The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 11, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1896, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Sunday CaLi, one week, by carrier..§0.18 Paty na CaLL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 ALL, §ix months, by mail.. 8.00 “ALL, three months by mail 1.50 ’ALL, oue monih, by mail. year, by mail. WEEKLY CaLL, one BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, Ban Francisco, Californts. Felepbone eieee.. Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Felepbone......... . BRANCH OFFICES : 830 Montgonery street, corner Clay; open untl 9:30 o'clock. B39 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 6W . corner Sixieenth and Mission streets; open anttl § o'clock. 2518 Misslon street; open until o'clock. 116 Ninth sireet; open until 9 0'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: d 82, 84 Park Row, New York City. D M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. .Main-1874 SATURDAY , 1898 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. The final word like the first on the Pa- cific Roads debts should be foreclosure. Leave yourorders to-day for THE StNDAY Cary and you will have good reading to- MOXTOW. Protection and bimetallism can be sep- arated, of courSe, but not with the consent of the West. ‘Whenever Harrity of Pennsylvania talks we hear of the Pattison boom, but other- wise we don’t. Mare Island must bave been named for » speedy mare, for she got there first in the carnival race. Debs 1s like the rest of the world; he wishes peace, harmony, fraternal good will and his own way. Having both the push and the pull Rainey has it in his power to run the Junta machine or stop the works, California has a thousand interests in common with the silver mining States and none in opposition to them. Up to date the engagements of the Cuban war have been hardly more serious then those of a summer hotel. According to reports from Kassala the Abyssinians hive a taking way with them that the Italians cannot res Den't forget thatin your honsehold trad- ing there is always more or less opportu- nity to patronize home industry. Russia may have a hand in the African eoup, but all the other big nations of Europe are in it further than that. The Japan boom seems to have flattened out, and we shall soon hear a great deal about the lacquer work over there. The golabug, the mugwump, the cuckoo and the Clevelandite are four of a kind that couldn’t win in any game known in America. Cleveland is taking his time on the Cuban question. He is not going to risk a war until he knows where he cangeta substitute. It is now clear that a genuinely protec- tive tariff measure would have had a bet- ter chance in the Senate than the Dingley compromise, From all reports the festival counties are finding the election of queens one of the best parts of the frolic and they are mak- ing the miost of it. The Greeks are playing their games well enough at any rate to keep the visitors entertained, and that is the game that wins in the long run. The Senate has reduced the House ap- propriations for the navy by something more than $367,000, and just to that extent has deformed the bill. A free harbor at Los Angeles would be a benefit to the whole State, but any other kind would benefit only the monopoly and tighten the cinch on the people. As the West stands firmly for protection to the factories of New England, so the people of New England should favor the development of the mines of the West, The Sultan promises that our mission- aries in Armenia will not be molested so long as they conform to the law, but he ought to promise also to reform the law g little. The report of an attempt to mob Fitz- simmons don’'t go. The champion must devise a better system of advertising him- self or give up the job of elevating the stage. The success of the revived Olympic games has been sufficient to insure their repetition, and next year there should be some Pacific Coast champions among the winners, The bankers of Maryland have seen fit to announce that they are unalterably opposed to the free coinage of silver, and perhaps the information is of value to somebody. England has given no assurance that she will not go further up the Nile than Don- gols, and on the other band she has given no guarantee that she will go even that far on this trip. The Kansas court that granted a divorce in forty-five seconds may have broken the record, but the chances are it ulso broke the rules, and the case shouldn’t be al- lowed to count. Mantle’s first sgeech in the Senate has the right ring to it, and shows that the young West has another champion in Congress to maintain its cause with cour- age and eloquence. Mr. Huntington’s re-election as presi- dent of the Southern Pacitic Company gives him another chance to reform his methods, but perhaps he is averse to tak- 1ng such chances. There seem to be a few self-styled Re- publicans in the East who do not under- stand that mining and shipping as well as factories must come within the scope of Republican protection. Senator Turpie raises the curious objec- tion to the Cuban resolutions that while they speak of intervention they do not say on which side the United States should in- tervene. But how could it be an interven- tion if it were on one side? SENATOR MANTLE'S SPEECH. While the speech of Senator Lee Mantle will hardly have the effect of causing any further attempt at the enactment of tariff legislation at this session of Congress. it lu_: at any rate served the gona purpose of making clear to Eastern men the atti- tude of Western Republicans on tke allied subjects of protection ‘and bimetallism. It shows, moreover, that the Western Senators who voted against the Dingley tariff bill did so not because of any lack of devotion to the principle of protection, but, on the contrary, because they were too loyal to that principle to accept the compromise offered them. The Republicans of the West advocate a 3ystem of governmental protection to American interests that will be sufficiently comprehensive to include them all. They demand the fostering aid of the Nation for mining and for shipping as well as for factories. They desire to see the silver in- dustry promoted and our merchant marine built up as well as any other department of American labor. In carrying out this desire they do not intend to favor the in- terests of one section of the Union to the exclusion of those of another, but to ade- quately and impartially foster them all. The support given by Western Re- publicans to the silver industry is in no sense antagonistic to the protection of Eastern factories. It is, in fact, distinotly iriendly to such protection. As Senator Mantle well said in the course of his argv- ment, without bimetallism no protective tariff short of an absolute prohibition of foreign imvorts can sufticiently guard the industries and the welfare of the working- men of this country against the competi- tion that 1s coming from China and Japan. In addition, therefore, to the fact that the silver-mining industry has as just a claim for favorable legislation from the Govern- ment as any other industry, there is the further argument to be urged for it that only through the remonetization of silver can we hope for the protection of any of our greater industries at all. The Republicans of the West are not fanatics on the subject of silver. They ask for that great industry, however, a rightful treatment at the hands of the Government. They do not set up bi- metallismm against protection, as was charged by some of the goldbug papers, but for protection. Their platform of poli- cies is for an American system comprehen- sive enough to include the interests of all Americans, one that wiil serve to promote the welfare of the Nation by advancing the industries ot every class of workers whether on farms or factories or mines, or in ships upon the sea. A HARBOR OF REFUGE. Captain C. F. Swan, master of the bark Theobald, has published in Tme Cirv some eminently sensible suggestions affecting the proposition of improving a harbor in the southern part of the State. After pointing out the dangerous nature of the coast of California, the scarcity of | harbors, the inshore storms of winter and | the great difficuity of sending assistance | through the breakers in the event of dis- tress or disaster, he says that there is need of aharbor of refuge into which passing vessels may put when disabled or threat- ened by storms. Such a harbor should be in a place where the danger of approach- ing it is no greater than that of the place in which the vessel may be. For this reason he thinks that San Pedro Is prefer- able to Santa Monica, by reason of the nature of its bottom, an outside protecting reef and the effect of the coast islands in breaking the force of heavy seas. He makes another suggestion that is new and very veluable. It is that in an open roadstead like that at Santa Monica, with a beach and bottom of a quicksand | character and with no channel for confin- ing the flow of the tides, there will be an absence of the scouring effect of the tides in maintaining the original depth, and the ground swell will inevitably bank the sand against both sides of the proposed breakwater, transforming it into a penin- sula and constantly tending to fill up the protected area. All these matters seem perfectly reasonable, though whether this practical navigator knows of instances where this has already occurred he does not say. The suggestion certainly invites attention. However, the whole question probably resolves itself into that of Mr. Hunting- ton’s influence in Congress as weighed against that of all the other considerations in the matter. An exactly similar state of affairs exists with regard to the funding bill, and we have seen that thus far Mr. Huntington’s private interests have had a powerful influence. Neither that ques- tion nor the one of an appropriation for San Pedro has been finally settled, and the railroad’s power in Congress may not in the end prove as strong as it looks. There is ground for hope so long as the people of California make an earnest stand in defense of the right and of the conditions under which their prosperity and progress are possible. TRITE BUT TIMELY WORDS. Timely ana well worth heed are the words uttered by C. N. Holden of Chicago, a large handler of California fruit. The point he makes is not a new one, but it carries weight by reason of its source. Mr. Holden is in California to ascertain the condition of the fruitcrop. Speaking of the fruit industry he said: “It is a fact that to-day really fine canned fruit is unobtainable at first hands, while poorer goods are a drug. Great care means a smaller product, greatly increased consumption, and cousequently higher prices. Those canners who have devoted their attention to the production of fine goods are prosperous as a rule, while the failures in every instance of which I am aware have been those who made quantity the object and not quality. This is equally true of dried fruit.”” It requires some courage for the grower to deliberately thin out the promising fruit on his trees in ordér to make that re- maining of more value, but it is only more general adoption of the policy of improving the fruit that will enable the grower to retain and extend his market. It is not alto gether a matter of obtaining a good price to-day. By careful attention to the cultivation, preparation and pack- ing of orchard products not only are bet- ter returns assured to all concerned but a prestige is acquired that grows more and more valuable with each succeeding sea- son. Where competition has to be met this is no inconsiderable factor. There is no valid reason why preserved fruits, jams, jellies, etc., from FEurope should command higher prices and be in greater demand among the class of people who can afford to indulge in‘luxuries than similar goods produced within our State. The quality of the imported article can certainly be matched if not excelled by the native produet, The fault then must lie simply in the lack of proper care—first in cultivating, then in preparing and finally in packing. All these are matters easy of remedy, only requiring the application of inteltigénce.” = ° his own country, so their words of advice and warning have not been heeded to the extent they deserved. Coming now from one who is in position to talk with au- thority and to emphasize his words by withholding his coin, the suggestion will Pprobably be more generaliy taken to heart and acted upon. A BSINGULAR ACCIDENT. The reputation for security against storms which the harbor of San Francisco has always horne might suffer from the extraordinary catastrophe which occurred on Thursday unless a thorouga under- standing of the circumstances is acquired. A stanch sailing vessel of the latest type and made of stesl capsized in the safest part of the bay, with a number of tugs close at hand and while lying at anchor. So strange a coincidence of s0 many ci cumstances bringing on the disaster will likely never occur again, as they have never occurred in this busy port before. The whole story is this: The ship was lying in very light earth ballast undergo- inga cleaning. A sharp squall sprang up from the southwest at an hour when a heavy flood tide was running, and as the wind and tide were counter they caught the ship between them. Besides being in very light ballast the vessel carried an un- usually heavy load of spars aloft. While the wind was bearing down upon these on one side the tide was urged against the hull on the other. The anchors did the rest. The ship capsized and six men at work in the hold were drowned. Apparently the danger was evident to all who saw the vessel except those on board, A tugboat ran up and profferea assistance, but that was declined. The captain was an experienced sailor and knew the harbor to be safe. The only er- ror—one that many a sailor might have committed—was in failing to take into ac- oount all the circumstances at work. These were the light ballast, the heavy load aloft and the combined action of the wind and tide. The extraordinary feature of the disaster is that all these factors should have been present at once. Even as it was the dccident was not necessary. The bay was full of ships and not another suffered the slightest damage or ran the least dan- ger. Not even an anchor was dragged. The squall was by no means a storm. The accident in no sense indicatesany insecur- ity of the harbor. “THE SUNDAY CALL" ‘While boasting is not a part of TrE CaLv’s policy or an element of its success, the paper has so deep an interestin the welfare of California that it feels justitied in calling especial attention to its Sunday editions, believing that their usefulness in assisting its desire to make the State bet- ter known, both to its residents and to strangers, will be duly appreciated. The Sunday edition of a great daily newspaper must contain many things of universal interest, as distinguished from affairs of local importance, in order that its readers may find everything essential to a com- plete understanding of the great busy world of which we are a part. This idea is regarded in those departments of THE SuxpaY CALL which deal with literature, science, art, fashions and the broad in- terests which concern all the centers of world-building activity. But California is always kept in mind. It is the most various and interesting sub- ject that humap intelligence can treat. ‘What more eloquent topic could be imag- ined than one that involves the prosperity and happiness of thousands, even though it may look commonplace in print? And yet in to-morrow’s issue of THE CaLL there will appear an articie on the cultivation of the sugar beet in California and the possibilities residing in the industry. A proper understanding of it would promote buman happiness infinitely more thgn could some transient novel that has caught the popular fancy. There is to be another story about the boring of wells in California—dull to mention, but eloquent in its promises, seeing that the ground upon which we walk has yielded so rich treasures in the ast. pThere are other things of that kind, but for those of divergent tastes feasts in variety are spread. For instance, a won- derful man who has descended upon us, Naphtaly Herz Imber, Hebrew poet and mystic, sounder of the secrets of the Cabbala, is to bediscussed with a thorough- ness not common hereabout. Adeline Knapp "will present an inter- esting phase of what is known as animal instinct. Euphemia Burton will have something to say about the inti- mate life of interior Japan. W. C. Morrow, inspired by the picturesque attitude of a distinguished millionaire recently a visitor here, will have something that may prove interesting to people who do not like to be interviewed. An un- commonly strong chaoter of history in which we are all interested will be told in an article entitled ‘A Sea Fighter."” This ought to be sufficient as an indica- tion of what may be expected in to-mor- row's CaLL. Of course a great many Eastern people might like to read the paper, but it ’s difficult to see how they can be accommodated unless their friends in California send it to them. THE WOOL INDUSTRY. “T, M.,” a correspondent writing from this City, asks THE CALL what effect the removal of the tariff on wool has had on the industry of this country and whether England bas benefited. The question an- swers itself. In order to realize that the wool industry must have suffered one has only to observe the extremely low prices at which woolen goods are selling, and to reflect that the difference between present prices and those formerly ruling is much greater than the profit which American wool producers and manufacturers were enjoying before the tariff on wool was abolished. If that argument should not appear self-evident it may be reflected that under a free tariff the low wages of England are the factor determining the present prices in this country, and that these wages are insufficient for American operatives. They can fare better as com- mon laborers, for laborers receive better wages in this country than skilled opera- tives in England. In eddition to these manifest principles there are concrete facts showing them to be true. These are so numerous that it is impossible to present them all. Let us take the case of the Angora woolen and cotton manufacturing concern of Phila- delphia, which recently suspended opera- tions. It was giving employment to 400 operatives, and has been a feature of Phil- adelphia for forty years. The repeal of | the McKinley law threw the proprietors into straits, as they could not offer, nor could their operatives accept, the low wages paid in Kngland. The owners struggled manfully, hoping for the repea! of the free-trade law and the imposition of a reasonable tariff. At last they warecom- pelled to succumb. and this deprived some 2000 persons of a livelihood. One of the managers of the mills gave this explanation: “Ever since the repeal Mr. ‘Holden’s criticism has been made at gatherings of organized fruit men; but, as a prophet is ‘said to have no honor in of the MeKinley tariff we have been strug- gling azainst fate. The enormous importa- ons of foreign woolen goods under the = reduced tariff has not only compelled us meantime to reduce wages, but to sell our goods at such ruinously low prices that we bave run at a loss and been unable to muintain our business, We have tried hard tokeep it for the benefit of our em- ployes and their families in the hope that we should puil through until a Republican tariff should be restored, but we have been unable to do this, even at great personal sacrifice, and nothing remains but a neces- sity for suspension.’’ 3 This is only one of numerous instances. The Philadelphia concern was one of the oldest and soundest in the country, and bence its suspension is exceptionally sig- nificant. The wonder is that any woolen- mills are still running or that any wool is produced in the United' States. The ex- vlanation of the fact that all of tliem have not suspended is the vast amount of capi- tal invested in the industry and tbe hope that the Republicans will impose a pro- tective duty. It is cheaper to run at & loss fora time than to sacrifice all this capital by abandoning the industry. Of course England has profited in exact proportion to ourloss. Thus the profits of Lister & Co., propriecors of the Maning- ham Mills, Bradford, England, were $75,~ 115 in 1894, when there was a tariff on wool, and $366,910 in 1895, after the tariff had been removed. Another Bradiord company, that of A.S. Henry & Co., lim- ited, had a profit of $319,550 in 1894 and of $478540 in 1895. All other English manufacturers taking American orders prospered similarly. Bradford sent us $6, 577,675 more of woolen coatings alone in 1895 than in 1894, and of all goods $20,000,- 000 more, showing that we have suffered and England has gained in proportion to the reductions which we made in our tanff charges. - As the tariff was entirely re- moved from wool our loss and England’s gain in that item is nearly one-third of the whole. PERSONAL. Dr, Todd of Stockton is on a visit here. E. W. Merrill of Denver has arrived here. J. Tombs of Grafton, N. D., is in the City. Ex-Congressman Louttit is on a visit here. Dr. C. C. Gleaves of Redding is at the Grand. General R. L. Peeler of Sacramento is in town. L. N. Shipper, the millionaire, of Stockton is here. The Rev. C. Ben-Ham of Napa is at the Ocei- dental. Manuel Lizarraga of Mexico City is at the Palace. James T. Meagher of Signal Ridge is at the Baldwin. A. J. Smith, a business man of Astoris, is at the Russ. Judge §. Solon Holl of Sacramento arrived here yesterday. William Arthur Dupee of Boston arrived here yesterday. Dr. Bush of Fortuna arrived yesterday and is at the Grand. J. Randolph, a mining man of Cripple Creek, is at the Occidental. T.G. Hawkins of England is among the ar- rivals at the Palace. R. D. Hatch, the prominent dairyman of No- vato, is at the Grand. F. 8. Taggart, librarian of the Stanford Uni- versity, is in the City. H. Campbell Nelson of England is among the arrivals at the Palace. John J. Lewis of Dunedin, New Zealand, is among recent arrivals. Tony Bright, a livery-stable owner of Los Angeles, is at the Russ. A. Montgomery, a business man of Ukiah, is registered at the Grand. J. Jerome Smith, the merchant of Stockton, is here on s business trip. John Merchant of Walla Walla is at the Lick, accompanizd by his family. g Edward Seifert, 8 member of the Chicago Board of Trade, is at the California. Dr. J. Wood, medical director in the navy, stationed at Mare Island, is in the City. H. I. Finger of Santa Barbara, member of the State Board of Pharmacey, is in the City. Deputy State Comptroller W. W. Douglass is down from Sacramento, and is at the Grand. Professor William H. Hudson of the chair of English literature, Stanford Unlversitz, is in town. J. Archie Russell, son of the great ship- builder of Port Glasgow, Scotland, arrived here yesterday. G. W. Boggs, the big land-owner and exten- sive farmer, of Tracy, arrived here yesterday. He is at the Russ. Dr. C. G. Cargill of the San Juan Islands, in Puget Sound, near the coast of Washington, has arrived here. Daniel R, Cameron, president of the Chicago Board of Education, arrived here last night after several days at Monterey. John W. Robertson, & wealthy resident of Denver, who is interested in mines in different parts of Colorado, is at the Palace. R. G. Barton, the noted vineyardist of Fresno, is at the Occidental. He is one of the owners of the Fresno Opera-house. Mr.snd Mrs. J. J. O'Brien are passing a short time in the southetn part of the State, where Mr. O'Brien’s firm has a large branch store. ; Oliver Williams, 8 mining man of Denver, is at the Palace, accompanied by Mrs, Williams, Miss W. E. Andrus and Master Ben 0. Wil- liams. Captain J. M. Reuck of the Stockton Even- ing Mail, and one of the proprietors of the new and sprightly weekly, the Stockton Graphic, is visiting a few days in this City. James F. Wardner, thenoted Western mining men, has returned from Jackson and other parts of Amador County, where he went in re- gard to the purchase of tailings, A.Doolittle, the mine-owner of Happy Hollow Shasta County, is at the Russ. He brought down no less than 25 pounds of gold with him, the product of his mines. The gold is worth in the neighborhood of $6000. It wasa big load to carry. Mrs. N. B. McWhirter of Fresno, widow of the journalist whose life was insured for some $40,000, which amount the courts have after a struggle of years decided must be paid, ar- rived here last night, accompanied by her children. The lady is at the Grand. Harry M. Gillig surprised his friends by dropping in on them last might. His coming from New York had not been announced, and when he put his name down on the register a number of his old acquaintances came forward to meet him. He went atonce to one of the clubs. Commodore Harry M. Gillig of the Larch- mont (New York) Yacht Club, and tho owner of the well-know yacht Ramona, arrived in Ban Francisco yesterday from Arlzona and im- mediately paid his respects to the owl at the Bohemian Club. Mr. Gillig was recently re- elected commodore of the Larchmont Ciub for another year. He will remain in California for two weeks or more. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 10.—At the Murray Hill, C.F. MacDermott, G. H. Evans; Grand, J. R. Maitland; Park avenue, B. J. Strauss; Hoffman, A. Goldberg: Imperial,W.F. Goodye; St. Denis, L. Peircele and wife; Warwick, Mrs. J. B. Roberts; Belvedere, Mra. and Miss Ma- terna; St. Cloud, J. W. Rice. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. Vexed Mother — James, how many more times must I tell you to stop making that ation 0 f abardonmentor a grant thereof, executed noise ? James—I'll leave that to your own judgment, ma.—Philadelphia North American, “She gave me the glad hand.” “How about her father 7" “Oh, he gave me the glad foot.”—New York ‘World, Now the timid, doubting suitor, By Professor Roentgen's art, May, before he speaks, discover It she has & marble heart. AROUND THE CORRmbRS. Colonel J. J. Nunan, the journalist, of Stock- ton, one of the proprietors of the Stockton Mail, was among the conspicuous figures in the corridors of the Occidental yesterday. It is almost sixteen years since Colonel Nunan and E. L. Colnon, now president of the State Harbor Commission, founded the Mail. Mr. Colnon-had been a newspaper man in Nevada. Colonel Nunan had been in California for nine years, but had not engaged in journalism here. The paper went right along, and slmost from the start was a success. It killed off the Her- 8ld, the rival paper, which had run for twen- ty-five years. One of 1ts features was the'spicy “Undertaker” letters from San Francisco, which appeared for a long time exciusively in the Mail. John Paul' Cosgrove, the widely known writer, now of THE CALL, was for nearly three years owner of a third interest in it with Messrs. Nunan and Coluon. He came in three to his wish, but, the Quakers objecting, his re- mains were_buried on his farm in New Ro- chelle. In 1819 William Cobbétt, the English radical, an admirer of Paine, violated the grave and took the bones to Iiverpool. His reason for this act was that he believed that the republican notions he had would louenx thereby, but in that he was mistaken. On the occasion of the removal of the bones Byron wrote: In di up your bones, Tom Paine, Vi Cobbett has done wells He visited you on earth again; You'll visit him in —. Historians disagree as to what finally was doue with the bones of Paine. One says that they were reinterred in Liverpool, another says that they remained in the cusiody of Gob- bett until his death and then passed into the ossession of his son, who retained them until 1856, when he went ‘into_bankruptey and the bones were seized for debt and thatin 1844 they were in the charge of & Mr. Tilly ; another seys that they were removed to France and that they are now under the soil. In 1829 a monument to the memory of Paine was erected T / 'mlllf‘".‘y"'“ Colonel J. J. Nunan, One of the Editors and Proprictors of the Stockton Evening Mail. [Sketched from life by Partington.] months after it started, and for the entire time he was there did the whole of the local work. He s0ld out to go elsewhere. The Mail has had such a lusty growth that now two Mergenthaler type-setting machines are necessary, and have been ordered. They are expected to be delivered Aprill7. The | paper is also 10 have a complete new dress, and | will be enlarged, and otherwise improved. It will come out in its new form about May 1. Colonel Nunan talked about Stockton yester- day, of which city he 1s an earnest and en- | thusiastic advocate. He says it isin a very | steady and financially solid condition in every way, and as for the region about it, that is in the best possible shape. “The census of 1890,” said the colonel, showed that Stockton had 14,500 peopte, but thisdid not include the additions. We esti- mate now that with the additions we have from 18,000 to 20,000 as & population. Busi- ness there is very fair, and the feeling is hope- ful. Nothing retards Stockton but the finan- cial condition which is general. But the city is in the center of a great grain and fruit coun- try. The wheat crop, as nearly everybody is aware, is enormous. The large mills there aro going all the time, and a large amount of flour is sent steadily to Chfua and elsewhere. “Crop prospects in San Joaquin Countyr were never so gooc. The rains have fallen just when we needed them, There have been twelve in all this winter. ““As for the Corral Hollow Railroad, it is now abouit completed. The cars are there, and I expect to see the track in shapeand trainsrun- ning in about six weeks. The coal will come in then, and I Jook for it to be of great value to Btockton. Itcanbe delivered socheaply that it will be an inducement to other manufactur- ers to locate there. Itisa question whether electricity can compete with it. It will be a good, cheap coal, and can be bad there for $2 50 a ton. It will be an important epoch in Stockton’s history when this twenty-six miles of the Corral Hollow road is finished. We will then have two roads and be in a condition to advance more rapidly than before.” Colonel Nunan left for his home in San Joa- quin last night. A REIGN OF TERROR. ‘there is horror too prolific in the jargon scien- tific which disturbs the mood pacific Of the ordinary man, In these awful tales that thrill us of a bugaboo bacillus that is hiding near to kil us, 1f by any chance it can. Not a single chance it misses; it is lurking in our blisses: itis even in the kisses That delight & leap year dream. In the alr are microbes floating; in the water they ure gloating, fiendish vigilance devoting To their weird, malicious scheme. Oh, ye philosophic sages, we were happy all these ages while these animals outrageous Unsuspected flourished bere; And although just for the present we withstand their siege incessant we run other risks unpleasant, For we're almost dead with fear. —Washington Star. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. POLLTAX—3584—1. 8., City. The law passed at the last session of the Legislature says that the polltax must be collected between the first Monday in March and the first Monday in De- cember. The Assessor claims the right to gar- nishee a man’s wages if ho does not Pay on de- mand at the time he makes the demand. HOMESTEAD DECLARATION—J. D., City. If & husbend makes a gift of & piece of property to his wife, it becomes her separate property. The law of this State on the subject of home- steads says: The homestead cannot be gelected from the separate properiy of the wife without her cousent. suown by ber making the declaration of home- st In order to select a homestead the husband or other' head of a family. or in cage the husband has not made such selection, the wife must execute and acknowledge, in Lhe same manner as @ _grant of real estate is acknowledged, a declaration of homestead and file the same for record. A homestead caz be abandoned only by a declar- and acknowiedzed by claimant is married. What the eftect of the application of the law 10 certain facts would be is a mattér that you will have to consult an attorney about, as your znemon asks for & legal opinion, which this the busband and wife if the at New Rochelle, within a few feet of where buried. his remains were fir: Two EDWARD O'BR Alameda, Cal. i merchant vessels of the United States, Bureai of Navigation, Treasury Department, Washing- ton, D. C., shows that there are and have been for years ““two full-rigged shipsin the United States merchant marine bearing the same name.” There is the Edward O’Brien, length 300 feet, of 1803 tons, built in 1863 at Thom- aston, Maine, and the Edward O'Brien, 259.1 feet long, 2270 tons and built at Thomaston, Maine, 1882. Both vessels were afloat and in service in the year 1895. LADY'S WAIST, SURPLICE EFFECT. A graceful shape is here shown, which is used for silk, wool or cotton fabrics. Itis especially adapted for combinations of fabrics. A dressof dark blue mohair had the yoke top of embroidered batiste of flax color. The de- fldings up in the corridor of the Parliament bu! in London. The statue is the unsatisfactory work of a sculptor named Gilbert. The Hartford Courant claims thatthe Widow Watson of Harticrd, who did business in that place about 120 years ago, was the first woman editor in this country. The lady the owner, editor and publisher of the Courant. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES. If the Quay boom were a Pennsylvania oil well we should say that it needed shooting.— Detroit Tribune. The McKinley boom has encountered its first serious danger. The campaign poets have taken it up.—Buffalo Express. Mr. Reed has already made enough of a showing in this campaign to have his rights as a pelligerent fully recognized.—Washington Star. In estimating his strength atSt. Louls Mr. Quay shows a strong inclination to count those delegates he allowed to get away.—Chicago Times-Herald. It will not be mecessary for Mr. Cullom to purchase one of those counting machines in order to keep track of his delegates. A child can count them.—Chicago Post. Ex-Governor Boies of Iowa is characterized by his friends as “the great commoner”; but ne can’t possibly be any commoner than his party,—St, Louis Globe-Demogcrat. Benator Davis got ahead of Senator Cullom in the mnttexl:i tegllns his State that he would rather not be President than to get the nomi. nation against 1ts wishes.—St. Louis Globe. Democrat. Amos Cummings announces that New York will present no name for the consideration of the Chicago convention. Possibly Mr. Cleve- 1and’s name will be presented by Senator Till- man.—New York Press. Mr. Carlisle is suspected of having thatletter of Mr. Cleveland’s concealed somewhere about his person. Will somebody kindly turn the cathodic ray on the gentleman and end the suspense?—Pittsburg Chronicle. Ifthereis anything in composite photography Allison must be the coming Republican candi. date. A composite photograph of all the past Presidents of the United Stateh since Washing- ton, exhibited in a Chestnui-street window, looks more like Allison than any one yet named for the Republican or Democratic nome inations—in fact, strikingly like tnhe favorite son of Iowa.—Philadelphia Times. EXTRA firie chocolates at Townsend’s, Palace.* SRl bands SoFT baby cream, 15¢ pound, Townsend’s. * el ey e el CREAM mixed candies, 25¢1b, Townsend's. * G Tl Mrs. Alice E. Cram, a Boston contrw(;&l;,;u ecured the contract for supplying 40, ns ;f uutonn to be used in alewyn(n the tracks of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail. msg in Boston. There were dozens of other bidders. STRANGERS, call and see our display of “Calls fornia Glace Fruits,’ 50 cents pound, in Japs anese baskets. Townsend’s, 627 Market street.® EPECIAL information daily to manufsotursty, business houses and public men by the Press Clivping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * — THE N. P. C. R. R,, via Ssusalito ferry, have no Sunday picnics on their line, thus affording families and private parties an opponumay t0 visit the country without being snnoyed by overcrowded boats ana noisy crowds. ' —_——— Read Barry’s ‘‘Star.”” Contains Rabbi Voorsanger omn ‘“‘scab” missionary work; exposure of Almshouse cruel- ties; John H, Burk’s “hotshots”; ex-Judge Corrupt Dennis J. Toohy handled without loves ; Rev. B. F. Hudelsen, the A. P.A.PD fitical brtokster, exposed, etc: “We have a lovely whist club,” she seid art- lessly. ‘‘We made a rule that any eirl whe &poke should pay & penny into the ireasury for every word she uttered.” “Quite ingenious.” “Yes; but I don't belong to it any more.” “Why not " “Pa says he can’t afford it.”—O0dds and Ends. “I BAVE ound Hood's Pills unequaled. I always keep them in the house and recommend themto my friends.” Mrs. Vernon Upton, 733 Pine st., San Francisco, Cal. e e NORTHERN PACTFIC WEEKLY OVERLAND Ex- CURSIONS leave San Francisco and Sacramento every Tuesdsy evening. Take the Northern Pa- cific to all points East. Lowest rates 1o Minne- sota and Dakota points. Upholstered tourist-cars, Puliman palace and dining cars on all tralns. Two fast through tralns dally; time to Chicago short- ened six hours. - For tickets and' {nformation call on'T. K. Stateler, 638 Market street, San Francisco. SRS e Tz bost reguiator of the digestive organs and the best appetizer known is Dr. Siegert’s Angos- tura Bitters. Try it. ——————— “BrowxN’'s BRONCHIAL TEOCHES” will quickly relieve Bronchitls, Asthma, Catarrh and Throat Disesses. Sold only in boxes. sign was very open and displayed the lining of grass green silk. The sleeve trunming was of embroidery to match; turn up cuffs of the fine embroidery over green silk finished the waist. Trwo-toned stk in black and rose color made a handsome waist to wear with a black satin or erepon skirt. The trimming was ot black guipure. A dark green boucle canvas cloth had a yoke of white satin with yellowish lace over it. A blue and black silk of stiipes fully half an’ inch wide had the yoke of Silk with the stripes running crosswise. were of bltslck_ chdmon.t triped cottons make up_effectivel this model. The sleeve cape beicg eus o srer tlons, the stripes marking in' points at the seams, makes a trimming complete in itself, The waist is made with a fitted lining which hooks in_ front. Over this the yoke top is hooked at the left shoulder and arm size, the surplice also hooking over on the left side. ‘The sleeves are the popular and stylish bishop shape, and may be finished with & plain band or flaring cufl. The collar of ribb fitted colfu which hooks in the lmngn teonx The sleeve capes e PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Poet Laureate Austinis said tobe so much annoyed at the criticisms passed unon his off. cial verse that he contemplates resigning. The young King of Spain recently described an island to his geography teacher as “‘a body of land almost entirely occupied by insur- gents.” The nearest living relative of Professor Roentgen, the discoverer of the X ray, is sajd to be his first cousin, the Rev. Dr. J. H. © Roentgen, pastor of the First Reformed Chiurch of Cleveland. A Chifrehs John Bright's sons have asked for the Temo- valof the statue of their father recently set __If you want a sure " limbs, use an le partment does not give. . THOMAS PAINE'S REMAINS—A. S., Jamestown, Tuolumne County, Cal. Thomas Paine, the suthor famous for his connection with the American and French revolutions, died in New Rochelle, N. Y., June 8, 1809, end was to have . Indianapolis Jourpal. - § been buried in & Quaker cemetery according BEAR IN MIND—Not one NEW TO-DAY. REAL ESTATE FOR BALE BY Thos. Magee & Sons, REAL ESTATE AGENTS And’ Publishers “Real Estate® Circular. 4 Montgomery Street, UNION TRUST BUALDING, CORYER MARKET. NEW PROPERTY: Business corner, 9th and Howard; 5 stores and flats, rents $242, only $46,600; 100 on 9th by 61: on Howard, Six well-bullt 2-story houses, 7 rooms and bath each; rents in all §186; only $25,500; Howard st., corner near 9th. Four fine flats, corner Howard, near 9tn, 41:3x 100: rents $72; only $11,00. Bush st., near Fillmore; 27x137:6 and fine 2- story and basement house. 10 rooms and bath and modern conveniences; very sunny ; $5500. $25 ‘ottage and’ basement, fine garden, eto. lot 26x114; bei. Sanchez and Noe. Tremont uvenue, 75x80, $3000; near Frederick st.; fine view. INVESTMENTS. Downtown_brick building; to one tenant for 15 _v;;r‘lwlof $285: 135 blocks morthof Market st.; Best wholesale district; very close to Markat st,: ;n'lck bmld(l'l;l)t‘(]lnd lot 46x137:6; rents $335 under lease; $60, California st.; best wholesale investment; largs lot and brick building: rents $585; $95.000. Grant-ave. business property; rents $490; cl to Market st. B L o Sixteenth-st. business corner on best part of the SiFeets Jarge lot and good 2-stary bullding in siores; Cheap: rents $200; reduced rent: fine mvest- ment: N.of Market st.: ouly 200 feet from Markets downtown on a growing street; large 1o and well- bullt 4-story bailaing. MISCELLANEOUS PROPERTY. 24th and Chattanooga sts., corner: 117:6x685 to an alley and fair 2-story: oniy §7500. Octavia st., west side. bet. Broadway and Vall- eio; 25x112:6; two-story, 8 rooms, in very good order: fine view of bay; street bituminized; only $6000, easy terms. Jackson st., bet. Fillmore and, Stelner, north side; 85x187:6 and two-s:ory modérn residence, 10 rooms and afl conveniences; $8000. 1182500; 25x114 and rear cottage: rents $18; § rooms: 23d st., near San Jose &ve.; street ao- cep! A dargain: $5000 for 181 feet front; 50 feat on Washington, 81 on Jackson, running th Cherry st and First e sl o #7550, °0" Fuse and Clayton sts.; 62:6x113; Geary st., north side, near in: K I3 bulldings o tront and rn.; llafll:r:k‘g“ Jop x1205 5000 only each; 3 lots, 27 Dborth side. \mento at.. bet. g:'moc “.’.‘;.‘:‘1.‘1*,.2‘5 i oy : st., north side; magnificent view: 27:6x 187:6; oniy $2100: bet, 157:6: o7 S2100: bet. Scow and | Devisaders relief for ~ains ia the back, side, chest, or Allcock’s tions is as good -as the ..,@:_‘theh#ot_wmg.mm