The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 12, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dafly and Sunday CALL, One weel, by carrier..80.18 | 1 Dally and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall Daily and Sunday C. Dally and Sunday CAL Dally end Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. Sunday CALL, one year, by msil.. W EELY CaLL, one year, by mail. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone........ Maln—1868 three months by ma EDITORIAL ROOMS: . 517 Clay Street. Telephon : open until £W _corner Sixteenth and Mission streeis; open | 16 o'clock. Mission street; b7 AL sireet; open nntil 90" - Murkei sireet, open il 9 o'cloc 3 OAKLAND OFFICE $US Broad: . EASTERN OFFICE: Fooms ®1 and P; DAVID M. ern Manager. T1HE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. The last day of the horse show! The Senators talk of Cuba, but think of buncombe. There 1s a chance to beat the funding bill if we fight hard. In all your holiday purchases remember charity and home industr If you tail to visit the Pavilion to-day you will regret it to-morrow. Casar bad his Brutus, Charles I his Cromrwell and Long Green his referee. Tae Suxpay Caru will be bright, lively and interesting. Don'tfail to leave orders | for it. The funding bill not only claims atten- tion, but enforces it. There is no way of evading it now. Decadent journalism may still manage to keep in the ring, but it is not feeling as sporty as it was. The next Se:ator who talks of liberating Cuba should give plans and specifications of how he intends to do it. In his desire to be a reformer, the Czar has shown sagacity by deciding to begin in Turkey and nct at home. Henry Watterson no doubt intended his speech to suit the banguet in his honor, but it sounded like a funeral oration. There is lots of room in town for a Mar- ket-street improvement club, with a big membership and a progressive movement. Maceo must have been twins, for one of him has been identified as dead and the other has given pretty good evidence of being alive. ‘Watterson’s advice to the gold Demo- crats to hold what they have is easily fol- lowed. Itwill notrequire much energy to hold so little. Long Green Lawrence does not know enough to manage a newspaper, and yet he probably knows toc much for Hearst to discharge him. The Eraminer and the New York Jour- nal do nut agree about Earp. Either Willie Hearst or Long Green Lawrence is doing some tall lying. The announcement that the debt of the Province of Quebec is over $32,000,000 will give the annexationists in this country a reason for taking a second thought. The horse is no doubt well pleased with the admiration we have givem him at the Pavilion, but he wouid preier to have us give him a better footing on the streets. The assembling of the next Trans- Mississippi Congress has been postponed until next spring. Like everything else in the country, it is waiting for the new deal. We hardly thought it of Henry Watter- son, but 2obert Peel sounds very much as if he wants something that is English, you know. It is reported that no office-holder under Harrison will be given an office by Mec- Kinley, but the report came from Wash- ington and not Cantgn, so it doesn’t count. It is about time for the Ezamaner to pub- lish some more extracts frdm the country press showing the enemies it has made and thus give its readers a chance to find something decent in its columns. It is seid the census to be taken in Rus- sia next year will be the first in over forty years and may be put down as another evidence that Russia intends to be in- cluded hereafter among the nations that count. The best criticism on Clevelard’s lan- guage in regard to Cuba 1s that of an Havana newspaper, which says: “Itis no more nor no less than a series of hypo- theses.” The phrase not only suits Grover, but will probably please bim. The election of two such comvaratively unknown men as Theuriet and Vandal to seats in the French Academy over Emile Zola is another proof that while almost anybody can beat Zola in the Academy they are generally nobodies that do it. The public spirit which now prompts our progressive merchants to work to- gether for local improvements will soon impel them to the greater work of general municipai government, and then we shall have a street sysiem to be proud of. The growing indignation against Hearst journalism in New York has led the Nickell Magazine to warn him that he may yet be sent to a little town up the Hudson, where he will change his name from Hearst to No. 743. Rememberthe warning and don’t forget the number. The Republican Senatorial commit- tee appointed to devise legislation for monetary reform consists of Wol- cott, Hoar, Chandler, Carter and Gear. The majority of the -commit- tee is strongly in favor of bimetallism and international agreement, and can be counted on to take action leading to that end. Thisissignificant of good results and gives reason for believing the money question wili be satisfactorily settled and out of politics before the next Presidential election. | | wash its hands and fum AN UNPLEASANT DUTY. Tre CALL considers that an explanation is due to its readers of the rensons which moved it to undertake {he task of scourging the Examiner either out of publication or back into decency. It is not a pleasant duty to attempt the abatement of a public nuisance after it has reached that superlative degree of nastiness which the Ezaminer bas attained. 5 ‘When TrE CALL under its present management began to c'imb the ladder toward pre-eminence among the newspapers of the Pacific Coast, it aimed and endeavored to be the exemplar of clean and honest journalism rather than its schoolmaster, and to teach by daily example instead of by rod and book. Itannounced 1its purpose to es- tablish and maintain a cordial relation between itself and its contemporaries and for nearly two years it carried this purpose fully into effect. When its ravid increase in circulation and its evident possession of the confidence of the moral and decent ele- ments of society awakened its most envious and unprincipled comnvetitor to vile, false and dishonoraktl- attacks upon this newspaper and upon its proprietor and his family and friends, THE CALL made no response to such contemnptible assaults, be- lieving that the daily publication of an honest and decent newspaper would be of itself a sufficient answer to the public mind. So long as the Eraminer contined itself to this form of offending and yet maintained a semblance of public decency, its mean and cowardly flings at the personal and private affairs of gentlemen in any way con- nected with THE CALL were allowed to pass with the silence of contempt which that sort of journalism deserves. THE CALL would have continued to occupy this position had not the Ezaminer, driven to desperate means to maintain itself against THE CALL's increasing success, abandoned all pretense of respectability and become a public offense, When its man- ager detailed women reporters to attend prize-fights, to explore the slums, to exploit the inner depravities of society and to interview convicts and thugs, we omitted comment on the subject, leaving to the tongue of public opinion the administration of a merited rebuke. Even when tbe Examiner was convicted of the blackmail of the Southern Pacific Company out of a larze sum of money its proper castigation was left to other hands. It was not, indeed, until its owner and manager threw off every re- straint of decency and devoted the newspaper to a life of open shame; not until an aroused and insulted public sentiment demanded that the duty of THE CALL to the cause of pu morals required it to wield the lash; not until the decent and reputa- ble daily and weekly journals of the entire State urged us to action upon the ground of duty to the fair name of the profession; not until men and women who represent the homes, the families, the morals of California, weary of guarding their doorsteps, becan to voice their indiznation in personal requests; not until the stench of the Ezraminer's vileness became uiterly unbearable to the nostrils of decency, did Tue Carwu reluctantly undertake the labor of abating the public nuisance Mr. Hears.’s newspaper Las become, and of lashing into at least an outward semblance of cleanli- ness its publishers and itself. Having enfered upon the unsought and unwelcome task, THE CALL assures its readers that it will complete it as thoroughly as the occa- sion requires and as quickly as possible; and that having done so it will hasten to te its clothing with the consciousness of having performed aduty to decency in expelling a disreputable faker from the ranks of honorable and respectable journalism. THE COOPER TRAGEDY. iavor by any great number of the Ameri” can people, and hardly even by a consid- Our local history has furnished us with few tragedies so startling and saddening | as that which has resuited in the deaths of Mrs. Sarah B. Coover and her dauchter Harriet. The dreaaful news spread about the City yesterday like wildfire and car- ried distress and sorrow into a thdusand | housekolds. No woman has taken alarger | | part in our civic life than Mrs. Cooper, and | her daughter also has done much to en- | | dear her to the people of all classes. The | tragic ending of their lives is therefore felt | as something of a public calamity and the | mourning ior them will be widespread | and sincere. | From evidence revealed in private let- | ters it is clear that Mrs. Cooper sucrificed | her life by reason of her devotion to her | sadly afilicted daugnter. She knew that | her *precious child’’ as she called her was | subject to the dire mania of a hereditary | tendency to insanity, and yet she would not send that much-loved child to an erable following of the gold Democrats themselves. The American peonle may be idealists in many things, but in the’ management of politics they are essen- tially practical, and no strong body of active politicians is going to maintain an organization on the plans outlined by Mr. Watterson. The Republican party will need no American Feel to draw the conservative strength of the country to its support. It has in its present force of superb leaders all that is needed to accomplish that. This was shown during the last campaign, | when the business elements of the country united to elect McKinley. Those ele- ments will continue united 1 support of the administration, and will ve found act- ing togetherin 1500. As for Democracy, we do not know where it can look for leader- ship. In default of something better, it might accept Bryan again, or failing him, look for a new Moses to rise from among | i | | | be able to help and to soothe the sufferer | | at every moment while she lived. | was in danger every day from the dread tue Populists. XKEEP UP THE FIGHT. Recent reports from Washington show that the advocates of the funding bill are sanguine of success, but there is still no reason why the people of California should despair. Just now the friends of the monopoly are doing all the talking. The asylum. Though she knew that her life impulses of that fearful curse she re- mzined true to her conception of a mother'sduty and her instinctive mother's Iove, and braved all the danger in order to ‘‘Greater love hath no one than this, his desire for #n Am erican Sir | { that a man should give his life for his | friend.”” In the fullest sense of the words Mrs. Cooper gave her life to her daughter. This supreme sacrifice found its greatest | and highest manifestation not in the | moment of death, which indeed game to her mercifully in her sleep, but in those | long-drawn months of auxiety through | which she lived from the time the mania |of her daughter first declared itse!f. | Human sympatby can bardly compre- hend the horror of such a situation for a devoted and widowed mother, butitcannot fail to give due reverence io this uew! proof of the love and heroism of which our common humanity is cupable. Ot Mrs, Cooper’s services to San Fran- cisco it is hardly necessary to speak. They are well known to all and fresh in the public mind. She has been one of the most ardent of our werkers in the cause of | education and the success of her labors | bas been such as to give ber a fame as | wide as the Union. Few Californians are | so widely renowned or so justly so as the | woman whose untimely death we mourn to-day. California has Jost a great spirit and a brave worker and has good reason to sorrow over this mother and daughter who were “altogether lovely in their lives | and in death were not divided.” WATTERSON ON DEMOORACY. Henry Watterson’s speech at the ban- | quet given to him by the national execn- | tive committee of the conservative Dem- ocracy must have been a great disappoint- | ment to those who heard it. It was elo- | quent, but it was meaningless. It was 1ull of fine phases but lacking in counsel. It showed all the graces of an accom- | plished orator, but not a single element of political leadership. By a curious freak the tone of Mr. Wat- terson’s address was mainly a lament over what he alleged to be the lack of right leadership in the Republican party. He | desires, it seems, a coalition of all the conservative forces of the country, but is unable to see in the Republican ranks any man who can bring about such a combina- tion. “It has,” he says, “no great leuder who can combine two forces as Sir Robert Peel did in English politics fifty years ago, when the Liberal Unioniets formed their coalition with the Conservatives.” This lament over an alleged lack of a Peel in the Republican parly is really humorous when the political situation in the country is considered. Here is along experienced politician called by his friends to a banguet given in his honor, and list- ened to in the expectation that he would pronounce some words of counsel and guid- ance for his party, who turns away from it altogether and speaksonly words of sad- ness because the opposing party does not furnish bim a desired leader. It would seem that Mr. Watterson does not think it worth while to even talk of a possible Democratic leader. He ignores the men who followed Palmer and Buckner aito- gether, and many among those who sat at the banquet and heard him must have felt slighted by his words. All that Mr. Watterson could say to his companions at the banquet wasto urge them t6 maintain their organization on the lines laid aown at the Indianapolis conyention. He declared a belief that if they did so they would draw perhaps 2,000,000 of ‘men who voted for Bryan to support the conservative ticket four years from now. “I see no reason,” he de- clared, “why in 1900 this organization will not be able to dictate terms to the coun- try.” It was just after making these s: guine declarations that he began his lament that the Republican party could not furnish the conservative movement with a leader. It avbpears, therefore, that his only policy is one of dogged despair—a determination to hold on to a given course, trusting to luck for followers and praying to heaven for guidance. It is hardly necessary to say that such a _policy_ will not be received with much opponents of the measure, the supporters of justice and public welfare, will be heard later on. It seems no longer doubtful that the administration ison the side of the bill, Cleveland’s message implied as much, and the report from Attorney-General Har- mon seems to make it sure. This fact has encouraged the friends of the measure, and they are now boasting of their ability to passit through both honses of Congress with a rush. They may find, bowever, that they have been too hasty in their reckon- ing. There are some pretty good fizhters in Congress on the side of the people, and they will give a good account of them- selv's when the time comes. Besides our California delegation, which can be relied upon to act with vigor in support of the interests of the State, there are many other Congressmen of weight, influence and skill in parlia- mentary tactics to uphold the law of the land against this outrageous proposition to surrender it at the behest of a corrupt corporation. It is still freshly remem- bered how good a right Senator Morgan al- most single-handed made last winter, and be will come again to the front with all his friends to help usin this crisis. As the case stands at present the strength of the monopoly has been dis- played, but that of the opposition is not yet known. The prospect therefore looks worse than it really is. It should be borne in mind that the opposition has always been strong enough to beat the bill in the past. From that fact we can draw an aucury of our ability to beat it in the final contest if we act with courage and resolution. THE SUNDAY OALL To-morrow’s issue of THE CaLr will be an excetlent family paper, full of clean, bright, interesting literature. Not only will it contain all the latest and best local news and presented in readabie style and with the seal of accuracy upon it, and not only will its telegraphic service, as usual, supply the fullest and most reiiable in- telligence of events in this country and in foreign lands, but the regular departments will be replete with good things by our able corps of special writers. Society news, of course, will include some gossipy horse-snow reflections; the *“Fashions” will inform you just what styles will pe seen during the coming holiday season; the children will be treated to a page full of Christmas anticipations, and the whist department will be particularly gratifyinz to students of that seductive game. The mest unique story ever written about pioneer California wilt commend itself especially to every reader in the Golden State, whether he be pioneer or tenderfoot. It is asplendid article, ably written, and illustrated in the beststyle of newspaver art. It will be read in the East with as much genuine pleasure asit will afford here on the shores of the Pa- cific. An “Ode to California,” by Edward Clark, illustrated in a ciarming manner by Mr. Kahler, the talented head of THE CaLL art department, forms a feature of the initial page of the Sunday supple- ment, and Jean Morris has an article, that cannot fail to be greatly appreciated, on some peculiar phases of life in the Latin quarter. The account of the most novel market in the world will be a revelation to high society, and an article descriptive of a system of stenograpby in music, whereby an aria may be reported almost after the manner that a speech is now recorded in shorthand, will perhaps contain some sur- prises for our musical friends. The number of stories and sketches is as large as ever, and nobody should fail to procure a wa of THE SUNDAY CALL. In the Senate the Dingley bill has already been brought up and sent back to the Finance Committee and that is prob- ably the end of it for this session. Chicago sent an indecent journalist to jail, and those of San Francisco may profit by the example. PERSONAL J. 0. Carlisle of Oroville is at the Lick. Dr. B. Daly of Lakeview, Or., is at the Grand. Frank H. Shors, an attorney of Fresno, is at the Palace. R. G. Barton, the exteusive vineyardist of Fresno, is 1n town. C. E. Pinkham, a lumber manufacturer of Chico, is in the City. H. 8. Lamy, a capitalist of Denver, is among the arrivals in town. George T. Mills of Carson, Nev., is here, ac- companied by Mrs. Mills. W. Marriott, a business man of Victoris, B. C., is a late arrival here. C. H. Northrup, a cattle-dealer of Portland, Or., is at the Cosmopoliten. Among the arrivals here yesterday was Charles C. Randolph of Arizona. Ludwig Stein ot New York arrived onlas’ night’s train, and is at the Palace. The Kev. W. E. Smith, Presbyterian minis- ter at Menlo Park, is on a visit here. The Rev. W. H. Fenton Smith of Phenix, Ariz., is & recent arrival in this City. Frank L. Christie, a business man of Van- couver, B. C,, arrived here yesterday. Joe Simon, the deposed Oregon Republican boss, is among the arrivals in the City. R. E. Hyde, the big land-owner of Tulare County, is up from his home at Visalia. K. Satow, M. Umeda ana T. Ninsmigo, mer- chants of Japan, arrived here yesterday. R. A. Miller, a wesalthy farmer of Galt,is here on a business trip and is at the Russ, Ex-Judge H. G. Bond, who is interested in meny enterprises at Seattle, is at the Palace. Fred W. Wolf, a wealthy manufacturer of Chicago, is on a visit hers, and is at the Grana. D. A. Russell, a mine-owner of Iowa Hill and an old resident of that place, is at the Russ. 3 ¢ 0. Bertrand, who owns gold properties near the mining camp of Benton, in Inyo County, isin the City. A. W, Harmon, an extensive farmer and general-store owner of Davisville, is here for a few days’ stay. George H. Burnham of Placerville, one of the newly elected members of the Legislature, is at the Grand. F. D. Howell, for some time past a resident of Juneau, Alaska, is at the Occidental, accom- panied by his family. W. 8. Bush and family of Viento, Or., ar- rived yesterday and will spend the next three months at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. C. Braaley, owner of a large area of land near Pescadero and who is extensively en- gaged in the creamery business, is among the arrivals here. E. L Colnon, State Harbor Commissioner und one of the proprietors of the Stockton Mail, formerly private secretary to Governor Budd, is in the City. Among the arrivals at the Occidental are L. C. Fietcher and B. B. Marshall, who are con- nected with the United States Geological Sur- vey, Washington, D. C. Captain W. H. McMinn, the old and wealthy ploneer of San Jose, 1s at the Occidental. The captain always writes it down “Mission, San Jose,” when registering at his hotel. Ex-Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii had many callers at the California yesterday. The visit- ors ircluded a large number of o'd friends from Honolulu. To-morrow the distinguished woman will attend one of the churches— which one she has not yet decided, but she has received several invitations. J. W. Hendry, the millionaire California pi- oneer, who started the first dry-goods house in San Francisco, and who had branch stores at Sacramento, Santa Rosa, 8an Jose and other places, will arrive here in a few days from his summer home at Sound Beach, Conn., to re- main during the winter. Mr. Hendry, who is a graduate of Yale, some time since gave $100,000 to that institution, and has at differ- ent times aided other institutions and many young men. Among the arrivals at the Palace yesterday wesa distinguished party of railroad men, who came by special car and will remain here but for one or two days. The chief of the party is D, B. Robinson, president of the At~ lantic and Pacific Railroad; B. B. Veatch, a business man of Louisville; James Robinson of St. Louisand W. H. snd John Dupee, the millionaire brokers and packers of Chicago. Itis said that the gentlemen have their eyes on a new railroad iine to ‘Pheenix. They have been looking over Arizona en route here and this would seem to give some apparent foun- dation to thestory. However, Mr. Robinson says he is here purely for pleasure and to sce Charles Grove, who is sick, and whose illness he did not know anything about until he met J. A. Fillmore at Los Angeles, The party will return East via Ogden. CALIFORN..NS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y.. Dec. 11 —At the St. Cloud, G. . Ellis, Albert G. Lonzsweet; Ven- dome, A. Ston NeX: CAR! One morn, when the heavens were dripping and |ray And pavements were reeking with grime (My errand downtown teing urgent that day, 1 was giad 10 get siarted in time). 1 hastened to Broadway, the cab.e (0 take, And signaled the gripman arar, But he never so much as lald hand on the brake, As coldly he snouted, “Nex car ! Now, the next one flashed by like an aureate streak, And the next one and next one the sams And Ididn’c recover my temper that weel And those gripmen were surely to biame, . For thiey .0oked siralshi uhead with a maddentog smile, My feelinigs still further to mar; Aud they turned on an extra celerity while They lcily shouted, “Next car!"” Last night in my dreaws came & vision I love; ‘Those gripmen all stood in & row, Awalting the cars that should bear them above To the land where ail good gripmen ro. And they signa.ed and waved, but each man at the wheel Merely smiled at & wandering star, Never touching the brake, and in’ accents like stee He cruelly shouted, “Next car!" PARAGR:<PHS aBOU1 PEOPLE, Mrs, Sidney Lanier ia giving readings from her late husband's works, and is meeting with great succe ~—Truth. Captain Mahan, the celebrated naval his- torian, just relieved from active service, isan enthusiasiic bicyclist. Dickens’ daughter has completed a book cailed ““My Father as I Knew Him,” which will be published soon. Queen Victorla’s will is engrossed on vel- lum, quarto size, is bound as & volume and is secured by & private lock. Ex-Queen Isabella II of Spain recently cele- brated on the same day her sixty-eighth birth- day and her golden wedding. Mark Twaln has left his Surrey home and settled in London for the winter. It is his intention to remain ‘at the other side of the Atlantic until next summer. The Connecticut Humane Society hasaward- ed & medal to Eugene Walker of Hartford, a lad 17 years old, who, at the risk of his own life, saved ‘a man from drowning last Sep- tember. Miss Ellen Terry always has a basketful of clothes for the poor at her home in South Kensington, and when callers come she pro- duces the basket and makes them knit, sew or crochet while they tatk. Queen Victoria, when she leaves Windsor for Balmoral, is provided with about & dozen copies of a sort of waybill of her journey, which contains a list of all the people on the train, and the compsrtments in which they are. William E. Kettles is the name of the operator in Washington who, on April 3, 1865, received the telegraphic message from General Weitzel to Secretary Stanton announc- iflg the capture of Richmond. Kettles was then only 15 years old. ’ ! THE ENEMIES IT HAS MADE. Is the Monarch of the Fakers Proud of the Con- tempt in Which It Is Held by California Journalism ? The Following Extracts From the Country Press Are Respectfully Submitted for Republication in the Examiner. CALIFORNIA’S GREATEST MISFORTUNE. Placerville Nugget. THE CALL is just now engaged in holding up to the gaze of the world the profli- gacy, depravity, nastiness and filihy journalism (?) practiced by the anarch oi the dailies, the San Francisco Ezaminer. Like a good deal of other sorts of realism it is & most revolting sight. When the editorial and business methods of the Ezaminer are summed up and dangled like some awful mangled corpse of a hor- ribly deformed contemptible human cur before the eves of the people, there is, to say the very least, nothing very fascinating about it.” One turns from the fearful thing shuddering to think that it goes trom this State as a mirror of the people who are trying so hard to build a commonwealth that by right of resources and class of inhabitants shouid be second to none. The greatest misiortune this State has ever suffered ‘is the Ezaminer, and this in view of the wealth and opportunities of the owner to make a paper that snould be a builder instead of a rampant tearer-down. Wil iam Hearst should be the conductor of that almost utopian thing, the modet journal. Granted his ewn mental qualities are nil to a great extent, but with his money he might have sur- rounded himself with men of peerless ability in the newspaper profession. In- stead he gives us the Bierce with his plagiarized literary style and chronic bile on the stomach. He foists upon the public as managing editor the lickspittle, And]y Lawrence, whose principal qualifications seem to be—first, that he names his chil- dren after the members of the Hearst family, and second, that he has a con- science of the character of a rubber band. He’s not a journalist in any honor- -lt:ie sense of the word. Somebody told him he was and he believed that liar and there he is, We know several reporters in the Ezaminer who can individually do more and better newspaper work in & minute than Lawrence can do in a year. But they don’t name their babies after tue members oi the Hearst family, and, of course, that unfits them for any position to which this peanut butcher camaspire. The Nugget believes that the time has come wnen the best interests of this State demand that the merchants and business men of San Francisco and the people of the State should constitute themselves a committee of the whole to put a stop to the practices of this internal libel on journalism, the Ezaminer. AKIN TO BLACKMAIL. Alameda Argus. The Ezaminer publishes extracts from papers which disapproved of. its unfair political course during the late campaign, with an introduction to the effect that they are “‘controlled by C. P. Huntingion, depend upon his charity for sustenance, and dare not fail to indorse any robbing scheme of his, however monstrous.” With- out stopping to point out that the extracts treat of the Ezaminer’s political course and not ol its *‘fight’’ against the railroad, we feel it is due to express the opinion that not all the jourrals mentioned have received a tithe of the favors from Hunt- ington or demanded as many; not all of them put togetner, we verily believe, ever received in an honest business way as much as the $30,000 which the Ezaminer got by a process akin to blackmail. Certainlv, not all of them together ever received or demanded $100,000 for any service. Every one of them has a more honorable record on the railroad question than the Examiner. VILEST OF THE VILE Nevada City Transeript. The San Francisco Examiner can be truly classed as the vilest organ pub- lished on the Pacific Coast. It is & disgrace to California and only fit for the slums of society. There is no honesty or decency displayed in its columns, and every issue seems to be worse than the last one published. Respectable people all over the country are fleeinz from it as they would from a mad dog. f: was once the pride of the State, but how changed. It now stinks in the nostrils of all whoe come into contact with it. WRITTEN BY ONE OF ITS FAKERS. Stockton Mall. A “high-school boy” wants to know if Sharkey “did real'y write the article which appeared in yesterday’s Examiner over his name.” No, he did not; nor did he dictate it. That article was written by one of the Ezaminer’s young fakers and Sharkey’s name signed to jt, as most of such ‘letters” are manufactured. Snarkey is an illiterate brute, who doesn’t know any more of the rules of English composition than he does about the thirty-nine articles of the English church. THE FAKER ON THE RUN. Bakersfield Californian. It is manifest that THE CALL is cutting into the Ezaminer’s business with rapid strides else the slieged ‘“Monarch’- would not devote so many columns of i1s news and editorial space to its rival. More power to your elbow, Charles M. You have the boss faker on the run—keep him going. PANDERS TO THE LOWEST TASTE. Carson News. THE CALL is red hot on the trail of the Ezaminer and is doing good work toward redeeming California. The *‘Monarch” is the most gigantic fake in the newspaper firmament. To increase circulation it panders to the lowest tastes of » the vile and stops at nothing. NOT FIT FOR THE FAMILY CIRCLE Stockton Record. The Record can agree with THE CALL in every word it says respecting the sensational nature and frequent glaring indecency of the Ezaminer. per that is not only indecent, but unreliable, and not fit to go into circle, 1t is a pa- the family FROM THE WARM BELT. Lodl Review Budget. The San Francisco CaLL has taken a turn at giving the sensational Ezaminer a slight roasting. ELEVEN.GORED SKIRT FOR SILK:. The most satisfactory way of making the handsome skirt of silk and satin, now so much worn, is with severalgores, so that each gore can be cut out of one breadth of the material ip one piece. Where fewer gores are used they are of necessity wider, and the siik or satin must be pleced out to get the width. A skixt which issix and a half yards round the foot and has eleven gores is shown above. It is designed especially tor silks and narrow fabrics, none of the gores measuring more than twenty-two inches at the widest part. Itis a delightfully gracetul skirt and looks equaily wellin any fabric and never gets out of shape, as the gores are cut with a straight edge to meet & bias one at all the seams excepting in the back, where the gores are straight through the center, with a stay at each seam. A skirt of Dresden silk in reseda green with bright- colored flowersand leaves in shadowy outlines, and narrow siripes of black satin at intervals of two inches, was worn with a black satin coat of the Louis XVI style. This had a vest of chiffon werich harmonized with the skirt, having the same design of roses and leaves woven in. A bright green satin stock with four large loops at the back finished the neck, with a belt ot the same at the full vest ront. A black satin skirt had a handsome applique design in jet and green spangies, which crossed the foot of the front breadth and reached to the walist in a graceful tapering design over the seams of the front breadth. Some of tne new skirts are trimmed with narrow braid at the tootset on in straight rows or forming a small design at each seam. Four of the eleven gores in this skirt are {;;hefid ‘:e the back or they may be laid in P —_— “I heard you gave your readin’ last night,” said the little boy. “Iwish I could read like you.” “Iam delighted to hear you say s0,” replied the eminent elocutionist. “Yessir—I wish that when I came to the hard words I could just chew ’em up like you do, ’stead of havip’ to pronounce ’em.—Cin- cinnati Enquirer. ANSWERS TQ CORRESPONDENTS. UNCLE SAM—J. C. H., City.During the last war between the United States and England a commissariat contractor named Elbert Ander- son of New York had a storeyard at Troy. A Government inspector, who was always called “Uncle Sam,” but whose name was Samuel Wilson, superintended the examination of all provisions, and when they passed each gase or package was marked EA-US, the initials of the contractor for the United States. The man ‘who marked the }ncklges once being asked the interpretation of the initisls replfed that it meant E.bert Anderson and Uncle S.m. From that everything marked with the initials of the United States was said to belong to Uncle Sam, and in that way Uncle Sam. became the representative of the United States. LARrGE FisH—F. W., City. This correspond- ent wants to know if there ever were any fish large enough to swallow a human being whole. |, Dr. Pusey, in “Minor Prophets,” says: Fish large enough to swallow a man have doubt- less oeen found occasionally in 'he Mediterrauean Sea. The white shark swallows what It takes into its mouth whole. It is physically unable to divide its food piecemeal. Olto Fabricus teils us ‘wout 18 to swallow down dead or living men at a Ip.” In 1758 a sailor fell overboard in the Mgd. lerranean, wien a Shark took him in its wide throat; but the captain snot the shark, and. the sailor was rescue. from his p-ri.ous condition withe out injury. The captain gave the man the fish, waich wa3 exhibited throughout Kurope. It wa tweity feet long with fing nine feet long, and |p weighed 2024 pounds. Blumenbach maies men. tion of & wiite shark which welshed 10.000 unds; and he tells us tha: horses have boon ound whole In the stomach of these monsters of the deep. A writer Of the seventeenth coniury on “ihe Fiih of Marseliles” says the men ot Nice assured him they once took a fish of the Canis Carchiarias family, 4000 pounds in' weight in the beliy of which & man, whole, was fouug. HoNorABLE—H. 8., City. Honorable just be- fore a person’s name 1s a convenient title of respect or distinction. In Great Britain, where the speiling of the word is honourabie, this title is bestowed on peers, their families, and ou persons holding certain positions. A’ Marquis or Marchioness is styled most honour- able; a peer _(mmponl) or peeress, of lower grade, whether by right or courtesy, is right honourable. The title right honourable is be- stowed also on the younger sons of dukes marquises and earls, and on_all the children of viscounts and barons, Privy councilors, the Lord Mayors of London, York and Dablin: the Lord Advocate of Ecotiana and the Lord g;n:;;;; :)l E‘;ill‘g‘l’z:n.rglh are demmod to the pre- e; and mai Lords of Session, the Supreme Ju?i’gg: o?osnx? 4 1und and Ireland to that of honouraole, len’n- bers of the House of Commons, though hon- ourable is not prefixed to their names are distinguished as “the honourable member for —" In the United States ibe title honorable does not imply nobility, but it is commonly given to persons who hold or who have held any considerable office under the National or State government, particularly to members and ex-members of Congress and. of State Legisiatures, to Judges, Justices and other judicial officials, as tive officers. well as to certain execu- STONE, BRONZE AND IRON — “Wildwood,” Cal. The age of stone relates to the pericd ‘when weapons and implements were made of stone, amber, wood, bone, horn, or some easily wrought material, and during which very little or nothing was known of metals. During that era the people, few in number, and savage in their habits, clothed th with the skins of animals, Tenne';fi ll;m'xefiht‘::ni dead in large sepulchral chambers, covered with what have been called eromlechs, or girdled round by tle unhewnstove pillars called “Druidical circles.” The budies were frequently found unburned, often with rude urns beside them. During the age of bronze weapons and im- plements were made of copper or of bronze, and iron and silver were little or notat all known. The dead were burned and their ash kept in urns or deposited in stone chests cov- / ered by conical mounds of earth or heaps of loose stones. In urns articles of gold and am- ber were found, but never of silver. Most of the articles of metal appeared to have been cast; where marks of the hammer appenred it is contended that the forging or beating must have been by a slone hammer upon & stone anvil. : The age of iron is the name applied to the third or last of three supposed periods. Dur- ing that era itis believed that iron displaced bronze in the maputacture of wespons and implements, and that silver and glass came into use. The dead were still occasionaily burned, but they were frequently buried with- out burning, oiten seated on chairs, and at times with a horse in iull war harness laid beside the body of his master. A REVOLT AGAINST BOURBON METHODS. Bos:on 1ranscript. What appears very much like a revolt against the Bourbon methods of making States close corporations is deveioping in Texas, South Carolina and Mississippi, in pursuance of their policy of white domination, have vir- tuatly disfranchisea the bulk of their colored population. There is & Congressman elected for every 9092 votes in South Carolina and one for every 5655 in Mississippl. Less than 40,- 000 voters chose the entire Mississippi delega- tion in 1894, while bu ,645 were required in South Carclina. In Texas it takes 34,000 votes to choose a single Congressman, and Texas does not like the difference, and says the arrangement is unfair asitis. The Gal veston News voices the sentiment of Texas in this matter, but instead of propoging to dis- franchise Texas’ colored people it Suggest that Congress reduce the number of Congress- men irom South Carolina a::d Mississippl. To console Texas it may be said that its progress is so rapid that South Carolina and Mississippi are in wealth, energy a d resources to Texas what a county is (0 & State. Texas has treated her colored people so well that they are goiug ahead just like white folks. Texas is growing like a green bay tree, while Mississippiand South Czrolina wit BEST peanut taffy in the world, Townsend's.” . S CrEAM mixed candies 25¢ 1b. Townsend’s. e —e—————— : HAND-PAINTED boxes and handsome baskets California Giace Fruits 50¢ pound. Townsend’s, SUNSHINE, Flowers, Fairies, Elves, Rival Queens—to-day's matinee California 'l'hrzate.r; seats 50 and 25 cents. ————————— FProTAL information daily to manufaeturery, business houses and pubiic men by the Press Clipping Bureaa (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. © arberiibil s S o “What makes you think you could stand the rigors of an Arctic winter if you have never been north?” asked the explorer of a man who was anxious to join the next expedition. I have lived all my life in & steam-heated flat,” was the conclusive reply. “I'm acclis mated.”—Harper’s Bazar. Low Rates to Phanix, A. T., and Randsburg, Cal. The Atlantic and Pacific B. R., Santa Fe route, will sell on December 11, 12 and 13 round-trip firs'class tickets to Phenix at the one-way rate. A golden opportunity to spend Christmas in balmy Arizona. Cheap rates are also made o the won- derful Randsburg mining camp, which is a second Cripple Creek, and to which people are now flock- ing by the thousands Ticket office, 644 Market street, Chronicle bullding. Telephone Main 1631, See time-table in advertising colamns. ————— e Phillips’ Rock island xcursions Leave San Francisco every Welnesday, via Rio Grande and Rock Island Raiways. Through tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago ¢nd Boston. Man- ager and por.ers accompany tless excursions ta Boston. For tickets. sleeping-cfr accommodations and furtber information, addess Clinion Jones, General Agent Hock Island lallway, 80 Mont gomery street. San Franciseo. - Through Car to St. Paul ind Minneapolls An elegan(ly upholstered tofrist-car leav.s Oak- land every Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock for all points in Montans, North Dukota and Minnesois, Nochaage of cars. Dining-cass on all trains. Comn and get our ratesif you expCt to makes trip 1o any Eastern poin:. T, K. § ateler, General Agent Northern Pacific Ry. Co., 8{8 Market street, <. K. - CoucHs and colds are danjerous intruders. Ex- pel tnem with PARKER'S GNGKR TONIC. PARKER'S HATR BALSAMids the hair growth. i a5 el For IRRITATION OF TH} THROAT, caused by Cold or use of the voice; “Brown's Bronchial: Troches” are exceedingly beweficial. . LADIES are greatly beneited by the useof Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters the renowned South American tonic. “CURED my congh like mgic” Is the frequent expression of those who tesify to the merits of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. ——————— “Arte these cakes better>r worse than thotie your mother used to make” asked Mrs. Newly- wed. *“Well, according to thi marriaged service, that’s what I took you fo,” replied Mr. New Iy~ wed in noncommittal fishion.—Philadelphia North American. NEW T¢-DAY. Ry vS. Trickery Trophy Baking Powder isa simple though scientific compound, It is a substantial protest agninst the | cheap and nasty in- gredients used in cheap baking pow- ders and some that are not cheap and yet bad. Tillmanp & Bendel, Mfra four friends to some with you to 3mith’s Cash Store, ront street, near Washington. They are selling ont, to mofe on December 3lst, to Market-strees ferry. They offer toclose: Ladies’ $1 50 Felt-linsd Shoes, gray.. 95¢ Ladies’ $1 50 Felt: d Shoes, black. 95¢ G rls’ §1 25 Scrool Bioes. - 85 Infanis’ 50c Fancy $hoes . 308 Infants’ Little Kid tippe seee 300 Childs’ $1 25 Wedgeheel Russets. ... 65¢ Childy' or Men's 0¢ Ruboer Foot- holds. . | . Bo Girls’ Sandals, 12 t) 1324, beels. . 10e Old Ladies’ Kid I«ge Com orts. .$100 Oid Ladies’ Kid Lice Oxfords. $1.00 Women's Commoy Goat-grain Shoes. 83¢c Goods in every Jne at big'reductions