The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 19, 1896, Page 6

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor end Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, obe week, by carrier..§0.15 Daily and Sunday CALL, one yesr, by mail.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Daily and Sunday CALZ, three months by mail 1.50 Dally and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.. . 150 WEEKLY CALL, One year, by mall. .~ 1.50 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on a_vacation ? It 80, it is 1o trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Onders given to the carrier or lgft at Business Office will receive prompt sttention. NO EXTRA CHARGE: BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Markes Streer, San Francisco, California. Telephone. Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Telephone... ..Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay: open until 9:30 o'clock. B 39 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street; open until 9:30 c'clock. &W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 0'clock. 116 Niuth street; open nntfl § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 608 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent TUESDAY 2 MAY 19, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e e e e The Democratic bird this year is a bat. Charity in Kansas has to hustle to keep up with the cyclones. Chicago keeps right along saying noth- ing about her convention. Until the coronation festivities are over the Czar will be a famous man. A Russizn coronation seems to have as many side shows to it as a world’s exposi- tion. Before this thing is over St. Louis will be disputing Boston’s claim to be the hub of the universe. The Chicago convention will care little who bolts so long as it can get & nominee who will stick. The Democratic tariff has turned the American market into a regular swill tub for the British hog. The festival movement is getting along lively enough to jog everybody’s mind a little and set it thinkin, It dark horses have any show at St. Louis, it might be a good thing to make a ticket of Lincoln and Grant. San Francisco should do her share in making the Monterey celebration worthy of the name of a State festival. The more we read of Eastern weather the more we are pleased that the wina over there blows the other way. The pipes McNab has been laying for Democratic harmony may be pretty good bag pipes, but they are out of tune. The talk of an early adjournment of Congress seems to have no other effect than that of prolonging the session. 1f the Kansas prophet who predicted six cyclones this year had the thing to do over again he would make it a dozen. While the Senate keeps Congress to- gether the House hasa chance to get in some good work for the Nicaragua canal. Cleveland seems determined to makea funeral procession out of Demoeracy this year if he has to ride in the hearse him- self. Europe has already begun to declare itself against the St. Louis nominee, and all America will bave to rally to his sup- port. Every Republican club in the State should get ready to make a big showing at the ratification of the 8t. Louis nomina- tions. Carlisle’s letters follow one another thick and fast, but they will never know bow numerous they are. They don’t count. It will cost the Russians about as much to crown the Czar as it will cost us to elect a President, and they won't have half as much fan. Itis a pity we cannot annihilate time as well as the Democrats and have an aa- ministration of prosperity without wait- ing so long. There is no longer a Democratic party. Its place has been taken by a Cleveland gang on the inside and a host of kickers on the outside. If General Weyler ever treats an Ameri- can filibuster as a pirate it will be time for us to treat him as a bandit and hunt him out of this hemisphere. The wind in California drives malaria away from our homes, but over in the Mississippi Valley it blows the homes away from the malaria. England and Germany make up to one another for their quarrels over Africa by heartily agreeing that American markets should be open to both of them. The gold stringency has undoubtedly developed the mining industry, but un- jortunately it has run enterprise into the ground in more ways than that. There will be no objection from any quarter in this country if the immigration restriction bill should be rushed through Congress in Speaker Reed’s most vigorous style. Until the debts of the Pacific roads have been paid or the mortgage foreclosed we shall never be safe from the funding scheme. It is one of the weeds that never die until dragged out by the roots. The goldbuz Democrats consider the silver Democrats as cattie affected with tuberculosis and propose to slaughter them at Chicago, but instances have been known in this world where the cattle killed the butchers. The Lehigh Valley Raiiroad Company, which has just attained its fiftieth year, was organized to construct what was in- tended to be a strictly local road, but self- preservation compelled it to extend its lines from time to time until now it con- trols 2490 miles of track. Thatis the way things grow in this country when enter- prising men have charge of them. | affiliation. PROTECTION AND POLITICS. Tne tariff question belongs, in fact, wholly in the realm of political economy. It is something in which all the people should take interest independent of party Of course there are, or rather there can be made to appear to be two sides to the tariff question, as there are to every other question, but it cannot be con- sidered and analyzed intelligently until it is freed from the environment of party prejudice. The philosophy of protection is clear and explicit in what it teaches, leaving no room for doubt as to its pur- pose when it reaches the field of practical operation. Politicians have dragged the question into the whirlpool of partisan politics and party strife, which only pe- littles it. The principles of protection have always stood foremost in the long list of complex and perplexing economic problems in all countries. Moreover, the degree of pro- tection as & whole, and which articles of commerce should stand first in the Gov- ernment’s favor has always been a source of contention, but the right of each nation 1o determine for itself what is best for iis producers has never been questioned. In the United States the tariff problem is made unnecessarily difficult of proper so- Iution by reason of its close identification with party politics in the first instance, and second by a lack of appreciation on the part of the people of the real purpose of tariff legislation. This is due mainly, if not altogether, to the intensity of party strife for supremacy, which dwarfs those things that are essential to the country’s | commercial and industrial expansion. Thirty-five years ago the United States were wholly or practically s> an agricul- tural country. In 1861 circumstances gave opportunity to lay the foundation for in- dustrial enterprises and at the same time further encourage the production of bread- stuffs and provisions. This was notdone for party advantage, for the new departure of the Government, which was then under the first Republican administration, was seconded and heartily supported by the best thougbt of all parties. How wise and how conducive to the general good of the country that policy was is shown in the increase in the material wealth of the country from about fifteen billion dollars in 1861 to about seventy billion dollars in 1896. And it may be said, although the people know it to be true without remind- ing them of it, that such universal partici- pation by the people individually in a country’s growth in wealth was never be- fore witnessed in the world. It is evadent, therefore, that if the appli- cation of the principles of protection has added vearly fifty-five billion doliars to the indiyidual wealth of the people ina little over a third of a century it wouid be an act of supreme folly to return to an economic theory of government that re- quired eighty-five years to accumulate not much more than one-fourth of thatsum, 1t is an economic principle and not a mere party policy that should be the uppermost in the approaching Presidential campaign, and it is because the Republican party champions this tried and not found want- ing economic doctrine of individual wealth gathering tkat the people should rally to its support. The election of a President next November is purely a business prop- osition. MONEY OF REDEMPTION, Undoubtedly the St. Louis convention will declare for the coinage of silver dol- lars, but whether at the old ratio of 16 to 1, or at a ratio that shall be agreed upon by an international convention, remains to be seen. The importance cf & bimetailic monetary system for this country is ad- mitted, but there are honest differences of opinion as to how the desired end can best be reached. It is admitted by students generally of the sclence of political economy that gold is inadequate to the demands of com- merce for redemption money, and since silver is the only metal by which gold can be supplemented, the logic of the situa- tion is that the sooner the mints are opened to that metal the better it will be for all interests. The argument of gold-standard advo- cates that the existing difference in the bullion value of gold and silver is a bar to silver coinage au the old ratio is fallacious, because neither history nor experience affirms that theory. If alarger volume of currency is needed, which is admitted, it follows that the coinage of silver asredemp- tion money wonld promptly put the two metals on a parity up to the fall require- ments of commerce, and that if that point were overreached and a permanent plethora of money maintained, the pur- chase power of both metals would be weakened in equal proportion. The question of a proper financial sys- tem has nothing whatever to do with sen- timent. The requirements of the busi- ness operations of the people are a de- mand for an ample volume of money of re- demption, and it is the business of the Government to see that there is an ample volume. That there is not enough gold to provide such a volume no one doubts. Now does any well-informed person be- lieve that the association of both metals under such circumstances would tend to appreciate or depreciate either one of them. It is illogical to say that if gold is re- enforced by silver or silver re-enforced by gold to accomplish a purpose that either one alone would be unequal to, the associ- ation would strengthen one and weaken the other. The fact is the association of the two metals in the work of providing a sufficient volume of money of redemption would necessarily place them upon a parity, for they would have to be inter- changeable by the very nature of the rela- tion they sustain, the one toward thd other. It is of no consequence whatever what the difference may be in the commodity vaiue of gold and silver, for as commodi- ties they serve widely different purposes. They are simply as so much of this or that merchantable thing, but when asso- ciated together as money of redemption by command of the Government at a ratio of purchase and redemption fixed by authority they are bound by the work as- signed to them to lean the one upon the other and be as one in the performance of that which they were assigned to perform. AN IMPORTANT MATTER. Congress will disappoint vast commer- cial and industrial interests if it adjourns without taking definite or at least en- couraging action on the question of the constraction of a connecting way between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is no doubt true that the sentiment of the people of the United States is opposed to the Government becoming a copartner in private or quasi public business enter- prises, but the more the Niearagua canal project is discussed and the better its meaning to the trade interests of this country is understood the more satisfied the public is that the canal should not only be constructed, but that it should be wholly an American venture. Those who are directly the promoters and the sustainers of our commerce have been agreed for a long time that itjs | ighly important to the whole country that a water route be established between the Pacific Coast country and the commer- cial centers on the Atlantic coast and in the Mississippi Valley, and now that the Nicaragua survey demonstrates that that is the most feasible line for connecting the two oceans there is mno reason why con- struction work should be long delayed; and, again, the importance of having the canal wholly under the control and in- fluence of the commerce of the United States is so great that it would seem not only wise but prudent for us to possess ourselves of the necessary right of way and concessions without further delay. The importance of this enterprise to the Pacific Coast generally, buc especially to San Francisco, is ereat beyond computa- tion. A shorter water route, such as the proposed Nicaragua canal would provide, between this State and Gulfof Mexico and Atlantic Ocean markets, as well as cheaper and more rapid means of water communi- cation with Europe, is one of California’s most pressing needs. There is no doubt whatever as to the advantages that wounld accrue to our-trade and traffic. The in- crease in volume would be great at once, and it would steadily grow. This is ol vious because the eanal would create new business and not merely force a division of existing traffic with the transconti- nental rail lines, as some suppose. There are very many articles of commerce that are not able to bear the cost of rail trans- portation, but which would immediately become desirable items of trade inter- changeif they could be moved at the low rate that would satisfy the canal route. To be sure, there are those who look upon all great enterprises with the eye of the pessimist, but they should not be listened to now any more than they were when the proposition to construct transcontinental lines of railways was under discussion. California is very much in need of a canal to connect the two oceauns, and Calitornia is very much in earnest in her effort to secure the construction of such a water- way. THE NEW CZAR. It is quite natural that the people of this country should take a lively interest in the coronation of the young Emperor and Empress of Russia. Of course we have no sympathy with such a system of Government as the Czar stands for; but from the very beginning of our Nation Russia has shown the greatest friendship for us and our institutions, and upon at least one occasion gave such emphatic demonstrations of good-wili that England refrained from giving contemplated aid and comfort of a substantial character to the Southern Confederacy, It cannot be said that the Government of Russia has any notion of adopting the American theory of the sovereignty of the people, but the rulers of that country have always held that any kind of a government other than an ultra-autocratic or an ultra-repub- lican form was a humbug. How far the young Czar will go in insti- tuting reforms no one can tell, as the Em- perors of Russia are not in the habit of asking advice; but it is reported that the Emperor will take advantage of the occ: sion of his being crowned to proclaim a policy that will be a great departure from the old stiff and unprogressive road his pre- decessors traveled. It is said that he will declare that the empire must get upon a broader and more aggressive plane of ad- vancement, and that greater political rights must be granted to the people. If he shall honestly and truly enter upon a path that is abreast of the civilization of the day no doubt his more than 100,000,000 subjects will prove themselves to be en- tirely worthy of the confidence he reposes in their loyalty to his Government and devotion to the best interests of the em- pire. It is said that the new Czar is de- sirous of encouraging the introduction of all new inventions and machinery that are calculated to aid in the development of his country, and to do whatever else may be necessary to make the Russian empire the first nation of the worid in agriculture and in manufacture—and in soldiers. BOLTING DEMOCRATS. If Senator Vest and other bimetallic leaders of the Democratic partv can be be- lieved they will bolt and do their level best to defeat the Chicago Copvention's nominee unless he is fully committed to the free coinage of silver at the old ratio. It will make no difference to the Republi- can party whether there is a split or netat Chicago, for only an insane man would believe that a Democrat could be elected President this year. It is interesting to note, however, the muddle into which Cleveland’s intimacy with Wall street has plunged his party. It is no doubt true that Vest and other Western and Southern leaders are sincere in their advocacy of the remonetization of silver, but it is very plain that their hatred of Cleveland has more to do with their threat to bolt the party than political con- sistency. Itdid not take Cleveiand long to impress upon the minds of Vest and other leaders who thought they had strings hitched to the President that when they attempted to volunteer advice cheir room was very much more desirable than their company in the White House, and right there is where will be found the inner meaning of this war upon every shape and kind of Clevelandism. Every act of Cleveland proves that Vice- President Hendricks knew his man well when he said, before Cleveland was inau- gurated in 1885, that Cleveland was schem- ing to control the party in his own per- sonal interest indefinitely. No doubt the varty will be split wide open at Chicago. A Cleveland organ, referring to the Vest faction, snms up the whole matter this way: We bave once before said that the Democratic party is now like a herd of cat- tle some of which have tuberculosis. They will communicate it to all uniess the in- fected are picked out and slaughtered. The Democratic party must do as wise men do with their infected berds. They slaughter the last one of the infected ani- mals, and the Democratic party must offer the free silver contingent the option of mending their ways or being given up. ‘We cannot afford to have them poisoning the rank and file any longer. THE SUGAR BEET. Stock ton Graphic. The next long step toward aflluence which the people of California should take should be to fall into line with Claus Spreckels and go to raising sugar beets. Mr. Spreckels has ac- cumulated millions ot dollars by properly siz- ing up conditions and improving opportuni- ties, hence his judgment on any question, and especially the sugar-beet question, should be taken and acted n%on without unnecessary delay. He says this State is c‘lglble of export- ing annually ,000,000 worth of beetsugar. The industry should be fostered by every aid possible. THE LADY'S PAPER. Crockett Record. THE CALL of San Francisco is now called “the lady’s paper,” beceuse it has come ount boldly in favor of granting women the right to vote. WHAT IT IS. Stockton Graphic. San Francisco Republicans consider the vie- tory of John D.Spreckels & local party tri- umph end say that boss domination is k}ued. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. S. R. Bill, one of the wealthy gray-bearded pioneers of Deer Lodge County, Mont., and for along time a resident of Deer Lodge, is at the Russ. Mr. Bill is a mine-owner and cattle and sheep raiser. He has been in that part of Montana since 1865. For three or four years past he has been living about half of each year &t Los Angeles, where he has property. As it is, his home is nearly as much in California as in the new distant northern State. The wealthy Montana pioneer has been sui- fering for some time from the effects of the grip. He says the winters of the mountsin re- glon are too cotd for him, and that he had to get out and come to California, or “go to Davy Jones’ locker,” as he tersely expresses it. He says an era of what appears to be sub- stantial prosperity has dawned upon the upper Rocky Mountsin country. “Livestock of all kinds had so easy a win- ter,” he gaid. “Cattle and sheep have thriven does not believe the report, but the course of T.:“: CALL will be the best answer to the charge.” Quite true. The Examiner, however, which makes this chirge, knowing how severely it has suffered over that Southern Pacific ‘World’s Fair contract, thinks to deceive its duped clients, etc., by withdrawing attention from itself by charging THE CALL with an_offense similar to that which it stands convicted of. It won’t do, however. THE CALL’S honesty is & maiter of positive proof, and the Examiner's charge will only serve o' act as & boomerang on its MAKE IT UNANIMOUS. Lemoore Radical. Now that the Sen Francisco CALLand the Republican party hes declared for woman’s suffrnge the Democrats might as well fall in line and make it unanimous. TO0 BASHFUL. Salinas Owl. The entire press of California, with few ex- \ “No such a winter was ever known before, and perhaps never will be again,” said the Old Cattleman, S. R. Bill. (Sketched from iife by a “Call” artist.] in & wonderful way. There was not much | snow, still there was enough to furnish water and good grass. I think there ought to be plenty of money in Montana this year. Every thing points to a reasonable amount of it, at feast. “There have been many people from Mon- tana in different parts ot California this win- ter, but nearly all have goue home. Many of | them own property in California, and all those are especially attracted to the Golden State.” PERSONAL. R. C. Terry of Clayton is at the Lick. | George W. Kimmer of Seattle hes arrived here. s ! V. W. Child of Montana is among recent | vals. llism Sims, & merchant of Winters, is at the Russ. W. Forsyth, the raisin-grower, of Fresno, is in the City. W. J. Garney, a business man of Redlands, in the City. William B. Harvey of Edinburgh, Scotland, is at the Paiace. John M. G the Cosmopol: M. W. Alexander of Bodie, who is inter- ested in mines there, is in this City. G. McM. Ross,a mining man whose resi. dence is at Petaluma, is at the Russ. James E. Nelson, a wealthy business man of Grana Forks, N. Dak., is at the Grand. Sam Davis, editor of the Carson Appeal, ar- rived here yesterday and is at the Occidental. Ben M. Maddox, editor and proprietor of the Visalia Times, is smong the arrivals at the Lick. { Robert M. Mappes, managing editor of the | Stockton Mail, ison & visit to friends in this City. Charles F. McGlashan, the attorney and editor, of Truckee, is among the arrivals at the fiin of Madera is a guest at an. Russ. B. Suyoma, & prominent merchant of Prince- ton, N.J., en route to China, is staying at the Cosmopolitan. Mrs. Clara Shortridge-Foltz, the brilliant attorney of New York, is here on a flyiag visit to relatives and friends. Count Noka of Hungary, who has been at the Palace for several days, accompanied by a party of friends, yesterday took his departure for the East. Thomas P. Cosgrave and wife of Madera are visiting friends in this City. Mr. Cosgrave was for several years until recently editorof the Daily Madera Mercury. N. A. Covarrubias of Los Angeles, United States Marshal for the Southern District of Cal- ifornia, is at the Palace, accompanied by Edward Ryan, of Los Angeles. Messts. D. H. Bayly, George Cook and S. Baboyn, delegates to the late State Conven. tion held of Christian Endeavorers at San Jose, are registered at the Cosmopolitan. The Rev. W. B. Noble of the Presbyterian | church of San Rafael will leave to-day for Glasgow, Scotland, as a delegate to the Pan- Presbyterian convention thet is to meet there on the 14th of June. . E. H. Hinton, the local general agent of the | Panama Railroad Company, has returned to | this City atter six weeks’ absence, spent in in- vestigating the traflic situation of the Central American republics in relation to the Panama Railroad. Among the arrivals here by the last steamer fromKorea was Leigh Hunt, for merly of Towa, where he was president of the State Agricul- tural College, and aiterward of Seattle, where he became editor and proprietor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Mr. Hunt finally sold the paper and has since been in the Orient. He is going to Washington ana New York in a day or two. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 18.—At the St. Cloud—J. McDonough. Westminster—W. At- terhouse. St Denis—L. Grace. Marlborough— Mr. and Mrs. C. Hirsch. Sailed per steamship Havel for Bremen via Southampton — Carl Brann, Mrs. Grifith, Mrs. Emma Grappe, Miss Helene Grappe, E. Henermann, Adolf Josie, F. H. C. Junker, Mrs. Marie Junker, Miss Clara Mieteff, Mr. and Mrs, H. Pfotenhauer. A GOOD SELECTION. Redlands Citrograph. The Republican party of San Bernardino is honored by the appointment of J. A. Whit- more, the industrious editor of the Times- Index, as a member ot tne State Central Com- mittee. He will be & willing and able worker in the committee, and the interests of the Re- publican party will be 1n safe hands. Besides, the editorial fraternity should be recognized by the party, and we rejoice on that account, —_— A USELESS SUBTERFUGE. I Tuolumne Independent. “The charge is made, says the Fresno Weekly Republican, that the Sau Francisco CALL was | this wiil change brought into the Southern Pacific political cor- ralby force of circumstances which arose in the late State Convention. The Republican ceptions, has come out unequivocelly in favor of woman’s suffrage. There are a few papers, however, who, iij me men, ridicule the idea of women voting, still at heart these jour- nalsare in favor of granting them that privi- lege. There is a certain amount of cowardice, or bashfulness, or whatever you may call it, that prevents them from giving expression to their thoughts, and thus we tind many men who are to-day holding back their expressions in behalf of woman suffrage simply because they think it an unpopular idea and do not want to express themselyes favorably because they are afraid of being laughed at, but all time. A STRONG CHAMPION. Stockton Graphic. When THE CALL says it “speaks for all” it means it, including woman suffragists. The women will not find in this State, nor any other for that matter, a more potent, consist- ent or indefatigable champion. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. A survivor of the Grande Armee, Joseph Rose, has just died at Aubigny, near Bourges, at the age of 102 years. He entered the army at 18, | beeame & corporal, sud recetved the St. Helena medal. Secretary Lamont has leased a cottage at Seabright, N. J,, for the summer, and Mrs. La- mont and her young deughters will be com- fortably settled there beiore the advent of the warm weather. Mr. Balfour, who plays golf for amusement and not in the spirit of & professional, does not pretend to be & great performer, though he has written a chapter in the Badminton book on golf. For a long time it was almost his only amusement, but he has now taken to cycling. If Abdul Hamid Khan, Sultan of Turkey, should lose his job he could probebly get work as a cowboy. He has a stable of 2000 horses, and he can break a dozen glass vases with a revolver while galloping past them. The Marchioness of Drogheda, whose death is announced, was a leader of fashion in her day. She was the only peeress frequenting re- ceptions in Dublin Castle who resolutely and consistently refused to allow herself to be | kissed by a Lord Lientenant at the vice-regal drawing-room reception. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. A tiny brooklet lightly flowed, A gleaming silver thread, That smiled despite the sun that glowed So flercely overhiead. Alas, that little laughing riil Can bring no joy to me: For, just the same, I'Il get & bill For the ice it used to be. —Washington Star. “The giraffe has a tongue eighteen inches long,” said Mrs. Garrill. “And knows how to hold it, too,” snapped | Mr. Garrill,who had had a long curtain lecture the night before.—Harper’s Bazaar. She colored deeply. A girl in an ordinary story would have blushed red. Butshe was in & problem story with poster illustrations. Accordingly, in view of the uncertainty, she merely colored.—Detroit Tribune. “Don’t you know it is wrong to fish here on private grounds?”’ ell, sir, the line must be drawn some- where.”—Yonker Statesman. “Itis my firm conviction,” said the stork as it gulped down a frog, “that the greenbacks should be retired.”—Life. A Bad Time of Year.—“Hasn’t Mr. Simpkins proposed yet, daughter?” ¢No, mamma, I can’t get him to talk about anything but base- ball.”—Chicago Record. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. LITHOGRAPHERS—Subseribers, City. In San Francisco expert lithographers, those wio draw on stone, are paid $60 & weck. BEVEN YEARS—R. H. 8., City. The answer to your question appeared in ‘‘Answers to Cor- Tespondents” on the 26th of last April. THE DURRANT TRIAL—A. P., Central Point, Jackson County, Or. Up to date the trial of Theodore Durrant has cost the people about $16,000. EppiE Foy—E. R, W., City. Eddie Foy, come- dian, never was with Francis Wilson who pro- duced “The Lion Tamer” and “The Merry Monarch.” IMBER'S MAGAZINE —G. D. S., Forbestown, Butte County, Cal. The magazine which Pro- fessor Tmber says he issues is published in the city of Boston. THE PORT WARDENS—E. McM., City. The Port Wardens recently appointed by Governor Budd entered upon the discharge of the duties on the 1st of last April. To HoUsToN—R. G. F., Santa Cruz, Cal There are but two classes of passengers from San | Francisco to Houston, Tex., first and second | class. The fare is $50 and $4 | GENERAL WEYLER—G. H., Angel Island, Cal. General Weyler was born on one of the Balearic Isles, off the coast of Valencis, a Spanish prov- ince; consequently he is & Spaniard. EYE TEETE—A. 8. City. If a child cuts its eye teeth before cutting its front teeth itisa sign that the child is very precocious. That child is evidently old enough to understand things and wants people to know that he is not going to be imposed upon. THE PosTOFFICE—P. H. 8., City. The main entrance to the Postoffice in this City is on Washington street, as that is the one through which the majority of people pass who have business in "that department. The main entrance to the Custom-house is on Battery street. GENERAL GOMEZ—R. G. F., Santa Cruz, Cal. | The address of General Gomez is Havane, but | your chances of having a letter sent by mail reach him are exceedingly small unless your letter should happen to :all into the hands of a | sympathizer who would see that it reached him. | A COWARD'S ACT—L. M. B., Benicia, Cal. This | correspondent is anxious to ascertain the name of the author of a piece of poetry, the first line of which is: It is a coward’s act to shoot at one that can’t resist. Can any reader of this department furnish it? THE POPE AND Davis—S., Winnemucca, Nev. At one time Pope Pius IX wrote a letter to Jefferson Davis, in which he expressed & hope Anna Creek Canyon, Near Crater Lake, a Place of Rare Beauty in Oregon That Is to Be Visited by Scientists of San Francisco. San Franciscans who are fond of mounsain-climbing—something like a hundred of them— are preparing to visit Crater Mountain in Oregon for the purpose of adding to their stock of mountein lore. The majority of the ladies and are more or less conversant with scientific matters, intelligent study of Pacific Coast topography T! Crater Lake is held in the hollow of the crater, est point on the bank is 2200 feet higher. The lake is 2200 feet deep, so that the depth of the crater is 4400 feet. The lake has no visible outlet nor inlet. The lowest depth of water near the shore is 1000 feet. At one point a rock may be dropped 1000 feet in the water, where it will strike, and bounding will fall 1200 feet more. There is an island in the lake on the north- western side which rises 845 feetabove the water. The island is itself an extinct volcanic cone. Ata point balf a mile east of the island the water is 2200 feet deep, making the island rise from the depths of the crater over 3000 feet. Compared with other craters of extinct yol- canoes its altitude, depth and ares, it is the greatest known. gentlemen who are to make this pilgrimage and it is in the direction of fostering an that the visitation is to be undertaken. The accompanying engraving represents a scene in Anna Creek Canyon, near Crater Mountain. noted mountain lies some eighty-five miles from Ashland, Or., in the Cascade range. 6000 feet above the level of the sea. The high- that the strife between the North and the South might termivate, and in ciosing used the words usually employed, and by some this was interpreted to mean a blessing on Jeffer- son Davis. It is probable that it is that to which you refer in your communication. This departiment cannot learn that there was any unusual desertion on account of this fetter. FREEMASONRY—J. R., Ferndale, Humboldt County, Cal. The object of Freemasonry is explained to those who without mercenary or selfish motive desire to join the order. The benefits of becoming a Freemason are also ex- plained to the one who joins. No one i allowed to enter a lodgeroom while a lodge is in session unless he has the password. “I" AND “ME"—J. C., Monterey, Cal. If you | are not up 1n grammar and are not certain as | to the use of “I” or“me” in a phrase be guided and if you do that you will not say “Mary spoke to mamma apd 1” for “Mary spoke to mamima and me”; and not say “I saw Mary and she” for “I saw Mary and her”; nor sey “Mary told memma and 1” for “Mary told mamma and m by euphony. | LADY'S SKIRT WITH CIRCULAR FRONT AND GODET BACK. For making skirts of plaids, checks and stripes the shape with a circular front and godet back is preferred to all others, as it saves the trouble of matching at the seams, for all the seams in this shape are hidden, falling, as as they do, in between the godet folds, the front being in one piece, the seams joining it to the back are also hidden in the folds. Novel effects can be obtained by cutting striped goods with the stripes up and down in front. This brings the stripes bias at the sides. The backs ere then cut with stripes strajght up anddown the center of each godet or with the stripes crosswise. A tall woman will find it becoming to_cut with the stripes going around the front. Materials of checks, plaids or stripes made after this model look well with waists of plain material, with sleeves to match the skirt, the waist made with a blouse effect in front and full over a fitted lining in the back. A jacket waist of plain goods is also stylish, wearing a blouse to match the skirt. A plaid silk in light colors with black chiffon bodice makes as handsome & gown as can be desired. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 30¢ 1b. Townsend's.* — e - ————— CrEAM mixed candies, 25¢ a Ib. 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