The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 3, 1896, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 3, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES-—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.15 Deily snd Sundiy CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Daily and Sunday CaLi, three months by mail 1.60 Dally and Sunday CALL, one month, by mall. .66 Bunday CaLy, one year, by mal WEEKLY CaLL, Obe year, by mail. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyou going 1o the country ona vacation? It #0, 1t Is no trouble for us to forw THE CALL to your address. Do not-let it miss you for you will miss it: Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, "Ban Francisco, Californla. Felephone, 5 Main-1868 * Felephone Maln-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 830 ‘Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until 30 o'clock. 889 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. €W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; wntil 9 o'clock. . 2518 Mission street; open until o'clock. - 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. 3 % EASTERN OFFICE: ‘Rooms 31 end 82, 34 Park Row, New York City. "DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent- open MAY 3, 1896 _ BUNDAY THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. -Stand firm for free silver. Woman's suffrage is the coming issue. famento will soon be the storm 8: center: e ' Thé:Sacramento platform’ should be a . stem-winder. © Nowis the time for Republicans to look before they leap. G s Fre‘e‘_ silver coinage miedns freedom from * financial paralysis. 5 ~This week the Republican State Conven- tion ig'the big thing. . Hill" and Tillman would be as good & Democratic ticket as any. " The liberal man deviseth liberal things * for wamen as well as for men. Woman's suffrage makes a good leap- year issue and deserves support. - This. week San Jose leads the festal dance #nd keeps up the merriment. California’s interests are the things to which Californians should be pledged. Republican victory in California this ~-year has a special promise for the ladies. . Never think you know all about a situa- tion until you have studiea it on the spot. TFhe proper place to do National Conven- tion politics is in the National Convention. Hill sneered—vfll the Tii{man pitchfork, bit ail the same the pitchfork reached ‘him: ‘Read Tre Carn and keep posted on the progress of the woman's suffrage cam- ‘paigm. .- The'Garden City will spread itsell this week ana wear the title, ‘‘the Garden of ‘Eden City."” 1 . Among Democrats even a one-idea man would be king if they’could’ find him in thied It -is "atnong extremists only that enthusiasm. is counted for more than I common-sense. et - Thie more festivals we have the more we feel like frolicking and the more fun we get out of them. . With an unpledged. delegation we may ! ..get in the Cabinet; with a pledged one we _ are liable to get in the tureen. - It-is worth remembering at this time “that no candidate was ever elected Presi- dent.on a gold standard platform. Once more Senator Hill has informed the country that heis no friend of Cleve- land. The thing is getting monotonous. Uxder the gold standard the bond- . holders have a 16 to 1 advantage over the . _.people, but with free silver coinage things “wilk be equal. - The Republican party should give a helping hand to the woman’s suffrage movement and turn the campaign into a festival procession. Unless they proceed to organize them- sélves and get into better shape, the Dem- ocrats won’t even be entitled to belligerent rights in this campaign. Cadlifornia Republicans must commit no blunder at this juncture. The common- sense’ of the situation calls for an un- pledged delegation at St. Louis. Los Angeles may have another fiesta, -but she will not wind up with a **Fool's night,” like the last one, unless she 1s a bigger fool than she thinks herself. The brightest, freest ‘and fullest social wave of the coming week will be tha which flows trinmphantly along in the San.Jose swim as lovely as a notion of de- light. : : Until itis known whether a_gold or a silver candidate will be nominated at Chi- cago it cannot be safely asserted that the Democrats will carry even so much as —— ‘There has been no kick about the weather at Redwood or Santa Rosa. Their festivals seem to have been bright enough to clear the clouds away and dec- orate the skies. Tae Cars is the only morning paper in San Frapcisco that receives United Press aispatchés, and even if you take another paper you must take Tue CALL also to get the correct news. Under the double standard of gold and silver one metal serves as a check upon the other, vreventing any violent fluctus- tions in values and maintaining the eqiilibrium of prices. > 3 —l ‘The Sacramento Bee, with an unerring instinct, got at the honey in the wilcderness of the situation when it urged that Cali- fornia should send to St. Louis a delega- tivn pledged to free silver. —— California should not pledge her delega- tion to any candidate at St. Louis untal it is certain that he will stand for free silver coinage, shipping interests, irrigation and other measures in which Pacific Coast in- terests are concerned. THE SITUATION. There has never beena time when the policy to be pursued at a National conven- tion required more earnest and thought~ ful study on the part of California Repun- licans than at present. There never has been before a political situation at all similar to that which now prevails. It is a situation offering unparalleled oppor- tunities to the State, but also one of great complexities, and it is the relation of these to oue another that makes a careful study necessary before a policy is decisively adopted. On the one hand we see already entered for the high Presidential prize the greatest galaxy of illustrious statesmen that ever contended for the leadership of a single party in the history of America. Taking them in alphabetical order, for they are too equal in merit to be ranged otherwise, we have in the forefront of ‘the contest Allison, the stainless statesman, whose high cbaracter and large accomplishments make him the ideal American Senator; McKinley, the knight-errant of protection, whose devotion to American work and wages has made his name a household word in every home in the Union; Morton, the high-souled gentleman and noble Gov- ernor, whose honorable and firm adminis- tration in New York has given him rank among the great executives of the Nation; Quay, the superb leader of men, the or- ganizer of victory, the soldier boy who rose from the ranks to distinguished honor among the defenders of the Union; and last, but by no means least, stalwart Tom Reed, whose masterful mind changed the lower house of Congress from a wrangling debating society into a well-ordered legis- lative body, and made the McKinley tariff & possibility. Not inferior to these either in service to the country or in honor among the people stand Alger, the heroic soldler and broad- minded supporter of the Nation on the field of battle and in the council chamber; Bradley, the dashing and brilliant cavalier of politics, who redeemed Kentucky from Bourbon rule; Cullom, the representative of the plain people of 1llinois, showing his wisdom, fidelity and patriotism in a thousand services to his countrymen; and Harrison, the great, far-seeing soldier, statesman and President, under whose vigorous administration the Republic reached the highest prosperity at home and prestige abroad it has yet attained. All of these men have been tried by long service and in many emergencies and are known to be loyal to every American interest and earnest champions of all the great principles of the Republican party. Each of them, all of them, would worthily fill the high office of President of the United States. How to choose the one among them who is best fitted to meet the difficulties of to-day and ad- minister National affairs under conditions that exist at present is the question that confronts Republicans. It is a question in which many issues are involved, and it cannot be wisely answered unless studied impartially and considered with a due re- gard to measures as well as to men. Some of the great measures-more or less involved in the choice of the candidate for President are of peculiar interest to Cali- fornia and the Greater West. Among these are the restoration of silver to its righsful place as & money metal, the irri- gation of arid lands and the construction of the Nicaragua canal. The vote of California at St. Louis should be given to the candidate who is known to be most favorable to these great interests. It should not be pledged blindly, given in the dark, thrown away. Outof the com- plexities of the situation come great oppor- tunities for California and the West. Let us send to St. Louis a delegation capable of making the most of them. AN INTELLIGENT REPORT. It is pleasant to compare Chauncey M. Depew’s estimate of California with the supercilious and querulons attitude of nu- merous transient visitors to the State. Although Mr. Depew’s inspection was nec- essarily unsystematic, hasty and superfi- cial, ke saw some things which to his alert appreciation of what are the most valu- able contributors to happiness pre- sented an exceeding!y alluring picture. At e recent banquet given at Brooklyn, N. Y., in honor of his birthday, he indi- cated one of the most important and as yet unconsidered funetions of the Govern- ment, namely, a wise adjustment of the incomparable resources of the country to the needs of the people. He showed how millions of inbabitants are suffering hard. ships and poverty through lack of intelli- gence in their distribution and in the em- ployment of their energies. Then he turned to a contemplation of the oppor- tunities offered by California for assuring the prosperity, comfort and content of a population whose extent he would not dare to estimate. He said: “We know so little of the magnificent scenery, the unigue succession of fertile valleys and the climatic and product- ive possibilities of California because na- ture, always jealous of her treasures, has placed the Pacific Ocean on one side of the golden coast and a thousand miles of desert on theother. The heat in that des- est was 107 in the car in March and Yuma is saia to be the hottest place in the world. * * * After twelve hours of in- tolerable heat and suffocating dust the traveler comes almost instantaneously into a garden of roses, fields of evergreen, alfalfa grass and groves of orange, lemon, peach and other trees filling the air with the perfume of their blossoms or laden with golden fruit. The desert ends and paradise begins whete irrigation has redeemed the sand and made it a fruitful land of annual wealth, * * * “The lesson of California is the marvelous difference between the profit pro rata of large and small farms. We rode for thirty-five miles through one farm of 100,- 000 acres and through others of 40,000 and 50,000 acres. The large farmers as a rule were complaining of the low price of wheat, the comparative worthlessness of stock and the diseases in the vines of their vineyards. But every man we met who was growing oranges, lemons, spricots, prunes or olives upon ten or twenty acres and giving to the culture a personal, trained, educated and scientific attention was averaging $300 an acre from orchards which were five years old. Upon these figures the mind is taxed to determine the number of families which could live in unaccustomed comfort and in unequaled climatic conditions in California. I couid not help contrasting my father’s old farm up in Peekskill in the early days, with its annual crop of stones and taxes, with that of the gentleman whom I visited, whose cozy cotiage was a home of comfort and culture, and whose ten acres, with enough labor only to keep him healthy, yielded him $3000 a year. He pressed the button, and then irrigation, good soil and the most heavenly of climates did the rest. We are naturally a boastful people, and yet the better I know our country the more I amr.onvix,:,ud of our boundless basis for braggi This refers only to the material aspect of the case, and that alone is of great im- portance. But the distinguished speaker further declared that the largest and finest building in every town in California was the public schoolhouse, Thus he set forth the two essentials entering into the life peculiar to California. It is not diffi- cult to imagine that small farms, scientific cultivation, the compactness of the rural population, generous profits and a pleas- ant climate which makes no drain upon vital forces must producedistinctive quali- ties in thq population. There must be great sociability, mental attraction, sound health and incitement to improvement in all ways. There must be public halls for social gutberingfn, and public libraries and schools of the highest order must follow. With these must come churches, clubs, benevolent societies and other eievating and refining co-operative agencies. Out of all these influences mnst issue a popu- lation of superior intelligence, morality and patriotism. CALIFORNIA'S OPPORTUNITY. 1t is not pleasant to think about, but it is nevertheless true that Liverpool is the distributing point for California canned koods that are destined for consumption in China, Japan, India, Egypt, and, in fact, throughout the entire Orient. The absurdity of such an intercountry trade route is apparent, if for no reason other than the additional cost that the increase in distance over what a direct route places upon shipments. And it must be remem- bered that the difference between the cost of transportation by the present round- about way and what the cost by a com- mon-sense across-lots route, so to speak, would be is borne by the fruit and vegeta- ble growers of California. California should point her finger west- ward, and say with Thomas H. Benton, *‘There is the East; there is India.”” To reach the markets of the far East Califor- nia’s products should travel westward and not eastward; and, moreover, it is an ex- hibition of commercial weakness to fill orders from Asia and Africa for our pro- duce by going directly eastward 6000 miles to find men and ships to take our goods to the points of destination; nevertheless, that is exactly the way California’s canned goods are being handled, and by adhering to this trade contradiction we not only act very unwisely, but we pay dearly for the privilege of acting stupidly. Now what is wanted is incessant agita- tion of the question of a subsidized mer- chant marine until a line of ships is per- manentiy established between San Fran- cisco and the far East, via the west. There is no sense at al! in California look- ing to Liverpool or to any other com- mercial center for facilities to reach her customers in the Orient. As a business proposition the far East should be reached from Calirornia by ships sailing to the west. But it is not reasonable to suppose that a direct line of ships could, without substantial encouragement from the Gov- ernment, successfully compete with Liver- pool sabsidized ocean craft, and henceit is that every Californian should make it his business to keep the question of a subsi- dized merchant marine prominently to the front. There is abundance of capital standing ready to employ itself in shipbuilding the moment the General Government agrees to do its part. With a strong merchant marine San Francisco would soon become to the Orient what Liverpool now is. This is California’s opportunity, THE PEOPLE VS. WALL STREET. Advocates of gold monometallism assert that the remonetization of siver would establish a double standard of reaemption money, but their logic is as weak and faulty as are their premises. There could no more bea double standard of money by which to measure values than there could be a double standard yardstick or bushel basket to measure quantities, Like the yardstick and the bushel basket, re- demption money has clearly defined and amply authorized functions, which stand immovable until changed by the authority that created them. To say that gold is the only metal that can be used for redemption money is to say that an inanimate lump of yellow metal possesses inherent qualities that enable it to override the wisdom of man and the demands of commerce. Gold standard advocates forget that the reason why 238 grains of gold of a certain fineness area legal tender when converted into a round and milled coin and stamped ‘“‘ten dollars” by the machinery of the Mint is | because the fiat of the Government makes them so, and not at all so because they pos- sess an authority by and of themselyes that is superior to the Government. Money is not a thing, but a function that is conferred upon something by gov- ernmental authority. This goldites ad- mitted when they demonetized silver. The mere act of demonetizing it was an admission that its function as money had been conferred upon it. Had silver an in- herent and personal value superior to the conspirators, they could not have demon- etized it; but it has not—neither has gold —hence it was deprived of the function of redemption money by precisely the same governmenal authority that previously monetized it, and the same economic and monetary prineiple applies to gold money. The whole question at issue 1s, there- fore, shall the function of redemption money be again conferred upon silver and the condition of the great body of the citi- zens of the United States be improved and strengthened, and the avenues of advance- ment be made wider and deeper, or shall the influence of the money syndicates of America and Europe prevail, and the noses of 95 per cent of the people be kept on the grindstone.of much labor and small compensation? With silver remonetized at the old true, tried and altogether satis- fying ratio of 16 to 1, the overwhelming advantage which Wall street and its greedy and selfish allies are now using to pile up riches at the expense of the masses would be broken, and untrammeled oppor- tunity to freely participate in the currents of money-making would be open to all. There is no middle ground in this matter, it is the people’s welfare and the remone- tization of silver, or goldbug plutocracy. In short, it is the People.vs. Wall street. RIGHTS OF WOMEN. It is particularly gratifying to observe that local bodies of Republicans are rec- ognizing the right of women to share po- litical privileges and responsibilities with It is eminently fitting that the party which represents the spirit of prog- ress moving the American people should incline an .attentive ear to this great political problem, and show a readi- ness to break away from the practices which perpetuate memories of a time when women were the slaves or servants of men. It is eminently to the credit of the Republican party of California that in State Convention it adopted on June 20, 1894, a resolution in its platform declaring: “Believing that taxation without repre- sentation is against the principles of the Government, we favor the extension of the right of suffrage to all citizens of the United States, both men and women.” Back of that, and equally praiseworthy, was this declaration by the California Statd Republican Convention of 1872: = the many practical and sub- triumphs of the principles by the Republican party during stan the past twelve years, we may enumerate with pride and pleasure the prohibiting of any State from abridging the privileges of any citizen of the Republic, the declaring of the civil and political equality of every ci!ize}:, and the establishing of all these principles in the Federal Constitution by l.mo:admenu thereto as the permanent aw.’” Later than all this is the resolution adopted by the San Diego County Republi- can Convention on April 13, 18%: “Re- solved, That this convention cordially favors the proposed amendment to the Constitution of California, whereby it is sought to extend the elective franchise to all citizens, otherwise qualified, with- out distinction of sex, and we hereby pledge to it our support at the polls in the November general election.’” Beveral other Republican County conventions have passed similar resolutions. In pursuance of this well-defined policy, Tnl_: CALL earnestly recommends the fol- lowing for adoption at the coming Repub- lican State Convention at Sacramento: “Resolved, That this convention heartily indorses the proposed eleventh amend- ment to the State Constitution of Cali- fornia to extend the suffrage to women on equal terms with men.” That is to say, Tug Cavz, desiring to represent the progressive spirit of the age, and believing it to be the duty and oppor- tunity of the Republican party to assume this position of advanced enlightenment, urges that the value of women in politics be recognized as equal to that which they exercise in all the other affairs of com- munity life, and, to this end, that they be given a suffrage equal to that enjoyed by men. In order that the readers of this paper may have an opportunity to study an intelligent exposition of the women’s cause—which is the cause of all—the ser- vices of Miss Ida Harper, whose able communication appeared in last Sunday’s issue, have been enlisted, and communica- tions from her will appear trom time to time hereafter. The efforts of THE CALL will not stop there. It will unreservedly advocate the movement and promote by every means in its power the early success of this great reform, which has been already too long delayed in so progressive a State as Califor: IN LESS SERIOUS MOOD. BY CHARLES D. SOUTH. Here is a story which will surprise some and amuse others among the frienas and the erit- ics of the pictorial press. During tne late war between Chine and Japan, Frederick Villiers, representing the London Standard and Black and White, was early st the seat of confliet. The London Graphie, suddenly awakening to the fact that enterprising contemporaries had glven it a back-view study in a matter of great importance, immediately sought to discover an artist already in the far East. At the Korean capital was found a man widely known for the cleverness of his sketches—his name, Bigot. The Graphic wired to learn Bigot's terms fora three months’ engagement in the field. “Will go to front at two hundred and fifty per month,” was the answer. Bigot's demand was deemed exorbitant by the Graphic management, which vainly en- deavored to secure figures more favorable to the journal, and wound up by making & con- tract on Bigot’s own terms. Bigot was & suc- cess of the first water and the Graphic won enco- miums everywhere for the brilliancy of its war sketches. But let us shift the scene. ‘1 followed the march of war,” said Mr. Villiers, in a conversation st Victoris, upon his return from Asis, “and prided myself on the fact that my sketches were accurate, Im- agine my astonishment when I received from Black and White a rather pointed communica- tion to the effect thatthe {llustrations in the Graphic were more spirited than mice and were attracting wide attention for their apparent fidelity to detaus. Why, there Wwas even a strong hint in the letters that 1was not at the front at all; in fact, that I was playing the part of a faker. 1 shallnot attempt to describe my feelings. Suffice it to say that, when the war ceased and I reached Chemulpo Ireceived a most cheeriul greeting at the hands of Artist Bigot, who introduced himseli as the representative of the Graphic. “*Hal’ I cried, ‘and where have you kept yourself that I have not run across you? “‘Right here,’ was his honest reply. “ ‘But how on earth did you make such fine sketches? «Easily told,’ he frankly replied. ‘I ob- tained both Chinese and Japanese regulation army uniforms, gnd employed at times s dozen coolies to put them on. By posing the coolie warriors in various striking positions I obtained excellent effects. When pattle news came in I hastened to obtain the names to fit to my sketches for speedy transmission to Lon- don.” And so you were the faker, and I the artist of fact,’ I mused. ‘I wish you could ex- onerate me by open confession.’ “ Tl do it,’ said Bigot, without a second'’s hesitation. “‘Do you actually mean to say that you will arm me with a letter to the Graphic, declaring, over your own signature, that your work was entirely imaginative, while mine was genuine and done on the field?” “‘Certainly! My contract’s up! The war's over, end I'm going to remain here. I'm bappy to say that I satisfied the Graphic peo- ple, and I don’t mind telling them how I did it. They paid me enough for that considera- tion. My terms, you see, were 250 yen, and I dian’t know why the Graphic thought that amount preposterous until I received my check for £250 at the end of the first month. They evidently thought I meant pounds instead of yens. Well, I just let it go at that, and & check of the same size has come three times—and, then, my expenses have amounted to & snug figure, for, mentally, I have done a whole lot of traveling.’” Bigot wrote the desired letter and Villiers had it in his pocket on his way back to Eng- land. Andthe man who received, by long odds, the biggest salary among all the artists who were employed to illustrate the Chins- Japan war—the man, too, who made the most brilliant and spirited sketches—was & man Wwho never saw 0 much as the distant smoke of any one of the battl As It was with Samson’s muscle, can 1t be with Tmber's mind ‘That the powers of the Cabbala are chiefly in his tresses? Could a little pair of sclssors make the eye- prophetic blind If they cut the Imber crop that courts the care- less wind’s caresses? Comes the valiant “white Mabatma” from the Himalayan steeps, Wielding all the juggling science of the fakirs of Rau; goon, With his knowledge of the Yogi, Gurus, Brahmin treasure heaps— Comes, and epichets at Imber hurls of “harmless crank” aad “loon.” Is there fighting-blood in Imber “of the chosen thirty-ux ‘Will he paralyze the Hindoo by a slap withall he knows? Or astouna Professor Dantzic with his Cabbalastic tricks ‘Which the secrets of the present, past and future may disclose? Here's a polnter for the juggler: Tackle Imber by his hair. The loss of it will lose him his extraordinary feature. The powers of the Cabbala must be concentered there. Minus curls, farewell to Imber—poor, unenvialle Creature. Historical relies of priceless value and heir. looms that have been treasured for genera- tions are not infrequently sacrificed on the altar of necessity. It was about the full of the March moon when John Doe Smith realized that he bad reached his last quarter. Twenty-five cents lower and he would be upon his uppers. He gazed at the ancient bugle, suspended by greasy ribbons from the wall. “I must part with you,” he said. He revealed his condition of misery to companions who had previously determined to risk no sever- ance of the fond relations with Smith through disregard of the advice that‘‘loan oft loseth both itself and friend.” He broughtacquaint- ances to his lodgings and preached sermons to them on the pranks of fortune and decrees of fate. “That bugle on the wall,”” he would say,with feeling in his voice, “hes been prized in my tamily for generations. An ancestor sounded its piercing treble in the eampaigns of Fred- erick the Great. Often I have said that I ‘would lose my right hand rather than that little old signal horn. And yet I have reasoned thus: A poor wreteh like me has no business with costly relics when he lacks money where- with to purchase his daily food. I have hit upon a plan. Yes—I will raffle it away!” The story of the famous old bugle was not long in spreading, and 100 rafile-tickets at a dollar apiece were not long in peing sold. Strange to relate, the descendant of the bugler to Frederick the Great seemed light-hearted on the night of the rafiie. The dice-box whirled out the winning number to the name of & newspaper man. “Newspaper men,” remarked one of the un- lucky ninety-and-nine, “always fall in for snaps " Days flew by. The winner of the prize, hav- ing played the races and dallied unluckily at roulette, was reduced to grievous straits. Already were his large Alaska diamonds stand- ing sponsor for a loan. “What shall I do?” he queried to himself. And then his eye flashed on the ancient bugle. “It is nard, old relic,” he exclaimed, ‘‘but it seems at last that you are doomed to the pawn- shop.” And secreting the curio under his coat he sped out toward the sign of the three-balls. “It is & valuable historical relic,” he ex- plained to his “uncle.” “Itwes used in the campaigns of Frederick the Great,and its esti- mated value is $200. It will be redeemed without & shadow of doubt.” The pawnbroker hastily fingered the 1nstru- ment; then hastily handed it back. “Dake id avay!” laughed the monarch of percentages. “Don’d vant id, mein vrendt! Dot pugle vas in dot vindow dree monds! Schmidt, dot ravvle-sharper, dook id—von toller! Dake id avay!” “0, God, T would sacrifice all of my lands, And all of my gold,” cried the millionaire, “For the use of my palsied feet snd hands, To move and toil like the peasant there.” “I would give ten thousand ten times told,” Cried a sightless rich man, “only to see 'or the length of & minute, the child that I hold— My prattling boy on his father’s knee And the tofler strong, as he watches the play Of his babe, while the good wife spreads his fare, Is heard to murmur, “We'd all be gay, Could I only change lots with a millionaire.” A descendant of Napoleon’s “bravest of the brave” has just dragged an honored name into opprobrium by necessitating its insertion in the police record for inebriates. It was the misfortune of the degenerate owner of the name that he had never learned to say “Nay." “Step up, gentlemen!” cried the auctioneer; “what am I bid for first chance? What! No- body to start it? Was that your voice, David?”’ “Not bidding, thank you. I took the chance for Governor of New York. Now let Grover take this!” “But Grover isn’t bidding!” *Neither was I! Fireitat him, and watch the people do the rest.” Flowers, how sweet you are! ‘What rainbow colors I sce Here, there, everywhere, Blended in harmony. Land by a sea submerged— Sea In whose wave array Are snowball, lily and pink and rose To be tossed by the prow of May. But, flowers, bright as you are, Though ever 8o sweet you be, Your glories wane when cometh the queen Who ruleth the floral sea. When the Market-street Railway Company awakens to the fact that, in spite of the delays and annoyances caused to the general public by the transfer-check nuisance, the newsboys are still trafficking in occasional transfers and transfer-checks, it will undoubtedly feel im- pelled to hire an army of Pinkertons whose duty it shall be toshadow transferring passen. gers from car to car. The newsboys then will bave so much fun at the expense of the detec- tives that the company will be satisfied 1o drop a remedy that is incomparably worse than the aisease. A stop can be put to the traffic in transfers, however, by taking the newsboys inte the corporation. In this iatter event, the newsboys could be counted on to introduce a whole lot of genuine smartness, and, better still, they would naturally exert a purifying influence. Magianls, the life of the alley is he, The spryest of witsand the greatest: The boys get together in all sorts of westher Whenever he's telling “his latest.” Maginnis’ wit isn't studled & whit— 1t’s aspring flowing freshly forever: At a picnic or ball he’s the Kingpin of all With *his latest” that's bound to be clever. Maginnis can’t open his mouth for a word M But the boys on his speech are a-dwelling; ‘Wherever the place is, there's smile-lighted faces, ‘Whatever Maginnls is telling. For a fortuight the boys have been lost it'd seem— No more as of old they be shouting: The wit of the alley holds never a rally As if the old custom he’s tlouting. *Do you know but he’s dead?” old O'Shannessey said; 3 +Of the loss of us all *twould be grestest.” So I rushed to find out. Sald the nurse witha shout: “Red hair has Maginnis’ latest.” Secretary Morton, in his Agricultural Year Book, opines that because Americans do not eat a sufficient amount of “greens” they are becoming a bilious race. The Secretary would be serving his country to equal advantage if, instead of discussing the National tendency to biliousness, he would write a few chapters on the desirability of some kind of National policy that will not be the means of depriving & vast number of the American people of op- portuntties to get the *wherewithal” to pro- cure the edibles that make those ‘‘greens” mnecessary. But, of course, this would be run- ning the thing into politics. And, by the way, there are fewer ‘greens” in politics than there were four years ago. Now comes the “ideal mistress.” She is de- scribed as one who lets the housemaia run the house. Here, at last, is the solution of a prob- lem that has long vexed society. When ideal mistresses are common, the position of house- maid will be an enviable one. When the ser- vant-girl can entertain her beau in the parlor, while the mistress is arbitrarily relegated to a back room, there will be no trouble in secur- ing domestic help. The supply will far exceed the demand. PERSONAL. Dr. A. T. Hudson of Stockton is here. The Rev. R. A. Canton of San Jose is in the City. Dr. W. J. Woodruff of New York is at the Oc- cidental. L. R. Tatro, & Seattle hotel man, is at the Cosmopolitan. Dr. R. F. Davidson and wife are staying at the Cosmopolitan. C. L. Atwood of Starksboro, Vt., is registered at the Cosmopolitan, Dr. William Ireland of the United States army is at the Occidental. J.S. Templin, the mining man of Nevads, is smong recent arrivals here. George W. Bond and family of Warren, Ohio, are staying at the Cosmopolitan. F. H. Houlbert, abusiness man of Chicago, is among the arrivals at the Palace. - W. H. Clay, & merchant of Stockton, who is interested in mining, is at the Grand. R. V. Sargent, the pioneer and big landowner of Salinas, is among thearrivals at the Lick. L. C. Gilman, a leading attorney of Seattle, arrived here yesterdsy. He is at the Palace. Thomas Kirkpatrick of Moore, Hunt & Co., has gone to Louisville, Ky., for about two weeks. Sheriff 8. D, Ballou of San Luis Obispo came up from the south yesterday and is at the Grand. .fié Puhh 01‘:0,‘: '7;“,'.’.."4, store proprietor of Ig. necio, is at the accom d by Mrs. panied by James F. Farraher, for some time District At- torney at Yrekaand previousto his election tor several years & practicing attorney there, is in town. George S. Nixon of Nevads, cashier of the Bank o;:mn;unm and owner of the Winne- muccs Silver State, arrived here yesterday and is at the Palace, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Joseph R. Walker of Walker Brothers, Sali Lake, probably the best-known man between San Francisco and the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains, is at the Occidental. | Hels worth many millions and has been called the Jay Gould of Utah. His life is & strange story. In 1851 his father and two jsisters died at St. Louis, then the home of the family. Four young boys and their mother were left. The boys a year late: in their exuberance of spirits and full of youth- {ful enthusiasm, persuaded their mother to go o the West, which then as now was full of at- | tractions for those of adventurous disposi- tions. They set out in & wagon drawn by two yoke of cattle, and were six months in getting to Balt Lake. Their oxen gave out ana they had | b-b-b-b- went in ch h-ch-ch-ch-ch on .pnr- pose! I wanted j & bath, you f-f-f-f durnea fool.”—Chicago, Tribune. - PARASRAPES ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. Kurim, the Japanese Minister in"Wash- ington, expects to spend the summer at one of the resorts on the Eastern, coast., : Nansen is described as a type of ‘the fdeal Norseinan—a fine, stalwart fellow, with ruddy face, fair hair and the limbs of a giant.. Gray of Delaware’ and Wolcott of Colofado are said to be the finest whist players in the Senate. They are frequently on opposing sides in the same game. * . B s Salvini, who has been in retizement for sev- eral years, recently made a reappearance on to rest them and get along as best they could. They made the long trip from Green River to the stage of the Teatro Vallo, at Rome, at a | eneflé” for dramailc artists. The play was < Joseph R. Walker, the Jay Gould of Utah, Whose Lifc Is a Strange Story. [Sketched from life by a “Call'” artist.] Salt Lake through a savage Indian country | absolutely alone. There was noteven another | wagon with them. They camped wherever | they could find a patch of green grass for the | oxen. | At 0ld Jim Bridger’s they were out of sugar, coffee and some other supplies, though they | yethad flour. They laid in a little stock and resumed their tireless journey. Reaching the valley of Salt Lake at last, they located there. Four years later, cr in 1856, Joseph R. Walker went over into the Carson Valiey and started a small store in Gold Canyon. This was before the discovery of the Comstock, He. flourished, and he established a packirain from Placerville, Cal., to Genoa. He also ren | the first wagon train from Murphys, in Cala- veras County, to Genoa. i i He made such a stake therein two years that | he went back to Salt Lake. In1859 he and his | brothers, under the firm name of Walker Brothers, started on their business career to- gether by taking astock of goods over ‘to old | Camp Floyd, where JoLnson’s army had their headquarters. This was seven miles from the present big mining camp of Mercur. By the early sixties the firm had made so much money tnat they opened a bank at Salt Lake, under the name of Walker Brothers, and the bank, with its accumulated wealth, exists now and is known, probably, “wherever the English language is spoken,” as the saying has it, The brothers began miningin 18 In1872 they built their first quartz mill in Utah. They now own a vast number of mines and mills. One of their biggest properties is the Alice, a huge silver mine at Butte, Mont., on which an 80-stamp mill has long been running. They also own five other mines at Butte or Walker- ville, near there, s town named for them. They also own a number of mines in Utah, large areas of land and extensive property of varied kinds in Salt Lake, including the Walker House. “Salt Lake is quite prosperous now,” said Mr.Walker yesterday. “We have about 65,000 people there. Business is good in the city and the farmers about there are comfortable and independent. They are well-to-do and happy. Salt Lake is very beautiful now with its hand- some new blocks. It is really the gem of the mountains. “Utah is in better shape than it has been fo: along time. We are a State now and have ad- vantages we never had before. I think some- thing ought to be done by Congress for silver, because we have as a nation never had | such prosperity as when there was plenty of silver in circulation. “The new gold camp of Mercur, fifty miles from Salt Lake, is attracting great interest. | There are about 2000 people in the district, | and a number of mines have been discovered, | two of them very big. We have two trains a day there from Salt Lake, and hundreds of our people go out there each morning and back at night.” Mr. Walker is accompanied by his wife ard son, and he will probably stay in California several weeks. —_— | HUMOR OF THE HOUR. | Jack—I asked the old man for & raise of my | salary yesterday, and referred to the fact thyy | my hair had turned gray while I have been | working for him. Tom—And what did he say? Jack—He gave me & bottle of his ow: ir | tonic.—Judge. i “‘Harold, dear, why were you so Very noisy this morning? You waked me with shouting, Idon't like to be roused so. I wish to sleep until I wake naturally,” “Yes, but, mamma, isn’t it natural to wake up when you hear a noise?”’—Life, Boswick—I think I'll have Baxter—Dear me! Why so? Boswick—I went home to-day to find th door locked in my face and all my clothes ans ?lo;\dflng set outon the sidewalk. —New Yorg | orld. “Did you fall in?” asked th i Sty @ sympathizing The man in the dress suit, who haa just bee: hauled, dripping with slime, out ol, the ic; to leave my wife, “Othello,” the great tragedian, who scemed to have lostnone power, acting the part: of the Moor t0 the Tago of Ermete Novelli. The death of George Dav | ney-Géneral of the Con only one member of John , who was Attor- Tate States, leaves dent Dayis' Cabinet Resgan. | alive, and that | In reference which Presid pronounced, “Oom Paul’ o a dispute over: the ‘wayin nt Kruger's name shonld. be he London Daily News seys: that iplomatieally A~ DAINTY DRESSING SACQUE. A delightfully comfortable garment is shown' It is cut without a lining, thefullness & gathered into the collsr band, snd fin- ed with a draw-string at the waist line in the back. It is unconfined in front, excépt by & ribbon. Made of pink and white striped lawn, with g ruffles of very finely e nd ribbons of pink, 1t ness. A white Japanese silk, with ruffles of white lace, and Dresden ribboa is charming and ser- Yiceable, as the silk lauzders as well as white Bwn. A sprigged dimity of white backgrornd had yellow ribbons to match the figure with white Valenciennes lace trimmings. Crepon in delicate shades are much used for these jackets. Oneof pink and ruffles of black chiffon on collar and sleeves. A pink and lack striped bon was worn at the waist. A yellow nua’s veiling had rufiles of olack ce. Albatross of a creamy white had frills of pale blue chiffon and blue ribbon trimmings. A white lawn with a blue spot had collar and ruffles of blue lawn to match. & dream of dainti- Eddystrest. *. ——————— s Cal, glace {ruits, “our make,” | 50c 1b. in Japanese baskets. 627 Markat st. * . SPECIAL information daily to manufgoturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Buresu (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ST S “SeG that 0ld guy fcross the road?’ said Wheeler to Scorcher. ““The meanest man in town.” “What did he did?’ ssked Scorcher with much wit. “He's got his clothes lined with tacks—points sticking ouj, you know. Isn't a man in town dares to run over him."— Indanapolis Journal. IMPORTANT CHANGE OF TiME—The 13th Inst. the Northern Pacitic Rallroad inaugurated adoubls dally passenger service between Portlang and St Paul, making u saving of ten hours between Port- 1and and Chicago. These are the fastes: and finess equipped trains that ever were rutf 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 dining-cars ou: of Portiand. T. K. 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