The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 23, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1899. Che THURSDAY... weveses...FEBRUARY 23, 1899 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. TSRS SSUB R SR e ddress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. 2 B s S s PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., §. F. 2 Telephone \ain 1868. .2IT to 221 Stevenson Street Main 1876 . :CDITORIAL ROOMS.. o Telep! DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Copies, & cents. = Terms by Mail, Including Postage: PAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one yea: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), ¢ months DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Siagle Month. SUNDAY CALL One Year. WEEKLY CALL, One Year All postmasters are authorized to recelve Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. 908 Broadway Room 188, World Buliding ative. OAKLAND OFFKCE... NEW YORK' OFFICE DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Represent: WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE... Rigés House C. C. CARLTON, Corrcspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE . 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A LIAR GONE MAD. destroy they first a proverb that has come om the wisdom of antiquity. ave occurred at every stage ot | A sin long to HOM »ds would the nad 1s W ss to attest its truth. s a mania, the mania grows ss destroys the wretch who low scale indeed, but not the depravity, has been fur- development of James ia to a madness which esterday layed in something on the first page a dispatch | ng: “Verbal messages from | to the Filipinos, sent through the rebel | ington, are stirring up the natives to | United States against gle be supposed that any creature out of a uch a story. Even in the Ex- is doubtiul if there be any one ff for lying as to give it cre- is not to use believes itself niner office THE INTEREST OF THE PARTY. THE interests of the Republican party are served y the redemption of its promises, by keeping faith with the people, by such deportment as to hold to it the good will and favorable opinion of the State. > No man has yet appeared to publicly maintain that any of these things can be done by permitting the party to be used by the Southern Pacific Railroad as an agency to elect Burns to the Senate. It is a brief retrospect to the last campaign. Can a single one of Burns’ twenty-five supporters in the Legislature say truthfully and with confidence that he could have been elected if he had irankly declared Burns to be his choice for the Senate? During the campaign, and until the ballots were. cast, the people had control of the matter. Why was not the candi- dacy of Burns announced then, when the people could pass upon it? Compared to such an oppor- tunity for getting the judgment of the whole party, how contemptible are the little schemes now in action tc get members of party committees and snap mass- meetings held on private invitation to put up a pre- tense of popular expression! Barnes frankly submitted himself to the people, as did Bulla, and even Grant, with all the unspeakable errors of his campaign upon him, went before the people as an open candidate. The vote of Bulla and Barnes, representing the free choice of members who respect the public judgment, has been equal to that of Burns, and, joined, to the vote for other men who are under no suspicion of corruption, the free vote of the joint convention has far exceeded the highest vote for Burns. It represents the calm judgment of the party, and if the secret bargaing and corrupt alliances’ for Burns, which represent the bad faith of the railroad, shall finally succeed, this vote which now represents the party’s judgment will next year be found to rep- resent the public judgment against the party. Every- where, on trains, in business houses, and all places where the people meet, every day Republicans are heard to declare that they would not have voted the party ticket had they known of this Burns conspiracy, and that they will not vote it again if that conspiracy succeed. BILLS. “CINCH” INCH bills may properly be designated as GENESIS OF C the invention of legislative devils. They are introduced, not for the purpose of being enacted into laws, but to alarm the corporations against which they are directed and to make busi- ness for a corrupt and reckless lobby. Every Legis- lature is afflicted with large numbers of them. Some ‘cinch” bills are popular, having for their object the reformation of acknowledged evils or the correction of acknowledged abuses. A “cinch” bill is effective in producing blood just in proportion as it is reason- able and fair. When the lobby directs its attention to something that needs reformation it is very apt to strike a popular chord and obtain for itself the as- sistance of large numbers of well-meaning people. It is only when things go along smoothly and there is no cause for popular outcry that “cinch” bills be- come poor and poverty-stricken. But there is never any intention to pass “cinch’ bills. We do not recall a single one of importance which has ever been enacted into a law. It was said | that the Bank Commission act was originally desig- | nated as a “cinch.”” It was aimed at Ralston and his stock gambling fellow bankers of San Francisco. But if it was a “cinch” and designed to bleed the banks, it was one of those bills possessing popular features to which we have already referred. There being no intention on the part of the legis- and display. Doubtless the read it, and the c 1 In any other news- he stuff would have been | The editors of the | their bass likes, and ch even in print seems to gibber with irst page in display type. ttle gilding to the lie the Ex- ted to be a dispatch from Senator Hoar sent a message to | ¢ urging them to revolt is not however, that his inflam- r to the ratification of the since have been conveyed to the med that they were intended ng. to assert that no such dispatch was ever gton; that no official in Washing- ton was ever asked if he thought Senator Hoar had sent miessages to the Filipinos; that no man of any i or thought that Senator Hoar made lated to’ encourage the American forces in the untry t rasket. know wha owever, ed ec from first to last, the Washington the original Creelmanism, is one lies that carries its refutation in nan is clearly a candidate for a His mania for lying has so far de- ntellect that he has lost his cunning. His o raw that even the Examiner yre it can offer them for its Tool royéd his falsehoods a: Has to cook them be are now s readers to swallow. NEWS FROM M@ANILA. UT for the fact that the information of Aguin- B io’s intention to inaugurate a massacre came =< through official sources it would receive no &redeérice. This executive of the Filipinos has shown -mucli-ability and discretion. He has even made so ‘-strong a profession of patriotism as to excite sym- pathy..~ Aside from the merits of his contentions, many: have concluded him to be a brave man, and <ome of his papers have displayed a breadth of mental fgrasp most surprising when considered in connection with his antecedents. it is true that he has been guilty of some stupidities, 26 when he sent men armed with bows to face the fire of American guns, or when he has assumed upon a power to intimidate this country, but, nevertheless, to him is conceded many of the qualities of a leader. ~The scheme of massacre was not carried out, and “he failed to work for himself that quick and de- cisive disaster he had planned. An indiscriminate slaughter would have brought down the hostility of every nation represented in the islands, while Aguin- ildo -ouglit to have sense enough to know that among the nations, and even among the people of the United States, there is a strong feeling that the forces now _ there. under Otis should be withdrawn as rapidly as i ent with honor and dignity. But no part of lization would consent to see the Philippines left to-the mercy of a murderous rabble looting with the sa ction of the so-called president. - " “Aguinaldo seems bent upon displaying such- sav- agery as will turn from him all the sympathy that might ‘have been his. The massacre business is out of .date. Thé_.'a.l]eged plot to blow up Alger needs most of emphasis on the “alleged.” lative devils to do anything more than frighten in- | dividuals and corporations into providing money with which to defeat the “cinch” bills, it is dangerous | for any sensible person to pay the slightest attention to them. . In nipety-nine cases out of a hundred, if “cinch” bills are let run, they will die of their own corruption. Sometimes “the newspapers help the edge of the purposes of those who introduce and ad- down with “cinch” bills. Where the corporations af- information which is intended to work upon the-fears | tims should encourage it. To do so is merely to | coct “cinch” bills and further their enactnient up to proclaim their virtue and righteousness. But if no lobby or a cause for fear among their victims. swept over Florida, following so closely the that State will be abandoned. It is not in California i a natural desire to see its interests advanced, but no as strong as it is here. ago led about 40 per cent of the growers to abandon tricts, says: other crops for oranges. Many orange-growers have and not a few have gone into stock-raising. More at- will not be very great, for the plant is grown partly The abandonment of the Floridian groves, how- the Sun says: “Of course there will now be a fresh portations, but even if Florida goes out of the busi- boxes, was larger than the world’s output not many heavy loss to Florida, it will not be a permanent dis- rendered her orange cultivation unprofitable. The frost has simply hastened the time when the Floridians must turn their attention to other products. PERVERSIONS BY EXPANSIONISTS. HE speech of President McKinley at Bosten, I though not official, was nevertheless carefully | restraingd, and, read in connection with his pub- lic acts and closely interpreted, would be less open to misconstruction than the ‘meaningless resolution on cur policy in Asia lately adopted by the Senate of the United States. In a popular sense, howevér, it may be construed as implying views that would not stand the test of current analysis or historical criticism. The expansion newspapers—at least some of them— read it as embracing three propositions—First, that the United States was providentially drawn into rela- tions with the Philippines; second, that it thus con- tracted an obligation to become the liberater or rescuer of the Filipinos; and, third, that for these reasons. it is now a plain duty to subdue their rebel- tion against the supposed authority we have bought from Spain, and, when they are prepared to receive ir, to compel them to accept a free government framed at Washington. " These deductions, extracted by the expansienists from the President’s speech, are inconsistent both with law and with fact, and, in themselves and apart from the argument they misrepresent, would place our country in an unenviable position before the world. When the Maine was destroyed, if we had boiled over and declared war, our logic would have been weak, but our patriotism strong. We held our tem- per and submitted the tragedy to a commission, which failed to bring in a judgment against Spain. The war was begun against the protests of some public men of indubitable patriotism, and at first did not even com- mand the hearty approval of the President himself. Its avowed causes were the deplorable condition of Cuba and the necessity of avoiding breaches of neu- trality. The sole expressed purpose of the war was to drive Spain out of Cuba and enable the Cubans to set up an independent government. The acquisi- tion of the Philippines or the conquest of any Spanish colony, even Porto Rico, was not within the declara- tions of our Government, expressly or by implication, as we placed ourselves on record. Our first effort was to destroy the naval power of Spain for the pro- tection of our own sea coast, both on the Atlantic and Pacific. This was more than half accomplished by following and destroying the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay, by general consent one of the.most ex- traordinary feats recorded in naval warfare. -But we did not then design—or at least acknowledge the de- sign—to capture the Philippines. True, Manila was at our mercy, but, independently of our own senti- mental proclamations, the archipelago, without gross inconsistency on our part, was not in a condition to be captured. The Filipinos had long been in rebel- lion against Spain and had maintained their cause with a success equal to that of Garcia and Gomez in Cuba. Our objective point was Cuba, and Cuba alone, and only Cuba for the Cubans. We were con- ducting the first war that had been projected, as we constantly assumed, solely for humanity and without thought of material gain. In fact, we occupied the attitude of the Don Quixote of nations. When we arrived in Manila we encouraged the Filipinos, who had not invited us to become their rescuers or lib- erators, only because they produced diversions in our favor and because the destruction of Spanish authar- ity there helped us in our Atlantic campaign and reciprocally helped the Filipinos in their home struggle for independencs. There was at that time no evidence of any special providence driving us into the necessity of liberating or rescuing so many of the Filipinos as might survive after we had bombarded them in the name of the Declaration of Independence and the constitution of the United States. On the contrary, they were deluded into the belief that we meant what we said, and the entire plan of using the extinguished title of Spain, through a purchase of money, as a pretext for our enforced benefactions, repeatedly declined, and as the basis of a conquered possession, was an afterthought not only grossly in- congruous with our institutions and with our his- tory but a breach of national faith, urged on under the false pretense of extending trade and commerce by speculators who saw wealth abroad, by employers’ who wanted cheap labor at home, by ambitious soldiers who coveted military distinction and by politicians who sought to allay internal discontent and advance schemes inimical to American civiliza- tion, while the eye of the people was fixed upon Asiatic fridescence. It is this unwarrantable scheme into which the ex- pansionists seek to impress their President, elected by manhood suffrage. MATRIMCNY AS A CORRECTIVE. OUBTLESS many men have been made better D by marrying, and thus securing the close companionship of a good woman. Neverthe- less, a woman who essays to reform a drunkard and profligate by becoming a wife to him is apt to repent in sorrow. Her task is a hopeless one, and for her to attempt to classify it as missionary work is futile. It is simply foolishness. Recently San Francisco has had the benefit of a notable example, a reformer, whose work was the rescuing of the wrecks of the slums, having reached into the gutter and drawn therefrom a husband. Whatever the intentions of the man may have been, he died drunk, a death of violence. His wife could not restrain his tendency toward evil ways, and she ought to have known it. g, Marriage. is so honorable, an institution that to enter into its obligations and keep the fact concealed from the world argues that there is bad faith. This particular marriage was of the “contract” variety, and under the laws of. California not a marriage at all, but an idle form. If a marriage, openly con- tracted, with the sanction of the state, the church and the family, has so often failed when adopted as a curative for degenerate morals, how much more cer- tainly must it fail when the alliance is secret and of a character not to be.revealed lest a reproach come upon the parties to the union? Fi If the woman still. have confidence in her ability to snatch brands from the burning by the process of wedding them, she ought at least to take them openly and not hide her action as though the motive had been something not pure and'lofty. 3 [ e e ] Baldivin says he ‘will cover his corner with one- story rookeries, and there is reason to fear that he i¢ mean enough to do it. If he carry out the threat the city gill be partly to blame. The walls should have been condemned within twenty-four hours of the fire, and level with the ground in forty-eight. e e ey : It is a pity that Correspondent Creelman should have appeared as near the scene of conflict as Hong- kong. As a liar Creelman is unexcelled, and as a mischief-maker he has few equals. General Miles is the sort of soldier to stand by his guns no matter if they are directed toward a lot of “cinchers” by applauding their bills as reform mea- sures, but this is always done without a proper knowl- vocate them. The files of the present Legislature are loaded fected have not become alarmed the legislative devils have appointed committees to investigate and report of the stockholders and officers. But where a bill is | a2 bald “cinch” neither the newspapers nor the vic- | make money for a corrupt and debased lobby. 1t is difficult, however, to expose the men who con- a certain point. They cover, their tracks pretty ef- fectually, and at every stage of their progress loudly one put up to defend “cinch” bills, we are sure in time they would cease to be a source of profit to the A CALIFORNIA MONOPOLY. f\ S a result of the severe blizzard which has just disastrous one of three years ago, it is prob- | able the cultivation of oranges on a large scale in | only that this opinion is held. Our judgment may be biased by our partiality for our own State, and by | such bias exists in the East, and in that section be- lief that Florida must seek other forms of industry is The New York Sun, for example, after pointing out that the great destruction of orange groves three years | the business, and that the recent cold wave has killed all the orange trees in some of the most favored dis- “The result of this new misfortune will be to in- crease the present tendency in Florida to sybstitute, already turned their attention to other products and have prospered. They are growing tobacco and hay, tention is now given to pineapples, and though the pineries were damaged by this cold wave, the loss under cever to protect it from the fierce Florida® sun.” ever, will not mean any lack of home-grown oranges to supply the demand of the American market. As boom in California orange culture. The present tariff | on all citrus fruits has practically stopped orange im- ness we may still grow all the oranges we can con- sume. California’s crop last year, about 6,000,000 years ago.” ‘While the destruction of the orange groves is a aster. Even had no killing frosts visited her orchards | the competition of California would have eventually influential beef butchers, with a Secretary of War dan- RANCH AND RURAL LIFE caused by benign bacteria which flourish in the season equivalent to the Eastern June, In fact all flavors, good and bad, in milk, cream and butter, are caused by bacteria. If the churn is left unwashed or carelessly washed and a new churning is put in the noxious bacteria due to uncleanness destroy the flavor and markeét value of the but- ter. Whenever a housewife complains that she can’t make good butter it js an admission that she neglects to keep things clean. The Woman's Tribune says that between 1880 and 1890 the egg business increased 79 per cent. It is estimated that the value of the eggs produced now in this country is $180,000,000 a year, or three times the output of our gold mines. The patient housewife is responsible for most of the care and attention which enables the little speckled hen to earn- nearly $200,000,000 annually. i A pint of linseed meal to every twenty-five hens given with their soft food every day is said by an expert to gren.uy promote laying. Green bones are also fine egg food. There is a machine which costs $5 that shaves the bones fit for the hen to swallow. The green bones, with some flesh adher- ing, can always be had of the town butcher, and the fresher they are cut the better. . The Medical Times deprecates the use of salicylic acid in milk, which increases infant mortality. So it seems that our wine men are not the only salicylic sinners. This is not a cookery and receipe column, but in view of the excellence of California almonds and walnuts and the ease with which they are to be had, this way to make nut biscuit will be acceptable. Two teaspoons bak- ing powder, quart of flour, quarter cup of sugar, half cup butter, three beaten eggs stirred into the rest when dry; add half pound nuts, ground or chopped fine, and milk enough tp mix; roll in half-inch sheets, cut into rounds and bake in a quick oven. Ten thousand coach and draft horses have been contracted for, to be furnished by farmers in Iowa and Iilinois for the London market, prices ranging from $100 to $500 apiece. It would seem that the California horse- breeders should not despair. % The latest fertilizer for roses is fresh biood. We don’t know how much use is made of sugar beet pulp in this State for cattle feed. We see it stated that at the beet factory in-.Lehi, Utah, thé daily ration for 1200 cattle is 100 tons beet pulp and seven tons of hay, but are not informed whether this is for stock cattle or feeders for beef. Fowls like green fged. Ten geese eat as much pasture as one cow, and 200 hens will strip the%grass from an acre of ground. - The freezing of the Florida orange trees again will probably perma- nently discourage citrus orcharding in that State and throw upon Califor- nia the whole demand for American fruit. For several years the Florida planters have been putting out more shaddock or grape fruit than orange orchards. The popularity of the shaddock is permanent and increasing. As a breakfast fruit, a mouth cleanser, it has no equal. It should be taken plain or with a little salt sprinkled on, though some prefer sugar. It grows better and produces more abundantly in California than in Florida and is a very long keeper and can be shipped in barrels as ‘“rolling freight” at cheaper rates. A new plan in egg storage has been tried in Leith, where 50,000 Scotch, Irish and Danish eggs were kept four months with but lttle loss. The storage is cool and even in temperature with the eggs so packed that by turning a crank they are turned a little every day. This keeps the yolk in its natural position in the center of the white. Eggs are spoiled by the yolk settling on one side and touching the shell. The Leith plan 1s war- ranted to keep eggs fresh for six months. The exhibit of the State Board of Trade in the new ferry depot in San Francisco is the only museum of the products and resources of California, &and every county should be represented there. WHEN I WAS A BOY. The flavor of June butter is Up in the attic where I slept When I was a boy, a_little boy, In through the lattice the moonlight crept, Bringing a tide of dreams that swept Over a low, red trundle bed, Bathing the tangled curly head, While the moonbeams played at hide and seek ‘With_the dimples on the sun-browned cheek— ‘When 1 was a boy, a little boy! And, oh, the dreams—the dreams I dreamed When I was a boy, a little boy! Far the grace that through the lattice streamed Over my folded eyellds seemed To have the gift of prophecy And to bring the glimpses of time to be When manhood's clarion seemed to call< Ah, that was the sweetest dream of all ‘When I was a boy, a little boy! Fd like to sleep where I used to sleep ‘When I was a boy, a little boy! For in at the lattice the moon would peep, Bringing her tide of dreams to sweep The crosses and griefs of the years away From the heart that is weary and faint to-day. And those dreams>should give me back again - A peace I have never known since then— ‘When I was a boy, a little boy! EUGENE FIELD. STATE NOTES. Mr. C. T. Harris of Covina advises irrigators whose orchards depend upon water from the ditches to use plenty of water in March and April, when the loss by evaporation is less than later in the season. The Colusa Gazette says: “Several farmers were in town yesterday pll:ylng pedro, and took home vegetables raised by gardeners in San Fran- cisco.” X The Washington Press says that Warm Springs is the principal ship« ping point for mushrooms to the San Francisco market. The varieties are the wild mushroom, agaricus campestris and others: They are carefully inspected and packed in one-pound boxes. Many go from the same place to Los Angeles, as they bear shipping long distances. California is the prin. cipal producer of edible fungi in the United States. The greatest variety of these fungi in the world is produced in India, where the edible and poison sorts so closely resemble each other as to bar an amateur. from the enjoyment of this delicious food. The best Indian expert is the monkey. Tt is customary to submit the specimens to a monkey. He will examine them carefully and infallibly reject the non-edible. The Indian elephant has the same instinct, and feeds on the benign sorts, carefully rejecting _ those that are toxic. The prospect of a fine apricot crop in Vaca Valley is at this time good. Solano County will have 3000 acres in sugar beets this year, a very de- sirable diversification in crops. The increase in wheat acreage sown this year is 10 per cent. The Alta Advocate says that Mr. J. T. Bearss of Dinuba protects -the fruit buds in his orchards from linnets by a spray made of four pounds whale oil soap, four gallons hot water and a pint of kerosene, thoroughly mixed. To use, add one quart of the mixture to four gallons of hot water and spray the trees when the birds begin to work. It should be used hot, about 130 degrees. Shasta County is coming forward as an olive producer. The Alexander ranch in Happy Valley has put on the market this year ripe queen olives of first quality. San Joaquin farmers checked.the too rapid growth of rye by turning stock on it. The idea is treated as a discovery. It is practiced con- stantly in England, where sheep are turned on the wheatfields. Tramp- ing and cropping the wheat makes it stool and increases the yield. The Santa Paula Chronicle, Ventura County, was sold in January with the stipulation that if 5 inches of rain fell before February 1 the price should be increased $500. Just 4 inches fell and the seller lost $500 by an inch. A subsidy of $4000 has been subscribed for a cannery at Santg Ana. The orchards of the county farm, or almshouse of San Bernardino, have shipped out ten carloads of oranges this season. - VIEWS OF THE INTERIOR PRESS. newspaper conditions, as nearly every ar- .ticle passes through at least two hands, and the man who writes the article is not the one who determines its final form. Any practical law on the subject could only result, as it has in France, in the tefulu employment of a ‘‘responsible” editor, who has nothing to do with what foeu into the paper, but undertakes to de- end whatever may appear nst all He is a fighting editor pure and simple. In Germany they have a jail edi- tor, whose business it is to ‘'sit,” is the German euphemism for going to fall whenever the paper runs &gul the mte e eriously, this antl-newspaper crusas {s worse than a mere bad okl: Trlz-: le‘;g islative proposals that have attracted at- iention are pure freak bills, but the ten- dency to introduce and even pass them indicates a breach between the officigl and unofficial organs of public opinion that is unfortunate. A newspaper Is nothing if it is not at once a leader and a follower of cept under the same —Fresno Republican. Sendifank: SIMPSON AND NOAH. Senator Simpson of Pasadena, who, A Sacramento correspondent of a San Francisco newspaper tells exultingly of the efforts of a Senatorial gang trying to win a vote by taking a legislator to San Francisco and putting him through a de- bauch there. It is regarded as a very smart proceeding by the correspondent, and the editorial page of that paper has no condemnation of such politics. Per- mit us to say that such proceedings are {nfamous and that California would’ be better without a Senator than to have one chosen by such methods. The poli- ticlans resorting to such practices are do- ing most to disrupt the Republican party. There are certainly a good many decent Republicans in the Legislature and they should get together and rebuke the schemes of the depraved and infamous.— Santa Rosa Republican. THE FOLLY OF WORKS. The press received many a hard blow at the hands of some of the State Senators yesterday while discussing the Works bill. This bill is called the- anti-cartoon I bill; it also really prohibits the printing of portraits without the consent of the person. In the discussion Simpson—the deserter of home camp—went all to pleces and tried to offer some excuse for his ex- istence. A number of good and substantial speeches were made in support of the })reum law and against this proj olly.—Berkeley World-Gazette. IS A FALSE ALARM. 1f Dan Burns were the great politician that his few friends claim him to be he would have tethered Senator Simpson out in the brush rather than that the mis- representative from Pasadena shéuld cast a vote for him in the condition that he . The inability of Burns to make any real headway in his Senatorial cam shows conclusively that as an astute poli- %m he is a “false alarm.”’—Les Angeles mes. X . LEGISLATURE AND PRES Senator Morehouse, the author of the bill making it justifiable homicide to kill editors on sight, has just Introduced a supplementary bill providing that the name of the author of every article shall be printed mxnn.mwmcm-m after vengeance may identify ,ML Vi | The bill 15, of course, unworkab while on a jamboree, left Bulla to vote for Burns, is in some respects like unto Noah, and yet unlike him. Noah, you will remember, dearly beloved, lay drunk and naked in his vineyard. Simpson had the vineyard inside him, and the naked- ness which he exposed was that of his own alleged ety B intellect and honor.—Sacra- —_—— NOT PAID FOR HONOR. And yet it is perhaps not so strange Simpson should transfer his suen:::: from Bulla to Burns. While he had pledged his honor to stick to Bulla, he had evidently not been hired to do it. ‘There is a wide difference in the ethies of some Legislatures between honor and spot. cuh.. Tlh:nfin ‘who ;;t the ante-election boodl rmly and reliably.—] % geles Herald. e A e JAIL AS A REFUGE Newspaper men should take heart. Works' anti-cartoon bill has no terrers for the editors of the paper published in the Still (Minnesota) Penitentiary, and there is no reason why a similar en- terprise should not be inaugurated in this :nculoo.nuu ‘varfous imbecile MWM. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. G. G. Linen of New York is at the Ocel- dental. Don Ray of Galt is registered at the Occidental. 1. M. Russell of Boston is-staying at the Grand. D. R. Cameron, a fruit packer of Han- ford, is at the Lick. Attorney Raleigh Barcar of Vacaville is staying at the Lick. J. K. Lanning and O. H. Smith of Bos- ton are at the Grand. D. F. Dinsmore and wife of San Jose are at the California. H. E. Garth and wife of New York are staying at the Palace. Attorney E. C. Farnsworth of Visalia is & guest at the Lick. Dr. W. C. Allen of Colorado Springs is registered at the Grand. W. D. Hofins, a rich business man of Beattle, is at the Grand. - A. M. Stevenson and wife of Vacaville are guests at the Grand. Jchn B. €ook, a wealthy, merchant of St. Paul, is at the Palace. Ex-Mayor B. U. Steinman of Sacra- mento is a guest at the Palace. Clifton R. Penny of the Menzies Club, ‘West Australia, is at guest at the Palace Dr. C. W. Duniop, a prominent physi- clan of New York, is staying at the Pal- | ace. G. W. Maythorn of Buffalo, N. Y., who is interested in shipbuilding, is at the Occidental. J. B. Peakes, proprietor of the Sea Beach Hotel at Santa Cruz, is registered at the Palace. Colonel C. C. Royce, manager of Gen- eral Bidwell's ranches at Chico, is a guest at the California. H. W. Miller, H. E. Haggatt and F. M. Brown of Juneau, Alaska, are among the arrivals registered at the Palace. J. Y. Calahan, the gemeral Western agent of the Nickel Plate road, with head- quarters at Chicago, is staying at the Occidental. Mrs. W. F. Burrell, Miss Caroline Flao- ders, Miss M. Louise Flanders and Miss Clementine Lewis, all of Portland, are at the Occidental. The party are bound for Mexico on a pleasure trip. Mrs, A, T. Herrmann, Mrs. T. B. Wil- liams, Miss Nell Frazer, Mrs. Hugh McL Porter, Miss Hertha Page, Mrs. Vail, Miss Vail, Mr, and Mrs. E. C. Coppock, Miss Lillle Cramphorn and Miss Chap- man, and Messrs. F. C. Ensign and Paul | Mabury, of San Jose, are fn the city. | They are members of the San Jose Ora- | torio Society, and will assist in the ren- | dition of “The Messlah” by the San Fran- cisco Oratorio Soclety to-morrdw even- | ing. The party will remain several days ‘sxght-seelng and visiting friends. —_———— | CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. | NEW YORK, Feb. 22.—Joseph L. King {and wife of San Francisco and M. Di- | pendrock of Sacramento are at the Neth- | erland. William C. Bogen of San Fran- cisco is at the Holland. i —— | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. | WALKING WITH A LADY—P. M. City, | A gentleman walking with a lady at night is the one to offer his arm. It is not con- sidered within the bounds of etiguette for the lady to_take the gentleman's arm of her own velition. PICTURES IN THE CALL-G. R. G, Oakland, Cal. The pictures which ap- peared in The Call recently, one having under it the caption “Some One Flashed a Sword,” and the other “With a Long, Wailing Yell,” are of the class known as half-tone from wash drawings. ‘A CHARTER—N. N., City. This depart- ment is at a loss to understand what the corréspondent wants to know by the foi- lowing gquestion: “How long does the charter last without being broke off in the fireman union?’ 1If the correspondent will be more explicit an effort will be made to furnish the desired information. THE CITY OF CHESTER—Mrs. W. A. V., writing to thifs department, has to say: “Wishing to be placed right in reference to a date, I wish to call your attention to the answer published in the Answers to Correspondents February 1, as to the date of the loss of the City of Chester. According to my_record, the birth of one of my children, I am, accord- ing to the date you publish, either wrong in all my dates, or else your information is at fault. The vessel was sunk either in the fall of 1887 or theflpflng‘ol 1888."" This department informs Mrs. W. A. V. that all her dates must be wrong, for the City of Chester sank in the -bay of San Francisco on the date already published —August 22, 1888, 5 DEBATERS—A Debater, Lodl and F. J. C., Madera, Cal. This department has on numerous occasions announced that it does not *“furnish points for debates™ for the reason that a debater should fur- nish his own ideas when he takes the affirmative, or the negative side of a question. If this department furnishes a debater with the ideas the debater will nat be presenting what he thinks of the matter under debate, but what another thinks. The proper thing to do is for a debater to read up all he can find on both sides of a_ question, and then formulate his own ideas. This department has no “pamphlets that it can send to the writer on annexation and on the subject of di- viding the State of California.” —e————— Treat your Eastern friends to Town- d's California glace fruits; 50c 1b in fire :?ghefi boxes or Jap baskets. 627 Market.® i — information supplied daily to Special business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (A]l'n'a),lnola ont- gomery street. Telephone Main —_——————————— On the roof of a brewery at Maidstone, Kent, is to be seen one of the most re- markable vanes in England. It represents an olda brown jug and glass. The. jug, which is made of copper, stands three feet six inches in height and three feet in diameter, and Is capable of holding 108 gallons. ——ee————— DRINK A STEEPING OF MOKI TEA BE- fore retiring at night, and see how soundly You will sieep and how jovously you Wil awake in the morning. It supplies food for the blood while e e curee. sonstipation and beautiful complexion, © ns = sick headache. At Owl Drug Co. ——————————— There is at least one real Angostura Bitters— Dr. Siegert's—and no , other stomach bitters “just as good.” Avold substitutes. O A curious point in Swedish criminal law is that confession is necessary before a capital sentence can be carried out. If, however, the culprit persists in protest- mf his innocence in the face of overpow- ering evidence, the prison discipline is made -extremely strict and severe until the desired confession is obtained.