The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 13, 1896, Page 23

ISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..80.18 CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 CALL, six months, by mall.. .00 Daily and Sunday CALZ, three months by mail 1.50 85 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. Sunday CALL, one year, by mall W KEXLY CALL, ODe year, by m: BUSINESS OFFICE: 310 Market Street, san Francisco, California. Telephone... +veveese. MaIn—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone........ arkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. £W . corner Sixteenth aud Mission streeis; L1l § o'clock. 16 Mission street: open nntil 9 o'clock b7 Auh sireet; open until 9 0'cloci. * Aarker sireet, open ull § 0'Clock. open OAKLAND OFFICE $U8 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Eooms 51 and X New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, tern Manager. TIHE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e After the horse show—something else. Holiday in earnest to- MOITOW. work begins The monopoly will find that it is mnch easier to talk of rushing a funding bill than to do it. You wiil find lots of news in our adver- tising columns this morning, and business news at that. The rule for the weather game at this season is simple. When in doubt take your umbrella. What does it profit Spain that Maceo is dead so long as Cuba lives and has fighting blood 1n her? Californians are clearly much more united than ever before. Even the pros- pect of a Cabinet office hasn’t started a fight yet. The deficit for the present fiscal year already exceeds $39,000,000, and still Cleve- land had the nerve to say that it nesd not | disturb us. It is reported that Senator Hill has been having repairs made on his teeth, and the belief grows that he intends to eat some- body this winter. It is said that Europe is beginning to find out the value of cora bread, and it is probable that the next corn crop will be right up on its ear. The holidays in California will simply be a preparation for the carnivals. We are to be merry from this time on until the summer roses fade. It is possible that many of McKinley's numerous visitors may have called on him simpiy to tell him how to make the grass grow on his lawn a ain, The Buffalo Commercial is in error in sayine the job put apon Fitzsimmons was n exhibition of highway robbery.” The thing was not dene on the highway. Ii Bryan has nothing better to do than book-writing on the money question for the next four vears be had better whirl in and pass the time shooting the chutes. When Cleveland read that the civil- service reformers had praised him for ex- tending the classified service he must have smiled. It was a spoilsman’s game with him. The Ezamineris not alone in being proud ofits enemies. There is gratification for us all in knowing there are so many clean journals in California outspoken in de- nouncing it. The frequency with which General Weyler returns to Havana ought to sug- gest to the people thé appropriateness of greeting him on his return with the music of Offenbach. Having listened to all the criticisms at the Pavilion, the horse will now have the satisfaction of saying to the people: *If you wish to mend my ways you had better improve your streets.” If you decide to send a book to an East- ern friend for a Christmae gift be sure you select a book on California or by a Californian author. There are plenty of them, and many are good. If Spain and Cuba could be induced to suspend the war until our Senators aecide on a proper means of settling it, they would bave the advantage of a permanent veace, without the necessity of surrender on either side. e healers’’ have become so com- mon in the middle West that Kansas City has decided to tax them $100 a year and apply the money to street work, thus im- proving the ways of the people as it were by the new touch. On the issue between monometallism and bimetallism there were but two sides and a man could take which he chose, but on the problem of currency reform there are as many sides as there are bank notes, and 1t is risky to take either of them. Strange stories are told of the weather in the East this season. New York was rejoicing in warm sunshine while Georgia had a snowsterm. It looks as if the late election had so completely obliterated sec- tional lines that even the weather bureau had lost sight of them Seven candidates for Aldermen in Bos- ton have made public an agreement not to buy any ball tickets until aiter the muni- cipal election, and the cultare of the city is undecided whether to call the action a reform or a revolution. In 8an Francisco of course it would bave been regarded asa biuff and called accordingly. An agitation has been started in Eng- land to induce the Government to store up a large grain supply for the use of the people in case of war. The movement is not altogether a foolish one, for there are possibilities that in a war Eng!and’s su- premacy on the sea might be taken from her and her people starved into surrender. It is reported that Japan is going to send a war-vessel to the Philippine Islands to look after the interests of her people dur- ing the war with Spain. As our Govern- ment bhas done nothing of the kind in the direction of Cuba it is now a question for a debating society whether Japan or the United States has shown the better judg- ment. THE BEET-SUGAR INDUSTRY. ‘The return of the Republican party te power next year will be followed by largely increased protection by new tariff laws, and the claims of the beet-sagar industry to a preminent place on the list of those deserving to be fostered should be strongly urged upon Congress. Sugar is one of the great farm products with which the United States fails to supply even her home market. Its produc- tion from beets has increased till it now far exceeds the yield from cane. The sugar beet can be grown in many parts of thiscountry and its cultivation only needs encouragement to make the home supply of sugar at least equal to home consump- tion. A protective tariff on suzar would basten its introduction to new localities, and would offset the unjust discrimina- tion made by Europ:an nations against some products of our farms under the pre= tense of sanitary policing. It would bea protection 1n which the farmer would di- rectly share, and in it he could readily see the benefits of protection generally. Even from the standpoint of the advo- cates of a tariff for revenue, a higher duty on sugar would be advisable. The tact cannot be overlooked in the present need of increasing the income of the Govern- ment to make it equal to the necessary expenditures. The broader and better ground on which higher sugar duty is urged, however, is that of protection to this great industry. It isin no wise sec- tional. North and South, East and West alike are interested in it, and it will be for the benefit of all to promote it and protect it. To the peonle of California the subject is one of vast importance. The' produc- tion of sugar is already one of the largest industries of the State and has 1n it tie possibility of becowing the very largest. In complex proc sses of its work it gives employment to all grades of labor from the farmhands who gather the beets to the scientific and skilled workmen who transmute their juices into sugar. The product, moreover, is one of universal use. It is consumed in large quantities in every household and has become one of the prime necessities of civilized man. Thanks to the energy, the skill and the public spirit of Claus Spreckels, the in- dustry has been advanced to great propor- tions in California and is still going forward. He is now ereciing the largest and best-equipped sugar-producing plant in the world near Salinas, and if the in- dustry be properly guarded from unfair foreign competition he wilt make this State the greatest sugar-producing region on earth. Since so much capital is already in- vested in the enterprise 1t1s the duty of Californians in Congress to guard it by all means in their power. The responsibility of this duty becomes augmented when we consider the prospective growth of the industry. With such an industrial general as Claus Spreckels 1o lead the way California needs nothing but a fair degree of protection for her sugar-workers to produce all the sugar used in America, thus enriching herself, giving employ- ment to her laber, providing profits for her farmers and saving to the United States every year millions of dollars now sent abroad for the sugar of foreign lands. THE HORSZ SHOW. In the great success of the third annual borse show San Francisco has good reason to congratulate herself. The display of equine beauty and training, the splendid horsemanship, the magnificence of the many kinds of vehicles, the loveliness of California !adies crowning all, made ap a show superlative in its excellence. We are told that the age of electric car- riages is close upon us; we s-e in the bi- cycle that men are much given to me- chanical methods of locomotion, and there is talk of ihe passing of the horse, but as long as men have hearts the horse will never pass from their admiring possession and loving care. The desire to ride and to drive something live and lovable will surely not give way altogether to the utilities of machine-traveling unless men become themselves little more than ma- chines. The display in all classes at the show was very creditable to our horsemen, and the people of California may be proud and glad of this proof that so much of tle wealth and energy of the State has been used to the encouragement of horse-breed- ing. In the tanbark ring of the Pavilion the continuous succession of attractions for four days was worth traveling far to see. From the tiny, dandy, dancing ponies, pleasing to ali, but specially to the chil- dren, all throagh the programme up to the ponderous drafthorses with their great breasts and broad loins, the scene was delightful in its interest and beauty. The proud staliions with pawing hoofs and necks ‘“clothed with thunder”; the well-bred saddlers, which in every move- ment gave the beholder a sense of how they can send the thrill of their own splen- did vitality into the pulses of their riders; the swift, easy, graceful gliding of the high-headed roadsters as they drew the airily light and noiseless modern vehicles; the stylish bearing of the high-stepping and highly trained tandem performers; the stately swing of the carriage horses with their satin skins and the glitter and pleasing jingle of their costly harness; the thundering rush of our fire horses as they dashed three abreast into the ring with startling suddenness; the pomp of the matched four-in-hands pulling grana coaches and haughtily conscious of their glory, all this, together with the equestrian mastery of the men who ‘‘witched the world with noble horsemanship,” made up a pleasure giving which will linger long in the memories of those who enjoyed it. May every return of the show be marked by increasing splermdor. AN AMICABLE SETTLEMENT. The amicable settlement of the diffi- culties between the Pacific Rolling-mill Company and its men, which for a time threatened to produce a serious strike, is a matter of no little gratification to the whole City. Thisisno time for the be- ginning of any misunderstandings be- tween labor and capital in California. We are on the verge of a new era of pros- perity, but it will not come to us unless all who are engaged in our industries can work together in harmony. The action of both parties to the contro- versy in this instance has been wise. Neither the men nor theiremplovers have demanded from the other a complete sur- render. After a fall discussion of the sitnation on both sides, terms have been agreed upon which are fair to each. The men therefore will return to work and the mills will go forward as usnal. There wiil be some reduction in wages, but this the men recognize is necessary in order that the industry of the mills may be carried" on with profit, and it will not seriously affect any large number ot em:ployes. Intelligent workingmen understand that the evil conditionsof the Democratic tariff still affect American indusiries, and that we cannot return at once to the prosper- ous conditions which prevailed under the McKintey tariff. It will require some time for us to get back to the level of profits and wages which prevailed under the protective system. This, however, is something we can look forward to in the near future, and in the meantime both labor and capital must be content to do the best they can und:r existing circum- stances. The friendly spirit which prevails be- |, tween the men and the Pacific Rolling- mill Company since the arrangement of the terms of resuming work is made evi- dent by the statement of Mr. McMahon, a foreman of the mill, who, in speaking of the reduction in wages, said: It is just this way. The price of iron is low and the price of labor in the East is low, and to compete here the price of labor had to be cut. Mr, Noble has always put up wages when the price of iron warrants it. I have seen it done three times voluntarily in this mill."” The examnple thusset will doubtless have its effect in any future difficuities between capital and labor in this State and will go far toward inducing both parties to ar- range some amicable solution for them. It gives promise, therefore, of a completer harmony between employers and em- ployes in the great industries of the State and may be counted as a good augury for the advancement of the manufacturing interests of California in the approaching revival of industry and prosperity which will follow the re-enactment of a protec- tive tariff. THE COUBAN QUESTION. The Cuban problem hss been promptly brought to the front in the Senate, but not in a maaner that will give satisfaction to any great number of the American people. The speechcs made by Senators in favor of Cuban independence have been full of expressions of sympathy, but wholly lacking in suggestions of any policy of decided action. Even Senator Cullom, who made the most elaborate speech on the subject and was most fiery in his declarations, had nothing definite to advocate. All that he could say was this: The wisdom and discretion of an American President and Cabinet can safely find a way to determine the trouble without imperiling the interestof our country or our people. I have litile choice or preference as to the par- ticular method, but I do want, and I know the public expects, a settlement on a humane and just basis. The United States can do no less than to initlate this effort for humanity and liberty. Itis easy enough for a Senator to say that an American President and Cabinet can find a way of bringing about the inde- pendence of Cuba without imperiling any interest of this country. but the adminis- tration would no doubt be better pleased if some Senator would point out just how this task is to be accomplished. Senator Cuilom was right enough in saying the country expects a settiement of the pro- longed war in Cuba on a humane and just basis, but up to this time the public has not been informed by any statesman of a way in which these expectations can be speedily realized. It is conceded on all sides that the problem is not one easy of solution. It can never be solved by sentimental ap- peals nor by any florid declamatioa con- cerning the rights of humanity and the duty of the American people to maintain them in all parts of this hemisphere. The practical issue seems to be the simple one of whether we shall enter into a war with Spain to establish the independence of Cuba. It is to that issue the Senators should direct themselves, and if they are not going to deal with it definitely, they had better leave the subject alone. It is not at all probable that the Spanish Government would abandon Cuba under a simple threat of war on the part ot the United States. TheSpaniards would fight to some extent if for nothing else than to gratify that national pride which is one of their most salient charactenistics. Our interference, moreover, no matter on what grounds it might be based, woald not re- ceive sympathy in Europe, aad we can hardly believe that Senator Cullom was serious when he deciared: *“We shall not stand alone in the warfare which may follow in behalf of common humanity. Nation aiter nation will make a joint cause with us in such a struggle.’” The war in Cuba has been prolonged un- til it is now rapidly becoming a struggle of extermination between foes so embit- tered they have ceased to rezar! the rules of civilized warfare. It isto our interest as well as to the welfare of humanity that this struggle should be checked, and the people of that beautiful island secured in the blessings which peace gives to indus- try. The American people will welcome with g'adness any declaration of National policy which tends to bring about that re- sult. They are tired, however, of mere de- clamations on the subject. The Senators should either formulate a plan of action for the Government to pursue, or should turn aside from the issue and devote their time to a consideration of those questions of home politics which are now awaiting solution. A NOVEL WAIST. A stunning gown of red cloth had the waist made in & very picturesque style, the left side overlapping in & draped effect. A deep corselet belt of black satin was worn with this striking costume. Another unusual feature of this walst was the overlapping revers or col- él" !o( the cloth, which gave a fichu effect in ront. 1 The sieeves were of red silk matching the cloth, and made with two deep tucks at the wy‘-r,(he lower part being arranged in scant uffs. P! The skirt was made vperfectly plain of the cloth. (No pattern.) PERSONAL ‘W. T. Ellis of Marysville is in the City. F. F. Marx of Elk Park is a late arrival here. J. J. Hebron of Salinas is a late arrival here. J. D. McDougall of Stockton is & visitor here. M. King, a business man of Victoris, B. C., is at the Occidental. H. J. Delamer, a business man of San Diego, Tex., is at the Palace. Hon. Jefferson Chandler and family of Wash- ington, D. C., bave taken a house at 1300 SCORED BY UPRIGHT JOURNALISTS The Vile Methods of the “Examiner” Arouse Righteous Indignation. While the Danger to ‘Public M$r31s Is Great, a Way to Effectually Check It Is Suggested. THE REAL ENEMIES IT HAS MADE. San Franclsco Wave, Manifestly, there abides with the Ezaminer either a hearty contempt of public opinion as it finds expression among decent, sober, fair-minded men, or else it is enveloped by an atmosphere of such impregnable ignorance con- cerning the true state of the public mind toward itself as to obscure its vision and confound its judgment. A short time ago, as a matter of boastful pride, it published a cartoon that purported to picture afew of the enemies it had made, and it was pleased to add ina jocular way that it ‘“‘was proud of em."” Its enemies among respectable people, who were omitted from this list, could scarcely be crowded into an entire edition of that paper. The individual who guides the course and destiny of that remarkable journal must dive deeper down into the current of public feeling if he would learn the exact truth. Let him don a disguise and move around among the substantial mercantile men of the City, and he will marvel much at the revelations of the Ezaminer's un- popularity that will come to him from the element of society that is conceded to be conservative and law-abiding. That the subscription list of the Ezaminer has suffered through its recent performances is an open secret. Its young men have been moved to declare in a complaining voice that “the railroad is ex- pending large sums of money to diminish its circulation,” trusting that this weak explanation will distract attention from this own misfeasance. Ofcourse, such charges are the cheapest kind of fol de rol, and besides being fourda- tignle:s, are stupid as well. The respectable press of the State has lately been directing criticism at the Ezaminer's methods and its character. To most men attacks such as theése would suggest an exercise of prudence, but not so with the Ezaminer. It re- printed extracts from a number of these contemporaries, and attempted to dismiss the charges in an off hand, matter-of-fact way by declaring all its crities to be ‘‘railroad hirelings,”” which, it said, accounted for the venom they displayed. As usual, the “railroad” is responsible; but certainly our “octo- pus' has not procured the New York Iafe, Frank Leslie’s Weekly, the New York Sun, the New York Post and all the host of manly and high-minded publica- tions in Am-rica to attack the character of journalism for which the Eraminer stands sponsor in the West, and the Journal, its wet-nurse, in the East. Even business rivalry could not produce the siorm of denunciatory protest that has fallen about this type of journalism. It1soutraged decency that is speaking. It is the respectable element of a hitherto honorable profession resenting the introduction of the cowardly, contemptible and infamous methods that threaten to drag that profession down from the high place it once held in the estimation of the public. If this character of newspaper is to prevail and succeed, then may we bid good-by to journalism as an honorabie proiession. The storied torch of wisdom, held high by 2 heroic and Minervan maiden for the enjightenment of mankind, no longer typifies the new press that kicks and knocks with noisy clamor at our doors. The reeking, gory, slimy thing with tawdry tinsel is not the press our fathers knew. The enlightened torch of wisdom points heavenward no longer; the flame dips downward now, and has become the firebrand of an incendiary. The heroic maiden has given way to a wicked, leering, unregenerate wench, who fires the evil passions of mankind, who blisters honor, who enkindles h‘atradn, who sears and scars with devilish delight and malice the reputation of our citizens. Sensation has taken the place of Truth, and Corruption and Vice sit where wisdom once beld sway. Men are no longer led along the highways of Decency, no longer taught that Virtue is a sacred thing. The torch no longer lights their way along the avenues of Honor ana of Fame, but drives them huddling down the dark and narrow byways of indecency and hate. Under the new state of affairs the press must neither educate nor elevate, It is to*be a destructionist and a marplot, to breed discontent and foment strife, to encourage and suggest crime and wrongdoing, manuring it meanwhile from the dungheap of social scandals. Journals having these tendencies could not subsist wholly upon the patronage of the depraved and evil of the community. It is profitable to deal in this kind of sensationalism only because respectability refuses to administer the rebuke which it deserves. The moment the element of loss creeps in, that moment, and not until then, will we be rid of it. WE HEAR THE NEWS.: Santa Ana Blade. A number of papers published in this State have recently commented edi- torially on the marked decadence observable in the San Francisco Ezaminer. That journal republishes.a number of the excerpts and gravely assures its readers that all the papers quoted ‘‘are known to have been subsidized by the Southern Pacific interests—sometimes to be actually supported by the South- ern Pacific.” The Blade happens to be one of the papers which are thus referred to. The important information that we have been subsidized comes to us this happy holiday time as the best news we have heard for along time, and, be it re- marked parenthetically, the first and only intimation the Blade has had of this pleasing intelligence comes in the Ezaminer's statement as above quoted. Now is the winter of our discontent made indeed glorious summer by the cheer- ing news conveyed by our San Francisco contemporary. Never again shall the Blade have occasion to chase around aiter the sby advertiser; never again shall we have to plead with th- man who owes a bill for job printing. We are on the payroll! At last it is ours to say: This is the way we long have sought. And mouraea because we found it not. And yet, while we rejoice at our own good fortune, we must not forget that others have not so much cause for rejoicing. Some there be who are yet be- yond the pale. Some thers undoubtedly are who know not the joy which is ours. But they have their consolation, nor are they as those who ars without hope. They may yet gain admission to the charmed circle, and hope, the guid- ineg star of life, is yet theirs. So, therefore, while our heart goes out in sym- pathy to those of our journalistic brethren who have not yet entered into the promised land of railway subsidy, our greatest commiseration is not given to thera. It is undoubtedly due to the San Francisco Ezaminer, for whom the payroll is nothing but a bitter memory of what once was but never again can be. Trials and tribulations are what we may all expect as we journey through this life, but what sorrow equals that of beinz ruthlessly and relentlessly cut off from the payroil in the prime of one’s youth, so to speak? Beiter, far better, never to have been on. Yet this has been the sad experience of the San Francisco Ezaminer, and our own rejoicing is saddened by the thought. FROM A DEPRAVED STANDPOINT. Bakersfield Californian. The Examiner judges all other papers by itself, which is perhaps a right- eous judgment from its own depraved standpoint. As it sold its own columns for $1000 a month (and the Lord only knows how many times it has sold them to other people for smaller amounts, instance Blinker Murphy’s sale of free puffs for big dinners) it thinks that every paper in the State must be in the same business. WILL BE A BLESSING TO THE PEOPLE, Los Gatos Mail. A heap of tronble is brewing uver the outcome of the Fitzsimmons-Sharkey fight. The San Francisco Examiner seems to be badly mixed up in the mud- dle, for which THE CALL is getting in its work on the “Monarch of the Dailies” in great shape. It will be a blessing to the people of the Pacific Coast if the Ezaminer is called down from its notorious perch of journalistic indecency. Hyde street and intend making San Francisco their future home. John Rice and Mrs. Rice of Carson, Nev., ar- rived here yesterday. W. H. Anderson of Camden, England, was one of yesterday’s arrivals. A. McMillan of Knoxville, Tenn., was among yesterday's arrivals in the City. 8. H. Hollie, a prominent merchant of Port- land, Or., is at the Cosmopolitan. Charles Cunningham, & general store owner of Suno), is here on & business trip. T. D. Nicol, the attorney of Stockton, is at the Lick, accompanted by Mrs. Nicol. W. Sims, one of the large and quite wealthy farmers of Colusa County, is at the Russ. F. 8. Narx and wife of Nepa are at the Pal- ace and will spend the winter in this City. R. F. Ulman, the wealthy horseman of St. Louis, arrived here yesterday and is at the Palace. Adolph Satton and wife, old residents of Los Angeles, are among the guests at the Cosmo- politan, Andrew F. Rosenberger and J. F. Musseh- man, wining men of Pheenix, Ariz., are at the Commercial. Dr. Frank C. Pague, who has been visiting in Chieago, Philadelphia and Washington for the past month, will arrive to-day. W. F. Prisk, editor and one of the owners of the Grass Valley Daily Union, is in the City and is registered at the Occidental. W. B. Ford, a pioncer and very wealthy mer- chant of Salinas, is in the City. Heowns large areas of land, and is interested in differ- ent enterprises. Thomas H. Van Frank, the electrician who went to Southern California nearly six months ago for the benefit of his health, has returned to the City with a deep bronze color and greatly improved. William Coleman, who is developing some important gold properties in Trinity County in company with some men of thif City, has arrived here for a few days’ stay. Martin Winch, a wealthy resident of Port- land, wno is prominent in manufacturing and in politics, and who bas been long a resident of Oregon, is among the arrivals at the Palace. F. E. Fraser, a leading mining man of Fort NEW TO-DAY. If we told you that your paby was starving, that it actually didn’t get enough to eat, you might resent it. And yet there are thousands of babies who never get the fat they should in their food or who are not able to digest the fat that they do get. Fat is a necessity to your baby. It is baby life and baby beauty. A few drops of Scott’s Emulsion for.all little ones one, two and three years of age is better than cream for them. They thrive and grow on it. SCOTT & BOWNE, Ghemiets, New Yorth Jones, who has just effecied asale of alarge quartz mine, is atthe Russ. He has since making his sale secured another good prop- erty, ana isen route to New York tomakea sale of it. J. N. Van Winkle, one of the big fruit-grow- | | of inconstancy in the quantity of the mineral co: ers of Colusa, an early pioneer and extensive land-owner, is at the Russ. He is settling his accounts with his commission brokers. Mr. Van Winkle does things on a large scale. His fruit and other products have this year brought big money. . T. Tsancs, ownerof & small railroad reach- ing irom Walla Walla into the wheat district, isat the Grand. Hedenies that the fruit of that part of Washington hes been seriously damaged by frost, as was recently reported in some dispatches. He has received a letter trom there written the same day the dispatches were sent saying the damage was very slight. H. Sweet, a mine-owner of Randsburg. the new and rising camp in Kern County, is among the arrivals atthe Russ. He says ai- fairsare very active in the Randsburg dis- trict. The stages are loaded down with in- comers. Some are experienced miners, and others are tenderfeet pure and simpie. Rands- Dburg has the signs, he says, of a big camp, but it is & hard place to Iive in. Judge W. R. Daingerfield of Department Two of the Superior Court of San Francisco has been in Santa Rosa for several days for the purpose of trying some important cases. Judge Daingerfield was assigned to this duty by Governor Budd, the local Judges feeling themselves disqualified to sit in this litigation owing to the fact that their interests as tax- payers were involved in the issues on trial CALIFORN:sNS iN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y.. Dec..12.—At the St. Cloud, H. Edwards, C. H. Veeder; Astor, A. H. Hadley; Grand Union, G, W. Percy; Metro- politan, W. C. Hunter. Charles F. Hoffman left the St. Cloud to sail on the Umbri: E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy streot. 2 MocHa, pistache & camelia cake. 905 Larkin.” | e HAND-PAINTED boxes and handsome baskets California Glace Fruits 50¢ pound. Townsend’s. —_————————— SPECTAL information daily to manufactursrs, business houses and public men by the Prasy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. e e——— An astute little boy was asked the other day what was meant by “sins of omission,” and he | responded without any pause or hesitation: “The sins we have forgotten to commit.’—New York Commercal Advertiser. Ross B. Hoffman and | Scientific Control of Mineral Water. Protessor Oscar Liebreich of the University of Berlin points out that owing to the fact hat vi v impresnaiion of tue ral basins contuining the aciive mineral constituents, there is always great dan:\ge stituents present. This s a very serious matter, since it involves uncerisinty in dos:ge. ‘It Is, theref re, a matter for high satisfaction,” says Professor Liebreicn (Therap. Monatshefte), “that the aperient water ‘Apenta,’ from the Uy’ Hunyad) Springs in Ofen, has been placed under State con- trol. The Royal Hungarian Chemicai Institue (Minstry of Agriculture) has undertaken this charge, end, therefore, it is pow possivle to obtaln & water which is free from injurioug extraneoug waters In‘ecied with organic substances. The analysis has been published by Protessor Lieber mann, director of sald Institute. 1he proportion of sulphate of soda to sulphate of maz 15.432 L0 24 4968 In the litre, 50 that ‘A 10 be classed with the best aperient waters, and may be pronounced one of the § rongest.” IR Low Rates to Phenix, Randsburg The Atlantic and Pacifi , Sanra Fe route, will sell on December 11,12 and 13 round-trip firs'-class ticKets to Phcenix at the one-way rate. A golden opportunity to spend Christmas in balmy Arizona. Cheap Tates are also made 1o the won- derfol Randsburg mining camp, whicn is a second Cripple Creek, and to which people are now flock- ing by the thousands Ticket office, 644 Market street, Chronicle building. Telephone Matn 1631, See time-table in A and | Cal, T., Phillips’ Kock Island Excursions Leave San Francisco evers Wednesday, via Rio Grande and Rock Istsnd Hallwars. Through tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago and Boston, Man- agor and poriers accompany thes> excursions ta Buston. For tickets, sleeping-car accommodations nd fartber information, address Clinton Jones, General Agent Hock Istand Rallway, 30 Mouw gomery street, *an Francisco. Through Car to St. Paul and Minneapolis An elogantly uptolstered tourist-car leaves Osk- land every Tuesday evening at 7 o’clock:for all points in Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota, No change of cars. Dining-cars on all Como and get our ratesif you expeci to makes trip to any Eastern point. T.K.S ateler, General Agent Northern Pactfic Ry. Co., 638 Market street, 5. £ e LADIES are greatly benefited by the use of Siegert’s Angostura Bitters, the renowned Soufh American tonic. S AL AYER'S Pills, taken 1n doses of one, daily, after dinner, admirably regnlate the digestive and assimilative organs. Buy them and try them. PR S R SR Ir afficted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp- son’s Eye Water. Druggistssell It at 25 cents. NEW TO-DAY. EXTRA BIG GiftS--Free! Free! Teas, Correes, Spices. EXTRA BIG OFFER FOR CHRISTMAS. TFTOUR CEXOICE FREE: 1 Sauce Boat, decorated. 8 Teu Cups and Sa ucers. 1 Large Majoiica Pitcner. 1 Funcy lce Cream Dish. 1 Meat Dish, 10-inch. 3 Water Gobiets, banded. 1 Fancy rulad Dish. e S and, crystal. 2 Piates, fesiooned. Cheese Dish, crystal. b1 1 1 5 \\ ater Goblets, plain. 4 1 Buiter Dish, crystal. 1 Rebecca Tea Pot b Claret Glasses, plain. 1 Decanter. 5 Com ports. individual. 1 Ust Meal Set. 4 Ale or Reer Glasses. 1 Miik Set. 1 Cake Baskel, iancy. 1Syrup Piteher. 1 Rose Bal. bEerr Dishes. 1Celery Tray. 8 Dinner Plates. 3 Oyster Bowls. 5 Frult Saucers. 4 Chumpagne Glassos, 1 Bread and Milk Set. 2 Fancy Frult Plates. 1'Pitcher, decorated. 3 Gold Band Ilates. 1 Majolica Cuspidor. 5 Toothpick Holders. Lemonade Muzs. Bouquet Holders. ® Whisky Tumblers, groand bottom. 1 Fancy Mustache Cup and Sancer. 4 Tavle Tumblers. engraved. 5 Bandied Lem 1 Hulf-gallon Water Pl 1 Chocolate Cup and Sauges: 1 Cuke Plate, fincy china. 1 Berry Disn, crysta., large. 2 Fancy Cups and *aucers, A, D 1 Candiestick, bisque. 1Bisque Figure Dancer. 1 Vase, fancy Bohemian. 1 Scoliop, 7-inch. decorated. 3oup Plates, decorated. b tator Pepper hasers. 1 Vegetabie D.sh, decorated. iade Glasses. or. A thousand oiber,kancy Dishes of every description. ONE FRERE WITE EEACE o0 cts Teas, Spices, Pirchase BAKIHG P OWDERS Extea Dovste Presevrs| Exmea Dovsie Tiokens THIS OFFER HOLDS GOOD UNTIL NEW YEAR. WE WIILI,.SEI.I., CHTNAWARE, CROCKERY GLASSWARE Bic CUT "PRICES! Fancy Chinaware and Glassware Tea, Chocolate, Coffee Cups. Fancy Pla: 10, 12%, 15, 20, 25, 35, 50, 7 s, Berry Dishes each. Chocolate, Ice Cream, Berry, Lemonade and Water Sets 50, 65, 75, 85, 1.00, 1.25, 1.50, 1.85, 1.95, 2.25, 2.50 per set. China, Bisque, Fancy Vases, Figures and Ornaments 10, 12%, 15, 20, 25, 85, 50, N 60, 75, 1.00, 1.25 cach. .CUSPIDORES---"’O, 25, 35, 40. 50, 75¢ each. Genuine Delft China Trays, Olives, Butter lates, Cups, Cream Pitchers, Salads, Plaques 15, 20, 25, 35, 40, 50, 60, 55, 85, 1.00, 1.25, 1.50 each. Tea Sets, complete for 12 persons Light Blue Decoration b, .25 2.75 Gold Trimming, Fine China Heliotrope 8.50 5.25 Dinner Sets complete for 6 persons Pure Prett Gold Superi White 3'50 aray " 4'75 Handle 6'00 China 9~50 Colors Trimmings Heliotrope Dinner Sets complete 100 pieces Pure Light Wind Bohemian Vi 575 & 775 fen | O25 i 17.50 Qualily Best, Made by Best English Makers, Newest Shapes and Designs. E2RICES A way TINDER SSTORES, 100 IN IN'UMBER breat Americanimporting Tea Co, 140 Sixth St. 1344 Marlkot St. 2 ‘10 Mission St. 617 Kearny St. 1419 Pollkk St. 8521 Montgsomery ave. 383 EXayes St. TOARELAND S rORES: 10588 Washington St. 181 San Pablo Ave. 146 Winth St. sioraindse more St. 985 Mariset Si. > 2006 Sixteenth St. 104 Second St. ' 8285 Mission St, 818 East Tvrelft 917 Broadivay. = St 13585 Park St., Alameda. HEADQUARTERS 52 MARKET éT REET, SAN.FRANCISCO.