The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 7, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Propriets SUBSCRIPTION and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrie Daily end Sund; one year, by mall.. Daily and Suzd six months, by mai v and Sunday three months by mi one month, by mail. v mail.. mall, WEEXLY CALL, One BUSINESS OFFICE: | 710 Marketl Street, San Francisco, California. ! Telephone. . ..Main-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: | 517 Clay Street. Lelephone Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICE! 530 Montgomery street, corner Cli 8:80 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. &W . corner Sixieenth and Mission streets; open ion street: open until 9 o'clock. 116 Miub street; open until 9 o'clock OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 84 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. open uatll _MARCH 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. ——————————————————————— Says Mr. Mahoney to Mr. Kelly, “Wot AT The meeting at the Baldwin was not | lucky. It was a Fitzsimmons lick in the Fourth Distriet. Honest politics is no new broom, but it can sweep clean. Mr. Huntington must either sharpen his old tools or get new ones. Spain and Italy might as well agree to | help one another turn loose. Wherever the tricksters are thickest is the place to make the cleanest sweep. Under the impulse of the right move- ment things are taking tke right shape. e o Democratic Congressmen no longer de- fend Cleveland, but they still yelp when he is hit. Local politics at present is hot only at one end and that is the end Mr. Kelly got | hold of. i o In agreeing to compromise on the Cuban | resolutions, the Senate has compromised | the whole question | By this time Mr. Cleveland has learned that his speech on home missions was for- eign to the subject. ol 1t won’t be long now before the political coyote can be known by his howlas he | takes to the woods. Republicans of every county in the State are interested in the contest for local con- trol of local polities. The attemot to steal the Republican or- ganization was made by a hog combine, | but the hog is dead Spanish students are at liberty to hurl defiance at our august Senate, but they mustn’t muss up our flag. - . It is worth noting that the Abyssinians are not asking any foreign country to | recognize their incependence. The Southern Pacific machine is as ter- | rible looking as ever, but the power that moves it is weakening every day. 1n their eagerness to see what was in the | Southern Pacific sack, the blundering tricksters let the cat out of the bag. It seems the tricksters of the railroad not only forged a proxy, but by false pre- tenses got an innocent man to vote it. The Italians have not learned the com- mon sense ol not swapping horses while crossing a stream and Crispi must go. L i There may not be much glory in hunt- ing pelitical coyotes out of the Republican vineyard, but there is lots of fun in1t. It is through local organizations that the Republican party has always acted, and w. hould tie custom be changed now ? The monopoly rascals may not haye in- tended to steal anything, but what were they doing in the Republican hen roost? The campaign has been very properly opened by lifting the cover off and expos- ing the Southern Pacific rat in the meal tub. It is natural that Cleveland should be trying to gain time on the issues before him, for there is nothing else left him to gain. Just a few more steps in rascality are all that is needed to land some of the big tricksters of the Kentucky company ina California prison. Delegates who claim to represent the Republican party in a State convention must be elected by Republicans and not appointed by a gang. By winning the battle for purity in its own ranks, the Republican party will as- sure the people of a pure administration when it comes into pow —_— “Zip! T got him,” said Mr. Meahoney when he thought that Melsing’s proxy was atly. “Zip!Ilet him go,” is what he said when he found it was a hornet. S Tegas W Jacob Shaen denounces the scheme by which he was induced to vote the fraudu- lent proxy of Gustave Melsing as “a dirty trick,” and that is exactly what it was. It will be well for Democrats to give an interested attention to the vigor with which the Republican party is drubbing the monopoly rascals, for it intends to give Democracy an equal drubbing a little later on. e 2T As a Republican victory is a certainty this year every effort will be made by the Southern Pacitic of Kentucky to obtain control of its organization, and loyal Re- publicans in every county must be on zuard. It is by acting through local organiza- tions and giving every member of the party an egnal voice that the Republican party maintains the great princinle of a government of the people by the people for the people. In the prospects of the Repblican party there is at this time enough of dauger to rouse the courageous, enough of assurance to encourage the least sanguine, enough of greatness to excite the indifferent and enough of honor to inspire the loyal with a true enthusiasm. $>uspicion, and it devolves upon the Con- | gressional committees to act in such 8 | people have confidence. They will not be | party in each locality look for notices of PARTY HOME RULE. The Congressional committees to whose hands has been intrusted the election of delegates to the Republican convention can hardly be ignorant that the innova- tion thus made on the established customs of the party has not- been received with much favor by the rank and file. The old principle of local control of local affairs is ingrained in the hearts of Americans ana none are more devoted to it than those whose loyalty makes up-the strength and the honor of the Republican party. These men regard the innovation with no httle manner as will banish all fear of unfair dealing and restore confidence to the party throughout the State. It will not be difficult for the Congres- sional committees to provide for the elec- tion of delegates under conditious that will be satisfactory to all loyal members of the party. This can be effected by the proper recognition of the local organize- tions through which the members of {he pariy have been accustomed to carry on the party work. In those organizations coming direct from the rank and file of the party and in close contact with them the s0 sure to have confidence in the commit- tees controlling the wide areas and large populations of Oongressional districts. Moreover, even if they had an equal con- fidence in the fairness of the outside body they would still prefer to have the man- agement of local affairs in the hands of the local organization, for there is a nat- ural preference founded on good reasons for home rule in party politics as well as in anything else. 1t any further reasons were needed why the Congressional committees should re- solve to act through local organizations, it would be found on the scores of economy and effectiveness. These organizations already exist. They have been long ac- customed to directing the affairs of the party. 1tistothem the members of the all party work that is to be performed. To ignore them and establish new centers of political activity would certainly entail considerable cost, and give rise to no little confusion, as a result of which there would surely be dissatisfaction for which “the party would suffer. ‘We urge the adoption of the practice of | home rule with the more earnestness, be- cause there has been disclosed in this City unmistakable evidence of a conspiracy to get control of the Congressional commit- tees and use them in the interests of the | Southern Pacific Company of Kentucky. Men do not forge proxies, and by false pretenses induce innocent men to use them, unless they are impelled by base motives, The story of the attempt made atthe Baldwin Hotel meeting to get con- | trol of the Fourth District is now famillar | to the State and the people are watchful and suspicious. What was exposed and baffled in one place may succeed in an- other, Loyal Republicans are taking no chances this year. They demand honest politics and local control of local elections. | AMAZING LOOSENESS. Mayor Sutro made the astonishing discovery the other day that a firm | of contractors for private street work | had filed an assessment for $21,797 35| for a sewer along Lake street, from | Fourteentn to Twentieth avenue, in Richmond district. No objection from the | property-owners accompanied the assess- | ment, but the amount appeared so large | that the Mayor notified the Richmond | Proverty-owners’ Protective Association. | Mr. Hubbs, president of the association, | must have been astonished after makinga | simple computation, for he discovered that there are only six blocks to be sew- ered, that they are 240 feet each in length and that the assessment represents a con- templated cost of $15 35a front foot, where- as the ordinary price runs from $140 a foot for pipe sewers to $3 a foot for brick, The assessment of $15 35 is nearly half the | value of the property. This should serve as ample warning to | property-owners in all parts of the City. | The official safeguards placed by law around the making of assessments for work to be done by private contract are sufficient if faithful officers have charge of | their enforcement, but in the absence of that protection it behooves property- owners to exercise the utmost diligence. This can be best accomplished by commit- tees of citizens who may be depended on to prevent wrongdoing. The South Side improvement clubs huve such committees, and the good effect of their supervision is expected to appear in the Folsom-street | improvement. The Merchants’ Association is now mov- ing for better pavements in the business | section, and has secured the promise of the Street Superintendent’s hearty co-op- | eration. It is to be hoped that the im- | provement will be made, and we may be sure that the shrewd and alert commit- tees which the association wiil place in charge of the work will see that property- owners are not swindled or worthless im- provements made. The present disgraceful condition of affairs, with its long list of scandals which have been recently unearthed by the Grand Jury, are the direct result of turning over the political machinery of the City to or- ganized bands of unscrupulous politicians, It is ail of a piece with the disgraceful menner in which the Market-street Rail- way Company, through the political man- agement of the Southern Pacific Company, has secured valuable franchises for a song, and been permitted withoutdemur to vio- late the terms of their franchises and in- flict serious injuries on property at will, Until this power is crushed it is useless to expect an honest administration of all the municipal departments. WE QAN STAND IT. Dispatches from Cienfuegos, Cuba, an- nounce anti-American demonstrations, and the passage of resolutions by the Chamber of Commerce of that city to the effect that all orders outstanding for American goods be canceled and that a boycott be declared against all kinds of American goods in the future. This is the very height of folly. Cubais 50 torn with internal dissension, so warped and twisted with eivil war, and so threat- ened by the advance of the insurgents upon Havana itself that it is incapable of feeding its peovle. It must rely upon out- side sources of suppiy for food, and such food supplies must come, naturally and primarily, from the United States. The Cienfuegos Chamber of Commerce may think it has a grievance against the United States, but when it comes to a hungry people, when flour and meat and various farm products become practically unpro. curable, the boycott will not look so much like a grand, glorious, patriotic actas it does just now. To the United States such a boycott as this is really too insignificant to cut any figure, Under the so-called reciprocity clause of the McKinley bill our trade with Cuba increased very largely and was put on a satisfactory basis, but when the Wil- son bill erased that wise and salatary pro- vision of law the trade dropped back to its former status and became, as before, bardly worth considerstion It is safe to say that to-day our trade with Cuba, that is, our export trade, does not approach in volume the interchange of domestic prod- ucts between almost any two of the great States of the Union. For this reason it can stand the boycott if Cuba can, but such ill-advised action will certainly not tend to make relations any more amicable between the Spanish power in Cuba and the United States than they are at present. FOR TRUTH AND FAIRNESS. The statement made by Dr. Brown on Thursday before the church council that ofall the papers in the City Tur CaLv only had given fair reports of the pro- ceedings and the evidence was public testi- mony to the fidelity with which TaE Cavy, keeps its pledges to its readers of giving full, accurate and unbiased reports of all events of current interest. It has been the ambition of the editor of THE CALL to make it a paper as eminent for aceuraoy as for enterprise. Its motto has been the truth and 1ts aim has been to find out the truth and publish it for the information of the puablic. To do thisit has been necessary of course to be impar- tial in all controversies, to lay aside all temptations toward sensationalism, to do full justice to every man or woman on trial whether popular or unpopular, and in all events give every fact its due place on the record without coloring, distortion or misrepresentation of any kind. 1t is gratifying to know that our efforts in this respect have not been overlooked, either by individuals whose deeds have been inquired into, or by intelligent people who read to learn the truth and not to gratify a passion, a prejudice or an idle curiosity. Dr, Brown is not the only per- son who has borne public testimony to the accuracy and the fairness of THE CALL. Sooner or later this characteristic of the paper will be universally recognized, and it will occasion no comment when the fact ig stated either in public or in private. “THE SUNDAY OALL” The features prepared especially for to- morrow’s CALL are so numerous that it is difficult to make a selection for mention here. Among them will be a graphic pen- picture concerning Telegraph Hill, giving its past history, its present condition and its inevitable future. This question has an important bearing on the development of San Francisco's water front. “How a Confederate Cruiser Was Cap- tured in San Francisco Harbor” is the title of an exciting episode of the Civil War that will be news to many of the present residents of the City. ‘‘Horse-breeding on a Blue-grass Farm” | is an entertaining and instructive contri- bution, the material for which was fur- nished by Mrs. John M. Clay, the accom- plished widow of the son of Henry Clay. W. C. Morrow contributes a strange and immensely dramatic story concerning a mysterious discovery in electricity. Ninetta Eames contributes an account of Luther Burbank of Santa Rosa, the great plant specialist, who is known in Europe as the *‘wizard of horticulture’” by reason of his great success 1 produc- ing new varieties of plants. The regular departments of the Sunday issue will be fuli of interest. They include novelties in the sciences and arts, book and magazine reviews and literary naws, faslions for men and women, society news, the children’s department, etc. Special telegrams fully setting forth the situation in the excited centers of Europe and many other features of living interest will ap- pear. Those Californians who want to in- struct their friends concerning California can accomplish their desire in the best way by sending them THE SuspaY CALL. A TRIOCE DENOUNCED. A Condemnatory Editorial From an Independent Journal. Of all the newspapers that are generally found defending the Southern Pacific it is clear that there is one actuated by prin- ciple. The fearless, independent and in- dignant tone of the following editorial from the San Francisco Wave is encour- aging to all men who take an interest in political matters for the good of their party and the welfare of the people: THE VICTORY OF A TRICK. There are some things that even a Re- publican State Central Committee cannot with impunity attempt todo. It cannot afford 1o stoop to low cunning and deceit; it cannot afford to father brazen false- hoods; it cannot afford to open up a Presidential campaign with alie upon its lips, deceit within its heart and treachery as its watchword. It cannot afford to do these things upon the opening of acam-. paign, and at the same time hope to in- spire confidence abroad in the integrity of its future undertakings. These unholy at- tributes beiong not to - State and Natvional politics. They are the offspring and crea- tures of the ward clubs in the foulest quar- tersof the City,and should have their abiding-place only among the scum and wreckage of political life. Certainly they bave no place in'the central political or- ganization of a great National party, ‘We have not the slightest interest in the political aspirations of Mr. Spreckels, nor, for that matter, have we any interest in any other faction or individual of the Re- publican party. No party boss or party lash shall direct our policy during the com- ing campaign, or deviate our course by a hair’s breadth from what we consider the way of truth and honesty. It is our pur. pose to exercise in these columns the func. tions and prerogativeseof an independent American citizen; and we shall not hesi- tate to point out, even if found within the ranks of the party whose ticket we may support, the shortcomings, the wrongs and evils which may there abide, 1t is well known that.the Spreckels seek a place in the politics of California and it is good that this is so. It is well that men of means and leisure should be will- ing to devote themsetves to the welfare of the country. To usit is a matter of utter indifference what ambition may move Mr, Spreckels to enter politice. His elevation to political office would afflict us with no pain. Heisentitled to decent treatment, and in the councils of his party is entitled to bear the truth from the lips of his polit- ical associates when matters material to the welfsce of that party are at stake. The wrong of which we complain was per- petuated at the initial meeting of the Republican State Central Committee. As is well known among politicians.certain county committeemen ure favorable to the interests of Mr. Spreckles. His enemies sought to strip him of the power that goes with such dolitical control. At the last moment before the late meeting, he was informed that in the official notice of the Republican - National Committes calling for the convention at St. Louis, there had been embodied certain instructions as to the methods to be employed in the several States for the selection of delegates to that convention. He was urged by his asso- ciates to abide by the terms of the instruc- tions lesued by his party, even though in- dividually injured. With the full knowl- edge that to do so would be to cripple his political strength; with theknowledge that such a course would place in the hands of , 1896 the opposin, litical faction strength which propnr%y l;:lunked to him; with the instinots of a true National Republican, he cheerfully yielded his personal interest for what he had been informed were the wishes of the National party, as defined by its National Committee. No one ques- tioned the motive impelling Mr. Spreckels to this course, It was magnanimous, loval and decent; but what shall we say to the miserable tricksters who have imposed upon the credulity of the man ar}d filled his ears with falsehoods; and, with a lie upon therr lips, exacted from him a prom- ise that was prompted’ by the holiest and most honest of political motives? The call of the National Committee says: “The Congressional district delegates shall be chosen at the convention cailed by the Congressional committee of each of such districts in the same manner as the nomination of the Representative 13 made in the same district.”” The resolutions ‘which Mr. Spreckels was induced by false representations to support begin with the lying words, *‘In accordance with the direction of the Re- publican Commitiee,” and winds up with an interpolation, unauthorized by the committee, unmentioned in its call, un- thought of by its fathers, that strips from Mr. Spreckels political power earned by him, and to which he was rightfully en- titled had his associates been less indecent and deceitful. This infamous resolution adopted by the State Uentral Committee, while it seems to follow the call of the National Committee, contains these words in place of those above quoted: ““The selection of the delegates of the Congressional conventions sball be under the direction of the Congressional Com- mittee of each district, and all primaries | held for the election of delegates shall be | held under the exclusive management and ' control of the Congressional Committee.” Any politician reading these two sen- tences will, at a glance, discover where Mr. Spreckels has been undone when it is considered that friendly to his interest were a number of county committeemen who, under the practice contemplated by the National Committee, would have had charge of the primaries for the election of delegates. Under the instructions the Congressional Committee was to be given the power of calling conventions, but there is not one word declaring they should have exclusive management or control of the primaries, or of anything else pertain- ng to the election,- | Their duty simply begins and ends with 1ssuing the call. To the everyday citizen the trick here accomplished may not be | apparent; but’it is a trick, and one which | should excite the sympathy of the party for Mr. Spreckels,who so graciously yielded up his personal interests under the false and lying pretenses of his associates, from whom he haa the right to expect and ought to have received nothing but plain, unvarnished truth, —_— PERSONAL. E. J. Lowery of Fresno is here. J. A. Becker of Sitka is in the City. Isaac Walton of Fauburg, Ill, is at the Lick. Colonel E. G. Evans of New York is at the Russ, Dr, W, 8. Harvey of Chicago {s at the Occi- dental. George W. Rice, 8 business mau of San Miguel, is in town. F. A. Garden of Banff, Scotland, is at the Occidental. W. J. Hotchkiss, & frnit-canner of Healds- burg, is at the Russ. Dr. James D. McLaren of Everett, Wash., {s among recent arrivals. T. H. Elliott, a mining and business man of Yreka, 1s at the Grand. R. B. Markle, 8 miner of Hunter Point, Alaska, arrived nere yesterday. Edward Chambers, s hotel proprietor of Los Angeles, is spending a few days here. J. 8. Nobie, division superintendent of the Dunsmuir section of the Southern Pacific, is in town. = H. Z. Osborne, one of the editors and pro- prietors of the Los Angeles Herald, is at the Palace. J. B, Haggin is reported to be seriously ill in New York. Lloyd Tevis has gone East to be by the sick man’s bedside, as it is thought he can- not recover. Baron and Minister H.von Hengenmuller of Washington, D. C., who, with the Baroness von Hengenmuller, went to Monterey nearly a week ago as guests of Chasles F. Crocker, re- turned here yesterday. They are at the Palace. Father Joseph Jeram, president of the Edam Valley Colony, Sonoma County, on whose lands some 800 people are to be located, s at the Russ, on his way East. He was accompanied to this City by N.H. Lang, secretary of the colony. Sir Audley Coot, the projector of the trans- Pacific cable which is to connect San Fran. cisco, Honoluly, New Zealand and Australia, who arrived here a few days ago, {8 preparing to sail for the Antipodes. He said at the Grand yeeterday, however, that he would soon return to Washington, and that he did not dount the cable enterprise would go thrdugh. “Things are now in such shape,’* he said, “that there 18 mext to no doubt about it.”" Miss Currie Duke, the talented violinist of Sousa’s band, is the daughter of the famous ox- Confederate general and fighter, Basil Duke of Kentucky, who in addition to having been a noted rebel leader, is & railroad president and Jawyer. 1t wus Geperal Basil Duke who con- ducted Huntington’s recent fight in the Blue Grass. State. The general’s daughter is an ambitious young woman and is proud to make her own way in the world, though it is not necessary that she should do so. She studied music in Berlin and other foreign centers of art. Sigmund Beel, the violin virtuoso of this City, studied under the same instructor with Miss Duke while abroad. He was among those who early called on her at the Palace, after the x‘::m of the accomplished young Kentucky y. Colonel Harrison Gray Otis of the Los An- geles Times is not only an up-to-date editor, but an up-to-date politician,says the San Fran. cisco Bulletin. Recently a prominent Eastern journal nominated Colonel Otis for the Vice- Presidency on the Republican ticket. A man with less capacity than Colonel Otis possesses to look into the political grindstone would have plumed himself on the nomination. But our Los Angeles friend is not in the least thrown off his balance. Hesays in an inter- view that a Vice-Presidential nomination would do the Pacific Coast little good, but would prevent the selection of a Cabinet offi- cer from this coast. It is not often that a man thinks of his State before Le thinks of himsel, but in this case Colonel Otis seems to have done so. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 6.—Among recent arrivals are: B. Raymonville, Holland; J. C. Paine, Grand Union; J. W. Johnson, 8t. Cioud; R. X. Howk, Morton; J.A. McNear, Holland; L. Willard, Hoffman; H. R. Pfub1, Imperial. CURRENT HUMOR. “Anything new at the seance?” “Yes. Rabelais was there, swearing horribly because his laurel wreath had been stolen by Thomas Hardy.”—Chicago Record. Employer (kindiy)—You are becoming very round-shouldered, Mr. Faithful. Bookkeeper (with hopes of & holiday)—Yes, Ifear that I am. Employer (solicitously)—Hadn't you better etop riding a bicycle ?—Boston Post. “Are you going to call on our new neighbor, Mrs. L2 “Ithink not. The fact is, I met her vester- day and she evidently does not belong to the best soclety.” “How do you krow?” “Because she has such pleasant manners.”— New York Tribune. AROUND THE CORRIDCRS. One of the most popular pursers of the Pa- cific liners is Bernard B. Bendall of tha steam- ship Monowal, which leaves to-day for Hono- luly and Sydney. Purser Bendall is s native of New Zealand andis 27 yearsold. He has been in the employ of the Union line, to which the Monowai belongs, as clerk and purser for 11 yeats. Mr. Bendall is known to all the newspaper men of San Francisco as the prince of pursers and the steamship officer who always has ‘‘a story” for the reperter. It is his custom when his vessel is nearing port to prepare a copy for each City paper of all the incidents of the voyage, accountsof notable passengers, descrip- the day fixed in the British ultimatum to pass, ‘was punished by having a_British. fleet take session of Corinto. But a good many hings have happened since that former affair, and since Venezuela received her ultimatum. from Lord Salisbury. The time for the en- forcement of the ultimatum against her has expired without any movement, so far asis known, either of the flying squadron or of other British naval forces toward her coast. Exactly what arrangement, if any, has been made with Venezuela in this matter does not appear. Whether she has been willing to con- gider the personal grievances alleged to have been suffered by Barnes apart from her boundary dispute, in view of the fact that the high commission is now considering the lat- ter, or whether she holds to her original fraund that the Yuruan incident is too closely nvolved with the boundary question to be PURSER BENDEL OF THE STEAMSHIP MONOWAL [Sketched by a “Call” artist.] tion of the cargo, etc., which he faithfully de- livers to the ‘“boys” for publication. Mr. Bendall likes San Francisco and enjoys the society of the many friends he has made here, but he is always glad when the Monowai's bow is turned toward the far southwest. The purser is a very shy young man and will not talk on tender topics, but the newspaper men who haye been welcomed to his stateroom have seen the picture of an exceedingly pretty girl, whose home is under the gleam of the Southern Cross. Possibly this is why the purser is better pleased when the good Monowal is following her figurehead to New Zealand. The Rev. C. Graham Gardner of London, who has been for nine years laboring ip Japan asa missionary of the English church, was one of the passengers by the Australia, and is at the Occidental. He is accompanied by his family. “During the considerable time I have been in Japan,” said the reverend gentleman yes- C. Graham Gardner. terday, “I have labored in both city and country, and been pretty much over the em- ire. P “Missionaries in Japan are being steadily treated better. Christianity is also advancing. This was shown in the recent war, when na- tive chaplains were permitted to accompany the troops, and, as laymen, preach to them. “As an instance of the better way in which Christianity is being received, I may tell a story that has lately been in all the papers of the Mikado's land, but which has not yet be- come known here: “Recently,.when the Crown Prince Kotaishi became 111, several nurses were sent to attend him. Among them was one who was very thoughtful and careful. She was alwdys at- tentive to any wants of the ailing Prince, and he appreciated it so greatly that he asked her why it was that she was so self-sacrificing. She told him that she was a Christian, and that she believed it to be her duty to do all she could for whoever she might be called on to attend. “Then,’ said the Crown Prince, ‘I will call ‘you O Sen San, or missionary, since you are so kind and are devoting your life to beneficent work.” “This is & little thing, a mere drop of water, but it shows in & slight way something of what is being done in Japan. “I do not think there ever ought to be a State religion there or anywhere. We have gotjpast that, but the work that the various mission. aries are doing cannot fail of being helpful - to Japa “Physically, there are plenty of comforts in Japan for everybody. It is about the chespest and best place to live that I know of. But, in a way, a man tends to mental starvation.” Rev. Graham Gardner will go to Stockton for aday or two and then go to Boston, where he will stay three montks, afterward crossing to London. THE YURUAN INCIDENT. On Wednesday, the 26th of February, the time limit of the ultimatum presented by Great Britain to Venezuela expired. By or before that day, as we understand the matter, Venezuela was, according to England’s terms, to make those pecuniary and other amends, which the latter had fixed, for the alleged i1l treatment of Inspector Barnes or to run the risk of having force employed against her. Venezuela had before her the fate of Nicar- agus, which, deciining mflhnve England act as udge and jury in settli the dai %msod in u{- uefields affair, and ;Il:w settled apart from it, is not yetannounced. But the one fact ahout which there scems to be no doubt is that the day fixed by England’s arrogant uitimatum has passed without her receiving the indemnity she demanded, and that she has not yetaitempted to repeat her Corinto game.—New York Sun. GOD’S HOURS. let there grow . silver chaliced, sweet, that from the Maytime meadows blow, it shall calm thy heart’s rebellious beat. ror know thou art no child of chance or fate, | “God's hours are never late.” | Still must thou weave life’s fabric to the end Yes, though its bright threads all are bleached with Lears. And weary hands can scarce the shutt He who hath set thy pattern counts the years. Before the loom With steadfast courage wait, “God’s hours are never late.” ‘Wear, then, this flower of patience on thy breast. ‘When sorrow knocks and stays to sup with thee, She leaves a blessing where she bides a guest, | ~Of higher hope and wider sympathy. Look np—this message irom the sky awaltg “God’s hours are never Iate.” 3 | Thy times are in his hand who orders best “The seasons of the soul. Toil on and trust. The twilight star shall surely bring thee rest; He who hath marked & SpArTow in the dust With loving eye regardeth thine estate, “God’s hours are never late.” LuLy W. MrtexeLs in icaga Inter Ocean. A REMARKABLE DOG. John Hyslop, the watchman at the Mer- chants’ Exchange station at Point Lobos, is the owner of a bulldog who certainly seems to possess the reasoning faculty. The animal’s name is “Jerry,” and he is a fine specimen of his breed. He is a little over two years old &nd has already gained a name for himself by the exhibition of his remarkable faculties. 1f Jerry is told to do a thing he will do it the first time as any dog would. But if he is asked to repeat the pertormance he will think of an easier way of doing it. A few days ago one of the men at the station dropped a piece of wood into a barrel that stood beside a box of the same height and told Jerry to get it out. Jerry jumped onto the box and then headfirst into the barrel. He got the wood, but did not ret- ish the work in the least. The wood was drofi)pud back, but Jerry had no intention of making another dive into the barrel. He jumped onto the box, smelled all around the Darrel, and then sat on the ground to think. It took him quite & while, but he suddenly Lumperl up and pushed the barrel over so that e could wealk into it and take the wood out without any trouble. The barrel was stood upright again and the piece of wood once more dropped into it. Jerry did not have to think this time, but instantly pushed the barrel over and brought out the wood. Jerry's sense of smell is most keen. Mr, Hyslop once lost a valuable pocket-knife and spent many hours in a iruitless search for it. At last he remembered that he was accustomed to carrying it in the same ket with his chewing tobacco. He allowed Jerry to smell the tobacco and in less than twenty minutes his kmife was brought to him. On another oc- “Jerry? [Sketched from life.) casion Jerry found a silver s begal t‘hxovn;leun by accident. It used for eating an orange and by aliowin, Jerry to smeil the fruit ] lh]e A ;"“clb';e e was abie to locate erry bas n known ‘to place two. a together in such & way that ne encia, «';'3:; them at once instead of making two trips. To enumerate all of the remarkable things that dhiec?:'sfd.u’z‘le vlv’oulkd be shl‘ongl “!k]:’ but the ver. who know him that he i smartest dog in California. it s Al — PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. The women of the royal familles of Europe oon that had had been last limbs, use an e genuine, tions is as good as th lfyonmtlnnnlidlnrhthlbuk,lide, Allcock’s BEAR IN MIND—Not one of the host of counterfeits and hlh- average stronger; mentally am physicallys than the men. : 4 ‘ i . Meissionfer has presentd:five uelgt:f in,, cast bronze, the wark gl the great peinter, to the Luxembourg Galler, - : ir, Hale of'Maine has ratheithin hair, wksx:::ul?e carefully perts in the niddle and brushes down until it shines like sil irel; bald, of Senator Shoup of Idaho isentirel; 5 what hair is left is so light in coler andso sparsely scattered that it is not to be sten. The Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austris is said to be the strongest woman in ti» world outsiae of a circus. She can lift an ouinary man with one hand. Watts, the artist, who is nearly 80 yea:s ola, eats ‘neither fruit mor vegetables. “Beef in certain forms or & little game, a tiny piece of toast and & little cream,” he says forms his daily fare. ol e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. HoME ¥or Grris—Reader, Stockton, Cal There is at 929 Pine street, in this City, a-home for working girls. CaRLETON—. J. F., City. W.T. Carleton did not appéar In _this City with the Bostonians in the opera of “Robin Hood.” THE ARCHITECTS—L. H., City. The architect for the Palace Hotel was John P. Gaynor of this City, and the architects for the Mills building were Burnham & Root of Chicago. A LEGAL OPINION—C. T. S., Elmira, Cal. The question you ask is one that demands a legal opinion, It cannot be answered in this de- partment for the reason that “Answers ta Cor- respondents” does not undertake to give legal opinions. s X STOCKHOLDERS—J, R., City, In the Pacific Bank case the Supreme Court decided recently that each individual stockholder is responsible for his proportion of the solvent stock, but did not decide that he should be liable for the un- paid assessments of PADEREWSKI'S RECITAL—A. R. R,, City. At the recital by Paderewski at the California on the 21st of February the great planist did not, after rendering Chopin’s Valse, A flat, Op. 42, give an encore, but gave, according to_pro- gramme, Legend No. 2, written by himself. IroN Laxps—F. V., Los Angeles, Cal. Lands containing valuable deposits of iron can only be entered and patented under the mining laws of Congress, The proceedings are the same as those required for lodes having gold, silver, copper, etc. A location of such’ lands by one or more persons shall equal, but not ex- ceed, 1500 feet along the length of the lode, no ciaim to exceed 300 feet on each side of the middle of the vein, nor be limited to less than twenty-five feet on each side. Deep SEa—E. F. B, Los Gatos, Cal. If a bottle, tightly corked and sealed, was forced down into the ocean 200 fatnoms no liquid would be forced through its sides by the pres sure of the water. Bottles have been sent down in many instances, and where & depth of 2000 fathoms was reached the bottle, when re- turned to the surface, was crackled and when exposed to the eir went into fragments. In many instances bottles have been brought up aiter heing sent down to a great depth,and these were found to contain water, which no doubt had forced its way through some imper- fection of the glass not visible to the naked eye, but the water was not fresh. In many other cases empty hottles sent down the same distance were brought up empty. There is no truth in the assertion that an empty bottle sent down into the ocean & great distance will, when returned to the surface, be found to contain fresh water, TOWNSEND'S famous broken caudy, 10c a lb. * - e———— CALlrozmighce fruits, 50c Ib. Townsend’s.* - Morasses chewing taffy, 25¢1b. 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PARKER'S GINGER TONIC cures Inward pains. NEW TO-DAY. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE BY Thos. Mages & Sons, REAL ESTATE AGENTS And Publishers “Real Estate Circular 4 Montgomery Street, UNION TRUST BUILDISG, CORNER MARKET. VERY FINE PAYING INVESTMENTS. Downtown brick building to one tenant for 15 {3:'00?} $235; 114 blocks north of Market st.; Downtown business investment: rents steady, 8450; $90,000; on a progressive street north of Marker, $46,000—Rents $200; reduced rent: fine invest- ment;north of Market st.; only feat from Market. downtown, on a_growing street; large lot and well-built 4-story building. Rents 8268 50; $28,000: 44 feet front: Clay st., Sansome; steady renting: brick building. ry-st. business corner, near Taylor; rents $142 50; $25,1 00. Within 150 feet of Market st.. downtown: 29x 65, and frame building; only $32,000: a fine in- vestment; §20,000 on it,and can remain at 643 per cen! Best wholesale district, very close to Market t. ; ::rluk bugfldln! and 1ot 46x137:6: rents $335 und ens ,000. First-st, investment: new building; leasea five years; $175 a month: $30,000. [Third st., near Mission; brick building; leased at $145; $22,500. Growing retail property; N, of Market: ciose to Fourth and Market sis.; fair frame improvements and large Jot; rents $385; $165,000; half can re- main on mortgage. California st.; best wholesale investment; large lot and brick building: renis $585; $85,000. Kearny st,; rent $55! duced 00d brick kront st.; on the best part of the sireet: gzlé:k: Tents $183: same business for year Clay st., near Davis; brick building; rents $150, good frontage; only.$28,000. Devisadero-st. invesument; between Post and Suttér: 35x137:6; will be a fine business street; #7200, RBESIDENCES AND CHEAP HOUSES AND LOTS. Paclfic ave., best 2story 88 rtion. north side: fine marine view: residence and lot: au‘ls1:s~gaa,aw. Jackson 8., between Flllmore and Stelner: notth side; 26x137:6; and 2-story modern residence, 10 rooms and all modern conveniences: 3 OFFER WANTED—Fine residence on Lyon st between Uak and Page, overlooking the Park: modern and convenient home and largelot; $7500« Broadway, norih side: 35 feet front and resi- dence; fine unobstructed view of bay; $11,000. Pacific ave, near Octavia st.; fine residenco; 13 fume avd modera firt-class arder; fine view: Octavia st., west side, bet. Broadway and Val- lejo; 26x112:6 and 2-sfory, 8 rooms in ver; .‘i:h order: fine view of bay; atreet bitumi: : only il forni 4y coner. faia fust M 1s) cal nla st. just n] H e e e ; Bryant st., near : cott 22x80 to rear lane. 8 4 - chest, or Plaster R