The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 10, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1897. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor lndl’mfllatflr. Daily and Sundsy CALL, one week, by carrier. . Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall. Dally and Sunduy CALL, six months, by mail. 3. Dally snd Sunday CALL, three months by mail lfi Dally and Bunday CALL, one month, by mail. Bunday CALL, one year, by mail.. W EXLY CALL, one year, by mail. BUSINESS OFFICE: 10 Market Street, ancisco, California. <eeseess. Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. San ¥ Telephone. .. Maln—-1874 Telephone. BRANCH OFFICES: 627 Montromery stieet, corner Clay; opem uutl 9:30 o'clock. Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clook. n street: open until 9:30 o'clock. rmer Sixteenth and Mission streets; opes sntil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until 9 o'clocks 187 Ninth street; open until 8 o'clock. 1305 Polk street; open until 9:30 o'clock OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICB: Hooma 51 snd 39, 34 Park Row, New Yerk Clts DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. 10, 1897 During the week ending Sat- urday last THE CALL published 4615 inches of advertisements, which is O 94 inches more than was published by any other San Francisco newspaper during the same time. Read “The Hypocrite Unmasked.” The lying Eraminer stands “‘convicted.” Well done, Morehouse. The people are with you. Whoever patronizes the Eraminer pa- tronizes a convict sheet. Their names hereaiter are Long Green Lawrence and Scab Hearst. For about 3 cents a pound on twine, Willie, the scab, betrays free labor. It is logical that the Ezaminer should patronize convicts, since it helps to make them. Senator Moreho needs no defense, but will bave it. The Eraminer needs, hut won’t-get it Is Willie Hearst so near the end of his father’s fortune that he cannot buy twine Trg OALy is friendly to labor and re- joices in the proofs just given that labor ly to THE Ca Our story of the great twine deal at San Quentin is not copyrighted. The faker may copy it if it pleases. Any man whko wishes to work for the Ezaminer can do so by getting himself sentenced to San Quentin. When the hypocrite clamors for the vuilding up of home industries it means an extension of the State The hypocrite fawns on workingmen to get their money. but when the hypocrite has to buy anything he buys it at San Quentin. The Legislature will not permit the snaky journal to squirm away, nor will the people. Everyboay understands the situation. The Ezaminer gang prate of their devo- tion to tree union labor, but their hearts and their purses twine round the State prison convicts. Absentee Hearst and Long Green Lawrence have as much fellow feeling for convicts as if they expected to join the gang themselves some day. Sending Long Green Lawrence to San Quentin wouldn’t hurt Willie Hearst. The absentee faker is as willing to have his work done there as in the Eraminer office. Absentee Hearst spares a little money for expenditure in Californis, but not enough to maintain Lis fake paper by free labor, so it goes to State prisons where goods are cheap. Free union labor goes unemployed in this City while the Eraminer saves money by buying twine made by the forced labor of convicts in the State prison. It is in this way the faker shows its friendliness for workingmen. The labor unions which were induced by misleading statements to adopt resolu- tions against THE CALL have rescinded them. Will the Eraminer now get the State prison authorities to rescind the twine contract? Noonecan tell how sad Willle Hearst isover the fact that he cannol get his printing done by convices instead of free labor. He sighs for the day when there shall be type-setting machines in etery State prison and a system of paper- making by convicts. We publish this morning an uncopy- righited editorial of the Ezaminer denounc- ing the use of convict labor, and adjoin- ing it we publish also an uncopyrighted count of the Eraminer's bill with the Btate prison for twine. Compare the two and make your own comments. By vurchasing twine from State prisons where it is made by convicts, instead of buying it in the market of free labor, Willie Hearst saves money just as he saves it by publishing fakes instead of legitimate news. As the money thus saved is necessary tosustain a little longer his rapidly vanisning fortune, and as no further subsidies from the Southern Pa- cific are obtainable, he has some excuse for such economies, but he should not lie about them. There is no excuse for being & hypocrite to free labor while patronizing convicts. In promptly rescinding the resolutions against THE CALL, which were adopted under a misapprehension of the truth, the members of the labor unions which adopted them bhave acted with a manly and honorable vigor which isin the high- est degree commendable. Every man and every organization is liable to error, but there are not many that have the courage and the honesty to acknowledge it and correct the wrong. What has been done by the unions in this instance is an evi- dence of a genuine manliness of character, and cannpt fail to raise the members of these unions in the esteem of all citizens. THE HYPOCRITE UNMASKED. We have repeatedly of late had occasion in the interests of public information to expose the falseness of the fakes which the Ezaminer passes off upon its readers for news; in the interests of decency and morality we have exposed its vile and vicious illustrations of crime and obscenity; this morning 1n the interest of free labor we expose its hypocrisy in posing as the friend of workingmen whi at the same timo purchasing supplies from the State prison at San Quentin. The waste oi money aud the daily loss attendant upon the publication of the fake journal may have reduced the wasteful Hearst to a condition where he can no longer afford to purchase goods made by free labor and sold in the open market. The excuse of poverty, loss, distress and threatened ruin may be pleaded therefore as some extenuation of the act itself; but what can be advanced for the hypocrisy, the fraud and the persistent lying with which the purchases from San Quentin have been covered ? The Ezaminer saves money by purchasing twine from San Quentin in exactly the same way that it saves money by fakes instead of paying for legitimate news. a right to do this if poverty and not an inteutional mesnness compels it. It has It has no right, however, while purchasing the products of vrison labor to denounce others for following its example. ‘We publish this morning an editorial of the Examiner declar~ ing against the use of prison labor by contractors in this City, and in apother column we show that the Lzaminer is itself using the products of -prison labor. The exposure of the hypocrite is complete. The liar is confronted with the evidence of his lie, and it will be impossible for him to squirm out of the corner to which he has been forced. The attention of members of labor unions is called to this revelation of the hypo- crisy of their pretended friend. There has been some discussion of late in this City a8 to Who were the true friends of labor, and the Eraminer bas through it ents by false statements and deliberate lies endeavored to arouse among the members of organized labor an antagonism to THE CALL. We now publish the Ezaminer's record on the subject. In our statements there is nothing misrepresented. The evidence W verify it if they wish. obtained from the State prison, and the representatives of labor unions can ‘Whoever paironizes the Ezaminer is to some extent a patron of convict labor. There are at this time numbers of men and women in this City seeking employment. While they are in distress the absentee Hearst, reputed to be a millionaire, extends his patronage to convicts rather than to free labor. Comment is unnecessary. We leave the subject to those who have to live by daily wages and who are therefore vitally interested in the action of the Ezaminer in conducting a paper upon convict labor instead of the labor of free men. SENATOR MOREHOUSE. The people of the State of California owe to Senator Morehouse no slight obliga- tion for his courage and his public spirit in bringing the viclous, libelous and malignant Eraminer to the pillory of justice for its offense in slandering the State Legislature, and charging that the passage of a bill, in the defeat of which the Eram- iner was interested, was due *‘to bribery in aid of thievery.” It is not & pleasant task, nor one agreeable to men of clean habits and honest minds, to grapple with a journal so foul, so unscrupulous, so vindictive, so malicious, 50 false, so impudent, so shameless, 80 brazen and so disreputable as the San Francisco Ezaminer. With no character of his own to lose, Long Green Lawrence, who directs that paper for the absentee Hearst, balks at nothing which malice can prompt, cun- ning devise or lying tongue utter to defame any one who opposes measures in which he has an interest. Senator Morehouse has had the courage to face all the slanders and all the vileness of the vicious gang which the Eraminer employs, and he bas done this not in his own behalf, but to render the State a service and to maintain and pro- tect the character and good repute of the Senate. The duty which the Lagisiature and the people generally owe to Senator More- house 1s that of sustaining him in the course which he bas taken. The Ezaminer should not be permitted to squirm away from the position which it took of its own will. pass Assembiy bill 273. men. - It declared that it had a knowledge of this bribery. place, every man who voted for the bill in either House. boodlers and bribe-takers. It charged, in direct and uneguivocal terms, that money had been employed to It asserted the amounts paid to Senators and to Assembiy- It aspersed, in the first 1t denounced them as It sent abroad to the world a report, specific and definite, that the legislators of California were corruot to the core. Having been called upon to prove the charges made Long Green Lawrence, who acts for the absentes Hearst, has endeavored by every trick his cowardly cun- ning could devise to avoid answering. After publishing the statoment that S2nators and Assemblymen had taken bribes he now slinks away from the demand that he give his reasons for making the charge by declaring that it wouid be a breach of con- fidence to do so. He claims to have received the information of bribery as “a privi- leged communication,” and does not pretend to have investigated it or to have ob- tained any evidence whatever to sustain it. Canght 1n a corner this man Lawreroe, who stands chargzed and accused with all sorts of offenses—from atiempts to extort money to obtain the passage of a bill through a former Legislature down to fixing a referee to give a foul judgment in a prize-fight—seeks to shiit popular attention from himself by defiling and defaming others. derstana the situation. branded as a Iying journal. It goes without saying that he will not be The Legislature will do its duty. tlowed to doso. The people un- Tne Eraminer will be Long Green Lawrence will he branded as a notorious slanderer, while Senator Morehouse, for his courage in defending the honor of the Legislature and the reputation of the State, will receive from his constituents and from the people at large the greeting of commendation and approval which he merits. FRIENDLY TO “THE CALL” It was in the highest degree gratifying to THE CALL to be able to publish yester- day the announcement that the Ezaminer's reported discontent of labor unions with Tue CALL was wholly unfounded. THE CALL holds organized labor in such high esteem that it accepts every evidence of friendliness on the part of the unionsasa compliment of which it may be justly proud. 1t will be remembered that Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Union No. 304, acting upon certain statements which were made to it, passed resolutions adverse to THE CALL. The union aiterward investigated these statements and, as was stated by William Jilge, president of the union, in a letter o THE CALL, which we published yesterday, the union learned “that the statements made were unwarranted and misleading.” The former resolutions were therefore rescinded. It was further reported by the E: wminer that the Paper-hangers’ Union had passed | resolutions against THE CAvrrL, but L. F. Danforth, president of the union, in a letter to Tae CavL published yesterday, declared “there never has been a meeting of this body at which such resolutions passed, nor any resolutions condemning THE Carr.” The president added, “No one is authorized by the Paper-hangers’ and Decorators’ Union to use its name for the purpose of injuring persons or businesses to gratify personal spite.”” In addition to declaring the former resolutions rescinded, President Jilge of Car- penters’ Union No. 304 declared “Tue CALL has always been fair aad impartial in its dealings with labor unions and workingmen.'” President Danforth, after denying that the résolutions reported had ever been passed, declared THE CALL is a paper ‘{which in the past has shown a manifest friendship for the working classes and or- ganized labor.” The statements made by these two representatives of organized labor in this City are true. THE CALL has ever been the friend of all workingmen, and has been in an especial sense the champion of organized unions. So it has been in the past, so it is now, and so it will ever be. We are grateful for the recognition which has been given to our consistent attitude toward the workingmen, a3 well as to all other citizens of California. TxE CALL speaks for all—for the whole State, without regard to sections, and for all the people who labor to build it up. The malicious lying of the Fzaminer has had these good effects—it has made evi- dent the friendliness of THE CALL to organized labor and has brought forth these pub- lic testimonials of the recognition of it by the labor unions. A NEEDED AMENDMENT. The proposed constitutional amendment which provides that the *‘county offices’ in a consolidated city and county shall be brought within thescope of a freehoiders’ cbarter is absolutely essential to any at- | tempt at establishing a sytematicand well ordered locat government for San Fran- cisco. Ever since the Supreme Court de- cided that San Francisco is not a truly consolidated community, so far as its gov- ernment goes, but is partly a county and partly a city, it has been impossible to | understand clearly under what terms the so-called county officers hold. San Francisco requires a new charter, and in the course of events will inevitably have one. Provision should be made, therefore, as speedily as possible, to ei able the people, when adopting such s charter, to arrange for all the officials of the incorporated community. In otaer words, San Francisco should be one thing, and not two things. The charter under which its local government is to be conducted should cover all departments of that government. The proposed amendment should by all means beadopt- ed. It is not only a proposed advantage to the City, but an imperative necessity. Even the subsidy obtained from the Southern Pscific Company by the faking boodler went to convicts instead of fres labor. The twine deal has been going on a long time. - L § THE FEDERAL BUILDING. The California delegition 1n Congress owes to the people of this City some ex- planation or at least some statement of what is being done at Washington to ad- vance the beginning of the work on the Federal building. The people are asking for news about the work. What has 8enator White done, the senior Senator of the State? What has Senator Perkins done, who represents the Republicanism of California, and is therefore a representative of the adminis- tration? What has bzen done by Con- gressman Maguire, who poses as the friend of workingmen in this City? What has been done by Congressman Loud,who as a Republican of long service in the House cannot fail to have influence with the new administration? San Francisco needs the new builaing. Her workingmen need the employment its construction would give and the wages that would be paid for the work. At the present time it has become a serious problem how we can bes: provide wag for willing workmen and profitable em- ployment for industry. It is natural, therefore, that the veople should recall the fact that an appropriation has been made for this building and persistently ask why work is not begun. Whatever could be done hers to further the work has been done. The agitatioa of THE CALL on the subject has been responded to by all the industrial | and commercial bodies of the City. An urgent petition has been forwarded to Washington requesting the officials to begin the work, and an earnest demand has been made upon all members of the California delegation to advance it by every means in their power. The people expect from Washington some reply to this petition and request. They wish to know what is being done. They desire some evidence that our Sena- torsand Representatives are giving due attention to the enterprise and are push- ing it forward as rapidly as possible. THE ECROPEAN ORISIS. The reply of the Greek Government to the ultimatum of the great powers gives promise of a temporary arrangement by peaceful means of the situation in the Levant. Nevertheless the effairs of Greece and Crete undoubtedly con- stitute a serious crisis in Europe. Despite the desire of the statesmen of the great nations for peace, despite the im- perative necessity of maintaining it in the interests of industry and commerce. and despite all the intluence of conservative men on the side of peace, there is danger . that war may be forced upon the people of that continent before the close of spring. Itis an old and olt-repeated.sayingthat unsettlea issues have no respect for the repose of nations. Between the Greeks and the Turks there are unsettled issues, and they w produced in both conn- tries such irit of mutusl antagonism as can hardly be allayed by any diplomacy however wise or coerced by any display of foree however great. Europe may talk of peace, but between the Greeks and the Turks war has already been bekun and the end of it cannot be foreseen. The conditions are such that the states- men of Greece and of Turkey cannot hold the people in restraint. Before the pres- ent family ascended the throne of Greece the Greeks wers ruled by a King chosen from among the Princes of Bavaria. His policy was not in accord with the popular will and he was expelled from the throne. The present K ng is wise enough to profit by that exampl:, He knows that he must act in accordance with the will of the Greeks or abdicate. It was therefore no idle saying on the part of King George that he would rather die on the battle- field than to die an exile. That is the exact choice before him, He must either fight or resign. The circumstances which surround the Sultan are not widely different irom those which surround the King of Greece, There is a war party in Turkey not less strong nor less patriotic than that among the Greeks. It has been roused to mad- ness by the tameness with which the Sul- tan has submitted to outside dictation. Tvis capable of breaking at any moment into open revolt. It cannot be ignored by the Sultan and his advisers, and there is evidence that its fanaticism is so great that it would be willing to risk a war against all Europe combined in what it re- gards as the holy cause of Islam against the cross. It is this spirit of mutual hate, born of racial and religious antagonism between the Greeks and the Turks, which now dis- turbs the repose of Europe and threatens | to involve ali the nations in a wenernl war. Three countries—Greai Britain, France and Russia—are charged by a solemn treaty with the respounsibility of main- taining peace in the Levant. It remains to be seen whether they can do so. Their statesmen are cieariy averse to war at this time, but there is a power greater than diplomacy, and that power may vet set all the mighty armies of the nations mov- ing in spite of"all that statesmen may do to prevent the catastroph . FORGIVENESS, Isat in the evening cool Of the heat-baked city street, Musing and watening a little pair Who played on the wa'k at iy feet: b A boy. the elder, of sirong, rough moid; His sister, » biosjom sweet. When, fust in the midst of thelr play, Cams an angry cry, an.d a biow, That braised the cheek of the littie maid And caussd bright tears to flow, And brougat from my lips quick, suarp reproot On thie 1ad who hud acted 50. And ne stood by, snllen and hard, While the mald soon dried her tear. He looxed al her with a1 ANgry eye; She timidly draw ne “Don't be cross, Johut “Let me fordtve '00, (a ifttle sob). And the cloud is passed and gone, And aguiv in their play thes meet, And the stroug, rouzh boy wears a Kinder mein And brigiier the maiden sw et. While a whisper has come from the heart of God ‘[0 a man, & man on the street. —New Il ustrated Magazine. HOME OF THE GODS. It Is in Crete That the Old Greek Still Survives. Chicago Times-Herald. Were old Jupiter as powerful as he was in the days before the new gods came ard drove him from his seat on high Olympus there ‘would be no doubt as to the resuit of the war in Crete. For it was in Crete the god of gods was born and raised, and it was in Crete he was entombed when the night passed away and the thunderbolts slipped from his dying hands, red no longer, into the hands of other and newer deities. What Mecca is to the Mo- hammedan, Benares to the Hindoo, and Jeru- sslem to the Christian, that would be Crate to the believer of the Greek religion; andsoitis now, in & way, 10 the modern scholsr who lives in the beautics of Greek mythos, fable and story. There 1s uot a spot on the face of the broad eartn that is so crowded with memories of Paganism Beautiful as is Crete. We are ll of us famfliar with the stories of & religion that has given to the poets of all'ages their best inspiration. But how many of us remember our humanities so well as to be able 1o give local habitation to the god desses, the neroes and the half with which the poetry of tue ages is eu- harced? Fancy that when Lycurgus was modern, when Homer wns a late-comer, when Julius Cesar was the newest man upon_eurth, Crete was ancient! The immortal gods were truly immortal, it that word may be applied 10 any- thing, even by way of figure of speech, So long s letters live, so long will the gods sur- vive. And Crete gave o the world its greaiest god, for what god is greater than Jove? The patriot Cretan, fighting for liberty, scorning therule of the Turk, jooking toward Greece for axd and comfort, instinctively rebelling A -ainst the domination of such a man as Abdul Hamid, has the sympathy of every man who nas heard the legends o the island and for wiom the Greek gods are more than & mere reference. True, the Cretan of to-day does not Tealize nis splendid heritage. But that he has the spirit of his anclent athers, that the blood which coursed in the veins of the Cretans who foughtand conquered Troy still flowsim his own veins, are facts beyond all controversy. With small mental effort we can reconstruct the ancient Crete and launch ourseives back into the stream of time when it was flowing past the gorgeous temples of Jupiter, then & great and living god, with his miliions of worshipers; when Minerva and Venus and Bacenus and Juno and Prispus ruled the affairs of men and Apoilo was'not a sun myth. Those were the days of the glory of Crete. In Ovid’s time Crete was decadent—even dead, and D ialus and [carus, Thesus aud Ariadne, the sirens of the Minotaur, were as much tra- dition ns they are to-day. Let us glance at Crete and its association with themyths. Many places ciaimed the birth of Jupiter, but the most ancient seems to credit Crete. Hesiod countenances the story that the great Jupiter was born in Cret hea, his mother, gave birth to him in & cavern near the site of Gnossus, afterward theseat of the empire of the strong King Minos. The Melian nymphs received him in their arms. He was rocked in f gold by Adrastea. He was fed on nd on nectar, brought by an eagle it from one of tha rocksof old Ida. And time was when the Cretans showed with &r‘id- the cavern in which the infant Jove was rn and the very platiorm Spon tne el the great mouutain in which gamboled in piay with the Corybantes, to.say nothing of the tomb in which the poor immertal’s bones were placed when he died. 1 To Crete we go for the story of Dwdalusand Icarus, told by Ovid in such sweet Latin. The story was an ancient one even in Homer's day, and the exiled Roman, sent in his exi to one of the Egean Isies, simply framed the icture with a golden edge that has given to t most of ita value. It is not always wise to undervalue the ancient poeis just because they were heathen. In the story of Dadalus and his son Icarus (who took the place of & murdered nephew whose talents eclipsed those of the sou) is concealed a moral as high valued and deep as that of any of the proverbs of Solomon. The story of Icarus is so identired with Crete that one can look to no other place for associat fons with the most inspired of an- tique sculptors, edon—ne who later “‘towered nmid the fleld” in the Trojan war— had been driven by his brother Mincs from Crete, and Minos took the throne. bwdalus sought him, and Minos told him to build the labyrinth, and Dednlus built it. Whereapon hangs the story ot Theseus and Ariadne—the theme of art and poetry anlimited. Damdalus built the labyrinth, and in its deadiy passages the Athenjun youths and maidens were pent up, to be devoured by the monster Minotuur, until Theseus, the hero, guided by the silken thread of Ariadne, the King’s daughter, secured tne clew to the labyrintbine mysteries, and Ariadne was carried off in triumphby the hero 88 & reward. To Crete we must go for the fabled river Lethe, a draught from the swest-tasting waters of which drowned all sorrow and gave ‘‘sieep eternal in an eternsl night.” In Crete it was that the sirens lived, or say rather it was on the shores of Crete they sang thejr seductive songs that lured the mariner to his destruc- tion. - Thus will Homer tell you how Ulysses stopped the ears of his sailors with wax and ordered his men to biud him to the mast lest, perforce of the song, he would order his 8hips to steer toward the rocks and-lose all. To-dsy you may see the very pool in which the sirens bathed-fand the very rocks upon which many a good ship, as good ships went in those d was dashed to pleces. It is Suda Bay, assaid in these “thin-taced times of ours,” and Cape Malaxa, with Akrotiri looking up in the distance. There 1s no Co scenery, ot even the sub-tropical latitudes of our own Pagific, that can compare with the wildness of Crete. It was from Suda—perha; before the bay and rocks had such a modern name—that the Teutons drew their beautiful fable of Loreli. You have read Homer. You know how Agamemnon went with nis great fieet to Troy o “‘avenge a private wron, You are fa- miliar with the story of that splendid epic and the part the immortal gods played n it. Greece seems to be predominant in that best of poems. But when the truth is known, the partof Greece is merely secondary. It was Crete that led the war on Troy. When Helen plunged the Achaisns juto that memorable siruggle Icomeneus was the sovereign of the island, He espoused the cause of the Greeks— for were not the Greeks and the Cretans of one blood ?—and led his navy to the front. More than eighty good ships were sent from Crate—from (nossus, or Cnossus, the seat of the kingdom—to Troy. bearing the flower and prime of ihe frce manhood of the rugged sland. Idomeneus himself waz present and was nosmall part of that famous strife. Re- member that this is not fable, but history. For these were comparatively recent times and the successor of the immortal Minos was sim- ply helping his first cousins, the Greeks. At the close of the Trojan war IComeneus re- turned to the kingdom only to find that it had forgotien his greatness, Homer tells us that at that time in Crete the people were com- 0sed of the Achaei, the Dorians and the Pe- asgi. These people Tose up and drove the king from his domaius.. But this is somewhat modern for Crete. To Crete we must go for ail that isleft of the iruly Greek. Itissaid that by philology can be traced the history of man better than by written accounts. For written history— traditional history—may go awry now and then, but language never. There is nothing 80 plastic as lauguage. Words, expressive of things, change with all chaige. They are moditied by the lightest breatn of custom ; are swerved by the merest suspicion of conguest; suffer {u theircharacter by the contiguity of trade and lose themselves in the meshes of changing civilization. as do the roots of re- ligion, dress and table manners. If this be so—and who can doubt it?—to Crete we must go fr all thatis original, for all that is leftof the oid Gry Modern Greek, as it is spoken in Athens, is not Greek At ail. “The perfect Gre holar walks around him in the waste and wiiderness of words for a sound that strikes his ear as familier. The dialects of Homcr are dend. Tne Aeolic, the Dorie, the Ionic are no more in the mouths of men—ii we except Crete, In that blessed island alone ure to b3 found the remains of the language of Pythagoras, Piato, Socrates and Aristotle. In the hills of Sphakis, or Sfakia (as the English spell i1) there remains the Iast trace of the old language of the gods and the Greeks. And it is bere only, in all the world, that this language can be heard. FAVOREv BY FORTUNE. Notwithstending the jact that Senator-elect George Turner of Washingion State goes to Congress by the courtesy of the silverites, to him the *‘dawn of prosyerity” is realization, writes Will Vischer in the Chicago Times- Herald, He was elected to the exalted office of United States Senator one day and found himself almost a millionaire the next day. When “the next day” is said that does not mean Jiterally all within thirty-six hours, but so close to it that it might have been a fow hours less ora few hours more. And in all this there is & story. In what is known as the Rossland district, on Trail Creek, a little more than & rifle-shot across the line of Washington State, in British Columbia, one summer day about six years #go a gronp of prospectors, at the end of their provisions and powder, lounged about a camp- ing-place waiting for a member of their party wiho had beeu sent to Nelson for supplies. Time hanging heavily upon them it was pro- posed that they climb the adjacent mountain &nd see what was tnere. The result was the staking out of & nest of claims in an open spot, cleared of the forest growth by fire. None of the prospectors had the few dollars necessary t0 have the claims recorded. Some of the rock was taken to Nelson, and E. L. Topping, who owned a little store, advanced the neces- sary amount on the agreement that he was to have the pick of the claims in payment. He chose one cailed Le Rol. A year or two aiterward some Spokane law- yers were attending court at Coiville and Top- ping told them of his ciaim. The lawyers fan- cied the specimens of ore and the prospect was bonded. George Turner became the owner, ata few cents per share, of 35,000 shares, During the winter just passed some work was done on Le Roi, and about the same time that Judge Turner was elected 1o the Senate he was informed that a British com- pany had offerea 4 000,000 cash ior Le Roi, #nd on the same day he was further informed that another group of mines in which he is largely interested had “pauned out big.” He is the general manager of Le Roi, and from being a long-standing candidate for Senator, in which aspiratious there have been more demands for expense money than were con- venient and cowfortable to the hard-working lawyer that he was, in & few hours he became a member of the highest legislative body of the Republic and nearly if not quite & mil- lionaire. PARAGRAPH. AEOUT PEOPLE. T. D. Hargls of Marshall County, Ky., 15 dead, aged 85 years. He was a mégistrate for sixty years and had married 1900 couples. Emile Richebou'g, the French novelist, is said to heve amassed $400,000 in twenty years by writing sensatioual serial stories for Le Petit Journal, The young Czarina bas just granted a sum 011000 rubles toward the erection of residen- tia quarters for female students attending :he St. Petersburg Medic.l Institute for Women. @ Tolstoi’s manuscript is full of inter inea- tions and erasures, and the handwriting is small, fine and hard to read. The Couatess transiates it for the printer, and it is said that she made fifteen copies of one of her husband’s books. The midnight music of cats so snnoyed Jerome Summers of Weaverville, N. Y., that he hurried out tarefooted with his pistol to shoot them. In the yard he stepped on & rusty nail, which caused lockjaw,and in ten days he died. Saverio Altamurs, one of the last of the Neapolitan _romantic school of painters, has just died. He was a poet and an author as well.. He took part in the revolution of 1848, and was exiled from Naples until the Bour- bons were driven out. The New York Sun, asked to name the ten American women who willlive longest in his- tory, gives the answer: Martha Washington, Rebecca Rolfp (Pocahoutas), Molly Pitcher, Elizabeth Blatkwell, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Priscilla Alden, Eliza Goose (Mother Goose), Maria Mitchell, Harrfet Beecher Stowe and Lucretia Mott. After all, it is not so many years since there were people living who had talked with Wash- ington. A citizen of Buffalo, who does not by sny means regard himself ssan old man, had a chat during President Jackson’s administra- tion with “Old Ironsides, Commodore Charles Stowart, during which the old sailor remarked that he had dined with every Presi- deat except Washington, and that he had had the honor of taking wine with Washington on several occasions. PERSONAL. C.M. Keefer of Truckee is at the Russ, J. D. Whalen of Pleasantoa is in the City. R. S Goss of Merced arrived here yesterday. W. E. Crowley of Lakeport, Il is at the Grand. J. L. Dodge of Sonor: Hotel. W. H. Farnsworth of Salt Lake City Is at the Palace. James Stewart of Los Angeles is at the Palace. R. G. Dunn, & business man of Redding, is in the City. George W. Champler of Santa Cruz is a late arrival here. A. H. McFarlane of Salt Lake is hereon a business trip. Jesse D. Carr, the capitalist of Salinas, is at the Oceldental. Assessor W, H. Psbum of Monterey County is at the Baldwin, D. L. Morrison of St. Louis is staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. A. Johnson and wife of Sonoma are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Frank H. Buck, the fruit-grower of Vaca- ville, is at the Palace. Ex-Senator Archibald Yell of Mendocino County is at the Grand. Professor Edward H. Griggs of Stanford Uni~ versity is at the Grand. W. R. Stesle, a business man ot Lakeview, Or., arrived here yesterday. Richard Bearce, Mrs. Bearce and Mrs. Dun- bar of Denver are In the City. J. & Douglas, o business man of Prescott, Ariz., arrived here yesterday. L. H. Stelnman, manager of the baggage sta- tion at Los Angeles, is at the Russ. S. 8. Wolfe, a prom{pent business man of Los Angeles, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Charles Anler, a mining and business man of Austin, Nev., arrived here yesterday. Mrs. Gifford and maid and Mrs. George Helms of New York are at the Occidental. H. L. Blackmar, a capitalist of New York, is touring this State, and is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. The Rev. L. L. Boone of Galt is at the Palace. John T. Judd of the Black Oak mine is at the Gr J. H. Thies, a cattle-grower of Lovelock. Nev., arrived here yesterday on a business trip. He 18 at the Russ. Hon. N. A. Dorn, Superior Judge of Monterey at the Cosmopolitan County, came up from Salinas yesierdey to re- | main a few days. George W. Sfll, one of the leading business men of Pajaro Valiey, passed tarough the City yesterday on his way to Sacramento, Virgil Conn, for several years a resident of Paisley, Or., and engaged in the general mer- chandising business there, is at the Palace. John J. Badenoch Jr., son of Chief of Police Badenoch of Chicago, arrived here yesterday, and is at the Pelace. He is here for his health. Frank Fitzsimmons, Frank Waver and T. D. Murphy, mining men of Hargua Hala, the well-known gold camp in Arizona, are at the Russ. J. B. Peaks of Santa Cruz, who was formerly in the hotel business in that city and santa Cruz, is at the Palace. He is now engaged in gold mining. Colonel H. Trevelvan, manager of a large vineyard near Freso and a leading manufac- turer of wines, is a visitor here. The coionel and several British capitalists are associated together in the business. Mrs. Guy C. Phinney, widow of G. C, Phin- ney, et one time prominent in many leading enterprises at Seattle, and who left a large for- tune, arrived here yesterday. accompanied by her maid. She is at the Occidental. Miss Fanny Devenport, who will appear at the Baldwin next Mondar night, arrived last night from 8alt Lake City. It is four years since she has been here. Her husband, Mr. McDowell, is with her. They are at the Bald- win. Mrs, James Elverson of Philadelpbis, the daughter of the late Frank Mayo, the noted actor, and wife of the proprietor of the Phila- delphia Enquirer, was one of the parly who accompanied Sir Bache Cunard and Joe Red- ding to this City. Mrs. Elverson has a fine voice, and before her marriage appeared in the comic opera, “Princess Bonnie,”” and other things. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., March 9.—At the Plaza, Frank L. Prentice Union Square, J. G. Ma. guire; Astor, E. 8 Irvin; Holland, C. H. Lovell and R. J. Wilson. Mrs, F. J. Partridge left the on the St. Loui: Plaza to sal NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY Mr. Hiland—What do you think of the Cre- tan affair? Mr, Halket—I think that if the powers wonld only keep their hands off, we soon should see that the Greeks were really muscle-men.—Pits- burg Chronicle-Teiegraph. Barron—Sorry you ean’t come in, Van Tin- tram. How was the sermon this morning? Van Tintram—I didn’t hear the sermon; but the text was good. Barron—Indeed! What was it? Van Tintram—It was that beautiful passage, “He giveth his beloved sleep.”—Brooklyn Life. «“They tell me that you have a new scheme afoot,” said an old iriend to the theatrical manager. “Yes, the company’s walking back from Hoboville now.”—Detroit Free Press. She—I don’t believe you iove me any more. He—Why? She—Well, you never used to shove me away like that when I wanted to kiss you. He—I cidn’t carry cigars in my vest pocket then.—Chicago Journal. 01d Lady (questioning little girl)—Suppose the Queen had died in_childhood, who would have succeeded to the Euglish throne? Littie girl—Her eldest son.—Pick-Me-Up. Nellie—I don’t see ‘why Charley Dimpleton has suddenly been so taken with Dot Thurs- ton, How do you account for it? Jessie—Oh, I believe she was the first one to notice that he wasraising a mustache.—Cleve- land Leade Billings—Hello! What's come between you and the dashing Mrs. Coddington? I see she didn’t recognize you as she passed just now. Cantor—Oh, nothing much. Imet her in a crowded streetcar yesterday and congratulated her on having become a grandmother. I thought at the time thatshe didn’t seem to take it just right.—Cleveiand Leader. Pugilism—*‘The referee was bought up.” 0." s, of a mere Journal. Anyway, he tried to make a foul out typographical error.”—Detroit NEW TO-DAY. One loaf of bread may be light, sweet and digestible. You may use the same ma- terials for another and have it heavy, sour and soggy. The knack is in putting the in- gredients together just right. A substitute for Scott’s Emul- sion may have the same in- gredients and yet not be a perfect substitute, for no one knows how to put the parts together as we do. The se- cret of “how” is our busi- ness—twenty-five years of experience has taught us the best way. Two sises, 50 cts. and §1.00. Scorr & Bowwn, Chemists, New Yorlh TowNsEND's Cal. glace fruit. Palace Hotel bldg.* ——————— One of the daughters of the late General Logan, Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker, is soot to come into & snug fortune. Sheand her son; George Lemon Tucker, inherit two-ifths of the estate of tne late George E.Lemon, but in- stead of a fortune of $1,000,000, which it was supposed he had leit, it amounts to over $3,000,000. NEW designs in fire-otched boxes. Townsend's.* ——————— EPECTAL information dally to manufacturery, business houses and publie men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ————— “Mister,” said the small boy to the druggist, “gimme another bottle o' them patent pills you «old father day beiore yesterday.” ‘‘Are they doing him pood?” asked the clerk, Tooking pleased. “Id'no whether they're doin’ father good or not, but they're doin’ me good. They jis' fit my new slungshot.”—Detroit Free Press. —_— *“The Overland Limited.” Commencing Sunday, March 7, the Union Pa- cific will carry both first and secon | class passen- gers on the “Overia'd Limited,” leaving San Francisco every day in the week at 6 p. w., thro to Chiteazo without chanze, and all Eastern clties vis Niagara Fails. Pittsbur:, Washington and Philadelphis, In tweive hours quicker time than nv other line from California. Tickets and sleeper reservations at 1 Montgomery street. D W. 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