The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 14, 1896, Page 6

¢ ! i : ] i THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1896 SUBSCRIPT’YO’N’ ;IATESAPoshzt Free: Taily ‘AL, one week, by carrier..$0.15 %, vear, by mail. 00 v CALY, six months, by mail. .00 Daily Cavi, three months by mail 1.50 Deily snd Sunday CaLz, one month, by mail.. .65 ar, by mail.... . 150 [ . . 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Markel Street, San Francisco, California. Maln—1868 ROOMS Street. 517 Cla Telephone....... S BRANCH OFFICES : 530 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open until Main-1874 : open until 9:30 o'clock. street: open until 9:30 o'clock. rner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open antil 9 o'cock. S Mission street: open until 9 o'clock. 18 Dinih street; open until § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : €08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICI Rooms 31 and 52, 34 Fark Row. AVID M. FOLTZ, Spec New York City. gent. FRIDAY... Qu for one more. y is in the ping, and there i3 room The next thi ington’s birthda Pennsylvania is determined to be known as the Quaystone State. It is pleasing to learn that Huntington is blocked, but we wish to see bim stumped. It used to be *Lincoln and emancipa- tion,” but now it is “‘Lincoln and protec- n.” 'he Republican party is offered Quay for a valentine, but Democracy is still bunting for somebody. Huntington once boasted he had never dropped a quarter, but it now looks as if he would drop his whole wad. It is evident that among reviving things we are to have this year a revival of the inspiration of Abraham Lincoln. The reported discovery of the north pole is one of the things we must put under the cathode ray to find out what is in it. The Chinese claim to have now driven out the devil for a year, but it won’t be long before they begin to raise him again. From the record of Wednesday it is ev dent we need no National Jaw to provide for the observance of the birthday of Lin- coln. Perhaps the oniy sure way to get the scandals out of the Custom-house would be to make a clean sweep including the officials. The poolroom fake:s think they are fighting for life, but really they are going | through a spasmodic struggle in the throes | of death. It is announced that Mrs. Lease will be- come a preacher, and accordingly we may expect from Kansas a new religion with frills on it. Smuggling Chinese women for ilijeit purposes into this City and then passing them off as native daughters is a clear case of adding insult to injury “A bond uing increasing, labor-desiroying low-tariff pol- inley called it, and he Lt name. called it by the ri The battle for the improvement of Fol- som street is virtually but jnst begun. The coief part of the fight will be to see that the work is well done. At last the Senate promises usa com- mittee to investizate the bond dealsand now we may expect to see how the thing looks when turned inside out. If Gladstone should re-enter Parliament to demand justice for Armenia it might be not only a aramatic, stroke in politics but the impulse to a new crusade. Krueger will visit other capitals as well as London, and does not intend to pose as a British colonial show when he can make himeelf an international exposition. The inspiration of Li spirit of the Republican party and ail that his glorious example stands for that party represents in American politics to-day. ncoln animates the General Weyler's arrival in Havana has been followed by the aggressive movement he promised, but not in the way he prom- ised, for it was the Cubans who made it. It seems that Krueger apvlied to Ger- many for aid and the Kaiser's famous let- ter was not an impromptu attempt to tickle the British lion as a passing caprice. The original draft of the legislative pro- test against the funding bill bas been found, and now the question arises whether 1t was hidden away or just lost in the shuffle. 1i the Republican speeches on Lincoln’s day were bound in the same volume with the Democratic speeches on Jackson’s day the Republican party would ask no better compaign document. The voice of the orators at the Lincoin banquets in all parts of the country formu- lated the course of the Republican cam- paign. The issue is protection to industry and labor and the battle-cry is ‘‘America for Americans. With the Goulds, the Vanderbilts and the Atchison system competing with Hun- tington to get the Central Pacific, it seems. clear the Government will geta good deal more out of it than two streaks of rust and a right of way. It is reported that the House Commirtee on Territories is opposed to the admission of Arizona because her people would send iwo silver men to the Senate, and if this be true it will make one more issue for the Greater West to settle with the goldbugs. If the proposal to make the birthdays of Lincoln and Jackson National holidays is varried out we shall have to put in nearly all the time from Christmas 1o the end of February in celebrating and will hardly have time to sober up between the festi- vals. The abolition of class B racers by the American League of Wheelmen seems on the face to be a good move. A racer in the nature of things must be either a profes- sional or an amateur, and there was little fairness in having a class that straddled the track as well as the bicycle. gold-depleting, debt- | IMPERISHABLE PRINCIPLES. It is instructive to note with what en- thusiasm and unanimity the various meet- ings beld throughout the country to cele- brate the birthday of Abraham Lincoln recalled those elements of bis policy which are still living issues before the people. This is ‘because the principles which he advocated belong to every time and peo- | ple and are the foundations of liberty and prosperity. At the Chicago celebration ex-Governor McKinley referred toa series of resolutions introduced by Lincoin at a Whig meeting in Sprinefield held March 1, 1843, and then to Lincoln's platiorm adopted May 17, 1860, by the second convention held by the Re- | publican National Convention. As his | sentiments on the subject of the tariff were expressed in both, only the latter—that which became a principle of the Republi- can party at its birth—need be quoted here. It is this: “‘Resolved, That while providing revenue | for the support of the general Government | by duties on imports sound policy requires such an adjustment of these imports as to encourage the development of the indus- trial interests of the whole country; and we recommend that policy of national ex- changes which secures to the workingman liberal wages, to agriculture remunerative prices, to mechanics and manufacturers an adequate reward for their skill, labor and enterprise, and to the Nation commercial prosperity and independence.” Protection and wise reciprocity are both clearly stated in that old platform in- spired by Lincoln’s genius and patriotism. As Mr. McKinley wisely remarkegd: *‘Bet- ter protection no Republican could ask or desire. The Republican party is competent to carry this policy into effect. When- ever there is anything to be done for this country it is to the Republican party we must look to have it done. We are not contending for any particular tariff law or laws or for any special schedules or rates, but for the great princivle—the American protective policy—the temporary over- throw of which has brought distress and ruin to every part of our beloved coun- try.” ‘At the same meeting Senator Thurston stated the issues of the impending struggle in these clear words: “The great political contest of 1896 will be fought on the same lines as have all other recent contests be- tween Democratic and Republican parties. The protection of American industries, American markets for American products, American prices for American labor, is the battle-cry of the Republican party for the coming campaign. Two million idle men in the United States demana a chance to vote upon this issue in the full knowledge of bitter experience.” The same spirit pervaded the celebra- tions held in other cities. In New York Chauncey M. Depew recalled in these words the beginning of Lincoln’s public career: *The first speech he ever made was a peech for that policy which was the | first policy of George Washington, the first policy of the greatest creative brain in Revolutionary periods, Alexander Ham- ilton, the principle of protection of Amer- ican industries. With that keen and in- | tuitive grasp of public necessity and of the future growth of the Republic which | always characterized Lincoln he saw early in life that this country, under a proper system of protection, would become self-supporting; he saw that 2 land of raw materials was necessarily a land of pov- erty, while a land of diversified industries, | | ous, was a land of colleges and schools, a lana of science and literature, a land of re- ligion and law, a land of prosperity, hap- piness and peace.” At the same meeting Mr. Foraker, who devoted his speech to the merchant ma- rine and the American navy, said that had Harrison been re-elected we should likely have had measures for the encouragement of American-built ships carrying Ameri- can goods, with discriminations in ton- nage and tariff duties to effect the pur- pose. As a result of Harrison’s defeat our merchant marine interests have declined until at present we carry only about 12 per centof our foreign trade. Not only must we recover our merchant marine, he urged, but we must have a navy able to protect it and compel respect throughout the world; and then he urged that a part of all this was the construction of an American ship canal across Nicaragua. He added this: “‘Tnese are three majestic works. They are worthy of the party that saved the Union and gave to immortality the great names of Lincoln and Grant. Their un- dertaking will be a fit crowning of the closing century, and their consummation will .bring wealth, power, honor, happi- ness and glory to the whole American people, and so entrench the Republican party in their affections that neither you nor1 will live long enough to see another Democratic President.” It would hardly be possible to state in clearer terms the policy of the Repubhican party as laid down by Lircoln than is set forth in these extracts. The great value oi tbese principles lies not alone in their age nor in the fact that they were among the great causes which led to the founding of the Republican party, but in the fact that they are universal and 1mperishable, their temporary obscuration having called a halt in the progress of the Nation. THE POOLROOM FIGHT. It was doubtless a surprise to Judge ‘Wallace to read in THE CALL the suspicion that the poolroom case which he tried and in which he decided that so much of the Ellert ordinance as prohibited the down- town acceptance of betting money to be placed at the racetracks “on commission’’ was unconstitutional, was ‘‘cooked” . for the purpose of deceiving him asto the true nature of these establishments. It may interest the Grand Jury likewise to hear a rumor to the effect that the policeman de- tailed to place money was expected by the pool-seller, and that his money was im- mediately sent to. the racetrack to be placed. That this pretense of doing a commission business was pure sham and that Judge Wallace was imposed upon has never been doubted by well-informed citizens, but ab- solute proof of the absence of anything like a commission business has been fur- nished within the last week by the wild mistakes made by the downtown pool- sellers in posting horses, since means for securing information from the track had been shitoff. For that matter, the very facet of shutting off this information makes it & physical impossibility for the down- town establishments to do a commission business. This is so seli-evident as to re- quire no argument. Even under Judge Wallace's decision, therefore, the downtown poolrooms are illegally conducted, for, having no longer that decision upon which to stand, they manifestly come in conflict with the pro- visions of the Ellert ordinance left intact. In addition to that their operations clearly come within the prohibition of the general laws against fraud and disorder, as they are nothing more than bucket-shops, hav- ing no legitimate relation whatever to racing. Prosecuting Attorney Dare is perfectly right in declaring that we have sufficient each of thiem seif-sustaining and prosper- | 'aws to cover the case, and that we need only to enforce them. It seems to have been taken for granted that the poolrooms should be permitted to operate until the Board of Supervisors should pass an ordi- nance prohibiting them more completely than the Eliert ordinance. The manner in which the Supervisors have hundlpd the matter prohibits the hove that relief may be expected from them. The relief is at hand, and the police and the courts can proceed without the Supervisors. The things to be done now by the police are not only to follow Mr. Dare’s sugges. tion to make an arrest every day and thus have a new case daily for trial, but to work diligently to secure sufficient evi- dence to convict. Meanwhile the scandal which has cropped out with regard to the case before Judge Wallace cannot be ig- nored by the police, and whatever course | they may take the Grand Jury still has a duty to perform, IRRIGATION AND POWER. The people of the Poso irrigation district in Kern County have reason to rejoice over the completion of the great flume which is to irrigate 40,000 acres of their land. The instant water is turned on the value of the land isat least doubled, and that makes a splendid addition to the wealth of the State. Attention cannot be too early called to the fact that where there is water for irri- gation there is water for generating elec- trical power as well; that the same water may be used for both purposes without in- jury to either, and that where the two are worked in conjunction the cost of the com- bined plant is much smaller than either would be if kept separate. More than that, the separate installation of irrigation and power plants will tend to restrict the utility of water without securing a corre- sponding benefit, It may not generally be that both power and irrigation are presently needed at any one source of water supply, but the double need is sure to arise sooner or later. Take the case of Poso as an illustration. The bringing of 40,000 acres under irrigation means the abolition of broad unsettled acres devoted to grazing or grain and the incoming of a dense population cultivat- ing comparatively small farms devoted to fruits or other valuable crops. Such a set~ tlement will require a town, which means facilities for the transaction of business and for the enjoyment of social and re- ligious advantages. The town will need electricity for light and other purposes. The water which makes the town neces- sary can produce electricity as well as irrigate the 1and. Thiscombination of the two utilities will reduce their cost and thus tend to the more rapid development of the community. This suggestion should be considered in all schemes either for irrigation or the conversion of water-power into electric- ity. These are two of the mostimportant lines upon which the future development of the Stateis to proceed, and it is a for- tunate coincidence that they are so clearly related. It is true that, as a rule, the de- mand for electricity will follow the de- velopment caused by irrigation, and that when electricity is needed it can be fur- nished by the irrigation company. This opens up a new line of discussion. 1f the Supreme Court of the United States sus- tains Judge Ross’ overthrow of the Wright law the business of irrigation will pass largely into the hands of capitalists. The private ownership of matters so vital to community interests as irrigation and electricity means a monopoly of those functions. The Wright law might con ceivably enable a district to secure its irri- gation without cost other than that of construction, as it is easy to imagine that an electrical company would ordinarily be glad to perform the service of irrigation in exchange for the privilege of using the water for the generation of electricity. Not a single element of a monopoly would present itself under such circumstances. CUSTOM-HOUSE SCANDALS, The restrictions placed on the importa- tion of Chinese ana opium into the United States have been productive of such an endless amount of official rascality that the office of the Collector of the Port of San Francisco has suffered from scandal more perhaps than any other in the country. Only recently | thirty Chinese women were openly smug- gled into the City from the Atlanta Fair under circumstances pointing indubitably either to incompetency or connivance on the part of the local Federal authoritie® The latest news is that the authorities at Washington have under investigation a charge that the local customs officers have lately received $8000 in bribes for the ad- mission of women imported from China for immoral purposes. Itis but just to explain that suspicion has not attached to the Collector himself, but to the men under him. At the same time he is responsible for the conduct of his office and for the misdeeds of hisin- feriors. A daring feature of the latest plot to swindie the Government is said to be the arrest of a Chinese who has given val- uable service to the Government, the idea being to put him out of the way of ob- structing the operations of the *'Custom- house ring.” Bribery and forged certifi- cates are alleged to be parts of the ugly business. From the very beginning of laws—mu- nicipal, State and Federal—for the regula- tion of the Chinese in San Francisco, every conceivable form of official corrup- tion has had a genesis in the Chinese quarter. As our laws were obnoxious to these aliens and interfered with their evil practices, they were easy victims of black- mail and willing offerers of bribes. If it ‘were possible to force them into an accept- ance of and submission to our laws one of the greatest evils of their presence would be eliminated. Being incurably alien, they are dangerous; and having ideas of morality repugnant to those of the white race, they are a demoralizing and corrupt- ing agéncy. % v Collector Wise owes it to himself and the peoplé to assist in ranning down the scan- dals in his office. Considering the pa- tience, silence and cunning of the Chinese, thegask of exposure is exceedingly diffi- cult; and while that will make the efforts all the more arduous, it indicates the dan- gers of Chinese evils. 4 CURRENT HUMOR. “Mamma, can I invite Freddie Sanborn over to slide down our cellar door?"” “Won’t you enjoy it just as much alone?” H'I'Nn, there are too many splinters in it now.” e, “Teacher—Bobby, can you tell me what the ‘word respect means? 3 Bobby—Yes, ma’am; it's the feeling a fellow only eight years old nas for one who is eleven.—Harper’s Bazar, Bawker—Is it true that;Chadleigh has come in for a fortune? Scales—I think it must be, for now he holds his head so high that his Roman nose is ac- tually beginning to turn up!—London Fun. First citizen I'm agin’ this candidate for the Legislatur’. Don’t you remember when he ran before how he said-he wouldn’t wesr no collar? s Second citizen—An’ did he? First citizen—Did he? A friend of mine seen him wearin’ s collar ana a tie.—Brooklyn Life.. _ence, and the AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Even the professional joke writer gets the tables turned on him occasionally. Mr. Car- penter, the gentleman who writes the “Out of Tune” column on the Post, is the latest victim. The story is best told in Mr. Carpenter’s own words, uttered in the What Cheer House to s host of friends from the water front yesterday afternoon about dinner time. “Tll tell you how it came about,” said he. “I used to find it a difficult thing to get a suffi- cient quantity of humor to fill up the column, and in many cases I was somewhat doubtiul as to whether or not various bon mots that I suc- ceeded in generating would be received by the readers of our paper, so I concluded to try them ou some one before I gave them to the public over my signature. The person I se- lected to receive them n all their infant purlty wasa watchman at the City Hall. He used to wait for me near the Clerk’s office about 9 o'clock. Ialways turned loose & dozen N\ Mr. Carpenter at Last Tells a Good Story. [Sketched from life by a “ Call” artist.} or two, and at the conclusion of each one he would lean up sgainst the wall and nearly burst with laughter. He finally got so he laughed whenever he saw me coming. He had & perpetual smile on ready to hear one of my jokes. He 50 pleased me with the rapidity with which he saw the point thatI used to treat him twice a day. There, boys, is where I made the fatal mistake. He was simply after the drinks. Well, it went on for some time, and whenever he laughed I concluded that the story wes good and ran it in the pape.. “‘One afternoon Clarence Webster came up and called me off to one side. ‘Look here, Carp,’ said he; ‘that watchman is an imposi- tion, and you have been worked. I had a talk with him to-day, end tried the experiment of stopping in the middle of a story long before the point was reached, and he invariably went all to pieces with hilerious laughter. I not only tried it once, but several times, and when- ever I hesitated, as though the point had been reached, he got right in and laughed all over the hail. Go and try it on nim and see for yourseli.” “Iconcluded to take Webster's advice, and the next day I grected the watchman with the old smileand the information that I had a new joke to tell him. ‘Give it to us,’ he exelaimed eagerly, getting his mouth ready for a roar. I then began a story which was utterly without point, and suddenly stopped in the most un- interesting part of it. He looked at me & sec- ond or two and then grabbed his sides, while he reeled around the place in convulsions of laughter. It made me pretty hot to see how he had been dragging me for drinksand I reached for his coet lapel. ‘Look here, you scoundrel,’ I roared, shaking him up pretty roughly, ‘you have worked me for enough drinks, and 1 want to know why you laughed at that last joke?’ ** ‘For the same reason that I laugh at yer other jokes,’ he answered. ““1hat joke had no point to it, I replied. “ ‘Neither did any other 1 éver heard you tell, Mr. Carpenter.’ LUCK THAT COMES WITH WORK. The boy who's always wishing That this or that might be, But never tries his mettle, Is the boy that’s bound (o see His plans all come to failare, _His hopes end in defeat, For that’s what comes when wishing, And working fail 1o meet. The boy who wishes this thing Or that thing with a will That spurs him on to action, And keeps him trying still ‘When efforts meet with failure, Wil some day surely win, For he works out what he wishes And that's where “luck” comes in! ‘The “luck” that I believe in Js that which comes with work, And no one ever finds it Who's content to wish and shirk. The men the world calls “lucky” Will tell you, every one, That success comes, nos by wishing, But by hard work, bravely done. EBEN E. REXFORD. THE STARS ON OUR FLAG. A correspondent of the New York Sun sends that paper & design showing & new arrange- ment of the stars on the field of our National flag. In this design the center group of thirteen stars, representing the thirteen original States, are arranged in exactly the same form New Arrangement of the Stars. ofeiie s e L I — ~ _ lHor the as they appear upon the great seal of the United States. ES = e The circie containing twenty-three stars rep- resents the States which were admitted to the Union up to the ctose of the civil w! It is intended that these two features in the design shoutd never be changed. The first great event waich brought our flag into exist- second great event which has e its life daubly secure- shonld both . be | ChSme et of D¢ Tese! the States which have be.en' t-:’;ds’? to the Union since the civil war. New stars can be added to this circle withont ehanging the gen- eral appearance of the design. e CRIPPLE CREEK AFFAIRS. ~ REFLEX OF THE NEW CAMP'S LIFE AS SHOWN BY ITS JOURNALISM. Cripple Creek is a breezy place 10,000 feet sbove the sea level and has & breezy paper in the Morning Journal. The editors of the Jour- nal begin their leading column of thought with a little verse each day. -Here is & speci- men: Be you millionaire, marquis or freighter, I you don’t know you'll find it out later— In Cripple Creek town ‘You've got to bow down To his lordship, the restaurant walter. This is another brick from the sume pile: At eating Old Grover's a host; He’s fond of a grill or a toast; But he’s lank as a leech Since Tillian’s last speech " And won't hear them mention & “roast.” The supply of lacteal fluid is evidently not up to the Dockery standard, as the subjoined lines will suggest: What's this you call milk, Dairy Miss? We'll reward a straight tip with a Kiss. Is it tears? Is it sweat? Or chalk that is wet? Ts it soapsuds, or whey, or Koumiss? The Journal's editorial paragraphs are de- cidedly pungent. Witness the following: New York has snubbed Verdi’s superb opera, “Falstaff.” It takes “The Cat Came Back,” of “Throw 'Em Down, McCioskey,” or “The Man That Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo,” to capti- vate the esthetic playgoers of Gotham. 1 Pueblo has got through with making peace with the Almignty let her get down to business now snd make some wire nails and mining ma- chinery. Dick Croker’s racing experience has taught him that he doesn’t know much &bout the turf, either in this country or in England. With the turt in Ireland Mr. Croker would be right at home, with his coat off. Dow’t be slovenly or careless. Clean the ice oft your sidewalk. Coloraao has some hoiler inspectors who go to a furnace, look at the fire, glance at the water-gauge and the pipes, say “85” 10 the manager, collecy their moneyand watk off. If they know o steam- boiler from & Kansas cornsheller they dou’t say or do anything to give the fact away. Ttalian newspapers brag thay Baratieri's army, in Abyssinia, on_account of scarcity of water, went twenty-five days without washing. America can beat that. Coxey’s army went nineiy days with- out washing, and was in sight o# water during the entire period. Bill Morrison’s candidacy for the Presidency o: the Democratic ticket is urged by an Ilinois mirer on the ground that “Morrison cun take d feat with more philosophy and don’t ca eadam: tiveness than any other man in the party.” The qualification is suificient. Under the heading “Cockroach in the Cadke” & few moneyed men of Wall street, aided and abetted by some Colorado capitalists, are accused of “bearing” Cripple Creek stocks so that the “combine” can get hold of the prop- erty at low figures. Cripple Creek will not need a_Home Pro- ducers’ Protective Association, a Hali-million Club or anything of that kind so long &s the editor of the Journal is encouraged in writing paragraphs like this: TAKE YOUR FEET OUT OF THE TROUGH. A Bennett-avenue groceryman, between First and Sccond_streets, whose placé of business is about the middle of the block, on the south side of the avenue, says that uniess Cripple Creek printers will do his job work at figures as fow as those offered by Colorado Springs he will send his work to the last-named city. The gentleman seems 1o overlook, from his own experience, that rents, materialg and expenses are higher here than at the Sm’ln&s. Following his example the new: should publish his nsme and advise send to Colorado Springs for their groceries. Damahog. The advertisement columns are indicative of life and bustle and relate mostly to mining, smelting, stock buying and_selling, assaying and the like. Even the modest want columns that elsewhere deal principally with the de- sires of chambermaids, cooks and waiters look- | ing for employment, in Cripple Creek take on an added dignity by reason of their more weighty themes. Below will be found & few samples: ANTED—TO SELL GOOD GROUP OF FOUR clatms on Big Bull Mountain; $12.000. W ANGED_PURCHASLR FOR FIVE CLATNS on Cow Mountain and fourteen claims on Bear Mountain, W ANIED—GOOD PATENTED CLATMS IM- mediately; we have cash customers; prefer owners to call. W ANIED —GOOD FIRST-CLASS MINES: wilt pay spot cash. W ANIED-WE HAVE MONBY READY for the development of a limited number of §00d_properties for an interest in the property: the title must be good and all {mportant conflicts settled; we can oily deal with owners directly.. W ANIED=TO FURNISH TENANT WITH first-class location for mercautile business; will pay big rent {f location suits. Typewriter girls are evidently not numerous in the camp, judging from this: T ANTED—COMPETENT STENOGRAPHER and typewriter wanted. MCLAUGHLIN & SEVOY, 118 North Second street. Among the 0dd advertisements is one beto- kening an appreciation. of hen-fruit: _AEARD-BOILED EGG GOES WITH EACH drink at the Montana saloon. George Arthur Rice, a leading real estate broker, takes for his motto at the top of his ad- vertisement the Latin legend, ‘“Senatus Popi lusque Romanus,” though he fails to explain what the Senate and _people of Rome have to do with the price of brick blocks and corner lots in Cripple Creek. The nomenclature of the vicinity is wild and woolly to & degree that would satisfy the exu- berant yearnings of the most exacting mule- uncher. In the immediate neighborhood they ave Pappoose Mountain, Squaw Valley, Gold Hill, Bull Mountain, Cow Mountain, 'Raven Mountain, Jack Pot mine, Pauper lode, Selia Girl ledge, Skinned Horse Guleh, Overalls Can- yon and dozens of other localities with names equally picturesque and descriptive. Present prosperity is not sufficient to satisfy the aspirations of the city of Bat Masterson u'llxd Joe Gavin, as the following prediction will show: It isestimated by visitors from the East that this district will receive an increase of 50,000 in its population within the vear. Many will come intending only to make money to send to the folk: at_home; buisome of them will bring their fam. ilies with them or send fur them after they have made a permanent location in Colorado. As there are not beds enough for more than half the population at present, it might be ad- visable for prospective visitors to take their own blankets to the new camp. Cripple Creek has half a dozen churches, lodges of all the leading secret societies, in- cluding the Elks, and iast, but not least, a Press Club, of which Dean Burgess is secretary, the charter members of which were rounded up for photographing last Sunday. A LESSON TO RAILROADS. Railroad presidents and railroad stockhold- ers have hadimany intcresting “object lessons’ since 1893, They are not quite so ready now to say that the tariff has nothing to do with therailroad business. They thought it had, though, in 1892. Then tney were expecting to order more engines and more freight cars so as to be avle to supply the demand of shippers of farm stuff as soon’as they began to rush their grodllc!s forward in their effort to caj ture the markets of the world. That breach {; the wall of protection was (o let farmers get their stuff out of the country, and the Tail- roads were ready to haul it to the seaboard so that it mifht lose no time in getting out, and, incidentally paying freight bills. . There is, everywhere, a significant silence now as to how many markels were captured. Let us try to {'l‘llh:nt‘ {ho m;rs‘ter);. Hiem is & table !howlns e total receipts of grain at Atlan: T from 1892 to 1p895: ¢ o GRAIN RECRIPTS AT ATLANTIC SEABOARD. Year. Bushels. Average. 18930, 277,380,120 - e Tisos 244,408,240 1154684495 (159,621,950 187,163,213 A drop of 123,000,000 bushels within a couple of years must have sidetracked many & freight car and rusted many an engine. No wonder that 96,000 railroad hands were laid offin 1894. The tarift may have nothing to do wifl}l !hB‘l"l&lrl“Dafl b‘}‘a““as directly, bl;zg‘lg! is mi significant that an average of 244, 403.0% bushels of grain was hauled to thi Atlantic seaboard during the two years of pro- tection, 1892 and 1893, while the Average was only 157,000,000 bushels during the two years of the Democratic administration. does not show thé smaller Tnnmy hauled to our home market points in 894 and 1895 owing to the lighter con- sumption.- Nor does it take an: couple of million barrels less fiour hauled to Asiatic seaboard because reciprocity had been 8 fraud and was abolished. Honestly, now, Messrs. Railroad Presidents and Stockholders, don’t fou think it would be & pretty good move' to build up that wall of protection again, and 10 have a few 1nore reciprocity treaties, instead of lemngeour foreign trade transactions result nefit of the foreigners and against ourselves?—American Economist. VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS. Let Down the Bars. . Salinas Owl. You can’t build up a town by keeping a barbed-wire fence around it. " Progress and Brotherly Love, Fresno Republican. It is a great thing to say, I am a Californian, Ibpnmeumu thing to say, Ian an Ange- account of & leno, or a Sacramentan, or a Fresnoan. There is to0_ much glory in this world to make it ad- visible to confine one’s view to one's back yard. Gentleman, we all are Californians; let us pull together as such. No Admiration for Atrocities. Pheenix (Ariz.) Herald, The government of the Sultan should be wiped off the face of the earth. Let the Best Man Win. San Jose Mercury. The Republican party is too big to indulge in a feeling of sectionalism. Neither Reed nor McKinley, nor any other candidate, should be fayored or objected to because he is a “New Englander” or a ‘““Western man” or & resident of some other section. It isenough if he be & Republican and capable. Edson’s Consumption Cure. Riverside Enterprise. The world is looking to Dr. Edson with re- newed hope of the discovery of & remedy for consumption. As a seventh of the human race die of consumption, the sefentist who dis- covers a romedy to successfully combat tuber- chlosis will be & benefactor indeed. v SEEING ONE'S OWN BRAIN. The following experiment taken from Pro- fessor Lloyd’s new book, “Etidorhpa,” is quite interesting. The experimenter provides him- self with a lighted candle and enters a per- fectly dark room. He stands before a black curtain or wall, or any other dark fat surface, S0 that details cannot be seen by the candle’s teeble light. The candle is moved laterally to and fro in front of the eyes, keeping it about six inches from the face and just below the tij of the nose. In & few minutes something, as if thin mist, seems to grow before the eyes. becomes more definite and gains outline. Soon one can distinguish the venations and the di- visions of the brain. One is seeing his ov'n brain! A change of position of the candle will bring out other portions into view, but as soon It | 1 ten years’ war, his troops, with his know! :‘:lese, ezmmined dreadful ontrages in the Province of Santiago, and especially ‘in the Camaguey. - R w Buddhism of late is gaining quite a nnmber of adherents among the inteilectual leaders in Germany, such as Georg Ebers, Gabriel Max, Julius Stinde, F. Hartman, and they have Juss begun to issue & monthly at Brunswick under the title of Sphinx. Evangelist Smith, who is conducting a uerl?u of suceessful revival meetings at the People's Temple, Boston, is a full-looded gypsy, and was brought up in New Forest, England. He 1s described as & most picturesque, forcibleand eloquent preacher, though at the time of his conversion he could not read. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS StLveR HALF-DIME—G. W. B., French Corral, Nevada County, Cal. A silver five-cent piece of 1853 is worth its face value—no more. TaxaTioON—P. H., City. The rate of taxation in the city of New York is $18 20 on the $1000; in Brooklyn, $28 47; in Baltimore, $18 27, an in New Orleans, $20. A QUESTION OF LAW—E. A. G., City. This de- partment will state what & law is when such a question is asked, but it will not undertake to decide the rights of individuais under the law. That {s o matter for attorneys and courts to at- tend to. GOVERNORS—IJ. M., Vallejo, Cal. At the State elections held in 1895 eleven Republican and two Democratic Governors were elected, Damely: Republicans in Jows, Kentueky, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Utah; Democrats in Mississippi and Virginia, THE PRESIDENT'S POWER—C. M. F., Madison, Yolo County, Cal. There is no difference in the power of the President of the United States HOW A MAN’S BRAIN LOOKS TO HIMSELF. as the lateral movement is stopped, however, the view, whatever it is, soon fades away. The example given is very simple. Accord- ing to the author, there is nothing more won- derful in seeing an object almost touching the organ of sight than in seeing the most distant stars, hundreds of millions of miles away. The theory is that the moving light produces & counter-irritation of the nerves that conduct the impression of sight to the brain. The cusrent s reversed, and the brain is pictured on the retina. Then the impression returns through the nerves, and affects the brain so that we see it. The explanation may or may not be true, but the fact remains that one sees something mervelously like whatone would imagine & brain to be, in its natural environ- ment. PERSONAL. A.J. Hall.an atiorney of Napa, is at the Lick. Rev. Patrick MeGeown of Honolulu is staying at the Cosmopolitan. J. F. Church, the extensive real estate owner of Fresno, is on a visit here. J. D. Horne of the United States army, Fort Du Chesne, Utah, is at the Occidental. C. D. Gibbons has gone to Southern Califor- nia to look after his mining interests. W. T. Johnson of Washington, D.C., was among yesterday's arrivals at the Grand. W. L. Ettinger, & business man of Colfax, Wash., is at the Grand, accompanied by his wife. J.J. January, the druggist, and agent of Wells, Fargo & Co. at Concord, is at the Grand. The Duke of Abruzzi left yesterday for San Jose, where he is to be entertained by the Italian colony. J. R. McPherson, a wealthy resident of Washington, D.C.,is at the Palace, accom- panied by his wife and daughter. The Misses Davis of Philadelphia, well known in society there, are at the Palace, ac- companied by W. F. Reynote of England. Robert Kerr, general passenger agent at Winnipeg of the Canadian Pacific Railway, is here on business in connection with his road. P. H. Anderson, the well-known mining ex- pert of Ouray, Colo., who is visiting the coast for a little recreation, isa guest at the Cosmo- politan. John R. Armstrong, the well-known electric- al engineery has returned froma trip to the interior and is stopping at the Cosmopolitan with his wife and family. J. 8. Purdy, the owner of the queer ssurian from South Africa, with wattles like a butter- fly’s wings, and which marks the time of day with its chameleon-like colors, has presented the reptile to the Academy of Sciences. It is in a semi-stupor like a grizzly bear in winter, and won’'t eat anything, end Mr. Purdy thought it would be better to have him where scientists could study him. - CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 13.—Among recent arrivals are: J. M. Chase, Grand Union; L. V. Corbelyon, H. Dobson, Continental; Mrs. Gibbs, Park Avenue; Dr. H. M. Pond, St Stephen; J. Wallace, Broadway Central; W. L. Marey, Plaza. BABY'S BIG SLEEVES. Baby with his bishop sleeves is right in the fashion. The epaulette trimming, too, is up to date, ‘but may be omitted if o simpler gown is desired, White nainsook is the softest and daintiest fabric for infant's wear, but batiste and cam- bric are less costly, and probably wear better. Ruflles of batiste with tiny embroidered dots in pink or blue are dainty, and with a bit of ribbon of the same color hmlng bo! shoulder, make a charming effect. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE.. The favorite pastime of the Prince of Wales when a child was thet of sailing little boats. These were specially made for him and con. sisted of every kind of river craft. It was in Cuba that General Weyler received his title of “the butcher.,” While there during on the and the Queen of England in regard to makin laws, for neither has that power. In the Unite: States Congress makes the laws and in Eng- land Parliament makes them To JOHANNESEURG—F. A., City. The shortest route from this City to Johannesburg is via rail to New York, steamer to Liverpool, thence by steamer to South Africa. The fare depends en- tirely on the style in which a person wishes to travel. The most convenient route from this City is by way of Australia on the steamers sailing from this port. fcC., Grizzly Bluff, Hum- boldt County, Cal. This department has an- nounced time and again that it does not pub- lish the names of firms that purchase coins, for the reason that such publication would be &n advertisement of the firms. Hereafter com- munications asking for that kind of informa- | tion will not be noticed. This department has notthe space to give & list of premiums offered for all coins. COIN-DEALERS—B. PURE candies, 10¢ per pound, at Townsend's.® MrxeD and broken candies, 10¢ 1b, Townsend's.® — GENUINE Eyeglasses,Specs,15¢ up. 8134 4th,nr, barber. Sundays, 738 Market, Kast's shoestore, » — e EPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Aller’s), 510 Monfgomery. * — e Johaunis Ofexceptional purity and excellence.—London Lancet. o TELEPHONE MAIN T717. The Gas Consumers’ Association, the old coms pany, 316 Post street. The Standard Autom. atic Gas Regulator is attached to the meter, controlling the pressure automatieally, keeping the flame steady, and allowing no waste or blowing, preveniing breakage of globes, and saving from 20 to 40 per cent. New tips and burners are supplied, leaks and flickering lights remedied, pipes pumped out if necessary, and all complaints connected with the gas, electric bells or gas lighting apparatus are attended to. he monthly dues are according to the aver- age gas consumption and the quantity of elece tric apparatus in = A parish clerk was taxed with having misaps propriated some of the offertory money. “You know, John,” said the parson, “that only you and I have access to it.”” *‘Then, sir,” replied John, “you pay the one- hali, and I'll pay the other, and we'll say no more about it.”—Spare Moments. AT this season a good blood medicine is needed togive strength and a feeltng of health and vigor tothe whole system. To do this nothing equaly Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Try it ——————o CORONADO.—~Atmosphere is pertectly dry, soft and mild, and is_entirely free from the mists com- mon further north, Round-trip tickets, by steam- ship, including fifteen days’ board a: the Hotel del Coronado, $60: longer stay $2 50 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery st., San Franclsco. —————— Sitting on the fence, Mr. Dumley gloomily contemplated the house which he hsd just erected from the $2000 plans especially pre- pared by an architect’s publication. It had consequently cost him $5264. “What color are you going to paint 117" asked the sympathetic passer-by. ““Green!"” snapped Mr. Dumley, with an em- phasis that leit no uncertainty as to the state of his feeling: New York Recorder. Strange Things Going On! All the Folks Surprised ! Mem.—A man pounded his finger; lost fifteen minutes’ time, curing it. Another got a whack square in the eye. He was docked one hour's pay—could then see out of it and went to work again. Still another had sat up nights with Felons, tried cocaine and opium, but the agony had got there first and would not yield. Finally his wife, who had cured her tender feet, gave him a pointerand Hubby's Agony Found a Master, " For he says he “Was Asicep in Ten Minutes.” No “Royal Purple” After either accident. Mrrerery's Macic Lotrox did the business for them all. Money in Your Pocket To have it around, for knows when or where the Lightning Is Going to Strike, Any Druggist can get it for yo 25¢, 50¢ and $1. s Be sure and read the directions, nobody