The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 31, 1896, Page 6

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EASTERN OFFICE: Booms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New Yerk City. | DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. | FRIDAY It looks like free Cuba. | California is making a good fight. Cameron is right—the Senate should re- sgolve for Cuban independence. By the tongue of Tillman the voice of South Carolina is still for civil war, This is the turn of Sonoma to give the State a show, and she is giving a good one. | The refunding scheme is strong, but it is | the kind of strength that smells to heaven. When Tillman delivered his speech he may be truly said to have stumped the Senate. | The downtown poolrooms would like to be licensed, but they are running with too much license already. | Railroad Attorney Tweed has an omi- nous name, but perhaps the suggestion in it is pleasing to the bosses. i To watch England thoroughly we have to keep one eye on Alaska while taking a squint at Venezuela with the other, It seems the Southern Pacific of Ken- tucky mnever thought it worth while to keep the law even in Kentucky itself. California Congressmen who fail to make a good record against the funding bill wiil make a bad one for themselves. From the orange fair of Cloverdale to the snow festival of Truckee is only a step, and it will be a good one for everybody to take. The issue in the funding-bill fight is California against a corporation, the people against a monopoly and the law against fraud. ‘I'he Smith refunding scheme hasn't re- deeming features enough to redeem the it euthorizes even in a hundred Cleveland has been on another duck- shooting expedition and we shall soon know whether he has returned loaded for bear again. Qur Representatives in Congress have beaten the arguments of the railroad lobby and have a fair prospect of beating the lobby itself. Since the Central Pacific earned money enough to make plutocrats of all the di- rectors it ought to ve able to earn enough 10 pay its deb The one touch needed to make the year about the liveliest on record is for Keeley to set his motor into operation, and: he promises to do it. Other portions of the State are forced to content themselves with climate, but So- noma talks of geological conditions; gey- sers and internal heat. It is considered proper in St, Louis to refer to the head of the Pulitzer Publish- ing Company of that city as “the whis- kered residuum of vanity and vexation.” Whatever the House Committee on Kor- | eign Affairs may do in regard to Cuba the Committee on Pacific Railroads will have to recognize the belligerency of California. As long as the bimetallists allow such men as Tillman to come to the front and speak for them the silver lining of the financial issue will always be under a cloud. Grant’s proposal to the Spanish Govern- | ment to establish the independence of | Cuba through the friendly intervention of | the United States affords a good precedent for Cleveland. | | Senator Hill, having been asked who is | the most prominent Democratic candidate for the Presidency, answered very truth- fully that he did not know of any such candidates at all. If the Sonoma people carry out their scheme of generating electricity enough to supply electric lights for orchardists the old remark about gathering fruit from the electric plant will cease to be a joke. | g it 607 It is an ill wind that blows good to no- body, and out of the trouble of the Ameri- cans in the Transvaal the American Con- sul at Cape Colony 1s likely to be increased in dignity and get an increase of salary., | Now that the St. Louis Republic actually | feels at liberty to invite the young men of | the East to come to Missouri to getan edn- cation, it is evident that if there is noth- ing really new under the sun there must at any rate have been a new deal. ich the railroad managers are trying to shift the blame of the recent accidents off their shoulders is an illustra- tion of the way in which they would shift the burden of the refunded debt on the people as soon as they got a chance. According to Colonel Cockerill it is the purpose of the Japanese to do everything possible at home and not permit a dollar to go abroad which can be kept in Japan, and a similar policy in respect to our dol- lars wouldn’t be bad for the United States. The report given of the conduct of our Consul at Johannesburg is another evi- dence that if we are to have a more vigor- ous policy in protecting Americons abroad we must first put more vigorous men in the consular service and not shift them out of office every time we change Presi- ‘dents, | have {0 come largely through increased | competition that may present itself. The | ernment forfeited its right to coliect the | debt by extending aid to other overland | bill. | ments. This is a serious phase of the | ated. The force necessary to maintain a CRURHING COMPETITION. As the increased revenues which the Southern Pacitic would have to provide to meet the demands of a fulding bill would local freight charges, principally in Cali- fornia, it follows that if the company hon- estly intends to pay the debt under the terms imposed by a funding bill it will of “necessity have to crush any sort of local force of this argument will be appreciated when we reflect that the company strenu- ously insists that competition, not fixed charges, regulates the rates charged. One ground upon which the company bases its claim of “equity” is that the Gov- roads with which the Southern Pacific is in comvetition. Hence if the people of California should demand that the Gov- ernment make appropriations for render- ing our rivers navigable the company may either oppose the appropriation for the reason that such competition would re- duce its ability to earn sufficient with which to comply with the terms of a fund- ing bill, or in the event of such appropria- tion and the ensuing river competition it will be armed with an excuse for refusing to comply with the terms of the funding This policy has been already foreshad- owed in two ways—one, as has been stated, in basing an *‘equity” claim on the aid extended to competing overland roads, and the other in opposing the proposed freight reductions ordered by the Califor- nia Railroad Commission on the ground that such reductions would hamper its | ability to discharge its obligation to the Government. If this latter contention should be upheld by the Federal courts before which it is pending it would be log- ically argued that competition created by the Government in the shape of river im- provements would have a similar effect and therefore should not be made. In short, a funding bill would commit the Government to the policy of main- taining the monopoly character of the Southern Pacific, to the extent of with- bolding appropriations for river improve- subject, as, no matter what may be the pos- sibilities of railroad building by private en- terprise, rivers are the natural arteries of traffic and can never be monopolized or made part of transportation combinations. In more ways than one a funding bill would place California absolutely at the mercy of the Southern Pacific monopoly and would make the Government a party in interest to the ontrage. THE MORGAN RESOLUTION. On its face the resolution introduced by Senator Morgan relative to affairs in Cuba is a compromise between non-interference and an open recognition of the insurgents’ belligerent right. In reality, however, it is a great deal more than that, and therein lies its shrewdness—while preserving a verfectly friendly attitude toward Spain, it lifts the uprising from the plane of an in- surrection tothat of .war. A dignified re- | quest that Spain regard the insurgents as entitled to the customary treatment of belligerents in waris a proclamation by this Government of its own estimate of the situation. In other words, it commits | the United States to the policy of recog- nizing the belligerent rights of the insur- gents, and is notice to Spain that this will be done unless she changes her method of warfare. If that change is made in re- sponse to this request, the strength of the insurgent cause will be doubled. That seems at present to be the logic of the situation. At the same time Spain could not find fault with the resolution, except to regard it as an impertinence. She is not in a position to express resent- | ment. The resolution is perfectly reason- able, Itis based both on the duty of this country to protect the interests of its citizens in the island and a knowledge of the fact that the insurgents are regufarly organized as an army. More than that, they have proclaimed a government, which fact the report accompanying the resolution seems to have overlooked. General Weyler himself, who is to com- mand the forces of Spain in Cuba, has given sufficient reason for the adoption of the resolution. He is reported to have ex- pregsed the opinion that 1t will require two years to suppress the uprising. That can- not be a rebellion—it iswar. The resolution presented by the minority of the Morgan committee requesting the President to intercede with Spain for | recognition of the independence of Cuba seems hardly so well advised as the ma- jority resolption, for the latter is the proper foundation for it. The Spaniards seem to have been laying too great stress on the importance of keep- ing the forces of Maceo and Gomez separ- military line across theisland for that pur- pose is’ merely playing into the hands of the insurgents, who find their base of sup- plies in every hamlet and plantation that they raid, and who are more effective scat- tered than concentrated. As a result of holding this line Maceo has overrun the rich province of Pinar del Rio, as might have been expected, while Gomez is still operating freely in the east. THE OLOVERDALE TFAIR. The Citrus Fair at Cloverdale, Sonoma County, was prepared so quietly and launched sq unexpectedly that its remark- able character has taken the State by sur- prise. It has been familiar knowledge for years that oranges and lemons would grow throughout the whole length of the foot- hills bordering the San Joaquin and Sac- ramento valleys on the east, but no par- ticular attention had been turnea to the possibilities of the coast ranges of moun- tains in this regard. It has always been held in a vague way that the greater humidity of the coastregion was not con- ducive to ‘the best results with citrus fraits. This scems strange and illogical now. Some of the finest grapes in the world are grown in the Santa Cruz Mountains,where summer fogs are of frequent occurrence, and in spite of that fact these grapes carry a heavy percentage of sugar. The finest prunes are grown in the valleys of the coast ranges and their richness in sac- charine is proverbial. It would be un- reasonable to expect oranges lacking in sugar to be grown in localities which pro- duced other fruits exceedingly rich in sugar. The only question that it is now proper to consider in the case of oranges, with respect to their adaptability to the coast regions, is that of frost. The region in which Cloverdale is situ- ated has a soil which is mostly decomposed volcanic matter. The fertility of such soils is great and practically inexhaustible. The natural vegetation throughout the region is abundant and luxuriant, fogs are rare except in the lower valleys and the climate is exceedingly pleasant. A test of the thermal conditions there prevalent is found in the fact that olives and Smyrna figs grow and flourish there with perfect immunity from ‘danger of hurting cold— that is to say, the climate is semi-tropical. The lemon is a very tender plant, and yet its fruit, besides that of other citrus fruits and of figs and olives, is one of the prin- cipal features of the Cioverdale exhibit. The natural resources of Napa, Sonoma and Lake counties (they are very, similar) are remarkable fortheir wealth and variety, and have not been developed to a thou- sandth part of thsir capacity. Where oranges, nuts, olives and figs will thrive we have perfect conditions for pleasant Hving and profitable occupation. When to these are added mineral sorings of curative value and a medicinal variety greater than those of any single country of Europe, and water power in inexhanstless quantity waiting to be transformed into electricity, we can begin to appreciate the marvelous advantages of this broad section of Cali- fornia. A STRANGE DISOOVERY. The most interesting feature of the al- leged discovery by Professor Roenigen of the Bavarian University of a means of photographing through solids is that it is taken seriously. It is given a range of possibilities that reflects the highest credit | on the fecundity of the human imagina- | tion. All that the learned inventor seems to claim is that by this process a dense object may be photographed through a less dense enveloping substance. Thus the bones of a man may be photographed through his flesh. But the imaginative writer is not satisfied with a discovery so interesting even as that; he must declare that the viscera may thus be brought to light, and, by such exploration, the loca- tion and character of internal disorders and lesions ascertained. be so manifestly in contravention of the original claim. Thomas Edison gives the following sci- entific explanation of the matter: “The cardinal factor of the whole matter is this radiant heat; but I am satisfied the Wurzburg inventor has special rays thereof and special chemical plates. Radiant heat is the energy of heat trans- ferred to the luminiferous ether which fills all space and also pervades all bodies. The hot body sets the ether particles in vibration, and this vibratory motion, in the form of waves, travels in all directions and with a velocity of about 180,000 miles a second. There is no essential difference between radiant heat and light, the ether waves differing intrinsically among them- selves in wave length only, and thus pro- ducing different effects—heating, lumin- ous and chemical—in the bodies on which they impinge, according to the nature of these bodies. The waves whose heating effect is generally the greatest are of greater wave length than those which most affect the eye—light rays—and have longer periods of vibration. The quantity of heat of a body or the amount of heat energv which a body gains or loses in passing through a different range of tem- perature is measured by the quantity of | water it would raise at one degree Fahren- heit.”” 1t is evident, if there is really a basis in truth for the anncouncement that the Bavarian scientist has made this alleged discovery, that its efficiency would be de- pendent upon extremely difficult condi- tions and that a photograph so produced | must necessarily be very indistinct. Thus, not only must the skin and flesh covering a bone be photographed on the sensitive plate, but the adjustment of the power of the light to the depth and consistency of the flesh and the time of exposure would be necessary elements of the photograph- ing provess. Itiseasy to imagine that a mathematical determination of these ele- ments beforehand would be impossible. If, for instance, there should not be an ex- act balancing of essential conditions, even the bone itself might be given the appear- ance of transparency, and so bave no more value on the plate than the impres- sion left by the inclosing flesh. As for photographing the visceral organs through flesh which may be, and through bone which certainly is, denser than they, the idea is manifestly self-contradictory. There seems to be nothing so far upon which to found a hope that the invention will prove to have any conspicuous value. We have not forgotten the great excite- ment following the announcement that the art of photographing the colors of an object had been discovered, nor how quickly the subject was dropped. Pho- tography has made wonderful strides and has accomplished incredible things, and many more triumphs await it; but they will likely be found to have a deeper root in common-sense than the one announced from Bavaria. MORE DATA NEEDED. A curious inconsistency on the part of the Government appears in the zeal with which it studies the ocean currents on this side of the continent as compared with the neglect with which it treats our meteor- ological conditions. It has kept the Alba- iross constantly in service for years inves- tigating the subject of surface and deep currents and the temperature of the water atail depths, besides authorizing it to give considerable attention to forms of deep- sea life. This last-named branch of its work may not be of great interest to navi- gators, nor may be that of water temper- ature; buta study of ocean currents cer- tainly has a practical value. ‘While all this careis being taken with regard to the ocean, the more complex and important subject of the atmosphere is not receiving proper attention. As the centers of storms which assail this coast and bave an important bearing both on navigation and agriculture originate in the Pacific, where it is impossible to se- cure data of their origin, character and direction, it is clearly more important to exiend facilities for studying our meteor- ology than to study ocean currents and deep-sea monsters. The officer in charge of the San Fran- cisco observing station is insisting on the establishment of a station on Mount Tam- alpais or some other convenient high sta- tion for employing kites to study the con- ditions existing in the upper air. The idea is perfectly reasonable. That a knowledge of these upper strata might prove exceedingly usefulis certainly plaus- ible. Without some intelligent expansion of our present crude, restricted and inade- quate means the present expenditures for the maintenance of the local weather sery- ice are not as fully justified by the results as they would be if available means for improving the service were employed. A MONUMENT TO SLOAT. The bill introduced into the United States Senate by Senator Perkins making an appropriation of $10,000 for the purpose of erecting a monument at Monterey to Commodore Slozt is one that should re- ceive the unanimous support of that body. The bill is in the form of those oi a similar pature which have readily been-passed by both houses of Congress, and there is nothing in it, therefore, that can be ob- jectionable to any one. The monument to Sloat would be vir- tually a monument to commemorate the hoisting of the United States flag over Cal- ifornia, and that event is certainly worthy of monumental commemeoration. It is one of the great historic incidents in the career of the Nation, and the officer who had the good to be in command at Nothing could | the time it occurred was of a rank and character sufficient to give the event both distinetion and dignity. Senator Perkins’ bill provides that the monument shall be erected within the limits of the city of Monterey, and the money is to be expended under the direc- tion of the Secretary of War, or such-offi- Cer as he may designate. This, of course, does not interfere with anything that may be undertaken by the local monument as- sociation, and they have still an oppor- tunity to add to the value of the monument by raising additional money for it, and in- deed may practically direct the work of erecting it. PERSONAL. T.J. Field, the banker, of Monterey, is among Tecent arrivals. William H. Cribben, & business man of Chi- ©ago, is in the City. Charles T. Max, an extensive merchant of Chicago, is at the Palace. W. W. Douglas of Sacramento, Deputy State Controller, is at the Grand. Frank E. Corbett, H. C. Carney and J. W. Fdirchild of Butte, Mont., are in the City. Henry P. Stables, manager of the extensive Stables rancho, Yuba County, is in town. He is the son of ex-Judge Stables of Yuba City. J. K. Eveleth, the mining. man of San Fran- Cisco who for a year and a half has been absent on a tour of the world, returned by the Rio Janeiro yesterday, Frank H. Brooks, formerly lieutenant in the Naval Reserve, left on the Umatilla yesterday for Juneau, Alaska, to act as agent of Goodall, Perkins & Co.'s steamers theére. John J. Byrne, general passenger agent at Los Angeles for the Atlantic and Pacitic Rail- road, arrived here yesterday. Hecame to in- stall Mr. Truslow as assistant general passenger agent in this City. John Poulson of Portland, who owns exten- sive lumber-mills on the Columbia River and who has been a long time an owner in large areas of timber land as well as & manufacturer of lumber, is in the City. 0. M. Manson, whowas one of the pioneers of Leadville, and who is interested in mining there and elsewhere in the West, is at the Palace. He was one of the firm of Wellington & Co., concessionaires of all the restaurants at the World’s Fair. Colonel W. H. Heuer, who for years has been the chief of the United States Corps of En- gineers here, and who was one of the Debris Commissioners, will leave to-night for Cin- cinnati to take charge of the work on tha Ohio and Mississippi rivers. D. M. Green of Milwaukee, who invested $175,000 in a Salt Lake smelter, and Otto Sauer of New York, who is said to be the pur- chaser of more copper than any other man in the United States, are in the City. They will leave in 2 day or two for Monterey. M. Fanakoshi, formerly the Japanese Vice- Consul at Vladivostock and later at Fusan, Korea, arrived here yesterday to accept the vice-consulship at this port. He hes been recently married to a daughter of & prominent officer of the Japanese army, who was through the recent war. Dr. 0. H. Simons of Leadville, Colo., who wa United States Consul at Hongkong during Harrison’s administration, is at the Palace. He has lately purchased the Doble placer mine near Redding, and is now constructing a twelve-mile ditch to bring water on it. The gravelis said to be quite rich. A Mr. Baer, a business man of Leadville, is interested with Dr. Simons. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 30.—Among recent arrivals are: J. S. Ackerman, Holland; J. S. Webster, Holland; H. Foland, Imperial; L. A. Upson, St. Cloud. Williem §. Edwards and Mrs. Edwards were among the passengers who sailed on the steamship St. Louis for South- ampton. THE LOVE OF T“HE ENGINEER. She sweeps o'er the singing steel Like a star at night shinesa faint, And the faint, far light draws near, Where 1o see us pass she waits, dear lass, The love of the engineer. 5. far light, ‘With a rattle and din along we spin, And the house runs blithely by; And, shadowed against the light within, 1s the girl it has been wy luck to win, And the girl for whom I'd die! For a sight of the train at the window-pane She watches, my Nell, my dear, And rollicking past my heart beats fast— She’s the love of the engineer! 1 hold your lives, ob, hushands and wives, In the palm of my grimy hand! But you need not fear whatever arrives, While the stanch old engine onward drives, For here at my post I stand; And well T know she would have me go To my death unknowing fear. Asleep or awake, you are safe for the sake Of the love of the engineer! —Judge. A NEW FARE COLLECTOR. The nickel-in-the-slot machine will invade the streetcar. The Detroit Railway is about to present to its employes & new safeguard for its fares, says the Chicago Times-Herald. 1t is called the Wagner register and fare collector. Itis a nickel-plated contrivance which will hang around the conductor's neck. Fingers that itch for illegitimate coin will not touch the fares. The conductor will present his machine in the passenger’s face in hold-up fashion and the passenger will transfer his 5-cent piece from his pocket to the machine. The coin will rattle down into its depths until & little bell will jingle. This will inform the hizhway between the lakes and the Missis- sippl. New York will spend $9,000,000 on ‘widening and deelpening zgle Erie canal, where the trolle}f is replacing the sportive mule, and the cost of handling the traflic is consequently reduced by the saving in time and expense. Canadian " oflicials and cepitalists are seri- ously considering a canal from Winnipeg to Hudson Bay, connecting with & line of Steamers thence to England, which is the shortest possible trans-Atlantic route. The Westisin earnest in demanding & ship canal across Micmfun between the lake of that name and Lake Erfe. Pennsylvania is working for a ship canal from Pittsburg to the lakes. The uth fayors canals from all partsof that Brow- ing section to the Ohio, the Mississippi, the Gulf and the Atlantic. ‘San Francisco mer- chants are demanding that the waterways be opened in the San Joaguin and Sacramento rivers in order to afford a_competing line with the railroad monopoly. Even the far East has not escaped the contagion, for down in Maine there is (alk of opening a waterway to the St. Lawrence by way of the Kennebec, across Moosehead Lake to the west branch of the Penobscot, end thence by lakes and sireams to the great river. In spite of the lesson of the complete and dis- astrous failure of the Mauchester ship canal there can be little doubt that this widespread American movement will progress. 1t has & safer pasis than the English: scheme, for it plens to connect trading points and not to re- Vverse the laws of trade and nature. So far as We can judge of the future it seems safe to say that eventually the steam railroads will handle the through passenger, express and perishable freight business, the streetrailwayslocal traffic ofall kinds, and canals and inland waterways the heavy 'and non-perishable freight. The canal movement of thisgeneration has sounder grounds for being than the boom in the first of he century, when the country was only sparsely settled. It is characteristic of our fuller development, for all commercially ma- tured European countries wisely have done the same thing and ‘have found that it has vaid.—Boston Journal. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Senator Thurston of Nebraska says that he is 2 descendant of Thorstein, son of Eric the Red :f Scandinavia, who visited New England in Cecil Rhodes once owed his life to Dr, Jame- son’s careful treatment and nursing duringa dangerous illness at Kimberley. The two men have lived on the terms of closest intimacy for twenty years. Judge Culbertson of Texas, now a Congress- man, has a remarkable record. He has de- fended 110 men charged with murder in the first degree, and has never had & client sen- tenced to death. Professor Reinkens, since 1873 bishop of the German Old Catholics, died recently at Bonn. Till the protest of the fourteen professors against the Vatican decrees he had been pro- fessor of theology at Breslau. In a recent letter to @ friend William E. Gladstone said: “'¥e are due at Biarritz on my birthdey, & day on which, if Ilive to see it, T shall complete my eighty-sixth year. A long count, a great reckoning!” The Queen of Portugal has just passed the examinations qualifying her for practice as a physician in the land of her adoption. Itis the first instance on record of u lady of sov- ereign renk winning for herself by means of diligent stady the diploma of doctor of medi- cine. Robert Burns’ great-grandson and namesake, his last descendant in the direct male line, has just died at Blackhall, near Edinburgh, aged 52 years. He had served as a soldier and as a gardener in the Edinburgh Public Gardens, but for fourteen years past hed been keeper of the powder magazine at Blackhall. He left no children. When ex-Senator Ransom was appointed Minister to Mexico, an old colored manin North Carolina, who knew him, said: “And so dey bas p'inted Mars Matt a minister, has dey? Well, I'se ’stonished at dat. Ob cose, de gen'ral am & good man, and I aiu’t got nothin’ to say against him, but still it beats me to think he'd turn preacher in his oie days. But he's & pow- erful talker, Mars Matt is,and I'll bet all de cotton I raise dis year dat he'll convert a wagon load of sinners eber time he gitsinto de pulpit.” Smithers—What on earth made Brownkins and Jonesley so sick to-day? Rinktums—Drinking each other’s health last night.—New York Worla. He—I am aifraid the coming woman will swear. She—ON, no; she intends to run things so well there won’t be anything to swear at— Chicago Record. Wallace—Do you think electricity will be much in use in the next war? In the next war? Why, the Spaniards are winning most of their battles with it right now.—Cineinnati Enquirer. “That must be a very heavily laden wagon,” said he, “to make such a loud noise.” “That isn’t a wagon,” said she; “that is Bridget giving the furnace its morning fit.” Really, it wasn’t. But he didn’t stay much longer.—New York Recorder, Mrs. Peck—What do you sit there reading for, when I am trying to think of & word? Should I say ‘‘disillusioned” or “aisillution- 1zed.” Mr. N. Peck—1I dunno. Just say “married,” and let it go at that.—Indianapolis Journal. “She has a heart of gold.” “That settles my chances, then. Some Eng- lishman will annex her,sure.”’—Cincinnati Eu- quirer. Taper—I should like two weeks’ absence to attend the wedding of a very dear friend. Mr. Gingham—It must be a very dear friend, indeed, to make you want that much time, Whois it? Taper—Well, sir, after the ceremony she will be my wife.—Tid Bits. Lady (a widow)—Do you know my daughter sl I ilj it New Street Railway Wrinkle in Detroit. \ passenger that his fare is recorded in due and proper form. He will sit down assured that 1t will reach the coffers of the company instead of the pocket of the conductor. The conductor will be ordered to finger neither the coin nor ticket. The; afrectly from the hand of the passenger into the slot. When they drop through into the receiver at the base of the deyice they are registered. 3 At the end of the route it is the company’s cashier and not the conductor who unlocks the slot machine and takes out the receiver. He has in his Poxfumn keys marked with each conductor’s name and number. The ister is rgset, another receiver isattached and the conductor goes on his way. And all tgia is_not vel 4 pleasing to the hon- est streetear conductor of Detroit. He is affect- ini great indignation. He avows he will quit before he will around like a dummy with ol’:u of those “Toronto coffee-pots,”” as he calls them. Besides the slot machine which the Detroit company is to confer nfon all its ?andncwrs. the man who calls out “‘Fare!” will be loaded down with another device. This is the chan, box, built on the plan of the dime which were popular a few years ago. This is' merely a convenience to get out of the diffi- culty :’yt diving into the pocket after change. THE CANAL REVIVAL. Verily this is an era of canal revival. A re. action seems to have set in from the days when artificial waterways were abandoned and rail- roads were prociaimed the only means of transportation. o3 s Chicago’s great drainage canal will furnish a is quite smitten with you, Herr Muller? Gent (feeling flattered)—Really, now? Lady—A fact. She was saying only to-day, “Ishould like that gentleman for my papa.”’— Deutscher Soldatenhort. Bings—I have fixed this oversleeping busi- ness. > Friend—Getan alarm clock? “No.” Wife buy a dog?” «Man next door play & cornet?” “No. “Ah! Isee. Boy or girl?” “Both. It’s twins.”—To Date. FROM WESTERN SANCIUMS. Orange-Growers Need Protection. Redlands Facts. Itis about time that the orange-growers of the United States were asking for protection against the other growers of the world. Soft Answers Turn Away Bullets. Tucson Star. After all, the greatest security which the netions have against war is the numberless ways aiways available for gracefully backing own. Keep Off the Grass, Please. Hanford Democrat. Africa will soon be gobbled, divided and civilized. China will have to go through the Exocou next if Turkey does not precede her, ut America does not propose that European powers shall make any further advances, from Cape Horn to Alaska. ot S Cheap and Quick Transportation. «+ San Jose Mercury. Cities are not built by sitting still and wait~ ing for good times to come. It is business that makes cities, and in these days of electric cars business snes to the city that offers it the best facilities for traveling. ‘Would Make Things Lively. Woodland Democrat. The United States has her eye on Canada, Germany covets South Africa, France has an Adtchring palm for Esygt, and Russia would be temporarily satisfied with either India or Tlu-g: . What e lively shaking up there would be in the event of & war between the United States and England. Mr. Eckels’ Plan. ‘Woodland Mail. Comptroller Eckels proposes to Congress that an international banking system be inaugur- ated for promoting commerce between this country and South and Central America. This 'would no doubt be a good idea, but it_is onl; a roundsbout way of carrying out Blaine’s reciprocity plan, which ‘was denounced and repealed by the Democrats. i -face of an envelope or disgona ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. POINTS IN CRIB—A. Sh., City. If in agame of cribbage a piayer has a six, three deuces and a tray turned up he calls for eight. Drves WirHour Premrum—H. S. F., City. There is no premium on a dime of 1892 nor on one of 1893 with the initial “S” on the same. Nor Two MooNs—H. M., City. January, 1896, was not scheduled for two full moons, but the month of August will have two last quarters, August 1 and August 31. No TRAINING-SHIP—F. C. B., Stockton, Cal. There is no Government training-ship at San Francisco. There is the training-ship Inde- pendence at Mare Island. For information about the vessel and the manner of receiving boys on board of her write to the commander of the vessel. THE NEXT ELECTION—J. L. F., City. At the next election to be held in this City the voters will be callea upon to declare their choice for all City and County officers except Assessor and Superintendent of Schools. No State offi- cers will be voted for at that election. Candi- dates for the Legislature will also be voted for. To ADDRESS A LETTER—S., Oakland, Cal. If you wish to send & communication to a certain machine-shop in San Francisco, and wish to be sure that it will reach its destination, send it by registered mail, and you will, by the next mail, after its delivery, receive a receipt from | the individual who received it from the post- | man. | S | AMERICAN WHEELMEN—C. H., City. To join | the League of American Wheelmen the appli- cant must fill out an application blank, to be obtained at any first-class cyclery, and for- ward it to_the secretary of the league at Bos- ton, with $2 inclosed, one half of which is for joining and the other for the first year's an- | nual dues. MORPHINE HABIT—T. J., City. There is no Way for a person 1o cure himselt of the mor- | phine hebit except to place himself under | medical treatment and conquer the desire for | the drug. There are & number of institutions | that treat patients for that trouble, but if an individual is without means be may obtain relief by application at the City and County Hospital. BINGLE TAX—Vulean, City. The single-tax people do not propose that the State shall own all the land and rent it out to the highest bid- der. Their purpose is to “raise all public reve- nues for National, State, county and munici- pal purposes by a single tax upon land values, irrespective of improvements, and all the ob- ligations of all forms of direct and indirect taxation.” Wirz, Nor Dows—L. B., City. The question, “What is the premium on a dime of 18947" like Banquo's ghost, will not down. been aiswered atleast halfa dozen times in this department, and in future no motice ot communications’ on this subject will be no- ticed. No premium has ever been offered for dimes of 1894, except for twenty-four of these coined that year in the San Francisco Mintend distinguishéd Dy the letter S, These two dozen dimes have never been put in circulation. OrLp StamMps—L. B., City. Without knowing what the stamps you have are, it is impossible to state it they areof any value. In order to be able to determine if anyof them are valu- able, a full description of each, color, denomi- nationand figure should accompany the query. The license of a lagvyer of 1840 is of no value unless it be that Of some very prominent at- torney, and then it would be worth only what some Ccuriosity hunter might be willing o give or it. YOSEMITE VALLEY—A. S., City. Campers who desire to locate in Yosemite Valley are permit- ted to do so under direction of the guardian of the valley. There are four roads leading to | the valley: Via Big Oak Flat, from Stockton; | via Coulterville, from Stockton or Merced; via Mariposs, from Merced, and via Raymond, from the terminus of the railroad. It is said that the best kept road is the one vie Ray- mond. - The tolls on the various roads are as foliows: Passengers, §1 each: freight teams, two animals $2 50, four animals $3 50, six ani. mals $450; horsemen, $1; pack animals and footmen, 50 cents each. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY—H. §. and 0ld Sport, City. The first century of the Christian era began with the year 1 and closed with the last day of the year 100, 80 the second cen- tury began with the year 201 and ended with 300. The nineteenth century began on the st of January, 1801, and will end on the last day of December, 1900; therefore the twentieth century will begin on the 1st of January,1901. The contention that & century begins with the even-numbered year is wrong. The first cen- tury began with the vear 1,and if the second century had been reckoned from the year 200 | there would have been but ninety-nine years in the century preceding it. LASGUAGE ¢r StaMps—J. C. K., Hanford, Cal, The so-called language of stamps, like the cryptogram, is arranged by correspondents so | that it can be understood only by those using it. One method is as follows: The placing of the stamp on the upper right hand corner has no significance. The lower leit hand cor- neris called A, left hand upper corner B, the right hand lower corner C. A stamp placed straight up and down at A means “You are my first choice”; at B “I long to see you”; upside down at A means “There is some one ahead of B “When will you be at home?’; at C “To-morrow”; slantwise at A “Cheer up’’ or “You may hope”; at B “Waich for papa or mams,” as the case may be, and at C “Never.” Across THE ENVELOPE—J. C. K., Hanford, Cal. If a young lady sends a letter to a gentleman and writes his name and addressacross the face of the envelope and then places the stamp on the lefthand corner, it means that she wants to give the poat officials all the trouble she can. In the postoffices the stamp used to cancel postage stamps is held in the right hand in order to readily reach the stamps taat are usually placed on the upper righthand cor- | ner of the envelope. When placed on the left it Tequires an extramovement to reachit. The | practice of writing & superscription scross the | 1y is a silly one and it should not be encouraged. It serves no purpose but that of annoying postal clerks and mail carriers. MINING CLAINS—S., El Dorado Canyon, Nev. Inthe case of the Golden Fleece against the Cable Consolidated Mining Company, reported in the twelith Nevada reports, it was held that | “the record is to be provided for and its effects | determined by the local laws or regulations of | miners in the respective mining districts, and | if they fail to provide for a record then none | is reguired.” Section 2322, Unites States Stat. | utes, says: | The locators of all mining locations heretofore made and which shall hereafter be made on any mineral vein, lode or ledge, situate on the public domain, their heirs and_assigns, where no adverse | claim exists on the 10th of Muy, 18.2, 50 long as they camply with the laws of the United States, | and with State, Territoriale and local regtlations not in conflict with the laws of the United States governing their possessory title, shall have the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment. A MaN'S RESIDENCE—C. K. and A. 8, City. A man can only vote in the place in which he claims his residence, The law of this State says: Every person has. in 1aw, a residence. In deter- mining the place of residence the following rules are to be observed: First—It s a place where one remains when not called elsewhere for labor or other special or temporary purpose and to which he returns in seasons of repose. Second—There can be only one residence. Third—A residence can | 10t be lost until another is ganed. | For the purposes of election the law reads: That place (residence) must be considered and held.to be the residence of & person in which his habitation is fixed, and to which, whenever he is ansent, he has the intention of returning. The place where a man's family resides must be held | 10 be his residence; butifit be place of temporary establishment for his family or for transient ob- Jects it is otherwise. 1% a man has his family fixed in one place and he does business in another, the | former mus be considered his place of residence: but any man having a family and who has taken up his abode with the intention of remaining and whose family does not reside with_him, tbat must be regarded as a residence where he has o taken up his abode. THE NEW NAVY—J. L. J,, City. The following is a list of the new navy of the United States, the name of each vessel, when the keel was 1aid and the cost of .each: Ajax, 1862, $626, 582; Amphitrite, 1874; Brooklyn, 1893, $2.- 986,000; Canonicus, 1862, $622,963; Catskill, 1862, $427,767; Comanche, 1862, $613,165; Indiens, 1891, $2,020,000; Iows, 1893, $3,- 010,000; Jason, 1862, $422,767; Katahdin, £ seszé%ooo; fehigh, 1862, $422,726; aine, 1 ,500,000; Manhattan, 1862, 20.870; Masssnsca. 1691 iantonomoh, 1874; Mohopah, 735; Monadnock, 1874 037; Monterey, ' 188., $1,628,950; 1862, ulsmg; Nantucket, 1862, $408,09! New York, 90, $2. A i _ Oregon, 1891, £3,180,000; Passare, 1862, $423,172 Puritan, 1875; Terror, 1874; Texas, 1889, 500,000; Wyandotte, 1862, $633,52 1885, $617,000; Baltimose, 1887, $1.325,000% Bancroft, 1891, $250,000; Bennington, 1388, X Boston, 1883, $619,000; Castine, §91,$218,000; Charleston, 1887, $1,017,000 Chi 1883, $889,000; "Cincinnati, 1890, umbia, 1890, $2,725,000; Con’ .000; Detroit, 1890, §612,500; ac S arble- 1890, $674.000; gllnolwflu. 1890, 020,000 i‘&h. §35 ; Montauk, 1863, $42: ord, 3 Dolphin, 0003 head, It bas | 2,600,000; Montgomery, 1890, $612,500; Noshviite, 1804, #280,000; Newark, 1387 1.248,000; Olympia,” 1890, - §1,706,000: Pl 00047, $547.000; Philadelpiiin 1888, $1,395,000; Raleigh, 1889, $1,100.000; sex Franciseo, 1888, $1,428,000; Vesuvius, 1857, #350,000- Wilmington, 1894, $280,000; York. Town, 1887, §453,000. On’ the Amphitrite, Miantonomoh, Monadnock, Puritan and Ter: o ore hos bean allowed. for the completion of these vessels anappropristion of 8 1 5 048 e boats ~ Cusning, 1892, §82.750; B e 1492, £118,500; Btiletto, $25,000. 14 B fition there are two battle-ships under cons struction, six gunboats under contract and T orpedo-noats, the keels of which wers e Saa86. Cleveland was President from Matcn. 1885, to March 1889, and _he has been Iaoifice again from March, 1893, to date. P = ezl LADY’S ROUND WAIST. Here is one of the charmingly simple waists extremely stylish in itself and capable of being elaborsted to any extent desirable by accesso- ries and trimmings of various kinds. Tl.»e sailor collar is made detachable. The small views show the appearance of the waist with- out the coliar, A waist of figured sitk had a sailor collar of black mousseline desoie. This was edged with & pleating of the same muslin. Two Very Darrow insertions of Valenciennes Iace were set off an inch apart, the first an inch from the edge. A | white satin stock collar was finished with bow at back. In the front wes a bow effect of Val- enciennes lace set on as shown in picture The gathers were covered with jet buttous, A waist of bl; crepon, with skirt to match, had a sailor collar of white batiste with trim- mingsof nerrow Valenciennes lace. Palegreen Dresden ribbon with flowers of bright colors formed crush belt and collar. These, with sailor collar, were detachabie. Extremély sh are {»lnin white cuffs and collar of linen, detachable or lace. A brown serge dress was made perfectly plain, the only trimming being & band of green spangles set on either side of front and around bottom of waist. CALITORNTA glace fruits, 50c 1b. Townsend's.* P «1 tell you,” said en ardent Prohibitionist to a friend, “ex-Governor St. John is the right sortofaman. He sticks up to his principles He says he will never leave Kansas so long as adrop of wh s left in the State.” “Gracious!” was the reply: “is he as fond of liquor as that?’—Pittsbburg Chronicle-Tele- graph. CE e s BUY your underwear, hosiery, etc., at Pioneer Dry Goods Store, 105 Fifth street. * TR g e T Overlooked the Comma.—Little Mamie read on her Sunday-school card, “God mekes, pre- serves and keep us.” Looking up suddenly she said: “Mamma, > do you s'pose he does with ’em all?” “With what, my dear?” “Why, ell those p American. o e 15¢ to 40c. 8134 4th, ket (Kast shoestore).” W rves.’’—Philadelphis FINEST eyeglasses, specs. nr. barber; Sun. 738 Mar ——————— EPECTAL Information daily to manufacturers, business houses end pubiic men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ————— Freu A.—Frau Neumann is an extremely tidy sort of person, dow’t you think? Frau B.—I should think she was! 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Smiths Specials save you mone; every day this week. 2 § SMITHS' CASH STORE, 414, 416, 418 FRONT ST., S, F. .