The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 14, 1899, Page 6

Niargument | that “was '/gehe:ra}l) kY FITNESS FOR SELF-GOVERNMENT valid - was *madé’ g Justiy. otir: seizure’ of : EBRUARY 1 4 1859 | f\ Hawail, to. tise effect: that the it === fight for theirindependence; *A = } JOHN D.’ SPRECKELS, Proprietor s All Com cations to W.. S. LEAKE, Manager. ur PUBLICATION OFFICE ... Market and Third Sts. S..F. | yve SelEphoRe, SHAID AN { and . aur natignal conscience: seemed 1o ~be satished’ EOITORIAY Roo;}l:;e.m;;“. 5&,;01;,2‘{ Shevenson oteser thigreby: - As the! Ha n% would: not offer o whig afy American ‘man-of-war,: Sedator ) aiy “declared sld. not: sistain'an wehad a’right:ioc £ ereignty for the pirpose ol giving thesi a ‘good Gov: ment. - So, we taok tirem in and have not yet ‘beer able to dgree upon the kind of good Gavernment they 2, for Congreés: embodying . any. forpi ok gover nied their pu L ing out of ouf treasury the tost o kish DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK Sirgle Coples. 5 cents Terms by Mall, Including Postage: LL By Sin CALL one year meit:: -~ Bat We-have ic.debt of §5,000,006:and are pay- OAKLAND OFFICE. 908 Broadwdy i thelt NEW YORK OFFICE. DAVID ALLEN, Adwv: Room 188, Wortd Building ng Representative, ient: ’ Our attitude i the ‘case. of Hawaii séemtd to es WASHINGTON (D. C.) O ..iiie. Rigge House | Jishiit asa principle t be: considered By:us i dealing C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. with other nations, ‘that a.people must prove-their fit: CHICAGO OFFICE Marquette Building | 11655 for seli-governmentby fightin Igrn. The }Iaw:zuL C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. | ans woiild not fighit and lose. their lives and thereiore e lost their inde 2 L tbans hogevert w Ny st eIt t !‘ :Autpeudmce. Th‘ C anns”hn wever, were | 387 Hayes street. open until | truculen y-fought, and being supplied with mosey | ster street. open: until: 9:30 | und drnis fromi the Uhitéd States, in violation of qur BRANCH OFFICES-! n 1.9:30 o'cl €21 < Lerl treet, th 973G o'clock. gy 3 S e ?;i,’;‘“f = ;.f"c:z:f_o“fplsno.:‘zck. 5991 MGVK:t |-treaty with Spain and of our intertiational obligations, street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 1 they kept up a wariare for thrée years. Applying te Mission street, open untl! 9 o'clock. 106. Efeventh | y; e & 2 e et street. open GOt 9 o'clock.. IB0G Polic siigat: opmr ] WIE !hc’ doctrine !?.at gave us Hawaii, ‘we said th?( unti! 9:30 o'cl NW. corner Twenty-second -ang | as they ‘fought for independence they had earned it, 9 o'clock. | and, althougli they had w6t made ‘much impression g 24 P! z T | upon_Spain, and did net hold a single seaport nor own, as a: Government, ‘a single ship-at- sea, we de- I'clared that Spain, having failed to stop-their fight fo: |-independernice. for three years, must vacite the island and surrender her sayereignty there, or we would ‘ex- | v Eeandal.’” Troubadours.™ Kiss." the Magic y Cycle Race to-night. e Lady o Lions Ellis streets, ‘Specialties, his afternoon. I Now, here: it appears: that we established two very . I'distinct-and important -principles in our i cmmionalf policy. * If any people’ won't fight for dependénce | | we have the right to.seize their countr we can get | ahead- of: other nations which ‘are “abroad -hunting | s to-day. AUCTION prey. - -1f any peopleiwill fight for independence -we £C7Y & Co—This Gay at 1 diclack, Purnliute, At1 will' join: tHem 4nd give.them aid o sécire i€ : This day, at 11 o'clock, Furni-| “-That seems plain and simiplé; and the imr of | ed the first prineiple is someivhat softened a by the altruism of the secand: Américan timent having settled down to'the as- a tese two. prificiples: and the - Anter / \ t point to. the conclusion ‘that Burns and ¢ waving been quieted and soqtiied by the Il make their final desperate zssault e witich -they ‘establish;:the one offsetting the i stanch Republicans in_the Legis- other, is now «hstirhéd and. summoned to™'sw eck. The effort of the gang will -anather-acute change and assimilaté a new argus : scheme. Orders | On -Sun, morning; ‘a’ day devoted to-'thau ¢ have been issued not-only by the - Peax on earth:and:gnod will tdward m ightéousness exal sin 1574 réproach to any peopl that the fact that the. 'F arancé that but openly through the now to be s anfipunced for. their, contention | who will stand n party and the g¢ at the dicta- roself~gnvernm Fit evidence such = unifitness ‘the | forces o Ric Ace st straightway ‘adjust itself ; g the Record-Union ed that we | have become - aud: [‘have already; in ‘the carnage of four days, destroyed | d of derits to- their bloody conguest.” It iis annour 5000 of them, thus removing from the'scenie of their | ion. of - Bafitness and incapacity ‘that number’ of ‘persons ‘un-| 1gs sig- dualified for independence and seli-government. = QOur t 10 gain votes for Burns by | men-oizwar “and .gunboats - have eniorced ‘the fact that mow the screws aré to be. \hrt we will-tolerate na such evidence of unfitness for | fozed if pos- | SCH-gOvernment as fighting inr it, by ‘shelling all the | cracks the whip and or- | unfortified ha.mbun villages wi N range of our fine | e peopie to. pass-into a | &uns and wiping them and the families they sheltered | i be ‘bound over to.Buriis. off the face :of the land which is not to' be imlcpend-: jority of the Re: | eht, because, under our: newest rule of right and | have only to stand firm duty,: these . people, with' their. feeble means of re-1 le victory for the honor of Cali- - Sistance, were still ‘willing, ‘willfully and mistakenly, to G for honesty” for -in: | Prove their unfitness for self-government:by dying to | The | Secure.it! defeat of every a<pira-; 1t will-be seen that since we became a_“world hteotisness and having POWwer” we have not only made it hot for the Amer- racter of Lincoln, With | ican taxpayer-and- for the people who will or’ wiil not | ¥, or their State fight for independence; but have also laid up trouble ans of the Legislature send to. 10 that ineffable personality kiiown and hailed as “the | eir representative the disgraced | Genius of History.” But her troubles are not yet | Iting Secretary’ of State, the | @ver. . If our complete conquest of the Philippines.is < | ot made within three yéars, and-so made that our | 50 to-be b Republic at anism -stands for: s would'b led in ri = ¢ cha .. their ‘parf of Yolo, the de sdorous confidence operator of Candelaria? s and Herrin are skilled in all the trickery that | presence. there is: not mere armed occupation, the p e management of politics. - They = Other rule that we ‘established-against Spain: will ap- to concoct an appearance of public senti-| PIY t0. s unless we are able to move and carry an vor of any scheme they desire to. promote, | Amendment. e ; for weeks they have been at work fabricating such Meantime a2 - comparison’ of experienice between t i approval for the caucus scheme, An ef- |2 Kanaka and:a Filipino would be of much interest fort was made to induce the Republican County Com- | t¢ them and the outside world. = The.one:having been ees to urge a caucus, but that failed.© “Now the | absorbed:-because he did not fight-and the other be- railroad ‘sets to. work All the organs grind the €ause he did; the absorber in each case being the land same tunc. It is caucus, caucus, caucus, all along the | of the free and the home of the. brave, they will be lin over the din of the cry can be heard the | compelled 16 admit:that to the heathen in his blind- cracking of the monopoly whip in the Record-Union | Ness the ways of a God-fearing Christian people are and the loud denunciation of the opponents of. the | Past finding out. scheme as traitors and scoundrels. : ! For the genuinie Republicans of the Legislature the | A PLEA FOR JUSTICE. hour that is to test their-manhood has come, It is | s . RSl row to be seen whether they will remain true to their | By b}l] 495 wiicli 18 designéd fo Tegu]atc pledges to the people and break the Southeérn Pacific | B xory nh)ectmf]ablc feature of !h}a business of domination in our politics or submit to it, betray the: S Francisco das: corporations, was: re- their parfy and disgrace California by electing to.the | {ured on: Wednesday last by the Senate Committee Senate such a man as the exposed rascal whom Hunt- | °% Corporations w“?’ An: adverge report. - We have ington has taken up as his candidate for the office. : mmmemec} upos lhxs‘meésure s bcfoFe; Aaud' R To these true Republicans is now intrusted the duty - that octasion took pains..‘to _fully explain its: pur- of guarding the advanced post of the great party PO ~The bill does not change. the present law | against the combined forces of political and corporate | 11 A7y Tespect, except that it makes, contracts for de- corruption. - From:all over the State Republicans { DOSIS: #p 2 CORdioN prgcedent to: placing’ m:gers look to them to keep aloft the standard of party prin- | mvafhd and‘of fo;ceftect. =] P They misat-Hold the fort | The law is demanded by the people 6f San:Fran: ' D — | cisco, in whose interest ‘it is- drawn and- for whose Impelled by the notion that they have a mission | Penefit. it ought to be passed.: ‘There is nothing un- ciple. from heaven to visit Jerusalem a Los Angeles man | feasonable about it. The gas conipaniés have:.io | and woman have got as far as New York, where they | Mote Tight to exa?t'a‘idcposit lr:q_‘ meters than they are reported to be undergoing the pangs of hunger. have to require their bills 1o be paid in advance, No Such an experience should convince them that their | Other corporations dealing with public ‘utilities pre: irapule came from the other placs and 3t them on | Sume to-exercise any sich privilege and ione of them | the back track. Manna goes with the sort of mis- | have ever attempted to exercise it, ¢ither directly or sion they think they have | indirectly, ; e 5 —————— ; Perhaps the adverse report made upon this measure No wonder that Jilson desires the term of legis- | by the Senate committée has ‘been induced by ‘the lators extended to four years. He is one of the sort | Jarge number of “cinch” bills introduced at -this ses- who finds necessity for explaining how he happened ' sion #nd referred: to it. These “tinches ended to be clected, and once in four years is about as much | {6 bring into. the lobby practically every corporation of this experience as a reasonable man would want: | and individual engaged in business in the: State. ¢ e g { : 'pel her by force, which we thereupon procecded to do. | are ‘intended {- The |- | shiow to the GflYfiM1t!e:- that they will sustain 3!@: loss - | o whatevér iri collecting ' their bills . by ~the proposed | | statute-we will advocate the addition of an amendment whatever which: will give them a lien upon personal property in the nature of:a material man’s lien. - But nothing of his sott will be necéssary. - The gasicompanies will get their bills, and if they db not, the law authorizes therti 10 shut. off the gas: =~ +./+ " : We hope the Senate wilj disregard this adverse Te- | port dnd pass the bill. It is demanded unanimously by the'gas consumers of San:Francisco. i DEMOCRATIC DISINTEGRATION. £ disintegration. of : the Deémocratic party seems to.be almost complete.: Its organization : .was ‘abandoned in.1856 by many. thousinds of its ‘members whjo"preferr_cd a “sound.’ cufrency -to party- success and who detected the socialistic. features .Ih the State cleétion of last yeaf the insidious and langerous attacks upon our institutions, made in the name .of . Democracy, were repelled by a still ‘larger number of patriotic Deémocrats, who voted Repub- lican . tickets, even thotigh objecting to leading fea- tures in Republican platforms. In California, €spe- cially, the election of Mr. Gage: and his associates was 'éficctively aided :by Democratic- ballots, which were cast for that ticket in sufficient numbers to deter- niine the result. The greatest statesmen and the best elements in the Democratic party are the. seceders of 1896 and 1808. Many of those. gentlemen, however, anticipate the restoration of their party to a national basis in 1900. All present.signs indicate that they will ‘be. dis- appointed. The strifes for leadership in the dis- organized Democracy are acute and virulent beyond all previous experience and grow out of fundamental ntagonisms as well as personal ambition. After a ridiculous assumption of national authority, the black type and magnified Tetters, through:which the’ Jour- nal-Examiner attempts to disguise its weakness and its lack of influence, are now devoted to a pretended dictatorship over the divided remnants. of the party that has rejected Grover Cleveland and all those who ¢re in unison with him. -But even this dictatorship, which, if it"existed, might confer upon the proletarian organ the bloated proportions of a toad in a puddle, | is only.a monstrous -delusion, which attaches to the Journal-Examiner its own ‘phrase of “blunderer and ezotist.” Following :the lines of The Call and other jeading newspapers and of the most “eminéent - and Republican . statesmen and debaters, Mr. has. denounced ‘iniperialism, and is classed, ong the “littlé .Americans,” ‘who must out of the way” because they deny-that “the nailed to: . the flagpole of “the Mr." Bryan, however, still embraces the putrid corpse of free silver at 16 to 1, and, there- il holds one foot in the Journal-Examiner's charne] house. : Richard Croker, the Tammany boss, Eolds that the free silver issue is dead, but favors ex- pan. He and Bryan, therefore, are diametrically apposed to each other and yet two of their feet are side by side. Stephen M. White, whose patriotism and whose integrity have commanded -the general esteem of-the Senate of the United States and of the American people, has denounced Asiatic expansion in-every form and has never shown much enthusiasm on behalf of a depreciated currency: - He is charged with having “misrepresented his party and his State” and has been invited to take a-back: seat with the other statesmen, jurists and patriots, who have been relegated to the kingdom of Liliput by the Journal- aminer in its favorite. character of Bombastes Furioso. The Democracy, as we have illustrated, is divided into five sets: Those who are opposed to free silverand expansion and all the other socialistic ‘excrescence: of the last three years; those who are opposed to free silver and expansion, but in favor of the other pro- letarian features of recent platiorms; those who are cpposed- to free silver, but in favor .of expansion; those who -oppose expansion and favor free silver; and those who favor both free silver and expansion. Amidst these radical discordancies no -note of har- mony can ' possibly be struck; and the journalistic bully, which has been false to Democricy and to everything that is constitutional and American, will find its lash stinging its own shoulders-and not driv- ing Democratic sheep into the lair of imperialistic and socialistic wolves. .These wanderers will prob- ably find refuge in the Republican fold. —————— PIGGOTT @ND HIS PULL. T whose arrests for "-picking pockets. forms a standard part of the daily news. ' A close ‘stu- dent of Iocal affairs, looking over the papers; is never. surprised to see mention of one of these arrests, but the absence of such mention, or the assertion '(hat the arrest had been followed by trial and punishment, would strike him with astonishment.” For Piggott possesses a pull of great value. £ Individually Piggott is not an’ impressive ‘power] HERE is a fellow named Piggott,; a record of person, | being simply an-adroit and vulgar thief, the associate of yagrants and thugs; but as the lucky representative of the criminal world, at freedom to loot the non- criminal,-and thereafter to twiddle his. thumbs in con- tempt at any prestmptucus threat of punishment, he bécomes worth inspection. - % : * “There is no difficulty in understanding how a poli- tician can, by doing shiady things, acquire an influence sufficient to.help him ot of a tight place, but how the Piggott ‘sort can ‘openly follow a cireer of law-break- ing and suffer no iriconvenience even when his guilt is open and palpable - is 2 mystery. ' He belongs in San Quentin. Any one of a dozen or so-offenses he has committed would have been sufficient to have nt another thicf there. For crimes of léss wanton- ness, men impelled by actual ‘want are now serving terms varying from twenty to forty years. Who backs ‘Piggott, and why? An analysis of the sitiation. would be of ifterest; ' and perhaps em- barragsing, but if this larcenous hoodlum ‘continues bigger than.the police and more potent than the courts, the public_ will yltimately. want to know all -about it. There is 2 growing curiosity, and we think a proper. one, concerning the source and purpose of that remarkable pull. el T . There has been no explanation as to' why the cor- pondents all failed to describe - the - Flood-Fritz 2 | insurance companies; the' railroad comp ()1?0 of the transports due to leave New York for | water companies, the u}xdfrgakcfs,'t.he'_ _butchgrs and Manila is frozen to the dock. Thus do the advan- | pakers, ‘the candlestick-makers, the'.stenographers tages of S_:m Francisco as an outlet to the islands | 34 the: pawnbrokers are ‘attacked. by the wholésale 3ppear: agalsy and in detail. a1 Ean e 1 Naturally, when a proposition to bleed the business | maen of the State in this way is presented to the Com- mittee. on Corporations of “the. Senate its members are driven in the opposite direction. - They may con- | 'sider Senate bill 433 2 “cinch,” ‘butif they do we beg ‘to inform them that it is no- such thing. It is - de- signed to impose upon the gas corporations a rule which they ought to adopt voluntarily themselves, Tf passed it will not deprive them of a single dollar. of legitimate income. - Their' business will not be dam- aged in any way whatever. They will collect just as I much from the public as they ever did. ' If they can i . Oregon horses are dying of starvation, and with all sympathy for them the public would rather have them die this way than for the purpose. of being tanned. There has been nothing in the casualty reports 4c indicate that any of our men were ‘mjured"by ar- row wounds. Alger wants everything investigated, which dimplies. that the supply of whitewash has not yet been ex- haiisted' ies, : the | wedding'as having taken place at “high” noon. They merely called it noon, which was clearly a breach precedent. g e ‘Eagan has been retired for a_period of years on fulf pay. There are many men who work for a living who would be glad to’ undergo -a similar- experience and never imagine they. were. being punished i When the Nebraska_soldiers arrived here they did not look particularly like fighters. . You could never | make the .fdlldwers of Aguinqlad believe - Filipinos probably learned from. the Spanish how to lie; and they made the most of their instructions. —— . One :_e;(:ellentvx‘ealsnn_.f'or». not having a caucus -is. that the Buins people‘want it, of the-Chicago platiorm and of Mr. Bryan's speeches. | ‘A correspondent sends’a letter of in dignant- aceusation, upon the assump: tion ‘that: the . bit. of .verse in “thig de- partnient last week -was published by us-as original. We found it,"d fugi- tive: litérary maverick, with. no*credit, and on reference to.the copy we- find it in quotation ' marks, ‘which were omitted in printing.. We are under ob. ligations to our. uncomplimentary : cor respondent for the information that: it appieared originally in the:Atlanta Con= stitution, to-which paper we .cheerfully, eredit it. Sesd | .‘Dr. Knapp of Jowa, Lotisiana, sent [ b¥ - the Agricultural Department. to look into agricultural and horticultural ‘matters in Japan and thé Philippines, sojourned in San Francisco several days on hig return last week -and had.two constltations with directors. -of. the State Roard :of Trade in reference to a -visit .here from . thé Secretary, Mr. Wilson. ~ The ‘board- has extended the invitdtion, which it is-expected that the Secretary will accept. He will prqb~‘ ably come’ in ‘the latter half of May: next, and it is the intention .of the board to let him ‘see all parts of Call- fornia as its guest. - Dr. Knapp reports that he found English ‘agents in the Philippines with instructions to buy up all sugar and tobacco plantations and | lands sujted for such as soon as Ameri- | can ~occupation is ‘assured. ' These agents are backed by unlimited capi- tal in London. ; The first patent granted in America was to Joseph Jencks, Lynn, Mass., for the scythe ‘which .is now in common | use and practically unchanged from the Jencks model. A ‘correspondent asks further infor- | mation as to a recent statement in this {'department that eggs can be produced |at.-a cost of 6 cents a dozen. Our au- | thority is the following, found in The | Poultry - Keéper: . “Experiments - in | feeding and in computing the value of | eggs show that, if no estimate is made | for labor, one dozen eggs can be pro- | duced at a cost of 6. cents for food, or about half a cent an egg.. If all the | food allowed to lens were converted tlnto eggs the profit on a dozen eggs | would be large, even when the prices | are-low, but much depends on whether hens convert their food into eggs, flesh or mere support of their bodies. It is fa fact demonstrated, however, that | when a dozen ‘eggs are marketed they | carry from the farm but little of the nutritious elements of the eoil in pro- | portion to their market value, and on | that account they are as profitable as anything that can be produced on ths {farm.” " If our inquirer is a poultry keeper he can, by keeping a simple | debit and credit account with his hens, | charging them with what they eat and i crediting them with the money receivea for their eggs, easily find out the cost and profit of producing eggs, and with that knowledge can expériment in eco- nomics. It requires twenty pounds of milk; of average richness in. fat, to make & I'pound of butter, and fourteen pounds to make a pound of cheese. WHAT MA DOES EVERY DAY. Ma says it ain't no fun Gittin’ up afore the sun; Says the weather is too cold, An’ that she is gittin’ old. T'other day I heard ma say: *Jes’ the same ole thing each day; Git up, cook, an’ then begin, Dig an’ scrub, an’ clean a’gin."” Tho’ I'm jes" a little boy, I'm my mother's pride an’ joy. Ev'ry day I help ma do Up the dishes. They's a slew Ev'ry day to wash an’ dry; An’ my ma, she’ll allus sigh After breakfus’: “Le’s begin, Dig an’ scrub, an" clean ag'i; Bet I've got the bestest ma Any you folks ever saw. Knows jes' how to make these 'ere Twisted doughnuts, an’ if we're Goin’ cleanin’ house, then she Gits-up early as kin be, So 'at we kin then begin Dig an’ scrub, an’ clean ag'in! In our back yard we have got Jes’ the nicest posie $pot. Lots o' roses, red an’: white, An’ sweet peas—an’, oh, the sight 1 like best Is when they comes White.an” gold chrysanthemums; Tend 'em all? You bet I kin! ‘While ma cooks an' scrubs ag'in. Wonder why ma gives a sigh When she washes, and 1 dry L'f the dishes?. An’ she'll say: “Jes’ the same ole thing each day.” Got some wrinkles, jes” a few, For the tears to trickle through; Sometimes come when she'll begin - Dig an’ scrub an’ clean ag’in! Don’t see how my ma finds time Sew my clothes up when I-climb Up in our ole apple tree— & Wear a hole right in my knee; Makes me think I'd orter care When she’ll say with’ tired air: *’S'pose I'll have to now begin, Patch.an’ darn, an’ mend ag’in!" When I'm lyin’ in my bed, 2 Covered warm cleah to my head, On a mornin’, leng ’fore light, Don't seem hardly ’at it's right ‘Fer my ma.to have to An’ git up, when I jes’ know She's a-sayin’: ‘““Must begin Gittin" up to ‘dig .ag'in! Thinkin' out the nices" plan, . When T get to be a man; Goin’ to have the bestest place 'At there is on all the face Of this earth; where ma kin stay Right with me, .Jej’ ev'ry day. Bet I'll see she don’t begin Dig an’ scrub.an’ mend ag'in! E. A. BRININSTOCK. STATE -.OTES. The Bendel-Nelson cannery at Grid- ley is clearing the decks for a big year. If March is kindly to the bloom in the Feather River orchards it expects a large crop to work on. 2 The Rau hemp ranch at Gridley has settled a large colony of reeent Italian immigrants to work on it this season. J. F. Bickley of Yuba City has made a large shipment of alfalfa seed to Ala- bama, where this valuable forage plant has not heretofore been tried. 3 Dry weather and wet - each brings ‘losses and crosses. When the Sacra- mento rose after the rains of last month the flood caught and drowned in the Feather River tules 200 sheep belonging to V. Gianelli. He saved-their pelts and left the rest to the crows. The Colusa Sun, noticing a pumping plant for irrigation put in on the farm of Messrs. Gibson & Clanton, near Woodiand, taking the wiiter from wells 145 feet deep, says: ‘“There are 43,560 square feet in an‘acre. To cover.it a foot deep. requirés. just that number of cubic feet' of water. Seven.and a half gallons are a cubic foot of water. There- acre a foot.deep. A man ‘could make 4 fortune if he could get $1.50 an acre for all the land he could cover a foot deep, pumping out of the Sacramento River.” These figures should be pre- - served by ranchers who want 1o use . pumps in irrigating. ST kil Six thousand sheep shipped to pasture’ near Marysville hdve just been shipped ‘back' to Kings County, where the new feed is sufficient to keep them. ~ - - The Sutter County aranges are ripa and ready for market. - The olive ofl ‘crop there is light on account of last year's drought.’ RIS et The State Dairy Bureau reports the total value of dairy products for 1893.at $10,913,473, a. decrease fram 1897, due to | ‘the dry season. In‘twenty-one counties 100,000. pounds -of -butter was made i creameries. In-iwenty more counti creameries aré introduced and .in ‘six- teen’ countiés - butter is- ‘rrddqced' for market by the old-methods.. = . A wasp has been discovered in.Brazil with’ a sting. shaped like a corkscrew,’ and ‘which operates In the same . way. If this insect could be crossed on the blastophagis perhaps with his cork- fore it takes 326,700 gallons to. cover an'| "RURAL LIF | Screw attachment he could caprify the | Greek -fig-in California. The lemon growers of ‘Santa Barbara +took-in '$100,000 for their ecrop last year. In noticing the.death of Hon. John Boggs The: Call spoke of his skill as a farmer. . The Colusa Sun, not long be- fore his death, published this valuable item “about ‘his methods: ;. “Hon. ~John Boggs told us the other day that he purchased. all' his- groeeries-: from . nne Sacramento house and ships. to - that house all the -surplus -eggs from -his ranch, which are -credited on his- ac- count. . He has fifteen or -twepty. ‘men and -his grocéry bill s fio. smiall itens, but when He settled up-the 1st of Janu- ary, 1899, he had ‘a balance due him of $600. Eggs and chickéns are eateén with- out stint on his ranch and yet he says his ¢hickens did" not, cost. him for < year to'exceed $200. Room; he says. fs wented for -chickens ‘and . they. will largely make their own living. ~Shade js another thing riecessary-to them, but even out om the plains this can be had in a reniarkably-short time. -~He says any family, any -Sort of a year; can get all its- groceries . from “eggs: and ‘have plenty of eggs and chickens to-eat, and Wwith .butter, milk and vegetables who could suffer?” TO A CAN OF “EMBALMED” BEEF | (A_fter Gray.) Here lle;! ‘Sure Miles or Eagan—mayhap bot! o For truth, alas, is not at all times spoke. | ‘The fflrmerhclalma it's crematory goods, | forsoat! ‘While Eagan, on its purity, gods invoke. Square was its shapeness, but its flavor! h my! Heaven did an appetite as keenly send, It swflled as soon as oped, to heaven gh, And appetite, with good digestion, lost a friend! Seek not its further merits to disclose Nor draw its fraflties from their dread | abode. | Its duty done it fain would seek repose | ‘Where neither Miles nor Eagan_ruled or | rode. L SPECTRE. AROUND THE % CORRIDORS. | ‘W. H. Cleary of Stockton is staying at the Lick. B. V. Weeks, a Pescadero cattleman, is at the Russ. Mrs. E: F. Flemming of San Jose is a Buest-at the Lick. Judge Frank Short of Fresno is regls- tered at the Palace. Frank C. Robertson of Montana, cat‘le- man, is at the California. | W. B. Whiteley, an insurance man of Seattle, is at the Occidental. ! 1 I | rimonial &cheme to defraud the 1 ;950 at $1200; 158 at $1400; 146 af T fiz@:{t"gfiw; 5 -at §1700; 49 at $1500 % at $1900; 45-at $2000; 6.at $2100:-25 at $2200 18 at $2400; 10 at $2500; 11 at $2600: 10 at $2700; 1 at $2060: 13 at $3900; 3 at $2200, and 1 at $3300. FLAX—J. W, City.. ‘To give an answer asto. flax-as is demanded in the letter of inquiry- would require much more space than this department can givée to a:y nn; Trespo] . 'Thére are a number of P et e Free Public. Library which will “furnish the desired information Jin full. . The industry leads in the countries in.‘the erder following: Russia, Austria- Hungary, Germany, France. Ireland, Bel- gium, Italy and the United States. Ths following ‘States lead in the product of ‘seed: in the order. given: . Mimneso Iowa, South. Dakota, Nebraska. Kan and Missourf; and in fiber. Illinois, Kar sas, ‘Michigan, -Virginia, - Ohio and New York. The fiber is utilized and there is no lack of machinery for the working of the ber, DIPLOMATIC - SERVICE—Trilby. nora, Cal. . The Embassadors and M 1 ters from the United States to foreign countries ‘ are: . France, Horace Porte: Germany, Andrew D. White; Great Br ain, J."H. Cho: ‘W.. F. Draper; Mexico, ‘Powell Clayto: Russia, Et A. Hitcheock; as Embassadors Extrao: nary and Plenipotentiary. Argentine public, “W. 1. -Buchanan; Austria-Hur ary, . Tower: Belgium, B. Stover; Bo ivia, Bridgman; bia, C. B. Hart; Greece, W. W. Rockhill; Guatemala, W G. Hunter; Hayti, W. F. Powell; Jag AL Buck; ' Netherlands, New Nicaragua, W. L. Men Uruguay, W. R. Finel s: Portugal, L. Tow t; Sweden and Norway, W. W Switzerland, J. G.' A r; Colom I Turkey, O. Loomis, E: Ministers Plenipotentia St as En Korea, H Allen; Liberia, O. L. W. Smith; Per: A. 8. Hardy; Siam, H. King, as Ministers Resident and Consuls General. BUNKO BAIN WEEPS CROCODILEAN TEARS ADDRESSES U. S. ATTORNEY A LETTER FOR PARDON. Afraid That His Lady Friend Mrs. Allison Will Not Like Life in the Penitentiary. Isaac W. Bain, convicted for the third time of using the mails in his bunko mat- amorous bachelor from the count edding tears 6f the crocodile var in the Ala- meda Jail. He has, with muchperspiration of brow, written a letter to the United States Attorney squealing for a pardon with the earnestness of a pig whose ten- der tafl has been pinched under a gate. He' says that if the District ‘Attorney will -.ask the President of the. United States.to pardon him and Mrs. Grace Alli- N. W. Mundy, a prominent capitalist of Chicago, is registered at the Palace. | Mrs. and Miss McMillan, weil known | residents of Chico, are guests at the Russ, | 8. 'T. Pearson,- a Salt Lake business| man, is at the Occidental, with his wife. | William . Edmonds, ‘a storekeeper ~and'| rancher of Upper Lake, is at the Califor- nia with his wife. Herman Gauter of Frefburg, Germany, and Abbott Kinney of Los Angeles are ar-| rivals at the Palace. | James Muir, who has the contract for the Franklin tunnel running out of Mar- tinez, is at.the Russ. | E. Trudo, who owns extensive borax deposits in Inyo County, is registered at the Russ from Big Pine. E. J. Rule, a2 mining man of Sonora, and Robert S. Brown, a Petaluma con- tractor, are at the Lick: Robert Bhaw and wife of Chicago and C. F: Fitzgerald and wife of Los-Angeles are among the arrivals at the Palace. John L. Baker, a Chicago capitalist, is here on a business trip, and will be at the Occidental for the next few days. James H. Morton, a Tulare capitalis and Charles E..Owen, a Stockton me: chant, and his son, are at the California. T. B. McGovern of New York is making his annual trip to this coast for the pur- pose-of buying quantities of fruit on trees. He will be at the California for some time. g John Scovel, 2 mining man of Anacon- @a, who has been on a two-weeks' trip in the southern part of the State with his wife and son, returned yesterday and reg- istered at the Occidental. Railroad Commissioners E. B. Edson of Gazelle, Siskiyou County, and N. Black- stock of Ventura, will be at the Grand for | a.couple of days. They came here to at- | tend .the meeting of the commission held yesterday. B J.-Craig, proprietor of Highland Springs; J..L. Batham, ex-County Assessor of Red Bluff and an extensive land owner; P. A. | O&den, a Sonora mining man, and Harry G. Turner, . a_ Modesto merchant, are guests at the Grand. John A. Gill, Pacific Coast freight agent for the New York Central lines, has ap- pointed Harry D. Thirkield of Sacramento as his chief clerk. ‘Mr..Thirkield has been connected with the Southern Pacific in the Capital City for five years and has a practical knowledge of rallroad affairs. —_—— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—James L. Flood and wife and William R. Bishop of San Francisco are at the Windsor. Frank Zak of San Francisco is at the Holland. Ar- thur H. Steel of San Francisco is at the Grand. Alexander G. Hawes of San Fran- cisco is at the Manhattan. —_————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—D. C. Murray, of San Francisco, is at Willard's Hotel. Henry Llewellyn, of Los Angeles, is at the Arlington. Miss Annie L. Sloan, of Cali- fornia, who is here as a delegate to the National Council of Women, 'has . been made a member of the Committee on Dress. Miss Eliza D. Keith, of California, is also a delegate. —— e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. NOT DEBARRED—Anambulus, French Camp, Cal. Women are not deharred | from worshiping in Jewish synagogues. | AN AUTHOR WANTED--A correspond- | son; alias- Quinn, alias Collins, alias Smith, he and the lady of many aliases will_not appeal and will take their medi- cine if so be it ‘the President decides to allow them to:serve their fifteen months imprisonment in the penitentiary at San Quentin. 2 He drew a grewsome: picture of the lady going insane because of the strong contrast between her life of oysters and champagne with the Dr. Allisons and the other dupes and her présent life in the County Jail of Alameda with beans three times a day and no tamales and beer. He- winds up his letter with the state- ment ‘that when he shall have finished his term of imprisoriment he will go to Mexico and lea “thersame quiet, blame- s life that I led before.” lefn ]View of the fact that he has been convicted three rl‘mes the latter statement is rather ironicai. A:slstam United States Auome‘y; Ban- ning says he will not recommend the par- don of either Bain or the woman. He has obtained an order of execution on lhel $1000 fine served against the $3000 bal money put up by the defendant. —_——————— MRS. KRELING WINS. Manager Nash Loses His Suit on a Breach of Contract. The action of John E. Nash against Mrs. Ernestine Kreling, owner of the Tivoll Opera House, to recover $11 which he claimed as due on a contract, was de- cided adversely to the plaintiff yesterday by the Supreme Court. According to the complaint in the original action Nash was in the East in 1884, and Mrs. Kreling wished to engage his services as manager of the Tivoli. He demanded $100 a week on a two-vear contract, but she offered $75 for the first year and $100 for the next year. This, according to his version, was refused, but he consented to compromise upon . the understanding that she would ay $9 a week for the first year and $100 or the second. i In the lower court Nash produced. tele- grams and letters which he claimed were equivalent to a contract, for in one of the 5 dispatches the owner of the opera house wired an acceptance of the $%0 per week proposition, and added that a contract could be made when Nash reachéd this city. The written contract was never made out, and at the end of ten months she gave the manager his walking papers, claiming that he did not come up to the req?iremenm and was neglectful of his duties. The jury in the lower court found that the dispatch mentioned was not sufficient to constitute a contract and that Muafir Nash was not entitled to recover. e Sugreme Court refused to disturb the findings of the jury and the judgment and order were affirmed. —_———— Private Edwards’ Benefit. The benefit for Private C. J. Edwards, of the Hospital Corps, who was perma- nently injured in Manila, and who has a family dependent upon him, promises to be well attended. The affair will take lace on Thursday evening. February 16, in Native Sons Hall, on Mason street, an will be under the direction of the Sani- tary Corps of the National Guard. —_————— “The sweetest Valentine,” a fire-etched box of Townsend’s California Glace Fruits 50c pound. 627 Market st., Palace Bldg. * ———— Special information aupPlled daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, Husband's Calcined Magnesia; four first premium medals awarded; more agreeable to the taste and smaller dose than other magnesia. For sale only in bottles with registered trade mark label. . S A Flight of Fancy. “That dull Miss Wiggs doesn’t seem to | have a particle of imagination. “Yes, she has; she thinks 'she can sing.” ent from French Guich, Shasta County, | wants to know the name of the author of | a poem . eéntitled. ““Co Soneg me !p the Festal A FANCY DRESS—Emelie, City. Such | a dress as you describe fs one that might | be worn by any lady of a court, but it | has no particular- name. If you should | | wear it at a -masquerade you might call | yourself Violetta, from the character of | that name in the opera of “La Traviata.” MASTER’S AND MATE'S LICENSE— R. W, Santa Cruz, Cal. After. the | fitst of next July masters and mates of | ships fn the American merchant navy will ‘have: fo obtain license from a bureau es- tablished for that purpose by the United - States Government: At present a differ- ent. rule prevails in: the various seaports of the United States. At San Francisco for instance, many of the masters and{. mates have a- certificate issued by ‘the principal of some school of navigation. Again the Chamber. of Commerce ts masters and mates - certificates -after a satisfactory examination. before its exam- iners, Captain Howard and Captain Wil- son.. - H f & £ - POSTOFFICE. CLASSIFICATION-J. K., City.~By the postoffice appropriation -bf introduced: by. Representative . Loud .ofi'l California. and wh!c:;:;ikea.t effect next , there is a classification of the clerks im{ employes of the postal.-department in N L8] 'a of. the % - o glulll‘ fication embrces ~ Postn utors, down: to mechanlcs, ]al 008 2 S300: 2507 At 3000% B0 &t ‘sTo0: Dokt | $800; 1661 at $900;. MOT | ostmasters, assistants, clerks of ,Nl-dmrlp_un%'o dis. | ~—Chicago Record. —_———— If your stomach Is deranged try a half spoon- ful of Dr. Stegert’s Angostura Bitters in & little wine before méais. el Mabel—Do- you ‘know that T.ord Fitz- mornkey IS about to. vistt us? Dorothy—Yes, -1 heard yesterday that your father had signed a confract with him.—Harper's Baza