The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 29, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1897. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Fre Dally and Sundsy CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.15 Daily and Sundsy CALE, one year, by mall..... 6.00 | Daily and Sundsy CALL, six months, by mafl. 3.00 | Daily and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 | 65 | Sunday CaLL, one year, by mail 150 | WEERLY CaLy, one year, by mail 150 | BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San ¥rancisco, Californt: Telephone........... +vreereen. Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOM: 517 Clay Street. Telephos crereensees - Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES 527 Montomery street, corner Clay: open untll 8:80 o'clook. 889 Hayes street: open untll 9:30 o'clock. 616 Larkin street: open uatil 9:30 o'c SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission stres open t: open until 9 o'clock, EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 92, 24 Park Row, New York Clty. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. PR e s bty RS The fake journalist will now go slow for ® little while. When you read it in THE CALL youknow itisn’t a fake. A free market we need and a free market we must k Millions for fakes and not a cent for news is a poor motto. Nevada may secure the big prize-fight, but there will be no Arizona referee. Stopping firecrackers in Chinatown is good, but stopping highbinders would be better. erved that the Ezaminer's mill has stopped 1t will be ot Chinese dispatch working. Perhaps Long Green Lawrence would rather be known as a faker than as what | De really is. | Eastern charity is still tussling with the | Fastern blizzard and keeping itself warm by wholesome exerc What does it profit a reader to get stuff by fakelectrophone from China when he | doesn’t even get straight news from Stock- | ton street ? The speeches for free Cuba st Sacra- | nto did net burt the Spaniards, but| lled time and warmed the blood of It begins to look asif the Duckworth ill drag itself along until it has made the people tired and then crawl into a hole. Princess Chimay is reported to have left | her gypsy, and the next stage in her | career will probably be theatrical in name | as well as effect. The State Department is to go to Ohio | end the Treasury Department to go to liinois. It 1s now time for Major Mec- Kinley to look west. Little Pete’s life was bad, but there isa chance his death may have a good effect. | Public opinion is now ready for resolute | action against the highbinders. - The next step in Willie Hearst’s career #rom affluence to penury will be to call up the Emperor of China by telephone and | ask him where Li Yung Yuen is. The fact that Melba’s voice has suffered from singing Wagner's music is not con- | clusive as to the effects of the music. We would lize to have Mr. Brran try it. Adulterated food, substitutes for estab- | lishea articles of beneficial use and fake | newspapers are three things to be avoid- | ed. A word to the wise is sufficient. We were not aware that the immigra- tion bill is very hot stuff, but Congress- man Walker ssid it makes his blood boil, | and Mr. Walker is from Massachusetts. The juvenile attaches of the State Legie- lature are said to have organized a social club, and when not dancing attendance on business will be in attendance at a dance elsewhere. | The missing furnitare of the committee- | rooms has been found in other offices of | the State Capitol, so the members of the Jast Legislature who were accused of pocketing it are acquitted. Once more we are assured that the new tariff bill will be reported early at the coming extra session and will be promptly adopted. Kven the Senate, it is said, has made up its mind to attend to business. We do .not like to pour vinegar into open wounds, but really the purchase of a fake story from the Emperor of China to Li Yung Yuen, who isn’t in town, by & man who pretends to run a newspaper was funny. | Benator Voorheis of the Finance Com- mittee reports that bills already introduced into the State Senate call for appropria- tions of more than $3,242,000. Fortunately there is a wastebasket handy to drop most of them into. Senator Sherman’s determination not to resign his seat in the Senate until he has been confirmed as Secretary of State has the advantage of securing him a chance to vote for his confirmation and debating it if necessary. If Long Green Lawrence really thought that Chinese story was true when he paid Willie Hearst's money for it he is not to be blamed for the fake, but realiy he ought to cultivate a sense of the ridiculous and learn to know absurdity when he sees it. Eenator Sherman's statements concern- ing the Nicaragua canal are encouraging. He declared in the Senate on Wednesday that the canal should be constructed by the United States, and that a treaty should be made with Nicaragua for that purpose. That is the kind of talk we are pieased with from the next Secretary of State. The fake journal gave the public an- other example yesterday of its fraudulent news service. In the first column of the first page it published an alleged dispatch dated Washington, January 27. and marked “special cable to the Eraminer.” Legitimate news comes from Washington by wire across the continent. When a story is asserted to have been sent from that city to San Francisco by cable across the ocean it muy be known as a fake, and ‘it is “ardly necessary for the Ezaminer to reerate the statement and add that it wwas absolutely true.” ‘ KINDRED EVILS. The American people are at this time engaged in efforts to suppress three evils of a kindred nature, each being so insidi- ous in its character as to be almost able to defy suppression by law, and at the same time so injurious in its effect as to requi constant vigilance on the part of the intelligent portion of the public to prevent it from becoming a serious menace to the welfare of the credulous and unsuspecting. Boards of Health are trying to suppress the adulteration of food, the owners of legitimate patented articles are endeavor- ing to prevent tricky dealers from substi- tuting inferior articles in place of the goods which tbe purchaser calis for, and legitimate journals are trying to crush out of the country that false Peter Fuak eys- tem of running newspapers which prom- ises the people news and gives them fakes and freaks instead of genuine reports of the events of the day. These evils are of a kindred nature inas- much as all of them partake of the char- acter of petty swindling. The man who sells cotton-seed oil for olive oil, and glu- cose compounds for fruit preservesisnotes- sentially differentfrom him who sells some worthless nostrum in place of a specific of established repute, or the journalist who concocts fakes in his private office and sells them to his readers under the title of dispatches from Cbina. Neither is any one of the three widely different from the gold brick swindler or any other man who relies upon his cunning to obtain money under false pretenses. Since the beginning of society there have always been men who pride them- selves on living by their wits instead of by their industry, but fortunately, despite their boasting, they have been invariably as devoid of wit as of energy. Their schemes sooner or later are always exposed, and their wits do not serve to keep them from an eventual penury or the penitentiary. The enactment of laws against these offenses serves a good purpose, but is not sufficient to guard the people against the injurious effects of the self-styled witty fellows. Adulterated foods are.always for sale, inferior articles are always being substituted for good ones and fakes con- tinue to be offered for news. The only safeguard for the citizen isin his own in- telligence and the exercise of a constant vigilance against the sharpers. Under these circumstances it is'the duty of those who see the evil to expose it. This work isin a particular sense incumbent upon the press since it is looked to by the people to furnish news of what is good and warning against what is vicious. Tue CALL in the performance of the duty due to the public from legitimate journalism has endeavored to expose each of these kind of fakers. We have given space in our columns of late to reports of discoveries made by the Board of Health of the sale of adulterated food in this Ci we have called attention to the evil prac- tice of substituting cheap articles in place | of those of established merit, and we have exposed the fraud of the Eraminer in palming off upon its readers & fake dis- patch from China. This much we have done to warn the public. Itnow remains | for the intelligence of the people to act upon the warning and to protect them- selves from the schemes of the fellows who live by their wits THE NICARAGUA CANAL Statements made by Senator Sherman in discussing the Nicaragua canal bill on Wednesday are in the highest degree en- couraging to the advocates of that meas- ure. Asit is known that the Senator is to be Secretary of State in the nextad- ministration his words may be regarded as a decl!aration of what will be under- taken by President McKinley, and they give assurance thereiore that the measure which 10w seems to be checked will be carried forward under a new form to com- plete success. Senator Sherman is repcrted to have de- clared that be believes the only means of building the Nicaragua canal is through the power of the United States. He expressed the opinion that no private canal company could carry out the project and that it should be undertaken by our Government directly. He went on to say | he would vote for the bill in any form in which it might be presented, but he thought the better way would be to allow the matter tp rest until a new treaty could be made with the Nicaraguan Govern- ment. The statement as reported is certainly explicit enough to give satisfaction to the advocates of the measure. As Secretary of State Senator Sherman will himself have charge of negotiating the treaty for the construction of the canal, and his words are a distinct promise that he will do all in his power to promote the great enterprite. There is moreover a degree of satisfaction to be found in his declara- tion that the canal should be constructed by the Government for the people, and not for a private corporation. Much of the objection to the present bill has been founded upon the belief that it granted too much favor to the canal company, and this objection will of course be re- moved by the adoption of the policy sug- gested. There can be no question that the great- est opportunity which will open before the Secretary of State of the new administra. tion on entering office will be that of ar- ranging such a treaty as has been out- lined. The construction of the Nicaragua canal is just now the most important en- terprise which engages the attention of the world. It means a virtnal revolution in the commerce of the earth. Its ad- vantages to every nation will be great, and its benefits to the Unitea States will be too vast to be calculated. The S=cretary of State who perfects & treaty which pro- vides for the construction of the canal, and the President under whose direction the great work is carried out, can count upon holding a high place in the scroll which contains the names of the great statesmen of America who have prbmoted the welfare of the country, not tempor- arily, but for all time. IMMIGRATION BILL. The passage by the House of the immi- gration bill reported by the conference committee gives promise that this im- portant piece of legislation will be enacted during the vresent session of Congress. The amendments made in the bill, as or- iginally Teported, are of comparatively little importance, and it is reasonable to conclude that the Senate ¥ill agree with the House in adopting the measure, and will promptly pass 1t. The bill does not go so far as some ex- treme advocates of restriction would nave desired, but itis a marked improvement on the existing law. It will tend to pro- tect American labor from the competition of cheap laborers from abroad, and also to secure American society irom the per- nicious influence of aliens who have no understanding either of our laws, our cus- toms or our aspirations. It will check, to some extent, the incoming horde of irami- grants, and if found by experience to be insufficient, can be easily made more ex- tensive and more restrictive in the future. It is singular that the chief objector to 1 the educational test 1n the bill was a Con- gressman from Massachusetts. 1t has been generally supposed that the people of that State were in favor of education as a test not merely for foreigners coming into the couatry, but e for American born who desired to exercise the right ot suffragze. Mr. Walker of Massachusetts, however, declared that the biil made his “blood boil” because 1t would exclude from America honest farmers and work- ingmen who cannot read while opening the doors to nihilists and anarchists who possess that accomplishment. The cbjection thus made tothe bill is not valid. We have laws already against anarchists and men of the criminal class. What is needed now isa bill which will shut out from the couutry those who are not only ignorant, butare so devoid of worthy ambition as to neglect to educate themselves even in the language'of their own country. 8o far as it goes the bill is good enough. The people desire to see 1t enacted with- out further delay. Such defects as may be discovered in it may be remedied here- after. The point at issue now is to restrict immigration as far as possible at once. The revival of industry in this country will bring hordes of cheap European la- borers to this country to cempete With our workingmen if they are not checked by the passage of this law. It will notdo all, but it wiil do much, and for that rea- son it should be regarded by Congress as a measure of urgency and promptly adopted. THE COMING ISSUE. In an eloquent address before the Illi- nois Legislature Mr. ‘Mason, the newly elected United States Senator, won ap- plause from the Republicans by pledging his devotion to the great measures of pro- tection, reciprocity and sound money; but when he spoke of trusts and corporations he was greeted with acclamations in which men of all parties jomed. It is evident, therefore, that he spoke the uni- versal sentiment of the Legisiature on that subject and may claim with justice to be in that respect a representative of all Illinois. The passage in his speech which won this unanimous approval is thus reported : I want to say one word upon the subject of trusts. The constant struggle of corporations against competition has for a long time, and will for many years to come, furnish food for thoughtful minds. The trusts produce cheaper because they produce more; but the great trouble has been that the cheapening of the cost of production has inured to the benefit of the few, whiie the consumer has been de- prived of the benefits that justly should have iallen to hislot. 1shall, on behaif of the peo- ple of Ilinois, favor additional legislation, it necessary, and the enforcement of the laws aiready passed by our party, to the end that when competition is destroyea the saving in the cost of production shall go to the pockets of the plain people, who consume, snd not to the pockets of the few, who grow rich by res- son of their combinations and trusts. It is not in Llinois only that these words will meet with cornmendation. In Congress and in all the State Legislatures there have been repeated efforts made to restrict trusts and corporations to a greater or less extent. Public sentiment is everywhere ready to support almost any well-directed movement in that direc- tion, and sll signs point to the conclusion that when the tariff and the currency have been properly settied the next great issue to be taken up in our politics will be that of rezulating corporate activities and preventing the injurious effects of trust monopolies. It does not follow that because there is a unanimous sentiment in favor of placing | some limit upon the activities of these mighty organizations of trade and in- dustry that there will be anything like unanimity in fixing the limits or in devis- ing the law for maintaining them. When the issue comes up for final settlement people will divide on it, as they are di- vided on the money question, into con- servatives and radicals. There will be party differences on this question, as on all others, and there will be no longer universal acclsmations for any orator, no matter which side he takes or how elo- quently he speaks. What has been done so far to regulate trusts and monopolies has been ineffective and futile. The trusts that have gone to pieces have failed from inherent aefects rather than from the force of statutes de- claring them illegal. We have been, as it were, experimenting with the task before us. The genuine life or death grapple with it is to come later. When it will occur cannot be predicted. It is signifi- cant, however, that one of the youngest, ablest and most forceful of the new men who will enter the Senate in March has declared himself in favor of meeting the 1536 at once and meeting it boldly. THE SPiNNING WHEEL. 1796. Beside the wheel my lady sits and spins the live- long day, The drited wool her fairy touch like magic melts awa; Certes, she Is passing fair—faiter than verse may teil; she winds the skein about my hands,and round my heart a spell The sunbears dancing in her eyes dare me a kiss 10 steal : From gentie Mistress Dorothy beside her spin- ning wheel. 1896, Scorching down the boulevard, Chewing zum and pedaling ha'd, 9 ing ling!_Almost knock me flat, Dizzy tie, Fedora hat, Ecarlet bloome:s. 'I'ls a picture Makes my very senses reel, ‘What was thai? | ask. O, merely Dot astride her spioning wheel. ERNEST NEAL LYON, “BILLY” MASON'S FINE HOUSE. Washington Post. An Illinois member of Congresshad dined with “Billy” Mason in Chicago. They had talked of the desire of Mr. Mason to come to the Senate, and admired the beautiful house in which he lives, had even inspected the tiled glories of the bathroom, and then, smok- ing an afternoon cigar, the two friends walked downtown together. When they were some distance from the house the Congressman turned and looked back at the large and brile liantly lighted dwelllng. “You have & beautiful home,” said the Con- gressman. ““Yes,” replied Mason, with between a laugh and a sig] that house drawing inter away.” IT NEVER MISSES Philadelphia Record, J3.C. Graham, 8 New York expert, says: gy stands to reason thatanything that isintended for family consumption should be advertised where the family can always see it And the only focal point on which the family view con- verges daily, with the exception of the dinner- table, is the family newspaper. That never missés being seen. SHOULD BE THE RULE. Philadelphia Times. So far from it bsing a novelty for an Ameri- can President or & well-dressed Amercan eiti- zen to be clothed in homespun woolens, it should be the rule, and it would be soif our woolen manufacturers adyvanced as they shouid have advancea under the high protection given to them. We bave abundant capital; we have the best skilied labor, and produce the finest machinery in the worid, with the highest protection given to woolen manufacturers in any country, and yet our woolen manufac- turers themselves wear foreign woolens. THE CABINET. Chicago Times-Herald They say McKinley cannot find The right man to put In jt. That's queer, for anybody else Can do it 1o & minute, ARE REPUBLICS UNGRATEFUL? That you must judge for yoursell. But there is at least one instancein the great West which seems to afford an example of such ingratitude. When & man who has dfstinguished himself as lawyer, author, ex- plorer and soldier, and who has maintained in all his yes tation for the strictest honesty and integrity, is forced to spend his declining years in wretched poverty, forgotten by his eountry, it would certainly sppear that the charge of ingratitude is not with- out {oundation. The ploneers of California will be esger to read thisstory of the freaks of fate and fortune. 1t concerns one of themselves. The hero of the narrative fought gallantly in the war against Mexico and subsequently became one of the movirg spirits in the opening up of some of the great mines of the Pacific Coast. He was honored by Presidents Lincoln and Grant, and in gov- ernmental matters he has done his country splendid service. The closing days of his lite are being spent almost in solitude, entirely in poverty and amid scenes of squaior in a wretched hut. Fortune and position are memories of the dim and distant past, a repu- and the old man has been too proud to ask for 8 pension, although properly entitled to one, The whole story of this rare character will be found in THE SUNDAY CALL. Have you been reading *Idyls of the Field” by & California nat- uralist? the series. freedom? 1f not, then you have missed something unqualifiedly good. In next Sunday's CALL the contribution of the naturalist-at-large will be entitled “Wild Playmates,” and it is one of the very best of Let me quote you & few sentonces, just to give you taste: «Even spiders, the most solitary and uncompanionabie of crea- tures, piay, dropping down upon their silken tbreads, running back and forth upon their webs, unmistakably taking recreation. Who has not seen on & summer evening a swift hawk swinging afar through the sky, dipping, swerving, circling, then on motionless wings sailing straight away toward the horizon, not in search of preys but in the pure joy of motion, playing up there in the ethereal «Happiness, joy in existence, is the natural heritage of every crea- ture. We humeans have little remaining of it, because most of us have sold our birthright for a mess of pottage, oftener yet for the dry husks 2 of that wnich we mistakenly call life. Even our relaxations are mere posturing, from which we get Dot even as much pleasure 88 tns ground-squirrel derives from his queer pulpiteering. “‘Poor human nature,’ We sa: nd talk plously of higher things than happiness. I tell you happiness is one of the high things of this life of ours. ‘We may always be sure, Wha! ever we are doing, that we cannot be pleasing Him if we are not happy ourselyes. This is a taste. The whole article will be & dish, with regard to which the only regret wil- be that there isn’t more of it. The children will go into ecstacy over their page in THE SUNDAY CALL. It will be cnockl full of exactly ne kind ot reading they delight in. The fashion department will contain a wealth of timely suggestions, which the women shouldn’t miss for anything. If you want to learn the very latest styles and fads from New York, Paris and London you will consult THE SUNDAY CALL. In'tact, i you want the best, brightest and cieanest newspaper on this side of the Rockies you will buy THE SUNDAY CALL, PERSONAL. E. & Peffer of Chino Is at the Palace. J. M. Mannon of Ukish s at the Lick. J. H. Gilbertsville, N. Y., is in the City. J. M. Thompson of New York is at the Pal- ace. F. A, Aplen of Chicago is on a visit to this city. George Hager of Colus: night. Arthur F. L Bell of Carpinteria is at the Grand. J. 0. Byxbee, & business man of Fresno, is in the City. James J. Atkins of Pittsburg arrived here last night. J. R. Jones, s mining man of Rossland, is on a visit here, James T. Dennis, an attorney of Reno, Nev., 1s at the Palace. L. Jordan of St. Johne, N. B., was among yes- terday’s arrivals. George 8. Davis, a wealthy business man of Detroit, is in town. H. F. Geer, & business man of Turlock, ar- rived here yesterday. N.T. Baldwin and F. G. McClellana of Wood- bridge are in the City. J. Craig, the proprietor of the Highland Springs, is at the Grand. W. H. Rogers, a mining and business man of Arizona, s at the Palace. Professor G. R. Crow, a Los Angeles capital- ist, is in the City on business. The Rev. A. W. Edelman of Los Angeles is on & visit here and is at the Lick. John Boggs, the ex-Senator and great land- owner of Coluss, 15 in the City. Lieutenant John M. Elliott of the United States navy is at the Occidental. M. Hardy, a well-known resident of Port- 1and, Or., is at the Cosmopolitan. W. H. Harris of Rossland, the big mining camp of Trail Creek, is at the Russ. Miss Kimple of Stockton is smong recent arrivals at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. 1. B. Ladner, founder of the town of Ladner and & well-to-do citizen there, is in town. W. Keinbaum, a business man of Washing- ton, is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Samuel McMurtrie, the raflroad builder of Santa Barbara ana San Luis Obispo counties, 15 at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ask of Kirkwood are in the City on business and pleasure and staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Professor C. . Rockwell of Tarrytown, N.Y., who comes to California about every year to remain for a time, arrived here yesterdsy and fs at the Palace. 1. Henry Benrimo, an 0ld Morosco favorite, 1s dangerously {il. The doctors ssy there is but little hope for him. He is & young and very clever character actor. A.D. Shepard, assistant general passenger and freight agent of the Southern Pacific Rail- road at Los Angeles, is in the City to arrange for the removal of his family to Los Angeles, Captain Hooper, superintendent of construc- tion and repair of revenue cutters for the Pa- cific Coast, left last night for Seattle to ap- preiso the Wolcott, which has been ordered sold. P. de Merands, a wealthy mining man of Peru. Soutn Americs, was among yesterday's arrivals here. He will probably remain for some {ime, visiting other portions of Cali- fornia. 8. M. Nolan, who was for many years in the general merchandising business at Tacoma, 2nd prior to that at Walla Walla, s in the City 10 remain for a few weeks. Mr. Nolan ownsa fine residence at Amerioan Lake, near Tacoma and valuable property on Pacific avenue in Tacoma. He says business s not yet active on the sound, but he thinks it will be considera- bly improved in a few months. “Pitsburg Ph1ll,” otherwise George E. Smith, the tamous horseman, who is known as one of the greatest of plungers and who has acquired a fortune in recent years, has arrived here {rom the East and is at the Palace. He used to be a cutter of corks in his native city of Pittsburg. One day there was & reduction arrived here last ! of wages, Smith went on a strike and began to visit the tracks. He never followed nis trade sgain. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 28.—At the St. Cloud, H. K. Getz; Belvedere, A. H. Crockery, PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE Sir Francis Drake's last male descendant has died at the age of 89, in the Bristol alms- house, of which he had been an inmate for many years. His father fought at Trafalgar. Testimony in a recent suit in a Paris court developed the fact that a fashionable under- taker’s charge for embalming the body of an American 18 $600. The charge for embalm- ing Dom Pedro was $1000, and for the King of Hanover $2000. There 18 some probablity thet Rev. Dr. Wat- s0m, 50 well known as “Tan Maclaren,” will by and by take up a pastorate in Lonaon. As Dr. Watson 18 & briiliant orator he would no doubt immediately take his place in the front rank of London preachers. ‘There was lately sold in London for $125 a silver salver made in 1782 bearing the coat of arms, crest and motto of William Pitt and having the following words engraved on It back: “This plece of plate belonged to the Right Hon. William Pitt, the most incorrupt and loyal Minister that ever graced the annals of any nation.” A French writer, Edouard Toulouse, has ex- amined Zola’s mental peculiarities, and dis- covered a peculiar weakness of memory. He could not recognize well-known citations from Moliere, Balzac, Hugo and George Sand, and in some cases even failed to remember his own sarly writings when passages {rom them were Tead to him, NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Lawyer—I must know the whole truth before I can successfully defend you. Have you told me everything? Prisoner—Everything except where I hid the money. I want that for myseli,—Detroit Free Press. “What,” inquired the professor, “is tho lesson conveyed by the assertion that ‘Seven cities claimed the Homer dead through which the living Homer begged his bread’ ?” And the young man with his hair plastered over his temples replied after protracted thought: “It shows conclusively the dime museum is an institution of great antiquity.” —Indianapolis Journ; 8 “There goes a man who makes lots of money by running « table d’hote restaurant and only charging $2 50 for a ticket good for ten din- ners.” “Whero is there any profit in such a low rate as that?” “Well, yon see, no one ever goes back for a second dinner.”~New York Evening World Johnny—Ma, what s a grass widow? Ma~It is & woman whose husband is en. gaged in the business of sowing wild oats.— Boston Transcript. Merritt—What are you crying about? Little Lil—Mother wants me to wear sister Cora’s cut-down bloomers.—New York Ledger. Dobson—What became of that man who had twenty-seven medals for saving people from drowning? Dock Worker—He fell in one day when he had them ail on and the weight of ’em sunk Lim.—Tit-Bits, THE RICH SHOULD NOT ECONOMIZE New York Sun. The greatest injury that can be dome to the prosperity of a community comes from the enforced or voluntary economy on the part of society. 1f every family in New York should' begin_to-day to cut down its expenditures by a small fraction only the sum of the loss to trade and labor would be so vast that it would bring disaster to business and industry gen- erally. If the rich, more especially, should cut cff all “‘extravagance” the comsequence would be an appaliing increase in “poverty and destitution,” for trades employing thou- sands of men and women would be deprived of support. OLD SECRETARIES OF STATE. Boston Herald. John Sherman is 74. Webster died as Sec- retary in his seventy-first year, and his last duys saw his intellect 1n its greatest vigor. Marcy was 71 when his term under Pierce closed. General Cass was 75 when he entered Buchanan’s administration, end Hamilton Fish was 70 when he retired from his arduous services at the close of Grant’s administration, ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS THE VOTE OF OHI0O—B., Turlock, Cal. The vote of Ohio for Presidential electors at the last-neld election was as follows: McKinley, 525,991 Bryan, 477,494; Palmer, 1857; Lev- eriog, 5068; Bentley, 2716; Maichett, 1167. McKinley's plurality, 47,49° BoNDS—G. B., City. If an individual is re- quired by a court to furnish bonds he must offer individuals who will prove satisfactory to the court. The court will accept either & freeholder—that is, & person who owns real estate—or & householder—that is, & person engaged in business and who does 1ot own real estate; but as to the sufficienty of the surety offered the court is the judge. A person own- ing roul estate that is mortgaged might bo ac. cepted as surety on & bond i the court thought the property was worth much more than the amount of the mortgage—that is, that the ex- cess was more than sufficient to cover the amount of the boud. CrviL SERVICE RuLes—J. D. A., Santa Bar- bars, Cal. Every persons who wishes a posi- tion in either the postal or customs depart- ments of the United States must undergo an examination as to fitness. No one is certified for appointment whose standing in the ex- amination_ is less than 70 per centof com- plete proficiency, except that applicants claiming military or naval preference need obtaia but 65 per cent. Those who do mot need to be examined are: In the Cnstom- house Department, one cashier in each cus- toms_district, one chief deputy in each dis- trict which employs as many as 150 persons; in the Postel Department, one assistant post- master, one cashier of each first-class post- office when employed under the roster title of cashier only. A S1sTER-IN-LAW—Arbor, City. A correspond- ent who isanxious to let this department know that he reads answers, butis ashamed 1o sign his name to his communication,writes as follows: “Allow me to contradict the fol lowing answer: ‘There 18 nothing in the laws governlnglha Episcopal church that prohib- ts & widower from marrying the sister of a de- It isnot lawful to marry a de- ceased wife's sister. They have been trying to pass the deceased wife's sister bill" for years, but the House of Loras rejects it always. —Always give a correct answer or not at ail.” Itis the purpose of this department to give correct answers and the answer quoted is correct. In England a widower cannot marry the sister of his deceased wife because the civil law says it is illegal. In the United States there is no such law. In the State of California and other Statesin whicha mar- riage license is required a minister of the Episcopal church will, on the presentation of such license, marry the couple holding i, irre- spective of the fact that the woman is the sis- ter of the man’s deceased wife. ceased wife." FRENCH nougat and fruit glace. 805 Larkin,* CALIFPORNIA glace fruits, 500 Ib. Townsend's® ——————— SPECTAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * e CLEARANCE sale —Genuine eyeglass specs, 15¢ to 40c. 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It is just 1ike this for three or four months of the year 1m Chicego, but for the balance of the time the elimate never does a thing. Thatreminds me of a story—"" William C. Hunter is & member in high standing of the Ananias Club of Boston. Itis better, perhaps, that the story of “which that slice of the fortune his father made in siiver mines. Willie has been trying to buy a paper in Chicago to save freighton the free copies of his New York paper that he sends out West. Ho hasn’t succeeded in getting the Chicago paper yet, becanse the shrewd Westerners aro bidding him up just the way the World people bid up his artist. Willie has found no lack of helping hands eager to assist him 1n scatter- ing his father’s millions. The funny thing about Hearst is that he came here to teach mew journalism to Pu. litzer, and thet after dropping two millions he is trotting along admiringly behind Pu- litzer, as if he had been trained to it all his life. If the World comes out for & beer tax on Monday, Willie follows him f6r a beer tax on Tuesday. It's the same way with trusts, po- special commissioners, baby shows, and everything else. Willie has become a crazy free-trader now. If Pulitzer should ad vocate an American emperor Willie would say amen. And his leg-pullers would make WILLIAM C. HUNTER, Newspaper Man and Bohemiam, of Chicago, and Member of the Ananias Club. [Sketched from life by a “ Call” artist.] reminded him” be not repeated. He is also an advertising agent, which probably of it- self makes him eligible to membership in the club. Atany rate he is an alert, wide-awake and successful business man as well as an en- tertaining Bohemian and newspaper man. He Is secretary of the W. D. Boyce Company, publishers of Chicago's three big weeklies, the Saturday Blade, the Chicago Ledger and the Chicago World. He is advertismg man- ager of the concern, and in that capacity he is visiting the Pacific Coast, to his own evident delight, for the first time. His room at the Palace is stacked up with odds and ends that he bought from Indiens and others in the West designed for his “den” in Chicago. His den, he says, is a sight. It is papered with the “matrices” of the leading newspapers of the country—that is, the pulp impressions from which the page is stereotyped. “They described San Francisco to me as the Paris of America and I think the description fits exactly. I brought a box full of letters of introduction to people here, but they are still in the box,” he said. “I didn’t use’em. The people seem to be all made of such original stuff that formalities are out of place. I've been shown everything, and among others I might say that the Olympic Club is a big card for the City. That salt water is great stuff. In Chicago we have a fine athletic club, but the only things that go with it free to the members are admission and ice water. Every- thing else is charged for extri But even with this handicap added toits eccentric climate Mr. Hunter does not go back on Chicago altogether. “They say that we have taken into the city limits sll the farming country of the State, but thatis not literally true,” he said. “We have a street that is twenty-five miles long, built up for the whole distance—Halstead street. We bave three distinct cities in the three divisions. The North Side is the Eoston of Chicago. There are the libraries and the culture. The South Side is the New York. It is the mercantile and money center. The West Side is cosmopolitan Chicago itselt.” Speaking of the big weeklies he represents, Mr. Hunter said: “They were started by W. D. Boyce some ten years ago. Mr. Boyce had been a publisher of patent insides, and in spite of the fight made against him by Kellogg and others, he became such a competitor that they finally bought him out for $70,000. Mr. Boyce then, with three others, started the Chicago Blade. They undertook to make the paper go on its merits without advertising. Boyce sunk his $70,000, and when the paper was $15,000 in debt he bought out two of his partners for $100 each. He kept at it, work- ing all sorts of schemes to get a circulation, and at last it began to go, and has continued to do so with marvelous rapidity. The W. D. Boyce Company was formed, and the Chicago Leager and afterward the World were started. We paid Uncle Sam for postage last year on the three paparsat 1 cent & pound $27,000. We paid fully as much more on eirculars to our agents.” HOW HEARST IS RUINING PULITZER. New York Press. “Willie” Hearst is discovering that there are wicked thorns in the path of a bumptious young man Who comes from the West to sealp New York and getsskinned alive. On the ro- ticstage the people who were pulling his would call him an “angel.” In the brutal mew journalism they call him a “sucker.” He is fair game for everybody,and everybody plugs away at him, Anybody sell any- thing t0 him by tetling him that some other paper wants it. When a man wants an in- crease of salary he tells the California come-on that Pulitzer has offered him more money than Hearst is giving him. Hearst goes wild at the thought that Pulitzer is trying to get his men awsy from him, doubles the chap' salary and thinks he is ruining Pulitzer, Hearst was paying one of his artists a hun- dred dollars a week, when some of the World people put up & job on him. They told the ar- tist the World would like to have his services at 8150 a week. The artist told Hearst, and willing Willie raising him to $200. Then the World raired to $225, and Willie, in a panic, raised to $250 and promised the artist a trip to Europe. That is the way the World helps Hearst spend his money, and Willie is tickled 10 death, thinking Pulitzer is the victim, You could sell Hearst a yellow dog for a thousand dollars if you told him Pulitzner had offered you nine hundred for it, Every- body knows this, and every day a lot of gold bricks are offered to him, which take a large him believe that was the way to put another Dnail in Pulitzer's coffin. Every week Willie pours a barrel of silver into his paper. He draws large checks for contributions rejected by the Worid, employs the World’s aischarged men at tiptop salaries, and, as a result, expects every day to see the dome of the Pulitzer building fall into Park row. 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