The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 27, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 18y CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Paily and Supdsy CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.18 Deily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Delly and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Deily and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Dafly and Sunday CALL, One month, by mall.. .65 Eunday CALL, one year, by mail 1.50 WEEKLY CaLy, one yesr, by mail. .60 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Main-1868 EDITORIAL ROOM: 517 Clay Street. Main-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: $20 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open umtll $:30 o'clock. 889 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 717 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. EW . corner Eixteenth and Mission sireeis; open Bt § g'clock. 20185 Mission street; open until 8 o'clock 316 Niuth street; open untl § o'clocks OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 51 snd 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M, FOLTZ, Specisl Agent. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. — It is January in the almanac but April in the weather bureaun. Many people feel for the Armenians, but only the Turks are reaching for them. No senatorial speeches were m’deyesu!- day to be read to-day. This is blue Monday. Already the great mass of the peopleare getting into line for high tariff and free coinage. Instead of passing the emergency bills the Senators seem resolved to let the emergency pa: Let us hold together until the funding bill is defeated and then we can discuss what to do next. Since Krueger sent Jameson to England to be tried he oughtto give Hammond a trial in California. All parts of the interior are humming h preparations of coming festivals and everybody is bu: The Democra Presidential camvaign has begun to open up and looks more like & chestnut burr than ever, The Republican victory will result in a far-reaching peals the monopoly charter. If Eastern people are able to see any- ving at all through the blinding snow- orms they ought to see that California is the place to live. 2 m Kentucky reform if it re- 1 The proposal of Senator Cullom to bor- Tow $100,000,000 to provide coast defenses would be more like a popular loan than Cleveland’s attemot at it. With a deficit in the revenues Cleve- nd’s attempt to keep up the gold reserve ke trying to keep a barrel filled with water while the bung is open, The siiver men and the Populists will make very good side shows at St. Louis, but everybody will go into the big tent where the Republican band plays. It is said that Morrison of Illinois is the only man in the Democratic Presidential nomination, and be is suspected of wish- ing it mainly for the advertising there is init. Some of the supporters of the railroad monopoly are silent because they are afraid of public opinion, but most of them are so because they are ashamed of them- selves. The third term proposition is not a movement by any means. It is only an obstruction in the Democratic road that prevents any other candidate from having & movement., It has been noted in Chicago that on the day it was decided to hold the Democratic Convention there the temperature began to rise and the weather became something like a bot day in January. The laurels of glory come high in the Orient as well as elsewhere and Japan has found that her recent increase of Pprestige has been accompanied by a 70 per cent increase of taxation. Business men should be liberal in their subscriptions to the State development committee fund, as it is doing practical and effective work in bringing a thrifty class of home-seekers into the State. BTt Illinois Democrats declare their favor- ite Colonel Bill Morrison to be *‘a plat- form in himself,” and do not see that they are thereby furnishing a reason why some other candidate should be put up to stand on him, According to Willett & Gray’s statistical review the consumption of sugar in the TUnited States was about 67,000 tons less in 189 than in the previous year. It was cheaper than it had been, but Democratic times had made the people too poor to buy it even at the reduced vrice. The memorial to Congress on the fund- ing bill should assert everythingon which the people are united and nothing on which they are divided. The one issue at pre- sent is to defeat any re-funding scheme that may be devised and on that issue there is no division of sentiment in Cali- fornia. —_—— The nearer the campaign approaches the more certain it is that the greatest issue with the people will be that of tariff re- form in the direction of a thorough pro- tective system even if it hasto be carried to the extent of absolutely prohibiting the importation of Oriental goods that com- pete with home products. New York and New Jersey havearranged between them a little scheme to get the Government to buy the famous plateau of the Palisades and preserve it as a military reservation. Of course the scheme is sim- ply to get a grand park at the expense of the Nation, and California might as well ask the Government to provide a boule- vard around the bay for a military high- way. 1t will be remembered that during the campaign last fall a young woman in Maryland challenged Senator Gorman to debate with her. Gorman declined, but nevertheless she is to have her reward. A soap manufacturinz company has adopted ber picture as a trade-mark and will send her out durirg the coming campaign to stump the whole country for that rare combination, Populism and soap. WORKERS ARE WORKING. An encouraging feature of the fight against the funding bill is the interest which labor organizations are taking in it. Here and there throughout the State they are passing resclutions against the scheme and forwarding them to Washington. Much more work of that kind might be done. For that matter, a grand demon- stration by the labor bodies of the State would serve a useful purpose, It is upon persons of small means and upon those who have no resource but their daily labor that the burdens im- posed by extending the railroad debt will fall most grievously. As an extension of the debt must contemplate an increase of transportation charges to meet the pay- ments, and as these charges at present are greater than the State can bear and at the same time have a margin for an extension of its industries, it follows that the pass- ing of a funding bill will further impov- erish the producing classes by enforcing a curtailment of production. It would not be competent to argue that the railroad company dare not place its charges at a figure which would xill its traffic, It will bave to do so if it honestly tries to meet the obligations of a funding bill. If the view be taken that it will not do so, then we must admit that it has no intention of discharging its obligations. But we have already seen that any such power, to be exercised either to swindle the Government or cripple the State, is just what we cannot afford to grant to this imperious company, While making a pretense, in its attack upon the Rail- road Commission’s reduced scale of freight charges, of a pecessity for maintaining high rates in order that its means of ob- serving its obligation to the Government shall not be impaired, it arbitrarily raises rates in the exercise of a power which its compact with the Panama @Railway created. In this latter case there wasno pretense that the increased revenue was desired to apply to the Government debt, The funding bill is notonly a measure to evade the paymentof an honest debt; it goes further and means the condoning of the swindle by which the debt was created and maintained and the perpetua- tion of & monopoly which will be as un- scrupulous and imperious in the future as it has been in the past. The workers of California—farmers, arti- sans, laborers and all others who, as pro- ducers and consumers, constitute the bulk of the population—are the ones at whose security and prosperity this shameful measure is aimed, It is principally they who should step forward now and sound a protest that may be heard across the con- tinent, This is not a time for timidity or cowardice. All expressions that are made should be temperate and so framed as to command the respect and attention of the East. Our kinsmen there are slower and more conservative than we, and besides that they cannot fully understand the evils that we have borne so long or appreciate the disheartening position in which we should be placed by the passage of the funding bill. If we are radieal or abusive we shall certainly losethe Eastern sym- pathy which belongs to a sense of justice, Let every effort be confined to an assault on the funding bill. On that proposition we certainly can count on the sympathy of the East. That will mean victory. The way will then be clear for an intelligent handling of the propositions which will present themselves, UNBALANCED INSTRUCTION. The Grand Jury of Los Angeles turns aside a moment from its task of exposing official carelessness and rascality in that city, and reads the State a severe lecture on the subject of normal schools. It states that the Btate has four of these institutions, and that they are graduating about 200 teachers annually for a population which is showing hardly any increase. The Grand Jury suggests that the number of examinations at least might be reduced from two to one a year. It seems a peculiar coincidence that while the Los Angeles Grand Jury was launching that bolt, the State Superin- tendent of Education was lecturing in San Francisco and saying some other interest- ing things about the needs of the public schools. He declared that because of the small salaries paid teachers, many young men regard teaching as merely a stepping- stone to some more profitable occupation, and he added: “The teaching force of the State is in a constant state of change. We do not wonder at the clamor for something more thau an academic training for those who are to teach our children in the future.” He then intimated that the nor- mal schools do not require a sufficiently high education on the part of those who are received to be taught the art of teach- ing. It does seem a strangely unbalanced condition of affairs that shows the turning out of 50 many teachers annually by the normal schools on a comparatively low basis of gualification while there are hun- dreds, and possibly thousands, of normal graduates who are unable to secure posi- tions, and while the fierce struggle for po- sitions inevitably leads to bad results, in a political sense. Although the public schools of the State are famous for their efficiency that is no reason why they may not be better. No teacher can be too well trained. The normal schools of the State turn out grad- uates who are very young, and for that reason alone, however ambitious they may be, lack a valuable qualification for managing children. It is not difficult to imagine that if they were put through a long training they would be more efficient than they are. Worse than all this are the wire-pullings that many of them have to resort to in order to secure positions. It becomes largely a matter of personal in- fluence, and this must tend to lower the standard of merit. It would certainly be interesting if the normal schools would publish a list of all their former pupils who hold positions as teachers and place alongside it a list of those who have failed to find suchemploy- ment. THE SECRETARY'S DUTY. The Transvaal authorities have liberated all the American prisoners on parole ex- cept John Hays Hammond, and he is held because he had written to Jameson saying that he would notify him when danger should threaten the Uitlanders, As a matter of fact Jameson had already started on his raid before this letter was written. Hence the simple story is that Hammond feared that at some time the Uitlanders’ rights might be threatened; that he was presumably aware of Jame- son’s intention to make a raid for their rescue when that contingency should arise; thatasit did not arise Hammond committed no overt act against the Trans- vaal authority. On tbe contrary, seeing that there was no occasion for Jameson’s descent and that such an act was wrong and unwarranted, he promotly placed him- self'on the side of the Boers, raised the flag of the Transvaal and assisted in main- taining the constituted authority of the republic. If his first act was an error his second more than atoned for it. All that, however, is apart from a deeper concern which affects the dignity and pres- tige of the United States. Secretary Olney has seen Lord Salisbury promptly de- manding that President Krueger surrender Jameson to England for trial in the English courts, and it is now believed that Mr. Olney will follow that example and de- mand the surrender of the American pris- oners to the United States for trial in our courts. It is not possible for Becretary Olney to pursue any other course without degrading our country in the eyes of the world. President Krueger could not afford 10 practice such a discrimination as a re- fusal to comply would represent. Even should he refuse 1t is the duty of our Gov- ernment to press the demand and if neces- sary to enforce it. The Transvaal, by ac- ceding to England's demand, has for- feited all right to appeal to the nations for protection against such a demand from us, and no nation could interfere without first requiring that the precedent estab- lished in Jameson’s surrender to England be destroyed. Our Nation nasnot a very good reputa- tion for zeal in guarding the interests of its citizens abroad, and it is time that this error be corrected. The one thing above all others that an Englishman is sure of is that the whole power of Great Britain is ready to be unleashed in his protection if his rights or liberty are threatened in any part of the world. It is such a feeling of security as this that makes citizens and subjects loyal to the countries whose flags protect them, and eager to fight when these countries become involved in war. Aside from all this is the extremely bitter feeling of the Boers against the foreigners and the virtual impossibility of a fair trial in the Transvaal coarts, Even shouid the courts acquit the American prisoners it is more than likely that mob law would be resorted to. President Krueger's assur- ance that the suspects will be given a fair trial would mean nothing in the face of a fierce popular determination 1o find some victims to suffer vicariously for Jameson's deeds, In the United States there is no popular hatred of the Boers or their Government. The American prisoners would be tried fairly in courts employing a langnage with which they are familiar, and a procedure which they understand. The Government of the Transvaal would in no wise be ham-"| pered in the presentation of its case. In short, trial in an American court would be fair, and in a Transvaal court unfair and dangerous, Should Secretary Olney {fail of his clear duty in this instance he would be striking a very serious biow at the rights and liberties of American citizens, and would be degrading the United States be- fore all the nations. A QUEER TRADE IDEA, The Pennsylvania Grocer makes the fol- lowing extraordinary announcement: “‘Chicago is reaching out for trade, as all live cities ought and must, if they expect to do more than hold their own, Leading wholesalers have formed an association to give free transportation to and from their homes to retzil merchants if they pur- chase $1000 worth of goods and ship by such lines ag the association may direct, This is a novel idea, but it may bring grist to the Chicago mills.” It is dificult to believe that suck a scheme has been devised. If it has, the retail merchants may be sure that they are not to be relieved of the burden of. freight charges. Further, there must be a strange condition of railroad affairs in and about Chicago, for such a scheme would mean an arrangement between the wholesale merchants and certain rail lines, to the prejudice of the roads not parties to the plan. The idea would be really alluring were it not ludicrous. As the retail merchant stands in line next {o the consumer, and as the consumer and producer have to bear, share and share alike, all the bur- dens of transportation charges, no picture could be prettier than that which repre- sents them in the act of receiving their load gaudily painted and luxuriously tricked out in feathersand iinsel. But it is easy to guil heedless humanity. So long as some persons think that they are getting something for nothing when they take newspapers on the strength of “coupons,” ‘‘prizes’ and the like, we may. expect the inventive genius of Chicago to devise means for making the most of the opportunity. COAST EXCHANGES. ‘While the constitutionality of the Wright irrigation law is being tried by the Suvreme Court of the United States it is refreshing to know that however that case may go the need of irrigation in California is so clearly apparent that private enterprise is ready here and there to undertake the task and 1eap the profits which the members of & community might share under the opera- tion of a district law, As it is better, how- ever, to have irrigation undertaken by a private corporation than negleeted alto- gether, it 1s welcome news in the Madera Mercury that acompany Las been organized for supplying the local need of that sec- tion. The Fresno Canal and Irrigation Company is in the field with a proposition to the land-owners, and its represeatative says that if a sufficient acreage subscribes to the scheme a main canal will be run from the San Joaquin River at a point east of the railroad bridge, and thence north- erly past Madera and on to the Chowchilla River, with numerous branches. The sys- tem will furnish 1000 cubic feet of water a second, and can irrigate 160,000 acres of land. Our exchange adds: “It will be a big undertaking and will cost a great deal of money. The promoters of the scheme say that if they are guaranteed 50,000 acres they will have the system in opera- tion ina year. The water right will cost $6 75 an acre, with from five to fifteen years’ time in which to pay for it. Water will be delivered for 75 cents an acre per year.” Th e Brentwood Enterprise adopts the fol- lowing inspired method of informing its responsible readers what they might ac- complish by employing the resources at their command: Our farmers should plant canaigre, Sugar beets and beans; You'll find your seed in the Across the track at Dean’: ‘We want some new industries, A cannery and flour mill; . And if you don't secure them soon, Our neighboring towns they will. 1t’s & good thing, push it alon, 1t’s & good thing, push it along; You bave plenty of “dough” To make these things go: 8o, farmers, push 1t along. ‘There’s Joe McCabe, our financier; ‘Who loves to spend his cash; And Peter King, he's In the ring, And pever does things rash. Ike Huey always does his part 5 And Grigsby s not slow, And if these men but make a start You bet the thing will go. &'s & good thing, push ltalong, ete. The Portiand Oregonian is now 45 years old, and bas all the dignity and weight a vigorous career brings to bear at that age. The Los Angeles Express publishes a re- markable showing of the recent progress of that enterprising city. Although the growth of Los Angeles has been propor- tionately much more rapid than that of San Francisco (taking only recent years into account), and while this appears to be a source of great gratification to our contemporary, which is pleased to speak somewhat disparagingly of what it calls the *‘northern rival’’ of Los Angeles, we are confident that San Francisco is glad to know that its sisterin the south is pros- pering so handsomely, But our contem- porary, in explaining the difference be- tween the two cities, makes this observa- tion, which it is well that every San Fran- ciscan should consider: ““The cause of this progress on one hand and retrogression on the other is not far to seek ; it is largely in the difference between the people who inbabit the two towns.” Even the follow- ing extract from the same article is inter- esting: *“San Francisco, too, is suifering from the fall that follows pride. She thought she controlled evervthing on this coast so completely that she was mistress of all the territory on this side of the Rockies. Sheis finding out the mistake, and will bave to struggle to bold her trade even in territory clearly tributary to her, If Los Angeles continues along the road of prosperity she is now traveling she will be a city of 200,000 before the next census is taken, and ten years more will see her a bigger town than "Frisco.” The Clovis Herald is a bright six-page weekly and is successor to the Enterprise, which was secured by A. C. Wren, formeriy of Madera, and given its present name. If merit will secure success, the newly named paper will prosper. The Modesto Herald, inspired with the spirit of progress'which is being roused throughout the State, is vigorously advo- cating the issuance of bonds for a bridge at Hill’'s Ferry and also for a hall of rec- ords at Modesto, “and for any other public necessity of like nature.” ' It wisely adds: “To make expensive public improvements by direct tax is unduly to burden the pres- ent generation for what future generations will largely profit by.”” With reference to the proposition to divide the county ounr contemporary says: ‘““As to the new county proposition, there is no opportunity for Newman to secede at present except as the tail of Henry Miller's kite. In other words, should a new county be organized now (or in the immediate future), Miller's millions would make Los Banos the county seat. Should our friends possess their souls in patience for a few years, however, in the meantime bending their energies to the development and settlement of the contiguous territory, the time will come when secession will be expedient, and when that time comes Newman will be a county seat. Butif the venture is made earlier, Newman will lose the honors and prestige she so much desires and will be so situated that she will never have another opportunity to try for them.” The News is the name of a new journal- istic venture' at Santa Clara under the conduct of L. W. Crockett has a new paper of Landsome appearance, called the Record. It is a weekly and is published by Hart A. Downer, formerly editor of the Martinez News. The Riverside Reflex makes the following cheering announcement: “Wednesday was indeed a red-letter day in Elsinore, for late in the afternoon of that day the first rail- road train entered the heart of the town. Hitherto passengers for KElsinore have been carried by the Southern California Railway to a station within some two miles of the town and there put down to make their way as best they could to their destination. Of course good means of further travel were provided by the hos- pitable Elsinoreans, but at best the rail- road service of the town' has not been good. Now not only do the cars put trav- elers down practically at the doors of the hotels and business houses but unques- tionably the railroad service is soon to be further improved by a more direct connec- tion with Los Angeles, Riverside and the outside world. In other words, the spur of the Southern California Railway built from the old Elsinore station up through town to the coal mines and clay beds is certainly to be soon extended through the Temescal Canyon to South Riverside and thence by way of Chino and Pomona to a connection with the 8. C. trank line at or near Lordsburg—at least at some point between there and Los Angeles, This means much to Elsinore, for it is the firsy step toward providing those facilities and conditions which are certain to make the Lakeside town famous as a health and pleasure resort,” The Dcs Palos News, though but just en- tered upon its third year of life, has every prospect of a long and prosperous career. The Gonzales Tribune, which has been so faithful an agent fn promoting the pros- perity of the Salinas Valley, has begun its seventh year. The Hotlister Free Lance bas completed its twelfth volume and will doubtless live long to advance the interests of San Be- nito County. The Salinas Owl has given evidence of its prosperity by increasing its size and making other improvements. The Haywards Journal makes the pleas- ing statement that all of the $7600 of the tax levy has been paid except $5, and that is expected to be paid in before the time arrives for publishing the delinquent list. The Oakland Printer, a bright and ener- getic paper edited by A. J. Read in the in- terest of organized labor, has entered upon its third year with enccuraging prospects. The Trinity Journal, published at Weay- erville and known as one of the ablest papers in the State, has begun its fortieth volume. ! The Contra Costa News of Martinez is twenty-two years old and brighter than ever. ST The Tone Valley Echo, which has so ably assisted in the development of Amador County, is now in its fourteenth volume. Charles Waiter has sold the Bishop (Inyo County) Indez to the Independent and the Register of that place. The Evening Press is the name of a bright daily that has appeared at Santa Rosa. HUMOR OF THE DAY. “Didn’t Iloan you $10 a month or so ago?” “Yes, I believe youdid, I'm ever so much obliged for your kindness. Ifeel thatIcan never repey you.’—Yonkers Statesman, Jack—Does not time fly when one’s mind is occupied? Tom—And one's mind is occupied in fiy time.—Vogue. 01d Young Lady (coquettishly)—How old are you, little boy? “Four years.” “And can you guess how old I am?” ®‘No, I can only count upito thirty,”—Tid Bits. ? Blighter—We hed & fine bit of realism at the theater last night. Blitherer—Really, I didn’t notice it. Blighter—Why, the applause was genuine.— Pick-Me-Up. “Iam astounded,” said the man who had finished his new house. “The cost isactually within the estimates.” “I used to make rebuilding estimates: for an insurance compeny,” explained the archi. tect.~Indianapolis Journal, INDIVIDUAL COMMUNION CUPS. For the first time in the history of Presbyte- rianism in Brooklyn individual cups were used in dispensing the communion wine at the Ross-street Presbyterian Church yesterday, says the Eagle. When the time arrived for dispensing the wine the elders, in place of each taking one of the large silver goblets formerly used end passing them around, used chalice- holders with three racks on each. On each of the racks were twenty tiny metal goblets filied with wine. The dispensation of the wine by the new arrangement proved more speedy and convenient than under the old. Although the copgregation was taken completely by sur- prise, the trustees having made the change on their own responsibility after prolonged and erence to a_government currency or the bond question. His confessed anxiefy fonund ex- Enmon only in the familiar plea of the long nown silver politician who occasionally re- members his constituency.: “The paramont issue at this time in the United States is indisputably the money ques- tion,” so the opening sentence of the new party platform declares, and then proceeds at once to define the money question in words not to be misunderstood. The issue “‘is between the ®old standard, gola bonds and bank currency onlone side and the bimetallic standard, no bonds and Government currency, an the other,” All theidle and feverish talk abouta party with a single silver issue has now vanished with the bresth thet gave it utter- ance, and in place of it we are given a broad National isspe. It is the “money question,” not the single silver issue. Thus by a sharp contrast the marked difference between the AU L Ol 'mumnm’l = [ —— Q Q — RN s %’9 THE CHALICE HOLDER. careful consideration, nothing but favorable comment on the innovation was heard. The chalice holders are of a very attractive design and are especially adapted to holding he cups, which, with their contents, are satis- factorily prtected by covers. The holders are quickly adjusted at the time of passing the wine, thereby admitting of the convenient re- moval of the cups from the trays. Both ma- hogany and ebonized wood are used in their construction. There is & patent pipette made for filling the cups separately. The latter are first arranged in the truys and the wine, hav- ing been strained through & cotton-flannel bag and the dust-exciuding covers having been re- moved out of the way, each cup is filled sepa- rately. The pipette is adjusted with a rubbe: tube, to be compressed by the thumb and fera, and is graduated to teaspoonfuls. di T arge churches, again, where rapid filling is esirable, a filling device is proyided, consist- ing of & glass bottle with an_opening in the side, near the bottom, into which is fitted a horizontal tube with holes spaced the same distance apart as the cups and corresponding with them in number. In receiving the cups the chalice-holdere are {mssed into the pews, the long handle enabling t to be readily received by the occupants. "~ PERSONAL. Superior Judge R. McGarvey of Ukiah is at the Grand. Ex-Mayor Ben U. Steinman of Sacramento is at the Palace. } S. H. Callen of the Williams Farmer is stay- ing at the Grand. Charles F. Irwin, an attorney of Placerville, is a guest at the Grand. D. 8. Rosenbaum, a prominent merchant of Stockton, is at the Palace. Trennor Coffin, an attorney of Carson, regis- tered yesterday at the Grand. Ex-Judge D. P. Hatch, a well-known attorney of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. Ex-Supervisor Judge John F. Finn and Mrs. Finn arrived here yesterday from a tour of Europe and are staying at the Palace. George E. Gard, ex-United States Marshal for | the Soutnern district, came in from Los An- geles yesterday and registered at the Palace., Mr. and Mrs. Claus Spreckels returned to their residence in this City last evening from a fortnight's vacstion at their country home in Aptos. Daniel Baugh, president of the Philadelphia Art Club, and Mrs. Beugh, arrived here yester- day on their way to China and are staying at tne Palace. Otto Mears, & railroad magnate and politi- cian of Colorado, is at the Palace. He is presi- dent of the Rio Grande Southern and the 8il. verton railways. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles R. Suter, who succezds Colonel George H. Mendell (retiregh) in this district, has arrived {rom St. Louis and is staying at the Occidental, PEOPLE WORTH READMNG ABOUT. Edna Lyall states that the original for her patriotic “Doreen” was the popular Welsh can- tatrice, Edith Wynne. “Mrs, Barney Barnato,” says Emelie Melville, the actress, “is a very charming woman, but— 1 hardiy like to say it—she is very, very much of a brunette.” Patti has been taking partin a pantomime performance for & London charity. It is said that she saw nothing humorous, or even pa- thetic, in assuming a dumb-show role. More persons have climbed the Alps this win- ter than ever before in the season of snow and ice. Professor Fischer's recent ascent of the Finsteraarhorn was the first winter ascent of that mountain ever made. The Rev. J. A. Rondthaler, pastor of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church of Indianapo- lis, has been forced to resign his charge be- cause certain members of his congregation were opposed t0 his riding a wheel. Brouson Howard is a great student of the drame and is one of the most scholarly of liy- ing playwrights. One of his pet hobbies is the immortality of a really good ‘‘gag.” He has found in the Greek and Roman comedies the germ of several of the riost popular witticisms in American plays of recent origin, The Germen Emperor is developing into a jack-of-all-trades. At a recent exhibition of an electrical contrivance before a large company William examined the machine critically and then took it apart and put it together again, much to the astonishment of the guests. He neglected to explain that he spent the previ- ous morning with the inventor examining the instrument in every detail. The heir to the throne of Portugal, who re- joices in fourteen Christian names, has ex- pressed & wish to marry the only daughter of the Emperor of Germany. The reason he as- signs indicates great prudence on the part of this 10-year-old titled gentleman. ‘‘Papa says Germany is the biggest empire, and so I shall not let any one else have the only German Princess.” President Kruger of the Transvaal republic is one of the greatest diplomats in the world. He s a living proof of the fact thatin rare ‘in- stances the diplomatist is born, not made. He is ignorant of letters and the elegancies of life and his range of reading is very limited, but the old Boer possesses qualities that enable him to cope with the cleverest of the trained diplomatists of England. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. THE NEW SILVER PARTY. THE PLATFORM NOT THE SINGLE IsSUE OF FREE COINAGE. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: The political history of our country for the year 1806 can no more be written or under- stood without including the financial question than can that of the year 1860, when Lincoln was elected, be written or understood without including the slavery question. Among the events to become noted is that of January 23, whichwitnessed the inauguration ot the new sil- ver party at the National Capital; and the plat form adopted on that day is destined to becoms a factor of prime importance in molding public opinion during the campaign 0f 1896. Indeed, on thevery day the platform was adopted, a distinguished United States Senator, who rep- resented the dominant party in his place in the Senate chamber. promptly sought to im- press the country with his devotion to silver 88 & money metal, but qualified his fealty to silver by an avowed superfor devotion to his party, and, so fer as reported, he made no ref- old-style silver talk of the last twenty years and the advance gosmou taken by the great ;il\;er leaders of the new party is made mani- est, “‘On this (money) issue we declare ourselyes to be in favor of a’distinctive American finan- eial system.” Bo reads the third sentence of this new party platform, and this system is to rovide that ““the silver coin shall be a full egal tender equal with gold for all debts and dues, public and private.” So much for silver, On paper money we have this explicit dec- laration: “We hold that the power to control and regulate a par currency is inseparabie from the power to coin money, and hence that all currency intended to circulate as money should be issued and its yolume controlled by the General Government only and should be legal tender.” This position on paper money as well as that teken on silver is in fuil accord with the position always held by Populists, and on this statement of “‘the paramount issue of the money guestion” there is no conflict be- tween the new silver party and the People’s party. Inopposition to the issue of Goyern- ment- bonds in time of peace, and in short in every declaration made in the new platform, there is no inharmony between the silyer men and the Populists. The decision made by the new party to hold the National Convention in St. Louis on July 22, being the same time and place ehosen for the Populist National Convention, is full of significance, the open and avowed purpose being to try to unite these two political forces in the nomidetion and support of the same candidates for President and Vice-President, The platiorm closes with an “appeal to the people of the United States, that, leaving in abeyance for & moment all other questions, however important and even momentous they may appeer, and sundering if need be all for- mer Fnrly affiliation, they unite in a supreme effort to” free themselves and their children irom the domination of the money power—a gower more desiructive than any other which s ever been fastened upon the elyilized men of any race or in any age.” There can be no doubt that the two greai conventions, of more than a thousand delegates each, will assemble in 8t. Louis fully inspired with the spirit and purpose of this appeal, and it will be & politi- cel marvel indeed if they fail to find the way to a complete and solid anion on candidates anda close epproach to union on platforms. It may seem a rash prediction at this moment 10 say that there are many voters who are now 00 indifferent to take serious interest in this movement that will realize 1ts meaning before they vote next November. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, S8an Francisco, MISSES’ DRESS WITH BLOUSE AND WIDE COLLAR. Here is a charming model for school dresses. The cut is at once comfortable and stylish. Tlaids make up very satisfactorily with collar and cuffs of plain cloth. A gay plaid, showing all the hues of the peacock’s plumes, had a yoke and collar of dull green cloth. Another plaid, less gay, had blue collar and cuffs, with narrow black braid on the edges. A plain blue serge dress with cuffs and col hire are each represented by gfi.‘f}" Senn'.o‘r, Utah will add two moré ranks and Foraker's past election utterances may be gonstrued to mesn ihat be is also ready to join the silver eohorts. Harbor Needed, Stockton Independent. : Steamboat men hailed the rain with peculiar pleasure. The bars and shallows are not likely to bother them again for six months, and steamboat travel will be as regular as that by train. If Congress will do justice by California the difieuities of navigation gen sil e~ moved before the next season of low water. Let Them Come In. Astoria News. The admission of Utsh ought to clesr the way for the omnibus territorial bill for the ad- mission of the three remaining Territories of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona. If this were done the United States would be 8 solid body of States from the Atiantic to the Pacitic. Ear{ in the next century the Territory of Alaska will doubtiess be ready for admission, but is not now to be considered. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. BAT MasTERsON—A Reader, Oakland, Cal. Bat Masterson, the Colorado sporting man, is still alive. His present residence is Cripple Creek, Colo. NaTIONAL INDEBTEDNESS—J. E. F. The debt of Great Britain is $3,350, 719, ; that of the United States on the 1st of last Decem- ber was $1,708,871,670 90. POLICE DEPARTMENT—S., City. A recent ordi- nance of the Board of Supervisors allows the Police Department forty-three sergeants and twelve corporals. The appointments have all been made. No LICENSE REQUIRED~—C. 8., City. A person engaged in the business of offering newspavers for sale or soliciting subscribers for newspapers is not required by the Cityordinances to take out & license. Slattery, who was re- River and Jmprovements SLATTERY—J, R., City, moved from the office of priest by Archbishop Walsh and who afterward figured in the United States, was in charge of oneof the parishes in the city of Dublin, Ireland, at the time of his removal. WINDOws—W. L., City. The owner of a lot may build a house the full width of his lot and place windows on each side if he wishes, but the law does not prevent his neighbor on each side from building up and shutting out the light from these windows. A N1ckEL—C. C., Pacheco, Cal. Answers to Correspondents did not announce that there was a premium on & 5-cent nickel with the word cents on it. It announced that there is no premium on & nickel that has not the word cents on it. Nickels with the word cents are offered by dealers at from 15 to 20 cents. TRANSVAAL~—Inq., City. Thelawof Transvaal requires that & foreigner desiring to become & citizen of that republic shall have been & resi- dent for two years, shail take the oath oi alle- giance Lo the republic and hein the occupation by lease or ownership of pmrorly of the value 0f £100 or be in the receipt of & salary of £500 yearly. INTESTATE—]., Oakland, Cal. If a married woman dies in this State and at tne time of her death was possessed of property in her own right and does not leave a will the prop- erty, if there is one child or the lawful 1ssue of one child, goes in equal parts to the sur- viving husband and child] if the dece- dent left o husband and more than one child or issue of a child one-third of the property goes to the surviving husbaud and the re- maining two-thirds is divided equally among the children. Cows' TEETH—W., City. Cattle, which in- cludes cows, are distinguished as to their teeth by having eight lower ineisors and none upper. These are the cutting teeth. They have 1o canine teeth or tusks, but have six molars or grinding teeth, six on each side of the upper jaw and six each side of the lower. ‘The upper jaw has no incisors upon which the lower incitors meet the upper jay, but the upper jaw where the teeth should meet if there were any is thickened, hard and in aged animals is almost horny, PARKS OF THE WoRLD—J. W. R., City. The extreme length of Golden-Gate Park, from the entrance to the panhandle fronting on Baker street to the ocean beach, is 20,000 feet; the panhandle is 2800 feet, and its area is 1042 acres. The principal park in London is Re- gent's Park, 450 acres; fn Paris the Bois de Boulogne, 2100 acres; and in Berlin the Lust- garten with its museums. Other noted parks in European countriesare: Pheenix Park, Dub- lin, 1760 scres; the Prater at Vien acres; the Ro;ni Pork at Munich, 1300 ac the Queen’s Park, Edinburgh, 407 scres. the United States some of the noted parks are: Central Park, New York, 862 acres; Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, 2740 acres; Prospect Park, Brooklyn, N. Y., 530 acres; Boston Commons, 48 acres,’and public gardens adjoining 2135 acres; Jefferson Park, Chicago, 586 acres: Tower Grove, St, Louis, 277 acres; Eden Park, Cineinnati, 216 acres, and_the National Park, sometimes called the Yellowstone Park, an Yosemite Valley. lar of plaid, either Silk or wool, is pretty. A brown’ cheviot, showing’ pink and red SPECIAL information daily to manufsctarers, business houses and public men by the Presa Clivping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * Mr, Pegg Long—A basket of patent medi- cines! What on earth you got 'em for? Mrs. Doser’s Boy—Mars' going to take ’em She wants to get'er pictur’in the papers.— Truth. l threads in the weave, had a collar of pink cloth covered with red braiding done in a simple design. A dark green dress with collar and cuffs of white cloth edged with mink fur makes a very rich looking and stylish dress for best wear. An electric blue, with collar and cuffs of a lighter shade with an edge of gold braiding, had a frill of heavy lace around the former. A mignonette green crepon had the collar and cuffs of batiste made separate for launder- ng. célbll;\g lnlq blucliz'énixz‘nire h;d talm]‘x Eelvet coliar, with a tiny band o creamy lace laid flat on the edges. 7 FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. Decidedly Uncertain. Pasadena News. There are so many conflicting currents that the war cloud doesn’t know where to hang up, Prepare to Avoid It. ‘Woodland Democrat. We agree with the ministers that war is bar. bardus, but the surest ‘Way to prevent it is to be so well prepared for it that other countries will have a wholesome fear bl r of provoking us ‘What the Valley Road Did. Visalia Delta. A dispatch says that as & result of the Valley :houl m:vemendt. lfmixls: property and real estate ave advanced ful 30 per cent i within the city umlt{ and 1t 1s s?gudl:;:}aga authority thag thy Broine ‘t‘};d“. ere s not a house for rent in The Canal Project. Red Bluff Sentinel. The building of the long-talked-of canal from ing to the Suisun Bay would be a good theme for the Sacramento V. editors to discuss &t their spring meeting. It be & splendid subject 10 engage the attention Silver Men Becoming Numerous. Woodland Democrat. A Republican contemporary calls free-silver Republicans nondeseripts. All the same these nondescripts are increasing in strength in the United States Ser.ate. Pennsylvenia and New REEUMATISM is overcoms by Hool's Sarsapa- rilla, because the latter makes pure, rich, red blood, neutralizing the lactic acid, which causes the com- plaint. Hundreds tell of remarkable cures. ————— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup" Has been used over fifty years by millions of mogh- ers for thelr children while Teething with perfeat success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, al- Iays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diorrhas, whether arising irom teething or other causes. For salaby Druggists In every partof the world. Eesuraand ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrap 369 4+ bottle. ————— CoRrONADO.—Atmosphere Is perfectly dry, soft &nd mild, and Is entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam- sbip, ucluding fifteen days' board a: the Hotel del Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 60 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery st., San Franeisco. ——————————— To REDUCE your weight, use Vrettos' Belt. e v oo Sra e, Inez—You look discouraged. Irene—I am. I have proposed to four men already this year, and each has promised to be & brother to me.—Yonkers Statesman. NEW TO-DAY. WONDER WORKERS WONDER Cough Cura.... NEVER FAILS. ‘WONDER Toothache Drops...... . NEVER FAIL ‘WONDER Corn Cure EVE ‘WONDER Hair Restorer i CERTAIN A WONDER Liniment. BANI Sole Agents for Dr. Charco's Nerve Pills, $1 a box: 6 ‘or $5. Mail orders promptly attended to. THE WONDER DRUGSTORR (FLETCHER & CO.), 1028 Market Street. Monday, Jan. 27th. To-day only. Silk Stockings, value 75¢ to $1.50, black and ass’t’d colors, reduced one day to 50c to ever body. Do you read Smith s Weekly? Saves big money 10 buyers. SMITHS' CASH STORE, 414, 416, 418 FRONT ST, S, I}