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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1896 Taily ana Sunday CALL, one week. | Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, b Cav, sx months, by .. three months by mail 1.50 .65 150 Dafly and Su v CALL, one month, by mail. £unday CavL, ove year, % WXEKLY CALL, One ye BUSINESS OFFICE: 10 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Felephone, ... arese .-Maln--1868 EDITCRIAL ROOMS: 517 C Street. Telephone......... . .. Maln—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES 620 Montgom 9:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until 8:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. Sixteenth and Mission streeis; open reet; open until 9 o'clock. 1; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : $08 Broadway. ASTERN OFFICE Rooms 81 and 34 Park Row, DAVID M. FOLTZ, . 116 Ninth sir Morgan’s voice is decidedly for war.: He not only wishes to free Cuba, but to fight Spain. The garment-makers’ strike is spreading and the clothes of last spring will be much worn this season. Business has evidently grown weary of waiting on (he Senate and pegun to strike out on a revival of its own. Huntington’s nephew did not go to Prankfort, but he did go to Cincinnati, and that is within wire-pulling distance, This would be a zood time for the Salva- tion Army to get rid of the Booth system and elect 2 commander by an oven vote. In the game of bluff between Budd and Irish it seems that Irish undertook to straddle the blind and Budd raised him. For one day more there is a flutter in the Democratic camp of the Olney boom, but it has not come further west than New York. General Booth has converted manya man, but it remains to be seen whether he can teach his son Ballington the wisdom of resignation. The Government has ordered suits for land-grant forfeitures against the Union Pacific Railway and the end of the monop- oly draws near. Democracy can turn away from the old racket of the Junta and Buckley crowd now and wateh with interest the Budd and Irish mix-up. 1f Senator Perkins is not a candidate for the Vice-Presidency he ought to be, for it is time for California fo begin reaching for some of the top persiminons. The trouble with the booms of Whitney, Olney and Pattison is that all parties recognize this is going to be a good year to put up Western candidates. Now that American miners are going to Venezuela, Uncle Sam may decide to ef- fectually arbitrate the dispute over the gold-bearing territory by taking possession of it. 1f the persistent energy which Nicaragua expends on her numerous revolutions were set to ditch-digging we should have the grand canal kefore long and have it cheap. The report that Mrs. Hoyt is jealous of one of the ladies-in “The Contented Woman” Company only emphasizes the fact that the play of that name is a scream- ing farce. The proposed international bank now under discussion by the House Committee on Banking sounds well, but it should be examined under the cathode ray before it is adopted. The Searles interest in the Central Pa- cific is willing to compromise on a fifty years’ refunding scheme, but then Seerles didn’t work as hard for his money as Huntington did. As Senator Hill is still strenuously ob. jecting to an investigation of the Cleve- land bond deals the presumption is that he knows more about them than he wishes the public to know. As Venezuela now insists that the Brit- ish shall have noneof the disputed terri- tory at all, it is clear the eagle scream has set the Spanish-American game cock to crowing its loudest. If the goldbugs force Olney on the Democratic convention the rank and file of the party will probably be willing to carry him through the campaign provid- ing they can carry him on a rail. The trouble in the Saivation Army seems to be nothing more than & family quarrel among the younger Booths, and when the old general comes home from India he had better bring a shingle with nim. While Russia was no doubt sincere in sayving she has sent troops to Korea simply to protect the independence of tne conntry, she would not Like any other na- tion to join in the philanthropic work. While the Cleveland administration ana the deficit tariff are running this country into debt the British are rejoicing in a sur- plus and debating whether to use it in paying off the bonded debt or increasing the navy. From the complaints made by the Trunk Line Association against the Southern Pa- cific it seems that Huntington cannot even keep faith with his allies and is trying to gouge railroads as well as the people and the Government. Attorney Hubbard, representing the Searles interest, declarés the Central Pa- cific could not have carried out the obliga- tions of the Reilly funding bill of the last Congress even if it had been passed. So there you have it. To make a contract for fifty years with a company whose charter expires in 1911 would be a clear case of a contract that began as a big road, dwindled to a bridie path and finally turned into a squirrel track and ran up a tree. The discovery of a number of gambling- rooms run by women. in the fashionable quarter of St. Louis is but another evi- dence that the new woman is no longer content to use matrimony as her only game of chance and proposes to get on to all the sports. i | | at heart, THE PRIMARY ELECTION LAW. The decision of the Supreme Court de- claring the primary- election law uncon- stitutional will hardly come as a surprise toany one who has given the subject serious consideration. The act had the defect of so many other measures purport- ing to establish reforms in particular local- ities. It wasof the nature of that special legislation which the constitution forbids and which the Supreme Court has been again and again called upon -to declare null and of no effect. From the fate of this measure there are two plain lessons to be drawn and neither of them should be overlooked by any citi- zen who has the cause of political purity The first is that all acts in- tended to establish reforms by the processes of law must be made to conform with the fundamental principles of government provided for the State in its constitution. That this may be effected it is necessary in the first place that reformers them- selves should seek no more than can be constitutionally. obtained, and, sedondly, | i that they should send to the Legislature men who are sufliciently familiar with the processes of legislation to enact a measure that will stand as law. The more important lessen to be drawn from the result, however, is that political reform to the extent of bringing about an essential honesty in primary elections is in no way dependent upon the law which has just been declared unconstitutional. If that element of the people which earnestly desires reform will range them- selves under ledders deserving their confi- dence, ana will attend the primaries of the National party whose principles they sup- port, there .can be no doubt that results | will be obtained equally as good as any | that could have been hoped for under the | measure from which the reformers ex- | pected so much. INGENIOUS ARGUMENTS. General Hubbard, representing Mr. Huntington’s interests, made on Monday, before the House Committee on Pacific Roads, the shrewdest argument that has yet been presented on the railroad matter. The propositions which he advanced were that the Government, desirous of a rail- road across the continent, and unwilling to construct one itself, made a grant to private parties for the purpose; that these persons were not trustees of the Govern- ment; that they were entitled to all the profits which they might make on the construction, because in the absence of sch a prospect no one could be found to | undertake the work, and that the Central | Pacific had lived up to its agreement with the Government. He urged that the contract should be re- garded as one between individuals, and s settlement made in the ordinary way by extension of the time for its completion. | He could not satisfactorily meet the ob- jection that the extension would be the meaking of a new contract, which would be voided by the terms of the charter from California. He proposed asa plan of set- tiement that the comvany pay the prin- cipal of its Government debt and that the unpaid interest be funded. It is interest- ing to note in this connection his assertion that the company could pay its first mort- gage debt, which is identical in size with that owing to the Government. | Leaving thewquestion of trusteeship out | of theaccount, we still have that of a con- | tract. How General Hubbard can claim that the company has observed that agree- ment we cannot imagine. On the contrary, even though we may not consider the fraudulent means by which the construc- tion contracts were let, nor the sharp prac- tices resorted to in order to cover up and destroy evidences of those transactions, it is notorious that in order to avoid keeping its agreements with the Government and in order to provide against thechance of the Government collecting its debt, the Southern Pacific systematically reduced the earning capacity of the Central Pacific, which earnings belonged under the agree- ment to the Government, and dishonestly aiverted and secured these to the prejudice of the Government. It was the most flagrant and shameless violation of an agreentent that could have been made, and that alone is sufficient argument against the making of a new agreement with the same parties. Even applying the ordinary business rule for the extension of a debt, no private creditor would be willing to make a new agreement with a person who had already defrauded him, particularly if by foreclosure he could recover the whole amount. A NEEDED INVESTIGATION. The resolution of Senator Lodge direct- ing an investigation by the Senate Finance Committee of al! the facts and circum- stances connected with the sale of United States bonds from 1894 to 1896 was opposed by Senator Hill on the ground that it is not the province of the Senate to investi- gate every subject that might be suggested by a Senator, and that before the investi- gation is undertaken there shouid be an inquiry into the motives that promnted it and the object to be attained by it. From the grounds stated it would seem that Hill'’s objection can hardly be any- thing more than an attempt to puta stop at all hazards to the proposed investiga- tion. Certainly there is nothing in his argument affecting the real merits of the issue. Because the Senate is not bound to make every investigation suggested by a Benator is no reason why it should not make this one. The demand in this in- stance comes not from one Senator only, but literally from the people as a mass. Senator Lodge was the spokesman of a large majority of all intelligent Ameri- cans when he acked for this investigasion, and, in fact, the wonder is that the subject has been postponed so long and was not taken up in response to popular demand as soon as Congress met. The course of the administration in ar- ranging the bond deals has exhibited time and- again- what have seemed to be unmistakable evidences of something worse than a blunder. Men have hesi- tated to cnarge Cieveland with deriving any pecuniary profit from the transactions because there has been a patriotic disin- clination to associate so base and vulgar a crime with the exaited office of the Presi- dency. Nevertheless, there has been an uneasy feeting that scandal has not only come nearer to that office than ever before, but has come altogether too near to be ignored or tolerated. It is known beyond all controversy that syndicates of New York and foreign bank- ers have made large profits out of the ioans, that the relations of Cleveland with these bankers have been very close, and that a former law partner of the President has developed suddenly into a very rich man and a very successful lobby- ist. Along with these salient facts are a number of aliied circumstances that give a very ugly 100k to the situation. These bave been noted with uneasiness by Dem- ocrats as well as by Republicans. In fact the people as a whole have watched the course of the deals between the Govern- 7 7 layed. Tne time to make it has now come, and any ovposition to it from the friends of the President will only increase the sus- picion that something is wrong. THE KENTUCKY CHARTER. A correspondent who probably voices ths perplexity of many other people who have not studied the railroad tactics in this State very closely writes to ask: ‘*“Won't you please give us, in a few words, just how we of this State can in any way derive any benefit from the repeal by Kentucky of the Southern Pacific Company charter? For the life of me I fail to see where our «ain can come in, whether the incorpora- tion be in Kentucky or in some other State where they own property and do busi- ness.” Certainly it would make no difference to us whether the Southern Pacific Company | operated railroads in California under a charter from Kentucky or some other State. If the present charter is repealed, however, there will be a time at least when it will have no charter from another State, and auring that time it will have to ope- rate its roads in California under the char- ters obtained in California. Its roads in this State, with the exception of the Cen- tral Pacific, will then be under the juris- diction of California laws and subject to California officials. The benefits to result to us from that change would include ev- erything that involves litigation, from the collection of back taxes to the enforcement of the rates of freights and fares ordained by the Railroad Commission. It is not easy to state *‘in a few words,” as our correspondent requests, what all of these benefits will amount to. That cor- porations gain great advantages by operat- ing in one State under charters granted in other States is made evident from the fact that almost every unscrupulous corpora- tion in the country resorts to that method of doing business. The Southern Pacific Company, for example, operates roads in California under a Kentucky charter, but its roads in Kentucky are managed under a charter obtained elsewhere. What is gained in this way by corporations is lost to the people, and offenses resulting from such methods have been felt in many States in the Union hardly less severely than in California itself. The repeal of the Kentucky charter would mean, therefore, a temvorary gain, at any rate, and at this juncture the gain would have far-reaching effects that would result in permanent benefitd. A new char- ter might and probably would be obtained in another State, but the monopoly would be compelled to make a long fight to get it. 1t is not in Kentucky and California only that the people have awakened to the evil of outside corporations. There is a grow- ing objection to that system of doing busi- ness in nearly all the States, and if Cali- fornia once more gets her railroads under the control of her laws they n.ay remain there for some time to come, or at least until the fight with this particular monop- oly is won and settled. FAVORING THE MARKET. Abundant evidence had already appeated that ‘the farmers in the vicinity of San Francisco are strongly in fayor of the establishment of a free market on the water front, or at least of a central free market and general sales headquariers there, with subsidiary free markets throughout the City for retail sales. It is significant, therefore, that the Sutter County Horticultural Society has sent to the Harbor Commission a set of strong resolutions urging the establishment of such a market on the water front and ex- pressing the belief that returns on ship- ments will be better than those received under the present system. It must be taken for granted that even the farmers of Sutter County, a comparatively remote section, are confident that they would re- ceive benefits from such an institution. Manifestly they would, and the benefit would not be confined to better- direct re- turns. Although the Southern Pacific Company is reported to have stopped Barbara, that line must be put through in order to secure an adequate return on the beavy amount already invested. When that is done the southern overland pas- senger traffic will be brought over that line. Then the company will undoubt- edly carry out its original intention of ex- tending the road from the present termi- nus at Third and Townsend streets, in this City, along the water to the new ferry depot. This will concentrate all the incoming and outgoing travel at the ferry, The suggestion has already been made to take advantage of this fact and install a comprehensive exhibit of California prod- ucts and industries in the ferry building. A free market in the vicinity would com- plete the usefulness of such an exhibit and serve as a practical, everyday display of the perishable products of this part of the State. It wouldlead naturally to inquiries, would stimulate interest, and would be a useful advertisement of the sections repre- sented in the market. That 1s to say, such an establishment would not only increase the profits of farmers and reduce the cost of products to residents of San Francisco, but could be made a valuable advertise- ment of California. VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS. A Hint for Huntington. Woodland Democrat. A secret conspiracy will always collapse when exposed to the fresh air and warm sun. hine. Be Peaceful, but Patriotic. Santa Cruz Sentinel. It is the duty of every man to preach the in- terests of peace, but at the same time not ren- der his country so weak as to provoke war. Still Too Poor to Pay Taxes. : Hanford Democrat. In his testimony before the Pacific Railroad Committee yesterday Collis P. Huntington ad- mitted that the Central Pacific had paid in div- idends two millions each to himself, Crocker, Stanford and Hopkins. That Troublesome Decision. Pasadena Star. The decision of the Supreme’Court that county officers’. terms are two years puls a damper upon’ four-vear aspirations, and will embarass them in tke coming campaign. They must either give up the four years’ claim for good or make the canvass for re-election handi- capped by the hope that they would rather be judicially confirmed in the four-year tenure than take chances on a re-election, A Smiling. Land. San Jose Mercury. The sun shines, the almonds are in bloom, the roses lend color to the gardeas, the wild poppies and the baby blue-eyes are peeping from their nests of foothill greenery, and lhronvoutlhe length and breadth of the Santa Clara Valley nature is adorning herself with the flowers and perfumes of spring. Here, in- deed is the garden spot- of the United States, and happy should be the individual whose lot has been cast in this garden spot of sunshine, fruit and flowers. o p 2 A Himt to the Farmers. Los Angeles Express. The farmers at Chino and Anaheim, who Want a better price for their beets, might very advantageously get together without loss of time and petition Congress, both as one body and as individuals, to_adopt the amendment ment and Wall street with a growing in- dignation. They looked ‘for Congress to begin an investigation at once, and- have been impatient that it was so long de- proposed by Senator Perkins to the pending tariff bill, now in the Senate, by Wg‘lvh the duly on sugar would be raised to & figure that would give those interested in the protection of American sugar adequate protection from foreign eompetition, work on the extension of its line to Santa, PERSONAL. C. J. Coleman of Denver is at the Palace, L. M. Dinkelspiel of Bakersfield is in the City. Jesse Smoot of Hollister is at the Cosmo- politan. Francis Ott, a druggist of Sacramento, is at the Russ. aF T. H. Grooge of Alaska hagarrived here fora brief visit. i N. E. Parkhurst, a business man of Portland, is at the Palace. Charles A. Clark of Arizona is among the re- cent arrivals here. Mrs. C. K. Lambie of Edna is registered at the Cosmopolitan, D. McKenzie of Seattle was among the ar- Tivals here yesterday. Thomas G. Ford, a lesding merchant of Nevada City, is in town. F. W. Young, a business man of Santa Cruz, is among the arrivals here. J. M. Mayfield, a general merchandise dealer. of Rutherford, is at the Russ. The Rev. and Mrs. G. A.Ottmann of Sacra- mento are at the Occidental. M. C. Osborne, superintendent of the electrie cal works at Santa Cruz, is in town. Nicholas Bowden, the well-known attorney of San Jose, arrived here last night. R. H. Beamer of Woodland, member of the State Board of Equalization, is at the Lick. C. Jesse Tustins, proprietor of the Golden Esgle Hotel, Sacramento, is at the Palace. A. Neilson of Sacramento, who is interested in flouring-mills there and elsewhere, is at the Grand. W. Forsyth of Fresno, well known as one of leading raisin-growers of that county, is at the Occidental. Major William S. McCaskey of the United States army, Fort Leavenworth, Kans., is at the Occidental, Edward J. Devlin, city editor of the Sacra- mento Bee, is in the City on a brief vacation. He is at the Lick. John Harpt, proprietor of an extensive lum- ber-mill at Arcata and owner of a large area of land, is in town. William Franklin, a real estata man of Stockton, is & guest at the Cosmopolitan, accompanied by his wife. J.F. Mahar, a prominent young lawyer of Cambridge, N. Y., is a guest at the Cosmopoli- tan Hotel, accompanied by his wife. R. 8. Lopez, Minister from Salvador to Mexico, Mrs. Lopez and Secretary Acosta of the lega- tion, left last evening for Mexico City, James Swan of Seymour, Conn,, who owns important railroad interests in Connecticut and adjoining States, is at the Palace. Superior Judge G. W. Nicol of Tuolumne County, who has been in the City for over a week past, left for home yesterday morning. Senator C. P. Berry of Mountain View, who is not only known in politics, but is an exten- sive land-owner and prominent contractor, is in the City. * Professor W. W. Thoburn of Stanford Univer- sity is in town. He will lecture in the Academy of Science hall to-night on “Religion as a Bocial Factor.” Charles L. Weidler of Portland, one of the pioneers of the Willamette Valley and largely interested in lumbericg and other indus- tries, arrived here yesterday. Louis Dean, a wealthy cattle-owner of Ne- vada, who has his home at Reno and who has been for many years in the cattle business in the Sagebrusn Btate, is at the Russ. j William B. Fisher of San Francisco, accom- panied by Mr. Pelham of Cripple Creek, is looking after his properties in the Cripple Creek district.—Cripple Creek Journal. Colonel H. Trevelynn, formerly of the British army and in some of the hottest engagements, notably at Balaklava, but now engaged in the peaceful pursuit of raising grapes in Fresno County, is at the Palace. William Harris of New York, an extensive dealer in California iruits, is in the City. He is here to visit different parts of the State and find out what the coming crop will probably be of all kinds of fruits. As announced in THE CALLrecently the Pink- erton brothers are arranging to open @ detec- tive agency here. The place selected for their offices is the Crocker building, and several rooms are now being fittea up. Captain Heins will be in charge. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 25.—Edward Abram. son, Siegfried Lion and Ledro Monviela were among the passengers whosailed on the steam- ship Havel for Bremen; J. H. Ames, Imverial; G.E. Pancoast, Astor; A. H. Steel, Gilsey; H. F. Hayward, Plaza. S~ = S L John Dillon, the Irish Leader. [From a sketch made in London a few weeks since.] ' A recent dispatch from London announced that John Dilion had been elected chairman of the anti-Parnellite section of the Irish. Nationalist party, to succeed Justin McCarthy, who retires from the leadership. MY LITTLE WORLD. My little world—it Lies away. Oer meadows musical with May; Past pleasant ficlds where wild doves'wing And birds breast-deep in blossoms sing, Anud morning-glories climb and cling. And there love's banners are unfuried; Love reigneth o'er my little world, I pray you mark in the tieids and glens The curly headed citizens: n . And every pattering footstep knows The way to white.rexlms of the rose. And still their steps where'er they be Make pathways (0 the heart of me. And lo! in fireside lights serene Jer gracious Majesty the Queen'! She weareth love's own diadem, Her gentle hands no jewels gem, But love bends low and kisses them. Sweetheart and mother, friend and wife, Queen of my world and of my life! Fare with me to my littte world; The sleepy citizens are curled And et led now in snowy cots; The twilight shades and garden plots, ? But not these sweet forget-me-nots! For they are smiling in their dreams And on'my world the morning beams, Fare with me to my world and rest There where the love is sweetest—bestl No shadows dim its walls oflight, . No clouds drift o'er its morning Bright Whose rosy rays bring heaven in sight! Enter from thorny ways and, sad, And kiss the Queen’s hand and be glad. —Atlanta Constitution. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Colonel John Howard of Pettis County, Mo., was Itit by seven Yankee bullets “endurin’ of de wah,” and still has three of them “in his midsi.” = - Count Magre, the dwarf husband of Mrs. Tom Thumb, has ordered a bicycie. His height is thirty inches, and the bicycle, which fs to be made to order, will weigh less than ten pounds. Kittie Reed, the Speaker’s 19-year-old daugh- ter, is becoming a great favorite in ‘Washing- tonsociety. She issaid to be a clever, sincere and unaffected young woman. Sha has the Reed drawl. Pope Leo is preparing a letter to the Hun- garians for their millennial celebration and one to the French nation for the commemora- tion of the baptism of Clovis. There are Scotch as well as Irish bulle. The Pilot finds one in Andrew Carnegie’s article in the February North American Review, where he speaks of Canada as a wayward child, un- just and tyrannical to her mother because bursting into manhood. Miss Gertrude Simmons, the Sipux Indian girl who carried off the oratorical honors at Earlham (Ind.) College the other day was edu- cated at a Quaker school in Wabash, Ind. She was born on the Sioux reservation near Dead- Wwood, S. D., twenty-one years ago. The hereditary Prince of Armenis, Guy de Lushingham, lives quietly at Paris—a lover of music and art, the author of over fifty books and 2 highly esteemed scholar and critic. He is described as a slender, graceful, handsome man, with white hair and features of patrician delicacy. William F. Piper, who was found dead in | Leavenworth, Kans., the other day, was & lead- ing lawyer in Leavenworth before the war and opposed General W. T. Sherman in the only case the general ever tried. General Sherman lost the case and it is seid was so chagrined that he gave up the practice of law. Clarence Johnson Barker, the youngest grandson of the late Commodore Vanderbilt, died at Biltmore, N. C., last week. He was31 years old and was theson of Commodore Van- derbilt’s daughter Katherine, who married the late Smith Barker. Mrs. Barker, after her first husband’s death, married a Frenchman named La Fitte. Bir John Miilais had & patron and friend in Thackeray. Upon Millais’ return from a visit to Rome on one occasion Thackeray said to him, “Jack, my boy, 1 saw-a young dog in Rome named Leighton, and, if you don’t look sharp, one of these days he’ll be president of the academy.” This prophecy was fulfilled to the letter, Senator Hoar owns & hill, or rather a moun- tain, in Massachusetts, the famous Asnebum- skit Monntain, which lies in the town of Pax- ton, and it has been discovered that not oniy is Paxton the central town of the Bay State, but that Senator Hoar’s mountain is the pivot and the real hub of Massachusetts and accord- ing to devout Yarkee belief of the universe. The men who have seen Sir Walter Scott must now be getting few. Mr. John Usher of Stodrig, who died the other day, used to tell with no small pride that on one occasjon, when Sir Walter was a visitor at Toftfield, his birthplace, he had sat on the great novelist’s Xnee and had sung several songs, for which he was rewarded by Sir Walter with the present of a white pony. C. H. Davidson, a bank president of Wichita, Kans., has received a notice that his son, James W. Davidson, has been decorated by the Mikado of Japan with the Order of the Rising Sun. 1t was given to him on account of valua- ble information which he imparted in regard to the Chinese troops during the recent war. Mr. Davidson, who is only 23 vears old, was a member of the Peary expedition. THE SWEETEST SONGS. Ihaveheatd the greatest artists that the world shall ever see 3 Sing the grandest music of the day, Ihave sat with soul transported in a niist of melody, As listen to each life-uplifiing lay; But the music that is sweetest, surest round my heart o creep, Is the voice that every evening sofily sings my boy 10 sleep. Stinging in the twilight simple, soulful little airs, Fragments of some love song, old and dear; They Louch my better nature and tfey meit my heart 0 tears— Just the kind of music that is always good to hear; Sofull of heaven’s tenderness with love so sure and deep Isthe voice thatkin the twilight softly sings my boy 10 sleep. Heart-swells from her girlhood, maybe sesing through girlish tears, Now doing cradle duty for her God. They _come to me like echoes from the tomb of buricd years— Just a little glinpse of Eden on the sod; Oh! the air s full of angels and their wings azound me sweep, AsIlisten to the twilight voice that sings my boy eep. —Nashville American. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. “Have you fastened the windows, dear?” she asked ds they were about to retire for the night. “No; what's the use? I gave you the last dollar [had to buy that bat and we needn’t fear burglars.” “But they might sit down on my hat, you know."'—Detroit Free Press. First Reporter—1 tried “to interview a milk- man yesterday. Second Reporter—What did he talk about? First Reporter—Nothing. He refused to be pumped.—Philadelphia Record. “I wonder how he ever persuaded her to marry him?"” *‘He told her his first wifg mgrried him to re- form him and failed.”—Puck. “I don’t see what enjoyment you can find in playing whist night after night?” “Youdon’t? My dear boy, the game gives more opporiunity for calliug your fellow men asses, dolts and idiots than any other possible social oceasion.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. Friend—And are you out of danger? Convalescent—No; the doctor says he will pay me two or three more visits.—Puck. Judge—What extenuating circumstances can you give? Counterfeiter—Please, your Honor, I made the money to pay for my lodgings. Judge—Very good. It will pay for your board and lodgings for the, next five years.—London ‘Ti-Bits. Bigson—How well you’re looking this morn- ing, Jigson? Jigson—Yes; I never lookea better in my life. T'm looking for 8 man who owes me £5.—Spare Moments. “These walls are so built,” said the agent of the flats. showing a prospective tenant through the house, “that every sound is re- tained; nothing can escape through them.” “That settles it. I don’t wantany of them. My wife's got & new piano.”—Yonkers States- man. “I never give to beggars in the street,” re- marked & young man to a beggar. “Will yer honor oblige me with your name and address and I'll call on you,” was the prompt retort.—Spare Moments. Higbee—What are you doing with that old “First Reader”? Poeticus—I'm rewriting “Woodman, Spare That Tree” in words of five syllables for the Boston public schools.—Philadelphia Record. Miss Smashum—I don’t care for men; in fact, I've already said *no” to seven of them. Miss Comely—Indeed! what were they sell- ing?—Adams Freeman. “What do you do when you go home late at night and find your wife sitting up waiting for you?”’ - “Wish I hadn’t gone home.”—New York Truth. Mazzby—Blowler was just remarking to me that all he is he owes to his mother. Glasby—Yes; and I understand that all he has he owes to his father—Pearson’s Weekly. Edith—'m in a quandary. Isabel—How is that? Edith—Tom promised to stop drinking if I marry him, and Jack threatens to begin if I don’t.—Tit-Bits, Mistress—Mary, how was it I saw yvou treat ing your friends to my e and fruit? Mary—I can’t tell, ma’am, for the life of me, orI'm sure f covered the keyhole.—W oonsocket (R. L) Reporter. “I hardly know how to bégin, sir,” said the' would-be son-in-law as a starter. ‘“Permit me to help you out,” said the old man, Thé words were polite enough, but the young. man thought he saw a glare and got-out unas. sisted.—Indianapolis Journal. 1 say, stranger,” whispered a Western man who had strayed into an uptown theater where the play of *“Romeo and Juliet” was golng on, “I ean’t make head nor tail of this thing. What's the name of this play, anyhow?” “‘Romeo and Juliet.’” “Well, if I'd known that,” said the disgusted Westerner, “I wouldn’t have comein. Iun- derstood the feller at the door to say it was something about Omaha and Joliet.”—Harlem Life. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CHURCH PROPERT H., City. The follow- ing table compiled from the Chicago News Almanac shows how the different States of the Union deal with church property : State. Church property exempt. Parsonages. Alabama— . All exempt while In exclusive trevesseigeess NoDE exempt. All in actual use.. .. Noneexempt. Californis— None exempt. None exempt. All in actual use. Exempt up to $500. Delaware— All exempt........... ++v..All exempt owned Dby the church. Florida— All exempt. All exempt.. None exempt. Tiiinois— All in actual use... Idabo— All in actuai use and not rented Indiana— - All in actual use. None exempt. None exempt. None exempt. wWa— AlLin actual use. All exempt, Kansas— All in actual use with land not to exceed ten acres. .........All owned by a church occupied by its pastor. Kentncky— All exempt. Louisiana— All exempt. Noue exempt.. ...... None exempt. Maine— All in use. ... Up to $6000 each. Maryland— Al in actual use. . Allexempt. Massachuselts— q All i actual use. None exempt. Michigan— Al In actual use. All exempt. Minnesota— All exempy None exempt. Misstssippi-— All exempt. . All owned by re- ligious societies. Missouri— All in actual use .... Noneexempt. Montana— All in uctual use....... None exempt. Nebraska— Allin actual use for such purpose None exempt. Nevada— Up toB5000. .. None exempt. New Hampshire— All exempi Noné exempt. New Jersey All exempt with land not 1o ex: ceed five acres. None exempt. New York— All in actual use. Up to $1500. North Carolina— All in actual use. All exempt. North Dakota— All in actual use... Ohio— All in ac'uai use.. Oregon— - All in actual use Pennsylvania— All 1n actual use. . Rhode Island— Church edifice in actual use and ground not exceeding oue acre. .. S onth Caroli None exempt. None exempt. None exempt. ..None except at- tached to church, All in actual use and nosleased Al exempt. South Dakota— All in actual use All exempt. Tenunessee— All in actual use, All for church purposes and owned by churches. Texas— All in actual use..... None exempt. Vermont— All exempt.. None exewmpt. Virgini Al in actual use......ivuervveens All exempt. Washington— Exem to 8500. ... Noneexempt. Wisconsin— All in actual use All exempt. Wyoming— All exemp! - Al exempt. ‘West Virgint. All in actual use +All exempt and 4150 furnisure, Utah s not given in the table. THE NEW WorLD.—E, D. K., Indian Hill, Sierra County, The steamer New World was built in New York, by W. H. Brown, and when she left-that port she was consigned to Everett & Co., of San Francisco. She was 216 feet keel, 27 feet beam and 9 feet 3 inches depth of hold. Upon her arrival here she was placed in the Sacramento River trade, i com mand of Captain Seymour, and later she was acquired by the owners of the Senator; and Tan to Sacramento on alternate days with that famous old-time vessel. - She left New York harbor in charge of Captain Ned Wakeman, on the 10th of February, 1850. She did not have any clearance papers, but she did have on board a Sheriff’s deputy, who went on her. to serve some papers, and while he was doing this she was cast loose and started outward- bound. The deputy wanted to know what it all meant, and was told that the steamer was only making a short trip to test her wheels, but Montgomery do not show that he left any chil- dren. The trustees of the Trinity Church prop- erty corporation have recently published & warning to the world to beware of individuals who are looking for helrs of Anneke Jaus and of Richard Montgomery with » view to institufe suits against the Trinity Corporation. James Armstrong’s Life of Montgomery enters at tength into the details of the general’s life. MISDEAL 1IN WHIsT—T. H., City. In playing whist the dealer who makes & misdeal loses the deal, except, according to Hoyle, rule 45 and rule 50, as follows: 45. A misdeal does mot lose the deal, if. du‘:i‘:x‘; the dealing, either of the adversaries tonch the cards prior to the dealer’s partner having done 505 but should the latter have first interfered with the cards, notwichsianding ejther or both of the adversaries have subsequently done the same, the lost. ol 50 Tt the adversaries interrupt a dealer while dealing. either by questioning the score or asserting that it fs not his deal. and fail to estab- lish such claim, should a misdeal occur, he may deal again. A MATTER OF TAsTE—A. F., City. There is no law of this State that will prévent & man, whether layman or priest, from appearing on the streets in any costume he aesires to w;n appropriate to his sex. There is a luwht at prohibits any one from appearing in the at- tire not appropriate to the sex of the wearer. CASINO—A. A., Blue Lake, Cal. If in a game of casino A wants three points, B wants five, cards are even, A has spades and two dces and B has big and little casino and two aces, B wins, having the precedence in thecount. The count is cards, spades, big cadino, little casino, aces and sweeps. g No PREMIUM For ErrmER—J. B., Los Angeles, Cal. Nopremium is oftered for a doliar of 1884 nor fora half dollar of 1843. Should you, how- ever, wish to buy either dealers will charge you from $150 to $2 25 for a dollar of 1884 and from 75 to 85 cents for a half dollar of 1843. RATTLER§—R. R., City. If you have rattle- snake oil to dispose of you had better offerit to some druggist, and as to rattlesnake skins you might find an offer for them from some dealer in curios. A GIRL'S HOME GOWN. This charming little gown shown here is of blue linen with lines of white. The euffs are of white embroidery, with an edge to match trimming the epaulettes and used as & trim en collar. The skirt is simply gathered and hemse med. The waist hasa plain lining on whick the front is gathered. The front when not made on the bias, as here shown, is seamless, the waist fastening in back. % A mixed cheviot dress made in this way had evauletts of black velvet trimmed with a fat band of heavy yellowish lace. The belt and -collar were of white. A blue serge had rows of gilt oraid on the E'lylule"es, and a gilt belt was worn. Tiny gilt buttons were on the sleeves, five set close together at the inner seam and three on eiuher side of the froutof the coliar. ToWNSEXD'S “ Palace Mixtures,” 15¢1b. * — =g e ErEcraL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. e Mr. Chips—Mr. Greathead, T want to map out aline of journalistic study for you. when off Sandy Hook the depuvy was given the choice of going on board of a passing pilot- boat or going to Uslifornia. "As he was not prepared to go to the land of wold, he went on the gnox-boa!. and the steamer continued on. She put in at Rio de Janeiro, but as the vessel did not have any ?apers Captain Wakeman resorted to a trick to fool the customs officials. He went over the side of the vessel, carrying a small tin box in his hand, and while trying to get into the row- boat he fell into the water and the tin box he carried went to the bottom. He was rescued, and when taken ashore bewailed his misfor- tune, as the box that went to Davy Jones' locker contained his papers, The officials ac- cepted his story and gave him a certificate as to the “accident,’”” and that enabled him to put in at otber ports without any tréuble. He stopped at Valparaiso on the 12¢h of May and reached Panama on the 21st of June. There she took on some passengers for San Franciseo, but how -many, Answers to Correspondents was unable to ascertain. The steamer reached her port of final destination July 11, with 217 gnuengers. Her last commander was Captain edge, who tan her between this port and Vallejo. The vessel has been broken yp, and Ceptain Ned Wakeman, who brought her, nas passed away. 2 Young Assistant—I am pretty well up to newspaper knowledge as 1t s, sir, Mr. Chips—I am aware of that, Mr. Great- head, but you know too much. I would sug- gest that you devote one hour each day Yo for- getting something.—Chip: RHEUMATIS M Is overcome by Hood's Sarsapa- rilla, because the latier makes pure, rich, red blood, neutralizing the lactic acid, which causes the com- plaint. Hundreds tell of remarkable cures. e ee— 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 siay $2 60. per day, Apply -4 New Montgomery st., San Francisco. e Use PARKER'S GINGER ToNIC and gain good digestion, better health and relief from pain. PARKER'S HATR BALsAX is life to the hair. i ek debid Patient—Do you think a suaden fright would be likely to bring on a relapse? Doctor—Most certainly. Patient—Then .please bear that in mind when making out your bill.—Calendrier Anec- SOLDIER’S NATURALIZATION—Citizen, Santa Barbara, Cal. Any alien of the age of 21 years and upward who has been in the armies of the United States ana has been honorably dis- charged therefrom may become & citizen on his petition without any previous declaration of intention, provided that he has resided in the United States at least one year previous to his application and is of good moral character. (Ivis judicially decided that residence of one year in a particular State is not requisite.) A man who enlistéd, then deserted, then re-en- listed under an assumed neme and in time Jas honorably discharged from the army of the United States would hardly come under the scope of “and is of good moral character,” and it is doubtful if he could receive his citizen papers were the facts made known, A man who would commit the crime of desertion, then resort to deceit in order to re-enter the army, is not the kind of man that is contem. piated when the question is asked by a Judge, “fshe & man who is upright, of good moral character and would he make & good citizen?” President Harrison's proclamation applies only ‘g those soldiers who deserted during the Ciyil ar. WOMEN'S RIGHTS—A. 8., City. This depart- ment does not undertake to comment on the decisions of judicial ofticers and give opinions 8s to the why a Judge decided one way or the other. As to the rights of women in regard to property the Civil Code of this State says: The earnings and the accumulations of the wife and of her minor children living with her or in her custody, while she is Jiving apart from her hus. band, are the separate property of the wife. All property of the wife owned before marriage, and that cquired afterward by gift, bequest, de- vise or descent, with the rents, issués and profits thereof, iS her separa @ properiy. The wite may without the consent of her husband convey hey separate property. . All ofher property acquired afier marriage by either husband or wife or both is community property. GERMAN-AMERICAN—C. H. D,, City. An Amer- ican citizen of German bifth who has never performed military duty in Germany can by courtesy of the German Government return to Germany and remain there three months i, out molestation. If he should remain beyond that period of time, except through sicknesy or some cause beyond his control, he would he liable to be placed under arrest Uisnle to ba p and forced into il s MONTGOMERY—JANS—S, and others, San Jose. Richard Montgomery and Anneké Jans of New York were not, by marriage or in ‘any way, re- lated. The biographical sketchos of Genare] dotique. NEW TO-DAY, THE OWL DRUGC CO., CUT-RATE T DRUGGISTS! THE OWL DRUG.CO. San Francisco—Los Angeles. BAKER’S TAR COUGH BALSAM, Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. ..75¢ Paine’s Celery Compound Joy’s and Hood's Sarsapar! 65¢ THE OWL DRUG CO. CUT-RATE DRUGGISTS. Williams’ Pink Pills...... Castoria . Syrup of Figs Cuticura Resolvent Warner’s Kidney Cure. Allcock’s Porous Plaster: Carter’s and Beecham’s Pills Allen’s Malt Whiskey, Romany Oil.......... WRITE FOR PRICE-LIST. THE OWL DRUG CO. - If you limbs, use an Allcoc . BEAR tions is as good as the genuine. Want a sure relief for ~ains in the back, IN MIND—Not one of the host of counterfeits and imitas side, chest, or Porous. Plaster K’s