The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 22, 1896, Page 20

CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and P{Dpfltlflr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Pefly and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..£0.18 x "ALL, one year, by mail "ALL, six months, by mail. Sunday CALL, one 3 WEEKLY CALI, 0D BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, i San Francisco, California. £ elephone ....Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. felephone....... eere Main—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 630 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open uatll #:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open uptil 9:80 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. W corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open aetli 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 0'clock. 118 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 3: THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e ————————————————————————— Men who take things as they come often take big chances. Osman Digma is famous again, and every old thing is reviving, The dervishes call ita holy war, but to the Egyptians it will be a holy terror. re ismnot always a head or a tail toa D ocratic question, but there are always 1wo sides. bout as soon as a Democrat is men- tioned for the Presidency he steps on a banana peel. It is not certain whether the adminis- tration thinks it is serving the country or making use of it. There is no soft snap in colonizing Af- , for whichever road you take you find a lion in the path. Itis very hard to make diplomacy move days, but the force of circum- is doing it. ugh truth upposed to be colorless re are always a good many people to whom it looks blu If the world is to be a prize cake for the fellow who says least and saws most wood the Czar will take it. To the Italians the Nile expedition is the finest diversion the theater of war has afforded for a long time. Eastern people are complaining that | March is full of the contrariety of hot poli- | voted to censure ion of the truth that all parties. If Bayard wishes a vindication he had better come home and get his Democratic friends to run him for President. The British exped no definite end in view never stop unt n up the Nile has and will probably ody stops it. British Liberals w tion with suspicion, and that is exactly the kind of watching it needs most. In following Gordon's footsteps up the Nile the British runa b his example and losing their heads. General Weyler will not resign, for while the situation in Cuba may not be satisfac- | tory the position and salary are agreeable. There is no reason why silver should not gain friends in the East as silver itself is just as friendly to that section asto any other. There is now a demand for Congress to pass a National game law to protect the American eagle from the snap hunters of the effete East. Democratic peacemakers have great dif- ficulty in deciding whether it wouala be better to bring the factions of the party to- gether or keep them apart. Perhaps Chauncey Depew can teach us all how to make an after-dinner speech, and then again perhaps we have some men who can teach him a little. 5 If the Senate was too hasty at first in actinz on the Cuban question it is cer- tainly too slow now. Thereissuchathing as deliberating without dawdling. A little while ago Mrs. Lease set up as a preacher and now she has returned to politics again, thus showing a tendency to stick to her first love instead of her last. In submitting to our intervention in Venezuela the British refuse to have it called arbitration, but they are perfectly willing to compromise and call it square. Congress should make no distinction be- tween master and man in dealing with the administration and having now censured Bayard it should next censure Cleveland. It seems to be the ambition of Senator Sherman this winter to show his colleagues that he is not too cold and cautious to get hot and hasty if they rub him the wrong way. In the glow of our weather it is difficult to realize that at this season people are perishing in blizzards in some ‘sections of the East, but that is what March means ever there. A New York doctor asserts that big sleeves are a fruitful cause of pneumonia, but even if Dame Fashion should hear of it she would only go on her way langhing in ber sleeve. Itisan easy prediction that American ingenuity wil! devise a good car-fender just as soon as the car companies show any real desire to have one and a willing- ness to pay for rope have consented The powers of that England shall defray the costof the | Nile expedition out of the Egyptian treas- ury, but that consent may yet cost her more than the war would have done. As the garment-makers of Chicago have won their strike snd returned to work the danger that the boys would have to wear old puff sleeves for trousers this spring is over, ana the affair has reached a fitting close. Manderson of Nebraska is reported to bave said that McKinley and Reed would beat oneanother in the convention and the nomination would be given to either “‘Sena- tor Allison, Senator Davis or myself,” and now they call bim “Modesty Manderson.” | Itis by reason of such charges as these Cile expedi- | sk of imitating | A TALE FROM THE SEA. As the stars m their courses fought againet Sisera, so the waves of the sea rise up to bear witness against that great hea- then—the monopoly. In another column we publish a letter written by an official of the Southern Pacific Company giving an account of a little business transaction of that company. This letter was thrown into the sea that it might be destroyed, for there was in it the statement of a profit worse than Jonah, but the ocean waxed | wroth at the desecration of its waters and indignantly burled the letter back to land again. This letter rejected of the sea we com- mend to the reading of the general public. In it an official of the Southern Pacific Company states in plain terms that the company charged and received $1586 in return for a service for which it would have been grossly exorbitant to charge $500. Isitany wonder the ocean refused to take into its bosom and hide any such outrageous trade secret as that? Thbe Pacific hasnothing in common with the monopoly that has so insolently usurped its name. It can tolerate the sea serpent, the octopus and the hogfish, but it cannot tolerate Mr. Huntington's business accounts. Such records. would indeed, the multitudinous seas desecrate. They would blacken the translucent green of the far-rolling billows, and in place of milky foam would crown their surging crests with a scum like that of the bilge- water that lies in the foul recesses beneath the holds of rotting ships. There is something like the hand of an avenging Nemesis in the power that brings this letter from the sea back to the people of California at this juncture. It would have been exorbitant, says the officer of the comvany, to charge $500 for the ser- vice, and yet the charge was $1586. It is not strange that of the books and records of the business of this company some were buried, some are hidden and some were thrown into the abysses of the ocean. that palaces on Nob Hill are raised, foreign princes subsidized, African railrodds pro- moted, while all the time the company re- mains too poor to pay its debts, its interest dues or its taxes. “I can call spirits from the vasty deep,” said Owen Glendower proudly, but he was silenced when Hotspur asked him “Will they come?” In this case they have come. Though the Soathern Pacific Company thought they had sunk this record deep as ever pilummet sounded it has come up to torment them. *“We have received $1536 for this service, and it would have been grossly exorbitant to charge $500 for it.” That is the way the official told it, and, when the record was thrown to the sea, the spirit of the vasty deep rose up un- called and gave it to the world. THE QAEKLAND HARBOR. The people of Oakland have abundant reason to rejoice over the notice issued by Colonel Charles R. Sutter that the Secre- tary of War proposes to consolidate the Webster-street and Alice-street draw- bridges over the Oakland estuary, and to erect a modern steel bridge in their place with a draw of 150 feet operated otherwise than by hand. This means that the stub- born obstacles which the Southern Pacific Company oppose to the free use of the estuary for water traffic are to be abolished. Should the Supreme Court sustain the de- cision by Judge Ogden awarding the water front to Oakland the victory of the city will be complete and its commercial im- portance assured. The General Government at last seems to | have been awakened to the splendid har- bor facilities of San Francisco Bay. There | | can be little doubt that under the pressure being brought to bear by the San Fran- cisco Chamber of Commerce Congress will make an appropriation for the removal of unken rocks dangerous to navigation. The State of California is ably and intelii- gently doing its part in developing the best efficiency of the harbor, as it is steadily constructing a seawall on the San Fran- cisco side and is beginning the erection of | a superb ferry building at a cost of $600,000. The benefits which California would re- | ceive irom the improvement of the harbor | and the encouragement of shipping are of | minor importance when compared with ! the great national interests involved. This bay is one of the most interesting sheets of water in the world. The greater | part of 1t is shoal and unfit for navigation, | but all that is required for commerce is for- tunately self-dredging through the action of the tides, and hence can never shoal and will never require heavy expenditures for keeping it in perfect condition. It would be better if the broad stretch of water in | the southern end were converted into land, leaving such needful channels as ‘those fo the various shipping points all the way around from Oakland to Baden. The marshes bordering the bay constitute in themselves an empire, and in good time they will be reclaimed and devoted to agri- culture, to assist in maintaining the dense population that must line the shore in the years to come. It is not difficult to foresee the time when this splendid bay, backed as it is by the most fertile country in the Union and con- stituting the entrepot of the United States for the trade of the Orient, will se2 its shore lined with great cities of whieh tho:e already in existence are hardly a begine ning. No transient hindrances to transpore tation can op erate against this destiny. THE WORLD'S UNREST. Something has occurred of late to make the civilized world restless, uneasy and discontented and to threaten disturbances of every kind, from diplomatic interpella- tions and quarrels to actual war, At the present moment there is no nation in Europe which can promise itself assured peace for the next decade, and even the United States, having always in mind the warning of Washington against entangling alliances, finds itself necessarily compli- cated with the affairs of the Western Hem- isphere and called upon to make the Mon- roe doctrine an absolute entity in place of a mere political abstraction. That apart, however—for this country can take care of itself—the condition of Europe is such as to cause serious appre- hension to any one who beliéVes in peace in preference to war and who maintains | the proposition that only as a last resort should there be an appeal to arms. To | such a one, studying the question from an { outside standpoint, looking at interna- tional differences and disputes with a dis- passionate eye, there can be neither logic, reason nor good sense in the probability of a general European war, and yet the fact of such’a thing stares every one 1n the face who studies the existing condition of affairs. Assuming, then, as we must, that there exists a feverish condition, a state of gen- eral unrest, an intense and continually ex- aggerated international jealousy and rivalry, it becomes a matter of interest to inquire into causes and reasons and to find out, if we can, why, in this sge of the world, and with all the material ad- vances and improvements of which we boast, the civilized world shoun!d be dis- contented, unhappy, miserable and pov- erty-stricken, and why socialism and its 'HE SA base-born brother anarchy shouid make such rapid strides and come so near over- taking the rule of law and order. For this state of things a great many causes have been suggested. ‘One urges overproduction; but how can such & thing be when Kansas and Ne- braska farmers are burning their corn for fuel, while in Southeastern Europe people are starving for want of cereal food of any sort? Another declares that the trouble is that the rich are grow- ing richer and the poor poorer; but that has been so since the world began. The prudent and thrifty have made themselves well to do at the expense of the im- provident, and such will be the case &s long as the world lasts. There is some- thing more behind all this, which, if it can be discovered and explained, will furnish a solution for the unrest which the world is feeling at the present day; and, ifa conjecture may be ventured, it will be found in the vexed question of money— that is, metallic money, considered as a medium of exchange. ‘Whatever may have been said upon the subject, an era of contraction of the currency means -hard times, and an era of inflation means good times. It is true that inflation may be car- ried to excess—that there may be made extravazant promises to pay which it will take a generation to redeem—but none the less it is true that, as between inflation and contraction, the former produces the better results, and puts the body politic into a healthier and more active condi- tion. The United States, with all its vast resources, is suffering from a policy of contraction, which is not only unpardon- able and inexcusable, but almost crim- inal; and when the history of this Nation | comes to be -written, in due time, the record of the Cleveland administration will stand out asa stain upon our banner and as an adjunct to the misrule and con- fusion which mark the history of civiliza- tion at the close of the nineteenth century. AN 0DD COMMUNITY. An uncommonly interesting proposition has reached the California State Board of Trade from a representalive of a number of deaf mutes in Iowa. It is that if a suitable place can be found in this State the deaf mutes will settle it in colony. The naive letter which the deaf mute has written for information contains this para: graph: “We must be near a running stream and on & soil naturally adapted to the raising of corn.” The colonists would like also to engage in gardening to some extent. The cheerfulness, industry and sweet- ness of temper generally possessed by deaf mutes make them bhighly desirable as settlers. In colony they would be much better off than in the hearing of the speak- ing world, for in such association they would suffer under no disadvantage what- ever. Their natural sociability could be gratified better in this way than any other. And where could they find keener en- joymentand prosperity than in California? Being intelligent and eager readers they | could inform themselves of the best methods of agriculture peculiar to this State, and their infirmity would in no sense burden their ability to secure the best possible results from the industry. As most of them have be:n educated in some useful craft they could form an ideal colony able to supply all its own wants and sell their surplus products. By planting canaigre, which has already been proved to yield marvelous crops in this State, they could produce tanning material and thus establish the complete industry of tanning hides and manufacturing shoes. A large number of them are expert broom- makers. Our soil produces bounteous har- vests of broomcorn. Claus Spreckels is offering to give sugar-best seed to all who will cultivate the plant, Such a colony as that here suggested might make a fortune out of that enterprise. Thus established they could have the best possible facilities for educating deaf mutesand converting them into producing citizens. All who cannot hear and speak would be attracted by such a colony, and hence the community might be expected to grow with great rapidity and its mem- bers to flourish as they never have flour- ished before. They would be removed from the disturbing influences which tend to sow discord in communities of speaking persons. They would be so wel! equipped for supplying all their own needs that the uncomfortable resulis of mingling with the outside world would be avoidea and increased content and prosperity would, ensue. It is hoped not only that the Board of Trade'will give the matter serious atten- tion, but aleo that the deaf mutes at pres- ent in the State will interest themselves and aid in the establishment of the happi- est colony in the world. SOME PREGNANT FACTS. During the first eighteen months of its active operation the revenues derived under the Wilson-Gorman tariff were $75,- 000,000 less than the running expensesof ihe Government, and nearly $100,000,000 less than the revenue received from cus- toms duties during the first eighteen months of the McKinley tariff. Under the McKinley tarift there was im- vorted into this country during the year 1894 about §65,000,000 worth of staple arti- cles of farm produce, but in 1895, under tbe present tariff, the imports of such products aggregated $134,000,000, repre- senting a loss to the American farmer of about $70,000,000 in a single year. i It is not possible to escape the obvious conclusion from such facts as these. The Democratic party, appealing chiefly to the farmer on the ground that a protective tariff worked to the detriment of his in- terests, has deliberately bunkoed him, taken money out of his pocket and put it into the coffers of Canada, Central and South America, France, Germany, Spain and Italy, and yet demands that the American farmer shall still vote the Demo- cratic ticket, aid in retaining a poor, inefficient and ridiculous tariff and take his chances in that great and glorious future of which the free-trader dreams, when the gospel of cheapness shall be the only rule of action for the civilized world. 1f there be any State in the Union which is or should be logically and consistently protectionist it is California, We cannot conceive of a Californian industry, unless it be gold mining, which does not demand the fair and just vrotection: of the laws against undue foreign competition. Agri- culture, horticulture and manufactures, with the vast amount of labor tbey in- volve, must be protected against cheap foreign production or they must go to the wall. When it costs only about one-third as much to transport raisins from Malaga to New York as from Fresno to New York;: when oranges can be brought from Italy and compete on more than even terms with the product of Bouthern California, and when free wool has more than deci- mated our flocks and herds, it is time for the people of California to do some think- ing for themselves, and we may be assured that they, in common with the rest of the United States, will not neglect the oppor- tunity which the Presidential and Con- gressional elections of the present year offer them, The time is fully ripe fora FRANCISCO CALL; -SUNDAY, ' MARCH 22, return to the regime of a wise and en- lightened policy of protection, and No- vember next will see the free-trade fallacy swept ‘away and buried beneath a monu- ment of ballots 30 completely that it can- not be resurrected for half a century. e PERSONAL. J. W. Drysdale of Nevada is at the Lick. G. G. Kimball of Red Bluff is at the Palace. R. P. Helmbold of Portland, Or., is in town. Colonel P. C. Rust of New Jersey is on a visit here. Arthur J, Garesche of Havana, Cubs, is at the Palace. 5 J. E. Dickeman, an sttorney of Newport, Vt., is in the City. Superior Judge A. P. Overton of Santa Rosa is in the City. -Dr. H. W. Fenner of Tucson, Ariz., arrived here yesterday. George Young of Victoris, B. C., is at the Cosmopolitan. C. F. Miiton of Eauclaire, Wis., is stopping at the Cosmopolitan. F. W. Dewey, a business man of Spokane, Wash., is at the Cosmopolitan. W. J. Hotchkiss, owner of & large cannery at Healdsburg, is on a visit here. Thomas Jones, a general store proprietor of Henley, Siskiyou County, is here. J. M. Rowe -of Portland, who owns ma- chine shops there, is at the Grand. B Ellsworth Daggett, a business man of Salt Lake City, arrived here yesterday. Charles B. Bier of the firm of Rinaldo Bros. & Co. has left on a trip to Europe. Daniel Hawks of Greeley, Colo., who has come to California on a pleasure trip, is at the Lick. William Bryan, a wealthy resident of Hous- ton, Tex., is at the Grand, accompanied by his wife. H. Hershfeld, a business man of Bakersfield, who is interested in mining in Kern County, is in the City. Theodore Giaves, who owns thousands of acres of fine grazing and farming land near Gonzales, is at the Russ. Henry C. Grady, United States Marshal for Oregon, arrived here yesterday from Portland and is at the Occidental. United States Marshal N. A. Cavarrubias of the Southern District of California arrived here yesterday from Los Angeles. James Cross, superintendent of the Hobart Estate Company, and well known in mining circles, 1s reported seriously ill. A. A. Fuller, manager of the Mutual Life In- surance Company of Massachusetts at Port- land, Or., is at the Cosmopolitan. George L. Tracy, a leading banker of Helens, Mont., and interested in a number of mines, is among the guests of the Occidental. E. C. Rutherford, THE CALL'S correspondent at Sacramento, is visiting this City. Mr. Ruth- erford considers Sacramento the liveliest news- paper town in California. A. Jones, the pioneer rancher and extensive business man of San Luis Obispo County, is at the Russ. He is one of the largest owners of land in that part of the State. Richard W. McCreedy, the president of the New York Life Insurance Company, New York, is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife and a number of friends. His trip to California is said to be for pleasure. George 8. Nixon, the banker, of Winnamucea and proprietor of the Winnemucca Silver State, is at the Palace. Mr. Nixon is creditea with being the founder of the Sflver party, and in this he takes much pride. He is here for a stay of several days. E. C. Clark of Chicago, who is interested in | putting up great ovens in different timber regions for the purpose of drying lumber, so that it may be immediately used, is at the Russ, He has been making a tour of Washing- ton and Oregon, where some of the big drying ovens have been put up. Each one dries about 20,000 feet of lumber a day. He says that green lumber welghing 3300 pounds to the 1000 feet may be reduced to 1800 pounds, and that when shipping is done by rail and by ‘weight the difference amounts to a great deal. CALIFORNIANS IN. NEW YORK: NEW YORK, N. Y., March 21.—Among recent arrivals are: C. Postman, Broadway Central; N. Hutchinson, Mrs. H.T. Scott, Holland; J. W. Eisenhnth, F. Holmer, Broadway Central; H. McDonnell, Grand; E. 8. Rothschild and wife, Savoy; A. Powell, Plaza. AN EVERY.DAY EVENT. T've aletter in my pocket That 1 would not, conld not show, Forits dainty superscription Was indited long ago. And the dimpled hand that penned it Was a hand I used to bold, When we spooned among the shadowa Of the summer days of old. She became my wite soon afteny . And, npon oir wedding day, Handed me s little letter, Saying, »Post it right away.” 801 put it in my packet, With a vow to mail it soon But I had much to remember On that busy day In June. And to-day my clothing-cleaner, With an air of mystery, Brought a pack: to my office To be opened sécretly. Heis married. in the package, ¥ Soiled and marred with crease and blot, With its dainty superseription, . 'Was the letter I forgot. —Chicago Record. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. WHY GO TO ALASKA? THERE ARE TONS OF GOLD IN THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: It seems strange that men will rush away to to the northern wilds—almost to the Arctic re- gions—in a most disagreeable climate in search for gold, and ignore the great, prolific and to & large extent unprospected and unde- veloped gold fields of our own glorious State. California has produced more than $1,000,- 000.000 in gold, and were half the energy and half the capital employed in gold mining in the vast unexplored gold fields of the State that is being done in Alaska, Colorado, Africa or Austraiia, the results would surpass any- thing ever known in the world. The develop- ment of the thousands of auriferous quartz lodes throughout the great gold belt of Cali- fornia—the same being the source of the rich placers heretofore worked—wonld result in a yield of gold that would make the ‘““days of '49" seem like a very tame affair. The writer spent nearly twenty vears along the Rocky Mountains and several. ye 1 British Columbia—Kootenay, Cariboo, Cassiar and American districts—and has spent only one year in California. Yet in that brief tinfe he has beheld geological facts YN\‘B\S Califor- nia the most profitable gold-m! nlnf region on the continent. Isay, Why go to Alaska when milifons may be obtained near home? Is Alaskan gold better than California gold? Not so at the United States Mint. It all goesat $20 67 per ounce (1000 fine), and 1t appears loily tome that men will roam the northern wilds after gold when far more can be obtained in our own genial climate—right here in Cali- fornia—the most vrolific and exteasive gold belt the world has ever known. As a practical prospector I can go into the .iountains of Cali- lornia and discover & good-paying quartz lode (I'have done so) every week during ten months in the year, free milling ore going $10 to $100 per ton, while in Trinity and Siskiyou counties the writer knows of thousands and tens of thousands of acresof rich gravel beds where hydraulic mining can be done (and is being dcne) to immense profit. There are miilions init! and, after many years gold mining else- | where, the writer must say California gs still aud will remain the best field for profitable mining to be found on. the great continent of North America. I venture to say that Richard Willoughby of Junean (Alaska) lnd Dan de Quille of Virginia City (Nev.) will contirm my opinion about gold mining in California, and that is, if we must have gold, it is most. prnflub]s to “aig” it ont of the “‘Golden State,” and not rush off to the Yukon in the snow or to Coolgardie in the desert, but stay with California. CHARLES F. BLACKBURN, M. E. San Francisco, March 21, 1896. Kindness to Children. Santa Clara News. Bob Ingersoll says many mean things, but most of us will agree with him when he says that if your child must get up early in the morning, it is as easy to awaken him with a kissasa club. Couldn’t Stop It. San Jose Mercury. The Southern Pacific Company of Kentucky l.:'l‘le :e: z(th l;nomgi%mudelet:dln Im brazen pt to prevent the Valley road from pass- 1ng through the city of Fresno. - o2 896. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. J. R. Murray, who for twenty-one years has been living in the Indian Valley, Plumas County, is at the Russ. Heis en route to his old home in Nova Scotia, which he has not vis- ited since he first came to California. For & long time past Mr. Murray has been in the general merchandising and other business at Greenville. He has also given a good deal of attention to mining. “There is no snow in the Indian Valley now,” he said. ‘‘It is a singular condition of affeirs. To see the ground absolutely bare, as it is there, is a phenomenon.. Plumas is a singular county, but attractive in more ways than one. “Over in the Big Meadows, the south end of which is but twelve miles from Indian Valley, Isuppose there is more fine fish than inany key is valued at $1,000,000. One of the soup turyecns' isof 18 karat!fineness, and is studded with emeralds and turquoises. Professor Calvin Thomas, better known as «Tommy” to the students at the University of Michigan, has succeeded H. H. Boyesen as pro- fessor of the Germanic languages and litera- ture at Columbia. The Shah of Persia has accepted an invita- tion to be present at the coronation of the Czar, and will be accompanied on his visit by the heir apparent, whom he will take this op- portunity of presenting at the Russian court. In one of Byron’s letters sold in London the other day oceurs this passage: “I am living alone in the Franciscan monastery, with one friar (4 Capuchin, of course) and one frier (a . R. MURRAY,V WHO HAS ARRIVED FROM THE INDIAN VALLEY. [Sketched from life by a “Cal’ artist.] other part of Californis. The North Fork of the Feather River puts in there. It is literally alive with trout and other kinds of fish. “In the distance are lofty mountains, whose jagged tips seem to reach the sky. . “About Greenville there is now considerable activity in both quartz and drift mining. A Boston company has telegraphed there that it will take one of the largest gravel properties. The syndicate had an examination made of 1t some time ago. “There are four other gravel properties that have also been bonded, and by Boston capitsl- ists. They sent five men to expert the proper- ties early in January, and they stayed a week. Itis said that these properties are alsosold.” Mr. Murray expects to be absent several weeks. FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. The Dividing Line. San Jacinto Register. ‘When the average amateur becomes con- vinced that he doesn’t know it all he ceases to be an amateur. To Quell the Riot. Los Angeles Times. X If Spain persists in her warike attitude it may be necessary for us to call out several companies of miiitia. About Time. Tulare Register. It is about time that the Southern Pacific Company dropped politics to attend strictly to business of railroading. Makes Great Claims. Fresno Populist. There is nothing little about C. P. Hunting- ton. He claims that seven-eighths of the news- papers of the State favor refunding of the railroad indebtedne: Bring Prosperity by Voting Right. Alameda Tele gram. Those who have an interest in the commu- nity mustshare in the political burdens and show themselves at the primaries and go into the voting-booths. ‘Wars and Rumors of Wars. Alameda Argus. There is great unrest among the nations of the earth. This may p"“? the readjust- ment of the maps and the extensive revision of the political geographies. Stay on the Farm. Colusa Sun. Just think of importing more than a million and a half dollars’ worth of beans and peas! Until we export all these things in large quan- titiés noyoung man ought to think of leaving the farm for any rut'in the city. Deserving of Praise. Stockton Graphic, If there is a metropolitan newspaper in the Uaited States that deserves more honest praise than the San Francisco CALL we would be pleased to receive a copy of it. THE CALL is decidedly the cleanest, neatest and newest sheet on this coast, and is rapidly ingratiating {tself into the hearts of the reading people of the country. The Interstate Commerce Law. Woodland Mall. All practical good that the interstate com- merce law was designed to accomplish has heretofore been choked out of it by the decis- ions of the lower courts to the effect that a wit- ness, such as a railroad superintendent, freight agent or any one in chargeof rallroad secret work by way of combines and other violations of the law, could not be compelled to give evi- dence of the same because itmight criminate him, S PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. The Empress of Austria walks twelve miles daily in the open air. A male attendant ac- companies her, reading Homer aloud in Greek. A Sister of Charity is the first woman to re- ceive a decoration in Holland. She was made & Knight of the Order of Nassau-Orange by the two Queens of Holland. The gold table service of the Sultan of Tur- bandy-legged Turkish cook‘)." This letter sold for §60. LADY'S WAIST WITH POINTED YOKE. 'Yoke effects are to be seen in the handsom- est as well as in simple waists. The design shown here is after one of the best models, and is suitable for waists of wash dresses, for extra waists of silk, chiffon or crepe. It makes up charmingly in crepon, with a plain skirt, mak- Ing the full portion of the waist of chiffon over a bright color or fancy silk. Foran evening waist, pink silk for the linipg, with chiffon over the sleeves, and for the tucked portions of the waist, is exquisite with_jet, or heavy piece lace for the yoke. Thin materials, like organ- dies, siik, muslins, etc., made up besuti. fully aftor'this model. A very elaborate waisi of this sort made by edging the tucks with narrow Valenciennes lace. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. “Apparently there is no use for horses in these days of electric-cars, bicycles and horse- less carriages,” remarked McSwilligen. “Oh, that's nct so,” replied Squildig. “Stnce they commenced to slaughter horses and can them for focd we can still haye them in our midst.”—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Mamma (Sundey morning)—Now, Johnny, Iwantyou to tell me where you were yester- day afternoon. Your shoes are in a terrible condition and your trousers are mud up to the waistband. Johnny—Didn't you tell me, mamma, that I should not talk about week-lay matters on Sabbath?-Boston Transeript. Sy Wiggles—Watson is one of the ablest men I know. 3 Waggles—What makes you think so? Wiggles—Well, for one thing, he alwuys keeps & supply of two or three dozen collar buttons gfir:nl\:]gem: ‘when hte lg:e- one under the never pauiLie ooy stops to hunt for it.—Somer- He knows not what h Unless 'tis office pelt: He started runnin in the war And just can’t stop himselt. running for, Andif at last on pathways rough An office blockea his way He couldn’t slack bis speed enough To bid ghe thing “Good day. ” —Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution, “No,” protested Adam, “‘that1s absurd upon face of it. Notall sin began with me. I o":: prove thatl didn’t originate the mother- in-law joke.'—Detroit Tribune. «The weather is very trying to everybody,” d the physician. S reas replied Mr. “Meekton. “I don’t sce how my wife is going to bear up under it .| When the sun doesn’t shine- it gives her the blues and when it does she says it’s fading the carpet.”—Waskington Star. . — AMSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Jacksox Is*CuamproN—J. F.and W. T, City. Under Queensberry rules, as explained n Tne CALL recently, Peter Jackson is the champion of the world. THE TweEN1Y-NINtH—C. T., City. A person born on the 29th of February has an anniver- sary of birth but once in four years. MAX 1§ THE Box—S., City. The trick known as the man in the box, performed by sleight-of- hand performers, is their secret, nng they do not telfiaow “the wonder is worked.’ NaTIONAL CoNxveNTIONs—J. K., Mills College, Cal. The delegates to the National conven- tions' are named by the State convention, two from each Congressional Disiwrict and some at large. PATENTS—G. M. 8., City. An individual can ‘make a personal application for & patent upon ayment of the fees required, but the process s o complex that before he gets through, and he will be lucky 1f he does so without making 8 blunder, he will wish he had secured the ser- vices of a first-class patent agent. CALIFORNIA ToBacco—C, C. P., Manchester, Mendocino County, C: Culp of San Felipe, wrowe & work on tobacco culture in California, but it has never been published; there is a market for California-grown tobacco, its price depends upon the quality; California- raised Jeaf is found to be good for wrappers for cigars. BENEFICIARY SOCIETIES—C. T.,City. Not hav. ing the by-laws of the beneficiary society it is not possible to tell how far the society has a right to glter its laws as to sick benefits, but a recent decision affecting beneficiary societies holds that a society has a right at any time to ‘make such alterations as will result in benefit to the majority of the members, though & few may suffer. 5000 chocolaie cream eggs. Townsend's. * The Duck-Hunter. Los Gatos Mall. The brutal Spaniards outraging women and girls and shooting young, inoffensive boys. The American people are filled with horror at these atrocities and their Congress has ex- pressed the utmost sympathy with the ra- triots, and President Cleveland—is shooting ducks. E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street. - — e o —— How ¥ree Trade Affects Wool. Ventura Free Press. Free trade in wool has about bankrupted the sheepmen in this country. It has discouraged sheep-owners, who have driven their flocks to the slaughter-house by thousands, thus aban- doning the business and reducing the wool product in no smail amount. —————— LiseraL discount on eatable Easter eggs to churches and Sunday-schools. Townsend’s, * ——————————— About 150 letters awaited Dr.Jameson on his arrival at Plymouth, England. Many of them contained offers of marriage. One was from a lady of good position, who asserted that her friends considered her still handsome, but she was the mother of two marriagesble daughters, and she informed Dr. Jameson that he could have his choice of the three, ————————————— STRANGERS, take home Townsend’s California glace fruits. 50c 1b. 627 Market st.,Palace Hotei* —————— EPECTAL informasion daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Prasi Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —————— Gives Nothing in Return. Los Angeles Express. It has probably been demonstrated to the complete satisfaction of every one not too blind to see facts as they are that free trade is a bad thing for the manufacturer and his employe, because while it takes from him the control of his home market it gives him nothing in re- turn. THE Impurities which have accumulated In the body during the winter must be expelled. one needs a good spring medicine like Hood -aur- saparilla, the one true blood purifier. —————————— No well regulated household should be without a bottle of Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters, the celebrated appetizer. ——————— Ir afflicted with sore eyes uss Dr. Isaao Thomp- son’s Eye Water. Druggists sell It at 25 cents. TRE s e Cormorant Among Nations. Stockton Record. John Buil is now taking advantage of Italy’s repulse in Africa to excuse new operations in Egypt. This cormorent among nations will one day get sucli a rebuke that her warehips Will be of little avail to protect her. 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