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CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE,
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The Eastern office of the SAN FRANCISCO
CALL (Dally and Weekly), Pacific (states Adver
tising Bureau, Rbinelandir building, Hose and
Puane streets, New York.
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SUNDAY JUNE 16, 1895
Easy going never goes far.
We must have a glorious Fourth.
There is no better inning than a Sunday
outing.
He that trusts in a lottery ticket trusteth
in crime.
The fiestas have taught us how to cele
brate a holiday.
Forging lottery tickets is one way of
shadowing crime.
The ease of aerial navigation will soon
become a Maxim.
When work becomes a routine it seems
restful, but it isn't.
That millionaire is still poor who seeks
to add to his wealth.
There is no profitable egotism that lacks
the support of ability.
People who take things easy often take
more than their share.
Making things dark for a man naturally
causes him to see stars.
Most tramps afford an excellent study to
artist students of still life.
The high roller is always liable to take a
sudden tumble to himself.
The face is the still brook that serves as
the mirror of the conscience.
The people easiest pleased are those who
are satisfied with themselves.
The whole East will be watching to see
if Grover goes fishing to-day.
Legitimate journalism is incompatible
with illegitimate advertising.
There is a vague threat that the worm of
the whisky trust still will turn.
The winners of lottery prizes, like ghosts,
are often heard of but never seen.
Bees know that it is not all the showy
flowers that have the most honey.
The foundation of the Nation is certainly
worth celebrating regardless of cost.
Some men are born wise, but the wisdom
that is beaten into one lasts longest.
The man who opposes street-cleaning
may be justly termed a worm of the dust.
It is an unwholesome appetite that
causes some people to eat out their hearts.
The bicycle is the newest expression of
our native desire to fly with our own
wings.
Mrs. Grundy sometimes hears as much
gossip in a business office as in a back
parlor.
If life were no more than what we make
it, it would be a very small affair for most
people.
At the soda-water fountains the attend
ants serve some kinds of drinks as quick as
a wink.
There are only four letters in love, and
the postscript to the last is a marriage
license.
Many visitors to the Santa Cruz fete will
be sufficiently pleased to stay with her all
summer.
The Co-operative Commonwealth will
make wealth common if it is wisely
managed.
By the time the ways of the world get
too bad to travel in we shall have flying
machines.
The beef trust is sufficient of a prodigal
to demand not only the fatted calf, but the
whole herd.
The time is coming when no paper will
be thought respectable that publishes lot
tery notices.
There is not one of the lower animals
but that can teach us something of the art
of rational living.
Until we get a more substantial flying
machine it is safe still to rely on the harm
less wings of hope.
Excursions are not always entrancing,
but no man can join one without being
carried away with it.
Poverty and a vigorous appetite find that
revolution is the only ground upon which
they can meet as friends.
The absence of a general demand for
mint juleps in summer expresses the only
shortcoming of the San Francisco climate.
The cool climate and innumerable pleas
ure resorts make San Francisco theideal
summer resort for residents of the interior.
Probably the San Francisco churches,
like some in the East, will soon have to
wrestle with the moral aspect of riding to
church on a bicycle.
The passing of the poppy relieves
us of the agonizing discussion as to
whether we should be Germans, Spanish
or English in naming it.
The coming woman will have to get
after Yale, for according to the Senior Year
Book of that institution "one-half of the
class intend never to marry."
The hope of being able to do good with
out first becoming good is the old story of
the tortoise that went flying on the back of
an eagle and was cropped from the skies.
Every patriotic citizen should find a
pleasure in contributing something toward
making the celebration of the National
birthday brilliant enough to win a National
reputation.
Those who vainly wish for a life in
which they may slumber on flowery beds
of ease might possibly reflect that even the
steeples which most deeply pierce the
heavens are surmounted with a cross.
ADVERTISING LOTTERIES
In discussing the lottery evil and the
possibility of suppressing it, District At
torney Barnes, after pointing out that as
the law stands it is no offense for a news
paper to publish notices of lottery draw
ings, after they have taken place, and that
until the law is changed there can be no
prosecution for such publications, went on
to say :
"Of course, it ought not to be necessary
to change the laws. The newspapers
should be public spirited enough to follow
the spirit of the law rather than its de
fective wording. So great a power as the
newspapers should be above taking ad
vantage of a flaw in the statutes. If the
example set by the Call were to be fol
lowed by the other newspapers, it would
save the State a great deal of trouble and
expense, and go very far toward stamping
out the lottery evil in this State."
We commend these words to the serious
coiiKideration of our contemporaries.
Every right thinking citizen, every man
who has any comprehension of the respon
sibilities of the press, will agree with the
District Attorney that it ought not to be
necessary to change the laws and that the
newspapers should be public spirited
enough to follow the spirit of the law
rather than its defective wording. Under
our law the sale of lottery tickets is a
crime. The Jaw is a just one. The lottery
is pernicious in every way. Every scheme
of that kind is so honeycombed with fraud
and comes so near to downright swindling
that no law is needed to condemn it in the
minds of intelligent men. Our contempo
raries are well aware of these facts and
upon the slightest retlection they will see
that the power of the press ought not to be
debased to the service of such schemes.
We are well aware that the force of habit
is as strong in journalism as elsewhere and
that because a thing has been done in the
past is considered by some editors a sutn
cient reason why it should be continued. We
are convinced, however, that our contempo
raries on reflection will see the advisability
of breaking away from old custom so far as
lottery publications are concerned. AH the
journals of San Francisco are in the hands
of men comparatively young. None of t hem
are too old to make new departures. All
of them are interested in the advancement
of the City, and most of them have a
laudable ambition to promote the welfare
of the community. It is reasonable, there
fore, to presume that when they have con
sidered the consequences of lottery publi
cations they will abandon them and come
forth as champions of honesty, morality
and the law.
That an editor makes a considerable sac
rifice in refusing lottery advertising is
well understood. The sharpers who run
the lottery games pay the highest prices
fey every inch of space a newspaper allows
them, and the income of some journals
from this source forms an important part
of their revenue. Nevertheless they should
give it up. They may lose in money, but
they will gain in prestige and public
esteem.
What influence can a newspaper erert to
promote honesty in office and purity in
politics when every reader sees that the
paper itself takes advantage of a technical
defect in the law to encourage lotteries by
advertising their lying premium lists for
the sake of sharing some of the profits of
the swindles ?
Men often act wrongly not through any
intention to do evil, but from a lack of re
flection upon the nature of the act and its
certain consequences. It is to this we
must attribute the course of our contempo
raries in publishing lottery notices, for no
one can doubt that at heart they are in
favor of enforcing the law and suppressing
the iniquity. If, therefore, the churches,
the Civic Federation and all other forces
that tend to mold public opinion in the
interests of morality will bring their influ
ence to bear, we are convinced that the
publication of lottery notices by the re
putable journals of this city will cease and
all the papers of San Francisco will act to
gether in supporting the officers of the law
in their efforts to crush out the nefarious
trade.
A BLOSSOMING HOPE.
It was a happy inspiration that induced
this query from Professor Emory E. Smith
at the meeting of the State Floral Society
Friday evening: "Will not some devotee of
the goddess Flora raise up some temple in
which she can receive fitting homage?' 1
Reduced to prose this is an appeal for some
one of means to erect a building suitable
for the display of flowers.
Professor Smith might have elaborated
this plea into one of the strongest and
most reasonable of arguments, for his sug
gestion is filled with wisdom.' Let us sup
pose that his appeal had been put in a
form something like this:
"To the Public: The California State
Floral Society, recognizing in common
with all citizens the splendid and alto
gether unparalleled results of floriculture
in California and the great material advan
tages which would accrue to the State
from an intelligent pursuit of this avoca
tion and from frequent floral exhibitions
in the principal City of the State, respect
fully suggests that the erection of a hand
some floral temple in San Francisco for
the holding cf such exhibitions would be
productive of most valuable results. In
no other way, except by assiduous pains to
induce householders to ornament their
homes by the artistic cultivation of flowers,
can the wonderful resources of the State in
this particular be brought to the attention
of strangers visiting our shores.
"By reason of the fact that a peculiar
climate permits a thing impossible in any
other State of the Union— namely, the out
door cultivation of flowers from every part
of the world, witn the result that in all of
the four seasons of the year it is possible
for us to make a splendid exhibition of
flowers grown at very small cost— we are
enabled to hold a brilliant exhibition of
flowers four times a year, or oftener if we
please; for no sooner has any popular or
particularly attractive group of flowers ex
hausted its blooming power than another
group is ready for display. You will ob
serve, therefore, tnat in such an exhibition
temple it is easily possible to give a series
of displays which may cover the entire
year if we choose.
"It is unnecessary for us to inform you
not only that open-air floriculture is an
exceedingly healthful and refining occupa
tion in itself, and that its pursuit will ele
vate the taste of our people and more fully
instruct them in the remarkable capa
bilities of the climate, but that flowers at
tract and inform the stranger more elo
quently and alluringly than any other
evidence of natural excellence.
"With these considerations in view, we
beg you to consider seriously the advisabil
ity of erecting a floral temple in San Fran
cisco. We respectfully suggest to this end
that perhaps the incorporation of the
State Floral Society into the scheme of
State Government, with a view to the erec
tion and maintenance of such a temple at
the expense of the State, under the auspices
of the society, or the creation of a depart
ment of the State University charged
with this matter, might rind general ap
proval. This failing, and, with it, the
cognate scheme of the official dissemina
tion of knowledge concerning floriculture
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1895.
and the distribution of seeds, plants, roots
and bulbs, it is still eminently proper that
the project be forwarded as a private en
terprise. While it would be far better that
some wealthy person should erect the
temple and endow it with his name as a
gift to the people and their prosperity, to
be managed by this society, it is perfectly
feasible that it be undertaken by a com
pany or corpo v ation as a business proposi-
tion, with every prospect of a generous
return from the investment."
PROMISING BUT DANGEROUS.
In the general revival of trade and in
dustry science has aroused her votaries to
take part in the procession, and they have
responded with an unprecedented degree
of activity. We hear from them on all
sides. They have promised us flying
machines, self-moving carriages, manu
factured diamonds, gas that can be sold by
the gallon, and a thousand forms of
electric machinery guaranteed to make
life comfortable, home happy, the office a
place of pleasure and the kitchen a scene
of enchantment.
All these are good, but they are not the
best. In every race there are always some
competitors who outstrip the rest. So In
the present activity of promising scientists
there are two who promise more than the
others and stand pre-eminent in assuring
us not merely improvements upon old
things, but new things altogether — so new
indeed that they will come near to be ac
counted miracles, and be regarded as evi
dence that creation is about to begin all
over again and man and his world undergo
a total change.
One of these innovators is a resident of
New York and the other of Old England.
The New York man proposes to practi
cally re-create the whole blizzard-swept
region of this country by changing the
climate. His name is F. B. Crocker, and
as he holds the position of professor of
electrical science ar. Columbia College his
promises are entitled to respectful consid
eration. His plan is to bring to any given
locality hot air from the tropics and cold
air from tne Arctic circle by a system of
steel tubes four or five feet in diameter.
.Such a system would cost no more than a
railroad, and the professor says would en
able the community to effectually control
the rainfall and the weather. In answer
to the argument that the heat and cold
would be lost in transmission through the
tubing he says the air would always pro
duce heat when compressed and cold when
expanded, and there would be no loss on
that score.
The innovator of Old England is Pro
fessor Victor Horsley, who, after a series
of experiments in determining the effect of
rifle shots upon living organisms, has
proven to his satisfaction that when an
animal is shot through the brain it dies,
not because the heart ceases its action, but
because the lungs cease theirs. It follows
that if artificial respiration could be ap
plied in the case of a man shot through
the brain until trephining could be per
formed the patient might live. Professor
Horsley even advises in such a case the
treatment which is given to a drowned
person, keeping the lungs in action until
the surgeon's trephining instrument can
remove the pressure of the brain, forced
out by the bullet's passage again3t the
sides of the skuff.
Taken together, these two innovations
are not without interest to the future wel
fare of California. What is to prevent the
populous East from using the power of the
Government to lay tubes across the conti
nent to pump our climate away from us to
the Mississippi Valley or the Atlantic
Coast? If, in self-defense, we took up
arms and shot holes through the heads of
those who ran the pumping works, their
skilled surgeons would easily trephine the
skulls and bring the villains to life again.
Nor is it unlikely that the Easterners
would attempt the project of stealing our
climate. Only a short time ago we called
attention to a claim made thai the cyclones
of Kansas were caused by the transference
to that region, by railroads, of the elec
trical disturbances in the earth that used
to cause earthquakes In California. If
these people become persuaded that we
have shipped our earthquakes to them in
the form of cyclones it will not take them
long to believe they would be justified in
taking our climate through steel tubes by
way of retaliation.
AN IMMUTABLE LAW.
Gravitation is silently performing its
part with the other agencies that are work
ing out the destiny of San Francisco. Few
of us realize how wonderful and irresistible
a force it is or in what various and com
plex ways it i 9 manifest.
Let us first picture the interesting topog
raphy that brings this civilizing law of
gravity into operation and makes San
Francisco the focus of its energy. The
great interior basin, 500 miles long and
U0 miles in width, and composed of the
Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys,
slopes toward its central point from either
end and opens upon the bay of San Fran
cisco through a breach in the Coast Range,
and the bay in turn opens through the
Golden Gate to the Pacific Ocean, and thus
to all the world. Besides this great fertile
basin are numerous equally fertile valleys
of smaller size draining to the bay. The
imagination is dazzled in contemplation of
the picture which these hundreds of square
miles will present when their matchless
agricultural resources are developed and
they are filled with the dense population
which they are capable of supporting.
But dazzling as this picture is— now im
aginary, but steadily working toward re
ality under our very eyes— it has a frame
equally rich, for it is inlaid with gold.
Rising from all sides of this grand stretch
of valley lands are foothills rolling grad
ually away for miles to the base of the cir
cumscribing wall of mountains, and most
of this that is not suitable to the produc
tion of splendid fruits is rich either in gold
or timber. Back of this stretch again, in
the high mountains, are inexhaustible
stores of water and timber, with here and
there gold deep in the ground.
The development or loosening up of all
these vast stores of wealth brings gravity
into operation and their movement along
the line of least resistance begins. San
Francisco, sitting conveniently at the only
spot to which these movements converge,
takes all the treasures as they come—re
arranges, refines, classifies and assorts them
and then distributes them to the nations of
the earth. Her function here can never be
crippled, rivaled or usurped. On the other
hand, all that comes from abroad to be
consumed in the sources of production of
her gravitation area must t>ass through
her hands. As agent she orders it, inspects
it on arrival and then properly distrib
utes it.
She is absolutely essential to this develop
ment and intimately feels and minutely
reflects whatever may be the prosperity or
depression of her natural area of supply.
But she is more than a mere agent; in re
ality she is one of the two hands that are
dragging treasure out of the sunshine and
the earth. It is therefore clear that what
she does in wisdom for her partner in the
fields and mountains she is doing also for
herself.
No artificial conditions of any kind what
ever can prevent this law oi gravitation
from pouring the wealth of this surpass
ingly rich territory into her lap. Even as
it is, if there is another city in the world
so large in population and volume of trade
backed by a contributing territory of so
small population we cannot recall it to
memory now.
Every increase of the population of this
supporting territory wiil increase the popu
lation of the City; and as it already is im
portant among the cities of the world, and
as its gravitation territory is capable of
supporting in ease a population that will
constitute a dense settlement throughout
its whole extent — a population immeasur
ably greater than it has at present— the in
evitable greatness of this vortex of all these
activities and all this wealth is now incon
ceivable.
A GRAND CELEBRATION.
It is incumbent npon the people of San
Francisco to make the coming Fourth of
July celebration the most striking in its
details and the most splendid in its execu
tion of any celebration that has been held
in San Francisco for many years.
While other cities and towns through
out the State have been displaying their
enterprise, and advertising their advan
tages by means of fiestas and carnivals, the
City of San Francisco has done nothing
during the present year in the way of a
like advertisement and display. The near
approach of Independence Day suggests an
opportunity to concentrate in the metrop
olis the spirit which during the past few
months has made such pleasing and prac
tical manifestations of its utility in other
cities of the State.
The old idea of a Fourth of July celebra
tion might very aptly be revived upon the
present occasion. The procession used to
be made a place for the display of home
industries and of the finest products of the
locality. Such a procession at the present
time would do more than anything else to
impress our people with the extent and
the excellence of their own industries.
The decorations for the occasion might
also be distinctive in their representation
of the arts and products of California.
The idea of a triumphal arch over Market
street is an excellent one and could be car
ried out with quite an amount of elabora
tion without a very large expenditure. It
might well be given a certain degree of
permanence also and be so constructed as
to remain after the festivities of the day
were over as a visible emblem of the en
thusiasm of our people, not only for their
country and their liberties, but for the
greater San Francisco, which is to be.
Let us all unite heartily and work har
moniously for a grand Fourth of July cel
ebration. Let the rich give generously of
their substance to the end that it may be a
large and ennobling success. Let the fes
tivities outlast the day if possible and con
stitute for San Francisco a carnival of
pleasure and of profit like that which other
cities have already enjoyed. Let the occa
sion have for its highest utility the stimu
lation of our people to new efforts and new
enterprises for the realization of the exist
ing hope and desire for better times in
California, and for its rapid advancement
in wealth and population and power among
the sisterhood of States.
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.
Ex-Governor Romualdo Paeheco has jnst re
turned fiom a prolonged visit to Southern Cali
fornia. Yesterday afternoon he escorted Gen
eral Young, United States Minister to Honduras
and Guatemala, to Golden Gate Park and the
environs of San Francisco. In the field of
diplomacy in Central America General Young
of Wisconsin succeeded Mr. Pacheco, and be
tween the two there exists a firm feeling of
friendship. Mr. Pacheco is now the oldest
living ex-Governor of California. The only
other ex-Governors alive are United States
Senator George C. Perkins of this City and
Colonel 11. 11. Markham of Pasadena. Mr.
Pacheco is also the senior Native Son of Cali
fornia. General Vallejo held the rank of senior
member of the organization until he died and
Governor Pacheco was second in line tor many
years.
This picture illustrates the Pan Francisco
Wasp's idea of the only manner remaining fur
sportive young men to reach Burlingame since
Talbot Clifton 1 has withdrawn his coach from
the road.
PERSONAL.
J. J. Brown, a merchant of Yolo, is at the
Grand.
A. A. Wright of Portland, Or., is a gues^ at
the Palace.
T. w. Sheehan of the Sacramento Recorct-
Union, is at the Grand.
W. S. Stitt, a well-known business man of
Chicago, is at the Palace.
Alex G. Fisk, a well-known banker of New
York, is a guest at the Palace.
11. A. McCraney, deputy clerk of tht Supreme
Court, is a guest at the Grand.
J. M. TopHtz, a well-known iron man of St.
Louis, is a guest at the Baldwin.
A. B. Lemmon of the Santa Rosa Republican
registered at the Grand yesterday.
C. H. McKevett, merchant, of Santa Paula, is
registered at the California Hotel.
Rev. Henry Varley has returned from San
Jose and is stopping at the Brooklyn.
Lieutenant-General Schofield, U. S. A., ar
rived in the city last evening and registered at
the Palace.
Fred Sharon and his sister, Lady Hesketh,
arrived yesterday from London and are stay
ing at the Palace.
H. W. Wright of London, solicitor of Sir
Thomas Hesketh, arrived in San Francisco
yesterday and registered at the Palace.
Donald Ross, the Scotch evangelist, has ar
rived and pitched his tent at the corner of
Twenty-third and Mission streets. He is regis
tered at the Brooklyn.
State Senator E. C. Voorheis of Amador
County is registered at the Baldwin Hotel.
The Senator, accompanied by his wife and
daughter, has just returned from the Yosemite
Valley and the Banta Cruz carnival. He will
visit Alaska soon.
Judge F. T. Baldwin and Mrs. Baldwin of
Stockton will, after this week, make their home
at the Palace Hotel in this City. Mrs. Baldwin
was in town for a few hours yesterday to com
plete arrangements for the removal. Judge
Baldwin is a member of the recently appointed
Code Commission and a Trustee of the State
Library.
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
Grant Allen is at present engaged in drama
tizing hfs novel, "The Woman Who Did."
Chief Justice Fuller is at Barnegat, N. J., the
guest of Dr. Ashhurst of Philadelphia. He is
enjoying the fishing, at which sport he is said
to be an adept.
Since Henry Irving was made Sir John Brod
rib, the sporting fraternity of England has
begun to clamor for similar honors for Dr. W.
G. Grace, the veteran and champion cricketer.
"Uncle David" Brown has been for fifty-eight
years the messenger of the health bureau at
Philadelphia, and has earned the title of "O.
P. F.," which stands for oldest public function
ary.
At last accounts Kichard Watsow Gilder,
editor of Century, was in Berlin to attend the
wedding of his sister-in-law to an Italian noble
man. The bride is a sister of General DeKay,
United States Consul-General.
Gaston Paris, who has recently been ap
pointed rector of the University of Paris to
Bncceed Gaston Boissier, the new perpetual
secretary of the French Academy, ia reported
to be the greatest living Romance philologist.
Misg Ella Erving of Gorin, Mo., feels quite
flattered when her friends call her "a pocket
Venus." She is only 20 years old, but she is 8
feet 2 inches high, weighs 256 pounds, and has
feet that measure 17 inches from heel to toe.
A majority of the Judges of the Common
Pleas Court of Philadelphia have decided that
the Judges of the court shall wear black gowns.
It is also expected that the Judges of the quar
ter sessions will soon vote to wear scarlet
gowns.
The descendants of old Governor Thomas
Wiggin have had their second annual reunion
and banquet in Boston. Thomas Wiggin came
to America in 1631, and for many years was
the virtual owner of a part of what is now
Southern New Hampshire.
John B. Harlow, the new United States Civil
Service Commissioner, is universally known as
"major," though he never attained a higher
rank in the army than captain. A relative
who was then in high official position wrote to
him offering to have a commission sent to him
for a major's place, which had just fallen va
cant. Young Harlow declined the offer.
Though strongly urged to recoiißider his refusal
he remained linn. When the story leaked out
his comrades dubbed him "major" by courtesy,
and he was never able to get rid of the title.
The life of Senator Jones of Nevada has been
a continued romance. One year he is a mil
lionaire and the next year he ia flat broke.
To-day he has $100,000 to his credit, to-mor
row he is $50,000 poorer than when he was
born. He is a really brilliant man. He has a
remarkable fund of useful information and
he can make a good speech on any subject
with very little preparation. He is an inveter
ate stock gambler and always a bull. At one
time, fifteen years ago, he was worth $5,000,
--000. A severe streak of bad luck followed and
in two years he was broke.
During his flush period he presented, says
the Chicago Times Herald, his wife with
$00,000 worth of diamonds. When he reached
the financial zero he asked his wife to lend
him the diamonds. She did so. He sold them
and invested the proceeds in mining stocks.
The venture was lucky and in less than a year
the $CO,OOO had increased to $500,000. He
then returned the diamonds to his wife, in
creased by 25 per cent. Jones Is interested in
mines in Nevada, California, Arizona and Col
orado. His weallh is now up in the millions
again. Rich or poor, Jones is always happy.
He is a(i nn believer in his own good luck. He
is a spirited but not a wise poker player. He
lost $85,000 at one sitting at Tombstone, Ariz.,
and raked in $25,000 of Tom Bowen's money
the first week the latter served in the Senate.
Richard Olney, who has just succeeded
to the "premiership," is a stockily set,
tyief-neciced, beetle-browed man of mid
dling height, with a broad, high forehead, a
square-jawed forceful face, adorned by a droop
ing Iron gray mustache, and is dignified rather
than suave of manner. He is rising three
score and comes of a "fighting Baptist family."
While he is not and never pretended to be an
orator, he yet speaks with much force and de
liberation, and legally ranks with the king
pins of the Boston bar, says New York Vanity.
Corporation law Is his forte, and he has pock
eted many fat fees in his time for advice ren
dered to railroad and other companies. When
appointed Attorney- General his practice was
worth quite half a hundred thousand dollars a
year. So that he did not enter Mr. Cleveland's
official family without making a considerable
pecuniary sacrifice. Socially he is a most
charming companion, and his is essentially
the smart establishment of the present admin
istration. A devout believer in the truth of
Carlyie's favorite proposition that "Silence is
golden," he has always eschewed publicity.
So that he is not so politically popular as some
of his fellows. Withal he is a taciturn, quiet
going man, of bookish tendencies, who can
play lawn tennis like a professional. He once
refused a seat on the bench of the highest
court in his native Bay State. Then he did it
again. Moreover, he enjoys the distinction of
never having had a photo taken till after his
appointment to the Cabinet.
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
Though Californians have, because of certain
conditions, been able to endure the ill effects
of the demonetization of silver somewhat bet
ter than the people of most of the other Btates,
they have nevertheless suffered severely and
are as anxious as any to see silver completely
rehabilitated. They may be depended upon to
help in this good work, but in order to make
their aid effective organization is necessary.
The goldbugs may be depended upon to make a
vigorous fight when the time comes, and the
silver forces must present an unbroken front at
the critical moment.— Stockton Mail.
To secure a good detective force the Com
missioners should cast about among the bright
reporters for material. Heretofore brawn has
triumphed over brain as an essential qualifica
tion; it required brawn to get on the police
force, and the detective force has been recruited
therefrom. From the starts of San Francisco's
daily papers we will venture a detective force
can be recruited that will "detect" the authors
of crime, and that is what the people pay for
and want.— Santa Rosa Democrat.
The boulevard from San Jose to San Francisco
should be constructed aa quickly as possible.
It would be one of the best things that could be
devised for tooth cities. It would help to show
the possibilities of this part of the State as
nothing else could. In a very few years it
would be lined with the residences of the rich
people of the central part of the State, and
everybody who came to California would want
to see it.— San Jose Herald.
We hope to see the bill which provides for
county railroads built by the people revived
next session. If San Mateo County had her
own lines we would startle the man who
originated the half-million idea. People will
live where they can live in comfort. Our soil
could support twenty times the present popu
lation with ease, but we must have a railroad
before the growth begins.— Half moon Bay Ad
vocate.
The great mass of voters desire the restora
tion of former prosperity, and they will not be
led into the ranks of a sideshow party by such
politicians as Weaver, Stewart, Teller and Sib
ley. The fact that those persons are organizing
a silver party without knowing the attitude of
either of the old parties toward that metal is
strong evidence that they are at their old dema
gogic tactics for polittcal capital.— Goldendale
(Wash.) Sentinel.
*Good streets, good health and good times are
component paru of that public policy which
stands for improvement and results in pros
perity. The one is generally dependent upon
the other and certainly is a prime factor in the
realization of either desirable end. Combined,
they give any place possessing them a reputa
tion that is well worth striving hard to ob
tain. — San Diego Union.
Let us now in unison lift up our hats and
exclaim "Hail to the Prince of Prosperity I"
for it is his return to our land of fruit and
flowers that heralded the coming of the lovely
queens to rule over us with pleasure's wand
for a scepter.— Santa Rosa Democrat.
Some of the Democratic newspapers are call
ing for the making of the income tax an issue
in the next campaign. There are already two
sections of that party now. If the income-tax
issue is taken up there will be four.— Seattle
Post-Intelligencer.
The mind of man is like a piece of land
to be useful it must be manured with reading,
plowed with energy, sown with virtue and
harvested with economy. The well-conducted
press is a good husbandman for the mind. —
Oakland Times.
Santa Clara County can well afford to do its
part toward constructing a wide, smooth,
shaded highway between this city and San
Francisco.— San Jose Mercury.
Once let the whole of California be fully
populated and what a gigantic wapiie of civil*
ization and of wealth she will present! Witb
her 40,000,000 acres of arable land all occu
pied and all under cultivation there is no
State in the Union that will be able to compare
with her in wealth and in the comfort and ease
enjoyed by her people.— Los Angeles Times.
Economy that impairs the efficiency of any
public institution is out of tune with the call
that demands retrenchment.— Portland Ore
gonian.
One of the penalties of success is to be kicked
at by the people who fail because they do not
deserve success.— Fresno Republican.
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.
Teddie— What are woman's rights, pa?
Pa— Everything they want, my boy. Always
remember that.— Boston Courier.
. Scene at Bishop's breakfast table. Bishop (to
timid curate on a visit)— Dear me, I'm afraid
your egg's not good.
Timid curate— Oh, yes, my lord: really— er—
some parts of it are very good.— London Judy.
First New Yorker— l wish I knew where that
pretty girl who lives next door to me is going
this summer.
Second New Yorker— Why?
First New Yorker— l would like to go there
aud get acquainted with her.— New York Her
ald.
Mr. Softly— Er— Miss Ethel, there is some
thing I— er— particularly want to say to you.
Er— when could I have a minute with you
alone?
Ethel-Oh, I'll arrange that. Something
from Wagner, please, Lucy. Now, Mr. Softly.—
Boston Budget.
Miss Xewage— What was done at the New
Woman International Progressive Club to-day?
Bachelor girl— Oh, nothing. You see Mrs.
Sweetie happened to come in with lwr baby,
and before we all finished kissing the little
cherub It was time to adjourn.— Tid-Bits.
"I hear," said the cheerful idiot, "that they
are talking of revising the costume of the God
dess of Liberty."
"And what will it be, pray?" asked the type
writer boarder who has a wheel.
"Red, white a,nd bloomer.*," said the cheerful
idiot.— lndianapolis Journal.
"Where is the weather office?" asked the
wild-eyed man.
'•Why, it's right up— hold on; I guess you
had better be searched," said the cautious
policeman. "I want to see if you haven't got a
few guns or sticks of dynamite about you*
clothes."— lndianapolis Journal.
"Why are they called pyramids, pa?" asked
Georgie, who was looking at a picture of these
wonders of Egypt.
"They are called pyramids, my sor.," replied
the father, without hesitation, "because, you
see, they appear amid the general desolation
of the desert."— New York Herald.
"Proverbs was largely the ruin of me," said
Everett Wrest.
"How?" asked the sympathetic citizen.
"Take fer instance that one about the race
not bein' to the swift. I guess that there has
made me lose more money on 40 to 1 shots
than would burn a wet dog."— Cincinnati
Tribune.
"Jeremiah," said the new woman severely,
"here's a memorandum In your pocket which
shows you have been buying sugar stock."
"Yes, my dear," replied the new man, meekly.
"Do you think that we can afford such goings
on as this?"
"No, dear, I suppose we can't; but I couldn't
help buying it, it looked like such, a bargain."
— Washington Star.
A SERIES OF CONCERTS.
Scheel and His Orchestra to Give Pop-
ular and Classical Music Each
Sunday.
Herr Fritz Scheel has set about reorgan
izing his orchestra since receiving the con
tract of supplying music for the Mechanics'
Institute. They begin practice at 'once,
and will be in position to play publicly
soon, since the new orchestra is to com
pose the cream of the local talent.
It has been decided to give concerts every
Sunday afternoon. These will be held at
the Columbia Theater. The programmes
will include popular as well as classical
music, and many of the numbers will be
devoted to sacred subjects, i "*
As a special feature, soloists, both vocal
and instrumental, are to be employed. In
this way variety will be introduced in the
performance. The first concert is to be
given next Sunday.
THE PRICE OF WINES.
Largo Purchase Made by the California
Wine-Makers' Corporation.
Eight million gallons of wine of this sea
son's manufacture have been contracted
for by the wine-makers' corporation. The
figure at which this wine will be taken is
to be fixed by arbitration.
A circular is being prepared by the Cali
fornia Wine-makers' Corporation advising
its members regarding the purchase of
grapes. The price which will be paid will
be based on that which will be paid for
wine. This will be fixed next February.
Since its organization last January the
wine-makers' corporation has made two
deliveries of wine and two distributions of
receipts to its 190 members. This has
taken place during the last two months,
and has placed $190,000 in the hands of the
individual wine-makers pro rat/i to their
deposits of wine. Another distribution
will take place during June. At the be
ginning of operations it was estimated that
there were 9,000.000 gallons of dry wine in
first hands, of which 7,000,000 gallons have
been disposed of through the corporation,
so that very little of the old stock will re
main on hand when the new vintage be
gins to come in next fall.
Work of Woman Suffragists.
The ladies interested predict that the annual
meeting of the California Woman Suffrage As
sociation, which will be held in this City on
July 3, will be an important one in view of the
coming equal-suffrage campaign and the prob
ability that Miss Anthony find Miss Shaw will
be present to serve as chief counselors on that
occasion. The constitutional amendment com
mittee, organized at the close of the recent
Woman's Congress, has made no organized
movement as yet, but the individuals report
progress in a personal way.
The Little Chums' Fair a Success.
The Little Chums' paper fair that was given
by Viola Laughran, Irene Kelly, Louise Mo
Cormick, Ethel Kelly and Richard Laughran
for the benefit of the Girls' Directory Orphan
Asylum, Part ivenue and Scott street was a
grand success. The sisters and little orphans
are unanimous in exoressing gratitude.
Bacon Printing Company, 508 Clay street '
E. H. Black, painter, 114 Eddy street •
Rents collected. Ashton, 411 Montgomery.*
Cauforxia Glace fruits, 50c lb. Townsend's.*
Geo. \V. Monteith, law offices, Crocker bldg.*
Hawaiian Band gives a farewell concert to
day at Sutro Baths. «
Wisk-drinkinq people are healthy. M &X
wines, 5c a glass. Mohns & Kaltenbach, 29 Mkt*
er? ?f c A 7 se P ar ate railway com
panies in the United States.
Excursion to Ukiah.
Special excursion train will be run over the
line ol the San Francisco and North Pacific
Railway Company to , Uk , and return on Sat "
?e r r d ry y at U 7 e 40 a Oat wIU le^ ye from Tlburon
Ukiah It fi*?^ » M ; returning, train leaves
only|2 are for the round trip
Experiments have proved that if fish get
beyond a certain depth in the sea they die
from the pressure of the water, which they
are unable to support.
Don't wait until vacation comes before building
np the tired brain and run down system. Put the
blood in good condition now by taking Hood's
Sarsaparilla and renewed strength will follow.
All lovers of the delicacies of the table use Dr.
Siegert's Angostura Bitters to secure a good
digestion.
Ir afflicted with sore eyet use Dr. Isaac Thomp
•QB'a Eye Water. Druggists «li it at 25 cento.
CO-OPERATIVE PRINCIPLES
What the Constitution of the
New Co-operative Common
wealth Is Like.
The Ideas Are the Same as Tho3e
of the Youngr Altrurian
Association.
The Co-operative Commonwealth, which
Laura de Force Gordon and others are
nursing in its swaddling clothes, has a
plan and a constitution very much like the
Altrurian Association formed some little
time ago across the bay and which estab
lished in Sonoma County a colony that has
already seen business trouble. The direc
tors of the commonwealth have adopted a
constitution, but are still working over the
by-laws, which will explain better how the
enterprise is to be operated.
The constitution of this new altruistic
and socialistic society reads this way:
Name— Tne name of this association .-hall bo
"The Co-operative Commonwealth."
Objects— The objects of this association shall
be: {a) To promote our mutual welfare, pros,
perity and happiness by engasring in every kind
of lawful business, educational, Industrial
benevolent and social, and sharing alike in all
the advantages to be derived from co-opera
tion. (6) To Incite thought and investigation
in the principles of co-operation to the end
that through its practical workings mankind
may be brought to live a higher and nobler
life, (c) To decrease the misery and helpless*
ness of the poor, (</) To encourage voluntary
co-operation at all Hint * *
Declaration of principles— We believe- (a)
In equal rights to all and special privileges ta
none. (6) The right of each member to have a
Th Vi-. the m ? ua ,Sement of all affairs, (c)
The abolition of. all means of accumulating
wealth except by one's own labor, (<l) That
one of the solutions of the labor problem is to
place the resources of the country in the handa
of the people equally, (c) That only through
co-operation can people of small means, By
uniting their labor and engaging in business
enterprises, hope to escape from the crushing
weight of combined capital under the present
co!onS:;^ yStem - w Laßtly ' in c o-'^ativJ
Plan— Onr plan i* simply to combine a num.
ber of people in an organization ti*nt, by co
operation, shall be made 1 IJ-susnskiing!
Membership- Any person above the ace of 18
years shall be eligible to meevfeership !-? cr^em
wise qualified and elected as tSc by-Jaws
vide. ' r .
Officers— The affairs of this association .shall
be managed by a board of directors consisting
01 eleven members, including the following
omcers: President, vice-president, secretary!
treasurer, assistant secretary and correspond*
ins: secretary. '
Property -All property acquired by the asso
ciation shall be the common property of all,
and cannot be incumberea or disposed of ex.
cept by a two-third's vote of all the members
in good standing.
Amendments— Any section of this constitu.
tion may be amended (>:• repealed at any regiu
iar or special meeting by a majority vote of all
the members in good standing, provided notice
of intention to so amend or repeal is given iv
writing at least two weeks before such meeting.
BAUER WILL RETURN.
To Conduct the Tivoli Or, h. *t r;i Ii 1 1 ie
Salinger Going JKa*t.
Adolph Bauer, the former conductor of
the Tivoli orchestra, has been recalled to
his old position. There was quite a stir in
the musical world when he left, as he had
done much for the music-loving people iv
this City. iSince his departure he has been
connected with the Delia Fox Opera Com
pany in the capacity of director. He is ex.
pected to arrive in San Francisco to-day.
Mr. Bauer has been authorized 10 engaga
a tenor, contralto and a bass. It is be
lieved that either Richard Ling nr Martin
Pache will be the tenor, and Miss Kath
erine Hill the contralto.
Miss Tillie Salinger, who has delighted
Tivoli audiences for more than four years,
is going on the road, while Phil Bransoa
will remain with the Tivoli company.
The United States uses nearly one-half
of the quinine used in the world.
NEW TO-DAT.
HI THEOWL
(111 DRUG CO.,
V rfU2B MARKET STREET.
W CUT-RATE
J3L DRUGGISTS!
A WORD ON
WALKER'S CANADIAN
CLUB WHISKY!
Of the many fine brands of Medicinal and Family
\\ hiskloK we carry in stock of our friomi*
and custoiuors prffer W.ALKKU'S CANADIAN
CLUB. In this department we nit prices fully aa
much us in other* THIS AGENTS or CAXV-
DIAN CLUB compel those thai pnrctaai from
them to retail the Whisky ai .*1 75 iff ho'.iln.
THK OWL would not submit lo any such »a
arrangement. whereby they would bo compelled to
rob their customers. We are sellinir ttie CANA-
DIAN CLUB WHISKY at »l PER BOTTLE:
which leaves us a stood protit. Of course the agents
are mad— put the old •
CHESTNUT,
BOYCOTT !
' ON US,
THE OWL'S
BOYCOTT PRICE
" ON
CANADIAN CLUB WHISKY!
$1 Per Bottle.
Another The Cwi's Price
100 Cases 4 c BOTTLE
Veronica ...
Water Others Ask
Arrived . 50c.
Country orders filled at our regular cut rates.
Write for price list.
THE OWL
IS ALWAYS UP TO DATE I
We have just received, direct from Paris, a Urea
shipment of ED PINAUD'S EAU DE QUININE
in METAL BPKINKLKR-TOP BOTTLES. OaJ
price, 35c and 65c— no higher than the old style.
DON'T UK SWINDLED
ON YOLK PRESCRIPTIONS.
WE DON'T SUBSTITUTE.
WE KNOW
THAT SOME OTHERS DO.
WE DON'T PAY
COMMISSIONS
TO THE PHYSICIANS.
BO Per Cent of the DRUGGISTS DO.
WE SAVE YOU
50 Per Cent on Your PRESCRIPTIONS*
SAVE YOUR DIMES.
COME DIRECT TO
THE OWL.
You always get what you order and yon
save from 25 to 50 per cent.
1128 2VEAX-l£.ot Street.
SAN FRANCISCO.
320 SI. Spring street.
Uiti ANGELES.
