The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 14, 1896, Page 6

. DECEMBER 14, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sundsy CALL, one week, by carrie Daily end Sunday CALL, one year, by mal Daily and Sunday CaLr, one month, by mall. Bunday CaLy, one yeer, by mail.. W XEXLY CaLL, one year, by mail. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone.. - Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone..... Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: €27 Montgomery eireet, Corner Clay; open until £:£0 o'clock. £29 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. &W _corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open mntil § o'clock, < £018 Mission street: open until 9 o'clocks 167 Anth sireet; open until 9 o'cloc, = Juarkei street, open till 9 0'clocis OAKLAND OFFICE: $08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York City- DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. et i Do your shopping early. The holiday trade crush will soon begin. ‘Wecan beat the funding bill yet, you bet. The novelty is news and you will find it in our advertising columns. Progressive street improvement is a ‘ame in which there is a prize for all who play it. The Eraminer must either change its tactics and become a decent paper or get | out of town. Everybody should send at least one Cali- fqrnia novelty to the East, just to show what we can do. {f McKinley is to get all the slates in his Cabinet he will have to make it with an extension appendix. There are numerous complaints in the East that the members of the short-skirt rainy-day clubs never come out when it rains. The Texas has cost us dear, but notg more than we ought to bave paid for the | folly of getting ship models from foreign | designers. i g | Why should the Governmentlend money | to the Pacific roads at 2 per cent any more | than to any other railroad that happens toneed it? 1 Watterson's advice to the gold Demo- | crats was virtually to stand pat, and they might as well do it, for they have nothing | to draw to. European statesmen will never be able to put an end to the Armenian outrages so long as they leave the Sultan in the posi- tion of referee. There is not enough vpoverty im San Francisco to make a sensation about, but thers is plenty to give every man a chance to exercise his charity. 1f Congress proposes to. revise the tariff | this winter simply to increase the revenue | the shortest and sweetest way will be to raise the duty on sugar. Willie Hearst to Long Green Lawrence— *“Pull down your bunko referee.’”” Long Green Lawrence to Wiliie Hearst—*‘Go | shoot your airship picture.” Eastern papers are announdeing that the bicycie season in that section is about over, but there is no sign of abatement in the bicycle poetry or the bike jokes. The demand of the mugwumps is for revenue, retrenchment and rest; but what | the Republican party will give the country is protection, prosperity and progress. It is asserted that Spain has increased her army in the Pnilippine Islands to more than 30,000 men, and still she is as far from vpacifying the people there as those in Cuba. Itis reported that the football casualties of the season amount to three killed and 122 severely injured. According to the latest returns this beats the Cuban war, and as for the prize ring it isn’t in it. The Hon. Andrew D. White says the newspapers do not publish enough of the proceedings of Congress, but the intelli- gent reader will take note thata great deal more is published than Congress ever does. There is one thing in Willie Heart’s journalism that requires explanation. | Why should he have sent to Arizona to | get Wyatt Earp’s record wken he could have got it from Long Green Lawrence for nothing. The report that the Cuban army is largely made up of lawless negroes is dis- puted by a correspondent of the New York Sun, who says that out of the 250,000 ne- groes in Cuba 200,000 are in the towns, higily satisfied with the Spanish sway, | and not more than 5000 are in the ranks of | the patriots. An extra session of Congress seems vir- | tually decided on and the work of prepar- ine a protective tariff bill for submission to it is now under way, so that it behooves the people of California to be active in making representations at Washington which will secure for our industries the protection they need. Notwithstanding the recent campaign was wagzed mainly on the money question the people of this country were never so indifferent in recent years to all sorts of money reform as they are now. The only thing they are discussing is the tariff. 1t is evident they know what they need, and are determined to have it. The prediction that Willie Hearst may yet go up the Hudson and change his name to No. 743 is notregarded in New York as a hope merely. It is remembered that a fellow who ran a Hearsty news- paper in Chicago is now known by the number of his cell, and what has hap- venefl there may happen in New York. The New York Herald notes with pride that at present “we have a glut of idle money, rates of interest are iower here than in Europe and the bankers and capi- talists of the O!d World are borrowing from us.’ It is questionable, however, whether there is good cause for pride in the situation. It would be better for us to be using our money to build up the un- developed West than to be sending it across the ocean, l | volved in it. WILD-HORSE JOURNALISM. As a striking example of *“Wild-horse Journalism’’ the Eraminer is at present making itself an immense success. In the nope of diverting the public mind from indignant comment upon its recent indecencies it has been running of late a rgckless and riderless course, without apparent thought or care where its runaway will end or what the consequences to the public or to the paper may be. About a week ago, in a fit of extreme though not unusual folly, it repub- lished certain comments of a quite uncomplimentary character which interior journals of the State had made upon it, and under- took to sneer at their proper and forcible criticisms in' a spirit of boastful levity. The readers of the Ezaminer were led to believe that having entered upon this sort of publication it would continue to reproduce & daily estimate of its own unworth from the columns of its contemporarirs, regardless of how true or how severe such comments might be. ‘With an earnest desire to assist ihe Ezaminer in collecting the cabbages and de?d cats and overripe things which the country press was engaged in heaving at it, TeE CALL with some degree of care coliated the most apt and exact opinions about the Ezaminer, as expressed by its contemporaries, and submitted them to it for republication. For some unknown reason, however, the Ezaminer has not seen fit to accept our well-meant assistance or to continue its double-column display of unwelcome truth respecting itself. appear to appreciate the earnes: desire of spect. In fact, its Long Green editor does not TaE CALL to lighten his labors in this re- In iis issue of yesterday the Ezaminer furnished the public another striking exam- ple of its reckless disregard of either consistency or truth. It stated editorially that T CaLn panic in this City and that and was to be deprecated sensation.” was attempting to create a diphtheria such an attempt had no foundation in fact “‘dangerous It then proceeded to quote what Tur CarLn did say on the subject. and inexcusable newspaper which was that “Health Officer Lovelace declared yesterday that diphtheria was epidemic in this City.” such a statement. TuE CALL avers that he did, and, further, the attention to the fact that in The Eraminer avers that the Health Officer never made directs the pablic local columns of same issue in which the Eraminer makes this misstatement there appeared with flash pic- turesand under scare headsa one-half page article upon the subject of Diphtheria, wherein it is stated *hat “The Board of Health vhysicians have arrived at the conclu- sion that a serious condition exists owing to the prevalence of diphtheria among the children of San Francisco.” To the average reader this looks very much like a statement on the part of the Ezaminer that diphtheria is epidemic, and if it is not the Examiner’s scare head half- page is calcalated tocaase the few people who still retain some degree of confidence in that newspaper’s statements to think it so. This trifling inconsistency between the local and editorial columns of yesterday’s Ezxaminer has a simple explanation. It doubtless arises from the fact that its man aging editor is just at present devoting all of his mental energies to the hopeless task of clearing himself from complicity in the prize-fight fraud and robbery, and has therefore no time to devote to the equally hopeless task of keeping the Eram- iner consistent with itself. STREET IMPROVEMENT. The splendid display of public spirit by progressive merchants in various parts of the City is one of the features of our civic life on which we can look at this time with the greatest gratification.” The move- ment for better street lighting begun in one locality has spread rapidly to others, until at the present time almost all of the more important business streets are in- Improvements are being made in all directions, and each successive step serves to encourage others in the on- ward movement. 8o rapidly are these improvement clubs being organized that the energies of the press are taxed to keep up with them. The work of one is hardly recorded before anew one is organized and further work begun. The spirit that animates the move- ment is in the fullest sense progressive. It goes forward all the time. It sees in the accomplishment of every task a reason for engaging in the performance of an- other and counts ali that has been done as but the earnest of greater tnings yet to be achieved. It can hardly be doubted that this spirit which prompts men to undertake improve- | 1ments in the localities where they carry | on their business will in the ena prompt ! them to engage in larger works of improve- | ment for the whole City. There will grow ont of these various progressive steps a general municipal movement for public improvements of all kinds. Itisaltogether satisfactory, also, that the attention of this rapidly developing public spirit is directed | mainly to street work. It is upon our thoroughifares that our municipal reforms are most needed. Our streets are at pres- ent paved in a way that not only entails heavy cost upon traffic but constitutes a disgrace to our municipal .government. They should be not only better lighted but better paved and better swept. Toac- complish all the improvements needed on them will require as much energy as the fullest public spirit can arouse, ana it is gratifying to know that such a spirit is now being directed to that purpose. WATER THE ARID WASTE Among the important matters soon to come up in Congress for settlement and of especial interest to the West is the ques- tion of the disposition of arid public lands which are susceptible of reclamation by irrigation. There is no doubt that a hun- dred million acres of such lands could be profitably watered by engineering works undertaken on an immense scale. The main problem for Congress to solve is whether the great works should be under National or State control. The vast area could only be made to yield harvests by the most economical use of the water which would be available, and the Na- tional Government has no power by laws now in force to prevent the improvident waste of the water. ] Becretary of the Interior David R. Fran- cis in his annual report says the public domain is now 1,849,072,587 acres, and, ex- cluding Alaska, there are 600,000,000 acres still vacant. If settlers continue to take up land in the future as they have in the past there will be little left at the end of thirteen years. The Secretary urges that every encouragement should be given to actual settlers to take up these lands, as that disposition of them best subserves public policy. He reports 500,000,000 acres | of arid land, and that one-fifth of this could be Teclaimed by the conservative use of water. The attention of Congress is called to the necessity of legislation to this end. The Secretary recommends that a choice be made between two plans: Either the National undertaking of a vast system which would embrace the reclamation of the entire aria districts from a general source of supply, or else the adoption of the suggestion of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, which is that these lands be put under the control of the | States for reclamation. The question is of such great impor- tance it is to be hoped Congress will give it such earnest and attentive study as will lead to its speedy settlement. The waste of vast sums of money and a long delay in the multiplication of happy homes upon the now desert places may be averted by thoughtiul efforts to find some plan which will stand the test of practical ap- plication and need no radical correction. There are good arguments for both of the proposed plans. The scheme of a great National system would have the advantages that always go with immense power exercised with perfect unity of purpose, and is worthy of careful consid- eration. On the other hand, the cmn'-el most in harmony with our methods of government would be to put the responsi- bility of controiling the work upon the States which are especially interested. The closer bome we bring the accounta- bility the less the likelihood of delinquen- cies, and the evil of a possible failure would fall upon those who bkad the best opportunity to avert it. £ The experiment with the present law, which ‘authorizes States and Territories to reclaim arid lands within their borders, does not seem to have produced great re- suits, This, however, may be due lumlyl to the fact that the law is regarded as merely tentative, and the States are hold- ing back to see if the National Govern- ment will not undertake the work. Con- gress, therefore, should promptly decide upon which course it intends to follow. 1t is full time the work of irrigating our arid lands on a large scale should be begun in earnest. PROTECTING THE GOVERNMENT. The report of the minority of the Pacific Railroad Committee, which has just been submitted to the House of Representa- tives, shows that the efforts of the major- ity to rush the Powers funding bill through Congress will be met with strong opposition. The minority in a concise document state many and weighty rea- sons why the bill should not be accepted by Congress, and these will undoubtediy | have much effect in determining the votes of members who have not already made up their minds on the subject. The report of the minority ssys: Without any fault of ours conditions pre- vail which render it necessary for the Govorn- ment to either lose an enormouy sum of money or to adopt a refunding scheme, but before we can agree to any refunding scheme it ought to be clearly demonstrated that the Government would be placed in much better position than it now is. Believing the Government's posi- tion would not be materially improved if the terms of the proposed bill were carried out ‘We cannot assent to its provisions, Among the amendments proposed by the minority is one recommending that it the aebt due by the Pacific roads be ex- tended it shall be at 3 per cent instead of 2 per cent per annum, 4s is proposed. An- other is a recommendation that a provi- sion be inserted requiring the law officers | of the Government to institute proceed- ings looking to a foreclosure of its lien and the sale of the property in the event that the terms of settlement are not ac- cepted by the companies. The reportaiso points out that if the Government extends its mortgage it would in effect guarantee the payment of the first mortgage bonds and thus the bill would place the Govern- mentin a worse position than it is at present. The report does not enter into any dis- cussion of the merits of the proposition that the Government should become the owner of the railroads, but seeks merely to provide a means whereby the interests of the people and the Government may be protected against companies which have defaulted in the past and are likely to do so again. It points out that if the Pow- ers extension bill is adopted the Govern- ment will be granting to the Pacitic roads a favor which has never been - equaled by any granted to a corporation before, inas- much as it will give to the owners of those roads the use of the Government’s money at 2 per cent per annum when they would be able to negotiate loans at 4 per cent to the amount secured by the first mortgage. The report of the committee is so mod- erate in 1ts tone and so conservative in the methods suggested it is difficult to see how any great opposition can be made to its recommendations. It affords a safe basis on which the opponents of the Pow- ers bill can make a fight against that measure without involving themselves in support of any extreme or radical meas- ure of Government ownership. It, there- fore, gives encouragement to the belief that we shall succeed in defeating this measure as we have defeated former ones, and promises a final victory for the people in the long battle against the monopoly. A TIMELY CONFESSION. The Ezaminer stated yesterday morning inone of it self-appreciative editorials that *2thad the first authentic news of the testi- mony that the Fitzsimmons-8harkey fight wags ‘fixed.’ ” This statement isso com- pletely in accord with the evidence on that subject that we are inclined to believe it to be true. In fact, from the testimony it seems to be quite well established that the Ezxaminer, through its editor, “Long Green” Lawrence, knew that the fight was fixed several hours before it occurred, and that in consequence of that knowl- edge its people had ““money to burn” on Sharkey on the afternoon before the fight. COAST EXCHANGES. The Independent and the Silver Advocate, two weekly newspapers published in San Bernar- dino, have consolidated and under the first mentioned title will keep up the agitation for free siiver in that section of California. Tiburon now bonsts of a weeklv newspaper, the Marin County Union, of which Sam D. Chat- terton is publisher and proprietor, The Union is clean,and sprightly, and its editor reminds its readers that mighty osks from small acorns grow, wherefore he yentures the hope that by keeping abreast of the times the new paper will rise togreatness along with the promising towns of Tiburon and Belvedere. H. F. Ellis and 8. E. Wright, the new propri- etors of the Livermore Herald, conclude a lengthy salutatory with this sage advice to the Herald's rural constituency: ‘“Let every farmer study the science of domestic economy. His home market is his own larder. Let him supply it more and more from the soll he tills and less and less from off the shelves of the grocery store, Let us learn -to live on what we have and not on what we are going to have. Let us be content to have enough and have & clean conseience. Let us e The Los Alamos Central has entered upon itg sixth volume. The paper remarks that the town has had a number of setbacks in the last few years, but now the star ol prosperity is seen to be rising in the distance, and the citi- zens are inspired to new nope and hedrtier efforts, Los Alamos 1s the center of & very fertile districtand ougntto bean excellent little business place. The Escondido Times is making commends- ble efforts for the advaneement of its home town. Amongother things it remarks: “If we woulc have a prosperous community, where people will come who are looking for a loca: tion for new homes, we must hush the voice of the chronie growlers affd habitusl kickers; also bury petty local jealousies and letspite work seek for jobs elsewnere.” » The Etna (Siskiyou County) Reporter is one year old, and, having emerged from the pe- riod of uncertain life which every newspaper is supposed to experience in its infancy, now makes its obeisance to the public as a healthy. member of the journalistic family. The Re- porter is worthy of the success it is achieving, The Los Angeles Times is fiiteen years old, and, in entering upon its new year, the sten- torlan-voiced publication of the orangeland declares its intention to continue to do all the good it can, hoping *for no greater rewsrd than has been accorded it in the swift years that count up to fiften.” The Newman 7Tribune will, on December 19. issue an illustrated edition, the object of which will be to attract home-seekers from less favored Eastern sections of country 1o its own productive and rich locality. The Fresno Ezpositor has started a crusade against the “tin-horn’” gamblers of the Rasin City. Its endeavors are well employed. When the “tin-horn” procession moves out of Fresno the Ezpositor opines that “the sneakthief, the footpad and the bunco-steerer” will go, too. —_— NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Two Spanish torpedo-boat destroyers, Furor and Terror, built at Glasgow, completed their trials November 24, and were to leave at once for Spain. Their mean speed on a three hours’ run was 281 knots. The Furor during her trial had the full load of seventy-five tons aboard. which is considerably more than the load carried by the destroyers of the British and other Governments, Late advices from the Orient state that the Emperor of Japar was to pay an official visit, November 25, on board the armor-clad Chin- yen, captured from the Chinese during the recent war, and great preparations were in progres! the naval station ‘at Yokosuka. Twen ty-one warships and a number of torpedo- boats were to be in line for the occasion, a fleet equal if not superior to any naval gathering of United States war vessels. The Corientes, one of four torpedo-boat de- stroyers built by Yarrow’s for the Argentine Republic, had a successful -trial November 18 under exceptionally severe conditions. The boat on a mean draughtof 4 feet 534 inchesdis- placed 240 tons and carried = load of 35 tous, including 56 persons, on board. She attained & mean speed 6f 27.359 knots during a three hours’ run, during which the coal consump- tion was a little over ten tons. The Russian armored cruiser Russia, built a1 8t. Petersburg and launchea some months ago, got stuck in the mud in the Kronstadt Roads, and all efforts to get heriree have failed. The latest scheme was to drive rows of piles around the ship to protect her from damage from the ice in the river, and now the plan of building a concrete wail around her is seriously considered. All further efforts of getting the Russia afloat have, however, been abondoned until spring. The unlucky vessel is of 12,330 tons, and was intended to steam tweunty knots. Asshe now lies she represents & loss of §$2,000,000. Discussion of naval estimates in the French Chambers has directed attention, as never before, to the condition of the French navy. Messrs. Lockroy and Clemencean—the former especially-—have been very severe in their criticisms, and even the Minister of Marine has made unfavorable reports. M. de Kerjegu declares that England is evidently intending to possess a fleet €q if not exceeding, all of Europe. He affirc:sthat the French arsenals are Ladly organized, and that the coaling stations are too few to allow of extended operations. He believes that the present French fleet is entirely inadequate, and that the case 13 5o urgent that France will only have time to increase her warships by numbers rather than by tonnage. Hisreport concludes with the significant remark that the aim of every patriotic Minister of Marine pught to be to push oa to the possession of & fleet capable of ruining the commercial supremacy of England at & given moment. The Monareh, oast deiense vessel built for the Apstrian nayy and launched in May last year, is approaching completion. She is one of three similar ships of very pretty appear- ange and good design for the purpese in- tended. Their dimensions are 306 feet length; extreme breadth, 55 feet 9 ‘inches; mean draught, 20 feet 10 inches, on which they dis- place 5464 tons. The speed under forced draught with 8500 horsepower is expected to reach 17} knots. The armor protection con- sists of a belt seven feet in width extending five-sixths of the length of the ship, varying in thickness from 10.63 inches over the middle body and tapering to5 inches forward and 8 inches aft. Above the water-line belt isthe battery armor, 3.15 inches thick. Shehas two barbette towers 9.8 inches thick. The total weight of armor is nearly 1700 tons. The armament consists of four 9)g-inch andsix 6-inch Krupp guns, PERSONAL. State Senator R. Linder of Tulare is at the Lick. & Dr. Thomas Flint of San Juan is & guest at the Grand. T. B. Wick, Sheriff of Santa Barbara County, is at the Russ. J. B. Tucker and daughter of Balinas are at the Cosmopolitan. D. N. Carithers, a merchant of S8anta Rosa, is & guest at the Lick. Dr. E. 8. 0'Brien of Merced is making ashort visit 2t the Baldwin. C. P. Plunkett, & grain merchant of New York City, isat the Palace. H. M. Bhreve, a vineyardist of Tulare, regis- tered yesterday at the Lick. A. C. White, a Stockton attorney, is among the late arrivals at the Grand. J. 8: Bedford, late County Surveyor of Fresno, is a guest at the Cosmopolitan. [ 513 J. K. Toole, & mining man from Montana, is one of the guests at the Palace. Lydell Miller, a real estate and ingurance man of Stockton, is at the Grand, _ NDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1896 of Cleveland, Ohio,is atthe Palace with his wife. Thomas Jones, a merchagt of Heneley, Sis- kiyou County, is & guest at #he Grand. F. Temple Lynch of Los Angeles arrived at the Occidental yesterday with his wife. Ira Hill'Reed, a mining man of Calaveras County, arrived at the Grand yesterday. Captain T. P. H. Whitelaw has been i1l for a week, but is now able to be around again. Judge S. K. Dougherty of Santa Rosa is at the Grand, having come down to hold court. J. M. Wilmans of Newman, who has mines near Sonora, is among the guests at the Lick. C. €. Powning, a journalist from Reno, Nev., was one of the late arrivals at the Palace last night. W. L. Watt, field assistant of the California State Mining Bureau, arrived at the Grand last night. John Anderson and Charles Shackeliord, two Chicago merchants, are guests at the Paiace. M. J. Bihm, a St. Louis bookmaker and horse- man, is among the latest arrivals at the Pelace. J. M. Johnson, owning large acreage in El Dorado County, 18 stopping at the Cosmo- politan. J.D. Culp, the successful California tobacco grower of San Felipe, is making a brief visit at the Lick. Judge H. P. Catlin of Sacramento came down from the capital last night and took a room at the Lick. Among the arrivals at the Grand last night was L. F. Moulton, a capitalist and land owner of Colusa County. M. P. Stein, the Stockton merchant, is on a visit at the Baldwin, accompanied by his wife and Miss J. Marks. *H. J. Raymore, a hotel man of the Erie Ho- tel at Erle, Pa., arrived here yesterdsy and putup at the Palace. P. Kerwin of Virginia City, Nev., superin- tendent of one of the mines on the Comstock, is visiting at the Palace. William Waterhouse of Pasadena, who is in- terested in horticuiture there, registered yes- terday at the Occidental. T. F. Nishklan, a prominent Mason of Kan- sas City, is at the Grand with his brother, N. M. Nishkian, the Fresno merchant. J. M. Smith, a large orchardist of San Jose, accompanied by his wife, is in town for a few daysand registered at the Cosmopolitan. William H. Hunt and Fred B.Thomas, two attorneys from Cleveland, Ohio, arrived at the Palace last night by the late overland train. R. A. Graham, who is interested in coal mines and railrosds at Marshfield, Or., was among the arrivals at the Palace last night. P. L. Schuman, the ex-Lieutenant-Governor of Ilinois and mining expert, arrived at the Palace last night with Mrs. Schuman from Chicago. R. T. Hall, W. R. Brown, J. H. Caruthers, George McLean and I. H. Barclay, & party of naval officers, arrived at the Palace yesterday from New York. T. J. Hammer, one of the proprietors at Los Angeles ot the Daily Hotel Gazetle and the Southern California Railway Advertiser, is making a visit here and has a room at the Cal- ifornia. Miss Ellen Beach Yaw, Miss Georgiella Lay, Maxmilian Dick and Lewis Wiliiams, consti- tuting the Yaw Concert Company, arrived at the Baldwin yesterday, preparatory to Miss Yaw’s concert engagement in this City. Matt Grau of the Grau Opera Compaay is in the City with the view of arranging a season of comic opera at the California Theater. To- night the company commences & week's en- gegement at the Macdonough Theater in Oak- land. Among the people in the company are: Alice Johnson, Aiice Carle, Fannie de Costa, Gertrude Lodge, Robert Dunbar, Stanley Felch, Sylvain Langlois, Gilbert Clayton, Robert Lett and many others who are well known in San Franecisco. POPULAR NEW SLEEVES. Two novel sleeves are shown here. The first has & puff finished with a pleated ruffie. It is suitable for all fabrics. A waist of Dresden silk had the pleated ruffie of the silk covered with black mousseline de soie. The second sleeve hasa puff which is cut cir- cular and is left below to form a jabot on top of the arm. It is particularly pretty when two fabrics are employed, one for the puffand the other for the fitted sleeve. A challie dress of blue and white had the fitted sleeve of white piece lace over white silk. A silk of yellow and white bad fitted sleeves of embroider:; MUCH IN LITTLE It’s curious whut & sight o' good a little thing w How ye kin stop the fiercest storm when it begins ter braw, An’ take the sting from wnut commenced ter Tankle when ‘twas spoke; By keepin’ sulll an’ treatin’ it ez 12 it was a joke Ye'll find thet ye kin fill & pince with smiles instead of tésry An’ heep the sunshine gleamin’ through the shadows of the years By jes laughin’. Folks Inm.natl.meu 1all to note the possibiiities that 1le In the way yer mouth is curvin’ an' the twinkle o yereye; ¢ 1t ain’t 8o much whut’s said thet hurts ez whut ye think lies hid; It ain’c 0 much the doin’ ez the way a thing is did. An’ many a home's kep’ happy an’ contented, day by day, Au’ like ez 10t a kingdom has been rescued from a By jes laughin’. Washington Post. PARAGR +PHS AEQUT PEOPLE Gladstone’s little granddaughter, Dorothy Drew, never wears shoes or stockings at all, either in the house or out of doors, except in town. Some English painters have left great for- tunes, notably Turner and Landseer. Turuer left $700,000, while the value of Sir Edwin Landseer’s personalty was $800,000. The Rothschilds of Paris, following their usual custorm at the beginning of winter, have sent 100,000 francs to the pr:fect of the Seine, to be distributed among needy tenants in the twenty arrondissements of Paris. Two Paris aeronauts are going to try to beat the balloon record by remaining twenty-four hours in the air. The record is now held by M. Gaston Tissandier, who, in March, 1875, made a balloon journey of twenty hours and forty minutes. L. C. Carran, one of the ludln“march‘nul It is said that Mrs. Humphrey Ward wrote HOLDING THE MIRROR UP TO NATURE Placer Argus. 1nE CavrL is doing up the Ezaminer in tine shape. Willie Hearst owns both that paper and the New York Journal, and it now occurs that while the Ez- ammner was blowing hot in 8an Francisco the Journal was blowing cold in New York City. This was in a measure so during the campaign. There was an evident attempt for the Journal to carry a gold rider early in the campaign, but it finally settled down with Tammany to attempt to @ln Biily Bryan’s . team to the White House. Lately the Journal attempted to prove the verity of the California airship whiie'the Ezaminer was caricaturing THE CALL pro- prietors for doing the same thing in S8an Francisco. And then the Ezaminer is unspeakably filthy in its methods. 1t is notorious that it was compelled to call in one of its 1ssues with absolutely obscene suggestions in one of its carica- tures. The fact is still fresh in the minds of our readers of the contract with the Southern Pacific Company, on wkich several thousand dollars were paid the Ezaminer for fair treaimen t, and how on withholding the residue all their dogs were turned on the company, It hounded the Hon. Grove L. Johnsons with all the persistency of a sneak thief just because he gave an honest ex- pression of feeling not in accord with their views. The Portland Oregonian, very foolishly forming its estimates of California morals, gave us a severe lashing, the only possible excuse being the reflex taken from the Ezaminer. We say to THE CALL, go ahead, and hoid the mirror up to nature until the people shall discern plainly what a rotten concern the Ezaminer and Journal combination is, for a fact!: We apologize to our readers for giving so muen space to 80 filthy a subject and our only excuse is the verity of our comments, ————————————————————————————————————— «gir George Tressady’’ four times over before it appeared as a serial, and twice more before she allowed it to appear in book form. Itis also stated that £2000 is her price for serial rights in Evgiand. Mrs. May Sparling, the daughter of the late ‘William Morris, has inberited ber father’s ar- tistie tastes, and was in the closest sympathy with him in his theories of advanced social- ism. Mrs, Sparling 1s engaged in tne manu- facture of tapesiry, which she carries on profitably and successfully near London. A Boston man who dines regularly at a prominent hotel was interested to discover tne other day that his waiter, whom he has been tippingliberally all along, owns five tenement houses in the Hub, all ¢lear of morigages, and that his tax bili is considerably larger than | his patron’s. NEWSPAFER PLEASANTRY. Prison Inspector—That man over there seems to positively enjoy the tradmill. Warder—Yes, sir. 'E's used to the haction. ’E was a bicycle thiel.—Household Words. «And you think your son is really making his mark at college?” . “You bet he is. He can kick a football sky- high en’ speil baker while hit’s a-comin’ down.”—AtlantajConstitution. Little Mary was discovered one day by her mother vigorousiy applying the oilcan to the kitten’s mouth. On being reproved she re- plied: “Wny, mamma, kitty squeaks so awful when I pull her tail.”—Harper’s Bazar. “Johnnie,” called his mother, “stop using that bad language.” “Why,” replied the boy, “Shakespeare said what I just aid.” “Well,” replied the mother, growing infuri- ated, “you should stop going with him—he’s no fit companion for you.”—Tit-Bits. Papa—I ought to have that young fellow ar- rested for trying 10 get money out of-meon false pretenses. Mamma--Why, when did he do such a thing? Papa—Why, he's coming here three or four times a week pretending he’s in love with Maud.—Puck. “Some people seem to believe that it is witty to say ‘I don’t think’ every time anybouy ventures an observation,” “Yes,” replied Miss Pepperton, “and in most ceses it isn’t witty atv.all. It's merely a com- monplace utterance of truth.”’—Washington Star. 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