The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 13, 1896, Page 6

6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1896. % & runci; £ 'ymé‘i“ f:‘:"r;»xm 4 S BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone... S .Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 C Street. Telephone....... ...Maln—-1874 NCH OFFICES v strect, corner Clay: open until open until 9:30 o'clock. open un :30 o'clock. Tock. on street; open until 9 o'clock. street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : €08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID 3. FOLTZ, Special Agent. PESTRY 46 Nith MONDAY 1896 “THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Armenia to-night. to attend the mass-meeting at n Hall this evening. We speak Don't f: Metropoli From this time on politics will warm up with the weatherand beat it in the process. se of Armenia is the cause of and deserves the sympathy ity itement in England the new n be counted on to make at present, when- up England gets m the sou 2 must be about as cheap as the War trum penny w the Presi- the world prepares for time for us to attend more shown Con- a quorum when- Tom Reed that he can count quorum is there. be sa has once Whatever ma: primaries it can- count. on Havana seems to be retreating into a lantations. The year is still new enough for feilows e addicted to the fake poolroom habit to brace uv and swear off. here are abundant reasons for believ- that the alliances of Europe are mot half as binding as the complications. The California miners who were asso- ciated with Jameson’s raid were in bad v, but we must help them out. ar bargain advertise- some of the most of the season. Attend to business while you may, 1he carnival days are coming, that now makes trade to hum 1 20 off a-humming. 1f you overiook Tt 1nay be true as reported that Russia is behind Germany, but there is no telling how long she will be content to stay be- hind. There is a growing belief that the Kaiser intended his letter to Krueger for publica- tion only, and not as an evidence of good faith. er or later there must be war in Eu- for the only way the nations can get their troubles out of the way is to fight them out. While the revival last yvear was not all that we expected it had the good effect of converting many free-traders to the cause of protection. Tn the path of the wicked even a stump seems like a lion, and the Southern Pacific is now stumped by the Interstate Com- merce Commission. The Boers fight for their soil and the Cubans for independence, but the Arme- nians are struggling for life itself against the massacres of the Turk. If you have any sympathy for the Arme- nian sufferers be present at the mass- mecting this evening and show that your sympathy has action in it. Krueger demands damages for the Transvaal raid, but the British will plead in abatement that they were damaged than the Boers. It 1s a sure sign of a bad condition of affairs in Europe that nations are more enraged about a sporadic invasion of the Transvaal than by the massacres in Ar- menia. It may be true that the members of the Morgan syndicate had no hand in direct- ing the course of Cleveland’s latest loan, but all the same the loan will come into their hands. It is a good move of the Boara of Trade to establish a commercial exhibit, as well as one of our rural industry, for itis time to let the world know we have something to sell besides climate. A graduate of the penitentiary of Ne- braska has disturbed the State by asserting that counterfeit money is made by con- victs in the prison and putinto circula- tion by the officials. The report from Washington that many Democrats are now willing to vote with the Republicans for the re-enactment of the reciprocity law isone that should be contirmed by immediate action. The fate of the Transvaal cannot be widely different from that of California and Australia. Whenever rich mines are found in a new country the pastoral age must sooner or later give way to the age of gold. If the Big Eight pool-sellers are serious in the idea of going up in a balloon to spot the races at Ingleside Park there will be no objection on the part of the public. Any plan will do that gets them off the earth, | tween the interests of England and Ger- { ‘ | | 1of the Buckley : more | | THE MASS-MEETING. | The mass-meeting to be held at Metro- ‘ politan Temple this evening on bebalf of | the Armenians comes at an opporumci | time. The Senate Committee on Foreign | | Relations had the subject under consid- | | eration on Saturday and will probably | | make a report on it during the present i week. Itis said the committee has re- ! cewed memorials and petitions from all | sections of the Union urging action in the | interests of humanity, and it will be well | for the voice of California to be heard with | those of her sister States when the subjeet | | comes up for debate and the Senate seeks | i'to learn the sentiment of the whole peo- ple. : The recent exhibition of antagonism be- many in South Africa, which for a time | threatened to prevent any possible co- | operation of European powers in staying the hand of the Turk and putting an end to the atrocities which for months past have been committed against the Ar-| menians, has by a sudden turn heen“ changed from a seeming evil into what promises to be a permanent good. Great | Britain has shown a desire to reach, if not | an alijance, at least an agreement with | { Russia which will prevent that country | from uniting with Germany in case hostil- ities should occur. Any such agreement must of course take Turkish affairs into | consideration, and it is opportune there- { fore at this time for the voice of the civi | ized world to urge the British Government | | to profit by the occasion to secure for the i Armenians those rights .and liberties | which are inherent in huranity. | for the mass-meeting give assurance that | the speakers will represent the whole peo- | ple, without respect to race or creed. In | advocating the cause of humanity it is the voice of humanity that will speak. The | orators selected to address the meeting | are able and eloquent men. They are | earnest in the work they have undertaken and will worthily speak the sentiments | | that all good men feel on this issue. The audience should be as truly representative of our people as are the orators. It should be an assembly of those whose influence wakes up the higher life of the people and infuses public opiniou with a true gran- deur of sentiment. There can be no question of the useful- | ness of such a meeting or of the urgency | of & prompt expression of our sympathies | with those whose friendsand kindred have fallen before such a merciless slaughtering | as that of which all stories from Armenia | bave told. No community of generous | men and women can afford to be silent | | when such outrages affront humanity in | ! any portion of the civilized world. | | THE PUEBLO RULING. | Although the ruling of the Interstate | Commerce Commission on the Pueblo case { was confined to rates betwezn Puebio and | San Francisco on steel rails and iron, the principle involved in the decision is that a | lower rate may not be charged from Chi- cago to San Francisco than from Pueblo | to the same point. Obviously tbe ruling is not intended to apply to the Atlantic seaboard, for the reason that there ocean competition modifies the situation. There is no reason, however, why the commis- sion should nos extend its ruling to all other articles of freight between Chicago and San Francisco that might also be sent | to this City from all points west of Chi- cago. Hence the ruling is sufficiently | revolutionary to alarm the Southern Pa- cific Company and decide it to fight. It was shown at the hearing of the | Pueblo case and mentioned in the ruling | that it is sometimes to the interest of a | transportation company to haul by a longer | route than it might and at a rate lower | : 5 | than that charged over an available shorter | route, in order to secure a larger revenue | in the end, and it was incidentally noted | that the Southern Pacific, acting in such fashion, diverts traffic from the Union and Central Pacific route to the Sunset route by way of New Orleans. This is taking | cognizance of a practice that has a very | important bearing both on the funding | measure now pending 1n Congress and the | case of the Southern Pacific Company | against the Railroad Commission of Cali- | fornia. | This has been a notorious practice ever | | since the Sunsei route was opened for | traflic, but itisadvancingastep to have the | | fact officially noted. It makes the conten- | tion of the railroad before Judge McKenna | as ridienlous as it is daring. That conten- | tion is that the reduction in wheat charges | which the State Railroad Commission is | trying to enforce would cripple the money- Icarning capacity of the Central Pacific and lessen its ability to discharge its obli- gations to the Government. While the proposed reduction by the Railroad Com- mission would affect the Central Pacific hardly any, the Southern Pacific, by di- | verting traflic from the Central Pacific to the Sunset route, reduces the earning ca- pacity of its aided line enormously. Yet an intelligent public is expected gravely to listen to such an objection and uncom- plainingly observe the local attorney of the Government backing the railroad in its absurd position. The Pueblo ruling comes at a very op- portune time. If the Southern Pacific re- sists the order it will be put on trial, and | then some intcresting things may be learned as to how the Central Pacific has | been robbed by its owners, in order that | they might evade payment of the Govern- | ment's lien on the road. It is hoped that | the case wlil be pushed with all possible | speed. A REMEDY REMAINS. The unexplained Supreme Court de- cision denying the writ of mandate sued | for by the Valley road against the Trustees ! of the city of Fresno by no means stops | the progress of this great undertaking. | The directors of the road wanted the Trus- tees of Fresno to give a right of way | through the city. The Trustees, uncertain | as to whether the law required them to put up the desired franchise at auction, went with the directors on an agreed case be- fore tbe Supreme Court, and that body has merely denied the writ asked for compel- ling the Trustees to grant the privilege | without offering it at auction. No reason | is given for the decision and no plan of re- liei is suggested. It will now remain with the Trustees, not only of Fresno, but of all the other towns through which the Vslley road pro- poses to pass, to act intelligently in the in- | terest of the public and wholly within the law. Ithas been assumed that the bitter | animosity of the Southern Pacific for the new road will take the form of opposing bids for any privilege that may be desirea by the Valley road, and that in this way the road may be kept out of the valley. | In case such opposing bids are offered it | will be within the province of the authori- | ties to determine whether they are offered | in good faith, impose restrictions which would make proceedings in bad faith dan- | gerous, and ascertain whether questions of public right and convenience are involved. It would be manifestly absurd and unjust | to recognize a bid for a franchise which | cannot be desired as part of a plan to run a railroad through a town, Bold and overbearing as the Southern | | Napa Consolidated, 475; IPaci ¢ is it realizes that it hasas many enemies at present as it cares to encounter and we need not expect it to make such a shameless opposition to the progress of the new line as 1s feared. Nor can it be im- agined that there are public oflicers in the San Joaquin Valley who could be induced to lend their power to any such plan should it be undertaken. The Valley road offers the first and only hope for that section of the State, and the people whose homes and interests are there will not permit it to pe smothered. The decision by the Supreme Court, therefore, gives ro ground for a fear that the progress of the new road will be checked. “FIGHTING THE POOLROOMS, The directors of the [ngleside racetrack deserve credit for efforts to aid in the movement for suppressing the downtown voolrooms. Thisisall the more commend- able when it is reflected that those institu- iticns are not in conflict with the legiti- mate bookmaking at the track except, per- haps, to the extent of giving the Solid Fight of the Board of Supervisors an ex- cuse to levy reprisal by moving to sup- press betting at the track if the crusade to legislate against their downtown proteges is persisted in. Mzr. Corrigan, one of the Ingleside direc- tors, hit upon the plan of leasing the only wire running into town that the pool- rooms cou!d use. This virtually put a top to the swindling concerns in the City, but they immediately sought to recover lost ground by erecting a teiegraph line eof their own without permission. They have been temporarily balked in that effort, and it will be interesting to observe what next will happen. The planting of poles and the stringing of a wire was as high-handed a proceeding | as Las ever been witnessed in this City. No permission was sought and none was granted. The poolroom men who resorted to this desperate measure would probably have had little difficulty in securing per- mission from the Solid Eight, and likely they felt secure against punishment for so We should au- thorities did not require the wire and poles to be taken down. A natural result of the presence of these shameful resorts is seen in the case of the lad for whom a warrant has been issued for grand larceny. He was in a good posi- tion, but the poolrooms ruined him. That there are hundreds of cases which never come to light may be taken for granted. Parents are not likely to prosecute their young sons for home thefts with which to support the poolroom COAST EXCHANGES. What can be accomplished by an ener- getic Board of Trade is weli illustrated in the case of Visalia, The Times of that city in a review of the causes which secured so much prosperity for the community last year, say ““In the first place, we think much of the good work can be credited to the Visalia Boara of Trade. It was this body that began the agitation for the Valley Rail- road about one year ago. At that time it was not known that the railroad people could fe induced to build two lines sout of Fresno and it wasa fight between V: salia and Hanford to see which city could get the road. The Board of Trade bad volumincus statisties collected and printed showing the resources of the east side of the valley, and after sending sev- eral committees to the City to confer with the directors of the Valley road, finally open a violation of the law. like very much to know why the City | induced those gentlemen to come to Visa- lia to inspect the country and see for themselves what they could expect in the way of freight and passengers if they adopted the route which we contended was the best. It was while in Visalia that Vice-President Watt first suggested the wisdom of building two lines south of Fresno, and if Tulare and Kings coun- ties do all they promised the railroad peo- ple they would do, then before the next wheat crop is ready to move we will have competition to the Southern Pacific. If nothing else had been accomplished dur- ing the past year we would have plenty to rejoice over.” But that was not all. By sending an ex- hibit to the Atlanta Exposition Tulare County secured the gold medal for the best peaches produced in the United States. Through the efforts of the Board of Trade the farmers were induced to experiment with beet-culture, with so excellent results that a beet-sugar factory will be built, and will distribute $500,000 annually among the people. A great work achieved was the in- corporation of and beginning of work on the Kaweah Irrigation and Power Com- pany’s electric plant, which will mean manufacturing on a large scale. The erec- tion of a flourmill, and the paving of the streets were other useful achievements. That Visalia is determined to throw into the present year the same energy which brought so much prosperity in the year just gzone is proved by the efforts which are now being made to establish a fruit cannery there. It seems somewhat strange that so necessary and important an enter- prise has not been started betore. The | Visalia Del{a announces that A. D. Cutter of San Francisco, president of the Cutting Fruit Packing Company, has made a prop- osition for the establishment of such a cannery. It contemplates co-uperation on the part of the people, and is now under consideration. J. Pentecost, for the past three years one of the publishers of the Middletown Independent, has left that paper to accept the secretaryship of the Alaska Improve- ment Company, and will hereafter live in San Francisco. That quicksilver mining in the region between Mount St. Helena and Clear Lake is an important industry is seen from this information published by the Napa Regis- er: “Following are the number of flasks of quicksilver shipped from the various mines during the month just passed, as reported by the station agent at Calistoga : ZXtna Consoli- dated, 305; Great Western, 255; Mirabel, 235; Sulphur Bank, 634; total, 195¢ flasks, making an increase of 380 flasks over the November shipment. The total shipment for the year justended amounted to 1,771,- 400 pounds, against 1,617,500 pounds for 1894.” A proposition has been made to the San Jose Board of Trade by W. 8. Boody of Philadelpbia to build a glass works in San Jose if a tract of land of about half an acre with railroud facilities were given the com- pany. He and his associates would put $6000 to §10,000 in the plant and felt sure of success. The cheaper products would be at first made and later finer goods would be turned out. The works would employ from seventy to one hundred peo- ple, which would be increased to five hun- dred in three years. This proposition met with suech favor that a committee was appointed to secure the site needed. Having disposed of the Lodi Sentinel, Ruggles & Bueck are to begin the publica- tion of a high-class society, literary and political weekly at Stockton. Says the San Jose News: F.W. Cran- dall, one of the California Dried-fruit Commissioners, has written to the San Jose Board of Trade acknowledging the receipt of a lot of cooking fruit. He saysa zold medal has been promised to William Warren for a box of prunes sent. Heis anxious to attend the Nashville Exposi- tion, where he thinks he can accomplish much good. His letter concludes: “Mv demonstration here has caused the sale of tons of California dried fruit, and in many cases to parties who have never used it be- fore. Add to this the thousands from abroad who sampled it here and who will take the little books home with them and will buy ana use it when they want fruit.” The Coquille Bulletin is now run by B. F. Lawrence, Mr. Lamb having withdrawn. The remaining energetic editor promises to continue his hard work for the up- building of Coquille City and Coos County. The Los Angeles Journal gives full in- formation of the extensive water works ich are being constructed on the south side of Antelope Valley, near Palmdale, by the South Antelope Valley Irrigation Company, a corporation backed by Los Angelesand Eastern capital. “The com- vany,” says the Journal, ‘owns a large body of land in the vicinity of Palmdaleas well as the irngation system that has fur- nished the South Antelope country with water during the past ten years. Inorder to increase the present supply and provide for future requirements, the company is building a large ditch from their head works on Little Rock Creek to the dry lake west of Harold station on the Southern Pacinic Railroad. This lake covers an area five miles in circumference, and can be flooded to adepth of fifty feet. Occupy- ing an elevated position overlooking An- telope Valley, it formsa perfect storage reservoir, and when utilized will be the means of reclaiming 30,000 acres of Los Angeles County lands now practically valueless.”” The ditch from Little Rock Creek is eight miles long and will carry 10,000 miners’ inches. The Hen Man is the title of a new paper to be started at Petaluma in the interest of the poultry industry. The Redding Free Press publishes an ably written array of the resources and re- cent progress of Shasta County. “The county,” says our contemporary, ‘'is enter- ing upon an epoch of development that is destined to make her one of the foremost counties in the State. Her mines are proving to be bullion producers second to none on the coast, and their magnitude and 1ntrinsic worth are bringing in new capital every day, whose magic touch is opening up splendid-paying properties on every hand and giving an impulse to busi- ness in general unparalleled in the his- tory of the county. Our vast stores of iron ore and building stone, unlimited in quan- tity and unequaled in quality, only await cheap transportation facilities to add an- other source of wealth. Our lumber in- terests are aiready a great source of income and give employment to a large num- ber of operatives, which makes a market for large quantities of the productions of our farmers. The fruit interests of Shasta County are becoming a very important factor in our productions, and are increas- very rapidly. We have thousands of acres of the finest fruit lands on earth that only await the advent of a comprehensive sys- tem of irrigation to make them pro- ductive. There are several schemes on foot looking to the inzuguration of irriga- tion on an extensive scale. There is an abundance of water in all parts of the county that only requires to be applied in a systematic manner to the lands to irri- gate the whole tillable surface of the county and make it blossom as a garden, besides furnishing unlimited electrical power.” I'he Bakersfield Californian announces the practical completion of the new bridge across Kern River built by the Power De- velopment Company, and says that Man- ager C. N. Beal has come to San Francisco for the purpose of letting contracts for the installation of the plant. It will take about four months to make the necessary machinery and about two months to put it in place. Some time along about the mid- dle of next summer, therefore. we may ex- pect to see this important and greatly de- sired improvement ready for active opera- tion. The anniversary number of the Los An- geles Capital was one of the best everissued in that city. The Fresno Republican furnishes inter- esting details of the incorporation of the Kings River Electric Power Company, al- ready noticed in these columns. The cap- ital stock is §360,000, all of which has been subscribed, as follows: S. F. Earl of Reed- ley, $60,000; J. S. Jones of Reedley, $60,- 000; James Sibley of Dinuba, $60,000 Charles G. Wilcox of Visalia, $30,000; W ham H. Hammona of Visalia. $90,000. The main purposes of the company are to generate and sell electrical energy and operate an electric road. The works will be established on Kings River at a point east of Sanger. A power of 4000 horses will be secured, and the neighboring towns will be furnished with light and power. Another usefal purpose is indicated by the Sanger Herald, which says that the company contemplates pumping water to be used in 1rrigating lands near the hills too eievated to be reached by gravity canals. These lands are as fertile as any in this valley, and if the cost of lifting water is not too great there is no reason why much profit might not be derived from that source. They are in the thermal belt, and the new interest which has been aroused in citrus fruits may lead to the planting of orange and lemon orchards near the base of the hills. The water to irrigate them may be pumped by elec- tricity. C. B. Whiting;nonnces that hereafter he, assisted by his two sons, will comduct the Colusa Herald on lines of his own. Wonderful strides are being made in the conversion into electrical energy of the warter power now going to waste in the mountains. The Merced Star says: ‘‘H. H. Clark, general manager of the Horse- shoe Bend vineyard, has completed arrangements for the formation of a com- pany to be kuown as the Ben@ Power Comnpany to generate electric power from the Merced River at a point about four miles from Coulterville and the same distance from the rich mines of Hunter's Valley. The establishment of such a con- cern selling power at $5 per horse power per month will revolutionize quartz min- ing in the district and inaugurate a period of profitable, substantial and per- manent industry greater than could be lookea for from the operations of several gold mining companies each as large as the Coulterville corperation.” The new company will start with a capital of $500,000 and active work will begin next month. The Salinas Oul has appeared in a hand- some new dress, and gives evidence of the prosperity which its energy and intelli- gence have earned. The management of the Atchison, To- peka and Santa Fe road, according to the San Bernardino Saturday Review, has ac- quired ownership of the Third and D streets horse-car line in that city, and will at once transform it into an electric line, The Pacific Rural Press, San Francisco, has celebrated its twenty-fifth birthaay by reducing its subscription price and pmn}is- ing to continue its good work of advancing the rural interests of the State. The Marin Journal, published at San Rafael, commends the value and excel- lence of the wagon road which San Quen- tin convicts are constructing from San Rafael to Tiburon. Our contemporary says: ‘A Journal reporter last week visited the scene of operations near Green- brae. Work at vresent is confined to cut- ting through two hills, the largest requir- ing a cut of 500 feet long by about thirty deep, through solid rock. When it is re- membered that the road is to be forty feet wide, it will be seen what an immense amount of work is involved in the two cuts. The rock and dirt removed from the hills will be used in filling in a marsh, one and a half miles wide, a few rods south- west of the station. The benefits of a good road from San Rafael to Tiburon are in- calculable. Passing through romantic scenery, where there are many fine build- ing sites, it will enhance land values and enable our merchants to ship their goods direct from Tiburon, thus adding to the importance of the county seat. The only expense of the road to Marin will be the cost of Mr, Cclwell’s supervision, the blast- ing powder and = little drill steel.” The Cloverdale Reveille has passed into t he sole ownership of R. E. Baer, G. B. Baer having retired. The new proprietor says: “We believe Cloverdale 1s on the eve of beiter times, and her citrus, horti- cultural and viticultural interests are of sufficient worth to make this section a prosperous community.’” In a review of the progress made by Petaluma last year the Argus makes a strong showing. Many houses were built, the factories all ran on full time through- out the year, a brewery was established, two newspapers were started, an electric fire alarm system was installed, several impertant organizations were formed, a bicycle track was built, municipal owner- ship of light and water plants was decided on, navigation of the creek was improved, coal and fire-clay were discovered in the mountains near by, and other advances in progress were made. The Advance, a bright weekly paper at Templeton, has been leased by Albert H. Hutchinsen, who has made a promising beginning. The San Diego Sun announces the com- pletion of the N. C. and O. Railroad from San Diego to Tia Juana, just across the Mexican line. PERSONAL. M. Mayfield, a capitalist of St. Louis, Mo., is at the Baldwin. W. H. Halton. an attorney of Modesto, is a guest at the Lick. F. J. McCarthy, an architect of Los Angeles, ying at the Palace. R. M. Green, a merchant and mine-owner of Oroville, is at the Grand. M. Prince, a merchant of Santa Rosa, regis- tered at the Grand yesterday. R. Jack, & big land-owner of San Luis Obispo, is staying at the Palace. Sam A. Alexander, a leading merchant of Fresno, registered at the Lick yesterday. Superior Judge T. C. Law of Merced came to town yesterday and put up at the Occidental. Frank R. Wehe, a mining man of Downie- ville, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Lick. is A. M. Duncan, & merchant of Ukiah and oue | of the Supervisors of Mendocino County, is at the Grand. W. A.Close, vice-president of the New Jersey Tyansportation and Steemship Compauy, reg- istered at the Palace yesterday. H. F.Grifliths, a prominent horse men of New Orleans, and his wite, arrived here yes- terday and registered at the Baldw Al hail to Thee, Force of the forces! The p Ise of atomic vibration The germ of conception and being, “The Impulse of matter and m nd. Thine, Thine are the infinite sources, A function of endless duration, The rhythm of sound and of seeing, The soul of the soul 0f mankind. The myths of the centuries hoary, As told e seers and the sages, Awaken of derision At the faiths and the fadles of yor the stars, and theirstory, 2ed by the andibie ages. Is to our wondering vision The past and its mystical lore. Thou, thou art the motive and motion, The Lije and the Life Everiasting. Which thrills and pervades and possesses Each atom in limitless space. hee a silent devotion: crifice, penance and fasting solace a :0ul that confesses A God of infinite grace. Uncompassed of time and location, Fulfilied of desire and possession, ‘We ripen to final fruition, Dismantled of flesh and its thrall, No longer the stress of probation, No longer the pang of transgression, For death Is not death, but tran: PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. 10t is a curious fact that after eleven years’ ¥ in the hands of the Mahdi, Slatin Pasha’s greatest difficulty was to walk up- stairs—an art which he had almost forgotten. General B. F. Tracy ex-Secretary of the N has been appointed by Sherifft Tamsen of N York official counsel t0 succeed Charles MacLean, recently elected to the Supreme Court, The salary is $6000 & year. The Queen of Italy, during her autumn so- journ at Monza, assiduously practiced as e cyclist under the guidance of a Milanese pro- fessor, and she is now able to cover long distances with ease and sefety. The name of Queen Victoria’s Hindoo secre- tary 1s Munshi Hanz Abdul Karim, who has also taught her Majesty Hiadoostanee. He is & dark-complexioned 'gentleman, who wears Eastern garments,and hss a fringe of black beerd around his cheeks and ehin. Em peror William of Germany received from the Empress several Christmas presents of great appropriateness. She gave him a set of porcelain plates with paintings on them of naval scenes, six drinking cups, each holding a golden spoon, and two large landscapes painted by & German artist. Cornelius Vanderbilt was elated the other day because he was able toeata few stewed oysters and not be distressed. Mr. Vaaderbilt for years has suifercd from acute dyspepsia, and has been pleased enough when a bit of ¢racker and a sip of malted milk did not bring agony to him, Ll r ALLEGED HUMOR. A well-known Bodieite, it is reported, is go- ing to mariy his laundress. He'd better look out; she might do him up.—Jim Townsend. “I see it is estimated that the Kaflirs steal $1,250,000 worth of diamonds a year. “Yes; Isuppose the poor creatures have to wear something.” —Washington Capital. Micmac—Wonder if it is true that there were two fuil moons in the month of December? Knitowle—Oh, yes; I can swear to that. I was coming home from the club night before New Year’s, and I sew both of them as plain as could be.—Boston Transcript. A man of 36, arrested for stealing fruitin the Paris Halles recently, turned out to have been formerly a barker. He had an accom- plice who was an ex-notary, while the stolen property was peddied from door to door in a basket by the ex-banker's mistress, who not long 2go was a society woman. Little Mrs. Justwed (sobbingly)—Juju-just think, Harold! The cuc-cuc-cat has eaten all of the angel cake I buh-baked this m-m-morn- ing! And, oh—boo! hoo! ho-0-0-0! Mr. Justwed (soothingly)—There, there, dar- ling! Don't ery about it! I'll get you another cat to-morrow —FPuck. UTAH'S STAR. The most important requirements in the ad- mission of Utah have been fulfilled, and what remain are but the usual formalities, The last of these will be an official order for the army and navy declaring the addition of another star to the Union. This will take effect on the Fourth of July next, says the New York World. Of course all the new flagsthat are issued by | the Government after that date will bear the full complement of forty-five stars. but many of the old flags will continue to float in the breezes with only the present number of stars, and without any people being the wiser. The Government is iar too economical to call in all of its old fiags and have them changed whenever there is an addition to the sister- | 714 inches long, 4 feet 10 inches high and 16 inches wide. They are known as steel box girders. The weignt of each of the two largest | is fifteen tons. | Savtus, THE Popr—H. J. S., San Jose, Cal. | Francis 8. Saltus, poet and author, was born in New York in 1849, died in Tarrytown, N. Y., June 24,1889, He was educated in Columbia College, mastered ten langauges. He contri- buted fo a_number of magazines and news- papers, and & number of his contributions were, in addition to those in the English lan- guage, in French, German and in_Itaiian. He Wrote over his own nsme and *“Cupid Jones. He was also & good musician. Tue LuxeMBourG—Subscriber, Sebastopol, So-, noma County, Cal. The Luzembourg palacs. Paris, is on the south bank oi the River Seine opposite the Louvre. It was built by Marie de THE FORTY -FIFTH STAR ADDED TO OUR FLAG. | hood of States. The oid flags are changed ac- cording to the will or leisure of the men in charge of them. The official arrangement of the stars end of the stripes of Old Glory is an important mat- ter, which is in charge of a special board of army and navy officers. While it has not yet been officially decided, it is more than prob- able that the new star will ocenpy the blank space which now exists in the Union in the fifth row from the top nearest the flagstaff. This addition will make the appearance of the Union even more symmetrical than it is at nt. here are now six rows of stars in the Union, the top and bottom rows being each composed and the other four of seven stars 7 h's star will make eight in the fifth row and will be the first in the row next the staff. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. POPULIST FENIS;M}:N TALS. ADOPTED BY THE NATION AS THE BASIS OF THE JVERNMENT. titor of The Call—SIr: “By all, for all” axiom in the science of government s understand the purposes of gov- Their ruler is the legally expressed voice of the people. They have no other king, emperor or kaiser. “We, the people, do or- dain,” is the Populist formula. With the founders of the Nation, Populists hold that the sole purpose of instituting e government is to secure the safety and happiness of the people, and that its sole authority is derived from the consent of the governed, not from the will of & king or of a plutocracy. They stand as Lin- coln stood, for *a government of the people, by the people, for the people.” To the is the fin; as Populis ernment. Populists hold that whatsoever concerns all | citizens alike in National, State or municipal government—as, for exampte, the proper edu- cation of the people for the safe exercise of the elective franchise, the carrying of the mail, the raising of revenues for the support of the Government, the erection of suitable buildings for public use, the choice of those who are to govern or to enforce the laws, and the like public needs—shall be done by the whole body of the people under the jundamental law, “By e11 for all.”” Povulists find as_a fact that until within the last thirty years of our National this fupdamental law wes fairly well d and recognized in the management in the enactment of statutory Xercise of the powers conferred von Government by the people. But Popu- Jists claim that within recent years a gigantic power has arisen, known as the corporation, which overrides the rights of the citizen, and that it is the e; s purpose of the People’s party to restore to the Governmeut the func- tions which have been unwisely and corruptly bestowed upon corporate associations of mex, who exereise these functions of Government to the undue enrichment of themselves and the impoverishment aud oppression of the people asa whole. « Let us now put to the test the axiom “By o1l for all,” the Populist declaration of principles as set ont in their National platform atOmaha. They contend for three great issues, namely, a national money, the Government or people’s ownership of the railroads ana_telegraphs and the restriction of ownership in land by cor- porations and aliens. The first contention, for | money to be issued by the G and to be a full legal tendaer f meets the requirements of the axiom, for it is to be issued by all for all, on equal terms to all citizens, thereby depriving bank- ing corporations of their exclusive privilege of obtaining money from the Government at 1 per cent, to be loaned by them at such rates of interest 'as the exigencies of borrowers may force them to pay, rapging from 5 to 15 per cent. This is in accord with the rule, for it deals with exact justice by ell and grants spe- cial privileges to none. The second contention, that the Government sball own and operate the railroads and tele- graphs in the interest of all the people, is like- Wise in accord with the rule, for if ahy profit is charged ebove the cost of operation it will g0 into the treasury of the Nation and thereby rgduce the expenses of the Government; or if oNerated at cost it will leaye the millions here- tofore collected by the railroad and telegraph magnates in the hands of the people, and jus- | tice will be meted out to all the inhabitants alike. The third contention, that “the land is the inberitance of the people” and may not be monopolized and held 1n large areas irom the use and occupation of the people, accords with the rule, for if land may of right be monopo- lized, it is only a question of time, and not of a dim and distant period, when all the land will pass into posesssion of a few billionaire corpora- tions, aud “the inheritance of the people’ will be the perpetual seridom of & tenant peas- | axtry, toiling in ignorance and squalor for the | ruthless and soulless corporations which “own™ the land. It has been the glory of the Republican party | that it opened the public lands to the poor as *“‘homesteads’’—the free gift of the Government of 160 acres to each head oia family. That arty must certainly be in sympathy with the People’s party on the land question—a ques- tion of the most serions moment to the Nation if this is to remain *“the land of the free and the home of the brave.” 1 close with the suggestion that the President and the Congress, the Governors and Legisla- tures, the Mayors and Councilmen, the Jud%es | and juries, as well as the county roads and city streets, the State and City public libraries, the asylums and the prisons, ate only so many illustrations of the practical application of the Populist axiom, “By All for All,” which must socn include streetcar lines, gas and electric lighting plants, water works, a_free public market, and such like things needed for pro- moting the general welfare, the benefit, safety and haopiness of the people. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex streei, San Francisco. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. SALTUS, NOVELIsT—Edgar Saltus, the novelist, is still alive. His latest novel is “Madam Sapphira,”’ 1893, 2 F POSTAGE ON THE CALL—The postage on the Sunday edition of THE CaLL is to England for twenty-four peges 3 cents, and for twenty- eight pages 4 cents. WIND AT SEA—A. H., City. Captains of ves- sels when at sea have no way of determining how the wind is going to blow, but by watching its effects they can tell how it does biow. C1tYy HALL GIRDER—E. F. E., City. The larg- est girders in the City Hall are those in the wing in which the Free Library is located. The length is 127 feet, height 6 feet 3 inches and width 3 feet 6 inches. PAciFIC ImprovEMENT CoMPANY—H. A, D., City. The Pacific Improvement Compeny is a corporation within a corporation. Itisan or- ganization that came into existence for the purpose of building railroads for the Southern and Central Pacific companies and furnishing both companies with material and supphes. Itis officered by the officers of the two com- Panies named. NaTive SoNs' HALL GIRDERS—E. E. E., City. 4. C. Lutjens, the architect for the Native Sons' new building on Mason street, near Geary, says the largest girders in that building are 66 feet S Medicis, wife of Henry IV of France. It passed through many hands, among them | those of the Duke de Luxembourg, who gave it his name. The French Directory held its meet- ings there in 1795, and the Consuls and the Senate also used it. The Senate of the king- dom sat there during lhe Restoration. The palace contains rooms that were formerly the throne room and the private offices of Napo- leon IIL PERSPIRATION—S., City. It is said that the following is a remedy to _check perspiration of the feet: Dust the feet twice a Gay with a powder composed of twenty grains of salicylic acid, one-half ounce of boric acid, one ounce of oxide of zinc and one ounce of talcum. PREMIERS OF ENGLeND—Kanuck, City. The | following table shows the Premiers of England | since the days of Disraeli, the day they went into office and the lengtheof time they served: | In Office. ! NawE. Date. |—r— | Yrs. Dys. sraell b. 27, 1868 .. 286 o . 9,1868 5 T4 6 67 5 57 227 178 Marquis of 8 15 W sladsone p 193 Rosebery. 1 Marquis of Salis LADY'S WAIST WITH BLOUSE FRONT This pattern shown here is a waist with a French blouse front. It is suitable alike for woolen, silk or cotton materials; for extra waists or to match skirts. As shown it is of white dimity with circles of | blue. The trimming is yellow valenciennes lace with collar and belt of blue satin ribbon. A waist of blue silk with black dots or stripes might be made with belt and collar of black | and the one box pleat in front and the two in the back edged with narrow black lace. A very dressy waist may be made of black chiffon over n bright silk, with collar and belt of Dresden ribbon. 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