The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 13, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1897, 3 DECEMBER 13 1807 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE...... Market and Third strects, San Francisoo Telephone Main 1868, 517 Clay street EDITORIAL ROOMS. Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cenis. THE WEEKLY CALL. .One year, by malil, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE terersrensneness..908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN, NEW YORK OFFICE .Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE . €. CARLTO! ..Riggs House . Correspondent. nigomery street, corner Clay: 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 ; open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and ion streets; open until Y o'clock, 2515 Mission street; open 143 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. 1505 NW. corner 1wenty-second open until S Ti{ADE IMPROVING AGAIN. ONTRARY to expectations in some quarters the openine C of Congress, far from discouraging business, has imulated it. Public interest in speculation has revived somewhat, and on the New York Stock Exchange the most de* termined onslaughts of a powerful bear combination during the past few days have not met with the success expected by the organizers, the decline being comparatively slight. The bond market has ruled firm and the tendency in high grade bonds has been rather upward than otherwise. When it is considered that the London stock market has been depressed of late, the s0 insignificance of the break at New York is gratifying, as it in- dicates an undercurrent of strength, Indeed, it is observed that there is an increased and growing demand for good bonds and stocks, in which the larger earnings of the great railroads are the ruling factor. The usual siatistics, on which observing financiers base their views, continus to make a good showing. The gain in bank clearances last week was the largest for some little time, being 26.7 per cent, and not a single important city in the country showed a loss. The failures last week were 292, against r the same week last year. Collections are reported better in many localit Jovbers and retailers report a good and in- creasing trade for the holidays. The export movement from both coasts of the United States is large and shows no tendency to decrease. This, of course, swells the railroad earnings, whizh, during the past three months, have been larger than ever before. Another satisfactory sign is the improving demand for some of the leading staples. The woolen trade is reported more active ana quctations as a rule are maintained. There is more call for iron and steel products, largely due to extensive preparations for railroad work, bridges and buildings next year, and it is the general impression that this aetivity wiil be so pronounced that the capacity of the different works throughout tbe country will be seriously crowded aiter the New Year opens. On this coast business rules more or less quiet, but it is larger than at this time last year, as indicatea by the steady gsin in the local bank clearings. A rushing business on Alas- kan account isexpected after the turn of the year, and judging from present indications San Francisco is going to bave its share of it if push and enterprise and natural facilities can bring it about. Of course, prompt work wiil be necessary, but the reward is so large that it will amply repay the most strenu- ous exertions. Already tbe wholesale grocers, provision pack- ers, manufacturers and other commereial houses whose product will be wanted for the far north are actively preparing for the rush which they say is bound to come. If their opinion is worth anything, and it surely ought to be, there ;will be lively times in trade circles in S8an Francisco next year. The general markets show no particular change. Wheat continues unsettled, sympathy with the governing markets of the world, and moves up and down with more than usuai sensitiveness. The general rains have weakened barley, as they usually do, and the other cereals are dull and weak. The wool market is still inactive, but there is no decline in prices. Hides and leather are firm and in good demand. Hops are siill neglected at nominal quotations. Pork has declined some- what during the week. Dairy products are off, as usual at this time of the year, when the production of bntter and eggs makes & marked increase. The morket for all kinds of fruit, including oranges, rules dull, and prices are weak as a rule. Dried fruit, raisins, nuts and honey are neglected at the old quotations. Provisions show no change and business is inac- tive. Merchandise quotations are generally unchanged. The morey market continues well supplied with loanable funds at the usual rates of interest, but the demana for loans is not over brik. Collections are about as they gen- erally are at this season. Failures are small, those last week being only seventeen for the whole Pacific Coast. OUR MERCHANT MARINE. MONG the recommendations of the President’s message to which the country has a right to expect Congress will give prompt and favoradle consideration is that urging legislation in the interests of our merchant marine. Tuis great industry is exposed to the competition of foreign subsidized ships and is fighting a losing battle for the carrying trade of the country. On this issue the President is in full accord with the broad principle underlying the policy of protection to bome industry. Every argument that sustains the upbuilding of factories on land is equally efficient in sustaining the upbuilding of the shipping interests on the sea. Commerce and manufacture work in barmony together, and it is expedient thatthe Govern- ment should promote the one as earnestly as the other. As the President points out, the best way to extend our foreign commerce is to enlarge and improve our merchant marine. We should do our full share of tie carrying trade of the world instead of leaving it to foreigners to carry our goods for us. The existirg condition of affairs is humiliating to national pride as well as a severe drain upon the revenues of the people. Public sentiment is in full accord with the state- ment of the message, ‘‘the Government, by every proper con- stitutional means, should aid in making our ships familiar vis- itors at every commercial port of the world, thus opening up valuable markets to the surplus products of the farm and the factory.” It was the intention of Congress to aid American ships en- gaged in foreign trade by the discriminating auty clause of the tariff act, and while the intent failed of its purpose it gives sn- couragement to the belief that a better devised plan for pro- moting the industry will be enacted at this session. A measure aiming at that object is one on which all Republicans can agree, and it is to bs hoped that one will bs enactea and put into force before the close of the first year of the administra- tion chosen to restore prosperity to the republc ang ali the in- terests of its people. —_— As a question of ethics it would be interesting to know if the epithet “liar’ was ever passed between Fillmore of the Southern Pacific and Dickinson of the Union Pacific. and if so what effect it will have on the rate of speed maintained from the Missouri Kiver to San Francisco. Comment on the report that Spanish soldiers in a spirit of jocoseness exposed the bodies of their victims in the market- place as if for sale need not be extended. To say that the cor- respondent who sent it is undoubtedly a disgusting liar, would seem to cover the case. It may be hoped that after the polics have cleared the streets of the flower-venders they will turn their attention to the daylight footpads, who are evgn more dangerous than the crippled peddlers, TEE COOLIEE ADVOCATE HE Chronicle insists that a popular vote of this coast T would ratify the annexation of Hawaii by a two-thirds majority. What evidence has it? As far as California is concerned there is none. Here the evidence is the other way. This State voted on the freedom of our territory to Asiatic coolies as a separate proposition in 1879, and only 8oo votes were cast for it. What has changed that insignificant minority into a two-thirds majority? The Chronicle says the Legislature which elected Senator White passed an annexation resolution. True, but that reso- lution restricted annexation to the use of ‘““honorable means.” Every consideration of honor repudiates the means put in ac- tion by the Dole conquest. It would be like a Methodist con- ference advising circuit riders to use all honorable means to get saddle horses, and at its next session rebuking them for not stealing the animals, to impeach Senator White for op- posing the present treaty. The Legislature which elected Senator Perkins refused to pass and rejected an annexation resolution. So tHat method of expression is neutralized. The Chronicle says: “‘Hawali, asa field of purely tropical production, is bound to depend upon the Pacific Coast for the most of what it eats and wears, except sugar,” and then pro- ceeds to demand annexation lest Hawaii be lost to us commer- cially, “because it is the ambition of Japan to make it a com- mercial dependency.” If a field of tropical production must depend upon the Pacific Coast for what it eats end wears, that dependence is caused by natural conditions—by our comple- mentary production of what it wants. Japan produces what Hawaii does, and the Chronicle’s economic proposition is like Tom Marshall’s two farmers who raised potatoes and nothing but potatoes, and could not trade, for one had nothing to give the other for his potatoes but potatoes. The trade of Hawaii is and will remain ours, as the near- est country which can take her surplus at a profit and ex- change for it our surplus of what she needs. The Chronicle says that Senator Perkins was compelled by public opinion here to lay aside his prejudices against the treaty. He had none. His opposition to the treaty, as phrased by himself, was on the lines of fact, reason and judg- ment. As a merchant and navigator, he showed that the path of our Asiatic commerce lies 1600 miles north of Hawaii. That in strategy we would better fortify one of our islands in. the Aleutian Archipelago, in reach of our commercial highway, rather than Hawaii. The Chronicle then proceeds to have a war with Japan, in which Hawaii is seized by the Mikado, and one with England, in which Esquimalt is captured by Uncle Sam. Against all this gory rot lies the plain common-sense of Senator Hoar’s proposition to let Hawaii retain her autonomy, remain indegendent and neutral, by international agreement becoming the Switzerland of the seas. Then take the §5,000,- ocoo for Dole’s debts the treaty compels us to pay and expend it in fortifying San Francisco, until it equals Esquimalt, gun for gun and battery for battery. Mr. de Young wants our Gibraltar 2800 miles away in the tropics, to which we must carry coal, to be seized en route by | an enemy. As strategy it is equal to sawing off the limb be- ween us and the tree. Let this harbor and the heights around be our Gibraltar, with coal suppiy safely reached by railways that no invasion can cut. O the public against the practices of rascals Tug CArL bas exposed the Eraminer in the commission of a frauna, petty in itself, but so malicious in motive and unscrupulous in execution as to constitute a serious menace to the welfare of the community. By the exposure made yesterday we showed that the Eram- iner conceived the idea of injuring THE CaLL by circulatinga libel concerning it, and that, in order to injure the Alaskan Trade Committee at the same time, it issued the libel in the form of a circulur, bearing an address so cunningly worded as to deceive the public into the belief that the Alaskan Trade Committee was responsible for it, Though the double blow had no force other than that de- rived from the cunning of small minds it was not without effect, Some merchants were induced to believe that Tk CarLy, in outfitting the Bear for the relief of the Arctic whalers, had ignored home trade, while others, who knew the truth of the conditions under which the outfitting was done, were de- ceived into believing the Alaskan Trade Committee had en- gaged in the contemptible practice of circulating slanders through the mails. FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD. NCE more in the performanc ot the duty of protecting While the majority of intelligent men recognized ata glance the fraudulent nature of i1he anonymous circular and perceived that the address given, ‘‘Headquarters San Fran- cisco Merchants’ Committee on Klondike Outfitting,” was but a counterfeit imitation of the address of the Alaskan Trade Committee, nevertheless the unwary were likely to be deceived by it, and sieps were taken at once therefore to discover and expose the rascals who issued it. The Alaskan Trade Commit- tee offered a reward of $500 for the conviction of the perpe- trators and THE CALL employea aetectives to ferret them out. It was naturai that suspicion should be directed to the office of the Examiner. The absentee proprietor of that paper is well knowa to be virtually a fugitive from justice. Safein his New York residence he mocksat those who seek tq sue him for any of the offenses of his paper in S8an Francisco. That journal therefore has long since thrown aside all scruples, and being beyond legal penalties has mocked at honor, morality, decency and even law itself. % The unscrupulous means employed in carrying out the cunningly devised attack upon THe CALL and the Alaskan Trade Committee are worth noting as illustrations of the viciousness of the Ezaminer managers. Too cowardly to take risks themselves, they put young boys to the task of the dirty snd risky work. One of these boys, sent to obtain copies of THE UALL, represented himself to a newsdealer as having been sent from Twe CALL office. Had his story been believed and his lie successful he would now be guilty of obtaining goods under false pretenses. The Ezaminer managers would, of course, disclaim responsibility in bis lie, as they disciaimed responsibility in the falsification of the dispatch from Cantain Tuttle, which Mrs. Tuttle denounced as a forgery. The boy would then have had to bear the penalty, and Mr. Hearst would have continued free and easy, as usual, in New York. The exposure made in this case is a matter of concern to every citizen. Whocan say how many ancnymous circalars, false, vicious and malignant, have been issued from the Ezaminer office? It is not likely that the Alaskan Trade Committes and Tue Cavrare the only institutions in thecity that paper.has sought to injure by similar means. When blackmail cannot be levied by an open hold-up a cowardly villain never hesi- tales to stab in the back. Without going far back in its history or taking note of small fakes and frauds in the way of so-called news, this is the recordof the Eraminer: It has been exposed extorting a subsiay from the Bouthern Pacific; it has been caught hiring aboy to commit the petiy iarceny of stealing a copy of Tug CarL from® the pressroom so that the Framiner might steal TuE CALL news; it has been exposed in falsifying a dispateh from Captain Tuttle; it has been diseovered imitating 3o close- Iy as to amount to a counterfeit the titie of the Ataskan Trade Committee; it has been shown to be the circulator of slan- ders through the mails. With such a record the Eraminer is the pablicly kn own employer of fakers, liars, petty larcenists, slanderers, black- mailers; and still the absentee proprietor lives safely in New York, while the merchants, the society and all the instiiutions of San Francisco remain the prey of his predatory hirelings and the viclims of his cowardly malice. —_— Since the Ezaminer is so fond of exploiting crime it might grasp the opportuniiy to induige in autobiography, Itisina position to score a £coop as to many details. | should push their products into every a: | with na | rateof THE COAST PRESS. Rediands has another new paper in the Record, edited by J. A. Whitmore, & Dewspa- per man of considerable experience. It is re- Pplete with well-writtea news items. Increase in advertising patronage is the ex- cellent reason for the enlargement of the Ba- kersfield Echo. The people oi Kern County’s capital appreciate enterprise, as well as the value of printer’s ink in an up-to-date paper. The San Bernardino Sun aunounces that early in the spring it will issue an illustrated souvenir edition devoted to the interesisand industries of San Bernardino County. It will be a 50-paged booklet, mazazine form, and the edition will consist of some 5000 coples. The Calistogian has celebrated its twentieth birthday by discarding its “patent ontstde” and appearing as an all-home production. The paper is meeting with deserved success, aud is doing valuable service for the ad vance- ment of the 1nterests of Calistoga and vicinity. J. W. Tinker and F. H. Fowler are the new editors and managers of the Hemet News, and they propose to devote their best energies to the growth of Hemet and settlement and de- velopment of San Jacinto Valley. The gentle- men candidly admit that they are novices in the business, but assert their high purposes, and ask that criticism be tempered with jus- tice. The Hanford Sentinel has issued a special edition, descriptive of that city’s advautages of location, its fine climate and the proauct- iveness of the surrounding country. It shows in a concise way just what Hantord and Kings County have to cffer for the Investment of capital, establishment of manufacturing industries and the culture of all kinds of fruit and vegetables. The Los Angeles Herald was “at home' to a multitude of guests last Thursday, invitations, handsomely printea on fine paper, Laving been issued for that occasion. The new, spaci- ous and elegant quarters of the paper in the Hellman building were inspected, and the ex- tensive, complicated and cost'y equipment of the Herald was doubtless found quite up to the metropo.itan standard. The paper has made astonishing progress uuder its present management. Charles A. Lucas has assumed the editorial management of the Elevato-, the organ of the Afro-Americans in this city. The birth of that Ppaper was simuitaneous with the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation by the im- mortal Abraham Lincoln. The founder of the Elevator was the late Philip A. Bell, a colleague of Fred Douglass in the battle for the freedom of the colored race in America and & man of great moral torce. Success has attended the publication of the paper from its very iucep- tion, and it ranks to-day as one of the leading journsls devoted to the inlerests of the colored people. A number of improve- ments in the Elevator are contemplated for the near future, the same being justified by the liberal patronage accorded ihe paper. The Humboldt Standard has rendered ma- terial assistance toward the upbuilding of the redwood shingle industry of Northern Cali- fornia. The outlook for & large Eastern de- maud for this product is very promising. Hum- boldt manufacturers may be counted on to steer clear of the suicidal policy of sending inferior redwood shingles to the Enstern market 1o be s0ld as the first-grade article. Says the Standard: “By way of caution our shingle- makers should take the greatest care to ship nothing which is not true to grade and name, This county will yet gather in millions for her redwood products soid east of the Kockies. The best market for the present und near fu- ture will be founa in shingles; but, 1f we ever secure & railroad, a demand for first-class red- wood will spring up, as the supply of clear pine 18 meager, even in the Southern S:ates, and will soon be exhausted. In this era of ‘hustling for trade’the redwood mill men ought to keep up with the procession. They il- able marke: agd not wait for buyers to come aiter lumber abd shingles. This apathy, this waiting for trade to come to, us in the past has worked injury to the redwood nill men, and they should learn from experience what must be done to win aud hold trade.” NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Parsons, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, the builder of the famous Turbinia, has tak:n the con- tract to build a torpedo-boat destroyer tomake aspeed not less than 36 knots and of which Le anticipates s hign as 40 knots. The Spanish torpzdo-voat destroyer Pluto, built in England, has attained & speed of neerly 301{ knots under forced draught over the measured mile course. During a coatinu- ous run of one and a halt hours the spaed was just 30 knots per hour. In & two-hour run al draught the boat steamed at the ¢ knots per hour, Gibralter is evidently to be made the key to the Mediterranean, as vast improvements are being pushed forward and the place has chnroged its appearance entirely within tne past five years. A huge protected harbor and dockyard, with graving dock, storehouses and workshops, 1s in course of consiruction, and wiil make the old roek still more difficuls to capture than ever befora. Four French battle-ships of the Charle- magne class have been lauached from one to 1wo years ago and are approaching comple- tion as fast as the peculiar methods of French dockyards will permit. It appears now, how- ever, that the turrets and heavy guns wiil not be ready until 1899, and thus four vessels, representing a final total cost of $24,000,000, will be useless in the interim. When finaily completed in 1899 the Charlemagne will have taken five years to build, and she is now being severely criticized for lacking adequate pro- tection for her gun crews. The British battle-ship Illustrious passed through her thirty hours' coal-consumption triallast month. Tne performance was under half poiler power, and with 142 pounds of steam and 83 revolutions 6155 horsepower were developed, giving e speed of 14 51 knots. Tne coal consumption was oaly 1.77 pounds per horse per hour, or &t the rate of neatly 116 tons during twenty-four hours. The Illas- trious displaces 14.900 toas on her normal draught, but she was not dowa within one foot of her draught, aud therefore dis- placed about 14,330 tons, or 3300 tons more then the United Statss battle-ship Iowa, which last mouth passed her final aceeptance trial, making about 14 knots with 8250 horse- power, Further details of the Baltic-Black Sea Canal Rive better ideas of the route and magnitude ot the work. It will start at Riga, where work has already begus, and follow the course of the River Duna io Dunaburg, thence to Lepel on the Beresina to the junction with the Daiever, and thence to Cherson on the Black Sea. Of the total canal route of 1500 miles only 125 miles wiil be artificial navigation, the remainder beibg along the rivers indi- cated above, which will be deepened and wid- ened where required to make a uniform width at the top of 216 feet 8 inches, 116 feet 8 inches at the bottom, and a depth of 28 feet d inches. Fifteen soaports will be developed along the routs, and it is expected that the canal will be opened for business in 1902, An interesting story of the vicissitudes of a former Royal English yacht, Victoris, come: from Japan. She belonged to Queen Victoria, and was presented by her to the Japanese Government in 1859, when she was renamed the Banryo and fitted out as & vessel-of-war. On the outbresk of the restoration war in Japan the Banrvo deserted from Shinagawa, with other of the Fokugawa Government ves- sels, and arrived at Hakodate after a very stormy passage. During the subsequent troubles she participated in nine engage- ments with vessels of the imperial navy, and in the last figit, when her ammunition gave out, she was beached and set oa fire, but the flames were put out before serious damage was done. Subsequently she was purchased by an Englishman, who had her repaired and brought back to Hakodate, where she was s0ld 1o the Kaitakushi Company and named Raiden Maru. Later on she was commissioned a8 A gunbout In the navy, to be condemned a few years later and presented to Mr. Hiro- matsu to be used as a whaler. The latter again s0ld her to Fukunaga of Osaka, who trans- ferred the old hulk to Nagoshi, who is now pulling her to pieces. TEN cents for a bottie of Low’s hore- hound cough syrup, 417 Sansome st, * UNIQUE POSTAL SERVIGE IN FRANGE. In the southwestern pert of France, stretching along the Bay of Biscay for some seventy miles and running back along the rivers emptyi 8 strange tract of open country called the “Landes.’”” It formerly consisted of low sandy Ppluins, mostly covered at high tiae by the sea, bi planted with pine trees, which are cultivated for the sake of the resin extractod from them. The s0il of the plains is naturaliy very sterile, being composed of a mixture of sand, clay and organic debris resting on a subsoil of tufa, which is impermeable to water. Consequently for three-fourths of the year the sbundant rainia!l, about filty-five inches, unabie to fi.ter ng into it, between Bordeaux and Bayonne, is ut now much of it has been reclaimed and DELIVERING " il IR <722, &G~ THE MAIL. through. rests on the almost level surface and transforms ‘the country into vast marshes and | morasses, which later, under the heat of the summer sun, partialiy dry up and become breed- ing places for malarious fevers. For these reasons the population is very sparse and confined to afew scattered villages and groups of dwellings or huts, the inhabitant care of their flocks of sheep, which in season find sustenance on the coarse gorse and broom sedge which cover the best part of the viains. place the peasants make use of long stilts, whicn eight or ten feet above ground, they can watch and cross the sloughs, pools and bogs without which serves as a balance when walking and a support when resting. This country {8 pro- vided with a regular mail service, and the posti going their rounds from village to vitlage, bota son when the marshes are covered with snow an kind of wood shoeskate by whien they are enab) without breaking throuzh. With his muilba; with sheepskin, with which h's legs are also covered, staiking along through the marshes, miles away irom any habitation or human being, he presents probably as unique a figure a8 is to be seen in official life anywhere in the worla. s of which are almost whol levoted to the Fouz this service and traveling from place to re tied to their legs. Mounted on these, their flocks over a wide extent of the marsh dificuity. They earry with them a long pole, men make useof the same contrivances in | in summer and winter, only in the latter sea- d ice they fasten to the bottom of the stilt a led to walk aud glide along the snow erust 5 and his large white cloak or *‘capol’” lined PERSONAL. Willlam Roche of Kausas City is at the | Grand. R. M. Gilt of Btockton is at the Cosmo- politan. | W. O. Barnes of Astoria, Or., is at the Cosmo- politan. | Mrs. N. Schofield of Sierra City is at the Cos- | mopolitag. John Campbell of Georgetown, Colo., is at the Cosmopolitan. W. W. Burtin, the capitalist of Santa Bar- bara, 1s at the Pleasanton. J. M. and George H. Guffy of Pittsburg, iron merchants, are at the Palace. Lieutenant Herbert Winslow of the Unitea States Navy and wife are at the Pleasanton. Mrs. Winslow has just returned from a trip to apan. CALIFORNIANS IN CHICAGO, CHICAGO, Dec. 12.—At the Wellington, Mr.and Mrs. C. M. Oliver, San_Francisco; Le- iand—Mrs. Daniel J. Loveland, R C. Glover, D. Danfels, Miss E. Loveland, San Francizco; | Palmer, T. F. Livingston, San Diego. Oh. listen, little Dear. oul, To the falry voices cailing, For the moon Is tijgh in th And the honey dew is fa | LULLABY. | s | | misty sky | 3. i To the midnight feast in the clover bloom | T'he bluebells are a-ringing And i's “come away 10 the land of fay” That the ka!ydid is singing. Oh, slumber, 1i:tle Dear-My-Soul, And hand in band we'il wauder. Hand in haud to the beautitul land Of Balow, away off yonder. or we'll Into the w Over a stream of nis: aud dream Into the land of Balow, Or, you shall have two veautiful wings— ‘Two gossamer wings and alry, And ali the while shall the oid moon smi'e And thing you a Mitle fairy. And you shall dance in the veivet sky And the siivery stars shall twinkle And dream sweet dreams 1s over thelr beams Your foottalls softiy tinkle. —Kugene Fleld. NOTES ABOU( NOIABLLES, o R | Tne salary of the Archbisop of Canterbury | is $50,000 a year, and yet he talks of resign- | ing. | The Marquis of Bute, who is an extensive | landowner in South Wales, is having his three sons taught Weish. | Manuel Ferraz de Campos Salles, eandidate | of the Governmental party for President of | Brezil, is a lawyer and ediwr, 57 years old. | He has traveled widely in Europe. Afriend having deciered in Mrs. Siddou’s heearing that applause was nec:ssary 1o actors | —that it gave them confidence. *More,” in. terposed she, “it gives us preath.” William Sloan Green of Portland, Ind., who has just celebrated his 110th birthday, is the oidest man in lndiana,and, dispite his great age, bis bearing and eyesight are good. Russell Sage denies the report thathe is to re- | tire from Wail street. “Wny?” he said, aghast atthe rumor, “I have added largely to my noldings this fall” All of Mr. Sage's early assoclates in business are either dead orbank- ruot. Stephen Horsey. one of the celebrated Knights of the Golden Circle, who was ar- rested in Indiana in 1864 on suspicion of con- spiring to aid the Confeaeracy, is dying in the asylum for the poor in the little town of | Shoals, Ind., forgotien by friends and eue- mies, FLASHES OF FUN. “Do you consider it healthful to sleep after eating?” “I don’t know; but I've found it mighty healtny to eet after sleeping.”’—Detroit Free Press. Jean—Why do you never speak to Mr. Outre? He is uncouth, but I feel sure he is a diamond in the rough. Katherine—So do I. That's why Iam cutting him.—Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune, She—Idon’t sze what draws you men into politics. As for me, I can’t meke anything out of it. He—It is the hope of making something out of it tuat makes so many men go in.— Cincin- nati Enquirer. “It's too bad they didn’t have judges in Adam’s time."” “Wny?'" “Think of the trouble he might have saved by getting an injunction to restrain the angel from driving him out of the garden of Eden.”—Chicago Daily News. dike is a sort of dam, isn’t it?* e8; why?” ‘hen I think that in view of the amount of profanity the Kiondike has provoked its name | should be changed to Klondam.”—Pitisburg Chronicle-Telegraph. | native of € | Supreme Beneh. | Their prevauiing characteristic is to cry ‘wh | compass his defeat—und succesded. | ~Caifornia could have had honor and glory galore it not been for the unfortunate | 1and when ne said: A CALIFORNIAN'S PROTEST. To the Editor of the C I: Permit me as a | ifornia to enter a most solemn protest against the sentiment which to such incidents us the protests against the elevation of the Hon. Joseph McKenna to the The busy men of our land may not realize the prevalence of the spirit of jealousy and selfishness which inspires such unseem!ly conduct. These characteristics are | largely local. California is conspicuous for want of State pride, appreciation of the true worth of her sons and fid:lity to those who serve her faithially. Other States have their favorite sons, their citizeas uniie on great pubiic questions and they work together for & common good. In Calitornia we can have no iavorite son, 10 matter how general & good may be at stake, Our people divide instead of uniting to pro- mote a common good. A large minority can alweys be relied upon to try to defeat the will | of the majority. Inolder Eastern States, Senators, Congress- men, Judges, are re-clected lerm after term, until they command esormous influence for | good. Inoue term the most able man cannot | secure a standing such as enables him to ac- complish any thing for his section; he cannot even equip himsell to be useful to hiscoun- try. California has hardiy ever returned a Senator, seldom a member of Congress. Our State to-day is 2 quarter of & century re- tarded in development, the great Northwost, which should have been built up only as the result of a legitmate overflow from Califor- nis, has become a formidable rival. Itis the apathy, indifference, jealousy and selfi:haess of our people which have caused this. No public man cf merit can be advanced | no public measure promoted, but vicious, un- reasonable opposition desiroys both. Once the writer asked Mr. Huntington if he did not believa a more generous policy to- ward California shippers wouid eventuate in greater profit 1o his railway in the long run. Huntingtlop sald: 0; you du not know your people as I do. behind.’ They have no appreciation of ge: erous treatment.’ | Tne writer was a candidate for appointment | “ommissioner of the General Land Offi-e in Whatever may be said 1o the contrary 1 been selected for that office. tockton wnd anti-Stockton couvention ere in Waskingiou, each with a blue book with ail the offi:es apportfoned. Taey led the lobbies with their complimentary allusions eacn 10 the othar. Each asked the writer *“Are you with us?” He declined to join either. Hoth cliques then united o en- ailings which inspire this letter, Justices of the Supreme Court, Cabinet offi- cers, Ministers to joreign countries, poteut Senators and members of Congress we cou'd have had were our veople only as patriotic, wise, generous aud unseifish as are those of the oider States, The same characteristics which keep down our public men serve 1o retard ail develop- ment. Had San Francisco merchants and others had half as much enterprise and energy as have the newcomers in Southern California, Portiand, Seatile and Tucoma would now be in embryo and all of the trade of the Pacific Coast would gravitate to and radiate from San Francisco, Irving M. Scott struck the k-ynote which sends tne truth resounding throughout the “The basis for nearly all of our trouble lies in the lamentably low ebb of per-onal inteerity. Lower and lower has this become, uniil no man who has any se .- respect dare seck political pre:erment, ho ever pure and good he may have been.” We shouid be proud of Judge McKonna. He isa credit to us. Notone true word has been spoken to his discredit. He is only *not aoie,” “not distinguished’ enough. How many of the Justices of the Supreme Cour: were known 10 possess greater abilily and distinetion than he when they were appointed? How do we Kuow that Judge McKen:a may not become another Taney, Marshall or Fiela? How do we know that eircuinstances mey not arise which will eaable us to earoll his name among those of our greatest men? Graut was nota great man in our opinion during the days when he was oue of us, No man cau become greater than his envi- ronments wiil permit of. With suck: surroundings as one has hera in California, greatness and distinction are almost unattsinable; but when men of suoh sterliug cuaracter, nalive ability and grand ambition as Judge McKeuna reach n position of lim1 less scope, what may we not expeot of them? Asaunit all of the people of this State shouid unite in helviug every honest, pure true man 1o attain eminence, e’lsnex at home or abroad. Do not by your acts educate your sons to believe it Tespectabic 10 keep crying “whip behind”; honorable, to try 0 tear down; just 10 sce& Aiways for thie weakest spot in a iellow man; thon expose it. Teach the boys that avility, lntegrity ana energy are sure passports to pubiic favur, and insure them the opporive nity to become great, if they have it in them. San Franeisco, Dacember 12, 1597, -5 F —_— IT WAS A MUDEL ACCOUNT. Alameda ncinal THE CALL'S eccount of the hanging of Allen- der wes a mod 1of what such things should be. It was brief, devoid of any attempt at sensationalism, was notaccompanied by iilus- trations and was confined solely to a recital of ANSWERS TO CORIESPONDENTS. ‘1Y FIRE—A- Res ity. The VIRGINIA CITY FIRE—A- Reader, C 7 great fire in Virginia C , New., occurred on the 26tn of Octover, 18 Frsi AND GAME—W. L. B., French Gulch, Cal As itis unlawful in the State of Californla to cateh trout at any time, except by book and e and us it is also nniawiul to trap quail and other game, this department will notgive any information on the subject of trapping such. i N UTE—! City. ‘his department ARrT InsTITUTE—O. J., City. b 4 was misinformed jn the matier of the open the Hopkins Institute of Art, conse- aa iy the answer given Just Thursday was Tect The institute is op Piblicon the afternoon and evening of 1he Jirst, anc vot the last, Friday of each mont MADAME ANNA Brspop—S. City. Madame Anns B shop gave a farewell concert in the clty of New York at Steinway Hall on May 2, 1873, and then came West, arriving in San Francisco Ju'y 15, 1875, a3 £478 ‘o ont: A ris - Mont: Somrets Sireet, nenr Bush. July 17 of thut year Tn this she was assisted by Alfrea Wilkie, iho well-known tenor, now a resident of Oukland, L M. Gotischalk, parytone, and Frank Gilder, pianist. Her final concert in San Francisco Wvas on Julv 27 in Pac.fic Hall,on Bushstrect, between Kearny and Dupont, the coucert being a grand sucred one. MONTENEGRO — Subscriber, Alameda, Cal Montenegro belonged to the great Servian kingdom, but after the dismemberment of this and its conquest by the Turks at the battle of Kostovo in 1839, the Montenegrins, under their Prince, who was of the royal biood of i pdependen Servia, maintained their indepen , though compelled to relinquish the level tracts about beutari, with Ill\:ll: orr :4: of Zablisk, aud confive themselves in 1485 Lo lie. mountains. The Porte continued toas- Sert ita claim 10 Montenegro and ir cluded it in the pasnalik of Sentiry, but the country was not conquered till 1714, and, on withdrawa of the Turks soon aficrward, it resumed its in- dependence. In 1860 the Monienegring ex- cited an insureciion ngaivst the Turkish rule in Herzegovina, which wes soon suporessed, and, in return, they were so hard pressed the ‘Turks that they were giad Lo agree 1o & treaty in 1862, by which ine sovereignty of the Sublime Porfe over Montenegro W recognized. i AL OFFICE Itis to sumed that the question asked refers. only to Federal ofticers who do not come with- in the civil service rules and who are con- nected with those depariments that are under those rules. They are as iollows: Departmental service—Private secretaries or confidential clerks (not exceeding two), to the President or 10 the head o1 excn of the Execu- tive departments. Indians employed in the Indian service ut large, except ihose employed s tuperiuzendents, iteachers, tenchers of in- dustries, kindergartens nnd paysicians. : Custom-house service—One cashier in each customs district, One chief or principal deputy, or assistant cotlentor in each custons district, whose employes number as many as 150. Pustoffice service—Oue nssistant Postmaster, or cajef essistant to the Posimaste ever desizuation, at each cashier of exch fir t-class Postoff ployed urder the roster title of cashier luternal Revenue service—One casiiier in i ench Internal Revenue distriet. That is these are exempt irom examination or registration under the rules. Then there are certain laborers who are not under the rules. MoTHER SHIPTON—R. C. M., Naps, Cal. The so-called Mother Shipton prophecy, which is as follows, was uever written by Mother Shipton: Carriages without horses shall zo, And aceidents shull il the world with woe, Around the earth thoughts shall fly In the twinkling of an eye ‘Water shall y el more wouders do, So strange. vet <hall be true. ‘The world upsid: down shall be, And zold be found at rool’s tree. Jhrough hills man shal a- And 1o horse nor ass be at h TUnder the water. man sha 1 wal Shall ride, shall sleep, shull talk. lion ia the w As ensy as Gold shall be found mid stone In a 1and that's now unknown. ¥ire aud wacer shail wonders do. Engiand shatl at Jast admit a Jew, And this world to an eud shall come 1n eighteen hundied and eighty-oue. Mother Shipton lived more than 300 ago, and she propiecied many ihings, so which came true and others did not.” In 1362 Charles Hindley of Brighton, Engiand, pub- lished what purported to be & chap book ver- siou of Mother Shipion’s prophecies, and that inciuded the one quoted. It was chareed that “the prophecy” Was a forgery. In 1873 Hind- ears e of ley wrote a letter confessing thai he had Writien the prophecy to make a sale for his book. Coasequently “the prophesy’ has no value, CALIFORNIA glace iruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend's.* e SPECIAL Information daily 10 manufacturary, tusiness houses and public men by the Presi Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Moutgomery, * e Sl e Hospital Day in Our Churches. An interdenominational conference of the ministers of this city is calied 10 meet at the Young Meu’s Christian Association, corner of Mason and_Ellis streets, Monday, Deeember 13,81 2P M. The purpose of the conference is to agree upon & Sawurday and Sunday when an_aunual collection shail be taken in ail places of worship for the benefit of tiie hospitals huving free beds. . To this meeting are invited the ministers of whatever faitn or creed. It 15 desired to estabiish & humane and charitable custom, which shall eppeal to the whole city. A large representation is expected. 0 S asea Toilet Articles. All the bost makes of perfumery put up in the nicest bottles with prettiest labels and elegant boxes. Ceiluloid, Cosmian ana ster- 1ing silver sets of mirrors, combs and brushes, Atomizer manicure sels, traveling set:, hair, clothes and tooth brushes, The very best moderate-priced goods in the world. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. Open evens ings. > ———————— “You are short a cent,” said the conductor, as he leaned forward and breathed heavily, “You are not,” said Briggs, as he caught an agonizing waft of garlic.—Cleaveland Plain Dealer. ““Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syenp" Fas been used over fiity years by millions of moth ers for their children while Teething with per! success. 1 soothes the child, softens the gums,al lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowely and is the best remedy for Diarrheas, whe arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Lrugkists in every part of the world. Be sureanl #2K 10X Nrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 20€400ies —————— CORONADO.—Almosphere Is perfectly dey. sor and mild. beinc entirely free from the mists com- mou further north, Kound- trip tickets, by steam. ship, iuciuding fifteen days' toard at the Hotel s Coronado, $60; longer stay 82 50 perday. App.s 4 New Monigomery stree. San Fraucisco, or A. W. Baiiey, menager Hotel del Coronado, late )t Hotel Colorado, Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Hicks—You say that he sighed and then she sighed. It was a regular circus for the only a sighed show.—Boston Fat is absolutely neces- sary as an article of “diet. If it is not of the right kind itmay not be digested. Then the body will not get enough of it. In this event there is fat-starvation. Scott’s Emulsion supplies this needed fat, of the right} kind, in the right quantity, and in the form already partly digested. As a result all the organs and tissues take on activity, the plain facts. It is & pity thatall papers could not follow the examplé thus set for al- most the first time on this coast, { 50c. and $1.00, all druggists, BCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York,