The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 5, 1900, Page 6

The 2l @all. WEDNESDAY iis.. DB vvvssr... DECEMBER 5, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE ...Telephone Press 201 PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. ROOMS. ....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. EDITORIAL 6.0 2.00 ’ 1.5 DAILY CALL—By Single Month. e SUNDAY CALL, One Year. 1.5 WEEKLY CALL, One Year b %o All postmasters are anthorized to receive subseriptions. Bample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mail cubseribers tn particular to give both to insure a prompt and ‘W AND OLD ADDRESS in order ympliance with thelr request CAKLAND OFFICE ...1118 Broadway KROGNESS, g. Marguette Building, Chicago. “Central 2619.”") C. GEORG Wanager Foreign Adver (Long Dista e Teleph NEW YORK C¥ €. €. CARLTON.. erald Square EW YOR SMITH ENTATIVE: 30 Tribune Building EWS STANDS: N K REPRES! STEPHEN B. . ri-Astoria Hotel, A. Brenmtano, 81 Urion Square: Hill Hote ey CHICAGO NEWE STANDS: Sherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel WASHINCTON (D. C.) OF ..1406 G St., N. W. MORTON E. BRANCH OFFICES— CRAN orrespondent. gomery, corner of Clay, opsn pen until 9:30 o'clock. 638 615 Larkin, open until 11 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, o'clock. ‘1086 Valencia, open Fleventh Ke open until $.0'clock. NW. cor- Twerty-second ar n and Eddy streets—Specialties. Theaver—Vaudeville every afternoon and Jookey Club, Oakland Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. mbér 7 at 11 o'clock, Horses, at December 12, at 12 o'clock, hBRYflN'S THRIFT. Chicago Record gave Colonel Bryan's can- 1 i comfort in the dark days ito death and in need of a Record s a reporter to him for rview The peerless one” refused, saying: ‘I t : for money, but 1 will not write with- out it. Ii I were to discuss subjects of importance I wish to do so only aiter consideration and wish to prepare a careful state- and I should t leisure iews om all ter keey busy practically all the time, and I should I came to write for myself I had prac- tically printed much before.” ’ t is, “Drop a coin in the siot and get a far ed. When it comes to talk, money We think he is the first public man vho puts a newspaper interview Taking one’s gyes off the so-- his declaration, one is compelled to ad- earned something. primifive grammar he lets t hereafter he will not discuss sub- pt for money, nor until “after at wher of it d upinion,” as as Colonel 1 In very tance, exc nd study ch of all that he has said heretofore least indication of consideration and His method has‘been what the lady called “ad claptrapanddrum.” Let 1 that he is going to consider and study a long and desirable silence. y be that he will really get some he may learn something. The rn a grateful ear to the profound si- he will wrap himself, and will hope e subject dy will Inre him out of it with a bank check. There ¥ been times when if Mr. Bryan had said, “I will not keep silent for money, but I will not keep silent withou large sums could have been raised to keep him stil The country was so tired of him. But now its fatigue has been expressed in a vote, which he wins Idaho, Montana, Colorado and Ne- vida, a suthern States where he did not epeak the States where he did, and peo- ple fecl better and are indifierent whether anybody pays him anything for what he thinks he thinks, or not Judgment has been entered in London for a large sum against an American clergyman who came to 1i 1 shouid be willing to give in- | these questions the newspapers would | | pensive way. BETTER BANKING. F necessity the greater part of the President’s O message is taken up with a discussion of Chi- nese matters and information upon the vexed questions that go with our external policy. But there are matters that take less space that are, by no means secondary in importance. Indeed, while the foreign and external relations of the Government re- quire always a longer statement, because they often transpire only through the annual message, having oc- curred beyond the daily note and vision of the peo- ple, it may be truly said that they are really second- ary to domestic policy and affairs which are the home concern of all the people. It was seen by students of the political situationearly in the adolescent stage of greenbackism that heresies | on the money question were being propagated be- cause of the cost and difficulty that agtended the use of credit in sections of the country remote from the | financial centers. In this arose the theory that money | must be sent from New York or even released from ng change of address should be | the Federal treasury at certain seasons “to move the crops.” It was by use of this theory that Grant's ad- | ministration was played with by Gould and Fisk in the financial tragedy of “the Black Friday.” Under that theory of a currency the money transferred to a distance to meet an emergency soon returned to its source, and when the-real necessities of the farmer, which occur at seedtime, apbeared, he found himself obliged to use his credit in the most indirect and ex- Usually it was possible to use it at all only at the local store, where he paid for it by a smart advance in prices upon his time purchase. Thence the credit was handed on by the storekeeper to the wholesaler in the commercial and financial cen- ter, and when the money came to the country to move | the crops in the fall it was a mere bird of passage. | The farmer took it for his crop, paid it at the country store in discharge of his long and costly credit, and | the country store immediately sent it back to the cen- | ter in discharge of his debt to the city wholesaler. In | that way it evaporated, was lost to any use beneficial to the agricultural business man and left him in con- | dition unimproved, to repeat the same costly and in- direct use of his credit when seedtime again compelled Imm to employ it. It may be truthfully said that this inconvenient and costly method of employing credit was the cause of one-half the farm mortgages that were recently the bogy conjured by financial quacks to demonstrate the necessity for more money. All the time it was not a question of the volume of money, but of its distribution. It was congested in the centers, in the cities, and the cquntry was left with teo little while the cities had too much. A partial remedy for this condition has been found in the provision of the gold standard law which per- mits the organization of banks with $25,000 capital, | and authorizes their issue of currency up to the par value of the bonds deposited with the treasury to se- cure it. The President notes that under this law 369 banks have organized, of which 266 have a capital of less than $50,000, and 103 have a capital of $50,000, or more. These banks are mostly in the West. Iowa, in which the head center of financial folly was long located, and where greenbackism became formidable, even electing Calamity Weller twice to Congress upon his promise to secure “a more and a fittener cur- rency,” has thirty of these new banks, able to locally svpply the needs of the State for currency. Texas, Oklahoma, the Indian Territory and the West and Southwest generally liave “taken advantage of this greater freedom of banking, and it is worth while to notice that a reduction in the unsound money vote has followed the liné of these improved banking fa- cilities, As a result of the estzblishment of these new banks | and permission to issue notes to the par value of the | bonds which secure them, the increase in the na- tional bank note issue between March 14 and Novem- ber 30 of this year was $77,809.570. The President says significantly: “The party in | power is committed to such legislation as will make the currency responsive to the varying needs of busi- ness at all seasons and in all sections.” Mr. Brough, commenting on the Canadian system | of banking, says: “The per capita statisticians would Lave us believe that we are hopelessly dependent upon the volume of the precious metals for our medium of exchange, and yet Canada maintains a paper circula- | tion of $16 40 per head on a metallic base of $2 64 per capita, without the least strain to her credit; while in the United States our paper currency aver- ages $16 40 per head, with a metallic base of $11 36 per head. As the proportion of metallic money to credit is three times greater in the United States than |it is in Canada, the difference against us, amounting to $378,673,355, may be regarded as just so much pro- ductive capital abstracted from industry and con- verted into dead capital, for no one can doubt our ability to maintain as large a proportion of credit currency as Canada, if we will but adopt the proper legislative measures.” Mr. Conant, in his “History of Banks of Issue,” referring to the Scotch banks, says: “The proof of the large savings of the Scotch people, and their gen- eral use of banking facilities, may be found in the bank returns of the United Kiggdom for 1804. These returns show that, in spite of the enormous wealth and banking business concentrattd in London, the deposit liabilities of the Scotch banks divided by the population of Scotland show 2 per capita average of £27, while those of England show an average of £22. The ten Scottish banks of issue have now over goo offices, or branches, or one for every 4500 people, grief floating speculative schemes. He probably made | men, women and children. The gain of economy in the mistake of belie were the same as the g that the “futures” of faith and that experience in one meant confidence in the other. The Japanese who are located in this city are show- ing marked and most encouraging signs of improve- ment. When they start out to indulge their pastime of killing people they have recently limited their en- deavors to victims among themselves. i Mayor Snow of Oakland has created a mild sensa- tion by accusing the Councilmen of being grabbers after patronage. Perhaps his Honor thinks that if the example of San Francisco be a precedent he and no: the Councilmen should be grabber-in-chief. The mischievous faith healers, in whose wake o ruch distress, unrest and death have appeared, have arrived in Victoria. It is to be hoped that they wiil continue their journey to the morth and in the ice practice upon themselves. Oaklamd has drawn herself to us by still - closer bonds of union. She i having all sorts of troubie with her municipal charter and its gross inadequacies, and probably a fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind. If one thing more than another has been proved.in the Federal investigation of Cape Nome frauds it is that the miners consider their gold very much safer in the ground than in the hands of any receiver. | this perfect distribution of currency is proved by the ‘futures” of the stock market | fact that Scotland has cdrried on its business with a circulation of £3,500,000, while in England the circu- lation is from £50,000,000 to £60,000,000, or, allowing for the difference in population, England has re- | quired a currency thres times greater than Scotland.” This i€ a complete exposition of the benefits of more equal distribution as against the congestion of currency in money centers. The President’s declaration that the party in power is pledged to a distributive reform will be fatifying to the farmers, miners, stock men and other business men who must use their credit remote from the con- gested money center: The prime spirits of Tanforan are learning that sometimes the shadow of an evil name is as bad as the reality. The unspeakable Corrigan has been driven from the California turf, and now the people of San Mateo insist that his associates shall be kept within the strict bounds of decency. The yellow newspapers are giving new evidence that their eclipse within the field of truth and com- mon sense was only temporary. They emphatically decline to see anything of merit in President McKin- ley's mcssage;; Ortega, the fiend of San Jose, has received a sen- tence of imprisonment for life. It is to be hoped that his miserable existence within prison walls will not | be cut short. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, LONG DISTANCE ELECTRIC RAILWAY ‘OME time ago we directed attention to an ex- S perimental trip made by a party of tourists fromy, Boston to New York by various electric lines operating between the two cities. It was then pointed out that while the experiment showed that the trolley lines do not constitute a serious compe- tition to steam railways, their weakness in that re- spect was .Jargely du€ to the fact that they had not been constructed for that purpose; that they did not form a single direct line and were not designed for long distance traveling. Consequently the failure of the experiment of using trolley lines for journeys be- tween the two cities did not conclusively establish the superiority of steam over electricity for long roads. Interest in the subject has been renewed by the recent opening of an electric line from Hudson to Albany, N. Y., paralleling the Hudson River Rail- road, and designed to do a general railway business, carrying freight as well as passengers. It is said to | be the first venture of the kind on a large scale, and is therefore being studied with a good deal of atten- tion. Local interest in New York was increased in | the enterprise by the fact that on the same day the road between Albany and Hudson was opened an experiment was made in operating the Manhattan | elevated railway by the same method of electric pro- | pulsion, that known as the “third rail” system. | Both experiments are reported to have been suc- | cessful. It is said that on the Hudson and Albany | road “heavy cars holding sixty passengers each tray- eled easily thirty-five miles in fifty-five minutes,” and it is added, “Electricians present said that electricity would supplant steam on all railroads in the near future.” The authorities of the Vanderbilt system are under- stood to have set their technical staff to work to de- | vise some means of substituting electricityi for steam in hauling their cars through the tunnels in the city | frem the Grand Central Depot to Harlem River. They have not been satisfied with the overhead trolley, but it is now believed the third rail method may solve the difficulty. While the results of experiments have been received with general gratification, it is noted that the new im- | provement, like every other, brings something of evil | in its train and is not an unmixed benefit. The third rail is a potent means of electric propulsion, but it is | dangerous. Commenting upon the operation of the system in that city the Brooklyn Eagle says: “All in all, the ‘third rail’ system appears to have produced | more practical results than any competing device. But what about its safety? On the Brooklyn elevated road it has had a number of fatal mishaps during the short time it has been in operation, and how will it be in a road laid on the ground? Will it be safe at grade grossings? May people walk along the tracks with impunity, as now, subject only to the | danger of being run over by a train? If not, then the third rail system cannot expect universal or even widespread adoption.” The problem of providing for public safety, then, ppears to be the only one that remains to be solved in the work of providing an electric substitute for Human ingenuity that hd% steam on railways. ‘ achieved such wonders in recent years will not long be | baffled by a difficulty of that kind, and it is quite pos- | sible, therefore, that a large mileage of electric rail- way for freight and passenger service may soon be in operation in all parts of the Union. | THE BUFFALO EXPOSITION. ALIFORNIA’S interest in the trade of South and Central America and Mexico is. certainly not inferior to that of any other section of the Union, and consequently the pan-American exposi- tion to be held at Buffalo next year is one in which we should take part and make the best showing pos- sible of all lines of goods for which there is likely to be any demand either in the countries south of us or | in our own Eastern States. For some time past there have been reports of thé existence of an ill-fecling among the South Ameri- | cans against the people of the United States growing i< | out of their racial sympathy with the Spanish during | | the war. The reports may have had a foundation of truth, but they appear to have been freatly exagger- | ated. At any rate there has been no official mani- festation of antagonism to us nor any sign of indif- ference toward the exposition. In his message the President announced that the Latin-American states | have evinced the liveliest interest in the Pan- American Congress which is to assemble in the City of Mexico, and he draws from that faet encourage- ment for the hope that at the exposition the display | of exhibits from those countries will be much larger | than they would have beén had not the International | Congress been called. | Furthermore, it is to be remembered the Bureau of | American Republics has now become well estab- lished and has developed a wide field of activity in promoting trade between ourselves and other Ameri- J‘:an countries. Thus cverything is well prepared for | promoting any line of trade that may be started as a i result of the exposition. In fact, the great fair is to | come at a most opportune time, for it coincides with | a new industrial and comn-gerc’ial movement through- |out the world, and with a gathering in Mexico de- | signed for the express purpose of fostering that very | trade. which it is the cbject of the exposition to pro- mote. & 4 | It is gratifying that the Fruit-growers’ Convention | is giving attention to the subject. In fact, the repre- | sentatives of all lines of industry and commerce in | the State ought to take part in the work of prepar- ling for a comprehensive State exhibit. The exposi- | tion is not going to be a small one by any means, and | California ought to take a conspicuous place among the States that are foremost in quantity, variety and quality of exhibits. % § I /T T S Gold nuggets have been found at Livermore, and | | the good citizens are deeply concerned to discover the | cause. . It is strange that no one thought of finding | out whether or not Chris Buckley was at large as a distributing agent. | —le ey An effort is being made to induce the ‘Washington authorities to repeal the war tax on beer. Many of our respected citizens ar€ willing to take a chance on ! the pangs of hunger, but they positively decline to | thirst. The Oakland woman who fired a bullet into her consort’s body and now insists upon nursing him back to life appears to be carrying too far the tradi- tional privilege of inconsistency which her sex enjoys. A citizen who voted against a certain attorney f~r legislative honors has been refused as a juror in a case now pending in a local court. This is one of the penalties which should be accepted as a prize. & Chinese ge;:era!a and diplomats have reached the same time our oriental friends appear to have no par- ticular liking for the language of our. guns. purges | of personal selfishness fer the ""fi the golden rule—FRESNO CRAT. DNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1900. SAYS BEEF EATING - CAUSES INSANITY Mr. Perky of Massachusetts Refuses to Mince the Matter. — + PRESIDENT OF THE WORCESTER OREAD INSTITUTION, WHO | FINDS THE ORIGIN OF CRIME, CANCER AND LUNACY IN THE MEAT STAPLE OF OLD ENGLAND. +* HE tenth annual meeting of the New York Vegetarian Soclety was held recently at Metaphysical Hall, Fifth avenue and Fortieth street. Instead of the usual busi- ness the soclety listened with great inter- est to an address by Henry D. Perky, president of the Worcester (Mass.) Oread Institution, a free school for girls, every State and Territory in the country being represented. The hal]l was well filled, principally by ladies, who appeared to be the speaker's special target. Mr. Perky's subject was ‘“Naturally Or- ganized Food Makes Possible Natural Conditions.” He is especially qualified to treat the matter, as he has long beén a student of food questions and a pro- moter of a new way in dlet. “There is nothing In this wide world,” he said, “to assure success except to start right. Chauncey M. Depew recent- 1y said, ‘Some people are born rich, some fortunate and others in Ohlo.” I am of the latter. My object here is to tell mothers how to rear children.” “Won't you please speak a little louder?” exclaimed one young lady wear- ing a big hat. Mr. Perky took a swallow of water, asked the secretary to close the windows to keep out the street nolse, and then re- torted: g “And now will the lady and others in the hall please remove their hats, so that those sitting behind them need not rub- ber-neck this way and that in order to see me?” Then he resumed his discourse by tell- ing of the evil effects of too much beef eating. He said: “When I quit eating beef about eight years ago I began to receive that normal condition which a man should enjoy be- fore he can become a successful business man. I have not eaten beef since then. About nine years ago I read a newspaper paragraph about the rapid increase of cancer in England. It was then discov ered that cancer was most prevalent among well-to-do men and women, the beef eaters, whereas it was scarcely known among the common people, who get little beef to eat.” He compared the human being to the bucksaw, which worked badly when not properly ‘sharpened and set or was rusty. ““The country is full of drunkards,” he saild, “the jalls full of criminals, and the asylums full of insane, all be- cause tbex have not been properly edu- cated in the way they should live or care for their stomachs. Thelir heads are filled with book knowledge, but they have very little intelligence.” SPIRIT OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Editorial Opinion Prom All Parts of the State on Matters Happy Lake County. After reading of the terrible storms in the East and the lesser but damaging winds and floods in other parts of this State, let us be thankful that we live in Lake ‘County.—LAKE COUNTY BEE. Model Government. It may be accepted as certain that the model government of the future has yet to be found; and it only can be found when the individuai citizen ‘himself general ractic- EMO- good and learns the wisdom of A Primary Law. In suggesting bills for the enactment of a primary election law the large number of “reformers’ who have been elected to the Legislature, which meets in January, should confine themselves to the Stratton act of 1899. Any attempt to depart from the grlnclpleg é«h‘]l (‘ilown in thlal l(;!.t:(e v ttended with more or less risk.— B BT PROPLES CAUSE: Outgrown Its Clothes. Watsonville has enough population to entitle it to reincorporate as a city of the fifth class. It has outgrown the limita- tions of its present charter and it should reincorporate or elect a Board of Free- holders and frame a new charter. If re- incorporated as a city of the fifth class the troublesome gugemaggnfl"'“ front vement coul ‘han Within o fhort | time—W ATSONVILLE PAJARONIAN, A Wonderful Record. The record of this favored State is a wonderful one. First the golden era, then the age of stock raising, when her untilled plains and:valleys were overfun by myri- ads of horses and cattle. The age of cereals came next and still remains with us. Then Flora and Pomona spread their wings over this glorious sunset land, and her orchards bloomed as the rose and bore fruits for the million, Now the age of oil is dawnlng. with a future beyon nrorh- ecy. Gold, cattle, fruit, oil are coming up from the teqminr earth to bless with prosperity the people of the realm. Are we of the West not fortunate to find our of Interest. lnes cast In such Pleuant places?— HEALDSBURG TRIBUNE. Too Many Normal Schools. State Superintendent Kirk in his ben- nial report suggests that there is little need for the five normal schools now be- ing maintained by the State. He recom- mends that some cf rthese institutions might protitably be turned into industrial schocls. The ot should be made pro- fessional traininz schools purely and not academic schogls, s at gu’euenl.—lhk KERSFIELL CALIFORNTAN. Men to Man the Ships. Our navy is fast taking rank among the great navies of the world. Congress has been commendably liberal in the matter of appropriations” for new vessels, and ‘when those now under construction or authorized are completed we shall have a naval fleet commensurate in some de- gree with our greatness as a nation, and with the work which naturally falls to the naval department. But the enormous ex- pense attendant upon this building up of our nava: establishment will be practi- cally wasted :f, thrcugh a mistaken policy of economy, a sufficlent number of men be not authorized for the naval service un- der sl possible exigencles—LOS AN GELES TIMES. No Gerrymander. There {8 much talk among the people in 1egard to reapportioning this State into Congressional districts, and no doubt sev- eral redistricting bills will be presented to {ho Legislature. The Standard has looked he ground over qu'te carefully and is of the opinicn that no gerrymander of the State should be attempted. Californie is a great State of diversified Industries. It is difficult to =o l?poruon the State as to put all the counti¢s having common in- terests into the same didtrict. Naturaliy | we of the First District are more con- cerred in regard to the formation of this afstrict than of any other, and we shall | encounter a great diversity of opinion in 1egard to what counties it should eontain. But when all is said that be said, what new combination of counties can bs made that will be any better thon the Brxtigt district?-HUMBOLDT ST ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. TWO BRITISH SHIPS—An English- Tible Clts;; English navy are first-class the En 2 ;L‘njxl!a-egg. Each geuel is of 14,200 tons dis- placement. ; SIXTEEN TO ONE-D., City. This cor- respondent asks, “What is the meaning sixteen to one, politically speaking?” glgl tne light of M'npol cven{' sixteen one politically means a dead failure. DECLARATION OF WAR—A sub- scriber, Frult';nh.u n?:.l& ga.'m doc!l.{;z war against the es on 1, 1858, when the Spanish Gov- :‘r?u?:nfiz‘m )flnl;e:n Wo:dtwd/n:l pass- port. % MATL TO DAWSON—Subscriber, City. During the winter months while the Yu- conclusion that we can do no more than talk. At the | scriber, konmurhclc;udb leem.l!%fll}; B I ius Bty eitatiat WD ap- hi:hntvu'(e than two candi The Powerful and the Ter- bor cl.ndgdatefs m: gue recelvin, est number of votes has a majority over his opponent. If there are morey 8h:n two candidates and the vote of the high- est exceeds that of all the other candi- dates combined that also is a majority. GOLD FOR SILVER—M. J. C., City. By the rules of the Treasury Department :t“VValhlnxto‘ n, eg.bc..h-umlua silver ollars are issu: the Treas Assistant ’Prenurenym r:dempu:l:e ;(.:: Yer certificates and treasury notes of 18, standard silver doliars may- be Dresented o .he Treasurer or silver - certificates omw Soms ho Assistant Treasurer tn'San sent to Was| silver certifica; to meet ‘gn am t‘x;r' Such, iy returned was that there was such a Jar. 1ted supply of silver certificates that none 57:'1'5 and emu:&! m’mnna}, Was gold to give In exohange o 3:"}::"‘:'“ was sent on, and on_the Sth ese words: Y iegTam rox wire the high- ou may issue gold Srler’la 1o sontionaTr: (W er Srancisco office a::-t-"m know, may be canceled at any moment, —— A GAY SEASON is promised Hotel Jolly houseful, an expert golf tournament, meet- mflmmu&mm“ ing, dancing, et EDITORIAL A New Race Question. Possibly a new race question may de- velop out of the Hawaiian affair, but a Territorial Delegate is not after ail a very important personage, and the Government at Washington still lives.—CHICAGO TIMES-HERALD. The Terrible “If.” If cheers were volunteers and flags were fighting men, and if crowds were battle- ships, Kruger's reception in France might mean something of practical importance o his “people CLEVELAND LBADER. It Does Not Pay. Gerrymandering does not pay, political- ly. In the North public opinion will re- sent an obvious attempt by distorted composition of districts to deprive efther party of fair representation. It will be the part of wisdom for Republican Legis- latures to use judiclously their power of dividing so many States into new Con- gressional districts—NEW YORK MAIL AND EXPRESS. Mississippi River Traffic. There are two modes of making tha Mississippi River of greater value for traffic purposes than it Is now. One of them is the expenditure of large sums by the General' Government for the improve- ment of navigation and for the malnts- pance of improvements when made. other mode is the introduction by private enterprige of vessels which can be used for traffic purposes without the necessity for ‘extensive and costly _improvement works. The latter mode, if feasible, is da- cidedly the better of the two.—CHICAGO TRIBUNE. Washington’s Foresight. ‘We have many instances of the marve!- ous power of looking into the future pos- sessed by the first President. but noas can compare with his foresight in laying out this capital. It is said to be the oniy city in the world that to-day exists just as it originally was planned. Washing- ton saw with his mind’s eye the enormous growth that would come to his country and he provided a capital worthy of it We are told that he was abu: and called a Junatic for, as one historian puta it, “laying out all creation and cglnng it a town.*—~KANSAS CITY JOURNAL. No Substitute for Saloon. The average American saloon is sup- ported by men who drink for aleoholic stimulation. The social features that ars added merely prolong their stay and témpt them to excesses. There is there- fore no “substitute” for the saloon be- cause there is no substitute for alcohol. It must follow, then, that the most ef- fective way to mitigate the evils of sa- loons which sell spirituous liguors Is to remove as far as possible all their social features and allurefnents—the same as is done in every country where the Govern- ment assumes entire charge of the sals of intoxicating liquors.—NEW YORK TIMES. PERSONAL MENTION. Frank J. Tetreau, a Chico merchant, is at the Grand. W. R. Carither of the Santa Rosa Press is at the Californta. C. L. Webb, a Seattle merchant, Is reg- istered at the Palace. Colonel C. C. Royce of Chico is regts- tered at the California. G. B. Moore, merchant at San Antonio, Tex., is at the Palace. H. F. Anderson, vineyardist at Ben Lo- mond, s at the California. F. L. Bradman of the United Stilles Marine Corps Is at the Occldental. Alden Apderson, Speaker of the last As- sembly, is'registered at the Grand. H. K. Stahl. a prominent San Jose min- ing man, s at the Grand for a few days. 8. R. Porter, a Sutter Creek mining man, accompanied by his wife, is at the Occidental. L. E. Dean, a Bakersfleld attorney and oil man, was among yesterday's arrivals at the Grand. é T. H. Minor, a leading redwood man- ufacturer and capitalist of Arcata, Hum- boldt County, is at the Grand. 8. F. Booth, district freight and passen- ger agent for the Southern Pacific at Fresno, Is In town for a few days. Mrs. Joseph Jeller and daughter of Bouldin Island are at the California. Miss Jeller Is to attend one of the select pri- vate schools here. Ed C. Denigan of the firm of Thomas J. Denigan, Son & Co., wool merchants started East yesterday accompanied by his sister Florence. They will be absent about a month. —_————— CALTFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—W. P. Dunham of Los Angeles and Joseph S. Spear Jr. and wife of San Francisco are at the Shoreham; Herbert Hume is at the Ar- lington; W. H. Taylor is at the Raleigh; T. Dickson is at the National, and G. M. Roberts is at the Metropolitan—all from San Franciseo. e Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel.* —_———— ‘Best eyeglasses, specs, 15¢ to d0c, at 1 Fourth, front of barber and grocery store.® —_—— Townsend’s California glace fruits, 50c a d, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- Eets: "' hice prosent for Bastern friends 639 Market street, Palace Hotel building. * Special information supplied daily to busfhess houses and pubiic men % tne Press Clipping Bureau (Au-n'-“ 510 Mont- gomery st. Telephone Maln o ““Yes, T went to hear the singers at the. big_opéra house in New York. s “Singing the operas in English, weren't the{?’ “In_English? Well, say, T 't thin to Ak s Cleveland F1als Deaton ¢ N IT WAS THE ROUTE IN 49! D It Is the Route To-Day, and Will Be For All Time to Come. F Ladies and children traveling without eseort appreciate the advantage of a solld vestibuled train_like “The Overland Limited,” running through from San Francisco to Chicago, with- out change, IN LESS THAN THREE DAYS, Leaving San Francisco dally at 10 a, m., via Central Pacific, Union Pacific and Chicago and Northwestern railways. —————— Guillet's Thanksgiving mince ple, lcecream. %05 Larkin st. phome East 198, . —_—————— A Nex ,{‘g‘"’"’,;, Conn.,k stra: wer. A. E fect™sith From the Stats To berrita saten by 't’l;e three deer that roam about that section. ——————————————————————————— A DELICATE CHILD Let a delicate child take 3 little Scott’s emulsion of cod- liver oil after breakfast or dinner—not - too much—tog much will upset the sm Better foo little than too much, The effect will be slow; it ought to be slow. In .aweek, you will see it began the first day. Don'tbe in a hurry. v-’l—u--lfinu,.,..h SCOTT & BOWNE, a0 Peacsrest, New Youh