The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 22, 1896, Page 6

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EASTERN OFFICE: Kooms 81 and 52, 84 Park Row, New York City DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e e Good weather for shopping. Don’t forget something for the poor. After all, the sweet of the season 1s charity. This is no holiday season for San Pedro and Santa Monica. Make yourselves happy this week, for next week comes the swear off. . The holiday ad journment has come and Congress has not disturbed the peace yet. Cuba will not receive recognition in time for Christmas, but she will get it in the end. In the next tariff law the principle of reciprocity will be as luminous as if printed in red letters. One of the best ways to do the proper thing for the poor is to aid the work of the Salvation Army. Spain might as well recognize thas Cuba is at any rate too independent to take any licking she can give. If we patronize our small industries they will soon become great ones, and all of us will profit by them. While we are reforming things let us reform the home market. Why should we buy so many foreign goods? Grover has Christmas ducks for every- body except the Cubans, and it looks as if he intends to give them the goose. The Cuban war talk in the Senate is suf- ficiently lurid to prompt the Congressional Record to get out a colored supplement. Our stores are bright with novelties and dainties from all parss of the world, bat none are better than those we produce at home. The Christmas CaLr will add to tke pleasure of the day in every household. Leave orders for it for yourself and for your friends. Protection sentiment in England is growing rapidly, and before many years are over free trade may be literally wiped off the face of the earth. The movement for a reformed clvil ser- vice in California brings the issue home to us at a time when our homes are pre- pared to receive it hospitably. The people, the sea captains and the in- surance men all prefer San Pedro harbor to that of Santa Monica. Now what will the Government commission do? The success of the fair at Fresno is not to be measured by the money taken in at the pavilion but by the wealth it brings to the industries and trade of the great San Joaquin. The increase in the Republican vote of the Southern States in 1896 over that of 1892 was more than 500,000. The veople down thers have evidently profited by the depression to learn wisdom. The reported discovery of a gold ledge in one of the streets of the City need sur- prise nobody. There has been money enough sunk in every one of them to show gold croppingsall over town. Oakland should not complain if some of her people come to San Francisco to do their trading, since so many of our people go there to make their homes and pay 1axes. There is always virtue in reci- procity. The suggestion of Judge McKenna for a position in the Cabinet adds another to the list of good men proposed for the place from California, and it will go hard for us if McKinlay cannot find one among them to suit him. [t is reported the Democrats of Con- gress will not attempt to hold a caucus this winter unless ‘*‘an exigency arises.”’ There is a hint in this for some mischief- maker to get in and raise an exigency just to see the circus. At a recent meeting of the protection- ists in England one of the speakers said “the only ruler under heaven who has adopted the principles of the Cobden Club is the BSultan of Turkey.” The truth of the statement is beyond the reach of denial and the argument is weighty. RS R The war between the Havemeyer com- bination and the Arbuckies will be a good thing for the public breakfast table for a little while, but sooner or later the people will have to pay the cost of it. Sugar and coffee cannot fight one another very long without making a raise from the pockets .of those who consume them. M. Meline, Prime Minister of France, recently told the Chamber of Deputies that the only relief for the agricultural de- pression is a return to bimetallism, and it would seem from this that we will havea strong ally in France when the McKinley administration starts out to bring about an international agreement on the subject. s okl Senator Sherman has very aptly refuted the opinion tbat the recognition of the independence of Cuba by this country would lead to hostilities with Spain by saying *‘Srain recognized the independ- ence of the Confederacy in 1861 before a single battle hadbeen fought, if we ex- cept the firing on Fort Sumter, and yet that was not considered cause for war.' OUBAN INDEPENDENCE. The report of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in support of the reso- lutions recognizing the independence of Cuba and offering the friendly offices of the United States to bring about a s-ttle- ment of the war between Spain and the island is an elaborate review of all the precedents affecting the issue and a satis- factory showing that such action on our pa¥t would be neither a violation of inter- national law nor a new departure in our dealings with Spain and her possessions in America. The report lays down, to begin with, the rule established by Canning when, as Prime Minister of Great Britain, he recog- nized the independence of Greece, then in a state of revolt against Turkey. Accord- ing to that rule the character of belliger- ency is not so much a principle as a fact. A certain degree of force and consistency acquired by any mass of population en- gaged in war entitles that population to be treated as belligerents. In the opinion of the committee the Cu- bans have acquired the degree of force and consistency which, under Canning’s rule, entitles them to recognition. The report says: On the military side, as we officially know, they have organized, equipped and main- tained in the fieid sufficient forces to baffle the exertions of 200,000 Spanish soldiers. On the civil side they have organized their sys- tem of administration in every province, for, as we know officially, they roam at will over at least two-thirds of the inland country. The argument of the report from Ameri- can precedent is even stronger than that drawn from British sources. When a similar question arose at the time of the revolt of the Spanish colonies in South America President Monroe acted promptly in recognizing the independence of Mex- ico, Colombia, Chile and Buenos Ayres as soon as they demonstrated their ability to organize governments and their power to maintain them. The report is moderate in its tones. It suggests no threat against Spain and af- fords that country no cause for war with us on account of any action we may take 1in granting/ belligerent rights to the Cu- bans or in recognizing the independence of their country. It will go far to strengthen a sentiment in favor of the Cu- bans among the conservative classes of the country and will undoubted!y win for the resolutions proposed by the commit- tee a strong support in both houses of Congress. ELEOTRIC RAILWAYS. The proposed construction of an electric railway between Jackson and San An- dreas is one of the projected enterprises of the State in which more than ordinary in- terest will be taken. It will be an experi- ment which all sections of California will watch with interest, for if it prove suc- cessful many other districts of the State will profit by it and construct similar roads for their own advantage. The proposed line is an offspring of the projected construction of the Sierra Pacific Railroad. which is to run out of Stockton and tap the mining regions to the east- ward of that city. The electric line will reach north and south from the Sierra Pacific and will serve as a feeder to the Stockton road. The electricity to operate the engines is to be obtained from water power used in the mines, and wili be thorefore of but comparatively little cost. It 13 said that the immense electric power plant now being put up on the Mokelumne River by an English syndicate will have sufficient power not only for the mines in that locality, but also for the proposed road, so that this portion of the enter- vrise seems already provided for. There are many other portions of the State where extensive water power runs idly with the streams from the foothills to the plains. At many of tbese points it would be possible to erect, plants for elec- tric roads if the experiment in Amador, Calaveras and Tuolumne proves success- ful. The roads would of course open up the districts through which they pass and lead to their settlement and cultivation. In a comparatively short time they would transform the condition of many a section of the State now comparatively unoccu- pied by reason of its remoteness from trade centers and the lack of transporta- tion. Much, therefore, may be expected from the work which has now been pro- jected. 1f it proves to be a profitable enterprise all California will be benefited by the stimulus it will give to similar enterprises elsewhere. BRITISH PROTEOTIONISTS. In their recent conference at Lordon the protectionists of Great Britain gave the free-traders of that country some very grave questions to consider. The orators of the conference wasted no time in dis- cussing the old compromise plan of “‘fair trade,”” nor did they show much regard for the long-vaunted scheme of free trade between Great Britain and her colonies, to the exclusién of the rest of the world. The principal speakers declared for pro- tection outright, and asked it not upon the plea of fair trede nor of imperial fed- eration, but upon its necessity to the wel- {are of the British people. On the question of preferential trade with the colonies and protection else- where, the Right Hon. James Lowther, who presided at the conference, was ex- plicit. He was as strongly opposed to the ruin of the British farmer by Manitoba as by Minnesota. The free import of wheat from one country was as injarious as from another. He went on to say that between 2,500,000 and 3,000,000 acres of land had been elbowed out of cereal production in England for £130,000,000 worth of imports, the most of which could be produced there. He was in favor of a duty of 5 per cent on wheat, which, he said, would yield a revenue of £12,500,000, yet only raising the price of bread for a full-grown man 33 914d a year. The leading speech of the conference was made by Sir Henry Hoyle Howarth, one of the most eminent writers on financial and economic subjects in Par- liament. He declared that preaching to the free-traders of Great Britain was preaching to deaf ears, and held that the only effective means of achieving the ob- jects of the conference was to make mat- ters extremely uncomfortable for the free- traders. He went on to point out that the conditions of inaustry in England were rapidly approaching that state of dis- comfort which would compel even the ex- tremest free-traders to revise their opin- ions on the subject. Among other things he called attention to the conditions created by foreign com- petition, dwelling upon the inroads made upon British trade by German manu- facturers, and said that under the exist- ing free-trade policy there was nothing for the English workingman to do but to dig his own grave, using a foreign-made spade for the purpose, and then to be buried in a coffin “made in Germany” or some other foreign country. The sentiments expressed hy the Jeading speakers were cordially approved by those who followed them. Abundant statistics were cited to prove that protection i needed, not only for the British farmer but for the British manufacturer. Among these were figures cited by Lord Marsham showing that the British export trade in manufactures had not increased during the last thirty years, while the foreign trade of Germany in that time had in- creased upward of $175,000,000. The whole tone of the conference re- vealed that the protectionists are sanguine of the growth of public sentiment in favor of the measure they advocate. It is more than likely they will feel themselves strong enough in many sections of the kingdom to make the question of protection to British industries the dominant issuein the next Parliamentary elections, and it would not be surprising if within a com- paratively few years the free-traders of that country were as discomfited as they are in all other progressive nations. It was stated by one of the speakers at the conference that the only raler who to. day supports the principles of the Cobden Club is the Sultan of Turkey. It is prob- able, moreover, that the Sultan would not practice them if he could do anything else. At any rate it is not likely the British farmer will care to pursue a policy which threatens to reduce the agriculture of his country to a coundition like that of the Ottoman empire. “THE OHRISTMAS CALL" The Christmas edition of Txe CALL will | be the most elaborate of the holiday pa- pers. It will reach its readers at the ap- propriate time—Christmas morning—like a present from Santa Claus. It will be a distinctively California Christmas edition, a gem in its way, and sure to bring pleas- ure to all who read it. The numerous literary®features are from the pens of some of the best writers of the West, and the artistic work is fully in keeping with the other steriing merits. To tell of all the good things in store for readers would be a long task. There wili be some thoroughly interesting stories of the season, humorous aund pathetic, his- torical sketches and descriptive articles. To sum up briefly THE CHRISTMAS CavrL will be a paper that will delight you. It will be the paper your Eastern friends will be sure to enjoy, and extra copies should be ordered as soon as possible. THE BARRETT BILL, Representative Barrett of Massachu- setts, whoe distinguished himself on enter- ing Congress last winter by introducing a resolution for the impeachment of Em- bassador Bayard, has sought to attain an equal distinction at this session by in- troducing a bill which requires the Presi- dent to select members of his Cabinet from either the House of Representatives or the Senate, with the exceptions that the Secretary of the Treasury shall be a member of the House and the Secretary of State a member of the Senate. The bill has just barely enough virtue to give rise to discussion and enable Mr. Barrett to make a speech. The issue in- volved in the question is not a new one in theoretical politics. It is the old con- troversy whether the British form of gov- ernment with a Cabinet chosen from Par- liament is better than the American sys- tem of a Cabinet altogether separate and distinct from Congress. Each of these systems has its advantages and its de- fects, and while that of Great Britain is no doubt best for the British, since they prefer it and continue it, there is just as little doubt that our system is best for us. The adoption of the Barrett bill would not gain for us the {ull benefit of the Eng- lish systemn. The most important feéature of the British form of ministerial govern- ment is that the ministers not onty have seats in Parliament but are directly re- sponsible to it. They can be removed from office at any time by a simple vote of want of confidence. The Barrett resolu- tion would not provide Congress with that power. The members of the President’s Cabinet wou!d hold their seats in the ex- ecutive department whether they had a majority of Congress with them or not. The only possible benefit, therefore, from the change would be that of having Cabi. net officials in both houses of Congress to advocate and defend all administration measures that arose. As an inevitable consequence of Cabinet officers with seats in Congress every meas- ure, whether introduced by the adminis- tration or not, would have to pass the criticism of the Cabinet officials. It would, therefore, be known at once whether such measures ‘were likely to be vetoed and the whole course of Congres- sional debate would be directed for or against the administration. If such a debate could end as it does in England by an overthrow of the Cabinet, when the Cabinet was opposed to Congress, there would be some practical gain from it, bui as it would not be so with us it is hard to see that any really good results would come from the new plan. Our Government was designed with care to keep the legislative and executive de- partments separate. This system, if it has not always worked satisfactorily, has been on the whole well suited to the genius of the American people. There are not many who would like to see our well-established constitutional forms changed for slight reasons. Mr. Barrett's bill, therefore, will hardly do anything more than occasion a debate and give him an opportunity of showing to his con. stituents once more that although he is a new man in Congress he is always prominent. NEWSPAPER, PLEASANTRY. “How did your wife catch that terrible cold?” “Sh! A new family moved into the house next door cn one of the coldest days last week. 1f you or I had stood beside an open window all afternoon we'd simply be dead.’”—Cleve land Leader. “Miss Cayenue complimented you very highly after you told that story at the dinner table,” remarked one young man. “She liked that story, did she?” “No. But she thought it illustrated a very admirable trait in your character. Itshowed that you never go buck on an old friend.”— Washington Star. “Well,” remarked the wife of the man who has changed his mind about going to Con- gress, “you have a clear conscience, anyhow." “1 know that,” was the comfortless reply; “but a clear conscience isn’t what I was run- ning for.”—Indianapolis Journal, “Dan’s er big dif'unce,” said Uncle Eben, “in de righteousness o’ tellin’ de troof ez er matter o' conscience, an’ tellin’ it ’case hit's gwinter hu't somebody’s feelin’s.”—Washing- ton Star. “Don’t you know you did a wrong thing in breaking into Colonel Bawson’s chicken-coop, Rastus?’ “Yassir. Iknows hit wuz wrong, Jedge; but it wuz so dark, sah, I couldn’t see jus’ wharI wuz. Imeant to break into Jedge Willesby’s, sah—he's so deaf it would ha’ been safah.”— Harper's Bazar. Teacher—Who is that whistling in school? New Boy—Me. Didn’tyou know how Iconld whistle?—London Figaro. “Father, are generals brave men?’ asked Johuny of his father. “Yes, my son, as a rule,” was the answer. “Then why does artists make pictures of ’em standing on & hill three miles away 100k- ing at a battle through an opera glass?”’— Frank Leslie’s Weekly. Xmas News Letter. Eighty-eight pages, 15 cents, now out. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “*Allthe crackerjack bicyclistsof the country are coming here to winter,” said G. A. Bovee, the champion of Texas, to a CALL representa- tive at the Grand yesterday. “Among them are Clint Coulter, the Cali- fornian; Arthur Gardner, who was the star of one of the Eastern teams; Tom Cooper, who heads the list of all riders, and many other notables. Gardner holds the half and quarter records unpaced. “They are coming here because there is no- where else that they can practice and keep in shape. Bicycling now is like piano-playing, prize-fighting and training horses—one has to practice daily or he quickly falls behind. This thing of riding for six months in the year and then laying off for six more because of vold weather can’t be done any more. “We have got to practice all the time or else FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1896 eight days or four weeks each, and the new month twenty-nine days, to make 363, and thirty in leap years, After a few days there would be no need to refer to calendars, as the same day of the week would have the same date through the year. If January 1 was, -{, Monday, every Monday would be the 1st, 8th, 15th and 22d; every Tuesday the 2d,9th, 16tn and 23d, and so on tarongh the year. The changes of the moon would be on about the same dates through the year, and many calcu- lations, like interest, daies of maturing notes, Easter and many other important dates, would be simplified. Although the present geners- tion wou!d have to figure new dates for birth- days, and all legal holidays except New Year wonid on different dates, yet the gain would be more than tne loss, as that would be permanent and the objections trifling. ROYAL REMEDY FOR IDLENESS Chicago Tribune. Emperor William has one infallible remedy The Champion of Texas Tells Why All the Crackerjack Wheelmen Are Going to Winter in California. |Sketched from life by a “‘Cald” artist.] we are not In it. Things have changed from what they used to be. Formerly & wheelman could lay oft for montks in the winter and go ahead in the spring, but he can’t any more. He must keep practicing all the time. “It {s for this reason that ‘the bicyclists are all coming to California—a land where there is no snow and ice, where it is salubrious and where tracks are good perpetually. There is nowhere else for them to go and keep in ship- pe. g “I never do anything but track work and for that reason, of course, I did not wheel my way up here from Texas. Isimply put my bicycle about the cars at El Paso and then climbed on myself and rode straight tnrough. Those Col- orado and Mojave deserts wouid have been terrible to come over with a wheel. 1 wouldn’t think of it, nor of any ordinary road bicy- cling. “Thiskind of work unfits me entirely for the track. Makes one shiver. It effects the mus- cles aifferently. Even here I will never ride on my wheel to the track. I will keep the wheel at the track, and will ride back and forth on the cars. If a fast bicyclist were to ride and get in a state of perspiration, as he would, and then ride back it would not only spoll his speed, but would injure him other- wise. He could not rub down as he should and it would hurt him.” LADY’S WAIST WITH DEEP BELT. An ideal waist for light fabric dresses is shown here, being very simply made and still retaining the distinct features of style. There isa fitted lining which may be omitted, the back is seamless, with a few gathers at the waist line. The front has a siight fullness f‘\: ¢ i a which isgathered intothe neck band and buls,ih.ogmn&bcln in t:ugenur. 1f fitted lining is used the waist may be buttoned at | -hou‘l er and underarm seams having a seam- less front. The belt 18 made ite, cut on the biasand sewed toa fitted umlufind.un. A blue and white chinasilk had collar of Wwhite satin ribbon, with white lace on and large collar. The belt was of black satin, REVISING THE CALENDAR. Scientific American. It is suggested that on Jannary 1, 1900, & new division of the year into thirteen months be instituted. If such a division was made the first twelye months would have twenty- PERSONAL. F. 8. Hensley of Calistoga 1s in the City. Donald Macleod of Portland is in town. M. H. R. Harris of Japan is at the Palace. C. W. Collier of Kobe arrived here yester- day. J? J. Vanderbergh of Salinas is on & visit here. R. D. Black, a business man of Salinas, is in town. The Rev. George Chase of Chicago is visitirg this City. Frank A. Cressey, an attorney of Modesto, is at the Lick. County Clerk Somers B. Fulton of Sonoma is at the Russ. R. G. Cate of Kingman, Kansas, i3 & recent arrival here. Lorin Farr, & business man of Ogden, Utah, 13 in the City. A. Hill of the Iron Mountain mine, Keswick, is in this City. W. Metcalfe and wife of Quincy, Ill, are at the Cosmopolitan. Jim Williams, the horseman, of Sonors, is at the Cosmopolitan. C. P. Howard, a vineyardist of Fresno, is at the Gosmopolitan. Dr! Samuel Potter of Martinez is one of the visitors to the City. Henry Riddle of San Diego is among thear- rivals at the California. . Lieutenant A. S. Rogers of the United States navy is at the Occidental. Barlow Ferguson of Salt Lake and family are registered at the Grand. Alexander Noweli ana F. W. Lewis, business men of Guatemala, are in town. P. . Gardner, a cattle-raiser of Carson, Nev., 1s at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Among the arrivals here yesterday wasJ. J. Murphy, & mining man of Redding. C. D. Stimson, a leading business man of Se- attle, has arrived here, and is at the Palace. Redick H. McKee of Washington, D. C., is at the Occidental, accompanied by Mrs. McKee. Charles D. Fontana, a resident of Copperopo- lis, was among the arrivals at the Russ yes- terday. Nelson Story, & rich. pioneer of Montana, is at the California, accompanied by Elias Story Jr. | J. L. Humphrey and sister of Seattle arrived in the City yesterday to spend the Christmas holidays. C. A. Cooke of Boston, representing the Ray- mond and Whitcomb excursions, arrived here yesterday. D.E. Lilly and W. F. Lilly, leading and wealthy residents of Grayson,arrived hete yesterday. H. C. Nash, private secretary of Mrs. Stan- ford and Librarian of the Stanford University, is in town, William Currier, a pioneer merchant of Portland, Or., is here on & business trip. He is at the Occidental. F. K. Merritt of Cloverdale, president ofa leading wine company, is at the Grand, ac- companied by Mrs, Merritt. ®. R. Coffin, & mine-owner and business man of Cripple Creek, Colorado, is in town, accom- panied by his wife and child. J. N. Gobey, & coffee-grower of several years’ experience in Central America, arrived here yesterday, and is at the Russ. William H. Taylor, manager of large gold placer proverties near Glendale in Southern Oregon, ieon a visit to this City. Fred M. Guiol and Emil de Neuf, business men of Guatemala, were among the arrivals by the Panama steamer yesterday. Milo M. Potter of Los Angeles, who is to take charge of a new and large hotel in Los Angeles on January 1, is at the Palace. H. Z. Osborne, the prominent Republican leader of Los Angeles and one of the owners of the Los Angeles Express, is at the Palace. Port Warden Provost, who received a slight paralytic stroke recently while near his home in Lorin, was reported much improved yester- day. . H. Wines of Santa Barbara, a veteran stage man, who owns the line between Los Alamos and Sania Barbars, and who has in time run stages to many different points in California, is a recent arrival here. Among the arrivals at the Russ yesterday were F. R. Tibbetts, P. A. Ryan, E. B, Fleming and E. G. Brown, all prominent mining men of Kernville, who have been successful in opening gold properties which now pay well. Deputy Surveyor Sam Ruddell was attacked with vertigo vesterday morning as he was leaving his home for nis office. The attack was so bad he had to go back to his house, ana he will probably have to stay there several days. — —_— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK YORK, N. Y,, Dec, 21.—At the Plaza, J. s.Nxflvgnas: Grand Union, J. Gridley, E. E. Ryan; Imperial, W. F. Weed Jr, A. M. Jelli- son, Miss M. Polhemus; Grand, C. H. Hall and wife, J. C. Hecht ana wife; Barrett, P, S, Bates; Windsor, C. F. Smurr. Mrs, Maria Berg- mann left the Plaza to sail for Bremen ou the Lahn. e T el e PARAGRAPHS ABOU[ PEOPLE. Kennetn Grahame, the young English au. thor, whose book, “The Golden, Age,” was 8o enthusiastically extolled by the poet Swin- burne lately, holds & place in the Bank of England. Wyzeman Marshall, who for many years was & popular actor on the American »stage, is critically i1l at his home in Boston. Heis now over 80 years of age, and uutil quite re- cently was in excellent health. Emile Ollivier, Napoleon III's last Minis ter, is about to publish a novel called “Mario Madeleine,” which is believed to be ulvllob&o. graphical. He brings into it Richard Wagner, who was his brother-in-law, Ollivier's first wife having been & daughter of Liszt. The Grand Duke Paul of Russia is so tall that no hotel bed is long enough fur his comfort, and he has one built in sections which he car- ries with his luggage everywhere. The bed is put up by & special mechanic, under the su- perintendence of the royal valet, wherever the Grand Duke goes. When the boy King of Spain bathes in the gea he is attended by a captain of the royal navy and s detachment of sailors, who anx- fously note his moyements from the shore, while two man-of-war’s boats hover around the place where the little monarch frolics in the water. The Duchess de Dino, who isan American by birth, is a remarkably bright business woman. She recently ordered a thirteen-story building to be erected in New York City, and before completion she hasrented eight floors, the contract for the rental of the fourth floor for a term of years having now been completed for $50,000. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. =THE NEW YORK MAJorITY—J, G., City. Me- ley’s majority in the State of New York !!2: 2{5,537Jnndyhu plurality was 268,315. THE HIGHEST RATLROAD—The highest rail- road station in the United States is said to be on the line of the Denver and Rio Grande, near Marshalls Pass, which is at an elevation of 10,852 feet. FREETHINKERS—A. S., City. There Is anor- ganization in San Francisco, of which Dr. J. L. York is the head, that calls itself “The Liberal Union,” the majority of the members of which are Freethinkers. Tue ENGLISE LANGUAGE—A. O. 8., City. One of the latest dictionaries of the English lan- guage contains 301,865 vocabulary words, raid to be the greatest number of words in English that ever was presented to the public. A PROOF GALLON—Rustic, Healdsburg, So- noma County, Cal. A proof gallon of spirits has a specific gravity of 0.920 and contains 0.495 of its weight or 0.5727 of its volume of absolute alcohol. The internal revenue tax on this is $1 10 per gallon. AMES MOUNTAIN—A. 8., City. The question in regard to the Ames Mountain cannot be answered without the correspondent being more explicit in regard to what portion of the world the particular mountain he wishes in. formation about is located. OAKLAND WATER FRONT—A. R. R., Santa Bar- bars, Cal. If, by your question about the Oak- land water front case, you mean tne onein which the Southern Pacific Railroad Company is a party, that case has been submitted in the United States Circuit Court, butno decision has yet been rendered. Convicrs—J. J., City. The report of the State Prison Directors, just issued, shows thst of the prisoners confined in the State prison at San Quentin on June 30, 806, or 62.60 per cent, were natives of the United States, and 481, "or 37.40 per cent, were natives of forelgn countries. The number of prisoners of Eng- lish birth was 38. YoseMrTE VALLEY—A. C. R., Stockton, Cal. The roads to Yosemite Valley are still open, but are not used at this time for the transpor- tation of tourisis. The hotels generally open in May and close in the latter part of Septem- ber. Arrangements have beem made t0 re- build the hotel that was burned and have it ready for the next season. for idleness. Whenever time happens to drag he assembles a lot of soldiers somewhere and tells them what a great man his father was. SECRETARY OF MINES. Denver Times. Elsewhere in to-day’s issue will be found the views of a number of prominent Denver oiti- zens on the subject of a secretaryship of mines in the National Cabinet. Since this proposi- tion was first presented by the SAN FRANCISCO Cavr during November the subject has re- celved serious consideration from all portions of the country, opposition having developed only among those who from principle or habit stand unfavorable to further extension of Gov- ernment service. The gentlemen interviewed in the Times present most of the urgent reasons for the cre- ation of this new department. It would serve many ends that have not yet been conceived, and not the least of its utilities would be the education of the public upon mineral matters, just they have been educated in agricul- tural matters since the creation of the Depart- ment of Agriculiure. The scientific and prac- tical aspects of mining would be vastly stimu- lated by Federal direction, and economies would be effected in the production of both useful and precious metals that would be as untversal in their apolication as the econo- mies that have been effecied under Secretaries Rusk and Morton. A Secretary of Mines is b; the needs of the day, and allowance should be made in the Federal Government for his ap- finimmem‘ President Cleveland seems to now nothing about mines. Let us not leave President McKinley in the same ignorance. THE ONLY HOPE OF THE PEOPLE Omaha Bee. Huntington and his corps of Southern Pacific railroad lobbyists are promptly on hand to aid Cmil:tl;ldin its deliberations on the Pacific ruilroad debt funding bill. The passage of the funding bill means millions in 't)he .gcxen o‘[ the Huntington crowd, and no pains will be spared to corral the prize. In the interval the peopleout of whom the money would be wrung must look to the few independent and con- scientious representatives to stand up in de- fense of thelr rights. all means one of 4 1bs. famous broken candy, handsome bkts,, 50c. Townsend’s, Palace building. - L S —— ever say die,” said the Chigago girl, “‘Certalnly not,” remarked the Boston girl, approvingly, “say expire.”—Chicago Times- Herald, EPECIAL Information daily to mannfacturers, business houses ghd public men by the P; Clipping Bureau (Alug’l). 510 uontylol:or;.-'. ————— Stage Manager—But, Mr. Smith, nobody ever looks that way who has fallen in fighting for his bride! 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Ask your drugglst for Ayer's Almanac, NEW TO-DAY. - Gift Furniture. Furniture as gifts has a virtue above every- thing else. It adds cheer to the whole home -—-makes everybody happy---you too. Then it’s always there, a reminder of you and your goodness. Dressing tables. If you want to tickle the Because of their givable- | men-folks, look after their ness we've gathered nearly|comfort a bit. half a thousand here for your choosing. We can’t describe them, for number. But they’re temptingly pretty, every one of them. And so fairly priced. A dainty mite of a table, with beveled mirrors costs only $6—and by easy steps prices grow into the hundreds. Thpse $4 desks in real oak or birdseye maple make lively selling. That’s it; pleasing people and puzzling dealers keeps this furniture store at the head of the pro- cession. 3 . How would a stand be ? A whole chest of drawers for his own private use—and that topped off by a cleverly arranged mirror that swings to any angle. 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