The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 23, 1896, Page 6

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MARCH 23, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. ————————————————————— In the eyes of the average politician the only platform worth fighting for is the pie counter. The Southern Pacific managers will not trust their records to the sea any more. It is safer to burn them. As the time draws nearer to bounce Cleveland the spirit of sweet content in- creases among the people. Before England gets through with this thing she may find that the Nile bears a close resemblance to Salt River. Making a home market for home goods was strictly business last year, but this year it is both business and politics. By some strange oversight the Illinois Democrats go right along neglecting to put Mr. Altgeld to the front as a favorite son. We will stand a better chance to get bet- ter coast defenses and a better navy when we have a“better tariff to yield a better revenue. Up to date no Democrat has had a Presi- dential boom that is worth half asmuch to a politician as a small clerkship in a rev- enue office. —_— If the worst comes to the worst at the Chicago convention the Democrats can make a ticket of Bayard and Morton and run them for vindication. The trouble with the Democratic tariff is that it is has put a deadly cinch on American industry for the sake of giving free trade.to European imports. Charging $1586 for a service which it would be grossly exorbitant to charge $500 for was certainly a good illustration of putting on all the traffic would bear. The Democratic panic has passed away, but the Democratic tariff is still with us, and as a consequence Europe supplies us with goods while our own mills are idle. Many of our great men went through hard times in their early days, but the ex- perience of Matt Quay seems to have been the hardest of all. He was once a school- teacher in Texas. Judge Grosscup of Illinois is quoted as saying “expert testimony in Chicago is largely on the market” and as a result there has grown up a newspaper demand that the kind on the market shall be kept off the witness-stand. Texas wool-growers who voted the Dem- ocratic ticket are now trying to reason out the logic of excluding Chinese labor from competing with American labor and at the same time allowing Chinese wool to be im- ported free of duty to compete with Amer- ican wool. After much discussion and long delay the postoffices of New York and Brooklyn are about to be connected by pneumatic tubes and perhaps with as much discus- sion and after as long delay we might get a similar communication between San Francisco and Oakland. According to an estimate made by the American Economist the live stock on our farms was worth in January, 1896, under the Gorman tariff $733,529,594 less than it was worth in 1892 under the Republican tariff. This is one of the reasons farmers will vote for protection this year. In expressing surprise that the disasters resulting from the free trade experiment have not caused a single Democrat of any note to come over to the ranks of protec- tion the Boston Journal overlooks the fact that all of them have been too much para- lyzed to crawl out from under the debris. While some people assert that Cleveland is supporting Olney for the Presidency and others declare he is backing Carlisle, Sen- ator Gorman is reported to have said to a friend that Cleveland would help nobody as he desired the place for himself and if he could not get it he would not care who did. People who believe that horseless car- riages will soon be in general use in this country argue that if our roads are not so good as those of Europe our mechanics are better, and can succeed in making a moto- cycle suited to, our roads as well as those now in use suit the roads of European | countries. Even in the East Cleveland’s aspersions on the West in his speech before the Pres- byterian Board of Home Missions bave not been well received. The New York Mail and Ezpress say . Cleveland is more fawmiliar ¥ slums than with ‘Western prairies and should have confined bis remsarks to matters within his personal knowledge.” 5 s Three engineers of high repute have re- ported favorably upon the piojeet of con- structing a ship canal from the Ohio Rivet at Pittsbure to Lake Erie, and if we are not vigilant -in looking aiter our own in- terests we may see this scheme undertaken by the Government before we get a suita- ble appropriation for clearing out the chan- nel of the Sacramento. i A report comes by way of London that the Government of New Zealand "contem- ylates the enactment of a law forbidding the landing in that country of any person afflicted with consumption just as persons afflicted with cholera are excluded from other countries. The proposed law is in striking contrast to the course pursued in California and it is a good subject for a debating society as to which course is the wiser, .85 | A HOME CONTRAOT. ‘That the rolling-mills of San Francisco have not yet supplied themselves with fa- cilities for turning out the very largest pieces of work required in modern engi- neering and architecture is explainable on the sole ground that the local demand has not justified the heavy outlay required for that purpose. San Francisco is still a voung City and has but just begun to fall into the procession headed by the great Eastern cities in the erection of splendid structures of steel and masonry. As a rule the builders of such houses here within recent years, taking it for granted | that the local rolling-mills could not turn out the great girders and beams called for by modern plans, have been content to draw their supply from the East. The idea of developing an architectural skill by which the smaller products of the local mills could be employed" with perfect safety and a great industry thus developed is of very recent birth. The difficulty was encountered in the plans of the nineteen-story building which Claus Spreckels is constructing at the corner of Market and Third streets, and which is to be the home of TrHE CiLL. This is to be a steel frame 310 feet high, resting on a narrow base and inclosed with marble and terra cotta. In handling a building of less height and with a broader foundation the structural exactions would not have been so great. Mr. Spreckels, de- termined that the money for the steel frame should remain in California, made a severe draft upon the skill of his archi- tects when he asked them to design the frame so as to make it possible for our rolling-mills to do the work. This task was accomplished, the stability of the structure is assured and one of our own mills has secured the contract. Hundreds of thousanas of dollars wiil be thus kept at home and be turned into the pockets of our own people. By sucha course as this, pursued by all our builders, may we develop our home facilities for meeting every need that can be vresented. We are able to compete with the great shipyards of the Atlantic and turn out both warships and merchant vessels of the highest class, simply because the work has been offered and the facilities for doing it have baen procured. By en- couraging these industries we make it possible for them to compete with Eastern manufacturers and builders; and where necessary, as in the case of THE CArvr’s building, it is proper to make such con- cessions in our plans as will enable local manufacturers to establish themselves on a full competing basis with the East. AN UNJUST CHARGE. Senor Valles y Ribot, leader of the fed- eral party in Spain, is reported to have made the following extraordinary declara- tion: “Although it is absolutely undeni- able that the colonial pelicy of Spain in Cuba has been disastrous and despotic to the extent of fully jastifying the insurrec - tions which have arisen against various Spanish Governments, still the United States is the very last nation justified in raising its voice, as the Spanish policy can in no way be compared to the sanguinary methods employed in American territories which they have forcibly annexed.” These remarks are made by an intelli- gent man, whose natural sympathies should be with the principles upon which our country was founded. The bitterness and falsehood of his utterances show either that he is grossly ignorant of American history or that he is unfit to lead the politi- cal movement at whose head he stands. The subjugation of the roving and scat- tered bands of savages originally occu- pying the territory of the United States was largely a defensive one. It was only when the incredible atrocities practic2d by the savages upon white settlers became unbearable that regular campaigns of con- quest were organized. What few wars we had with civilized nations for disputed ter- ritory were conducted decorously, and a great deal of territory was secured by pur- chase both from the savages and civilized nations. When the natives were finally conquered they were placed on ample and exceedingly fertile reservations, encour- aged in the arts of peace and agriculture and regularly supplied with food and clothing. In that pursuit many millions of treasure have been employed. The whole history of conquest shows nothing equal to the humane, paternal treatment which the white conquerors of this country have shown to the aboriginal occupants. How has it been in the countries subju- gated by Spain? Surely Senor Valles y Ri- bot cannot have forgotten Cortez and his relentless destruction of the finest and purest civilization that the Western Conti- nent contained. Americans never made peons of their conquered savages. We never humbled and degraded them and used them as beasts of burden. To this day those of them who wish to be peaceful and refrain from committing theft, arson and murder (and it is rarely now that such as these place themselves in evidence) re- ceive more consideration than any Amer- ican citizen. Our own people may starve, but the savages whose country we occupy are provided with therichest lands, are fed and clothed at the public expense and are protected in their rights and privileges by the army of the United States. Where they have shown an inclination to rise above savagery and adopt peaceful methods of livelihood they are given the right to make their own laws and maintain a gov- ernment after their own ideas. Spanish history shows nothing analogous to the Cherokee Nation in the United States. ‘Whenever our savages revolted it was to secure liberty to plunder and kill. The Cuban revolution is one, not of savages, butofapeople who generations ago adopted civilization and who are now fighting for the right to enjoy its benefits. It might profit Senor Valles y Ribot to inquire more closely into American history before deny- ing that we have the right to protest against the unjust oppression of any civil- ized race. BAYARD IMPREGNABLE. The news comes all the way from Lon- don that as Minister Bayard cannot be officially informed that the House of Rep- resentatives has censured him there is no official reason for his resignation, and that, following his ewn and President Cleve- land’s inclination, he proposes to hang on till his successor is appointed by the next President. This sounds incredible. His present attitude is even more supercilious than. that which he assumed when he made a nublic speech in England denounc- ing the American policy of a protective tariff. Mr. Cleveland’s opportunity to convince the world that he was a genuine American came with the delivery of Mr. Bayard's speech. He should have recalled this voluble gentleman at once. We may leave aside the question of the right or wroag of .the protective idea. It was not the Republican party that Mr. Bayard offendec. when he assailed its doctrine of protection in furtherance of the Democratic idea of free trade. His off2nse was national in its effect. As the personal| representative of the head of an American political party, and as the accredited rep- resentative of this Nation in Great Britain, | be denationalized himself and truckled to THE SAN.FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1896. i the English sentiment, which favors the policy of the American party to which he belongs. His attitude proclaimed that he was more of a Democrat than an American, and that he was 1n England as the repre- sentative of the Democratic party and President Cleveland, rather than of the American people. His superciliousness then and his lofty bearing now, especially in view of the fact that the President did not remove him for his offense, can be taken only as Mr. Cleve- land’s personal bearing. This may mean less o the Democrats than to the country at large. It is something new in American politics for a President to stock our foreign ministries with political agents devoted to the advancement of the politics which he advocates. The importance of this case is evident when we reflect that the English policy of free trade and monometallism dominates the course of our present ad- ministration. SUPPRESSING EVIDENCE. The English House of Lords has heard read for the second time the bill intro- duced at the instance of Lord Salisbury. empowering judges to prohibit the publi- cation of such evidence adduced in trials as might tend to injure public morals. As might have been expected, the measnre is attracting a great deal of attention. The dispatches venture no opinion as to whether it will probably become a law, bnt the likelihood is that it will not. Already there are laws both in England and the United States permitting the parties to a divorce suit to demand that the evidence shall not be published, but the reason for them is altogether different from that lying behind the measure which Lord Salisbury is urging. Lord Glenesk, proprietor of the Morning Post, properly asserts that some novels contain many things that are far more offensive and injurious than can be found in the newspapers. When these bookscan be bought without restriction for a price only slightly larger than that of a news- paper the inconsistency of the proposed gag law is evident. Lord Glenesk says further, that the tendency of the press is quite against the publication of unsavory details. That unmistakably is true in England. The departures from the rule in this country have been made only by those newspapers which prefer a transient business success to the exercise of an in- fluence that can come only from an appre- ciation of moral responsibility. That which tends to degrade cannot command the re- spect of the controlling forces of civiliz- ation. At the same time, publicity within de- corous bounds is the most efficient of all agencies for the prevention of evil. That is one of the important functions of a newspaper. The highest morality, liberty and enlightenment are found in those countries where the freedom of the press is the least restricted. Corruption, politi- cal or otherwise, is most rampant where its exposure is most rigidly prohibited. There is an undying quality in light and truth that inevitably punishes the agencres which oppress it. COAST EXOHANGES. The Mountain View Register, in noting the circulation of a petition for the forma- tion of a protection district including the land between the railroad and the bay, along Stevens Creek, calls timely attention to the law authorizing such a step. It was framed for the purpose of enabling land- owners to protect their property against overflows. The property-owners within the limits of the district are assessed for three- fourths of the expense, each in proportion to his number of acres, and the county pays the other fourth. By organizing rec- lamation districts thousands of acres of marsh lands bordering the lower end of San Krancisco Bay could be reclaimed and made exceedingly valuable. The Riverside Enterprise publishes the following in a letter from Perris: ‘The unnecessary, almost criminal, delay of the United States Supreme Court in deferring decision in the Wright irrigation casesand the closing down of the Good Hope and Santa Rosa mines have cast a gloom of de- pression over the Perris Valley country, but with the vast resources which this sec- tion contains the blackness can only be temporary, and we hope before many weeks to be able to chronicle a revival of interest in every line of business.” ‘West Berkeley, according to the Gazette, has organized the West Berkeley Progres- sive Club for the purpose of making the place more inviting by securing more street railroads and a better water supply. For theseand otherimprovements the residents must lend a vigorous hand and an open pocket-book. Charles A. Bailey, a large property-owner and progressive citizen, is trving to work up a feeling of enterprise among the people, and has offered $1000 as a subscription toward a fund for building a power-house and making some railroad company a present of it. If there were many’ more such residents as he West Berkeley would soon become a favorite place of residence and even more prosper- ous than at present. The Ventura Press announces that Ven- tura is on the eve of a healthy boom. The oil refinery is to be built at once, the new railroad to Nordhoff is practically assured, and agents looking for a site on which to establish a sugar refinery have been busy. “The soil,” says our contemporary, “is well adapted tothe culture of the sugar beet, and if a sufficient number of land- owners can be induced to plant the sugar beets, so that there will be at least 1000 acres to draw on, the sugar works will be erected. We understand that nearly the required amount of acreage has been se- cured.” When to all this isadded the fact that Ventura is to be on the southern over- land line, there is every good reason for our contemporary’s prediction. The Fresno Ezpositor says that every- thing is- encouraging with regard to the recently developed oil region in the foot- hills near Huron. Captain Barrett's wells are more than 300 feet down and the indi- cations are excellent. Other companies are actively preparing to bore. The indi- cations are that the fuel problem of the San Joaquin Valley is soon to be solved. The charms of Hayward are familiar to those who have enjoyed them, among whom are many wealthy persons. The Evening Mail has this to say: ‘‘Hayward being a suburb of San Francisco and Oak- land we number among our residents many merchants who travel daily between our city and those business centers in the transaction of their affairs. We offer special indncements to these, who, after finishing their day’s labor in the hum and bustle of the larger cities, desire to lay down the cares of life and enjoy a home- life peace in & neighborhood of gerteei respectability.” The Santa Cruz Penny Press announces the important discovery in that county of a large bed of clay suitable for all kiuds of pottery except china and terra cotta. The discoverer, Alfred Bowman, says thers is about twenty-five acres of clay beds o&ha tract, and he knows it is twenty feet p. He says the lana is easy of accessand con- venient for fuel and shipping purposes. This should be welcome news to capital- ists who want to find an excellent invest- ment. 3 The Banta Cruz Sentinel says: ‘‘Next Monday F. R. Cummings will begin to drive piles for a bulkhead for an artificial lake on the Spreckels Aptos Hotel prop- erty. In all 250 piles are to be driven. Orders have heen given to demolish the hotel and cottages to make room for Claus Spreckels’ country residence. The club- house is to be raised and a brick founda- tion buiit. Mr. Spreckels intends to erect a schoolhonse on his Aptos ranch and pre- sent it to the county. He intends to ex- pend $250,000 in improvements on his Ap- tos property. Recently he purchased a large tract of land in the Salinas Valley, which he will subdividé and erect cottages thereon. There is also talk of his building a sugar factory., The sum total of his in- vestments in the SalinasValley will amount to $1,000,000.” i It is pleasing to read in the Stockton Independent that Henderson & Son of that city have just finished iwo handsome stage wagons for an Idaho line. Our con- temporary adus that Stockton already has the best of the Idaho stage-building busi- ness. The two new creations must be su- verb. They are to carry fourteen passen- gers and have all the most approved ap- pliances for the handling of express mat- ter, mails and baggage. For Idaho, which is so much more convenient to Minneapo- lis, to come to Stockton for its stage- coaches is a thing to be proud of. This is not to be wondered at when it is reflected that Stockton turns out the finest agricul- tural machinery in the world and that the _Northwestern ‘cities have found them- selves unable to compete with it in that particular. The Stockton Mail announces that the San Joaquin Water Company’s south branch canal is within three miles of Lath- rop and that water can be turned on as soon as the flumes are constructed. The effect of this greatimprovement is thus fore- shadowed by our contemporary: ‘‘Rich- ard Threlfall, who owns land near Little- john Creek, has ditched 1500 acres and made it ready for irrigation, and 500 aGres in the Orange Blossom Colony on the Stanislaus River will be cut up for orchards. Very little land has been pledged for irri- gation since the report in the Mail a few months ago when the amount under con- tract, as shown by the books in the County Recorder’s office, was about 20,000 acres.’”” This, from the Oakdale Leader, shows how that prosperous community is work- ing out its destiny: ‘‘We are to have elec- tric lights, we already have a cannery, and soon we'll be after a creamery—not just now, but in abont another year.” The Brentwood Enterprise thus indicates the benefits which a community may enjoy by exercising a little enterprise: ¢ ‘The Antioch pottery is a sure thing now. The people of that place have subscribed very. liberally and in a short time they will doubtless see the benefit of such enter- prise.” The strong and popular old weekly Sen- tinel of Hanford has become a daily, and that means spirit, progress and prosperity. The Boulder Creek Blast has enlarged itself under Manager Watson’s inspiring touch and is more enthusiastic than ever in telling about the charms possessed by this delightful corner in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The Shasta Courier, being now forty-four years old, has a son old enough to lend his vigor and aspirations to the fate of this able journal. He is Lloyd Carter, son of the editor, W. L. Carter. W. A. Selkirk bas sold the San Ber- nardino Sun to the Saturday Review, and it will henceforth shed Republican light. The Amador Record has begun its fifth year without any letting down of the en- ergy and enthusiasm that inspired its be- ginning. The Fresno Interior has acquired its own plant as the result of its success and enter- prise. The Madera Mercury bas completed its eleventh year and is still working intelli- gently to inform the outside world of the superior attractions of that section. James F. Lyon has secured the interest of Mr. McGuire in the Santa Maria Times, and the paper, in earnest of its intention o do all possible for the advancement of the community, assures its business rival, the Graphic, of its hearty co-operation to that end. J. J. Vanderburgh, a talented and ener- getic young journalist, who will be heard from in the development of the San Joa- quin Valley, has acquired W. T. Lyon’s in- terest in the Selma Irrigator. The Redding Free Press has begun 8 new volume with a sturdy purpose of assisting in the settiement of the upper Sacramento Valley. The Benicia Signal, having found it im- possible to compete with that strong old paper, the New Age, has retired from the field. The Watsonville Pajaronian is hand- somely garmented in new type. That; means prosperity. The Marin Journal has emerged from its thirty-fifta year, and with a complete new outfit of machinery and type is prepared to continue more effectively than ever its high-class and intelligent policy of ‘the past. The Labor World is a new journalistic venture at Los Angeles. It isdevoted to the interests of organized labor and labor in general, and its editor, F. B. Colver, evidently understands his husiness. The Tehachapi Eyrie, the only paper covering the mountain towns and desert mining camps of Kern County, has ap- peared and shows a merit worthy of suc- cess. F. A. Hutton has bought L. H. Peter- son’s interest in the Dixon Tribune and will manage the basiness department of the paper. The Modesto Herald gives evidence of its prosperity by providing itself with a new dress. Meyer Cohen has bought a half interest in the East Oakland Observer. P bt bdhY HUMOR OF THE HOUR. ““The voters drew the line on our candidate, aid they?” him.'* — Detroit “Yes; they scratched Tribune. “Ah!"” exclaimed the cannibal chief, smack- ing his1ips; “what kind of a minister was that we had for dinner?” “Your Excellency,” replied his companion, “I should say it wasa prime minister.”—Yonk- ers Statesman. “Who is this Professor Roentgen, the dicoy- erer of X rays?”” X 5 ‘‘He’s a German scientist.” “Is he the same man who induced feeble- minded people to write Xmas for Christmas?"’'— Chicago Record. Aunt Maris—Did he ever say anything which would lead one to think that he wished to make you his wife? Phosbe—Yes, indeed. Why, only to-dsy he | 824! said nothing was so becoming tome as calico.— Boston Transcript. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Colonel William Forsythe, the well-known Fresno vineyardist, is in the City on business. He had some very caustic remarks to make yesterday in regard to the California system of marketing its fruit product. He has 160 acres of the best raisin vines in Fresno. ‘“Clusters,” he remarked, “and London layers are not sell- ing for any more in the sweatbox than loose raisius. One and one-eighth cents is the high- est price offered per pound, but the average is 1 cent, which only pays for the picking and does not begin to defray other expenses. Dried peaches, worth 8 cents s pound, are bringing 2 cents; prunes and other dried fruits in like proportion.” With all this the Colonel thinks that Fresno has the best of it as compared with other coun- ties of the State, and bases his hopes for future benefits on the completion of the Valley Road. At the present time, he says, our fruits are marketed in the East on a sort of Sneriff’s sale proposition. g PERSONAL. Sam B, Axtell of Lodi is here on business. Dr. and Mrs. Stallard of Menlo Park are in town, - C. Campbell of Los Angeles is at the Cosmo- Dolitan. W. H. Wood of Sants Barbara is at the Cos- mopolitan. . Jonn Weil, & capitalist of Sacramento, is here on business. 'W. F. Purnell, s merchant of Sacramento, is at the Grand. D. P. Durst, a merchant of Wheatland, is at the Occidental. James Barlogi, a stock-raiser of Nevads, is at the Cosmopolitan. F. M. Josselyn, a ship chandler of Boston, Mass., is at the Grand. Clarence Vincent, a Fresno merchant, is visiting friends in this City. Nate R. Salsbury of Porter Brothers re- turned from Chicago yesterday. H. Weilheimer, a merchant at Mountain View, is registered at the Grand. T. B, Tansey, a Mexican mine-owner from Al- buquerque, is at the Cosmopolitan. * Charles M. Colgan, Secretary of the State Board of Equalization, is at the Lick. Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Kline of Philadelphia are among yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. Frank B. Cornue and wife are down from Santa Rosa and are staying at the California. L. L. Lane of Yuma, Arizons, isat the Occi- dental. He is an owner and developer of mines. William P. Kellogg, a well-known attorney of Washington, D. C., has apartments at the Palace. ’ Joseph Collner ‘of St. Petersburg, Pa., ar- rived at the Baldwin yesterday and registered with his wife. Clark H. Stone, the extensive lumber mer- chant of Cincinnati, is at the Palace with his wife and Mrs. E. H. Holcomb. ‘W. A. Scott, Miss Eloise Willard and Mrs. Louise Eissing-Scott of the ‘Sinbad” company, have apartments at the Baldwin. M. C. Helwig, traveling freight agent of the Pennsylvania lines, arrived here yesterday and registered at the California. Ezro Kendall, Miss Kingsley and Miss Cleve- land, actors in *“The Pair of Kids,” took rooms yesterday at the Baldwin and registered from New York. F. A. Weeks and wife of Providence, Rhode Island, and George W. Wheeler and wife of Farmington, Maine, arrived yesterday on a tour through California. A. D. Puffen, the soda fountain manufacturer of Boston, Mass., is at the Grand with his wife and invalid daughter. They are on a trip for pleasure and health, and are registered from their home in Derry, N. H. Judge R. J. Kelley of the Tenth Michigan district and Donald McRea, a wealthy retired lumber merchant, are making a tour of this State. They arrived yesterday at the Occi- dental, registering from Alpen lumbering center of Michigan. On their way north Mr. McRea will pay his first visit to the country about Eel River and Eureka, where he has owned for over fifteen years 4000 acres of large redwood timber that he says is supposed to cut 400,000,000 feet of lumber. SOME DAY OR OTHER. ‘Time enough yet for the current to turn— «Hope whilé there's life,"” as philosophers say; People now poor may have money (o tear, Provided they don’t quit the 10b in despair. Plod right ahead and you' 1 bring 'em your way— Some day or other. Facts grow on bushes for some, 80 it seems, Others obliged, if they want ‘em. to climb Early and Iate—but what if you do ? No use to worry and {ret yourself blue. Plod right along and yoi'll bring 'em to time— Some day or other. Love-making’s easy for some, it appears, But what if 1t {sn't for you ¥ Going to sit back like a bump on & board ? No, you'll propose, and if you should get floored Speak your plece over and she'll help you through— Some day or other. Kpew a man once who for twenty straight years Courted a girl: but he hadn't the san To ask ber (0 marry till finally she Ups and she asks what his meaning might be, bich shows that a woman, by watching her hand, Can fetch the most bashful admirer to land— Some day or other. Nothing you want you can’t get if you plod— Morey or learning or even the fair, Tackle the task with grim death in your eye, Buckle right 10 it and never say die; Bound to win out if you really care— Some day or other. FRANK PUTNAX In Chicago Times-Herald, PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. A memorial has been placed over the door of the vills in John street, London, wheze John Keats, the poet, lived and worked. It consists of a tablet bearing the inscription, “John Keats, poet, lived in this house. B.1795; d. 1821.” The German Empress is said to have worn o robe with a train six yards long on the occa- sion of the Emperor’s birthday. It was of the finest Lyons silk, the maierial alone being worth $1500, while the embroidery in the working occupied twelve persons for at least two months. The Reed campaign button, which has ap- peared in Washington, has on it the picture of & male cat standing on a wall bracket, beneath which is a representation of & marsh reed. The picture is, of course, & rebus which is ex- pected to suggest Thomas Bracket Reed to the beholder. W. M. Greene, the new general manager of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, is a native of Athens, Ohio. On his graduation from ‘Wooster University he became clerk in a rail- road office. In 1887 he became assistant to President Ingalls on the Big Four, and in 1889 was made general manager of that company. The attempt to raise a fund for the erection of a statue of Darwin at Shrewsbury, England, has so far beena failure. Up to the present time only about £380 has been subscribed, and acircular has just been issued pointing out that the sum received is wholly inadequate for carrying out the object in view in a manner ‘worthy of so eminent a men. A SAN FRANCISCAN IN EGYPT. Cairo Sphinx. Colonel George E. Raum of San Francisco, who hes twice previously visitea Egypt, has now on his third visit embarked on a most interesting work of excavation at the sphinx and pyramids of Ghizeh, having first obtained the permission of the Government. The colonel eommenced operations a few days ago and has nearly 100 men and boys at work under his skilled guidance, for he has had much experi- ence of mining and excavation both as a colonel of engineers in the Confederate Army and as a mine-owner in the gold diggings of Colorado. Tt may, therefore, be taken as ranted that the works in progress wiil be ful- llea with lent and :n sccordance with technical knowledge. Colonel Raum has cleared away the sand the 0 a Col depth. leared out the hole in the top of the head to s depth cf seven feet, the cross measurements of the hole being about 334 feet long by 214 feet ‘broad. mh&m the cap of the the remaining solid rock out ‘18 cut. At the | James Maloney’s direction respectively. This was as far as the works had l;’e':n carried on the day we visited them, and we look forward to some interesting discoveries through the disinterested labors of Colonel Reum, who is bearing the whole of the expenses. VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS. ‘Whitney’s Choice. - Los Angeles Record. ‘William C. Whitney would rather make coke than be President. Should Be Acquainted With the West. San Bernardino Times-Index. The White House should not have another %(icupanl who has never crossed the Missouri ver. No Sympathy for the Poolsellers. San Jose Mercury. The poolroom dealers, who make their money by plucking the public, will have little sympathy now that they themselves have been swindled by wire-tappers to the extent of from a quarter to a half million dollars. California for Tobacco. San Diego Union, There are indications that the time is not far distant when tobacco ‘will be one of the Teat n-glu of California. Already the pro- uct of the central portion of the State is con- siderable, and the guality is highly com- mended Sy experts. No Charitable Institutions There. Hanford Democrat. Provisions are very scarce in the interior of Alaska and prices for necessaries rule very high. There are no charitable organizations in that Territory, and the man who goes broke there is liable fo fare badly. Think twice or three times before you leave a land of plenty to take your chances in the-gold fields of Alaska. A A THIEF-PROOF CHICKEN-HOUSE. James M:loney,;'ho lives near Twenty-fifth street on that prairie in Oakland known as Temescal, is the inventor of what he calls “thief-proof chicken-house.” It is all he claims’ for it, as has been shown by a practical test of several months. Maloney is a strong admirer of fancy fowl, but has heretofore been ham- pered in his inclination to breed them by the fact that his neighbors also admired them and preferred those that he raised to raising them themselves. No matter how many locks he puton his chicken-house, or how many dogs he kept about the %remlses, his fowls always dis- lp?elred until he perfected his invention. Maloney’s chicken-house did not cost him anything but hislabor. He found a large bar- rel in the backyard of what had once been a sa- loon, and a telegraph pole he picked up on the street_one night. It wasa little hard to get them nome, but after they were there the rest was easy. He cut a hole In the top and bottom of the barrel for the pole to go through and also one fora door. Several smaller ones for air holes were bored in the sides and the cimcken-bouse was ready to be placed in posi- tion. This was quite a job, but after fastening the barrel securely to the pole Maloney got & man to help him raise it and fix it in the ground. After putting a few braces at the bottom of the pole and making a ladder to lead up to the door all was in readiness for tenants. A little trouble was experienced in getting the chickens to go into the odd and Jofty dwell- ing, but by putting their feed up there every night they soon learned the way. Maloney has about twenty-five chickens that he keeps in the barrel, but they all scem to find plenty of room and keep in good health. As soon as Invention Chicken-Thieves. [From a sketch.] to Foil the chickens have gone to roost Maloney closes the door and takes the ladder into his own | house, feeling sure that they will all be there in the morning. The old chicken houses are used for laying, and whenever a hen war to sit he %_lves her a place behind the kitchen stove. This is satisfactory to all concerned, and the tlock is constantly increasing. LADY'S COLLARETTE OR SHORT CAPE. The collarette or small cape shown here is & most useful as well as stylish garment. It may be made of material matching a dress, or of cloth, or silk to be worn with any costume. As here shown it is made of blue cloth, over which is black periorated satin, making the garment at once warm and dressy. An im- mense bow of black satin finishes the back of the standing collar. Narrow black lace edges the points, and the front is finished with black cniffon, a bunch of blue flowers set at the throat and at the edges. A few green leaves set among the nicks at the top,and a green chiffon finish for the front makes a chfi:miuz flni«h{. A s g e patiern of the cape proper is in one Phu.puAlhndhlg and lmm-oggr collar are included in the paitern. The cape has six points, two of which fall just back of the sleeves, two over them and the remaining two sre in front. Black lawn over silk, changeable green and black, with black chiffon and violets, is a b!slntlflil!d wm:rlnlflm:.l i A ipangled net over pale ol reen satin, fin- ished at the edges with llpllg‘hl,h another elegant comtination of color and materials. Black velvet with white satin lining and ‘white chiffon is extremely-stylish. For evening & white D en silk with pink bouquets and green leaves is dainty with tiny pink crush roses for a throat ruff, and one row of the same set round the edges. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, CLIFF 10 ROCK—A. H. D., Oakland. The dis- tance from the Cliff House to the Seal Rocks is 900 feet. A DrrroMA—R. B. Jr, City. In order to ob- gl‘: 'é ‘d.l'ploml t:” 'fi‘fi: 1nwc public school in e you Board of Edynunon. SRt FarTH—Interrogation, St. Helena, Cal. The ?w\h asked 1s one that cannot be answered jor the reason that Answers to caunot fsthom the minds of m&cflmmm seek to marry into the family and offer to opt the religion of the family. KENTUCKY STREET TO CITY HALL—BY the most direct route the distance from Kentucky and Tilinois streets fo_the City Hall is 8 few feet more than two miles. Hypyorisi—J. W., Oakland, Cal. If there is “ sician that employs hypnotism in his p:acpfiiu’e in San Francisco’” Answers to Corre- spondents cannot advertise him. they would do should a person of & different fatih Two-CexT STAMPS—A. L. F., City.! The first fwo-cent stamps in the United States were is- sued in 1863. They were printed in black and had on them the head of Jackson. FERRY TO CLIFF—A. 8., City. The most direct route from the ferry landing to the Cliff House is along Market street, Geary street and Point Lobos avenue. The distance is a little over seven miles. A BADGE—G. L. §,, City. You can have any kind of a society pin made in this City, and many of them can be purchased ready made, Any jeweler will make fuch a pinoremblem as you describe. Two THEATERS—G. F. and C. C., Golden Gate, Cal. The seating capacity of the Grand Opera- house and the Orpheum has been given so often in this department that every reader ought to know the answer. The first named seats 2500 and the last named 2948, RETURN OF MONEY—B, J., San Diego, Cal. It the bill passed by the Senate to refund a cer- tain sum of money to settlers should become a law it is g:nhnble that an appropriation would have to made to meet the demands that would be presentea. The bill will designate how the money shall be paid. A FRANCHISE—Subscriber, Crockett, Cal. Without knowing the exact terms of & fran- chise granted to & company to erect and main- tain a wharf it is impossible to answer the question; “Have the owners of the franchise the right to prevent a water company from laying pipes under said wharf for the purpose of supplying shipping with water?” GoLp OvrpuT—Subscriber, Fort Bragg, Men- docino County, Cal. The following shows the output of gold from El Dorado, Plumas, Siski- you and Trinity counties for three years, 1892, 1893 and 1894 El Dorado, $198,321 54, $2 610 26, $367,063 67; Plumas, $443, 362,486 08, $499,358 83; Siskiyou, § 87 94, $799,108 07, $760,781 83; in: $1,446,771 38, $1,121 4 50, $1,012,990 5. DURRANT'S FATE—E. P. C., City. As the caso of Durrant is on appeal there is no time set for the execution. Should the verdictof the lower court’s jury be sustained he would have to be sentenced anew. Should the Supreme Court grant him a new trial there is no telling what & second jury would do. Answers to Corre. spondents does not know of any vlace in this City where pictures of Blanche Lamont and of Minnie Williams are for sale. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c Ib. Townsend's.* ————————— EPECIAL information daily to manufacture:s, business houses and public men by the Presy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * e Cafe Zinkand Souvenir. Charles A. Zinkand has in active preparation an illustrated souvenir of the Cafe Zinkand. Large photo-engravings have been made, showing all the several departments. As a work of art it will be in all respects the finest of its kind ever issued in California. John F. Uhlhorn has charge of the compilation, and it will be of much interest to lheo‘rubuc. as the visitors and patrons of this model resigurant can have the best cuisine and service, while the charges are no higher than other public resorts and restaurants. L e She—How old would you say I was? 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