The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 13, 1898, Page 6

SRBBBDVO GG AT AR TARART THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, EL,_/_,__—\ 7 nfinnnnuflnug FITZGERALD’S THURSDAY.... _OCTOBER 13, 188 T JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propretor. e = Ccvrjr!'\umgatlons loAW;v%\}/EAKE Manag’iv:’v PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 186S. EDITORIAL ROOMS ..2IT to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1574 YHE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail 36 per year: per month €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. _One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE... 908 Broadweay NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Represcntative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE ..-Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ... -Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street. open untll | 30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street. open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street. epen until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market | street. cormer Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS Eajtwin—"The Dancing Girl Columbia—-Elizabeth, Queen of England.” Aleazar—" The Wife Merosco's—The Lights o London ” Tivoli—* The Circus Quesn.” Orpbeum— Vaudevilie Few Comedy Theater—* The Signal of Liderty.” Albambra, Eddy and Jones streets—Vaudevilla The Chutes—Pietro Marino, Vandeville and the Zoo. Clympia—Corner Mason and EAQy streets—Spocialiles Sutro's Baths—Swimming. E—Cire: Saiurday, Octoder 1. aturday and Sunday.om Qpening Sunday. October 18 Coursing—Ingieside Coursing Park. Glen Park —The Miss!o 200. G. H. Umbsen & Co.—Mo By at 14 Mongomery sireet, at 12 0 clod A CAMPAIGN FOR PROSPERITY. W HILE thus far § the other to guard d cause business cir- wou treme. 5 of all p t. The count: perous de: flowing Europe, ente: begun ag: workingmen are getting good wages, a finances of the nation. despite the expenses of the war, are so fiourishing as to excite the envy of the richest coun- tries of the Old World. The maintenanc 11 these fair conditions is de- pendent upon the votes to be cast in the Congres- sional elections. Surely der such circumstances no urgent appeal is needed to rouse business men and workingmen alike to the duty of saving their interests from calamity by assuring the election in every Con- gressional district of the candidate of the party of prosperity. [ Asa R. Wells. nominations of the year, and it cannot fail to have Tpr] in on a large s FOR COUNTY AUDITOR. OR the responsible office of County Auditor the Republican party presents as its candidate the commendation and support of all citizens who | desire to provide for our county affairs an adminis- tration of sterling integrity and high efficiency. Mr. Wells has long been identified with the busi- | ness interests of San Francisco. He is one of the leaders in our industrial and commercial activities, and has for years taken a prominent part in the ad- ‘ vancement of the community. He has not, however, confined his thoughts or his energies to business life. | He is one of those broad-minded, public-spigited men who take a keen interest in the politics of the city, State and nation, and who work as energetically for the public good as for the upbuilding of their private fortunes. He has been an honored and sagacious ad- viser in Republican councils, has been zealous in sup- porting its principles and its candidates in every cam- paign, and, while meriting the suffrages of his fellow- citizens generally by reason of his fitness Jarly strong claim upon all loyal Republicans. The importance to the county of a man of stanch integrity and sound business judgment in the office of Auditor is recognized by all who have any knowledge of the duties of the office. Mr. Wells, by his natural aptitude for matters of finance and the supervision of accounts, and by the experience of his business train- ing, is peculiarly well fitted to render the highest ser- vice to the community in that position. It may be accounted a good fortune that the county has the opportunity of obtaining such a man for the office. His nomination is in accord with the genera! desire to have business men of standing and repute take charge of the affairs of the municipality, and he ought, therefore, to receive the votes of all who wish to bring about in San Francisco honest poli- tics, good government and municipal reform direction of honesty, economy and efficiency. General Merritt will be pained to know that the Spanish do not like him. a thoroughly representative business man—Mr. | This is one of the strongest and best | for the | office to which he has been nominated, has a particu- | in the\ off winner. APHORISTIC MAGUIRE. HE fusion papers in the country have broken 'Touz with a allpox of “Aphorisms by Ma- guire.” These aphorisms relate to equal rights, special privileges, etc., and are mainly extracted from his spe 1 favor of land confiscation. His diatribes against land-owners ardusually in- troduced by references to the rights of “God's chil- dren” and denunciations of monopoly. The fusion or introductions, but care- g anything that follows in the sermon find Maguire denouncing their country subscribers, the rural land-ow who have despoiled the weak and “sordid extortionists” who make “God's children pay tribute to them for the privilege of inhabiting God's earth,” and as wrongdoers whose “investment in land must be destroyed,” who may “complain that to destroy it is a hardship, and | so it will be, but it will be just. The Placer Herald in its last issue quotes this | aphorism: “Give to all citizens equal rights in all that constitutes the country, and disaffection, the germ of dissolution, can never live within our country. You cannot conceive of a time when, under such a recognition of equal rights, sedition could be fo- mented or organized—Hon. James G. Maguire speech on ‘Free Homesteads, House of Representa tives, March 10, 1898." 1f the Herald will print all of that speech on “Free Homesteads” it will find it to be a declaration of war against land-owners, whose lands, it declares, must be n from them to be given as free homesteas In that speech Maguire said: papers print the: or they wo “cunning robbers undesigning,” tak “God's children.’ if one portion of the earth’s surface may become fully the possession of an individual and may be held by him for his sole use and benefit, as a thing to which he has an exclusive right, then all portions of the earth’s surface may be s0 held and our planet may thus lapse into private hands. Whether it may be altogether expedient to admit claims of a certain standing is not to the point. We have nothing to do with considerations of conventional priviiege or legislative convenience. We have simply to inquire what is the verdict of pure equity in this matter. And this verdict en- joins a protest against every existing pretension to individual ownership of the soil and dictates the assertion that the right of mankind to the earth at large is still valid, all deeds, customs and laws notwithstanding. Not only have present land titles an indefensible origin, but it is impossible to discover any mode by which land can become private property. The world is God’'s bequest to | mankind. All men are joint heirs to it. You are among the number, and because you have taken up residence upon a certain part of it, subdued, cultivated and beautified that part—improved i as you say—you are not therefore warranted in appropriating it as your private property. At least, if you do so, you may &t any moment be justly expelled by the lawful owner, society.” t ached by Maguire in his ads,” House of Representa- parades its te We invite the Herald it all, and see how the land-owners who have ved ied the Gate County fro: to Cisco like it. They will all declare that the Government sold the land to them or their t th their money for it and it he sam P is theirs. Int e speech Maguire answers them. | He “How can this be done since we have sold the land?> Why, we sold it subject to the unlimited right of taxation, res ercise that right by concentrating s, and the only incentive men to own land will be instantly taken away.” land-owners of Rocklin, Loomis, Penryn, Applegate and Colfax, and the T Forest Hill and Dutch Flat, are e robbed of their holdi single tax Wi e Herald print speech and see how they feel about this recipe for curing “disaffection”? Chief Justice Marshall said, truly, that “the power o tax is the power to destroy.” tyrants in all ages. Revolutions have been caused destructive exercise of the taxing power. b; guire simply proposes to use the taxing power to destroy private ownership of land, to destroy in- stantly every dollar invested in land. The Herald has taken up this issue by printing the text, the aphorism, of the speech. It cannot decently avoid printing the speech. A@N EXAMPLE FOR FITZGERALD. E XPRESS compani n this country are not su- preme. This view may appear to President Valentine of the Wells-Fargo to be ultra- radical, but the law sustains it. A test case was recently brought in the Circuit Court of Michigan, and the Attorney General of that commonwealth did not consider it beneath his dig- | nity to appear for the people. He not only made an | argument, but his views were sustained, and the man- damus prayed for was ordered to issue. The effect of this was to make the American Express Company receive and forward packages and affix to the receipts a revenue stamp paid for by itself. Out here the Wells-Fargo Company has made con- tentions similar to those of the American. It has forced the customer to pay for the stamp, notwith- standing the specific provision of the statute to the contrary. In most instances the imposition has been submitted to, because the patron had no time to bring the matter to an issue. In the solitary excep- tion the company was beaten, and appealed the case, for delay to it is almost as good as actual triumph. Attorney General Fitzgerald should imitate the excellent example set by the Michigan official. There can be no doubt 2s to the result. The Wells- Fargo people not only would be obliged to accept packages and pay for the necessary stamps, but as a common carrier, subject to wholesome regulation, wotld not dare to make an extra charge for the ser- vice. The common carrier has a distinct place in law. The conditions which obtain between private parties to a contract are absent when a common car- rier is concerned. Mr. Fitzgerald should at once proceed against the Wells-Fargo Express Company. The law as well as justice would be on his side, and he would have the backing of a clearly defined and unassailable pre- cedent. e James G. Blaine is back from the islands, but de- clines to talk. For once since coming to this coast Blaine seems to be displaying a streak of sense. At least one army doctor has felt the force of inves- tigation and been bounced from the service. His name is Tabor, and his temper is bad. In the matter of manners the Tennessee regiment can compare with the one from New York arld come The *“Non-Partisans” ought to convene again long enough to change their title to “Assistant Demo- crats.” . 1 “Equity does not permit property in land; for | om which the Placer Her- | red by the Federal and State | antly” by the | It has been so used | Ma- | JIM REA'S GHOST SONG. | IM REA of Santa Clara, commonly known as QJ the “boss” of San Jose, has been giving evi- dence in the case of Jarman against Rea for slander. He has made use of the occasion as an In- dian brave makes use of the ceremony of the ghost dance, to chant the war song of his deeds and his | virtues, to taunt his friends with over-candid words, and to hurl a bully defiance at his foes. Rea is not a poet, his song comes not in rhyme or rhythm, but he displays such an exuberance of pic- turesque words and trumpeting phrases in the flow of his swearful prose as to prove he possesses a true | dithyrambic fecundity. No ome can listen to his ghost dance song on the witness stand, or even read t, without being aware that Jim needs only a higher aspiration of soul and a better education to have been quite a troubadour: The reports of the proceedings of the trial tell us that in giving his testimony “Jims as his loving friends familiarly call him, “was very loquacious,” and after a time his loquacity went so far “the court was obliged to admonish the witness to confine him- self to answering questions.” The reports do not tell us the effect of the court’s action, nor was it necessary they should. It goes without saying that no admonition ever had any other effect on Jimsy than that of stirring him up and making him a little ivelier and a little uglier than before. When asked in what capacity he took it upon him- self to “run” the Common Council he chanted his | ghost song in this wise: “As a citizen of San Jose, to protect the public treasury from the inroads of | scoundrels, and to see that honest and efficient people { are in public places. I never in my life received one | quarter of a dollar from any source whatever for the appointment of any one, or for the advocacy of any easure before a public body, and a man that does, in my opinion, is unfit to be an American citizen.” ! | A little later the brave went on to tell of a certain | job that had been put through the Common Council. | out of which it appears some of the Councilmen got | He was then asked why he had not ex- and prevented it. h, it was not a great wrong. a rake-off. posed that iniquit sang in a minor ke I did not consider it to be a great wrong. to the amount of a few hundred dollars. I consid- ered it a wrong in the sense that it was being done, I did not consider that from my position and the position of my friends who are in this community it would jus me in creating a public scandal, which I would get the worst of in some way or other.” Then having in this belittling way made light of the small steal and cast a pale shadow of suspicion on his friends, he resumed his louder tone and sang his own praise again, while those shocked and astounded friends listened in amazement. chanted Mr. Rea, “and whenever I locate a man who g money either as a public official or out- of public ce for his political influence, I mark about all the way from 75 when politics come up again I turn his picture to the wall and proceed accordingly.” c that they may learn just how many of the portraits of his friends are hanging face outward to gladden his | honest soul when he looks upon them. |A LESSON FOR THE HOME MARKET. 1 fl was recently given to a reporter of the Port- traveler engaged in selling Eastern goods in Western market. The commercial man stated he could sell New York woolen goods in Oregon at bet- ter prices than the Oregon mills standing the Oregon goods are the better. When asked for an explanation of this seeming | contradiction of the rule that the best goods at the | Jowest cost always get the trade, the New Yorker | said: mahufactured goods. | supposed to be all right. “There is a certain prejudice against Western Anything from the East is Therefore shoddy goods mark. It is fashion that rules the trade world. We work the prejudice strong for all it is worth.” | On this showing it will be seen the prejudice in favor of Eastern goods is a very costly one for the Western consumer. It would be cheaper to support two vices than that one single prejudice. To main- tain it the customer must pay the freight on Western raw material across the continent, and the freight on the manufactured goods back again, and finally a higher price for the imported article than he would have had to pay for a better one madé by home man- ufacturers. The lesson conveyed in this statement of facts, while pertinent to the whole of the Great West, is particularly so to California. No State in the Union suffers more than this from the folly of patronizing Eastern made goods and neglecting those made at home. We ship to the East large quantities of raw material—leather, wool, hops, fruit, etc.—and buy | back manufactured articles made of these by East- ern mills when the same classes of goods of equal and often of superior quality are manufactured here and can be bought for less money. For the upbuilding of our great commonwealth and for the advancement of its industries and the wel- fare of its labor there is necessary a change in the attitude of the purchasing public toward local manu- factures. California should have a home market for the products of its industry. If there is to be any prejudice in trade it should in- cline to the side of the home product. That would be the application of the great principle of protection to private life, and the principle would prove as bere- ficial in that way as in national legislation. To pay high prices for Eastern goods when Western goods are better is a folly of which no intelligent man ought to be guilty. It makes the New Yorkers laugh at us. e e China’s Empress seems to be a terror. If half the stories told of her are true, she is a disgrace even to the antiquated old dynasty which has for so many years declined to progress. While the greed of the powers in reaching for pieces of China is shameful, the virago on the throne will kill off any tendency toward sympathy. —_— In the matter of avoiding taxes the rich and highly respectable New Yorker can easily give the rest of the world points. However, in communities in which false swearing is regarded as in bad taste, the method might not work smoothly. One mistake about the war investigation seems to have been that Julian Hawthorne was not selected to be all the witnesses and the entire jury. Still, the up- roar of Julian is almost unseemly. Count Castellane seems to have a business turn of mind and to be devoting its full energies to getting some of the gold Jay Gould heaped up by years of honest toil. Zola’s home has been saved to him, a circumstance showing him to have some friends, which is more ‘Whereupon he | It was only | “I am in politics,” | per cent to zero, and | And now the people of Santa Clara County are | longing for a look in Jim’s private picture gallery | VALUABLE lesson for Pacific Coast people | land Telegram by a New York commercial | the | charge, notwith- | can be sold as long as they bear the Eastern trade- | o 1 L TROUBLE CAUSED BY A SIMILARITY OF NAMES, f=] =31 =31 | b=3 Attorney William H. Jordan Steened in Woe Because of the Political Aspirations of the Master of Ceremonies. T has been apparent for weeks that something was wrong with Willlam H. Jordan, the well-known at- torney, but until yesterday, when he unbosomed him- self to one of his friends, the source of his trouble $was a mystery. The friend had encountered a-delega- tion from the Ministerial Union as he entered Jordan's office in the Claus Spreckels buflding, and he attempted a pleasantry by asking the I r if he was a back- slider, and the delegation was trying to yank him back he fold ‘No, 'tisn’t that” and Jordan sighed wearlly, hough T guess I'll be a backslider fast enough if this thing keeps up much longer.” “What's wrong, old fellow?” ympathies fully excited by the look of | overspread Jordan's feature: |45 |amcwerTo “Well, T'Il tell you all about it, for T can't keep it | SUR SRt aNDl to myself much lon It's just wearing me out; that's | FLGRT homey <L, what it 1 { OV " Jordan heaved a sigh that told of long and keen suffering, then he proceeded: “It's this blamed elec- tion,” he muttered, “and those driveling Democrats are the cause of it. You see, it's this w: in the back in the session of I B bl £ 4 <. asked the other, his misery that con MR = JoRbAN BUY f=RegegegeRegoRoReRaFugaReFuPeRaPugryFeyoR TR uR R RuyeFogFg-FeF g1 | | Legislature 'way 87, being { Speaker of the Assembly during the latter y I'm | a Repudlican and was elected from a respectable Re- | publican rict over In Alameda County, but 1 wish T I'd never heard of the Legisla- | ture and never would hear or see a politician again.” But that was years ago,” sald the : Don’t let your conscience prick you at L R I I R e I I T L I I I T I e T e T T T I T T T T I T T T T T I I T T Then, after a pause, the sufferer broke out with, “Say, did you ever go to & » er-n—that is, ves, once: but purely in the In- terest of humanity,” stammered the friend. “What's that got to do with politics?"” I'm coming to it right away. irian research did The night you made you notice a short, thick-set, red faced little fellow get into the ring and announce: ‘Gentlemen, the next thing on the pro- gramme is the event the evening; stop smoking, " and then call up a couple of footpads, dressed nt them to the audi- 2 ples in nothing to speak of, and ence with profound formality “Yes, I believe I did see some such person, but | what''— ! “You saw him, did you? Well, that's Jordan—Billy Jordan—William H. Jordan, if you please.” “But I don't”"— “Don’t interrupt and you'll understand soon enough. It's simple. Those blamed” Democrats down in the Forty-fifth District have nominated this Jordan—this ‘master of ceremonies’ at prize fights—tals disciple of Phelanism—for the Assembly, and 1 am made to suffer for it.” \ “I don’t see how!" \ “You don’t? Well you ought to be In my place for one day; then you'd see fast enough. That gang you just met going out was a crowd of preachers who c to remonstrate against me trying to secure the p of a bill, in the event of my election, awarding $5t State funds to the winner of every prize fight held in the State, besides giving extra money to thugs who ‘fight fai1® and ‘break away clean,” whatever those terms may mean. I told the preachers they would have to e the Jordan out in the Health Department—that's where this Billy Jordan is—and I was just going out to get a drink to compose my nerves when you came in.” *So Billy’s going to promote the boxing industry, is he?” remarked the friend. “It looks that way. But that isn't all of my trou- ble; it’s just an‘incident,” and the harassed Jordan, whose first name 18 also Willlam, reeled off another chapter of woe. “It's funny that none of the churches ever think of holding fairs only in election years and right during the campaign. 1 calculate that every church in town is running from one to seven of these cinch games right now, and I've invested in every one of them. No, it's no use trying to explain. You know how much chance a man has to make explanations to {an office full of women all talking at once and each shaking a bundle of tickets in his face. There's only one way to get rid of them; that's to invest. I've in- vested until I'm behind in my household expenses, and ME VOAT == ~ AN A SMOLE" - < “Then there’s the ward politiclan, who comes in just Bl when I am engaged with my tealthiest client, and wants to negotiate a block of votes, giving a written guarantee that he can deliver the goods. He always calls me ‘Billy,’ and spits on the carpet. There's lots of him, and if the other Jordan is buying votes he can get enough to elect him Governor. The corner grocery hanger-on, who has only his own vote to sell, would make an army. My office is overrun with them; the watchman has to use force to drive them out of the hall; the elevators are packed with them, and every time I pass along the street I head a procession of them. It's awful. And the worst of it is, I'm rot aven siven any peace at night. There’s a regular mass meeting in front of my house at 1118 Gough street every even- ing, while the sign painters and printers clamor for my advertising; the tradespeople who want to put the ‘Jordan hat’ or the ‘master of ceremonies’ necktie,” and a hundred other toilet articles, on the market for a suitable consideration, is appalling. “Say, do I look like a man who would get into a prize ring and ask the assembled gentlemen to please refrain from smoking? This thing has got to stop. I'm going down now and get a sign painter to scratch my name off the door and then I'm going into the coun- try until after election. By the way, do you think you nana‘aqpn‘aab‘oaaanaanm:sdaafioanoaanaanouoaoaaaaamsaamaaab‘nanc’amfirxooamaacnoaaaanarmnnaaaaaaaaaa coyld get that Billy Jordan to change his name? Any bl old name ought to be good enough for him.” o Then the long suffering Jordan left instructions with | A0 vrue o the office boy to tell anybody who called to see him |TRou: h that he had gone to New York, and went downstairs | BLE-{F " ol with his friend. —— a =3 ~ B bttt h E E R P R o4 | AROUND THE CORRIDORS Judge J. H. Wilson of Sacramento is at the Lick. J. P. Sheridan, of the banking house of Sheridan Bros., Roseburg, Or., is at the Lick. Ernest Sevier, the well-known attorney and politiclan of Eureka, Cal., is at the Lick. I C. Steele, the well-known capftalist and land owner of Pescadero, is at the Russ. T. W. Lee and wife of Los Angeles have returned from a three months’ so- journ in Honolulu, and are at the Russ. Andres Strickrott, a prominent mer- chant of Ensenada, Lower California, is in town on a buying trip, and stopping at the Russ. — e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. WALCOTT AND GREEN—A. R., Au- burn, Cal. Joe Walcott knocked out George Green in the eighteenth round at 2 mythical mass of | stones, which Selgtricd: Brivas Pegcious | Netherlands, took from NibelunmmiilS | and gave to his wife as a dowese apd hoard filled_thirty-six wagons. ' Alier G0S | i of seenied, BIE oA 0 r concealment. sa jiine at Lockham, ‘""nflnxn¥o|$&5-25 it at a future period, but | sassinated and the mm“éi’é“1§§?‘£?fi ever. ETIQUETTE—The Ramona, Ci | gentleman meets another gentlomsn vxvfm: whom he is acquainted, and that gentle- man is walking with a lady, the. fire | should raise his hat to both irrespective of the fact that he does not know the lady. The salute will be returned by the lady’s escort. If the gentleman first bowing is accompanied by a gentleman. that gentleman when he sees his com- &3“}3 saluting a gentleman and lady $hould raise his hat, notwithstanding that he does not know' either of the par- Ues saluted. In publie elevators which ©_as common as the public sidewalk 1t is not customary for gentlemen to re- move thelr hats because there are ladies present, but in such as are in hotels a gentleman should take off his hat when there are ladies in the elevator. | good government you urge the el |and so noble his conduct. | be posted extensively and fire ! during the summer. THREE DATES—Mrs. B., City. The 218t of January, 1853, fell on a Wednesday, the 15th of FebMuary, 1584, on a Saturday and the 17th of March, 1885, on a Wednes- Woodward's Pavillon, August 27, 1897. SUBMARINE CABLE—H. 8., City. The size of the Atlantic cable is one and one- eighth inches in thickness. The shore ends of ocean cables are thicker than the gen- eral length. PARCELS TO MANILA-W. R., Oak- land, Cal. Since the publication, some weeks ago, of the announcement that the Government contemplated sending a trans- yport to Manila to convey small parcels free of charge to the soldiers and sailors locat- ed there nothing has been done toward the ing out of the idea. If the Gov- ernment should decide to do what was an- nounced, orders in regard thereto will ba sent to army headquarters in this eity. NIBELUNGEN HOARD—A. §., City. The story of the Nibelungen hoard is to bo found in Nibelungen Lied, XIX. It is ik ROMAN NUMERALS—Elaine, Elk, Cal Th"s department has delved into ancient and modern books in a vain endeavor to discover how the Romans of anclent times carried on their calculations with the numerals. A French writer, who de- clares that his hair turned gray in an effort to ascertain how the calculations were carried on, wrote: “The Romans assuredly had rules for calculating, but they were for the simplest operation of the most terrifying complications.” This department has been unable to find any mention of the use of fractions by the m‘?xas:st{‘;nzlhtel‘:r efl:ulaflons‘ but if they | | e mner: the emi‘plluuons must Faseed b e TR expresse R 'CCLXXXYVIII and a ymnnonl?f ebxy- PM by the letter M with a bar over t. The additlon of these three sets of SR SR . the first a bar over it. Another writer :yh!a\;lb:s! “life is too short to attempt to ascertain how the ancient Romans calculated, and it would be a useless waste of valuable tme as the cumbersome methods not be utilized.” N ¢ . GOOD RECORD To the Editor of The Call: 1 sce with pleasure that in the interests of of General William F. Fitzgerald, pr ent Attorney General, to the place o City and County Attorney of San Fr: cisco. If ever a man deserved confidence and esteem of his co ry- men General Fitzgerald is thalhman. When but 22 years of age, in the Sta of Mississippi, he raised t of the Republican party, and al went into every county in that _S[ championing the cause of Republi ism, and he had the respect and es- teem of every man in the State. He was nominated for Attorney Gen- eral against his wish, and had for l?l: opponent General Catchings, one of the foremost Democrats of the State, and, although Catchings was elected, Fitz- gerald ran 15,000 votes ahead of his ticket, so powerful was his oratory He was elected District Attorney of the Vicks- burg District in Mississippi and se- lected almost without opposition. ~He | resigned and was appointed District Judge in Arizona by President Arthur without application on his part, and with the earnest support of Senator | Lamar, a Democrat. After a brilliant career there he some sixteen years since came to Los An- geles, where he practiced law Wwith equal success for years. He was appointed Supreme Court Commissioner, as 1 happen to Know, without solicitation on his part or his friends. He resigned that place to practice law in San Francisco. He was appointed to the Supreme bench and was one of the best and nost popular Judges who ever sat on that bench. He was nominated and elected Attor- ney General, where he now is pursuing a most distinzuished and brilliant ca- reer. He has never sought office; come to him without solicitatior In the estimation of our moi tinguished lawyers and citize an idéal candidate for City and County Attorney. A more honorable man, a better citizen, a cleaner man in public and private life does not live. I have known and loved him since he was 9 and I 12 years of age. At this time, when true patriotism should rule the hour, this distinguis citizen, able lawyer, brave soldier and pure gentleman should recei the vote of every true lover of his country. H. S. FOOTE. San Francisco, October 12. PRESERVATION OF THE FORESTS has it Editor of The Call: Permit me to ex- press my thanks for the persistent man- ner in which you advocate the protec- tion of our forests from destruction by fire. While camping near Mount Shasta the past summer I was greatly im- pressed by the terrible effects of forest fires. It is bad enough to see the grown trees cut down so rapidly for lumber, but it seems still worse to see the ngs swept away by fire, leaving untains practically a desert. £ the m By a wise supervision much this annual destruction could be prevented. Forests might be eeparated into blocks by the clearing of wide lanes, which would act as barriers if a fire was once started. Notices and warni war might patrol the more exposed districts I trust you will keep up the agitation and that the next Legislature will take hold of the matter in earnest. If our forests are burned our State loses half of its wealth. JOSIAH KEEP. Mills College, October 11. The bell at the parsonage went ting-a- ling, and as the dominie was in his study and his_wife getting the baby to sleep, Master Harold, aged 7, went to the door. On opening it he found a coupl evi- dently from the country, both young and bashful. But, after looking at the a moment, the young man queried: Is the parson to home?’ *Yes,” said Har- old; “do you want to get married?” “That’'s just what we're here for,” the prospective bridegroom. as he looked fondly at the blushing girl by his side. - come right in, then,” said the bo ng them into the parior. And w had seated themselves on the edge side he started of: saying: 1 call pa and ma, too; sh be awful glad, for she has all the marryin’ money, and I heard her tell pa this morn- in' that she wished some folks would come to get married, ‘cause she hadn't ’nough money to buy her new hat.""—Chi- cago News. —_— e Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* —_——— 2. B Fine eveglasses, specs, lic. € Fourth street: open Sundays. Lookout for 6. * —_———— Special information suppiled daily to business houscs and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont. gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_———— A WRETCHED MANAGER. \ Mrs. Brown—I'm sure you have a good huysband. Mrs. Green—Yes; but then he is such a wretched manager. 1f you'll believe it, he went and paid our butcher's and gro- cer's bill last week when he knew well enough the chiliren were suffering for bicycles.—Boston Transcript. e — There is but one Angostura Bitters—Dr. Sie- gert’s, imported from South America. 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