The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 29, 1896, Page 20

"HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 29, ' 1896, 20 : CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Propril SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: ¢ carrier..$0.16 and Sunday CALL, one year, by malil.... 6.00 and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 8.00 oy CALL, three months by mail 1.50 and Sunday CALL, one monih, by mail. .65 punday Ca. e year, by mail.... . 150 WEEKLY CALL, ODe 3 mall. . 1.50 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, sco, California. ot ... Maln—1868 Patly snd Sund. Felephone...... : EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Celephone... Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICE! 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open untll #:80 o'clock. Hayes street; open until 9:30 o’clock. 718 Larki treet; open until 8:30 o’clock. £W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open sntil 9 o’clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 0'clock. 116 Minth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 608 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. BUNDAY... Bread and roses will soon be as cheap as | climate. Three flower gardens for a cent, is the cor ning sign. Let the flower war go on until even the tramp can wear a boutonniere. [his is the day to rest, read THE CALL and overhaul your fishing-tackle. h the end of Lent for gin to primp itself. We are near enou the Easter bonnet to b If society has been abstaining from any- g Lent, it has neglected to ad- ottery notice in a newspaper isa ata law has been violated and somebody swindled. It is to be hoped the British will turna cathode r: see what i Parents who do not wish their boys to kets should refuse to take ise lotteries. About this time men begin to admit that whenever Cleve his business and goes fi , he has a lucid interval. The mount sheep may sport and the kid may but the Buc lamb not gamboling on anything this year. h McKinley’s man- naa, is his name. People are always asking what's the matter with hir erious-minded jour- n the st have begun to show a fondness for calling the Senate the cockpit of politics. Some of the mo! If Mr. Depew wis reputation a hes to increase his East. xclianges, from Chi- , are shouting in unison zards had not come they All of our cago to Bostc if the bl haye had It seems that after all an attempt will be made by the railroad lobby tc have a funding bill passed at this session. Whom the gods wonld destroy -they first make mad. As the New York World predicts the nomination of McKinley on the first bal- lot, it behooves that gentleman to hunt around at once for a mascot to head off the hoodoo. ng for marriage reform has introduced into the New Jersey Leg- ure, and strangely enough the reform cousists in making it a little more difficult to get married than it is now. A bill provi bee San Pedro or Santa Monica Southern Cali- fornia may much prefer the former, but all the sume it will be better at this juncture to have either than to have neither. The battles of ballots for the election of queens in the carnival counties always be- gin with the festive nickel, but it is never very long before the golden eagle rouses i 1f and takes a swoop at the ballot- The discovery that Iowa has been dump- ing her lunatics into Chicago goes far to explain the rapid increase of population of that city, but at grinds Chicago is that she cannot distinguish these lunatics from her other citizens. By g ndrawals averaging more than $150,000 a day the increase in the treasury reserve has been brought to a standstill and it is only a matter of time when it will turn backward and then there will be a demand for more bonds. Two young men—Barrett of Massachu- setts and Cousins of Iowa — have dis- tinguished themselves in this Congress so that the East and the Mississippi Valley have won laurels, and it is now time for some Pacific Coast youth to show himself nervy enough to challenge Congress and eloquent enough to capture it. Since we are promised postal improve- ments in San Francisco to the extent of a house-to-house coliection well as de- livery of mails perhaps we have no right to kick about the delay in the construc- tion of the Postoffice building, but a!l the same we would like to see the temptation to kick removed from the foot of indigna- tion. A recent investigation by the Railroad Committee of the New Jersey Senate has brought to light a contract by which the Standard Oil Company receives a rebate on its freights and is protected from com- petition by tbe roads, and it is estimated that under this agreement New Jersey alone pays the trust an illegitimate profit of $750,000 a year. A proposal that the grand new railway station to be erected in Boston should be called Quincy station, in honor ot the Mayor, has called fortha vigorous protest on the ground that Boston has already a Quincy market, 2 Quincy House, a Quincy street, a Quincy School, 2 Quincy Hall and a Quincy statue. On this showing it FOR SUNDAY THOUGHT. The task of suppressing lotteries is one of those issues which Lord Bacon described as appealing to both the business and the bosoms_of men. 1t appeals to business, for the lottery swindles waste the money of the people. It appealsto the bosom, for it is a matter of morality that fraud should be punished and law sustained. Appeal- ing, therefore, both to the economy and to the honesty of men, every issue involved in the suppression of lotteries should re- ceive the vigorous championship of all those whose intelligence and moraiity is sufficient to give them an influence in the community. ¢ The contest against lotteries has been carried far enough to place upon the stat- ute-books a law providing a penalty forall engaged in it. In all of its forms and phases, and in every step of its processes, the lottery business is an illicit traffic. Nevertheless it flourishes. Hidden from the police, it yet makes itself known in almost every household. It manages to achieve this by the aid of newspapers that circulate everywhere. The freedom of the press has been cunningly used to serve the violators of the law in their efforts to swin- dle the people. As the law stands to-day, it would be comparatively easy to so far suppress the operations of the lottery swindlers that but a very small proportion of the people would be reached by them, if it were not | for the frequent publication of lottery lists and notices of lottery prizes by newspapers that otherwise maintain such a degree of respectability they are received in the homes of the City and read by young and old. Police officials have repeatedly stated } that they could virtually eradicate the evil from this City if it were not for these publications, and their statements have | never been refuted. The suppression of lottery advertising in all its forms is there- fore an essential step toward the suppres- sion of the loiteries themselves. It is, | moreover, the step that must be taken | next. | A defect in the law prevents the punish- ment of certain forms of this advertising, and the police and the courts are power- less. The only recourse therefore is for the business and the moral intluence of the community to exert itself. Lottery notices are published simply because they are better paid for than any other form of advertising. With the newspapers that | publish these notices it is a matter of coin | merely. Ifany of them found that they would lose subscribers and advertisers by of the case. In fewer words it means that | mopolitanism, but it is the center of a a protective tariff and the removalof a transportation power which is able to de- termine prosperity or its opposite are the great considerations before the country. A commission composed on the lines laid down in the report would be something uniaque in the history of the country. Its report would represent the great produc- ing classes and would not be inspired by any influence that England and Wall street might be able to bring to bear. It would open the eyesof the Nation to the possibilities residing in a legitimate en- couragement; of those industries and inter- ests which must be considered if the pros- perity of the country is desired, and would call attention to this splendid Western empire which will in time become the leading source of National wealth. A NOTABLE EVENT. The elaborate preparations which the people of Ban Jose are making for their rose carnival which will open May 6 indi- cate that a spectacle of uncommon mag- nificence will be presented for the enter- tainment of residents and visitors. Its principal feature will be a street parade of gorgeously decorated floats, and in order that its composition may be a surprise even to those who participate in it all parties concerned will be bound to secrecy. Colonel A. K. Whitton, who has charge of this branch of the festival, will alone have knowledge of the details, and his tact and skill will be called into play to prevent duplications and produce a general har- monious effect. The indoor feature of the festival will be managed with equal abil- ity. It is in the month of May that the witcheries of the Santa Clara Valley are presented in their most charming aspects, Although only fifty miles from San Fran- cisco the climate is quite different from that of the larger city. Between the val- ley and the ocean are reared the Santa Cruz Mountains, which deflect the trade winds and fogs and leave the glowing piains to sunshine and balmy airs. As one of the comparatively few cities in Cal- ifornia that appreciate the wonderful pos- sibilities of a semi-tropical climate in the production of floral effects San Jose is famous for its gardens and for that reason has come to be known as the “Garden }Cifi)fl” When to this intelligent adorn- | ment are added miles of clean and smooth bituminous streets and an abundance of | deciduous shade trees we find perfect con- ditions of beauty. The Santa Cruz Mountains on the west lending tbe aid of their columns to an illicit and swindling traffic they would soon adopt a different policy and become as free from such things as THE CaLn itself. ¥ We recommend to the people of San Francisco on this day of rest a serious thought whether they will any longer sup- porta newspaper that aids swindlers in robbing the people of the City, taking money from the home and from business, deriding law and corrupting morals. If the strong elements of the City put away from their homes all papers that advertise lotteries it will not be long before all papers will refuse such advertising and the victory will be won. THE WILMERDING SCHOOL. The suggestion to combine the Wilmer- | ding Schoo! with the Lick School of Me- chanical Arts offers a solution of many of the difficulties that have presented them- selves in regard to the establishment of that institution. The Wilmerding bequest of $400,000 is hardly sufficient to develop the usefuln: so greatly desired for the institution. The Lick bequest is $540,000. Of this amount §$115,000 was expended in starting a school, leaving $425,000 as a per- manent fund for its maintenance. Thisis none too large, but it is about $140,000 more than would be left in the Wilmer- ding fund if the proposed school be set up on a scale of excellence equal to that of the Lick. This, of course, would not produce as good results as would be possible under some plan of combining the two schools. The details of the proposed combination are that the regents of the State University, who are the trustees of the Wilmerding bequest, lease one of the two excellent buildings of the Lick School and erect an additional house in the near vicinity, the two schools to be then conducted so as to be mutually belpful. As the Lick is more merding was intended to be, each school can be madea complement of the other and an aid to the other’s efliciency. This suggestion has received an added interest from the recent movement to locate the S | Southside High School in the immediate In a choice between the improvement of | vicinity of the proposed combined schools of industnal art. The placing of the Wilmerding School anywhere but in San Francisco would be a subversion of its purpose. It was clearly the intention of the founder that the | school should be located here, and it is equally clear that in no other locality in tageously and conveniently used by so many students. Several sites have been offered in the City, and each has its pe- culiar advantages. It will be the duty of the regents to weigh these and select the site that is likely to conduce most to the fulfillment of the will of the founder— that of providing the test training possible for the greatest number of boys and girls in trades that will enable them to be self-supporting, helpial citizens of the community. AN IMPORTANT INQUIRY. The commission recommended in a re- port from the Senate Committee on Edu- cation and Labor will have some heavy work to do if the suggestions contained in the report are carried out. It provides that the commission shall be composed of twenty-one members, drawn from leading labor, industrial and agricultural organi- zations, that it shall be non-partisan and that it shall investigate the subjects of labor, agriculture and capital and recom- mend legislation concerning them. Among the sugeestions contained in the repert is the following: ‘“The universal dependence upon transportation com- panies is a fact or a question of prosperity or lack of vrosperity of agriculturists which demands attention. Insome States, as in California, this factor is of supreme importance; in others less. The fact that oranges from Spain and Italy compete successfully with oranges from California in the great markets of the country is wide-bearing. The cost of transportation of California fruit to market is 90 cents to $1 a box, whiie foreign fruit pays 32 cents. In less than carload lots it now costs about $2a box tolay down Califor- nia fruit in New York. Spanish ones pay 50 cents a case, but the case is twice as large as that containing fruit with which it competes. These facts tend to show one of the principal causes of complaint that is now being made by a very impor- tant industry of a great State, and the present case would fairly come before such a commission ‘as is proposed. Lower freight rates and a measure of protection does seem that if any further honor to the family is needed it would be better to Jump the thing and call the town Quincy- ville. by tariff for domestic fruit would revive this now languishing branch of horticul- ture.” Thatis a plain and truthful statement for theoretical instruction than the Wil- | the State could such 2 school be advan- | | and the Coast Range on the east forma | noble setting for the exquisite valley of | which San Jose is the center. The floor of | the valley is carpeted witn orchards and | vineyards, and they are threaded with | hundreds of miles of roads which the | State Bureau of Highways has proclaimed | to be the best in the State. Here rural | life in California is found developed to its | highest perfection. Bordering the smooth, dustless, tree-lined avenues which stretch away through the valleys in all directions are thousands of artistic homes, each with its well-kept lawn and flower garden. The finer parts of rural England and France present no picture more alluring. Pros- perity, ecomfort and good taste and an | utter absence of squalor and neglect indi- | cate a fecundity of soil that makes indus- try profitable, and a pleasant climate that renders existence a delight. Such are some of the charms that await a visitor to the approaching.carnival of roses at San Jose during the fairest month of the year. It will not be sufficient to confine the visit to the city itself. Itsper- fectly kept country roadsleading away in | all directions are an invitation which none | can afford to neglect. Those running to | the east and the west ascend the moun- tains on either side, and from these heights one may look down upon a scene whose enchantments can never fade. The splen- did winding road to the summit of Mount Hamilton, whence the Lick Observatory | watches the whole stretch of the valley | and the shining Bay of San Francisco, is the most famous and wonderful drive in | California, terminating at the greatest ob- | servatory in the world. It is not alone | strangers who may learn something of the | infinite variety and beauty of California | by visiting the carnival of roses; every | Californian who embraces the opportunity | will acquire an added fondness for the charms of his State and an increased pride in its glories. OPENING THE SEASON. More and more are Californians learn- {ing to appreciate the advantages apper- taining to summers that are free from | rains, mosquitos, malaria and oppressive | heat. The season opens properly the 1st ‘of April, when trout-fishing becomes al- {lowable by law. In that matchless sport its devotees have a large choice of con- venient streams stocked with trout, pro- | tected by law and threading forested mountains of incomparable beauty. The next great outing event will be the 100-mile relay bicycle race round the southern end of San Francisco Bay from San Francisco to Alameda. This is a | lays for the trip the run will be full of | excitement and will be participated in by scores of contestants. Then the regular fiesta season will open. The cities pre- | paring for these are Los Angeles, Santa | Barbara, San Jose, Oakland, Santa Rosa | and Healdsburg, and others are talking of falling into the procession. Each festival will have a distinctive character,all are projected as spectacular events and the wealth of flowers that bloom in California will be the chief decorative feature. The seaside and mountain resorts are | preparing for a large business. The com- | pleteness, elegance and variety of these | are a marvel to strangers, but the wonder ceases when it is learned that these estab- lishments are free from the annoyances attendant on similar places in the East and that the natural charms environing them and the royal health and pleasure which they afford are more than the pros- perous residents of the State can afford to neglect. Besides the resorts devoted more particularly to the furnishing of elegant ease and rest are the innumerable medici- nal springs of every conceivable variety that offer a wonderful combination of cure, comfort and entrancing mountain scenery. There are so many climates that a resi- dent of any part of the State may fiud a dehghtful and wholesome change in a few hours’ travel. From the comparatively hot plains of the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys the residents may run over to the coast and find a climate cool, bracing and altogether different from that to which they are accustomed, and the coast dwellers can find in the moun- tain resorts the dryness, calm and brilliant sunchine that are sometimes withbeld from the coast. Thus the opening of the season means a constant shifting and in- terchange and a valuable accession of health, pleasure and happiness. ‘When San Francisco comes to be better understood by the millions who exist in the refractory climate of the Eastern States, it will be the great health and pleasure resort of the United States. Not only is 1t a city baving peculiar attrac- tions as the result of its bewildering cos- gentleman’s contest, and with eight re- | marvelous group of natural charms. To- ward its completeness everythine that makes California unique contributes its separate quota. A climate thatgives birth to the choicest semi-tropical products and the finest wines is reflected in the balmy and stimulating quality of San Francisco’s sunshine, ocean winds and comfortable cheer. The whole coast from San Fran- cisco to San Diego is another Riviera, and the fragrance of roses and orange blossoms is perennial. The destiny of the Oity is foretold in the qualities which distinguish it, and that will be accomplished when the veople of the United States have learned the beginning of prosperity is health, com- fort and pleasant occupation. THE NEGLEOTED LEOTURE. Professor Barnes recently stated that the lecture is no longer so popular as formerly and that those given under the auspices of the California Academy of Sciences had been sadly neglected. This is the more remarkable by reason of the fact that the lecturers, supplied largely from the corps of able teachers in the Stanford and Berke- ley universities, were conspicuously intel- ligent men and thorough masters of the useful subjects which they treated. Professor Barnes is right; the lecture is no longer a popular method for the educa- tion of the masses. The reasons for the fact are obvious. One is that it 15 impos- sible for any lecturer to present the whole of an important subject in the course of an bouror two, and the other is that the orig- inal high function of the platform has been degraded into a show-place for the exhibition of notorious personages. Lecturing in schools is a very different matter. There the lecturer hasa year in which to present his subject, leading his classes steadily on while his theme en- larges and matures. The casual lecture of instruction to the public must be either a sadly maimed condensation, lacking pro- portion, perspective and comprehensive- ness, or a mere slice out of the heart of the subject. The wonderful cheapness of the printing-press has made books accessible to all, and the wise student knows that lectures are wolully inadequate as com- pared with books. There are many per- sons not sufficiently developed intellectu- ally to have mastered the art of learning from books and magazines. They are the primitive members of society and as such they can learn through the ear better than through the eye. But it is evident that in their case the subjects presented must be correspondingly simple—must be confined to the very rudiments of knowledge—or they will be listened to unheeded. The mistake of most scientific lecturers is that they do not comprehend the situa- tion. The earnest student knows that the memory of the ear is unreliable; with books he has a constant and ready means of correcting errors by reference. He is aware that a lecture is merely an oral essa; tnd knows that if he has the essay in print, to be studied and criticized line by line, he has a reliable guide that discredits the spoken word, The lecture was useful before books became plentiful and cheap, but the printing-press has reduced it to a folly. NEW PRESIDENTIAL CONDITIONS. CHANGES IN DOUBTFUL STATES AND RULES FOR CHOOSING CANDIDATES. In one particular at least the National con- ventions of the two political parties to be held this year will differ radically from Naiional | conventionsof recent times, Continuously since the close ot the Civil War the three States which have exercised a determining influence upon Republican National conventions have been Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania. - In all three, | as well as in Jowa and Nebraska, preliminary elections were held in October, and it was thought essential to Republican success that these States or a majority should go Repub- lican. After 1872 Pennsylvania fell out of the num- ber of October States and it has ceased to be contested seriously at Presidential elections, s since thattime the Republican lead has been overwhelming. Before 1872 Pennsylvania was | regarded as a close State. Even in the prelim- inary Octaber election of 1868 the Republicarn majority was only 9 , and at the election of the year before the Democrats carried the State by & E)lurflily of 900 votes. Ohio and Indiana remain not merely October States, but closely contested Ktates as well, and the importance of their electoral vote is such that both parties continue to compete for it actively. The Demo- crats went to Ohio for their Vice-Presidential candidate in 1864 and to Indiana for their Vice- Presidential candidate in 1876, 1880 and 1884. In 1888 they went again to Ohio. The Republicans went for their Presidential can- didate to Ohioin 1876 and 1880, and to In- diana in 1888 and 1892. While Ohio has been regarded uniformly as indispensable 1o Republican success, New York State, with New Jersey and Connecticut, has been re- garded as essential to a Democratic triumph. The Democratic ~delegates have shown themselves as solicitous for the electoral vote of New York as the Republicans have been for the vote of OLio, and there has been, therefore, the peculiar speetacle in modern American politics of an almost unbroken suc- cession of residents of New York nominated on the Democratic side, and an_almost un- broken list of residents or natives of Ohio | nominated on the Republican side. Thne political conditions which may be said to confront the two parties this yesr are radi- cally different from those which have existed in times of previous National conventions, | The State of New York, for the first time since the days of William H. Seward, who was New York’s favprite for the Republican nomi- nation at the Chicago convention of 1860, has an earnest and sanguine candidate of its own for the Presidential nomi- nation on the Republican side. In the 1860 convention Mr. Seward received 137 | votes on the first ballot to 102 for Abra- | ham Lincoln and 49 for Salmon P, Chase of Ohio, and was therefore the favorite | candidate. While the Republican arty is visibly stronger in the former doubtful States of ‘the East, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, than it has been at any time for | many years, the success of the Republicans in | their former strongholds of the West is seri- | ously threatened by the defection of the Popu- | lists, who complicated by their action all the most confident propheciés made in 1892. The | Democrats, too, are without any_enforced de- pendence upon doubtful States, East or West, this year, and Illinois and Minnesota seem to promise better results than New Jersey and Maryland. The coutest of 1896 at the conven- tions will be a free-for-all one, as far as prece- dents and past conditions will be involved.— New York Sun. { | | | VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS. The Situation in Yolo. ‘Woodland Mail. Populism is apparently dead in Tolo County. It will be & battle between the two old parties next fall, with the Republicans wellin thelead. Another View. Santa Cruz Record. It is all right, of course, this thing of show- ing bones by the cathode ray, but will some scientist discover a ray for putting meat on them? This is the popular side of it. Progressive Los Angeles. Stockton Mail. A fresh proof of the intelligence and pro- gressive Spirit of the people residing in Los Angeles and its vicinity is afforded by the fact that the scheme in favor of a greater Los An- geles was lately carried at the polls. Why Not Pay the Debt? Los Angeles Times. Regarding the proposition to refund the Pacific railroad debt; if, as the railroad people claim, the property is ample security for the debt now owing the Government, why may not Mr. Huntington borrow the money outside and pay off the obligation, bonding the Central and Southern roads for the necessary amount? Put Only Good Men on Guard. | Gilroy Advocate. It is to be regretted that so many native born Americans and other citizens who have prop- erty and business interests in our towns and cities care so little for civic duties. Positions le:ln oggtgt to he‘ comidered nonou&l%e lne allowed to go ng. Every man wor ) an American mn';t ulnh{mlfl have lnlemgt enough in the government to take his part in litics. We are to blame when our political deals are lowered, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Harry de Windt of London, the noted trav- eler and author, who has arrived here, en route to explore new and wild regions in Alaska and Siberis, and who is at the Palace, said yesterday: “Itis my present intention to form my expe- dition at Mount 8t. Elias, having reached that vicinity by the regular steamer. Then I will attempt to cross that absolutely unknown part of Alaska lying between Mount St. Elias and Cape Prince of Wales, the extreme northwest- ern point of the American continent. “Iunderstand that in crossing Alaska there is little danger from natives, but the extremes of temperature are great and climatic condi- tions terribly severe. “On reaching East Cape, the most easterly part of Asia, which at one time I expected to accomplish largley on the ice, I shall proceed and he is said to be very hospitable and is on good terms with his tenants. Franz von Lenbach, who has just finished another ynrlnit of the Pope, says that his Holinessis greatly interested in Prince Bis- marck. He could not hear enough about the ex-Chancellor from the painter, and ended by ordering a portrait of him. Kate Field says that while she was in Eng- land she was asked in good faith whether the language taught in the public schools of the United States was English or American. * ‘Oh, American,’ I repiied,” says Miss Field. * ‘Eng- lish is a dead language. Itis onlyA le?r‘ned by university men who go in for classics.”” Professor James Seth of Brown University, who has been appointed professor of ethicsin the Sage School of Philosophy of Come_n Uni- versity, was born in Edinburgh in 1860. He Harry de Windt, Now Here, Who Is to Explore Alaska From Mount St. Elias to Cape Prince of Wales, and Siberia From East Cape. (Sketched by a “Call artist.” ] to Ghijiga, a distance of about 1000 miles, thence to Okhotsk, a further stage of 800 miles, and thence to Yaku! “This part of my journey will be performed first by reindeer, then by dogs, snd finally by horses. At Yakutsk I shall proceed, in the summer, by river to Irkutsk, then by post- road to Tomsk, and, by my old route, home, through Russia. Should I reach England safely at the end of 1897, as I expect, I shall have traveled about 22,000 miles; but as this journey has never been attempted, it is impos- sible to say how long it may take to accom plish. “My object in undertaking it is first to ex- plore Alaska in regions unvisited hitherto by Europeans, to make a further study of North- east Siberia, and to ascertain the conditions of political exile at Yakutsk, one of the remotest settlements in Siberia.” | Mr. de Windt says that George Kennan's sto- | ries of maltreatment of Siberian prisoners are greatly exaggerated. “The knout is now completely abolished, and | even the flet is only used on the island of Saghalien,” he said, “where its employment is absolutely necessary for the preservation of | human life. Any one who has seen the vil- lainous ruffians I saw there, living and enjoy ing all the privileges of free and enlightened citizens, would have no difficulty in believing Mr. de Windt is about 40 years old. He has been traveling all his life, has been in nearly all the countries of the globe. He has by the various means of travel, including going afoot, on elephants’ and camels’ backs, by rail, boat and otherwise, compassed hundreds of thou- sands of miles, He will remain in San Fran- cisco probably a week yet. SUMMER IN THE HEART. For all the wintry flakes of frost It’s summer time somewhere— Violets in the v The chilly winds apart— It's summer in the world, my dear, and summer {n the heart, evs, bird songs n the air; have only blown the liy’s lips For all the gray skies glooming it's summer 1 the dells— In the merry song of reapers, fn the tinkle of the ells; The sweet south skies are brightening as with springtime's magic ari— But the sweetest summer, dearest, is the summer in the heart. Still, still the birds are singing and still the groves are green, And still the roses readen and the loyal lilies lean. Love fades not with the season, when summer dnys depart, It's summer still, my dearest, in the FEden of the heart. —Atlanta Constitution. HELPING HOME INDUSTRY. Grass Valley Telegraph. When Charles M. Shortridge took control of the San Francisco CALL he said Pacific Coast interests were to receive first attention. He has maintained that idea all through and has placed THE CALL at the top of the ladder in coast journalism. Not only in newspaper work has THE CALL maintained that idea, but in varions other ways. The steel work for the new CALL building will be furnished by home manufacturers, a contract for 2000 tons of steel beams and girders having been let to the Pa- cific Rolling-mills for the new building. This | move shows the sincerity of THE CALL in its promises and will redound to its credit. THE | CaL1 deserves the success with which it 1s meeting. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. George Brown, a prominent citizen of Brook- lyn, Conn., is a great-grandson of the famous General Putnam. The Prince of Wales has been unanimously re-elected grand master of the Merk Masons for the ensuing year. He will be installed on June 2. Lieutenant Andre, the Swedish officer who is to attempt to go to the north pole in a balloon, has received applications from more than a score of Swedish women who wish to join him in his perilous trip. Canon Gore, in a sermon at Westminster Abbey recently, informed his congregation that much of the Bible must have been taken down in shorthand. He said that the speech of St. Stephen (Acts vil) could only have been recorded in that way. Lord Dunraven is really popular in Ireland. His eppointment as Lord Lieutenant of Lim- erick has given great satisfaction to the Irish. Dunraven lives for several months of the year at Adare Manor, his place in Limerick County, | was graduated at Edinburgh University in | 1881, carrying off all the honor in philosophy, | after which he won the Ferguson philosophical | scholarship, which is open to graduates of all | the Scottish universities. A PRETTY COLLARETTE. The charming collarette shown here is suit. able for either fall or winter wear, as a sepa- rate wrap or over a plain jacket or cepe. | Made of fur or rough cloth witn a frill of | silk it is warm and stylish. Made of tan cloth, with a shaded figure of | black and edged with black chiffon, it is very | chie. | A brilliant green velvet made after this model was trimmed with Persian lamb fur inlong the eage of the collarctte. The ruffle was of velvet, also edged with fur. There was asoft muff to match, this set bem; designed to wear with a black crepon dress for calling. A charming collarette for theater or opera | wear was made of rose-colored velvet, with a frill of chiffon to match seam inside the col- | lar. Sable tails hung at intervals of three inches all around the collarette, over the ruffle, which was of velvet. A plain cioth cape of black may be made very dressy by adding & top of this sort in green velvet, making the frill of black chiffon edged with aninch band of Persian lamb. A top of royal blue velvet edged with sable is also suitable over a black, brown or blue cloth cape. CURRENT HUMOR. The cannibal chief stayed his savage follow- ers with a gesture and addressed the fair cap- tive: *Will you not let us know,’” he said, with extreme courtesy, “to whom we are indebted for this collation?” She bowed her head for the fatal stroke. “My name,” she murmured, “is Trilby.” Oppressed by the dead stiliness that fol- lowed she raised her eyes. She was alone. “And to think,” she twittered, “that I might have Ben Bolted!"—New York Express. Bobbie—Popper, what is & ““bachelor” maid? Mr. Wallace—Er—why —an old maid with money, I guess.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Mother of the only baby on earth—Aren’t you going to kiss him, George? Brother of the mother, etc.—Why not stick a pinin him? He'll howl just as loud for that as he would for me kissing him.—Indianapolis Journal. £ A guest at a Boston hotel, while golng down the elevator, remarked to the colored elevator man: “I want to go to the wharf where the tea was thrown overboard.” “Weil,” said the man, looking mystified, “you'd better inquire at the office; I reckon that was before I came here; I've only been in Boston about a year.” Daughter-—Don’t be angry, papa, becauss this young man is going to marry me and take me away from you. Father—Angry, my darling! Never! But T'll do him harm if he ever does anything that causes you to come back to me again.—Wiener Caricaturer. «Pm perfectly sure that the Robinsons change their servants very often.” “What makes you think s0?” “Why, because I've often noticed that their servants invariably answer the bell the first time it is rung.”—Moonshine. PERSONAL. Fletcher Ryer returned yesterday from Mon- terey. Don A. Pardee of New Orleans arrived here yesterday. J. B. Treadwell, a merchant of Sacramento, is in town. Dr. David Kennedy of Kingston, N. Y., is at the Palace. Dr. A. L. de Souchet of Los Angeles arrived here yesterday. L D. Rub, a merchant of Tuolumne County, is at the Cosmopolitan. Frederic Yates, the artist, expects to visit San Francisco this year. L. J. Cornelius, a Riverside orange-grower, is & guest at the Cosmopolitan. S. 8. Huntley of Yellowstone Park arrived in the City yesterday. He is at the Lick. F.T. Alvord, a railroad man of Wadsworth, Nev.. is stopping at the Cosmopolitan. A. G. Edwards, a merchant of San Diego, with his wife is stopping at the Cosmopolitan. H.Y.von Mark of Germany, who has been for some time in the Orient, isat the Palace. 0. P. Chisholm, a wealthy resident of Boze- man, Mont., is at the Grand, accompanied by his family. J. B. Fuller, the Bank Commissioner, of Marysville arrived here yesterday, and is at the California. W. G. Aver, a well-known stationer and busi- ness man of Grass Valley is visiting in this City for a few days. J. H. Porter of Redding, who has miningin- terests at French Gulch and elsewhere in that section, is in the City. George Stevens, a wealthy gentleman of Mo- line, Ill., is at the Grand, accompanied by his family and several friends. John Garengle of Reading, Pa., is at the Pal- ace. He is accompanied by his wife and son, Lewis Dauth, Miss Katie Dauth and Ella Ar- nold of Reading. Among the prominent figures at the Palace yesterday was ex-Governor Blaisdel of Oak- land, arcund whom was gathered for some time, while the ex-Governor told stories, many of his old friends and acquairtances, 0. C. Goldsmith, a wealtny business man of Lafayette, Ind., and friend of T. H. Goodman of the Southern Pacific, has arrived here, ac- companied by his family and several friends, He is on a tour, and will see the important vlaces in California. The notorious de Toulouse Lutree, who ciaimed to be a Russian count, and was ban- ished some years ago to Siberia for various offenses, and who was here not long ago, is now in New York. He went from San Francisco to St. Louis, but in a little while he was con- strained to move on, and he tackled Chicago' next. But Chicago seerms not to have yielded to his blandishments and he went on to Gotham. A private letter received yesterday by a gentleman here from a friend in New York sald the alleged count had been to see him and had requested certain introauctions, It is needless to say he did not get any. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 28.—Among recent arrivals are: G. Dexter, Coleman; R. H. Morris, St. Cloud; H. D. Kendall, Westminster. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. D1vorces—N. N, City. The law of this State says that divorces are granted for adultery, ex« treme cruelty, willful desertion, willful neglect, habitual intemperance and conviction of felony. FRACTIONAL CURRENCY—Frank, City. The only 25.cent fractional currency for which a premium is offered is the one that is known as “the Fessenden ‘25 on solid bronze.” For such the sum of $2 50 is offered, providing the bill is new and erisp. AN OLD PAPER—C. C. H., Dixon, Cal. The old paper you mention in your communication is probably one of & million fac-simiie of a Pennsylvania paper containing an acconnt of the death of Washington. Were it & genuine ome it would have a value for those who are hunting curios, but & fac-simile has novalue, MANUSCRIPT—RoOy, Santa Cruz, Cal. All manuscript for compositors’ use should be written only on one side of the paper. If you desire to retain the friendship of the con positors write on paper not wider than com- mercial note, but typewritten copy is that which is most preferred by i readers of manu- f printers. script and by the m: LeAP YEAR—C. B, Tracy, Cal. Any of the hundredth years that cannot be divided by 400 is not & leap year, and as 1900 cannot be divided by 400 without a remainder the next leap vear will not be until 1904. The Gregor- ian calendar, established in 1582, then and ever since known as the new style, was so ar- ranged that of the hundredth years to come, only 400 years were to be bisextile years hav- ing 366 days, whereof the year 1600 was the first. Fiest DAY OF THE WEEK—S.,, City. Dif ferent anthorities agree that the first day of the week is Sunday. One authority says: *The name of Sunday or day of the sun belongs to the first day of the week on astrological grounds, and has been so used from far beyond the Christidn era and far outside of Christian countries.”” Another authority says: “Sunday is the first day of the week observed by Chris- tians 1n honor of the resurrection of Christ asa day of rest from secular occupation and devoted to the worship of God.” EXPENDITURES AND REsuLts—J. N. 8, Van- couver, B. C. If we assume a community in which all labor can be employed in remunera- tive work then the employment of $1000 worth of labor to produce only $100 isa loss to the community. If,however, there is much labor un- employed the ex;enditure of $1000 to produce $100 more would be & gain to the community. The $1000 paid out in either case would be neither lost nor gained, but simply transferred from the pocket of the employerto those of the workmen and its potency to employ other la- bor would remain undiminished. The work done at a mine, in which the sum named hss been expended to produce $100, however, would begone, and the solution of the problem depends upon whether in a given community the men who did the work could have been more profitably employed or not. E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street. * D e CALIFORNTA glace fruits, 50c Ib. Townsend's." e SOLID chocolate cream eggs, 2 Se. Townsexd's® —————————— EPECIAL information daily to manufactarers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery- ————e *I don't think I want a cyclopedfs,” said the woman of the howse, “‘but if you hve g0t 81y nice book for children—'" ‘‘Great Scott, madam!” exclaimed the un- Dblushing book agent, “we use this cyclovedia for a children’s book at our house sitogether. They sit on it at the table.”—Chieszo Tribune. THE benefits to be derived from a s00d medicine in early spring is undoubted. To purify the blood, overcome that tired feeling and sain strength take Hood's Sarsaparills. — Dr. SIXGERT'S Angostura Bitters 18 known all over the world as the great regulator of the di- gestive organs. ——————— Ir afiicted with sore eyes use r. [saac Thomp- on’s Eye Water. Lruggists sell it at 25 centa. 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