The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 16, 1896, Page 6

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MONDAY MARCH 16, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. ‘We can do no more than feel for Arme- nia, but Cuba is within reaching distance. This administration has talked on every- thing from religion to Venezuela except Cuba and the third term. Get yourself in trim for the campaign for protection by making a practice of buying home goods for home use. The saddest thing about Democracy is that it cannot get even a favorite son boom well started before it bursts. ‘When Spain sces how slow the Senate moves on the Cuban question she will wonder what in the world she got excited sbout. Yvette Guilbert is a dancer, not a kicker, and she says the United States is more like France than any other country in the world. The Foraker men in Ohio seem to be willing that McKinley should get the nomination provided they get the credit of nominating him. The Senate should hurry Uncle Sam up to recognize Cuba before the Presidential election gets so exciting as to distract his attention from everything eise. The Quay boom in Pennsylvania may not be the biggest thing in the world, but it is so big that no statesman in the coun- try is tall enough to overlook it. There are not many Democrats in Mas- sachusetts, but there are enough to get mized up in a fight to decide whether Russell or Olney is the favorite son. If Eastern libraries do not quit ane nouncing their rejection of “Jude, the Ob- | scure,” there will soon be an end toits ! obscurity and Trilby will have a successor. | The New York Sun says the Monroe doctrine as written in Monroe’s message is ungrammstical, but asserts tbat the excel- lence of its Americanism more than atones for the badness of its English. If the Kentucky legislators spent yester- day properly they ought to be able to get together this morning in fellowship and love and elect a Republican Senator with- out further deviiment. As soon as the new United Statés Art Commission gets itself embodied it should hasten to this City and draw a soul into jtself by gazing on our angel ere she is transformed to a windmill. The conviction of an Ohio State Senator of the offense of soliciting bribes will be a warning to the rest against soliciting. The modern statesman should confine himself to taking things as they come. Since Kruger has become famous there has been an inquiry into his history, and as a result it is made known that when a young man he was a filibuster himselt and Tode a raid as gayly as Dr. Jameson. St. Louis is building for the Republican convention a new hall—the grandest of the kind in the world—but for the Demo- cratic convention Chicago has come to the conclusion that any old thing will do. « A New York theater has provided a tea- room where ladies can get refreshments between the acts, and as a consequence there is no longer any objection on the part of the ladies when their escorts go out to see a man. It is now asserted that the little, insig- nificant, evil-smelling Chicago River floats more freight in forty-eight hours than the beautiful, grana Ohio aoes in a whole year, but the assertion was made in Chicago and lacks the verification of Cincinnati. The latest movement for reform in the- atrical matters comes from the stage, and is directed toward the elimination of what the reformers call the “‘encore fiend.” The chances are, however, that the most active in the movement are those who do not get the encores. It is the opinion of ex-Governor Camp- bell of Ohio that when McKinley gets to the St. Louis convention “he will find a great deal of green goods in his grip,” but then Campbell’s experience in Ohio has ‘been disastrous enough to make him a morbid pessimist. sl PR According to the 8t. Louis Republic all attempts to improve the Mississippi by wing-dams and jetties have failed, and the only recourse left is to return to primitive methods and dig the sand out of the shallow placesin the channel. Itis more than probable the same experience will be had when the work begins of improving the Sacramento. Tt is asserted t! Italy was induced to establish herself in Africa by the British for the purpose of heading off a Russian plan to obtain a foothold on the shore of the Red Sea, and it is said Russia is now assisting Abyssinia by way of retaliation. The story is a good contribution to current literature, but probably was not intended to be of permanent value. Senator Cockrell's assertion that Cleve- land has been carrying out the financial policy insugurated by the Harrison ad- ministration is an error, for Cleveland has followed Republicanism neither in pre- cept nor in practice, but if it were true it would show what a bungler he is, sipce it would prove that he cannot keep out of the woods even when he has a broad, straight road marked out for him and is trying his best to follow it. SETTLING THE STATE. The San Francisco Investor urges a course of action identical with that upon which THE CALL has insisted—that the best plan for bringing settlers to Califor- nia is local organizations working through a central body. The State Improvement Committee is a central body composed of volunteer members from various parts of the State and its scheme is to disseminate general knowledge at large and particular information concerning any part of the State when desired; but these members are not, as a rule, representatives of organ- ized local bodies. If they were they could exercise a much greater power and have more money with which to work. Under its present plan the committee is com- pelled to forward the interests of individ- uals who assist it financially. For in- stance, it will assist in selling the pro- ducts of those who furnish it with sam- ples and money for that purpose. This is a fair and useful service, but it does not serve directly to induce settlement. Qur contemporary makes this wise ob- servation: “To await the natural growth of population or the increase of an indif- ferent immigration is a slow development of them, slow in number, in capital and in business activity. There are sixty million people to the east of us to whom Califor- nia offers something practically impossi- ble for the most of them to obtain else- where—a home in an affluent country, free from cyclones and blizzards, pests and cold, and other extremes that make life burdensome. The sentimentas regards California is practically a unit among that sixty million. With a great many of them it is, of course, a nascent one, but one that becomes active upon slight provocation.” If Calfornia were on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains it would quickly re- ceive a dense population. As it is, itsre- moteness makes a preliminary study of its advantages practically impossible, and in the absence of intelligent machinery for giving information concerning it and for making settlement easy, simple and safe it is useless to expect a great influx of immi- grants. The hard times prevalent in the East should be regarded asa providential oppor- tunity for securing immigrants. With millions of people the question of earning a bare subsistence among the poorest or of saving what has already accrued to the well-to-do has become urgent and over- shadowing. We might leave the question of profit out of the account and still make a victorious campaign on the simple proposition that a good living can be made out of the soil of California. What losses have been incurred came through efforts to make more than a living—in short, they were the result of speculation. The assurance that a simple living can be made, thatthe farm willi produce all the food required and a surplus for other necessities would bring happiness to mil- lions of people. THE BUCKLEY DEFEAT. | tween the two factions of the local Democ- | racy came Saturday, when, after a fierce | struggle, the so-called “Junta,” the faction opposed to Buckley’s dictation, won a vic- | tory. This has produced in the party a split which must either insure the defeat of the party or such a compromise as will measurably restore Buckley's power. | From this time till the hoiding of the State Convention, on the 16th of June, Buckley’s | finest work will be done, and the determi- | nation of his enemies subjected to the | severest strain. To defeat him in one | engazement is only to sharpen his wits for | the next conflict. Though defeated, he is | by no means conquered, and with his | shrewdness, leisure and money and with | the heavy backing that he is believed to | have, heisina superior position to carry | on a relentless fight. The inspiration of | the revolt against him need not be ana- | Iyzed here. While his methods and the kind 1 of government which they produce are | familiar to all and are not to be desired, his | opponents have to make good their ciaim that they have defeated him in the interest of pure politics and decent government. Thus far we have only their word for this. Itis to be kept in mind, however, that political opposition to Buckley has a cer- tain value as a certificate of character. The purpose of the State Convention is | to nominate Congressmen and select del- egates'to the Democratic National Con- vention. The question of a Democratic candidate for the Presideney is of no partic- ular concern to the people of the United | States just now, but the nomination will | be made as a matter of form. The selec- | tion of Congressional candidates is quite another thing. Asarale the Democratic Congressmen whom Buckley has not sup- ported have done good work for the State, | but his strongest efforts have been ex- | | | pended to defeat those whom he could not control. The tactics which he has pursued in the past will | undoubtedly be followed in the future. Although his cause seems hopeless now it is a safe prediction that he will develop a surprising strength in the State Conven- tion, and that in any event his position as the leader of a faction will give him and his followers an excuse to make trouble and dictate terms. EUREKA'S PREFERENOE. At a meeting of the Eureka Chamber of Commerce the other evening some of the members declared that as the natural trade relations - between the Humboldt Bay region and Portland were closer than those between thit section and San Fran- cisco, it was to the interest of Eureka to prefer Portland, The meeting was an im- portant one, being in a measure the result of meetings recently held by the San Francisco Traffic Association to devise means for counteracting the effect pro- duced by the rate of $1 between Portland and Eureka and $3 between Eureka and San Francisco. This difference in rates is diverting the Eureka trade from San Francisco to Portland, and this diversion has been produced by a steamship com- pany which has greater interests in Port- land than in this City. Ban Francisco is glad to see Portland prosper and cannot blame the business men of Eureka for paying attention to their own interests. The main point in the whole question is the unrestrained power of transportation companies to de- termrine for themselves the great economic questions in¢ident tfo transportation charges. The importance of this question to San Francisco is very great. Our prin- cipal source of lumber is the forests of Humboldt' County, and if this is to be turnea away from us it will strengthen the combination of lumber men, raise the price of building material, reduce build- ing operations and throw a large number of workmen in the building trades out of employment. It is true that the low prices of lumber that have prevailed until recently have overstimulated building and pro- duced rapid improvements out of propors tion to the increase of population. This has lowered the rent rate of the older houses and caused a misleading number of *“To let” signs w0 appear. At the same time it has given employment to many workers, has opened numerous parts of the City to settiement, and by reducing The culmination of the bitter fight be- | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 189 rents has encouraged the incoming of new residents. It is true also that we have too: many wooden houses and that we are neglecting the building stones that exist so abundantly and in so great variety throughout the State. In losing the lumber, dairy products and other valuable articles sent out by Eureka we are losing also the return trade which our merchants have enjoyed. Geo- gravhically the Humboldt region belongs to San Francisco. The extension of the railroad from Ukizh to Humboldt wouid be a far less expensive operation and would open a much richer country than the exten- sion of the Santa Margarita Iine to Santa Barbara. That would not only develop the wealth of Mendocino and Humboldt coun- ties but would save them to San Fran- cisco, as it will never be practicable to builda railroad from that section into Oregon. These considerations are ren- dered all the more important by the movement on foot torun a railroad from Eureka eastwardly over the mountains and across the upper Sacramento Valley, and thence northeastwardly to tap the great systems of overland roads centering in the Northwest. That presents a far graver situation-to us than the diversion of trade to Pbrthnd. as such a railroad would mean a Pacific terminus for an overland system and connecting steamers direct to the Orient. Eureka can be saved to San Francisco by a plan similar to that by which the Valley Road 1s to make the development of the San Joaquin possible. In the meantime it1s well to ponder the fact that San Francisco is completely at the mercy of the tramsportation com- panies. SAN RATAEL PROTESTING. A correspondent, writing in Sunday’s Cavrr, makes an earnest plea for a reduc- tion of railroad charges between S8an Ra- fael and San Francisco, pointing out the fact that the present rates are 300 per cent higher than those between San IFrancisco and the cities of Alameda County. It seems patent to all except railroad man- agers that, taking into account the superb natural attractions of San Rafael ana its environment and the radical difference be- tween its climate and that of San Fran- cisco, its settlement would be rapialy in- creased by lowering the rates and that the volume of business would quickly more than compensate for the reduction in rates. A curious point made by THE CaLL’s correspondent is that the wealthy residents of that section do not favor low rates, preferring the exclusiveness which high rates insure. But there is plenty of room for all in this beautiful spot nestling at the base of Tamalpais. The case seems to be one eminently fit for the consideration of the Railroad Com- mission—unless, indeed, its usefulness might happen to be seriously crippled by the determination of the pending suit to restrain it from regulating the rates of the Southern” Pacific Company. It at least seems due from the railroad companies operated between San Rafael and San Francisco to make a full statement of their reasons for maintaining the present rates and against the possibility of reducing them. It is exceedingly unfortunate that any conflict shouid have arisen between those companies and the people whom they serve. There is never any good reason for such antagonisms if the people are just and the companies fair, broad- minded and enterprising. Such: antagon- ismsare exceedingly rare in other States and bave served to inflict serious injury upon California. The best results both to the people and the railroads can come only through friendly co-operation. De- nunciation by mass- meetings and a haughty scorn on the part of railroad companies are the worst way possible to secure the desired result. PERSONAL. M. H. R. Harris of Japan is at the Palace. W. F. Peterson, & Sacramento merchant, is at the Grand. . John T. Jones, a Los Angeles attorney, is at the Palace. James Kirkwood, capitalist, of Sonora is at the Cosmopolitan. J. A.Shaw,a Napa County rancher, registered yesterday at the Grand. = B. F. Hartley, a fruit-grower of Auburn, is registered at the Grand. Frank D. Harmon and wife of New York are registered at the Palace. D. G. Bailey and H. A. Bailey of Delavan, IIl., are at the Cosmopolitan. D. Cassasa, one of the big wine-growers of Santa Rosa, is at the Russ. The Rev.J. N. Lemmans of Victoris, B. C., has registered at the Russ, William W. Douglas of Cedar Rapids, Iows, is at the Palace with his wife. A Tim Murphy of “The Texas Steer” company is at the Occidental with his wife. Lew Williams, County Clerk of Stevensville, Montena, is at the Russ for a few days. E. P. Colgan, State Comptroller, is down from Sacramento and is registered at the Lick. L. L. Myers, 2 mining man from North Bloomfield, arrived last night at the Grand. J. L. Hewitt, an insurance man from Spencer, Towa, registered yesterday at the California. J. D. Carr, the wealthy cattleman and poli- tician from Salinas, is steying at the Occi- dental. W. M. Conley of Madera, said to be the youngest Buperior Judge on the benchb, is at the Lick. John Poulson, & business man of Portland, Or., took apartments at the Palace yesterday with his wife. L. Lubelsky, a wholesale furniture dealer and importer of Tacoms, is stopping at the Cosmopolitan, Louis Dean, an extensive raiser of cattle and horses, is d own from Reno, Nev., and has apart- ments at the Russ. Silas Carle, a biz contractor from the State capital, is visiting in town, with his head- quarters at the Lick. L E. L. Rehm, the well-known dry-goods mer. chant of Sonora, Tuolumne County, is stopping at the Cosmopplitan. Thomas R. Minturn, a wealthy property- owner of Minturn, in the Sacramento Valley, has apartments at the Occidental. John F. Harley, representing Henderson's American Extravaganza Company, arrived in the City yesterday and is at the Palsce Hotel. The company will produce “Sinbad’” at the Columbia Theater on Monday evening next, J. McMenamen, a large sheep-raiser in New Zealand who eame up on the Australia for his initial visit to the United States, is at the Russ. He says that there are 20,000,000 sheep on the island of New Zealand, a greater number than on the sheep-raising continent of Australia, English grasses are sown for the eheep and in low lands turnips are sometimes planted for them. They are free from disease except in some localities where the lung-worm exists. The sheep industry 1s growing and prosperous. Eli Upton and wife and Miss Upton of Rochester, N. Y., are at the Palace. Mr. Up- ton was for thirty years interested in the wholesale fruit business, and he says himealf that he has shipped mary Eastern apples into this State. Several ye go he retired from the business a very wealthy man, and is now principally interested in railroads and coal, aithough he has various other enterprises on hand, among them being the Post Express and the Rochester Herald and the lumber and maly business. This is his first visit to California, which he characterizes as “a great, glorious State that needs more than anything else s million more people to help consume its abun- dant products.” Mr. Upton while in Southern California sent many boxes of specially select- ed oranges for free distribution among ac- quaintances in New York State, “for,” he re. marked, ““I want people to see what this grand country can produce,” AROUND THE CORRIDORS. There was & birthday celebration on the steamer Alameda during her run from Hono- lula to San Francisco. Purser J. B. Sutton had attained the respectable age of 50 years, and the passengers were determined to not allow the occasion to pass without some jollifica- tion. A purse was raised and an appropriate preseni is to be purchased in this City for the popular purser. Purser Sutton-has been with the Oceamic Steamship Company for thirteen years. Along with Captain Morse, now retired, Chief Engi- future. One star has been taken from the bot- tom and added to the fifth row, and the addi- tional star required for Utah is placed in the third row. In this manner the first, third and fifth rows each contain eight stars and the sec- ond, fourth and sixth rows seven stars each. ‘When other States are admitted to the Union stars may be added to those rows that will con- tain seven each, and upon the admission of Arizona. New Mexico and Oklahoma the six rows will be complete with eight stars each. It is expected that the present arrangement will not be disturbed by the admission of the three Territories named. | “In the first National flag contatning the thir- teen stars they were arranged in a circle, and the union itself was made square. Butwhen () ¢y ’:\’)‘;-f.\ S (%Y ~A J. B. SUTTON, THE POPULAR PURSER OF THE ALAMEDA, [From & photograph.] neer Little and Chief Steward Clark, they formed the executive of the steamer Alameda when she was taken over from the Cramps by Spreckels Bros. Company in Philadelphia. From that time to this the vessel has never met with & mishap, and she is now oue of the finest steamers trading to Australasia. Before joining the Oceanic Company Mr. Sut- ton was for two years in the service of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and for thir- teen years previous to that on the Pacific Steam Navigation Company’s line running to Panama. Wherever his business has taken him he has been popular, and to-day he ranks as one of the most competent pursers in Cali- fornia. The genial purser says he is good for another twenty years of service and his friends and the traveling public hope his pre- diction will come true. Aege Jespersen and Gustav Moritz Salomon- sen, two wealthy and educated young Danes from Copenhagen, arrived from the East last night and registered at the Palace. They are making an extensive pleasure tour of the world, and are traveling under royal passports issued to them by Christian IX him- self. A month ago they were in Venezuela, which they pronounce on the verge of a revolution owing to the extreme despotism of the Presi- dent, who hasimprisoned many of tiie most re- spected citizens. Only on the day of tneir de- parture from Caracas the editor of the prin. cipal paper was released from jail after three months’ confinement. The people are men- tioning in no guarded way the name of the man they wish to place In the President’s chair. There ares great many Germans 1in Vene- zuela snd some of them hold high office. Nearly every one can speak German. Americans are well liked, but the English are not so kindly received. Whileat San Domingo the President of the island gave a swell luncheon, to which the two travelers were invited. There were 250 guests. 150 of whom were Americans. On February 22 they were in Havana, Cubs, and during their stay made several trips out from the city. They witnessed plantations burning and saw a good many insurgent soldiers, whom they were surprised to find in excellent military organization and not at all the unorganized bands they had supposed from reading the Spanish papers. From San Francisco the pleasure-seekers, with their kodaks, notebooks and sketchbooks, will go to Japan, leaving on the 21st. It is Jespersen’s intention to write & book when he has completed his travels. He was surprised at the size of American newspapers and showed a copy of the leading journal of Covenhagen, a little four-page af- fair without illustrations and well sprinkled all over with advertisements. It had an at- tested ecirculation of 12,000 in a city of 400,000 people. REARRANGEMENT OF THE STARS. An sgreement has been reached by Secre- taries Lamont and Herbert as to the re- arrangement of the stars in the blue field of the United States flag, and the rearrangement has received the approval of the President. This change in the field of the National stand- Vermont and Kentucky came in parallel rows of stars were resorted to, there being three of | them with five stars cach. The rectangular | field and the horizontal rows havealwayssince held favor, although ingenious geometrical devices have at times been proposed, in combi- Dations of circles, diverging rays, and so on; and one bill in Congress wanted them to take the shape of & pansy, with a view to meking that the National flower. - THE SUMMER GIRL. The pretty summer girl Is coming, Coming with the gpri With the early bee she's humming, With the early bird she'll sing. Look! Across the meadow gleaming, See, the grass is growing green ! From the sky the run is beaming, Soft the rifting clouds between. And the Summer Girl 18 looking T'ward the mountain and the sea, New engagements she fs booking, With a grim and savage glee, Hats and ribbons, laces, flowers, All of fashion’s vaguest rumors; Soon amid the fragrant bowers You will see her and her bloomers. ‘What would life be worth witbout her? She’s the center of the whirl. ‘You may scorn or yon may doubt her, Stiil I love the Summer Girl. ‘WiLsoN HUNT STILEs In St. Louls Star. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. It is announced that Yvette Guilbert’s net profits in America were $34,000. Queen Vietoria will wear none but black gloves since her widowhood, and those of only the two-buttoned length. Her Majesty’s glove Dbill for an entire year is less than $100. Within a year Lady Henry Somerset has at. tended 115 meetings and twenty-seven con- ferences, traveled over 8000 miles and spoken in twenty different countries to over 200,000 people. Frofessor Poinacre of Paris, in his studies of the effect of the moon on the meteorology of the earth, has discovered that it hasan influ- ence not only on the production of cyclones but also on their direction. 2 . Dr. Carl Peters, the African explors., who was recently elected president of the German Colonial Assaciation, is about to undertake a new exploration of Somaliland in the inter- estsof a number of wealthy Americans, Cecil Rhodes has such decided anti-matri- matrimonial views that he will not have any but bachelors as members of his private staff, He recently made the announcement that “marriage isa more difficult game than polie tics.” President Faure’s particular fad is the col- lection of autographs. He begen the collection some years ago, and has greatly added to its value since he became President. The collec- tion embraces the signatures of every living sovereign, author, inventor ana actor of im- portance. To have saved over 1000 lives is a somewhat unique experience. This record belongs.to Captain Weiss of the steamship Belgian King, to whom & presentation was made in New- gnderstood in bill-of-fare French)—If ze gentle- man vill talk ze language vat he vas born in, I vill very mooch better understood.—London Tit-Bits. “What can I show you, madam?" said a shop- keeperin the leviathan draper’s. “The way out,” was the reply. “I've been trying to find it2myself for the last ten minutes.’—Alley Sloper. “You must muke & good deal of money jout of this monopoly?” said the new arrival, “Itain’t as big a business as it looks,” said Charon. “It is nearly all deadheads.”—In- dianapolis Journal. May—I hated to refuse him, he’s & charming fellow. Mother—Then why did you? That ugly Miss Spiteful was listening beside the arbor and I wanted to get even with her. = Insurance Superintendent (suspiciously)--How did your husband happen to die o soon after getting insured for a large amount? Widow—He worked himself to death trying to pay the premium.—Texas Siftings. “Ten years ago,” said the contemrvlative gentleman, “I was a bachelor and working for & wife.” “And now?” . “And now I am not only working for my wife, but for her mother and two of her aunts.” He sighed.—Spare Moments. Some years ago the town of Manchester was the scene of ariot, during which the police ‘were in danger of their lives and were afraid to appear in the streets. One day two little urchins saw a burly police- man looking around a corner as if afraid to be geen, when one of them cried out: “Don’t be afraid, mister, we won't touch you!”—Spare Minutes THE FUR SEAL QUESTION. The bill which Congressman Dingley intro- duced last year, which passed the House of Representatives, to be defeated in the Senate through the opposition of Senator Morgan, and which, 1f passed, would have authorized the Government to kill all the fur seal on the islands of Bering Sea, if itcould not make anar- rangement with the British, Russian and Jap- anese Governments to have fur-seal killing suspended for several years' time, bids fair to become a law before the present session of Congress is over. Hon. Charles 8. Hamlin, the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, has taken a great deal of interest in this matter, as the fur seal islands come under the charge of the Treasury Department, and {rom the state- ments recently made by him to the Waysand Means Committee it is evidently his opinion that, unless some such course is taken, it will be impossible to prevent the Canadian pelagic sealers from possessing themselves of practi- cally all that remains of the once enormous herd of fur seal. According 10 the count made last year by the Government officials, the herd that will come this year to the islands of St. Paul and St. George cannot exceed in number 250,000 seal, When one remembers that on the year after Alaska was purchesed {rom the Russian Gov- ernment quite tbis number of seals were cap- tured in & single yeer,and that in 1874, twenty-two years ago, there were, as nearly as could’ be estimated, 5,000,000 fur seals on the two islands, the enormous inroad that has been mede by the destructive methods of kill- ing ndogled by those who have carried on the sealin; 10 be doubted. The interest of England should .be, and probably is, in maintaining the exist- ence of the furseal herds, for the reason that the cleaning, dressing and dyeing of the fur- seal skins give regular employment to 5000 or 6000 people in England who would be thrown out of their occupation by the extermination of these animals. In this respect the English have far more at stake in the matter than we have. If, with this interest and the constant diminution of the fur seal herds, absolute ces- sation of killing cannot be obtained, we had better, as the Dingley bill suggests, make an end of the entire business b; 1ling the re- maining seals, salting their skins and dispos. ing of them whenever the market warrants such action.—Boston Herald. A GIRL'S GOWN. This design is destined to be popular for washgowns, as when made without a lining it launders easily. For dressesof woolen fab- rics & fitted lining is used. It fastens in the back. The yoke may be made seamless and hooked at the shoulder or buttoned in the cen- ter. A figured mohair of brown had a blde silk yoke with embroidered grass-linez in the natural color over it. Blue velvet formed a belt. The collar was of embmidexg. A dress of woolen novelty goods of brown 5!:(:;;19511 had & plain green cloth yoke and a 3 Plain natural-colored linen with yoke of em- broidered linen, with turquoise blue satin or glllve' reen ribbons, mekes a cbarming com- nation. The New United States Flag With the Forty-fifth Star for New State—Utah, [ Recommended by the Secretaries of War and Navy to the President and approved by him, The forty-fifth star is added to the third line.) ard is made necessary by the admiesion of Utah to the Union of States, which adds the forty-fifth star to the flag. Under thie law the new star will not be added until July 4, after which date all flags displayed by the various departments of the Government will contain forty-five stars. In the field of the presentflag there are forty-four stars, arranged in six rows. The top and vottom rows contain eight stars each, snd the four intervening rows contain seven each. The lines are horizontsal, from left to t, and run obliguely from top to bottom. Two changes have been made in the Tearrangement so as to meet the present neces- sity. toprovide for contingencies in the near castle, England, recently. It hes been his good luck to pick up several vessels in distress at sea, including the liner Palmyra, with 850 people on board. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. “Efsome men paid ez much;tention ter bein’ Congressmen,” said Uncle Eben, “ez dey aoes ter bein’ candidates. dar'd be moh statesmen in dis here country.”—Washington Star. French Waiter (in London restaursnt, to Yabsley, who has been trying to make himself ‘The new gayly colored ginghams are pretty, combined w1’th yoke and rnwn sieeves olyh plain color. Colored piquet with white yoke, edged with a ruffle of white embroidery, makes a dressy combination. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. THE TILLMAN PHENOMENON. A BSTUBBORN WARRIOR FULLY ARMED WITH MORE STUBBORN FACTS. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—BIm: After a second attentive reading of Senator Tillman’s speech in full as it was delivered, not in the garbled report of the unfriendly press dispatches, it seems to me that I can do the honest readers of THE CALL & real service Dy calling their serious attention to this phen. omenal lgeech. and I am sure that all who read it as he delivered it will one day thank me for this service. My memory goes back to the time when Lincoin made the speech which made him President, wherein he outlined the impending conflict between the North and South.in the Cooper Institute, New York City— “A House Divided Against ltself Cannot Stand.”” He was less known when he made that speech than Tillman was two months ago when he awoke the Senate and aroused :ge country by a masterly statementof the present impending crisis of the country. Lincoln’s great speech evoked a storm of abuse and personal ridicule from the defenders of slavery in the South, and the “conservative" commercial journals and financial circles of the North quite equal to and quitelike that poured out upen Tillman by goldmongers and their faithful newspapers in the commerciar centers of the north eastern section of our country and in a few places in the old Nort! west. Lincoln was called a “Western boor,” a ‘“rail-splitter,” a “baboon” and like names by ‘‘conservative” journals in the North and pro- slavery journals in the South. Since Tillman “brokeé into the Senate,’as a plain farmer from South Carolina, and used homely terms 1o designate disagreeabie facts, the New. York Times bas editorially named him “a filthy baboon,” the New York Evening Post ‘4 litical anarchist,” and the New York World a “blatherskite.” In g letter to the New York World he challenges these journads to ‘publish his_speech as he delivered it and let their readers judp whether he is “a coarse, brutal lackguard,” as they would have the ‘public believe him to be, but they all declined to pub- lish it. He says: “What other Senators have whispered among themselyes I have spoken aloud, and in plain words,” Thousands of letters assure him that to the people “the ml:qb'l;auly told has & sweet and wholesome * Ivisnomarvel that this notable’ speech by usiness in vessels becomes too evident | uc jllman has gr:::‘;l’y"tnemmalg; b goldmongers servigeable n 1o domand for he speccis 2 .l!.%fll‘,‘]’:&“l'y sien times, evin “ fhe pospisihe S aeiple oot ner ’;523.{.‘;‘.1‘ So unmn%l:l?oguli\;cm m:ys{::?.mgg shrewder men can to-di ear by year resolute goldmongers, who h]:"); o ralsed gained every contention they 3 187, i unorganized riasses since )y :gs‘xfifeitrheonslnugm upon Tillman -x;d thhi; speech instead of quietly suhmerging It in th0 sea of oblivion by the “conspiracy of silence’ usually given to t.hel chrmgg;; : d‘;‘,’:{gfifi 'f 7 form shows how clear profound impression thi Scuth cnoum'fn:hn; orator and plain-speaking -defender of e people’s Government has made upon the coun- try. But they have appar:ntly made l?he take. They have overdone the thing. . onslaught was savage. It Arrested public a R ke’ made an unprecedented demsnd for the speech. Enormous editions of Populist newspapers containing the most ulienzb!ey tures of this two hours’ speech bave been printed and sold_and the demand for it con- tinues to grow. Senator Tillman hlmxeubh;:s finally been compelled to print the speech in {ull,with an appendix, in a pamphletof t“enrly- four pages, which issold at1 centa €opy, ‘;: the Government does not print speeches. only permite Senators and Congressmen Bt[cv frank or send them postage fres. George M. Stackhouse, 26 Maltby building, Wlshingwl’llt D. C., mails the speeches at 1 cent a copy 10 & who apply for them. ‘Bimetallism or Ind\!fi trial Slavery” is the fitle of the s h. All who believe in the iree coinzge of silver wi find this speech more effective than any other publieation ever issued. Readers of the daily newspapers will be sur- prised when they get this great speech as Till- man delivered if. The dignity, honesty, vigor and clearness of the language he used will at once arrest attention. The absence of rant and coarse abuse will be in marked contrast with what the gold-loving newspapers have led them to expect. Ordinary readers will use rougher words in commenting on the speech as they read it than Senator Tillman used. In fact, they will won- der that he did not use harder words when he so fully understood ‘the situation, which he sets forth with so much vividness. On reading the speech®the second time I marked a number of graphic passages which I intended to copy in making this brief review of it, but the limits of this little “letter” will not permit it. To do these passages justice too many words of the context are needed and they hag to be omitted. 1 can only add that this speech by Tillman marks an epoch. No man with any real love of country can afford to forego & candid perusal of this speech, no matter which ticket he intends to vote next November. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, San Francisco. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ 1b. Townsend's.* ———————— STANDARD paper patterns and Delineator for April. Domesgic S. M. office, 1021 Market st. * EPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Monfgomery, * Spring Opening 0f fine millinery, latest importation, prices to suit the _times, Wednesday, March 18, and fol- lowing days. Adcock, 10 Kearny street. % I First Woman—I was suffering untold agony. Second Woman—Dear me! what did you do for it? First Woman—Oh, 8 neighbor happened in just in the niek of time, and I told her.—De« troit Tribune. THE benefits to be derived from a good medicine in early spring is undoubted. To purify the blood, overcome that tired feeling and gain strength take Hood's Sarsaparilla. CoRONADO.—Atmosphere ; perfectly dry, sof and mild, and is entirely freé from the mists com- mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam- ship, including fifteen days’ board at the Hotel del Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 60 perday. Apply 4 New Montgomery st., San Francisco. e e “Any amusement in this town to-night?” asked the stranger, “I reckon there’s going to be s lecture,” re- plied the grocery man. “I've been selling eggs allday.”—Atlanta Constitution. NEW TO-DAY. 1 Red Letter Days.” There is a difference in Dressing-bureaus. Some are made to match suits—some are not. This one is not. We bought them to go with metal bedsteads—first- rate for that. Just as a ‘“‘Red Letter Day” ‘sample i l(:dool select oak, sawed 50 as to show the rich sol!’shlefl. : ery large mirror—d beveled. Carvings all hand '0:;.” 12 is all we have of this style. You'd be surprised to see how few 12 really is—during “‘Red Letter Days.” One thing sure they won'’t last long at $22. 2 0Odd Washstands. Several hundred odd wash- stands—some out of $150 and $200 suits (a great many people buy only bedstead and bureau —you can see how they accum- ulate)—your pick of the lot, $5. Some In polished oak Some in i’:xlu mahogany Some in golden —most any wood you want, any style you want—$5. Best sell first, of course. Carpets . Rugs . Mattings CALIFORNIA FURNITURE COMPANY (N. P. Cole & Co.) 117-123 Geary Street.