The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 25, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 189S. TUESDAY. JANUARY 25, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ! Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. VP{JBLIC:;;&'V‘ OFFICE Market and Third Sts. S. F. Telep Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS.... .2I7 to 221 Stevenson stree Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. One year, by mall, $1.50 OQAKLAND OFFICE .. ..908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE -Room 188, World Building ‘WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE C. C. CARLTON, Corresponde! BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street. eorner Clay: | open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street: open untll 9:30 o'clock. 6i5 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock SW. corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets; open until €o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock 106 Eleventh st.; open until9 o'clock, 1505 Polk street cpen until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets: open until 9 o’clock. | Riggs House AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—" The Girl From Parts.” California—"Courted Into Court.” Alcazar—"The Arabfan Nights." Morosco's—"Brother for Brother.” Tivoli— Brian Boru.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Bush—Thalia German-Hebrew Opera Co., Wednesday night. Olympia, cor. Mason and EdQdy streets.—Kirchner's Ladles’ | Orchestra. Metropolitan Temple—Conc The Chutes—Chiq; nd Vauaeville Lybeck Cycle Skatiug Rink—Optical Illustons. Pacific Coast Jockey Club, Ingleside Racetrack—Races to-day. | Thursday evening. AUCTIO! By Shainwald, Buckbee tate, at 21 Montgomery Stry By G.H. Umbsen, Mond: SALES. his day, January 2, Real Es- | at 12 o'clock. , Junuary 81, Real Estate, at 14 i Montgoniery street, at 12 o'cl THE HUNTINGTON MESSAGE. N yesterday's edition of this paper appeared a [ message from Mr. Huntington. It counseled change in the people of California, in effect, the cultivation of a spirit of unselfishness leading them to work for the common interest. Surely the advice is good for this State or for any other. It would be ungracious to use Mr. Huntington's | message as a text for harsh comment or as the ex- has been Let the mes- sage be accepted as sincere and well intended. But Mr. Huntington must know that here the opinion prevails that he, more than any other one person, is responsible for the lack of progress to which he refers. Could he not, then, find it possible to set an example? Precept is excellent, but there is always much of it, and of example the rarity has often been noted. There can be no objection to Mr. Hunting- ton’s offering wise counsel. But were he to act upon it there would be appla C in time to be started from the Oakland mole at 1:53 Sunday morning were delivered at Sac- ramento within an hour and forty minutes later, and in Los Angeles within twelve hours. The earliest risers in the capital found The Call awaiting them, and in the far City of the Angels the people had the satisfaction of receiving and reading the grand edi- tion early in the afternoon. | These feats were record breakers for the railroad. | Never before has such swift time been made on a long railway run in California, and but rarely in any | part of the world. The time made to Los Angeles | was, in fact, an extraordinary achievement and will | be long memorable in railroad records. During the | run the breaking of a bolt delayed the engine an | hour and forty-five minutes,and still the trip wasmade ‘ in less time than originally estimated. For a portion | of the way the speed exceeded seventy miles an hour. | By breaking the railroad records The Call main- | tained its own. It is always on time. It never fails | to surpass bygone achievements and to set up new standards of excellence for the emulation of rivals. In this instance it obtained a double triumph by pub- lishing the best Jubilee edition and by delivering it | more promptly than any other paper. When other[ morning journals of this city reached the interiof they were virtually back numbers. The people had already learngd the news of the day and read ac- counts of the grand Golden Jubilee hours before in i the glowing columns of the speedy Call. “Full steam ahead” was announced as the motto | of The Call when the new management took charge, | and full steam ahead it is. The Call is going to the | front in all lines of newspaper activity with a rapid- | ity and sureness that break all records. It is mak- | ing itself known as the ideal Californian paper. It is | prompt to give special distinction to cach event of" notable importance that arises, it is prompt to cham- pion enterprise and movements for good government | in all sections of the State, it is prompt to expose | corruption wherever it may be found and to denounce | wrongdoers no matter in what powerful combina- tions they may exist, it is prompt to gather up all the | news and prompt to distribute it. The recordbreaking | runs to Sacramento and to Los Angeles were but | illustrative of the movement The Call is making all | along the line. It not only gets there, but gets there \ first. a cuse for reproducing comment such as found necessary on other occasions. FULL STEAM AHEAD. OPIES of the Jubilee edition of The Call issued | | e ——ce—— There is yet a lack of lucid explanation as to the | method by which the Examiner procured certain pictures belonging to the Placerville Mountain | Democrat and not only published them as its own, but boasted they were “exclusive.” With its long | practice, a real yellow journal ought to be equal m‘v committing larceny more smoothly and know enough | not to try to make excuses. Whenever the Ex- aminer makes the plea of “not guilty” public opinion | at once amends by striking out the “not.” . Dr. Talbot of New York is a candidate for sym- pathy. While at 35—the very prime of life—he has been left a lorn widower. All he has to console him | is the million dollars left by his wife and the thought | of his own noble sacrifice in having married her. Mrs. Talbot was 81, and the world has a sincere ad- | miration for the man who takes to wife a woman forty-six years his senior. RS Ii President Dole intends to remain until the Sen- ate shall act on the treaty his stay will be sufficient to permit him to become acquainted with this coun- try. But if he is under contract to stay until favor- | able action, he might as well send for his household goods. e e The Paris editors who are having duels over the Zola case ought to send the novelist a bill. He is no more entitled to free advertising than anybody else. | the islands will decay. If the plantations are run in | slavery was is introduced into our politics. | | arate laws, hoped for by Dole, are passed to permit | , out these calm and unprejudiced statements of the | ecutions, in its opinion, is very great. HAWAIIAN LABOR. GAIN, we insist, let the truth be told about fl “the peculiar conditions and the needs of la- bor” in Hawaii. If the Government is to give the islands the “separate laws” hoped for by Presi- dent Dole, by which they can secure coolie contract labor, let that fact be admitted now. In the present position of the pea somebody is liable to bet it is under the wrong shell, and the shell game is not statesmanship, anyway. Robert Cotton, for twenty ycars a resident in the islands, has recently written to an Eastern friend some facts that deserve a wide circulation. In this letter Mr. Cotton says: “After annexation the present Asiatic population would disappear, to reappear in the continental parts of the United States, and the question as ‘to what population would take its place brings me to the principal part of the misfortune that I think annexa- tion would be to the islands—the difficulty would be in getting labor for the sugar plantations. There are ardent annexationists here who affect to see some means of keeping up the Asiatic labor supply after we are part and parcel of the United States andsubject to their laws, those against contract labor among others. Now, without the sugar plantations the islands would be commercially nowhere, and without a large per- centage of contract labor it has not been hitherto found practicable to work any plantation success- fully, and if we are to depend for the success of our sugar industry upon eluding the laws of the United States we shall be paying much too high a price for the privilege of living under those laws. Some ar- dent annexationists profess to believe that the cane fields can be cultivated by white labor, but they know better, as does every one who knows what cane culti- vation is.” That is a sober and truthful statement. If our labor laws are extended to Hawaii, together with our Chi- nese exclusion laws, and enforced, the commerce of | as | If sep- | violation of these laws an issue as dangerous the use of low-priced coolie labor in Hawaii, our | American sugar industry may as well stop where it is to save the loss of the greater sacrifice it must | make by and by. All the time men like Mr. Cotton, having no interest in the oligarchy or the monarchy, | but long resident in the islands and close observers of the “peculiar conditions and needs of labor,” give situation. So far not a military, commercial nor political | reason worthy of consideration has been offered in | favor of annexation. Nor has a straight or direct | answer been given by any annexationist to such} statements as Mr. Cotton’s. | An answer is simple and easy, if possible at all. Let any sugar planter who is putting up the money | for annexation say whether his plantation can be | worked by white labor at white wages. If he thinks | it can let him test it at once by enrolling such labor immediately, in San Francisco, and sending it out at wages equal to those paid by the beet sugar farmers here. | Surely the magnitude of the issues involved war- | rants such a test, and if those who profess to believe | white labor possible there are telling the truth there is no risk in the experiment. | A full season, a year, may be taken in the trial. Annexation need not be hurried, indeed it cannot be, | for the réasons which The Call has given for the last two months now dominate the situation and annex- ation cannot come at all. - But the planters who have been promoting it may have enough regard for their reputation to make a | twelve months’ trial of white labor at white wages. A CHANGED BOODLER. UST now the Mission street Boodler is greatly d concerned about the administration of the law in the local criminal courts. This concern is interesting because the Boodler, until recently, has | been in favor of putting the screws upon everybody detected violating the provisions of the Penal Code. At times, indeed, it has been clamorous upon the | subject, and when engaged in enforcing the law it has not hesitated frequently to advise the employ- ment of special counsel to assist the elected prose- | cuting officers, as well as often to darkly threaten application of vigilance committee methods for the punishment of certain classes of crime. Now it says the employment of special counsel for the prosecution of offenses against the law is a “privi- lege that should be jealously guarded.” The danger of personal feelings being introduced into such pros- It is the duty of the public prosecutor, the Boodler thinks, to be just and fair and to refrain from resorting to those “devious, doubtiul methods which lawyers so often employ to win lawsuits, either by hook or crook.” In other words, the Boodler now believes the crim- inal law should be administered without passion or prejudice and upon an exactly contrary theory to that which, in pursuit of “advertising” contracts, it has for years advocated administering it. ‘We need scarcely add that the Boodler’s wonderful revulsion of sentiment is attributable to the fact that one of its editors has fallen into the clutches of the law and is soon to grace the dock of a criminal de- partment of the Superior Court. Its aversion to the employment of special counsel arises from the additional fact that in this case an | attorney has been employed to see that its editor gets what he has been demanding so long for others, namely, unadulterated justice. But evidently the Boodler does not want justice for its editors. What it wants is justice for its enemies. The employment of special counsel is all right except when they are employed to bring it to book for libel and slander. There is an old saying that it is always material whose ox is gored. So long as the Boodler, in its anxious search for “advertising” contracts, was per- mitted to gore the oxen of everybody, the criminal law could not be administered too vigorously for it. Now that its own cattle are being tossed it enter- | tains an altogether different opinion. Nothing is too slipshod and loose in the prosecution of crime to suit it. But perhaps the Boodler is afraid of the jail. If it is, it is a coward. Bullies are naturally cowards, | and it does not surprise us that this journalistic bully fears lest it may have to be edited from a prison house. In any event, however, it is quite plain that the Boodler is no martyr. If half it says about its Spartan virtue were true, it would defend its privi- lege to procure “advertising” contracts by libel and slander with its very lif An exchange says this paper recently made the an- nouncement “No more births on Alaska steamers.” If this is true the fact must be ascribed to a mere in- advertence. The Call is not going into any phase of the Schenk business and does not propose to at- tempt the regulation of matters outside its jurisdic- tion. - | talent and energy. A TRUE CALIFORNIA PAGEANT. EYOQND all controversy the grand parade of B yesterday was thoroughly and ideally Califor- nian. It represented our civic life, our indus- tries, our military and naval power, our schqols, our artistic taste, our history, our youth and age, manhood and womanhood, our diversity of race and nation- ality, our cosmopolitanism and our localism. It was varied, brilliant, beautiful, surpassing by far any other procession ever seen on the Pacific Coast, and rivaling in many of its features the most notable street pageants of the great capitals of the East and Europe. The procession was long, but magnitude was the least striking of its many notable features. To the stranger who looked upon it the. most impreséive characteristic must have been the diversity of the parts that made it up. Types of all races of the earth from the Occident to the Orient, from the young Californian of the public schools to the Chinaman, passed in review before the crowds that had assem- bled to do honor to the Golden Jubilee of a State settled and peopled by men and women of all nations. In any other city such a procession would be noted as a distinctly cosmopolitan parade, dut here it was not cosmopolitan. It was simply a pageant of Cali- fernia. In a procession where each section was in its va- riety so excellent it is somewhat invidious to select any for special notice, nevertheless public commend- ation is due to the splendid showing made by the children of the schools and by the societies from distant parts of the State, whose members camc in genuine State patriotism to assist in making glorious the celebration of the Californian Jubilee. The school chjldren carried themselves through the long march with a vigor of step and a perfection of discipline that attest the stamina of the coming Californian and the worth of the tiaining he is re- ceiving. With such-a youth in the jubilee of yester- | day we may be sure the jubilees of the future will be in safe hands. To the members of visiting organizations who took part in the parade San Francisco owes the freedom of the city. They.helped to make the holiday one that will add to the prestige of the community and heighten its credit abroad. Without their aid the sulcess of the procession would have fallen far short of the brilliant triumph it was. It is gratifying that this fact was generally recognized by the throngs on the streets yesterday, and that cheers for the visitors accompanied them throughout nearly the whole line of march. After the grand result of the parade it is hardly likely there will be disappointment in any part of the entertainments provided to fill up the week and con- nect the jubilee with the opening of the Mining Fair. The public is now well assured that the management of the celebration is in the hands of men of taste, They have attested their ability to conduct a jubilee and justly merit the congratu- lations they will receive from all sides. fl tion and prospects of British agriculture as dis- closed by the records of 1897 are by no means encouraging. The weather of the year was on the whole favorable to all kinds of crops and prices were better than for several years past, and yet the results serve only to show that even amid propitious circum- stances the British farmer can hardly maintain him- self and pay rent. A notable feature of the records is the evidence given of the tendency to increase at the expense of other grain crops the area planted in wheat. In 1806 there was an increase of 278,000 acres over the area of the preceding year, and this was followed in 1897 by a further increase of 205,000 acres. The increased acreage seems to be promising, but the promise is deceptive, as the records show that the quantity of | the crops and the quality of the wheat produced were so poor that notwithstanding the enlarged area de- voted to that grain the harvests of the year were the lowest on record except those of 1803 and 1895. The most conspicuous diminution of area devoted | to any one crop is that of the potato acreage. This | is particularly the case in Ireland. For years past the potato area has been decreasing in that island and to such an extent has the diminution been car- | ried that in 1806 the area employed for that crop was less by one-third than in 1871, Along with the decrease in crops there has been also a decrease in the number of farm animals. True the number of cattle have increased somewhat, but this has been counterbalanced by a more than pro- portional decrease in the number of sheep, while the uumber of hogs has fallen from 4,300,000 in 1896 to 3,680,000. The Times notes that the decrease in the number of pigs is significant of straitened means among the poorer classes of the rural population. A still more significant indication of increasing pressure upon the British farmer is the decline in the number of horses used for farm purposes. These numbered 45,000 less in 1897 than in the previous year. As the period was one of plentiful food sup- ply the diminution in the number of farm horses can be attributed only to the fact that the farms have ceased to be profitable and the farmers are abandon- ing their cultivation. - Pertinent to this subject is a statement made by Lord Brassey in an article in the current number of Review of Reviews on “The Position of the British Navy.” Lord Brassey admits that the taxes fieces- sary to maintain and augment the great fleets of the empire fall heavily on the rural districts, and as a consequence “many fine old places have been closed and troops of retainers have been dispersed.” Never- theless, he argues, it is better the money were spent in building ships of war than in promoting produc- tive enterprises. “Certain it is,” he says, “that the increase of production would have reduced prices.” When a nation gets into a condition where land- owners have to close their hereditary homes, farmers have to sell their horses and laborers give up their pigs, while the Government spends millions on war- ships because increase of productive ability would entail disaster, there is surely something wrong in its economic system. And yet such is the condition of the land of Cobden. ————— Policeman Murcell of Oakland should not be per- mitted to carry arms. His act of shooting at a boy who had been guilty of jumping from a moving train proves that he lacks discretion, and by missing the target he showed that his marksmanship would be useless in case of a real emergency. A new use should be found for Murcell, although to suggest one is difficult. Perhaps he could herd geese. Representative citizens of Chicago indulged in a riot in their efforts to get a view of a fat man named Luetgert who is suspected of having killed his wife. The bent of the Chicago mind is peculiar, and in moments of enthusiasm it can make more imperative demands upon the policeman’s club than any other BRITISH AGREULTURE. CCORDING to the London Times the condi- . style of mind adorning modern civilization Rlag=g=2=2:-3-3-3-F-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 .} INDIVIDUAL THOUGHTS, BY A MODEST CRITIC. CRaE=g=t--3=2-3-3-3-3-3-3-2-3-3-71 “Ring the merry bells of heaven, let the earth with joy be laden,” is the song of California to-day. It is good to be happy and unwise to mourn. The bells have pealed, guns have joined the general acclaim and for the time being we are a proud as well as a con- tented people. The greatest good the discovery of gold did was to bring to light the other magnificent natural re- sources of California, which, thanks to men of enterprise—as well as of capi- tal—are being developed more rapidly yearly. Gold has been discovered in Austra- lia, but with the discovery has come no exceptional blossom, no unusual bloom. Gold has been found in Southern Af- rica, but with it no specially magnifi- cent scenery and no territory that of- fers the cool of the Sierras and the heat of the San Joaquin Valley on the same day in such very small expanse of region. Do we all appreciate what @ blessed part of the earth it is in which we exist? I think not. f=g=3=3=3=] 06 306 108 108 K8 It is possibly regrettable that to-day I am compelled to show that “The Ha- walian Islands, instead of being strate- gically of value to us will be a constant | source of weakness.” The promise has | been made, and being made it must be | kept, even though on this day of re- ‘;]oldng. in the keeping of the compact, ithe toes of such distinguished men as | General Schofield, Captain Mahan and | the senior Senator from Alabama will | have to be trod on. The era of universal peace not hav- ing arrived, we are fairly assured of a quarrel with some natlon in the future. | The statesman who says it is certain | to be Japan, Italy, Russia, France, England or Germany displays his un- fitness for assisting in controlling des- tinies. He vows that he knows what to-morrow will bring forth—and he is, by the grace of heaven, ignorant on that point. To jingoes of the Morgan type it is clear that it will be either Spain, Japan or Great Britain. But thoughtful people see that it may hap- pen to be Mexico. And seeing that, they are in a better position to judge of Hawailan matters than the coterie of which Senator Morgan is the most | conspicuous example of folly. The source of weakness that these islands would be to us in the event of war is possibly best shown by example. | Let us suppose that we have annexed Cuba. War breaks out. With whom? Say the French. (It is as likely to be France as England or Japan). We have all manner of munition in Cuba, for | the rule at this day is to be provided | for emergencies, though it must be ad- mitted we show carelessness in this | matter that is more than injudicious. { If the power with whom we quarrel is able to defeat us on the ocean he will forthwith proceed to annex for his own use our Cuban territory and the sup- plies that Cuba holds. Then he has a base of operations ’gainst us, but had we not annexed Cuba the territory would have beenneutral,and theenemy would have been unable to gain his vantage point. The one great principle | underlying all strategy—military as | well as naval—Is this: Take no posi- | tion that you cannot reasonably expect to be able to hold. If it is not evident, owing to our naval weakness, that we shall not for at least half a century to come be able to hold .the Hawaiian Islands in case of war, I should like to | know what is evident! Have we even | a naval plan—to say nothing of the ex- | ecution—that will enable us to face a | first-rate maritime power within | twenty years? We have not. So far as France, Italy, Russia or Germany is concerned we are decidedly weak, and the rebuilding of the navy is going on so slowly that we are growing com- paratively weaker each year. As pointed out above, we are un- | aware of the nation which will choose to disturb our peace, and it is plain enough that if it is one superior in naval power to us the possession of the Sandwich group is a menace to this coast, and not a “valuable outpost.” Captain Mahan is as well aware as am I of the strategic principle quoted, |and I should like to ask him how he | manages to avoid the consideration of it when writing of the question now being discussed. This clever man has done what hun- dreds of others have done before him. He has reasoned backward,so to speak. He has been lured to think the Ha- walilan Islands strategically of value to us, and then has tried to find premises for his conclusion. In the attempt he has been compelled to assume these two self-evidently fallacious propositions: (1) That if we decline the territory (with its coolies) some other nation will accept the gift that is at present going a-begging. (2) The nation that em- braces the group will be one with which we shall quarrel. If on consideration he will assert these premises to be ac- curate, his conclusion shall be admitted. But he will not, and it is on them that all his argument has been based as to the strategic value of these islands. There is another point worth noticing by those who quote this gifted man on this proposition. He sees in the group a coal base for cruisers and fleets gen- erally. For this he may be forgiven. The labor and the time necessary to produce what he has written is so im- mense that it would fairly stagger one unacquainted with popular technical exposition. But the world, turning upon its axis (except when ordered to stand still by Joshua or the Chronicle’s as- tronomer) advances without regard to what the most distinguished men are doing for the instruction of those less enlightened. Progress in no branch of life calls a halt. Methods that are modern when one commences on work of the nature that made Captain Mahan famous are often regarded as out-of- date when the text-book appears. The evidence of to-day is that navies will be coaled at sea in the near future. The system Is now almost perfected. Three years to come it is more than probable that the immense coal-carrying steam- ers of all countries will be fitted to en- able them to rapidly supply coal to battle-ships, cruisers and smaller craft. Three years ago the possibility of mak- ing “sea-coaling” a success was scorned. Text-books like the one Cap- tain Mahan has produced are not evolved In a year or two when they are £0 excellent, and the instances in which he is wrong about Hawaii are to be half excused because of the general ex- cellence of his work. The coal base of an enemy who attacks this coast in the future will not be Honolulu; it will be a half-dozen capacious colliers pro- tected by cruisers. General Schofield should make up his mind to talk on matters military, and let naval affairs alone. That is, until he can learn more about them than he knows now. He but makes the whele nation ridiculous when he talks of the Hawaiian Islands being of value to watch the Western entrance to. the proposed Nicaraguan canal. He makes the nation ridiculous because he should be the exponent of our best strategical ability, and that utterance of his is not calculated to show that we have even a particle of it in our army. Still we have and a mighty big lot, too. The Eastern entrance to that canal must be protected too, it is pointed out to the gallant gentleman, and the St. Paul rocks (on the equatorial line) might be annexed for the purpose! Have no lessons been taught to lands- men—to military men—by recent naval maneuvers? Is the “Vesuvius” inci- dent already forgotten? Opposed by a | larger fleet than we could possibly | Spare in troublous times to protect the | entrance to any single harbor or canal the little dyvnamite cruiser found her way past a half dozen of the best ships | we have. Each ship knew what was to | be expected too. And our naval officers are as highly trained as any of the world. The ships were extended, I be- lieve, eight miles, and with this experi- ment fresh in most minds General | Schofield sees the possibility of protect- ing a canal entrance from a position | thousands of miles away! What would he think of the colonel of a regiment who, bent on the protection of San Francisco,were to suggest that it would be advisable to deploy half his men in the Yuma desert? Yet the one proposal is as strategically sensible as the other. It is proper to speak of this soldier with respect, and for aught I know to erally may be excellent; with reference press, but they are so clearly weak that they are not worthy the distinguished position he holds. One of our best known soldiers has seen fit to publish his opinion on the Dreyfus scandal. It is a pity that he was weak enough to give way to the | temptation. The French nation has no wish to punish Captain Dreyfus for a crime he did not commit, and that one prominent American shou:d by impli- | cation say that he believes the contrary | to be true is painful. We are too much | glven to interfering with the affairs of other powers. Competent judges found | Dreyfus guilty of treason on evidence | that quite satisfied them. It s then | more than presumable that he was. | The punishment meted out to him is ‘surely none too great for the crime | | charged. He who will attempt to betray his nation has no right to mercy of any sort. To my mind he deserves no con- sideration. He is unworthy farther | thought. e FELE LI EE bbb PRAISE FROM YOLO COUNTY.It | T + ‘Woodland Democrat. + | The people of Woodland were + | treated to a genuine and agreeable 4 | 4+ surprise Sunday morning. The 4 “Golden Jubilee Edition” of The 4 Call was delivered to them before 7 4 o'clock in the morning, and they + enjoyed the satisfaction of studying’ 4 its table of contents while they 4 | 4 sipped their morning coffee, This 4 | feat was accomplished without any 4 blare of trumpets or advance her- 4 alds, and is, therefore, the more + | heartily appreciated by the readers 4 of The Call. It was an entirely new + and novel experience for the people 4 | 4 of this city. San Francisco papers 4 | 4 have heretofore run special trains + | 4 for the accommodation and conven- 4 ience of their subscribers in large + | 4 interior cities like Sacramento and + San Jose, and smaller towns along 4 the route have enjoyed the benefit 4 | of such enterprise, but no San 4 Francisco morning paper has ever + before succeeded in reaching Wood- 4 land at such an early hour. In ac- 4 complishing this feat the enter- 4 prise of The Call was ably second- 4 ed by its local agent, Mr. E. P. 4 | Huston, who drove to Davisville and received the Woodland edition from The Call's special train and returned to this city in time to sup- ply The Call's subscribers who left on the early morning train to spend Jubilee week in San Francisco. The Jubilee edition is of sufficient merit to warant even such extra- ordinary efforts for early delivery to subscribers in the interior of the State. It consists of forty-two pages, not one of which is dull or commonplace. The cover is hand- some and artistic and the design is especially appropriate for the oc- casion. The illustrations are of pe- culiar interest, calling to mind the principal events and characters of the stirring times when the gold excitement was at its height in California. From a literary and historical standpoint the edition is entitled to take high rank. The story of the earliest discovery of gold and of the subsequent develop- ment of the mining industry is told in a style so thrilling and graphic as to invest it with all the charm and interest of a romance, and the accuracy of statement makes it a valuable contribution to the his- torical literature of the State. The Call is to be congratulated upon its latest and most creditable en- terprise. AR R R LR R R DR PP EDITION OF UNUSUAL MERIT ORI T TU SRR USRS PR ETE TSR SR TSRS ST S Y ST TR S PSP T S ST S T U USSR San Jose Evening News. The San Francisco Call took ad- vantage of the Jubilee celebration to issue a special edition of more than ordinary merit, including a finely lithographed cover bearing the typical figure of the miner of 49 and many well-executed half- tones illustrating various phases of mining life, TELELIIEIIOIILILIITS COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS F. B. Chandler, a big rancher of El- mira, is at the Lick. E. M. McLaughlin, the San Jose capi- talist, is at the Occidental. M. L. McDonald, the Santa Rosa mil- lionaire, is at the Occidental. o Charles L. Flack, a well-known resident of Woodville, is at the Palace. T. H. Benard, & lumber man of Chico, has taken rooms at the Grand. Jay D. Wheeler, a leading business man of Santa Rosa, is at the California. L. A. Spitzer, the County Asseosor of Santa Clara, is staving at the Grand. H. Lane, a wealthy mining man of Ne- vada County, is a guest at the Grand. V. 8. McClatchy, one of the proprietors of the Sacramento Bee, is at the Cali- fornia. B. H. Upham, a vineyardist of Mar- tinez, is one of those staying at the Lick during jubilee week. C. J. Berry of Klondike fame has come the contrary his strategical ideas gen- | to the Hawaiian matter I regret to have | to admit that they not only do not im- | R R S R AR AR AR AR A e S A had down from the interior to participate in the general good time that every one is having at present. He is at the Grand. At one of the seessoessseesse cioar stands at- ¢ { tached to a prom- ¢ GOT OFF ! inenthotel in this + ¢ city there was an ¢ VERY EASILY. § enierprising clerk z ¢ Who, not content with his regular sescecsccoseee salaryand the or- dinary perquisites that go with one of those lucrative positions, was trying to get rich faster that the law allows by working the cash register for all lhe're was in it. The owner of the stand, notic- ing that his receipts were not piling up to their accustomed mark, started an inves- tigation in order to ascertain the reason of the unusual shrinkage; and after a long period of careful watching succeed=d in detecting his ambitious employe in the act of helping himself to the contents of the little nickel-plated box behind the counter when he thought there was no one around to witness his dishonesty. The owner of the stand made his presence known just at the moment the fellow's hand was.coming out of the drawer, and said: = | _“What are you doing in that register, Harry?" “‘Oh, is that you, Mac?”’ answered the unabashed rascal. “I was just taking a little carfare out to go home with.” “A little carfare?”’ repated his employ- er. “Where do you live? In Chicago? If you do vou had better come right out from behind that counter and start di- rectly horie; and, by the way, if yeu know what is good for you, you will stay home when you get there.” | _P. Carroll, a rich wine manufacturer of Petaluma, is among the guests at the Grand. Raiph Bell, a gentleman from England, traveling for his health, is registered at the Palace. | oHomer 8. Ritter, of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, is registered at the Occidental. Arthur M. Morse, one of New York's most popular club men, is a guest at the Palace with his wife. g F. A. Weast, one of the best known and | most progressive citizens of Red Bluff, is staying at the Pala | ene | eeesosseseeees Mss Marie | ¢ Dressler of the | § A COSTLY ¢ “Courted Into | Court” Com- | LITTLE Mg COMPLIMENT‘t present filling an engagement at | the California | Theater, has a reputation for always doing the graceful thing, and in this con- nection one of her recent pretty acts cost her a handsome marquise ring. Miss Dressler was playing at the Columbia Theater in Washington, D. C., and Miss Cisneros of Cuban and Karl Decker fame was in one of the hoxes. She was par- ticularly pleased with one of Miss Dress- | ler's songs and was very enthusiastic in her applause. Miss Dressler acknowl- edged the compliment of Miss Cisneros by tossing her a bunch of roses which she | carried. In so doing the ring slipped | from her finger and striking the stage | bounded into the orchestra and was lost. | A close search was made, but the ring | was net found. Allan B. Lemmon, the publisher of the ‘Santa Rosa Republican, is at the Occi- dental for a short stay. L. L. Gray, one of the foremost business { men of Fresno, is at the Occidental, with | his wife, to witness the week's festivi- | ties. | E. A. Moody, a wealthy mining man of Gold Run, has come down to participate in the city’s hurrah. He is staying at the | Palace. ! Dr. T. J. O'Connor, the leading physi- | clan of Healdsburg, is among those who | will make the Grand their headquarters | during jubilee week. | _H. H. Enchy, a wealthy resident ‘of Buffalo, N. Y., is at the Occldental, with his' wife, where they will remain during the short time they are in the city. eeecseccccoccen “It is strange | how many differ- ISIT ent origins there | are to a good |4 TO LAUGH? thing,” sald a ‘well-known the- atrical man yes- terday in the of- fice of the Palace. “Take that catch phrase of ‘The Girl From Paris,’ ‘Is it to laugh?’ for instance. Mr. Rice offers a re- ward for any person not claiming its | birth as an effort of his own brillianey. “One afternoon on walking up Broad- way in New York he stopped at the Em- | pire Theater. There he met Al Hayman, who said, ‘Do you know how that phrase you're using originated? I can tell you. Harry Mann had a German aunt whom he took to see ‘‘Secret Service.” As they started out she exclaimed enthusiastic- ally, “Is it to laugh, is it to ery?’ That's how the thing started.’ “As Rice traveled from city to city with his show he t in each place some fel- low who had aunt, father, mother-in- law or dead brother, to each one of whom the catchy saying was accredited. Now here is the straight story: “One of the actors in ‘The Girl From Paris’ is the son of a German. When the plece was first put on he inviteéd his moth- er to witness the performance. ‘Well, mother,” said he at supper, ‘what do you { think of the show? ‘Ach, mein son,’ chuckled the old lady in reminiscence of her enjoyment. ‘Vat do I say about it al- ready? Is it to laugh.’ “That is the real story.” ——————— Cal.glace fruit 50c perib at Townsend's.* —— Mocha pistache, pineapple cake. %05 Larkin, —_————— Special information supplied dafly to | business houses and public men by the | Press Clipping Bureau {Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery st. Tel. Main 1042 - R At the session of the Academie des Sciences, held at Paris on December 13, the Cuvier prize of 1500 francs was awarded to Professor O. C. Marsh of Yale University. This prize is awarded | every three years for the most remark- able work either on the animal kingdom or on geology. —_—————— DR. SIEGERT'S ANGOSTORA BITTERS is in- dorsed by physiclans and chemists for purity. Don't be defrauded by accepting a substitute. —_—————— THEGENUINE “BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES" are sold ouly in boxes. They are wonderfully effective for Coughs and Throat Troubles. e BETTER THAN THE KLONDIKE. | In spite of all the feverish haste to be rich, maugre all Klondike crazes, and all | socialistic crazes pursued by those who | expect or hope in some magical or inde- | finable way to live off society, with little | personfl effort, it is still a truth, and | ever will be a truth, that the rewards of | this world will go to those who earn | them by slow, patient, steady industry; by careful, prudent, calculating endea- vor; by painstaking application, temper- ate living and slow saving.—Portland Oregonian. NEW TO-DAY. Your cake again ~ perfectly lovely ? Really that Royal Bak- ing Powder Is'a won- leavener, | |