The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 10, 1896, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALT, one week, by carrie Daily end Ennday CALT, one year, by mail. Datly and Sunday CALL, six months, by mal Daily anfl Sunday Caxi, three months by mail' 1.50 Daily and Sundsy CaLz, one month, by matl.. Sunday Caxx, one year, by mail WEEKLY CALX, one year, by mall BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Selephone. Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS; 517 Clay Street. Telephone.... Main-1874 BRANCH OFFICES 680 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open umti) $:30 o'clock. $59 Hayes street; open until o'clook. 717 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission sireets; open ootil o'clock. 2515 Mission street; open untll 9 0'clock. 316 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE 3 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. JANUARY 10, 1896 SPEAKS FOR ALL. send the Kaiser an ul- of reciprocity. Cuban independence lies in Havana and to capture the one is to gain the other. Arizona and New Mexico should follow Utah into statehood and follow closely. A Cleveland bond issue cannot be put into better odor by calling it a popular loan. gs that speaks londest at way that France is not One of theth this time is the talking. Utah should put her young men to the front in the Senate if she wishes to come to the frout herse! The Kaiser could watch England better if he did not have to overlook Alsace and Lorraine in doing Europe has often carried warinto Africa, but this time it looks as if Africa might carry war into Furope 1t seems certain that as long as Clev lana is in office the endless chain of defi and bond issues will go on. With the load veland has piled on it the Democratic donkey will never have strength enough to buck him off. If ever Victoria felt like spanking one of her grandchildren the time 1s right now and the fellow’s name is William. In the shuffle of politics Hawaiian annexation has turned up again in Con- gress and may prove to be trumps. In the present situation of European affairs it would seem that if Russia wishes anything she has only to ask for it. Talking the funding bill to death would not be as good as killing it by a decisive vote, but it will do in an emergency. While the Kaiser talks as the arbiter of Europe the world is beginning to pay at- tention to the way the Czar saws wood. The reports of the recent battles around Havana make it evident the Spaniards have succeeded in holding the telegraph line. California will have eriough to do paying her share of the Cleveland bonds with- out having to pay funding bitl bonds as | well. The third-term movement doesn‘t make much progress, but it makes more than any other movement in the Democratic camp. The Senate should remember that in speaking of the emergency tariff biil the emphasis should alweys be puton the emer- gency. The war flurry will not be without its good effects, for it has inclined the Senate to favor large appropriations for coast defenses. The Philadelphia streetcar men are talk- ing of another walkout and of course everybody in the city has to get ready to walk also. A British Minister sent to German Po- land would be a good enough recognition of the favor of a German Minister in the Transvaal. o T A TN The one consoling feature of the politi- cal situation is that the peopte will have a chance to vote on Clevelandism before the year is over. To the Democratic party Clevelandism islike a porous plaster that was easy to put on but won't come off again without taking the hide with it. Jefferson Democracy was very good De- mocracy and Jackson Democracy was fair, but Cleveland Democracy is very poor De- mocracy and that’s why the Democrats swear. General Campos complains the Cubans never stop long enough to be overtaken, but he forgets he never stopped himself until he got the intrenchments around Havana. The speakers who had to respond to the toast to Cleveland at the Jackson banquets must have had some difficulty in refrain- ing from the old guotativn about Hyperion and the Satyr. The notable feature of the Democratic A STRONG MEMORIAL. The memorial addressed to Congress by the Committee of Fifty makes the follow- ing main points: That the earnings of the aided lines which might have been applied to the Government debt were wrongfully and dishonestly withheld and diverted and that a funding of the debt by Congress would be 2 condoning of that act; that an extension of the debt at a rate of 2 per cent would require the pay- ment by the aided companies of about $300,000,000 in fifty years; that increased charges for transportation would have to be made, and that this would fall princi- pally upon the industries of Catifornia; that the plain, speedy and rational solu- tion of the matter would be the foreclosure of the Government’s mortgage and the en- forcement of the lien on the private assets of the surviving partner in the case of the Central Pacific if it should be found that the estates of the deceased members can- not be reached; that the first-mortgage bonds were not issued according to law and, hence, that the first mortgage does not take priority over the Government's mortgage; that among the assets which would be affected by proceedings in fore- closure is the Southern Pacific Railroad south of Gilroy and Alcalde, because it was built on the credit and with the earn- | ings of the Central Pacific Railroad, such earnings being diverted from their proper use inextinguishing the Government debt; that, under all these circumstances, the passage of a funding act would stultify the Government, condone illegal and dishonest acts of wide potoriety and bring shame upon the Coné’ress of the United States. The memorial contains no trace either of bitterness or a spirit of injustice. Itisan earnest demand foran intelligent handling of a great problem affecting the destiny of the country and a plea to the Govern- ment to save California from the ruin which a funding measure would bring. Perhaps it is a knowledge that the case which the opponents of the funding bill are ready to make out is incontrovertible that has decided the Senate and House Committees on Railroads to shut out ar- guments before them when the bills are taken up. That need not prove dism ing, for the great battle will be fought on tue fioor of the houses when the bills come up for passage. In the arguments there to be made the provonents of the bill should be forced to show that it will be possible for the com- panies to pay the principal and accruing interest in fifty years. This has suddenly become one of the most important features of the matter. The ocean 1s free; there can never be & monopoly of the Cape Horn route. Such an advance of rates as will be ry to raise the required revenue would leave so large a margin of profit for ships sent round the Horn that we may be sure they would be put on without delay, and so prevent the raising of the required funds. For that matier, the Panama Railway is not owned by Mr. Huntington, and it will never submit to such a raising of tariffs as will build up the Cape Horn traffic at the expense of the isthmian line. Let the supporters of the measure show that the rates can be advanced sufficiently without destroying the money-earning capacity of the roads and the issue will then be clearer. BRAVE POOL-SELLERS. Prosecuting Attorney Dare, having ob- seryed that the downtown pool-sellers are not keeping faith with him, and that they are unwilling to wait a judicial determina- tion of the cases which he has already be- gun, has reopened his campaign against them and proceeded with arrests for viola- tions of the Ellert ordinance. It is-not likely that the poolroom men would feel so sure of their position did they not have the support of a branch of the municipal goyernment over which the official prosecutors of offenses against the law have no control. The Solid Eight of the Board of Supervisors have a broad wing of protection which Mr. Dare is un- able to clip. They have gone so far as to pass the omnibus pool ordinance to print, which means the last step they can take if the measure isintended merely as a threat. Possibly they will pass the ordi- nance and so put a stop to the strong stim- ulus which bas spurred horse-breeding in California and placed the State in the lead in this important industry. A large majority of the men who have sought the office of Supervisor of San Francisco and betrayed their trust after election never had a reputation to lose. Professional boodlers, the tools of corrupt political bosses, have no ulterior ambition. With them office of Supervisor is merely a transient opportunity to make money, not the beginning of a bright po- litical career. Such men never come from the higher walks of life. Were they of that kind they would mnever be selected for office by the bosses, with whom they share their plunder. Such men care nothing for the condemnation which they receive from newspapers, ministers of religion and or- ganizations of public-spirited citizens, Their public career is intended to end with the expiration of their term of office and they can then retire with a comfortable fortune and take the world easy. It is the election of such men that makes poolrooms possible, burdens the City with grievous taxes, permits disgraceful public work and causes & surrender of the streets to rich and grasping corporations. These things and more will continue so long as decent citizens are willing for the affairs of the City to be conducted by unscrupulous bosses. REFORMS IN FUNERALS, The man of intelligence and pluck who persistently sticks to a fight which he be- lieves to be right and which bears an as- pect of common-sense on its face is reason- ably sure to win in the end. It is of such stuff that the “crank’ is made, but if the influence of that energetic person were re- moved the wheels of progress would re- volve with painful slowness. The time was when Henry Bergh, the ‘‘cranky” Ger- man who could not bear to see horses mal- treated, was a butt of ridicule for the banquets on Jackson’s day was the attempt of the cuckoo orators to put Cleveland in Jackson’s shoes without losing him dur- ing the operation. g2 As it is reported from London that peace in the Transvaal is assured the war- ships and troops which England is send- ing to the Cape are probably intended only to celebrate it. The Government is having much better success with big guns than with armor plate, and war promises to continue more favorable to those who do the shooting than to those who are shot at. It is true the relations between England and Germany are very much strained, but then it must be remembered that diplo- macy is elastic and can be stretched a long way before it comes to a rupture. The efforts of Senator Perkins and others to make the emergency tariff a genuine protective measure are good in themselves, but with Cleveland in the White House they cap avail nothing. whole great city of New York. To-day his name is blessed throughout the land, and a spirit of compassion for helpless and useful domestic beasts has added a luster to the torch of American civilization. A very interesting man of this type is now visiting San Franzisco. He is Cap- tain George A. Raabe, and his one aim in life is to educate men out of the practice of removing the hat at funerals. He con- fines his missionary work principally to benevolent societies, whose general cus- tom is to bare the head while laying a dead comrade away. It did not require Captain Raabe to inform us that the prac- tice does not recommend 1tself to the most primitive human judgment; that baid- ness, so prevalent among men, and the fashion of cutting the hair, meke the bar- g of the head outdoors, even in fair weather, a perilous thing and an invita- tion to serious results if the weather be bad. We knew that already; but we real- ize how helpless we are under the iron hand of custom until some strong spirit steps forth and leads us to the light. Captain Raabe might have gone further, but he doubtless knows by instinct (ag all Ny N successful reformers know) that the simpler a fight the easier it may be won. That he will win there can be no doubt, though long and hard years are yet ahead of him. After him may comeanother who will make a similar campaign against the custom of inexperienced bearers of burdens running risk of serious injury by carrying heavy caskets. This is gradually passing away in the older communities, but the Te- form has hardly made an impression in California. Itisa proper showing of re- spect and affection to have pallbearers, but the rational application of the sentiment | is to make them serve merely in an honor- ary capacity, and have trained men to bear the casket. Such bearers would com- mit no blunders and sustain no injuries. THE JACKSON DAY SPEECHES. If the speeches made at the Democratic banquets on Jackson day are signs of the drift of things in that party the third- term movement may be accounted as one of the importantissuesin our politics. All the speeches worthy of reporting were lit- tle more than laudations of Cleveland. No other living Democrat seems to have been named, and even the memory of the hero of New Oriears was almost ignored in the eagerness of the speakers to express their loyalty to the man from Buffalo. It is significant that the committees in charge of the banquets in the larger East- ern cities selected members of the Cabinet to deliver the principal speeches. Secre- tary Herbert spoke in New York and Secretary Smith in Philadelphia. Both declared Jackson to be a ‘‘sound-money Democrat,”” and placed Cleveland upon the same pedestal as a party leader and a Fres- ident equally worthy of Democratic admi- ration and popular support. The tenor of the two addresses was identical, and even in the langnage used there is a striking resemblance, It was as if both had been carefully prepared beforehand and a stud- | ied sentiment agreea upon, though of course that was not necessary, for while there are many cuckoos there is but one note to the cuckoos’ song. The speeches are the more remarkeble by contrast with those delivered at the Jackson banquets of the last and the pre- ceding year. This year the more notable gatherings were those of the Eastern cities. Last year and the vear before it was the voice of the Mississippi Valley that spoke loudest and clearest. Addresses were made in Chicago and in Cincinnati that distinctly repudiated Clevelana and showed a tendency among leading Demo- crats to break away from the goldbug, bond-issuing administration. Then Cleve- land was not placed on the pedestal with Jackson. On the contrary, he was de- nounced as a violator of all Democratic traditions, an opponent of the welfare of the people, an ally of the banking power against which Jackson fought, and false to every principle of Jacksonian Democracy. The change in the tone of the speeches of this year seems to imply a changein the sentiment of the party. The cuckoos are now shouting vigorously, while their opponents are dumb. There were many factions of Democracy that denounced Cleveland a year or more ago, but none of them show any head against him now. Tammany, in the person of Senator Hill, and the silver Democrats, in the person of Senator Vest, have spoken as apologists for him in the Senate. Opposition to him undoubtedly exists among the leaders and in the ranksof Democracy, but everywhere it has been reduced to a sullen silence. There is, in fact, no longer a Democratic party. A Cleveland party has usurped its place aud name, and the third-term move- ment, which the intelligence of the coun- try bas so long refused to rezard as any- thing serious, has now assumed propor- tions that can no longer be overlooked or 1gnored in any study of our political con- ditions. The launching of the tank-oil steamer George Loomis Wednesday means a great deal to San Francisco. The steamer, though small, can lay down 300,000 barrels of oil in the City a month, and as the charge for transportation will be much lower than that imposed by the railroad the cost of the oil as fuel will be consia- erably less than the coals which now constitute our main dependence. The oil is to come from the wells of Ventura, where a development of this rich native source of wealth has been re- cently made. Summerland particularly has suddenly become famous for its abund- | ant oil deposits, and capital is flowing into | the town. Besides this source of supply are the oil wells of Los Angeles. In both cases it will be a simple matter to run the oil to the coast in pipes and transport it thence in tank vessels at very small ex- pense. Both ends of the State will receive the benefits arising from the development of this oil deposit. The introduction of oil as a manufacturing fuel will be neces- sarily a slow process, as more or less ex- pensive alterations will bave to be made in boilers; but the adoption of the cheap and efficient fuel by a manufacturer in one line will compel his competitors to follow Lis example, and so the business will be built up. A considerable redue- tion of the cost of manufacturing fuel makes the competition of California manu- facturers with their Eastern rivals, who have so firm a Lold on the local field, a simple matter. ‘While this is going on with regard to oil the railroad from Stockton to the coal de- posit of Corral Hollow is steadily creeping across the plains and bringing nearer and nearer the day when a good manufacturing coal can be laid down in San Francisco for about $250 a ton. As Eastern manufac- turers get coal for less than $1 a ton there is still a disadvantage, but it is more than offset by the cost of laying down articles of Eastern manufacture in this market. The tank steamer, the southern oil wells, the Corral Hollow Railroad, and the prac- tically inexhaustible deposit of good man- ufacturing coal which it will tap, combine to make a very bright picture for Cali- fornia. At the same time, the raiiroad to the coal mine cannot produce its best results in the absence of improved water facilities between Stockton and San Francisco. The influences which are operating at Wash- ington in favor of the railroad funding bill and against the Nicaragua canal are also opposed to an appropriation for the improvement of the navigable rivers of California. That opposition has been con- strued as an effort to keep the inland traffic in the hands of the present mo- nopoly and indirectly to cripple the effi- ciency of the Valley road. It is well for all these matters to be kept in ming, although none of them affects the very gratifying outlook which the launching of the Loomis presents. Hoke Smith says President Jackson was a champion of sound money, and the world, remembering the money he stood for included both silver and gold, admits that for once Mr. Smith has deviated into the truth. — ; Before many years pass Alaska will be the only territorial region we have, but that is big enough to last a long time, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “There is no brand of slang so hard to under- stand as political slang,” said Police Judge Campbell while conversing on that subject in the corridors of the City Hall recently. ‘I heard a good story on Jim O'Brien recently in which political vernacular played a mostim- portant part. It happened some time during the last election, when Jim was keeping his \ U An Unfinished Sketch of Judge Camp- bell, Who Told the Unfinished Story. eyesopen on the roundersand watching the general layout. He got into his buggy early in the morning, and, bidding Mrs. O’Brien g00d-by for the day, told her he could not be home until iate in the afternoon as there was some job on foot that required the closest at- tention. “Along about noon there was a loud knock at the front door of the O'Brien residence, and Mrs. O'Brien went to see who it was. Imagine her surprise upon apening the door to see a tough-looking ward-striker stending on the steps. “ s Jim in ?" he inquired with a rich Bow- ery brogue. “‘He is not and I do not expect him home until late in the afternoon,’ responded Mrs. O'Brien, politely. ““Well, if you can git word to ’em give him de tip dat de gang is goin’ to knife him in de Tirty-fourt’ Ward. See? ‘I beg your pardon, sir. 1 do not under- stand you,’ exclaimed the politician’s wife, in alarm, ““Youdon’t? Why dey are goin’ to giv’ ’im de gaff, cut his t'roat. Tip ’im off if ye knows where he is.” “‘Cut his throat?” “‘Dat’s what. Dey ain’t goin’ todo not’in’ 1o ’im but kill him dead. Now, dat’s right. But, sit, you do not mean that any harm will come to him ? asked the lady, now thor- oughly frightened at the prospect of her hus- band’s danger. ‘Cannot something be done to find him? “‘Cert. Dat's what I'm here fer. I just wants to tip de game off to *im, so he will be next. See? I ain’t trowing no time away in dis game, but if Jim don’t keep his eve pealed dey will Urow de knife into his ribs and twist it, See? With that he made &clumsy bow and swaggered off, leaving Mrs. O'Brien in a very excited frame of mind. She closed the door mechanically and went back to dress her- self for the street, with the intention of finding Jim immediately to save him from the knife of the opposition. When she was about ready to £0 out there was & sound on the front porch as though several people were walking. ‘There they &re bringing Jim's body back. Iam too late. They have knifed him st the Thirty- fourth Ward,’ she soliloquized in agony, and instantly flew to the front door to.see if there was enough life left n Jim for him to recognize her. “Jim had reiurned unexpectedly with some friends, and at lunch &ll hands took a turn at explaining that the ‘knife, the ‘gaff’ and the political ‘twist’ was not-serious unless admin- istered by both parties. I guess it is not neces- sary for me to finish thisstory, gentlemen; you all understand what the heeler meant.” - General Josiah Howell, who had the honor of leading the Fourth Brigade of the California National Guard for nine years, having been commissioned by Governor Low and Governor Haight, is again sojourning in this State. Most of the time since 1883 he has resided at Sydney, N. S. W., as the representative in Aus- tralia of the New York Life Insurfince Com- pany. “Sydney is & charming place,” sald General Howell yesterday, “and counting its suburbs is about the size of San Francisco. Itisnow midsummer there, but the weather does not become oppressively hot. Yes, electricity is ex- tensively used in Sydney to lightstores, hotels, oftices and dwellings and to propel streetcars. Cable-cars are in use as well as steam tram- ways. The cost of riding in the streetcars between points within the city proper isless than it is in San Francisco, but for suburban rides extending a distance of three miles or more the service costs more. The city is divided into sections, and the tickets contain sectional coupons. For a mile seetion one can get a ride for 2 cents, but for the distance. of five miles the charge is 10 cents. “There is no tax in Sydney on real estate, Revenue is raised by a stamp tax on checks and receipts. The system resembles our oid form of the internal-revenue tex on bank checks. The water supply, which isabundant, 1s owned by the municipality and managed by & Board of Water Commissioners which taxes the houses supplied. The Fire Department of Sydney, I should say, is not asactive oreflicient as the department in San Francisco. ‘‘The people over there are great for holidays, There is a half-holiday on every Saturday, and on Good Fridaya holiday begins which lasts until the following Tuesday. All stores and offices are closed, and business is entirely sus- pended. The people of Sydney are great play- goers. Places of amusement are generously patronized, and as for the races everybody goes to them. “The people over there seem to get more en- joyment out of life than the Americans get in this country. The pressure of -business is lighter and social hospitalifies are not neg- lected. The climate is delightful and the suburban scenery of Sydney surpassinglyjbeau- tiful.” ? VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS. Winking the Other Eye. Bodie Mining Index. Cleveland and Salisbury are winking at each other across the waste of water. It's all right now. B Let Us Have a Navy. Alameda Encinal. We want peace with the rest of mankind. We mean to have it. Butinorder to command peace must be able to protect our portsand our territory at all times. We Can Feed Them. Stockton Independent. Let Europears go to war as soon as they please over their version of the Monroe doc- trine. American farmers can feed them and send the food abroad on American vessels after the warring countries make the sea un- safe for each other’s ships. We Need the Canal. Oakland Times. The necessity of constructing” the Nicaragua canal must bo recognized by ome and all for the overland raflroad system running out of Oakland and San Francisco has succeeded in securing the Panama Mail Steamship Com- pany and crushing out ail opposition in that direction. Wants the Earth and the Gold. Los Angeles Times. Wherever rich deposits of gold are discoy- ered British aggrossion is likely to follow. Venezuels, Alaska and South Africa furnish cases in point. The South Atrica_invasion was not & howling success from the Enelish stand- points and there isw's mfch Tikelinood that ritish aggression will be any more successful in Venezuela and Alaska than ithas been in the Transvaal. John Bull isn't going to be be permitted to “run” the whole earth. Develop the Mines. Santa Rosa Republican. The thorough exploitation oi the deposits of precious metals in the State will surely lead to the establishiug of many times the number of mills now in operation. This, of course, will call for the employment of more men, who will consume the products of our farms and factories. Thus every department of industry ‘will be benefited, PERSONAL. Ex-Judge S. M. Buck of Eureka is at the Lick. Senator J. M. Seawell of Mendocino is at the California. L. F.J. Wrinkle, a mining man or Keeler, is at the Palace. Frank Mattison, a business man of Santa Cruz, is in the City. G. N. France of Des Moines, and formerly a hotel-keeper there, is in the City. P. W. Stanford of New York is at the Califor- nia accompanied by Mrs. Stanford. W. A. Soule of Rochester, N. Y., is visiting the City and is stopping at the Palace Hotel. Thomas Hess, a mining man of Ouray, Colo., is among recent arrivals. He is accompanied by his wife. J. C. Hopper of Fresno, formerly one of the officials of that town and now engaged in min- ing, is at the Grand. Dr. J. E. Gandy of Spokane, formerly & mem- ber of the Washington State Assembly, is ameng the recent arrivals. H. B. Maxson, formerly United States Sur- veyor-General of Nevada and now of the United States Survey, 1s in the City. Lieutenant R. M. Schofleld, son of General Schofield (retired), arrived from.Washington, D. C., last night, and is &t the Palace. C. D. Morgan, & banker of Chicago, is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife and daughter. They are en route to Southern California to spend the winter. Isaac Keim of Chicago, manager for the big firm of Seigel & Cooper, who are toopen & large store in the Parrott building, Market street, who has been here for several days, has started for the East. David Stark and wife (nee Miss Bertha M. E. Wagner) have returned from their bridal trip to the southern part of the State and have taken up their residence at 701 Twenty-first street, corner of Valencia. Hon. Seymour D. Thompson, author of “Com- mentaries on the Law of Private Corpora- tions,” left last evening for St. Louis, where he will resume his law practice, interrupted by the compilation of his extensive work. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. Among recent arrivalsare: W.M. Cary, Union-square; J. J. Crooke, Murray Hill; 0. O. Heydenfeldt, St. Stephens; C. P. Lawrence, Coleman; J. M. Chase, Grand Union; E. R. Baxter and J. M. Herlmes, Gilfey; W. . Wilsten and wife, Astor. JOY COMETH IN THE DMORNING. Peace was here yesterday, Joy comes tO-morrow ; Why wilt thou, heart of mina, Dark bodings borrow ? Shrilly the te mpest shrieks, Kierce roar the waves; High roll the curling crests, Deep the black graves. Now the cold midnight falls, <Clouds overwhelm. Memory 1lights the seas! Hope holds the helm ! Peace was here yesterday, Joy comes to-morrow. Why wilt thou, heart of mine, Dark bodings borrow —The Bookman. TAEE RECIPROCITY OUT OF POLI- TICS. The present is a good time to have a general rally for reciprocity, one so far-reaching and emphatic that it shall be taken out of politics. The country has just rallied, in Congress and out, to the support of the President under the standard of the Monroe doctrine. The Repub- licans stand by the President in & grandly non- partisan way, and the Democrats would do well to reciprocate by upholding reciprocity. The Chicago Record of yesterday morning comes out strongly in favor of reciprocity. This is very eignificant, for that is a mugwump paper, its Democratic leanings being due to its espousal of free trade. The paper has no other bond of Democratic sympathy. When, there- fore, the Record urges the passage of the Beach bill, the reasonable inference is that the free- traders are prevared to abandon the anti- reciprocity ground taken in 1892 and incor- porated into the Wilson-Gorman tariff, The Record begins its leader of yesterday with the observation, “One good move in the present Congress is that in the direction of the revivel of reciprocity legislation.” The argu. ment made in support of this proposition is not remarkable, one way or the other, the position itself being the significant fact in the case. ‘The argument for reciprocity is put more cogently by Mr. Allerton in a published letter to Congressman Cannon than it is in the editorial, for he is speciaily familiar with the chiaf bad effect of repeal. Mg, Allerton is one of the leading packers and cattle dealersin Chicago, or was during_his more active busi- uess life. He has witbdrawn' somewhat from practical affairs, bvt for many years he has been one of the kings of the livestock market. He asserts that the repeal of reciprocity decreased the shipments of live cattle for export more than one-half end the dressed-beef shipments t0 560,000 head of cattle. Here are the essen- tial paragraphs of the letfer: Restoring the tariff will not furnish immediate relief to the Goverament. It will check the im- poriation of foreign goods until the importer has 801d out, then he will be clamoring again for free trade. Restore reciprocity, open the markets of the world for our cattie, hog products and canned goods, remembering that we can 1,000,001 of cattle & year and that 80 per cent of these goods are shipped abroad. France and Germany have put an excessively high tariff on these goods, mak- Ing it almost probibliory, aud, besides this, have prohibited our pork products and cattle, claimin, that they were diseased, when the facts are that and many others have sfpped live cattle for a numoer 0f years and have never lost one single steer by disease. Since the repeal ot reciprocity, although there are less hogs and 600,000 less cattle than in 1893, cattle aud hogs haye'dropped $1a hundred. The foreign exchange is made south and west 02 the Alleghenies. Restore reciprocity—the farmers’ -products will increase in value and will be shipped abroad and {mmediate help will be given the Gov- ernment 1f We can export to the markets of the world. 1f this feature of legislation can be once taken out of politics it is hardly possible that the American peogla would ever consent 10 putting it in again. It should be placed on the same high plane as the Monroe doctrine.—Chicago Inter Ocean. PEOPLE WORTH READING ABOUT. Gotti, one of the recently appointed cardi- nals, is the son of a Genoese longshoreman, and was brought up in poverty and self-sac- rifice. It is said that Sir Frederick Leighton intends to beaueeath his superb Kensington mansion to the English Royal Academy to serve asthe cffi- cial residence of its presidents. Dr. Eleas Leounrot, a country physician of Finland, has been called the “Christopher Co- lumbus of Finuish poetry.” The doctor has ‘written one or two epic poems celebrating the early history of the country. Henry Watterson, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, has been engaged by the New York Department of Public Instruction to give & lecture on Abraham Lincoln in the State Normal College in Albany on April 6. Comparatively little has been heard of Li Hung Chang in this country since the close of the China-Japanese war. He is at present liv- ing a retired life in Peking, and is rapidly fail- ing in health. There is & Smith family in Ohio with pecu- liar given names. The father is the Rev. Jere- miah Prophet Elijah Smith. His sons are named Most Noble Festus and_Sir Walter Scott Bart, and his deughters Juan Fernandez Island and Terra del Fuego. ) _ One of the latest enthusiasts among the fol- lowers of the bicyele is the Crown Princess Stefanie of Austria. She has begun to take les- sons, and proposes to ride on a wheel through & part of England next spring. The Crown Princess is the widow of Prince Rudolph. Victor Baillet, a citizen of Menin, France, now 103 years old, is a survivor of the battle of Waterloo. He was made a prisoner aiter re- ceiving a severe suker cut in the head, on June 18, 1815, and conducted to Brussels with~the flag of the One Hunared ana Fifth Regiment, captured by the English. Tle old soldier is still active, and loves to tell of Napoleon, whom he saw many times on that eventful day. There will be a celebration of Baillet’s birth- day in Menin next April. A GIRL AUTHOR. Miss Henrietta Nina Imovillijaithough but 12 years old, is a literary light of no little brilliancy. She is not only a translator of Italian fiction, but also a writer of original matter. A little over a year ago she edited the Happy Hours, & manuscript magazine of considerable circulation in West Medway, says the Boston Post. She now resides with her father-in Everett and is the publisher of the Youths’ Bell. Ten numbers have already appeared. It has a large circulation.among the members of the Epworth Junior League, but is not Henrietta Nina Imovilli, Aged 12. confined to these readers, as it is also sub- scribed to quite extensively by the general public. Miss Imovilli is a bright young lady, and | those who read her charming translation of an Italian author in the Post some two weeks | 820 must testify to her ability in this line, at least, and she is fast developing her talents in other way: ALLEGED HUMOR. That she'll disappear entlrely | As evolutes the race Don’s ever fear; there'll always be ‘The woman in the case. —Detroit Tribune. “You know what enemies Wilson and Wat- son were? Well, when Watson died, old Wil- son sent a beautiful floral ‘gates ajar'—" “I'm glad to hear it. Ihate to think a man could not forgive—" “Wait till I get through. Behind the gates | was a stairway—leading downward.”—Indian- apolis Journal. Mr. Slobbs—What is that horrible din in the kitchen? Mrs. Slobbs—I suppose it's the cook breaking her New Year's resolutions, — Philadelphia Record. His mother—You see, your grandpapa is very sick. Say something to him. The sou—Grandpa, would you like to have soldiers at your funeral ?—L'Illustration. He—What {s that, dear? She—Angel food. Imade it myself. He—You'd better eat it, dear. You're the only angel in this house. t. Louis Star. | Mrs. Suburb—I though you safd it was the little boy next door who was making all the noise? Little Johnnie—So it was, ma. I was hitting him with & stick.—London Tit-Bits, GIRL'S DRESS WITH LONG FRENCH WAIST. Exquisite little evening gowns may be made aftor this model, taffetas, challies, organdies, | mulls and numberless ofher materials being employed. The waist has asemi-fitted lining, over which the material is gathered. The skirtis simply gathered and sewed to the waist. A pink China silk seen had trills of white mull and yellow Valenciennes lace over the shoulders. A white taffetas, with blue stripes, had blue ribbon rolled around the top of the weist, with bows on the shoulders of the same ribbon. This seme pattern can be used for dey dresses of wool, silk or cotton, to be worn with guimpes. 3 Natural colored linen will be found a very serviceable material for general wear, and may be worn with guimpes of white lawn or of linen to match the dress. "ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CONCEALED WEAPONS—A. S., City. It is un- lawfulin the city of New York to carry a weapon concealed. THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR—M, 8., City. Wash- ington Irving originated the term “The almighty dollar,” using it as a satire on the American love for gain. THEY ARE COUSINS—M. F., Benicia, Cal. The child of your first cousin is related to you as cousin, and the child is also cousin to your |- child, but one degree farther removed. C1vIL SERVICE BILL—F, W., City. The civil- service bill, once known as the Pendleton bill, was signed by President Arthur, he affixing bis signature 1o it on the 16tk of January, 1 OLDEST ' ABOLITIONIST — O. 8., City. It is claimed that Rey. John Rankin, who died in Ironton, Ohio, in 1886, at the age of 93, was the first abolitionist. Itis asserted that be or- anized the first abolition sosiety. fn Kentucky, in 1818. He uu(;% ):lr\)ill.lfi,‘ uwn.; herchild, the originalsof “Uncle Tom’s Calfin,” to escape from their master. - THE SUTRO ROAD—A. 8. City. The Sutro road, it is expected, will be in operation in a short time. There have been two reasons why it has not been in operation before this. The one is thatit was decided not to put it in operation until such time as the new Cliff House was fin- ished, fitted up and reddy for opening; and sec- ond, the injunction issued on the rayer of the {.(“unlx‘fnt! o el;y:hins, Preventing the ears from ning ov small corn ground, has been a source ntedrel?lly.mmr A DiviNG—H. L. F., Arcata, Humboldt County, Cal. Experiments with a diving-bell in Ports. mouth harbor, N. H., on & clear day, with an unruffied ses, demonstrated the fact that at a depth of seventy-two feet there was light enough to enable fhe diver to reaa coarse yrint. The greatest depth to which a diver has ever been is 204 feet, when the inch. ‘A man in a diving dress cannot go be. low thirty feet with safety. 1f a man can read irintat adistance of seventy-two feet below surface when in a diving-be‘l he certainly c‘:le | States would without dela, in a turbid sea on a dark day ifis probable that he wonld not be able to distinguish ob- jects through the glasses in front of his hel- met. 4 DAUGHTERS OF THE KING—K. M., the Daughters of the King and the King's Daughters are not the same. The order of the Daughters of the King was organized Easter evening, 1885. This is the older society and differs from the King's Daughters in many par- ticulars, many of them important. Itisdis tinetly Episcopal, and its work, which is definite, is “for the spread of Christ’s kingdom among_young women” and “the active sup- port of “the rector's plans in the parish in which a chapter may be located.” The King's Daughters is an inter-denominational. associs ation. WITHOUT A CoUNTRY—“Puzzled,” City. The question “Ifa boy was bornon apirate ship when he became of age what steps would he have to take to become & citizen of the United States?” is one that cannot be gnswered as it would require & legal decision, and there is none to cover such a case. A pirate ship being an outlaw has no flag that is recognized by civilized nations, consequently & boy born on a vessel that has no flag has no country; heis & human being without any legal standing in any part of the world. If he wanted to becom a citizen of the United States Le could not *'re. nounce allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince or state,” not having any such allegi- ance and fidelity and never having been & eiti- zen of any country. Attorneys to whom the question has been submitted were of the opin- ion that the man could not become a citizen of the United States. THE VIRGINIUS—A. S, City.' The steamer Virginius left the United States without Tegal papers, but shé never “‘was recognized by the Unated States asa filibuster.” October, 1873, the steamer, fiying the Amériean flag, was seized by the Tornado, a Spanish man-of-war, on sus- picion of bearing a filibustering expedition to aid the Cuban insurgents. News reached this country that fifty-four of the crew and passens gers had been executed. The United States Government throu i demand on the Spanish Government for a restoration of the vessel and for the return of the survivors to the protection of the United for a salute 1o tbe flag and for the punishment of the offending parties. Tho Cubans claimed that the vessel did not have the right to carry the American flag. After much diplomatic intercourse Segretary Fish on | November 27 agreed that if the vessel and sur- | 1 vivors were immediately given up.the United iseitute Inquiries concerning the velidity of the papers of the Virginius, and if Spain could befare. December , 1873, give satisiactory evidenee ¢ e vessel had been earrying thie United Sta without authority for doing so, the salute the flag which had been demanded would b dispensed with. On December 10 the Spanish presented a mass of evidence which sfied Secretary Fish, and he admitted that the claim of thé Cubwns was correct as to the flag. The vessel was surrendered, but found- ered on the when near Cape Fear. ag satisfies Buy vour bedclothing, underwear, etc., at Pioneer Dry Goods & , 105 h street. * e GENUINE eyeglasses, specs, 15¢, 40c. 8114 4th, nr, barber; Sun. 738 Market (Kast shoestore).% —————————— EPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Presy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomers. * R g Al HUSBAND'S Calcined Magnesia. Four firsts premium medals awarded. More agreeable to the taste and smaller dose than other mage nesia. 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