The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 9, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9. 1897, 6 & e s h) THRBAN SRANCISCO [GARL U RSDANG ERBRIARY (9, MIRAT. e e e e TUESDAY CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postago Free: nd Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.16 and Sunday CALL, oue year, by mall..... 6.00 Dadly ard Sunday CALL, six months, by mall.. 8.00 Dally snd Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Dally and Sunday Cavy, one month, by ma Sunday CaLy, one year, by mall W XEELY CALL, One year, by mall. BUSINESS OFFICE: 716 Market Strest, an Francisco, California. ....Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telepbon Telephone.. BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montromery street, corner Clay: epem untl 9:30 o'clock. : open until 9:80 o'clock. 9:30 o'clock. isslon streets; open . cormer Sixteenth and 3 119 o'clock. 8 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock. 167 Ninth strect; open until 8 o'clock. 1305 Polk street; open until 8:80 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : $08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE Rooms 51 and 82, 34 Park Row, DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastes ew York Clty. Mannger. THE FAKE AND THE FACT. THE FAKE— The Eraminer published for several days at the top of its title page the following fake: THE EXAMINER PUBLISHED 249,757 Inches Of Ads During 189. 5964 More Than were published by any| other San Francisco newspaper. | | In the publication of this fake the Eraminer was probabiy not aware that a careful record was be pt of the actual amount in inches of its advertis nd that i 1sequence i could be confronted with the following fact. —THE FACT— THE EXAMINER PUBLISHED | 236,528 Inches Of Ads During 18%. That is one fact and here is an- other: THE CALL PUBLISHED 239,551 Inches Of Ads During 1896, 3,023 More Inches were published in THE CALL than in the Examiner during 1896, Tt is t0 be remembered that during 1896 the Ezaminer published approximately 800 inches of llezal lottery advertisements, of which THE CALL did not and would not pubiish one. The mouarch of the fakers has doubtless ceeded in se ac- aring thousands of inches of adver- tisng @ the past year by duping aud decelv- ing advertisers through falseand arrogant asser- tions of the c r of the foregoing fake It would seem. Lowever, from the facts that the mezchants as a rule heve not been misled by its fraudulent pretenses. The Ex boasts that its books are open to | inspection, but we suggest that it inspect Its own books before it ventures upon the publication of another fake. We congratulate the public on the fact that the exvosure of thus fake led the Ezaminer to drop it. In this the Examiner wes discreet, and 1f 1t 1s wise 1t will make no more such bold attempts to decelve the public, Carnival days are coming. Forty cities are getting ready for frolics. The only fitness the Czar has shown for getting himself noted is epileptic. Congress is now near enough adjourn-, ment to see the end of everything except talk. The Bradley-Martin ball may cost more, but it won’t be as big as a California car- nival. There are signs that most people are getting ready to ignore St. Valentine sgain, Nevada ought to call its coming prize- fight a fiesta or a carnival and throw a Tosy glory over it. There are differences of opinion on re- ligious revivals, but when it comes to trade revivals all are agreed. Bierce has at last struck the level of his second childhood and is now driveling in an attempt to imitate the wit of a preco- cious four-year-old. The sensation of the town at present are the offenses of the suspected Butler and the convicted Eraminer, but fortu- nately we shall soon be rid of both. The Legislature is sufficiently virtaous to resent attacks on it by the Sacramento papers and there is taik now of moving the capitel to some place where mud isn't #o handy. War against decadent journalism is being waved as effectually in New York as in 8an Francisco, and before long it will be a very shameless man who will be will- ing to be seen reading a paper of that kind. We have forced the Ezaminer to drop the braggart lie that it published more inches of ads during 189 than any other Ban Francisco newspaper by showing that TrE CALL published over 3000 inches more than the boastiul faker. One more victory for truth. According to statistics collected by the Manufacturers’ Record, the total value of all breadstuff exports for 1896 zmounted to $176,000,000 azainst $121,000,000 in 1895. The continuance of the drouth in India promises an even larger export this year, | lottery schemes of its own. and the outlook for farmers shows pros- pects of a break in the long depression which has weighed upon their industry. “If Hearst,” said Bierce, “takes railroad 2, And solls himaslf to shame that way; No more I’ll write him prose or verse, No pander I to courtesan or worse.” Hearst sold himself, he took the pay, Bierce writes for him the same old way. The reason why is plain enough— Bierce himself got part the stuff, ROBBING THE POOR. A correct estimate of the character of the managers of the Eraminer can be had only by bearing in mind that they use that It is not at great corporations alone that th fish that comes into their nets, and they paper to rob the poor as well as the rich, ey direct their boodling schemes. All is ve fakes by which to catch the pennies ot the poor as well as schemes by which to extort the dollars of the wealthy. One of the methods they use to obtain money from tkose who can ill afford to lose it is to lend themselves to the service of swindiing lottery companies, and to publish as true false reports of drawines made by su From these swindlers the managers of the pocket of Mr. Hearst to enable him to rel subsidies from corporations run out. Not content with serving swindling lott yard of pups to & town lot for persons It offers priz ach companies and prizes given by them. iraminer got many dollats to put into the ain his lampooners and blackmailers when | eries, the Eraminer frequently resorts to s of every kind and description from & who will take the chances of putting their money into the hands of Long Green and his zane, in the expectation of draw- ing a premium. These tricks also have pai estate of the late Senator Hearst to bear the financial str. places on it. Another scheme by which it works the the “charity dodge.”” Money ostensibly f d well in the past, and have helped the in which his wasteful son pockets of the people is what is known as or charitable purposes is raised by the Ezaminer gang, either by direct contribution from the people or by baseball games, ‘tug-of-war”’ tournaments and simiiar met in this way under the pretense of charlty large and greedy deductions are made in the | form of expenses. These deductions have cannot be expected, of course, that even a the Ezaminer makes the pay gives away in order to keep up the semb! The lesser fakes and numerous to mention. They are of all chromos given to any ore who will brin a chance to get a farm to any one who wiil managers have at iimes oifered to give ev to get his weight in gold. hods. From the sums which are received all the appearance of legitimate items. It feker can run his fakes without pay, but buormally large in proportion to the amount which it nce of a reputation. chemes devised to gather pennies from the poor are too classes and descriptions. They include in a fifteen-cent advertisement, and offers of subscribe fog/the disreputable paper. The ubscribef to their weekly fake a chance' Nothing is too farcical, nothing is too fraudulent for these unscrupulous rascals to pragtice in their efforts to obtain from the people the money necessary to maintain them in carrying on The Ezaminer is in fact an all-round boodier. it cannot defraud 1t resorts to extortion. It mails the rich. It retains men who hav eredtilous just as it employs Bierce and ot calumniate and belie rich men and corporations when it thinks by so doing it can | obtain thousands of dollars from them. It is gratifying to note that all over th nalism which Willie Hearst is promoting w nounced with the severity of righteous indi:nation. Mr. Hearst’s Journal is being waged as vigorously as is the contest sgainst the Er- | aminer here. The current number of the and papers of that class, say own imaginations begin to fail, their news as a minor detail, false. are a daily libsl on everybody and everythir This 1s the kind of pa and the proprietorship of Wil ie Hearst has thousand fakes and frauds since the Southern Pacific cut it off the payro! rich men ounly who must be on guard againstit. willingly from blackmailing corporations to “They ransack | their unprofitable and vicious lives. It defrauds when it can and where lles the poor as eagerly as it black- e the cunning to wheedle a dollar from the ner lumpooners to revile, malign, abuse, W e Union the cry against the decadent jour- ith the estate of father is being de- In New York the war against Chap Book, commenting upon the Journal braries of erotic literature when their is always vulgar, trivial, sensational and, Nothing is too inane or too obscene for them to print. They ng." which under the manazement of Long Green Lawrence been seeking to maintain its existence by a It is not It aims at everybody, and turns robbing the poor. CONTEMPT OF COOURT. | Various issues which have arisen of late | years have calied public attention repeat- | mento that the miners and farmers of the | this | State have au last found a basis of agree- | edly to the contempt of court law State, and not & few cases have exposed | the injustice which 1s possible under An attempt was made to remedy the ey by the passage of the Barry law of 1891, | but this has been declared by Judge Cat- Iin of Sacramento to be unconstitutional. In order to secure the rights of the peo- ple against a possible decision of the Su- preme Court sustaining that of Judge | Catlin it will be necessary to amend the | constitution i:self, and there is a good | prospect that the Legislature will st this | session submit such an amendment to the people. The proposed amendment consists of in- | serting into section 9 of article I of the constitution the words, *No speech or publication reflecting upon, or concerning | any court, or any officer thereof, shall be | treated or punished as a contempt of court unless made in the immeaiate pres- ence of such court while in session, and in such a manner as to actually interfere with its proceedings.” | The amendment will not be a radical innovation in American law. Itisin fact,| a verbatim copy of the present United States statute governing all Federal court: Its adoption will simply place the courts of California on a level with those of the Na- tion so far as contempt cases are con- | cerned, and will secure the people and the press in the right of free speech and just | criticism of all public officials, judicial or | otherwise. | As the law stands at present a corrupt | judge could punish for contempt sum- marily and without trial any citizen to | whose criticisms or condemnation he took | exception. It is time this condition of | the law should be changed. The people | cordially approved the Barry law and | since that has been declared unconstitu- | tional, it is important that the Legisla- ture should at once take steps toward amending the constitution so as to make | it a true charter of the rights of the people. FARMS IN ENGLAND. : The condition of agriculture in England has long been of a nature so disastrous, both to lanc-owners and lease-holders, as to produce among them a state of chronic | discontent. Recently, however, affairs have gone from bad to worse and at the present time they are in a condition so | hopeless that Lord Salisbury is reported | to have declined to receive a deputation | of farmers on the expressed ground that he knew of his own knowledge ail they had to complain of, but could see no way | of remedying the evils. Some recently compiled reports of sales of farm property in England show to | what extent the depression has been car- | ried. At the sale of Langdon Abbey, 639 acres of land, with farmhouse, stabling, homestead and seven modern cottages, only realized £5700, or less than 29 per acre. Fifteen years ago the property was valued at over £20,000, and four years ago | it was mortgaged for £14,000. In Essex | County, within a day’s walk of the Bank of England, a farm which, in 1875, rented | for £400, nas for the last five years rented | for £1 per annum, the occupant paying | the taxes, amounting to about £150. In many cases farms have been sold for less than one-tenth of their value twenty years ago. Bad as this condition is, it is rendered worse by the fact that there seems to be no hopelul outlook for the farming indus- try of England in the future. The only possible help would bs the establishment of a high protective tariff on farm products; but that would impose such a burden upon the great mass of the British population that they will naver consent to it. The commercial and manufacturing prosperity in Eugland depends upon cheap food and cheap raw material. Those interests combined are t00 large to be sac- rificed for the farmers, or even for the | great land-owners. Well indeed migat Lord Balisbury say tuat he cares to hear no more on the subject. He is himsell one of the largest land-owners in the kingdom, as well as Prime Minister, and neither as & landlord nor as a statesman can be see any way to save British agri- culture from the impending ruin. The Maine Legislature is discussing a bill for the relief of farmers whose crops bave been destroyed by deer, and as the State insists on protecting the deer 1t | MINER AND FARMER. It is gratif to 1 ng n from Sacra- ment upon which it s possible to enact and will enable hydraulic miners to pro- ceed with their work withont injury to | the farm districts of the valleys or to the great rivers whose channels are necessary to the commerce of the State. As a result of this agreement, we can reasonably look forward to such legisla- tion as will be neces<ary to make available for use tue $250,000 already approprinted for the purpose of constructing restraining dams in the mountains, so that the debris | will not be washed down by the rivers into the vaileys below. One of the most impor- tant bills of the session deals with this sub- ject and on its face gives every guarantee necessary to guard the public in the ex- penditure of the money. It will be remembered that the United es Government appropriated $250,000 to carry out work of constructing restrain- ing dams under control of a California Debris Commission, created by act of Con- gress March 1, 1893. The proposed bill provides for a State Debris Commissioner to consultand advise with the commission | created by Congress and report all plans and specifications 1o the State Board of Examiners for their supervision. It is vrovided that whenever the National De- bris Commission shall have undertaken any part of the proposed work the State shall pay one-hall of it subject to approval of the State Board of Examiners. It will be seen that no new appropri- ation is asked for, and the proposed bill simply prescrives the manner in which the money may be used. The engineers of the United States estimate that the cost of dams sufficient to keep the debris of the mountains out of the American, Feather and S8acramento rivers will be about $490,000. The appropriations of the General Government and the State combined amount to $500,000, and seem therefore adequate to carry the enterprise to a successful completion. There can be no question but what the work should be begun as speedily as pos- sible. There are thousands of people in the State who need employment and it is full time the great interests of the miners and the farmers should receive attention. The bill on its face seems a fair one in | every respect, and there can be little ques- | tion that the peovle will be glad to see the work begun, the money put into circula- tion and hydraulic mining resumed with- out injury to the valleys or the rivers. The Spanish Governmeni will need no trocha around the reforms promised to Cuba. The Cubans won't take them. Senator-elect Mason of Lilinois declares he will never be silent in the Senate until Cuban belligerency is recognized. Fortu- nately he talks well. Altgeld’s recent remark that “Illinois will surely shaps the destinies ot the Nation” looks like a crude attempt to resume pleasant relations with Chicago. Whether it was the power of the press or the power of the pulpit that drove him to it is not clear, but the clamor against his $250,000 ball has induced Bradley-Martin to seek public favor by giving $10 to a fund for the relief of the pGor of New York. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat says that as the assassinations committed by high- binders are confined entirelv to Chinese, public sentiment in San Francisco is not very strongly against them. That is the kind of news you hear when you go away from home. The State has already appropriated $250,000 for the construction of impound- ing damsand the General Government has appropriated an equal amount. The next appropriate step, therefore, would be to arrange for beginning the work and put- | ting the money into circulation. 1n deciding the cigarette trust to be an unlawful combination the New York courts, it seems, were under the necessity of declaring cigarettes to be not a luxury but a necessary of life, and, under the cir- cumstances, it might have been better to let the trust stand, Texas claims, through the mouth of her Lieutenant-Governor, to have more pine land than Oregon, more granite than New Hampshire, o have produced more corn seems like a square deal, than lilinois, more cotton than any two legislation that will be beneficial to both | | | lumber man of Humboldt By other States and more rice than South Carolin All the same Texas is not in it with California—she has neither an elysian climate, a golden soil, a prune crop nor prize pumpkins, PrRSONAL. H. G. Bonel of Santa Clara is in town. Dr. Wallace of Eureka is at tne Occidental. Eenator A. F. Jones of Oroville is in the City. R. B. Suffold, an attorney of Truebody, isat the Lick. A. V. Emith, a business man of Fargo, Dak., 1s at the Russ. W. C. Moore of Vallejo s a late arrival at the Cosmopolitan. Ward C. Brown of Parkfleld is stsying at the Cosmopolitan. C. J. Selwyn, & business man of Welser, Idaho, is in town. E. 8. Kinney, a mining and business man of Idaho, is in the City. Ernest Sevier, an attorney of Eureks, rived here yesterday. A. P. Leonard of South Bend, Wash., has ar- rived here for & short stay. E. A. Harrison, a business man of Tacoms, is | here, accompanied by his wife. E. 0. Miller, ex-Register of the United States Land Office at Visalia, is at the Lick. C. H. Quinton, chief clerk of the Grand Ho- tel in Eureka, is at the Cosmopolitan. J. Harris, a business man of Corvallis, Or., is at the Russ, accompanied by his wife. Joseph Ryan, & mining man of Butte, Mont., and his family are recent arrivals here. D. J. Flanigan, the wealthy business and y, is at the Grand. John Finneli, the great land-helder and old- ;mm resident of Tehama, is registered at the Pa . W. 8. Boynton, & wealthy resident of Colo- rado Springs, is among the arrivals at the Palace, Louls Holman, wife and daughter of Port- land are among recent arrivals at the Cosmo- politan. N. Bullock, who s in the general merchan- dising business at Eureka. Humboldt County, | is on & visit here, Colonel James A. Hardfn, *he millionaire cattieman of Eanta Rosa, who bas cattle in two or three different States, is at the Russ. Eugene Thompson and J. Frank Boyd, ot PBangor, Me., tourists, who have for seversl veeks been seing Southern Califoruia, are in the City, and wiil remain probabiy for some time. J. B. Dunean and A, B. Arcurnags, of Siiver City. daho, who owns mining iuterests near that place, are here for a few weeks’ vecation and release from the snows of that great elti tude. Among the arrivals at the Occidental is Jerome L. Drumheiler, a business man of Spokane for maiy vears, and who is interested in mining and otner enterprises. He is ac- companied by Mrs. Drumheller and Mr. and rs. J. A. Finch of Spokane. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, Y., Feb. 8.—The Aller brought back from Germany and Mrs, Peter Peterson and son. Yade; Grand Union, G. Bartlett; Imperial, fetropole, S. J. Staa!; Belvedere, B. Paulson, Miss olis; Continenial, C. Lebnhardt; Glisey, A. McBean, LOVE LITING A ltile while with you and me Love made his home contentedly. Now there is naught but you and T, The one to swear the one o sigh. ¥or Love has gone to other parts And taken rooms fnother hearts. Alack for you, alack for me, Knew ever folks such misery? We cannot find our visttor; Last night we locked und barred He couid uot have got out that w The chain wus on at bresk of da His trunk’s in the gueat's room ail right, Yet tiiers he did not sle=p Iast night. 1 tuink at least he mi<Lt have s ayed o Lip the cook and chambermald. door, The place is all torned upside down ‘And cheerless everxthing has grown. At breakiast we'd 10 appe 1 read the paper just for spite, Growled at the coffee and the toast, While yon sat slleat as a ghost We'll have to break up house, 1f he stays long from y DECADEN [ JOURNALISM. The Chap Book. Several English writers of good standing, {n ignorance of what the papers are really like, have done some harm to their American repu- tation by allowing their work 1o appear in the New York World und Journal. These authors, of course, dispose of their writings through an agent. The agent sells them to a syndicate, and the syndicate scatters them broadeast through the papers of the United States. The author may or may not be informed in what journals his work is appearing. Even 1f he does know their names, the odds are greatly agaimst his knowing what is thought of their character on this side the Atlantic. It is, therefore, an act of kindly charity to warn him aguinst the New York Worid and Journsl. No decent man ever reads them. They circulate smong people who like their murders fully illus trated, &nd their society scandals adorned with every suggestion of indecency. They would not for one moment be tolerated in London. Their columns sre given over to multifarious appeals to pruriency. They in- terest themselves in the exploitation of anat- omy and pathology. They publish photo. graphs with full explanatory descriptions of all the diseases they can find in the New York hospituls. They send out men to lie across window-sills ~ and peer through the blinds into the parlors of private houses. They send out women 10 be accosted in the streets. They dispatch Tepori- ers to feign madness and 5o gain sdmission into insane asy)ums. They give the most ex- plicit descriptions with jliustrations of a hun- dred different Ways in which murder can be committed. They ransack libraries of erotic literature when their own imsginations begin to fail. This news is always vulgar, trivial, sensational, and, as & minor detail, false, Nothing 15 too iname or oo obscene lor them to print. They are a daily libel on everybody and everything. For over a year has this contest for the Jrimacy of tho sowsrs raged botween them. ‘he World is experienced in every form of beastliness; but the Journal, which is edited by a Harvard gradu has only just cele- brated its first anniversary of filta. Every respectable paper has atiacked them; almost every minister preached against them: but the number of their readers continues to increase. And these are the papers in which well-know English suthors have inadvertently aliowed their work o be printed, For their own sakes, if for nothing else, it is to be hoved they will in future direct their agents to place & ban on the New York World sod Journai. SHORI CUB:(N PUFFS Philagelphia Press. The Cuban tobacco yield the past year has been 75,000 bales, instead of 500,000 bales, the yield the year before. The sugar crop has been reduced to a fourth of its former size, and will be smaller during the coming yea These figures are a fair measure of the terri- tory overrun or occupied by the insurgents. Most of the tobacco is grown in Pinar del Rio, £nd there nearly nine-tenths of the planta- tions have been laia waste. Of the sugar plantations three-quarters were unable to rind sugar. Six weeks ago the Spanish orces seemed to be accomplishing somethin, They are no longer. They have been unabie to complete their work in Pinar del Rio, and in all the rest of the island the insurgent forces are more successful than ever. McKINLEY APPRECIATED. McKinley has been heralded as the advance agent of prosperity in every direction, but it remained for the little four-year-old daughter of the editor of the Pleasanton (Mo) Observer to find an entirely new and original instance. The other day the editor was hurriedly sum. moned home through a cause not entirely un- expected to him, when he was met at the gate by his little daughter, who shouted with en- thusiasm: “Hurrah for McKinley and Hobart! We've got a littie brother!” CHINESE IN EUROPE Chinese are making their way in large num- bers into European countries, where they en- gage for farm labor. A correspondentof the Country Gentleman writes that coolies may now be found by the thousand in the prov- inces or Silesia, East Prussia, Posen and Pom. | eranis, where they work for 20 cents a day. 1 A\v 1 v. | Suthe Ot Clong, Wil THOMAS R. SHEPARD OF AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Thomas R. Shepard, connected with one of the leading law firms of Seattle, who has come here to argue cascs before the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, is at the Occidental. One of Mr. Shepard’s partners is Judge Burke, one of the foremost Democrats of the North- west. Mr. Shepard says Washington is tossed up politically ss it never was belore. “Notwithstanding the fusonists have car- ried the State,” he said, “we expect to share in the general prosperity that will come through the result of the National election. As to the contests over the senatorship in the Legisiature, I suppose we have never before ministry of medical relief,” as well as o e ad skl 0} nurses, Iree of cost to the patients. Page 107: “In recent years no part 51 the work of public assistance has been more carefully developed than that which relates %o the rescue, maintenance and proper in- struction of friendless children.” “In the ence ofevery unfortunate child the munici- pality aims to be very much more than Rrudging stepfather.” Great results are des- tined to follow. Mr. Shaw informs us that “in a remarkable joty of ways the Parisian municipality of prompt friend and servitor to Tis people in times of emergencs and special misfortune. But far more {mporiant 1s the service of night medical and surgical relief, nized in every neighboriiood of the me- v plays the role Seopoli -honses lis.” “The municipal lodging. P Sbsolutely free of charge. They | | | i | [ Sketched from life SEATTLE. by a “Call” artist.) | had anything quite to equal it. But probably things will ere long straighten themselves out. “Itis yet dull in Seattle, but it is not dead. | It is as lively there as most anywhere you go. In a few months more we expect to be prosper- | ous. | “The lumber combine in Washington is | stronger now than it has ever been. From all 1can learn, it is liable to hold together. The | recently formed trust on careo lumber will, T { think, be a permanent thing. The lumber- | men have been coming closer together all the time.” Letters From the People. THE STANFORD TAX. A Piea for Justice If the Taw Is Re- mitied. Editor of The Call—DEAR SIR: A bill to free Stanford University from taxation s now be- fore the State Legislature. The question as to the justice and wisdom of removing a $30- 000 buraen from sn institution that beuefits the State to so great an extent is oneupon which there may be some difference of opin- 10m. But there can be but one opinion con- cerning the freeing of Stanford from taxation. To do this would be to commit & great injus- tice, for the reason that the burden would fall, not equally upon the people of the State, who share equally in the benefits derived, but by far the larger portion would of necessity be borne by the people of the counties in which the uniyersity property is. The State tax, of course, would be evenly divided, but the county tax is aiweys larger than that of the State. True, it may be said that the people of the county in which the university is, are more than repaid for the additional taxation by the benefit derived from the hundreds of students, each bringivg money to pay for his support while pursuing his ‘studies. But it must be remembered that the university owns prop- erty of many kinds in many counties. It owns thousanas of acres of land. If all thisiprop- erty should be made untaxable the pecple of those counties would bear by far the greater portion of the burden. This is unjust for they get no more good from the university than do the people of other counties. 1f we as a_people wish to present Stanford with & yearly giil of 30,000 on account of its beneficial influence, let ts do it in & just way, not “rob Peter to pay Paul.” Very respect- fully, R. BURROUGHS. AR P e MUNICIPAL HUMANITY. The Christ Spirit Incarnate in @ Muni- cipal Body. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIn: More than anything else in the world, so far ssIamable tojudge, these five words have influenced my life: “Who went about doing good” (Acts x: 38), which was Peter’s explana- tion of the mission of Jesus of Nazareth as given to Cornelius of Cesarea, the centurion, “a just man and one that loved God.” The Christ spirit, as I understand it, is revealed in all fts grandeur and breadth when He said, “For I was an hungered and ye gave me meat I wes thirsty and ye gave me drink; L wasa stranger and ye 100k me in: naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick and ye visiied me; I was in prison and ye came unto me.” *Verily, 1 say uuto you, inasmuch as yo havedone it unto the léast of tnese, my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” (Matt. Xxy: 35, 36 and 40.) There s a scene pictured in the ‘Acts of the Apostles which should be recalled here: “They that giadly received the word were baptized,” to the number of “about three thousand souls.” “And fear came upon every soul; ana many wonders and »igns were done by the apostles. And all that believed were together.” They “s0ld_their possessions and goods and parted them to all as every man had need.” (Acts 11, 41, 43, 44, 45.) This was the spirit which animated the first converts to Chris- tanity after the Christ had parted from the aposties and was® the first fruits of their reaching after they were baptized with the Fioly spisic. The impulse iq halp those in want seems to be in full accord with the Christ spirit. We pass over the history of the race for 1900 years and enter “gay and wicked Paris,” ‘here the spirit, made manifest in “The Luck of Roaring Camp” rather than that of “The Scarlet Letter,” appears to be in the ascend- ant, to see in ‘what ways and to whatextent the'Christ spirit has entered into the muni- cipal life of the people; though I am aware that people who are the lineal descendants of those who pass betore us in the pagesof the “Scarlet Leiter” may feel a distinct shock at the trausition from the apostles to Paris. But I am looking for practical results, and for years past have paid little court to sentiment. Turning to page 102 of Albert Shaw's re. markable and invalusole book on “Municipal Government {n Continental Europe,” we read that “public enarity has absorbed and system- ized almost every importaut form and agency of relief and succor.” To this “Assistance Publique,” as he_points out, “belong (1) the great hospitals of Paris; (2) the homes, asylums and retreats for the aged poor and special groups of dependent classes, and (3) the super. vision and support of domlciling relief, whether in the form of medical atiendance, temporary shiceor with money, food or fuel, of regular and permanent aid at home in liet of support in a public institution.” “In the hands of this great board of public charity Tests tne policy that expends a yearly revenue of some thirty million francs” *Accommo- dations for about 30,000 patients and inmates are provided in the hospitals and retreats.”” The most skillful physicians are employed by the City in large numbers “to secure for | the poor in their homes an attentive and skill have a] capacity of 600 per night. Each guest is provided with a change of clothing while present and soup is served at night; bread in the morning.”’ The stay is limited to three days. The women’s lodging- house allows women to bring their children and affords them shelter and care, the average sojourn being uearly & mont. | . Rent money is advanced by the municipal- | ity very liberally in cases where worthy fami- lies through illuess or other misfortune have | been evicted by their landiords and have no | means with which to rent a new domicile; | and from fifteen to twenty thousand families are eacn year helped in this way. Free bureaus of employment are maintained in nearly every ward of the city. But thereisa great central labor exchange, opened in 1892, costing 2,000,000 francs, which has become headquarters for not less than eighty-two trades unions, and 50,000 trancs sre annuslly appropriated 'to imaintain it. These irades unions may bid for pubiic work. I ought 10 devote a haif column to the pub- lic pawnshop, which has been in operation since 1777, and will reserve it for another let- ter, as its importance and practical benefi- cence demand such consideration. I shall then present some suggestions to the citizens Francisco on the wisdom of municipal ity. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, February 6, 1897. ANSWERS 10 CORRESPONDENTS. A Vacuux—J. H. City. Yes; by means of & force pump you can create a vacuum in a vessel half fillea with water, providing you first re- move the water, fora yacuum is empty space or space wholly devoid of matter. RELIGION TN RusstA—Under certain limita- tions toleration of all religions which do not violate morelity or good order exists in Russia, and not to protess the orthodox Greek faitl the national religion, does not disqualify regards civil right VALID MARRIAGES—A Reader of THE CALL, Oakdale, Stanislaus County, Cal. The general law is thata marriage that is valid'in the country where it was contracted is valid in any of the States of the American Unfon. No State In the Upion can pass any law on the subject of marriage that would extend beyond 1ts territorial border. 1 ALL 1IN THE LAND—R. C. J. A., Camp Whit- locks, Mariposa County, Cal. When &n indi- vidusl obtains possession of a piece of land in | a lawful manner, including by purchase, pre- emption or any other lawful means, he 13 en- 1itled to all that the land contains in the mat- ter of minerals. CONDITIONS FOR CITiZENSHIP—A Constant Reader, City, If it shall appear to the satis- faction of the court to which the alien has ap- plied that he has made a declaration to be< come & citizen of the United States two years before applying for final papers. ana_has re- sided continuously within the United States for at least five years, and within the State or Territory where such court is at the time, one ear at least; and 'during that time ‘‘hé has haved as & man of moral character, at- tached to the principles of the constitution of the United States, and weil disposed to the go0d order and happiness of the same,” he will bs admitted to citizenship. This applies to sliens who landed ia the United States after having passed the eighteenth birthday. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Charming Miss (to gentleman who Is about to share seat with her)—I beg pardon, sir, but this seat is engaged. Gentleman (with admiring glance)—Indeed! Then it is certainly entitled to my envy.—Bos- ton Courier. +Poor Curticks dled very suddenly the other a “Nonsense! Suddenly? Hewas a man of | too much judgment to act hastily in any- thing."”—North American. He—Talking about pledges—there’s one man I know who has kept nearly every one he took last year. She—Who's that? He—The pawnbroker around the corner.— Up to Date. “They say you have no sympathy for the struggling poor.” “Me?” said the accused gentleman. “I have nothing but sympathy.” Museum Proprietor—What's the matter with the Blina Checker-player? He’s been losing games all day. Manager—He hasn't been just right for a month. I'm afraid his eyesight is failing him.—Chicago Journal. A paper is responsible for the story that a lady, when showing & gentleman over her grounds the other day, was asked by him: ““Does not this plant belong to the begonia family?” “The begonia family?” answered his hostess, bridling up. ‘Certainly not, sir! It is ours, and always has been 1”—Household Words. Hoax—Ecreecher sings in the open air and never has a cold. Joax—How do you account for it ? Hoah—Oh, I suppose it is the range of nis voice.—Philadelphia Record. Maybelle—Hattie is to marry Mr. Goodle the noted philanthropist. 4 Violet—So? I was told he was engaged ins Dew charitable project.—Philadelpha Bulle- TWENTY CHANCES T0 GAIN FAME Valley Road Open to Hints as to Names for New Stations. Superintendent McFarland Going to Fresno to Push Exten- sion Work. Telegraph and Trains Will Be Kept to the Front of the Track and Grading. There are now only a few comparatively minor obstacles in the right of way of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley | Railroad between Fresno and Bakersfiel and the construction department, u Chief Engineer Storey, is showing creased activity in the making of prepara- tions for construction wark. There aro but a few more finishing touches of engi- neering work to be put on. When the construction work is begun it will be pushed with all the dispatch that | insures a first-class roadbed. When the first 125 miles of the line, from Stockton to Fresno, were completed the Valley road then had as good and as well bal- lasted a trach as there was in the State, and in some respects railroad men said it was as level, well jointed and solid as it is possible to construct. The first excursion train that went through from Stockton to Fresno for the celebration at the latter city last October of the opening of the Valley road was | drawn by a locomotive that had two days before run with two coaches from Claus- ton to Stockton, a d ce of thirty miles, atarate of nearly sixty miles per hour. The locomotive had just come from the shops and was being *‘warmed up'’ for heavier work ahead of her. There are fow newly constructed roadbeds in the coun- try on wkich this rate of speed would Lave been safe. Chief Engineer Storey said yesterday that the Toadbed from Kresno to Bakers- field would be 2s well graded and the track as good as the division north of Fresno. The distance from Fresno to | Bakersfield is about 120jmiles as surveyed. Superintendent E. A. McFarland of Stockton, who has charge of the division to Fresno, will have his headquarters changed to Kresno on the 15th wmst., to take charge of the work on the extension to' Bakersfield. About 400 men will be employed in grading and tracklaying. Poles will be set and wire stretched in pace with the construction work, so that: telegraph instruments and trains can be kept within jumping off distance of the front end of battle. The company wants to get trains running into Bakersfield by the middle of June. Trains will probably be run regularly to Hanford, about thirty miles south of Fresno, soon after the track is built to thatplace. There are still some impediments yet in the right of way to Visalia. The company is not waiting for funds on account of the issuance of its bonds to make the extension. The proofs of the bonds were read about ten days ago, by Vice-President Robert Watt, and returned to New York, where they are now being printed. Mr. Wattsaid that the company would not be in any hurry to dispose of the bonds. There must be stations and, if stations, names for them, on the new extension. This will receive the attention of Chief Engineer Storey before the line reaches Bakersfield. This was found to be a puz- zling question to some degree when the names had to be selected for the seyenteen stations south of the ““Mill City’’ not pre- viously determined by settled communi- ties of some pretension to population, But the directors are said to have entered into hearty unanimity when it was pro- posed to name the places of future great metropolitan aspirations, after the president of theroad, Claus Spreckels. So Clauston got on_the map, and who knows that some day it may not be donated a patronymic town hall or a beet-sugar fac- tory with a thousand employes. The sta- tions will be fourteen to twenty in number, Chief Engineer Storey said that the road is open to suggestions for names for the stations from the pioneer, the farmer, the fruit-grower and packer, the business man, to the young husband or country swain who wants the name of his first-born son or sweetheart to be sounded down the ages by the angel-voiced brakeman. PARAGRAPES AEOU! PEOPLE The favorite hobby of the Duchess of York is the collecting of fans, upon which she bestows much time and artistic care. A highland claymore that was once the prop- erty of Rob Roy was sold at auction 1 London 1he other day for $180. 1t wes the handiwork of Andrea Ferrara. Frank H. Darr, a native of Somersworth, N. H., who dled there recently, was the inventor and constructor of the marvelously beautiful electric fountain at the World’s Fair. 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