The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 5, 1898, Page 6

FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARGHIS, 1898. SATURDAY.......... ... = : < JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. i il iis s Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE........Market and Third Sts. S- F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS... ...217 to 231 Stevenson strest | Telephone Main 1874 FHE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is servad by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns | for 15 cents @ week. By mall $6 per year. per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY €ALL..............One year, by mafl, $1.80 ©AKLAND OFFICE .908 Broadway Esstern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE... Room 188, World Bullding WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE .....Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. EBRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street, eorner Clay | epen untll 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: opén untll | $:20 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street; open until 9:30‘ e'clock. 615 Larkln street: open until 9:30 o'clock | £W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets: open untll | $ o'clock. 2518 Misslon street: open until 9 o'clock 106 Eleventh st open untll9 o'clock, 1505 Polk street | cpen until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second | and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o’clock. AMUSEMENTS. hall We Forgive Her.” ‘alse Shame." Morosco's—Saved From the Sea." Tivoli—"The Geisha." Orpheum—Vaundeville. Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. The Chutes—Chiquita and Vaudeville. Mechanics’ Pavilion—Mining Fair and Klondike Exposition. Paclfic Coast Jockey Clnb—Races at Ingleside to-day. Coursing—Ingleside Coursing Park, this afternoon. Coursing—At Unjon Coursing Park, this afternoon. AUCTION SALES. By G. H. Umbsen—Monday, March 7, Real Estate, at 14 Mont- | gomery mreet, at 12 o'clock. | /C\ two columns of its space to make a hyster- jcal protest against petit jury exemptions. The bur-| den of its complaint is that section 200 of the Code of | Civil Procedure perpetrates an outrage when it says | that attorneys, preachers, almshouse keepers, prison; officials, sailors, express agents, mail carriers, !elm; graph officials, national guardsmen, firemen and | railway employes shall not be compelled to sit on | juries. Our contemporary’s “thinker” inclines to the | belief that if these classes were all forced to do jury | duty justice would be administered more uniformly | and—we infer—an occasional verdict might be ren- | dered against the railroad monopoly. | The difficulty with this ponderous legal luminary is | that it does not understand the reasons of the exemp- tions concerning which it complains. With respcctj to the national guardsmen and firemen the purpose of | the law is to induce men to do militia and fire duty. | The idea is that citizen soldiers and firemen should | get something more substantial than newspaper no-} toriety for protecting life and property. (Lest our contemporary may say that firemen are paid we will mention that country fire departments are mostly | volunteer.) Railway and telegraph men are empted because it is thought that they will accom- modate the public more by attending to their busi- | ness than by serving on juries. There would be quite | as much sense in making Judges and Sheriffs serve | as in making attorneys, who are officers of the court | and a part of the judicial machinery. And so with the others—they are mostly disqualified. Another trouble withour grandiloquent contempor- | Bry is that it relics on ancient history for its knowl- | edge of the jury system. What Junius and Paley said about juries is at present irrelevant and immaterial. They lived when the system was actually a “bulwark | of liberty.” Bulwarks of liberty are no Ionger neces- | sary. The great problem of modern times is not to | discover methods of preserving liberty, of which | there is abundance on hand at all times, but to find | ways for preventing corporations using liberty to | fleece the masses. The jury system is 4 valuable aid | in depriving the people of some of the blessings of | liberty. When a street car corporation, for instance, | runs over a person, plenty of juries are always found to bring in a verdict for the defendant. How would | this be changed by summoning lawyers, ministers, | Sheriffs and railway employes to sit on juries? As a matter of fact the system of submitting legal | disputes to twelve “peers” is rapidiy going out of | date. Intelligent men all over the world are recog- | nizing it, under modern conditions, as a failure. If| juries are not ignorant they are prejudiced; if they are not prejudiced they fall victims to the blandish- | ments of tricky lawyers; if they are not moved by eloquent sophistry they are “fixed.” So in any event they fail to do justice. Their verdicts are con- stantly being set aside by the appellate courts as con- trary to the evidence or as the result of passion and prejudice. The “reformed procedure” introduced by the late David Dudley Field contemplates their final aban- donment. Every year puts them further behind us. Probably they would long ago have been abolished had not the law—ever conservative—feared the awful shock of such profound thinking as is thought by our esteemed contemporary. The legislation against the jury system in this State, which “thinkers” like our contemporary regard with so much apprehen- sion, is merely a manifestation of the tendency of the age. The jury system in time will disappear. The youth who writes two columns a day in our con- temporary to express a single thought may himself live to see it abolished. THE JURY SYSTEM. which resembles | evening contemporary, necessity in knowing very little law, uses up ex- | The gentleman who claims the honor of discover- ing a cure for yellow fever has concluded, generons soul, to keep the process secret. It is not likely that he has any objection to a victim of the malady being cured, but for him to talk about his own specific would of course be a violation of ethics. There re- | mains the comforting thought that, anyhow, the method is probably what is known technically as a fake. Senator Proctor’s narrow escape from being blown up is suggestive of the manner in which pins have saved many lives. This feat on the part of the pins was first made known by a schoolboy, who explained that the pins did this by not being swallowed. Sen- ator Proctor was saved by not being on the blown-up train. If there is no epidemic of spinal fever at Skaguay there are a number of correspondents up that way who should be sent to some place where such an epidemic is in full blast. St : Councilman Brosnahan of Oakland merits the gratitude of Councilman Woodward. The latter must find it a rest and joy to have attention diverted from himseif, {a good thing at all. | ject. % THE REPUBLICAN, PLATFORM. R. TOWNE'S speech rings the changes on /\/\ the Republican platform, and, like Mr. Bryan, he declares that what they call bi- metallism is admitted by that platform to be a good thing, but this country is not to have it without the consent of Europe. Of course the platform is not susceptible of any such construction. It does mot comsider the free coinage of silver by the United States at 16 to I as It pledges the party to much such an agreement with other nations as that between ! the states of the Latin Union, by which the ratio and volume of coinage were agreed to by the several state parties to the treaty. The Republican platform does not indorse nor foster the idea that, in default of such international agreement, frec coinage at 16 to 1 could be or should be attempted by the United States alone. The reasons for this position are sound and are obvious to any one who chooses to think on the sub- If this country, England, France and Ger- many agree to coin silver equally with gold at a fixed ratio their joint primacy of the commerce and finance of the world would make impossible the driving of gold out of circulation within the territory of one of them and its absorption by the others. Each would retain its normal gold circulation because no other would get a profit in reaching for it. The flow from one to another of both gold and silver would be the normal circulation for use in adjusting trade balances and would cause neither inconvenience nor alarm. It would be exactly that process described by Mr. Jefferson. He said our standard of value should be the same as that of the nations with which our com- mercial intercourse is the greatest, and then it would flow beneficially from the country where it was too plentiful to that in which it was too scarce. Now let us consider the difference between this system and that proposed by Messrs. Towne, Bryan and the fiatists. They wish to compel the United | States, independently of other nations, to adopt free coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1. The effect of this will be totally different from that of an international agreement. It will set in operation the Gresham law, and as fast as our silver coinage increases the gold will be driven out to the gold-using nations. Finally our gold will disappear, just as it has dis- appeared from every free coinage country in the world, and we will be left upon a silver mono- metallic basis. Here then are the two systems between which the country is invited to choose. The Republican posi- tion is that in default of the international agreement our standard of value shall remain as it is. This was its position in 1806, and every man who voted its ticket so understood it. There was no intimation, in the platform or elsewhere that if an international agreement were not made the party would go over to Mr. Bryan. President McKinley has in good faith carried out the platform. He appointed a commission of free silver men, one of them a supporter of Mr. Bryan, | to visit European Governments and negotiate for an international agreement on coinage. So far this effort has not been successful, but it will not be re- linquished. If it have any chance of success it will immediately disappear upon the of Mr. Bryan’s policy. Henri Cernuschi and all European bimetallists repeatedly declared that the dominant ob- stacle to an international agreement has always been the agitation in the United States for such indepen- dent action as Mr. Bryan proposes. Therefore, stripped of its gaudy verbiage, Mr. Towne's proposition is that we pass from the gold standard, with a large use of legal tender silver and a circulation of the coins of both metals at a joint par, to the silver standard, with a contraction of the currency by driving gold away, and a circulation of silver alone at the silver par, or a depreciation of about 50 per cent, and an issue of fiat paper to fill the vacuum left by gold, which in its turn will, under the Gresham law, drive out silver. No rant nor fustian can conceal so plain an issue. TIi the fortunes of partisan warfare compel the Repub- lican party to give battle again upon that issue it will be found ready, and if its position bring to its sup- port the sound money men who value the financial stability and honor®of their country above party names, it will keep faith with them and the country. LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN LONDON. BY the sweeping victory of the Progressives over success the Moderates in the London elections on Thursday evidence is furnished that at least | one of the many new consolidated city governments of the time has given satisfaction to its people. With sixty-seven Progressives elected against forty Moderates the County Council will go forward with its work of municipal improvement and carry out in London many of those civic enterprises which have proven so successful in the smaller cities of Glasgow and Birmingham. The very names given to.the opposing parties in the contest reveal the nature of the issue between them and the lines on which they were divided. In national politics the citizens of London are either Conservatives, Liberals or Radicals; Tories or Whigs; Unionists or Home Rulers; but in this elec- tion they abandoned all national party ties, chose rew names for their contending factions and divided on the sole question whether the County Council should go forward or halt, whether it should have more power or less. The London Speaker a few weeks ago in discuss- ing the election stated the issue at stake in these words: “If the Londoners want to abolish the Coun- cil, or at least to render it a futile and impracticable institution, they had better return a Moderate ma- jority; but if they think themselves capable of man- aging their own affairs and desire that their repre- sentatives should work themselves instead of ob- structing the work of others, they will elect a solid force of Progressives who can bear down obstruc- tion and meet the demands of London.” The Lon- doners have answered the question. They have de- cided to continue the work of making old London a modern city—placing it, in fact, among the most progressive municipalities of the time. The triumph is a notable one for those who desire to see municipal government become a much more important part of politics than it has been in the past. London is a conservative city. It votes against home rule. Few of its boroughs ever return Liberals to Parliament. Yet in this election its citizens have shown they can be liberal enough where their local affairs are concerned. They elected John Burns, a day laborer, over the Earl of LDenhigh, notwithstand- ing the fact that the Earl is one of the richest men in the empire and that both he and his Countess made a house to house canvass of the district; but they did not elect Burns because of any prejudice against rich men or noblemen, for they also elected such men as Lord Hardwicke, Baron Monkwell, Sir Horace Farquahar and Sir Tundell Maple, the latter of whom is connected with one of the big depart- 4 ment stores of London and may be therefore consid- WILL BRYAN FIGHT? ered a representative not only of wealth, but of aggressive wealth. It was, in short, a victory for the extension of | municipal government, the establishment of a com- pleter home and local rule than Londoners have known before. It is a forward step in a move- ment going on in this country as well as in Eng- land, though it is not so much needed here as there, for American cities have a larger scope of local authority than those of England (the Londoners, for example, donot control their own police), and may be regarded as an evidence that municipal adminis- tration is to be in the coming century one of the best fields for the exercise of political activity in which men of public spirit can engage. e T——— THE POSTOFFICE DEFICIT. S Mr. Loud’s bill to correct the abuses of the f\ second-class mail privilege has been defeated in the House by the comparatively large ma- jority of 162 to 119, it is clear that some other means will have to be devised for reducing postoffice expen- ditures unless this Congress intends to permit the postoffice to remain a burden upon the Government and a cause for general taxation. Upon those who defeated the bill ought to rest the responsibility for devising some other remedy. This, however, cannot be expected of them. The great majority of the adverse vote was made up of Demo- crats and Populists, and these parties are not emi- nent for success in constructive legislation. They are vigorous enough in opposition to Republican meas- ures, but when anything affirmative is asked of them they fail utterly either to agree among themselves or to devise anything on which others can agree. There has been more or less talk for some time past of reducing postal expenditures. by reducing the amounts paid railroads for transportation. Some of the statistics used in argument for this plan are cer- tainly of a nature to justify a belief that much might be saved in that way without doing wrong to the transportation companies. The plan, however, up to this time has lacked official recommendation, and that fact discredits the fair showing made by its sup- porters and inclines to the belief that the figures given by them may be inaccurate or so juggled as to present an appearance quite different from the reality. The Loud bill was a fair and commendable one. It dealt with an abuse known to exist and proposed a remedy that would have been just to the taxpayers and beneficial to the Postoffice Department. The privilege of second class at low rates of postage was designed for the benefit of newspapers and genuine periodicals, and incidentally for the general public that desires the news and reads magazines and re- views. Advantage has been taken of the law to send through the mails as second class matter thousands of pounds of advertising circulars, trashy novels and other stuff of the kind, for which the people have no use and for the transportation of which they should not be made to pay. The postoffice should not be made to bear the burden and do the work of dis- tributing this great mass of trash and truck, and even if its transportation entailed no deficit it would be | well to make it pay full postage rates and pay the cost of handling it. A bill similar to that which has just been defeated was passed by the House last year by a vote of 144 to 104. It is not clear why the result was different this year, but there is this much encouragement to be drawn from the situation that since the House has changed once it may change again, and when the public mind has been thoroughly educated on the subject we shall have the remedy provided and the wrong removed. R. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, a dis- /\/\ tinguished citizen of Nebraska, gives it as his opinion that in the event of a war between the United States and Spain there is no doubt we could “lick 'em.” Mr. Bryan did not fulminate this opinion until he had consulted Judge A. M. Jackson, who, according to the newspaper correspondent guilty of transmitting the interview, is a celebrated jurist of the Populistic-Democratic school. We may, therefore, assume that Mr. Bryan's view has been carefully considered, and that he is willing to stand by it in case it is disputed. But it is to be noted at this juncture that the ques- tion whether or not the United States would be able to “lick” Spain in the event of a war is not at all equal in absorbing interest to the other question which we now ask, Would Mr. Bryan, the distin- guished citizen of Nebraska, go to the front and fight in case of trouble? In short, would Mr. Bryan help us to “lick ‘em”? Everybody is aware of the fact that the great Nebraskan's jaw is equal to any conflict. But talk never won a real battle. A careful and discriminative use of lead and gunpowder determines the result of genuine war, and no matter how valiant Mr. Bryan may be in wordy controversy, in actual physical con- flict he might not loom up at all. We have no hesi- tation in saying, however, that if Mr. Bryan will help us to “lick ’em” a majority of the people of the United States will favor immediate war with Spain. There is a general desire to get’the distinguished Nebraskan into some kind of a fight in which his jawbone will not count. He is rapidly talking the American people to death, and we doubt whether the United States as a nation will long survive his ora- tory and “arguments.” But if he would go to the front with a musket a war with Spain might be worth all it would cost. For one thing, we would hear no more of his free silver blather, and for another he might take up his permanent residence in Cuba after the war, which would impose upon this country a long-needed rest. It is too much to hope, however, that Mr. Bryan will fight. Unless the impending conflict with Spain is placed on a basis of 32 to 1 the discount probably would not be sufficiently pointed to engage his at- tention. Some of the rumors coming from Cuba lack the element of reasonableness. For instance, it is im- probable that the Spanish hired a diver to affix a torpedo to the Maine and then killed him to prevent the accident of loquacity. Fully as likely is it that some diver, fired by patriotism, stuffed himself with gun cotton and, hurling his distended corporosity against the ship, exploded with deadly effect. —_— It is not often seemly to speak lightly of a Repre- sentative, for he is naturally an august personage, yet James Hamilton Lewis of the great State of Washington must quit acting like a-monkey on a stick or some correspondent will be apt to say something not tending to soothe the savage breast of the statesman. LS 1550 Even if the State quarantine officers refuse to be divorced from their salaries, they ought to keep out of the way of the officers who have the authority to act. 5 B O 106 308 08 10 108 X0 308 106 30 308 30 108 30 108 108 308 0% 0% ¥ gfifififififlfifififififlfififlfio 308 108 308 0% 0% 1 3¢ eg=3=8-3-3-3-3-3-3.3-3-7-2-7--1-) E THE READY, STEADY SAILOR. ik A TIMELY TOPICAL SONG. 0K X0 308 108 30K 108 6K 308 YR 108 107 106 308 308 06 108 Y08 306 308 306 300 X0 06 0N 00 30K 1 When the country’s in a state of agitation, find a lot of lubbers spoiling for a fight, With a howl about the honor of the nation, \Vh?n the clouds of war are rolling into sight, There’s a time when gallant sailormen are ready To participate in any little game, And they make no bluff about it, But let any nation doubt it And they'll find that we are ready, just the same. CHORUS. Oh, yes, we're ready! Firm and steady! Ready in a rumpus; steady in a row! (All hands on deck! Clear ship for action! Man the guns! Ready, steady, fire!) How’s that for ready? How's that for steady? Ready for a muss right now! COLLECTED IN A. P. Hi Angeles. J. J. Dolan of Coulterville is a guest at the Palace. James L. Sperry Is at the Occldental from Big Trees. E. A. Stacy of San Diego is registered at the California. C. B. Wells of Milwaukee is registered at the Occldental. R. H. Stevens s at the Occidental from Syracuse, New York: J. M. Glass of Los Angeles arrived at the Palace last night. Dr. J. R. Cunow of Ban Jose is at the Palace with Mrs. Cunow. s Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Smith of Santa Cruz are staying at the Palace. 'W. H. Maloney has returned from New York, and is at the Palace. A. E. Kinnan, a mining man of Oroville, is registered at the Grand. A. G. Chase of Starbuck, Minn., is at the Occidental witn his wife. G. W. Dickie has come up from San Mateo and is at the California. %oooooooog o THE NAME WAS o o © APPROPRIATE. © o o 0000000000 rather seedy-looking personage yesterday, ‘who, leaning over the bar, sald, with a gracious wave of the hand: “Make me a tin roof.” *A tin roof,” replied he of the white coat and diamond stud; “what kind We've the Towa, New York and Indiana, And we've sixty other gallant ships of war. The Maine’s upon the bottom in Havana, She’ll be up and out for “business” soon, once more! There's a time when gallant sailors are not boasting, It’s the time when they are waiting for the row. You may think them rather quiet, But let anybody try it, And they’ll find us up and_ready, right now! Now, T think I see those lubbers who are steaming With anxiety for carnage to begin. Yes, I see them when the dynamite is screaming; Oh, T see them—I should like to see them—then. That's the time when gallant sailormen are ready! When the fuss and flame and fighting are begun! And if anybody doubt it Let ’em watch us go about it, And they'll see how quick we're ready for the funt CHORUS. Yes, it's then we're ready! Firm and steady! ‘When the shells are raking clean from stern to bow (Stand by to ram! Full speed ahead! Smash her, crash her! Ready, O steady!) We're always ready! We're always steady! Ready for the fun, right now! ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE in New York Herald. new one on me." THE CORRIDORS. alfhill is at the Grand from Los sandwich. that' since. Grand. The gentleman | T8Yior- ‘who presides over the two-bit de- partment of the Palace devoted to liquid refresh- ment was ap- proached by a d. CERTAINLY o the Gran Occldental. Mass. W. J. McCormick, a wealthy banker of Salt Lake City, is at the Palace. John Tohmann, a wine grower of St. Helena, is registered at the Grand. * Mr. and Mrs. Coleman have come down from Petaluma, and are at the California. Dr. W. S. George, one of the leading physicians of Antioch, is a guest at the of a drink is that? It is certainly a “Well,” seedy one, “give me the ingredients and I will show you how to mix it. First, let's have the whisky.” bottle was passed over, and, after pour- ing out a good-sized wad the stranger called for syphon soda, which he squirted on top until the glass was filled. Then, lifting it to his Mps, he drained it to the dregs and wandered over to the free- lunch counter, where he toyed with a said the The whisky “Is that what you call a ‘fin roof'?" sneered the man behind the bar. plain whisky and soda.” it is; but I call it ‘tin roof’ because it is on the house.: Ta-ta.” of his hand, the seedy stranger vanished through the door, and has not been seen “Why, T know And with a wave T. E. L. Taylor of Vancouver, B. C., is at the Palace. He is accompanied by Mrs. Judge Edward Sweeny of Redding has come down to the city, and is staying at R. H. Lewis and wife of Los Angeles are among yesterday's arrivals at the Rev. H. L. Dietz has returned to the city from a three weeks' visit to the East. While at Milwaukee he married his eldest daughter, Miss Lillie, to Henry Carter, a business man of Fall River, Mrs. Carter has a high reputation | in Milwaukee as vice-principal in the public schools. She is a linguist of no mean order. The Pacific Cricket Club met in the par- lors of the Occidental last evening with ‘W. Balnaves in the chair and elected the following officers for the ensuing twelve months: President, Captain John Met- calfe; first vice-president, W. Balnaves; second vice-president, R. C. Medcraft; secretary and treasurer, J. H. Harbour; captain, E. F. Musson. 0000000000 “Extra” Mulll- Ot » O gan is a newsboy EXTRA who takes his MULLIGAN, stand in front of o NEWSBOY AND . the Baldwin, POET. O~ where he sells his o 5 O wares to the 0000000000 gyorts some of the time and shoots craps with his com- petitors most of the time when he Is in circumstances. He has quite a reputa- tion among the news-disseminating fra- ternity as a philosopher and a poet. The following is one of the latest effusions of his brilliant geniu What's der use uf sighin’ ef yer happen ter be sad? What's der use uf eryin' ef yer luck is ter der ad? What's der use uf kickin' ef yer up agin it hard? Dere's worms fur every chicken hidin' some- where in der yard. Yer gadder wid der feliers ter roll der spotted cube, An' blow in all yer yellers ltke er Shasta County Rube, 'Til der wad yer sunk fur polpers goes ter odder hans, An’ yer isin't wurt a nickel in yer garmentg as yer stans. But what's der use ter weaken? What's det use ter kick? Ef yer want ter be er eatin’ yer gotter russel k quick. 5 Don't stan by an' blubber fer der glad han' frum er pard; < Jus’ get in yerself an’ rubber fer dat reptil’ in der yard. DEMAND FOR A) The American horse cuts quite a fig- ure in our foreign trade, and the Ger- man effort to discredit it should receive proper attention, During eleven months of last year the horses exported from the United States numbered 42,311, valued at $5,170,3%9, an average of over $122 a head. The 5874 shipped to Germany brought $808,070. Great Britain bought 19,837, paying for them §2,742,849. No com- laint about their quality or condition Bas come from British purchasers. Amer- jcans find no fault with German tariffs, but there is a just feeling of indignation against a deceitful disparagement of our f;oducll. the purpose of which is to in- u ERICAN HORSES, re their standing in all markets.—St. uis Globe-Democrat. ———————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE LOWEST TIDES—W. J. A., City. The dates of the three lowest tides In San Francisco during the year 1888 are January 20, July 3 and December 14. A MATTER OF CONTRACT—L. A. ‘_Y City. An individual who enters inté a contract is supposed to know what he is engaging in, and if it does not appear that he was induced by false representa- tions or fraud to make the contract, be bound by fit. CENTURY—G., Santa Clara County. The Century Dictionary is considered “an eminent authority.” That, under the definition of century, will explain why the *present century will not close until the 8ist of December, 1900. DECLARING A HOMESTEAD—A. F., City. The cost of declaring a homestead is $8, exclusive of the fee paid the attor- ney who attends to the case. If a piece of property is of greater value than the amount of the homestead declaration it may be declared as a homestead subject to the mortgage. CHINESE—A. C. 8., City. There are no accurate figures to show what the Chinese population is in San Francisco at this time, but it is estimated at 20,- 000. Since the passage of the law pro- hibiting the landing of Chinese laborers in the United States the numper of Chi~ nese eh\ San Francisco has “diminished considerably. ADOPTION—S., City. A person destr- ing to adopt a minor child must make ap- plication to the Superior Court. If the Child is an inthate of an orphan asylum the application must first be made to the management of the asylum. The po oner heust be at least ten years olded) than the person adopted. The matter of ‘adoption 1s governed in the State of California by chapter 1L of the Civil Code. SHORT OF FUEL—J. H., City. The steamer San Pablo left San Franclsco December 9, 1884, bound for China and Japan, and reached Yokohama Febru- ary 6, 1885. On the passage she met many head winds and in order to keep Up against these was forced to use more coal than usual. Her fuel gl\'lng out she made for the Bonin Islands and é)ut in at Peel Island, where she obtained a supply which enabled her to continue her voyage. USING A SEINE—R. P. B, Occidental, Cal. The fish and game laws say: “Every persons who, for the purpose of catching salmon, shad, striped bass or sturgeon in any of the waters of this State, fish with, or use any seine or mnet, drag net or paranzella, the meshes of which when closely drawn together and measures inside the knot less than seven and one-half inches in length, is gullty of a misdemeanor.” —_———————— REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. A girl never really appreciates it till she has once kissed her comb out. A baby is all right, but it never takes the place of a bull pup to a man. Jacob wrestled all night and broke his thighbone before he would admit that women were angels. y There are two ways to every woman's heart. One her husband knows and the other she doesn't know herself. A %rl is never really in love with a man i1l she has thought that she would like to sit and watch him while he was asleep. ‘When a woman gets a letter that begins “Dear Sir” she always feels too proud for anything; when a man gets one that be- gins “Dear Madam” it makes him mad. —_—————————— A cholce present for Eastern friends, Townsend’s California Glace fruits, 50c Ib, in Japanese baskets or fire etched boxes. Spectal information supplied dally to business houses and public men by th Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Monf gomery street. Telephone Main 104 ——————————— AN EXPLANATION CALLED FOR. How does Mr. Bryan explain the Omaha Exposition? Explain? Why, of course, it needs explanation; for it tells of that prosperity which Mr. Bryan still insists doesn’t exist.—Burlington (Ta.) Hawkeye. —————— THE best appetizer and regulator of the diges- tive organs {8 ANGOSTURA BITTERS, prepared by DR. T. G. B. SIEGERT & SONS. —e——————— Loss of balr, which often mars the prettiest face, prevented by PARKER'S HATR BAISA. PARKER'S GINGER TONIC alleviates suffering. —_—————— SUFFERERS FROM COUGHS, SORE THROAT, ete., should be constantly supplied with * Brown's Bronchfal Troches” Avold imitations. —— el SAVE OUR STONE FORESTS. Land Commissioner Herman of Arizona urges the Federal Government to set apart the petrified forests of that terri- tory as a public reservation. The sug- gestion seems to be an excellent one. @ ought to be able to pass along to the next generation at least our stone forests. The cemainders of the wooden ones are in a fair way not to outlast this generation.— Springfield Republican. ADVERTISEMENTS. Mamw'smpumfim has been made by her use of Royal Baking Powder.