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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1896 Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 Daily and Sundsy CALL, one year,by mall.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mall.. 3.00 Daily and Sunday CALz, three months by mail 1.50 Dally &nd Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Bunday CaLy, one year, by malil.. 1.60 W XEKLY CALL, ODe year, by mail .50 BUSINESS OFFICE: %10 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Selephoe........... Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telepbone... .. BRANCH OFFICES: 7 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open until o'clock. ££9 Hayes street: open until 8:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'cloci. W _corner Sixteentn and Mission sireewdi £l § clock. 201 Mission street: open nntll 9 0'clock 7 Dbl street; open until 9 0'¢loCK. > diurker sireet, open ull 9 o'clock. open OAKLAND OFFICE $US Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Eooms 51 snd 4 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOL stern Manager. " 1HE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e Trade lively to-day. Next week the crush comes. Remember the cause of charity. Santa Claus should patronize home novelties. Don’t forget to leave orders for THE SuNDAY CALL. SIS 1f all reports are true, Maceo in death is in the midst of life. Most people object to “foul luck,” but Bharkey and his gang have found it profit- able. It matters not much whether we get the belt line or seawall first so long as we get both pretty soon. The request of the Salvation Army, “‘Pleage help us to cheer the friendless,” is an appeal to you. The merchants’ excursion to Fresno will be. something more than a junketing trip. There is business in it. The cuckoos have @anished from Con- gress, but the jingoes are still there, and the talk goes on as usual The only man in New York who seems wholly indifferent to the contest over the senatorship 1n that State is David Bennett Hill The attempt of Long Green Lawrence to make Mr. Charles Fair give support o the Eramumner lies has failed. Mr. Fair is not a foul referee. The prophetic voice of New York that | ‘Willie Hearst will change his residence to Sing Sir The invention of a machine for pitching baseball is encouraging. Now iet us have a mechanical football rusher and give uni- | versity men 3 chance to study a little. The immigration restriction bill by bar- ring admission 1o this country of all per- sons over 16 years of age who cannot read ana write will give a boom to the cause of iree education in Eastern Europe. The report that the Prince of Wales smokes cigars costing §3 apiece inclines to the belief that the tobacconist who sup- plies the palace must be a very close friend of the steward of his Highness. If ever the Democrats attempt recon- | ciliation on the old eamp-ground it will | be great fun watching the 116,000 Pal merites trying to embrace the 6,000,000 | wandering Bryanites at one fell swoop. It is only fair to'Mr. Bayard to assume that when he declared the United States would never have a war with Great Britain be meant to imply his faith that the British Government will hereaiter be- bave itself. If the Chicago Inter Ocean is right in saying ‘“the most reliable weather report is thunder,” California may as well go out of the forecasting business. It is cheaper | to guess at the thing than to wait for thunder in this climate. ‘The reciprocity policy will be made an important part of the next Republican tariff, and it is likely it wiil be given a much larger scope than under the Har- rison administration. The South Ameri- can trade will be ours yet. The decisioff of the court of inquiry on the sinking of the Texas, finding two navy-yard engine-rs to have been ‘‘repre- hensibly careless,” will probably be satis- factory to the people. It is easier to get two new engineers than to get another warship. The House Committee on Agriculture has prepared a bill appropriating money for the free distribution of garden seed next year, despite the fact that the Sec- retary did not ask for it. This seems to be a clear case of treating the Secretary with parliamentary as well as garden sass. The 8t Louis be-Democrat says: “Many negroes in South Carolina are emigrating to North Carolina becaunse their votes are.now honestly allowed and counted in the latter State.”” It is possi- ble, however, thatsome are moving simply to change theirdrinks from the dispensary system. New York and New Jersey propose to ask the General Government to appro- priate a large sum oi money to preserve and beantify the Palisades, and Cali- fornia might as well get in and ride the bill with a proposal that the Government put up the coin for decorating some of the hills around San Francisco Bay. Among the means which Congress might adopt for putting an end to the de- ficit in the Postoffice Department are an abolition of the franking privilege and a reduction in the rates paid to the rail- roads. Either of these would be much better than the proposed plan of increas. ing the cost of sending second-class mail matter. In a recent interview Senator Quay said: “In the Senate we have miilionaires and business men encugh to serve all legiti- mate purposes. Senators are neéded who have no specialties but will act for the in- terests of the country in gross without special affinities.”” For the meaning, in- tent and application of this remark, you A CONVICTED FALSIFIER, FRAUD AND FAKER. The Eraminer has been evidently hard hit by the comments of the press of Califor- nia upon it and by the expressed contempt in which it is held by decent people. Like an indicted mountebank it is endeavoring to escape the consequences of its arrest and arraignment by means of the most transparent falschoods and fakes. In adaition to its already overworked every-day liar 1t has called its affidavit- maker to the aid of its “Long Green’’ manager with an alleged statement of the Ezaminer's ‘‘distribution.” The last time this useful member of the Erzaminer's “‘Fake and Fiction” department came to its rescue he speedily retired from the scene of conflict a badly battered person and with very little left of his affidavit besides the notary’s seal. The “Long Green' manager of the Ezaminer is displaying some present discretion in seeking to hide himself behind the person of his affidavit-maker, but his thought- ful cowardice comes too late. The affidavit-maker is no longer of either offensive or defensive utility, for the simple reason that the Eraminer has becowme entirely too offensive to be defended. Tbe best evidence of this is to be found in the fact that even its literary gun-fighter and the bodyguard of its ‘‘Long Green’’ manager has deemed it due to the shreds and patches which remain of his reputation to deny in open court and under oath that he 1s an employe of the Ezaminer, or that he has recently allowed his literary gems to sparkle among the rubbish and refuse with which its columns are filled. It 13 a matter of some argument about town as to which Mr. Earp considers most disreputable, to be the bodyguard of a blackguard or the sp cial writer of the newspaper of which that sort of person has been appropriately made manager. Apparently the bad man from Arizona has con- cluded that it is less dishonorable to bunko a prize-fight than to be either, and that having cleaned up an income from his latest venture he may escape the greater disre- pute of his earlier employment by getting out of town. The “‘Long Green” manager of the Ezaminer must be credited with a marked degree of versatility in the metheds which he has recently adopted to convince the public of the Ezaminer's utter unreliability and disrepute. Beginning with an attempt to revroduce in the Ezaminer the vigorous English in which the decent newspapers of the Pacific Coast expressed their estimate of 1ts indecency and unworth, he soon found that a continuance of such publication would not only occupy the entire issue but would call fora very large extra edition daily. He therefore turned his versatile mind to other means of showing and increasing the Eraminer's ill repute. He has adopted the comparative method and makes a daily dispiay of the efforts of his three principal assistants, making the reading public discredit whatever the Examiner says or does. These three able and congenial aids to “Long Green’ are the plain, ordinary, every-day faker, who is a member of the regular staif, the special writer of follies and falsehoods who dces space, and last, but by no means least, the affidavit maker. It has not be'n the usual thing for the Eraminer to employ all of these talented assistants at the same time, or publish their output upon the same day; but of late they have all three been occupied to the point of overwork. In consequence thereof the Ezam- iner's effort to- prove itself entirely unworthy of all confidence is coming on famou:ly. The serious question at present agitating the public mind is whether its ‘Long Green’’ manager will succeed in making the FEzxaminer thorourhly disreputable before Mr. Hearst awakens to a realization of the fact that there are better ways of making it a popular news- paper than those which the license he has given “Long Green’’ to run it has enabled kim to emvloy. Whenever such awakening comes a blackguard and his bodyguard will probably be united in some other region where there is no ordinance against carrying concealed weapons, and where the methods of both are better suited to the society of that romantic frontier. SAN FRANCISCO AND TFRESNO.) The excursion of San Francisco mer- | chants to Fresno is to be something more | than a pleasure trip, though the pleasure which they will derive from the hospitality of Fresno and from the delights of the citrus fair will’ be great. It will be an evidence of the interest which the pro- gressive men of San Francisco take in the work of progressive men in other parts of the State, and will tend not only to a better feeling between the City and the interior, but to the development of busi- ness relations. The council of associated industries in adopting resolutions accepting the invi- tation to visit the fair expressed the gen- eral sentiment in declaring *“We believe that all opportunities should be improved to stimulaie and encourage the better feeling and more coraial relations between the people of the interior and those of the metropolis and thata closer intermingling is calculated to.promote this result.” Tie fair at Fresno is in every respect an important sccomplishment for the whole State as well as for the San Joaquin. It has made ev:dent the jact that Iresnois something more than the center of a raisiu producing country. It has shown 10 the world that the great San Joaquin Valley is a region of the most diversified resources and produces-in abundance a jarge variety of the rinest fruits, grains, wines, vegetables and woods known to commerce. San Francisco, as the metropolis of California, is charged with the resvonsi- bility of making these products known abroad, and her merchants work for her own interests as well as for the interests of Fresno and the interior when they take steps to acquaint themselves with the productions of the San Joaquin in or- der that they may more effectually find markets for them in the East and in Eu- rope, The business men of Fresno have worked hard to make the fair a notable success and have achieved a triumph they may well be proud of. All reports show that the extent and the variety of the ex- hibits has been a surprise to many people in Fresno its«lf. Certainly there are thousands of Californizns in other por- tions of the State who did not know how great is the wealth-nroducing capability of the San Joaquin. They have now had an objeet-lesson which convinces even the most skeptical of the vast resources of our great interior valley and its surrounding foothills. 1t is gratifying to know that the merchants of San Francisco will be among those who see this object-lesson and study it with care. The trip to Fresno is & holiday full of business poesibilities, and there can be littie doubt that many of these will be realized in the near future. THE IMMIGRATION BILL. The immigration bill passed by the Sen- ate, while not as stringent as was desired by a considerable class of people, is yvet in its main lines in accordance with the pre- vailing sentiment on the subject. It has been the general desire thatinimposing furtber restrictions upon immigration to this country, the fundamental principle should be that of excluding the ignoraat by requiring of every immigraunt an edu- cational test and this is the main object of the bill. The proposed law provides that in addi- tion to all persons excluded under the re- strictions of the existing act there shall be barred from admission to the United States all persons over 16 years of age who cannot read and write the language of their native country or scme other lan- guage. Itis permissible, however, for an admissible immigrant over 16 to bring with him or send for his wife, parents or children, notwithstanding their inability to read and write. A further provision of the act exempts from its operation all per- sons arriving in the’ United States from Cuba during the continuance of the dis- orders there, provided such persons have been inhabitants of the island. The demand for an educational test for the admission of immigrants to the United States is well founded. For a long time the bulk of foreign immigration to this country came from Great Britain, France, Germany and Scandinavia, and the ma- jority of persons included in that immi- gration were fairly well educated and well fitted for American citizenship. In recent years, however, there has been a great change in this respect. The bulk of our immigration of late has been from South- ern and Eastern Europe and has been largely compo-ed of persons too ignorant 1o understand our system of government or to become good citizens. During the fiscal year ending last June the number of immigrants from Great Britain, France, Germany and Scandina- via amounted to about 132,000, while that from Southern and Eastern Europe was 179,000. Among the Italians over 14 years of age 55 per cent were illiterate, among those from Austro-Hungary 39 per cent. Itisalso to be noted that comparatively few among those from the south and east of Europe had any skill in any kind of :rade. The results of this immigration of ignorant and unskilled labor is to be found in the slums of our great cities. According to a report of the Commissioner of Labor, made 1n 1894, in Baltimore 77 ver cent of the total population in the slums was of foreizn birth or parentage; in Chicago, 90 per cent; in Philade!phia, 91 per cext, and in New York 95 per cent. In Baltimore, out of every 100 aliens in the slums 40 were illiterate; in Chicago, 47; in New York, and in Puiladelphia, 51; and out of every 100 of these illiterate aliocns 67 were of voting age in Baltimore,a77 in Chicago, 78 in New York and 85 in Phila- delphia. The prompt passage of the new restric- tion act 1s the more important because the tide of immigration to tiis country, which had failen off during the years of depression, has begun to flow in upon us again with something like its old force. With the revival of industry and the com- ing of better times, there will be a Jarge increase in immigration if it were not in some measure excluded. This will be done by the educational test pro- posed by the act. When we shut out all who cannot read and write we will bar a large majority of those who come to us from countries whare labor has been degraded to a condition that renders their people unfitted for American citizenship and unfair competitors with American workingme: “THE SUNDAY COALL" To-morrow’s issue of THE CALL will fully sust, the splendia reputation it pos- csees as a valuable and enfertaining iriend of the family and a welcome Snn- day visitor. “The Foundation Stone of San Fran- cisco’s Greatness” is an article that will command wide attention and deep inter- €st among all who are concerned in the advancementand prosperity of the metrop- olis of the Pacific Coast. This is to be the colossal entrepot of the Occilental trade. “The shin'ng rails of steel mav come and kiss the dancing waves of the golden ocean,” says the writer. “But there the poetry ends and the very plain prose be- gins. Between the rails and the waves there must be a big strong bridge, over which the commerce of the rails and waves will have to pass, and thal bridge is what is called a commercial seaport. “That San Francisco will become the greatest seaport of the world is 2 problem that can only be deiayed of affirmative solution by the exercise of the blindest disregard of business principles, a con- dition which is not now nor very likely to be found in the city which graces the finest barbor in the world, having oppo- site to 1ts mouth three-fifths of all the world’s commerce.”” The commercial, mercantile and other representative interests should pay heed to the timely suggestions in this able ar- ticle, which will benefit S8an Francisco far and near. “The Strangest of Latter-day Crusades’ will be somewhat of a revelation to our preachers and to peopie of all our church®s; for it gives rise to the query, ““Is a revolution in religions a probability in the near future?” A number of capital Christmas sketches make features that will amuse and delighit. A pleasant little story of how a local operetta came to be born will afford good reading. It contains a few spatches of verse that have a bearing which will be generally appreciated. An account of a Southern Qalifornia man’s adventures with an aerial veloci- pede makes an excellent story. There are dozens of fine features in ad- dition, and besides all these the various departments are stocked with good things. The children’s page will be hailed witn gladness by the little folks, as it will be radiant with Christmas gems. The whole paper will be one of rich interest, and one that should be in every home. PRESILEN1S SONS. Moses P. Handy 1 Chicago Times-Herald. Within the week I have seen six sons of as many ex-Presidents—Robert Lincoln, Colonel Fred Grant, James A. Garfleld Jr.,, Cnester Allen Arthur Jr. and Russell Harrison. Young Garfield I heard speak at the Hanna bunquet at Cleveland, and I doubt whether his father, gifted orator as he was, could have made a beiter speech at the same age. It was not simply that his phrasing was good and his de- livery agreeable, but that he expressed good | ideas cast in the mold of his own mind. Heis & young man with an assured political future. Colonel Grant has been at Canton and Cleve- laud a good deal lately, but his friendship with the McKinleys is not a new thing, and he never goes through Cleveland withoul spend- in%l night at the hospitable home of Sylvester T. Everett, who is an old friend of his as well as of Major McKinley. = These visits have naught to do with Colonel Grant’s frankly ex- have only to apply to John Wnnamaker.‘me Russians 41 per cent, and among pressed amuvition o be Secretary of War. ‘To hold that place hus been his ambition for years, and it is an ambition within the lines of his tasies and capacity. A soldier oy birth ana education, trained at the feet of the great- est general of the day, he is eminently quali- fied for the position. 'Like all the Grants, and especially like his father, whom he resembles more every day, he has matured siowly but surely. While he was Minister to Austria I d occasion te see how modestly and abiy he discharged his duties. There may be political Teasons why he should not be Secretary of War, but there are none other. ‘ PLRSONAL. F. E. Jones of Reno got here yesterday. Sam Rucker, ex-Mayor of San Jose, is in the City. J. W. Briscoe of Fresno is & recent arrival here. Barlow Furguson of Salt Lake is at the Occi- dental. General A. W. Barrett of Sacramento ison a visit here, Dr, E. W. Dutch of Prescott, Ariz., is atthe California. O. R. Gleason, a mining man of Denver, is at the Baldwin. W. W. Middlecoff, an attorney of Visalia, is visiting the Bay City. Raleigh Barcar, owner of, the Vacaville Re- porter, is in the City. G. T. Murray, an attorney of Los Angeles, arrived here yesterday. F. G. Gould of Jackson, Amador County, is among the arrivals here. H. L. Drew, & merchant of San Bernardino, isamong the arrivals here. Senator Percy Henderson has returned from 8 trip to Southern California. Dr. A. M. Garduer, superintendent asylum at Napa, is at the Lick. Andrew McLelland, a weaithy mining man of Pueblo, Colo, is at the Grand. Edgar Hartnell, a business man of Newmaz, is among the arrivals at the Lick. Dr. David A. Conrad arrived from the East yesterday and is at the Occidental. Lee F. Gray, a vineyardist of Fresno, is in the City, accompanied by Mrs. Gray. of the Colonel John T. Harrington of Colusa is the Russ, accompanied by his daughter. R. M. Sturdevant of the United States steam- ship Perry is registered at the California. J. Black and Mrs. Black of Hongkong ar- rived here last night and areat the Palace. Ferdinand Saiz, owner of & general store at Decoto, nesr Niles, is up on & business trip. Mrs. M. M. Johnson of Chicago, accom- panied by her two chiidren, is at the Palace. Cheirman E. C. Casey of the Calaveras Couniy Republican Committee is at the Grand. James McNeal, who is one of the owners of the eiectric light plant at Santa Cruz, is at the Palace. H. D. Campbell of the Iron Mountain copper mine at Keswick, Shasta County, is at the Palace. R. W. Price, traveling freight agent of the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad, is at the Cosmo- politan. M. Nanerth and wife of Slater, Mo., have taken spartments for the winter at the Cos- mopolitan. A. L. Parker, conductor on the California and Oregon Ruilroad from Redding to Ash- land, is at the Russ. Assessor John F. McBride of Yreka ison a visit here and is at the Lick. He isanold resident of Siskiyou County. Assemblyman F. R. Stansell of Butte County, ‘who was last fall elected for the second time to the Legisiature, is visiting the City. Miss Loie Fuller, noted for her serpentine dancing, returned from a tour of the north yesterday and will spend the holidays here. B. F. Bizel of Bozeman, Mont., largely inter- ested in mining in that State, arrived in the City yesterday and registered at the Cosmo- politan. Joseph Gilbert, a wealthy miner and rancher, is at the Grand Hotel. Mr. Giibert, whose residence is at Los Angeles, was the former lessee of the Laguna Ranch. J. H. Hall, a wealthy resident of Chicago, who is interested in an immigration enter- prise in Kern County, not far from Bakers- field, was among yesterday’s arrivals. Among the arrivals at the Palace are O. A. Hall, Dr. J. K. Curnow and A.T. Everman of San Jose, Who have come up to confer with the Governor, as it is stated, in regard to the asylum at Agnews. J. E. Mills of Massachusetts, who has for some time been engaged in mining near Quiney, Plumas County, and who is frequently here, came down from the mountains yester- day and is at the Occidental. D. F. Verdenal, correspondent of the Chron- icie in New York for fifteen years pastand formerly on the staff of that paper in this City and on the Daily Stock Exchange, arrived here yesterday and is at the Occidental. Mr. Ver- denal is an ecarly California pioneer. His aaughter is Mrs. William Forsyth of Fresno. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 18.—At the Plaza— W. N, Clark. Imperiai—W. F. Grill Jr. Ever- ett—A. C. Schwinforth, C. L. Thomas and wife. DECEPTIVE APPEARANCE. "Tis wrong to judge by looks alone As much in Dature sUOWs. The greatust warrior may not have The largest Koman nos The horse that has the longest legs May not be very fast; And then, you know, the Bible says The first ones shall be 1ast. Beneath the flercest vision there May be & quakiog he rc; And he that 15oks §0 meek and mild May merely play & part. Hence, don’t misjndge the man who wears A te of flaming red; His wife may buy his ties for him— 11 80, enough issaid. .~ —Cleviand Leader. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Sam Singleton—Do you honestly mean to say that you spend less money since you ried? Benny Dictus—My dear fellow, I have to.— Brooklyn Life. “Bozley, why is it that you never associate with the Robertses any more?” “‘Gracious, man; Roberts is only a plumber. I'm a bicycle repaire: Detroit Free Press, “Air! air!” gasped the dying man. The brave girl heard him and hesitated not a moment, Leaping from her wheel she punct- ured both her tires with all possible haste.— Detroit News. Tommy—Here! Don’t you hit me with that old shoe. Don’t you know it's awful bad luck to hit anybody with a shoe? Jimmy—Is it? Imust tell maw that as soon as I get home.—Cincinnati Enquirer. ““Have a nice time Thanksgiving?” “Splendid. I had horrible dreams all night.”—Cleveland Leader. Buzzfuzz—Is there much difference between comic and grand opera? sizzletop (emphatically)—Oh, yes; in comic opera the actresses wear the startling cos. tumes; in grand opera they &re wofn by the ladies in the boxes.—Puck. She—It is remarkable what cbnfidence that Mrs. Storms has in her husbandl Believes everything he says. He—Well, why should’nt she? “Why, man, he's a clerk in the weather bu. reau.”—Yonkers Statesman. Hobbs (to friend in restaurant)—I say, Nobbs, how's business? Nobbs—Great; never saw such & rush. No time to sleep, aud even behind in meals. That was day belore yesterday’slunchI justfin. ished.—T1d Bits, “What's that’s queer thing Mrs. Trimble has about her neck?"" 3 “That’s a Wattesu ruff. band with her 2 “Yes.” “Watteau ruff he looks like, too.”—Cleve- land Plain Dealer. “Ihave called,” said the young man to the busy contractor, buried among his papers, ““to propose for the hand of your daughter. The answer was in stereotyped form and given without any idea of what the young man had said: “Send in a sealed proposal, ;lr. The lowest bidder getsit.”—Detroit Free ress. i Is that her hus- S e ——————————) THE CALL’S COURSE APPROVED. Sisson Mirror. The San Francisco CALL has recently departes ing to exemplify the merits of decent journalism the degrading tendenciss of some contemporaries. Nat takes the form of a severe rebuke to an opposition daily, ti of the Mirror have watched Brother Shortridge’s success Wi he undertook the management and haye approved his course. ling news matter without that sensational embellishment wh viduals and the public, together with the high mor: vigorous erowth in circulation and gained far the chidings of the Examiner which haye appeared in THE CALL dulled by indications of jealousy, but instead have been ap; of unweicome duty as a redeemer of journalistic virtue. It needs no areument by it3 econtemporary to prove t degrading character of the Examiner, but it may be this ism may be effaced or stained over through opinion against the aensatioin:l Vllifylnghprehss. unpleasant obstructions, chief among which 18 g the carrion is dinturbed the greatergmg stench,’” and Mr. Shortridge h"‘“:e;’;"y‘;: surprised if he discovers that the Examiner’s capacity for meanness has CaLy is pursued with vigor and courage the interior press been fully measured. If the crusade of THE of California, including the Mirror, will earnestly approve its course, the good taste of the thousands of patrons of San Francisco dailies in mold a public opinion upon which it will be safe for THE CALL to rely. would certainly reclaim much of the civic prestige lost Charles M. Shortridge the distinctive recognition which we reputable and conscientious menaging editor of a morning d city of the West.” DOING THE WORK IN Nevada City Transcript. 2 THE CALL is now engaged in the pleasing pastime of excoriating the Examiner, and it is doing the work in a masterly manner. it could vilify any one it saw fit, and there would be no back talk. mis for once, at jeast, and THE CALL is giving it some of its own medicine. and public sen- timent is with THE CALL. THE CALL is telling the truth on the dirty Ezaminer, circulation will soon only be equal to the number of bawdy houses on the coast. Cacrw should keep up the good work, with a view of driving out of the field of journalism. by every honest newspaper reader. SHOULD BE CONDEMNED BY HONEST READERS. Palo Alto Times. The Examiner's attack upon THE CALL and the Shortridges should ‘be.condemned To so far forget its professional dignity as to put forth such depraved personalities as the Zzaminer has been doing the past few v:r,eoks cannot but tend to shake the confidence of the publicin thatself-styled “Monarch. d from its established course of seek- withouu disapproving attacks upon urally enough the departure the Examiner. The edtitors th THE CALL from the time His manner of hand- ich is so unjust to indi- al tone maintajned, s0on induced a eputation for reliability. So i have not been parently the parformance TaE CALL & the unreliable, blackmailing, blot upon Western journal- the efforis of THE CALL to echo public The venture is frauzht with many Voiced in the old saying, *“The more and it is hoped California will Such a result by California and gain for believe he deserves as a aily in *‘the wicked A MASTERLY MANNER. The poor idiotic Examiner imagined that It was mistaken whose THE the pusillanimous Ezaminer | AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Joseph Craig, who used to practice law in Yolo County, but who for four years past has been proprietor of the hotel at Highland Springs, Lake County, has been in town for the last day or two and is at the Grand. Mr. Craig says there have been a great many tourists st the springs this year. The main hotel was enlarged by a tront of an additional 150 feet, but that is not enough. It is the pur- pose to add forty or fifty rooms for nextseason. “I'do not suppose there is another country in the world or 4 place of equal size that has such & wonderful number of springs,” said Mr. Craig, *'as Lake County. Everything that cau be thought of is there. Then a great many of these springs are giving off gas all the time, 50 that the air is about as good as the water for health. “Take it at Highland Springs, there are thirty different springs there. with water from 82 down. Almost any kind of water JOSEPH CRAIG. One of the Many Hotel Men of Lake County. [Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.] that can be thought of is to be had in the county. There are bolling springs—these of arsenie, iron, sods, sulphur and everything conceivable, “1f you take the stage from Pieta, on the railroad, you have buta twelve-mile ride be- fore the Highland Springs are reached. There you have mountains on one side and a valley on the other. Eight miles away is Lakeport, on Clear Lake, one of the most beautiful bodies of water to be found anywhere. “One reason thomgh thatmany people like Lake County is that they get away from rail- roads and off where they can enjoy nature un- trammeled by the restrictions which steam and electricity would bring, We had a rush of tourists this year, and I expect many more during the coming season." Mr. Craig is here on a business trip, and will 5001 return. SUITS FOR BOYS The jackets of this season have a feature which wiil recommeund itself to any woman attempting to make boys’ jackets, and that is the patch pockets, which are made of the m. terial and fastened with button flap. The bu ton ean be either of bone or made of the cloth of jacket covered over a moid. The four-but- ton sack coat is the best accepted style for general wear. The mixed cheviots, cassimere and homespuns make up well, and for best suits the same style is followed, though the fabric is usually a smooth-faced cloth or a dark diagonal. = The coat buttons moderately high, and the sleeves should be finished with two or three buttons at the cuff. Boys' coats are easier to make than many mothers imagine, if the eloth is not too heevy. The pressing and neatly stitched finish are the most diffi- cult points for the home dressmaker. Whole suits o1 the same goods are the best style, and it is advisable to make or purchase an extra pair of trousers to every suit, espe- cially for the voungest boy. “Some folks am treated laike a doah mat,” says Brother Watkins. “Aftah all dere frien’s wipe dere feet on ’em, dey am given de shake,”—Philadelphia Record. [ PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Many English noblewomen are of literary habits. Three Duchesses—those of Cleveland, Sutherland and Bedford—have at one time or another contributed articles to magazines. The Emperor of Russia offered the order of St. Anarew to Lord Salisbury during his visit to Balmoral, but it was declined in accord- ance with the ruie which forbids a British Minister to aceept any foreign decoration. Miss Winter, fhe English governess who has been for so many years in charge of Wilhel- mina, the young Queen of Holiand, has now returned to her home in England pensioned for life to the tune of $2500 per annum, her salary having been $4000 a year. M. Boguloboff, the Russian court painter, who painted the picture of the Russian fleet at Toulon, presented by Alexander Il to the Paris Cercle Militaire, has just died at the age of 72 vears. He caught cold while making sketches of the arrival of the Czar at Cher- bourg for a picture which Nicholas II had ordered. When Dr. Watson first began to write under the pen name of Ian Maciaren he took every precaution to prevent his identity from being known, and in fact only his publisher knew who Ian Maclaren was. But Professor George Adam Smith, Watson’s friend and classmate, atonce decided from the style that Dr. Watson | was the author and sent him a telegram of congratulation. Though Mrs. McKinley is an invalid the state of her health is not such as to prevent her from taking the prominent but not labori- ous part in Washington social life that naturally falls to the President’s wife. She hasendured very well the excitementof the last few months and has received a multitude of visitors so large that many stronger women would have hesitated to undertake a task half as onerous. Letters From the People. EQUAL SUFFRAGE IN FACT. How the Women of Denver Exercised Thetr Newly Acquired Kight - to Vote. To the Editor of the Call—SIR: Will you kindly present 1o your readers the inclosed extract from an article by Mrs. Clara B. Colby, editor Woman's Tribune, Washington, D. C. who went to Denver last mouth on purpose observe the yoting of women. IDA A. HARPER. The extract referred to in the above com- munication is as follows: The voting of our party over, we hurried back, and then an opportunity was provided jor the domestics lo tuke their turn. My iriend has always personally managed every detail for the comfort of her large household, and felt she had enough to do without taking art in politics. Now, however, she votes, Pocauso she considers it her duty, and she does it with the same cousciencious’ zeal tnat characterizes all her actions, and withal she seemed 10 enjoy it. After the wheeis of household affairs were sel going for the day we went to various poli- ing places; not to ail, tor there were over 100 in the cily, but certainly to more than half that number. Atalmostall there were women to be seen inside aud going aud coming. In one a neighbor held a baby while its mother voted. There was occasionally a woman judge or inspector. At an appointed time my friend gave up her carringe to the use of a sick lady, Who was determined to get up from her bed to go to the polls, and, heiped by three of her iriends, she made tue effort without being injured. Other instances of women prizing their vote came to my notice afterward. On the train leaving Denver, aiter the election, I heard women talking about having delayed their departure in order to vote. One said her busband was then employed in Minnesota. He had sent her a ticket 10 join him which would compel her to leave Denver Monday night before election. But she went to the agent and told him he must telegraph and get the time extended, for she would for- feit her ticket rather than lose her chance to vote. In District D,one of the most aristo- cratic of Capitol Hill, 571 women registered and 570 voted, and in the proportion of two women to one man. I met & great many women during the day and eveiing, and I only found one who had not voted; and she deeply regretied her failure to reg! r and consequent ineligi bility. 1 saw no disorder or disturbance of any kind, although we were careful to drive throtigh the worst parts of the eity. The polling-places in these parts were as quiet and respectabie looking as any other. The city was much quicter than on ordin- ary business days, as muny of the firms closed part of the day, aud their employes went to their suburban homes tovote. Country tiaflic and the-raiiroad travel were very light. Every. body staved in his owu place to vote, and Denver, the bustling metropoiis of the Rockies, wore almost a Sunday espect. It wou.d re- quire the magic of Aladdin’s lamp to conjure up anythiug disagreeable or injurious as ac- companylug Or arisiug irom the voting of | women in Colorado, und tue testimony of those who huve been able to compare eleciious before and since proyes that much of the pres- ent good order is the result of their voting, and of the good regulations which have been made in view of their presence at the poils. So much, at least, there has been of direct gain 10 the community. Then there has been an immense gain 10 women themseives. Their leading women have ceased to be pre- emipently sociely women,and have beconie conscious of their citizenship, with all its obli- pations. The Woman’s Ciub numbers over 600, and its conduct is systematic, par.iamen- 1ary, consideraie and dignified. The mem- bers are becoming strong and self-poised. They look on life with a broader outlook. The legal department of the ciub spent the whole of last sea-on in studying three bills which they wished preseutcd to the Legisl ture, and the manner in which they made, themsclves masters of the provisions of tne’l bills and their possible outcome led the Cham- ber of Commerce torequest hem to take up # proposed new city charter for consideration, Not only this, but & charter prepared in the University ol Denver for the students has veen sent to the club lor study. Surely & condition which siimulates women to take an interest in all matters pertaining 10 good government, and which wins for them the respectful attention of the best men as valued coadjutors, must be for the bemefit of any commuiily. s ALASKA'> BOUNLARY LINE. New York Tribune. After the Venezuelan boundary is carefully riveted down so that it will stay in one place, it will be time to mark out the Alaskan line so levies a tax upon our miners before h allow them to pick up the gold whic! around on their own territory. It is ot enough thrt the frontier, in . requires a more visible and precise’ defi than the Boundary Commission has g We havye as yet no.oceasion. to join the Jong howl on Oonalaska’s shore in Tesen of anything which our neighbors have d.; and probably will not have, but the line to be blized anew when it runs throy near territory with anything veluable on ANSWERS 10 (ORRE.FONDENT:, LEADVILLE—A. 8,, City. The altitude of Leadyille, Lake County, Colo.,1s 10,200 fee; above the level of the sea. No PreMiuM—M. 8., Oakland, Cal. A hag dollar of the United States of the issue of 1819 does not command any premiun, city. PRELATE—Inquirer, ecclesiastical dignitary baving authority oy, other clergymen, as an archbishop, a bisio ete. HIGHEST RATILEOAD—A. 8., City. The hig} railroad siation in the Old World line of the Brienzer Rothhornbahun, railway of Switzerland. The altitu feet. THE SAME MAN—W. J. M., City. T Thistleton who obtained a warrant arrest of Rev. P. C. Yorke for libel is individual who at one time publ Jolly Giant in this City. A prelate THE PIvor BLow—S., Vallejo, Cal. Neither Jimmy Carroll nor “Sailor” Brown any claim to the introduction biow in boxing matches. It was intr by George La Blanehe and is known “swinging blow.” FrrzsimyoNs—Subscribers, City. Bob F simmons came to the United States in 1 His first fight on American soil was Francisto, May 29 of that year, with F McCarthy. It was a nine-round fight ang Fiizsimmons won. TYPEWRITING — Student, City. The price charged for typewriting from dictation is 10 cents per foliv of 100 words. For taking down matter in shorthand notes and transcrib the same by means of a typewriter, the price is 30 cents per folio. BONES OF THE SK t, rra City, Cal. It isstated that beans have been used b anatomists 10 separate the bones of the skyl It is said that the skull s filled with beans an ) is then put in water. The beans swell an cause the skull to part at the sutures. BIsHOP NEWMAN — Inquirer, Ci Bishop John P. Newman of the Metnodist Episcopal church sccompanied the remains of the d ceased son of the late Leland S rd on the journey across the continentin 1885, and i was he who preached the funeral sermon the service held in Grace Church in this City. He was assisted by Bishop Kip and the Rev. Dr. Foute. At that time he was not a Bishop, buta noted Methodist divine. MARRIAGE AFTER DIVORCE—A. B., City. the State of New York while the party obtai ing the divorce lives the other party cannot marry again in that State, but may go to an- other State for that purpose and immediately after marriege return. A marria that is In valid in the place where it iscontracted is valid everywhere. A marriageon the high sea by the master of a vessel is considered a valia marriage. The first part of this answerisa complete one to your tion. AMENDMENTS—L. 8., Pescadero, Cal The official figures show that the amendments that carried at the election in November in the State of California were No. 2, authorizing elections by ballot or such other secret method as may be permitted by law, and No. 5, which enlarges the provisions which may bé made by freeho.ders’ charters, relating to police courts, Police Commissioners, Boards of Edu- cation’ and_Elections, and providing for the election of county officers in consolidated cities and counties. Tnhe amendment on fe- male suffrage was defegted by 26,600 votes. PoPCORN loose and on strings. Townsend’s.* ——————— LARGE, handsome basket and four pounds of our famous broken candy, 50c. Townsend’s. * B Vgl 7 TIME to send your Eastern friends Cal. glace fruits, 50¢ 1b.; handsome bkts. Townsend’s. * LR S s 4 1bs. famous broken cands, handsome bkts,, 50c. Townsend’s, Paiace building. . PR PopcoRN, loose, sugared and on strings. Townsend’s, 627 Market st.,, Pulace bldg. * —_————— EPECTAL Information daily to manufacturary, business houses and public men by the Prasy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery, f e Prince Ranjitsinhj’s success in ericket in England has stirred up the pride of Indian especially Bengalese, and it is already an- nounced that tour players, two from Patna and two from Cslcutta, will arrive in England in time to play next season Phillips’ Rock lsland Excursions Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rlo Grande and Rock Island Kallways. Through tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago and Boston. Man- sger and poriers accompany these excursions to Boston. For tickets. sleeping-car accommodations and furtber information, address Clinton Jones, General Agent Hock Island Haliway, 80 Mont: gomery street, fan Francissa. e e e ) OUR habits tend to kill the hair and turn it gray tooearly. Save the color and beauty of your hair by using PARKER’S HATR BALSAM. e “BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES” are of great service in subduing Hoarseness and Coughs. Sold only in boxes. Avoid imitations. - Dr. SIEGERT'S Angostura Bitiers, a pure vege- taole tonfc, makes health and health makes bright, rosy cheeks and happiness. e — AYER'S Pills, taken 1n doses of one, dally, after dinper, admirabiy reguiate the digestive and assimilative organs. Buy them and try them. Magistrate—What is the charge against thig young woman? Officer—Carrying concealed arms, yer Honor. Magistrate—En? Where are they? Officer—Somewhere inside her big sleeves, yer Honor.—Town Topic: NEW TO-DAY. Keep up hope. Thereare thousands of cases where re- covery. from Consumption has been complete. Plenty of fresh air and a well-nour- ished body will check the progress of the disease. Nu- tritious foodsare well in their way, but the best food of all is Cod-liver Oil. When partly digested, as in Scott’s Emulsion, it does not dis- turb the stomach and thc body secures the whole bene- fit of the amount taken. If you want to read more about it let us send you a book. SCOTT & BOWNE, New Yorm OUT IT GOES. Front, near Washington sts. All Surplas Stock 1rom SMITH'S Casn Store, vefore mov- ing day. Come eariy—we are 5 Suoe Brushes for Men 5 . 5c Counter Brushes, any size. . 8¢ Splint Lunch Baskets.. .'be Muarking Brushes, best quality. .}c Lunch Baskets, German palm 15¢ 10-qt. Saucepans, shop-worn. Wire Clothes Lines, 100 teet White Lined Cooking Bowls.. Paper Wash Basins Graniie Diopers, closing. Pierced Ladles, heavy tin.... Cerpet Sweepers, Crown. Curpet Sweepers, Toy.. Aima Shoe Polish . that the British official can see it withoutspec- tacles. At present he comes across it where there are any. valuable mineral deposits, and Royal Shoe Dressing. Universal Stove Polish. Bargains in every room.