The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 10, 1896, Page 6

CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Prn?r!eln SUBSCRlY;TION RATES—Postage Free: ally and Sunday CAL1, one week, by carrier..§0.15 A mall.... 6.00 710 Market Street, &an Francisco, California. Felephone. . o Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone... Main—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 630 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open untll 9:30 o £ 839 Hayes 712 Larkin stree £W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open entl] ® o'clock. 2518 Mi : open until § o'clock. 116 X til 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : | €08 dway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 4 Park Row, New York City. DAVID ) Special Agent. TUESDAY THE CALL Once more th Politics has b and the confus ate Comm n to understand itself abont over. on 10 injury to the av e monopoly tician to have a head put on him. Republican harmony will be manifest as soon as the State Committee sounds the keynote. As the Republican State Committee has the key to the situation it should meet and apply it. The triple alliance is very good for home consumption in Europe, but it won’t stand export to Africa. 1f the Democratic party cannot geta man for the Presidency it had better advertise for a new woma It isone of the paradoxes of the time that the campaign is being opened every- where with a deadlock. The revival of prosperity is one thing at any rate in which the East is glad enough to follow the Western | Itis a clear thing that Democracy will never manage to get salt on the tail of the Whitney bird in this campaign. Europe may not yet confess that Cen- tral Africa is too hot for her, but she will admit it is very tropical in spots. That Sullivan is still capable of a good blow is proven by the fact that he con- tinues to claim the championship. The best way for our tournament to break the bicycle record is to make a record that will stand for a month or two. Even in England the belief is growing that the poetry of Austin is more like that of a court fool than a poet laureate. Ballington Booth may start a new move- ment, but it will never move like the one his father started nor go half so far. Thbe attempt to put the Republican party on a railroad side track has failed and the way is now open for full steam ahead. Though Rudini succeeds Crispi it is not certain he regards the succession as any great success. He hasbeen there before. General Weyler gives the Cubans ten days of grace, and Cleveland has just that much time in which to make up his mind. While the recognition of her independ- ence would give Cuba a moral support Congress might go further without being immoral. It seems to be the policy of King Hum- bert to fight the Abyssinians until he wins a victory and then quit and call it peace with honor. —— Alameda pot ahead of San Francisco in the publication of official results of milk inspection, but we can follow her fast enough to get even Japan has applied to our Government for ship models for her new navy, but she would do better to apply to our builders and get model ships. The Spanish Government is evidently doing the best it can to suppress the riots against Americans, and for that much of wisdom it deserves full credit. Sullivan’s announcement of a desire to revive pugilism may not win praise, but inasmuch as it implies he is net trying to elevate the stage it is gratifying. The general result of all the trials of al- leged Cuban filibusters in the East has be:n a verdict of not guilty, with a warn- ing from the court not to do it any more. Since the members of the Democratic Junta have bezun sending ultimatums to one another the whole combination might as well make the thing ultimate and quit. 1f it be true the cathode ray can cure the toothache without killing the tooth we have at last struck something that is going to fill a long-felt want better than gold itself. So long as the railroad attends to its own business nobody interferes with it, and it never comes into antagonism with the public except when it is interfering with the public. Senator Davis of Minnesota is one of the favorite sons who is finding out that to hold his State in the hollow of his hand is one thing, but to keep it from spilling over is another. e Rl The announcement that the strike is off on the Tamalpais scenic road is good news. The best scene the road can show now is a ecene of steady industry and progress until the work is done. In the heat of the dispute over their rival insurance companies New York and Prussia have so far ignored the United States and Germany that the affair is be- ginning to be regarded by diplomatists as one of extraordinary assurance. S The publication in THE CALL of the as- sessed value of Huntington’s property in Sacramento before he bezan railroad build- ing, reached Washington in time to catch Huntington on the witness-stand and make him take a second thought. It was said of old that learning softens the manners, but the world will take notice that the worst displays of animosity between the United States and Spain in | sales are constantly the present crisis have been made by the students of universities in both countries, ENCOURAGING PROSPECTS. Although San Francisco is domg fairly well in a commercial way, it observes with pleasure a steady improvement and the sure prospect of a good year. Reports | from the interior of the State are exceed- ingly bright. With the opening of spring the mining industry is exhibiting un- wonted activity; investments, improve- ments and extensions being on a larger scale than the State has ever witnessed be- fore. The last rains removed every doubt concerning the fruit crop, which not only will be large from old orchards, but which will be increased by an extensive new acre- | age just coming into bearing. The high price of wheat has kept a stream of money pouring into the State. The wines ready for market have brought twice the price of | former years, and the money for them is | | in band. Organizations effected by pro- ducers in other lines promise results eqnally good for the coming year. On top | of ail this is prodigious activity in devel- | oping the oil resources of the State, in es- | tablishing great irrigation systems, in the conversion of waste water into electrical | energy for mining and manufacturing, and 1n the founding 6f new colonies on a sound, honest and extensive basis. San Francisco is feeling this varied and widespread stimulation. Owners of un- improved blocks are making extensive in- vestments in pavements and the like in order to invite purchasers. As fast as| these lots are put in order they are placed | on sale, generally at auction, and that the | prices are eminently satisfactory is shown by the fact that these improvements and being made. Banks have opened their vaults and money is flowing freely at reasonable rates. That the people all over the City are eagerly clamoring for better streets is sufficient evidence of their confidence and energy, but the best sign of all is the absence of basiness failures and a general air of spirit and progress.. Never in the history of the City has there been so much intelligent determination. 1 These facts are already being recognized in the Eastern States and are bound to have an important effect. For instance, | the Bankers' Encyclopedia Monthly of Chi- | cago quotes from the CALL reports con- cerning the financial outlook of the State | and the estimate of a prominent banker, that not only are present conditions good, but that the prospects are encouraging for even better things. The, republication of | these things by the Chicago monthly shows i that the East is becoming interested in | California affairs and that capitalists are | looking in this direction for profitable in- | vestments. The movement that is now steadily im- | business in all sections of the | y might, in fact, be justly calied the Western rev: It beganin the West and | is most noted in such Western industries | as mining and the settling of new com- munities. All the States feel it more or less, but here it has had its origin and here it will probably accomplish the greatest results in the next dechde. THE COMING CENTURY. A very remarkable paper, entitled “The Twentieth Century,”” was published 1 the Forum of Auvgust, 1895. The fact that it appeared in that periodical and that it was written by Justice Henry B. Brown of the | United States Supreme Court may rightly be taken to give the article an uncommon value. The aim of the paper is to show principally the eyils which have arisen out of a lax use of the republican idea of gov- ernment and to indicate the duty of the twentieth centuryin correcting the abuses to which the nineteenth century has given birth. Among the numerous evils cited is one thus treated: After showing how incorporation isoften resorted to in establishing monopolies and | practicing dishonesty that would be diffi- | cult for an individual, Justice Brown says: | *‘Corporations are formed under the laws | of one State for the purpose of doing busi- | ness in another, and railways are built in California under charters granted by States | east of the Mississippi for the purpose of | removing their litization to Federal courts. | The grossest frauds are perpetrated in the construction of such roads, which are built, | not by the corporations owning them, for | the best price that can be obtained, but by | the directors themselves, under guise of a construction company—another corpora- tion, to which are turned over all the bonds, | mortgages and other securities, regardless | of the actual cost of the road. The road is | equipped in the same way—by another corporation, formed of the directors, which | buystherolling stock and leases it to the | road; so that when the inevitable fore- | closure comes, the stockholders are found | to have been defrauded for the benefit of | the mortgagees, and the mortgagees de- frauded for the benefit of the directors. Indeed, the process of reorganizing—or, as it is popularly and often properly known, ‘wrecking’—corporations in the interest of the directors has become an ex- ceedingly profitableif not a very reputable industry. Property thus acquired in de- fiance of honesty ana morality does not stand in a favorable position to invoke the aid of the law for its protection.” Of course Justice Brown had the South- ern Pacific in mind, for not only has he accurately described the rascalities of that corporation and the method by which it has plundered the Government, but thera is no other road to which his description can apply. Apart from the high source from which these utterances come is their fidelity to truth and the bearing which they have on the duty of the Government with regard to the funding bill and the in- famous charter of the Southern Pacific Company granted by the Legislature of Kentucky. A VALUABLE LATERAL The history of railroads in the United States establishes conclusively the propo- sition that main or trunk lines of railroad depend in a great measure for business upon branch or lateral roads, known, prop- erly, as feeders. The main line is rigid and inflexible—the lateral lines come from this side and that, tapping sections of country which the main lines can neither reach nor control, and bringing business it otherwise could not secure. H It is in this aspect that the Yosemite Valley Railroad is to be considered in con- nection with the new and rapidly progress- ing Valley Railroad. The Southern Pacific bas had in contemplation for several years the building of a railroad into Yosemite, but it has done nothing except to project planson paperand then abandon them. It has been reserved for certain persons connected intimately and directly with the Valley Railroad to undertake the actual construction of a railroad into Yo- semite Valley and to put the scheme on its feet on a genuine operative basis. From Merced to the Yosemite is only about eighty miles, and the building of the road is attended with no insuperable engineering difficulties; and, more than that, the road wiil traverse a fine agricul- tural country, especially between Merced and Snellings, and for a distance beyond, and its construction will stimulate farm- ing and fruit-growing, since the agricul- turist and horticulturist will have a mar- ket open to them for their products. ©Of course, the tourist trade will be the | suited, and the students great object of the new road, and that in itself should be sufficient to warrant the construction of the road. Adding the stimulus which this road will give to the agricultural interest to the increased tourist travel which comfort and conven- ience of transit will cause, it is safe to say that the Merced and Yosemite road will prove a valuable and lucrative lateral to the Valley Railroad, and that it wiil prove a thorn in the side of the corporatiou which has so insolently arrogated to itself the monopoly of railroad transportation in the State of California. A MAGIOAL CITY. The description of Seattle furnished to Monday’s CALL by Ernest E. Ling, assist- ant secretary of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, presents a wonderful picture. He might have premised it with the state- ment that Puget Sound is the most re- markable body of water in the world, its counterpart’ existing nownere. It is a great inland sea, extremely narrow for its length, and its crooked shore, mostly a high bluff, is indented by numercus arms and bays, all penetrating regions rich in natural resources. It is connected with the Pacific Ocean by the Straits of Juan de Fuca and has a depth and size more than sufficient to accommodate all the ships of the world. Unfortunately the settlement of the Sound country a few years ago proceeded with leaps far outstripping the develop- ment of its resources. A prodigious and disastrous boom made fortunes in aday and swept them from existence in a night. Seattle was the center of ail this feverish and unwholesome activity., In the very height of its prosperity a fire destroyed its property to the extent of $15,000,000, but it quickly staggered to itsfeet. Then came the bursting of the boom, followed in- stantly by a general financial depression, and ruin stared the whole Sound region in the face. But the people knew of the natural wealth of the country, and with stern de- termination set about to develop itand establish a legitimate prosperity. The pine forests which had covered the ground for incalculable ages had made a soil of great fertility, and the comparatively bland climate indicated the adaptability of the country to the higher forms of agri- culture, The forests themselves contained lumber of incalculable value, and to re- move a small part of them and utilize the wealth which they represented was only to clear the ground for bountiful harvests of fruit and grain. The inexhaustible stores of iron in the near mountains were opened, smelters and rolling-mills were established and prosperity began slowly to rise from the ashes of the boom. It is impossible to overestimate the value of theresources which will assure the coming greatness of the region. Con- venient to the iron mines are mines of coal for smelters, rolling-mills and manu- factories. Food both from the ground and the waters of the sound can be secured in unlimited abundance. Lumber, coal, iron, grain, fruit and fish are the leading sources from which prosperity will issue under intelligent direction, and these re- sources exist in inexhaustible abundance. Op one hand is the sound, open to the ocean, and on the other four great over- land railway systems terminating at Beattle. It would not be possible to find a richer combination of native resources and facilities for developing them and sending them to all parts of the world. A TOOLISH ACT. The students of the Northwestern Uni- versity, at Evanston, near Chicago, did a very foolish thing Saturday night, when they destroyed a Spanish flag. Tn Spain the students are doing just that foolish thing with the American flag, and the Spanish Government, to its credit, is en- deavoring to check such silly and needless acts. While the young men of Valencia and Madrid were tearing up our ensign, we had the better of the argument, but now our boys in the Northwestern institution have gpoilt in a measure our case. We cannot | well protest against the insults to Old Glory, when the Spanish colors lie torn and trampled under foot in the dust at Evanston. It Wwas hoped that no_ American citizen would forget him- self so far as to attempt an imi- tation of the hot-blooded young Spaniard who found a vent for his sur- charged feelings by walking over a bit of bunting that had been made to represent something he disliked. But that hope was destroyed and now Spain can how! around our consulates with logical im- punity. It should not have been left for the young men of one of our universities to do what our lowest social class of citizens— from which spring naturally the mob ele- ment—have so far refrained from doing. But the Spanish flag has been in turn in- at Evanston may find their fellows in Madrid retaliat- ing with fresh riotous outbursts at ever) thing American. It was a very foolisk thing to do. CURRENT HUMOR. Deacon Jones—As I was coming through the room I saw Mrs. Smith and Miss Robinson. They were talking about the early martyrs. Deacon Brown—If there’s any scandal a-going, let them women alone for getting hold of it. But what was. it the early martyrs had been doing?—Boston Transcript. 0il Upon the Troubled Waters.—Lady—All your marine pictures represent the sea as calm. Why dont you painta storm once in a while? Artist—We painters in oil can’t paint astorm. I have often outlined a storm on the canvas, but as soon as I began to spread on the oil colors the waves subside,and the sea becomes as calm as a duckpond.—London Tit-Bits, “I think gold is being hoarded,” observed Manchester. «Nonsense!” replied Birmingham ; ‘I was in & bank yesterday and saw about two quarts o gold coin on the counter.” measuring it as though it were milk or cider. “Ihe expression is all Tight. Gold comes in quartz.”—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. All Luck.—“Ef I nad your luck and you hall mine,” said Dismal Dawson to one of his pros. perous clients, “Is'pose it would be me helping you “Luck?"” answered the prosperous one, ‘< made all my money by hard work.” “That's whare the luck figures. You was borned with a likin’ for work. I wasn’t.’— Indianapolis Journal. Teacher—Suppose you were & king, Tomm: what would you do? i % Tommy—1'd never wash my face any more.— ‘Woonsocket Reporter. : ; “Johnny,” asked the clergyman, “if you could have your way what would you do with Sunday? “I'd postpone it until Monday,” replied the urehin, "thsn you think you weuld enjoy 1t?”” ‘‘Yes, I guess so, for schools keep then, you know.”—Adams Freeman. Jazmer—Why don’t you make memoran- dums and then vou won't forget things you want to remember? Gribbs—I do, but I always forget where I put them.—Roxbury Gazette. 5 De Vere—I heard s compliment for you to- ay. Miss Antique—Indeed! What was it? De Vere—Young Chapman Says you CAITY your years well.—Town Topics. ISCO CALL, TUERSDAY, MARCH 10, 1836. AROCUND THE CORRIDORS. J. A. Becker, eivil and mining engineer for the Lucky Chance Mining Company at Sitka, Alaska, and R. B. Markle, a mine-owner in the same region, haye just arrived from the country wnere gold nuggets are kept on ice. They are domiciled at the Russ. They brought the latest news from the new placer mines near Cooks Inlet, and the story is very interesting. The diggings are situated in an extensive region as yet unexplored and un- prospected. Last August a few prospectors returned from Cooks lulet to Turn Again Arm, and south of the arm they came upon fields rich in free gold. Taey got in places as high to obtain the import trade of Japan. It is especiaily unwise at this time, as representa- tives of tne largest ship-building firms in the United States are now in Japan doing their utmost to obtain contracts for the building of one or more of the several vessels which Japan is soon to add to her navy. Is it likely they will favor our countrymen when we are rousing throngh the press a” feel- ing antagonistic to all things Jepanese? I should certainly be inclined to think—and I | speak whereof I know—that we will be the first to suffer in the matter which is now being | so publicly agitated. My idea is that to pre- | vent the ‘threatened disaster which some | alarmists anticipate & movement should be | made privately and gradually, and after an in- | telligent survey of the field and ascertaining | wherein our danger lies. A few buttons—and, J. A. Becker, Who Brings the Latest News From the Alaska Placer Diggings. [Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.] as $10 to the pan of coarse gold. The largest nugget yet found is valued at $48. The soilis | composed of the washings and detritus of glacier moraines, Sixty miners remained,_there all winter and will e ready to go to work when the summer opens in May, the season lasting from May to December. Turn Again Arm isa narrower continuation of Cooks Inlet and turns from it to the east at almost a right angle. Here the tide rises from forty to sixty feet and travels down the Arm €0 fast that schoomers have traversed the eighty miles from the placer diggings to the steamer terminus on Cooks Inlet in five hours from the mouth of Resurrection Creek to Tyone. No quicksilver is used in panningout the precious metal, because the ice-cold water pre- vents the quicksilver from acting and all the free gold is permitted to escape from the pan, only the coarse gold being retained. The mines are infested with an intolerable plague of mosquitos and gnats, the gnats being the worst. They swarm abont in millions, and when the miners light fires to keep them away the pesky little pests mingle with the smoke and thaw themselves before their even- ing meal upon the tobacco and whisky-flavored blood of the gold-hunters. There is lively competition in fares from San Francisco to the gold fields. One can go from here to the mouth of Turn Again Bay for $50, &nd thence the route lies around Fire Island in schooners and other small craft eighty miles to the diggings. 8. K. Hagins, representing a wealthy Chicago colonization syndicate, arrived in this City yesterday aiter a two month’s tour of the in- terior of the State, experting lands preparatory to the inauguration of a colonization scheme during the present summer and fall. He has taken rooms at the Lick. Mr. Hagins makes a rose-colored report of that part of the State east of the Coast Range and north of Tehachepi as far as Sacramento. He says that it is far superior to Los Angeles In varlety, quantity and quality of horticultural and agricultural produets. He was especially impressed with the won- derful fertility of the reclaimed land west of Stockton on Roberts, Union and Bouldin islands, where seventy-five bushels of wheat to the acre have been produced. “The Valley road will infuse new life into tie valley of the San Joaquin,” he said. *“It is a more than ordinarily well-built road, so far as I have seen, and will vastly stimulate pro- duction in one of the most fertile valleys in the world.” FLIGHT. A hickory tree n the valley grew; The snows and sun and the spring rains found it, And shrill-voiced winds from the northwara blew, Aud the dews In the night time fell around it. Deep into the earth its fibers crept, And plerced the flint in the depths down under, Till the lightning out of the cloudways leapt And the hickory fell and was split asunder. And there by its side the shadowy marsh A crane’s nest held by the curving river, Where the tall grass mingled, coarse and harsh, ‘With reed-beds broad and the sedge a-quiver. And the tree and the egg and the stone lay there, But shreds and shards at the dim earth's portal, As common things that could never dare * The higher realms of the far immortal. But an Indian wrenched from the.tree a shatt, And struck a flint from the rock-ribbed ledges, And acrane's quill picked from a tangled raft. (1 reeds and weeds oy the brown marsh edges. And the arrow sped trom his twanging bow "Til the lonely plae VAW O the vy e siven, And that which was humblest here below, 1 Now at the last was nearest heaven, ERNEST MCGAFFEY. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. JAPANESE IMPORTS. A CORRESPONDENT THINKS THERE IS NO IMMEDI- ATE DANGER, To the Editor of the San Framcisco Call—SIR: A residence of nearly sixteen years in Japan and a close 1ntercourse with the natives of that country, both at the out- portsand in the interior, have given me a thorough insight into the character of the people and an inteiligent idea of their de- sires to become the rulers of the Orient both in times of peace and war. 1have read with much interest the articles on Japan which have appeared from time to time in your valuable journal and followed closely the views expressed in your contempo- raries, and notwithstanding the statements made by & few alarmists and the excitement created in some circles by the various reports of a Japanese invasion of our markets and s threatened supply of Japanese manufactures which bid hlrvl% create havoc witb our indus- tries both on this coast and throughout Amer- ica, I am of opinion that the time t when such a Elumr will occur, and there is plenty of time to legislate in such a manner that she crisis will be averted and in a manner thit we will still retain the friendliness of Japan and the respect with which they now regard us. Inthe meanwhile it certainly is not policy and is undoubtedly prejudicial to the interests of the United States to agitate this matter so freely in the press, for the rea- son that the Japaneése naturally see all the re- rts and the uelln? that is being stirred up n this country against them. Their papers copy these items which appear so often of late, and paturally a feeling of antagonism is ere- ated, and anything American or of American production is,’or will be boycotted. Thiscan readiiy be done, as the markets of the whole world are oflnn to Japan, and all are catering for and willing to make extreme concessiol by the way, has that contract ever been com- pleted ?—a Tew cases of matches, a few bales of cheap rugs, some gross of toothbrushes, of a wateh factory in Osaka, have created all this sensation. When the steamers begin to bring cargoes instead of afew ylcklfes of gocds, which, ac- cording to some peonle, threaten to close our factories and throw thousands out of employ- ment on this coast, then there will be time for us to act and act intelligentiy and quickly, and place such taxes on those importations which threaten our inaustries—not only man- ufactures of Japan, but of -ns country whose productions threaten home industries. In the meanwhile let our people reach facts as well as figures, and they will see this agita- tion is created more for a political than an in- dustrial movement. H. H. PERSONAL. P. A. Buell, alumber merchant of Stockton, is at the Granad. journing at the Russ. Adin Alexander, & mining expert of Los An- geles, is at the Palace. Bruce McClurg, the horseman, of Woodland is at the Cosmopolitan. E. M. Hadley, the hotel man, of Ogden is guest at the Cosmopolitan. Benjamin Reece of the Chicago Board of Trade is here on & vacation. Senator Frank McGowan of Eureka, Hum: boldt County, is at the Lick. nez, Mex., are at the Palace. D, Casasas, a wine merchant of Santa Rosa, is visiting friends in this City, Ex-County Clerk W. A, Shepherd returned to his home in Fresno yesterday. District Attorney C. E. Lindsay of Santa Cruz is stopping at the Palace. R. A. Brophy, captain of the Pittsburg police, 13 registered at the Cosmopolitan. Los Angeles Herald, is at the Palace. J. B. Foltz, & wealthy mining man of Foltz, Nev., is stopping at the Cosmopolitan. Sam Jackson, & lawyer and promoter of Fresno, is visiting this City on business. T. J. Murray, a prominent mine-owner of Volcano, Amador County, is at the Russ. Albert Coffin of the Gloucester and Boston Steamship Company is here on a pleasure tour. R.R. Hind and wife will return to their home in Honolulu on the steamer Australia to-day. Colonel H. Trevelyan, who is managing s vln'eyl.rd in Fresno for a British syndicate, is spending a few days in this City. Bishop B. C. Goodsell of the Methodist Epis- copal church will leave at the latter end of this week for a three months’ trip. Frank H. Short, a leading attorney of Fresuo, is here on business. He has been reiained as one of counsel for Mrs. Theodore C. Marceau. Vice-President Stubbs of the Southern Pacific Company left last evening for New York,where he will attend a meeting of the Transconti- nental Association. Archbishop Riordan and Rev. P. C. Yorke, Chancellor of the diocese, left yesterday for Los Angeles. They will visit the principal towns in Southern California during the next two weeks. On next Saturday President Colnonof the State Board of Harbor Commissioners will start for Los Angeles for a two weeks’ vacation. He *| will e sccompanied by Mrs. Colnon and niece, Mrs. Scott. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 9.—Among the recent arrivals are: M. P. Ross, Holland; H.ed Kiesvandaesburgh, Mrs. B. Dickman, Mrs. A. A. Grattan, St. Cloud; J. Kahn, Plaza; A. Blum, H. L. Blum, R. H. Davis, G. Martin and wife, Metropole: W. Bradford and wife, Gilsey; J. H. Davis, St. Denis; Mrs. Frantzell, Marl- borough; A. D. Moore, Hoffman; R. Williams, Sturtevant. THE APPOINTMENT OF CADETS. In the course of the debate in the Senate on the Military Academy appropriation bill, Mr. Gray of Delaware called attention to the exist- ence of a very general misapprehension of the terms of the law relating to the appointment of cadets at West Point. The popular impres- sion is that the rignt of appointment belongs to the Representative in Congress from whose district the cadet 18 to be selected, except as to the cadets at large, who are appointed by the President. This supposition s quite erroneous, for, as Senator Gray points out, ‘‘there is nowhere in the statues of the United States now a provision of law that authorizes a Representative in Con- gress to nominate a cadet to the Military Acad- y.” * The power to sppoint cadets in the army is vested in the President alone, and the u"m"'fnm tion to the contrary is due to the E)n‘-com ued practice of the Executive to be- stow the appointments upon the young men whose names are proposed by members of Congress. The statutory provision on the subject is contained in section 1315 of the Revised Statutes of the United States in these words: The corps of cadets shall consist of one from each Congressional district, one from each Terri- tory, one from the District of Columbia and ten from the United States at large. They shall be appointed by the President, and shall, with the ex- cent jon of the ten cadets ap] ted at I be onal ‘o actual residents of the Col Jongressi or torial districts, or of the District of C ‘erri- umbia re- shipped to Jhis country, and the establishment Senator J. C. Holloway of Cloverdale is lo-} M. Russek, wife and two daughters, of Jimi- | Telfair Creighton, business manager of the | spectively, from which they purport to be ap- po nted. rrom this language it will be seen that the intervention of members of Congress in regard to appoin tments to West Point is simply a mat- fer of custom, growing out of the courtesy of the President in requesting them to make nom- inations for him to confirm by appointing the nominees. In reference to the Naval Academy the law is different. The Representatives and dele- gates in Congress have the legul right to rec- ommend persons for appointment as naval cadets, and the recommendation, if seasonabty made, must control. If not made within the period prescribed by statute, the Secretary of the Navy fills the vacancy. The selection of the candidate allowed for the District of Co- lumbia, howeyer, and of all the nayal cadets at large is made by the Prestdent himself.— New York Sun. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Miss Snsan B, Anthony has been given a re. ceptlon in Rochester, N. Y., in recognition of her seventy-sixth birthday anniversary. Rev. John Watson, better known to novel- readers es “Ian MacLaren,” has been chosen to detiver the Lyman Beecher course of lec- tures at Yale. Mark Twain, having had a very successful tour in Australia and New Zealand, is now in India. He is sald to have collected material for & new book of travels. X At Grenoble, the seat of the glove tradein France, a statue has been erected to the mem- ory of Xavier Jouvin, who established the trade there and thereby enriched the town. It is said in Indianapolis that General Har- rison bas been invited to contribute & series of articles to one ot the leadinz London maga- zines, with permission 1o choose his own sub- jects and name his own price for the work. The library of Senator Allison, at his home in Dubugque, Iowa, is so large that the books overflow the house proper, and many of them | are stored in the cellar. The value of the library is said to be several times that of the house its | Maitre Pouillet, one of the most eminent lawyers in Paris, has begun an original work of charity. He gives sittings at the Palais de Justice at which he offers legal advice, free of charge, to persons who cannot afford to em- ploy lawyers. Mme. Marian S. Gambault of Pau, France, who is a grandniece of Commodore John Paul Jones, has offered to lend some relics of the famous naval officer to the promoters of the proposed National Museum in Independence Hall, Philadelphia. William E. Curtis, a well-known Washington correspondent, has been selected by the Ways and Means Committee of the House as an ex- pert to examine the tariff laws of other coun- tries and the statistics of commerce, 5o as 10 report how and to what extent the principle of reciprocity can be applied in the commercial relations of this country with them. FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. Inclined to Be Hasty. Los Angeles Express. Spain was justas hasty in 1361 as she was yesterday. Some Difference. Los Angeles Express. There is some difference between the woman who goes shopping and she Who goes out to uy. United States Allows No Filibustering. Pasadena Star. Spain cannot complain that Uncle Sam has not been diligent in stopping Cuban filibuster- ing expeditions. Decides That It Is Unconstitutional. Bodie Mining Index. Judge Low of San Francisco has decided that the ordinance under which poker players have been arrested is unconstitutional. The Judge takes an occasional hand himself. E= TS | The Potent Pull. | Watsonville Pajaronian. | The action of the Kentucky Legislature in | | refusing to annul the charter of the Southern | | Pacific Railroad Company was a disappoint- ment on this coast, as the press dispatches in | THE CALL and Ezaminer had indicated that the repeal bill was bound to become & iaw. This was one of the times when newspaper report- ers were poor guessers—or did Uncle Collis get in a potent pull? Governor Budd’s Plan. San Bernardino Times Index. A plan suggested by Governor Budd to re- | lieve the taxpayers of part of the burdens of | our penal institutions and insane and inebri- ateasylumsis to place a direct tax on the | | liguor business for that purpose. He considers | | that the liquor traffic is directly responsible | for a major portion of the insanity, pauperism | and crime of the State, and there is no reason why it should not bear the burden of the care of the insane and criminals which now rests =0 heavily on the taxpayers. This plan has | l!;(-en adopted in Illinois, New Jersey and other | | States. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. No PREMIUM—A. S, City. There is no pre- mium on a half dollar of the issue of 1826. Mr8. GRANT—The address of the widow of the | late General U. 8. Grant is Washington, D. C. | Aletter sent to her there will reach her. OAKLAND TICKETS—P. O'C., East Oakland, Cal. The reason that tickets are diviaed in some instances on the Oakland trains and one- | half retained by the road employes and the | other half returned to the passenger is because | of a check system of the road in use for passen- gers going to Alameda. SUPERFLUOUS HAIR—L. C. C., City. Therearea number ot methods for removing hair from the face, and each is claimed to be superior than any heretofore known. Some of the methods are safe, and there are some that leave scars if not properly applied. None of these ought to | be used except upon the advice of a reliable physician. SAN Jose RoAD — Constant Reader, Pacific Grove, Cal. The San Francisco and San Jose Ruilroad was completed in January, 1863. It 'was built by McLaughlin & Houston, contrac- | tors, for & corporation incorporated July 21, 1860, with a capital stock of $2,000,000, and | of which Peter Donahue, C.B. Polhemus, H. | M. Newhall, B. F. Mann, Timothy Dame and G. H. Bodfish were the first directors. Marra—F. B., City. The island of Maltaisa British possession. It is the chief island of the Maltese group in the Mediterranean, sixty- two miles SSW. of Sicily. It is t72{ miles long, 914 miles broad and its area 1§ sixty-ning square miles. From its position and the enor- mous strength of its fortifications Malta isa possession of immense value to any commer- cial nation that hasa navy strong enough to protect it from blockade. Asscexce FroM THE CitY—X. Y. Z,, Liver more Cal. Ifa native of Canada should live | in the City of San Francisco for a period of three years, during which time he had declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, should absent himself for forty days on | & business trip to hisnative conntry and should return and then continue to reside two years more, he could at the end of that time o{uln his naturalization papers. The fact that he absented himself from the United States for forty days with the intention of returning to this City, which he called his home, would not cut any figure in the matter of the five years consecitive residence required to enable a man to become a citizen of the United States. CoAL LANDS—F. V., Los Angeles, Cal. An act of Congress provides that any person above the age of 21 years who is a citizen of the United States, or who has declared his inten- tion to become such, or any association of per- sons severally qualified as already stated, shall, upon application to the register of the proper land office, have the right to enter by legal suldivision any quantity of vacant coal land of the United Siates not otherwise appro- priated or reserved by competent authority, not exceeding 160 actes to such individual person, or 320 acres to such association, upon the payment to the receiver of not less than $10 per acre for such lands, when the same are situated more that fifteen miles from any com- pleted railroad, and not less than $20 per acre when such lands are within fifteen miles of such roed. Such individual or association can make but one entry. PaisTiNé WaArLLs—Y. Kelseyville, Lake County, Cal. It cannot be said that there isany paint that is better than another for hard-fin- 1shed walls. The success of walls being painted in such a manner that the paint willnot peal off depends on the manner in which it is put on. One who is conversant with this subject says: *‘For hard-finished walls the first coat should be as dark in shade of the colordesired and as | MONEY- it would be desirable to so stain it. '(r';xr:"xgoftglue in wall-painting is of doubtful propriety; it shonld never, under eny circum- Stances, be put on until affer the second coat is applicd, and then it should be rubhed on very lightly with a rag. In first-class \\ork__m use ; ngt recommended. Plaster mixed with weal glue size, which prevents its setting too fast, is the best method for stopping walls pres ratory to painting. Each coat of paintshould be care- fnlly rubbed with worn sandpaper beiore the succeeding coat is put on. Each succeeding cout should be a shade lighter thanthe pre- cedingiomes. =L o0 A GIRL'S WRAPPER. A wrapper is shown here for little girls. Tho same model s shown in nightgowns and is much liked for the simplicity of cut and the ease with which 1t may be made at home, there being only shoulder and under-arm seams. The sleeve is the stylish bishop shape and has but one seam. Flannelette of pink. with a white hairline, had a collar of white China silk. Another wrapper was of light brown flannel, with a collar of the same linen, with blue China silk and finished with a ruffle of the silk. Wrappers of washable fabrics are made of heavier cottons, such as duck, cheviot, ete. The collar may be leit oft for nightdresses if desirea. If muslin nightdresses are made the collar may be of batiste, lawn or other thin fabric. A dainty finish is & narrow rufile, set on with an open work veiling between ruffle and col- lar. This is put on by making very narrow French or bag seams. These are stitched with the seam on the right side of the garment, then turned over and stitched again, hiding the original seam. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c 1b. Townsend’s.* e Jack Perkins has asked me to lend him “Well, do it. -As a personal favor to me let him have it.” “Personal favor to you?’ “*Yes. If you don’t let him have it he'll come to me for it.””—Harper’s Bazar. EPECIAL information daily to manufacture:y, business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * st e gy HusBAND'S Calcined Magnesia, four first preme jum medals awarded. More agrecable to the taste and smaller dose than other magnesia. For sale only in bottles with registered trades mark labels. ———————— NEW goods all over the store. Don’t think of old styles or old prices. What$1 used to buy, 75 cents, and even 50 cents, is likely to purchase now. We have many new things in Pic Frames, Artists’ Materials, Leather (Yod: Artlflcln’%fln tionery, Lamps and Shades, and Toilet Articles, which the public if invited Everybody welcome &t all times. San- Vail & » . Don’t Listen to Pessimists. Placerville Index. A pessimist cuts no figure in the progression or retrogression of the community unless you listen to him. Don’t listen to him. to see. born, THE impurities which have accumulated in the body during the winter must be expelled. Every | one needs a good spring medicine like Hood's Sar- saparills, the one true blood purifier. ———————— DE. SIEGERT'S Angostura Bitters, indorsed by physicians and chemists for purity and whole- someness. ————————— “BROWN'S BRONCHIALTROCHES" are unrivaled for relieving Coughs, Hoarseness and all Throat Troubles. Sold only in boxes. —————— Don’t Appreciate Him. Fresno Republican. The residents on Corbett avenue in San Francisco have petitioned to have its name changed, for the reason that they do not wish the public to_suppose the avenue was named after James J. Corbett. As “Gentleman Jim’ might justly remark, it does seem as if some people do not appreciate & gentleman when they find him. NEW TO-DAY. 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