The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 11, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1897%. ke d in hand in CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Propricto SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Iy and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.15 ¥ CALL, one year, by mail..... 6.00 and Sunday CALL, six months, by mall three months by mail Daily Sunday CaLz, one year, WEEKLY CALL, One year, by mal BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone.... > : EDITORIAL ROOMS: Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: nery strect, corner Clay: open until til 9:30 o'cloc Mission streets; open until § o'clock. 2618 Mission street; pen nntll 9 o'clock. ntil 9 o'clock. 116 Muth street; OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 52, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Drop the fake caucus. Get down to straight business. hy of the office. Elect a Benator w Sooner or later ability always arrives, No one denies the merits of Samuel M. Shortridge. What has Senator Perkins ever done in the Senate? 3 1 The office should go to the man whocan | fill it worthily. Merit may be mocked at by those who lack it, but it wins Take the dummy off the track and go forward to new th The Senator fr lifornia should be able to speak for California. tor who w all tie interests of Californ Senator Perki Senztorship and what does the trial bal- ance show ? In the great arena of Nationsl debate California should have a champion to maintain her cause. There are those who say that for ment to aspire is ridiculous, but as a rule they are ridiculous emselves. If the attempt of the Eraminer to “worry” Senator Perkins into “selling a ship” is not ridieulous, what fs it? Why did the men who claim to have been instructed for Perkins go intoa cau- cus to decide for whom they should vote? Samuel M. Shortridge is supported for the Senate upon his merits ana not by reviling, ridiculing and denouncing his opponents. Why does not the Eraminer point with pride to some of its candidate’s merits, achievements or services to the Republi- can party? A man who has been tried in a particu- lar office and has fallen below the measure of its auties is certainly not deserving of re-election. The fake about the necessity for Perkins to “meet bribery with bribery” was evi- dently published by the Ezaminer for its own benefit. As the Eraminer of yesterday had noth- ing to say about bribery, it is doubtful whether Perkins has sold his ships or burned them. There are two essentials for right service in high office, one is ability to pertorm the work and the other is fidelity to every duty it imposes. The advocacy of a blackmailing sheet may stain the canvass of Senator Perkins, but that of Mr. Shortridge will remain clean to the end. Samuel M. Shortridge has aavocated and worked for the Republican party in season and out of season and has merited the honors of the party by arauous ser- vice in its behalf. Judge Daly declares there can be no cau- cus of a less number of persons than. are required to effect the purpose for which they have gone into caucus. Who dis- putes that proposition ? Intelligent Republicans will not miss toe significance of the fact that the chief ovponent of Mr. Shortridge is a Demo- cratic boodle organ, whose manager is known as “‘Long green.” Hiring a Democratic boodle sheet to as- sail the honesty of Republican members of the Legislature may be a good way to hide the defect of the candidate itadvo- cates, but it does not advance his merit. send to the Senate a man who is capable of defending in debate the great principles of protection against the free trade Sena- tor whopm the Democrats have sent there. All forms of political machinery have their unses, but they should tend to the election of the man best fitted for the office to which he aspires, When they have any other tendency they become abuses. Accoraing to friends of Senator Perkins, the National capital is no place for any but the rich, and yet every student of our history knows it hasnot been millionaires who have won most distinction there or rendered most service to the Natiou and the people. No man in the Stats 13 more intelli- gently devoted 1o the great mining inter- ests of the country than Samuel M. Short- ridge, and when in the Senate he can be counted on to promote the cause of the miners by advocating the appointment of a Secretary of Mines with a seatin the Cabinet. Having been trained in the public schools of the State and having rendered service to them as a teacher, no man ‘in California is in closer touch with the great body of men and women who bave been edcucated in those schools than Samuel M. Bhortridge. He shares their pride in Cali- fornia as weil as their National patriotism, and in the United States Senate will give utterance to their sentiments and main- i their weliaze, ARE RICHES A REQUISITE? In the letter which Senator Perkins wrote to James A. Waymire after the treachery of the former to his old friend’s earnest and honorable hope of being found worthy and well supported for a Cabinet position, he expresses a thought which rich ! | | £ | | men often hold, but seldom publish. It is the idea of Benator Perkins that a man of | limited means ought not to aspire to a Cabinet position, because the expense of main- | tamning himself with pefitting style in the office wotld outrun 1ts salary. In view of the fact that Mr. Vaymire is not rick Mr. Perkins did not take his | aspiration seriously and had the amazing assurance to write and tell him so. | Has it, in fact, come to this pass in our Republic that Cabinet pesitions are only for the rich and that the door to such preferment must be opened with a golden key ? Can it be possible that Senator Perkins is right in his assertion that merit, however great, and ability, however marked, must be joined with wealth in order to qualify their possessor for a Cabinet position? If Mr. Perkins is correct in his statement, and if poor men may not aspire to the | Cabinet, how changed for the worse is the condition of our country as compared to | th the most enduring fame. Main—1868.| those glorious days when Daniel Webster, a poor man, and Henry Clay, a poor man, o " were deemed worthy to be the members of Cabinets, and by their surpassing talents re displayed achievea for our Nation the highest honor and for themselves 1i Mr. Perkins is gkt in stating that custom has caused the expense of the office | to exceed its salary, he and the millionaires like him who set the pace of living in | Washington society at such an annual outlay that none buc those of their own financial | measure can afford to aspire to be a Cabinet officer are solely responsible for such a con- | dition. It is to be remembered that the salary of Cabinet officer is $8000 a year, while | that of Senator is but $5000 a year. It follows that the suggestion of Mr. Perkins applies | with at least equal force to the one as to the other and that his idea evidently is that no poor man can be a Senator and that that office also has been sequestered for the sole enjoyment of the rich. It is not surprising in the ¥ go hand in hand. | THE SUPREME ESSENTIAL. light of this revelation of Mr. Perkins’ mind that his managers at Sacramento have cast ridicule at Perkins’ opponent, who has taken another view of the office and has esteemed brains, talents, eloquence and energy as more essential qualities than wealth. Neither is it | to be marveled at that the Democratic newspaper which is Mr. Perkins’ leading ex- | ponent should so persistentiy obtrude the suggestion that a sack and a Senatorship the aspirations of Mr. | In spite of all that may be said and claimed by the managers of Mr. Perkins about the pinding effect of ex-parte instructions or the compelling force of hasty and insufficiently attended caucuses, or the lien which an incumbent acquires upon the | office of Senator, it is a truth too plain for denial that merit is the only consideration | of finally and absolutely controlling effect. It will not be denied that under certsin condi as ante-election instructions or properly conducted caucuses are permissible, and that to a certain extent members of the Legislature may be bound thereby. | measure of this binding force,-however, is limited by the plain proposition that an ons the use of such political tactics The | assertion of the claims of merit can never be foreclosed by any sort of tactics. When the Legislature meets and enters upon that week oi deliberation which the Federal statute wisely interpokes between its meeting and its choice of a Senator, then is the time for candidates to come forward, and for a full and fair measurement | | of the merits of each. The absolute freedom of this consideration on the part of each | member of the Legislature ought not to be and, in fact, cannot rightfully be impeded rnia exvect a Sena- | by anything having for its purpose a pre-judgment of this all-important issue. Conventions may instruct and caucuses may be attempted by the overzealous | for victory, but, after all, it is the legisiator’s highest duty to his State, to his party or his choice must fall. { | cancuses will suffice to extricate him. BY what merit in office does Semator Perkins deserve a re- election? | What work has he domne for | the people What service has herendered the Nation ¥ What has California What has he accomplished for the Republican party ? What have been his efforts to render service ? What part has he taken in | debates in the Senate ? What labor has he performed in committee-rooms? What is his record ? Why have not his supporters made public some evidence of he achieved for | his fitness for the office of United States Semator from California? The resolutions adopted by the San Jose Board of Trade on Friaay evening in regard to the improvement of Alviso harbor are in the fullest sense pertinent to the Senatorial contest now before the Legislature. The people of San Jose have long desired the General Government to make certain improvements at Alviso, and have worked earnestly to that end. They have not found, however, the support from | our Senators which they were entitled to expect, and as a consequence their local efforts have hitherto been in vain. The San Jose people do not resort to any indirection in dealing with the matter, nor hesitate 1o point out the exact place where the blame lies. One of the resolu- tions adopted by the Board of Trade declares “the need of an able and energetic representative in the United States Sen- | ate-—one familiar with the needs of this and al} other sections of the State, and who will be preparcd at ail times to champion the right of the people against any antagonistic influences.” The State Board ot Trade, the Chamber of Commerce in this City and similar | bodies in all parts of the State might well and appropriately indorse these resoiu- | tions. Almost every city of note in Cali- fornia has experienced {he neglect of our Senators in regard to its claims for public improvements by the Government, and in San Francisco and some others the neglect has been carried toan extent which argues a total indifference to public daty. It cannot be urged in defense of Senator Perkins that be has been rendered forget- ful of local interests by reason of hisde- votion to great National questions. He has taken no part in the debates of the Senate on large 1ssues any more than on small ones, and has been as indifferent to the Nation at large 2s to his own State. So complete a blank is the record of the services of Senator Perkins at Washing- ton, that when it is asked what has he done, the question is regarded as some- | thing of an insult to bis supporters. He asks for re-election on anything except his record. His advocates assert he has a fine sense of bumor, but they do not claim that he has any sense of legislative duty. Therefore all inquiries as to what he has done in the office toentitle him to the votes of legislators, are either evaded or scoffed at. : However the advocates of Senator Per- kins may ridicuie the idea of merit having anything to do with the selection of a Sen- ator, it is nevertheless the duty of legis- lators to inquire into the merits of candi- dates. A man who has been intrusted with an important office must give some account of his stewardship. Wha! has Senator Perkinsdone in the Senate? In what way has he employed such abilities as hie possesses? As was saia by the San Jose Board of Trade, there is need of an able, energetic representative in the United States Senate. If Senator Perkinsis suci a man he can surely point to sometbing he has done or i has been tried in the | 80d to his constituents to so vote that to fhe ablest and worthiest candidate the honor The member of the present Legislature who, uoon his return | to his home, is unable to say, honestly, clearly and conscientiously, “'I voted for the | best man for United States Senator,”” will iind himself in a slough of disesteem among able | 811 who know his duty, from which no excuse about ex-parte instructions and snap at least tried todo. A full revort of the proceedings of the Senate is kept for him in the Congressional Record. Is there no single line in that publication to which his supporters can point with pride or at least with satisfaction? Has he made no effort whatever on behalf of California? To these and similar questions Republican legisiators should demand an answer. It would be folly to re-elect a man who, after having been tried in office, has shown himself inferior to his opportuni- ties, ineffective in his work and recreant to the trust repossd in him. THE LEGISLATURE. As the Ezaminer of yesterday, while continuing its assauits upon Mr. Short- ridge, was free from any charges of bribery, corruption or dishonesty among Repubican members of the Legislature, there is reason for the hope that this form of tactics is to be abandoned and that | however personal and vituperative the Perkins managers may be in their attacks upon his unreplying opponent the Sena- forial contest will be conducted hereafter without the vilification and slandering of | legislators. As z matter of fact there was never any slightest ground for the charges made by the Ezaminer correspondent during last week. If there was any attempt to *‘worry” Senator Perkins “into selling a ship,” then it was the lying writer who did the worrying and the Ezaminer man- agement that was to proiit by it. The present Legislature has been in session but a short time, but it has already given evidence that it is one of the best that ever assembled in the State. It has made proof of a sincere regard for the welfare of the taxpayers by cutting down the patronage of its own members and bas been commendably earnest and prompt in the transaction of ali business whicn came before 1t. There are doubtless some weak mem- bers in the Legislature, and there may he some who are vicious, but if so they have not yet shown themselves conspicuously. On the contrary, the dominant element of both the Assembly and the Senate has proven ifself to be composed of men of high character and honest convictions. The asseriion of the Ezaminer, tharefore, that Senator Perkine must “meet bribery with bribery” can be true only ol the needs of its own office, for no suck neces- sity is imposed on any candidate by the legislators, The absence of any repetition of these charges in the zaminer yesterday giveh reaton, as we have said, for hoping they are to be abandoned altogether. Oer- tainly when the Ezaminer drops them no one else is likely to take them up. This is a feature of the canvass on which the public may well be congratulated. It is not right that honest members of the Legislature, sincerely aiming to serve the State as best they can, should be made the victims of every irresponsible and im- moral writer who may see fit to assail them. Honesty, dignity and talent ‘should not be exposed to the shafts of envious ana malignant mediocrity without a most reso- lute protest on the part of the better ele- ments of society. A contest for the high and responsible honor of representing California in the National Senate should be corducted by all competitors on merit alone. The com- petitors, moreover, should grant to the legislators who are to decide between them the same immunity from slander which they ask for themselves. We do not hold Senator Perkinsat all *esponsible for the charges made by his Democratic organ last week, but we trust he or his friends had something to do with silencing it yesterda; Let us have no more of this fake story that Republicans in the Legis- lature are on a level with boodling fakers and their Long green managers. THE SENATORIAL OONTEST. San Francisco News Letter. The contest now on in Saeramento over the choice of the United States Senator sbould attract the attention and interest of the people of California to an unusual degree on account of the elements which enter it and the lines upon which it is be- | ing conducted by the respective candi- dates. It has been some time since talent, ambition, youth, brains and eloquence have engaged in a contest for the high office of Senator against wealth, age and mediocrity before the California Legisla- ture, and the spectacie of a comparatively young man who possesses the former en- tering the lists with one who is. generally notable for the latter may well excite the interest of every citizen. The career of Samuel M. Shortridge in California, which, through years of grad- ual growth in public esteem has finally lea up to an assertion of his claims upon the office of United States Senator, id one which should awaken admiration in tne mind of every man who himself has strong and noble ambitions for the attain- ment of honor and the achievement of success in life. Mr. Shortridge came to California a poor boy, compelled from his chilahood tolabor for a livelihood and an educa- tion. He worked among the miners of Nevada County until he could earn enough morey to go toschool. He then attended the public schools and passed through all their gradations until he had fitted himself to teach in the schools in which he had been taught. He thus ob- tained the means which enabled him to attend a law school and to gratify his first ambition for a professional career. The expanding of his natural talents and acquired attainments during this struggle for an education and preparation for a calling awakened in his mind a new and a nobler aspiration. He felt himself capable of becoming an orator and te display a power of moving the minds of men through his eloquent and thought- ful discussions of public affairs. . The pos- session of this talent in a marked degree suggested to the mind of Mr. Shortridge and to his many friends the idea that there was a prover fornm for their dis- play, and aroused his ambition to attain, sooner or Iater, a seat in the United States Senate. For the past several years this ambition has been one of the foremost objects of the rising young lawyer’s desire, and he has trained all of his faculties to fill the office with honor and credit to himself and to the people of California whenever they should deem it fitting to place him there. By deep studies of public questions and of the art of eloguent expression; by wide reading of the best literature of all ages; by close and thoughtful observation of the current of public affairs, and by constant exercises of his abilities as a public speaker, Mr. Shortridge has so thoroughly prepared himself to fill the high office of United States Senator that no honest and impartial judge of his attainments will deny his eminent fitness for the place. The many friends of Samuel M. Short- ridge, throughout the State of California, realize that the time hascome when his years of service to the Republican party should have their proper recompense and when his talents and matured powers of thought and expression should be given a proper sphere. They believe that the time has come in the Nation when its Senate shoulid cease to deserve the reproach of being a club of millionaires and shoula become a council of statesmen. They deem it especially fitting that Califcrnia, which bas done more than its share in bringing upon the Senate the former reproach, should make a present attempt torestore to it the latter virtue. Iuisforthis reason that the can- didacy of Samuel M. Bhortridge for the Senate is growing dsily in favor and strength before the State Legislature, and is meeting with widespread approval among those who possess a proper concep- tion of the kind of man a Senator should be, and who believe that the State of Cali- fornia would honor itself by selecting one of its foremost representatives in culture &nd in eloquence to i1l the place. THE contest of Samuel M. Shortridge for the Senate has been clean. e has neither vilified his oppbnents sought the aid of those who delight in vilification. He has appreciated the dignity of the high oflice to which he aspires and has so conducted himselt in seeking it as to prove him. self deserving to attain it. He has mnot asked the support of | the unworthy and has not re. ceived it. His friends have not found it mecessary to assail other candidates in order to promote his election. They have not maligned honest men nor accused legislators of seek- ing bribes. They ask the elec- tion of Mr. Shortridge to the Senate because he has merited the homnor and because from the record of his life they camn give assurance that when an account is asked of his stew. ardship he will be able to show service done for his State and for the Nation, for his party and for the people, which will render him as honored in office as he has been homorable in seeking it. nor COAST EXCHANGES. In opening its fifty-ninth volume the Placer- ville Mountain Democrat takes occasion to re- mark, with some show of honest pride, that ““the press from which its holiday compliments were first issued came around the Horn to Monterey in 1848, and thence to Placerville in 1851. It was the beginning of what is now, aside from the metropolitan press, one of the best equipped printing offices in Northern California. The Democrat is thus the-child and champion of what was and Is the mother county of the State. Coming down from the early fifties to the outgoing nineties, with pride of place intensified by precedence in time, and not always sharingin the prosperity it has promoted, it has been loyal and true to its city and county.” The Sonora Union- Democrat says that the year 1896 witnessed much industrial advance- ment in Tuolumne County, It wss the most prosperous year since the decline in mining twenty-five years ago, and to the uncovering of rich treasure beds during the past two years can be attributed the unprecedented growth of the comnty in populstion and in business and building enterprise. “Thegrowth has been a healthy, substantial one, not in- flated by boomers from boomland, but steadily keeping pace with the actusl developments and rich discoveries in our mines. 1thas been a growth founded on merit—by a knowledge L the ore bodies beneath our territory are of such character and magnitude that & thou- sand stamps ean be kept continually dropping with great profit for a century to come, and | then there would siill remain an inexhausti- ble supply that could be profitably worked, and will be, with the advent of still cheaper modes of reduciug ore.” The Los Angeles Zimes' annual, issued Jan- uary 1, was & magnificent newspaper of forty- eight pages, with illuminated cover, replete with matters of interest, historical, literary and descriptive. It will be a most excellent advertisement abroad for orange-land. The Sanj Luis Obispo Reasoner has begun its fiith volume. It is a believer in the Popu- listic faith, but has the merit of fair-minded- ness in its discussions, and ifs utterances make 1t evident that its editor is conscien- tious in what he says. It is & well-printed paper and seems to be enjoying good patron- age. Rena Shattuek has severed her connection with the Petalumian, which passes into the hands of Frank H. Snow. Miss Shattuck made & remarkable success with her mewspaper, which has prospered because of its real merits. The Castroville Enterprise hes proved true to its name by enlarging in order to meet the in- creasing demands of advertisers and togratify its readers with & wider and fuller scope of the news. The Bakersfield Echo declares that “to the Kern farmer the outlook certainly is most promising. The recent rains have moistened the grourd sufliciently for plowing, and early grasses are responding to nature’s watering with wonderful rapidity. The horticulturist is a1s0 quite as fortunate. All kinds of trees and shrubbery as well as vines are very prom- ising at this time. All bespeak for the Kern County farmer, stockman and_horticuliurist a season rich in possibilities if he but do his work well and at the proper season; and in doing this there is nothing like taking advan- tage of present opportunities.” The Sausalito News, in its issue of January 9, describes its little city by the sea very fully, end in a manmer to attract attention to the advantages of the place. Itshows Sausalito to be one of the truly progressive towns of Cali- fornia. : Newman has & new paper, the West Side In- dez, published by Hardin & Sturgeon. Its object is to Jabor in the cause of the develop- ment of the resources of Newman and its sur- roundings. The Visalia Weekly Delta, one of the test sl round newspapers in the interfor, has justen- tered its fortieth year. The Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise learns from what is saia o be unquestionable suthor ity that the plan to drain the American Flat country and its many mines, in all of which pay ore has been found when the water drove the miners from their work, is assuming s tangible form. Itis rumored that capitalists are about (o examine this proposition, which is one of the greatest that lies outdoors in the State of Nevada. This proposition has been often talked of, but until now there has been no actual likelhood of the scheme being undertaken. So far the promoters of the pres- ent project are unknown, but it has been learned that those interested in American Flat properties have been seen,and that the project is in the hands of those who will see it put througn. The Enterprise sets forth the alluring prospect which the American Flat country holds for those who shall drain from the ore bodies the floods of water which cover them. A tunnel might be rua eitner from the Alta mine or from the Crown Point, connect- ing these mines with the Sutro tunnel. The 205t of such a project would be nominal when compared with the possibilities which would attend the enterprise. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES During the year just closed Britishshipyards bave built fifty-nine ships for the British and foreign navies, aggregating 155,849 tons, 877,980 horsepower, and over $53,000,000 in value. A fine record was made at the Portsmouth dockyard last month, when from Monday morning to Saturday noon thirty-one srmor plates, averagiug filteen tons each, were put in place on the hull of the battle-ship Casar. @During the steam trials of the Powerful the temperature in the stokeholds ranged from 75 to 90 degrees. In other vessels fitted with the ordinary Scotch or tank boiler, the heat is never below 90, and has gone as high as 140 degrees. @The Turbiana, a torpedo-boat built atWalls- end-on-Tyne to demonstrate the efliciency of steam turbine engines, had a trial December 18 and-made the remarkable speed of 29.6 knots. The boat is only 100 feet long, 9 feet beam, and displaces 42 tons. The Entre Rio, torpedo boat destroyer, built in England for the Argentine Government, has arrived at Buenos Ayres, having made the run from St. Vincent, a distance of 3700 miles, without calling at any port for coal. Thisis the longest run made by any torpedo crait. Baa luck seems to follow recent French naval coustruction, The battle-ship Carnot barely es- caped a serious accident through the timely discovery of derangement of the steering gear. Her boilers were also found to be damaged and the ship was towed into Toulon for re- pairs. Almost at the same time the Charles Marteal, battle-shiv, while undergoing triais at sea, struck a floating spar and damaged one of her propeliers, necessitating return to port. Prince George, British battle-ship of 14,900 tons which recently completed her trial trips, made 16.52 knots on 10,464 porsepower dur- ing the eighth natural draught trial, 18.3 knots with 12,253 horsepower under four hours' forced draught, ana 14.76 on 6185 horsepower during a thirty hours' continu- ous rum, to ascertain her coal consumption, which was only 1.83 pounds per horsepower per hour. Her battery, consisting of four 12- inch, six 6-inch, eight 12-pounders ana eighc 3-pounders (the three latter guns quick-firing), can deliver a fire in broadside during five min- utes—16 rounds 12-inch, 150 rounds 6-inch, 400 rounds 12-pounders and 600 rounds of 3- pounders—making a total weight of missiles of 35,200 pounds or nearly 153 tons. The entry of naval cadets in the British nayy is 10 be changed and goes into effect at once. The objsct is to gradually raise the age of en- try and to shorten to some extent the period of training on the Britannia. Cadets will heresiter be entered three times a year instead of twice, as hitherto, and tne appointments will be dated from January 15, May 15 and September 15, at which dates the limits of ages for 1897 will be: January 15 and May 15, 134 to 15 years; September 15, 133 to 15} For the eutry on January 15, 1898, wne limits will be 14 to 1535 There are 1» be three terms of about thirteen weeks each year, and the period of training on the Brit- aunin will extend over four terms. The period of service as naval cadet atioat is to be eight months, making the time from entry to eligi- bility for promotion five years, agaiust six years in this country. NEWSPAFER PLEASANTRY. hat Death, after Patient—I am convinces all, is the best physician. Doctor—Why so? Patient—Because he pays only ome visit.— Judge. Doctor's wife—Have you told Mrs. Blank that her baby 1s deaf and dumb? 0ld doctor—Not exactly; but I have told her that if the little girl grew up and married her husband would be devoted to her.—Spare Moments. Boggs' old friend—Great heavens, man! Do I find you reduced to playing a cornet on the street corner to make & living? Boggs—I ain’t doing this to make a living. My wife won’t let me practice in the house.— Loudon Tit-Bits. Doctor—Yes, I examined your son carefully, and Iam conviuced that his condition is en- tirely due to climatic influences. You ought to send him to a warmer ciimate, Parent—Why, doctor, that's absurd. Ever since he's had a bicyele he has done nothing else but scorch.—Boston Courler. “Now, Thomas.” said the teacher, “‘write me a sentence in which the words pine and butter- nut are used.” And Thomas wrote: “The fellow felt al- mighty tough, when him his best giri cut. First he thouzht he’d pine away, and then he thought he'd butternut.”—Detroit Journal. Bereaved—Well, doctor, now that the inter- val permits my speaking calmly of my hns- band’s demise, I am prompted to ask you your confirmed opinion as to the cause of his death. Doctér—A complication of diseases, madam. Bereaved—Ah! That was like him. Heal- ways was versatile iu everything.—Richmond Dispatch, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. . Pierson, the-gallery-gods’ idesl vil- Jatn s i town., What Is more, he is booed for a season at the Grand Opera-house, the scene of a series of triumphs when Mr. Pierson was the best-hated man in San Francisco. Pierson is & man of fine physique. A well- shaped head tops & pair of splendid square shoulders. He has a determined face, with plercing eyes, that enable him to do wicked deeds with a directness and an apparent fiendish delight that often had disastrous resuits. The boys from the gallery got into the habit of “laying for” Pierson at the stage door after the show. They had not been able to exhaust their wrath at his intense villainy in hisses and nosrse yells in the theater, so they filied their pockets with stones, which they let fly at him as he went into the street. When they blackmail and bribery will g0 determining their choice of & Senator? 3 This is the question THE CALL asks, in blac type, and it is a pertinent question too. There is no more reason of charging Mr. Shortridge’s friends with using money in the Senatorial campaign than there is in cnnulnl'l’arklns friends with using money in the November election. Perhaps not o much ! e PARAGRAP:S ABOUT PEOPLE. Kaiser Wilhelm's jubilee cup, to be raced for by British yechts next summer on the occa- sion of his grandmother’s reign of sixty years, is three feet high. The course of the race will be from Dover to Heligoland. Perhaps as fine an-autograph aloum as exists is the visttors’ book at Hawerden, wherein the names of Giadstone’s guests are recorded. It 5 A3 PIERSON. added old vegetables and mud {o their offer- ings Plerson, who is the mildest-maunered man 1maginsble, went out by a back door. Fora month all went well. Then they dis- covered his line of retreat, and one night the unhappy actor was forced again to submit to the fiattering though undesired indications of appreciation. Nor was this sll. He was given a week’s vacation and proceeded to enjoy it by doinga little surt-fishing off the big rock just below the Ciiff House. He reveled in the peace of the breakers for half an hour and enjoyed his fishing immensely in blissful ignorance of the fact that some wandering street gamin had recognized him and was summoning bis avail- able friends. He was awakened to the fact by the patter of some stones around hum and cries of: “That’s him, ete. Pierson beat an inglorious retreat snd spent the rest of his vacation out of town. In fact, he had grown accustomed (0 retreating, for often before he had spoken & word he would be greeted with such violent hisses that the play could not proceed. Mr. Plerson is & good-looking young man. gularly free irom the unpleasant s so often aifected by stage folk. n he played the leadmg part in tiplabama,’ He has been playing leads with A. Y. Pearson’s company during the past two seasons and created the part of Jason in “The Land of the Midnight Sun” in which he opens at the Grand. Take that, you — villian,” PERSONAL. R. J. Widney of Los Angeles is at the Palzce, “H. W. Crabb, a fruitman of Oakville, is reg- istered at the Grand. E. 8. Churchill, & banker of Napa, is regis- tered at the Palace. Judge John D. Worksot Los Angeles is regis- tered at the Baldwin. H. W. Patton, a newspaper man of Los An- geles, is at the Grand. John A. Manley and wife of Victoria are guests at the Baldwin. Professor E. Griggs of Stanford University is staying at the Occidental. Dr. E. G. Case of Ukiah is in town. registered at the Baldwin. Ex-Sheriff Tom Cunningham of Stockton is registered at the Baldwin. N.-J. Nisson, of the firm of Nye & Nisson of San Diego, is at the Grand. J. M. Murry, a furniture manufacturer of Minneapolis, is at the Grand. E. Morgenstein of Morgenstein & Co., Seat- tle, is registered at the Baldwin. J. P. Treanor, an insurance man of Fruit- vale, is & guest at the California. B. J. Wilson, a real estate dealer of Stockton, is among the arrivals at the Baldwin. E. Lang, a Portland wholesale merchant, is smong the late arrivals at the Palace. J. B. Hoyt, a nowspaper man of Suisun,1s one of the recent arrivals at the Grand. Dr. J. B. S, Holmes and wife of Atlants, Ga., arrived at the Palace yesterday evening. R. Healy, a prominent citizen of San Jose, is among the arrivais at the Cosmopolitan, J. R. Grant, & son of the famous general and ex-President, is staying at the Occidental. Count de Kergorlay is registered at the Pal- ace. He arrived yesterday from Redding. J. M. Likenan, a foundryman of Grass Val- ley, 1sin town and has a room at the Lick. A. 8. Millar, a well-known mining man, is down from Alaska and.is staying at the Lick. Robert C. Nasn, formerly private secrotary of Senator Stanford, is staylng a the Califor- nia. John T. York, City Attorney of St. Helens, isdown from Napa. He is registered at the Lick. Sheriff U. 8. Gregory of Amador County is down from Jacksen and is registerea at the Grand. J. K. Harrington, & civil engineer and poli- tician ol Santg Barbara, is staying at the Grand. Miss Alice Hammon arrived in the City yes- erday from Montgomery, Ala., and is a guest the Cosmopolitan. A. C. Seanlin of St Louis, Mo., arrived from the East last night with his wife and regis- red at the Baldwin. J. L. Chaddock, who is engaged in the dried- fruit trade at Fresno, is registered with his wife at the Californis. J. B. Kelly and wife, from San Luis Obispo, who are visiting the City at present, are stay- ing at the Cosmopolitan. F. J. Wheeler, the Great Northern Railway sgent at Vancouver, is paying San Francisco a visit with his wife. They are registered at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Manly and Lloyd A. Manly, tourlsts from Great Falls, Mont., are staying at the Baldwin. They recently left British Columbia, A large party arrived in the City yesterday from Poriland, Or, viz.: Josepn Manning, William Dorning, John MecCartau, James Touor and George Volnard. Ail are staying at the Cosmopolitan. A PERTINENT QUESTION. Bakersfield Californian. What do the Republicar members of the Legisiature think of rthe Examiner’s reiterated insult to them in its aaily suggestion of s He is | “seck’ at the capitaland of the likelihood that contains entries as far back as 1860. The most recent of consequence is that of Li Hung Cnang. Possibly the oldest woman in England is Sarah Thomas, who on February 5 will be 109 years of age. Mrs. Thomas has smoked a clay Pipe for sixty years and bids fair to enjoy life and tobacco for some years to come. Henri Rochefort derives an income of $50,- 000 yearly from I'Intransigeant. The Debats reproaches him with socialism and with giv- ing no benefit to his employes. It is believed, however, that M. Rochefort is exceedingly generous to political refugees and he spends carelessly. One of the valuable relics intrusted to the care of the grand master of Massachusetts Ma- sons is ““the Washington urn,”’ a small golden urn containing a lock of General Washington’s hair. Mrs. Washington presented the Jock to the Grand Lodge in 1800, and Grand master Paul Revere made the urn. Boxes of tin soldiers play a most important part in thelife of young Hohenzollerns, and the battles they hear of in their history les- #ons are all fought over again with great zest and vigor. Waterloo is their favorite conflict, “because,” they are told, “England would never have won the day if Blucher and the Prussians had not come to help.” Arecent family council of the members of the houses of Savoy and Orleans has succeeded in inducing the Duke and Duchess of Aosta to sbandon their intention of an immediate sep- aration. The Duke of Aosta is the eldest nephew of the King of Italy and the Duchess is the daughter of the late Count of Parisand 8 sister of the Duke of Orleans. One of fthe early Duchesses of Marlborough, the Duchess Henrietta, was passionately at- tached to Congreve, the playwright, who, for along time, dined at her table daiiy. When he died, in 1729, the Duchess had a life-sized image made exactly resembling the dead dra- matist, and this effigy, so the gossips said, was always placed on the seat formerly filled by Congreve himselt. “CHANGE” ON STREETCARS. Minneapolis JSournal. Atter eight years of litigation the New York Court of Appeals has decided that a streetcar conductor cannot be required to change a $5 bill, and that a $2 bill is the limit. The de- cision is based upon the reasonable theory that to compel the conductor to change large bilis would oblige him to carry a large amount of money and virtually to engage in the busi- nessof panking, which would distract his at- tention from a proper oversight of his cars and passengers. — UNRELEN . ING. I walked with my friend of an earlier time, Whose guidance Istrive to heed; Who checks my spirits that lightly climb In praise of some modern deed. “There are no great men,” he assures me oft, ike those that we know of yore; The senate and stage have completely dofted The glories that once they wore. “The piciures they paint,” savs my mentor, “Are paiches devuid of art, - e And the girls are no ionger demure and trim Like the giris wno ensnared my heart. And the tales we read ang the songs we sing Are reflections of other days: The halos which genius, extinct, may filng O'er posterity’s books and lays.” o I thought to beguile him with other themes, And I spoke of the light that shone Where the West, aflame wiih the sun's last beams, Proclaimed that the day bad flown. Unsmiling. to watch the scene hes:0od; 1t radisnce brought no joy. “It's fair,” said he, “but iU's 10t as good As they gave us when I was a boy." —Washington Star. Larog, handsome basket and four pounds of our iamous broken candy, 50c. Townsend’s. * e S — STANDARD patterns, highest perfection, low- est price. 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