The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 17, 1896, Page 6

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1896 W @il | CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editer and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: nd Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.18 7a! i Daily snd Sunday CALL, one ... 6.00 D CaLL, six m ail.. 3.00 CaLi, three months by mail 1.50 | CALy, one month, by mail.. .65 710 Market Stres San Francisco, Californis. Saleshmusics & e Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. 2 CelerhODe. . uu i et naaneerenaan Main—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES 630 Montzomery street, corner Clay; open untll £:50 o'clock. open until 8:30 o'clock. open until 8:30 o'clock. nth and Mission streets; open POLY le:!o(; T 41v Ninth stree OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broa: EASTEEC)FFICE 3 ew York City. FOLTZ, Special Agent. DAVID ...JANUARY 1 comes in Europe the | ‘I told you so.” | | war jissolution of the bond syndicate | icate drop, but the bonds re- | ratic Presidential possibilities rses except one, and he is off Democ: i h lefect in the Kaiser's corresvond- his action doesn’t correspond 1 his words. the Democrats throw over Cleveland sist on giving us Oiney we would | have Hoke Smith. Now that the flourish of war trumpets is | rope had better resume her con- for reform in Turkey. g to Balfour, England offers the to the United States, but hasa | e Kaiser. | Accord glad han marble heart for t Allison has been hailed in Towa as the | next President, and some of those Iowa | fellows are pretty good prophets. Unless the railroad has something up its sleeve the funding bill will be beaten, for we have the winning cards so far. The Presidential campaign is as yet only a sideshow to Congress, but it won’t be long before it will be the big circus. Before the Democrats take the trouble to | a National Convention they had better | decide what they wish to hold it for. | e S | When the new Senators take their seats | the Senate will distinetly show the silver | side on top and the cloud underneath. They may call him “Fire Alarm For- aker,” but he is not alarming anybody ex- cept the fellows who ought to be made to 2o to blazes. It would be a good illustration of the | growth of the country to close the century with a President who lives west of the Mississippi. The Republican Presidential procession has taken the middle of the road, but De- mocracy is still in the woods and headed for the swamps. It is possible that the beating of the | third-term tomtoms in the Democratic camp is only a femnt to cover a flank movement for Olney. With Allison, Reed and McKinley act- ively in the field Harrison will have to be something more than a receptive candi- date if he expects to receive anything. Among the leaders of the fight against the funding bill there should be no dis- sensions of any kind. It will take unity of action as well as hard work to win the battle. From the rate at which the military and naval expenditures of Japan are increas- ing it seems probable that her victory over China will cost her dearer in the end than it cost China. In National politics sectional lines cut no figure, but nevertheless it is a good thing for Allison that he lives on our side | of the Mississippi, for the star of empure is coming this way. The fervent declaration of Senator Mills that “fifty-year bonds means 50,000 years” shows how easily in the mouth of an ac- complished rhetorician a figure of finance may be turned into a figure of speech. Morgan says he was invited to Washing- ton for a conference on money matters, but there were no negotiations for a loan, and thus we learn *‘how great the difference there may be "twixt tweedledum and twee- | dledee.” It may be a good diplomatic bluft for the Emperor of Germany to demand of Salis- bury an apology for the denunciations of 1 v English newspapers, but if he really means business or wishes to have some fun he should sue the editors for ¥y fairin Mills of Texasto | join the chorus of these who denounce the | President for his bond issue. Mills was | one of the men who passed the deficit tariff that made the bonds necessary, and if he | is going to repent he shouid repent of his | own misdeeds as well as those of Grover. | itis 10 be regretted that Utah begins her carecr as a State by what looks like | snap judgment of a cancus in the election of a United States Senator, snd if there is anything in it that justifies a suspicion of | unfairness, the Legisiature should ignore | the caucus and give every candidate fair | vlay and an equal chance when the time comes 0 take the vote. Among the associations organized last year for the promotion of the general wel- fare none hasundertaken a more important | task or gone about it in a better way than | the State Development Committee. This association enters the new year with re- newed vigor and while it is making no dis- vlay of itself it is showing energy and ef- {ective work in many directions. Braastreet’s report of clearances of the principal cities of the Union for the first week of the year shows an inerease of 18.6 | per cent for the country at large over those e corresponding week of last year. | delphia shows the extraordinary gain of 526 per cent. New York increased 26.1 and San Francisco 2: Thirteen cities showed decreases. The total clearances for the week amounted to $1,237,609,762. 1t | spectacle. THE SATEST GROUND. One of the most important agencies fos- tering railroad aggression in California has been the extreme lengths to which ad- vocates of reform have endeavored to push popular and righteous issues. Such a policy, by having the appearance of being aimed generally at the rights of vested capital, has contributed to the defeat of reforms which would have greatly pro- moted the prosperity of the State. The intemperance of its enemies is one of the strongest supports that the railroad re- | ceives. Applying this fact to the purpose of the anti-funding convention, which is to be held in this City on Saturday of this week, | itis clear that nothing would serve the interests of the railroad more effectively | than an insistence on extreme measures. Anything of the nature of bitterness, ani- mosity or reprisal—anything but a simple demand for justice and the enforcement of | the law—might place a sword in the hand of the railroad. The purpose of that con- vention is to urge Congress to defeat any measure for extending the debt of the aided railroads. That alone is a very comprehensive posi- tion. It is the door that must be first opened before the stronghold can be in- vaded. Ifthe funding bill is not first de- feated it would be idle to talk of any proposition which naturally would follow Let any ulterior plans that may be wise and just be matured meanwhile, but let them be kept in abeyance until the main battle is fought and won. The logical sequence of events in this matter requires the funding bill to be first put out of the way. That accomplished, it would be incumbent on the Government to proceed with the collection of the debt. In that step would be raised the question of the method—whether to take the prop- erty outright and operate it as a Govern- ment institution, or sell it subject to Gov- ernment control, or enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission to | piace the regulation of all railway trafiic in the hands of the Government, or a | dozen other plans that might be imagined for léssening the power of railroads in general and assuring more firmly the stability of inland commerce and the steady progress and development of the whole country. All this broad field would be opened by the defeat of the funding bill, and would be closed for fifty years by its adoption. Let us take not the smallest chance of defeat in this great initial battle. Let the convention stick with absolute fidelity to the text of the call which assembled it, and let every effort be concentrated for the present on that single issae. No dissen- on could possibly spring from such a course, and intemperance would find no room in its pursuit. FOR RIVER IMPROVEMENT, The convention of the River Improve- ment Association held in this City last Wednesday presented a most gratifying a large representation hydraulic minin, antagonistic to | to navigation, the ancient hostility was wisely kept in the background, and the | convention confined itself to the grand | proposition of securing Government recog- nition of the necessity for improving our natural highways of commerce. It woula haye been easy to weaken if not destroy the fight which the convention has so earnestly begun by demanding that all undertakings to make the rivers navigable should be made contingent on the sup- pression of hydraulic mining. By taking this dignified and patriotic attitude, the convention has won the ad- | miration and sympathy of all classes. There should be no niggardliness in sup- plying with funds the five delegates who have been commissioned to represent our interests at Washington. The simple fact that the rivers, poor as their navigation facilities are, are saving the State $2,000,000 annually by reason of the competition which they offer to railway transportation, is the foundation of a powerful argument which our representatives can make to the National Legislature. It is an incredible shame that although the richest sections of Northern and Cen- tral California might be able to do largely without railroads, except overland lines, we are content to give two-thirds ot our soil products to the maintenance of a rail- road monopoly. In view of the remarkable disclosures which THE CALL has made concerning the extent to which Government funds are ex- pended at Oakland and Alameda for the benefit of the railroad, it is alarming to re- flect on the possible exercise of this power at Washington to defeat all measures pro- posed for the opening of our rivers. The affair across the bay is most scandalous, and deserves an investigation at the hands of Congress. It is conceivable that the Government itself is not conniving in the work of its Jocal representatives, and that it will correct these evils upon a proper showing. This should be taken up at once by our Representatives in Congress and considered in connection with the needs of the Statein the matter of im- proving the rivers, THE PRIMARY LAW. The issue raised in the Supreme Court by a citizen of Sacramento with regard to the primary election law of 1895 goes solely to the point of the question as to whether | the law is applicable to that county. That is to say, as the law is expressly applicable to counties of the first and second class, the question is the classification under which the county of Sacramento should come. While there is grave uncertainty concerning the rule of county classifica- tion, and while this may possibly be re- garded by the Supreme Court 2s a suffi- cient ground upon which to base a ques- tion of the constitutionality of the law, still the general rule of the court is to con- fine itself strictly to the issue raised. Itis likely to result, therefore, that the ques- ion of the constitutionality of the law will not be considered. As in any proceeding which might be taken for testing the law with regard to its applicability to San Francisco the ques- tion of classification cannot be raised, and in view of a considerable feeling of uneasi- ness in this City that the law could not stand a test on its merits, it seems to be an urgent duty on the part of San Francisco to secure an adjudication on the broad ground of constitutionality, The law has so many peculiar and radical features as to offer itself as a shining target for assault by some interested person er political party ready to accept the benefits or im- pose the embarrassments resulting from a successful attack upon it after its opera- tion has been carried so far that it would be impossible to return to the plan which the law supersedes. The time left for making such a test is very short, as the law requires that the seléction of electors—the first act in put- ting the law in operation—must be made during this month. If anything is to be done it should be done immediately, and there would be no better time for securing adecision than the date set by the Su- Although there must have been | and although there is| an intimate relation between that industry | and the opening of the rivers of the State | preme Court for the hearing of the Sacra- ‘ mento case. That is the 28th inst. San | Francisco might find itself in an exceed- " | ingly embarrassing position either if the | Supreme Court in the Sacramento case | should happen to declare the law uncon- | stitutional or a subsequent case, coming | from this City, should effect a similar re- | sult. OLEVELAND DISOREDITED. Senator Mills has joined with Senator | Morgan in denouncing the President's financial policy, and thus two of the lead- ing Democrats in the Senate put them- | selves on record as opponents of the chief measures of the administration. Their | speeches are the more satisfactory to the | public because the recent utterances in the Senate of Hill and Vest gave some reason to fear that Democraey had surrendered itself wholly to Clevelandism, and that the party would make no vigorous oppo- sition to the man of the White House whether he demanded the retirement of greenbacks or the re-election of himself. The timeliness of these declarations of | independence on the part of leading Demo- | crats in Congrass was curiously illustrated by occurrences in the House of Represen- | latives at the very time that Mills was | making his ¢peech in the Senate. State- ! ments made diring the proceedings in the | House led the venerable Galusha Grow | croachment of the President upon the pre- | Togatives of Congress in matters of legisla- | this time of resenting anything like a | further toleration of such offenses. | Another blow at Clevelandism on the | same day as these speeches in Congress | came to the public in the letter from J. P. Morgan dissolving the syndicate which issue. In a recent open letter Cleveland declared the new loan had been decided on | by the administration without arrange- | ments with any banker or set of bankers. | | Morgan had mno desire to contradict this | statement, but he had to explain to his had formed it. In his letter he says he | was mvited to Washington fora confer- | ence and drew the conclusion that bonds l would be issued, though “ no negotiations | for a loan were even suggested.” The dis- | tinction thus made between a “cnn(er-" | tion and to emphasize the urgent need at | had been formeda to take the new bond fellow bankers of the syndicate why he | ence’’ and a *‘ negotiation” is altogether | too fine to disclose any real difference as a matter of business and, as a consequence, | Cleveland is shown by the banker’s letter | | not only to have conferred with one of tne | | money kings of the world before making | the loan, but also to have made a very dis- | | creditable attempt to deny it when charged | with it in a debate in the Senate. i The speech of Mills in the Senate and | of Grow in the House, taken in connection I with the discredit thrown upon the ad- | ministration by the statements of the Morgan letter, present the third-term movement in a very different light from that in which it appeared just after the speeches of Vest and Hill a short time ago. Then it seemed powerful enough to | subvert the Democracy. but at present it | appears but a weak and futile scheme. Many things may, of course, take place before the convention meets, but none of | them are likely to increase the prestige of | Cleveland. The movement to renominate | him has reached its height, and from this | time forth we may look tosee it weaken | and diminish steadily before an increasing | opposition. PROMPTLY SUPPRESSED. The cheerfulness with which Julius A. | | Haste, Superintendent of State Dredgers | and Towboats, admitted the receipt of commissions from those furnishing sup- | plies for State use on the water front, and the vigor and openness with which he de- | fended the act as being “‘legitimate busi- | ness,” were not more remarkable than the | promptness with which he was suppressed | when he began to make disclosures of sim- |ilar practices by other heads of depart- | | ments. To an ordinary citizen not invested with prescience by the wearing of an official | crown, this would have appeared to be a | fine opportunity for the Harbor Commis- | sioners at least to hear the charges, if forno | other purpose than to remove the smirch which has been cast on the fair names of their proteges. A friend’s loyalty to a | friend is an admirable thing, but in this | | case it seems to have overshot its mark— | | doubtless the besmirched men would rather have been whitewashed than left to | remain under the straightiorward charge i of traffickers in a very mean and smail | sort of rascality. The present Board of Harbor Commis-‘ sioners has done so admirably in the past | that it would be a pity for it to make a mistake now. No one would think of ac- ’ cusing any one of them of any official crookedness or with know!edge of or con- nivance in that particular form of petty thievery which the acceptance of commis- sions represents. Itis one thing to chal- lenge any aspersion on the fair name of a friend and quite another to discharge an | official obligation. | PERSONAL. Dr. B. E. Bokyta of Russia is at the Oc- cidental. Dr. J. Emile Blowen of Washington, D. C., is among recent arrivals. E. B, Willis, editor of the Record-Union Sacramento, is in the City. D. F. Fozier of the United States revenue | steamer Grant is at the Palace. W. R. Irwin, & weaithy mining man of Mon- | tana, who has been on a visit to Honolulu, is | at the Palace. George Ohleyer, editor and owner of the Sut- ter County Farmer, is at the Grand. 0. H.J. Briggs of St. Paul, Minn.,1s in the City. Aftera visit to Portland, Or., he will re- turn to his home in Minnesota. James H. McNabb, editor of the Petaluma Argus, is in the City. Mr. McNabb is a veteran in Pacific Coast journalism, and is known as one of the best all-round newspaper men in the State. A letter from Apia, Samoa, says: “December 4 was the anniversary of Robert Louis Steven- son’s death. The grave on the mountain peak was decorated with flowers by some of the | lamented author’s friends.” | The Rev.Father Carlos Gandara of Guate- | mala City arrived here yesterday, accompanied | by several friends. They will probably remain here about two months, and may go on to New York. They are at the Occidental. N. M. Le Baron of Valley Forge, one of the at- torneys employed in connection with the estate of Hollis Hitcheock, the recently deceased mile lionaire, 1s in the City. He isaccompanied by Thomas Smith, a lesses of one of the Hitcheock farms at Valley Forge. Miss Helen Dauvray, the leading lady in the play “Our American Girls,” which she em- ployed Bronson Howard to write for her, re- turned here from Honolulu and Melbourne yesterday, accompanied by her sister, Mrs, Keith. Miss Dauvray is a native Californian, and years ago was known at the old California Theater as the child actress and the Little Cali- fornia Diamond. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 16.—Among recent arrivals are: E. Holliday, St. Cloud; C. W. Marcudel, Everett; E. R. Mausey, Miss Mc- Kinstry, Holland; 8. I. Wormser, Grand; G. G. Wolfe, Imperial, Garner has improved on his monkey story; he is starting & monkey school in Calcutta where apes will be taught to read. to call attention to the increasing en-{ [ AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Miss Sophia Claussen, the Norwegian mie- sionary, who is at the Occidental, is an inter- esting person. She arrived here on the City of Peru, after four years among the Chinese of Heankow and places far up the Yangtse-Kiang River, and has had stranger experiences by far | than most of the embassadors of peace who visit the empire, No European before her, except on one ocea- &ion, ever ascended the great river of China to £0 distant a point. It was so far that it took a month and & half of traveling by sailing-boat from Hankow. The city reached was Yu-jang, with nearly 1,000,000 people. There, because she inci- dentally walked into a “holy place,” not 1 > abr i, Miss Sophia Claussen, the Missionary of the Yang-tse-Kiang River. realizing what it was, herseif and party nar- rowly missed being attacked by the Chinese hordes, whose prejudices had transformea them into a mob. But down the river at Fon-sang,another large and very important city, where several other missionaries of the Norwegian Lutheran Society were located, who were warned by the | Chinese to leaye, greater care had, if possible, to be exercised. “If you were not very careful,” said Miss Claussen, “a stone would come hurling toward you, and perhaps it would come anyway. You had to be on the lookout or you would get hit. Myself and the ladies with me irequently went to walk. We always were on the watch. For- tunately, however, we were not attacked. he Chinese had, however, threatened our friends there. They told them that if they did not leave they would be driven out. They un- doubtedly would have been, too, had they not appealed to the mandarin, “The mandarin asserted himself in their fa- vor, and calmed the Chinese. Still our friends who were stationed st Fon-Sang were a little anxious. That is a city where there are a good many of the liternti, They are very preju- diced, as they are at Yujang. “We had & very deligntful trip along the Yangtse-Kiang. The rt where so wide that we could not see the shore on efther side. “There had lately millions of people who bad been living along the shores had lost their homes. They had been swept away. There were many Chinese with us to manage the boat, and they had their wives and children along." Miss Claussen is going to stay in America a year to recuperate her health from the bad effects of the climate of Hankow. She will be in San Francisco several week: TOMMY ATKINS UP TO DATE. We take him from the nurses ard the maids Weload him up with zuns and haversack: We teach him how 10 form a hollow square. And what is what in marcnes and attack: We show him how an uitimatam works, And how we play our little blufling game. It matters not what he I3 called_abroad, all him Tommy Atkins, just the same! CHORTS. Oh, Tommy! Tommy Atkins! You're a good 'un, heart and hand; You're a credit 10 your wages, And to all your blooming land; You're a beauty when you're areaming Of a war across the foam, But, God help you, Tommy Atkins, When you get away from home! Of course, we have the worid upon a string: We like 10 think we own the bloom{ag earth; v re we for the rigats of other folk we are in the game for all it’s worth? y that we run America, Europe bows (o us with cringing smiles Africa and Asia are our pie) And all the little cheap Pacific isles! CHORUS. Oh, Tommy! Tommy Atkins! You are always in the right, But stop at home and talk, sir; 1t is safer than to fight. For you must be eircamspect, sir; There are kicks across the foam, And God help yon, Tommy Atkins, 11 you get away from home! —New York Evening Sun. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ENGELBERG—A. K., City. The late Emil A. Engelberg, one of the pioneer bakers of this City, was born in Boras, Sweden, April 4, 1821, FOREIGNERS CAN ENLIST—D. L., Santa Anita, Los Angeles County, Cal. A foreigner can en- list in the United States navy, but when he does so he must take the oath to support the constitution of the United States. MARQUIS OF LomNE—J. J. M., Hart, Shasta County, Cel. Sir John George Edward Henry Douglass Sutherland Campbell, courtesy Mar- quis of Lorne, eldest son of the Duke of Argyle, wasappointed Governor-General of Canada in 1878 and held that office until 1583, A PRIVATE LINE—J. A., City. If the owners of houses do not object to & wire being run over them & person could run a short private line for amateur telegraphing without other permit, but if there is any objection the person would have to obtain permission through the Board of Superyisors. BOOKS ON MINING—A. O., La Grange, Stanis- laus County, Cal. As Answers to Correspond- ents does not advertise the merits of any books, itcannot tell which is “‘the best book on min- ing for the use of a prospector.” That infor- mation may be obtained by addressing a letter to the State Mining Bureat, this City. ALADDIN JR.—Subscriber. The Henderson Company that played “Aladdin Jr.” at the Bald- win Theater last year came to this City in the middle of December, 1894, opened on the 17th and gave the last performance on Sunday, Jan- uary 6, 1895. On the following day Marie Tavery aud her English opera company ap- peared at the Baldwin. STREETCAR TRAFFIC—A. S., City. The street- cars of this City carry more passengers on Sun- day—that is, when the Sundays are bright and clear—than on week days. The Market-street system carries on an average 150,000 people & day on other days than Sunday,and on Sun- day an average of 200,000. There is also greater travel on Sundays on the other lines of cars. To LoCATE AN INDIVIDUAL—Subscriber, City. If you know that an individual is in another State and is a taxpayer there and you desire to locate him, but do not knmow in what county he s, you miiht write to each Count; Clerk, inclosing a seli-addressed and prepail envelope, or you mignt address yourself to one of the many agencies in this City, who for & consideration will locate him for him. WHY Nor A LEAP YEAR—A., Oakland, Cal. The year 1900 wili not be a leap year. The Gregorian calendar, established in 1582, then and ever since known as the new style, was so arranged that of the hundredth years to come, only four hundredth years were to be bissextile years, baving 366 days, whereof the year 1600 been heavy floods, and | | t but he seems rsufficient | er is big, but was no- | was the first. The year 1900, not being divis ible by 400 is notaleap year. Any of the hun- dredth years that cannot be divided by 400 | ‘was not nor cannot be a ieap year. [ ST | TAX ON CERTIFICATES—A. €., City. The law in regard to & tax on certificates of mining and other corporations is as follows It shall be lawful for the secretary of every cor- | poration in the State of Calffornia to demand and Teceive from any person of any person requiring the jssue to him of any certificate of stock in such corporation a fee of 10 cents in coin for each cer- tificate, whether such certificate be the original issuc or an issue on transfer, and such secretary shall not deliver such certificate until such fee shall be paid. COMMUNITY PioPERTY—M. P, City. The answer to the question, “If a woman marriesa | man without means and he afterward becomes | possessed of property is it community property and has the wife a legal right to it?” is to be found in the following sections of the Civil Code of this State: All property owned by the husband before mar- | riage and that acquired afterward by gift, beauest, devise or descent, with the rents, 1ssues and profits thereof, is his separate property. i All other property acquired aiter marriage by either husband or wite, or both, is community property. Community propertv is property acquired by husband and wife, or either, during inarriage when not acquired as the separate property of either. BLUE AND BR(WN FOR GUN BARRE: o City. Gun baryls are blued by applying a small quantity tnitric acid, which is allowed 10 eat into the sxel a little: the latter becomes covered with a fm of oxide, after which the | barrel is cleanedfoiled and burnished. To im- part a brown cor to a gun barrel the barrel is first rubbed a%id polished and then rubbed with whiting 1\ remove oily matter. The openings of the barrel are closed and then & coating of a mix*ure of equal parts of butter of | antimony and s\eet oil is applicd with either cloth or spongt, the whoie suriace being eaually moisten:l, This is allowed to remain fora day_when 't is rubbed off with a stiff brush. “The mi‘ture is then applied again | until ‘the propc! shade of color is obtained. When the desiri:d tint has been produced the barrel is washed in pearl-ash water, then in clear water and:polished with either a burn- isher or beesw: FROM WLSTERN SANCTUMS. Battle of Brave Words. Lo Angeles Times. It must be agieced that the dispatches reek with war ne ably afar off. Soldiers Who Run Away. | Grass Valley Union. | Defaulting cashiers now go to Cuba to join | the insurgents iastead of going to Canada to join the “colonis | 1.t the actual fighting is prob- | That Lively Sick Turkey. Quincy Bulletin. Turkey is styled the “Sick Man” of Europe, vy strong and sangui- | nary to massacre thousands of Armenians, and civilized nations apvear to be too “sick” to ar- | rest his bloody work. Three Big Pawnbrokers. Galt Gazette. | Some clever cartoonist should picture & sign | of the three giided balls, with Cleveland and | | Carlisle’s name as a sign, and Uncle Sam pawn- ing his bag and baggage. These gentlemen em to think that the only way to run the finances of the country is to put the Nation “in soak.” A City of Whistles. Stoekton Record. Why not call Stockton the city of whistles? The term would be forcible in its application. The factory whistlesare heard all over the city, while the whistles 6n the big steamers along the wharves echo to the blasts of the locomo- tives. 1in few other towns of the same size will | be heard the blowing of so many whistles asone | daily hears in Stacktor Keep Her Feet Where They Belong. Los Angeles Herald. The present predicament of England witkh her toes so m:scellaneously distributed over the globe that almost every other nation seems to be treadingon them is worthy the serious consideration of those indiscriminate annexa- tionists of our own country who desire to the power of the United States spread out t over the world’s suriace. The Right to Speedy Trial. Xapa Journal. The right of a trial by jury guaranteed by the constitution of the United States was not intended to bz a farce, but the action of & Po- lice Judge of San Irancisco comes very near making it eppear 10 be one. A man was ar- rested on a charge of vagrancy. He demanded jury trial and the Police Judge set a date in sext for his trial, In other words he sen- tenced the man to six months’ imprisonment without either examination or trial. CURRENT HUMOR. After s woman has tied up a bundle there is no string left in the house.—Atchison Globe. Waggs—How is Byker getting on asa wheel- | man? Gaggs—OM, he gets on all right, but he imme- diately falls off. No, Madge, dear. Becanse o man strikes a | match on the sole of his shoe he must not | necessarily be_considered light on his feet.— | Philadelphia Record. Author—What do you think of the title, ome Thoughts on the Currency Question? | Friend—H'm! Suppose you call it “Some | Remaris on the Currency Question.”—Puck. Alleviated Woe—Dreadful about that burglar ng your diamond scaripin. wasn't it? | ,1t mignt have been worse. He took my cktie, too—the one my wife gave me Christ- Chicago Record. In chronicling the funeral of a highly re- spected citizen the reportof & contemporary thus concludes: *He leaves & daughter and three sons, his widow having pre-deceased him.”—London Household Words. | | Kate—Just look! much too big. Mary—Yes; you must heve given him the number of your street instead of the number of your shoe.—Boston Transcript. These boots are ever so Workman—Mr. Brown, I should like to ask you for & small raise in my wages. Ihave just been married. Employer—Very sorry, my dear man, but I can’t help You. For accidents which happen to our workmen outside of the factory the com- pany is not responsible.—Fliegende Blaetter. Mrs.Newed—Is your husband a domestic man? Mrs. Henpeck—He's the only domestic we keep. 1 Lave taught him to cook and wash dishes very nicely.—Philadelphia Record. LADY'S SKIRT WITH ADJUSTABLE BOX-PLEAT IN FRONT. The pattern shown here is especially liked for lightweight silks. It also develops well in the lightweight crepons, and may be made without the box-pleat in front. A charming evening dress of pipk taffetas with a black stripe was trimmed with black satin ribbons run through a creamy lattice work of batiste, as shown in the illustration. The waist had a black chiffon bodice, with short puffed sleeves of the silk. Three strips of the batiste, with black satin run through them, formed bretelle trimming on both back and front of the waist, A blue dotted mull dress had a ruffie of nar- row Valenciennes lace on the edges of the double box-pleat. The waist was made with blouse front, which was also made with a ;:Rx; b;:x-y}:-; edged with hce} The short, slee ad four rows of lace fr shoulder 10 the elbow. b | THE C. | by th | A POINT THAT SEE: ON THE POPULIST PLATFORM. GE OF MR. OLIVER IN RESP( To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—STR: There are three substantial reasons for “the frequency with which the Populist,” \mde: signed, “airs his views in your columr namely: The 8000 citizens in this City end the 60,000 in the State who votea the Populist ticket at the last election are now looking to , that speaks for all, as a genuine, broed-guage newspaper of the most advanced order in which the news of the w | reach the north pol rid may be | found in due proportion to its value and im- | portance; journal and so uncertain of its own growth as to be airaid to give place in iis ample columns 10 views on the vital issues of the dey which it does not inculecate in its editoriel utterance and, in the third place, it has sufficient fait in the stability and strength of the political party whose interests 1t seeks to promote as to eel no uneasiness over &n occasional publica- tion of a little “‘letter from the people” written by a Populist. 7 : Mr. Everett calls himself a socialist, and his first charge against the Populist platform is that its three issues—a legal tender National money issued by the Government only, the ownership Government of the railroad and tele- graph systems and the destruction of corporate and alien land monopoly—-are merely ten porary palliatives.” It is my purpose to show that his position is untenable, and &s he seems 1o be a candid man ard to teke himself seri ously, he will certainly admit his error on | conviction and reflection. In common with citizens of all shades of political faith, Populists hold that there are three giganticand oppressive cvils In tho land, n the next plece, it is not a feeble | | is at the Palace. the direct results of clothing corporations with | the functions of government, and they pro- claim as an adequate and sovereign remedy | for the permanent cure of these ev ation of these functions to the Goverument, where of right they belong, and they Da: their plea on the axiom adopted as the founds- tion of this Government, “By all, for all Now,to go atonce to the root of the matter under diseussion, that is, the cure of the public evils designated in the Populist platform, let us see whether the remedy proposed in that pl e!- form is in fact merely & temporary palliat ippose, for illustration, that the postals tem under Cleveland should be transferred from the Government to corpotate ownership and control to obtain some millions of gold to “keep up placing it in the treasury as & gold reserve to be drawn out again with greenbacks at the pleasure of the great bankers, and the new therestor- | the credit of the Government” by | | after and came to postofiice owners should follow the corporate | rule of taxing the traffic ail it will bear and raise the price of a letter stamp irom 205 cents ana cause great hardship and loss to the people and business, would it not be an ade- quate and sovereign remedy for this crying (ro:lul evil to restore it to the Goyernment? Would it not cure that evil? The three most profitable, powerful and dan- gerous corporations to-day, the oSt COTTupt- ing and oppressive, are the railroad, telegraph and banking corporations, as almost every in- telligent citizen will unhesitatingly admit 1n private conversation, and the National curse of their corporate extortion would instantly cease the day the Government resumed the functions unwisely or corruptly granted to these monstrous corporations. No man of sound mind and good intelligence, unbiased by corporate influence, has a single doubt in the present sate of public enlightenment as to the correctness of this statement. Would it be merely a temporary paltiative to dethrone these great corporations and restore the functions they now exercise to_the Government, they belong? Is Mr. Everett ready ¥ 10 1 can only makc & brief reference now to er points in Mr. Everett's temperate and nified letter. The one weak point in the where arguments of all advocates of the Socialist L tor par tep at & time,” which is the poii ople’s party, is evidence | that Populists “have not the perseverance to continue to think,” and ‘“cannot see the greater beautics that lie beyond” in the de- e mountains of realized socialism. revolution of the car wheels at a time, and great ocean steamships cross the broad Pacific by one turn_ata time ot the propeiler. Ch: dren in school pass from the lower to the higher grade, and never begin_ the school course in the State university. Socialists of the Everett cult should learn to fly and then > less “adyanced” the science. N that would not do, for flying itself is done by roke of the wings at a time. The one thing which the champions of the Socialist Labor party scem never to have dis- covered, with their ey d in steadfast gaze and rapt admiration upon the delectable monntains of socialism in the enchanting dis- tance, is the awfully dull and prosaic fact that society is a plant ol slow growth, the century plant being a veritable Jonah’s gourd in com- perison. In fact the gigantic sequoias of our mountains, said to be contemporaneous with Solomon, afford us a better illustration of the time it takes for the establishment of & just and humane Government. One step at a time for the free speech end the Tight to or- enjoyed oy the Socialist Labor and all others. One step &t & limé, one plank as an issue, made the publican party that elected Lincoln in 1860, 11t has ruled the Nation for thirty yearsand ireams of & long future. As a Populist I s that I believe in one'step at a time in i as parties are now managed, and I hope that the step this year will be a solid and lasting union of all reform forces on the great finencial issue and the greatest issue of all, direct legislation. In conclusion, it is a pleasure for me to add thet T am in full and hearty accord, as I think all intetligent Populists are, with Mr. Everett on the land question. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, January 15, 1896. Rl THE HALE AND NORCROSS. o To HAVE BEEN SUG- GES1ED AT THE ARGUMENT. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: In the Hale and Norcross appeal, argued yes: terday in the Supreme Court, the vital ques- tion decisive of the case seems not to have been suggested at the argument. So far as this ap- peal is concerned the judgment must be Te- garded as final. Itisnotan interlocutory and must be a final judgment. Neither the former decision of the Supreme Court, ordering this dgment, nor the present proceedings of the Superior Court, for the purpose of obtaining an additional judgment upon the issues sent | back by the Supreme Court to be retried, can be considered on this appeal. The effect of this final judgment on the proceedings, now being had in the Superior Court, and the ~ additional judgment that may be recovered thereon, can only come up and be considered on “the appesl from such additional judgment. If this final judgment, now on appesl, is & merger of the entire suit, that matter can only be made a de- fense in the present proceedings in the Superior Court and can be considered only by the Su- reme Court on the appeal from the additional Judgment that may berendered in the Superior Court on such proceedings, The Supreme Court, on the iaiter appeal, can then deter- mine whether the former final judgment is such merger, and whether the plaintiff, by taking euch final judgment in the case,is topped from further proceedings in the case, and from recovering an additional judgment, AN OLD PRACTITIONER. San Francisco, January 16, 1896, PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Mrs. Emma Walker Herr of Lexington, Ky., has been elected enrolling clerk of the Ken. tucky State Senate. Mies Sibyl S8anderson’s ambition is to become asinger. Atthe Paris Grand Opera recently she tried the part of Gildea in *‘Rigoletto.” John Russell Young is stiil in Mexico,where, with his private secretary, Ralph Meeker, he went to gather material for & life of General Ulysses S. Grant. After forty-two yearsof service as lady-in- waiting to Queen Victoria the Dowager Duch- ess of Athol is about to resign. She was Mis- tress of Rooes in the Earl Derby's first admin- istration in 1852 and also under Lord Rose. | bery. Daniel F. Tieman, the oldest living ex-Mayor of New York, and of whose predecessors in that office none is Jiving, is to-day quietly cele- brating the ninety-first anniversary of his birth. He was elected Mayor in 1857 and held the offics for the two succeeding years. John McCullough, M. P. for Glasgow, lec. tured the other evening at Hull House, Chi- cego, on “Some Great Problems Which Con- front the Anglo-Saxon Race.!' He took the ground that the single tax on land is the only solution of every industrial problem. The old and historic pine tree that stood on the banks of the Delaware on the Pproperty of Samuel Swain at Bristol was cut down the other day. When General Lafayette made his journey to Philadelphia more than seventy years ago his carriage stopped beneath this pine. Prince Henry of Orleans, the spendthrift son of the Duc de Chartres, who has been explor. Ing {n Asia, expects o reach Paris in February. He has traveled more than 2000 miles in Ton. kin, the Chinese Mekong, Thibet and Assam three-quarters of the distance through distriots igh all the ages past has now made it pos- | trains cross the continent with one | "LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. | accomplished diplomat. previously unexplored and has made large o ollections. ione Borghese, heving married a rich wife last year, is about to buy back for 1,700,000 francs the Pala: 3trl'gl|('~t“vln Rome hich his father was obliged _XO sell 2 years ago in consequence of his speculations in Roman real estate. M. Andre of € natural hi = Prince olm, who will attempt to balloon, is having his balloon built It is to be finished ¢ May 11, when it will be transported to Goth burg, and then to & small island in the bergen group,whence the expedition will e A MEXICAN DIPLOMAT. After Twelve Years’ ¥xperience He Is Joining the Legation Near Tokio. Edmundo J. Plaza, for seven years past secretary of the Mexican Jegation at Waslington, D. C., and now appointed to the secretaryship of the legation at Tokio, Prior to being in Wash- ington he was secretary of the Mexican legation at Paris. Secretary Plaza says there are throngs of people in Washington now, and that the sky was clear and the days alto, ether pleasant. Congress being reassembled and now down to a good working condition the galleries are filled nearly every day. ,“1 think I never saw a iiner passenger train_than the one from New Urleal:s_lo San Francisco,” said the secretary. “For the whole distance of 2480 miles it was on time at every station. It scarcely rained a minute. Then the cars weore luxurious and the comforts of the best. The fi'e&ther was pleasant all the way through. The secretary will leave for Tokio on the Peru to-day. He bears the marks of an He has been in the diplomatic service. e The Wilson Estate. The estate of J. H. B. Wilson, worth $2500, has been distributed to his four half sisters and to his nephew by Judge Slack. Wilson's real name was Spurway. When quite young he joined the British navy,but deserted soon san Francisco. Here he took the name of Wilson. His estate was about to escheat to the Government, but his relatives in England heard of his death and made a lication for his estate. 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