The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 26, 1896, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 1896, CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES-Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier. .§0.15 Daily sud Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily and funday CA1y, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Daily and Sunday CALZ, three months by mafl 1.50 Dally and Sunday Cazr, oue mouth, by mail. .65 Bunday CAL1, one year, by mail.. WEEKLY CALI, one year, by mail THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the conntry on a vacation? T¢ 90, it I8 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to our address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given o tho carrier or left 8t Business Office will receive prompt attentions K0 EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone eeee..Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517% Clay Street. Felephone.... <ieeeer. Main=1874 BRANCH OFFICES : 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open untll $:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkia stree: ypen until 9:30 o'clock. ®W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open mntil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 118 Ninth sireet; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. PRIL 26, 1886 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. — Predict fair weather, but don’t bet on it. Back of the longest storm there isal- ways our genial climate. The hotel men should stay with us long enough to see the clouds roll by. Los Angeles did well, but popular inter- est now turns to the next festival. After the rain there will be lots of hay for the makers when the sun shines. Eastern experts are predicting this will be a great year for bicyciers because spring came in as a scorcher. If there were no knaves in the syndicate bond deai somebody in the administration was one of the biggest fools that ever held office. Strong men who lift horses will soon be back numbers. There is a fellow expected at a New York circus who promises to lift a full-grown elephant. It is reported that Embassador Bayard is undergoing treatment in London for deafness, and perhaps he hasn’t yet heard thas resolution of censure. It is worth noting that the Britich treas- ury statement showing a surplus made no mention of the claim for indemnity which Kruger put on file some time ago. From the quietness of the Soudan it seems the dervishes have decided to wait for the British, and the British have con- cluded to let them wait indefinitely. The latest political term to come into use in the East is “goddlewoddle,” and is used to signify a ciass of statesmen of whom Cleveland is a shining example. The language of Carlisle's speech at Chicago was addressed to workingmen, but the sentiment and argument went home to the golabugs and stayed there, Senator Allen of Nebraska having de- clined to be a candidate for the Populist Presidential nomination, perhups Mrs, Lease of Kansas may be man enough to try. No Democrat has as yet begun an open contest for the Presidential nomination, but a good many of them are urging their friends to make a point of dropping in at Chicago. There are some people who prophesy we shall have six Presidential tickets in the field this year and all of them red hot, except the Prohibitionist of course, which wiil stick to cold wate: According to George Gould the greatest needs of the country at this time are the fixed establishment of the gold standard and more favorable legislation to railroads, and if be wishes to rn for President on that platform he is welcome to try it. Democracy is not willing to talk of the money question, for it is divided on that; nor of the tariff, for that hasendedina deficit; norof the administration, forof that it is ashamed. In fact Democracy has no use for ite tongue this year except to swear with. 1t is not possible to give the Eastern people a series of weekly lectures on Cali- fornia to educate them on the conditions that prevail here, but it is easy enough to do the next best thing by sending to all your iriends among them THE WEEKLY CALL. As a criminologist who has examined H. H. Hoimes with the kymogrion, the msthesiometer, the thermssthesiometer and the algometer has pronounced him the greatest criminal on record there will be no longer any doubt that his confession was a fake. Althongh 1895 was a dull one in many re- spects, the output of iron in this country, according to the Engincering and Mining Journal, was the greatest on record, amounting 09,446,308 long tons, and put- ing this country in the position of the leaaing iron - producing nation of the world. I'o men who are old enough to recall the state of public feeling of forty years ago it must be a strange thing that a Senator representing the radical sentiment of South Caroiina should be greeted with en- thusiasm by the radicals of Kansas. Surely when the boiling of Carolina blood makes Kansas bleed in sympathy it is evident that the Union moves and the people with it. The St. Louis Globe - Democrat, in a weather report from Bloomington, IIl, for April 11 and 12, says on the former day the ground was covered six to eight inches deep with ice and snow. The mercury was down to 30 degrees above, wita a bit- ter north wind. The roads and streets re- sounded with the music of sleighbells, It was the severest April snowstorm known in fifty-five years. The next day the mer- cury rose to 80 degrees early in the morn- ing, and went ap four or five points before noon. The air was moist and stifling, and great discomfort was the result. A nice country that—full of picturesque- diversity and the pleasing variety that is the spice of life, but all the same people who desire solid and continuous comfort had better come to California. THE OUBAN WAR. We publish this-morning a letter ad- dressed te, President Jordan of Stanford University, by a friend in Cuba, giving a brief but emphatic statement of the condi- tion of popularsentiment on the island. The letter'is not: signed, for -a signature would be dangerous to the writer, but President” Jordan attests his worth and character, and what he says deserves, therefore, the full confidence of the public. The letter effectually disposes of the oft- repeated assertion of the Spaniards.that the better element of the Cuban people are {loyal to Spain, and that the insurgent force is made up mainly of the worse classes of negroes, mulattoes and lawless whites. “I'he war1s truly a liberation war on the part of €uban patriols. to establish the independence.of their country, They are waging it with fire and sword as fiercely as the Russians fought against Napoleon. They are giving their lives fo the battle and their property to the flames with an equal devotion. ‘They are resolved to live as freemen, though they hive amid ruins, and they well deserve every honor, every sympathy and every aid which a generous America has to bestow on the heroes and the martyrs of liberty. The writer declares that sympathy avails little at this juncture. If we desire a free Cuba as France desired a free America in 1776, we must act as France did and be ready to send warships and warriors to fight for the cause. Possibly a manifest determination on the part of our Govern- ment to actively aid in the establishment of Cuban independence would impel the Spanish Gvernment to make terms hon- orable to itsell without provoking a con- flict of arms. In that case vigor and reso- Iution on our part, so far from leading to a new war, would terminate the war that now exists, and while threatening strife would be the surest way of establishing peace. There is, of course, no indication on the part of any great number of the American people either to hamper the action or force the hand of the administration in dealing with foreign affairs. The Republican ma- jority in Congress has shown this loyal consideration for the executive by passing a concurrent instead of a joint resolution in favor of Cuban independence. The President and his Becretary of State should not wait too long, however. Cuba is an American island, and lies so close to our shorss as to be geographically a part of our system. We cannot afford to see it devastated and its people well nigh ex- terminated. Mr. Cleveland should act promptly. Thisisa good cavse in which to put international arbitration to a high test. Letus demand that Spain submit her claims on Cuba to the arbitration of the moral sense of the civilized world, and not to the arbitrament of the sword and the torch, HEARTY HOSPITALITY. The 600 Eastern hotel-keepers who are now visiting this City are the objects of a hospitality that is probably more gener- ous and hearty than any they have ever enjoyed before. It is pleasing to reflect that they have too much intelligence to either misconstrue its motive or under- rate its significance. This observation is made for the reason that the hospitality for which California is famous above all the other States has been grievously abused on many an occasion, and that its indiscriminate manifestation has some- times done the State more harm than good. It bas been too often mistaken for a desire to “boom" the State or to be in- spired by a mean purpose to employ it for dishonest ends. The hospitality of Californians is as natural a product as the flowers which so luxuriantly adorn their gardens, the luscious fruits which weight their orchard trees and the wholesome wines which fill their cellars. It is expected that con- ditions prodacing with so lavish prodi- gality the things which bring so much comfort will have a like direct effect on the health and spirits of men and women, and an indirect effect on those traits of character which constitute the chief adorn- ment of life. It is only he who himself enjoys the good things of the world who desires his neighbor to be similarly blessed. The proportion of California’s popula- tion that could receive any financial bene- fit from a large increase in the number of residents is very small. Those who by patient care have brought orchards and vineyards into bearing know too well the pleasures which they enjoy to offer their possessions for sale. Generally those who would be most benefited by an enlarged povulation have the least to do with extending the State’s fame for hos- pitality. They are the owners of unim- proved lands and they live principally in the country, while the lavish entertaining of visitors is done principally by dwellers in cities, busy workers in crdinary voca- tions, enjoying a far smaller share of the benefits brought by a residence in Cali- fornia than those who live nearer the source of her treasures. This hospitality is but part of a large pieture of wonderful breadth, coloring and perspective. To contemplate it as a thing apart is to miss a broad condition of which it is merely indicative. An instructive feature of it is that it has always existed. In spite of the fact that the acquired tastes of Californians have assumed the weneral character of those appertaining to the peo- ple of the whole country the hospitality now dispensed isas free and Learty as that of the rich Spanish families of early days. There must be a reason for this, and in finding it we discover the source of that devotion which all Californians cherish for their State. The subject should have a greater interest for strangers than for us. Doubtless this is a consideration which the wise men of the East who are now enjoying our hospitality will not overlook. —_— TWO0 CLIMBING OLUBS. Joaquin Miller’s recent rhapsody on the beauties and grandeurs of the Sierra Ne- vada (or *‘Sierras,” as he is pleased to call the range) and his earnest plea for a wiser appreciation of their ennobling and health- giving influences recall the fact that San Francisco has no popular mountain-ciinb- ing club. 1t has its Sierra Club, composed of able scientists and true lovers of nature, are as magnificent as any in the world, the line of perpetual snow is much lower than that of the California Sierras and the sea- son for exploration shorter, and, besides that, Oregen has the rainy habit in sum- mer, while California is free from that dis- comfort. In other worcs Ban Francisco is far be- hind Portland in appreciation of tae grandeurs of the State. The Pacific Im- provement Company made a curious dis- covery when it built the Tavern of Castle Crags near the base of Mount Shasta. That house was intended for the great in- telligent middle classes, who are supposed {to know more about and to care more for the beauties of nature than the wealthy | and fashionable classes bearing social bur- dens. It was assumed that a hotel de- signed more for comfort than display and charging unfashionably low rates would become an intellectual Arcadia, thronged with nature-lovers, eager to explore the marvelous treasures of the Northern Sierra. But great was the astonishment of the owners when Fashion promptly invaded the premises and there set up her moun- tain court. Whether those for whom the house was intended were a mere figment of the brain or were dismayed and kept at a distance by those who did take posses- sion may remain an unsolvable problem to the end of €. The simple fact re- mains that the Tavern of Castle Crags did not fulfill its destiny, and is just as fash- ionable as the Hotel del Monte; and cer- tain it is also that the wonders of the Northern Siérra remain nnexplored and undiscovered by the good people who take their summer outing at the tavern. Apart from the scientists and profes- sional lovers of nature the one class of our people that take pleasure in climbing these marvelous mountains are the more intelligent Englishmen who have cast their lot in California. Having acquired from countless generations of people de- voted to outdoor pleasure a physical vigor unmatched by any other race, they ran- sack our mountains and marvel that we are so indifferent. It would therefore be expected that if we shall ever have a prac- tical, everyday, mountain-chmbing club of worldings the movement for its organiza- tion will spring from some of the many intelligent Englishmen who live here- about. They may be sure of sympathy and praise and of a consciousness of well- doing if they head such an enterprise. THE TRUEST PATRIOTISM. Some of the most distinguished college professors, statesmen, clergymen and soldiers of the country took an active part in the proceedings of the National Arbi- tration Congress in Washington last week, and no doubt much good will eventually come of the efforts of the congress in the direction of substituting arbitration for war in settling differences between na- tions. The civilization of to-day looks upon war with horror, and the brutal methods that Spain is employing in its war of subjugation in Cuba only inten- sifies the desire of good people everywhere for the substitution of arbitrators for soldiers, The shedding of human blood and the destruction of property may con- quer, but it leaves in its trail hatred and desire for revenge, which is anything but conducive to sentiments of mneighborly good will and commercial and social inter- course. The National Arbitration Congress means to emphasize the 1act that there s a growing anti-war feeling ir all Christian nations, and to hasten the time, as far as it lies in its power, when nations will not think of war until every possible honor- able means to preserve peace has been ex- hausted. It is its purpose, too, to teach people everywhere to speak of the glory of peace and the horror if not the disgrace of war., The tramp of hostile armies in these days means the turning back of the people’s wheel of progress and the de- struction of their paths to better condi- tions of existence. This is the day of the schoolhouse, the merchant, the manufacturer, the agricul- turist and the wage-earner. This is the day of commercial conquest, and war is as destructive to commercial operation as fire is to the commodities of commerce. This isthe day when public opinicn regards the inventor of devices and aupliances for the betterment of his feliows as the great general. Men in iartial array are not nearly so pleasing a sight these days as employes of industrial enterprises march- ing to and from their work, nor does the roar of cannon make the heart as glad as does the hum of the machinery of factory and mill. No doubt the war talk that very many of -/our people indulge in from time to time is an outburst of what they deem true pa- triotism, but the line which separates patriotism from enthusiasm is quite in- distinet at times, although the difference in essence is very great. True patriotism is a passion that is born of rights and privileges desired or already acquired, and it lives wholly upon responsibility; but to fully appreciate the inner as weil as the outer meaning of patriotism one must understand the responsibility he assumes in all of its present and prospective rami- fications, Political responsibility or patriotism in this country means that Bternal vigi- lance is the price of Iiberty,” and it takes a great deal ot constant vigilance to pay the price, but the sustaining influence that keeps the eye of vigilance wide open is en- thusiastic love for the country’s institu- tions, Patriotism is a mighty force and enthusiasm is the stimulant that keeps it active when it is needed “at the front.”’ To fight for one’s country on the battle- fie]d when occasion requires is an exhibi- tion of patriotism certainly, but that is by no means all nor the greatest of the de- mands of liberty upon the citizen. The truest patriotism knows no duty higher than to broaden and deepen the source of that form of progress which brings good, peace and better environment to all the people, so that not only they but gen- erations to come may enjoy the bless- ings of personal liberty. If it so be that an enemy attempts to overthrow that which gives birth to and sustains patriot- ism, he must be driven back, and if war ensues the true patriot.shouiders his gun and goes forward, not for war's sake but to gain a victory over the enemy of the political home he has established, or per- and the club issues bulletins of the great- | Petuated, for himself and his posterity, est value describing newly discovered | War to the true patriot may be necessity, routes and scenes and wonders; but if [ Put notso until he is convinced that his there is a strictly worldly element in the | cOuntry’s enemy will listen to nothing organization—a considerable number of | €lse, then he shoots, not for the pleasure members who haunt these splendid moun- | of killing, but that he must cause liberty tains as a variation from such grosser | t0 triumph whatever the cost may be. pleasures as dancing, gossiping, attending afternoon teas and lounging at fashionable seaside and mountain resorts—they do not make the fact known. Portland, Or., bas a very different sort of organization. It is called the Alpine Club (an unfortunate and inappropriate name) and while its membership includes such higher intellectual lights as those adorning the Sierra Club, the great body of its workers ordinarily live much closer to the ground than the towering summits of the Cascades. This Portlana club takes a grand outing every summer, sometimes in one body, but often in divided made up to pursue various lines of ration. While the mountains of Speaking of the rights of the Govern- ment and of ths bondholders of the Pa- cific roads Senator Morgan says: “The laws stand to regulate these rights with- out alteration. They are sufficient as they stand for all purposes of justice, equity, rovernmental authority, the protection of the people and public policy.” This is just what THe CALL has maintained all along. The existing laws are good eiough and should be firmly enforced. , The latest thing among the fashionable women bicyclers of England is to have the parties | wheel painted to match the dress, with the explo- result, we presume, that they will seem to Oregon | be traveling on their trimmings, IN LESS SERIOUS MOOD. What & world of discontent this 1s, as a rule, and what fools of philosophers most of us are —with tongue remedies for everything and no remedy considered seriously enough for a trial!l The more you have, the more you want! The more you know, the more you realize how much there is to lesrn. And a few of us, unsatisfied with what oughtto bea liberal fortune in the treasure of the world, while provided, too, with what may be termed 8 liberal education, are discovered envying the spirit of contentment in human beings who live on a pittance a dey; who knowing little, care to know no more, and who are troubled never & whit by social problems, the evolution theory or the immortality of the soul. Caught in & heayy down pour, the other day, and in the hope that the clouds would soon cease weeping so copiously, Isought shelter underneath a sheet of canvas that served, for the most part, as a rain-or-shine protection for & descendant of the Cgesars and a stock of pea- nuts. ‘“Ab, sir,” T ventured, after squandering a nickel for & bag of peanuts to get into the fel- low’s good graces; “ business must be dull this miserable weather.” “No maka mon’ now,” was the reply; ‘‘plenta sun, plenta sale. Mayba he's gooda nexa day.” On the stand lay some fifteen or twenty bags of peanuts; and a strip ot cardboard, tacked to & stick, and having the appearance of & miniature banner behind the pesnut ranks, bore the legend, “5 cents.” The peanut-mer- chant lit and smoked a very bad cigar with evident pleasure. *This man is teking things easy,” thought I. * Can this little peanut busi- ness be your only source of profit?” I inquired, and recetved an affirmative reply. This fellow, I opined, had neither desire nor ambition for more than daiiy sustenance and cheap apparel. Iremarked, in & jocular way, that he was lucky in not having a family on his hands. “No gotta fam ?” he laughed. “W’at you tink—dees man he’s gotta ten chile! Uh-huh! Me—ten chile! He’s keep him all by Tally- grips heel.” “Then your sales must be very heavy on sunny days,” 1 said. “‘Somtam feefta cent—somtam doll’—onetam t'ree doll’—somtam fiva cent.” “And do you actually pay house rent and support a family of ten children on the profits of thisstand?” I asked, rather incredulously. “No paya renta. Fiva year I maka mon’ me! Lasta year buya da house in Tallygrips heel. Da fam’ he's no costa much—leeve plenta good. I maka one doll’ ever’ day—t'ree hun’ doll’ year. Isavaone hun’. Feeita centever’ day keepa Gs fam’, me feela sorra.” The rain had ceased. I purchased another nickel’s worth of peanutsoutof pure liberal- heartedness, and, bidding farewell to the man on the throne under the canvas sheet, hur- ried away into the eity. As I sped along I thought to myself, “Verily, we who are supposed to take the lead in the affairs of the up-to-date world have many lessons to learn in the book of economy. Heream I, salaried at a hundred a week, with a wife, and never a child, to support, paying exorbitant houserent, always too poor to think of investing in land, improved or unimproved, generally up to my ears in debt and con- tinuously grumbling because my salary isn't double what it is—heream I railing st con- ditions that keep a deserving man eternally in the background,and there is that happy Italian who has purchased a house and lot and supports & family of twelve on the re- ceipts of 8 peanut business that yields him a paltry $300 a year! Shucks! If that Italian had been in my shoes, as far as earnings go, these twenty years, men would take off their hats to him and the City Hall would be peopled by his relations. O, peanut mer- chant, you are an economist of the practical school. We, who are so prolific of theories, may well profit by your example. But here is a cigar-stand. “Yes—three for a dollar, please!” * O, the gang is all desertin’; We're alone behind the curtain: And its ¢ mud’ our name is, flirtin’ Wid the corporaiion sack ! And the deuce it is to pay, sir, Forthe * pull’ has slipped away, sir, And the slick old boodle day, sir, I'm afeared ’il ne'er come back.” Having Keily all alone, he Talked full honest—did Mahoney; 1n the struggle for the bone, he Hadn't got to where it lay. “It’s & losin’ game, I'm thinkin'— Any loon can see we're sinkin'=— Mister Kelly, after drinkin’, Will you kindly say your say?" Spoke up Kelly: “Play the game, sir! There's no limit to our claim, sir! And we'll win the cheese in name, sir— Ere the ballots they be cast! Cau’t we trade on our intention For to run the whole Convention— After which we needn’t mention The arrangements of the past. “ Hist’ry shows us that the nest, sir, Can be feathered ere the test, sir; ‘Phen—a fig for all the rest, sir— Let the chilly ‘geesers’ slide ! For we're permanently downed, sir, When convention comes around, sir; But, till then, I wi.1 be bound, sir, We have gall enough 1o ride! “Mister Kelly, put ‘er there, sir— Bure your nut has brains to spare, sir! For ourselves alone we care, sir, And we'll bluft till we be called! ‘When the people take to fghtin’, Then our 11k it goes a-kitin’. Mister Kelly, let's be sightin’ Quick whatever's to be hauled “I was at one time the central figure in a dy- namite scare,” said Charles L. Barrington, the druggist, a few evenings since in the coprse of an exchange of stories. “Itwas on the day following the attempt to blow up Greenwich Observatory that the steamer on which I was & passenger reached London from New York. The customs inspectors were engaged in exam- ining the baggage, when I was summoned to the deck. A crowd of liveried inspectors sur- rounded what I discovered to be my trunk. “ ‘What's the mattér?” I asked. “ ‘Do you admit ownership of this trunk?’ queried an officer. “«Most assuredly.’ ‘“ ‘And do you confess responsibility for this machine?’ pursued the officer, nervously. “ ‘I began to appreciate the situation then. The ‘machine’ wis a little tin Japanese pocket- stove, and it was accompanied by & dozen long punks for fuel. The inspectors, who had never run across such a thing before, imagined that they had turned upanew brand of infernal machine, imported from over the sea with the possible object of blowing up the houses of parliament or the Queen’s palace at Windsor. I tried to explain, but I couldn’t sllay the fears of the officials, ‘“‘There is absolutely no harm attached to these things, gentlemen,’ I said, and, drawing out some matches, I was about to strike one in order to show how the punks burned. “‘Hold!’ shouted an inspector, springing in front of me. ‘No matches shall be lighted here’ He thought, perhaps, that I was mov- ing to blow up the ship. ‘‘During a lengthy consultation between the inspectors, the captain, who chanced to be an acquaintance of mine, stepped up and learned about the difficulty. ““Why don’t you look the thing over?' he esked of the customs men. With that he picked up the Japanese stove, laughed at its mechanism, inserted a punk init—andlit it, the inspectors meantime moving off to a safer distance. The captain extinguished the punk, flung down the stove and walked off, with an almost audible smile. No more was said. In- spectors packed the stove and the punksinto the trunk,and a great dynamite scare had been lost to the English press.” Year A.D. 2096. Passengers on the overhead electric train, which has just whirled across the new suspension bridge from East San Francisco, bring a story which wiil be amus- ing, at least to members of the bar. A Western Rip Van Winkle has been discovered. Scien- tists find the case easy of solution, but that is another matter. In breaking up & cemetery, which had been condemned by the City gov- ernment, laborers broke down a tomb bearing date of 1896. It contained a body, which, upon exposure to the air, startled the workmen by slowly rising to a sitting posture from the ashes of the coffin in which it had a century ago been laid away. The manseemed dazed at first, but soon recovered his faculties. He 1s being very carefully attended. He talkslike the tongue of tradition. This morning he was handed a copy of THE CALL—the noonday edition. He plunged into a scare-head article with such avidity that the attendants began to doubt the story of the tomb and resurrection. ‘“Recognize anything familiar in the paper?” inquired one. ‘‘Regular book, I see,” observed the hero of & century’s sleep. “Interested? You bet I'm interested. That property’s worth a hundred times what it was, and I'll be hanged if the heirs and lawyers aren’t scrapping away for it yet.” “Then you know a little something apout affairs of the present?” “Know? I was a witness in the case in 1894.” nd what is the case, pray ‘‘Estate of Thomas H. Blythe, A bird at my window is tapping for me: ‘There’s a message, I know, In the post: Ok, the sign never fails, and my heart is aglee For aword from the lass I love most. ©Oh, I spring from my couch at the tap of the bell And my morning-gown foldeth me soon! To the honey-sweet things that her letter will tell Already my soul is attune. And my face must be lit with a radiant smile, As I reach out as fast &s I can From the opening door, to be met with the roar: “Hy! you lika no buy de banan?” 'Twasthe day of the drawing—I dreamed I had won, And [ hailed the significant rings— “It is Smithy to say that our toiling is done; It's the list of our winnings he brings!” I was planning to order & quart of champague, And I murmured, “Ob, bang the expense! When Foriune drops down to your lot like the rain, Why shouldn’t a man feel immense?’’ So I flew down the stairs with a recklessness grand, And swift to the doorknob I ran— Ob, the Jonah was there with the fruic in his hand— “Hy! you lika no buy de banan?”’ Ihave moved my effects (by the way) from that flat, And I've leased me a boulevard room, And if ever a peddler shall try me at that He'll find a bare dungeon bis doom. For my heart it was broken with trials full sore— I was tortured till patience had fled— 1 was rung from my dreams to find happiness o'er Aud to wish my disturber were dead. ©Oh the boulevard scheme is a glorious thing; I's comfortine, beautiful plan— I can sleep all the morn without fear of a ring Fora “Hy! you no lika banan?” Were Algernon Charles Swinburne, first of living poets, to visit America, it is doubtfu1 if his advent would be celebrated in illustrated page articles by those newspapers which have been saccording such extravagant notice to that London coster singer, Alired Chevalier. The latter’s feat of trapsiating Chimmie Fad- den slang into Cockney dialect has been en- thusiastically applauded i certain journal- istic quarters, which, it may be judged, would not entertain the idea of devoting a half dozen columns to & fresh work of genius worthy of & place in literature. O Enterprise! Wert thou a thing of feeling, thou wouldst weep at the wrongs that are done in thy respected name! The blue blood corpuscle has been discovered in Philadelphia. We shall not be surprised to learn that over-ambitious people of suddenly- acquired fortune who suffe: from the con- sciousnees of having merely the red or the white corpuscle to boast of gre pensioning off ruined scions of first families in return for transfusions of the coveted azure article. And if these scions in question could by this means get-rid of all the blue blood that is in them they might brace up and make pretty decent citizeus aiter all. Why shouldn’t California authors lead the way ina grand revival of decency in novel- writing. The world has had a surfeit of scan- dal pictures framed in gilt. Let us have a season of bealthiul stories which parents may not fcar to take into the household. The Golden West is full of splendid themes for stories of the better sort. Rev. H. E. Adams declares that 100,000 Americans in the mountains of Californa are ignorant of Christ. I am rather inclined to the belief that the Rev. H. E. Adams is igno- rant of 100,000 Americans in the mountains of California. The sand dunes, the sand dunes! 1t they could only speak, What mysteries then the winds might ken O'er the lonely waste and bleak { For the sand dunes, the sand dunes— I dread them near to be! There's many & ghost on the sandy coast That b.ew not in from sea. The blasted life and the grief-crazed brain The curtain bave here rung down, And cold, dead hands have siited the sands On the skirts of the heedless town. The blade, the ball and the vial of death— What the world denied they save— All woes’ surcease, and sflence, peace, Oblivion of the grave. The sand dunes, the sand dunes! ‘What tales they might unfold Of heart’s despair and dying prayer, 11 sands their histories told. Eut the sand dunes, the sand dunes!— 1dread them near to be! There’s many & ghost on the sandy coast That blew not in trom sea! LADY'S CUTAWAY ]ACkET. The useful garment shown here is suitable for fall wear, and made of heavier material for the winter. There seems to be no limit or end to the popularity of tailor effects for women. The back is made with the usual seams. The fronts have one dart. e sleeves are cut in two pieces in the new shape, with the seam on top. Rough mixed cloths are made up into skirt and jacket for general wear. Sometim a waist to match is worn, but usually the waist is of & different material. Plain cloth with black braiding is one of this season’s novelties. A jacket of plain cloth, either light or dark brown, black or blue, is a very serviceable garment to wear with any skirt. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. Nexhaus—I notice no tramps ever bother you. How do you manage it? Wiseleigh—I always keep a sign out, “Help Wanted."’—Filegende Blaetter. “There seems to be no money in literature.” “The money is all in explaining how you came to write it. etroit Tribune. Teddy—What yer readin’ dere? Taggs—Christian Science Advocate. Teddy—Pretty dry readin’, ain’t it? ‘Taggs—Yep; butdere hain’t nothin’ elervatin’ in de daily papers nowadays since prize-fightin’ wuz stopped.—Judge. “I made these biscuits myself, Billinger,” said Mrs. McSwat, with honest pride. “They look very nice, Lobelis,” replied Mr. McSwat, picking one of them up and making n effort to split it. “How long ago did you— ah—cast them ?"’—Chicago Tribune. “For scme reason I just dote on rainy days,™| seid the young woman whose specialties are large dreamy eyes and sentiment. ““Well,” said the short young lady with the raven hair and sharp nose, *if I didn’t have any spring clothes I think I would feel taat ‘way myself.”—Indianapolis Journal. | was here among her HEARD WITH PLEASURE. Fresno Eepublican. The statement of the traffic manager of the Valley road that the directors of the new road are unanimous in their determination to p\l‘ifl wheat rates down to the lowest possible noteh will be heard with pleasure by the farmers of this section. They have hitherto been compelled to pay too nearly all the profits of production for transportation charges, and re- lief from that excessive burden was never more needed than at the present time. The Wheat crop of this valley will not be a heavy one this year, but necessity for lower rates of transportation will be more imperative on that gecount, The competing road cannot reach Fresno aday too soon io meet the wishes of the producers. e UNINSTRUCTED DELEGATION. Diorgan Hisl Sm.i.l . A uestion of & pledged delégation to'be; 'e’l‘::ioqs'. Louis is being discussed by Republi- can papers throughout the State. It is a ques- tion that shouid be given efllale;t thought by d calls for immediate action. . B e the opinion of others may be, 1t is our opinion that the delegation ‘to the St. Louis convention should go unpledged and un- hampered, because & delegation pledged to a particular candidate would be ‘entagonistic fo all others, and a large majority of the votersof this State are opposed to any of theleaders who have been named as candidates for the Presi- dency. It would therefore be unjust tosend a delegation to St. Louis pledged to any particu- lar person. Many questions might arise at the convention that would be of material advan- tage to the interests of California by & {free and untrammeled delegation. 4 The same state of affairs should exist in our County Convention. Every delegate should be thoroughly conversant with the situation and able to vote intelligently. Let all delegations go uninstructed, by all means. A FREE DELEGATION. Oaxland Tribune. The first Republican State to be called in the National Convention at §t. Louis will be Cal fornia. Neither of the two preceding States, Alabams and Arkansas, will do anything to elect the Republican candidate, save to cast & vote in the convention. California will lead off as the first that can back the successful can- didate with a good majority vote at home. If the delegation were to be tied up in ad- vance it would he shorn of more than half the influence it ought to have. Probably a major- ity of this delegation will go to St. Louis with the feeling that McKinley, for instance, occu- pies the first place. That is the way the politi- cal horizon may look to-day. But who knows how it will look in June? If the delegation were (o take a castiron pledge it might be com- pelled to vote all the while for & candidate in a hopeless minority. 7 That would be a downright misfortune in this, that the State would have lost a measure of political influence that ought to have been secured as so much capital for the future. The delegation on the ground, free to act in ac- cordance with any new political emergency, might give the keynote, casting the vote for the man who would be the successful candi- date. That is just the advantage that Calitor- nia ought to have in the St. Louis convention, WOMAN SUFFRAGE. An Earnest Campaign to Be Under- taken in Its Behalf. ‘When a number of prominent women went 1o the last Legislature of California and asked for a bill conferring suffrage upon the women of the State they were grsnted instead an amendment to the constitution, to be acted upon by the voters. Whether in asking for bread they were given a stone can better be determined afler the returns are received from the November election. The submission of such an amendment was unexpected, and the State Woman Suffrage Association finds itself at the beginning of a -campaign practi- cally without funds and with an inadequate organization throughout the State. ~The amendment will be opposed by an element which is thoroughly organized and has un- limited funds at its’ command. It also must meet the opposition eof strong and stubborn prejudice, and what is equally as hard to com- bat, the dead wall of indifference. To coun- teract the first named opposition suffragists must rely wholly upon the justice of their cause and the support of that large body of voters which cannot be corrupted and which recognizes that equal suffrage 1s a fundamental principle of republican govern- ment. The prejudiced and the indifferent can be moved only by argument on the platform and in the press. Notwithstanding these obvious disadvan- tages, themanagers of the campaign find many reasons for encoursgement. First among these is the attitude of the press. Not one prominent newspaper in the entire State has taken & stand in opposition to woman sui- frage. That the question is receiving acon- siderable share of attention may be shown by the fact that during the past four weeks the Press Clipping Burean has furnished about 700 chp})mgs on this subject taken from the apers of California alone. Of these not halfa gozen have been dx;res;}ecuul, and not & dozen directly opposed. The City dailies ha¥e reported the meetings with the greatest fair- ness and have allotted ample space; and lead- ing representatives among the suifragists have Dbeen received by the editors, without excep- tion, with especial courtesy and cordiality. T'wo or three weekly papers in San Francisco have been somewhat insulting, but opposition 10 & cause may be of such & nature as to make for it more friends than eunemies. The con- ventions and mass-meetings from San Diego to San Francisco have brought out very large audiences and many prominent men and women have identified themselves with the work. The State Suffrage Association, through its president, Mrs. A. A. Sargent, has invited to assist in the campaign Miss Susan B. Authony, Rev. Anna Shaw, Miss Elizabeth Yates, Miss Mary Hay and Miss Harriet Mills. Miss Anthony, president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, comes of a long line of Quaker ancestry, among whom were many noted reformers. She is a noble, dignified, well-educated woman, who nas devoted all her time, ability and energy for fifty years to se- curethe franchise for women. She has never swerved from this one object, or been led into any side issues, and during all this half cen- tury she has never once asked for any official position or sny place of honor or profit for erself, or ever made an effort to secure such a osition for a relative. She has gone before ongress in Washington every winter for thirty years and asked for a woman suffrage amend- ment to the constitution of the United States, During her whole lifetime she has donated her services and her earnings to this one cause without hope or desire for any reward except to obtain full liberty for women. Miss Anthony is now 76 years old, and the present is probably the last State campaign she ever will undertake. Her mental and physical vigor is unimpaired, but she desires to put in order the vast mass of material which will enter into her biography and which will form a valuaple addition 1o the history of the pres- ent century, Rev. Anna Shaw 18 an ordainea Methodist minister, one of the most eloquent women of the age, 8 woman who longs, more than any one can understand, to give up her wander- ings and have a permanent abiding place. But 80 thoroughly is she convinced of the terrible injustice of the disfranchisementof women that she will devote ner life, if necessary, to the work of securing its removal, Miss Elizabeth Yates was educated and trained for the work of & foreign missionary, and spent five yearsin China, enduring all the hardships ot a misstonery’s life. At the end of that time she came back to this country firmly convinced ml;wmzofldtd of her labor n_countrywo: that no preaterivrong cxisied anywhere thna that of depriving hali of our people of & voice m:l::otgf\;errfiem. she‘, too, has gone into for life, or unti’ - dered fustee to its womens . S eRaLs F iss Mary Hay is one of the fou: Young Woman's Christian Tempe;:};zre.g‘ itolzle and has a remarkable talent for organization. Forseveral years her entire time has been given to sufffage work. She feels in common With most women who attempt to labor for the public good that in the ballot is the power Miss Harriet Mills is a graduate of Cornell g&y:;;::&“s:idmpefleneg & most thorough e great St N cls"y:': “‘,‘,5,"‘:“ \vogrk. ate of New York to uch in brief is the personnel of vomen who have come several thousn;h:nvl‘;miu answer to the call of California. The State it gelf possesses many brainy, energetic women who will co-operate ably end heartily,and they expeet the advice and assistance of the men ot alllocalities. 5 “They will work on a strictly non-partisan basis. For individual speskers in various places who may represent particular political religions or reform organizations, and advo cate equal suffrage also, the managers cannot be responsible; but the official representatives, selected by theState Suffrage Association, will speak for e&\ml suffrage, pure and simple, with- out any affiliatious. Tkey will welcome the support of ail political parties, of all reputa ble organizations, but, until the suffrage ir obtained, they can ally themselves with none After that the woman voter will “e entitled t¢ the same individual 'preferences as the mar votet. \ The men of California are distinguished the world’ over for their spirit_of liberality (o al; within their borders. Their women ask for political recognition, for the privilege of sclf- | representation. The menwill give their an. swer next Noyem ber, Ipa A. HARPER, ¥ Chairman Press Committee, PERSONAL. H. K. Brown of Carson is at the Palace. Dr. J.J. Pfister of Suisun is at the Gran D. P. Landrix of Washington, D, C., is { City. Judge J. M. Walling of Nevada City is at the Russ. Nat H. Brown of Tustin, Cal, is at the Grand. Dr. William G. Call of Guerneville is at the California. L. Gerlach, the extensive farmer of Stock- ton, is in the City. Judge J. M. Murphy of Arizona has arrived here for a brief stay. S. H. Mosher of San Diego was among the ar- tivals here yesterday. N. Bullock, a leading cltizen of Humboldt County, is at the Palace. James McGovern, one of the business men of Butte, Mont., {s in town. Ex-fenator E. C. Hart of Sacramento is among the arrivals at the Grand. Sheriff E. W. Jones of Colusa is smong recent arrivals here. He is at the Grand. C. J. Lee, who is engaged in the general mer- chandising business at Quincy, 18 in the City. E. 8. Babcock, manager of the Coronado Beach Hotel, San Diego County, arrived here yesterday, Captain John G. Bourke of the Third United States cavalry, Fort Ethan Allen, and John A. Hosbach of Omaha, have arrived here and are at the Palace. Whitelaw Reid is on his way from Tucson, Ariz., to Millbrae, where he take up his residence with D, 0. Mills for two months. Mr. Reid’s family is with him. A. A. Abbott, ex-State Railway Commis- sioner, and long engaged m banking at Sacra- mento, has returned here, after some time in Mexico. He is at the Palace. C. H. Deere, the great plow manufacturer of Moline, Ill., who is widely known and who has grown very wealthy, is at the Palace. He is accompanied by Mrs. Deere. Leonard S. Calkins, editor of the Nevada City Transcript, is here, on his wey to Sen Luis Obispo to attend the meeting of the Grand Par- lor of Native Sons. He is at the Lick. Judge Hervey Lindley of Los Angeles, the well-known Southern California Republican, who came near being nominated for Congress two or three years ago, is at the Palace. R. Armendariz of Mexico, who comes to this City about once & year and remains for a few ° weeks, i1s at the Russ, accompanied by his family. He is here partly to purchase sup- plies. Joseph M. Cox of Cox, Bickford & Co., Bos- ton, Who some time siace purchased the Plo- neer mine in Placer County, isat the Cali- fornis, accompanied by P. A. Humbert Jr., the expert, and C. W. Gross of Boston, s director in the company. The Pioneer was formerly owned by James G. Fair and C.5. Davis. It is said to be turning out a large amount of gold, the product averaging $17,000 to $18,000 a month. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N, Y., April 25.—At the Grand Union, L. W. Adams, G, E. Wade; Broadway Central, Mr. Armstrong; Cosmopolitan, R. §. Greenbem; Stuart, C. King; St. Denis, Mrs. W. F. Pierce; Grand, F.J. Batchelder; Sinclair, J. Fischer; Gllsey House, Mr. Spencer; Plaza, A. A. Wheewright. Sailed per steamship Cem- pania for Liverpool: Mr. and Mrs. George A. Audenreid, Philip Barth, Mrs. Black, infant and nurse, Mrs. C. Meyer, Miss H, Meyer, P. C. Meyer, H. Campbell Nelson, Mr. and Mra, Robert Oxnard, W, F. Pierce, Miss Pierce, Mr, and Mrs, J. Stern, child and governess. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Mme. Tussaud has just aaded Alfred Austin, poet laureate, to her wax figures. The two most numerously titled British peers are the Dukes of Hamilton and Athole, The library of the late Allen G.Thurmsan is regarded as one of the most valuable in Ohlo, It is particularly rich in works on law and history, and includes a rare collection of fiction. Patti has returned from the Riviera to her castle in Wales, from which she will make short trips to the English and Scotch watering places, and probably Paris, before her London concert season. She does not sing in opera this year. Sir Arthur Sullivan bas started on a long va- cation. Heis in Monte Carlo, and will, visit Constantinople and Vienna. His trip is said to be wholly for health snd pleasure, though 1t is hinted that & new Turkish opera may be forthcoming. General Thomas L. Clingman of North Caro- lina, formerly a Representative and & United States Senator, and a Confederate veteran, has applied for admission to the Confederate Soldiers’ Home at Raleigh, as he is homeless and penpiless. He is 83 years old. J. Randolph Coolidge, a grandson of Thomas Jefferson, says that Jefierson Levy isnot a de- scendantof Jefferson, as recent press dispatches declared him to be. ‘‘Monticello,” he says, «passed into the hands of the Levys by pur- chase after Mr. Jefferson’s death. He left but two daughters, Mrs. Randolph and Mrs. Eppes, and all the descendants of Thomas Jefferson trace their lineage through one of those.” E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street ¢ e e——— A NICE present for Eastern friends—Town- send’s Cal. glace fruits, 50c1b. 627 Marketst. * —— e — SPECIAL information daily to manufscturers, business houses and public men by the P\‘OI= Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. e ——— Gibson' Girl—So this is a living pieture of English society! I wonder if there are ‘any lords or dukes present? Gibson Man—I believe there are one or two, but I understand they are being negotiated for.—Life. = THE benefits to be derived from a good medicine in early spring is undoubted. To purify the blood, overcome that tired feeling and gain strength take Hood's Sarsaparilia. ~T CHANGE OF TIME.—The 13th inst. m’e'éfifii‘éxf Pacific Rellroad inaugurated adoubls daily passenger service between Portiand and St. Paul, making u saving of ten bours between Port- 1and and Chicago. These are the fastest and finest equipped tralns that ever were'run out of the Fa- cific Northwest. The superior accommodations in our passenger equipment recommend our line to all. Ours is the only line that runs Gizing-ears ous of Portiand. T. K. STATELER, general agen 638 Market street. San Francisco. 4 e g Normmre contributes more toward s sound di- gestion than the use of Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters, the celebiated appetizer. —_— . Ir afilicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp- son’s Eye Water. Druggistssell it at 25 cents. If you want a sure relief for ~ains in the back, side, chest, or limbs, use an Allcock’s . BEAR IN MIND—Not one of tions is as good as the genuine, - Porous Plaster the host of counterfeits and imita~