The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 11, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11 ..DECEMBER 11, 1808 JOHN D SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Add'ess All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manngar PUBLICATION OFFICE ......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. .-217 to 221 Ste\lcnlcn Street Telep Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. ©OAKLAND OFFICE.... One year, by mall, $1.50 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE... Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Riggs House €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE... ..Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Represcntative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 930 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Misslon street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. MENTS Columbla California e Uncle Bob. e Private Secretary.” “yrano de Bergerac.” | sorrilla man, vaudeville and the zoc. Mason and Eddy streets, specialties Park—Mission Zoo. Baths—Swimming. fes' Pavilion—C] Ingleside Courst reation Pai The Chutes- Olympia Gle ty Park—Coursing. eball. utter ide Race Track—Races to-morrow. ing in December. AUCTION SALES, at nk W Art Crocke: Butterfle y, December 12, . ‘at 1§ Sutter street | December 14, at 10:30 o’clock, | rFifteenth and Valencia streets. Umbsen G. H & Co.—Monday, December 19, at 12 o Real Estate, at 14 Montgomery st. | THE CHRISTMAS CALL. ‘ OR the celebration of the holidays, The Call | r will on next Sunday issue its annual Christmas | number. It is well known that with each suc- ceeding year these editions improve, but this year the improvement will be more notable than ever. The ‘ Call of next Sunday will mark the highest attainment | of journalism and prove one of the brightest holiday novelties of the year. A portion of the paper will of course be taken up with a review of the condition of our great industries | and a forecast of the future that awaits them. In cvery e these will be written by experts, by men who are identified with the industries they describe, and who, therefore, write of them with the authority acquired from long experience in their management. | The moral and the intellectual progress of the State will be given as much attention the material progress. Two of the most notable articles of the number will treat of the growth and the prospects of our universities. President Kellogg will write of the State University, and President Jordan of Stanford. | It is well known that these two Californian seats of learning have brighter prospects than any other uni- as versities in the Union. This is particularly true oi Berkeley, whose projected range of buildings has become the center of interest to the architects of the | world, and whose future home promises to be the | stateliest ever erected for the uses of education and | the advancement of learning For the joy of the holid there will be many articles of a light and sparkling character. The num- ber will contain stories by such well known and popular writers as Anthony Hope, Bret Harte, Oc- tave Thanet, John Strange Winter and Edward Ever- ett Hale. These stories are in the best style of their respective authors, and will make the Christmas Call welcome to all who like the fellowship of rousing ro- mance. Throughout the number from first to last every fea- ture will be attractively illustrated in the best style of modern journalistic art. The pictorial richness of the edition will be, in fact, one of its notable excellences. No branch of newspaper making has advanced so rap- idly of recent years as that of illustration, and the | Christmas Call, by its hali-tones and other styles of pictures, will show what modern art has accom- plished in that direction. Finally, that no department of joyous art may be lacking to the number, The Call will contain a Christmas song, distinctively Californian, written by Miss Ina Coolbrith, and set to music by Oscar Weil. ‘We can safely assert that this song, by reason of the beauty of its words and the sweetness of its music, will be one of the permanent contributions made to Christmas minstrelsy this season. By itself alone it will be sufficient to make this edition of The Call wel- come into every cultured home and a delight to every artistic mind. TO STOP FAKE FIGHTING. O the subject of “fake fighting” and how to stop Tit the sporting editors of the land have been de- voting considerable space. There is only one way, and it is simple. Every prize-fight is a fake, every prize-fighter a confidence-man. The event and the calling are alike illegal. By stopping fights of every sort no mistake can be made. Then the fighters, their occupations gone, will quickly driit into the channels of life where they can be definitely restrained. Most of them will become vagrants and be easily suppressed. A few of the more courageous will turn highwaymen or bur- glars, and in due time be within four walls. Here and there one with some dormant element of decency in him will go to work. There is no room for discussion, since in favor of the prize-ring, with its “Gentleman Jims” and its Simian Sharkeys, its frauds and its skullduggery, there is absolutely not a word to be said. ———— A murderer who had killed four people was recently twice hanged owing to the breaking of the rope. Jus- tice was trying to get in its work, although in not causing the rope to break twice more it fell short of perfection. —_— The Salvation Army man who explains that he beat a boy for the purpose of driving tht devil out of him seems to have mistaken the location of that devil. It was probably under his own blouse. While the School Directors are figuring out so beautifully that that money is not missing, they would add strength to their contentions by dlsplaymg the cash, Bazaar. | | OUR GREEK TRADE. OR the fiscal year 1896-97 we imported from Fz Greece as dutiable merchandise books, bicycle cement, chemicals and dyes, clothing, earthen- ware, fish, cugrants, figs, raisins, fruits and nuts, al- monds, honeyj iron ore, leather, marble, metal, musi- cal instruments, olive oil, paper, cheese, seeds; manu- factured clothing, laces, soap, brandy and spirits, sponges, manufactures of straw, confectionery, still wines, bottled wines, manufactures of wood, carpets and wools—all to the value of $648,173, of which Zante currants amounted to $574,802, the importation being 28,465,611 pounds. Of non-dutiable goods Greece sent us art works, antiquities, gums, licorice root, mineral water, chemicals, fruits, household effects, ores, manganese, manufactures of zinc, oils and cliff- stone, all to the value of $84,529, making a total im- port trade from that country to this of $732,702. During the same fiscal year we exported to Greece books, medicines, clocks and watches, manufactures of cotton, fish, glucose, cartridges, hides, firearms, locks and hinges, machinery, stoves, manufactures of iron, ditto of lead, leather, illuminating oil, tallow, vegetables, and manufactures of wood, all amount- ing to $100,923, to which add re-export of foreign merchandise amounting to $840, or a total export to Greece of $110,763. Therefore we imported from Greece $621,939 more than we exported to her, leaving that balance against us in the trade. As our principal import was Zante currants, so our | principal export was petroleum, amounting to only | 1,250,000 gallons, valued at $95,085. In Greece the petroleum importation is a Govern- ment monopoly. The tariff on it was 50 drachmas on | 100 okes. A drachma is 19.2 cents, or 100 lepta, and an oke is 2.34 pints.- A note in the Greek tariff of | 1885 says that the petroleum tariff is 50 lepta per oke; | | | | | known no competition, no | together until another crop is produced. the duty, therefore, is 9.6 cents per 2.34 pints, or 32.8 | cents per gallon. On our export of 1,250,000 gallons the total duty collected by Greece was $410,000. The duty collected by the United States on the 28,465,611 street—Plano recital Monday | pounds of currants we imported amounted to $569,312, a gain to us in duties of $159,312. It is obvious from an inspection of these statistics | that whatever reciprocal arrangements are made with Greece they will be for the benefit of our largest ex- port, petroleum, and of her largest, the Zante cur- rants. It further appears that if duty is taken off Zante | currants, in such arrangement the interests of Califor- | nia raisin-growers will be sacrificed to promote those of the petroleum producers. Inasmuch as the petroleum industry is highly or- ganized and is highly profitable, is not subject to the- accidents which beset horticulture, nor to the varia- | tions in the market which affect vineyard products, and is an article of necessity and therefore assured al- ways of a market, to sacrifice the California raisin for its benefit is a proposition that should meet with the most stubborn resistance. As we have shown, the Zante currant is a raisin made from a grape. Wherever it is admitted to a mar- ket it competes with every other kind of raisin. Its disastrous competition, when it was free of duty, is sorrowfully remembered in this State. The record of those years is written in mortgages foreclosed, vine- yards abandoned and every form of financial distress that can fall upon a horticultural community. No such necessity, no such misfortune, has ever fallen to the lot of the petroleum monopoly. It has failure of market, no abandonment of its plants. The raisin industry here has struggled from the be- ginning. This year it has tasted a degree of pros- perity, but nothing more than to sustain and hold it If that crop is to meet free Zantes in the market it will not pay the | cost of production. In this emergency the authorities at Washington must weigh the interests of the Standard Oil Com- pany against those of the raisin-growers of Califor- nia, and if the principles of commercial equity pre- vail, there ought to be no doubt of the result. It is not exactly correct to represent that the Zante currant import is competitive with a California cur- rant industry. Though there are in Placer County paying vineyards of the Zante vine, and the Thompson seedless grape is a similar fruit, yet the Zante import competes with our raisins of all kinds as a kitchen or cooking fruit. The problem that has been before our raisin men is the use of their product in cookery. Formerly the im- ported Valencia and Malaga raisins were a table luxury, used as a dessert, and their use quite re- stricted and uncommon. The task of the California raisin planters has been to put their product in the kitchen, for use cooked, as a dried fruit that carries all the wholesome food quality of the grape. In the kitchen it has been met by the dirty Zante currant. The latter has been considered in our tariff legislation since 1816. The tariff of that year put on it a duty of 3 cents a pound; the tariff of 1832 made it free; of 1842, 3 cents a pound; 1846, 40 per cent ad valorem; 1866, 3 cents a pound; 1800, free; 1804, 134 cents a pound; 1897, 2 cents a pound. It was only between 1866 and 1890 that Zante cur- rants became a competing import, and their competi- tion became disastrous after the tariff of 18go. It will be far more disastrous now if they are again made free, for, no matter what the tariff may be on the large raisins, the real rate of protection they enjoy is the duty on Zante currants, their most formidable kitchen competitor. e ——— AN EXPERIMENT IN FORESTRY. RESIDENT McKINLEY in his message to p Congress announced that the Forestry Bureau of the Department of Agriculture “is giving special attention to the treeless area of the regions of the country, and is introducing species especially ‘adapted to the semi-arid districts. Forest fires, which seriously interfere with production, especially in the irrigated regions, are being studied, that the losses from this cause may be avoided.” This brief statement will have the effect of directing public attention to what is being done by the Depart- ment of Agriculture for the preservation of our for- ests. - The subject is one of the most important that confronts our lawmakers, either at Washington or at Sacramento. Our forests are worth infinitely more to us than the Philippines or all the islands put to- gether over which so much debate is going on. One report that comes to us from the East of what is being done by the Forestry Bureau is worth more than a passing notice by reason of the promise it car- ries of future good. Early in October the Department of Agriculture issued a proposal to forest owners that they prepare a plan for harvesting the merchantable timber on any given tract under the supervision of an agent furnished by the department at the expense of the Government, the only condition being that the Government should have the privilege of publishing the financial results for the benefit of other timber owners. P It now appears that timber-land owners represent- ing 1,000,000 acres of land have filed applications for Government supervision. In the report that comes to us it is stated that 100,000 acres of the area are in the Adirondack region, but the location of the re- [0 0009000000006 00006 00060000600 000006000 WITH ENTIRE FRANKNESS. By HENRY JAMES. only in the East, the benefits resulting from them will |0 00060000 ose@oo«o@@@@@@@e@@e@oeo@e@eeo mainder is not given. This district is large enough to make an experiment worth something, and the re- sults may be expected to be widely beneficial. It is clear that if the experiments are to be made be almost wholly for the East. The conditions of Western forests are so widely different from those of | the Adirondack woods that results obtained by a cer- tain line of action in the one could not be counted on from a similar line of action in the other. = - It is to be hoped that California timber-land owners will imitate those in the older States of the East and profit by the offer made by the Government. An ex- periment of governmental supervision of 100,000 acres or more of forest land in this State and the scientific harvesting of its merchantable timber would be an object lesson in forestry that would be of great value to the commonwealth. MR. COLNON, REFORMER. N the last days of his term Harbor Commissioner Colnon presents the most extraordinary reform spectacle of the age. For four years he has wallowed inwater-front patronage. He has quartered his relatives and friends upon the State in large numbers, and was only prevented from converting the Harbor Commis- sion. payroll into a directory of Stockton by the late overwhelming Republican victory. Now, as he is about to retire from office, he tells the Senate Inves- tigating Committee that patronage grubbing on the water front is corrupting and should be stopped. Doubtless if Mr. Colnon were cross-questioned with reference to collusive contracts, skimped specifica- tions, deficient material, changes in plans designed to enrich contractors, and the other devices by which rascally officials rob the State in building ferry depots, he would become equally as philosophic and reforma- tory. Doubtless he would declare with pain that such things were fraudulent and disgusting, and that, like the spoils system, they ought to be suppressed. But, as in the other case, Mr. Colnon’s philosophy comes too late. After four years of spoils and fraud in building ferry depots he suddenly awakes to a realiza- tion that‘the system is wrong and subversive of econ- omy and integrity in the public service. Harbor Commissioner Colnon should not in this matter expect intelligent people to take him seriously. If he does he is an altogether greener man than his four years’ record as private secretary to the Governor and Harbor Commissioner would seem to indicate. So long as the spoils system advantaged him he has practiced it, but the moment he is about to retire to private life, loaded down with ferry depot scandals «nd a record of which a less respectable and intelligent man ought to be ashamed, he suddenly reforms and with loud acclaim joins the ranks of civil service re- formers and becomes a member of the church. However, the people are not likely to fall into any such trap as Mr. Colnon is setting for them. Four years’ acquaintance with him has satisfied them that he is not a reformer, and cannot be. They will think he is simply putting up a new job on them—appro- priating, as it were, the livery of heaven only to ap- pear later on with another office where, as a building expert, he can take charge of another public edifice. | Mr. Colnon may think that in verdancy the people of | the State resemble those of Stockton, where for years he has passed himself off as guide, reformer and friend, but he is mistaken. No professions of re- | form can now save him in their estimation from the | deep and impenetrable oblivion which ought to over- take every official who fails to faithiully discharge a public trust. CHICAGO’S THREATENED ANARCHY. OME observers of the threatened trouble in S Chicago, the feeling which has led citizens to walk the streets carrying miniature nooses in token of willingness to hang a lot of Aldermen, seem to be unduly alarmed. Nor do they discern the point at which reform should be inaugurated. Said one: “All that is lacking to make Chicago the Paris of the nineteenth century is a modern Mirabeau or Robespierre.” There may be in this an inkling of truth. The pas- sions of the people have been wrought to fever pitch. The rights of the public have been bartered, power shamelessly betrayed, officials purchased as openly as junk. It is no wonder that honest men say rogues shall no longer rule unchecked. There will be no im- mediate, mighty revolution. The change must be worked out in quieter and more effective fashion. Ex- pel the scoundrels from office, put politics into the hands of decency, send bribe-takers and bribe-givers to prison and stripes. In this is the solution. QOddly enough, in counseling the citizens to calm- ness, statesmen do not seem to weigh the circum- stances which have perturbed the general mind. It does not occur to them that there is a deep and gen- uine grievance; only that citizens are threatening to reach a reckless extreme. It will not do in this emergency to place all the blame upon these citizens. They have been patient and long-suffering, but they have been goaded to wrath, and it is a righteous wrath. Concerning the policy of hanging a thieving Alderman, it is unquestionably bad. The absolute justice of it is another matter. — A wife whose husband had chased her with the family carving knife appeared in the Police Court to state smilingly that she had forgiven him, and was surprised and grieved to find that the people of Cali- fornia, having been hurt in their peace and dignity, had not forgiven him a bit. When a wife has not the sense to protect herself, she should be grateful that the law has more than she has. A Kansas woman is in jail on the charge of having poisoned her sixth husband. The merits of the case are of course unknown here, and, while poison is a little severe, there ought to be something done to any man rash enough to marry a widow who has planted five formers. e It is gratifying to observe that under its new man- agement of the Report the old trick of labeling the first edition of the day “Fourth” has been discarded, and thus that the third and last edition is no longer marked “Sixth.” But the other evening papers still sin. T SaER R e I up before There can be no excuse for taking soldiers to Man- ila by way of the Suez canal save the greediness of the East and its superior pull. As a matter of speed, economy or health, the proposition is simply ridicu- lous, and the administration ought not to tolerate it. Adjutant General Corbin could make another great stroke by arranging for the Western troops to come back from the tropics by way of New York. The pos- sibility that any of them may pass through San Fran- cisco causes great distress to the Eastern mind. There need be no question as to whether the Cali- fornia soldiers returning from the Philippines will re- ceive a welcome. Won't the whole city be theirs? Well! There should be a law against the fool variety of: ® @ (4 & ® A talented newspaper woman of New York writes to a talented newspaper woman of Denver and asks: “What do you intend to do about creating public sentiment for purity of life?” It must be remembered that the query is addressed by one who has not the blessed privilege of voting to one'who has. The idea is, clearly, that the vot- ing woman has, In respect of the creat- ing of sentiment, an advantage over. the other. As to the regulation of morals the ballot gives no additional power to woman. Her influence must be exerted through her individuality and im- pressed by the spotlessness of her own life. If she votes to close the brothel, two of her soiled sisters' will vote to keep it open. Let her be pure, upright, teach her children modesty and honor. Let her shut her door in the face of the libertine. This is her privilege, her duty and her only method of “creating sentiment.” .. It is good news to lovers of animals that the Royal Agricultural Society, which gives the biggest horse show in England, will hereafter grant no prizes to horses exhibited with docked tails. As horse shows in this country are imi- tations of those of the Royal Society this benef ent ukase will doubtless have wide effect, and result in visible reform. The docking of a horse's tail is cruel, unnatural, disfiguring and idiotic. There is for it absolutely no excuse. There is not a shadow of pal- liation for a crime so brutal worked upon so fine an object as the horse. To cut the equine ears close to the head or to pluck out the eyes would be as sensible and in the view of Cod and of thinking men as forgivable. When I see a noble horse, comeliness and strength in every limb, beauty in every curve, yet marred Lv having in place of a tail a miserable stub and futile wisp fastened so as to point skyward I confess my blood boils. A horse’s tail is one of its chief ornaments, as well as a protection against flies and similar pests. The process of removing it is shocking, the effect inartistic and crea- tive of disgust. If I had my way every man conniving at the outrage would go to jall for a year. s s I learn, with surprise, from the Mecca, published at Denver, that Hon. Samuel M. Shortridge was recently elected to the Senate of this State. It is a duty to inform Editor Clara Foltz of the paper mentioned that the man elected was another Shortridge. How- ever, as they are brothers, it is not strange that so far away as Colorado their identities should have become mixed. PR A gentleman named Fisher, a news- paper man, favorably known, recently died after having made several absurd requests as to the disposition of his body. I was glad to notice that the requests were disregarded. A dying man has a right to the tender minis- trations of those who know that in time they must, as he is doing, pass to an- other world. But a dead man has no rights, beyond a decent respect, and certainly any demand he may have made upon the living to ignore existing conventions and subject themselves to remark or ridicule is so unreasonable that with clear conscience it may be thrust aside. Mr. Fisher did not want a casket nor a hearse. He got both, and by providing them relatives showed that they had for the deceased a more genuine consideration than would have been demonstrated through abiding by his whimsical dictates. ... The youngest child of the late Jay Gould has come into possession of his share of the estate. That is to say, he has come as nearly into possession of it as his father allows. To be sure, Jay Gould is dead and turned to dust, | but the skeleton fingers still keep a clutch upon the millions they heaped the great financier was called. I do not believe that the prin- ciple involved in this is right nor wise. Ifevery man who byshrewdnessor theft gains a great fortune has the right to regulate it to the end of time, there is only a question of years as to when the greatest thief or the shrewdest finan. ciep shall have all the earth and rule it from his moss-grown tomb. I re- Joice in the spectacle of segregated mil- lions being scattered. I would like to see every abnormal hoard cast to the winds. In my estimation such for- tunes as that of a Gould, a Rockefeller or a Sage have no warrant for exist- ence, constitute a menace to our insti- tutions, and the sooner dissipated the better. e ‘Writing in the Critique, a little sheet published at the national capital, a wise man says, and with a fine show or scorn, that newspapers are run for money. Observation forces me to a similar conclusion. Not only are newspapers run for money, but so is everything else that is run. I suspect railroads, factories, banks and farms. Even the office-seeker has not always in view the lofty purpose of elevating the nation. At least, if there were no salary attached, he would leave the task of elevation to somebody else. The preacher expounds = texts for money, and when the money be not forthcoming, the text will remain un- expounded and dust gather on the pul- pit cushion.” This is not said by way of reproach. Things are so ordered that money is a necessity. The fact is so generally recognized, that the acquiring of money through honest effort is not regarded as a crime, save by those too lazy to work. There is no apparent reason why a newspaper should not be subject to the general ambition. Its proprietor has to pay for paper, news and presses. He has to pay good wages to printers and other craftsmen. He has been known to pay writers, but rarely, rarely. Money means bread and clothes and shelter. The money for which newspapers are run means all this to an army of employes. So they ought to be permitted to run. *w s From time to time it. has been a pleasure to say a word of the Muser of the Visalia Delta, a person identical with the lyre of the same paper. In which of his roles he is the more com- plete example of riotous imbecility I am unable to decide, and consideration of the question accounts for a lack of mention recently of him or his works. Once I treated him seriously, for his hebetude is so apparent that I sup- posed he was a wise man in disguise, on display for the sake of a joke. But he takes himself in the same manner, which is an offense. I wrote last week, I hope with a proper respect, of the resting place of the dead, venturing the assertion that it should be away from RO XS the haunts of trade and the careless footfall of the throng. After quoting briefly, this queer creature comments: “I am surprised that Mr. James dis- plays so much feeling in discussing this subject. After reading some of his criticisms I had been led to believe he was devoid of sentiment. Is it possible I have been mistaken?”’ Yes, it s possible. You were never any- thing else. Because a man in passing judgment. on a daily discharge of verse so crude that it might be the work of *a pupil in a school for feeble- minded fails to discover beauty there, for the sufficient reason that no beauty is there, no sense nor rhythm, reason nor | excuse, is not ground for supposing him | lacking in sentiment. It may be that he is merely refraining from being a | fool. I confess to a feeling of senti- ment toward the ordinary dead, but not toward the Muser. Where he shall be buried, or when, makes not a par- ticle of difference. P Tesla has now so far perfected a mys- terious boat, designed to sweep annoy- ing navies from the sea, as to sell ac- counts of it at space rates. Nearly as may be judged by a public devoid of prejudice, but rather liking a faker, this is the advance stage of any of Tesla’s schemes. .. ‘W. A. Brandes, the father accused of the murder of his little daughter, has only been in jail a few days, and yet he has professed religion. The fervor with which he prays is said to be a caution to sinners. Far be it from me to decry religion, which has taken a strong hold upon humanity and lifted many a mortal to a new life, a better ambition and a sacred hope. But it seems to me the good there is in it is sadly weighted by the readiness with which a Brandes reaches to it for a comfort he does not deserve, and a solace merited only by the upright, the pure in heart and the penitent. With- out any desire to prejudice a prospec- tive juryman, I am obliged to hold the opinion that Brandes beat his daugh- ter to death, and holding it, can with clear conscience, express it. If he did s0, what he needs is not the attitude of humility, the voice of regret, but hanging. Leaving out the fact that his own blood was in the veins of the vic- tim, the man who will maltreat a child is not fit to live. There was a case in Colorado some years ago wherein a girl was beaten and abused to death by a man and a woman. When the people ascertained the truth, they took the pair and lynched them. As a citizen of Colorado then I thought they did exact- ly the proper thing, and throughout the State I do not remember that there was a voice of dissent. % s ‘With a feeling of regret at being hu- man, I quote from the ascount of a re- cent prize fight: “Becker's face was smashed to a jelly. Blood rained down his face and filled his eyes. Some of the spectators turned away their faces to hide the sight.” It may be added that Becker at the time of the writing was expected to die. So this is sport. It seems to me comment would be superfluous, and if such as to fittingly characterize the brutes within the ring and outside, unprintable. . v ‘When will the East arise to reali- zation of the fact that the Chinese are undesirable? It is' nothing in New York, or Boston or Philadelphia that the Chinese of San Francisco live in defiance of moral law or written code, that they are beyond the reach of au- thority. The Chinese here maintain a system of slavery. Under it women are bought, sold, held as chattels. In maintenance of this iniquitous system money is freely spent, conscienceless lawyers retained, perjury committed, murder done. Courts seem to be power~ less. This is a large country, with room for many people, but were it a hundred times as large, there would be no more room for the Chinese than for leprosy. .« s e Shanahan was not exactly elected to the Governorship, but in Nevada County he got one vote, and in some other counties he did even better. e The society editor has a grievance. She calls for sympathy, and not in vain. It seems that she has at hand a list of adjectives which it is her pleasing wont to apply to brides. They are lovely or charming or chic. They have eyes dark as night or blue and bright as the heavens, By judicious selection among these adjectives she had been enabled in the past to give each bride a proper send-off. She had come to regard the qualifying words as her own and once deprived of them could no more write up a wedding than a legless man could sprint. The griev- ance is that the everyday reporter, the man who portrays murders and makes a specialty of the homicidal young woman, has coolly swiped these adjec- tives. His petticoated assassin is in appearance the things a bride ought to be, and that a bride would be if left tothe society artist. I suggest that the style might be changed. For instance it might be: “The bride had the air of a woman just about to commit murder and in her eyes, cerulean, fathomless, there gleamed as beauteous a glow as could light the optics of the fairest maid or matron who ever butchered a surprised and helpless man.” Unless something of this sort can be done, the fashionable wedding will have to be treated in the cold and formal marriage announcements. .. The coming back of McGlade was a triumph. He had run away to avoid going to jail, been captured and landed in a cell. The officer who convoyed him pronounced the prisoner “a perfect gentleman.” The friends who wel- comed him gave him assurance that he had nothing to fear. The human heart is kind, and McGlade had been accused of nothing worse than stealing, the ac- cusation being backed by indubitable proof. e ‘While the people behind various Senatorial candidates of the north are bickering, the people’ behind Grant are sawing wood. I am neither politician nor prophet, but to the extent of a modest pile am willing to wager that the south will bear away the Senator- ship as calmly as it did the Governor- ship. While others were dreaming they were organizing their fight down there, and while others are or- ganizing they have their hosts mar- shaled. Burns has no real strength, because he is known. Some others might have strength if only they were known. Grant sees the advantage, and coming into the contest under the prestige of an honorable name, is go- ing to put up a race which will leave the competition winded, and either in the rear or winner by a nose. . s e The Providence which led Baldwin to safety while his betters were being roasted but shows again that “God movesin a mysterious way his wonders to perform.” Nor does the undeserved consideration ! - Providence fail of hu- man imitation. Here is a man who erected a death-trap, and who when after inexplicable delay the trap is sprung defies the authorities to remove the wreck, quibbles with his workmen as to the price at which they shall risk their lives, and seems to have no thought of the unshriven dead in the debris of the sepulcher he builded for them. There is not another city in the United States in which such dangerous walls as the Baldwin fire lcft would not have been level with the pavement forty-eight hours after the yines had been withdrawn. They stayed up sim- ply because Baldwin, who should not have been so much as consulted, de- sired that they should stay. As they rocked and tottered, shedding bricks and metal, he had rescuers looking for blistered washstands and cracked pots. Probably on some lucky days he saved as much as $11 worth of trash. This city does not owe Baldwin anything. For years his very presence has been a blemish and a reproach. Morally noisome, socially ostracized, financially the bete noir of collectors, I do not see why at thi time, when his personality should have been swept aside, he has been allowed to take command. The un- claimed dead within the Baldwin walls have at least the right to respectful deference. It is not pleasing that they should lie and rot to suit the whim of a querulous and grasping old man. —_—— Send your Eastern friends Townsend's California glace fruits, 50c 1b,in fire-etched boxes or Japanese baskets. 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