Mayor-elect is a practical wheelman, and asheis an enthusiastic good-roads man the movement for better paved streets in Brooklyn is sure to have his support. Professor Frederick Starr of the University of Chicago has just started on a three months’ tour of Mexico and Guatemals jn the interest wy WAS DOING IT FOR JOHN MUIR JUST AS MUCH AS I EAT BREAK- FAST FOR HIM,” SAID THE EXPLORER. [Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.] who spent three years in that part of the country compiling it. That was over 100 years ago, but the chart has been used ever since by explorers and mariners. I found it possible to go up from the mainland nearly forty miles, and was dumfounded to see that Vancouver had not recorded that bay. Inasmuch as he had every little indenture and point carefully mapped out in all other parts of. the coast I be- gan a research for further information. The result was that I found seven distinet glaciers running a1 around the bay. The firstone I came to I named after Professor Geikie, the head of the Geodetic Survey of Great Britain, whom I regard the greatest suthority on glaciers we have in modern times. “Itwas a little late in the season, so Ire- turned to Sitka to make preparations for my trip back to California. While at Sitka I told some naval officers of the presence of the gla- ciers and it finally got to the ears of an officer by the name of Nicholls, who invited me to dine with him. He was up there on the old Jamestown, and Lester A. Beardslee, now an ‘Admiral in the United States Navy, was com- mander. It so happened that we dined on a little steamer anchored in the harbor, and atter we finished he got out Vancouver's map and I showed him the exact location of the glaciers. He took a leadpencil and defined them with dotted lines. Across the face of the largest one he wrote, ‘The Muir Glacier,’ saying ashe did so, ‘I think you are the discoverer, Mr. Muir, so it would be well to give it your name.’ e forwarded the chart on to Wash- ington and I never thought of the matter again until I saw it on the Government maps.’* “Were yon working for the Government then, John?” inquired Mr. Keith. “No, indeed. I wasdoing it for John Muir just as much as I eat breakfast for him. I wanted to goup into the cold region and I went. It gives me the greatest pleasure to get out in the wilds of creation and see what the undiscovered countries contain. I tell you, William, it was & grand sight to see those glaciers discharging their icebergs into the ocean with a noise like thunder. For thou- sands of years they have been pouring their frozen cargoes into the sea, and, like mighty rivers, they will go on until the end. Itisthe height of grandeur, Keith, the pulsations of nature, the throb of the mighty machinery of the earth. For those things, and those things alone, I wandered into the rth, to return awed and bewildered by their xglgnilude." Frank Fairbanks of Petaluma and Arthur Whitney were in the lobby of the Occidental talking with some friends the other day when Lan Mizner passed by. “I have never had a chance to get even on Mizner,” said Whitney. “I owe him one. In my sophomore year at Berkeley we had made preparations for the usual spread on ‘Junior Ex’ at the Zeta Psi house. I had ordered, among other things, a lot of ice cream and cakes down in Oakland. The man who was sent out with it on the old ‘dummy’ line stopped at the corner of Ban- croft way, where he had been told to get off the cars, but did not know where the Zeta Psi house was from there. But Mizner happened along, and the man handed Lan a card with our address, which I had left at the shop. Mizner was a member of the Chi Phi fraternity, and in those days was not in the habit of losing any tricks when he held the cards. So he di- rected the man to the Chi Phi clubhouse, and then hurried down there himself by a different road so as to instruct the servant to receive the ice cream. Our spread was not as much of a success as it should have been.” “What did you do to Mizner when you found out about it ?”” was asked. “Do to him ? Nothing, of course. We kept mighty quiet about it. It was & horse on us.” PREFERS “THE CALL.” Ttalia. To our numerous Italian readers of this City and of the Pacific Coast who read and ‘buy American papers, we give a word of ad- vice, and that is, to prefer THE CALL to any other paper in English. While we have no ill feeling to the others, the above-mentioned journal is the faithful friend of the Italians, and of IItalia, whose news it always notes with interest. THE CALL has a European tele- graphic service superior to all the other papers, and a day scarcely ever passes without its pub- lishing some dispatches direct from Rome and other Italian cities. This morning, for in- stance, THE CALL alone published an important telegram from Rome, with regard to events in Africa, and illustrated it with a map of the theater of war in Africa. PEOPLE WORTH READING ABOUT. Ouida, the authoress, wears whatat allevents looks like & reddish wig. The Russian Embassadors are paid twice as much as ours, but they have learned to keep silence in several es L Queen Victoris recently received a gift o blue and white water lilies from a leading florist*in New South Wales. The lilies were frozen in ice, and when they arrived at Wind sor were in perfect condition. | Rev. Minot J. Savage, since 1874 pastor of the of archaological and anthropological science. He intends to examine the drowned Aztec city at the bottom of Lake Chapala, and investigate the pygmies in the Chapula Mountains, in the interior of Guatemala. Among the persons who will lecture before | the National Geographical Society in Weshing- | ton this year are: Rear-Admiral Meade, Dr. D. C. sity Navy; Engineer Robert E. Peary, United States Seeretary Morton, General Richard Villafranea, Commodore Z. L. Tanner, United | States Navy; Mrs. Fannie B. Ward, Frank H. Cushing, of the Bureau of American Ethnology; Comptroller Eckels, George F. Kunz of New York ahd Gardiner G. Hubbard. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. He—That was a queer freak of Price’s—mar- rying & woman twice his age. I wonder how it came about? She—Naturally enough. He was without money and she was without price.—Judge. There’s only one objection I have to this cli- mate.” “What is that?” “The temperature and the price of coal don’t get high enough at the same time.”—Washing- ton Star. “That sour fellow, Grumpus, hasa job that just suits him.” “What's that 2" «He’s station-master where fifty trains go out every day, and he sees somebody miss every one of them.”—Pearson’s Weekly. Mrs. Dimpleton—How do you know you are | going to be in the first row at the tneater? You haven’t seen your husband since he got the tickets. Gilman, president of Johns Hopkins Univer- | l ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. | Mrcmaer Davirr—N. M., City. Michael | Davitt is & member of the Catholic church. | c | Patri—F. E. M,, City. The height ol Patti, the singer, is 5 feet 7 inches. IRVING AND TERRY—A. D. G., Petuluma, Cal. | Henry Irving and Ellen Terry are not “booked for San Franeisco for this season.” | DEAL IN CRIBBAG 8., Colma. In a three- handed game of cribbage, 10 matter who goes out, the deal always goes to the left, PADEREWSKI—A. D. G., Petaluma, Cal. Pade- rewski will appear at the California in this City during the second week in the month of ! February. | THE AcE I¥ CassiNO—A. S., Colma, Cal. Tn the game of cassino, after cards, spades, little cassino and big cassino, the ace to go out first is the one that goes with cards. ORIGIN oF THovgHT—F. E. M., City. If Val- des’ “Origin of Thought,” Wwhich was pub- lished some time since as a serial, has been issued in book form, the book catalogues at hand do not show it. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT—E. F. T., City. At the general election held in this State 1894 the amendment to the constitution rela. tive to the acquisition of real estate by aliens was carried by a vote of 119,309 for 10 56,805 against. ArazaMa Cramis—Subscriber, Alameda, Cal. Whatever amount was paid hy the English Government in satisfaction of the Alabama claims, according to the Geneya award, was turned over to the United States Government, 10 be held to meet all claims. Whatever sur- plus there is is still held by the Government for that purpose. AN ENEMY'S PROPERTY—R. K. M., City. An act of Congress merely declaring war does not authorize the confiscation of property in the United States. Proceeding to condemn the property of an enemy found within the terri- tory at the declaration of war must be in the exécution of some existing law, so says Whar- ton, on International Law. 8 EUCHRE—A. S, Colma. If in a game of euchre “for e small sum, just to make it inter- esting,’ A has one point to go, B has two points togo and C is euchred, neither A nor B gets the pot; they have to play the game out. If in a four-handed game of euchre No 1 plays alone, No. 2 plays alone against him, No. 1 takes three tricks, he scores one. OPERAS—F. E. M., City. To name the fen best operas ever written would be as difficult as to name the ten most beautiful women in San Francisco. Operatic productions create as much individual taste as does beauty, and what one individual might declare the best ten operas ever written hundreds would declare were not near the mark. MODERN INVENTIONS—G. V., City. Modern in- ventions such as the telegraph, railways and | steam vessels.were not known to the ancient Egyptiens or other ancients. The ancient | Greeks used a system of telegraph—that of sig- naling from distant points at night by means of beacon lights—but there is no record that | the ancients understood the medern systems. THE NEwW CENTURY—Geb., City. A century begins with the first day of the first year and | does not end till the close of the last day in its hundredth year. This mode of reckoning is often confused with the common mode of stat- | ing & person’s age. The eighteenth century be- | gan with the year 1701 and ended witn the ast day of the year 1800, the year completing the hundredth-year period giving the name to the century. The next century, the twentieth, 1 wmlbegin with the year 1901, Tuesday, Janu- ary 1. WaLNvrs—8. T., Corralitos, Santa Cruz County, Cal. George B. West of Stockton, a prominent grower of walnuts, says: ‘““Gathers ing the walnut erop is a simple process, and merely consists of picking up the nuts from | the ground where they fall, when ripe. Inorder to have a bright, clean nut, it is necessary to gather them from under the trees every day, and to preserve the kernel plump and in a highly flavored condition the nuts, after they are gathered, should be dried in the shade. A good method is to put them in a tray and spread them out to a depth of from three to four inches.” There are some who, to make | the nuts more presentable, wash them and | then sulphur them in_order to blanch them. | Some use too much sulphur, and the result 13 | that the nut acquires a foreign taste, which, to some people, is as the taste of saltpeter. This last-named article is not used in the | preparation of the walnut for the market. LETTERS FROM THE PEOFLE. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—Sie: It seems to me decidedly ungenerous for East- ern papers to treat the Psaific Coast as they | do. In my judgment you people on tne coast— Iam somewhat familiar with it—will never get ©even with these Eastern States until you make a move to relocate the National capital in the | West. The country needs a new seat of Na- tional Goverament, and on a grander scale in every way than it has at present. JAMES A. TOMPEINS, ‘Washington, D. C., Dec. 24, 1895. | PURE mixed candies, 10c 1b., Townsena’s. * Sanepiggaton | PERSONAL attention. Roberts Printing Co.* ! . TOWNSEND'S famous broken candy, 10¢ 1b, * ———— | SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press | Clivping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —_— e — SPECIAL three days’ sale, Monday, Tuesday, Mrs. Plankington—No; tut there’s a ballet | 7 2. in the play—New York Herald. Wednesday only, 2-1b. baskets Cal. glace fruits, our own make, 75¢, reg. price $1; cream mixed | es1h 5 % A countryman went to a lawyer, laid before | candiesl5e 1b.,reg. 25¢ 1b. Townsend’s, 627 Pal, him a case in dispute and then asked him if | he would undertake to win the suit. | “Most certainly I will undertake the case. | In the Etruscan tombs of Northern Italy gold rings have been found made in the We are sure to win.” Peasant—So you really think it is a good case ? i Lewyer—Undoubtedly. I am prepared to guarantee you will get a verdict in your favor. Peasant—Well, then, sir, I don’t think I'll go to law this time, for, you see, I have just given you my opponent’s case, and not my own.— Household Words. THE PAST: Night with her wings infolds the dying day; ‘The morning sun melts night itsel? away Time robs us of the days to come no more, And leaves us waiting still upon the shore. The waves erase our footprints from the sand, ‘While others, moving to the unknown land, 1mprint new traces, only to abide Till sunset whispers to the evening tide. No memory aching with the lapse of years, No heart’s remorse all sodden with our tears, No sweet mementos graven on the brain Can call the past—we can but try again. WiLLIAM ToD HELMUTH. A GIRL'S FROCK. The Eton jacketis the favorite style for street costumes for misses as well as ladies,and a simpler costume it is impossible to find. Itis very easily made, there being but six pieces to the entire suit, two forming the skirt and two m ‘lekl::, the remaining two being the sleeve collar. A Rob Roy plaid-of blue and gray was made up after tK!l design, and was worn with a changeable blue silk waist. A brown and white plaid skirt was made to wear with a plain brown jacket, which had extra revers of white, the waist worz under- neath being of cream lace over white silk. Blue serge made ns after this model makes a serviceable dress, and a touch of color may be added striped having & waist of bright plaid or ‘ shape of a cord, a large knot of intricate pattern forming the principal part of the ornament. RHEUMATIEM s caused by lactic acid in the blood It appears as lameness in the back or stiffness in the arms and limbs. Neutralize the lactic acid by puritying the blood by taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla. ——————— 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- cago, via Kansas City, without change. Anmex cars on sharp connection for Denver and St. Louis. Twenty-seven hours quicker than ths quickest competing traln. The Santa Folias beea put in fine physical condition &nd is now the bess transcontinental railwa; +Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth- ers for their children while Teething with pertecs success. 1tsoothes the child, softens the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arlsing from teething or other causes. Kor sals by Druggists in every part of the world. Pesuraand agk for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrap. 233 + bottle. L ————— CORONADO.—Atmosphere is pertectly dry, soft and mild, and is entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam- ship, including fifteen days’ board at the Hotel del ‘Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 50 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery st., San Francisco. i o i George du Maurier has been well repaid for writing “Trilby.” He ’S"“ less than six months on the story, and from various sources it has already paid him more than $125,000. < NEW . TO-DAY. PRRSEN CIVEN At this season should be useful, neat and tasty. We have a new stock of Manicure Goods, Atomiz- ers, Brushes of all kinds, Perfumery in_plain and fancy bottles, and prices to suit every one, at the WONDER DRUGSTORE »FLETCHEB & Co., 1028 Market Street. WONDERS IN TOILET ARTICLES, | WONDERS IN PERFUMERY, WONDERS IN DRUGS, Aud Wonders in Prices All Through.